Plumber Booragoon

Booragoon WA 6154, City of Melville. About 10 km south of the Perth CBD.

Booragoon sits about ten kilometres south of the Perth CBD in the City of Melville, built around Westfield Booragoon, the council offices and a major bus station, with established housing surrounding them. For a plumber that mix means a heavy commercial load of food tenancies, grease traps and public amenities, alongside domestic drainage in the streets behind that is decades older than the centre it serves.

• A major retail and food precinctThe shopping centre holds a dense run of food tenancies whose grease traps, floor wastes and back-of-house drainage take loads no home kitchen approaches. None of it can be shut down while a tenancy is trading, so disruptive work is staged outside trading hours.
• Tenancies refitted more often than their drainageFood operators change over regularly but the waste lines beneath them often do not. A new Booragoon kitchen discharging into older drainage blocks repeatedly however often it is cleared, so we camera the line and say whether upgrading it is the real fix.
• Civic buildings with heavy-use amenitiesThe council offices and the bus station run public toilets and tapware that take hundreds of uses a day. Those fixtures wear on a completely different cycle to domestic ones and are better replaced on a plan than after a failure closes a facility.
• Established housing behind the centreThe residential streets around the precinct are decades older than the shopping centre and are largely on original drainage. Recurring blockages there are a pipe-condition problem rather than a usage one.