Wollert
Blocked, burst or leaking in Wollert?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Wollert, from the estates north of Epping to the Darebin Creek, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Wollert
Dairy farms to estates, with two water supplies
Dairying lasted into the sixties, and Victorian Places says estates now sit south of the old quarry as urbanisation has crept north from Epping. These are growth area homes, so drains are likely PVC, and the first suspects in a blockage are building debris, poor falls or settled ground rather than old clay.
Yarra Valley Water requires new houses here to be built with recycled water infrastructure, a second supply for toilets and gardens. Recycled and drinking water pipes are kept apart, and any change to either is checked for cross connections.
Jobs in Wollert
A second supply, young drains and big gums
Blocked drains
Debris and poor falls in young estate drains.
Taps and repairs
Garden taps and fittings on the recycled supply, kept separate from drinking water.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera before any digging near a protected red gum.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Wollert questions
The Love Branch sewer and protected red gums
Who clears a blockage in the main sewer?
Yarra Valley Water. Its Love Branch sewer now carries much of Wollert's flow and let it retire temporary infrastructure that has supported the area until now. A blockage past a property's connection point is reported to the corporation rather than worked on.
Can a drain be dug near one of the old gums?
Council says Wollert is known for large river red gum trees, some hundreds of years old, kept in reserves and new parks. Their roots spread well past the canopy, so a camera inspection comes before any trench near a protected tree.
Does a stone wall change where a trench can go?
It may. Victorian Places lists old drystone walls among the suburb's relics of early rural infrastructure, and walls like these may be protected under the planning scheme, so a service trench that would cross one is checked for a permit before anyone digs.
