Plumber Cannington

Cannington WA 6107, City of Canning. About 11 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Cannington is a southern suburb about eleven kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Canning, taking its name from the Canning River which forms part of its south-western boundary. First subdivided in 1882, it is now built around a major shopping centre and the retail strip along Albany Highway. For a plumber that gives a heavy commercial load of food tenancies and public amenities, plus low river ground on the south-western blocks where drainage has limited fall.

• A major retail and food precinctThe shopping centre and the strip around it hold a dense run of food tenancies. Grease traps, floor wastes and back-of-house drainage there take loads no domestic kitchen approaches, and none of it can be taken out of action while a tenancy is trading.
• Tenancies refitted more often than their drainageRetail and food operators change over regularly, but the waste lines under them often do not. A new 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.
• Low ground along the Canning RiverThe blocks nearest the river carry a higher water table and their drainage has limited fall to work with. Soak wells there fill faster and clear more slowly through winter than on the higher ground back from the water.
• Public amenities under constant useA shopping precinct's toilet blocks take hundreds of uses a day, so cisterns, tapware and hot water there wear out on a completely different cycle to domestic fixtures. Planned replacement beats waiting for the failure that closes an amenity block at the busiest time.