Posts Tagged ‘Randwick plumber’
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Many homeowners don’t know what is connected to their sewer pipes.
So here we go
Toilets or WCs are obviously connected to the sewer.
In a bathroom every plumbing fixture including the shower, bath, hand basin and bidets are connected to the sewer.
In other rooms kitchen sink, laundry tub and washing machine are all connected to the sewer.
All properties have a sewer surcharge gully which is connected to the sewer. A surcharge gully is designed to overflow or surcharge outside your home if the local authorities main was ever blocked
Tags: Balmain Plumber, Blocked drain symptoms, Blocked sewer pipes, blocked toilet, Coogee Plumber, emergency plumber, Randwick plumber, Stormwater drains, Surry Hills plumber emergency, The Lone Drainer And Pronto!
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Should the toilet seat be left up or down?
This controversial topic will be discussed over the next few weeks
It’s a question that constantly arises when men and women share the same toilet. For some reason, this seemingly trivial question creates passion normally unseen from all sorts of people. It has been a topic of great debate throughout this country for many years, in fact since the toilet seat was invented.
It’s pretty clear that this old debate and your “position” is divided by gender.
Women complain that it should be the man’s responsibility to lower the toilet seat after use.
Whilst men seem to question why women should be heard all the time. Or in fact why it’s an issue at all
Now my wife, living in a houshold with 4 boys is incredibly patient about this subject. In fact her biggest complaint is about our aim, So, to get the ball rolling on this, I have to share this great image sent to me by Marc Dussault.
Let me know what happens in your house, how the boys and girls deal with this topic of ups and downs!
Tags: Balmain Plumber, Bondi plumber Bondi, Coogee Plumber, Darling Point plumber, Darlinghurst plumber, David Conroy, Double Bay Plumber, emergency plumber, Plumber Paddington, Randwick plumber, toilet, Toilet humour, Urinal, weekend emergency plumber
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Giving something back.
The Plumbing industry has been very good to me and my family.
Every year around January we have anywhere between 5 and 20 boys (or their mothers) contact us looking for a plumbing apprenticeship. We have trained 9 apprentices in 20 years (plumbers apprenticeship is 4 years). (more…)
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
As Christmas approaches, the days grow longer and we get together with our family and friends, keep an eye out for some of those vital symptoms that indicate you have a slow or blocked drain.
Make it a holiday break to remember for the right reasons, rather than needing to call an emergency plumber to rescue you and your family from a sewer blockage.
Keep an eye out for;
The excessive rise or fall of the water level in your toilet. We call it syphoning, and it comes with a Glug Glug Glug
Slow draining water or ankle deep water in the shower or bath.
Swarms of small flies or sewer flies around smelly drains
Your kitchen sink, waste disposal unit or dishwasher are slow to drain.
Toilet paper or dirty water around your sewer surcharge gully in the garden or yard.
Dirty water leaking from a retaining wall or garden bed that conceals sewer pipes.
These are signs of a blockage, and your pipes have been trying to tell you, that all isn’t well.
When the extra guests arrive you will know.
So have a look around you home for the symptoms and please do not ignore them.
Have a great start to summer.
Tags: blocked drain Paddington, blocked drain Randwick, Blocked drains, Darling Point plumber, Darlinghurst plumber, David Conroy, emergency plumber, kitchen sink, Randwick plumber, sewer blockage, sewer surcharge, stop tree roots in drains, stop tree roots in pipes, weekend emergency plumber
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
In this internet age when we want it, we want it NOW!
If you have a plumbing emergency and you need it fixed fast, we need great suppliers to support us deliver to our clients.
This image sent to me by Marc Dussault shows the great lengths that our industry brothers in Thailand are going to so they can deliver to their clients in an emergency.
Tags: Darling Point plumber, Darlinghurst plumber, emergency plumber, Randwick plumber
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Have you ever been caught short?
I mean, have you ever been “busting” to use the loo and it just wasn’t available, you were cross legged and tears are starting to run as you can only focus on one thing…….
Now most shopping centres have toilet facilities and the local football and netball fields usually have a loo that you can use after you have been sipping multiple latte’s whilst watching junior win “the match of the day”.
Whilst doing plumbing repairs on most homes we are often in the bathroom, so its a matter of closing the door, doing what needs to be done and breathing a sigh of relief.
Well it appears that “wanting to go”, at an inopportune time is quite common as I found when looking through the QandA with Lucy Macken in Sydney Morning Herald Domain section recently. August 20, 2011
Q&A: This question’s a wee bit awkward
Q. Forgive me for being blunt but is it ever OK to use the bathroom at an open inspection?
J.P., Crows Nest
A. Agents responded uniformly to this query with a moment of stunned silence. A few heartbeats later and the consensus tends to be that ”the facilities” (for want of a more abstract euphemism) are not for public use but permission is granted in the case of emergency.
Children seem to be the main beneficiaries of such largesse, although parents in the know have a few tips for regulars on the Saturday inspection circuit: make good use of the coffee shop breaks and if you get time between appointments, let your children visit the local park.
After all, no one wants their thoughtful assessment of a prospective home interrupted by a loud, ”Mum, there’s no toilet paper in here!” Thankfully, agents tend to be an accommodating and non-judgmental lot.
But as they say, When you gotta go….. well!
Tags: Blocked sewer pipes, Coogee Plumber, Darling Point plumber, Double Bay Plumber, leaking toilet, Plumber Paddington, Plumber Randwick, Randwick plumber, Surry Hills plumber emergency, Sydney plumbing, toilet, Toilet humour
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
One recurring topic of 2010 is the Ownership and liability of common water, sewer and gas pipes.
When we send out an emergency response team to a ruptured gas or water pipeline or an overflowing sewer, the first thing our team thinks about is rescuing the property under threat.
Often, it is after the emergency has passed, that ownership and liability of the problem are hotly debated.
This series of 3 blog posts is aimed at clarifying some of that debate.
Our friends at the Law Reform Commission have helped to clarify this interesting subject and in part it reads!
A user of a service may attempt to disconnect the joint service and force other users of the service to bear the cost of a direct connection to the main service. Such action will however, be illegal unless conducted in accordance with the Water Board Act 1987 (Water Board (Plumbing and Drainage ) Regulation 1989),2 or a court order declaring that the common user of the service has a right to discontinue the service.
The creation of permanent rights of access is seen as a means of avoiding problems of access in respect of utility services, and applications have been made to the courts over the years to have access to and over utilities such as water pipes and sewers recognised as easements of necessity. The courts have, however, gone to considerable lengths to hold that although such an easement may be considered by a landowner to be essential for the reasonable enjoyment of property, it is not an easement of necessity,4 because at law easements over such services are not considered necessary to the land itself.
Although DP 22 raised the possibility of statutory recognition of these “trespassing” services as a means of rectifying the problem, the Board of Surveyors pointed out in their submission6 that few authorities know with any exactitude the location of their service lines. Consequently, the Board of Surveyors opposes the creation of statutory easements over them until such time as they are properly defined on title. The Commission agrees that such a step may be expensive and premature at this stage. It would seem desirable however, that steps are taken in the long term by the relevant authorities to locate such services, properly record them and establish the appropriate rights over them.
Tags: Balmain Plumber, common gas service, Common sewer pipe, Common water pipe, Darling Point plumber, Darlinghurst plumber, Double Bay Plumber, Plumber Paddington, Randwick plumber, Surry Hills plumber emergency
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
One recurring topic of 2010 is the Ownership and liability of common water, sewer and gas pipes.
When we send out an emergency response team to a ruptured gas or water pipeline or an overflowing sewer, the first thing our team thinks about is rescuing the property under threat.
Often, it is after the emergency has passed, that ownership and liability of the problem are hotly debated.
This series of 3 blog posts is aimed at clarifying some of that debate.
Our friends at the Law Reform Commission have helped to clarify this interesting subject and in part it reads!
In most cases, persons using utility services that pass through several properties benefit by the existence of an easement of access over that service, entitling the user to enter the property on which the service is located in order to attend to the service.1 However, in the absence of such an easement, the user of the service is not allowed to interfere with the service, even where that interference is for the purpose of maintenance, repair, or relocation of the service.
One explanation of why there may not be an easement is that the properties through which the service runs were once commonly owned. When the common ownership ceased, new owners may have failed to ensure that easements over water pipes or sewer lines existed for the particular part of the property they were purchasing. The problem may have arisen due to an assumption that such a right was simply transferred with the purchased property, or by an omission on the part of the conveyancer. Whatever the reason, the failure to create and register an easement has given rise to a number of lasting problems. These difficulties have been compounded by the general reluctance of the Water Board to impose on new purchasers a requirement to install costly separate connections. Many properties today do not have a viable means of creating a separate connection at reasonable cost.
Tags: Balmain Plumber, burst water pipe, common gas service, Common sewer pipe, Common water pipe, Darling Point plumber, Darlinghurst plumber, Double Bay blocked drain, Double Bay Plumber, Plumber Paddington, Randwick plumber, Surry Hills plumber emergency
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Monday, December 27th, 2010
This post was brought to my attention by the ever vigilant Richard Piper. When you ring our office for help you may speak to him. Tell him you enjoyed this post, I did!
Sewage powered VW Beetle hits the road in Bristol
A Volkswagen Beetle powered by gas from sewage has taken to the road for the first time in Britain.
This converted Beetle car runs on methane gas. The Bio-Bug was launched on Thursday by Wessex Water, which is generating methane from human waste at a sewage treatment works near Bristol.
The company claims the prototype is able to cover 10,000 miles annually on the waste from 70 households.
If the trial proves successful, Volkswagen will consider converting some of its fleet of vehicles to run on biogas.
Mohammed Saddiq, of GENeco, a Wessex Water subsidiary which runs the biogas plant at Avonmouth, said: “Our site has been producing biogas for many years, which we use to generate electricity to power the site and export to the National Grid.
“With the surplus gas we had available we wanted to put it to good use in a sustainable and efficient way.
“We decided to power a vehicle on the gas, offering a sustainable alternative to using fossil fuels which we so heavily rely on in the UK.
“If you were to drive the car you wouldn’t know it was powered by biogas as it performs just like any conventional car. It is probably the most sustainable car around.”
The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association said the launch of the Bio-Bug proved that biomethane from sewage sludge could be used as an alternative fuel for vehicles.
Lord Rupert Redesdale, the association’s chairman, said: “This is a very exciting and forward-thinking project demonstrating the myriad benefits of anaerobic digestion (releasing energy from waste). Biomethane cars could be just as important as electric cars.”
Last month Volkswagen announced plans to conquer the green market with a new generation of hybrid and electric cars.
Tags: Methane powered car, Plumber Paddington, plumber Rose Bay, Randwick plumber, sewer gas power, Sydney plumbing, Volkswagon, Volkswagon Beetle, VW technology
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
With 3 growing boys living at home, they eat like there is no tomorrow and playing rugby, cricket and doing patrols at Coogee Surf Club, we have plenty of washing and dishes to wash up every day.
So much so, that both appliances broke down at the same time.
Yes it happens to plumbers as well!
So we had our brightest plumbing apprentice just instal a new diswasher and washing machine and it made me aware of the importance of these water appliances and how we should maintain them.
1. Their hoses are rubber, with hot water they perish and may rupture so check them regularly
2. Many people turn these control valves or taps off at the end of every wash. In our house that would be impossible
3. Turn taps off when going on holidays. Don’t forget to turn them back on
Just recently, our emergency plumbers rescued a young mother who had been to Adelaide for three weeks. The hose feeding her washing machine ruptured causing many dollars worth of damage. Her washing machine shorted out electrically (needs a new machine), the laundry /bathroom was covered in mould from the steam (needs repainting), assorted bits and pieces damaged, carpets in the hallway waterlogged, and the parquet flooring at the end of the hallway had buckled and will need major repairs, then re-sanding and staining. Not to mention the aggravation of removing all furniture and of course the young children from the home for several days whilst these procedures are carried out. The fumes from the floor staining will be intoxicating
Tags: Apprentice Plumbers, emergency plumber, Plumbing Industry, Plumbing Services Sydney, Randwick plumber, The Lone Drainer And Pronto!, Water damage
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