Heating brings us to Mawson about as often as security does. The homes here date mostly from the 1960s, they were not built with much insulation, and a lot of households use their shutters to hold warmth in overnight. A shutter that will not close properly stops being a minor annoyance the first week the temperature drops below zero.
We cover Mawson across the 2607 postcode, from the streets around the Southlands shops through to the Pearce, Torrens, Farrer and Isaacs boundaries. The rest of the southern Woden suburbs are on the same route.
Mawson's housing is largely single-storey brick from the 1960s, with aluminium windows either original or replaced somewhere along the way. Shutters were retrofitted, and after fifty-odd years the wall, the frame and the shutter are all at different stages of their lives.
The best time to have a shutter looked at in Mawson is autumn, before the first hard frosts. Most of the failures we attend in June and July were already visible in April as a slight stiffness, a bit of extra noise, or a curtain sitting a few millimetres off the sill. Sorting those out while it is still mild is a much smaller job than getting a seized shutter moving in the middle of winter.
