How to deal with and avoid inadequate stormwater systems

How to deal with and avoid inadequate stormwater systems

Stormwater is easily the most overlooked, under-engineered service in or around your house. Despite local authorities insisting on the submission of plans promising to adhere to their requirements prior to construction, I frequently run into stormwater nightmares on...
Plumbing Services Design and Drafting

Plumbing Services Design and Drafting

Get in touch with us if you need to design and construct any type of residential or commercial plumbing. We have Professional Indemnity insurance for our designs, and unlike most other plumbing designers, we have on-site trade experience. We have over a decade of...
Explaining backflow prevention

Explaining backflow prevention

This article briefly describes how backflow can occur, and the need for backflow prevention in plumbing installations. The page here briefly describes what backflow is, and the need for backflow testing in South Australia. How does backflow occur? Backflow most...
How to relight your gas hot water pilot flame

How to relight your gas hot water pilot flame

If the pilot flame on your gas storage hot water system needs relighting, the instructions below show you how. These instructions will work for most gas storage hot water systems. To remove the access panel on a Rheem water heater, pull the bottom straight up. The...
Repairing broken and leaking water pipes

Repairing broken and leaking water pipes

Recently I’ve been called to repair leaking water pipes where contractors have accidentally broken the copper water service between the water meter and the house. These situations immediately create two plumbing emergencies. The first one is finding the water...