Plumber Ascot

In Ascot, a house that has been converted into flats can have pipes from several eras joined together, and ageing sewer joints are where tree roots find a way in. Before you buy or renovate, a camera inspection tells you what's there, and we'll give you the options with a fixed price for each.

In a unit, a fault inside your own home is generally yours, while shared pipes on common property are usually the body corporate's. Our guide on who is responsible for blocked drains explains the usual split.

You'll know Ascot's mix: big old homes on the rise above the racecourse and almost as many units as houses (47.8% of homes were flats or apartments at the 2021 Census). Council's heritage records date some of those homes to the 1880s, like Nyrambla on Henry Street, and several were later split into flats, as were Dahlow and the 1938 Art Deco pair Meerawa and Yearinga.

Ascot is supplied by Urban Utilities. South East Queensland water is classed as hard to moderately hard, which Urban Utilities notes can cause scaling inside hot water systems and kettles.

The property owner is responsible for the pipes on their side of the water meter and sewer connection point, and Urban Utilities for the meter and everything beyond it. In a unit complex that connection point is usually on common property, and Urban Utilities says complexes may have a meter for each unit, either near the unit or in a shared meter cabinet. In an older building that has been split into flats, it is worth finding out where your own meter and isolation valve are before you need them. A leak in the street or footpath goes to Urban Utilities on 13 23 64 (24/7); a meter that keeps ticking over when nothing is running points to a hidden leak on your side, which our leak detection team can find.

Two in five (40.7%) Ascot homes are rented. We can't take bookings from tenants, so if you rent, please contact your property manager or landlord first.