Plumber Leeming

Leeming WA 6149, City of Melville. About 17 km south of the Perth CBD.

Leeming lies about seventeen kilometres south of the Perth CBD, bounded by South Street, the Kwinana Freeway and Roe Highway, and divided between the Cities of Melville, Cockburn and Canning. It was farmland until the 1970s and was built in stages from the centre outward over about ten years. For a plumber that staged construction matters: the original streets and the last ones are a decade apart in the age of their pipework and drainage.

• Built in stages, so age varies by streetThe earliest Leeming streets went in around 1976 and the outer ones a decade later. That difference decides whether a recurring leak points at the pipework or at a single fitting, so the answer here genuinely depends on the address.
• Three councils across one suburbLeeming is split between three local governments, and anything needing an approval or a new connection goes to a different authority depending on which part of the suburb you are in. We work out which applies before starting rather than after.
• Sandy Jandakot groundThis was agricultural land on the sandy country south of the river, and that soil drains freely. Soakage generally works well here, which makes an unexplained wet patch more likely to be a leak than a groundwater problem.
• Bushland reserve and mature treesKen Hurst Park and the established street planting bring substantial root systems close to properties on the southern side. Roots into older drainage joints are a common cause of the blockages we clear in those streets.