Oaks Estate sits right on the ACT border between the Molonglo and Queanbeyan rivers, and it is the oldest continuously settled part of the Territory. Some of the buildings here predate Canberra itself. That makes shutter work in Oaks Estate unlike anything else we do in the ACT.
We cover Oaks Estate in the 2620 postcode, across the whole of the small residential pocket. Queanbeyan sits immediately across the border and Fyshwick and Symonston are a short run away, so we are through this area regularly.
The building stock here is old, varied and in a number of cases heritage listed. Very little is standard, and the wall is usually the limiting factor rather than the shutter itself.
Where a building is heritage listed there are limits on what can be altered, and that is worth establishing before any work starts. We repair rather than replace wherever the hardware allows, and on most of these buildings the sound approach is to leave the fabric alone and put the effort into the fixings and the mechanism. If you are unsure whether your property is covered, check before committing to anything that changes the exterior. We are happy to look at what is there and explain which parts of the repair are cosmetic and which are structural before you decide how far to take it.
