Licensed local plumbers, on the Lower North Shore.
Blocked drains, hot water, leaks, gas and emergency repairs for Artarmon homes, businesses and strata — with a fixed price agreed before the work starts.
No callout fee on eligible jobs · Free quotes
Artarmon traces back to colonial land grants made in 1794 and 1796, with William Gore’s grant in 1810 giving the suburb its name.
Artarmon is far more of an apartment suburb than it looks from the leafy streets. At the 2021 census 68.4% of occupied dwellings were flats or apartments and only 22.6% were separate houses. Federation-era cottages survive along Mowbray Road, and there is a substantial industrial area south of the Gore Hill Freeway.
With most of the suburb in apartment blocks, a large share of the plumbing here is shared: common stacks, common drainage lines, and a blockage that shows up in someone else’s bathroom before it shows up in yours.
These jobs come up here more than they come up elsewhere. They follow from what Artarmon is built from, when it was built, and what it sits on.
With more than two thirds of Artarmon’s dwellings in flats, a large share of the callouts here involve a stack serving several apartments rather than a pipe serving one. The tell is a blockage that appears in a ground-floor bathroom when the fault is two levels up. Clearing it from the affected unit alone usually just moves the problem.
The surviving cottages around Mowbray Road sit on some of the oldest house drainage in the suburb. Where the original line is still in the ground, joints are the weak point — and joints are exactly where roots get in.
The commercial and industrial area south of the Gore Hill Freeway generates a different class of problem from the residential streets: grease, solids and trade waste that domestic drain clearing is not designed for.
Most repeat blockages are a pipe problem, not a blockage problem. We look before we quote.
Every job below is handled by a licensed plumber, quoted before it starts, and covered by the lifetime labour warranty on eligible work.
Cleared properly, with a camera down the line to find out why it blocked.
Fix a cracked or root-damaged pipe without digging up the garden.
Burst pipes, sewage overflows and gas faults — 24 hours a day.
Repairs and replacements across electric, gas, solar and heat pump.
Find a hidden leak before anyone opens a wall or a slab.
Licensed gas work — appliances, new lines and suspected faults.
See what is actually in the pipe instead of guessing at it.
Isolate, repair and make good — usually the same day.
Get roof and surface water away from the house properly.
Describe what’s happening at your Artarmon property and we’ll tell you straight — including when the simple fix is the whole job.
What a job looks like here depends on what the suburb is built from and built on. Start with how people actually live in it:
Ridge-top ground at about 88 metres elevation, which makes it flatter and easier to work than the harbourside suburbs east of here.
The suburb keeps a leafy character despite the density. Wherever mature trees sit near older drainage, roots will find their way in through cracked joints — that is how most repeat blockages start.
Artarmon sits in the City of Willoughby, postcode 2064. Work needing a compliance certificate is lodged the same way across the LGA.
Local figures sourced from: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats — Artarmon · Artarmon, New South Wales — Wikipedia
Nobody likes ringing for a price and being told “it depends”. These are typical ranges across the Sydney market — not Voyager’s price list, but a realistic yardstick to judge any quote against, including ours.
| Drains and pipes | |
|---|---|
| Clearing a simple blockage | $150 – $400 |
| Clearing a blocked main sewer line | $300 – $600 |
| High-pressure jetting | $250 – $600 |
| Cutting tree roots from a line | $400 – $1,200 |
| CCTV drain inspection | $250 – $550 |
| Pipe relining, per lineal metre | $450 – $800 |
| Pipe relining, typical whole job | $4,000 – $10,000 |
| Excavate and replace, per metre | $300 – $600 |
| Repairs | |
| Leaking tap — washer or cartridge | $120 – $250 |
| Burst pipe, accessible | $250 – $500 |
| Burst pipe, underground | $800 – $2,500+ |
| Hot water, leaks and emergencies | |
| Hot water repair (element, thermostat, anode) | $150 – $550 |
| Hot water replaced, supplied and installed | $1,200 – $3,500 |
| Water leak detection | $250 – $600 |
| After-hours emergency attendance | $400 – $900 |
Hot water replacement above is supplied and installed — labour-only quotes look cheaper because they are not the same thing. And relining costs more per metre than digging, but that comparison ignores excavation, spoil removal and putting your driveway back, which is where dig jobs get expensive.
Voyager prices by the job, not by the hour, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
In Artarmon, 68.4% of homes are flats or apartments — so on most jobs here the first question is not what is wrong, it is whose pipe it is.
Under section 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), the owners corporation has to maintain and repair common property. Section 153 puts the opposite duty on a lot owner: not to cause a nuisance or hazard to other lots.
For the 22.6% of Artarmon properties that are freestanding houses, the line is simpler: you maintain the pipes from your property to the point of connection, and Sydney Water maintains the main.
Sources: Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) · Sydney Water — maintaining your service
Some problems wait for a booking. Burst pipes, sewage backing up, a hot water unit emptying itself into the floor and any suspected gas fault do not.
Voyager runs a 24/7 line for Artarmon and the rest of the Lower North Shore. When you call, say what’s happening, where it is, and whether water, sewage or gas is involved — that’s what decides how fast someone needs to be there.
Before we arrive: turn off the affected supply if it’s safe to do so, and move what you can away from the water. Don’t pour drain chemicals down a blocked line — it makes the pipe unsafe to inspect and rarely clears the blockage.
Most Artarmon work is in apartment buildings, so access usually runs through a building manager or strata manager rather than a resident — worth arranging before a booked job, though emergencies are handled as they come. On the residential streets, access is straightforward.
We assess access before quoting rather than discovering it on the day. On constrained sites it often decides which repair method is realistic, and that changes the price.
Storm season finds every drain that was never quite right. Better to know before it rains.
A short call is usually enough to tell whether it’s urgent, and what’s likely to be involved.
Where it matters, that means a camera down the line rather than a guess from the surface.
Priced by the job, not the hour. You approve it before anything starts.
You get told what caused it and whether anything else needs attention — including when the answer is nothing.
Voyager covers the whole Lower North Shore. These are the closest to Artarmon:
24/7, including nights, weekends and public holidays — there is always someone on the line for Artarmon. Arrival time depends on where crews are when you call, and genuine emergencies — burst pipes, sewage overflows, suspected gas — go ahead of booked work. Say what is happening when you call 0485 028 787 and you will be told honestly how long it will be.
Shared stacks in the apartment blocks. With more than two thirds of Artarmon’s dwellings in flats, a large share of the callouts here involve a stack serving several apartments rather than a pipe serving one. The tell is a blockage that appears in a ground-floor bathroom when the fault is two levels up. Clearing it from the affected unit alone usually just moves the problem.
Usually the owners corporation, if the pipe is common property. 68.4% of homes in Artarmon are apartments, and under section 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 the owners corporation maintains common property — which generally means any pipe serving more than one lot. A pipe inside your apartment can still be common property. We identify which it is before any work is authorised.
There’s no callout fee on eligible jobs, and quotes are free. You get a fixed price for the work before anything starts — priced by the job, not by the hour, so a job that takes longer than expected doesn’t cost you more.
Usually because the blockage was cleared but the cause wasn’t found. With most of the suburb in apartment blocks, a large share of the plumbing here is shared: common stacks, common drainage lines, and a blockage that shows up in someone else’s bathroom before it shows up in yours. A camera inspection shows whether you’re dealing with a one-off or a damaged pipe that will keep catching.
Usually yes, but access shapes the method. Most Artarmon work is in apartment buildings, so access usually runs through a building manager or strata manager rather than a resident — worth arranging before a booked job, though emergencies are handled as they come. On the residential streets, access is straightforward. We work that out before quoting, because on constrained sites it decides which repair method is realistic.
Often not. In a suburb where two thirds of homes are apartments, the question is usually whether the fault is inside your lot or on common property. Getting that right first decides who pays and who we deal with. Relining repairs the pipe from the inside, which leaves driveways, paving and established gardens intact. Whether it suits your pipe depends on its condition — that’s what the camera inspection determines.
Across the Sydney market a simple blockage runs $150–$400, jetting a main line $250–$600, and pipe relining $450–$800 per lineal metre with most whole jobs landing between $4,000 and $10,000. Those are market ranges rather than Voyager’s price list. In Artarmon the biggest variable is usually not the repair, it is whose repair it is. On a common-property line in an apartment block the cost is the owners corporation’s and gets shared across lots; on a line serving only your lot it is yours. Establishing that first is what stops a disputed invoice later. Access through a building manager can also add time to a booked job, though it rarely changes the repair itself. Voyager prices by the job, not the hour, and the price is agreed before work starts.
Yes — Voyager Plumbing holds NSW Contractor Licence 476657C, which you can check directly on the NSW Fair Trading register. All work is carried out by licensed plumbers and covered by public liability insurance.
Voyager Plumbing was founded by Mathew Veselcic, a licensed plumber, drainer and gasfitter who has held his own NSW contractor licence since December 2016. He is the nominated supervisor on the company licence that covers the work in Artarmon, and personally accountable for it.
Free quote, a fixed price agreed before the work starts, and someone on the end of the phone at any hour.
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Page reviewed and updated 2 September 2026
