Demolition and Reconstruction in Burlington

If you’re removing a structure, yes, that’s a demolition permit from the City of Burlington Building Department, and structural interior work needs a building permit too. Straight cosmetic strip-outs generally don’t. We confirm what your project actually needs and we file the applications ourselves, because a permit bounced for missing paperwork costs you weeks.

Each utility handles its own: hydro through Burlington Hydro, gas through Enbridge, and the city wants proof it’s all done before they’ll issue the demolition permit. We book it, chase it and keep the confirmations on file, along with locates before a single shovel goes in the ground.

Straight numbers: a kitchen or bathroom strip-out usually runs in the low thousands, a full interior gut in the low tens of thousands, and taking down a whole structure starts in the mid tens of thousands and climbs with size, access, foundations and whatever testing turns up. Every job gets a firm written quote with disposal included. No surprise bin charges at the end.

Built before 1990 or so? Plan on it. Ontario requires designated substance testing before renovation or demolition touches suspect materials, and in homes that age that means plaster, flooring, insulation and pipe wrap. We arrange the sampling, and if it comes back positive our own crew does the abatement under containment before demo carries on. One project, no scheduling gap with your house sitting open.

The demo is the quick bit: a room in a day or two, a full interior gut in about a week, a structure in days once the permit’s in hand. It’s the permits and the rebuild that set the calendar. Figure six to ten weeks for a kitchen rebuild after strip-out, and months for a major reconstruction. You get the schedule in the quote and an update every week against it.

Yes, and it’s one of our most requested jobs. Done right it’s routine: engineered beam sizing, temporary shoring while the load transfers, a permit and an inspection. Done casually, it’s how houses end up on the evening news. We do it the first way.

On an insured loss, absolutely. The tear out of damaged material and the rebuild are the claim. We scope both in Xactimate, work it with your adjuster and bill the insurer for approved work, so demolition, remediation and reconstruction flow as one file. Here’s how the claims process works with a restoration company if you want the play by play.

Yes, and honestly it’s the smartest time, the walls are already open. Your insurer pays to put back what you had, and you pay only the difference for the nicer cabinets or the better layout. We price the upgrade on its own line so the claim stays clean.

All of it. Bins, hauling and tipping fees are in the quote, metal and clean materials get diverted for recycling where facilities take them, and anything hazardous goes through the proper stream with paperwork to prove it.

All of Burlington, plus Oakville, Milton, Waterdown, Hamilton and out across the GTA. The shop and the equipment are on North Service Road here in Burlington, so Halton jobs get the fastest scheduling.