Mays Hill is small enough that plenty of people treat it as part of Westmead or Wentworthville, but it has its own character and its own shutter problems. The Great Western Highway runs straight through it, and living on or near a major arterial is hard on anything with moving parts.
We cover Mays Hill in the 2145 postcode on both sides of the highway, and take in Westmead, Wentworthville, Holroyd and the western edge of Parramatta on the same visit.
The housing here is a mix of older brick cottages, post-war homes and low rise units. The suburb sits well inland, where summer temperatures run consistently above the coastal average and shutters work harder for it.
Anything within a few streets of the highway needs its rails cleaned more often than a shutter in a quiet cul de sac. The grit does not announce itself. It works into the track, the curtain gets slightly harder to lift, the motor draws more current, and eventually something gives up. Clearing the rails and re-lubricating with a dry product rather than a wet spray is simple maintenance that heads off a much bigger job later. If your shutter sits directly on the highway frontage, twice a year is a sensible minimum rather than a maximum. Anything further back from the road can generally go longer between services.
