- Service
- Plumbing for Condos and Multi-Unit Buildings
- For
- Condos, rentals and townhouse complexes
- Timing
- Around your opening hours
- Booking
- By telephone
Trouble that shows up in shared buildings
- Water staining a ceiling below a bathroom, with no obvious leak upstairs.
- A kitchen stack backing up into a lower-floor sink.
- Seized or missing shut-off valves in suites, so a small repair shuts down a whole riser.
- Low pressure on upper floors when demand peaks.
- Sewer odour in a corridor or parking level.
What is included on a building call
- Tracing the pipe from the symptom back to the unit, riser or common line it belongs to.
- Isolating the smallest section possible and notifying affected units through management.
- Repair or replacement of the failed section, valve or fitting.
- A written summary: location, cause, work done, follow-up suggested.
Common-element work
- Stack and branch jetting where grease and wipes build up.
- Camera inspection of the main building drain and lateral.
- Booster pump and pressure-reducing valve checks.
- Backflow preventer testing at the water service entry.
- Replacement of corroded risers in planned stages.
Working with boards and managers
- One contact: we take direction from the manager or the person named on the work order.
- Access planned: suite entries arranged in advance through management.
- Clear split: what sits in the unit and what is common element, as best the plumbing shows it. The declaration decides responsibility, not us.
Bench note
Owners: find the shut-off for your suite on a calm day, not during a flood. No valve in sight? Ask management; adding one is money well spent.
Phoned-in questions
Which owner covers a leak that crosses from one suite to another?
Your declaration and the policies in place settle that question. Our part is to record the source, the failed part and photos, so the board and adjusters work from facts.
Can you add shut-off valves to each suite?
Often yes, during planned work. We look at the layout and explain where valves can go and what isolation is needed while they are installed.