Two blocks are genuinely tight and the City has said so in print. On Mainland between Nelson and Davie, and on Hamilton between Nelson and Drake, Vancouver Fire Rescue Services do not have room to access the street or set up their ladders and stabilizers. We work those blocks, we just plan where the truck sits before we arrive rather than after.

Could be either, and the honest answer is that nobody knows until it is scoped. Slow drainage on several fixtures at once usually points past your branch lines toward the stack or the building main. We camera it from the cleanout and you see on the monitor which side of the line the problem is on before anyone quotes a repair.

The shell is 1910s. Of the 624 taxable folios in the Yaletown Historic Area, 324 carry a build year between 1910 and 1913, with 1912 alone accounting for 196. What matters more is the conversion. The City’s tax roll records the big improvement year on that same stock as 1988 for 97 folios and 1994 through 1997 for another 206, so the pipework behind the brick was last done wholesale in one of those two waves.

Age uniformity. Marinaside carries 1,447 folios and all but two were built between 1996 and 2003. Pacific Boulevard carries 538 folios and 453 of them are stamped 1993. When a whole street is one construction generation, the original angle stops, supply hoses, hose bibs and shut-off valves reach the end of their service life together rather than one at a time.

We will not claim either way, because the City does not publish a pipe by pipe map of which mains here are combined and which are separated. What the City does say is that it is working toward the Province’s goal of replacing all combined systems with separated ones by 2050, and that private side sewers are typically separated as properties redevelop or renovate. We scope your connection and tell you what is actually down there.

Engineering Services told Council that in 1996 roughly 1,000 connections became blocked and about 800 of those came from City boulevard tree roots. That is a city wide count from 1996, not a Yaletown number. What is a Yaletown number is which trees are on which street. The City inventory has 27 pin oaks on Mainland, 19 thornless honeylocusts on Hamilton and 11 pyramidal European hornbeams on Helmcken.

Depends which half of the neighbourhood you are in. The City’s designated floodplain for an extreme storm with a metre of sea level rise takes in the seawall strip along Marinaside Crescent and the water side of Pacific Boulevard. The warehouse blocks around Hamilton and Mainland sit outside it. The City also names Yaletown as part of the False Creek coastal adaptation area.

Yes. Grease trap cleaning and installation, main line hydro jetting and floor drain work for commercial tenants is regular work for us, and we can do it overnight or on a weekend so the room is not out of service while people are in it.

Photographs of what we found, the camera footage where a line was scoped, and a written scope of what was repaired. Strata councils get the same file we keep. That is standard on every leak we trace, not an extra.

All of Vancouver, plus Burnaby, New Westminster and the North Shore. Downtown, Gastown, the West End, Coal Harbour, Olympic Village and Fairview are the closest to this one and we are in them constantly.