Residential plumbing for Newmarket homes

What a home visit covers

• Drains: kitchen grease, bathroom hair, floor drains full of silt, plus the building drain running to the property line.
• Hot water: tank thermostats, burners, anode rods, relief valves and full replacements, gas or electric.
• Basement water defence: sump pumps, check valves, discharge lines and backwater valves on the sanitary lateral.
• Supply lines: pinhole leaks in copper, failed shut-offs, old galvanized runs and frozen hose bibs.
• Fixtures: toilets, faucets, shower valves, kitchen sinks and dishwasher hookups.

Signs your house needs a plumber now

• More than one fixture gurgles or backs up at the same time.
• The water meter keeps turning with every tap shut.
• Rusty or lukewarm water out of a tank older than about ten years.
• Damp drywall, swollen baseboard or a musty cabinet.
• The sump pump runs nonstop, or never runs during a thaw.

Step by step at your house

1. Phone first. Explain what the water is doing and roughly how old the house is.
2. We find the shut-off before loosening anything, so a slip stays a small puddle.
3. We open and look at the actual pipe or fitting and tell you what failed.
4. You choose the fix from plain options, written down before work starts.
5. We load-test it: taps open, drains filled and dropped, joints watched dry.

Homes we see most

Each decade of Newmarket housing came with its own favourite pipe. Downtown brick homes sometimes keep their original cast iron and vitrified clay. Subdivisions from the 1970s and 1980s tend to have copper supply and ABS drains, with sump pits added later. Newer builds to the north and east usually run PEX manifolds and have backwater valves from the start. Knowing which you have helps us bring the right fittings on the first trip.

Pick the job

Start from the room or the symptom below, or simply call and describe it.