Humberwood houses and their plumbing
Humberwood is one of Etobicoke's younger residential communities, developed mostly in the late 1980s and 1990s in the north-west near Finch Avenue West and Highway 27. Its curving streets off Humberwood Boulevard hold detached houses, semis and townhouses, many with attached garages and full basements. The Humber Arboretum and the West Humber valley border the area, giving it a green edge that older suburbs envy. Humberwood Centre, with its school, community and library facilities, sits at the heart of the neighbourhood.
What fails in these pipes
Houses here are now roughly thirty to thirty-five years old. That is the age when the original fixtures and appliances wear out together, and when shortcuts taken during construction finally make themselves known.
- Original shower valves with worn cartridges or failing pressure balance
- Tanks that have already been swapped once or twice
- Builder-grade toilets and faucets reaching the end of their life
- Hose bibs on exterior walls freezing when left charged in winter
- Sump pumps installed with the house and never replaced
Some homes from this period used early plastic supply fittings that are worth inspecting, particularly where they connect to water heaters and under sinks.
Jobs we take on here
A worn shower valve is one of the most frequent calls from Humberwood. Our shower valve replacement service handles both cartridge swaps and full valve upgrades, and we take care to keep tile damage to a minimum. Water heater replacement, toilet and faucet work, drain clearing and sump pump replacement are all routine here. Though lead piping is rare in homes of this age, we are glad to examine the water service if you have bought an older property elsewhere and want comparison; our lead pipe replacement page explains how that work is done in older parts of the city.
Basement finishing is popular in this neighbourhood. If you are adding a bathroom, we can plan rough-in drains and venting before drywall goes up, which is always easier than reworking them afterwards.
Under the floor: what we open up
Humberwood houses from the 1990s run on copper or early PEX with plastic ABS drains. Typical calls are pressure-balancing shower cartridges, toilet flanges that rocked loose, and sump pits where the float jams against the pit wall. Call (365) 816-2905 and describe what the water is doing at that fixture.