Plumber Wentworthville, NSW 2145
Wentworthville sits between Westmead and Pendle Hill on the T1 Western line, and the town centre around the station has been rebuilt with apartment buildings over the last decade while the back streets stay 1950s and 60s fibro and brick on big blocks. It is a family suburb with a leagues club, sporting fields at Ringrose Park and easy access to the Cumberland Highway, the Great Western Highway and the M4.
What usually goes wrong in Wentworthville
- Earthenware sewers under 1950s fibro homes cracked by clay movement and blocked with liquidambar and jacaranda roots
- Flexible hose floods and shared drain blockages in the newer apartment buildings around the town centre
- Pinhole leaks in 1960s copper inside walk-up unit blocks near the station
- Electric storage hot water tanks on outside walls failing after summers of heat and hard use
- Stormwater and sewer surcharge on the low streets toward Toongabbie Creek in heavy storms
Local notes from the plumbers
Wentworthville has two plumbing populations. The back streets between Dunmore Street and the Cumberland Highway are 1950s and 60s fibro and brick cottages on Cumberland Plain clay, and by now their earthenware sewers have been through seventy summers of the ground swelling and shrinking. The joints have opened, liquidambar and jacaranda roots have moved in, and a blocked drain that clears with a jet but comes back in three months is the standard call. Many of these homes still have an electric storage tank on the western wall, cooked by afternoon sun and running on its second or third element. Around the station and the Great Western Highway, the new apartment buildings bring the other kind of work: flexible hose bursts under vanities, blocked shared drains and hot water plant faults that take a whole floor out. The older walk-up blocks near the station add pinhole leaks in 1960s copper. The suburb drains north toward Toongabbie Creek, and the low streets on that side see stormwater pooling and sewer surcharge through overflow gullies in summer thunderstorms.
Housing in Wentworthville
A mix of 1950s and 60s fibro and brick cottages on generous blocks, 1960s and 70s red-brick unit blocks near the station and Dunmore Street, and a wave of 2010s apartment buildings around the town centre and along the Great Western Highway, with older homes now being replaced by duplexes and townhouses.
