Plumber Beechboro

Beechboro WA 6063, City of Swan. About 13 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Beechboro is a suburb about thirteen kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Swan, between Reid Highway and Benara Road. It developed in two stages: East Beechboro from 1979 through the late 1980s, and West Beechboro from the mid to late 1980s, the latter with somewhat larger houses. Blocks are typically six to eight hundred square metres and the housing is overwhelmingly brick and tile, three bedroom one bathroom. For a plumber that means bathroom additions and the hot water sizing problems that follow them.

• Three bedroom, one bathroom housingThe original Beechboro layout was a single bathroom, and families routinely add a second or an ensuite. The existing hot water unit and water service were sized for one bathroom, so adding fixtures without upgrading the supply is why a newly renovated house here often has worse pressure than before.
• Two development stages either side of Altone RoadEast Beechboro dates from 1979 through the late 1980s and West Beechboro from the mid to late 1980s. The western houses tend to be larger, which puts more demand on a water service and hot water system of the same era, so poor pressure turns up there more often than in the eastern streets.
• Generous blocks with room to extendAt six to eight hundred square metres these lots leave space for extensions and outbuildings, which means new bathrooms and kitchens joining water and sewer lines laid in the 1980s. Checking the existing pipework can carry the added fixtures before it is covered up is what avoids the callback.
• Housing of a consistent age and constructionBrick and tile homes built within about a decade of each other fail in the same ways at the same time. Hot water units, isolation valves and tapware across Beechboro are on their second or third round, and the pattern is predictable enough that we usually know what to expect.