Fix-It Right works right across Geelong and the Bellarine, and we've done more than 2,000 jobs around the region in the last two years. Nearly a thousand of those are around Belmont, Highton and the growth suburbs, and close to five hundred around Lara and the northern suburbs, so this is a region we're in every day.
Central Geelong is a city of its own: the waterfront and CBD, the grand period homes of Newtown and Geelong West, and the established and post-war suburbs north towards Corio and Norlane. The housing runs from Victorian and Edwardian homes with old sewers through to newer places in the growth suburbs, so we see the full range.
The call we get most across Geelong is blocked drains, more than a quarter of the work, and that fits the ground here. The clay soils through this part of Victoria move with the seasons and are hard on older pipework, and the mature trees in the established streets send roots into the old sewer lines. More than a third of the blocked drains we clear around Geelong involve tree roots, so when a drain blocks we camera the line and find the real cause rather than just clearing it.
The rest is the everyday plumbing of a big region: taps, toilets, hot water and leak detection, in family homes from the city out to the coast. Whatever it is, we carry what's needed to fix it on the spot wherever we can.
Out on the Bellarine and the Surf Coast, from Leopold and Ocean Grove to Torquay and the towns along the Great Ocean Road, it's a mix of permanent homes and holiday houses with a few hundred jobs between them, and coastal conditions that are harder on plumbing over time. We cover all of it, and each of those areas has its own page below.
Whatever the job and wherever you are in Geelong, we find the actual cause rather than patching the symptom, and we back it with our 10-year workmanship guarantee. That's been the Fix-It Right way from the start.