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Plumber Fishing Point

Plumbing and gas work in Fishing Point is covered by Rathmines Plumbing Co, the crew that works Rathmines and the peninsulas beside it. Fishing Point sits beside Rathmines, and Rathmines Plumbing Co covers it on the same run. Drain clears, hot water, gas fitting and urgent faults all get a fixed figure before anything starts.

Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C

Last updated September 2026

Plumber installing a strip drain beside a sliding door

One Spine Road, Slopes on Every Other Side

Every block but the spine tilts lake-ward

The suburb hangs off the Fishing Point Road spine, and the ground falls to the shoreline on three sides of the peninsula, so how well each yard is graded decides whether a storm passes through or sits as a shallow pool on the low, flat lots near the water. When a summer cell dumps on the short catchment, a choked pit spills over fast.

A whole era of hot water units is ageing together

Most of the houses here went up between the 1970s and the 1990s, and the cylinders from that stretch are all reaching swap-out age at once. Winter mornings find the oldest tanks first.

The earliest homes still carry steel

Scattered among the brick-veneer family places, the first lake houses can still run old galvanised supply lines that choke flow and stain fixtures. The clay drains laid with that first wave have reached cracking age, and foreshore vegetation pushes roots into the older joints.

Census figures put 55 per cent of dwellings at four bedrooms or more, so the systems serving them are sized for big households and worked hard.

Plumber working a drain-clearing machine

Where the Work Sits on This Site

Each hub covers one side of the peninsula's plumbing:

Plumber feeding a drain camera into a pit at a commercial unit

Blocked drains

Cracked clay runs, root intrusion and surcharging stormwater, cleared and camera-checked

Plumber finishing a continuous-flow gas hot water install

Hot water

The 1970s to 1990s build-out left a whole generation of tanks due at once, and a loan tank covers the gap

Gas fitter checking an oven connection

Gas fitting

New cookers, room heaters and outdoor barbecue points for the larger family homes, each tested and signed off

Plumber collecting gear from the ute toolbox

Emergency plumber

Burst flexi hoses from 1990s wet areas now past their rated life, and storm-driven overflows near the point

Fishing Point Questions

Do you come out to the peninsula after hours?

Yes. We are Available 24/7, right out to the tip of the peninsula. Night and weekend work has its own rate, and you hear it before a plumber starts.

Our stormwater backs up toward the lake in heavy rain. Can that be fixed?

Yes. Every drop of runoff here drains to the lake and nowhere else, so a choked or under-sized line surcharges fast when a storm cell hits. We clear it, camera-check it, and tell you whether the pits and pipes can handle the block.

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