Water pressure, water hammer and the plumbing code

Water pressure, water hammer and the plumbing code

Thousands of houses in Adelaide receive high water pressure from the street main. People appreciate being able to pressure wash the car using just a garden hose but this convenience comes with nasty side effects both noisy and silent. The noisy one is water hammer and...
How to replace a sink mixer cartridge

How to replace a sink mixer cartridge

Got a sink mixer that leaks or a mixer handle that doesn’t want to move anymore? Heard you can replace your mixer cartridge but you don’t know which one to get? Not sure what you’d do with a new one anyway? Follow these steps to rejuvenate your...
Plumbing a kitchen renovation

Plumbing a kitchen renovation

I’m often asked about moving the taps from above a kitchen sink during kitchen renovations. Customers are a little unsure about what’s behind those lovely splashback tiles and that faithful old kitchen cupboard that’s been holding the bench up off...
They don’t make taps like they used to

They don’t make taps like they used to

Tapware isn’t quite ready straight out of the box In the last two months I’ve been called to deal with leaking taps where the cause of the trouble was something you might not find in the plumber’s textbook. In both cases the tap hardware had failed...