Plumber Karawara

Karawara WA 6152, City of South Perth. About 7 km south of the Perth CBD.

Karawara sits about seven kilometres south of the Perth CBD in the City of South Perth, bounded by Collier Park Golf Course, Kent Street, Curtin University and Manning Road. It was pine plantation until the suburb was gazetted in 1973, and it is small, compact and dominated by its proximity to the university. For a plumber that means 1970s services, a high share of shared rental housing, and fixtures working far harder than they were specified for.

• Housing carrying more people than it was built forA Karawara house let to four or five students puts a bathroom and a hot water unit under a load nobody planned for. Cisterns, mixers and undersized hot water are the predictable failures, and we size replacements for how the house is actually used.
• Seventies drainage under established gardensThe original sewer lines here went in when the suburb was built and the gardens above them have had fifty years to grow. Roots into those joints are a common cause of the blockages we clear in Karawara.
• Rentals that need a quick, documented fixMuch of this suburb is investor-owned and we work here for owners and managers who are not on site. We quote before starting and report what we found, because the person paying usually never saw the problem.
• Former pine plantation groundThe sandy plantation soil drains freely, so soakage generally works here. That makes a wet patch that will not dry out far more likely to be a leaking line than a groundwater problem, and worth locating rather than living with.