Guides
Plumbing guides for homeowners
These guides explain the plumbing in your house the way a plumber would put it beside your furnace: what it is, what goes wrong and what you can do about it.
- Short steps you can do with basic tools
- When to stop and call written out
- Seasonal checks for sump pits and taps
- Written by people who do the work
Wrenches sorted by size
- Licence and insurance details on request
- Price agreed before work
- Phone answered day and night
- Richmond Hill & York Region
Some guides walk you through a job you can do yourself. Others explain a problem so you know what you are dealing with before you call. All of them are written for Richmond Hill houses and York Region conditions.
Expect real hands-on detail: which way a stop valve turns, how far a closet auger reaches, what hair and grease look like when they come out on the end of a cable, how to drain a tank heater through its bottom valve without scalding a hand, and when a weeping fitting is something to tighten versus something to cut out and replace. Where a job needs a licensed plumber or a permit, the guide says so plainly.