Plumbing in Collingwood
Collingwood's housing is dominated by small Victorian cottages and terraces on tight blocks, alongside former industrial buildings now used as offices, studios and apartments. Add the public housing towers and you have three very different plumbing environments within a few streets.
In the older cottages the pattern is familiar and consistent: original clay drainage with root intrusion, corroded galvanised supply, and bathrooms and laundries added to the rear of the house decades after it was built, often with drainage that was adequate then and marginal now. Rear additions on tight blocks also mean drainage runs squeezed alongside boundaries, where they're vulnerable to root pressure and ground movement.
Commercial and studio spaces bring their own work: kitchenettes, amenities and grease management in buildings whose original plumbing was designed for a factory, not for people working there daily.
- Root intrusion in original clay sewer lines
- Drainage upgrades for rear additions
- Amenities and kitchenette work in commercial conversions
