Every home, whether you’re in Scarborough or Vancouver, requires regular plumbing inspections. This simple, affordable service provided by licensed Scarborough plumbers can reveal a lot about your home’s plumbing, but it can also help you save money, experience better plumbing overall, and save you from plumbing surprises down the line. Here are just a few … Read more
The most common, and most expensive, way to discover that your basement leaks are to wait for a storm and see if it floods. Many Scarborough homeowners do this without even realizing it, also not knowing that they can often take care of many potential leakages long before the rain starts to fall and water … Read more
Building traps are common in many buildings in Scarborough. The older buildings especially may still have these devices, which can actually lead to the very problem they were designed to prevent: sewage backflow. If you are a Scarborough resident with building traps, you will need to have them replaced with more effective devices. But what … Read more
So you’re looking to hire someone to do some of your Scarborough drain repairs, but figuring out who to hire and why you should hire them can be a little bit difficult. Finding a plumbing company who’s competent, licensed, and affordable to do drain repair in Scarborough isn’t exactly the simplest task. What do you … Read more
Homeowners tend to think they’re at least amateur plumbers and, in many instances, they’re correct. You’re kind of a plumber when you fix that leaky faucet, or even when you unclog a sink. But you aren’t a plumber when it comes to keeping your Scarborough home up to code. If you are planning any sort … Read more
Drain clogs: the frustrating, tedious, often disgusting problem that everyone encounters at least once in their life. It’s often accompanied by its friends Panic and Mess. Hopefully, with this article, you can identify the slowing down of the drain before it gets to the point where it overflows and cleans your clogged drain before it … Read more
When it comes to installing a Scarborough sump pump in your home, before calling your local Scarborough plumbers, you might want to learn about the various options to choose from. The best pump for you will depend on what you need it for. Take a look at these two different types of sump pumps, and learn … Read more
Finding the right Scarborough plumbing service can be frustrating. There are a lot of choices and if it’s your first time dealing with a plumber, it can be overwhelming. Just like any other service, there are a handful of key areas to look at. When it comes to plumbing repairs, there are 4 areas you … Read more
There are few things as important to home ownership than basement waterproofing. In Scarborough, this is especially true because of the heavy rains and temperature changes that occur in the area. If you own a home in Scarborough, then you need to seek professional basement waterproofing advice from licensed Scarborough plumbers. Without it, you could … Read more
With spring rains just a few weeks ahead, this is a good time to check on your Scarborough backwater valve to make sure it’s ready (and able) to work hard. In the event of the sudden heavy downpour, we are almost certain to get at some point, your risk for a sewer backup increases exponentially … Read more
In most of the freestanding homes in Toronto and Scarborough, sump pump installations are commonplace. The pump protects your home from rising floodwaters by expelling them before they can reach a level at which they do damage. It’s not helpful to have a pump if it isn’t operating correctly, however, and like all machinery, these … Read more
With summer rains hitting the GTA hard over the past couple of months, residents in Toronto have been hard hit by floods. In particular, people living in freestanding houses in the east are fuming over the problems they have experienced with basement flooding in Scarborough. On July 22, a thunderstorm brought almost 90 millimeters of … Read more