Plumbers for Wedgewood Creek

Plumbing in Wedgewood Creek

Wedgewood Creek is a northeast Oakville neighbourhood near Dundas and Eighth Line, mostly houses from the nineties.

The houses and the pipes in them

Supply is copper or PEX, drains are plastic, and most homes have a sump. Original equipment is wearing out.

Finished lower levels are common.

Supply is copper or PEX, drains are plastic, and most homes have a sump.

From the route notebook

Wedgewood Creek’s houses are now old enough that their first round of mechanical equipment is giving out together. On a single street in a single spring we may replace three sumps, two heaters and a handful of toilet fill valves, all original to the build. That pattern is predictable, and planning around it beats waiting for a failure.

Copper in these homes is generally sound, but we do find the odd pinhole on horizontal runs in the basement ceiling, often betrayed by a small green crust or a drip onto a storage shelf. A quick look along exposed copper once a year, especially near fittings, finds most of them while a short splice still fixes them.

We usually approach Wedgewood Creek by Dundas or Eighth Line, and most calls there are booked within the day. When several neighbours on one street ring about the same failure, it is a reminder that original equipment ages in step.

Work often booked here

1. Water heater repairno hot water, leaks, noises
2. Running and leaking toilet repairflappers, fill valves, base leaks
3. Hidden leak detectionfinding water you cannot see
4. Basement bathroom rough-instubs, slab cuts and venting

Nearby: Westmount, Burlington, Port Credit. Businesses here: see commercial plumbing. One number covers them all: (365) 517-8536.