How Richmond Hill house shapes route their pipes

Richmond Hill grew in layers. Low brick bungalows went up around the old village and Richvale after the war, split-levels and backsplits followed in Crosby, Beverley Acres and Harding through the sixties and seventies, the big two-storey detached houses and semis filled Bayview Hill, Rouge Woods and Jefferson later on, and the condo towers and stacked towns along Yonge and Highway 7 came last. The pipes inside follow the same timeline: cast iron and copper, then ABS and copper, then PEX manifolds and shared risers.

The pages below walk through each house type the way we would on a first visit: where the main shut-off usually sits, where the stack drops, which fittings tend to weep, and which questions we ask on the phone so the right parts are already on the truck.

Every page also lists the fittings and failure points we carry parts for in that house shape: closet flanges and wax rings for the upstairs toilet, no-hub couplings for cast iron stacks, compression stops for vanity supplies, and the snake heads we pick for long horizontal kitchen runs versus short vertical shower drops.