Plumber Girrawheen

Girrawheen WA 6064, City of Wanneroo. About 15 km north of the Perth CBD.

Girrawheen is a suburb fifteen kilometres north of the Perth CBD in the City of Wanneroo, bounded by Wanneroo Road, Beach Road, Marangaroo Drive and Mirrabooka Avenue. Land here was rezoned in 1969 and the suburb was gazetted in 1970, laid out on generous blocks. For a plumber the defining activity now is subdivision: those large lots are steadily being split, and every new dwelling needs its own connections cut into mains that are over fifty years old.

• Large blocks being subdividedThe original lots here are big enough to split, and that is happening steadily. Each new dwelling needs its own water connection and meter plus a sewer junction cut into a main laid in the 1970s, which is careful work rather than routine and worth pricing before a development is committed to.
• Fifty-year-old mains under the streetsThe water and sewer mains serving Girrawheen went in as the suburb was built from 1970. Cutting a new junction into a main that age is a different proposition to connecting to a modern one, and it is one of the reasons a subdivision quote here should come from someone who has actually looked.
• Original housing on original servicesWhere a block has not been developed, the house on it is generally running the pipework it was built with. Galvanised supply narrowed by corrosion and earthenware sewer joints reached by roots are the two faults we deal with most often in those homes.
• A younger, family-heavy populationGirrawheen's median age is below the Perth average and households tend to be larger. A hot water unit sized decades ago for a smaller household will run out regardless of its condition, which is one of the most common complaints we are called to here.