Wantirna South
Blocked, burst or leaking in Wantirna South?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Wantirna South, from the Harcrest estate to Bushy Park, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Wantirna South
An estate built on a brick quarry
The Harcrest estate sits on the old Austral Bricks site, which carried out clay extraction and brick manufacturing before any houses were built. Reworked and filled ground can settle, and clay shrinks and swells, which cracks or sags a drain and pulls joints apart, so a camera is the first step when a Harcrest drain keeps blocking.
The estate was developed with 840 lots, its sewer and stormwater laid in PVC to one design. A blockage there is more often a defect, a builder's offcut or a root at a junction than worn out pipe, and the estate drainage plan shows any shared branch before digging.
Jobs in Wantirna South
Quarry ground and estate drains
Blocked drains
Offcuts and dropped joints in PVC lines on a single planned estate.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera on ground where a quarry carried out clay extraction and brick manufacturing.
Gutters and downpipes
Roof water into estate drains that run to the wetlands.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Wantirna South questions
Harcrest wetlands and the Bushy Park run
Why does a Harcrest outlet back up in heavy rain?
Victorian Places notes the estate has an activity centre, housing, a display centre and wetlands, and property stormwater runs through estate drains to those wetlands. When that system is running full, an outlet backs up with nothing wrong in the property's own pipe, so that is checked first.
Does digging near Bushy Park need approval?
Yes. The site is in the Victorian Heritage Inventory as one of the earliest pastoral leases in the Dandenong valley, so a drain or service trench there needs Heritage Victoria consent before the ground is disturbed. Its old pines also send heavy roots towards any pipe nearby.
Can a PVC drain be cleared without damaging it?
Yes. A jetter at the right pressure clears a PVC line without harm, and a camera afterwards shows whether a joint has dropped or an offcut is still lodged.
