At roughly 12.9 km west, this is inside the area Brigs Plumbing covers day to day rather than on the edge of it. The housing stock around here is mixed enough that the same fault can have two completely different causes one street apart, so nothing is assumed before it is looked at.
This is 4171, around twenty minutes west of the workshop. Close enough that the diagnosis and the repair do not have to be squeezed into one rushed visit to justify the trip.
You get told what caused the problem, not just what it cost to fix. That is the part that stops it happening again, and it is free.
Taps that drip, toilets that run at night, a water bill that has crept up for no obvious reason. Most calls from the 4171 area are this rather than an emergency, and they are still worth doing properly -- a worn tap seat and a failing pressure-limiting valve look similar from the kitchen and cost very different amounts to put right.
Repairs and replacements for electric, gas and heat-pump systems, including the tempering valve that controls how hot the water reaches your tapware. Water that has suddenly become too hot at the bathroom tap is usually that valve.
Bathroom renovations go wrong in the plumbing more often than in the tiling, and almost always because of sequence. Wastes set in the wrong place or a floor waste finishing proud of the finished floor are cheap to avoid beforehand and expensive to correct once the screed is down.
More about bathroom renovations →
Bulimba sits in the Brisbane City Council area. As a rule the pipework on your side of the property boundary is yours to maintain and the network beyond it belongs to the water authority. Which side of that line a blockage actually sits on is not obvious from the house, and it is worth establishing before anyone starts charging to dig.
How it runs
Most faults can be narrowed down over the phone, which decides what turns up in the van.
A camera, a pressure test or a look in the roof cavity, depending on the fault.
Quoted before anything is opened up, and cleaned up afterwards.
Completed work
Every photo on this site is work Niles has completed — no stock photography.
Nearby
Questions
It is common, and it usually has a cause worth finding. Roots through a joint, a cracked section or a belly holding water all produce a drain that clears and then blocks again a few months later. The camera tells you which of those you have.
QBCC licence 15161521, and a member of the Master Plumbers’ Association of Queensland. Brigs Plumbing is a registered business name of Niles Brigden, ABN 44 526 011 279.
Yes, though anything in the common property of a body corporate needs their authorisation before work can start, not just the resident’s. Worth checking before you book.
Usually, and it is worth asking when you call. A second small job on the same visit to 4171 costs less than a second visit.
You get told before anything else happens. A quote that changes without a conversation first is not how this works.
The camera decides it. A cracked pipe that still holds its shape can usually be lined; a collapsed one has to be excavated. Both options get quoted before either starts.
Describe what it is doing. If it can be sorted on the phone, it will be.
Licensed plumbing, drainage, pipe relining and roof plumbing across Brisbane and the surrounding councils — Redland, Logan, Moreton Bay and Ipswich. Based in Thorneside.
QBCC licence 15161521
Member, Master Plumbers’ Association of Queensland
ABN 44 526 011 279
