Emergency Plumbing for Seven Hills

Settlement in this pocket of Blacktown began largely in the 1950s and 60s, single-storey fibro and brick-veneer cottages on generous 600 to 900 square metre blocks, the kind of build wave that stretched along Prospect Highway as the suburb grew. Later decades filled in with two-storey brick-veneer homes, townhouses and unit blocks nearer the station.

That original post-war housing carries the pipework you'd expect from the era, and it's why heavy rain causes real trouble here.

Intense western-Sydney storms in the Toongabbie Creek catchment can surcharge drains and back water up into low-lying properties. Older stormwater systems here were never sized for how much has since been built around them.

Reactive clay and shale under the ground only add to it, shifting the older pipe runs a little more with every wet season.

If a storm's already backed up your drains, blocked drains is the page that covers the fix.

Homes closer to the Prospect Highway retail and industrial strip tend to have seen more piecemeal renovation over the decades than the purely residential streets further from the road, which sometimes means a mismatch between newer fittings and original pipework further back in the wall.

Toongabbie is our regular ground, and Seven Hills barely counts as a detour from there, so you're never waiting on someone unfamiliar with the streets.

The older fibro and brick-veneer housing stock here is familiar territory, since it matches plenty of what we work on every week just across the boundary. Same-day service where we can, and the City of Blacktown covers both patches, so nothing changes once we cross over.

There's no premium tacked on for being a few streets further out, and no different standard of work either. It's the same licensed team, the same warranty, the same way of quoting a job.