Eveleigh is not like Leichhardt or Petersham, where rows of old terraces and busy restaurant strips set the pace for local plumbing work. Here, most of our calls come from the offices, cafés and converted railway buildings of South Eveleigh, along with the social housing townhouses and apartment estates that make up much of the suburb’s housing. Civic Plumbing is based next door in Redfern, so we can reach any site in Eveleigh within minutes and keep businesses, building managers and residents running smoothly.


Eveleigh is one of the smallest suburbs we work in, with only a small number of residents surrounded by offices, shops and old railway buildings. Most of the homes we visit here are newer townhouses and apartments, so we rarely come across the cracked clay sewers and rusted galvanised pipes we deal with in neighbouring suburbs. The bulk of our residential bookings come from housing tenants, and those jobs are usually blocked drains, worn tapware or tired hot water units rather than major pipe failures. Every plumber we send is licensed with NSW Fair Trading and fully insured.
Our local plumbing team is only a few minutes from Eveleigh, so a blocked toilet in a townhouse or a hot water fault in an office can be looked at quickly. For housing tenants, that means less time waiting with a fault and less disruption to everyday life.
Commercial buildings, food venues and social housing estates make up most of our work in the suburb. These four jobs come up more than any others.

Food outlets, cafés and busy office kitchens in South Eveleigh send grease and food waste down their drains every day, and townhouse estates see their share of blocked toilets and sinks, so we clear lines with high-pressure jetting and confirm the result with a CCTV camera.

End-of-trip showers, staff kitchens and older townhouse units all put pressure on hot water systems, so we repair, upsize or replace gas, electric and heat pump units to match real demand, with commercial work scheduled outside office hours.

Worn mixer taps, leaking shower recesses and dripping cisterns are common in Eveleigh’s residential estates and busy office washrooms, and we locate and fix the source with leak detection equipment before water damages floors or ceilings.

Fit-outs inside the heritage railway workshop buildings call for careful pipe routing around original brickwork and steelwork, so we plan rough-in and fit-off with your builder and building owner to suit both the tenancy and the heritage structure.
Civic Plumbing is family-owned, and Chris stays across every Eveleigh job, whether it is a café kitchen, an office washroom or a townhouse on a housing estate. Planning a fit-out or upgrade that needs approval? We can supply the plumbing documentation your certifier, Sydney Water or the City of Sydney may request, so your project keeps moving.




Repairs in social housing are usually arranged through your housing provider’s maintenance line, so it is best to report the problem to them first. When a provider engages us for the job, we contact you to arrange a suitable time and explain what we are fixing.
Yes. We can complete site inductions, work within building rules and schedule jobs after hours so tenants are not disturbed. Each job comes with a written report, which makes it easy to keep maintenance records up to date.
Hot water demand in end-of-trip facilities peaks sharply in the morning, when many riders shower at once. We check the size and recovery rate of your current system and recommend extra capacity, a continuous-flow upgrade or a combination of both.
Yes. Converted railway buildings often have thick masonry walls, original steel structures and limited ceiling space, so pipe routes need careful planning. We work with your builder and the building owner to place new plumbing where it does the least harm to the original structure.
If your property has a testable backflow prevention device, Sydney Water requires it to be tested at least once a year by an accredited plumber. Annual testing confirms the device is stopping contaminated water from flowing back into the mains supply.
Very quickly. Our base in Redfern is only a few minutes’ drive away, so urgent faults in offices, food venues and homes can usually be attended soon after you call.
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The suburb takes its name from Lieutenant J. R. Holden’s Eveleigh estate. Redfern station was originally called Eveleigh station.
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Construction on the workshops began in the early 1880s, and by 1908 more than 3,000 people worked there building steam locomotives. The site also produced munitions during both World Wars.
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The 1917 General Strike started with workers at the Eveleigh workshops. Earlier, in 1892, unions there had negotiated a six-day working week.
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In 1991, part of the workshops became the Australian Technology Park, set up with the University of Sydney, UTS and UNSW. Today, South Eveleigh combines offices, shops and an industrial museum inside the old Locomotive Workshop.
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The Seven Network and NEP Group run four HD television studios in South Eveleigh. Shows such as MasterChef Australia have been filmed there.
From our Redfern base, we look after properties in Eveleigh and nearby suburbs, including: