Toronto Drain & Plumbing Blog

In this day and age, here in Canada, we need fresh, hardworking leaders to help guide us out of this economic crisis that is being felt, the world over. Don’t misunderstand; leadership needs to come from Parliament as well as from average citizens across the country.

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By now, you’ve probably heard our jingle on radio stations around the G.T.A, proclaiming “we will clear it, or you don’t pay!™” or seen the advertisement on our website or elsewhere and you may be wondering, just what that means.
Allow me to clarify.:
If your main sewer/sanitary line is backed up, meaning a floor drain, etc, [...]

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We were pleasantly surprised and thrilled to learn that we had been selected as the Plumber of choice in the 2009 Toronto Life’s Best of the City issue for 2009  (page 52 of the print edition)

At the time we found out, we didn’t have a copy of the magazine (we now have several). We actually [...]

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How a culture of disservice allows any smart, hard-working company to trounce larger, richer competition where it matters most: in the hearts and minds of customers.
Are you like me? When you call a phone company or a credit card company and the recording asks you to punch in your account information, do you wonder why [...]

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Hi folks.
Just a quick note with a tiny bit of bragging this time. I was recently informed that DrainWorks Plumbing and Drains was chosen as the winner of “Best Trades Company of 2008″, as awarded by Homestars.com. For those of you who don’t yet know Homestars, it’s a website where consumers get to post and [...]

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Some things are recession-proof (or at least they should be). Longtime readers of my blog will know a few defining facts about me and the way I operate:
I never make a promise I won’t keep;
I never lie to anyone;
I leave a very small footprint (in other words, I put things back as they were);
I’m a [...]

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If you know us, read our blog, or occasionally visit our site, you’ll know I’m a stickler for accountability. I hate liars and I hate being lied to. Don’t we all? One of the ways we get the word out on what kind of company we are is to encourage every customer we service to [...]

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Here, yet again, is another post form the Plumber who seems to spend way too much of his time fighting snakes instead of using them.
My play on words are a bit tongue in cheek of course, but the reality isn’t a joke. Our business, like most businesses suffers greatly at times as a result [...]

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If you know me or read my posts, you can tell that I’m hung up on accountability. It’s an obsession really, and depending who you speak to, one I may carry too far at times. It’s one of the reasons I encourage every single customer we have to check out more than 200 unfiltered [...]

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