Plumber Canning Mills

Canning Mills WA 6111, City of Kalamunda. About 28 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Canning Mills is a small hills locality in the City of Kalamunda, roughly twenty-eight kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD, sitting above the upper Canning River in jarrah country. It is bush and large rural holdings rather than suburban streets. For a plumber that means rainwater tanks and pumps as the main supply, septic systems instead of sewer, and steep rocky ground that makes every trench a slower job than it would be on the plain.

• Tank water as the main household supplyHouseholds here depend on rainwater tanks and the pump on them. When that pump fails there is no mains supply behind it, so pump servicing, pressure vessels and filtration are not optional extras out here, they are what keeps the taps running.
• Septic systems on large bush holdingsThere is no sewer at Canning Mills, so every property runs a septic tank and leach drains. On rocky hill ground the drains are harder to place and less forgiving when they clog, and pumping out on a schedule is far cheaper than dealing with one that surfaces.
• Rock and slope under every excavationTrenching for a water line, a drain repair or a soak well in these hills regularly strikes rock at shallow depth. That is the single biggest difference between a quote here and one on the plain, so we look at the ground before we price the work.
• Distance, access and firefighting supplyNarrow bush access affects how long a repair takes and how a truck reaches the work, so we bring what the job needs the first time. It also makes the tank, the pump and the pipework and valves serving firefighting worth checking before summer rather than during it.