Emergency Plumber Woden Valley & Weston Creek

Plumbing in Woden Valley & Weston Creek

Woden Valley and Weston Creek take in Phillip, Curtin, Lyons, Hughes, Weston, Duffy and the Molonglo Valley suburb of Coombs. The valley is mostly 1960s and 70s brick veneer on reactive clay, with earthenware sewers and copper lines now past fifty years old, while Duffy carries post-2003 bushfire rebuilds and Coombs is a 2013 onwards estate of townhouses on small lots with PEX pipework.

Woden Valley was Canberra's first satellite town and most of its houses still date from the 1960s and 70s: brick veneer with copper water lines, earthenware sewers and a hot water unit on an outside wall. The Mr Fluffy buyback and the 2003 bushfires mean a plumber here routinely sees a brand-new home beside an original, often sharing the same fifty-year-old sewer connection at the street. Phillip has grown upwards around Westfield Woden, adding apartment towers and commercial kitchens along Hindmarsh Drive and Yarra Glen. Across Weston Creek the blocks climb towards Stromlo and the frost bites earlier, while Coombs and the Molonglo Valley bring pressure limiting valves, crimp fittings and shared townhouse drains that are only now old enough to fail.