Eight neighbourhoods,
all inside forty minutes.

Big houses from the 1880s on, most with steam or hot-water heat.

Tall, narrow houses with the bathrooms stacked one above the other.

Row houses and flats, often with shared stacks and old boilers.

Bungalows and four-squares with one bathroom doing a lot of work.

Newer houses for us, with copper supply and the odd leak under a slab.

Wood-frame houses where the plumbing was added after the house.

Bungalows near the lake, with long runs out to the street.

Workers' houses near the river, small rooms and short runs.