Rydalmere runs from the Parramatta River back through an industrial estate to quiet residential streets, and each of those parts brings its own kind of shutter work. The river end is where corrosion turns up first.
We cover Rydalmere in the 2116 postcode, from the riverside streets and the industrial estate through to the university campus side and the boundaries with Ermington, Dundas and Telopea. Camellia and Silverwater sit at the other end of the same route.
Residential Rydalmere is largely 1960s and 70s brick with newer apartments closer to the water, while the estate runs commercial doors that cycle almost constantly through the working day. It is not unusual for us to do both kinds of job in the same street on the same day.
Two identical shutters, one on a river-facing wall in Rydalmere and one three streets back, will not be in the same condition after ten years. Brackish air and slow-drying walls keep moisture in the guides and inside the motor housing, and aluminium pits wherever water cannot escape. If a shutter on the river side has started to feel gritty as it runs, that is usually corrosion in the rail rather than anything wrong with the motor, and cleaning it is a very different job to replacing one. Guides that are cleaned out and dried a couple of times a year last far longer than ones that are simply lubricated over the top of the grit.
