Ashwood
Blocked, burst or leaking in Ashwood?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Ashwood, from the Housing Commission streets to the cream brick houses, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Ashwood
Market gardens to a postwar estate
eMelbourne records that the market gardens here gave way, from the end of the forties, to a Housing Commission estate between the Holmesglen and Jordanville stations. Estate homes of that age may still have their original earthenware sewers with mortar joints, so cracks and roots are expected and a camera is used before choosing a repair or a lining.
Victorian Places places Ashwood on the postwar cream brick frontier of double fronted houses on comfortable allotments. A single house on a roomy lot usually means one owner per drain and side access for a jetter or a small digger, which keeps a dig or a lining simpler than on a crowded unit site.
Jobs in Ashwood
Mortar joints and roomy lots
Blocked drains
Original earthenware from a Housing Commission estate, cracked at the mortar joints.
Pipe relining
A lining set up from a side path on a roomy single-house lot.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera check on a slow drain near newly planted street trees.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Ashwood questions
Young street trees, easements and overland flow
Will the young nature strip trees reach the drains?
In time, possibly. Under its Street Tree Strategy, Monash is renewing the trees in part of the suburb, removing some and planting new trees in vacant locations, and young roots near the front sewer and stormwater connections make root entry at old earthenware joints more likely.
Is a drain in the rear easement the council's?
Where council drains run in the rear boundary easements, yes, and Monash has a project to improve one of them. The plumber locates the easement line before digging, and a new connection or anything built over it needs council consent first.
Why does the yard flood if the drain tests clear?
Monash has drainage designs here aimed at stopping street runoff reaching private properties. Overland flow in a heavy storm can look like a blocked drain, so the line is tested before a clear or a replacement is quoted.
