Websites for plumbers working in Launceston and the towns around it, from Invermay and Kings Meadows out to Legana, Prospect Vale and Longford. Customers can see your licences, check that you'll come out to them and find out which jobs need council sign-off, then ring you with one tap.
The City of Launceston calls its combined drainage system almost unique in Australia: older suburbs where stormwater and sewage run through the same pipes. Add a service area that spills into three neighbouring councils, and a plumbing site here has a few things to explain that sites elsewhere don't.
Under its River Health Action Plan, the City of Launceston is investigating sewage that gets into stormwater pipes, including dye testing on private properties to pinpoint the faulty connection underground. An owner told they have one of these crossed connections must have it fixed within 28 days, and will be looking for a plumber who can find and fix it. If that's work you take on, give it a section under that name.
Parts of West Launceston, South Launceston, Newstead, East Launceston, the city centre, Invermay and Mowbray still run stormwater and sewage through one network. There, a stormwater fault past the boundary goes to TasWater; elsewhere in the city it goes to the council; inside the boundary it's the owner's, and that's your work. One short paragraph on the drains section sets this out and saves calls you can't help with.
The City of Launceston's entry on ABLIS, the government's business licence finder, puts repairs and changing fixtures in the low-risk group, and new fixtures in a bathroom or kitchen renovation in the notifiable group, which needs a Notice of Work and a Certificate of Likely Compliance. Saying you handle that, and that a council plumbing officer checks the work before it's covered, reassures someone planning a new ensuite.
Most of the urban area is in the City of Launceston, but Riverside and Legana belong to West Tamar, Hadspen and most of Prospect Vale to Meander Valley, and Perth and Longford to the Northern Midlands. A map of your base with suburbs grouped by council lets someone in Hadspen see at a glance that you come out.
If you'll go to a burst pipe in Mowbray at night but not out to Deloraine, put that limit right beside the emergency call button. A no is easier to take on the page than on the phone at 11pm.
Where there's no sewer to connect to, homes use onsite wastewater systems; rainwater tanks have their own council rules; and not every street has mains gas. If you install or repair tanks, put in onsite systems or work on LPG, a line for each tells rural customers in the valley that you're set up for their kind of property.
A caption such as "Sewer line re-laid, Newstead" or "Hot water upgrade, Trevallyn" under a before-and-after pair tells a neighbour exactly what you did a few streets away, and puts the suburb names people search for into the page in a natural way.
The statewide rules are set out on our Hobart plumbing page: CBOS licenses the contracting business and the individual plumber separately, plumbing work falls into risk categories under a Director's Determination, and TasWater looks after the mains while owners look after the pipes on their side of the connection point. In Launceston, the permit authority is the City of Launceston, which asks to be contacted before plumbing work is carried out. Its plumbing officers inspect notifiable and permit work at the mandatory stages, before work is covered or backfilled and when it's finished, and inspections are booked by email or phone.
The City of Launceston describes its combined sewer and drainage system as almost unique to Tasmania and Australia. In parts of West Launceston, South Launceston, Newstead, East Launceston, Launceston city, Invermay and Mowbray, sewage and stormwater share one pipe network in the older streets. Under the Water and Sewerage Industry Act 2008, TasWater is responsible for stormwater within the combined area, while the council runs the public stormwater system everywhere else under the Urban Drainage Act 2013. Stormwater from the low-lying areas has to be pumped up and over the levee system, and the council's mapping platform shows whether an address is inside the combined area.
Separately, the City of Launceston is running sewage intrusion investigations across the city under the River Health Action Plan, which was developed in December 2017 as part of the Launceston City Deal. Council staff or contractors may ask to enter properties for dye testing, which means pouring dye into sewerage connections so crossed connections can be pinpointed below ground. The council says the property owner is responsible for a crossed connection, that an owner who leaves one unfixed may be in breach of the Urban Drainage Act 2013, and that once one is identified on a property the sewage intrusion must be fixed within 28 days. A plumber who does this drainage work has a reason to say so on the site that plumbers in most other cities don't.
Most of the urban area is in the City of Launceston, taking in suburbs from Mowbray and Rocherlea to Trevallyn, Kings Meadows and Youngtown. Riverside and Legana are in West Tamar Council, Blackstone Heights, Hadspen and most of Prospect Vale are in Meander Valley, and Perth, Longford and Evandale are in the Northern Midlands. Each council is the plumbing permit authority for its own area. Out past the sewer, the City of Launceston requires a plumbing permit, with a site and soil evaluation and design from a qualified person, before an onsite wastewater system goes in, and systems that need ongoing maintenance must be commissioned by a licensed person. Rainwater tank overflows must run to the property's stormwater system or another outlet a council plumbing officer approves. Tas Gas Networks lists new subdivisions in Prospect, Kings Meadows and Summerhill where mains gas is now available, but not every street fronts its pipeline, and its pipeline locator lets an owner check their address.
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If you do drainage work, yes. An owner told by the council that sewage from their property is getting into stormwater has 28 days to fix it, and they'll look for a plumber who knows what's involved. Owners in the combined-area suburbs, such as Newstead, Invermay and Mowbray, also want to know who handles a stormwater fault outside their boundary. A short section on each covers it.
List them by their own names. People search for the suburb they live in, and Legana is in West Tamar while most of Prospect Vale is in Meander Valley. Grouping your suburbs by council also shows you know which council handles the permit for each job.
Keep it plain: repairs and changing fixtures don't need approval, while new fixtures in a bathroom or kitchen renovation are notifiable work, with a Notice of Work, a Certificate of Likely Compliance and council inspections. Say which of those steps you take care of. For anything unusual, point people to the City of Launceston's permit authority rather than giving rulings yourself.
A line or two on the drains section covers it. For a blockage, TasWater asks people to call their plumber first and to ring TasWater on 13 6992 if the fault turns out to be in its main. In the combined area, TasWater also handles stormwater problems outside the property boundary, so say that too.
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