Plumber Carine

Carine WA 6020, City of Stirling. About 14 km north of the Perth CBD.

Carine was built in stages. The part south of what is now Reid Highway went up in the early 1970s, Carine Senior High School opened in 1973, and development carried on through the 1980s until the final stage was completed in 1987. Almost all of it is detached housing, though duplexes are becoming more common as the suburb infills.

• Carine Regional Open Space and its two swampsThe reserve is a wetland built around two historic swamps, and it keeps the water table high in the surrounding streets. Soak wells there fill faster and clear more slowly over winter, so stormwater and surface drainage is a larger part of our work in Carine than in drier suburbs nearby.
• Built in stages between the early 1970s and 1987Because construction ran over about fifteen years, a house at one end of Carine can have quite different pipework to one at the other. We check what is actually in the ground rather than assuming a single suburb-wide standard.
• Large original lots now being infilledThe detached houses here sit on generous blocks, and duplexes are steadily replacing them. Every new dwelling needs its own water connection and meter plus a sewer junction cut into a main laid fifty years ago, which is careful work rather than routine.
• Mature trees around the reserveThe plantings around Carine Regional Open Space are now well established, and their roots reach the joints in the older drainage on properties backing onto it. Those are the homes we return to most often for blocked drains, and we camera the line to confirm before quoting.