Doveton
Blocked, burst or leaking in Doveton?
Blocked drains, burst pipes and leaks in Doveton, from the State Housing Commission streets to Eumemmerring Creek, passed to a licensed plumber day and night.
Plumbing in Doveton
Fifties worker housing on original pipe
Doveton came into existence in the mid fifties, Victorian Places records, when the State Housing Commission bought a large area of land for low cost worker housing. The early houses went up around the shopping centre, and homes of that age are likely to keep original earthenware sewer branches and old galvanised water pipe.
On a drain that keeps blocking, filming the line comes before any relining or replacement quote, because a cracked joint, a root mass and a collapsed length each call for a different fix. Galvanised pipe of that vintage tends to rust from the inside and is worth checking when the pressure drops.
Jobs in Doveton
Earthenware branches and tired galvanised
Blocked drains
Original earthenware sewer branches on the Commission streets, cleared and filmed.
Pipe relining
A lining through cracked clay where the line still holds its shape.
Burst pipes
Old galvanised water pipe that has rusted through, repaired on the owner's side.
What it costs: hot water replacement cost, gutter replacement cost, toilet installation cost
Doveton questions
A buried creek and a school site redeveloped
Why does the yard flood near the piped creek?
Casey says an underground piped and concreted section of Eumemmerring Creek in Doveton is to be turned back into an open waterway in a Melbourne Water project. Stormwater nearby drains to that channel, the authority's asset, so a flooded yard is traced to its legal point of discharge before anyone digs, and work close to the channel may need consent.
What happens to drains on the former secondary college land?
The land was rezoned to the Residential Growth Zone with a development plan overlay, and future building there must generally follow that plan. Several homes on one former school site can end up on shared drains and a common sewer branch, so who owns each length and where it connects is found out before a quote.
Is a blocked sewer branch always the owner's problem?
Not always. The branch inside the boundary belongs to the property, but a blockage in the main belongs to the water corporation, and the inspection point near the boundary often shows which side it is on.
