General Plumber in Alexandra Hills

Need a plumber in Alexandra Hills? Jim Monger Plumbing and Gas is a family-run plumber and gasfitter based at Victoria Point, and Alexandra Hills is in our service area. We look after leaks, blocked drains, hot water, fixtures and gas fitting for homeowners, landlords and property managers. In this inland suburb the first useful question depends on the block: how big it is, how it handles wastewater and which way it falls. The notes below help you sort that out before you spend money. Quotes are free, and emergency calls are taken 24/7.

Ask three questions before booking anyone. Is the property on the sewer or an on-site system? Is the dry tap your pipe or Council’s main? Where does the yard’s water go when it leaves? Council’s notes on this suburb shape each answer.

Council says most Alexandra Hills properties are on reticulated sewerage, but some larger ones rely on on-site wastewater systems, and its 2017 Draft City Plan response named Alexandra Court and Hanover Drive among areas moved to a 2000m2 minimum lot size. That does not show how any block on those streets is serviced, so on a bigger lot ask which system you have before any drain machine runs. We clear blocked drains on the owner’s side of the inspection opening, since Council maintains the mains and pipes up to it, and service septic tanks and trenches.

A dry tap may be Council’s main, not your pipes: on 3 March 2022 a burst main at Finucane Road and Cambridge Drive cut water to nearby residents and the shopping centre, and on 27 September 2022 Council reported an unplanned water interruption of about one hour on Queens Court Road for a water service repair. One burst main and one short repair, each from a dated notice, do not prove the suburb’s water pipes are failing. Ask a neighbour and ring Council on (07) 3829 8999 before booking.

Yard water comes third, and its direction varies: Tarradarrapin Creek starts here and drains north to Waterloo Bay, the mid Hilliards Creek catchment takes in Alexandra Hills, and Coolnwynpin Creek runs through it as a tributary of Tingalpa Creek. Council says flood mapping indicates impacts to established residential areas are generally limited, while some low-lying land and local drainage networks may be affected in significant rainfall, so treat a soggy yard as a drainage question first. The Redland City Bulletin reported 190mm at the Bureau’s Alexandra Hills station on the night of 18 January 2021, the kind of night that tests a drain. Council rates the suburb generally low for landslide, with most homes beside rather than within the low to moderate areas it identifies, such as land east of Vienna Road, so on a sloping block nearby our reasoning, not Council’s, is to plan the water’s destination before digging a seepage trench. Council says run-off should go to a lawful discharge point such as the kerb and channel, never the sewer, and that an upstream owner may be liable if their actions increase or concentrate flow.

Cost comes last: 47.4% of dwellings here were owned with a mortgage at the 2021 Census, against 39.9% across Redland City. Reading that as tight budgets is our reasoning, not an ABS finding, but ask any plumber to price repair and replacement side by side, and our quotes are free.