Clayton
Blocked, burst or leaking in Clayton?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Clayton, from the old market garden grid to the station, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Clayton
Market garden grids and a sixties sewer
Most of Clayton's postwar housing went up on pre-war subdivisions of market gardens, laid out as a regular grid. Houses of one era on one plan tend to share a drain layout and pipe material from street to street, and those runs are wearing out together.
eMelbourne records that the new suburbia here came with a sewerage scheme begun in nineteen sixty. House drains of that age are usually earthenware or early PVC, and the old earthenware joints are where roots get in and where a camera should look before a relining price is given.
Victorian Places describes Clayton as flat land with stable soil conditions. On ground that barely moves, a drain is more likely to fail from roots, worn joints or a sag in a shallow fall than from movement, and a sag is easy to miss without a camera.
Jobs in Clayton
Grid streets and earthenware joints
Blocked drains
Root-choked earthenware joints in the grid streets, and shared lines behind townhouses.
CCTV drain inspection
On flat land with stable soil conditions, a camera along the shallow fall finds the sag.
Pipe relining
A lining through a sixties house drain where the joints have opened but the line still holds its shape.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Clayton questions
Townhouse lots, owners corporations and the council pit
How is a shared townhouse drain sorted out?
Townhouses and other attached homes are now the main dwelling type in Clayton, outnumbering separate houses. Those lots often share a sewer branch and a stormwater drain under the driveway, so the job begins by working out which lot the blockage sits under and whether the owners corporation must agree.
Can a stormwater pipe be joined to the council pit without approval?
No. Across Monash, a Stormwater Connection Permit is required before connecting or making changes to the council drainage system, which covers underground drains, pits and the kerb and channel. Council's discharge report goes in with the application, so allow a week or more before the trench is opened.
