Licensed local plumbers, on the Lower North Shore.
Blocked drains, hot water, leaks, gas and emergency repairs for Gordon homes, businesses and strata — with a fixed price agreed before the work starts.
No callout fee on eligible jobs · Free quotes
Granted in 1821 and opened up by the North Shore railway, Gordon became the administrative centre of Ku-ring-gai and filled out with Federation-era homes on large garden blocks.
The most apartment-heavy suburb on the Upper North Shore — 48.3% of occupied dwellings are flats, against 45.3% separate houses. Almost all of that unit stock sits close to the station, ringed by the original house blocks.
Two eras in one suburb: apartment buildings with shared stacks near the station, and Federation houses whose drainage may be a century old a few streets away.
These jobs come up here more than they come up elsewhere. They follow from what Gordon is built from, when it was built, and what it sits on.
Gordon is 48.3% apartments and 45.3% houses. A stack serving a whole block and a century-old private house drain are different jobs, and in Gordon they are neighbours.
Off the Pacific Highway the housing is Federation-era on large blocks, and a good share of it has never been re-plumbed.
The suburb sits on the ridge and falls away both sides, so stormwater has a fast path and finds anything undersized.
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 Gordon 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 along the Pacific Highway at around 145 metres, falling away into gullies on both sides.
Ku-ring-gai has one of the highest tree canopy covers of any council in the region — between 45% and 49% — and the council’s Urban Forest Strategy aims to increase it. Bushland reserves run through the gullies either side of the ridge.
Gordon sits in the Ku-ring-gai Council, postcode 2072. Work needing a compliance certificate is lodged the same way across the LGA.
Local figures sourced from: Ku-ring-gai Urban Forest Strategy — Ku-ring-gai Council · ABS 2021 Census QuickStats — Gordon (NSW)
Railway-subdivision country: the North Shore line opened these streets up between 1890 and 1915, and where the original drainage survives it is now over a century old and jointed.
Two eras in one suburb: apartment buildings with shared stacks near the station, and Federation houses whose drainage may be a century old a few streets away.
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.
Gordon is genuinely mixed — 45.3% separate houses, 48.3% flats or apartments and 3.5% semis or townhouses — so the answer depends on which of those you are in.
In a freestanding house: you are responsible for the wastewater pipes between your property and the point of connection. Sydney Water maintains the main. A Sewer Service Diagram shows where your private pipework actually runs.
In a strata block: section 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) makes the owners corporation responsible for common property — generally any pipe serving more than one lot.
Sources: Sydney Water — maintaining your service · Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW)
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 Gordon 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.
Split by housing type — building management for the unit stock near the station, and large garden blocks elsewhere where the constraint is distance from the street to the line.
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 Gordon:
Voyager runs 24/7 for urgent work in Gordon. How fast depends on where crews are at the time, but genuine emergencies — burst pipes, sewage overflows, suspected gas — are prioritised over booked jobs. Call 0485 028 787 and describe what’s happening.
Strata and freestanding on the same street. Gordon is 48.3% apartments and 45.3% houses. A stack serving a whole block and a century-old private house drain are different jobs, and in Gordon they are neighbours.
It depends which kind of property you are in — Gordon is 45.3% houses and 48.3% apartments. In a house you maintain the pipes from your property to the point of connection, and Sydney Water maintains the main. In a strata block, common property is the owners corporation’s. Villas and townhouses are the grey area and worth checking first.
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. Two eras in one suburb: apartment buildings with shared stacks near the station, and Federation houses whose drainage may be a century old a few streets away. A camera inspection shows whether you’re dealing with a one-off or a damaged pipe that will keep catching.
Split by housing type — building management for the unit stock near the station, and large garden blocks elsewhere where the constraint is distance from the street to the line. We work that out before quoting, because on constrained sites it decides which repair method is realistic.
Often not. Gordon is the one Upper North Shore suburb where a job is as likely to be strata as freestanding. Establishing which before quoting is the difference between dealing with an owners corporation and dealing with you. 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. Whether it is a strata job or a house job decides the price before anything else. On a common-property stack the owners corporation carries it; on a Federation house you are the whole line, and the garden above it costs money to reinstate. 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.
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 13 August 2026
