Plumber Ingleburn, NSW 2565
Ingleburn is an established suburb between Glenfield and Minto with a station, a village shopping strip on Oxford Road and a large industrial estate along Williamson Road. The housing runs from 1960s fibro near the station to 1980s-90s brick toward Macquarie Fields and new estates on the old army land at Bardia, all on Cumberland Plain clay that falls east to the Georges River. The Hume Highway and Campbelltown Road are the quick approaches from either direction.
What usually goes wrong in Ingleburn
- Galvanised water lines and earthenware sewers in the oldest 1960s streets corroding and cracking
- Roots from mature street trees and eucalypts entering sewer joints opened by clay movement
- Grease traps and trade waste blockages in the Ingleburn industrial estate along Williamson Road
- Original hot water units and pressure limiting valves in 1980s-90s brick homes reaching end of life
- Blocked stormwater and gutters flooding garages on sloping blocks that fall toward the Georges River
Local notes from the plumbers
Ingleburn has a wider spread of housing ages than most of Macarthur. The oldest streets around Ingleburn station and Oxford Road are 1960s and early 70s fibro and brick veneer, and they still carry galvanised water lines that have corroded through and earthenware sewers cracked by the Cumberland Plain clay and filled with roots from mature street trees and eucalypts. Toward Macquarie Fields and Denham Court the houses are 1980s-90s brick, where the original hot water units, tempering valves and pressure limiting valves are due and copper has started to pinhole. The Ingleburn industrial estate along Williamson Road and Ingleburn Road adds trade waste, grease trap and roof drainage work for factories and food businesses. On the northern edge the former army camp at Bardia has become new estates with PEX pipework and shared townhouse drains, which fail in their own way. The land falls east toward the Georges River, and blocks on the slope collect stormwater in garages and downstairs rooms in a summer storm. Ingleburn Village and Ingleburn Reserve are the landmarks callers use, and the Hume Highway and Campbelltown Road are the quick approaches.
Housing in Ingleburn
1960s-70s fibro and brick veneer on the older streets around Ingleburn station and Oxford Road, 1980s-90s brick homes toward Macquarie Fields and Denham Court, an industrial estate along Williamson Road and Ingleburn Road, and new estates on the former army camp land at Bardia on the northern side.
