Losing water in Rossmoyne?
Ring us and a licensed plumber comes out at no charge. The leak is located before anything is quoted, and the repair price comes in writing before any ground is opened.
What Rossmoyne is like to work in
Rossmoyne sits between Bull Creek and the river, with Rossmoyne Senior High School through the middle and the foreshore along its northern edge. It is an established suburb — noticeably older housing than Bull Creek in much of it — on large, well-treed blocks that have been gardened seriously for a long time.
Two things follow from that.
There is a lot of buried irrigation. Big lawns and mature gardens on this side of the river almost always mean reticulation, often installed and extended over several decades. Retic is the single most under-suspected source of a mystery water bill anywhere, because it only leaks while it runs and then hides. A household watching the meter during the day sees nothing unusual at all.
The trees have had decades. Root pressure on a joint that opened slightly in the 1980s is not a sudden event. It is a very slow one that finishes suddenly.
Add river-side ground that behaves differently to the sand further up the hill, and Rossmoyne rewards doing the locating properly rather than opening a trench on an educated guess.
The call we get most in Rossmoyne
A bill that has climbed on a property with a large garden, where nothing in the house has changed and nothing on the lawn looks wet. The first job is separating the garden system from the house entirely. On a good number of these the meter stops the moment the retic is isolated, and the answer is a cheap one out in a garden bed. How it is isolated
Old pipework, careful ground
Established gardens are the other reason precision matters here. A mature Rossmoyne front yard is not something anybody wants dug up on a hunch, and reinstating a garden is often worth more than the pipe repair underneath it.
Locating the leak to a point is what keeps that job small. Isolation, pressure testing and listening along the run, marked on the ground before anything is lifted.
What we do in Rossmoyne
Leak detection
Water and gas, under slabs and paving, in walls, along the service line and out through the garden. 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
Mature roots and old drain lines are a familiar combination in a suburb like this. Blocked drains
Storm water and soakwells
Older drainage, larger roof areas after decades of extensions, and ground that already holds moisture. Storm water and soakwells
Gas leaks
Under gas licence 13098, held by the person who attends. If you can smell gas now, get everyone outside, leave switches and flames alone, and ring from outside.
Why Rossmoyne 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 come and look, and no charge if the answer turns out to be small.
A free written quote
The repair price in writing once the leak is located. Transparent pricing, no hidden costs.
We open as little ground as possible
On a garden that has taken thirty years to establish, that is not a small consideration.
Free quote in Rossmoyne
Tell us what you have noticed and we will call you back to arrange a time. A licensed plumber attends at no charge, locates the leak, and leaves you with a written price. Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm.
Nearby areas we serve
Bull Creek · Shelley · Willetton · Riverton · All service areas