Plumber Doubleview

Doubleview WA 6018, City of Stirling. About 11 km north-west of the Perth CBD.

Doubleview was named in 1926 for its two outlooks, the Indian Ocean to the west and the Darling Range to the east, and the suburb was built out mostly after the Second World War on land subdivided from 1910 onward. That post-war housing is now the oldest plumbing in the suburb, and the part we are called to most.

• The ridge the suburb is named forDoubleview sits high enough to see the ocean one way and the hills the other, and that elevation changes how water behaves on a property. Homes near the top of the ridge often run lower pressure, and stormwater moves fast down the slope, so soakage has to be sized for it.
• Post-war timber-framed housingThe first homes built here for returning soldiers were timber framed, with supply lines running under suspended floors. A leak in that space can run unnoticed for months, which is why we check subfloors in older Doubleview homes rather than assuming the slab is the problem.
• The move to brick and tileLater construction shifted to brick and tile on slab, so Doubleview has two quite different sets of plumbing problems street to street. Knowing which era a house belongs to tells us where the pipework runs before we lift anything.
• Bradley Reserve, Munro Reserve and Bennett ParkThe established trees around these reserves send roots into the older clay drainage nearby, so homes backing onto them are the ones we return to most often for blocked drains. We camera the line to confirm the cause before quoting.