Plumber Blog

Just imagine coming home from work, opening the front door and stepping onto your carpet and it feels just like a sponge. Worse still, how about opening your front door to be confronted by 20-30cms of water cascading towards you. The reality is that even a relatively small water leak has the ability to cause this much damage in a short a time.

The abundance of unscrupulous people in the drain cleaning and sewer business has reached an all time high. You only have to pick up the local paper or switch on the local news to hear about the people who have fallen foul of such scams.

Like anything, prevention is always better than cure so when it comes to your sewers and drains maintaining them can save you a lot of money, plus a great deal of unpleasantness. Here at Brisbane Plumbing and Drainage we've had the misfortune to come across a multitude of drains and sewers that have either backed up or overflowed.

If you find yourself confronted with a plumbing problem, trying to deal with it on your own can be tricky. The reason is that when smells start emanating from your bathroom, or you hear banging sounds in your pipework, or bubbling noises when using the tap, it's usually indicative of an underlying and often more complex problem.

When it comes to property water damage, even the smallest of leaks can cause extensive problems. To put this into perspective, even a tiny hole in a water pipe less than half a centimetre in diameter has the ability to expel just under 950,000 litres of water over a 3 month period.