Central Toronto
Plumbing in The Annex
If you own a converted house, label which shut-off controls which unit. At 2 a.m. that saves real damage.
- Which shut-off feeds which flat
- Hub joints on the original cast iron stack
- Slope of long branch drains to the stack
- Insulation around attic bathroom supply lines
Call a plumber to The Annex(365) 517-7215. A plumber picks up, day or night.
- Open 24/7. Phone answered every hour, holidays too.
- Licensed & insured. Trade licence details given on request.
- Shown before cut. You see the fault and the plan first.
- Gas by gas techs. Licensed gas technicians on gas heaters.
The Annex is a museum of Victorian and Edwardian plumbing. Many of its tall brick houses along Brunswick, Huron and Madison were split into flats decades ago, so one building can hold three kitchens, four bathrooms and a tangle of drains that were added in different eras.
The plumbing inside The Annex houses
- We regularly open walls here to find cast iron stacks joined to ABS branches, cloth-wrapped copper, and abandoned galvanized lines that were capped and forgotten.
- Rooming-house conversions often have long horizontal drain runs to reach the original stack, and those are where grease and hair settle.
What we get called for in The Annex
- Typical night calls in the Annex are a third-floor bathroom leaking into the unit below, a shared basement drain backing up when every tenant does laundry on Sunday, and a frozen line in an attic bathroom added without enough insulation.
Jobs often booked in The Annex
Before the plumber arrives
- Shut the main or the fixture valve the moment water is going somewhere it should not.
- Keep children and pets away from wet floors and outlets near the water.
- Clear a path to the basement, the cleanout and the water heater.
- Stop using sinks, showers and the washer if a drain is backing up.