Blog - Tom Plumb Melbourne Eastern Suburbs

by Tom Plumb

May 13, 2025

Heating, Hot Water, Leaking Taps, Plumbing Services

Noisy Pipes

Noisy pipes can make living around a plumbing system very annoying. Sometimes the pipes bang, sometimes they squeak, and sometimes they chatter! Water hammer is one reason pipes play...

by Tom Plumb

April 29, 2025

Blocked Drains, Plumbing Services, Sanafoam Vaporooter, Toilets

Sanafoam Vaporooter Treatment

One of the services that Tom Plumb provides is the licensed application of Sanafoam Vaporooter.Vaporooter pioneered the chemical root control industry over 40 years ago to extend the...

by Tom Plumb

April 15, 2025

Heating, Hot Water, Plumbing Services

Winter Heating Energy Costs

With winter on its way and a rise in heaters getting serviced, ready for the cold months ahead, there has been a few queries to do with energy efficiency...

by Tom Plumb

March 31, 2025

Blocked Drains, Plumbing Services, Toilets

Blocked House Drains

It pays to have your sewerage and storm water drains checked on an annual basis. Especially if your home has a history of drainage problems. Root growth and blockages...

by Tom Plumb

March 10, 2025

Heating, Plumbing Services

Carbon Monoxide {CO}

We were asked the other day by a customer in Camberwell about the recent advertising to do with servicing of gas appliances and the dangers of Carbon Monoxide {CO}...

by Tom Plumb

February 18, 2025

Heating, Hot Water, Plumbing Services

Hot water unit anode

One of our valued Customers in Balwyn we attended to this week was asking about the insides of there hot water unit! They had a faulty pressure temperature relief...

by Tom Plumb

February 4, 2025

Plumbing Services

Leaking Taps

A customer we were called out to in Templestowe was distressed with water flowing excessively from a basin tap. It was an after hours call out and the problem was a...

by Tom Plumb

January 28, 2025

Heating, Hot Water, Plumbing Services

Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards “WELS”

A customer in Camberwell was enquiring about the “Water Efficiency Sticker” that was attached to their new taps packaging and what it was all about. Hot water, appliances, refrigeration and heating...

by Tom Plumb

January 14, 2025

Blocked Drains, Hot Water, Leaking Taps, Plumbing Services

Water Damage to Building Foundations

We recently cleared stormwater drains for a customer in Kew. The home was experiencing flooding under the house every time there was a decent amount of rain. Unlike clearing...

by Tom Plumb

December 13, 2024

Heating, Hot Water, Plumbing Services

Low Pressure Hot Water Float Valve

Gravity feed low pressure hot water A customer in Ashburton this week had water overflowing from their roof! As it turned out it was coming from an overflow pipe...