Bulleen
Blocked, burst or leaking in Bulleen?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Bulleen, from the river flats to the Bolin Bolin Billabong, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Bulleen
Thirty years of subdivision above the river flats
Bulleen kept its rural look well into the twentieth century. Residential subdivisions began to be taken up in the 1950s, and by the eighties houses filled everything but the river flats. The older lots are likely to have earthenware sewers, where roots enter at the joints, and the later ones PVC, so the first job is finding out which.
Manningham has put a drainage system into a private property easement for some homes, to stop stormwater running downhill and flooding the main road in small storms. Where a council drain crosses private land like that, it is located before a downpipe is connected or a stormwater line is cleared, and digging and new structures stay clear of it.
Jobs in Bulleen
Easements, earthenware and old roots
Blocked drains
Root entry at earthenware joints on the older lots from the fifties.
Pipe relining
A lining near a tree protected with a heritage overlay, where roots cannot simply be cut.
Gutters and downpipes
Downpipe connections kept clear of council drains running through easements.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Bulleen questions
The billabong outlet and a red gum older than Manningham
Why does stormwater back up on the east side even when my drain is clear?
Street drains there feed the Bolin Bolin integrated water harvesting facility, which runs stormwater through a pollutant trap and a wetland by the billabong. A blocked trap or pit downstream can push water back toward property connections, so the street side is checked before the house line is blamed.
Can a drain be dug up near the protected river red gum?
Carefully, if at all. The council says the tree is over three hundred years old, and it is protected with a heritage overlay and registered as a significant tree with the National Trust. Its roots spread well past the canopy, so on nearby properties relining is likely to be preferred to digging a trench through them.
Who looks after the stormwater pipe past my front boundary?
In Manningham the owner does. The council holds owners responsible for their drains even outside the property line, so that length belongs in the price, and a legal point of discharge is confirmed before a new connection.
