Plumber Ashby

Ashby WA 6065, City of Wanneroo. About 26 km north of the Perth CBD.

Ashby is a suburb about twenty-six kilometres north of the Perth CBD in the City of Wanneroo, a triangular area bounded by Wanneroo Road, Pinjar Road and Conti Road. It came into being in the late 1990s as a subdivision of Wanneroo and only around forty per cent of it has been developed for housing. For a plumber that means new homes on recent mains: warranty questions and builder-standard hot water rather than the worn pipework of an older suburb, with undeveloped land still on the doorstep.

• Only partly developedAround forty per cent of Ashby is built on, so new housing sits next to land that has not been touched. Where a stage is recent, the water and sewer mains in the street can be newer than the drawings people are working from, so we check what is actually there before connecting anything to it.
• New homes, so faults are rarely the pipeworkAshby housing is recent and its pipework is sound. A quote for significant pipe replacement in a house this new is worth questioning, and we will give you an honest second opinion rather than agreeing with it.
• Builder-standard hot water systemsVolume-built Ashby homes come with a hot water unit sized for a small household. A family that has grown since moving in runs out regardless of the unit's condition, and sizing the replacement to the real demand is the only thing that fixes it rather than fitting the same unit again.
• Twenty-six kilometres outAshby is a genuine distance from the city and some plumbers will not come this far reliably, which matters when a burst pipe is running. It sits on our northern run so we do get here, and we would rather give you a realistic arrival time than a number that sounds better on the phone.