Losing water in Bateman?
Ring us and a licensed plumber comes out at no charge. He locates the leak before quoting anything, then gives you a written price for the repair. If you would rather not go ahead, you owe nothing.
What Bateman is like to work in
Bateman is one of the smaller suburbs around here — a few thousand people on a compact grid of quiet streets, with Bateman Primary at the middle of it and Murdoch's hospital and university precinct a couple of minutes south.
What that means on the ground is a suburb of established detached houses on generous blocks, and very little turnover of the underlying infrastructure. The houses have been renovated, extended and re-roofed over the decades. The pipe buried between the meter and the front door usually has not.
The other thing you notice in Bateman is the trees. Street verges and front gardens here carry decades of growth, and mature roots are patient. They do not smash their way into sound pipe — they follow moisture to a joint that has already opened slightly, then thicken in it. By the time anything shows on the surface, that process has had a long head start.
The call we get most in Bateman
A water bill that has climbed with nothing to show for it, on a house where the front garden has a well-established tree between the meter and the building. Nine times out of ten the interesting section is that buried service run, and it is almost never visible — Bateman's sand disperses the water long before it reaches the surface.
We isolate that line, pressure test it, and listen along it rather than guessing which end of it to open. How that works
Compact blocks, short runs, close neighbours
Bateman's lots are neat rather than sprawling, and on the smaller ones the distance between your pipework and the fence is not much. That matters for two reasons.
The first is that a leak here can surface on the neighbour's side of the boundary rather than yours, which is a confusing way to find out about it. The second is that excavation, when it comes to it, has to be precise. There is not a lot of spare ground to be casual with.
Both of those are arguments for locating the leak to a point before anything gets opened up, which is what we do anyway.
What we do in Bateman
Leak detection
Water and gas, under slabs, under paving and out along the service line to the meter. Leak detection
Burst and leaking pipes
Water already out and doing damage. Turn it off at the meter if you safely can, then ring. Emergency plumbing
Blocked and failing drains
Old drain lines and mature roots are a well-matched pair in a suburb like this one. Blocked drains
Storm water and soakwells
Where the water in the yard is rain rather than mains. Storm water and soakwells
Gas leaks
Bateman is on mains gas. Gas work here is done under gas licence 13098, by the licence holder. If you can smell gas now, get everyone outside, leave switches and flames alone, and ring from outside the house.
Why Bateman calls us
Licensed plumber and gas fitter
Plumbing licence 8396 and gas licence 13098, both held by Tim, who does the work himself.
$0 call-out fee
No charge to attend and look, and that does not change if the answer turns out to be simple.
A free written quote
The repair price comes in writing once the leak is located. Transparent pricing, no hidden costs, no obligation.
A very short drive
Leeming is the next suburb along. On a morning where water is running, that is the part that counts.
We will tell you it is nothing
If the loss turns out to be a running toilet or a garden tap rather than a buried main, that is what you will be told. We would rather do the small job.
Free quote in Bateman
Tell us what you have noticed and we will call you back to arrange a time. A licensed plumber attends at no charge, finds the leak, and leaves you with a written price. Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm.
Nearby areas we serve
Bull Creek · Murdoch · Winthrop · Leeming · All service areas