Kooyong
Blocked, burst or leaking in Kooyong?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Kooyong, from the Gardiners Creek valley to the flats near the station, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Kooyong
Twenties houses in a creek valley
Victorian Places says Kooyong's residential stock was substantially completed by the end of the 1920s. Houses that age are likely to keep original earthenware sewers and old galvanised water pipe, so roots at the clay joints are expected and a camera inspection comes before a repair quote.
Flats and apartments make up a little over two in five occupied private dwellings, against about one in eight across Victoria. Many sit on shared sewer branches within an owners corporation, so who owns the blocked section is found out before a price, and access to common drains is arranged with the other owners.
Jobs in Kooyong
Old sewers, shared branches and valley ground
Blocked drains
Earthenware sewers under houses from the twenties, and shared branches under flats.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera along joints that may have settled in old brickworks ground.
Gutters and downpipes
Roof water in the creek valley, checked for where it actually leaves the property.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Kooyong questions
The tennis ground's drainage and an old brickworks
Why might stormwater back up near the tennis centre?
The land the Lawn Tennis Association acquired is in the Gardiners Creek valley and needed extensive flood-prevention and drainage works. Low valley ground near the stadium and Kooyong Park can back up in heavy rain, so where a property's stormwater outlet sits is checked before a blocked pipe is blamed.
Can old brickworks ground affect a drain?
It can. The Sir Robert Menzies Reserve sits on a former brickworks site, likely dug clay pit or fill, so a drain or stormwater line nearby may rest on uneven ground that settles. A camera check of the joints is the sensible start.
Is a drain under a house this old worth relining?
Often. Relining keeps a trench out of a mature garden, though a camera decides whether the pipe is sound enough to line.
