A surprising number of shutters in Pearce are still hand-operated. The suburb dates from the 1960s and plenty of the units fitted here over the years were manual winders or strap-operated. They fail in an entirely different way to a motorised shutter, and they get written off as beyond repair far more often than they should be.
We cover Pearce in the 2607 postcode, from the streets near the local shops across to the Mawson, Torrens, Chifley and Phillip boundaries. Farrer and the rest of southern Woden are on the same run.
Pearce is largely single-storey brick from the 1960s on established blocks. Between the age of the buildings and the age of the hardware, there is usually more than one thing going on by the time someone calls.
Manual shutters get written off far too readily. A seized winder is usually a service and a replacement gearbox rather than a new shutter, and webbing and straps are ordinary replaceable parts. If yours has become hard to wind, stop forcing it. The gearbox is the cheapest thing on the unit to fix, and the curtain and tube are the expensive parts to damage. It is also worth asking about converting a manual unit to motorised while the work is being done, if that is something you have had in mind.
