Category Archives: General
Owning A Plumbing Business Is Easy. Isn’t It?
“You have overcharged us because I rang three other plumbers and told them what you charged us for that job and they all agree you have overcharged us.” This was I phone call we received at Whywait Plumbing last week. … Continue reading
Gold Coast Water Revived But At What Cost
Currently receiving publicity is the Myan calendar which predicts the end of the word in December 2012. The real translation though is “A time of great change.” Not so much the end but more the beginning of a new era. … Continue reading
Are Cleaners Able to Legally Undertake Plumbing Work?
Increasingly there is a tendency by commercial building owners and managers to require their cleaning contractors to undertake work tasks that are legally plumbing. Cleaners undertaking plumbing tasks are quite simply breaking a number of laws as are their employers … Continue reading
Drink Water & Avoid Dehydration
Water is not only the essence of life it is the basis of life as water is the foundation of the human body. Like any structure if the foundation is poor then strength and longevity are reduced. In South East … Continue reading
Christmas Holiday’s Create Plumbing Emergencies
The traditional Christmas/New Year holiday period are the busiest time of the year for the plumbers at Whywait Plumbing, with blocked drains and blocked toilets. More often than not the problems only become apparent when family and friends descend en … Continue reading
Just in Time for Christmas a New Toilet
Everyone has the nightmare at Christmas of what to buy the person who has everything. Well one solution that Whywait Plumbing Services and PlumberDirect have is a new toilet suite. No it is not the Numi toilet suite costing $6390 … Continue reading
Meet Shane Sadler from Whywait Plumbing
If you don’t train for the future, you don’t have a future. Whywait Plumbing for this reason has always trained its plumbing technicians from their very beginning as an apprentice right through to them becoming a fully licensed plumber, drainer … Continue reading
Will PEX Pipes Create a Strange Taste in Drinking Water?
Traditionally most homes used copper pipe to circulate hot and cold water. Since the 1970′s plastic pipes have increasingly replaced the traditional copper or galvanised steel pipes. The last ten years have seen pipe-in-pipe systems commonly used to circulate water … Continue reading
For Toilet Connoisseurs A $6390 Toilet Suite
For toilet connoisseurs there is a parallel-universe, luxury toilet market where the bathroom throne costs more than a large widescreen plasma television. At Whywait Plumbing a good quality toilet suite fully installed starts at $268.55 and even a top quality … Continue reading
Maintaining Your Rainwater Storage Tank
It is now 4 years since the water management crisis in South-East Queensland was at its peak. Rainwater tanks were flavour of the month and were being sold and installed by every man and his dog. Unfortunately the panic by … Continue reading
