Plumber & gasfitter in Lower Hutt.

Lower Hutt has the widest spread of housing anywhere Tony works — Petone's villas, the state-era weatherboards of the post-war build-out, seventies and eighties suburbia, and new townhouses going up on subdivided sections. Every era brings its own plumbing: galv in the villas, first-run copper in the state houses, and cylinders of every vintage.

The Hutt also has reticulated natural gas down many streets, which opens options most of the coast does not have — mains-gas continuous-flow hot water and gas hobs with no bottle swaps. Tony handles the installation and the compliance certificate.