O'Connor is one of Canberra's early suburbs and a good portion of it dates from the 1920s through to the 1950s. Add the mature street trees and the shade off Black Mountain on the western side, and two things are working on your shutters at once. Old walls that will not hold a fixing, and shaded elevations that stay frozen half the morning.
We cover O'Connor throughout the 2602 postcode, from the streets below Black Mountain across to the Turner and Lyneham boundaries and down towards Acton and the university edge. Braddon and Aranda are close by and on the same run.
The mix of original cottages and later infill in O'Connor means no two jobs here are quite alike. The older homes account for most of the difficult work.
Several O'Connor streets sit within heritage provisions, and anything that alters a street-facing elevation is worth checking before it happens. In practice this rarely stops a repair. The work on these homes is nearly always in the fixings, the guides and the seals, and none of that changes how the house looks from the footpath. Where a shutter genuinely has to come off, we will talk through what a like-for-like replacement involves before anything is ordered.
