Water filter installation, Melbourne's northern suburbs

Whole-house water filters installed across Melbourne's northern suburbs by a licensed plumber. 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 the northern 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 the north

This is where Every Tap is based, which is worth saying once and plainly.

The housing here splits two ways. The established suburbs, Preston, Reservoir, Coburg and Fawkner, are largely postwar brick veneer where the meter sits at the front boundary and some houses still have older internal pipework. That is worth knowing because a main line filter sits before the house and does not fix a fault that already exists inside it. The growth corridor, Craigieburn, South Morang and Roxburgh Park, is new estate housing where the meter is in a standard position at the front boundary, and the install here is usually the simplest kind there is.

Eltham, Diamond Creek and the fringe further out are the transition into more rural blocks, and some properties out that way run a tank as well as mains. If that describes your property, Tank Safe may be the more relevant conversation rather than Fresh Tap, and the form asks about your water source for exactly this reason.

Your water retailer here

Yarra Valley Water supplies the northern suburbs. Your bill and your annual water quality report both come from them, and they are the first call for a burst main or a scheduled flush before you buy anything. What is actually in Melbourne tap water.

Suburbs we install in across the north

Bundoora, Preston, Reservoir, Thomastown, Epping, Mill Park, South Morang, Greensborough, Macleod, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Coburg, Brunswick, Fawkner, Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park, Eltham, Diamond Creek, Montmorency, Watsonia, Bulleen, Templestowe

Which package suits the north

Fresh Tap, the three-stage whole-house filter, is the starting point for mains-connected homes across the north. Fresh Tap, $2,990 has the full specification.