When a hailstorm crosses Blacktown, Plumpton is one of the suburbs we hear from first. A shutter that has taken hail will show dented slats and a bent bottom rail long before it actually stops working, and most owners only call once it jams.
We cover Plumpton across the 2761 postcode and the surrounding streets in Glendenning, Oakhurst, Hassall Grove and Dean Park, along with Doonside, Marayong and the Mount Druitt side.
Plumpton was built out largely through the 1980s, brick veneer on modest blocks, so the shutters here are either original to that period or a replacement fitted somewhere along the way since. Either way, they have spent a lot of summers facing west with nothing shading them.
Hail rarely stops a shutter on the day it falls. What usually happens is that the dented slats and a slightly bent bottom rail make the curtain track unevenly, and it jams weeks later once the storm is out of mind. If your shutters took hail, have them looked at while the damage is still clearly storm related. We can provide the written assessment your insurer will ask for, and we can tell you which slats genuinely need replacing rather than the whole curtain. Photographs taken before anything is touched are worth having as well.
