Plumber Cardiff

Plumbing faults in Cardiff often start in the clay sewers under the old railway workers' cottages. Cardiff sits beside Glendale, and Glendale Plumbing Co covers it on the same run, clearing sewers, swapping tanks, fitting gas and taking after-hours calls, all on a fixed quote with our 365-day warranty on all work.

What the housing here does to the plumbing. Cardiff grew up alongside its railway workshops, open from 1928 until 1994, and the weatherboard and fibro homes built for that workforce still line the older streets.

• Homes built before plastic pipe took over tend to keep their earthenware sewers, and those joints open up with age.
• Established trees shading the long blocks push roots toward those gaps, so repeat blockages are a familiar story here.
• Rainfall averages 1,094mm a year, and Winding Creek, which runs through the suburb, can push stormwater drains past their limits in a big wet.

The tanks are due as well. Census figures put dwellings at 2,542, and with the post-war and 1960s-1980s stock dominating, a lot of the tanks in those houses have reached, or passed, the age when a first replacement falls due. Area-level figures record 1,423 heat pump hot water systems already fitted here, so plenty of households have made the switch away from the old electric tank.