Mr. Clog Plumbing
Plumber Clovelly
Blocked drains, stormwater, semi and apartment plumbing and 24/7 emergency plumbing across Clovelly and the streets off Clovelly Road.
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Your Local Clovelly Plumber
Clovelly, in Randwick City, is built around a narrow bay in a steep sandstone cove between Bronte and Coogee. It was called Little Coogee until 1913, the year after the tram line arrived; trams ran to the beach until 1957, and the suburb filled in around them. Its shops are spread across four small precincts on or near Clovelly Road, the largest at Fern Street, with the Clovelly Hotel down by the beach. The housing is an unusual mix: at the 2021 census about a quarter of homes were separate houses, a quarter were semis, terraces or townhouses, and close to half were flats.
Water is the local issue in Clovelly. Streets fall steeply to the bay, so in a downpour a lot of water arrives at the bottom of the catchment in a short time. Randwick City Council has been preparing a detailed Clovelly Flood Study; in 2024 it commissioned a peer review of the draft, and the General Manager asked the council's drainage engineers to look at options for the whole catchment, such as bigger pipes and taking overland flow below ground. That work is about the public system. What a property owner controls is their own downpipes, pits, grates and the line to the street, and on a block cut into sloping sandstone those matter more than usual. The other half of Clovelly plumbing is shared walls and shared buildings: with most homes being semis or flats, a fault on one side often turns up on the other.
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Services in Clovelly
- Stormwater Drainage
- Blocked Drains
- CCTV Drain Inspection
- Leak Detection
- Hot Water Systems
- Emergency Plumbing
Common Plumbing Problems in Clovelly
Every part of Sydney has its own plumbing character, shaped by the age of the housing, the ground it sits on, and the weather it takes. Here is what we are called out for most often around Clovelly.
Stormwater on steep sandstone blocks
Many Clovelly houses step down a slope cut into rock, so water from the street and the neighbours above runs towards them in heavy rain. A pit at the low point, a grate across the driveway and downpipes that actually reach the stormwater line are what keep it out of the house. When water pools against a wall, the cause is usually a blocked or broken line rather than the rain itself, and a camera shows where.
Shared drains between semis
About one Clovelly home in four is a semi, terrace or townhouse, and pairs of semis often drain through one sewer line before it reaches the street. A blockage caused on one side can back up on the other. Locating it on camera, to a measured distance from the inspection opening, shows which section it is in and who is responsible.
Leaks and shared stacks in walk-up flats
Nearly half of Clovelly's homes are flats, many in small walk-up blocks. A shower leaking into the unit below, or several kitchens draining slowly at once because the common stack is part-blocked, are typical calls. Which unit, or whether it is strata property, needs settling before the repair.
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Common Questions
FAQs
Water comes down the driveway and into my garage in heavy rain. Can you fix that?
Usually, yes. On Clovelly's slopes the answer is often a grated drain across the driveway or a new or larger pit at the low point, connected to a sound stormwater line. We camera the existing line first so you are not adding a new grate to a pipe that is already broken.
Is the council doing anything about flooding in Clovelly?
Randwick City Council has been working on a detailed Clovelly Flood Study, and in 2024 it commissioned a peer review of the draft and asked its drainage engineers to look at options for the catchment. Updates are on the council's Your Say Randwick site. That covers the public drains; the pipes and pits on your own property are yours to maintain.
My semi's drain is blocked. Is it my problem or my neighbour's?
It depends where the blockage sits. A camera inspection locates it to a measured distance and depth along the line, which shows whether it is in your section, your neighbour's or the shared part, and that is what settles who pays.
Do you cover Coogee, Bronte and Randwick as well?
Yes. We cover Clovelly and the suburbs around it, including Coogee, South Coogee, Bronte, Randwick and Queens Park.
Do you do emergency plumbing in Clovelly after hours?
Yes. Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and for emergencies we aim to be with you within 60 minutes. We give you an ETA when you call, and there is a $0 call-out fee.
How much will it cost?
It depends on the job. You get a fixed price quoted before we start, and there is a $0 call-out fee.
What Sydney Customers Say
We recently used Mr Clog Plumbing for our granny flat in Guildford and couldn't be happier with the service. Everything was handled professionally from start to finish, with great communication and workmanship…
Absolute legend. Turned up on time, sorted the problem quickly and didn’t charge a fortune. Super easy to deal with and cleaned up after the job too. Will definitely be using him again and would happily recomme…
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