One Contract, One Schedule
Every trade in the house is scheduled by the same project manager, so nobody is waiting on somebody else you had to hire.
One Contract for the Whole House.
Design, permits, trades and finishing for the entire house under one contract, one schedule and one project manager — at a price agreed before demolition starts.
A whole-house project is not several small jobs. It is one sequence, and the order it runs in is what decides the cost.
Houses We Have Rebuilt
By the time a house needs three or four rooms done at once, hiring room by room stops being cheaper. Each trade mobilises separately, each quote assumes the last one went perfectly, and every gap between them becomes your job to manage.
One contract across the house removes those gaps — and with them the part of the budget that usually disappears into them.
Newmarket work is mostly houses from the 1980s and 90s now on their second family: kitchens opened up, bathrooms rebuilt, and basements finished properly after a first attempt that was not.
The difference between a fixed-price contract and an estimate shows up halfway through the job, when the walls are already open.
The full house, taken in one sequence: structure, mechanical, insulation, drywall and finishing, room by room in the order that only needs one pass.
Taking down the wall between the kitchen and the living room is a structural job, not a demolition job. It needs a beam sized by an engineer, a permit, and somewhere for the services in that wall to go.
We price the beam, the permit and the rerouting together, because separating them is how the number moves later.
Where the house has run out of room, an addition brings zoning, committee of adjustment, foundations and tie-ins to the existing structure into the project. All of it goes in the same contract and the same schedule.
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We walk the whole house, listen to what is not working, and separate what you want from what the building will actually allow.
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Floor plans, elevations and 3D views for the house as a whole, so the rooms are designed against each other rather than one at a time.
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One itemised price for the project, with allowances, exclusions and a schedule that shows which rooms are out of use and when.
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Zoning review, the permit application to the Town of Newmarket, engineering where structure moves, and committee approvals where they are needed.
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One project manager from demolition to final finishing, closing with a walkthrough and a deficiency list cleared before you sign off.
Most Newmarket homes are subdivisions from the 1980s onward, with older houses in the blocks around Main Street, and a whole-house project is where every decade of previous work finally meets in one place.
A finished basement from a previous owner that has to come out before anything can go back — across a whole house, finding it early is what keeps the schedule honest.
We open what can be opened before pricing and put the rest in the contract as allowances, so the budget bends where it was designed to bend.
Some clients move out for eight weeks; others stay in half the house. Both work, but they are different schedules and different prices, and the choice belongs at the start.
We will tell you honestly which rooms will be unusable, and for how long, before you decide.
Structural changes, additions and anything touching plumbing or electrical need a permit. Newmarket issues the permit, and work in the older streets off Main Street is reviewed with the heritage district in mind.
We prepare the drawings, file the application, book the inspections and build to what was approved.
It depends on the square footage, how much structure and mechanical work moves, and the level of finish. The number worth comparing is the one attached to a written scope with allowances in it, because two quotes for "the whole house" are rarely describing the same work.
Three to six months on site for most houses, with design and permits ahead of that. The schedule is agreed before the contract is signed, room by room, so you know what is unusable and when.
Often yes, in stages, with the work area sealed off and a working kitchen or bathroom kept for as long as the sequence allows. For a full gut it is usually cheaper and faster to move out, and we will say so rather than sell you the harder version.
For structural changes, additions, and anything that moves plumbing, electrical or HVAC — yes. Newmarket issues the permit, and work in the older streets off Main Street is reviewed with the heritage district in mind. We file the applications and build to what was approved.
Yes. We take on whole-home projects across the GTA, including Aurora, East Gwillimbury and Richmond Hill, with the same fixed-price contract and the same five-year workmanship warranty.
It goes to you as a written change order with a price, before the work happens. That is the point of allowances: the surprise costs what it costs, but it never arrives as an invoice you did not agree to.
Design, cost, timeline and scope defined before anything is torn out. No moving targets, no surprise invoices.
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