Backwater valve installation
A backwater valve blocks sewer backup before it reaches your basement during a heavy rain.
Areas we serve
Montréal-Nord is one of the most densely built boroughs in the area, with 1950s triplexes and duplexes packed close together on narrow lots. The basement here very often serves as a rental unit, which changes the stakes: a backup doesn't just flood storage space, it hits an occupied home.
The land, flat and clay-heavy like the rest of the east end, combines with an original sewer network that is largely unseparated. The most common requests here are for installing a backwater valve in a basement that's already finished as living space, and for regular cleaning of a drain dating back to when the rental unit was built.
A backwater valve blocks sewer backup before it reaches your basement during a heavy rain.
A camera in the drain shows exactly where it's blocked — root, sag, debris — before anything gets dug up.
Roots from a mature maple or elm find the joints of an old clay drain and eventually block it outright.
A working sump pump moves groundwater out before it gets in — and a backup pump keeps running if the power drops during the storm.
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