Plumber Brigadoon

Brigadoon WA 6069, City of Swan. About 35 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Brigadoon is a semi-rural suburb about thirty-five kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Swan, sitting at the top of the Darling Scarp beside the entrance to the Avon Valley. It is bordered by the river and by Walyunga National Park, and holds the State Equestrian Centre along with large plot housing estates. For a plumber that means rural property work with an equestrian slant: troughs and paddock reticulation as well as houses, long unmarked service runs, bores and septic systems, and elevated bushland blocks.

• Equestrian properties on large plotsHorse properties run troughs, stable washdown and paddock reticulation off the same supply as the house. A failed pump or a split line out in a paddock means livestock without water, which is a different level of urgency to a household inconvenience, and we treat it that way.
• Long runs out to stables and paddocksWater lines on a property this size run a long way from the house and are almost never mapped. A leak on a paddock line can waste water for weeks before anyone notices the pump cycling, so locating it properly beats trenching along its length hoping to find it.
• Bore and tank supply with septic systemsNothing out here is on mains sewer and most properties draw their own water. Bore water scales hot water systems and wears out seals faster, and a leach drain that has stopped soaking away is a different problem to a blocked sewer line.
• Elevated bushland blocks beside national parkBrigadoon sits high on the scarp against Walyunga National Park, which means both bushfire exposure and sloping ground. Reliable pressure to outside taps matters more in that setting, and it is worth knowing your supply performs before a summer you need it.