Plumber Lynwood

Lynwood WA 6147, City of Canning. About 13 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Lynwood sits about thirteen kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Canning, bounded by High Road, Nicholson Road and Metcalfe Road. It was developed through the 1960s and 1970s largely by one company selling house-and-land packages, so the housing is unusually uniform in age and construction. For a plumber that uniformity is useful: the pipework, the drainage and the fixtures across whole streets are the same age and fail in the same order.

• Whole streets built to one specificationBecause a single developer built most of Lynwood to the same plans, a street tends to share the same pipework and drainage. When we see a particular failure in one house here, the neighbours are usually a year or two behind it, which makes planned replacement genuinely worth considering.
• Fifty-year-old drainage under mature gardensThe original sewer lines are earthenware and the gardens above them have had half a century to grow. Roots into those joints are the most common reason we are called to a Lynwood house, and clearing alone does not fix a line that has opened up.
• Pipework where a replumb is a real questionHouses of this vintage are the ones where original pipe genuinely reaches the end of its life. Pressure drops, discoloured water and repeated pinhole leaks in a Lynwood house point at the pipework rather than the fitting on the end of it.
• Infill on generous original blocksThe lots here were large by modern standards and many are being subdivided. A new dwelling at the rear needs its own water meter and sewer connection, and where the existing connections sit decides whether that is straightforward or expensive.