Plumber Huntingdale

Huntingdale WA 6110, City of Gosnells. About 19 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Huntingdale is about nineteen kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Gosnells, a residential suburb with local schools and small businesses and very little else. Its northern streets were built mainly in the 1970s, while the southern half was developed from the 1990s over former market garden and poultry land. For a plumber the useful fact is that the suburb holds two housing generations, and each needs a different answer to the same complaint.

• Two housing generations in one suburbA 1970s Huntingdale house is at the point where copper, galvanised sections and earthenware drainage all warrant assessment. A house from the 1990s southern estates is not. The same symptom leads to very different work depending on which street you are in.
• Built over former horticultural landThe southern half of Huntingdale was market gardens and poultry sheds before subdivision. Old bores, irrigation mains and buried tanks were not always removed, and we find them when someone digs for a pool or an extension. Locating first is far cheaper than discovering mid-dig.
• Slab-on-ground homes in the newer estatesThe 1990s and 2000s housing here is built on slabs, so a leak in a water line under the slab shows as a warm floor or an unexplained bill rather than a visible drip. It needs acoustic and thermal location, not exploratory concrete cutting.
• Established gardens over older servicesThe 1970s northern streets have fifty years of tree and shrub growth over their drainage. Roots into those older sewer joints are the most common reason we are called out on that side of Huntingdale.