Looking for a plumber in Sharon? Our licensed plumbers handle emergency repairs, drains, sump pumps, water heaters and water treatment for homes in Sharon, a short run along Mount Albert Road from our Holland Landing shop.
AquaTec Plumbing works out of 45 Grist Mill Rd Unit 3W in Holland Landing. From the shop it is Yonge Street to Mount Albert Road, then east to Leslie Street, a short drive. We work across the hamlet, on the older streets around the Temple and in the new subdivisions south of Mount Albert Road, and we treat it as home ground, with emergency calls answered 24 hours a day at 289-470-6221. Every job comes with a written price before work starts, and what it comes to depends on the job, the parts and how easy the pipe or equipment is to reach.
Sharon grew up around the Children of Peace and the Sharon Temple on Leslie Street, and the old hamlet still shows in the century homes near the Temple and the Civic Centre. Around that core are bungalows and two-storey homes from the 1960s through the 1980s, the Sharon Hills streets around Jason's Pond, estate lots north of Mount Albert Road and the Sharon Village subdivisions filling in toward Highway 404 since the mid-2010s. The ground rolls, Sharon Creek runs through it, and the East Holland River sits on the west edge.
The village is on municipal water. It is treated, but it is hard, and softeners earn their keep here. Outside the serviced area, along Mount Albert Road toward Woodbine, on Doane Road and on the concessions, homes are on private wells, and well water in this part of East Gwillimbury commonly carries iron and hardness, sometimes sulphur or bacteria.
The calls from Sharon follow the age of the house and how close it sits to the creek. Each has its own section below.
Neighbourhoods and roads we cover in Sharon: Leslie Street and the Temple area, Mount Albert Road, Sharon Village, Colonel Wayling Boulevard, Sharon Creek Drive, Walter Proctor Road, Manor Hampton Street, Maplehyrn Avenue, Sharonview Crescent, Ladder Crescent, Cranley Road, George Street, May Avenue, Doane Road and the rural lots toward Woodbine Avenue.
The village runs on hard municipal supply, and private wells serve the lots around it. We treat both, starting with a test.
Municipal water in the village runs hard enough to scale kettles, spot glass and shorten the life of a water heater. A softener at the point of entry is the standard fix, sized to the household rather than to a brochure.
East of the village along Mount Albert Road, on Doane Road and out on the concessions, homes are on their own wells. Iron is the common complaint: orange staining in the tub and a softener that quietly stops working because its resin is fouled. Some wells smell of sulphur too. An iron or sulphur filter goes ahead of the softener.
A rural well can test fine for years and then change after a wet season or nearby construction, and Sharon has had plenty of construction. Bacteria have no taste or smell, so a sample is the only way to know. Where a result calls for it, a UV purifier goes at the end of the line, after sediment and iron are out.
Buyers in Sharon Village often ask about drinking water rather than a whole-home system. A reverse osmosis unit under the kitchen sink handles taste and takes the hardness minerals out of the water you actually drink, and it pairs well with a softener protecting the rest of the house. We fit it with its own tap and a shutoff.
A century home on Leslie Street and a new house on Sharon Creek Drive clog for different reasons. We clear both and tell you which you have.
The oldest houses in Sharon sit close to the Temple and the Civic Centre, on Leslie Street, George Street and May Avenue. Some still carry original drain lines with generations of patches. A kitchen or basement drain that slows, recovers, then slows again is usually catching on a rough joint or a sag in the pipe, not only on what went down it.
The bungalows and two-storey homes around Sharon Hills and the older side streets have drain lines that are worn but sound. Their clogs are mostly hair, soap and grease, and a drain snake through the right cleanout clears them. Cast-iron stacks from this era get a look with the camera while we are there, because the inside wears first.
The subdivision houses south of Mount Albert Road have new pipe, and their clogs are almost always about use: cooking grease down the kitchen sink, wipes down the toilet and a builder garburator doing more than it should. We clear the line, then look at the layout, because a long flat kitchen run under the slab is a common trouble spot.
When the same drain in Sharon keeps clogging, we run a camera before touching it again. On a greasy or scaled line, hydro jetting cleans the full pipe wall rather than punching a hole through the clog, and the footage shows whether the line needs cleaning or a repair. Drain emergencies are answered 24 hours a day at 289-470-6221.
The village of Sharon is on municipal sanitary sewer, so water rising in the floor drain during a storm comes from that sewer. Rural lots around the hamlet are on septic.
Sharon rolls, and the homes on the streets that sit lowest toward Sharon Creek and the East Holland River are the ones where the floor drain gurgles in a downpour. When the sewer fills faster than it drains, the lowest opening in the house is where it comes out. A backwater valve on the main drain closes when flow reverses and keeps that water out.
Not every backup waits for rain. The laterals serving the older homes on Leslie Street and the side streets near the Temple can be clay or early plastic, and a cracked, sagging or root-filled lateral backs up in dry weather too. Mature trees find the joints. We camera the line before recommending a valve, a spot repair or a replacement.
On the well and septic properties around Sharon, a backup at the lowest fixture usually means the line to the tank is blocked or the tank is due for pumping. We handle the house side: the building drain, the cleanout, the floor drain and the line out to the tank. The camera shows whether the problem is in the pipe or the tank.
Backups only during storms point to a valve. Backups in dry weather point to the lateral. Some houses need both, plus a sump pump if groundwater is also getting in. A valve means opening the basement floor, so we diagnose first. Ask us about municipal subsidy programs when we quote.
Clear water at the floor or along the wall is groundwater, not sewer, and on Sharon's ravine lots the sump pump keeps the basement dry.
The rolling ground that makes Sharon lots attractive also sends water toward the low side of the house. Walkout and lookout basements on the ravine streets, and older lots backing onto Sharon Creek, take on groundwater every spring. We fit a pit and a pump sized to what the property collects, with a check valve and a discharge line carried clear of the foundation.
The new subdivision homes came with a sump pump from the builder, and the first ones are reaching the age where floats stick and motors tire. Many have never been tested since the house closed. We fill the pit, watch the pump start, run and shut off, check the check valve and discharge, and tell you whether it will make another spring.
A pump that hums without moving water, runs with an empty pit or keeps cycling in dry weather is telling you something. We replace it with a pump matched to the pit, renew the check valve and test it under load before we leave. Swapping a tired pump in the fall beats swapping it during the March melt with water on the floor.
The storms that fill a Sharon sump pit are the same storms that knock out the power on Leslie Street. If the power drops or the main pump fails, a battery backup pump beside the primary takes over, and a high-water alarm lets you know it had to step in. On well properties there is no municipal pressure for a water-powered backup, so battery is the answer.
Hard water is the story of every water heater in Sharon, municipal or well.
Hard water leaves scale in the bottom of a tank, and you hear it as popping and rumbling when the burner runs. Less hot water, slower recovery and a higher gas bill follow. In Sharon we see it on heaters that never had a softener ahead of them, and protecting the next one is as much about the water as the heater.
Sharon Village homes came with a basic builder tank, often a rental, and the first wave of those is showing its age. A rental swap is not the only option. We walk through owning versus renting, tank versus tankless and where a softener would protect whatever goes in. On the wells, iron and sediment collect in the tank along with the scale.
Before we replace anything, we check the thermostat, the elements, the anode and the relief valve, and flush the sediment out; on a gas tank, a burner or pilot fault is work for a licensed gas fitter, and we tell you up front whether one is needed. When the tank itself is sound, a repair is the better spend and we say so. A leak at the base of the tank or rust in the hot water is a different story, and that heater gets replaced.
A tankless heater heats on demand and frees up space, and it suits the busier households in the new subdivisions. Its heat exchanger is also where hard water does its damage. On Sharon water, scale protection and isolation valves for descaling belong in the installation from the start. Before we recommend one, we check whether the existing gas supply and venting can handle it; if they need changes, a licensed gas fitter handles the gas side, and we tell you up front. No hot water at all is an emergency call, 24 hours a day at 289-470-6221.
The older homes bring supply pipe problems. The new builds bring fittings that settle. Both end up as a leak somewhere.
The oldest Sharon houses can still have galvanized steel supply in places, and the 1960s and 1970s bungalows have copper that has been in place for about fifty years or longer. Galvanized rusts from the inside until upstairs pressure drops and threads weep. Old copper develops pinhole leaks at elbows and along runs in the slab. Replacing the worst sections, or repiping the house, is the permanent fix.
A ceiling stain under a bathroom, a damp basement wall and a water meter that keeps moving with every tap closed are all signs of a hidden leak. We trace the leak to its source before opening walls. In the older homes it is often a fitting where original pipe meets a later repair. In the new subdivisions it is often a crimped fitting or a shower valve that settled.
Old supply pipe splits first in a cold snap, and hose bibs on the newer houses split when a hose is left on into November. Shut the main valve, open a tap to drain the line and call 289-470-6221, 24 hours a day. We repair the section, replace a burst hose bib with a frost-free one and check the rest of the run.
Running toilets and dripping faucets are everyday calls in Sharon. On hard water the flapper, fill valve and cartridge wear faster, and on well water iron stains the bowl and clogs aerators. We fix the fixture and say plainly when the stain means the water needs treating. Builder garburators in Sharon Village get repaired or replaced with a unit built for the family.
Every service below is available to Sharon homes and businesses. Select any service to learn more.
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