Plumber Chermside

In an apartment or townhouse, a fault inside your own home is generally yours, while shared pipes and connection points on common property are usually the body corporate's, so check with your building manager before booking. Our guide on who is responsible for blocked drains explains the usual split.

Water showing up in the unit below needs finding quickly. Our leak detection team can trace it, and we'll explain what we found so you can sort out the next steps with your neighbours or body corporate.

Apartments outnumber houses almost three to one in Chermside (58.7% of homes at the 2021 Census). It wasn't always that way: Council's heritage records describe a blacksmith's business on Gympie Road from 1899 and the Chermside Garden Settlement, Brisbane's first aged care garden settlement, which opened in 1936.

Chermside 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. 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.

Nearly two in three (62.6%) Chermside homes are rented. We can't take bookings from tenants, so if you rent, please contact your property manager or landlord first.