Plenty of Marrickville customers call us about noise rather than security. The suburb sits under the approach to the airport and a well fitted shutter takes a noticeable amount of the edge off. It also means a shutter with a gap at the bottom rail is failing at the exact job it was bought to do.
We cover the whole of the 2204 postcode, from the Illawarra Road and Marrickville Road shopping strips out to the Cooks River side and the boundaries with Dulwich Hill, Enmore, Sydenham and St Peters. Tempe and Petersham are on the same run.
Marrickville's housing runs from Federation cottages through interwar bungalows to converted warehouses, most of it a century old or close to it. Shutters here are retrofits onto openings that have moved with the building.
Where a shutter was fitted for noise, the fit matters more than the specification. Slat thickness helps, but a small gap at one edge undoes most of the benefit you paid for. We check the seating along the sill, the clearance in both guides and the seal at the headbox, and in the majority of cases the improvement comes from adjustment rather than new hardware. Where the gap is at the head rather than the sill, the headbox seal is generally the culprit and that is a simple part to renew.
