Plumber Mount Hawthorn

Mount Hawthorn WA 6016, City of Vincent. About 4 km north-west of the Perth CBD.

Mount Hawthorn lies about four kilometres north-west of the Perth CBD within the City of Vincent. The area was first selected for urban development in 1887, and when a syndicate subdivided its land in 1903 James Hicks named his portion Hawthorn Estate after the Melbourne suburb where he had recently stayed. Mount Hawthorn Primary School opened in 1906 and is now one of the ten largest primary schools in the state. Anzac Cottage in Kalgoorlie Street was built by local tradespeople in a single day in February 1916.

• Subdivided in 1903The original Hawthorn Estate lots were sold from 1903 and built on over the following decades, which puts the earliest water and sewer services well past a century old. Galvanised supply narrowed by corrosion and earthenware sewer joints opened up by roots are the two faults we deal with most often here.
• Old houses being renovated rather than replacedMount Hawthorn is renovated street by street, and the pipework is usually the thing that has to be sorted out before anything else can proceed. Pricing a replumb while the walls are open costs a fraction of discovering a failed line after the new kitchen is installed.
• One of the state's largest primary schoolsMount Hawthorn Primary has close to a thousand students, and a school that size runs amenity blocks and drainage at an intensity no house approaches. Fixtures there wear out on a completely different cycle and the work is booked around term times.
• The Scarborough Beach Road and Oxford Street stripThe cafes, bars and restaurants along both streets run commercial kitchens in among the housing. Grease traps, floor wastes and back-of-house drainage are a steady part of our Mount Hawthorn work, and none of it can happen while a venue is trading.