O'Malley has the largest blocks and some of the largest houses in inner Canberra, along with a number of diplomatic residences. The shutters that come with homes of that size are substantial pieces of hardware, and the repairs are correspondingly more involved than on a standard suburban window.
We cover O'Malley across the 2606 postcode, including the elevated streets on the hill and the sections bordering Isaacs, Garran, Hughes and Mawson. The rest of the southern inner suburbs are on the same route.
Homes in O'Malley date mostly from the 1970s onward and many are architect-designed or heavily modified, with unusual window shapes and long spans. Standard hardware is often not what is fitted.
A wide or unusually shaped shutter is not just a bigger version of a standard one. The tube, the motor, the guides and the fixings all have to be matched to the actual load, and problems on these units generally trace back to one of those being undersized when it was first fitted. We assess the whole assembly before quoting on an O'Malley job, because replacing a single part on an overloaded shutter tends to move the failure somewhere else rather than solve it. Where a unit turns out to be genuinely non-standard we will say so up front, because sourcing the right components for it can take longer than a common size would.
