Plumber Woodbridge

Woodbridge WA 6056, City of Swan. About 14 km north-east of the Perth CBD.

Woodbridge is a suburb about fourteen kilometres north-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Swan, on the edge of the Swan River next to Midland. It was part of Midland until gazetted separately in 2001, so despite the recent name its housing is established rather than new. For a plumber that means older water and sewer services through much of the suburb, and low riverside ground on the western blocks where the water table sits high and drainage has little fall.

• Established housing despite a recent nameWoodbridge only became a separate suburb in 2001, but it was part of Midland long before that and its housing dates from well before the name change. The water and sewer services under these streets are decades older than the suburb name, so a quote written on the assumption this is a new area will be wrong.
• Low ground along the Swan RiverThe blocks nearest the river carry a high water table and their drainage has limited fall to work with. Soak wells there fill faster and clear more slowly through winter, so stormwater on those properties has to be sized for saturated ground.
• Older services under the established streetsGalvanised supply pipe narrowed by corrosion and earthenware sewer joints opened up by roots are the two faults we deal with most often here. Both are age rather than misuse, and both are worth renewing properly rather than repairing repeatedly.
• A railway station within the suburbWoodbridge station and the premises around it sit in the middle of the residential area, and those businesses cannot close for a plumbing repair during trading. That work gets booked early or after hours rather than mid-morning.