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Most of Sylvania's housing went up between the 1940s and the 1970s, and the pipework under it is exactly the age you would expect. The brick homes filling the residential streets still run their original galvanised and earthenware lines.

That stock is why our after-hours phone rings the way it does. A galvanised run corrodes inwards for years, thins past what it can hold, then bursts with no warning drip.

Here is what that looks like on a callout:

• Galvanised bursts inside walls. The pipe lets go at a joint, and you notice it as water tracking down a cornice.
• Earthenware drainage that has shifted. Original clay runs crack on the shale-influenced ground under the older streets, then let roots and silt in.
• Renovation flexi hoses. Updated kitchens and bathrooms sit on braided hoses that fail suddenly, flooding a vanity cupboard.
• Hot water units well beyond their years. Plenty of tanks here run long past what the maker intended, and they go all at once.

The fibro cottages surviving between the renovations surprise people most, because a modern kitchen can sit on plumbing nobody has touched since it went in. Down on Belgrave Esplanade and The Esplanade, that gap between visible house and buried pipe is widest.

If the failure is a pipe, see burst and leaking pipes. If it is the drain, start with blocked drains.