The blocks in Mount Vernon sit high and open with very little between them and the weather coming off the plain. Wind is the factor most people underestimate out here. A shutter that would sit quietly on a suburban street is under constant flexing load on an exposed acreage block.
We service Mount Vernon and the acreage around it in the 2178 postcode, along with Cecil Park, Kemps Creek, Horsley Park, Erskine Park and Abbotsbury. It is a regular route for us rather than a special trip.
Large houses on open land, mostly built from the 1980s onward, with wide window openings and no shelter to speak of. The shutters are big and they take everything the weather has to offer.
A wide shutter on an exposed elevation needs more fixing points than the same unit would need in a sheltered street, and it needs the right anchor for the wall it is going on. If yours rattles in a strong southerly, or you can see daylight moving at the edge of the curtain, that is worth attending to before the next big blow comes through. The failure, when it arrives, tends to be sudden rather than gradual. If you have a run of shutters along one exposed elevation, it is worth having them all checked in the one visit, because they will have been loaded the same way for the same number of years.
