Taylors Lakes
Blocked, burst or leaking in Taylors Lakes?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Taylors Lakes, from Taylors Creek to the former Calder Park estates, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Taylors Lakes
Lakes, a creek and newer pipe
The suburb was settled residentially in the 1970s and 1980s, and was largely built by the middle of the following decade. Homes of that age mostly have PVC drains, so a blockage is more often roots at a joint, a sag or something flushed than a collapsed clay pipe.
Housing also crept along the freeway towards the raceway, and the residential part of the Calder Park estates was later transferred to Taylors Lakes. Those later estates have modern plastic sewer and stormwater lines, where a short repair or a lining usually does the job.
Jobs in Taylors Lakes
Plastic drains beside the ponds
Blocked drains
Roots, sags and flushed objects in PVC lines from the seventies and eighties.
Pipe relining
A lining for estate drains where rock sits close to the creek.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera to tell a full creek outlet from a blocked pipe.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Taylors Lakes questions
Creek levels, ponds and rock
Is it a blocked pipe or a full creek?
The suburb is named for a string of ponds and the large Taylors Dam on Taylors Creek, and homes by the linear park drain towards that water. After heavy rain, the creek and pond levels are checked before a backed up stormwater line is treated as blocked.
Can a drain near the creek be dug up easily?
Not always. Beside an old bluestone sheep dip there is an outcrop of silcrete in the creek bed, hard enough to form a natural bridge. Rock like that near the creek line can mean a breaker or a lining instead of an open trench.
What usually blocks a newer plastic drain?
Wet wipes, fat and builders' offcuts caught at a junction are common, and roots still find a loose joint. Filming the line shows which before anything is cut.
