A leaking pipe can cause major problems for your entire home. If you ignore even what appears to be a small leak long enough, the water can wreak havoc through your home. Poor water quality, warped and stained walls, invasive black mold, and flooding are some of the ways leaky pipes can damage your whole…

If you’re tired of scrubbing limescale from your faucets and shower heads, it may be time to install a water softener. Water naturally has a variety of minerals such as calcium and magnesium. Whether a water supply is considered “hard” or “soft” depends on how much of these minerals are in your water. Soft water…

Drip. Drip. Drip. There are few things more annoying than a leaky faucet. It’s a constant reminder that you’re wasting water. Leaks can stain sink surfaces, corrode drains, tax plumbing lines, burn needless energy (when the leak is hot water), and waste water.  Unchecked plumbing problems can really hurt your wallet and haunt you when…

You might not spend a lot of time thinking about your toilet, but toilets have the dubious honor of being the main source of water use in the home, accounting for nearly 24 percent of an average home’s indoor water consumption*. Older, inefficient toilets can use as much as 9.8gallons per flush! Recent advancements in…

A shower head replacement can be an affordable way to take your showers from mundane chore to mini spa moment. Over time, shower heads can become clogged with hard water residue and suffer reduced spraying capacity, or just straight-up break. If you’re looking to install a new shower head, get in touch so we can…

If you’re already the proud owner of a garburator, you’ll know that a garburator shreds food scraps into small pieces to enable you to wash them down the drain without causing damage to your plumbing systems. A garburator is usually connected to the drainage under the kitchen sink. Like many kitchen appliances, garburators come in…

Poly-B (polybutylene) is a flexible plastic plumbing piping that was commonly used in homes built between 1978-1995. Poly-b was popular with builders as it was much cheaper than copper piping, and it was installed in over 700,000 Canadian homes. One major issue with Poly-B pipes is that while they may look fine from the outside, they may be slowly deteriorating…

Whether the sink, toilet, tub, or drain, when you take on a DIY home plumbing job, it can go from “manageable” to full-on “disaster” in a matter of minutes. Many homeowners will start a plumbing project, but quickly end up over their heads in tools, parts, blueprints, sludge, and water. Plumbing is the most complicated…

Residential plumbing issues can range from seemingly minor problems to major emergencies that can’t wait to be fixed. Most of the time we take our sinks, toilets, showers and appliances for granted, so when there is an issue it can be extremely frustrating. As experts in plumbing and customer service, we have extensive knowledge of…