Emergency Plumber Mount Wellington

Mount Wellington is really several suburbs in one, and the plumbing call depends on which part you are in. In the older residential streets there are state houses and weatherboard homes from the 1940s and 1950s, many with galvanised water pipe and earthenware drains. A lot of those sections have been redeveloped with two, three or more units, so the drain that once served one family now serves several, and a blockage can stop them all. Around Sylvia Park and Stonefields the housing is much newer, with apartments and terraces where the common problems are split flexi hoses, leaking PEX joints and mains-pressure cylinder valves, and where a leak in one unit can quickly reach the next. The industrial and commercial side adds shops, cafés and workplaces with toilets, grease traps and drains that cannot be out of action for long. Being on the volcanic field, some sections have rock close to the surface, which can make drain repairs slower. Mount Wellington sits beside the Southern Motorway and the South Eastern Highway.

Mount Wellington takes its name from Maungarei, the volcanic cone at its centre, and it is one of the most mixed suburbs in the east: older state houses, 1960s and 1970s homes, a big industrial and commercial area, Sylvia Park shopping centre, and new housing at Stonefields and around the town centre. The Southern Motorway and the South Eastern Highway both run past it.