If you’ve just received your water bill and the extra zeroes have left you swearing off long winter showers, don’t stop indulging just yet. Water leaks could be draining your wallet, and the first step to identifying if you have a leak is learning how to accurately read your water meter. Knowing how to quickly and easily read your meter can save you from digging around in the plumbing (which should always be left to a professional if you prefer the inside of your house kept dry), and it can also help you identify the problem for professionals should they need to be called. First, know where th ..read more

You’ve just finished installing the new hardwood floor in the living room, put the last coat of paint on the back deck and repaired that leaky faucet in the guest bathroom, when bam! You step into a nice hot shower only to find it is not nice at all. In fact, it is either icy cold or scalding hot, with no happy medium to be found. Your work is not over yet. And while yes, we agree that installing flooring, painting decks and repairing faucets is quite the go-getter agenda for anyone’s weekend plans, we also realise that having your hot water heater suddenly fail – including causing potential d ..read more

Did you know that every year in Queensland up to 1,200 children under the age of 15 years are admitted to hospital after being scalded by hot water? Out of that number, 65 percent of these children are only aged four and below. Sadly, one in five of the children who have been admitted to hospital after experiencing scalding is injured so badly they have to stay in hospital for a week minimum and must come back for repeat visits and often multiple operations. Out of the most serious scalding incidents, 8 out of 10 of these were caused by hot tap water in bathrooms. With these figures in mind, y ..read more

At JM Plumbing, we’ve been servicing the local community and working with some of the Gold Coast’s largest commercial developers for the past 20 years. This wealth of experience has shown us that, if you’re a commercial property owner, a plumbing emergency can be one of the most inconvenient issues that you can face, particularly if it is at a busy time of year. However, most plumbing emergencies can be avoided by a scheduled plumbing maintenance check, making it the most cost-effective and efficient way to reduce plumbing breakdowns and emergencies. The following post will explain the importa ..read more

Why you should never leave a little leak alone You might not think that the constant drip, drip, dripping from your bathroom tap is anything to worry about. Maybe the slight leak you’ve found under the kitchen sink or behind the toilet is barely noticeable, especially since the towel you’ve put there seems to be collecting all the water just fine. No need to call a plumber when it’s not really a problem, right? Your water bill is unusually high That’s where you’d be sadly mistaken. Although you might not be ankle-deep in water just yet, that little leak could be costing you a lot more than you ..read more

The Gold Coast is a beautiful area and home to over 500,000 people. A combination of constant movement of the ground, due to it’s sandy makeup and homes that are now at an age where the plumbing system is starting to wear or breakdown means that it’s important for residents and business owners to have a reputable and professional Gold Coast plumber to call on. One of the main plumbing issues experienced on the Gold Coast is a broken or damaged underground water mains. As water mains are not within plain sight, it is often easy for someone to misinterpret the issue. There are a few tell-tale si ..read more

As your sewer pipe is buried underground, it’s often difficult to know if it’s been damaged before it becomes a major problem. To help make it easier for you to determine if you have an issue with a broken or damaged sewer pipe, we’ve listed five tell-tale signs below: 1. Sewage backups Sanitary sewer backups generally develop in the open drain that’s located lowest in your residential or commercial property. If you notice a backup occurs every time you try to flush or run water into either your sink or bathtub drain, or your fixtures are slow to drain, this is often an indication that there’s ..read more

Stormwater can be a fact of life, especially if you’re living on the Gold Coast. As this has the potential to run off into our waterways, it is closely regulated by authorities making it imperative for homes and businesses to ensure this water drains off into the appropriate place. On the Gold Coast in particular, runoff can be a serious issue due to the fact that water tanks are often situated on hard surfaces such as roads and driveways. Having a lot of vegetation, however, can help soak up some of this water. In an ideal world, stormwater should go from your pipes straight into a storm drai ..read more

Fresh hot water from the tap is something we take for granted most of the time, but if your hot water system starts to fail, then it can be a massive inconvenience. Sometimes the problem is more than can be solved with a bit of DIY, and that’s when you have to call in a professional quickly. Here are some of the ways you can tell whether or not your hot water cylinder is on its last legs, and who you should call for help in this event. How can you tell? There are a few signs that can be used to diagnose the problem, such as: – Brown or discoloured water coming from the hot tap (this suggests c ..read more