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The Range 4700 · Rockhampton
Plumber in The Range
The Range is Rockhampton's heritage suburb, up on Athelstane Range above the city. We are a licensed plumber and gas fitter based in Yeppoon, covering the water and the gas from the one trade.
- We turn up on time.
- We do the job well (and clean up afterwards).
- We talk to you (and have a laugh).
- Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter
- 45 km from our Yeppoon base
- Water and gas from the one trade
- We clean up before we leave
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Which one is yours in The Range?
Something has stopped working properly
No hot water, a drain that is slow, a tap that will not stop. It can wait a day, but it is not going to fix itself.
Text a photoA renovation, a test, or a job you are getting quoted
Bathroom or kitchen, a gas appliance going in, or a backflow or TMV test that is due. Send the details and we will come and look.
Send the detailsOur local emergency team is ready to respond promptly during all active business hours.
Six services
Plumbing and gas services in The Range
Six things, and the three at the top are what The Range rings us about most. Every one of them is done by a licensed plumber and gas fitter, and the site gets cleaned up before we leave.
Bathroom and kitchen renovations in The Range
Creating your dream bathroom, kitchen or laundry? The plumbing you cannot see is the part that ruins a renovation. We cover the water and the gas on the same job, so a kitchen with a gas cooktop takes one trade instead of two.
More on renovations
Blocked drains and maintenance in The Range
Water coming back up through the plugholes, and the plunger has given up. Blocked dunnies, leaking taps, corroded pipework and water pressure that is either a dribble or a rumble. This is the bread and butter service call.
More on blocked drains
Hot water systems in The Range
You turn on the tap and wait for it to warm up. And wait. And wait. We install energy efficient hot water systems and troubleshoot the one you already have. Instantaneous gas, solar and heat pump, plus repairs on whatever is out there now.
More on hot waterEverything else we cover in The Range
Gas installation and gas fitting in The Range
Make sure you are (safely) cooking with gas. Gas is the licensed, higher risk work a handyman cannot legally touch. Hot water systems, stovetops and ovens are the speciality, domestic and commercial, including commercial kitchens.
Gas fitting
Backflow and TMV testing in The Range
The test is annual, and the reminder never comes at a good time. Backflow valves stop contaminated water flowing back into the drinking supply. Thermostatic mixing valves blend hot and cold to a safe temperature so nobody gets scalded. Both need testing, and we test and repair on the spot.
Backflow and TMV
Emergency plumbing in The Range
Water is going everywhere and it is not stopping on its own. Our local emergency team is ready to respond promptly during all active business hours. Burst pipes, water leaks, blocked drains and suspected gas leaks.
EmergencyWant someone to come and look at it in The Range?
Ring and tell us what is going on, or send a photo. We will tell you what the job actually involves before anyone talks about money.
Highly recommend Jason at Flowtek for all your Plumbing and Gasing needs. His service and knowledge is exceptional!
Have we worked in The Range?
We work across Rockhampton from Yeppoon, but we are not going to put a made-up job or a borrowed photo on this page to prove it. If we have done work at your place in The Range, a Google review helps your neighbours far more than anything we could write here.
- Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter
- Based in Yeppoon, not a call centre in another state
- Water and gas from the one trade on the same job
- We turn up on time, and we clean up afterwards
3 of 26 Google reviews
What customers said about the work
Google reviews from across Yeppoon, Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast, quoted exactly as they were written.
Couldn’t recommend this service enough! My husband was away and my kitchen sink backed up, he came and fixed it that day and gave me some great advice to stop it happening again. The price was great! I was quoted twice that by the bigger companies and they also couldn’t get to me for days.
Jemma Crowley Google review, April 2024
What an absolute legend.my hot water system busted. He had it done after 1 day without it. 10/10 for communication, was the first to respond to my messages for help. Nothing was a drama. Jason was just a nice fellow that made us feel comfortable and got the job done. Decent price too. Thanks Jason.
Jennifer Shields Google review, September 2025
A big thanks to Jason from Flowtek Services who was able to fix a few much needed plumbing jobs around the house without a fuss. Efficient and reliable worker with old fashioned service. Highly recommended
Nicole Parker Google review, October 2024
These are customers' own words about their own jobs, published on our Google Business Profile and quoted here exactly as they wrote them, misspellings of our name included. They describe what happened on those days. They are not a promise about how quickly we can get to you.
The Range questions we actually get asked
We are renovating a bathroom in an old Range Queenslander. Why is the quote higher than a modern house?
Because almost nothing is standard. The waste and vent were laid for a house with fewer wet areas than it has now, the water lines have been extended by several different hands over a century, and the access on a steep narrow block limits what can be brought in. We would rather look at the actual house and tell you what it needs than quote a number that changes once the floor comes up.
Can you get a machine onto a Range block?
Often not. The blocks are steep and narrow and the houses are heritage, so many jobs up here are hand-dug. That is worth knowing before you plan the work, because it changes both the timeline and the cost, and anyone who quotes without looking is guessing.
No mystery
What happens when you ring
Four things, in order. You could check every one of them the next day.
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You ring or you text
Tell us the suburb and what is happening. A photo of the unit or the leak tells us more than a paragraph does.
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We work out what it needs
Sometimes that is a question or two on the phone. Sometimes it is obvious from the photo.
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We come and look
Nobody prices a job properly down a phone line, so we come and look before anyone talks about money.
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You get told what it involves
What the job is, what it takes and what happens if you leave it. Then it is your call.
Quicker than explaining it
Not sure what you're looking at?
Take a photo of it and text that instead. The plate on a hot water unit, the fitting that is dripping, the wet patch in the yard. It tells us the make, the age and usually the fault, which saves you describing it and saves us guessing.
Texts get read between jobs. If it's an emergency, ring instead.
Get a The Range plumber out
Three fields we need, two that help. If it is urgent, ring instead, it is faster.
Three ways to get us
- Ring 0448 726 474
- Text Send a text with your suburb
- Form The one on the left. Three fields.
- Emergency Our local emergency team is ready to respond promptly during all active business hours.
Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter
Rockhampton Regional · 4700
What we know about the pipes in The Range
The Range is the oldest and grandest housing in Rockhampton, and it is the suburb where a bathroom renovation stops being a swap-out and becomes a proper job. These are large high-set Queenslanders from the late 1800s and early 1900s: multiple bathrooms added at different times over a century, verandah and roof drainage that predates modern stormwater thinking, and water lines that have been extended, rerouted and patched by a long line of tradespeople. We still find galvanised in service up here, and sewer that started life as clay. The second thing about The Range is the ground. It is steep and the blocks are narrow, so getting a machine in is often not possible at all, and a drainage repair that would take a morning on a flat block in Norman Gardens becomes a hand-dig on a slope with a heritage house on one side and a boundary fence on the other. None of that is a reason not to do the work. It is a reason to look properly before quoting it, which is what we do here.
What goes wrong on The Range
Century-old drainage that was never designed for the number of wet areas now hanging off it, and water lines that are a museum of every era since. Access makes every repair harder than the fault itself.
- HousingLarge high-set Queenslanders, late 1800s and early 1900s
- What is still in serviceGalvanised water lines and clay sewer, on some properties
- The real constraintSteep narrow blocks, so machine access is often impossible
45km
Access and parking in The Range
Steep, narrow blocks with tight frontages, and heritage houses that limit where a machine can go. Assume hand digging unless we say otherwise after a look.
That figure is a distance, not a promise about the clock. Our local emergency team is ready to respond promptly during all active business hours. Ring us and we will tell you what we can actually do and when.
3 nearby suburbs
We cover the streets either side of The Range too
Get a plumber to The Range
Our local emergency team is ready to respond promptly during all active business hours.