Plumber Campbelltown, NSW 2560
Campbelltown is the centre of Macarthur, with Campbelltown Hospital, Campbelltown Mall, Macarthur Square and Western Sydney University all within a few kilometres of Queen Street. The suburb was built out in a hurry through the 1970s and 80s, so whole streets of brick veneer and Housing Commission homes on Cumberland Plain clay are reaching the age where original pipework fails together, while new apartment buildings near the station bring strata and flexi hose work. The Hume Highway, M5 and Narellan Road are the main approaches.
What usually goes wrong in Campbelltown
- Original galvanised water lines and earthenware sewers in 1970s Housing Commission homes corroding, cracking and blocking
- Copper pinholes and worn tap sets in 1970s-80s brick veneer homes now past forty years old
- Flexible hose floods and shared riser faults in the newer apartment buildings along Queen Street
- Sewer surcharge and stormwater backing up on streets near Bow Bowing Creek in summer thunderstorms
- Outdoor electric and gas storage hot water units failing on hot west-facing walls after long summers
Local notes from the plumbers
Campbelltown was planned and built in a hurry through the 1970s and 80s, and forty years on the pipework is failing in step. The Housing Commission streets on the western side toward Ambarvale and Bradbury still carry original galvanised water lines that have corroded until the kitchen tap runs at a trickle, and earthenware sewers that the Cumberland Plain clay has cracked at every joint. Roots from gums and street trees planted when the suburb was new have had decades to find them. The 1970s-80s brick veneer homes on the eastern side are in better shape, but copper pinholes, worn tap sets and hot water units on west-facing walls that give up after a run of forty-degree days are constant work. Along Queen Street and near the station the newer apartment buildings bring flexible hose floods, shared risers and grease in the ground-floor food tenancies. Bow Bowing Creek runs beside the railway, and streets on its low side get stormwater and sewer surcharge in a summer thunderstorm. Campbelltown Hospital, Campbelltown Mall and Macarthur Square are all close, and the Hume Highway and Narellan Road are the main approaches.
Housing in Campbelltown
1970s-80s brick veneer and fibro family homes, with 1970s Housing Commission streets on the western side toward Ambarvale and Bradbury, 1960s brick homes near the old town centre, 2010s-2020s apartment buildings along Queen Street and near the station, and a scatter of heritage buildings from the 1820s to 1840s on Queen Street.
