Full Home Renovation

Your entire house re-engineered and refinished to one standard — structure to the final coat of paint.

What We Do

The best houses in Toronto were built with good bones and dated everything else. A full home renovation keeps what the original builders did well — the masonry, the framing, the proportions — and replaces everything that no longer serves: compartmentalized floor plans, sixty-amp electrical, tired kitchens and bathrooms, envelopes that leak heat. We take a house back to structure and rebuild it as one coherent piece of design, every trade sequenced by a single site superintendent.

Scope is settled on paper before a single wall opens. You receive a fixed schedule, a line-by-line materials book, and a contract that names what happens when hidden conditions appear — because in century housing stock, they do. Demolition, steel, mechanical rough-ins, insulation, drywall, millwork, and finishes then proceed in a sequence we have refined across more than two hundred GTA projects, without idle weeks between trades.

One contract, one superintendent, one standard — from structural steel to the final brushstroke.

Every home renovation in Toronto we undertake starts with a structural and mechanical audit. Where an open plan calls for removing load-bearing walls, our engineers specify steel or LVL beams with stamped drawings that go straight into the permit set, sized to Part 9 of the Ontario Building Code. Knob-and-tube wiring is retired and the service upgraded to 200 amps under ESA inspection; galvanized supply lines give way to copper and PEX; ductwork is redesigned so the new plan actually heats and cools evenly.

A complete home remodel is decided in its details: rift-cut white oak flooring laid over acoustic underlay, flush millwork built in our own shop, stone counters templated after cabinet installation — never from drawings alone. Insulation is brought to SB-12 compliance with closed-cell spray foam at rim joists and mineral wool in wall assemblies, so a whole home renovation improves how the house performs in February, not just how it photographs in June.

Permits are managed in-house from day one. Interior alteration permits through the City of Toronto Building Division typically clear in two to four weeks for Part 9 work when drawings are complete — ours are. In Rosedale, Forest Hill, and other heritage-listed streets we prepare heritage impact documentation before touching the envelope, and in Vaughan, Markham, and Oakville we adjust drawing sets to each municipality’s submission standards. Every inspection, from footing to final, is booked and attended by our superintendent.

Families weighing a full house renovation in the GTA against moving usually find the arithmetic decisive: land transfer taxes, agent commissions, and the premium on finished luxury stock exceed the cost of rebuilding a well-located house to their exact specification. A renovation of this order typically runs eight to twelve months. What you keep is the street, the lot, and the neighbours; what changes is everything within the walls.

What's Included

Demolition
Structural modifications
Electrical rewiring
Plumbing upgrades
HVAC
Insulation
Drywall
Flooring
Kitchen renovation
Bathroom renovation
Painting
Trim & millwork
Exterior updates
Permit management

Selected Work

Full home renovation in Rosedale, Toronto — bespoke kitchen with marble waterfall island and rift-oak cabinetry

Primary bathroom renovation in Angus Glen, Markham — bookmatched marble walls and freestanding sculptural tub

Living room renovation in York Mills, North York — double-height ceiling with stone fireplace wall and sculptural staircase

Custom home construction project on The Bridle Path, Toronto — modern stone estate with interlocking courtyard driveway at dusk

Luxury basement renovation in Kleinburg, Vaughan — tiered home theater with walnut acoustic panels and starlit ceiling

Full Home Renovation, Answered.

Plan on $180–$350 per square foot for a full-gut renovation to a luxury standard, so a 3,500 sq ft house typically lands between $650,000 and $1.2M. Structural changes, additions, and heritage requirements move the number. We fix the price against a complete drawing set and materials book before demolition begins.

Eight to twelve months on site for a full-gut renovation of a typical Toronto house, plus six to ten weeks up front for design, engineering, and the interior alteration permit. Phased permit strategies let structural and finishing crews overlap, which is how we hold schedules other builders miss.

Yes — any structural change, plumbing relocation, or addition requires a permit from the City of Toronto Building Division; Vaughan and Markham run their own Building Standards departments. Part 9 residential permits typically clear in two to four weeks with complete drawings. We prepare, submit, and manage the application and every inspection.

Not during a full-gut renovation — electrical, plumbing, and heating are offline for months, and dust control adds cost without adding comfort. For phased scopes, like a second-storey renovation, we can sometimes seal and sequence the work. Most clients budget ten to twelve months of alternate accommodation.

Yes — it is routine in our full house renovation work across the GTA. A structural engineer sizes a steel or LVL beam, stamped drawings go into the permit set, and temporary shoring carries the load during the switch. Budget $10,000–$30,000 per opening depending on span and what the wall carries.

Century homes hide knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized plumbing, and undersized framing. Our pre-construction audit — including exploratory openings — surfaces most of it before pricing, and the contract carries a defined contingency, typically 10 percent, with a written change-order protocol. You approve every dollar before the work happens, in writing.