Plumber Kwinana Beach

Kwinana Beach WA 6167, City of Kwinana. About 35 km south of the Perth CBD.

Kwinana Beach sits about thirty-five kilometres south of the Perth CBD on Cockburn Sound, in the City of Kwinana. The original beachside village was rezoned industrial from the 1950s when the oil refinery was built, and chemical, alumina and bulk handling operations followed. For a plumber that means process and service water systems rather than domestic plumbing, bulk product residue in drainage, legacy services buried under industrial lots, and severe coastal corrosion.

• Process and service water, not just wasteCooling, boiler feed and dosing lines on these plants carry treated water at temperatures and pressures household pipework never sees. The materials, the valves and the isolation all have to suit that, which is a different specification to ordinary site plumbing.
• Bulk product residue in the drainageBulk handling puts far more solid material into wash-down than an engineering workshop does. Drainage on these sites silts up faster than people expect, so interceptors need sizing for a busy week rather than a quiet one.
• A village buried under the industryThere was a township here before the rezoning, and its water and sewer services were not always removed when the lots were absorbed into plant sites. We locate before excavating, because a forgotten line found by a machine is the expensive way.
• Severe corrosion this close to the waterSalt and industrial atmosphere together are harder on exposed pipework and fittings than either alone. Material selection and siting decide whether an installation here lasts years or months.