Owners in Mortlake often tell us their shutter has failed early, and they are usually right. Hardware on this peninsula does not get the working life the manufacturer designed for. Salt carried off the Parramatta River works on aluminium continuously, and a unit that would still be sound at fifteen years further inland can be well past it here.
We cover the whole of Mortlake within the 2137 postcode, from the Cabarita side across to the Breakfast Point frontage and the streets running back toward Concord. North Strathfield and Rhodes are on the same route.
Mortlake mixes Federation and interwar houses with a large modern residential development built on the old industrial land at the water's edge. Old hardware and new hardware corrode at different rates, but both of them corrode.
The best thing you can do for a shutter here is wash it. Fresh water over the curtain and through both rails a few times a year removes the salt before it has had time to do its work, and it costs you nothing but the hose. When you book a service, ask us to check the fasteners as well as the mechanism. Corroded fixings are what turn a straightforward maintenance visit into a full replacement. It is also worth mentioning any unit that faces directly onto the water when you book, because those are the ones that need looking at first.
