Minchinbury is largely a 1980s suburb, and the shutters on those brick veneer homes are now on their second or third generation of hardware. What has not changed in forty years is the orientation. A lot of these houses present a wide, unshaded face to the western sun.
We cover Minchinbury in the 2770 postcode, from the M4 side across to the Rooty Hill and Mount Druitt boundaries, and take in Erskine Park, Colyton and St Clair on the same run.
Blacktown's western suburbs run several degrees hotter than the coast through summer, and the difference turns up in the hardware long before anyone notices it on a thermometer.
If one shutter on your house misbehaves and the rest are fine, check which way it faces. Nine times out of ten in Minchinbury it is the western elevation. The fix is usually a rail adjustment that gives the curtain a little more room to move when it is hot, along with a lubricant rated for high temperatures rather than the general purpose spray that turns to glue by February. If the unit has been jamming for a couple of summers already, ask us to check the slat edges as well as the rails, since a curtain that has been forced through a tight guide carries wear that will keep catching until it is dealt with.
