Plumber Hocking

Hocking WA 6065, City of Wanneroo. About 22 km north of the Perth CBD.

Hocking is a suburb about twenty-two kilometres north of the Perth CBD in the City of Wanneroo, part of Wanneroo until 1994. It is still developing, with new housing estates, land under development and remnant market gardens all present at once. For a plumber that mix is the point: commercial irrigation, bores and pumps on the growing properties, and new-build work on the estates, often within a few streets of each other.

• Working market gardens among the housingThe remaining growers here run bores, pumps and irrigation continuously through the season, and a burst main or failed pump stops production rather than merely inconveniencing someone. We quote and respond to that as commercial work rather than queueing it behind domestic jobs.
• New estates still being releasedHousing continues to go in, which means new water and sewer connections into recently laid mains and homes still inside their builder's warranty period. Where a fault in a new house is workmanship rather than wear, we say so, because that is usually the builder's to fix.
• Bore water on the growing propertiesBore water scales hot water systems internally and wears out tap washers and seals far faster than scheme water. On a Hocking property running a bore it is worth choosing fittings and a system that suit the water rather than replacing the same thing every few years.
• Land still under developmentWith stages still being built, construction and occupied housing sit alongside each other and the water and sewer mains in a street can be newer than the plans in circulation. We check what is actually in the ground before cutting a connection into it rather than working from a drawing.