General Plumber in Hemmant

Jim Monger Plumbing and Gas is a family-run plumber and gasfitter based at Victoria Point, and Hemmant is in our service area. We handle leaks, hot water, blocked drains, fixture installs, yard drainage and gas fitting for homeowners, landlords and property managers. Nine in ten homes here were separate houses at the 2021 Census, so the pipework and house drain usually sit with you rather than a body corporate. The notes below start with what Council publishes about Bulimba Creek and nearby streets, then cover what to check and when to ring us. Quotes are free, and emergency calls are taken 24/7.

At the 2021 Census, 52.8% of Hemmant households were paying off their home, against 36.1% across Greater Brisbane. With most homes owner-occupied, repair decisions usually sit with the household. The faults below cover why each one happens, why it matters and what we can do about it.

Hemmant has its own creek gauge, the Bureau of Meteorology’s Bulimba Creek station on Doughboy Parade, and Council ties its Greater Hemmant, Lytton alert area to it. Council’s diagram lists Violet Street, Geranium Street and Field Avenue at about 1.8 on that gauge, then Doughboy Parade and the Youngs Road and Hemmant Tingalpa Road crossings at about 2.0, calling those impacts indicative only. If Violet Street, Doughboy Parade or either crossing is your way in, mention it when booking non-urgent work around wet weather.

Council’s 2023 flood impact map shows the flood scale at which land is affected, not how often, and its ranges appear to change from the houses around Violet Street and Field Avenue to land north of Lytton Road, with high ground marked around Oregon Street and Doulton Close. Council warns actual flooding may differ, so treat any reading around Violet Street or Oregon Street as a guide to that area and not to any one property, and search your own address on its Flood Awareness Map as well. Because Field Avenue and Doulton Close appear to sit differently on that map, a block’s own falls, gully and drainage are worth looking at before choosing a seepage trench or pump-out line.

Tide is a separate check: a Council alert for 14-18 November 2016 warned of low-lying land near streets including Youngs Road, Marigold Street and Ragnor Road, with no storm named, and it was a forecast warning rather than a flood report. Owners along Marigold Street and Ragnor Road still have reason to keep gullies and yard drains clear, and to note whether a gurgle lines up with a high tide.

Houses and workshops can sit close together: the City Plan’s TradeCoast code, in its 2015 text, provides for a Hemmant precinct of low and medium impact industry, with only low impact uses close to homes. A workshop in that precinct with machinery on the mains should ask whether its backflow device is testable, because a testable device must be tested at least once every calendar year, and we install, test and maintain these devices.

At the 2021 Census, 47.6% of homes here had four or more bedrooms against 41.1% for Greater Brisbane, and only 8.4% had one or two, so a replacement hot water unit here is usually for a house with several bedrooms; tell us how many people use yours when you ask about gas, electric or heat pump units.