Plumber Boolaroo

Boolaroo sits beside Speers Point, and Speers Point Plumbing Co covers it on the same run, from burst pipes and blocked sewers to hot water and gas fitting. Ring (02) 4093 0558, tell us what is happening, and the price is named before any work begins.

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Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C

Last updated September 2026

The Pipe Under an Old Smelter Town

Cottages on the old grid

The miners' cottages off Main Road can still run the steel supply pipe they were built with, and that pipe rusts shut from the inside, choking flow at every tap long before anything shows on the floor.

Clay drains on moving ground

Drains laid here before the 1980s are vitrified clay, and the reactive clay ground moves as it wets and dries, working old joints open until tree roots find the gap.

The new estate is a different job

Weemala at the Lake is brick-veneer housing from the current building era, put up on the remediated Pasminco smelter land, so its plumbing is far younger than that of the original miners' cottages.

Where a Boolaroo Job Lands

Whatever the fault, it routes through one of four hubs:

Emergency plumbing

For burst pipes, overflowing sewers and hot water units that quit at night

Blocked drains

For sewers and stormwater, with a camera check before and after the line is cleared

Hot water

For repairs, replacements and heat pump installs

Gas fitting

For cooktops, heaters, BBQ points and leak detection

A split braided hose under a basin, a sewer backing up in the yard or a tank leaking onto a laundry floor all follow the same process, with a fixed price agreed first.

What Shapes the Cost Here

We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.

What sits behind the figure varies with the work:

The age of the plumbing, since a rusted supply line in a pre-war cottage is a bigger job than a fitting on a near-new house
Access, because a drain beneath a raised cottage floor is slower to reach than one in an open yard
What the camera finds, because cutting roots from a joint is a smaller job than digging up a collapsed clay run
After-hours timing, which carries the after-hours rate

When We're Not the Right Call

A tripping switchboard or a dead appliance circuit is for a licensed electrician to fix. Water pooling on low, level sections by Cockle Creek in a downpour can be a street drainage problem rather than a fault in your pipes.

Questions From the Old Grid

Do you clear blocked sewers in Boolaroo cottages?

Yes. Under the pre-war cottages the sewer is vitrified clay, so we film it before quoting and the footage shows whether roots or a cracked joint is to blame. Every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

Can you replace a hot water unit in an older Boolaroo house?

Yes. Many tanks in the original village houses are at or past the end of their working life, and the replacement is sized to the people living there, not copied from the old cylinder. A temporary hot water tank can go in while the replacement is sorted.

Getting a Plumber to Boolaroo

Call (02) 4093 0558 or send the form below. Available 24/7, you see a fixed figure ahead of any work, and every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

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