24 hour plumbing in Greenway, Canberra
Greenway is where the valley does its shopping, banking and office work, and increasingly where it lives in apartments. Plumbing calls here are more likely to come from a body corporate, a shop fit-out or a commercial kitchen than from a house, and access via the Tuggeranong Parkway and Drakeford Drive makes it the quickest suburb in the valley to reach.
What usually goes wrong in Greenway
- Burst flexible hoses and failed mixers in apartments flooding the unit below
- Shared risers, pressure-reducing valves and booster pumps failing in multi-storey buildings
- Grease blockages from food court and restaurant tenancies at the Hyperdome and South.Point
- High mains pressure on the low ground beside the lake wearing out fixtures without a limiting valve
- Blocked floor wastes and stormwater in basement car parks after summer storms
Local notes from the plumbers
Greenway is the odd one out in the valley because most of the plumbing here is commercial or multi-storey. The Hyperdome, South.Point, the office towers along Anketell Street and the apartment blocks around Lake Tuggeranong all run shared risers, pressure-reducing valves and grease traps that fail on their own schedule. In an apartment a burst flexible hose is never one person's problem; it comes through the ceiling of the unit below and into a lift well before anyone notices. Because Greenway sits low beside the lake the mains pressure is high, and older fixtures without a limiting valve wear out fast. Restaurants and food court tenancies push grease into drains that were never sized for the current trading hours, so blockages there surface on a Saturday night with a hundred customers waiting. The small pocket of houses on the northern edge behind Lake Tuggeranong College is 1980s brick and behaves more like Kambah. Being on the Tuggeranong Parkway and Drakeford Drive, it is also the easiest suburb in the valley to get to at any hour.
Housing in Greenway
The Tuggeranong town centre: apartment buildings around Lake Tuggeranong and Anketell Street, office towers, the Hyperdome and South.Point retail precincts, plus a small pocket of 1980s brick veneer houses on the northern edge behind Lake Tuggeranong College.