Plumber Shenton Park

Shenton Park WA 6008, City of Subiaco. About 4 km west of the Perth CBD.

Shenton Park lies four kilometres west of the Perth CBD, split between the City of Subiaco and the City of Nedlands. It takes its name from George Shenton, three times Mayor of Perth, who owned the land. The Fremantle railway line divides it: the eastern part is mostly residential, the western part is bushland, commercial buildings and Shenton College. Lake Jualbup sits within the suburb, and the old Shenton Park Hotel of 1907 became a retirement village in 2004.

• Tamala Limestone under the sandShenton Park sits on Spearwood Dunes, brown sand over yellow subsoil with limestone below. Hitting limestone makes excavation slower and changes how a soak well drains, so we establish what is actually under a property before pricing drainage work rather than quoting it as straight sand.
• Lake Jualbup and the ground around itThe lake keeps groundwater high in the surrounding streets. Soak wells there fill faster and clear more slowly through winter, so stormwater on those blocks needs to be sized for the water table rather than to a standard detail.
• Split in two by the Fremantle railway lineThe eastern half is established housing and the western half is bushland, Shenton College and commercial buildings. Those are two different kinds of plumbing, and a commercial blockage west of the line has to be cleared outside operating hours while a house east of it does not.
• A retirement village where the Shenton Park Hotel stoodThe 1907 hotel on Nicholson Road became a retirement village in 2004. High-occupancy residential like that runs its hot water and drainage far harder than a single house does, and it cannot have amenities out of action, so the work gets scheduled rather than squeezed in.