Plumber Wilson

Wilson WA 6107, City of Canning. About 9 km south-east of the Perth CBD.

Wilson lies about nine kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Canning, on the north bank of the Canning River near Kent Street Weir. It is an older suburb with mature street trees, and its proximity to Curtin University means a high proportion of the housing is rented. For a plumber that combination gives root intrusion into ageing drainage, low river ground that drains poorly, and fixtures working harder than they were designed to.

• Mature trees over old sewer linesThe street trees that make Wilson pleasant are the reason we are called out here. Roots find the joints in earthenware drainage, and on a suburb of this age that line is the original one. Repeated clearing is a symptom; the line itself is usually the problem.
• Low ground along the Canning RiverBlocks near the river and the weir sit on low ground with a water table that comes up through winter. Soak wells there do not drain the way they do a few streets back, so stormwater on those properties has to be designed for the ground it is actually in.
• Student share housing near CurtinA three-bedroom Wilson house rented by five people puts a bathroom and a hot water unit under a load nobody planned for. The failures are predictable: cisterns, mixers and undersized hot water. We size the replacement for how the house is being used, not how it was drawn.
• Rentals that need a quick, documented fixMuch of Wilson is investor-owned, and we work here for owners and managers who are not on site. We quote before we start and report what we did, because the person paying the invoice usually did not see the problem.