Plumber in Wandal

Wandal is old Rockhampton, and the housing shows it: pre-war and interwar Queenslanders on stumps, with post-war infill filling the gaps. That age puts it firmly in clay sewer and galvanised territory, and it puts the water lines under the house where you can get at them. The Wandal-specific thing is the combination of great access and terrible pipe. Under a Queenslander on stumps you can walk to almost any water line in the house, which makes the repair itself fast. But on a house that old the water line you have walked to is often galvanised that has narrowed from the inside, or copper that has already been spliced twice, so the repair you came to do is rarely the whole job. Wandal is also close to the river and low compared with The Range above it, so the flood history that runs through the old parts of Rockhampton runs through here, and silt in stormwater lines is a thing worth checking after a wet season rather than a thing to wait on.