Licensed Plumbers
Across The Inner West

You will hear $100 to $150 an hour quoted around Sydney. It is a true figure and a poor budget, because the hours are precisely what nobody can predict. We agree one number for the whole job before starting.

Anything genuinely urgent gets a target of under an hour to the door, anywhere across the inner west, on any day and at any hour.

Every charge is said on the phone before the van moves, so nothing on the invoice is news. Booked through this page, there is no attendance charge to say.

NSW Licence 368473C. Look it up on the Fair Trading register, which takes about a minute and is worth doing for anybody you let onto a property. Plumbing without a licence is illegal in this state and it will sink an insurance claim.

Soft water is the reason. Where the supply is hard a cylinder fills with scale and that ends it. Sydney's does not behave that way. Here the anode is consumed protecting the steel, and once it has gone the tank itself begins to corrode. Or an element burns out. Neither of those automatically means a new system.

A single private sewer line that serves more than one property before it reaches the water authority's main. It is ordinary in housing built as a row to a common plan, which is most of the older inner west. Your waste and your neighbours' waste travel the same pipe for part of the way. Nothing about that is a defect. It is simply how a row of houses built together was drained, and it changes three things: what causes a blockage, whose land the repair happens on, and who the cost sits with.

The inner west is largely nineteenth and early twentieth century housing built in rows to a common plan, and the drainage followed the same logic as the buildings. That is why this is a regional fact rather than a suburb one: it is as true in Balmain as it is in Marrickville, because the reason for it is the way the housing was built rather than anything about the ground it sits on.

Possibly neither of you, and the honest first step is finding out what the line actually serves. The house nearest an obstruction backs up first, which is a matter of position rather than of who put what down a drain, so the property that notices is frequently not the property that caused it. Where a line serves several owners the responsibility for it is shared between them. What we can do is film and locate it and give every owner the same footage. What we cannot do is give you legal advice about who pays, and anybody in a hard hat who offers you that opinion is guessing.

The whole the Inner West LGA and every suburb around it: Leichhardt, Marrickville, Newtown, Balmain, Ashfield, Annandale, Petersham, Ashfield and more.