About the area
Scarborough Village sits around Markham Road and Kingston Road, between Cliffcrest and Guildwood. The housing is mostly 1950s bungalows and storey-and-a-half houses, with apartment buildings along the main roads. The Bluffs and Bluffer's Park are a short drive away.
The area has been settled for a long time, so plenty of homes have had one or two rounds of updates. That can mean a mix of copper, PEX and galvanized pipe inside the same basement, each with its own quirks.
What we see here
- Mixed-metal supply systems with corroded transitions
- Older apartment fixtures in need of parts
- Clay laterals with root intrusion
- Leaks in basement ceilings from old copper elbows
Water and sewer notes
On City of Toronto services. In apartment buildings, risers and main lines belong to the building, while the fixtures in each unit may be the owner's.
Mixed pipe: Where galvanized meets copper without a proper transition fitting, corrosion speeds up. Ask us to check those joints.
Services in the area
Next door
Cliffcrest is west, Guildwood east, and Eglinton East north.