When a commercial property has a plumbing failure it usually can't trade, so the cost is the downtime rather than the repair.
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A café with no hot water or a blocked floor waste can't legally serve. A retail tenancy with water coming through a ceiling closes.
Say what the business is and what's stopped when you ring. It genuinely changes the sequencing, and vague descriptions get vaguely prioritised.
Commercial premises carry requirements a house doesn't: backflow prevention devices needing annual testing, grease traps on food premises requiring servicing and records, and trade waste agreements with Barwon Water.
Those are the things that get discovered during an inspection rather than an emergency, and they're worth being ahead of.
The recurring question is whether the failure is in common property or inside the lot, because that decides who pays. A burst in a shared riser is common property; a failed flexible hose under a unit's sink generally isn't.
Get that established early — it avoids an argument after the invoice arrives, and the plumber attending can usually say which it is.
Same rule as domestic: work over $750 requires a certificate from a licensed plumber within five days, lodged with the BPC.
On a commercial property that paperwork tends to matter more, not less — it's what an insurer and a landlord will ask for.
Geelong.
Where this job typically sits. Access is usually a bigger cost driver than size.
| Job | Indicative price | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency call-out, business hours | $120 – $250 | Attending and diagnosing. Some credit it against the work; ask, because not all do. |
| After hours, weekend or public holiday | $180 – $400 | The call-out premium. Confirm it on the phone before anyone is dispatched. |
| Burst pipe — isolate and repair | $250 – $900 | Depends heavily on access. A pipe in a wall or under a slab costs multiples of one in a roof space. |
| Blocked drain — machine clear | $200 – $550 | Electric eel or high-pressure jet. Root-bound lines take longer. |
| CCTV drain camera inspection | $150 – $400 | Usually the sensible next step after a second blockage in the same line. |
| Blocked toilet | $150 – $400 | Cheaper if it's the pan, more if the blockage is out in the sewer line. |
| Hot water unit repair | $180 – $600 | Elements, thermostats, valves and thermocouples. Worth trying before replacement. |
| Hot water unit replacement | $1,200 – $3,500 | Electric storage at the lower end; continuous-flow gas and heat pump at the upper. |
| Leak detection, non-invasive | $250 – $600 | Acoustic and thermal tracing to find a leak without opening walls or slab. |
| Gas leak — make safe and repair | $250 – $800 | Gasfitting licence class. Never a job to defer or attempt. |
| Tap or mixer replacement | $150 – $400 | Per tap, plus the fitting. Often bundled if several are done at once. |
| Sewer or stormwater repair | from $900 | Excavation dependent. A camera inspection first tells you what you're actually buying. |
Prices are indicative only. What a job costs depends on the fault, how long it takes to find, whether parts are needed and whether it's after hours. You get a firm price before any work starts.
Something has gone wrong now — water running, gas smell, or sewage inside.
Water escaping and not stopping. The one where minutes genuinely count.
Slow, gurgling or backing up — and why the same drain keeps doing it.
No hot water, not enough, or a unit leaking — and repair versus replace.
A gas smell is a life-safety situation, not a plumbing inconvenience.
Rising, not flushing, or overflowing — and whether it's the pan or the sewer.
Tell us the suburb and what's happening and we'll get it to the right person.
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