Bathroom, kitchen and laundry renovation plumbing

The part you cannot see is the part that ruins it

A renovation goes wrong in the walls and under the floor, not on the tiles. If there is one room where the plumbing has to be right first time it is the bathroom, because fixing it afterwards means the tiles, the grout and the waterproofing all come off with it.

So the useful moment to get us in is before the tiler is booked, not after. On an older house we can tell you what is actually behind the wall, which decides the budget far more than the tapware selection does.

What we usually find, by suburb

In Kawana and Glenmore, a 1990s refit that has now aged out: sound drainage, tired copper, and mixer bodies past their service life. In Taranganba, an original 1980s bathroom where the waste and vent are serviceable but the waterproofing has done its time.

On The Range in Rockhampton it is a different job entirely. Those large Queenslanders have had bathrooms added at different times over a century, hanging off drainage that was laid for a house with far fewer wet areas, with galvanised water lines still in service in places. That is not a swap-out, it is a proper job, and it should be quoted after a look rather than over the phone.

One trade for the water and the gas

This is the thing worth knowing when you are getting quotes. Gas fitting is licensed work, so a kitchen with a gas cooktop normally needs a plumber and a gas fitter. We are licensed for both. One visit, one person responsible for how the two meet, and no waiting on the second trade while the kitchen sits half finished.

It also means we take the small specialist runs that get left unsolved: a plumbed fridge, a coffee machine, an outdoor kitchen. They are minor jobs that hold up a whole project when nobody has planned for them.

Commercial renovations

We do commercial fitout as well as domestic, including commercial kitchen gas fitting. On a commercial job the compliance work sits alongside the fitout, so backflow prevention and thermostatic mixing valves are worth sorting at the same time rather than as a separate visit later.