Rainwater Tanks & Pumps

It comes down to three things: your roof catchment, your rainfall, and what the water is for. A tank that only supplies the garden can be modest. A tank supplying toilets and laundry needs more capacity, and full household supply on a rural block typically wants a much larger tank again.

As a rough local guide, every millimetre of rain on a square metre of roof yields about a litre of water, and the Mid North Coast gets generous rainfall by national standards. Anthony looks at your catchment, usage and site together and sizes the tank and pump for how your household actually uses water, including any BASIX requirement on new builds.

Yes, with the right setup. Plenty of rural properties around Kendall, Kew and the hinterland run entirely on tank water. The keys are enough storage for dry spells, a pump sized for your fixtures, decent filtration, and first-flush diverters keeping the worst of the roof runoff out of the tank.

On town-supplied blocks, a changeover valve lets the house draw from the tank and switch to mains automatically when the tank runs low, so you get the savings without ever running dry. Anthony plumbs the tank to the fixtures it should feed and commissions the whole system before handover.

You get a clear quote before work starts, not a surprise afterwards. For straightforward jobs Anthony can usually quote from a phone call and a photo or two. Bigger jobs like renovations, septic systems or tank installations get a site visit and an itemised written quote.

If something unexpected turns up once the work is open, you hear about it and approve the change before it happens. Where a repair is only going to buy you time, Anthony will tell you that up front, with rough costs for the longer-term fix, so you can make the call with real numbers in front of you.

Yes. Anthony holds NSW contractor licence 283413C covering both plumbing and gas fitting, and carries full public liability insurance.

That combination matters. Plenty of handymen will quote on jobs that legally require a licensed plumber, and if something goes wrong the insurance consequences land on the homeowner. Every job Anthony Martin Plumbing does is compliant, insured and, where the work requires it, backed by a compliance certificate you keep for your records and your insurer.

Anthony Martin Plumbing is based in Lake Cathie and works across the whole Mid North Coast, including Bonny Hills, Laurieton, North Haven, Dunbogan, Camden Head, West Haven, Kendall, Kew and Lakewood, plus the southern side of Port Macquarie.

Being local matters for more than convenience. Response times are shorter, travel costs stay out of your bill, and Anthony knows the housing stock in the area, from older fibro cottages on galvanised pipe through to new builds in the estates. If you are just outside these areas, call anyway. If the job suits, Anthony will travel for it.