Complimentary safety inspection included
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Every job comes with a complimentary whole-system safety inspection for complete peace of mind.
Half the appeal of Oyster Bay is the bush between the houses. The gums and angophoras that shade the streets also spend every dry spell hunting for water, and the easiest water to find is inside a 60-year-old sewer joint. Rapid Service Plumbing clears, repairs and future-proofs the plumbing under Oyster Bay's steep, leafy blocks, with every job quoted before it starts.
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A few familiar signs, if you have lived here a while:
• Drains that gurgle for weeks, then stop draining altogether
• A damp patch on the lawn that never quite dries out
• Garden taps and pipes on terraced retaining walls weeping at the joints
• A hot water system installed when the house last changed hands, now well past ten years old
Most of Oyster Bay was built in the 1950s and 60s, and the original earthenware sewer lines are now sharing the ground with mature root systems. That combination drives most of our work here.
Root intrusion, solved properly: Clearing a blocked line with a jetter gets the water moving the same day. The longer answer is a camera inspection to find where roots are entering, then relining that section so they cannot return. On Oyster Bay's terraced blocks, relining has a second advantage: no excavation through retaining walls and steps that took decades to settle. Our blocked drain team and sewer specialists handle both ends of that job.
Drainage on a gradient: Stormwater on a steep block either goes where it is directed or wherever gravity fancies. We repair and extend stormwater systems, keep gutters and downpipes flowing through our roof plumbing service, and sort the soggy-corner problems that show up two days after every storm.
The everyday list: Hot water repairs and replacements including gas systems, gas fitting, tap repairs, and a 24/7 emergency line for burst pipes and anything else that cannot wait for morning.
FAQ
Five questions we hear from Oyster Bay owners, with straight answers.
It depends where the blockage sits. Pipework inside your boundary up to the connection point is the owner's responsibility; the main beyond it belongs to the water authority. A camera inspection locates the blockage precisely and the footage shows which side of the line it falls on, which is also exactly the evidence you need if the fault belongs to the authority rather than to you.
Not automatically. Copper from that era often has decades left; galvanised steel usually does not, and it announces itself with falling pressure and rusty morning water. We assess what materials are actually in the house, which sections are failing, and give you a staged plan: fix what is urgent now, schedule the rest, and leave what is genuinely sound alone.
We do these regularly. The slope usually decides the design: drainage needs fall towards the sewer connection, and on some Oyster Bay blocks that means a pump system rather than gravity. We can review your plans before anything is approved, quote the drainage, water and gas connections as one fixed price, and coordinate with your builder on timing.
Persistent wet patches usually mean stormwater is arriving faster than it can leave: a silted pit, a crushed pipe, or runoff from uphill with nowhere to go. Occasionally the culprit is a slow leak on a buried water line instead, which we confirm with a meter test before any digging. Either way, diagnosis comes first and the fix gets a fixed price.
Exposed garden pipework on terraced blocks cops sun, movement and the occasional animal, and joints weep long before they burst. We repair or rerun those lines in materials suited to outdoor exposure, clip them properly so they stop moving, and while we are there, check the isolation valves so a future failure can be shut off without turning the whole house off.
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