Plumber West End

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. If water is showing up in the unit below, our leak detection team can trace it. Our guide on who is responsible for blocked drains explains the usual split.

Three in four West End homes are flats or apartments (75.7% at the 2021 Census), the highest share of any suburb we cover. Flats have a long history here: Council's heritage records describe Drayton Court on Hardgrave Road, built around 1939.

In the older cottages, decades-old sewer and stormwater lines are where tree roots find a way in, and after a flood they can be left partly blocked with silt. See the flood section below.

West End 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 three in five (58.1%) West End homes are rented. We can't take bookings from tenants, so if you rent, please contact your property manager or landlord first.