Clovelly’s same-day drain experts
24/7 Emergency Plumber in Clovelly
300+ five-star reviews
Blocked drains in Clovelly cleared fast, 24/7. A real person answers, day or night.
- Lic #292427C
- Lifetime Labour Warranty
- Licensed & Insured — Water + Gas
- $0 Call-Out Fee
- Lic #292427C NSW plumbing licence — fully insured, water and gas
- 300+ Five-Star Reviews Rated five stars by 300+ locals who called us on a bad day.
- 15+ Years, Still Local 15+ years' experience, and still the same local team you call.
- Zero-Cost Call Out $0 Call Out Fee on every visit, any hour we answer.
A real person answers, day or night
Plumbing Emergency Right Now? We Pick Up
Water travels faster than most people expect once it finds a gap. Floorboards, plasterboard and skirting all soak it up quietly while you're deciding whether to call.
The sooner it's stopped, the smaller the cleanup afterwards. That's the whole reason to ring now instead of at a more convenient hour.
We'll tell you exactly what's wrong and the best way to fix it, and act on it fast enough to matter.
Call (02) 9138 6524. A real person answers, day or night.
Act Now or Wait for Morning? What Counts
Plenty of plumbing trouble can safely keep until breakfast. This is the triage we apply on the phone.
Water spraying, pooling or coming through a ceiling is urgent every time. Gas is the same, except everybody gets outside before anyone picks up a phone.
Third is sewage rising through a shower base or gully. That is a health problem, not merely a plumbing fault.
A blocked toilet in a one-bathroom semi, no hot water, or a drain running slow. Uncomfortable, but not doing damage by the hour.
These get booked for the day, with an honest word on where you sit in the queue.
A new drip from a tap, a gurgle in the floor waste, an odd noise from the hot water unit. None of it is an emergency today.
All three are early warnings, and far less trouble handled before they escalate.
| Problem | Signs | Do this now | Response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burst pipe | Water spraying or pooling fast, hissing behind a wall | Turn the water off at the meter, then open an outside tap to drain the line | Treated as urgent, we're on our way fast |
| Major leak or ceiling bulge | A sagging or stained ceiling, damp carpet, a meter spinning with taps off | Never press or pierce a bulging ceiling. Turn the water off at the meter if it's spreading | A bulging ceiling is urgent. Slow damp gets a Same Day Service look |
| No hot water | Pilot light out, or a tank dripping into its tray | Leave a leaking unit alone and give us a call | Prioritised by risk, honest timing when you call |
| Burst flexi hose under a sink | Water pouring from a vanity or sink cupboard, a hissing spray under the bench | Open the cupboard and turn the small isolation tap where the hose meets the wall. If it's stuck, turn the water off at the meter instead | Call now, we treat flexi bursts as top priority |
How can we help?
The Services We Provide, Day or Night
Seven job types make up nearly every night callout. Each card links through to the full page.
Blocked Drains
Sewage in a gully, stormwater with nowhere to go. With blocked drains, locating comes first and clearing second.
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Hot Water Repairs
Around Beach Street the salt reaches exposed fittings and cuts a unit's working life short. Our hot water repairs go where repair stacks up, replacement where it does not.
Learn more Water Leak Detection
Your meter should sit still with every tap closed. If it turns, water leak detection traces the loss without pulling a bathroom apart.
Learn more Blocked Toilet
Single bathroom, and the pan will not clear. We free the blocked toilet, then find out what caused it.
Learn more Burst & Leaking Pipes
A wet wall, a pressure drop, damp under the floor. Burst and leaking pipes get isolated, repaired and pressure tested.
Learn more Leaking Tap Repair
Perished washers, seized spindles, a mixer cartridge past saving. Leaking tap repair is small work, done properly.
Learn more Emergency Gas Leak Repair
If you smell gas, leave the property and call from outside. Our gas ticket sits with the water licence, so gas leak repair needs one crew.
Learn moreNot sure which service you need?
Call us and tell us what is going on. We will point you in the right direction and give you a fair, upfront price before we start.
Local knowledge that matters
Common Plumbing Emergencies in Clovelly
Every renovated kitchen and bathroom in the suburb's units and semis runs on flexi hoses, and a flexi hose gives no warning before it lets go. The braid corrodes out of sight beneath a vanity, then splits under pressure, and a compact floor plan fills in no time.
Streets like Clovelly Road and Eastbourne Avenue throw up more of those calls after dark than anything else. Over 70% of dwellings here share a wall with the next one, so water crosses straight into somebody else's half.
The other emergencies follow the age of the pipework:
- Original earthenware sewer lines. Subdivision started around 1909, so older streets still run clay that cracks at the joints and lets roots in. That is a blocked drain waiting for the wrong weekend.
- Worn-out hot water units. Pre-1940 semis and Federation cottages carry ageing systems on original fittings, and those give out all at once.
- Salt and age on metal lines. Early-1900s pipework near the bay is weakened from both ends, which is why burst pipes here come out of a wall rather than under the slab.
- Steep falls to the bay. Streets dropping off the Clovelly Road ridge give drainage speed, and surcharge finds the lowest property on the run.
Turn the water off at the meter first, then ring. That step decides how much cleanup you are up for.
Fast to your door
Servicing Clovelly and the Suburbs Around It
Clovelly is home turf, and the five suburbs beside it fall inside the same daily loop through the Randwick City Council area. None of them wait longer than the others.
Not sure whether your street falls inside the boundary? Ring and ask rather than sit on a leak.
- Clovelly
- Coogee
- Bronte
- Randwick
- Waverley
- Kensington
Why Clovelly Households Choose Us First
Most people ringing us are young professionals in a semi or a unit, deciding who to trust at an awkward hour.
A Local Team, Not a Call Centre
A local team, not a call centre. Owner-led, on the tools, and answering the phone themselves.
Water and Gas, Both In-House
Water and gas, both in-house. Lic #292427C, licensed and insured across both trades.
Fair, Upfront Pricing
Fair, upfront pricing, no surprises. Best Price Guaranteed, agreed before any work starts.
Reviews Built One Job at a Time
300+ five-star reviews. Built one honest job at a time, across 15+ years' experience.
Our simple process
The Callout, From Panic to Sorted
Four steps, and none of them leave you guessing what it will cost.
- 01
We Answer Honestly From the First Question
We answer honestly from the first question, even before we've seen it. If we're not sure yet, we say so.
- 02
No Softened Diagnosis
We won't soften a diagnosis to make it easier to hear. We'll tell you exactly what's wrong and the best way to fix it, good news or not.
- 03
A Price That Reflects the Real Job
The price reflects the real job, not a hopeful guess. Fair, upfront pricing, no surprises, even when the job's bigger than expected.
- 04
Finished, Then Backed
The finish gets the same honesty. We tell you if something needs watching, and back the rest with Quality Workmanship Guaranteed. Once the van is at the kerb, most emergency repairs wrap up before we leave. Where a part is not on board, you hear it while we are still in front of you.
What Clovelly's Streets Tell a Plumber
Walk the streets falling from the ridge toward the beach and the plumbing reads off the houses. Double brick and render, built tight to the boundary, with a hot water unit wedged into whatever gap was left over.
That tightness is why coastal storms matter. Rain runs hard down the slope, the aged drainage below surcharges, and the low-lying properties wear the overflow after dark.
Salt does the slower damage. High exposure off the ocean bay works at copper, taps and metal fittings year-round, so a fitting that lasts decades inland gives out early on the seaward streets.
Both patterns change what we check first. Fittings before the fixture on a beachside job, and the fall of the line after a downpour.
Fair, upfront pricing — no surprises
Honest Pricing, Best Price Guaranteed
We quote before starting, and it covers the repair we have described. No hourly meter ticking while you watch.
Think of the number we give you as a ceiling, not an opening bid. Once you've approved fair, upfront pricing for the repair, that's the most it can cost, not a floor we build on.
If the job turns out simpler than expected, that's our good luck, not your extra charge. No surprises means the figure only ever holds steady or, occasionally, comes in easier than planned.
- $0 Call Out Fee, whatever the hour we turn up.
- Best Price Guaranteed on the work we quote.
- If we open something up and the job is genuinely bigger than it looked, we stop, re-quote, and wait for your approval.
- Card or bank transfer, sorted once the work is done.
Nothing starts until you say yes to the price.
The price we quote is the price you pay. No exceptions.
Save on your first service
Current specials
$65 off your first service
First time using us? Mention this offer when you book and it comes straight off the upfront price you approve.
$0 call-out fee
It costs nothing to get us to your door, and you approve a fair, upfront price before any work starts.
Call (02) 9138 6524New customers get $65 off your first service, whatever we are called out for.
The $0 Call Out Fee stands on every visit besides, at any hour. Nobody pays us simply to turn up and look.
Tell us about it on the call to (02) 9138 6524 and the discount comes straight off.
What locals tell us
300+ Reviews, One Common Thread
300+ five-star reviews
Real jobs, real homes, re-told with permission. Names are first names only.
We have 300+ five-star reviews, and the thread through them is not clever plumbing. It is that people knew where they stood.
Someone rings in a state, gets a straight answer, hears a price before anything is touched, and the job lands where it was said it would.
We would rather earn the next one that way than talk about the tally. Peace of mind is the actual product.
In the community, for the community
Our Local Family-Run Team
The team is small and owner-led, and whoever picks up the phone was on a job that same week. Straight talk comes easier from someone who has been under the house.
Someone is on the phone at every hour, weekends and public holidays too. Water and gas both sit in-house, so nobody waits on a second contractor.
Licensed and insured across water and gas, Lic #292427C. There is a fuller version on our about page.
Good questions, straight answers
Straight Answers to Common Questions
These six come up on nearly every call, answered as they would be in your hallway.
Do you handle apartments and strata properties?
Yes. Most housing in Clovelly is attached or unit stock, so strata work is our daily bread, and we attend individual lots as readily as common-property emergencies.
Do you service the suburbs surrounding Clovelly?
Yes. Coogee, Bronte, Randwick, Waverley and Kensington are all covered, and each has a page here setting out how callouts run there.
My toilet is overflowing. What do I do right now?
Shut the small isolation tap on the water line behind the pan. Where that tap is seized, take the cistern lid off and hold the float up so it stops refilling, then ring us.
My toilet is blocked. Can you come today?
Yes, we book blocked toilets in for the day you ring. Around the older Clovelly streets the trouble is often an aged earthenware line instead of the pan, so the drain gets checked before any price is put to you.
Are you really open 24 hours?
Yes, open 24 hours, weekends and public holidays included. Ring (02) 9138 6524 whenever the trouble starts and someone will pick up and sort out what happens next.
Do you fix leaking taps?
Yes. Salt off the bay eats washers and spindles quicker on beachside houses, so the common parts ride in the van and most taps are done on the first visit.
Let’s get it flowing again
Call Now, We'll Take It From Here
Ring (02) 9138 6524 and describe what you are looking at. Whoever answers will walk you through the next step while help is being organised.
Would rather we rang you? Put your details in the form on our contact page and we will call back fast.