Why Is Plumbing Considered An Essential Service? 

Plumbing is an essential service as it’s “essential” to maintain your home or business’s plumbing system at all times. You need to resolve any plumbing issues as soon as they arise to prevent damage and potential health hazards. Plumbers are seen like electricians, essential to keep the community safe and functioning, especially when so many of us are spending a lot of time at home.

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As such our team at Proximity Plumbing is still able to attend your plumbing issue or plumbing emergency as long as we practice social distancing and continue to maintain the highest standards of safety and cleanliness possible to protect ourselves and our customers.

At present, there is no evidence that the virus survives in, or is likely to be transmitted via wastewater. The detection of the virus in wastewater reported to date has been of non-infective viral fragments. This means that the risk of infection to plumbers, drainers and wastewater industry workers is very low.

What is a Plumbing Emergency?

How do you know what is considered a plumbing emergency? One way to double-check, is pick up the phone and call our team. We’ll be able to tell you over the phone whether your plumbing issue is serious enough for immediate support.

Here is some information on what kind of issues are considered “Emergency Plumbing Issues”:

• Blocked or running toilet
• Blocked drain
• Slow draining sink
• Leaking pipes
• Burst flexi hose
• Clogged shower drain or bath drains
• Dripping faucets
• Blocked stormwater drain
• Clogged garbage disposal
• Faulty water heater
• Sewer system backup
• Low water pressure

If your home is currently experiencing any of these plumbing issues, please pick up the phone and call our team now!

Why It’s Important to “Choose Local” Now More Than Ever 

As Sydneysiders navigate our lockdown, it is more important than ever to choose a truly local business with local tradespeople for any repair or emergency. For these reasons we suggest only choosing a plumber that is centrally located to your specific LGA:

• It ensures the people coming into your home are from the same LGA as you and will minimise any risk to your family
• You will have a faster response time with a local tradesperson than someone coming from the other side of the city
• You will be able to support a truly local, community-based business
• Choosing a tradesperson from your LGA (and not a hot spot) is imperative to ensure essential services continue to be able to serve the community

How To Know Whether Your Supplier Is Truly Local

Firstly, do your research. Take a look at Google and see where the physical location of the business is. To list on Google a business must supply a physical address that is open for customers to view. You can check how far away a business is from your home and whether or not they are truly a local business.

For example, Proximity Plumbing is located in Point Piper. We serve our eastern suburbs local community area on a daily basis. You may have seen our team driving one of our Proximity Vans around town, or grabbed at a coffee at bondi with the boys in the early morning.

Secondly, ask the question. Phone the potential supplier and ask where they are located and where they are travelling from to attend to your emergency plumbing situation. If someone sounds evasive, keep asking until you feel you get a real answer (or listen to your gut and keep calling around).

At Proximity Plumbing we are an optimistic bunch, and we know with the positive vaccination numbers, we will all be out of lockdown soon enough. Until then, these safety measures will protect you and your family should you need any essential plumbing work carried out in your home.

Our vaccinated plumbers are available 24/7 to fix all emergency plumbing issues for your property so don’t delay calling us if you need us.