Plumber Aubin Grove

Aubin Grove WA 6164, City of Cockburn. About 23 km south of the Perth CBD.

Aubin Grove sits about twenty-three kilometres south of the Perth CBD in the City of Cockburn, approved in 2003 out of what had been the rural locality of Banjup and built out at extraordinary speed since. For a plumber the useful fact is the age profile: the pipework is modern and sound, while everything fitted to it went in at once and now wears out at once, on slab-on-ground housing over former agricultural land.

• A suburb that fails in wavesBecause Aubin Grove was built in one concentrated burst, the mixers, cisterns and hot water units across whole streets are the same age. Replacing them in one planned visit costs considerably less than a string of separate call-outs over a year or two.
• Too young for a replumb to make senseThe pipework here has decades left in it. A recurring leak in an Aubin Grove house is a fitting, a flexible hose or an appliance connection, and anyone quoting to replace pipe in a house this age should be asked to justify it.
• Slab-on-ground homes with hidden leaksEvery house here sits on a slab, so a leaking hot water line shows as a warm patch or an unexplained bill rather than a drip. Acoustic and thermal location finds it without cutting up a young concrete floor.
• Agricultural land under the estatesThis was leased farming country before the subdivision came through, and old bores and irrigation pipework were not always removed. We locate services before excavation rather than finding one with a machine.