Plumber Kurri Kurri

Kurri Kurri sits beside Heddon Greta, and Heddon Greta Plumbing Co is the plumber for its old town grid on the same run. Weak water pressure from corroded galvanised pipe and root-choked clay sewers are the town's typical faults, alongside hot water tanks well past their best. You approve a fixed figure before we begin.

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Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C

Last updated September 2026

A Mining Town Built on Clay and Steel

Age shapes everything

Kurri Kurri dates from 1902, when it was set out to serve the mines of the South Maitland field. Its core is weatherboard and fibro cottages on a tight grid, surrounded by houses from the 1950s to the 1970s, with only a few newer homes between.

The water services are the quiet problem

Steel was the material of choice when the cottages went up, and a great deal of that galvanised pipe remains underground, narrowed from within by a century of corrosion. The symptom reaches the shower as weak pressure long before anything lets go.

The sewers have had a harder century

Earthenware lines put down as the town grew have spent decades being worked apart by the reactive clay beneath them, and the mature street trees that give the place its character are merciless on those old joints. Roots find an open joint and the blockage builds behind it.

A town of houses

At the last census Kurri Kurri had 6,174 residents in 2,430 dwellings, and 83.0 per cent of those were separate houses.

Where Each Job Routes

Blocked drains

For the root-choked earthenware and grease plugs of a century-old grid, cleared with a camera pass either side of the clear

Hot water

For the town's many storage cylinders that should have been retired years ago, repaired where the tank is sound or swapped like-for-like

Gas fitting

For the dated legacy gas work hiding behind the walls of the older homes and the Lang Street shops, which shows up whenever an appliance changes

Emergency plumbing

For burst old metal services, dead cylinders on the first cold snap and sewer surcharge in the flat streets after storms

A damp wall with no obvious cause goes to leak detection, and the rest of the list is on the home page.

Questions From Kurri Kurri Households

Do you replace the old galvanised water pipes in Kurri Kurri homes?

Yes. Where pressure has dropped because a steel service has corroded internally, we quote the replacement of the affected run rather than patching it. The new pipe goes in with fittings rated for current standards, and the job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

Can you clear tree roots from the clay sewers around the town grid?

We can. The line gets a camera pass first so we can see whether roots have simply bridged a joint or the pipe has collapsed, because those are different jobs. A root mass in a sound pipe clears with the jetter; a collapsed section needs a repair or relining, and the footage shows you which before you commit.

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Call (02) 4063 3475 or send the form below. Available 24/7, you see a fixed figure ahead of any work, and every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

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