Around Agincourt
Agincourt sits north of Highway 401, centred on Sheppard Avenue East between Kennedy Road and Midland. The GO station and Agincourt Mall anchor the area, and the side streets are filled with brick bungalows and side-splits from the post-war boom. Later decades added townhouse complexes and low-rise apartments, and today plenty of the original houses have been extended or rebuilt.
What Agincourt houses ask of a plumber
- Kitchen lines slowed by years of busy family cooking
- Copper supply pipe reaching the age where pinholes appear
- Water heaters in tight basement utility rooms
- Bathrooms added in basements, sometimes on marginal drains
- Tree roots in front-yard laterals under mature maples
Original side-splits have short stair runs and half-levels, so pipes often travel through small, awkward spaces. Rebuilt homes, by contrast, may have modern PEX and plenty of fixtures on one drain.
Water and sewer notes
Agincourt is on City of Toronto water and sewer. Older houses usually have the main valve and meter on the front basement wall. Basement suites are common, which makes backwater protection worth a look.
Work we do here
- Kitchen drain cleaning
- Gas water heater replacement
- Pipe repair on aging copper
Next door
Tam O'Shanter lies to the west, Milliken to the north and L'Amoreaux to the north-west.