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Every building owes inspections and services all year, from people most visitors never see. Here is one example: a restaurant kitchen after close. An apartment, a school or a clinic owes its own list. Leachline keeps all of it on schedule.
01 · The name
A leach line is the last stretch of a drain system, the place where everything a building sends away is finally dealt with, out of sight. Leachline does that for a building's visits and paperwork. Every service, every vendor and every record runs into one line.
02 · Hood and duct
In a kitchen, every pan sends grease up into the hood, the filters and the duct. The Ontario Fire Code points to NFPA 96, which sets cleaning by cooking volume: every month for wood or charcoal, every 3 months for high volume, every 6 months for moderate cooking.
03 · Fire suppression
Above the fryers runs a system that floods the line with wet chemical when it senses fire. The Ontario Fire Code says it is serviced at least every 6 months. Insurers read those dates too: in a 2020 US appeals case, a Seattle bar lost its fire claim after its records did not hold up.
04 · Grease trap
Under the sink, a grease interceptor holds back what the sewer can't take. Each city sets its own rule in its sewer-use by-law. Toronto's is every 4 weeks, or before grease and solids reach 25%. We follow the rule for your city.
05 · The back door
Ontario's food premises rules say a kitchen must be protected against pests and kept free of the conditions they breed in. Apartments, schools and care homes need a plan too. A licensed exterminator checks the stations on schedule and signs the log.
06 · The water line
Where the water comes in, a backflow preventer stops the building's water from running back into the city's. Municipal water by-laws set the test, in London and Toronto when installed and then at least once a year, by a tester the city approves.
07 · By the exit
The extinguisher by the door gets a look every month: pin in, gauge in the green, nothing in the way. Once a year a technician maintains it, under the Ontario Fire Code and NFPA 10. Every building has them. We remind your staff of the monthly check and book the yearly one.
08 · One line
A high-volume kitchen like this one could owe 13 grease services, 12 pest visits, 4 hood cleanings, 2 suppression checks, a yearly extinguisher service and a backflow test. Six trades, six schedules, six invoices. Leachline turns them into one plan and one record, for this building or any other.
The record
When an inspector, an insurer, a tenant or a board asks, you open one record. Each visit goes on it with the date, the vendor, what was done and the proof.
Checked by Leachline before it goes on your record, and yours to download at any time.
Who it's for
The kitchen in the film is one example. Leachline plans and coordinates recurring inspections and services for every kind of property in Ontario, one building or a whole portfolio.
Services
Each service, when it's due, who does it, the rule behind it with a link to the official text, and how we arrange it. Which ones your building needs depends on its type, its city and its equipment. We work that out with you.
Inspection, maintenance and testing of portable fire extinguishers.
Inspecting and testing every part of the building’s fire alarm system.
Inspection and testing of sprinklers, standpipes, fire pumps and their water supply.
Testing the emergency lights in exits and corridors.
Testing and maintaining the emergency generator that powers life-safety systems.
Testing the smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms in rental units.
Inspection and service of the fire suppression system over commercial cooking appliances.
Professional cleaning of kitchen hoods, filters and exhaust ducts so grease does not build up.
Pumping out the grease interceptor (grease trap) before fats, oils and food solids reach the sewer.
Testing the backflow preventers that keep building water from flowing back into the public supply.
Inspection, pumping and servicing of an on-site septic system.
Inspecting chimneys, flues and flue pipes that serve fuel-burning appliances.
Inspection, monitoring and treatment for insects and rodents by a licensed exterminator.
A yearly infrared scan of electrical panels and repairs to building wiring, lighting and equipment.
Service and safety checks of furnaces, boilers, water heaters, rooftop units and kitchen gas appliances.
Maintenance of elevators, escalators, platform lifts and stair lifts under a maintenance control program, plus the yearly device licence.
Keeping the certificate of inspection for each regulated boiler and pressure vessel current.
Service of walk-in coolers, freezers, chillers and air conditioning, and the owner’s plant registration where the rating requires it.
Water sampling and lab testing for schools, child care centres and properties with a well that serves the public.
An asbestos survey of older buildings and the yearly update of the owner’s asbestos record.
The yearly examination of overhead cranes, hoists, patient lifts and other lifting devices in workplaces.
The yearly inspection of roof anchors and fixed supports used for window cleaning and facade work.
Scheduled pickup of sharps, biomedical waste and other hazardous waste from clinics, care homes and workshops.
Tracking the operator’s pool and spa duties and booking equipment service, opening and closing.
The yearly performance tests of X-ray machines in dental and medical offices, and tracking the owner’s registrations.
Booking approved courses: working at heights, first aid, WHMIS and food handler certification.
Reminders and records for the owner’s fire safety plan and fire drills, and booking a consultant to draft or update the plan.
A reminder and a record of the accessibility compliance report.
Tracking expiry dates for business licences, permits and certificates, with reminders before each one runs out.
Summaries of Ontario rules, not legal advice. Check the full rule for your property. A city, fire department, health unit or insurer can ask for more. Leachline does not do the work itself, does not give legal or engineering advice, does not sell insurance, and does not file applications or appear before a regulator or tribunal for you. Other provinces have their own rules: see Laws by province.
How it works
For a single building or many. You see everything on your own dashboard.
Create your account and tell us about your properties: where they are, what kind they are, and the services you have today.
We check every sign-up by hand. Your dashboard opens as soon as you're approved, usually within one business day.
We list what each property owes and when, and you see every service on your dashboard: up to date, due soon or booked.
We book vendors who hold the licence or approval their trade needs, and confirm each visit with you. Where the law says the licensed company must contract with you itself, we arrange it as your agent and the vendor bills you directly.
Each vendor sends a service record with proof. We check it, add it to your record, and send you a report every month.
You pay the quoted amount online. Your card is only held until Leachline approves the payment.
Pricing
Every building owes something different, so every plan is quoted. Once you have your quote, pay it in one of three ways.
For a single visit or a set piece of work. Pay the quote once.
Your quoted amount every month, renewed on its own until you stop it.
Pay for the year up front and save 20% compared with twelve monthly payments.
Your card is only held at first. Leachline checks the payment and takes it within 7 days. If it's not approved, the hold is released and you're not charged.
For qualified vendors
Leachline is signing qualified vendors across Ontario. Tell us what you do and where you work. Once we approve you, job requests come to your dashboard, and you send the service record and proof there too.
Start here
Prefer email? Write to [email protected] or call 289-659-3889.
Sign up with your properties and the services you have today. We send your plan and quote.
Sign up as a clientTell us your trade, your licences and where you work, and get job requests on your dashboard.
Join as a vendorPay it once, monthly with Steadyline, or yearly with Yearline. No sign-in needed.
Pay a quoteLeachline approves every sign-up by hand, usually within one business day. Your dashboard opens as soon as you're approved, and we email you.
Laws and regulations
A reference list, not legal advice: the main rules for each trade, who enforces them and how we may arrange the work. Leachline coordinates services in Ontario today. Elsewhere in Canada, except Quebec, we take a property only once a qualified vendor is confirmed.
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We list only rules we checked against an official source. Rules change, so always read the current text. Quebec is not listed until this page is available in French. Under each province, “How Leachline can arrange services here” shows which trades the law lets only a licensed company sell, which duties stay with the owner and which professions we only refer you to. It is our reading of public sources, not legal advice, and a city by-law or your insurer can add more.
Questions
Anything else, write to [email protected].
No. Qualified independent vendors do every visit. Leachline plans the schedule, books the vendors, checks their records and keeps the proof in one place. For trades where the law licenses whoever sells the work, such as pest control, gas, electrical, elevators and waste hauling, we arrange the visit as your agent and the licensed vendor contracts with you and bills you directly.
Yes. Some duties stay with the owner by law, such as fire drills, boiler certificates, licence renewals and reports to a health unit; we track and remind, but you act. We don’t give legal or engineering advice, sell or arrange insurance, or file applications or appear before a regulator or tribunal for you. We can refer you to someone licensed to do those.
Restaurants, apartment and rental buildings, condos, schools and child care, retirement and long-term care homes, offices, plazas and retail, hotels, industrial buildings and warehouses, places of worship and halls, clinics, and rural properties on septic or a well. If your building owes recurring inspections or services, ask us.
Across Ontario. When you sign up, list your properties. If we don’t have a qualified vendor near one of them yet, we tell you plainly before you pay anything.
Every plan is priced by quote, because every building owes something different. You can pay a quote once, monthly with Steadyline, or yearly with Yearline, which saves 20% compared with paying monthly.
When you pay a quote on the payment page, your card is only held. Leachline checks the payment and takes it within 7 days. If it’s not approved, the hold is released and you’re not charged.
Leachline checks every client and vendor sign-up by hand, so the schedule and the vendors fit. Your dashboard opens as soon as you’re approved, usually within one business day. We email you.
Often, yes. If they hold the licence or approval their trade needs and sign up as a Leachline vendor, we can keep them on your schedule.
No. Leachline plans and coordinates services and keeps the records. The rules on this page are summaries with links to the official source. Check the full rule, or ask a lawyer, for your own property.