Tornado Plumbing & Drains in Toronto, Ontario

Drain Cleaning Toronto

Toronto's oldest housing stock drains through 4-inch clay laterals and 3-inch cast-iron kitchen stacks, and both fail in predictable ways. In Cabbagetown, Leslieville and the Annex, Norway-maple and silver-maple roots find the mortared joints of a pre-1955 clay lateral; in the Victorian semis off Queen West and Roncesvalles, decades of grease scale the cast iron until the kitchen line runs at half bore. Most century homes have no accessible cleanout, so we work from the basement floor drain or pull a toilet rather than guess at the blockage. Drain cleaning starts at $145, and we camera the line after the clear so you see what caused it.

Emergency Plumber Toronto

Emergency calls in Toronto arrive in three shapes: sewage pushing up through a basement floor drain in a combined-sewer neighbourhood during a July thunderstorm; a burst supply line in the unheated crawlspace of a century home off the Danforth in February; and a failed stack or riser in a King West or Liberty Village tower where the concierge needs water back on before morning. Emergency dispatch starts at $225 and runs 24 hours a day, Monday through Saturday. We roll from 45 Chauncey Avenue in Etobicoke, so the Gardiner, the DVP and Lake Shore are the arteries — condo loading docks and downtown access get sorted before the truck leaves.

Drain Camera Inspection Toronto

Before anyone digs up a front garden in Riverdale or Bloor West Village, the line gets seen. A camera inspection starts at $180 and puts a recorded picture of your lateral on the table: root mass at a clay joint, a bellied run under a 1920s rear addition, or an offset where your private drain meets the City connection at the property line. Buyers in High Park and Leslieville use it as leverage on a century home; owners planning flood work use it because the City of Toronto subsidy covers 80% of a one-time plumbing assessment, up to $500. We add a sonde locate so any dig is a metre wide, not a trench.

Sewer Line Repair Toronto

In Toronto you own the drain from the property line into the house; the City owns the connection from the property line to the main under the road. That boundary decides the entire conversation, and a camera plus sonde locate settles it before a shovel moves. Sewer line repair starts at $2,400 — typically a root-shattered clay section under the front lawn of a pre-war semi in Riverdale, Parkdale or the Junction, or a cast-iron-to-clay transition rusted through at the foundation wall. We pull the excavation permit, protect the boulevard tree, and restore sod or interlock. Note that the City subsidy funds flood-prevention devices, not the sewer repair itself.

Trenchless Sewer Repair Toronto

Old Toronto lots run 18 to 25 feet wide, the front gardens are mature, driveways are often shared, and on streets like Palmerston, Shaw and Brookfield a century-old street tree sits directly over the lateral. Open-cut there costs more in restoration than in pipe. Trenchless CIPP lining starts at $2,400 and rebuilds the lateral from a single access pit: a resin liner cured in place inside the old clay, sealing the joints the roots came through, with no trench across the lawn and no cut into a busy street. It is not right for everything — a fully collapsed or badly bellied line still needs a dig, and the camera tells us which you have.

Backwater Valve Installation Toronto

Roughly a quarter of Toronto — the old core, the east end and the west end — is still on combined sewers that carry storm and sanitary flow in one pipe. When a summer cell parks over the city that pipe surcharges, and the lowest fixture on the street is your basement floor drain. A mainline backwater valve starts at $1,440 installed, with permit and City inspection. The City of Toronto Basement Flooding Protection Subsidy pays up to 80% per item — $1,600 per valve, up to two devices — inside a $6,650 per-property cap for work completed on or after November 12, 2025. Apply within two years; we prepare the documentation package.

Sump Pump Installation Toronto

In pre-1970s Toronto homes the weeping tile around the footings usually drains straight into the sanitary or combined lateral. That is fine until the street surcharges and the foundation drain becomes an inlet. The fix is to sever and cap the weeping tile and pump it to grade instead. Sump pump installation starts at $720, and the City of Toronto subsidy covers up to $2,250 toward the pump, $300 toward a battery backup and $400 toward weeping-tile severance and capping, all inside the $6,650 cap. Battery backup matters here: the storms that flood basements in Swansea, the Beaches and Davisville Village are the storms that drop the power.

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