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…
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…
This could be a cold winter for Torontonians. All the predictions are that we might have a difficult time, although it’s going to take a lot to beat last year’s ice storm and power outage. Either way, your home could…
Commercial plumbing repairs are often very different from residential repairs. For example, the size of the operation is usually larger, particularly when you’re looking at office buildings, hotels, and manufacturing facilities. The size doesn’t make the plumbing any less likely…
So you’ve been eyeing your friend’s new rain shower head for a while, and you’ve decided it’s time to install one of your own. Having a rain shower is a great experience, with gentle droplets that wash over your whole…
With the uptick in home renovations expected this year, bathroom remodeling is slated to be a busy activity for 2015. And whenever there’s a busy marketplace for a product or service, there are some people who are going to be…
It’s cold. Maybe not as much as last winter, but chilly enough by January standards. And the last thing you need just about now is a plumbing problem. Murphy’s law being what it is, that’s exactly why you’re likely to…
No matter how often it happens, every year when the temperatures plummet below freezing in Toronto, plumbing contractors get a flood (pun intended) of calls to come out and attend to kitchen sink plumbing. The reason? Homeowners get hit regularly…
Blocked sewer lines can happen to anyone, anytime. And when they do, it’s difficult to know what could have caused them without opening up the drains, which can be a messy and expensive process. To avoid the need to call…
There comes a time in the life of every home—and homeowner—when you need to change things up a bit. And all indications are that 2015 will be the year of the bathroom, in much the same way that 2014 saw…