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In an apartment, a fault inside your own unit is generally yours, while shared pipes, stacks and connection points on common property are usually the body corporate's. A leak that appears in the unit below needs tracing before anyone can say whose it is, which is where our leak detection team comes in. Our guide on who is responsible for blocked drains explains the usual split.

Seven in ten Hamilton homes are flats or apartments (70.0% at the 2021 Census), more than five times the Queensland share. The hill behind has a much longer history: Council's heritage records describe Spring Cottage on Crescent Road, from around 1873, as one of the oldest houses in this part of Hamilton, and say Hamilton was known for fine homes on large estates by the 1880s.

In the older houses on the hill, the usual problems are decades-old pipes with tree roots in the sewer joints.

Hamilton 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.

More than half (53.7%) of Hamilton homes are rented. We can't take bookings from tenants, so if you rent, please contact your property manager or landlord first.