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Licensed plumbers who are in these King Street and Enmore Road buildings constantly, and who would rather film a shared line than watch two parties argue about it.
Licensed plumbers who are in these King Street and Enmore Road buildings constantly, and who would rather film a shared line than watch two parties argue about it.
Ring and a plumber answers. Not an operator taking details to pass on, and not an overflow service in another state.
What matters here is knowing the building type. A very large share of this frontage is shop below and dwelling above, frequently in the same nineteenth-century building, and a high proportion of the ground floor is food premises. When a line is shared between a commercial kitchen and a flat, the useful thing a plumber does is establish what is actually connected rather than take a side.
Price agreed before we start, licence number and ABN on the quote, and a written lifetime workmanship warranty over the work.
NSW Plumbing Licence 368473C, checkable on the Fair Trading public register. Unlicensed plumbing is illegal in NSW and voids a home insurance claim.
Fully insured, work to the Australian Standards, and a written lifetime workmanship warranty. Gas work carries a Certificate of Compliance as standard.
Our work is reviewed publicly, and those are worth rather more than anything we could write about ourselves here.
A working plumbing business rather than a brand with subcontractors behind it. Whoever prices the job is whoever turns up.
The rule that matters most in these buildings is about evidence rather than blame. Where a kitchen and a residence share a drain, both sides usually have a theory and neither has footage. We supply the footage and let the finding do the arguing.
“I would rather hand you evidence than an opinion. One of those settles things.”
King Street runs the length of the suburb as one of Sydney's longest continuous retail strips, and Enmore Road continues it. Shop below, dwelling above, in buildings that have been altered continually for a century.
Two completely different kinds of user in one building, frequently on one drain, with very different volumes going into it.
A commercial kitchen puts fats and oils into a line at a volume no residence produces, and a shared drain carries all of it.
A century of conversion and reconversion, so which fixtures share a line is rarely documented and almost never guessed correctly.
Trade waste requirements sit with a commercial operator rather than a residence, and Sydney Water is the authority on what those are.
Nineteenth-century buildings where a modern fitting rarely lands where the existing waste expects it.
Sydney water is soft. A storage unit that has given up here has usually lost its sacrificial anode or an element.
We film a shared line and establish what connects to what before anybody starts apportioning anything.
Agreed before we start, unchanged unless you approve a revision in writing.
We establish what failed. Leases and obligations are for the parties and for Sydney Water, not for us.
Open 24 hours, 7 days, with nothing added for nights, weekends or public holidays.
This site is operated by Dr Energy Pty Ltd, ABN 40 679 445 884, trading as Plumbers In Newtown. NSW Plumbing Licence 368473C.
All work is carried out by licensed plumbers. Prices shown on this site are indicative 2026 ranges, and the figure that binds is the written quote you approve.
Tell us what is happening and whether there is a business in the building, and a licensed plumber can be on the way.
Call 1300 381 569