Our Plumbers in Carrville

From hamlet to subdivision

Little of the original Carrville hamlet remains beyond a few older properties and the name. What stands now is mostly 1990s and 2000s housing: detached two-storeys, some with three-car garages, plus townhouse rows near Rutherford. A few older homes on larger lots sit between newer streets, sometimes on their own older laterals.

Calls we take in Carrville

• Ensuite and main bath drain clogs, often hair and soap that a plunger pushes but does not remove.
• Gas water heater replacements, including ending a rental and installing an owned tank.
• Kitchen sink and faucet changes when kitchens are redone.
• Toilet repairs: fill valves, flappers and wax rings.
• Softener replacements and bypass valve repairs.

Over-garage rooms

Many Carrville homes have a bedroom or bonus room above the garage. Plumbing that runs through the floor above an unheated garage, or along the garage ceiling to reach a kitchen, is the most common place for a winter freeze in newer houses. If a bathroom sits above the garage and its supply ever ran slow on a cold morning, the line is getting close to freezing. Insulating the garage ceiling cavity properly, or rerouting the line, is the fix. See frozen pipe thawing.

Older lots between the new streets

The few older houses remaining from before the subdivisions sometimes still have well water, or a lateral built long before the surrounding streets. A camera inspection tells you what you have. If you have bought one of these homes, our note on buying an older home lists what to look at.

Around Carrville

Carrville is next to Patterson to the north and west, Thornhill Woods to the east, and Rutherford and Dufferin to the southwest. Richmond Hill lies across Bathurst.