Tornado Plumbing & Drains in Etobicoke, Ontario

Drain Cleaning Etobicoke

Etobicoke is post-war bungalow country: the numbered streets of New Toronto and Long Branch, Alderwood's side streets off Brown's Line, the Mimico blocks between Royal York and Park Lawn. Those homes sit on original clay laterals with a mortared joint every few feet, and the silver maples and Norway maples along the boulevards find every one of them. The first symptom is almost always a slow basement floor drain. Drain cleaning starts at $145 — we cut or snake the line, then camera it so you know whether you bought six months or six years. Our trucks roll from 45 Chauncey Avenue, so Etobicoke is usually the first stop of the day.

Emergency Plumber Etobicoke

Our dispatch office is at 45 Chauncey Avenue, just off Dundas West near Islington — Etobicoke is the shortest drive we make, and it shows in the response times. Emergency calls start at $225 and we dispatch 24 hours Monday through Saturday. The Etobicoke emergency mix is predictable: sewage surcharging up through the floor drain in Mimico and Alderwood during a July downpour, burst copper in unheated Kingsway crawlspaces in January (burst pipe repair from $360), and no-water calls in the Humber Bay Shores towers along Marine Parade. Give the dispatcher your cross-street and we route straight from Chauncey.

Backwater Valve Installation Etobicoke

Etobicoke is part of the City of Toronto, so the Basement Flooding Protection Subsidy applies here: up to 80% of a backwater valve to a maximum of $1,600 per device, two devices per property, inside an overall $6,650 property cap, for work done on or after November 12, 2025. You apply within two years of the work. Tornado installs mainline valves from $1,440 with the permit and City inspection included, and we hand you the documentation the application asks for. The priority addresses are the surcharge-prone lakeshore blocks in Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch, and anywhere in Alderwood where the floor drain has ever burped during a storm.

Sump Pump Installation Etobicoke

South of the QEW the water table sits close to the surface — Mimico, Humber Bay, New Toronto and the Etobicoke Creek flats in Long Branch are all low and wet ground. Most bungalows down there still have weeping tile draining straight into the sanitary lateral, which is exactly why the basement takes water when the sewer surcharges. Severing that weeping tile and pumping it to grade is the real fix. Sump pump installation starts at $720. Toronto's subsidy covers up to 80% toward the sump itself (max $2,250), $300 toward a battery backup, and $400 toward the weeping-tile severance, all within the $6,650 cap.

Drain Repair Etobicoke

When a cleaning only buys a few months, the lateral itself is the problem. In The Kingsway, Sunnylea and Humber Valley Village it is 1920s-1940s clay pipe under a long front lawn, failing at the joints beneath the canopy. In Rexdale, Willowridge and Kingsview Village it is more often 1960s clay or fibre pipe crushed under the driveway. A camera inspection from $180 with a sonde locate tells us exactly where and how deep before anyone lifts a paver. Drain repair starts at $400 for an accessible spot repair. Toronto's flood subsidy does not cover drain or sewer repair — only the prevention devices — so we quote the repair separately and honestly.

Trenchless Sewer Repair Etobicoke

The Kingsway, Thorncrest Village and Princess Gardens have the two things that make open-cut excavation miserable: sixty-foot front lawns under mature canopy, and interlock or heated driveways. Trenchless CIPP lining from $2,400 rehabilitates the clay lateral from a single access pit — the Tudor frontages, the boulevard maples and the driveway all stay where they are. We camera and locate first (from $180); if the pipe has fully collapsed or holds a belly, we say so and quote open-cut sewer line repair from $2,400 instead. Worth knowing before you budget: the City's flood subsidy funds prevention devices, not sewer repair.

Basement Waterproofing Etobicoke

Long Branch and Alderwood sit on the Etobicoke Creek floodplain — Marie Curtis Park exists because Hurricane Hazel took the houses that stood there in 1954. Mimico Creek does the same thing on a smaller scale through Mimico and Humber Bay. Add finished basements in post-war bungalows built with no membrane, no drainage layer and a single floor drain, and you get the calls we take every August. We start with a camera and a walk of the lot drainage, not a sales pitch: sometimes it is a downspout discharging two feet from the foundation, sometimes it is interior weeping tile and a sump. Toronto's subsidy funds the sump ($2,250) and weeping-tile severance ($400) — not the membrane or the excavation.

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