Licensed local plumbers, on the Lower North Shore.
Blocked drains, hot water, leaks, gas and emergency repairs for North Ryde homes, businesses and strata — with a fixed price agreed before the work starts.
No callout fee on eligible jobs · Free quotes
A post-war residential suburb that now sits against the Macquarie Park business and university precinct.
58.0% separate houses with a substantial 30.2% apartment share — a higher unit proportion than New South Wales overall.
Post-war house drainage across most of the suburb, with newer apartment stock added along the corridor towards Macquarie Park.
These jobs come up here more than they come up elsewhere. They follow from what North Ryde is built from, when it was built, and what it sits on.
Most of the detached housing went in after the war, so a large share of the suburb’s drainage is around seventy years old at once.
Newer apartment stock along the corridor sits beside decades-old house drainage, with very different service arrangements.
Bushland reserves put mature root systems against private lines on the eastern streets.
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 North Ryde 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:
On the ridge between the Lane Cove River and the Macquarie Park corridor.
Established garden planting on the post-war blocks.
North Ryde sits in the City of Ryde, postcode 2113. Work needing a compliance certificate is lodged the same way across the LGA.
Local figures sourced from: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats — North Ryde
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.
North Ryde is genuinely mixed — 58.0% separate houses, 30.2% flats or apartments and 11.7% 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 North Ryde 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.
Post-war blocks with reasonable side access, though properties backing onto the Lane Cove valley have long runs from the street.
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 North Ryde:
Voyager runs 24/7 for urgent work in North Ryde. 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.
Post-war drainage reaching the same age. Most of the detached housing went in after the war, so a large share of the suburb’s drainage is around seventy years old at once.
It depends which kind of property you are in — North Ryde is 58.0% houses and 30.2% 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. Post-war house drainage across most of the suburb, with newer apartment stock added along the corridor towards Macquarie Park. A camera inspection shows whether you’re dealing with a one-off or a damaged pipe that will keep catching.
Post-war blocks with reasonable side access, though properties backing onto the Lane Cove valley have long runs from the street. We work that out before quoting, because on constrained sites it decides which repair method is realistic.
Often not. Post-war housing means drainage of a consistent age — most of it now around seventy years old — with a newer apartment layer on top of it. 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. Post-war drainage reaching the same age together means what is found on inspection is often worse than what was described. A camera first is cheaper than a revised quote. 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
