Plumbing Ascot

1. 01

   The housing

   Ascot's housing is largely interwar: Queenslander homes set on generous blocks, while grand older residences such as Windermere and Chateau Nous, a house dated 1938, stand on the high streets.

2. 02

   The units

   A sizeable run of unit buildings sits near Lancaster Road, and flats stack basins, showers and laundries above whatever room happens to be underneath them.

3. 03

   The supply pipes

   Houses of that era were plumbed in galvanised steel. Piped water reached this hill by 1907, the year a service reservoir went onto Bartleys Hill, so the earliest plumbing here is now genuinely old.

4. 04

   The drains

   Urban Utilities' sewer mains through the suburb are mostly earthenware, and generous blocks stretch a single pipe a long way from house to street. One shifted joint halfway along can hold back every fixture at once.

1. 01

   Emergency plumbing

   starts with water where it shouldn't be or a smell you can't ignore. Extended homes with bathrooms upstairs put their pipes and fittings directly above the rooms below, so one burst flexi hose upstairs can dump its water straight through a ceiling. We sort the make-safe first, then the repair.

2. 02

   General plumbing

   covers the taps, toilets, bathrooms and kitchens of a suburb full of extended family homes. Older houses that gained extra bathrooms often kept old pipe runs serving them, so we trace before we replace.

3. 03

   Drainage

   here means long earthenware runs and big tree roots. The poincianas along Racecourse Road and the established gardens around the older mansions give roots decades to find every socketed joint.

4. 04

   Hot water

   usually means one big storage tank carrying a whole house. When it goes, it's a whole-house outage, and a replacement typically gets re-sized and re-positioned rather than swapped like for like. The story of who we are and the details for getting in touch sit on their own pages.

1. What changes a quote

   what's broken, where it sits, how old the pipe is, and how much of the system we need to open up to reach it.

2. What doesn't

   the job's size doesn't change the licence it's done under, and a big block doesn't mean a padded bill.

3. What you get

   the figure lands on paper ahead of any work, and you approve it before either of us commits.

A long drain under a paved terrace is a different job to a tap washer, and you'll know which one you're facing before we start. If anything in the quote needs explaining, we'd rather talk it through on the phone than have you wonder about it later.