Markham home renovations

Scope decides it far more than the street does. A cosmetic refresh runs $50 to $95 per square foot, a mid range renovation $100 to $130, and high end or full gut work $150 to $300, all before HST. Markham homes trend large, so on a typical 2,500 square foot house a mid range job lands around $250,000 to $325,000. If you want to see how those numbers are built, our home renovation cost guide walks through the math line by line.

Most Markham kitchens land between $25,000 and $60,000. A standard 10×10 runs $25,000 to $45,000, and fully custom work runs $60,000 to $150,000 or more. One advantage of renovating here: your cabinets are made in our own Markham facility, so there is no dealer markup hiding in the number. The full breakdown lives on our Markham kitchen renovation page.

Yes, at our facility on Shields Court, minutes from most of the city. Stock style boxes run $400 to $500 per linear foot, semi custom $450 to $650, and fully custom $650 to $1,200. Come by during design if you like. Plenty of clients drop in to watch their doors being built, and it beats choosing finishes from a brochure.

Often, including the towers around Downtown Markham and Highway 7. Budget $40,000 to $120,000 for a full unit. Condo work brings its own paperwork, board approvals, insurance certificates and elevator bookings, and we handle all of it so you are not chasing your property manager between site visits.

For structural work, plumbing, electrical, a basement finish or an addition, yes. For cosmetic updates in the same layout, usually no. The heritage parts of Unionville and Markham Village add a sign off before exterior changes. We pull every permit in our own name and stand there for the inspections, so the City of Markham never needs to call you.

Usually, though your lot has the final say. Coverage limits, setbacks and heritage rules on some streets all come into it. Additions start well into six figures once foundations and roof tie ins are involved, so we check feasibility before you fall for a floor plan. The Ontario home addition cost guide has the 2026 numbers.

They are well built houses, and most of what we find is manageable. The one thing we always check for is aluminum branch wiring, common in the sixties and seventies stock. Terminated properly it is safe. Terminated badly it is a fire risk, so we look before demolition day, never after. If you have just bought one, our guide on what to renovate first in an older home is worth a read before you plan anything.

A bathroom takes 2 to 4 weeks on site, a kitchen 3 to 5, a basement 4 to 8, and a full house renovation 3 to 6 months. City of Markham permit review runs before any of that, usually 6 to 12 weeks depending on scope, and heritage streets add a step. We file early so the clock runs while you are still picking finishes.

Because a renovation company based in Markham shows up differently. A forgotten part costs us an hour, not a day. A site visit happens the same afternoon you call. Your cabinets travel minutes down the road instead of across the region. Our crews and our facility start every morning in this city, and the schedule shows it.

You get one line itemized fixed price before you sign, with real allowances for cabinets, tile and fixtures, not placeholders that grow later. That number is what you pay at handover. If anything changes mid project, it reaches you as a written change order first, priced and approved before the work happens.

Yes, and it comes up a lot in Markham. Curbless showers, a main floor bedroom, wider doorways and hidden blocking for grab bars cost very little while the walls are already open. Done later as retrofits, the same items cost a fortune. Full in-law suites usually go downstairs, built to feel like part of the house, not a hospital wing.