Licensed Plumbers
In Prospect

Sydney sits at $100 to $150 an hour. For excavation on this ground that model is genuinely bad for you, because the difficulty is under the surface and unknown until somebody looks. An hourly rate hands you that risk entirely. We price the job so it sits with us.

On a genuine emergency we aim to reach you inside the hour across Prospect and the surrounding Cumberland Plain, at any hour and on any day of the year.

Any attendance or after-hours charge is named on the phone before we leave and written on the quote. Nothing appears afterwards. Booked through this site, attendance costs nothing.

It is 368473C, and a minute on the Fair Trading register confirms it. Anyone plumbing without a licence is breaking the law and quietly voiding your home insurance while they do it, so asking is entirely reasonable. Ours goes out on every quote.

Because age is not what kills them here. Our supply is soft, so furring up barely features. The rod inside the tank is designed to be eaten away instead of the steel, and once it is gone the tank starts going. Elements burn out too. Both are parts, not a new system.

Because of what is underneath. Prospect Hill is Sydney's largest body of igneous rock, a dolerite laccolith that was forced between the existing sandstone and shale layers and now rises 117 metres above sea level at Pemulwuy. Sandstone, which most of Sydney sits on, is workable: it splits along its bedding and an operator can make progress in it. Dolerite is the material that gets crushed into road base precisely because it is hard and tough, which is why the quarry is here at all. So a trench that is straightforward through topsoil and clay at 400mm can become a genuinely different job at 800mm, on the same day, in the same hole.

The geology is the more useful history here. The intrusion sits at the junction of the Triassic sandstone and the shale above it, which means the ground is not uniform even locally. Two properties a street apart can genuinely be different, and that is worth knowing before anyone quotes you on the assumption that one yard is like the next.

Depth to rock established first, then a price. On flat sedimentary ground, quoting a trench by the metre is reasonable because the metres are the variable. Here they are not. What decides the job is how far down the workable material goes, and that is knowable in advance rather than something to discover with the yard already open. A quote given on length alone is the sort that becomes a variation halfway through, and by then you have very little leverage and a hole in your garden.

The whole Prospect LGA and every suburb around it: Pemulwuy, Greystanes, Girraween, Pendle Hill, Old Prospect, Constitution Hill, Huntingwood, Prospect and more.