Faucet installation in Etobicoke splits neatly in two. Along Lake Shore Boulevard West and through Humber Bay Shores the work is in condo towers, where the building controls the water and the job has to fit a booked window. Inland, in Alderwood, Mimico and Long Branch, it is 1950s bungalows with original taps and a basement laundry tub.
I replace kitchen and bathroom faucets, shower heads, toilets, drains, supply lines and shut-off valves, and I quote before anything is touched.
In the Humber Bay Shores and Islington towers, nothing starts until the water is arranged. If a suite has no working isolation valves, the riser has to be shut down by building staff with notice given to neighbours, and I need the service elevator booked to bring in a toilet or a sink. Builder single-lever faucets in those units usually fail at the cartridge first. The Alderwood and Mimico bungalows are the opposite problem: plenty of access, but sixty-year-old laundry taps that come off in pieces.
Mon – Sat: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sunday: By appointment
A picture of the sink, the cabinet underneath and the existing shut-off valves tells me most of what I need. From that I can usually price the work before I arrive and bring the right parts and connectors with me.
Water is shut at the stops, the lines are drained into a tray, and the old fixture comes out. Seized nuts get cut off rather than forced, and the sink deck is scraped back to clean, dry material.
The new fixture sits on its own gasket, the mounting hardware is tightened evenly so the base does not sit skewed, fresh supply lines are fitted, and the drain assembly is sealed with the right material for your sink.
Hot and cold run at full flow, the basin is filled and drained to load the trap, then every joint is dried and rechecked. The cabinet floor goes back dry so a future drip is easy to spot early.
Swapping a fixture on healthy shut-off valves in an open cabinet is quick work. Cost climbs when the stops are seized and have to be replaced, when corroded mounting nuts have to be cut off, when the cabinet is deep and cramped, or when a stone counter and an undermount sink make access awkward. Several fixtures done in the same visit cost less each than booking them separately. Fixtures can come from you or from me with receipts, and the price is settled before any tools come out.
Nothing starts before the price is agreed. Send a photo or two with your request and I can usually quote without a site visit.
In most Etobicoke towers the building has to shut the riser, which means giving notice to property management and to the units above and below. I will tell you what your building needs and work to the window they give me. Where valves do exist in the suite, I fit new quarter-turn stops while I am in there so the next repair needs no shutdown.
Tell me what needs fixing and get a free, no-obligation quote — I usually reply within one business day.