Plumber City Beach

City Beach WA 6015, Town of Cambridge. About 8 km west of the Perth CBD.

City Beach is a coastal suburb about eight kilometres west of the Perth CBD within the Town of Cambridge. The Perth Road Board bought the Lime Kilns Estate in 1917 intending a seaside town on garden city lines, and the name City Beach came into use by 1928. The central section was built immediately before the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as an athletes' village, given its proximity to the former Perry Lakes Stadium. The suburb has three distinct sections and two surf lifesaving clubs.

• A central section built for the 1962 GamesThe middle of City Beach went up as an athletes' village immediately before the 1962 Games, so a large number of houses share a build date within a year or two of each other. Their original galvanised supply and earthenware sewer are consequently failing across those streets at the same time.
• Directly exposed to the coastSalt-laden air corrodes external tapware, fittings and hot water units well before their rated life here. Replacing like for like simply restarts the same clock, so we specify fittings suited to a coastal position and tell owners what to expect from a unit in an exposed spot.
• Three separate sections of the suburbCity Beach runs in a northern section near Scarborough, the central Games-era part and a southern section by Bold Park, and they were built at quite different times. The age of the water and sewer services under a property depends on which section it is in, so we establish that before quoting.
• Two surf lifesaving clubs and beach facilitiesThe clubs at City Beach and Floreat Beach run change rooms, showers and public amenities that carry heavy seasonal use and sit in the harshest position for corrosion in the suburb. Those fixtures need servicing on a much shorter cycle than domestic ones.