Plumber Shellharbour

Shellharbour Village has been a seaside town far longer than it has been a suburb, and the housing shows it. Old cottages a block back from the boat harbour sit next to rebuilds and units, and between them they cover about eighty years of plumbing practice.

The one thing everything here shares is the salt. Anything within a few streets of the water at Shellharbour or out towards Bass Point copes with a salt-laden onshore wind most of the year, and it shortens the life of external metalwork considerably. Outdoor hot water units corrode around the casing and the fittings, external copper and brass go green, tap spindles seize, and a system that would have given you fifteen years inland gives you rather less here. Getting the anode checked on a storage unit is the cheapest thing you can do for it.

Common plumbing jobs in Shellharbour

• Hot water systems corroding early in the salt air, repaired or replaced
• Blocked drains in the older village homes with original earthenware lines
• Gas fitting: cooktops, heaters, hot water and outdoor barbecue points
• Seized and leaking outdoor taps, hose cocks and garden lines
• Burst pipes and no-water emergencies

Blocked drains and emergencies

Blocked drains are the most common emergency we get called to. In the older village streets it is usually roots or a broken section of clay pipe, and sand washing into a cracked line does not help either.

After-hours call-outs are available. Extra charges apply and depend on the job, and Brad tells you what it costs on the phone before he comes out.

Why locals call Powell Plumbing

• Licensed plumber, drainer and gas fitter, licence 182283C
• Fully insured
• 23 years working the Illawarra
• Brad answers the phone himself
• Free quotes
• Pension discounts
• Installs all brands and picks the one that suits the job

Shell Cove, Flinders, Oak Flats, Barrack Heights and Warilla are all on the same run, so we are around here regularly. Ring 0426 963 260.