Your local plumber in Hamilton.

Old drains and old trees do not mix.

A lot of Hamilton’s housing stock is Federation and interwar cottages, and a good number still run their original earthenware and cast-iron sewer and stormwater drains. Those pipes are jointed, and over a century the joints loosen and crack. The leafy, established streets that make Hamilton lovely also mean mature trees whose roots head straight for those damp, cracked joints. The result is the most common call we get in this suburb: a recurring blocked drain. We run a CCTV camera to find exactly where the roots are getting in, hydro-jet it clean, and quote relining where the pipe is too far gone to keep clearing.

Ageing pipework and burst risk.

The same era of home often still has galvanised or early copper supply pipework that has been corroding quietly for decades. In Hamilton we see our share of burst and leaking pipes, usually at a corroded joint or bend. We locate hidden leaks with electronic detection rather than guessing, so we are not cutting open more of your period home than we have to. Where corrosion is widespread, we will be honest about whether a staged re-pipe makes more sense than chasing one leak after another.

Renovating a Hamilton cottage?

Hamilton sees a lot of cottage renovations, and old wet areas and kitchens almost always need plumbing brought up to current standard. We handle re-pipes, new bathroom and kitchen rough-ins, hot water upgrades and gas cooktop and heater connections — all to AS/NZS 3500 and AS/NZS 5601, with a Certificate of Compliance so your renovation paperwork is clean.

Typical Hamilton jobs.

• Recurring blocked sewer cleared with CCTV + hydro-jet, root cutting through earthenware joints
• Burst galvanised supply pipe located and repaired with minimal wall opening
• Like-for-like hot water changeover, or upgrade to continuous-flow gas / heat pump
• Kitchen and bathroom renovation rough-in for a Federation cottage
• Gas cooktop or heater install with AS/NZS 5601 Certificate of Compliance

Hamilton sits a short run from Mayfield, New Lambton and the rest of the inner city, so we are usually close by — see all of Greater Newcastle & the Hunter.