Plumber Lesmurdie

Lesmurdie WA 6076, City of Kalamunda. About 24 km east of the Perth CBD.

Lesmurdie is a hills suburb in the City of Kalamunda, about twenty-four kilometres east of the Perth CBD. Its main access from the coastal plain is Welshpool Road East, which climbs the scarp from Wattle Grove, and it can also be reached through Kalamunda, Walliston, Carmel and Bickley. It holds three high schools and two shopping centres. For a plumber that means a heavy share of institutional and commercial work for a hills suburb, alongside sloping residential blocks and the access time the scarp imposes.

• Three high schools in one suburbSchool amenity blocks take hundreds of uses a day during term and none in the holidays, so their tapware, cisterns and hot water wear out on a completely different cycle to domestic fixtures. That work is planned around term dates rather than attended mid-week.
• Two shopping centres serving the districtThe Lesmurdie Village and Lesmurdie Road centres carry food premises and public amenities that cannot be taken out of action during trading. Grease traps and floor wastes there need servicing on a realistic cycle and outside opening hours.
• Access up the scarp from the plainWelshpool Road East climbs the escarpment in a series of bends, so reaching Lesmurdie from the coastal plain takes longer than the distance suggests. We would rather give you an honest arrival time for a burst pipe than quote a response we cannot meet.
• Sloping residential blocksOn the scarp water runs across the ground rather than soaking in, and collects on whatever sits downhill. Drainage on the lower Lesmurdie blocks has to be sized for runoff arriving from above rather than only for the rain landing on the roof.