The call we take most often from Waramanga is a shutter that has stopped part way and will not go up or down. On a 1970s Weston Creek house that almost always comes back to one of three things: the curtain has come out of a guide, a plastic component has broken inside the rail, or the spring no longer has enough left in it to lift the weight. All three are repairable, and none of them means a new shutter.
We cover the whole of Waramanga in the 2611 postcode, out to the Fisher, Stirling and Chapman boundaries and across toward Weston. Holder, Duffy and Rivett are on the same Weston Creek route.
Waramanga was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the housing barely varies. Single-storey brick, standard opening sizes, shutters added later. It makes the fault easier to narrow down over the phone than in most suburbs.
Not every reason for fixing a shutter is about weather or security. Canberra gets light very early in December and January, and a shutter that closes properly is the most effective blackout most houses have. If yours has developed a gap at the bottom, or slats that no longer sit tight against each other, you will notice it first at five in the morning rather than on a cold night. Both come back to the same hardware, so one visit usually deals with both complaints.
