About 27 minutes from our Castle Hill base
Plumber in St Ives
Licensed local plumbers and gas fitters covering St Ives 2075. Blocked drains, hot water, pipe relining, gas and emergencies — fixed price, no call-out fee.
- No call-out fee
- Fixed price before we start
- Lifetime labour warranty
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Services in St Ives
What we do for St Ives homes
Everything below is available across the suburb, with the same fixed pricing and lifetime labour warranty.
Blocked Drains
Water backing up? We locate the blockage with a camera and clear it properly — not just push it further down the line.
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No hot water, or not enough of it? We repair every major brand and install replacements the same day where we can.
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Fix a broken sewer or stormwater line permanently — without digging up your driveway, garden or slab.
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Burst pipe or water where it shouldn’t be? We answer the phone and we get there — 24 hours a day.
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Cooktops, heaters, hot water and BBQ points — installed, certified and safe. Plus gas leak detection.
Learn moreLeak Detection
Bill jumped, damp patch, meter ticking over with everything off? We find the leak before anything gets opened up.
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Dripping tap, running toilet, mixer that won’t turn off properly — the small jobs, done properly so they stay done.
Learn moreSeptic & Acreage
Unsewered property? Septic and treatment systems, pressure pumps, tank water and the long buried runs that come with acreage.
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Local knowledge
Plumbing in St Ives, specifically
St Ives is 1960s and 70s housing on unusually large, heavily treed blocks pushing up against Ku-ring-gai Chase and Garigal. The trees are the job. Not just roots in the sewer — although there is plenty of that — but leaf litter, in volumes that people from other suburbs don’t quite believe until they see a St Ives stormwater pit in autumn.
That litter is why we do more stormwater work per house here than anywhere else on the North Shore. Pits fill, downpipes choke, charged lines lose their fall to a wad of compacted leaves, and the water backs up into the one place it shouldn’t — usually against the house, often into a sub-floor. The fix is rarely dramatic; the problem is that nobody looks at a stormwater pit until it stops working.
The other St Ives characteristic is that these blocks were plumbed for gardens: irrigation, garden taps at the far end of the property, pool top-ups, and long supply runs buried decades ago and no longer on any drawing. When a St Ives water bill jumps, the leak is often on one of those forgotten runs rather than anywhere near the house.
What we see most in St Ives
- Stormwater pits and charged lines choked with leaf litter
- Water backing up against footings and into sub-floors
- Leaks on old buried garden and irrigation runs
- Root intrusion from bushland-boundary trees
Approvals
St Ives is in Ku-ring-gai Council
What your council decides, wherever you are
- Approval to install and to operate an on-site wastewater system, under s.68 of the Local Government Act 1993
- Where stormwater is allowed to discharge — kerb, absorption trench or easement — under the council's development control plan
- Consent to remove or prune a tree, including the one whose roots are in your sewer line
Ku-ring-gai Council, specifically
- Stormwater and absorption requirements on large, heavily treed blocks
- Tree preservation, which is among the strictest in Sydney and applies to a great deal of what grows over a sewer line
- Heritage conservation areas, which affect what an external repair is allowed to look like
Ku-ring-gai's tree and heritage controls are the reason so much of the drain work here is relined rather than dug up — it is frequently the only approach that does not need a consent of its own.
Anything built over or beside a Sydney Water sewer — a slab, a pool, an extension — is Sydney Water's approval rather than the council's, and it is the one that most often holds a job up. We tell you which of the two you need before you start chasing either.
Map of St Ives, NSW — the area Precision Pipes covers
We’re based at 11 Lygon Place, Castle Hill NSW 2154, and most of the Hills, Hornsby and the Upper North Shore is inside half an hour.
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Common questions
Plumbing in St Ives
No. There’s no call-out fee anywhere we work, including St Ives, and no charge to quote. You’ll have a fixed price before we start.
We’re about 27 minutes from our Castle Hill base. For urgent work we can usually be there the same day, and often within a couple of hours.
Yes, 24 hours a day for genuine emergencies — burst pipes, no water, sewage backing up inside, gas leaks and major hot water failures. Call 0406 711 214 and a person will answer.
Yes. We hold current NSW plumbing and gasfitting licences and full public liability insurance. Every gas and hot water installation is lodged with NSW Fair Trading and you get a copy of the compliance certificate.
Need a plumber in St Ives?
We’re about 27 minutes from our Castle Hill base. No call-out fee, fixed price before we start, lifetime labour warranty.