Plumber South Fremantle

South Fremantle WA 6162, City of Fremantle. About 19 km south-west of the Perth CBD.

South Fremantle occupies the coast below the port, about nineteen kilometres south-west of the Perth CBD in the City of Fremantle, an area worked from 1831 for lime and later built around the Robb Jetty abattoir and the rail line serving it. Its housing is mostly small heritage cottages on tight lots. For a plumber that means very old drainage, limestone under every trench, salt corrosion on anything exposed, and hospitality premises along the strip.

• Workers' cottages on tight lotsThe original South Fremantle housing was built small and close together, so water and sewer connections sit right on boundaries and against neighbours. Locating before any excavation matters far more here than it does on a modern block.
• Salt air on everything exposedThis close to the coast, external tapware, fittings and hot water units corrode faster than they do a few kilometres inland. Where a unit is sited and how it is protected decides whether it reaches its full service life or half of it.
• Limestone under every excavationThe whole area was quarried and burnt for lime from the 1830s for a reason. A trench for a water line, a sewer repair or drainage here strikes rock rather than sand, which is why we price on the site and not on an average.
• Hospitality premises along the stripThe cafes, bars and brewing premises here run commercial kitchens and grease traps inside old buildings never designed for them. Those lines need inspecting rather than assuming, and servicing to real throughput.