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If you're renting or own in Millswood, you've probably noticed the older homes around here have their own quirks — especially when it comes to water and drainage. The houses built pre-war are solid, but original clay pipes and aged copper fittings don't fix themselves. When the City of Unley starts moving earth along Greenhill Road, that's when pre-war homes in Millswood start showing their weak points. A quick inspection of your sewer line and hot water setup could save you a nasty call-out on a Sunday.
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Millswood's the kind of place where you've got 1920s and 30s timber-and-iron homes sitting comfortably on the edge of the Greenhill Road corridor, and that's exactly where things get interesting for plumbing. The City of Unley's got infrastructure works brewing along that stretch — nothing ripped up yet, but when council starts digging, ground movement can stress clay pipes that were laid a century ago and never designed to handle that kind of shifting. We're early days for us in Millswood call-wise, but the housing stock tells the story: original clay sewer lines with roots sneaking in at every joint, hot water units that haven't been touched in 15-plus years, and cast iron spouting that's been slowly rusting through. April brought heavy rain mid-month — 40 and 24mm back-to-back — which always wakes up the drainage issues in pre-war homes sitting on older underslab clay lines.
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Millswood's housing stock is almost entirely pre-war — clay sewer lines, original copper, hot water units that haven't been serviced properly. That era of construction was solid but it's all reaching the age where failure becomes normal, not unusual. Add council works along the Greenhill corridor and ground stress on old clay pipes, and plumbing in Millswood isn't a question of if but when.