Plumber The Vines

The Vines WA 6069, City of Swan. About 33 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

The Vines is an outer suburb about thirty-three kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the Swan Valley, within the City of Swan. It is primarily rural-residential, with its streets and neighbourhoods defined by The Vines Resort and its two eighteen-hole golf courses, which traverse most of the suburb's area. For a plumber that means large blocks with long service runs, homes that back onto fairways and take water and roots from that ground, and a resort running irrigation and commercial facilities alongside them.

• Two golf courses running through the suburbThe courses cover most of The Vines and run reticulation and irrigation continuously through summer. A failed pump or a burst line there takes a fairway out of play rather than just browning a lawn, so that is commercial work scheduled around play rather than attended mid-round.
• Housing backing onto fairwaysA great many properties here adjoin the course. Those blocks take runoff from that ground after heavy rain and the mature plantings along the fairways put roots near sewer lines, so drainage there has to be sized for more than the rain landing on the roof.
• Large rural-residential blocksThe lots here are generous, which makes the run between the meter and the house, and from the house to the sewer, considerably longer than on a suburban block. A leak on a long run can go unnoticed for months while the bill climbs, and locating it beats digging along its length.
• Large homes on standard connectionsHouses here tend to be big, with more bathrooms and higher hot water demand than a builder's standard unit was sized for. Poor pressure in a large Vines home is usually the water service rather than the tapware, and replacing fittings will not fix it.