Common faults Common Emergency Callouts We Handle
Most urgent calls around Para Hills follow predictable patterns shaped by the original 1960s Reid Murray housing stock still plumbed on galvanised steel water lines, the earthenware clay sewer and stormwater joints laid through the original streets, the mature street trees and backyard gardens around Goodall Road, Kesters Road and McIntyre Road sending roots into older clay drains, and the decades-old gas service lines still feeding cooktops, wall furnaces and storage hot water units on long-held properties. These are the jobs the on-call team handles most often:
01
Galvanised water lines letting go overnight
A large share of un-renovated Reid Murray houses across the local area still run on first-generation galvanised steel water lines, and corrosion-thinned joints regularly let go overnight inside walls and under floors.
02
Earthenware drain failures during heavy rain
Sewer and stormwater runs laid through the original 1960s streets are typically earthenware clay, and the joints flex and crack as the reactive northern Adelaide soils move and finally open up during heavy downpours.
03
Tree-root bursts on older streets
Sixty years of street trees and mature backyard gardens around Goodall Road, Kesters Road and McIntyre Road send roots into the older clay drain joints running beneath the front lawns, and a root mat finding a joint regularly turns into an urgent overnight callout.
04
Original-era gas fittings failing in 1960s homes
Long ownership tenure on the original Reid Murray streets means many properties still carry decades-old gas cooktop, wall furnace and hot water connections, and those older fittings can fail suddenly and need an after-hours isolation.
