Plumber Fremantle

Fremantle WA 6160, City of Fremantle. About 19 km south-west of the Perth CBD.

Fremantle is the port city at the mouth of the Swan River, about nineteen kilometres south-west of the Perth CBD, settled in 1829 and holding a dense heritage precinct that includes a World Heritage listed prison. Its West End is now largely hospitality and offices in nineteenth-century buildings. For a plumber that means grease traps and trade waste in heritage premises, drainage that can be well over a century old, limestone under every excavation, and venues that cannot close.

• A hospitality precinct in heritage buildingsFremantle's cafes, bars and restaurants occupy buildings never designed for commercial kitchens. Grease traps and back-of-house drainage there are frequently retrofitted into Victorian fabric, which is why they need inspecting rather than assuming, and servicing to real throughput.
• Drainage older than the recordsWaste lines under the older Fremantle buildings have been altered repeatedly since the 1800s. A camera inspection before any repair is not a formality here, it is the only way to know what you are actually dealing with.
• Heritage listing limits what can be alteredIn a listed Fremantle building you cannot simply cut a new route for a pipe. Fitting out a kitchen or replacing a hot water system means finding a way through that leaves the fabric intact, and that is planning work before it is plumbing work.
• Limestone and a coastal water tableExcavation here strikes limestone, and close to the harbour the water table is high and saline. Both change what a trench or a drainage repair actually takes, so we price on the site rather than on an average.