Drain Installation in Vancouver
Choose licensed and insured Right Choice Plumbing for drain installation in Vancouver. We install drain rough-ins, hookups, and replacements for Vancouver renovations, basement developments, and additions using code-compliant ABS and cast iron.
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Right Choice Plumbing installs drains for basement developments, bathroom renovations, new laundry rooms, and finished suites in Vancouver and nearby cities. Projects range from one sink branch line to a rough-in serving several fixtures.
Our plumbers install ABS drain, waste, and vent piping to BC plumbing code with the required slope, supports, vents, and cleanouts. We coordinate the rough-in before drywall, arrange inspection, and return for final connections to the toilet, vanity, tub or shower, kitchen sink, and laundry.
We also connect new drains to main stacks, add upstream cleanouts where required, run vent terminations through the roof, and join new ABS to older cast-iron stacks in Vancouver heritage homes. Each installation is leak tested and inspected.
Typical project range: CAD 800 - 6500. The final quote depends on access, materials and the work confirmed during diagnosis.
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Basement renovations
A basement bathroom may sit below the existing sewer line, so its drain must either connect to a deep cleanout or use a sewage ejector pump. We lay out and vent the rough-in to BC plumbing code and coordinate the work with your renovation schedule and inspection.
Laundry rough-ins
Laundry drains are often added during basement developments or main-floor laundry conversions. We install the standpipe and trap to code, vent the line, add hammer arrestors to the supply lines, and connect the washer and sink where applicable.
Recent jobs
What a drain installation visit looks like from the first diagnostic through to the finished work.
Our service promise
A licensed plumber does the drain installation work, you approve the price before it starts, and the installation carries our workmanship warranty. We cover Vancouver, North and West Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond and Coquitlam, plus Calgary and Edmonton, and the emergency line is answered outside business hours.
How we work
Boot covers and drop cloths come out of the van before the tools do, and the work area gets cleaned up before we leave.
You approve the price before the work starts, so the invoice at the end is the number you already agreed to.
Licensed, bonded and insured for plumbing, gas, hot water tanks and drainage, and we work to code on every permit-level job.
Burst pipes and blocked drains get dispatch priority. Same-day appointments are available in most cases, and the emergency line is answered around the clock.
Common questions
Brands we service
Our vans carry the parts these brands fail on most often, which is usually the difference between finishing your drain installation job today and booking a second visit.
We rough in toilet, vanity, and tub or shower drains for basement bathrooms. This includes slab cuts and vent connections, completed to BC code for inspection.
New kitchen sinks, dishwashers, and disposal hookups installed cleanly with the right traps, vents, and slope so everything drains properly.
We install laundry standpipes in basements, second-floor laundry rooms, and suites with the required size, venting, and main-stack connection.
Heritage Vancouver homes often have cast-iron stacks. We tie new ABS rough-ins into existing cast iron with the right shielded couplings.
We install floor drains in basements, garages, utility rooms, and mechanical rooms with the required trap, vent, and main-line connection.
We install bar-sink and wet-bar drain hookups with the venting needed for water and air to flow correctly.
More services
Our licensed plumbers cover both sides of the trade across Greater Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, so one crew can handle the repair, the fixture install and the drain work behind it.
We run drain installation calls out of three metro areas. Open your city for the local number, the neighbourhoods that crew covers and the rest of what we do there.
Same-day Our hometown. Licensed plumbers across Downtown, Kitsilano, East Van, Kerrisdale, Mount Pleasant, Point Grey and every neighbourhood in between.
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~20 min Hot water tanks, leak repairs and emergency plumber service across Lynn Valley, Lonsdale, Deep Cove, Edgemont and the rest of the North Shore.
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~25 min Full plumbing & drainage for West Van - Ambleside, Dundarave, British Properties and Horseshoe Bay. Premium fixtures, careful work, fair pricing.
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~20 min Plumbing repair, drain cleaning and hot water tank installation across Brentwood, Metrotown, Lougheed and Burnaby Heights - same-day in most cases.
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~25 min Licensed plumber service across Richmond - Steveston, Brighouse, Terra Nova and Hamilton. Backflow, sewer, perimeter drainage and emergency calls.
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~35 min Tri-Cities plumber serving Coquitlam - Maillardville, Westwood Plateau, Burke Mountain and Town Centre. Drainage, hot water tanks and emergency service.
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Same-day Licensed plumbers across Calgary - Beltline, Kensington, Bridgeland, Inglewood and the new SE lake communities. Hard-water, backwater valves, drains and 24/7 emergencies.
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Same-day Plumber service across Edmonton - Downtown, Old Strathcona, Glenora, Riverbend and Mill Woods. Frozen-pipe repair, backwater valves, hot water tanks and emergency calls.
See Edmonton plumber pageGet a free, no-pressure quote from Right Choice Plumbing. Same-day appointments are available in most cases, with emergency service 24 hours a day.