Plumber Jolimont

Jolimont WA 6014, City of Subiaco. About 5 km west of the Perth CBD.

Jolimont is a small suburb about five kilometres west of the Perth CBD, mostly within the City of Subiaco with a small portion in the Town of Cambridge. It is believed to be named after the Melbourne suburb of Jolimont. Most of its land is parks and sporting facilities rather than housing, including the Matthews Netball Centre and the Pat Goodridge Hockey Centre. Jolimont Swamp lies within Mabel Talbot Park, and the suburb sits on Spearwood Dunes with Tamala Limestone beneath the sand.

• Mostly sporting facilities rather than housingThe Matthews Netball Centre, the Pat Goodridge Hockey Centre and the surrounding courts take up most of Jolimont. Those sites run change rooms, amenity blocks and ground irrigation that carry far more use than domestic fixtures, so tapware and cisterns there wear out on a completely different timescale.
• Jolimont Swamp in Mabel Talbot ParkThe swamp keeps groundwater high in the low-lying streets beside it. Soak wells there fill faster and clear more slowly through winter, so stormwater on those blocks has to be sized for the water table rather than to a standard detail.
• Tamala Limestone under the sandJolimont sits on Spearwood Dunes, brown sand over yellow subsoil with limestone below. Striking limestone slows excavation and changes how a soak well drains, which is why two apparently identical drainage jobs here can be priced quite differently.
• A very small residential pocketOnly a small part of Jolimont is housing, and it is established stock being renovated rather than replaced. New work almost always has to join water and sewer services laid decades earlier, and checking that junction before it is covered up avoids the callback.