Shutters Newcastle

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Reading for Newcastle homeowners, newest first.

  1. A suburban street after a summer thunderstorm, with brown water pooling over a kerbside stormwater grate and running along the gutter to a concrete culvert at a grassy creek line.

    El Niño and storm season in Newcastle: why a dry outlook doesn't rule out hail or flash flooding

    A dry El Niño outlook describes a tendency over months, strongest west of the Great Dividing Range, and on the Newcastle coast a single trough or thunderstorm can still bring large hail, damaging winds and flash flooding in the middle of a dry spell.

  2. Sunlit nursery with a white cot set well away from a window with a part-lowered roller blind, and soft toys on a low shelf

    Blind cord safety in Australia: the law on corded blinds, and where plantation shutters fit

    Australian law says a corded blind or curtain installed in a home since 1 January 2015 (caravans, mobile homes and boats aside) must leave no loose cord that can form a loop 220 mm or longer less than 1,600 mm above the floor, and because the rules turn on whether a covering has a cord, that is the first question to ask about any blind or shutter.

  3. A suburban street of single-storey brick and weatherboard homes in late afternoon as a dark shelf cloud rolls in. A tall gum tree leans in the wind and leaves blow across the empty road.

    Storm season in Newcastle: the SES checklist for your home, and where windows fit

    NSW storm season runs from September to April, and the SES checklist starts above your head with the roof, gutters and trees, then works down to windows and doors that seal properly, with metal screens or shutters named by the NSW Government for homes in areas prone to severe storms.