Water filter installation, inner Melbourne and the bayside suburbs
Whole-house water filters installed across inner Melbourne and the bayside suburbs by a licensed plumber, where a whole-house install is possible. Fresh Tap is $2,990 fixed, the same price as anywhere else in metro Melbourne.
The price is the same here as everywhere in metro Melbourne
There is no travel charge and no zone loading for inner Melbourne or the bayside suburbs. The only things that can change your quoted number are published: $150 per metre if the install position is more than 1.5 metres from the meter, and $350 for a pressure reducing valve if your mains pressure tests over 500 kPa on the day. Both are confirmed in your price before you pay anything.
What we see in inner Melbourne and bayside
This is the one region where the honest answer is often a different product, and saying so is the point of this page.
Terraces, semis, units and apartments through Richmond, Fitzroy, Carlton, St Kilda and Prahran frequently have a shared meter, a meter bank serving the whole block, or no accessible external wall to mount a housing on. A whole-house filter needs its own meter and a wall, so if you are in an apartment or a unit on a shared supply, a whole-house install usually is not possible, and Pure Only at $1,490 is the product that works instead: a drinking water filter under the sink with its own tap, with no main line work required at all.
If you own a freestanding house in Brighton, Hampton or Beaumaris, Fresh Tap is straightforward and installs the same way it does anywhere else in metro Melbourne. If you are in a body corporate property, ask us before you assume either way, and send a photo of the meter arrangement so we can tell you plainly what is possible. Heritage overlays in some inner suburbs also affect what can be fixed to a street-facing wall, which is worth raising before the install day rather than on it.
Your water retailer here
South East Water and Yarra Valley Water both supply parts of this region, depending on the street. Your bill will tell you which one you are with, and either publishes an annual water quality report and current outage information. What is actually in Melbourne tap water.
Suburbs we install in across inner Melbourne and bayside
Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham, Black Rock, Beaumaris, Elwood, St Kilda, Albert Park, Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, Richmond, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Carlton, Northcote, Thornbury, Prahran, Malvern, Caulfield, Elsternwick