Plumber Midland

Midland WA 6056, City of Swan. About 15 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Midland sits about fifteen kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD and is the administrative seat and commercial centre of the City of Swan. Unlike the newer centres elsewhere in Perth it grew up around a Town Hall of 1906 and a Post Office of 1913, so a great deal of its commercial core trades out of genuinely old buildings. For a plumber that is the defining fact: modern fit-outs connected into drainage that predates them by decades, plus large areas of former railway workshop land where what is underground is not always what the plan says.

• Modern fit-outs on century-old drainageShops and cafes here trade from buildings that went up around the turn of last century, and the sewer and waste lines under them are often original. A new kitchen discharging into a line that size blocks repeatedly, and the answer is upgrading the drainage rather than clearing it again each quarter.
• Redeveloped railway workshop landThe Midland Railway Workshops ran here for over eighty years and much of that land has since been built on. Ground used industrially that long holds retained and abandoned water and sewer services beside the live ones, so we locate before excavating instead of trusting a drawing.
• Heritage buildings that limit where pipework can goIn an older Midland building a grease trap or a new waste line cannot simply go where the design would prefer. Protected and original fabric constrains the route, and working that out before a fit-out is priced saves a great deal of expensive reworking afterwards.
• Premises that cannot close to tradeA shopfront with a blocked drain or a failed hot water service loses its day, and in a food premises it cannot legally trade at all. We schedule that work early or after close and quote it that way from the start rather than arriving mid-morning and taking a business out of action.