Licensed local plumbers, on the Lower North Shore.
Blocked drains, hot water, leaks, gas and emergency repairs for Chatswood homes, businesses and strata — with a fixed price agreed before the work starts.
No callout fee on eligible jobs · Free quotes
Residential settlement began in 1876 and grew with the opening of the North Shore railway line in 1890, accelerating again after the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in 1932.
Two suburbs in one. A high-density core of residential towers around the station and the commercial centre, ringed by older housing on the surrounding streets. At the 2021 census 67.6% of occupied dwellings were flats or apartments across 11,129 private dwellings — the largest housing stock in this group by a wide margin.
The towers run shared stacks and common-property drainage where one blockage affects multiple lots at once. The surrounding streets were settled from the 1870s, so their house drains are among the oldest in the area and the most likely to be original.
These jobs come up here more than they come up elsewhere. They follow from what Chatswood is built from, when it was built, and what it sits on.
Chatswood has the largest housing stock in this group — 11,129 private dwellings, two thirds of them apartments. The characteristic job is a blockage in a shared stack, where the fault, the symptom and the responsibility can all sit in three different places.
The commercial strip carries a heavy concentration of food businesses. Grease that cools and sets in a drain line is one of the most common causes of repeat blockages in the centre, and it needs jetting rather than a cable to actually clear.
Residential settlement here began in 1876 and grew with the railway in 1890, so the houses on the surrounding streets sit on drainage older than almost anywhere else nearby. On those blocks a camera inspection tells you far more than a plunger.
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 Chatswood 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:
The high point of the area at about 114 metres, and the administrative centre of the City of Willoughby. Ground falls away east and west.
Established plantings through the older residential streets, with mature root systems sitting alongside drainage laid generations ago.
Chatswood sits in the City of Willoughby, postcode 2067. Work needing a compliance certificate is lodged the same way across the LGA.
Local figures sourced from: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats — Chatswood · Chatswood, 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 Chatswood, 67.6% 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 27.9% of Chatswood 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 Chatswood 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.
In the towers and mixed-use buildings, getting to the work means booking through building management, using a loading dock and often a service lift. That is normal here and we plan for it. Parking around the centre is restricted, which matters for jobs needing equipment on site.
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 Chatswood:
24/7, including nights, weekends and public holidays — there is always someone on the line for Chatswood. 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.
High-rise stacks and common-property lines. Chatswood has the largest housing stock in this group — 11,129 private dwellings, two thirds of them apartments. The characteristic job is a blockage in a shared stack, where the fault, the symptom and the responsibility can all sit in three different places.
Usually the owners corporation, if the pipe is common property. 67.6% of homes in Chatswood 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. The towers run shared stacks and common-property drainage where one blockage affects multiple lots at once. The surrounding streets were settled from the 1870s, so their house drains are among the oldest in the area and the most likely to be original. 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. In the towers and mixed-use buildings, getting to the work means booking through building management, using a loading dock and often a service lift. That is normal here and we plan for it. Parking around the centre is restricted, which matters for jobs needing equipment on site. We work that out before quoting, because on constrained sites it decides which repair method is realistic.
Often not. Chatswood is the suburb where strata and commercial work dominates: shared stacks, grease from food tenancies, and access that gets booked through a building manager rather than a homeowner. It needs a different approach from a job on a freestanding house. 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. Two things move the price in Chatswood. In the towers, coordinating building access and working around a service lift adds time before anyone touches a pipe. In the commercial strip, grease-related blockages generally need jetting rather than a cable to actually clear — which sits at the higher end of the drain-clearing range but is far cheaper than clearing the same drain three times. 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 Chatswood, 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
