Appliance, plumbing, heating & gas services inToronto.

Downtown kitchens get measured twice before anything is ordered. A range that fits the opening will not always fit the hallway, and in a Toronto semi the question is usually settled at the stair turn rather than at the cabinet. We check the route in first, then the opening, then we set the machine.

Laundry is the Toronto job that gets underestimated. In converted houses through the Annex and Roncesvalles the pair lands in a second-floor closet or a basement where the joists and ducts sit low, and a stacked unit is often the only shape that works. We check the closet depth with the door hardware on, look for a floor drain, and confirm the dryer can vent to an outside wall before a model is chosen.

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Under the sink in an old Toronto house is where sixty years of shortcuts are stacked up: traps rebuilt in the wrong material, supply lines older than the faucet, a shut-off that turns without stopping anything. We open the cabinet before we quote the work.

Kitchen sinks in the old city usually sit under a window on the back wall, which puts the supply lines in an uninsulated exterior cavity. That’s why a Riverdale or Roncesvalles kitchen loses its cold tap first in a January cold snap. Where a renovation has that wall open anyway, re-routing the run to the inside face is cheap, and it beats thawing the same pipe every winter.

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Gas fireplaces in older Toronto houses are often inserts fitted into a chimney breast that was built for wood. Those want the pilot, the burner and the venting looked at together rather than just a clean, and the carbon monoxide reading at the end is the part that matters.

The water heater is the other half of this service downtown, and in a Beaches or Forest Hill basement the difficulty is getting the old tank up the stairs before the new one comes down. A tankless conversion also needs a vent run to an outside wall, and on a semi that wall isn’t always where you want it. We look at the vent route and the gas line before we quote the unit.

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Gas in the old city means older pipe. Meters with rusted unions, corrugated flex lines that should have been replaced a decade ago, and runs that have been extended once too often. A re-pipe is a real job rather than a connector swap, and it is documented work for us.

Downtown semis put the meter in the walkway between two houses, close enough to the neighbour’s wall that an outside run is not really an option. The kitchen is usually at the back, so the practical route is inside, along the basement joists and past whatever is already down there. We walk that route before quoting, because the ducting and the panel decide it more than the distance does.

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