24 hour plumbing in Kingston, Canberra
Kingston stretches from Canberra's oldest shopping strip and heritage flats down to the newest waterfront apartment precinct on Lake Burley Griffin. It is dense, walkable and popular with renters and downsizers, with a restaurant scene on the Foreshore boardwalk and around the old shops.
What usually goes wrong in Kingston
- Flexible hose bursts in Foreshore apartments damaging units below
- Basement pump wells and car park drains flooding in heavy rain off the lake
- Galvanised lines and earthenware sewers close to a century old in the heritage flats
- Grease traps overloading under the boardwalk restaurants and old Kingston shops
- Roots from Telopea Park and the older streets in shared sewer lines
Local notes from the plumbers
Kingston runs from the heritage flats and shops of old Kingston down to the apartment towers on the Foreshore, and the two halves fail in different ways. The Foreshore buildings are mostly 2005 onwards, with shared risers, pressure pumps, basement car parks and hot water plant serving whole floors. A burst flexi hose in one apartment becomes a claim for the units below and a job for the building manager, and blocked basement pump wells flood during heavy rain off Lake Burley Griffin. The original Kingston, around Giles Street and Eastlake Parade, has 1920s and 1930s flats and cottages in heritage precincts where the galvanised water lines and earthenware sewers are close to a century old. Working in these buildings means small access spaces, shared services between flats and approvals to think about before anything external is altered. The trees around Telopea Park and the older streets have roots in most of the sewers. Restaurants along the Kingston Foreshore boardwalk and the old shops keep grease traps busy, and a blocked shared drain there affects several tenancies at once.
Housing in Kingston
Apartment towers with basement car parks and shared risers along the Kingston Foreshore, 1920s and 30s heritage flats and cottages in old Kingston around Giles Street and Eastlake Parade, and restaurants along the boardwalk and the old shops.