Werrington sits at the Penrith end of Sydney, where the highest summer temperatures in the basin are recorded. That single fact explains the majority of the shutter faults we attend out here.
We cover Werrington across the 2747 postcode along with Werrington County, Werrington Downs, Cambridge Park, Claremont Meadows and Kingswood. St Marys and the Penrith centre are minutes away on the same route.
The housing is largely from the second half of last century, brick and brick veneer with aluminium windows, and most of the shutters were added years after the homes were built.
On the hottest days it is worth resisting the urge to keep cycling a shutter that has stalled. If a unit stops part way through its travel in the middle of a heatwave, leave it and try again once the elevation is in shade, because the metal will have contracted by then. Repeatedly driving a motor into a bound curtain is the fastest way we know to turn a free adjustment into a motor replacement. It is also worth keeping shutters down on the western elevations through the hottest part of the day, which lowers the temperature of the glass behind them and takes some load off the room.
