Plumber Ellenbrook

Ellenbrook WA 6069, City of Swan. About 28 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Ellenbrook is a planned outer suburb about twenty-eight kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Swan, first developed in the 1990s and now a designated secondary activity centre serving Perth's north-eastern corridor. It forms a continuous urban area with The Vines, Aveley and Henley Brook. For a plumber that means two streams of work: a genuine town centre with food premises and amenities, and housing spanning thirty years where the earliest homes are now due for their fittings while the newest need almost nothing.

• A town centre with food premisesEllenbrook has a real commercial centre rather than a strip of shops, with kitchens, public amenities and back-of-house drainage that take loads no domestic fixture approaches. Grease traps and floor wastes there need servicing on a realistic cycle and outside trading hours.
• Housing spanning thirty years of developmentEllenbrook has been building since the 1990s, so a home in the earliest stage runs water and sewer connections thirty years old while one in the newest is barely finished. A slow drain in the first may be an ageing line; in the second it is a blockage. We check which stage a property belongs to before quoting.
• Earliest homes now due for their fittingsIn the 1990s and early 2000s stages the hot water units, cisterns and tapware are at the end of their first life while the supply pipe is sound. A quote for major pipe replacement in an Ellenbrook house is worth questioning, and we will say so.
• Built on former woodland and wetlandThe area was banksia and sheoak woodland with wetlands before development, and remnant wet ground persists in places. On the lower blocks that keeps groundwater higher through winter, so soakage there performs differently to the rest of the suburb.