Plumber Dianella

Dianella WA 6059, City of Stirling. About 8 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Dianella is a suburb about eight kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Stirling, formed in 1958 by amalgamating several smaller localities. Housing runs from modest post-war homes through 1960s development to the large two-storey houses of the St Andrews, Montclair Rise and Dress Circle estates completed in the early 2000s. For a plumber the build era is the key variable, while the sandy Banksia sandplain soil underneath is a constant that makes drainage here easier than in the clay country east of the city.

• Housing spanning fifty yearsA post-war Dianella home runs services close to seventy years old, while a Dress Circle house is barely twenty. Poor pressure in the first is corroded galvanised pipe; in the second it is almost certainly something else entirely. We check the build era before quoting rather than pricing from a suburb average.
• Sandy Banksia sandplain soilThe sand here drains well, which is why the area was considered poor for agriculture but is good news for plumbing. Soak wells generally perform better in Dianella than in the clay suburbs east of the city, so drainage work is often simpler and less expensive than people expect.
• Large modern homes on the newer estatesThe two-storey houses on the estates completed in the early 2000s have more bathrooms and higher hot water demand than a builder's standard unit was sized for. Poor pressure in those homes is usually the water service rather than the tapware, and new fittings will not fix it.
• Mature gardens in the older streetsThe post-war and 1960s parts of Dianella have gardens that are now decades established, and those roots reach the joints in earthenware sewer lines. Root intrusion is the most common blockage we clear in the older half of the suburb.