Notting Hill
Blocked, burst or leaking in Notting Hill?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Notting Hill, from the Jennings estate to the business park, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Notting Hill
A plateau, a reservoir and a Jennings estate
Victorian Places says the area is more a plateau than a hill, and it holds two local water storages. On flat ground a house drain may run with little fall, so silt settles in the pipe and blockages return, and a camera checks the grade instead of just clearing the line.
Monash's heritage history records that from the twenties a reservoir at Notting Hill was part of the Board of Works water supply, a few years before the Mount Waverley reservoir was built.
In the late fifties came an early A.V. Jennings housing estate east of the former Rusden campus. Those houses may still drain through original earthenware with mortar joints, so cracks and roots are the likely faults and a camera comes before any digging.
Jobs in Notting Hill
Flat grades and fifties earthenware
Blocked drains
Silt that settles in house drains laid with little fall on the plateau.
Commercial plumbing
Trade waste pits and larger drains on industrial and business park sites.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera to check the grade and the old mortar joints before any dig.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Notting Hill questions
Business park drains and a street of new kanookas
Is a commercial site handled differently?
Usually. Nearly half of the suburb is industrial premises, a large drive-in hardware superstore and a business park, so a job may involve a trade waste pit or a large commercial drain, and the property type and any trade waste agreement are confirmed before a quote.
Will the newly planted kanookas cause drain trouble?
They could, over the years. Residents chose the native Luscious Kanooka when Monash renewed the trees along a local road, with most going into empty spots, and young roots near front sewer and stormwater connections make root entry at old joints more likely.
Who fixes a leak on the main side of the meter?
The water corporation. Its mains and storages are its own to repair, so a burst or pressure fault outside the meter is reported to it, while a leak on the property side goes to a licensed plumber.
