The Range 4700 · Rockhampton
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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.
EmergencyWe 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.
Google reviews from across Yeppoon, Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast, quoted exactly as they were written.
Great service, constant communication, have further works and will be first to call.Friendly with great professional work ethic.
Jason from Flowtech Services was great to deal with. He responded quickly, arrived on time, completed the work to a high standard, and cleaned up the job site afterwards. I would recommend him to anyone needing reliable and professional service.
Flowtek did a bathroom renovation for me. Great ideas and awesome quality but even a better chat.
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.
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.
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.
Three fields we need, two that help. If it is urgent, ring instead, it is faster.
Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter
Our local emergency team is ready to respond promptly during all active business hours.
