Plumber Toowong

In an apartment, a fault inside your own unit 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. A leak that shows up in the unit below is worth tracing quickly, and our leak detection team can find it. Our guide on who is responsible for blocked drains explains the usual split.

More than two in three Toowong homes are flats or apartments (67.9% at the 2021 Census). The older houses on the hills go back to the 1880s: Council's heritage records describe the house at 29 Burns Road, home of the first teacher at the Toowong School, and interwar homes like St Briavels on Archer Street.

In the older houses, ageing sewer joints are where tree roots find a way in.

Toowong 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 (54.8%) of Toowong homes are rented. We can't take bookings from tenants, so if you rent, please contact your property manager or landlord first.