Plumber West Leederville

West Leederville WA 6007, Town of Cambridge. About 3 km north-west of the Perth CBD.

West Leederville sits three kilometres north-west of the Perth CBD within the Town of Cambridge. It is the earliest area of residential subdivision in the Town, formed from the sale of William Henry Leeder's estate from 1891, with most of its residential land subdivided before 1903 and most of it built on before 1925. The Leederville Town Hall and Recreation Complex on Cambridge Street was built in 1916, and the suburb backs onto Subiaco Oval and St John of God Subiaco Hospital.

• Houses mostly built before 1925Almost all of West Leederville was developed before 1925, which means original galvanised water pipe and earthenware sewer lines across the suburb. Both are past their service life, and because they were all laid within a couple of decades they are failing across neighbouring streets at much the same time.
• The slope down toward Lake MongerWoolwich Street once carried one of the steepest tram lines in the city at a gradient of one in fourteen, which gives a sense of the fall across this suburb. Steep ground moves stormwater fast and dumps it on the properties below, so downhill blocks here need drainage designed for water arriving from above them.
• Renovation and two-storey rebuilds beside original homesMany original residences have been retained and renovated while newer double-storey dwellings have gone up next door. New work almost always has to join water and sewer pipework laid before 1925, and that junction is where we are most often called back if the existing drainage was never checked for capacity first.
• Backing onto Subiaco Oval and St John of God HospitalThe suburb adjoins a major hospital and a large sporting precinct, and the medical practices and businesses along Cambridge Street that serve them cannot close for a plumbing repair. That work gets scheduled outside their consulting hours.