Double Bay’s same-day drain experts
Emergency Plumbers Double Bay
300+ five-star reviews
Blocked drains in Double Bay cleared fast, 24/7. A real person answers, day or night.
- Lic #292427C
- Lifetime Labour Warranty
- Licensed & Insured — Water + Gas
- $0 Call-Out Fee
- Lic #292427C NSW plumbing licence — fully insured, water and gas
- Trusted in 300+ Reviews 300+ five-star reviews, earned one honest callout at a time.
- 15+ Years, Still Local 15+ years' experience, and still the same local team you call.
- No Fee to Turn Up $0 Call Out Fee, day or night, so calling us costs you nothing.
Your local drain team
24/7 Emergency Plumbing in Double Bay
Licensed and insured for water and gas, Lic #292427C. Lifetime Labour Warranty on every repair.
A real person answers, day or night
Something Burst? We Answer, Day or Night
Long weekend, footy grand final, Boxing Day, none of it changes how we answer the phone. A burst pipe doesn't wait for the calendar to clear, so neither do we.
The roster covers every date on the calendar, not just weekdays. Whoever's on duty picks up and gets moving.
We'll tell you exactly what's wrong and the best way to fix it, whatever the date happens to say.
Call (02) 9134 9086. Same Day Service, open 24 hours.
While you wait, kill the water at the meter. If a ceiling has started to bulge, move everybody out from under it.
How can we help?
The Emergency Plumbing Services We Handle in Double Bay
Seven faults come up often enough that each has its own page. Go straight to whichever one matches what is happening at your place.
Blocked Drains
Learn more
Hot Water Repairs
Learn more Water Leak Detection
Learn more Blocked Toilet
Learn more Burst & Leaking Pipes
Learn more Leaking Tap Repair
Learn more Emergency Gas Leak Repair
Learn moreNot sure which service you need?
Call us and tell us what is going on. We will point you in the right direction and give you a fair, upfront price before we start.
Signs It Won't Wait Until Business Hours
Some plumbing can sit until Monday. Plenty cannot, and the difference comes down to whether water or gas is escaping right now.
If shutting the tap makes no difference, the fault is upstream of the fixture. Ring us before it finds a ceiling or the flat downstairs.
Gas gets its own rule. Everyone outside first, no switches touched on the way, then call from the footpath.
A sewer backing into a shower base puts your household's health at risk, not just your evening. Stop using water in the house and call.
Summer is our busy stretch for this. Households swell for harbour swimming days at Murray Rose Pool and Redleaf Beach, and a bathroom running four times its usual load finds every weakness in old pipework.
| Problem | Signs | Do this now | Response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burst pipe | Water spraying or pooling fast, hissing behind a wall | Turn the water off at the meter, then open an outside tap to drain the line | Treated as urgent, we're on our way fast |
| Burst flexi hose under a sink | Water pouring from a vanity or sink cupboard, a hissing spray under the bench | Open the cupboard and turn the small isolation tap where the hose meets the wall. If it's stuck, turn the water off at the meter instead | Call now, we treat flexi bursts as top priority |
| Gas leak or gas smell | A rotten-egg smell inside or near the meter | If the smell is strong or anyone feels unwell, get everyone outside and call 000 first. Otherwise, leave the property and call us from outside. No switches, no flames | Safety-first response, our most urgent callout |
| Stormwater backing up | Downpipes surging back, paths sheeting with water | Clear what debris you safely can and stay off flooded areas | Storm-night urgent, worst-affected homes seen first |
| Blocked sewer backing up | Gurgling drains and waste rising in the lowest fixture | Stop running water and keep everyone away from the overflow | Urgent response, we arrive ready to clear and clean up |
Fast to your door
Servicing Double Bay, Woollahra and Surrounding Suburbs
Double Bay is home turf, and we cover the wider Woollahra Municipal Council area on the same rounds. Same Day Service applies right across it.
- Double Bay
- Bellevue Hill
- Edgecliff
- Woollahra
- Rose Bay
- Dover Heights
Local knowledge that matters
What Double Bay's Pipes Throw at Us
Roughly three quarters of the dwellings here are flats or apartments, with pre-1940 houses, Art Deco blocks and Victorian semis behind the village. That mix drives nearly every callout on our sheet.
The old stock is the bigger worry. Pipework laid before 1940 has held pressure for most of a century, and when it lets go it does so suddenly, with no polite drip first to warn anyone.
Density raises the stakes. A burst pipe in a freestanding house is your problem; the same burst two floors up in a block off Knox Street is four households' problem within the hour.
Here is how that combination reads on a callout sheet:
- Sudden bursts in original lines. Heritage houses behind Cross Street where nothing has been replaced since the war.
- Failures that travel downwards. Water finds the ceiling below long before anyone upstairs notices a damp patch.
- Hot water systems past their day. Old units in older blocks, giving up without warning and needing a same-day fix.
- Strata questions mid-emergency. We shut it off first and sort out who owns which pipe afterwards.
We know the walk down to Steyne Park and the buildings either side of it. Less time spent hunting for the meter, more spent fixing the fault.
How We Work, Day or Night
Four steps, the same every time, whatever hour you ring.
Whatever's wrong, the Lifetime Labour Warranty is already part of the deal before a tool comes out. That's not a sales line, it's how every job here is priced.
We'll tell you exactly what's wrong and the best way to fix it, so the warranty means something specific, not a vague promise.
Fair, upfront pricing, no surprises, agreed before work starts, warranty included in that number.
If it fails again for the same reason, we're back at no extra cost. Quality Workmanship Guaranteed, warranty backing every visit.
Most emergency repairs are done and cleaned up inside the one visit once we are on site.
Why Homeowners Here Pick Us First
Most of our work here happens in units, and unit owners have usually been let down by a tradie who was hard to reach or vague about money. We made both the easy part.
We don't need to shout about it. 300+ five-star reviews do the talking for us.
Fair, upfront pricing, no surprises. Said plainly, meant literally, backed by Best Price Guaranteed.
Licensed and insured, water and gas. Lic #292427C, checkable any time you like.
We don't cut corners. Quality Workmanship Guaranteed, Lifetime Labour Warranty behind it.
More on how we operate is on our about page.
Fair, upfront pricing — no surprises
Honest Pricing, Best Price Guaranteed
Every so often a job takes longer than we expected, or a fitting doesn't want to budge. That's a risk we carry, not you.
Once you've approved a price for the job as scoped, that number holds even if it takes us longer than planned. If something changes the scope itself, we stop, explain it, and get your sign-off on a new figure before going further.
If the job turns out to need work beyond what you approved, we stop, explain it, and requote before going any further.
The price we quote is the price you pay. No exceptions.
Local Knowledge, Learned Street by Street
Salt does quiet damage down here. The breeze off the harbour carries it over the foreshore streets, and it eats exposed copper, tapware and hot water tanks years faster than the same fittings age further inland.
You see it as a green bloom on a pipe, or a fitting that weeps where it never used to. Both are early warnings, and both cost less to deal with before the pipe splits.
The ground works against us in storms. Streets fall steeply toward the bay, so a downpour arrives at the bottom all at once and the foreshore drains surcharge with nowhere left to send it.
Low-lying properties around the bay and Blackburn Cove wear that first. Storm nights are one of our busiest shifts of the year.
Save on your first service
Current specials
$65 off your first service
First time using us? Mention this offer when you book and it comes straight off the upfront price you approve.
$0 call-out fee
It costs nothing to get us to your door, and you approve a fair, upfront price before any work starts.
Call (02) 9134 9086New customers get $65 off your first service. That discount applies to the job you called us out for, and it sits on top of the $0 Call Out Fee.
Mention it when you ring (02) 9134 9086 and we apply it to the quote before you agree to anything.
What locals tell us
Five-Star Reviews, Earned the Honest Way
300+ five-star reviews
Real jobs, real homes, re-told with permission. Names are first names only.
300+ five-star reviews, and not one of them came from a marketing push. Every one followed a job where the price matched what a customer had been told on the phone.
That is the whole method. Answer the phone, explain the fault in plain words, agree a price, do the work properly, clean up after ourselves.
Earning the next one beats talking up the ones already banked.
In the community, for the community
Our Team, On the Tools, Not a Call Centre
Ring at two in the morning and someone who does this work answers, ready to talk you through what to shut off while we head over.
We run a tight owner-led outfit, and the boss has never come off the tools. Water and gas are both licensed under Lic #292427C, so a gas smell and a split pipe reach one crew.
Local means local here. We know these streets because we work them week in, week out.
Good questions, straight answers
The FAQs Double Bay Asks Us
Six questions come up on nearly every emergency call. Here are the straight answers.
Is there anything I should do before the plumber gets here?
Shut the water off at the meter if it is a leak or a burst, and get a bucket or towels under the worst of it. Keep everyone well clear of a sagging ceiling until we arrive.
Can you come out same day if my hot water's out?
Yes, no hot water is a Same Day Service job for us. Plenty of the older systems in Double Bay's heritage houses and walk-up blocks die overnight without a single warning sign, so ring us and we will get moving.
What does your labour warranty cover?
Our Lifetime Labour Warranty covers the work our hands did. If a repair we carried out lets go for the same reason later, we return and put it right at no extra cost to you.
Do you clear blocked drains?
We do, including the ones backing up into a ground-floor unit at midnight. Mature street trees through the Knox Street and Cross Street blocks push roots into old clay lines, so we come ready to clear them properly.
Do you charge a call-out fee in Double Bay?
No, it is a $0 Call Out Fee whatever the hour, so picking up the phone costs you nothing. You get fair, upfront pricing agreed before we start, and you decide from there.
Can I patch a leaking pipe myself until you arrive?
Tape or a hardware repair clamp might hold for a little while, but treat it as buying time rather than a fix. Turn the water off at the meter if you can, and let a licensed plumber sort the pipe properly.
Let’s get it flowing again
Need Us Now? Call Day or Night
Call (02) 9134 9086 and tell us what is happening. Or leave a note on the contact page and you will hear back from us fast, day or night.