Cottage Point is a small waterfront village on Cowan Creek, surrounded on every side by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and reached by a single road through the bush. The homes sit on steep blocks running down to the water, many with boatsheds and jetties below, and the plumbing has to cope with the slope, the salt air and the distance from everything else.
What we see most in Cottage Point
Drainage on steep ground. Long runs down a slope, retaining walls and tight access under houses make a blockage harder to reach and a leak harder to spot. We use CCTV to find the problem before anything gets dug up, and where a pipe can be relined in place rather than replaced, that is usually the better answer on a block like these.
Stormwater matters more than usual. Heavy rain moves quickly down the hillside, and leaf litter from the surrounding bush fills gutters, downpipes and pits. A choked line sends water where it should not go — under the house, behind a wall or across a path.
Salt air is hard on exposed fittings. Outdoor taps, hose connections and pipework near the water corrode faster than they would inland, and a small weep left alone turns into a bigger repair.
If your property runs on an on-site wastewater system rather than the sewer, we can look at the plumbing feeding it and tell you whether a problem is in the pipes or the system itself.
Hot water and gas are the rest of the steady work: replacing ageing units, adding or moving gas appliances, and the compliance paperwork that goes with them.
Getting us out
We cover Cottage Point and the surrounding Northern Beaches, with emergency plumbing available 24 hours. Because of the drive in, tell us what is happening when you call so we arrive with the right parts — we will tell you what we think it is. We carry spare parts for older waterfront homes.