Licensed Plumbers
In Leichhardt

Sydney sits at $100 to $150 an hour. On investigative work an hourly rate quietly rewards taking longer, which is exactly the wrong incentive when the honest answer might be that nothing is broken. We price the whole job so the answer costs the same either way.

On a genuine emergency we aim to reach you inside the hour across Leichhardt and the inner west, at any hour and on any day of the year.

Any attendance or after-hours charge is named on the phone before we leave and written on the quote. Nothing appears later. Booked through this site, attendance costs nothing.

NSW Licence 368473C, and Fair Trading will confirm it in about a minute. Unlicensed plumbing is illegal here and voids your home insurance, so it is a fair thing to ask of any trade. Ours goes on every quote we send.

Sydney's water is soft, so scale is rarely what ends a unit here. Usually it is a sacrificial anode that has been used up or a failed element, and on a system that is not old both of those are parts rather than a reason to replace the tank.

Very often because of when the rain landed rather than how much of it there was. The stormwater around here drains toward the Hawthorne Canal, which was straightened out of Long Cove Creek from 1895, and the canal discharges into Iron Cove. Iron Cove is tidal, so the level at the bottom of the system rises and falls twice a day. Rain on a falling tide has plenty of head to work with. The same rain on a high tide has much less, and the system backs up toward whatever is feeding it. It is genuinely worth noting the time and the weather next time it happens, because that pattern is a diagnosis and it can save you an unnecessary excavation.

There is plenty of it here, but it is not what shapes our work most. What does is where the water goes when it leaves the property. This is one of the few parts of Sydney where the discharge point moves twice a day, and that affects more households than the age of any particular terrace does.

We can fix your side of it, and we will be straight about where that stops. What we can do is clear, camera and assess the private stormwater lines, pits and downpipes on your property and tell you honestly whether they are restricted, because on a marginal system a partly blocked private line is the difference between coping and not. What we cannot do is change the level of a tidal outlet or alter a council stormwater asset or the canal itself. That is council and agency territory and anybody promising otherwise is selling something.

The whole Leichhardt LGA and every suburb around it: Annandale, Lilyfield, Rozelle, Glebe, Forest Lodge, Birchgrove, Balmain East, Leichhardt and more.