Plumber Carina

In a townhouse, a fault inside your own home is generally yours, while shared pipes on common property are usually the body corporate's, so check with your building manager before booking. If water is turning up somewhere it shouldn't, our leak detection team can trace it without opening up more than they need to.

More than a third of Carina homes are townhouses (34.2% at the 2021 Census), nearly three times the Queensland share, so a lot of calls here start with a shared pipe or a meter in a complex. Some history survives too: Council's heritage records describe Flint's Cottage on Lunga Street, built in 1892, as the only nineteenth-century home still standing in Carina.

In the older houses, ageing sewer joints are where tree roots find a way in. Our guide on who is responsible for blocked drains explains how responsibility usually splits.

Carina 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. Find yours before you need it. 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.