Windsor
Blocked, burst or leaking in Windsor?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Windsor, from the terraces and workers' cottages to Windsor Siding, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Windsor
Terraces, workers' cottages and bluestone lanes
At the last Census more than a quarter of Windsor's occupied private dwellings were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses, about double the state's share. Attached houses often share a sewer branch or run a drain under next door's yard, so access from the neighbour and who owns the shared section are sorted before work starts.
One heritage street keeps a series of small weatherboard cottages from the nineteenth century, each set close to the footpath. Houses that old are likely to still have earthenware sewers and galvanised water pipe, and with tight frontages the job usually starts with a camera rather than a shovel.
In a precinct that follows the old loop railway, the heritage citation values the asphalt and bluestone street, with bluestone cobbled laneways also remaining at the rear of the dwellings. Those lanes can give the plumber a way to a back yard drain, but any paving lifted has to go back in kind, checked with council.
Jobs in Windsor
Shared terrace lines and plane roots
Blocked drains
Shared sewer branches under attached terraces and townhouses.
Pipe relining
A lining where plane tree roots have found an old joint.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera through earthenware sewers under the small weatherboard cottages.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Windsor questions
Windsor Siding, plane trees and rebuilt kerbs
Why does a yard near Windsor Siding flood in a storm?
Council says the final stage of the Windsor Siding works is mainly for flood mitigation, by improving and increasing catchment capacity of the stormwater drainage system, after an earlier stage built a storm trap. In heavy rain near the reserve, the private line and the council drain are both checked for surcharging before anything is cleared.
Why do sewers keep blocking under the villa precinct's planes?
The heritage citation for one villa precinct lists the large plane trees in the median strip as part of its significance. Mature plane roots hunt for moisture at old joints, so a recurring blockage there points to roots, a camera and often relining instead of digging near protected trees.
Who approves a new kerb connection on a rebuilt street?
Council. One Windsor street was reconstructed with new underground drainage, footpath, kerb and channel and crossings, so a stormwater fault there is likely on the property side, and opening the new footpath or kerb needs council consent first.
