Residential Plumbing in Burlington

What residential calls look like here

Most of our day is spent inside homes. The house might be a 1950s bungalow off Plains Road with a cast iron stack, a 1980s two-storey in Headon Forest with a builder-grade tank heater, or a newer Alton Village townhome with PEX lines and a sump pit under the stairs. The trades are the same; the parts we find behind the drywall change by street and decade.

• Kitchen sinks packed with grease, rice and coffee grounds
• Shower and tub traps wound tight with hair
• Toilets that rock, run or back up into the tub
• Water heaters that leak at the base or go cold by mid-shower
• Sump pumps that buzz in the pit while the water level keeps rising
• Pinhole leaks in older copper and frozen lines on outside walls

What happens on a house call

1. Ring us and describe what the water is doing and which fixtures are affected
2. We ask the build year and what pipe you can see at the main shut-off
3. A plumber arrives, lays drop cloths and opens the trap, cleanout or access panel
4. You hear the cause, the fix and the cost while the pipe is still whole
5. We repair, run water through every connected fixture and clean up

Signs you should call instead of waiting

• Water on the basement floor near the floor drain or heater
• More than one fixture slow at the same time
• A sewer smell that returns after you run the taps
• A ceiling stain under a bathroom
• A shut-off valve that will not turn

For anything on that list, ring (365) 414-5748. A plumber answers and can usually tell you over the phone whether it is a tonight problem or a next-morning one.

Every home service

The list below covers the residential repairs and installs we take on, grouped by the part of the house they live in. Each page lays out the checks, the parts that usually get swapped and the test we run at the end.