Clyde
Blocked, burst or leaking in Clyde?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Clyde, from the old railway township to the new estates spreading from Cranbourne, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Clyde
Farms, a railway township and new estates
eMelbourne records that Clyde was laid out in 1888 at a railway station on the Leongatha line, to serve a mixed farming district. The oldest buildings sit on those township lots, where drains may be earthenware or may have been joined later to what was once a septic layout.
The district is still mostly rural, but suburbia is encroaching gradually from nearby Cranbourne. A job can be a farm on its own septic tank and rainwater tanks or a new house on the sewer, and the gear and the authority differ, so which one it is gets settled when the call comes in.
Jobs in Clyde
Township lines and estate pipe
Blocked drains
Old township drains near the former station, and new PVC lines in the estates.
CCTV drain inspection
A camera to trace township lines that may once have run to a septic tank.
Gutters and downpipes
Heritage profiles checked on the old church and the corner store before anything visible changes.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Clyde questions
Heritage corners and a future basin
Does heritage control affect gutters on the old church?
Yes. The former Methodist church, a weatherboard Carpenter Gothic building, is the earliest surviving public building in Clyde and sits in the Casey heritage overlay. New gutters, downpipes or external pipework there may need a planning permit and matching profiles, so that is checked before materials are ordered.
How does a plumber reach the drains at the general store?
Usually from the back. The store and post office has a small gabled corner section built to both street boundaries, so there is no side access, and because it is also in the overlay any visible downpipe change is cleared with council first.
Where will stormwater from the new estates end up?
In a regional system. Casey's planned sports precinct sits adjacent to the future Melbourne Water retarding basin, and outfalls from the estates around it are planned to run to that basin, so the property's legal point of discharge is looked up before a new line is connected.
