Plumber Casula, NSW 2170
Casula sits south of Liverpool between the Hume Highway and the M7, with the Georges River and the Casula Powerhouse on its eastern edge and the Crossroads retail precinct at the M5 and M7 interchange. The older streets near the station are 1970s, the western half is 1990s-2000s brick, and the two halves fail in different ways: pipes and roots on the old side, hot water units and fittings on the new. It is one of the quickest suburbs to reach from the motorways.
What usually goes wrong in Casula
- Original 1990s electric and gas storage hot water units on sun-exposed walls failing at twenty-five to thirty years
- Flexible hoses, mixer taps and plastic cistern parts fitted when the western estates were new now letting go
- Cracked earthenware and early PVC sewer joints under 1970s homes near the Hume Highway, with roots from mature gums
- Stormwater pits and downpipes overloading on the sloping blocks that fall toward the Georges River in summer storms
- Grease and drain blockages in the food outlets around Casula Mall and the Crossroads precinct
Local notes from the plumbers
Casula splits neatly at Kurrajong Road. The older eastern streets between the Hume Highway and Casula station went in through the 1970s and early 80s, and the plumbing there is what you would expect of brick veneer and fibro on Cumberland Plain clay: earthenware and early PVC sewer joints that have opened up, roots from backyard gums and street trees, copper starting to pinhole and worn tap sets. The western half toward the M7 and the Crossroads was built through the 1990s and 2000s, and the calls there are about equipment rather than pipes. Original electric and gas storage hot water units on north- and west-facing walls are failing after twenty-five hot summers, and the flexible hoses, mixers and plastic cistern parts fitted when the homes were new are at the end of their run. Blocks on the eastern edge slope down to the Georges River near the Casula Powerhouse, and stormwater pits and downpipes there overload in summer thunderstorms; the river itself rose across the low ground in March 2022. Casula Mall and the M5 and M7 interchange make it a quick suburb to reach.
Housing in Casula
Older 1970s-80s brick veneer and fibro in the streets between the Hume Highway and the railway near Casula station, 1990s-2000s brick homes with double garages across the western half toward Kurrajong Road and the M7, and a fringe of larger blocks running down to the Georges River near the Casula Powerhouse.
