Mitcham
Blocked, burst or leaking in Mitcham?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Mitcham, from the Austral Park Estate to the Mullum Mullum Creek, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Mitcham
Tile works clay and an Edwardian estate
Victorian Places says Mitcham's clay, like Tunstall's next door, was good for bricks and pottery, and a tessellated tile company worked south of the station for decades. Clay of that kind is likely to swell when wet and shrink when dry, so drain joints here are likely to crack and pull apart, and a recurring blockage often ends in a camera and a lining.
Subdivision stalled in the depression, but the Austral Park Estate south of the station was marketed in the Edwardian years. Those houses may hold the oldest drains in the suburb, possibly earthenware with joints open to roots, while postwar expansion brought newer pipe to the rest.
Jobs in Mitcham
Moving clay, old joints and a valley
Pipe relining
A lining for a drain whose joints keep pulling apart in reactive clay.
Blocked drains
Root entry in the older lines south of the station, cleared and checked.
Gutters and downpipes
Valley gutters and downpipes, with heritage consent checked on registered buildings.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Mitcham questions
A butterfly roof, the creek valley and joints
Does a heritage listed church need consent for roof plumbing?
All Saints is on the Victorian Heritage Register, an early modern church with a shallow butterfly roof that drains to a central valley gutter. A change to its gutters, downpipes or external pipework needs a Heritage Victoria permit or exemption before a quote.
Why does the yard flood on the creek side of the suburb?
The Mullum Mullum Creek skirts the northeast side of Mitcham, and homes there fall towards its valley. In heavy rain the question is whether the water is overland flow or a stormwater drain backing up from low ground, and that is settled before any pipe is replaced.
Can a cracked joint be fixed without digging?
Often. Where the pipe between joints is still sound, a lining seals the cracks from inside, which suits clay ground that keeps moving.
