Pleasure Point sits on the Georges River looking across to Illawong, and the water is close enough to change how a shutter ages here. Moisture stays in guide rails and motor housings far longer than it would a few kilometres inland, and the bushland on the landward side adds debris on top of it.
We cover Pleasure Point in the 2172 postcode along with the neighbouring riverside pockets of Sandy Point and Voyager Point, and out to Moorebank, Wattle Grove and the Liverpool side of the river.
Homes here are a mix of older riverside cottages and larger rebuilds on the same blocks, most of them with big windows angled at the water and the afternoon sun.
Waterfront and near-waterfront shutters need looking at more often than inland ones. Running each shutter through a full cycle once a month tells you early if something has started to bind, and rinsing the guide rails out with fresh water a few times a year clears the salt and grit before it sets. A chalky white bloom at the base of a rail means the aluminium is already corroding, and that is worth having looked at properly rather than left to run. Left alone, a corroded rail eventually takes the curtain edges with it.
