Backflow testing, handled end to end.
If your property has a backflow prevention device, it must be tested every year by an accredited tester and the result lodged with the water authority. We organise the tester, look after any repairs, and make sure it is lodged on time.
Why it matters
It protects the drinking water, and it is your legal obligation
Backflow is what happens when pressure drops and contaminated water is drawn back into the drinking supply. The prevention device is the only thing stopping it, and it is a mechanical part that wears.
Hunter Water requires annual testing of registered devices by an accredited person, with results submitted. Missing the deadline is the property owner's problem, not the tenant's.
The test itself is done by an accredited tester we bring in. We book them, attend, carry out any repairs the device needs, see the result lodged, and remind you before it falls due again. You deal with us and get one invoice.
Managed for you
Backflow services
Annual testing arranged
We book an accredited tester for your due date, attend with them, and see the result through to lodgement.
Device servicing
Repair and rebuild of devices that fail, carried out by us, so you are not pushed into a full replacement.
New installations
Correct device selection and installation for the hazard rating of your property.
Commercial and strata
Multiple devices across a site or portfolio, scheduled together and invoiced in one place.
Compliance reporting
The paperwork chased, submitted and copied back to you for your own records.
Annual reminders
We track your due date and get in touch before it lapses, rather than after.
Questions
The ones we get asked most
The testing is done by an accredited backflow tester we work with, because that test has to be carried out and signed off by someone holding the accreditation. Everything around it is ours: booking it, attending, the plumbing repairs, the lodgement and the reminder next year.
If you have a registered testable device, yes, annually. Commercial premises, strata buildings, properties with irrigation systems, fire services or certain trade equipment usually do.
Most failures are a worn seal or spring, and that repair is our work. Once it is fixed the tester retests and the passing result is lodged.
Compliance sits with the property owner. In commercial leases the cost is often passed to the tenant, but the obligation remains with the owner.
Yes. We make sure the report is completed and submitted, and send you the copy for your own records.
Service area
Backflow testing in Newcastle and Swansea
We cover backflow testing right across Newcastle and Swansea, and everywhere around Lake Macquarie in between. Charlestown, Merewether, Belmont, Caves Beach, Blacksmiths, Warners Bay, Toronto, Valentine and Morisset are all regular territory.
Based in Swansea and ideally positioned to service Lake Macquarie, Newcastle and the Central Coast. We are on the road across the whole area every day, so travel time is short in any direction.
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