The window openings in North Rocks are big. Homes built through the 1960s, 70s and 80s were designed with generous glazing on large blocks, and a shutter that has to cover three or four metres in a single span behaves nothing like a standard bedroom unit.
We cover North Rocks in the 2151 postcode, including the streets bordering Carlingford, Northmead, Oatlands and the Baulkham Hills boundary. West Pennant Hills and Winston Hills are on the same run.
A wide curtain puts its load in the middle rather than at the edges, and the mature tree cover across the suburb adds a second set of problems on top of the first.
A wide shutter gives you plenty of warning before it fails, provided you know what to listen for. It gets noisier, it hesitates near the top of its travel and it stops sitting flat against the sill. Those are all the same underlying problem, which is a curtain no longer running true across the width. Dealt with at that stage it is a service call. Left until it jams, the slats are usually damaged as well and the job gets considerably larger. Where the span is genuinely too wide for the motor that was fitted, we will say so, because putting a new motor of the same rating back into the same opening only resets the clock on the identical failure.
