Plumber Daglish

Daglish WA 6008, City of Subiaco. About 4 km west of the Perth CBD.

Daglish lies about four kilometres west of the Perth CBD within the City of Subiaco, named after Henry Daglish, mayor of Subiaco and premier of Western Australia from 1904 to 1905. The railway station opened in 1924, and the following year the Municipality of Subiaco bought land nearby to sell for housing, which was developed over the next twenty years on garden suburb principles with large lots, curved streets and generous green space. Most original homes still stand, giving the suburb significant heritage value.

• Built on Spearwood Dunes over Tamala LimestoneThe ground here is brown sand over yellow subsoil with limestone beneath it. Limestone at shallow depth makes excavation slower and more expensive than sand alone, and it changes how a soak well performs. We establish what is under a property before quoting drainage work rather than pricing it as straight sand.
• Low-lying former wetland at Charles Stokes ParkCharles Stokes Park and Cliff Sadlier VC Memorial Park occupy low ground that was wetland before the suburb was built. Properties near them sit on a higher water table, so soak wells fill faster and clear more slowly over winter, and stormwater work in those streets has to be sized accordingly.
• A largely intact 1920s and 1930s streetscapeBecause most original houses were kept rather than demolished, a great deal of Daglish plumbing is still the pipework installed when the house was built. Galvanised supply and earthenware sewer of that age are both well past their service life, and we find them here more consistently than in suburbs that have been redeveloped.
• Garden suburb lots with large gardens and mature treesThe suburb was laid out with large lots and substantial gardens, and ninety years on those plantings are mature. Their roots reach the joints in the original earthenware sewer lines, which is why root intrusion is the blockage we clear most often in Daglish.