Starting point
Ring us or send the form. A licensed plumber comes out at no charge, looks at where the water enters the property and what is under the kitchen sink, and leaves you with a written price before anything is touched. If you would rather sit on it, sit on it — you owe nothing for the visit.
The Winthrop conversation
Winthrop is generous-block country. Detached houses, room down the boundaries, and a good share of them built as family homes with more bathrooms than the suburbs immediately south.
That last part changes the question more than people expect. In a two-bathroom-plus house, an under-sink filter fixes the kitchen tap and leaves the rest of the house exactly as it was. Households here often come to us having already done the under-sink job years ago and found that it solved less of the annoyance than they hoped — because what was bothering them was the shower, not the kettle.
Whole-house is the answer to that, and the good news is that a detached house on a decent block is close to the easiest arrangement it can have. The unit goes where the water comes into the property, there is generally side access to reach it, and there is room to mount housings with clearance underneath so the bowls can come off at service time. What a whole-house install involves
The other Winthrop pattern is the kitchen that has been done since the house was built. A renovated kitchen usually means a stone benchtop, and that matters for one specific reason: if you want a dedicated filtered tap and there is no spare hole, the benchtop gets drilled. On stone that is a slower, more careful job than on laminate, and it belongs on the written price rather than turning up on the day. Filtered tap installation
Piney Lakes Reserve and Winthrop Village are the landmarks people navigate by. We are not fussy about which end of the suburb you are in — it is a short run from Leeming either way.
What we install here
Whole-house filtration
At the meter, so the shower, the laundry and every basin run filtered rather than just the kitchen. The bigger job, and the one that legally needs a licensed plumber. Whole house installation
Under-sink filtration
A cartridge unit in the kitchen cupboard, feeding your mixer or a tap of its own. The cheapest fix for the taste of what you drink. Under sink installation
Reverse osmosis
Higher-level drinking water purification, with a storage tank and a drain connection. More system than most households need, and the right call for some. Reverse osmosis
Cartridge replacement
For the unit that went in years ago and has not been touched since. Flow dropped off, or the taste came back. Cartridge replacement
Why the taste is there in the first place
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 also has a taste — which is the reason most households fit a filter.
Perth water is also a blend rather than one source. Water Corporation supplies more than 1.2 million properties from 43 surface water sources, 92 groundwater sources, two major desalination plants and one groundwater replenishment scheme, so what the tap tastes like shifts through the year. A filter is a steadier answer than waiting for it to change back.
Why Winthrop calls us
A licensed plumber does the work
Plumbing Licence 8396, held by Tim, who does the work himself. Connecting a filter to the mains is licensed plumbing work. The person who quotes the job is the person who fits it.
$0 call-out
No charge to come and look. If the answer is a cartridge rather than a new system, you have lost nothing by asking.
A written price, first
Transparent pricing and no hidden costs. You should not be finding out about a bracket, a bypass or benchtop drilling after the fact.
Close by
We work out of Leeming. Winthrop is minutes away, not a trip across the river.
Free quote in Winthrop
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.