About
About Cambridge Plumbers
A direct booking line for one vetted, Ontario-licensed plumbing contractor working across Cambridge, North Dumfries and the south end of Kitchener.
Cambridge Plumbers is a booking line. It is not a plumbing company, and it is not a directory that sells your enquiry to a list of bidders. It connects to one local plumbing contractor working across Galt, Preston, Hespeler and Blair, out to Ayr and the rural properties of North Dumfries, and into the south end of Kitchener along Highway 8 and the 401.
Plumbing attracts a particular kind of selling, because most calls happen when something is already wrong and the homeowner is standing in water. A repair that turns into a replacement nobody asked for. A tankless heater sold at midnight. A softener or heater sold at the door with a contract that is hard to get out of. A drain snaked for the fourth time when a camera would have shown the pipe was collapsed after the first. Anyone who has owned an older house in Cambridge has seen at least one of those.
The point of this site is a straight line to a plumber who helps you stop the water on the phone, looks at the actual pipe before pricing anything, tells you whether it is a repair or a replacement and why, puts the number in writing before starting, and says plainly when the problem belongs to another trade.
What we will not do: publish reviews we do not have, invent a rating or a star count, quote a fixed price on a website, claim to be a dealer or certified installer for any brand of heater or softener, or sell your phone number. This site is new. It says what it can do and nothing more.
What the plumber handles
- Emergency plumbing: burst and frozen pipes, sewer backups, failed water heaters, shut-off help by phone
- Drain cleaning: augering, hydro-jetting, camera inspection, root cutting, clean-out installation
- Water heater repair and replacement: tank, power-vent, tankless, gas or electric, rental buyout advice
- Leak repair and pipe replacement: galvanized, cast iron, copper, polybutylene, PEX, service lines, shut-offs, backwater valves
- Fixture installation: toilets, faucets, shower valves, softener plumbing, laundry boxes, outdoor taps
What it does not handle
This site covers residential plumbing repairs and replacements in existing houses. Water coming through a foundation wall or slab is a waterproofing or foundation job. Rough-in plumbing for a new build or an addition is construction work. Septic tanks and fields are a separate licence. Commercial and industrial plumbing are outside its scope. You will be told when a job belongs to someone else rather than sold something that will not fix it.
Licences and rules
The contractor holds the applicable Ontario plumbing licence and pulls plumbing permits through the City of Cambridge where the work requires one. Plumber is a compulsory trade certified through Skilled Trades Ontario. Gas connections on water heaters are made by a licensed gas technician under TSSA rules, and electrical work goes through the Electrical Safety Authority. Anyone in your house should be able to show current WSIB coverage and liability insurance, and you should ask.
How this works
When you call 226-917-2035 or send the form, your details go straight to the plumber. For an emergency they help you get the water off first and then come out. For everything else they look at the pipe, the drain or the heater, tell you whether it is a repair or a replacement, and quote the work in writing before it starts. The work is done under their own licence and insurance. Your information is not sold, not shared with a list of competing companies, and there is no markup added to your bill for the introduction.
What we won't do
- Publish reviews we didn't earn. When we have them, they'll be real ones with names.
- Quote a firm price before someone has seen the job.
- Send anyone into your property who we would not have in our own.