Downtown Eastside Plumbing Services

Our technicians often remark on how pleasant this neighborhood is and how much they like working there. Maybe it’s something to do with the views or the homes, but perhaps it’s just the people who call Downtown Eastside home. Whatever the reason, KCs Plumbing & Heating is proud to be a popular heating and plumbing service provider for this lovely neighborhood. Call now to book a professional Downtown Eastside plumber.

Downtown Eastside Plumbers

Call anytime for friendly conversation and great service. We offer professional plumbing, heating and drain cleaning service for residential and commercial interests. Feel free to call during office hours to schedule an appointment.

If you have a plumbing emergency, call any time to connect with our 24 hour on-call service day and night. We always have someone standing by for emergencies.

The Downtown Eastside (DTES) encompassed two distinct areas within its boundaries. The original civic centre, centered around Main and Hastings with City Hall, the City Market, the Carnegie Public Library and numerous theatres, while farther east it was home to much of the original industry of the new city including the Hastings Mill. Along the waterfront of Burrard Inlet was, as today, the port.

The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is one of Vancouver's oldest neighborhoods, and the historic heart of the city. 

The DTES has many assets, especially for its low-income residents, who appreciate feeling accepted and at home, and benefit from living near health and social services. Many volunteers contribute countless hours to help improve the community and work for social justice. 

In recent years, the Downtown Eastside has struggled with many complex challenges including drug use, crime, homelessness, housing issues, unemployment, and loss of businesses in the community.

Geography

The term "Downtown Eastside" is most often used to refer to an area 10 to 50 blocks in size, a few blocks east of the city's Downtown central business district. The neighborhood's issues are most visible in a stretch of Hastings Street around Main Street, which the Vancouver Sun described in 2006 as "four blocks of hell."

Some indications of the borders of the DTES, which shift and are poorly defined,[6] are as follows:

A 2016 analysis of crime in the DTES by The Georgia Straight focused on an area that consisted of a six-block length of Hastings and Cordova Streets, between Cambie Street and Jackson Avenue.

The City of Vancouver describes a "Community-based Development Area", in which places that are important to low-income residents are concentrated. This area includes Hastings Street from Abbott Street to Heatley Avenue, and the blocks surrounding Oppenheimer Park.

By some definitions, the DTES extends along Main Street to beyond Terminal Avenue, and the DTES also includes a strip of land adjacent to Vancouver's port.

For some community planning and statistical purposes, the City of Vancouver uses the term "Downtown Eastside" to refer to a much larger area with considerable social and economic diversity, including Chinatown, Gastown, Strathcona, the Victory Square area, and the light industrial area to the north. This area, referred to in this article as the greater DTES area, is bordered by Richards Street to the west, Clark Drive to the east, Waterfront Road and Water Street to the north and various streets to the south including Malkin Avenue and Prior Street. The greater DTES area includes some popular tourist areas and nearly 20% of Vancouver's heritage buildings.

Strathcona in the 1890s included the entire DTES. By 1994 Strathcona's northern boundary was generally considered to be the alley between East Pender and East Hastings streets, though some place it at Railway Street, including DTES east of Gore Avenue.

Postal Code: V6A, V6B, V6C