Wind is what separates Spence from the suburbs further into Belconnen. Sitting near the northern edge of Canberra with open ground and hills close by, houses here catch a lot more of it, and wind is hard on a shutter in ways that ordinary use is not. Slats flex, end locks wear oval, and a curtain that has been buffeted for years stops tracking straight.
We cover the whole of Spence in the 2615 postcode, including the streets on the slopes below Mount Rogers. Melba, Evatt, McKellar, Fraser and Flynn are all part of the same northern Belconnen run.
Spence was built through the 1970s and the housing is mostly single-storey brick with later additions. Shutters here take the wind and the full Canberra temperature range together.
If your shutter rattles, do not leave it. Noise in a gust is the audible version of a mechanical problem, and every rattle is the curtain moving further out of the guide than it should. Correcting the clearance is a small job. Recovering a curtain that has come out of its rail at speed, taken the end locks with it and bent the bottom rail is not. Spence gets enough weather that the difference between those two jobs is often one bad night.
