Plumber Jane Brook

Jane Brook WA 6056, City of Swan. About 25 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Jane Brook is a suburb about twenty-five kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Swan, taking its name from the watercourse and valley that cut through the Darling Scarp. John Forrest National Park lies alongside it and Midland is about five kilometres west. For a plumber the two practical points are the mature bushland on the park boundary, whose roots reach drainage on the properties beside it, and the sloping ground, where stormwater runs rather than soaks away.

• Properties backing onto national parkMature native trees along the John Forrest boundary sit close to residential blocks and their roots find the joints in older earthenware drainage. Those are the homes we return to most often to clear blocked drains, and a camera tells you whether relining is worth it or whether periodic clearing will do.
• Sloping ground at the edge of the scarpWater moves across this ground rather than soaking into it, and it collects on whatever sits downhill. Drainage on the lower blocks has to be sized for runoff arriving from above rather than only for the rain landing on the roof.
• A watercourse running through the valleyJane Brook itself passes through the area, and properties on the lower ground near it carry a higher water table through winter. Soakage performs worse there than it does further up the slope, which is why two blocks in the same street can behave differently.
• Five kilometres from MidlandJane Brook sits close to Midland on the route we work through the eastern suburbs, so there is usually a van within reach. For an after-hours burst that matters more than the distance from the city, and we will give you a straight arrival time.