What the age of a street tells us before we arrive
The year a house was framed predicts most of what we will find when we open a wall or pull a floor drain cover. So the opening thing we ask a caller is which street the house sits on.
- Downtown and Peel Village: cast-iron stacks, lead-caulked hubs, clay or early plastic laterals, plus galvanized supply pipe so choked by scale that a second-floor shower only trickles.
- Bramalea sections: sixties and seventies drains now fifty years old, copper supply with pinholes at the hot side, floor drains with no backwater protection.
- Heart Lake, Professors Lake, Fletchers Creek: eighties and nineties builds where Poly-B supply pipe and its crimp fittings still turn up behind drywall.
- Springdale, Castlemore, Bram East, Mount Pleasant: ABS drains, PEX supply, deep sump crocks that cycle hard every spring, and many basement units sharing one water heater.
Sewers, storms and low ground
Brampton is cut by the Etobicoke Creek and Fletcher's Creek valleys, and houses on the low side of those catchments see more floor-drain backups when the storm and sanitary systems are loaded. On those streets we spend a lot of time scoping laterals, cutting tree roots out of clay joints and fitting backwater valves into the main drain.
Every place we cover
- Downtown Brampton
- Bramalea
- Springdale
- Heart Lake
- Castlemore
- Mount Pleasant
- Fletchers Meadow
- Sandalwood Heights
- Credit Valley
- Churchville
- Snelgrove
- Gore Meadows
- Vales of Castlemore
- Peel Village
- Westgate
- Professors Lake
- Bram East
- Countryside Villages
- Brampton West
- Caledon
- Bolton
- Georgetown
- Malton
- Meadowvale
Questions about this job? Call (365) 413-9125 and talk to a plumber.