A suburb of three housing lives — worker's cottages, warehouse conversions and new apartments — often on the same street.
North Fremantle packs limestone-era cottages, converted industrial buildings and brand-new apartment blocks into a strip between the river and the beach. Each brings its own plumbing: heritage drainage under the cottages, improvised pipework in the conversions, and compliance obligations in the new builds.
Original earthenware and cast iron under 100-year-old cottages — roots, bellies and collapses that only a camera diagnoses honestly.
Industrial buildings converted to residential often carry pipework that made sense for a warehouse and doesn't for a home.
Newer blocks along the river carry backflow and TMV testing obligations. Registered tester 5698.
External units and fittings west of Stirling Highway weather hard — coastal-rated replacements pay for themselves.