Starting point
Ring or send the form. A licensed plumber comes out at no charge, opens the cupboard under the kitchen sink, looks at where the water enters the property, and leaves you with a written price before anything is touched.
What we find in Melville kitchens
Melville is older than the suburbs immediately south of it, and the practical consequence is that the kitchens have been through more hands.
A kitchen that has been renovated once or twice since the house was built has fittings from several different eras living under the same sink. The isolation valve on the cold feed might be current, might be twenty years old, or might not be there at all. None of that stops a filter going in — it just means the plumber looks first and prices what is actually there, rather than quoting a standard job and discovering the difference on the day.
The second Melville pattern is the inherited filter. Something is already under the sink. It came with a renovation or with the previous owners, nobody knows the brand, and nobody has touched a cartridge since they moved in.
If that is you, the honest answer is usually a service rather than a new system. A cartridge that has not been changed in several years has stopped doing much — the flow has slowed and the chlorine taste has crept back — and replacing the cartridge is a fraction of replacing the lot. We would rather do the smaller job. Cartridge replacement in Kardinya and nearby
You do not need to identify what you have got, or take anything apart to find out. The plumber works it out when he arrives.
What we install here
Cartridge replacement and servicing
The most common Melville call. Flow has dropped off, or the taste is back. Cartridge replacement
Under-sink filtration
A new cartridge unit in the cupboard where the old one is not worth keeping. Under sink installation
A dedicated filtered tap
Worth asking about even if you already have a filter — a separate tap can often be added to a working unit, which is a smaller job than replacing everything. Filtered tap installation
Whole-house filtration
At the meter, so the shower and laundry run filtered as well. Whole house installation
Reverse osmosis
For the household that wants to go further than taste and odour. Reverse osmosis
Why the water tastes the way it does
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 works, and it has a taste — which is what most filters are fitted to deal with.
And because Perth water is drawn from a blend — more than 1.2 million properties supplied from 43 surface water sources, 92 groundwater sources, two desalination plants and a groundwater replenishment scheme — the taste shifts through the year rather than staying put. A filter holds it steady.
Why Melville calls us
Licensed, and the licence holder does the work
Plumbing Licence 8396, held by Tim. Anything joined to the mains water supply is plumbing work.
$0 call-out
No charge to come and look — which matters most on exactly the sort of job where nobody knows what is under the sink yet.
We will do the smaller job
If a cartridge fixes it, you get a cartridge. That is what customer satisfaction guaranteed means in practice.
A written price, first
Transparent pricing and no hidden costs, before any work starts.
Free quote in Melville
Tell us what is happening with your water and we will call you back to arrange a time. Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm.