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Licensed plumbers covering Chermside houses and units, same day where we can, and no call out fee* to get one to your door.
A shower that has started draining slower than it fills. A hot water unit knocking away in the cupboard. A gutter that overflows at the same corner every storm. None of it improves on its own.
Ring us and you speak with our professional team, and a real arrival window instead of a vague half day. The plumber who turns up is ours as well, working under QBCC licence 15578913, because none of our work goes out to subcontractors. There is no call out fee* to get them to the door. Once they have had a proper look you get the options set out, a recommendation on which one we would pick if it were our own place, and one fixed price for the whole job that is agreed before anything starts and does not move afterwards.
Chermside is no longer the suburb its quiet back streets suggest. It grew as post-war detached housing, but at the 2021 Census only around one in five occupied homes here was a separate house and close to three in five were flats or apartments. Brisbane City Council’s neighbourhood plan treats the centre as a principal regional activity centre and concentrates new building around The Prince Charles Hospital, the shopping centre and the Gympie Road transit corridor. In practice that means we can spend a morning under a low-set house with pipework nobody has looked at in decades, then spend the afternoon in a building where the fault sits on common property and a body corporate has to be part of the conversation.
Everything we install or repair is backed by our Lifetime Workmanship Guarantee, so if our work fails we come back and put it right at no cost to you. Our Clean-Up Guarantee means the site is left tidy rather than left to you.
If you need a plumber in Chermside today, give Vanguard Plumbing & Gas a call to secure availability and our $0 call out fee*. Same day service is guaranteed, or you get $65 off the job.
Most of the work we pick up on this side of town starts with one person telling another, which is the only recommendation that has ever really counted for a trade. The reviews below come from households and businesses right across Brisbane’s north. What people tend to write about is rarely the plumbing itself. It is the van arriving inside the window we gave them, the job being explained in words that make sense, and the invoice matching the quote.
One licensed team for the whole list, from the post-war houses on the back streets to the newer buildings around the centre. General repairs and pipework fill most of the week, while drains that have stopped running and hot water units repaired and swapped over are the two we get called out to most.
Beyond that we handle gutters, downpipes and roof drainage, gas appliances and gas lines, sealing a shower that is leaking, and tracing a leak behind a wall before it takes a ceiling with it. Whichever it is, the start is the same: no call out fee* and one fixed price agreed up front.
Taps that will not stop dripping, cisterns refilling through the night, pressure that sags the moment a second outlet opens, and the pipework quietly sitting behind all of it.
In a low-set house the runs disappear under a slab. In a unit they vanish into a wall you share with somebody else. Either way it wants finding properly rather than opening up on a hunch.
Gullies that back up after a storm, floor wastes gurgling every time the washing machine empties, and the smell that usually turns up before the overflow does.
We send a camera down the line before quoting, because roots, a fractured section, a belly holding water and a fat build-up all look much the same from the surface and none of them costs the same to put right.
Gas storage, electric, continuous flow and heat pump, repaired where a repair will hold and replaced where it will not. As a rule of thumb a storage tank runs eight to twelve years and a continuous flow unit fifteen to twenty, though servicing moves that further than the brand does.
Where the cylinder itself has gone we say so plainly and quote the changeover rather than charging you to keep nursing it along.
Gutters, downpipes, box gutters and flashings, plus the stormwater lines they feed once the water is off the roof. A summer storm here arrives all at once and finds whichever part of the run is undersized.
We follow the whole path down to the legal point of discharge, because a new gutter changes nothing at all when the line underneath it is the actual fault. More on how we approach roof drainage.
Cooktops, ovens, gas hot water and outdoor bayonet points, on reticulated gas or on bottles, connected and tested the way they are meant to be.
Plenty of the older installations around here have been added to one appliance at a time over the years. If what is there no longer stacks up, you will hear it from us on the day rather than find out about it much later.
A damp patch on the far side of a bathroom wall, grout that keeps going dark no matter what you scrub it with, or a skirting board lifting in the next room. That is usually the shower itself rather than the plumbing feeding it.
In a unit it matters more, because water past a failed seal ends up in somebody else's ceiling. Resealing a sound base costs a fraction of a rebuild.
Anybody can win the first job. The second one comes down to how the first was handled.
We keep the team small enough that the standard does not slip between one visit and the next, and none of the work is passed to subcontractors. No hourly rate ticking over while somebody works out what is wrong, and no daylight between the figure we quote and the figure on the invoice. Have a read of what customers have written about us, or the whole range of work we take on.
Nothing is charged simply for getting a licensed plumber to your door and having them look at the problem.
Same day service is guaranteed. If we do not get to you the same day, you get $65 off the job. Booking in the morning gives us the best shot at it.
One written figure for the whole job, agreed before anyone picks up a tool. No hourly rate ticking over while we diagnose, and nothing added at the end because we happened to already be on site.
Every job carries our Lifetime Workmanship Guarantee. If our work fails, we come back and put it right. That is workmanship, and it does not quietly expire.
Whoever turns up is one of our own, working under QBCC licence 15578913. Regulated plumbing work in Queensland has to be done by a licensed plumber or drainer under the Plumbing and Drainage Act 2018.
Drop sheets down before we start, old parts out when we finish, and the site left tidy either way. Anything that had to be lifted, moved or opened up to reach the fault gets put back properly rather than left for you to deal with.
Nothing to pay to get us on site. Tell us what it is doing, we will work out what it needs, and you will have one written price in hand before anything is touched. That holds right across Chermside, whether it is a house on a back street or a unit near the centre.
Whether it’s a small or a big job, we’re a local business built for locals just like you. We stand behind all our jobs and the following commitments you can count on, day or night:
Chermside splits fairly cleanly into two kinds of customer. Out in the older streets it is owners who have been in the same house a long while, wanting to know whether something is worth repairing or worth doing properly. They would far rather be told straight than sold the larger job.
The buildings around the centre and the hospital work differently. An isolation valve may serve more than your lot, the fault is sometimes on common property, and that is a conversation with a body corporate before anyone touches a spanner. We take that on as part of the job. Along the Gympie Road frontage the shops and consulting rooms need work fitted around trading, which we do wherever the job allows. For anything that will not keep, the team we send when it is urgent is on call.
Six steps, and they do not change whether it is a gurgling floor waste or a full gutter replacement. You will know what is happening, and what it costs, before anyone picks up a tool.
Tell us what it is doing. We book a real arrival window rather than a vague half day.
Camera down the drain, meter checked, unit opened up. We find the actual fault rather than guessing at it.
One written figure for the whole job. You approve it before any work starts.
Drop sheets down and the floors covered. In a unit that also means keeping the common areas clean on the way in and out.
Run it, watch it drain, check the temperature. You see it working before we pack up.
Old parts out, site left tidy, and the Lifetime Workmanship Guarantee recorded against the job.
What people around Chermside tend to ask before they book. Plain answers, no sales pitch.
Nothing to get us there. There is no call out fee*, so you are not charged simply for having a licensed plumber come and look at what is going on. After that it is one fixed price for the job, agreed before we start and the same figure that lands on the invoice.
Usually, and there is money sitting behind the promise. If we do not reach you the same day, you get $65 off the job. Booking earlier in the day gives us the best chance of it. If water is actively running where it should not be, ring 0487 037 290 rather than filling in the form.
Constantly. Most occupied homes in Chermside are now flats, apartments or townhouses rather than detached houses, so a large share of our work here happens inside buildings. The main difference is who owns the pipe. Where the fault sits on common property we say so early and put it in writing for the body corporate, then get on with the part that is yours.
Not always. An overflowing gutter is just as often a downpipe undersized for the roof area above it, or a stormwater line below it that has silted up or been built over. We look at the whole run from the roof down to the discharge point before quoting, because replacing the metal you can see fixes nothing when the fault sits underneath it. There is more about clearing a silted stormwater line if that is where it lands.
One of our own licensed plumbers. We do not subcontract, and we hold QBCC licence 15578913. Under the Plumbing and Drainage Act 2018, regulated plumbing work in Queensland has to be carried out by a licensed plumber or drainer, so it is not a matter of preference on our part. Every job is backed by our Lifetime Workmanship Guarantee.
One visit can clear the whole list rather than three separate call-outs. Send through a request for a call back and our friendly team will be in touch to organise getting a plumber to you. Same day service is guaranteed, or you get $65 off the job.
Chermside sits in the middle of a run of northside suburbs, and the boundaries here are the kind you cross without noticing. If a van is already out this way, the next suburb along is usually the same trip rather than a second one.
Wavell Heights begins almost immediately to the south and we are in and out of it constantly. Aspley is a short run further up Gympie Road, Everton Park sits over to the west, and back toward the river we cover Clayfield and Ascot. All of them are close enough that we are often already in the area when you ring.
Everywhere else we work is set out on the full list of suburbs we cover. If you are not sure your street is inside it, call 0487 037 290 and we will tell you on the spot.
No Call Out Fee*, a fixed price agreed before we start, and same-day service guaranteed or you get $65 off.
Everything below runs alongside the $0 call out fee*, the fixed price up front and the lifetime workmanship guarantee. One $65 discount applies per job, whichever way you qualify for it.
Clearing blocked sinks, toilets, showers and stormwater drains.
See the real cause on camera before anyone quotes a repair. Free with any paid service*
New customers save on their first job with us, any service.
Seniors save on every job, every day, no questions asked.
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