Plumber in Labrador

Labrador has some of the oldest continuously occupied housing stock on the Gold Coast, and a good deal of it still has galvanised steel supply pipe in the walls. Galvanised corrodes from the inside out — the internal bore narrows year after year until the pressure at the shower is a trickle and the water runs rusty first thing in the morning. It doesn't fail gradually at the end; it lets go. If your home dates from before the 1980s and nobody has re-piped it, that's the single most useful thing to get assessed.

Sitting low and close to the Broadwater brings the second set of problems. The water table is high, so any fault in an underground line stays wet and gets worse, and stormwater has very little fall to work with — heavy rain pools rather than drains. Salt-laden air is relentless on external tapware, hot water units and exposed fittings, which is why beachside hardware here ages visibly faster than the same hardware five kilometres inland.