South Granville is older than most of the suburbs around it. Interwar and post-war cottages make up a good part of the housing, with the Duck River corridor along one boundary, and the shutters here are retrofits into brickwork laid long before roller shutters were common.
We cover South Granville in the 2142 postcode, from the Duck River side across to the Granville and Guildford boundaries, and we take in Merrylands, Chester Hill, Auburn and Yennora.
Soft old mortar and window openings that have moved are behind most of the repairs here, and decades of full western sun finish the job off. Most of these houses have carried shutters for twenty or thirty years already.
Old brick and mortar will not hold a fixing the way a modern cavity wall does, and that is the single most common reason a shutter around here comes loose. The answer is to spread the load across more fixing points and to use anchors suited to soft masonry rather than whatever came in the box with the unit. Where the brickwork is genuinely too far gone to hold anything, there are ways to fix back to the timber frame behind it instead. We would rather re-anchor a unit properly once than keep tightening the same loose bracket every couple of years.
