The Eastern Suburbs run from the city out to the coast, and the housing is as varied as anywhere in Sydney: terraces and semis in the inner streets, interwar apartment blocks, post-war walk-ups and a great deal of newer medium density. Much of it is old and much of it is dense, and both of those shape the plumbing.
Working in the Eastern Suburbs
Age first. A great many properties here still drain through their original earthenware lines, and in the older terraces those lines run under floors, through small courtyards and often close to or across boundaries. Access is the hard part. A camera inspection is usually the only sensible first step, because digging speculatively in a terrace courtyard is expensive, disruptive and often wrong.
Density second. In semis, terraces and unit blocks, plumbing is shared more often than people realise. A blockage downstream affects several properties at once, and working out whose responsibility a repair is can take longer than the repair. We document what we find so that conversation is based on evidence rather than argument.
Salt air along the coastal strip is hard on fittings and hot water systems, as it is anywhere near the water. It is worth factoring into what you install, not just what you repair.
Getting us out
We handle blocked drains, leak detection, hot water, gas fitting and emergency repairs across the Eastern Suburbs. Call and describe the problem and we will tell you what we think is involved before we come out.
