The importance of as constructed plumbing drawings

How many times do you go to a job to investigate a plumbing or gas problem for the first time and no one knows where anything discharges to or how to isolate anything?  Far too many times!!

Usually in an emergency situation we find ourselves at a job where we are expected to unblock a drain or fix a burst water pipe in an absolute hurry, but we have never been to this particular property before and no one on site has any idea about where we can find an isolation valve or an inspection opening for the sewer and storm water drains.

When it comes to commercial property the value of as constructed drawings is the equivalent of gold for a plumber.  For us as licensed plumbers to come to a business we have never attended before and to have access to drawings which will point us in the right direction of how to safely fix a plumbing problem is priceless.

During the construction of a new build some plumbing firms will cut corners and not have as built plans drawn up (cutting corners), this just spells disaster for later years to come.  With a quick look at an as constructed drawing we can quickly identify if perhaps grass has grown over an IP or perhaps the dry wall company forgot to cut in an access hatch for an isolation valve on the gas lines.

At Mayfair Plumbing and Gasfitting we have our own in house team of draft people who draw all of our as constructed sewer, water, gas, storm water and infrastructure plans using the latest programs such as Auto CAD and BIM.  The benefit of using this technology is that it does not matter which one of our technicians we send to the job (if our construction team originally built it in Adelaide) they can always access our online data base of files from jobs we have constructed over the years to get an understanding immediately of how to best tackle to problem.

Overlay of hydraulic services installed inside multi story development