Hayes Plumbing provides commercial plumbing in Bowmanville for restaurants, shops, offices, multi-unit residential buildings and industrial properties. Our licensed, WSIB certified plumbers work from our shop at 448 Ritson Rd. South in Oshawa, about 15 to 25 minutes from Bowmanville, and a live operator answers (905) 576-3043 around the clock for plumbing emergencies. Planned work is quoted in writing after a site visit.
Commercial plumbing services in Bowmanville
We schedule around your business hours where we can, to limit disruption to staff, tenants and customers, and we provide backflow test results and service records for your files. Our commercial work in Bowmanville covers:
- Emergency plumbing for businesses, with a live operator answering 24/7.
- Drain clearing and rooter service for kitchens, washrooms and floor drains.
- Toilet, faucet and sink repair and installation, and leak detection and repair.
- Shut-off valve and pressure reducing valve replacement.
- Electric water heater repair and replacement.
- Backflow preventer installation, repair and annual testing with certified testers.
- Apartment and condo riser replacements.
- Restaurant service and kitchen renovations, and washroom renovations, including accessible washrooms.
Downtown Bowmanville restaurants and shops
The Historic Downtown Bowmanville business area along King Street is home to shops and restaurants, and when a unit changes from retail to food service, its plumbing usually has to change with it.
Under the Region of Durham's Sewer Use By-law (No. 55-2013), every restaurant or other commercial premises where food is cooked, processed or prepared, and that connects to a sanitary sewer, must install, operate and maintain an oil and grease interceptor. The by-law requires interceptors to be installed to the Building Code and CSA B481.2 and to have a maintenance schedule and records available to the Region's by-law enforcement officer, and it says they should be cleaned before grease and solids take up more than 25 percent of their volume. Proof of clean-out and grease disposal must be kept for one year.
If you are converting a Bowmanville storefront into a food business, plan the interceptor, sinks and drains into the plumbing design and the building permit from the start. For questions about the by-law itself, contact the Region of Durham at 311 or 905-668-7711.
Bowmanville water, wastewater and permits
Bowmanville businesses on municipal services get their water from the Region of Durham's Lake Ontario system, which has a water supply plant in Bowmanville, and their wastewater goes to the Region's Port Darlington Water Pollution Control Plant, which treats wastewater from the Bowmanville service area. The Region lists the hardness of this lake-based supply at 125 mg/L as calcium carbonate.
Plumbing permits are issued by the Municipality of Clarington's Building Division at 40 Temperance Street in Bowmanville, not by the Region. Clarington says permits are normally required for altering or adding any plumbing and normally not required for replacing plumbing fixtures. Applications go through the Service Clarington portal, and the Building Division can be reached at 905-623-3379 ext. 2660.
North of Highway 401 between Bennett Road and Haines Street, Clarington's Technology Business Park Secondary Plan sets aside about 142.7 hectares in Bowmanville for prestige employment uses. Industrial, commercial and institutional buildings on Regional water, new or existing, fall under the Region's Backflow Prevention By-law, which requires a premise isolation backflow preventer that is tested every year.
Commercial plumbing cost in Bowmanville
Bowmanville commercial jobs are quoted per project after a site visit. Repairs, replacements and backflow testing are priced in writing before work begins, so you know the scope and the price before we start.