Shutters in North St Marys need servicing more often than the manufacturer's schedule suggests, and the reason is the two things this part of the Penrith area gets in abundance. Extreme summer heat, and airborne grit off the plain. Either one on its own is manageable. Together they wear a shutter out early.
We cover North St Marys in the 2760 postcode alongside St Marys, Oxley Park, Colyton and Werrington. The Ropes Crossing estates and the Dunheved industrial area are on the same run.
The housing here is mostly post-war brick and fibro on regular blocks, a good deal of it renovated, with an industrial area on the northern side. Shutters are retrofits and many of them have been in place a very long time.
The single most effective maintenance job here is also the least interesting one. Run a brush or a vacuum nozzle down both guide rails a couple of times a year, then re-lubricate with a dry product rather than a wet spray, because a wet lubricant catches dust and makes the whole problem worse. Most of the seized shutters we are called to in this area were never dirty enough to look like a problem until the day they stopped moving.
