At your service since 1974
Chadoak Plumbing & Drainage
Chadoak is an award winning plumbing company providing quality workmanship since 1974. Based in Clayton, it has grown to become one of the largest and most reputable plumbing and building maintenance businesses in Melbourne.
Employing experienced and knowledgeable personnel, as well as owning their own equipment, gives Chadoak the ability to respond with efficiency to the plumbing needs of commercial or industrial enterprises nationally.
When you work with Chadoak, a service manager will be assigned for your business and will work with you through the design and planning stage of the project, the implementation of the works and, once completed, schedule regular system checks for the business.
In a fast paced and changing business world you need plumbing support that you can rely on. So, with Chadoak as part of your team you can expect proactive management of your maintenance program through regular plumbing audits and risk assessments to make sure there is continued production efficiency.
NUMBERS SPEAK
QUICK COMPANY STATS
1974
Operating Since
130
Experts Employed
150
Project Completed
10
Industries Served
Some of the clients we work with
OUR CLIENTS
Hutchinson Builders
Hansen Yuncken
Gearon Civil
Hacer Group
Cross Yarra Partnership
The History of Chadoak
OUR HISTORY
The Splinter
Richard ‘Dick’ Griffin left his brother’s plumbing company in 1963 to start his own. His first big job – a sewer – came at the perfect time: his seventh child had been born five days before and he only had £33 in the bank.
Backyard Operations
Four years later, Dick had a successful business operating out of the backyard of the family home and mainly serviced the suburbs of Chadstone and Oakleigh. The company’s name was changed to Chadoak Plumbing and Drainage. The family business expanded as Dick took his son Paul on as his first apprentice and then employed two more of his sons, Peter and Jim.
Brothers United
Soon Jim and Peter joined with another of their brothers Kevin, a qualified plumber, to take over Chadoak Plumbing and Drainage in 1974. History was created. Mary Griffin (Dick’s wife and the boys’ mother) says, “From a small backroom [the boys] ran the business. At times they didn’t take wages, but they managed to build it up gradually with a lot of long hours and hard work.”
Moving Around
In 1994, the Griffin brothers moved Chadoak to a rented factory in Dalgety Street, Oakleigh and then to Ricketts Road, Mt Waverley.
The First Factory
On 11 June 1998, Kevin left the business. On the same day, Jim and Peter bought their first factory in Notting Hill.
Clayton Factory
Chadoak Plumbing and Drainage continued to grow. Six years later Jim and Peter bought a bigger factory at 168-188 Wellington Road, Clayton, where they continue to expand.
Expansion
The number of Chadoak staff (including plumbers, apprentices, machine operators, estimators, administration staff etc.) has grown exponentially. Chadoak Plumbing and Drainage now employs over 130 people, making it one of the biggest plumbing companies in Melbourne.