Ready Set Plumb is a licensed plumber serving Kirribilli NSW 2061, along with Milsons Point, Lavender Bay and McMahons Point. Our in-house team handles blocked drains, burst pipes, hot water, gas fitting, leak detection and strata plumbing for heritage terraces, harbourside apartments and inter-war walk-ups. Every Kirribilli job gets a fixed price before work starts, a Lifetime Labour Guarantee and a licensed plumber who turns up on time.
Local Kirribilli plumbers who respect old buildings
A leaking pipe inside a 19th-century terrace on Jeffreys Street is a different job to the same leak in a new build. The walls are often sandstone or double brick, the original pipework may be decades old, and anything that changes the street-facing facade can fall under heritage controls. You need a plumber who fixes the problem without creating a new one. That’s how our team works across Kirribilli:
Our Services
Services provided by our Kirribilli plumbers
Kirribilli packs two very different plumbing worlds into one small peninsula, heritage terraces and cottages on the conservation streets, and shared-stack apartment blocks overlooking the harbour. Our services cover both.
Truly local plumbers
Areas we cover around Kirribilli
Our Roseville-based team services Kirribilli and the surrounding harbourside suburbs as part of our regular lower North Shore coverage. Because we don’t subcontract, the plumber who knocks on your door in Kirribilli is one of ours, carrying the same guarantees as every other job we do.
Kirribilli is one of the most heritage-dense pockets in Sydney. North Sydney Council’s planning controls split the area into the Kirribilli Neighbourhood plus three separate conservation areas, Careening Cove, Kirribilli and Jeffreys Street. Jeffreys Street alone holds 19 listed heritage properties, including the longest surviving terrace row on the North Shore, protected since 2011.
The good news for owners is that North Sydney Council treats most internal plumbing replacement as routine maintenance that needs no application. Gutters, roof drainage and anything visible from the street are where the rules tighten, and on heritage-listed homes Council expects new services and drains to be internal or in suitable materials. Our team plans routes and fittings with that in mind.
The housing stock brings its own plumbing quirks. Victorian and Federation terraces often still run original clay sewer lines under narrow courtyards, and those joints are exactly where roots get in. Tree roots cause the majority of the roughly 12,000 sewer blockages Sydney Water deals with each year, and its own research has linked blockages to 651 different tree species. On established, tree-lined streets like Kirribilli’s, a camera inspection before clearing tells you whether a blockage will keep coming back. The inter-war walk-up blocks along Kirribilli Avenue and Waruda Street have a different problem, units typically share vertical stacks, so a blockage on one floor can quickly become everyone’s.
Suburbs we service near Kirribilli include Milsons Point, Lavender Bay, McMahons Point, North Sydney, Neutral Bay, Cremorne, Cammeray, Crows Nest and Waverton.
In Writing, Every Time
Our Ready Set Plumb Guarantees
The number on your quote is the number you pay. Every job comes with three things in writing, so you’re never relying on a verbal promise.
Fixed Price Guarantee
You’ll get a fixed price before we start. That’s the price you pay, no estimates, no surprises at invoice time.
Lifetime Labour Guarantee
If our workmanship fails, we come back and fix it, for as long as you own the home.
Turn Up On-time Guarantee
We’ll give you a 2 to 3 hour timeslot so you can plan your day as needed and we’ll keep you updated.
How it works
What happens when you call
Four steps, no run-around, from the moment you ring to the lifetime guarantee on your invoice.
You ring, we answer
Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You’ll speak to someone who knows plumbing, not a call centre passing a message along.
We book a specific time
We book a 2 – 3 hour timeslot that suits you so you can plan your day. For emergencies, we tell you the earliest realistic arrival before we hang up, often within the hour.
$0 call-out & fixed quote
Your licensed plumber, a member of the Ready Set Plumb team, never a subcontractor, arrives at the agreed time, assesses the job, and gives you a fixed price in writing before any work begins.
Work done, lifetime guarantee
If you accept the quote, the work is completed, the area is cleaned up, and you receive an itemised invoice. Your lifetime labour guarantee is included on the invoice.