Fixture by fixture

Why we sort some work by fixture

When a homeowner calls, they rarely say they have a failed pressure-balancing spool. They say the shower goes scalding when someone flushes. So for the five fixtures we touch most often, we wrote a page that starts from the thing you can see and works back to the parts we actually pull: flappers, fill valves, cartridges, slip-joint washers, supply lines and high-loop drain hoses.

What each page covers

Each fixture page walks through the common failures we find in Newmarket houses, from the 1970s splits off Davis Drive to newer builds near Yonge and Mulock. You will read which shut-off isolates that fixture, what we bring in the truck, what we cut or unthread, and how we test before we pack up. Toilets get pulled and reset on a fresh seal. Faucets get rebuilt when parts exist and replaced when they do not. Kitchen sinks get a new trap and tailpiece set dry before the bowl goes in. Dishwashers get a proper air gap or high loop so the drain hose cannot siphon sink water back into the tub.

Before you call

Find the angle stop under the fixture and give it a quarter turn to see if it moves. If it is seized, leave it and tell us; we carry replacement quarter-turn stops and will swap it while the water is off at the main. Put a towel down, take a photo of any model sticker, and note how long the drip or run has been going on. That short list usually lets us arrive with the right cartridge in hand.