Here's a quick question for all you knowlwdable spanish residents.
I have aholiday home which has roller shutters fitted to each window. Some of them at stiff and take some coaxing to close. I think with regular use they might work better.
As I am a none resident, can anyone advise me if there is a way to lubricate these type of shutters?
If so where to I pour/spray the lubricant?
Thanks in advance.

The chances are, it's not the big roller, but the guides where the shutter panels exit at the top of the window that are causing the problem. Lubrication probably won't help if one or more panels have been cut too large - just take off the access panel and have a look from above. With a bit of wiggling it should be possible to figure out where things are getting stuck and have things running smoothly again.

Good luck!

take off panel above window & have a look. Roller may not be sitting on holders securely.

Make sure all slats are in line, rub soap in grooves, clean slats with warm soapy water.

Whilst there, make sure wire or string is not frayed, if so replace or it will soon go. Just have a look at another if you need to replace anything, it´s q fiddly but easily a DIY job.

Above takes about 2 hours & if the house is let is really an annual job.

It is difficult to describe on line how to repair the PERSIANAS or “roller binds”. However once opened you will see they are a very simple design. They should not need any lubrication. We have recently repaired some on our friend’s house. Here is what we found could be stopping your operating smoothly.
Hopefully you understand the principles after reading this.
Every house will have a variation, like some have the blinds enclosed in the brickwork and others are on the outside in their own box. The box will contain a roller upon which the slats are rolled up on. The roller is supported at each end on bearings. The each design of the bearing support will vary, so you have to open the box to see how yours works. Like others have said it could be that the roller has come away from the bearing supports. To raise and lower the blind you either have a motor or (as it seems from your description) you have a cord of about 15mm thick. This could be frayed or has come adrift too. The roll is usually fixed into the wall by just two screws. The difficulty is to renew the pulling cord and ensuring it is wound the correct way. The slats them selves could be damaged so inspect them.
If you do not have stoppers on the bottom (large) slat and you roll the blind up too high you could find this also causes a problem when lowering.
One other thing we found is that to fix the slats onto the roller there is a smaller cord (about 5mm think) this could have broken or the screw which fixes the cord to the roller has come adrift. The screw is a special one, which has no thread at the point so it can be hammered into the roller then screwed up tight.
The best web site we could find which gives some descriptions is this one;
http://www.persianas.tk/tk2/index.html
If needed you can purchase all parts from the local (by that we mean Spanish) Ferreteria (hardware store). If your Spanish is not up to it then just remove the offending item and show then in the store.

We have found a damn good window supplier at 140 euros a window, and as some of ours are well past their use by date, I am ripping out the windows one by one, rather than try and fix the broken ones.

Yeah but, what about the glass and persianas. ;-))

All included in the price, my sweet!

All kidding aside, it's a bit of a no brainer. It's very easy to damage the persianas when they have an internal fault, so paying for parts and then ending up with something that doesn't work hardly seems sensible.

We had all our persianas re-strung because some of them had snapped or had frayed. It took a couple of hours for a professional to do it.

We have had the same problem .. required a builder to 'get in there' and sort it out ... the pipe that held the cables wasn't aligned with the cog and the whole thing frayed ... had it all replaced .. good as new
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PS Tried all sorts of 'lubricants' with no success ... next time it happens we will just cut to the chase and get the pros in

Hi Lic,

We had an identical problem with one of our shutters, also on a holiday home. The property is about 4 years old and had suffered very minor settlement which lead to the roller not operating freely and the shutter slightly catching in the runners.

I had tried lubricating it numerous times without success before we realised this. Eventually, our manager in Spain got a pro in to look at it and they fixed it reasonably cheaply there and then.

Touchwood, no probs since.....