Mr. Clog Plumbing
Stormwater pits, apartment leaks, strata plumbing and 24/7 emergencies across Rhodes, Concord West and Liberty Grove.
Our guarantee: 12 months on our workmanship, in writing. What it covers
Rhodes takes its name from Thomas Walker's estate, which he named after Rhodes Hall in Leeds. From 1911 it was industrial: a cast-iron pipe foundry, Tulloch's Phoenix Iron Works and, from 1928, nearly sixty years of chemical manufacturing whose waste was used to fill the Homebush Bay mudflats. After a Commission of Inquiry, the clean-up of the contaminated sites and part of the bay was approved in 2003 and 2004 and finished in 2010, and the peninsula west of the railway was rebuilt as apartment towers and the Rhodes Waterside centre. The suburb is in the City of Canada Bay. At the 2021 census 95 per cent of its homes were flats or apartments, and almost six in ten were rented.
Rhodes sits on a peninsula between Homebush Bay and Brays Bay on the Parramatta River. The towers are west of the railway, on former industrial land; the older detached houses are on the east side, in streets such as Cropley Street and Llewellyn Street that run down to the river. A 2016 hydrology study for Rhodes East found that flooding there comes from local runoff, the river and the tide, with river levels near Rhodes dominated by the tide. Overland flow paths cross Concord Road and run through McIlwaine Park and Cropley Lane, and water can pond on the eastern side of Leeds Street. The City of Canada Bay began a Yaralla Bay and Rhodes Flood Study in 2026, noting that high tides and storm surges can make local flooding worse. We recently cleared overflowing stormwater on a Rhodes property: four pits and a grate cleared by hand, the lines inspected on camera, and every stormwater line jet blasted to remove tree roots.
$0 call-out fee — available 24/7, 365 days a year across Rhodes and nearby suburbs.
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 Rhodes.
On the house blocks east of Concord Road, stormwater pits collect leaves and silt, and tree roots work into the lines through the joints. On the Rhodes job described above, roots and debris had blocked the pits so badly that the stormwater was overflowing. Clearing the pits, checking the lines on camera and jet blasting them got the water moving again.
When nearly every neighbour lives above, below or beside you, a leak rarely stays in one apartment. A stain spreading across a bathroom ceiling, damp skirting along a shared wall or a meter that keeps turning all need tracing to the right unit and pipe before anyone opens a wall. We find the source and say whether it sits in the owner's fittings or in common property.
Most Rhodes apartments were built from the 2000s on, so their mixers, cisterns, tempering valves and hot water units are reaching the age of their first replacement. A cistern that keeps running, a shower that swings hot and cold or a hot water unit leaking from the base are the usual first signs.
From the Job Sheet
The problem
The stormwater was overflowing. Tree roots and debris had blocked the pits.
What we did
We cleared four stormwater pits and a grate by hand, ran a CCTV camera through the stormwater lines, then jet blasted all the stormwater lines on the property to clear the roots.
Coverage Area
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Common Questions
Yes. We have cleared overflowing stormwater pits in Rhodes, by hand and with the jet blaster, and checked the lines on camera to find the tree roots that caused the problem.
Usually, but not always. It can also be a shared pipe in the wall or ceiling space. We find where the water is coming from, which decides whether it is the upstairs owner's repair or the owners corporation's.
Street drainage and flood planning belong to the City of Canada Bay, which began a Yaralla Bay and Rhodes Flood Study in 2026. What we fix is the drainage on your own property, so it can clear as fast as the street system allows.
Yes. We cover Rhodes and the suburbs around it, including Concord West, Liberty Grove, Concord, North Strathfield, Meadowbank and Wentworth Point.
Yes. Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and public holidays, and we send a licensed plumber out after hours for problems that can't safely wait, such as a burst pipe, sewage backing up or the only toilet blocked. There is a $0 call-out fee.
It depends on the job. You get a fixed price quoted before we start, and there is a $0 call-out fee.
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…
Turned up on time and honest service, couldn’t ask for much more.
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