Plumber Sorrento

Sorrento WA 6020, City of Joondalup. About 19 km north-west of the Perth CBD.

A private subdivision called Sorrento was surveyed here in 1929, but the area remained part of Marmion until 1981 and residential building only began in earnest in the early 1950s. Hillarys Boat Harbour was developed at the north-western corner in the late 1980s, and the suburb has been comfortably off ever since.

• The Indian Ocean along the western boundarySalt-laden air is the defining plumbing factor in Sorrento. External hot water units, tapware, gas regulators and exposed copper corrode measurably faster here than inland, so we replace external fittings in this suburb far more often than a few kilometres east.
• Seventy years of building, from the 1950s onBecause Sorrento has been developed continuously since the early 1950s, two houses in the same street can have completely different pipework. We inspect rather than assume a suburb-wide standard before quoting anything here.
• Hillarys Boat Harbour in the north-western cornerThe harbour's restaurants, kiosks and marine businesses carry commercial obligations a house never does, including trade waste and grease arrestors, and they trade hardest exactly when a failure would hurt most. We attend those premises outside trading hours.
• Sand and limestone underfootThe coastal ground drains quickly, which helps soakage, but limestone makes excavation for sewer and stormwater repairs slower and more careful work than digging in sand alone. We price Sorrento trench work with that in mind rather than adding it later.