Neighbourhoods · Toronto
Home management, flood protection and small-scale refreshes for Hoggs Hollow homes.
Valley homes need a plan for water. Your Zebrano Home Manager schedules backwater valve and sump pump checks, keeps eavestroughs and grading in order, and brings in the right licensed trade quickly when something fails. Closets, baths, millwork and painting refreshes run through the same call, on one invoice.
A record storm and a surcharging city sewer send water into the basement of a valley house on a wooded street. The original drains were never sized for it, and the sump pump runs on household power alone. The owner calls the Home Manager, who sends a licensed plumber and a restoration crew, and photographs the damage for the insurer. The plumber looks at the drain, the backwater valve and the sump pump, the usual weak points in low-lying ground, and the cause is fixed rather than only dried out. A newer pump with battery backup and a high-water alarm is proposed, since houses of that age were built without them. The permanent fix is recorded in the Annual Home Care Plan, and any larger drainage upgrade goes into the Five-Year Capital Plan.
Hoggs Hollow sits in the valley at Yonge and York Mills, with large custom and period homes on winding, wooded streets near the Don River's west branch.