Rexdale houses and their plumbing
Rexdale was developed from the mid-1950s onward as one of Etobicoke's first large planned suburbs, named after the developer Rex Heslop. Its streets carry brick bungalows, semi-detached houses and townhouse complexes, along with apartment buildings near Kipling Avenue and Islington Avenue. The Humber River valley runs along its eastern side, and many households have lived here for generations, often adding basement suites or renovating as their needs change.
Homes from this period often have copper supply lines with cast iron or clay drains and laterals that are now well over half a century old.
What fails in these pipes
- Main drain blockages from aging laterals and root intrusion.
- Undersized water heaters in homes now serving larger households or basement suites.
- Worn copper lines developing pinhole leaks after decades of use.
- Basement bathroom additions needing new drains tied into older systems.
Where a house has been divided into two units, hot water demand often outgrows the original tank. Planning for that shift can solve years of lukewarm showers.
Jobs we take on here
Larger households sometimes find tankless water heater installation a good answer to running out of hot water, provided the gas supply and venting can accommodate it. For homes with aging, leaking lines throughout, repiping replaces the supply system in an orderly way. Drain cleaning, camera inspections, toilet and faucet repairs and basement bathroom work are all regular requests here as well.
Under the floor: what we open up
Rexdale houses from the 1950s and 1960s carry a lot of original copper and cast iron. We test the main shut-off, cut out pinholed copper, and clear basement drains that collect lint, grease and scale where the cast iron meets the clay lateral. Call (365) 816-2905 and describe what the water is doing at that fixture.