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A motor that clicks and does not move
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A click can be a limit, a thermal cut-out after too many attempts, or a failed capacitor on an older wired motor. Leave it alone for a while if it has been jogged repeatedly.
Separate a jam from a setting
If it still only clicks, it is a parts job, not a new house-worth of shutters.
Write down the time, whether the curtain is level, and any click. Repeated button presses overheat a motor and make a simple limit fault look like a death.
The opening this fault sits on
Fitted illustration for A motor that clicks and does not move in Swansea: £3,711 at September 2026 prices, for this 4.2 by 1.2 m opening with a belt. The figure allows a front-mounted aluminium curtain and ordinary fixing. It does not include scaffold, a rebuilt soffit, planning drawings, or a new window. A second opening on the same visit usually costs less than the first, because the van is already there. Compare two quotes only when the slat, the box and the drive match.
- Leave the curtain where it stopped.
- Check for ice, a plant, or a bifold handle in the guide.
- Note the motor brand if it is written inside the box cover you were shown.
- For A motor that clicks and does not move, do not order a whole new elevation because one axle misbehaved.
Do not invent a temperature from a stuck motor
Winter figure for A motor that clicks and does not move: glass at 1.2 W/m2K, 5.04 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 0.58 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 18 percent of the flow leaves 0.48 kWh and saves about 0.10 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
Hands off, then a list
Stop A motor that clicks and does not move if the frame cannot take a guide and the wall beside it is crumbling. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
How to use the figure
The 4.2 by 1.2 metre opening inside A motor that clicks and does not move is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a belt, and the illustration is £3,711. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For A motor that clicks and does not move, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. A motor that clicks and does not move covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
A motor that clicks and does not move should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for A motor that clicks and does not move only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £3,711 illustrates A motor that clicks and does not move for a 4.2 by 1.2 metre opening with a belt, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 5.04 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for A motor that clicks and does not move until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. A motor that clicks and does not move uses a belt in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £3,711.