Plumber Victoria Park

Victoria Park WA 6100, Town of Victoria Park. About 4 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Victoria Park is an inner suburb about four kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD on the Swan River, linked to the city by the Causeway. It grew from the Victoria Park Estate of the 1890s and is mostly residential, with parkland along the river and a commercial strip on Albany Highway. Albany, Canning and Great Eastern Highways all meet within it. For a plumber that means century-old services under much of the housing, constant renovation work joining new fixtures to them, and unusually good access for an emergency call.

• Housing from an 1890s estateThe oldest Victoria Park homes run water and sewer connections well over a century old. Galvanised supply narrows internally with corrosion until pressure falls away, and earthenware sewer joints open up and let roots in, and both are failing across whole streets rather than house by house.
• Renovation rather than rebuildingThese houses are being kept and extended rather than demolished, which means new bathrooms and kitchens joining services laid in the 1890s or shortly after. That junction is where we are most often called back, so it is worth checking the old line can carry the new fixtures before it is covered.
• Three arterial roads meeting in the suburbAlbany, Canning and Great Eastern Highways all pass through Victoria Park. For a burst pipe at two in the morning that access is worth more than the distance from the city, and it is why we can give a realistic arrival time here rather than a vague window.
• A commercial strip among the housingThe Albany Highway shops, cafes and consulting rooms sit in the middle of a residential suburb, carrying commercial kitchens with grease traps and public amenities that cannot be taken out of action during trading. A blocked floor waste there closes a business for the day, so that work gets booked early or after close.