Plumber Kallaroo

Kallaroo WA 6025, City of Joondalup. About 21 km north-north-west of the Perth CBD.

Kallaroo is one of the four Whitfords suburbs created when the Western Australian Government rezoned large areas of coastal land for development in 1969. The name was chosen in 1970 and is an Aboriginal word meaning road to the water. Springfield Primary School opened in 1972 and was named after the original housing estate. Street names through the suburb are predominantly those of shipwrecks, including the Batavia. The land west of Dampier Avenue was developed in the mid to late 1980s and is known as Northshore.

• Two build stages fifteen years apartThe original Springfield estate dates from the early 1970s while Northshore, west of Dampier Avenue, was built in the mid to late 1980s. The water and sewer services under those two areas are of quite different ages and materials, so we establish which part of Kallaroo a property is in before quoting.
• Original housing from the early 1970sThe Springfield end of the suburb has run its original pipework for around fifty years. Galvanised supply that has narrowed with corrosion and earthenware sewer joints reached by roots are the two faults we deal with most often in those streets.
• Close enough to the coast to matterKallaroo sits near the beach, and external tapware, fittings and hot water units in exposed positions corrode faster here than they would further inland. We factor that into what we install rather than replacing like for like and watching it fail on the same timescale.
• Springfield Primary School's redevelopmentThe school began a major redevelopment in late 2024 and is operating normally throughout. A live building site on an occupied school means water and sewer connections being cut, capped and reconnected in stages while the amenity blocks stay in use, which is work that has to be planned rather than improvised.