01Who calls us
Commercial plumbing in the east end is mostly small and mid-size buildings, not towers. These are the properties we see most:
- Restaurants, takeout counters and bakeries with grease interceptors
- Retail plazas and strip malls with shared sanitary runs
- Offices, clinics and dental suites with many washrooms on one stack
- Walk-up and mid-rise rental buildings and condo corporations
- Places of worship, community halls and daycare spaces
02What changes on a commercial job
The plumbing is the same trade, but the stakes and paperwork differ. A shared drain can shut several tenants at once. Backflow assemblies carry testing duties under the City of Toronto program. Grease handling falls under the municipal sewer use bylaw. We read the building before we touch it: which units share a line, where the cleanouts sit, who has to be warned before the water goes off.
You get a written note after each visit that an owner or manager can file: what failed, what we did, what we recommend next.
03The commercial pages
Pick the type of property or the kind of work below. Each page lists what we check, the steps we follow and the signs that mean you should phone now rather than at month end.