Hampton Park
Blocked, burst or leaking in Hampton Park?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Hampton Park, from the Housing Commission streets to the shopping centre, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Hampton Park
Commission era clay and poplar roots
Victorian Places records that a reticulated water supply opened the way for a Housing Commission estate in Hampton Park in the early seventies. Those houses are now around half a century old and likely still have their original clay sewer drains, so cracked joints and roots are expected and the camera goes in first.
Henry Joseph Moran Park keeps mature trees from its old ownership, including a Monterey cypress row, bunyas and a Moreton Bay fig, and silver poplar suckers grow in the median near the reserve. Poplar and fig roots travel a long way to a leaking joint, so a nearby blockage is checked for roots before choosing between cutting them out and relining.
Later streets from the eighties expansion went up while sewer pipe was changing from clay to PVC, so either can turn up, and the material is confirmed before a repair or a lining is quoted.
Jobs in Hampton Park
Clay sewers and travelling roots
Blocked drains
Original clay sewers on the Commission streets, cracked and prone to roots.
Pipe relining
A lining where poplar and fig roots keep finding the same joints.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera to tell clay from PVC in the eighties streets before a price.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Hampton Park questions
Shopping centre flooding, apartments and a heritage school
Why does water pool near the shopping centre in heavy rain?
Casey says councillors are aware of ongoing flooding issues at the Hampton Park shopping centre and its car park entrance, with drainage improvements tied to the development next door. When flooding is reported close by, the council pit is checked against the property drain before anything is cleared.
Who pays to clear a shared apartment drain?
Casey has granted an amended permit for a staged development of apartments and serviced apartments beside the centre. Blocks like that share sewer branches and stormwater run by an owners corporation, which agrees who pays and gives access to the common pipes.
Does the old school building need a permit for new downpipes?
It may. The primary school's original building is an interwar one-room weatherboard school with a gabled corrugated iron roof, in the Casey heritage overlay with the mature trees in its grounds. Visible gutters and downpipes there may need a heritage permit and a matching profile.
