Braybrook
Blocked, burst or leaking in Braybrook?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Braybrook, from the concrete Commission streets to the munition workers estate, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Braybrook
Concrete houses and concrete courts
Real residential growth came only with the Housing Commission's estate of detached concrete houses, planned during the Second World War and built in the fifties. Houses of that kind likely have earthenware drains and early copper or galvanised water service, and pipes set in solid walls are hard to reach, so a replacement run is often fixed on the surface instead.
The Munition Workers Housing Heritage Area, a wartime scheme for munitions workers, is protected for its uniform house design, siting, lot layout, early landscape and concrete roads. A change visible from the street, such as new downpipes, gutters or a moved meter, may need a heritage permit, so the overlay is checked before the front of a house is touched.
Jobs in Braybrook
Solid walls and protected fronts
Burst pipes
Water service in solid concrete walls, where a new run on the surface may beat chasing the old one.
Blocked drains
Earthenware drains under the fifties concrete houses, cleared and filmed.
Gutters and downpipes
Street-facing downpipes on the munition workers estate, checked against the heritage overlay.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Braybrook questions
Concrete road openings and government landlords
Can a sewer connection be dug across one of the concrete courts?
Only with care and council consent. Some courts on the munition workers estate keep their concrete paving, kerb and channel and grassed medians. Concrete road paving is rare in the metropolitan area, and a sewer or water connection across one means cutting and reinstating protected paving to match, so that is agreed before any road opening.
Who arranges a plumbing repair in a public housing home?
Usually the government landlord, not the tenant. At one census Braybrook had the second highest rate of rental of dwellings from the government among the Melbourne suburbs surveyed, and in those homes the housing authority's work order comes before the job starts.
How can I tell if the blockage is in the corporation's sewer?
Check the inspection shaft at the front of the property. Greater Western Water says a shaft full of water usually means the fault is in its own network, which is reported to the corporation, while an empty one points to the private drain.
