Your plumber in Caves Beach
We are five minutes away in Swansea, and Caves Beach is one of the suburbs we know best. Salt air, sand and a lot of houses that were never built to be lived in year round.
Local knowledge
What the ocean does to plumbing
Caves Beach is close enough to the ocean that salt is in the air permanently, and that shows up in the pipework before it shows up anywhere else. Copper corrodes from the outside in on exposed runs, under the house and along external walls. Green staining first, then pinholes.
Hot water units go the same way. A tank that would last fifteen years inland will often give you ten or eleven here, and the sacrificial anode goes a long time before the tank does. Checking the anode at the ten year mark is a cheap way to buy a few more years.
The ground is sand, which means lines settle if they were not bedded properly, and absorption trenches have a short working life once the water table comes up in winter.
A lot of the older stock here started as a weekender. Plumbing that was perfectly adequate for a few weekends a year is now carrying a full time household, often with a second bathroom added at some point by someone who was not a plumber.
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Plumbing work in Caves Beach
Corroded copper
Pinholing and pitted runs replaced, with the exposed sections done properly for a coastal house.
Hot water systems
Anode checks, repairs and replacement. Gas, electric, heat pump and solar.
Blocked and sagging drains
Jetting and camera work, and the low points in sandy ground located rather than guessed at.
Pipe relining
Cracked and root damaged lines repaired from the inside, with no trench through the yard.
Stormwater and absorption
Trenches and pits that have run out of anywhere to drain, reworked so the yard stops flooding.
Holiday and rental properties
Checks between tenancies, and someone local to call when you are not there.
Questions
The ones we get asked most
Near the ocean copper corrodes from the outside in, particularly on exposed runs under the house or along an external wall. Patching one pinhole on a run that is pitted all over tends to just move the problem along a metre.
Expect less than the brochure. Ten or eleven years is common where fifteen would be normal inland. Having the anode checked at around ten years is worth doing.
We do a lot of work for owners who are not there. We will arrange access with you, send photos of what we found and what we did, and invoice afterwards.
Yes, plus Pelican, Catherine Hill Bay, Nords Wharf and Murrays Beach.
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Based in Swansea and on the road across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Central Coast every day.
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