TAKAPUNA, NORTH SHORE
Plumber Takapuna
Bathrooms, hot water and awkward buildings.
Asset Plumbing & Drainage work across Takapuna, from the apartment blocks along Hurstmere Road to the bungalows and brick and tile homes around Lake Pupuke. Bathroom and kitchen plumbing, hot water, leak detection and repairs.
Local plumbers – Takapuna
Plumber Takapuna
Takapuna is two housing stocks sitting on top of each other. There are apartments and townhouses along the beach end and through the town centre, and there are 1950s and 1960s houses spreading back around Lake Pupuke and up towards Hauraki. They break in completely different ways, and they need completely different conversations.
In the apartments the constraint is usually access. Wet areas stack vertically, risers are shared, and shutting off water is not a decision one owner gets to make on their own. In the older houses the constraint is age: original galvanised supply, cylinders well past their expected life, and bathrooms that have been renovated once already, usually in a hurry.
We handle both. Asset Plumbing & Drainage is Dominic and Tyler, with over twenty years between them, and a small enough operation that the person who looks at the job is the person who does it.
Plumbing in Takapuna
Two practical notes. If you are in an apartment or a body corporate building, find out before we arrive who controls the isolation valves and whether there is a notice period for shutting off water, because that single fact decides whether a two hour job takes two hours or two visits. And if your house predates the 1970s and the pressure has fallen away, suspect the supply line before you start replacing tapware.
Most common job here
Bathroom plumbing in Takapuna
More of our Takapuna work is bathrooms than anything else, and that tracks with the housing. Apartments get refreshed to hold their value and older houses get a bathroom redone when the original finally gives up. Either way the plumbing is the part that has to be right before anything pretty goes on top of it.
The rough-in is where a bathroom is won or lost. Mixer heights, shower waste position, tap centres and the vanity waste all get set out against the actual fittings you have chosen, which is why we ask for the tapware selection before we start rather than after the linings are on.
Then we come back for fit-off once the waterproofing and tiling are done. If we plumbed the room but somebody else tiled and built it, we will say so. We are not going to describe another trade’s work as ours.
- Full bathroom rough-in and fit-off
- Shower mixers, wall mixers and tempering valves
- Vanity, basin and bath waste work
- Second bathroom and ensuite additions
- Apartment wet area work around body corporate access
Renovation plumbing across the North Shore
What it depends on
What changes the cost of a plumbing job in Takapuna
Nobody can price plumbing properly from a description. These are the things that actually move the number once we have seen it.
Whether it is an apartment or a house
Apartment work carries coordination that a standalone house does not. Shared risers, notice periods for water shut-off, lift access and parking all add time before a spanner is picked up. None of it is difficult, but it is real and it should be in the quote.
What the existing pipework is made of
Copper to copper is straightforward. Copper joining onto old galvanised is not, and the older material often turns out to be in worse condition than it looked once it is disturbed. On pre-1970 Takapuna houses this is the most common cause of a job growing.
How much has to come off to get to it
A leak behind a tiled wall costs more than the same leak under a vanity, because the wall has to be opened and then made good. Finding it precisely first is almost always cheaper than opening things up and looking.
Whether the fittings are chosen yet
Set-out depends on the actual fitting. If the tapware is still being decided, we either wait or we guess, and guessing on a bathroom rough-in is how you end up moving pipework after the linings are on.
How we price it. Small repairs run on time and materials. Bathrooms, renovation work and anything staged get a written quote after we have looked at it. We would rather spend twenty minutes on site than give you a number over the phone that changes later.
Why Asset in Takapuna
Why people here call us back
We turn up when we said
Two people running their own jobs means the diary is realistic. If we are running late you get a phone call, not silence and a four hour window.
Apartment and body corporate work
We are used to buildings where you cannot just turn the water off. Notice, coordination and working inside a window are part of the job, not an inconvenience.
Old houses do not surprise us
Galvanised supply, undersized cylinders and bathrooms renovated badly in the eighties are the normal condition of housing around Lake Pupuke. We know what is behind the lining before we open it.
Drainage under the same roof
If your Takapuna problem turns out to be below ground rather than inside the house, the same business handles it. You are not left finding a second trade.
Set out properly the first time
Mixer heights and waste centres get measured and marked against the real fittings. It costs a few minutes at rough-in and saves a great deal later.
Clear about what can wait
Not everything needs doing today. If a cylinder has years left or a repair will hold, we will tell you and let you make the call.
Services in Takapuna
What else we do around Takapuna
Bathrooms are the bulk of it here, but these all come up regularly in the same streets.
Hot water cylinders
Replacement and repair, including cylinders in tight apartment cupboards where access is the hard part.
Hot water
Leak detection
Damp carpet, a warm patch on a slab or a water bill that has climbed with no explanation.
Leak detection
Kitchen plumbing
Sinks, wastes, dishwasher connections and tapware, including island bench runs.
Kitchens
Renovation plumbing
Whole-project work sequenced around the builder, the waterproofer and the tiler.
Renovations
Water mains
Supply line replacement where old galvanised pipe has choked the pressure down.
Water mains
Backflow prevention
Device installation and annual testing for commercial buildings and units.
Backflow
Plumbing maintenance
Repairs, dripping mixers and the small recurring work rentals generate.
Maintenance
Commercial plumbing
Staged work for tenanted buildings, plus warrant of fitness items.
CommercialQuestions
Plumbing in Takapuna: your questions
Do you work in Takapuna apartments and body corporate buildings?
Yes, and it is a decent share of what we do there. The thing worth sorting before we arrive is who controls the isolation valves and whether the building requires notice before water is shut off. In some buildings that is a quick phone call, in others it is a few days. Knowing which one you are in is usually the difference between a single visit and two.
How long does a bathroom rough-in take?
For a standard single bathroom the rough-in itself is usually one to two days on site, and then we are back for fit-off after the waterproofing and tiling are finished. The gap between those two visits is set by the other trades rather than by us. The part that most often causes delay is tapware still being chosen, because set-out depends on the actual fitting.
My water pressure in Takapuna has dropped. What is it?
In houses built before the 1970s it is very often the supply line rather than anything inside the house. Galvanised pipe corrodes from the inside and the bore narrows over decades until the flow is a fraction of what it should be. Replacing tapware will not fix that. It is worth checking the supply first, because it changes what is worth spending money on.
Can you fix a blocked toilet or basin in Takapuna?
Yes. A single slow or blocked fixture is a plumbing job and we handle it. If more than one fixture is affected at the same time, or water is surfacing at a gully outside, the problem is further out in the main line and that sits with our drainlaying side. Ring either way and we will work out which it is from what you describe.
Do you charge a call-out fee in Takapuna?
Small repairs run on time and materials from when we arrive. Larger work such as a bathroom or a renovation gets a written quote after we have had a look. We do not quote plumbing over the phone, because what is described at the door and what is behind the wall are rarely the same job, and a number that changes later helps nobody.
Need a plumber in Takapuna?
Tell us the address and what is happening and we will tell you what it sounds like. If it is a bathroom or a renovation we will come and look before quoting. If it is a repair, we will give you a realistic idea of time on the phone.
Or call the team09 213 9815