Bathroom Plumbing Endeavour Hills

Rough-in first, tiles second

A 1970s bathroom being stripped back is a chance to replace aged copper and outdated traps before the new tiles go on. We rough in showers, vanity points and toilets to the current standard, pressure-test the pipework, and come back for the fit-off when the room is ready. You get a fixed price for the plumbing portion, coordinated with your builder or tiler if you have one.

We also handle smaller jobs: a new shower mixer on an existing wall, a pan replacement, or a leaking shower waste, without a full renovation.

Old walls, new pipework

Stripped 1970s bathrooms often reveal a mix of copper, later plastic and a shower that was never properly flashed. We replace what is in our scope, pressure-test, and leave the wall ready for the tiler. Fit-off happens when the room is ready, with the mixers, rose, pan and vanity points commissioned and tested with you.

Fit-off, testing and older floors

After the rough-in and the tiler's work, we return for the fit-off: mixers, rose, pan, cistern, vanity points and any bath or laundry connections in the same room. We pressure-test, check falls on wastes, and run the fixtures with you. Older floors and out-of-square 1970s walls sometimes need a little more care at the pan connector or the mixer depth, and we allow for that in the quote rather than discovering it as a variation at the end. If the floor or the wall needs a carpenter before we can honestly set a pan, we stop and say so. Call 03 8658 7175 when you are planning the strip-out, not only when the tiler is already booked, so the pipework is in the right place the first time.

Showers, wastes and 1970s stacks

A leaking shower waste or an unflashed base will show up in a ceiling or a wall long after the renovation looks finished. We set wastes with the right fall and we test before the room is closed up. If you are only replacing a mixer on an existing wall, we can often do that as a shorter visit, quoted on site once we see the depth and the pipe material. Ring 03 8658 7175 when the room is being planned or when a leak has already started.

Endeavour Hills pipes at a glance

Endeavour Hills was built through the 1970s and 1980s on rising ground between Dandenong and the Lysterfield hills, postcode 3802, in the City of Casey. A lot of the original brick veneer is still on the block it was built on, often with a steep drive, a sleeper or concrete retaining wall and a stormwater pit at the low corner. Water services may be copper, with patches of later poly, and many sewers are still earthenware with tree roots from street and backyard plantings. Hot water is often a gas storage unit squeezed onto a narrow side path, which is why a replacement sometimes has to come down the front steps.

We use cameras, locators, pressure tests and acoustic leak detection so we can see the pipework before anyone cuts a wall or opens a trench on a slope.

From your call to the finished job