Name: Peter Keogh
Business: All Districts Plumbing
Established: 2006
Based at: Whiteside
What services does your business offer? Domestic and commercial plumbing repairs and maintenance, roof and gutter repairs, blocked drains, hot water systems, burst water pipes, taps, toilets and gutter guard.
What areas do your clients come from? Our work takes us from as far north as Ningi to as far south-west as Forest Lake.
What was your company’s first job? A year or so after I completed my apprenticeship I went out on my own so most of my work consisted of small jobs for the general public.
How did you make your first dollar? At school I worked in a hot dog van.
How did you get into your current line of work? Straight out of high school I originally started an electrical apprenticeship but after a few months I found the work too repetitive, so I changed over to a plumbing apprenticeship and I guess the rest is history.
Why is a business like yours so important? We can advise our customers on the most cost effective and environmentally friendly products available that will benefit them financially and will also benefit the environment.
What sort of clients does your business provide services to? We do a lot of work in the public sector but we also do work for a few real estate agents and a couple of government bodies.
Before your current job, what were your previous occupations? I have predominately always been a plumber.
What do your customers most appreciate about your services? As one customer said, we give good old fashioned service.
What is the best part of your job? Customer satisfaction, especially when you solve a problem for a customer that others in the industry have not been able to solve in the past.
What advice would you give to anyone considering working in your line of work? Be prepared for a lot of hard and quite often messy work and many challenges along the way too.
If you didn’t work in your current job, what job would you like to do? I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve heard this, but I would love to retire.
How do you spend your spare time? Usually running around with the kids and their sporting events.
Phone All Districts Plumbing on 3886 5944 or 0439 886 909.