Starting point
Ring or send the form. A licensed plumber comes out at no charge, looks at the kitchen and at where the water comes into the property, and leaves you with a written price on the spot.
Fitted so you can actually get at it later
This is the thing we care most about in Bull Creek, and it is worth explaining why.
A filter is not a fit-and-forget appliance. Cartridges are consumable — manufacturers generally nominate a period, commonly around twelve months — and someone has to be able to get to the unit and change them. An install that ignores that is an install that works beautifully for a year and then becomes a nuisance.
So the questions the plumber is answering while he is quoting are not only "will it fit" but "will this still be easy in three years":
Clearance under the housing
The bowl has to come down past the cartridge. Mounted too low, it cannot.
Height and position
A unit mounted at the back of a deep cupboard behind the waste trap technically fits and practically does not. There is usually a better spot half a metre away.
Isolation
A filter you can shut off on its own means a cartridge change is a small job. A filter with no isolation of its own turns every future service into a whole-house event.
On whole-house units, a bypass
Built in at installation, so the house is not without water every time the unit is serviced. This is the part that separates a proper install from a cheap one, and it belongs on the quote. What a whole-house install involves
If you would rather not be the one changing cartridges at all, that is fine — say so when you ring, and we will make sure the thing is mounted where a plumber can get to it without dismantling half a cupboard. Cartridge replacement and servicing
What we install here
Under-sink filtration
A cartridge unit in the cupboard, mounted at a height that makes sense. The cheapest fix for the taste of what you drink. Under sink installation
A dedicated filtered tap
Its own small spout beside the mixer. Easier on the wrists than a pull-down mixer, and the cartridge only works when you want filtered water. Filtered tap installation
Whole-house filtration
At the meter, with a serviceable bypass, so the shower and laundry run filtered too. Whole house installation
Reverse osmosis
Higher-level drinking water purification, with a tank and a drain connection. More components to service, so siting matters even more. Reverse osmosis
Why filter at all
Water Corporation adds chlorine to all of its water supply schemes as a disinfectant, and says it is especially effective where long pipelines and high water temperatures increase the potential for harmful organisms to grow. It does its job, and it has a taste. That taste is why most households fit a filter.
Perth water is also a blend rather than one source — more than 1.2 million properties supplied from 43 surface water sources, 92 groundwater sources, two desalination plants and one groundwater replenishment scheme — so the tap shifts through the year rather than staying put.
Why Bull Creek calls us
The closest suburb to our base
Leeming is next door. On a cartridge change that is the difference between a job worth doing and one that gets put off.
A licensed plumber does the work
Plumbing Licence 8396, held by Tim. The person who quotes it fits it.
$0 call-out and a free quote
No charge to come and look, and the price is written down before anything starts.
Installed to be serviced
Not just installed to work on the day.
Free quote in Bull Creek
Tell us which tap is bothering you and we will call you back to arrange a time. Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm.