Plumber Glen Forrest

Glen Forrest WA 6071, Shire of Mundaring. About 27 km east of the Perth CBD.

Glen Forrest is a suburb in the Shire of Mundaring, south of John Forrest National Park and north of the Helena River, bisected by Nyaania Creek and the disused railway that is now the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail. A brickworks once operated here on a patch of white clay that is now a park. For a plumber that clay is the defining fact: it holds water rather than letting it soak away, so drainage designed for sandy suburbs simply does not work on these blocks.

• White clay under much of the suburbThe clay here was good enough to support a brickworks, and clay is the opposite of sand for drainage. Water sits on it rather than soaking through, so a soak well sized to a coastal standard will fill and stay full. We establish what is under a property before pricing any drainage work.
• Conservation reserves through the areaGlen Forrest holds significant conservation reserves including the Glen Forrest Super Block, and mature natives along those boundaries send roots into older drainage on the properties beside them. Those blocks are worth cameraing rather than guessing at when a drain keeps blocking.
• Nyaania Creek and sloping groundThe creek runs through the suburb and the ground falls toward it, so water moves across these blocks rather than soaking in and collects on whatever sits lower. On clay that combination makes runoff management the job rather than soakage.
• Two separate commercial pocketsThe businesses near the former station site and at the Hardey Road highway intersection carry kitchens and public amenities that cannot be taken out of action during trading. That work gets booked early or after close rather than mid-morning.