Additions & Extensions

When a house is right but too small, an addition changes the equation: a rear extension for a bigger kitchen, a second storey for more bedrooms, a converted garage, or a separate laneway house or garden suite where zoning allows. Additions are construction projects in the fullest sense — footings, framing, roof, envelope — attached to a home you're still living in.

Every addition needs a building permit, and most start earlier than people expect: with zoning setbacks, lot coverage rules and, in many urban lots, a committee-of-adjustment application before drawings are even finalized. Our quotes treat the approvals path as part of the project, not an afterthought, because in Ontario the paperwork often sets the schedule more than the construction does.