Water where it should not be in Victoria Park?
Ring us and a licensed plumber comes out at no charge. He works out what has actually failed, then gives you a written price before anything starts. Transparent pricing, no hidden costs, nothing owing if you decide against it.
Three kinds of property, three kinds of problem
The original housing
Victoria Park's character homes are among the oldest in this part of Perth, a good deal of it from the first decades of the twentieth century. Drainage of that vintage has been altered repeatedly, and much of what is underground has no record attached to it. Failures are age failures: settled joints, silted runs, cracked chambers, roots.
The infill
This suburb has seen as much redevelopment as anywhere on this side of the river — rear dwellings, duplex pairs, townhouse groups and apartment blocks slotted into streets of older houses. Every one of those replaced garden with roof and paving. Where drainage was upgraded properly at the time, it works. Where a development leaned on the existing system, it does not.
The commercial strip
The Albany Highway frontage puts a lot of shops, offices and hospitality premises in the suburb, on sites that are close to entirely hard surface. There is very little soft ground on a commercial lot, so the drainage has to do all of the work with none of the natural help. And water across a customer entrance or a car park is an operating problem, not just a wet patch. Commercial and strata drainage
A different council, and why that matters
Most of the suburbs we cover around Como fall under the City of South Perth. Victoria Park does not — it sits under the Town of Victoria Park, with its own requirements.
The broad principle across the metropolitan area is the same everywhere: stormwater is expected to be dealt with on the property rather than pushed onto the road, the verge or a neighbour. But the specific requirements, the approval process and the way volumes are calculated are set by the local council, and they are not identical between one and the next.
So the figures that apply a few streets away in Como are not automatically the figures that apply to your block here. When you ring, give us the address rather than the suburb, and we will work to the rules that actually cover it instead of the ones we happen to use most often.
Infill drainage is the job we see most
Of the three property types, infill produces the most calls — and usually the most avoidable ones.
The situation goes like this. A block that held one house now holds two dwellings, or four. The roof area has doubled or trebled. Paving has replaced most of what used to be lawn. And the stormwater from all of it has been connected into a system that was sized, decades ago, for a single modest house with a big garden around it.
For most of the year nothing happens, because most Perth rain is light. Then a proper winter downpour arrives, the system fills in minutes and the water goes wherever the ground slopes — which on a compact infill lot is frequently toward a doorway or a garage.
The fix is almost always additional capacity rather than a repair, because nothing is broken. That is worth knowing before you pay someone to clear a drain that was never blocked. Backyard flooding and drainage
What we do in Victoria Park
Soakwell installation and replacement
Sized against what is on the block now, not what was there when the original house went up. Soakwell replacement
Drainage for infill and rear dwellings
Getting new roof and hardstand into a system with the capacity to take it.
Commercial and strata stormwater
Car parks, entrances, shared runs and multi-owner systems. Commercial plumbing
Blocked stormwater drains
Located first, then cleared — a run that blocks repeatedly has a cause worth finding. Blocked drains
Collapsed chambers and broken pipe
Why Victoria Park calls us
Licensed plumber, licence 8396
Drainage is plumbing work, done by the licence holder rather than subcontracted.
$0 call-out and a free written quote
No charge to attend, and the price in writing before any work starts.
Straight answers on capacity
If the problem is that the system is too small, we will say so rather than sell you a clean-out that will not help.
Quick response, honest hours
Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm. No after-hours or weekend service, and we say so up front.
Free quote in Victoria Park
Tell us the address, what the property is — house, infill dwelling or commercial premises — and where the water ends up. We will call you back to arrange a time.