Burleigh Heads plumbers, drainers and gas fitters
Find the cause. Fix it properly.
Leaks, blocked drains and worn fittings across Burleigh Heads and the southern Gold Coast, diagnosed before anything gets replaced and quoted before we start.
or call (07) 5550 0060
What it costs
Eight jobs, one docket.
Grouped the way the vans are stocked, not alphabetised. Every price is a range you can read before you ring, and the call-out fee comes off the invoice the moment the work goes ahead.
Repairs
- Leak detection and repair $180 to $780
45 min to 3 hours
- Tap and toilet repairs $150 to $980
30 to 90 min per fixture
- Worn fittings and flexi hose replacement $160 to $420
30 to 60 min
Drainage
- Blocked drain clearing $220 to $680
60 to 120 min
- CCTV drain inspection and jetting $340 to $1180
90 min to half a day
Hot water
- Hot water systems $320 to $4900
1 hour to a full day
Renovation
- Bathroom and laundry rough-ins $2600 to $7400
2 to 5 days across two visits
Emergency
- Emergency plumbing call-outs $189 to $620
1 to 3 hours
Burleigh Heads, QLD 4220
We work out why the leak, the blockage or the cold shower happened before we replace anything, and we say the price out loud before we start.
The difference
Diagnose before you replace.
Nobody was being paid to find the cause. They were being paid to make the noise stop for a fortnight, and that is the business Dane started Tallebudgera Plumbing & Gas to not be. A retired couple in Palm Beach had already paid three different blokes to replace three different washers on the same wet patch before we found the pinhole in the wall behind them. That is the rule we still work to: nothing gets replaced until we can say why it failed.
Fix the cause once, at a price we said out loud before we started.
The way it usually goes
- Replace a part and see if the noise stops
- Three call-outs, three different guesses
- The price arrives on the invoice
- The drain gets cleared and left
The way we do it
- Isolate, listen, pressure test, then say what failed
- One visit, one written cause
- The price is said out loud before we start
- The drain gets cleared, then filmed, so you know why
How a job runs
Six steps, in the ad's own order.
Isolate, inspect, replace, clear, test, wipe down. The same order on a $150 washer and a $4,900 heat pump install, just more time inside steps two and three.
01 / Isolate
Supply off before a fitting comes apart
02 / Inspect
Cause found before anything is quoted
03 / Replace
Only the part that actually failed
04 / Clear
The line cleared, then filmed
05 / Test
Pressure and temperature checked
06 / Wipe down
Left drier than we found it
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01 / Isolate
Supply off before a fitting comes apart
The stop tap gets closed first, every job, emergency call-outs included. Nothing gets touched at mains pressure.
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02 / Inspect
Cause found before anything is quoted
Acoustic listening, a pressure test, or a camera down the line. Nothing gets replaced until we can say why it failed.
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03 / Replace
Only the part that actually failed
A washer instead of a mixer, a seat instead of a tap. WaterMark certified parts, and the old ones leave with us.
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04 / Clear
The line cleared, then filmed
Drain machine or jetter, matched to what the camera found. Footage handed over on the day, on every drain job.
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05 / Test
Pressure and temperature checked
Every reconnected fitting is pressure tested. Every hot water job is checked at the delivered temperature.
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06 / Wipe down
Left drier than we found it
The bench, the cupboard floor and the tiles get wiped down and the old parts leave with us, or the call-out is on us.
"Left drier than we found it" is not a slogan, it is the last item on the job sheet. The bench, the cupboard floor and the tiles get wiped down before the van leaves.
Emergencies
Burst pipe at 11pm is not a tap washer at 2pm.
The after-hours phone is answered by one of us, not a message bank. We would rather talk you through turning the water off than let you sit up worrying about it.
After hours, answered, not diverted
The after-hours phone is 0491 570 110 and it is answered, not diverted to a message bank. First thing we do is talk you through turning the water off at the meter, then we quote the after-hours rate before we leave the depot. If it can safely wait until morning at the standard rate, we will tell you that instead.
- 1 Ring (07) 5550 0060, day or night.
- 2 We talk you through turning the water off at the meter.
- 3 The after-hours rate is quoted before we leave the depot.
- 4 If it can honestly wait until morning at the standard rate, we say so.
The numbers
The numbers.
Counted since 2013, and the one we actually watch is how often we have to come back.
Credentials and cover
- QBCC-licensed plumbers and drainers (Queensland)
- Queensland gas work licences held by both licensed plumbers
- Backflow prevention and thermostatic mixing valve endorsements
- Member, Master Plumbers' Association of Queensland
- Public liability insurance, with QBCC home warranty cover on eligible work
Service area
Eighteen suburbs, one radius.
Burleigh Heads out to Currumbin, Robina and Reedy Creek, across the southern Gold Coast. Sitting just outside it? Ring and we will tell you straight.
Every suburb we cover
- Burleigh Heads
- Burleigh Waters
- Miami
- Mermaid Beach
- Mermaid Waters
- Nobby Beach
- Broadbeach Waters
- Clear Island Waters
- Varsity Lakes
- Robina
- Reedy Creek
- Mudgeeraba
- Tallebudgera
- Tallebudgera Valley
- Elanora
- Palm Beach
- Currumbin
- Currumbin Waters
What the southern Gold Coast says
Sixteen reviews.
Dane found a pinhole leak inside the laundry wall in about forty minutes, after two others had guessed at it. Cut a neat hole, fixed it, patched it back. The bill came in under what the guessing had already cost us.
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Kitchen drain blocked on a Sunday night. He talked me through where the overflow gully was so it did not come up inside, then came out first thing Monday at the normal rate rather than charging me weekend money for something that could wait.
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Hot water died the week the grandkids were staying. Sam tested it, said it was the element and not the tank, and had it running again the same afternoon for a fraction of what I had braced myself for.
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Replaced every flexi hose in the house after I asked about one of them. Showed me the date stamped in the collars. Two were fifteen years old.
Guides
Written between jobs.
Three things worth knowing before you ring, including one that will save you money whether you book with us or not.
What a dripping tap actually costs
Litres a year, what it does to a southern Gold Coast water bill, and when a washer will not fix it.
Blocked drain: what to try first
What is worth trying at home, what makes it worse, and how to tell grease from roots from a broken pipe.
Choosing a hot water system
Gas, electric and heat pump on running cost, rebates and what actually suits a Gold Coast household.
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Hours
- Mon to Fri 6:30am to 4:30pm
- Sat 7:00am to 12:00pm
- Sun Closed
After hours
The after-hours phone is 0491 570 110 and it is answered, not diverted to a message bank. First thing we do is talk you through turning the water off at the meter, then we quote the after-hours rate before we leave the depot. If it can safely wait until morning at the standard rate, we will tell you that instead.
What we promise
- Every job quoted before we start, and the quote is what you pay unless you ask for more work
- Twelve-month warranty on our workmanship, on top of the manufacturer warranty on parts
- The same blockage inside ninety days is re-cleared at no charge
- The call-out fee comes off the invoice when the work goes ahead
- The area is left dry and wiped down, or the call-out is on us