Plumbers for Burlington

Plumbing in Burlington

Burlington meets Oakville at Burloak Drive, and many of its neighbourhoods share Oakville’s housing eras and plumbing habits.

The houses and the pipes in them

Older lakeside areas have mid-century homes with cast iron and clay, while the north has modern systems.

Sumps and backwater valves come up after storms.

Older lakeside areas have mid-century homes with cast iron and clay, while the north has modern systems.

From the route notebook

South Burlington, near Lakeshore Road and the older streets around downtown and Aldershot, has a large stock of 1950s and 1960s houses with cast-iron drains, clay laterals and the occasional run of galvanized supply. Those are the streets where storm backups, root-choked laterals and seized house valves turn up most often.

North of the QEW and up toward Dundas, Burlington’s subdivisions from the seventies onward look a lot like Glen Abbey or River Oaks: copper supply, plastic drains, a sump in the basement and fixtures due for renewal. Because both cities share Halton Region’s water and sewer systems, advice about backwater valves and lateral responsibility applies equally on either side of Burloak Drive.

Drives from our Oakville base out to Burlington run along the QEW or Lakeshore, and we book Burlington calls with the same phone triage we use at home: what is leaking, since when, and whether anything finished is getting wet.

Work often booked here

1. Backwater valve installationstops sewer flowing back in
2. Gas tank water heater replacementold tank out, new tank in
3. Sump pump installationnew pit or new pump
4. Drain uncloggingany slow or stopped drain
5. Hidden leak detectionfinding water you cannot see

Nearby: Milton, Old Oakville, Bronte Creek. Businesses here: see commercial plumbing. One number covers them all: (365) 517-8536.