“A matter of degrees” or “Close enough is not good enough” Australians love their metal roofing products and with the massive contemporary housing market boom, metal roofing like Colorbond and Zincalume has become the product of choice for the majority of building construction projects. Metal roofing comes...
“Shit runs downhill and pay day is Thursday” or “What lies beneath” Surely this is a simple as it gets for a plumber? The trouble is that it would seem some plumbers just don’t compute the first part of this saying (although they rarely miss the...
Is the Victorian Building Authority actually keeping a close eye on the audit of plumbing work to protect consumers from shoddy and potentially dangerous plumbing work? According to the VBA’s latest annual report, more than 368,000 regulated plumbing jobs were certified by licenced plumbers in Victoria...
The concept of harnessing the mighty power of the sun to provide energy for heating water is fantastic. Australians have embraced this green technology and no doubt this has been further encouraged by the government installation rebates that have assisted families in taking up the...
We recently spoke to a highly reputable and significant player in the insurance building industry, whose own company had recently inspected close to 1500 properties in Sydney after the heavy rain events experienced up north of late. We were interested to find out how many...
Summer time in Australia speaks of test cricket, flies, BBQ’s, holidays - and the sudden need to invest in or switch on your air conditioning system! Since 2008 it has been a regulation requirement that air conditioning systems are sized according to space and heat load...
There are a range of independent expert consultants available to consumers and who can potentially identify and document plumbing faults for a fee, but that’s all they can do – give you a written technical report. These reports can cost you anywhere from hundreds to...
With decades of experience, our uniquely qualified and skilled expert Plumbers and Loss Adjusters know what to do to help. We have the expertise to get to the bottom of what’s REALLY wrong, identify who’s accountable, work out what needs to be done and calculate...
Water is a powerful force. It’s responsible for the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. We humans capture it in reservoirs and pipe it into our homes, so we feel like we have it tamed. We may have it caged, but it is no more tamed...
Metropolis Solutions is the brain child of forensic plumbing expert Russell Kirkwood and insurance Loss Adjuster David Pockett. Between them, they have over six decades of experience in solving wicked plumbing problems and insurance disputes in both commercial and residential buildings. The Plumber Russell is a licensed...