Plumbing in Carlton
Carlton is split between grand Victorian terraces, tightly packed student housing and post-war walk-up apartment blocks, and each has a distinct plumbing personality. The terraces bring the usual nineteenth-century inheritance: ageing galvanised supply lines and original clay drainage. The walk-up blocks bring shared drainage stacks, where a blockage on a lower floor shows up as a backup in someone else's bathroom.
High-turnover rental housing is the other Carlton factor. Kitchen and laundry drains in share houses take a hard life, and hot water systems tend to be run well past their sensible replacement age until they fail outright. We do a lot of same-day hot water changeovers here for exactly that reason.
Parking and access around the university and Lygon Street precinct genuinely affect scheduling, so we plan arrival times rather than promising vague windows.
- Shared drainage stack blockages in apartment blocks
- End-of-life hot water system replacement
- Rental property repairs and compliance work
