Common faults Common Emergency Callouts We Handle
Most urgent calls around the older Salisbury town core follow predictable patterns shaped by the part-replaced galvanised water lines still feeding many John Street and Church Street cottages, the earthenware clay sewer and stormwater drainage laid through the post-war SA Housing Trust streets before PVC became the Adelaide standard, the mature street and yard trees planted around the Housing Trust grid and along the Little Para River reserves at Pitman Park whose roots regularly find every crack in the jointed clay, and the ageing electric storage and original-era gas hot water units still running in a large share of the post-war stock. These are the jobs the on-call team handles most often:
01
Galvanised water-line failures in pre-war town-core homes
A meaningful share of the 19th-century cottages and pre-war stock along the Little Para River still run part-galvanised steel water lines, and those corroded sections can let go overnight once a thinned wall finally splits.
02
Tree-root bursts on clay sewer drains
Decades of established Housing Trust street planting and the mature canopies along the Pitman Park reserves regularly send roots into ageing clay drain lines and turn a slow seep into an overnight burst.
03
Cracked clay drainage under post-war Housing Trust streets
A large share of the 1940s and 1950s Housing Trust homes still drain through earthenware clay pipework laid before PVC was the Adelaide standard, and those jointed lines crack as the ground shifts and back up without warning.
04
Ageing storage hot water units in post-war stock
Many post-war Housing Trust and 1960s and 1970s infill homes still run electric storage or original-era gas hot water units well into their second or third generation, and tanks at that age are prone to sudden failure overnight.
