Plumber Ballajura

Ballajura WA 6066, City of Swan. About 14 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Ballajura is a suburb fourteen kilometres north of the Perth CBD in the City of Swan, with Emu Swamp on its western boundary alongside Koondoola. It was developed substantially through the 1980s with the Lakeshore and Lakes estate subdivisions. For a plumber that gives two consistent factors: housing of a single era, where the fittings are failing together while the pipework holds up, and the water table near the lakes and the swamp, which decides what drainage can do on those blocks.

• Lakes through the estates and Emu Swamp on the boundaryThe estate lakes and the swamp keep groundwater high on the blocks nearest them. Soak wells there fill faster and clear more slowly through winter, so stormwater on those properties needs sizing for the ground rather than to a standard detail while blocks further away drain normally.
• Housing built through the 1980sThe Lakeshore and Lakes estates went in over a relatively short period, so hot water units, isolation valves and tapware across Ballajura are failing on much the same timetable. When a neighbour replaces a hot water system, yours is often not far behind.
• Pipework still sound at this ageAt around forty years the supply pipe and sewer connections in a Ballajura home generally have life left in them. Anyone quoting a full replumb here is quoting work most of these houses do not need, and we will say so rather than taking it.
• Bennett Brook through the areaThe brook running through this part of the plain means low ground in places and mature vegetation along it. Properties near that corridor see both a higher water table and root intrusion into older drainage, so those are the ones worth cameraing rather than guessing at.