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Dry pack contractor in Brantford
Brantford grew on the Grand River as a factory town, and its older streets are lined with brick workers' houses, while the west and north ends have newer subdivisions. Bathrooms, basements and old floors bring most of the mortar-bed work.
Dry pack in Brantford
Brantford calls itself the Telephone City: Alexander Graham Bell's family homestead is on its edge, and the town grew on the Grand River with farm-implement and other factories. The older neighbourhoods, Eagle Place, Holmedale, the North Ward and the streets around downtown, are full of brick houses built for the people who worked there, many with small bathrooms on wood floors that have settled.
In those houses a renovation usually starts with the old tile and bed coming out, a check of the subfloor, and then metal lath with a scratch coat or a mortar bed, so the new finish sits flat. In West Brant and the newer subdivisions to the north, the houses are at their first renovation: a builder shower replaced with a mortar bed sloped to a new drain, and a basement finished with a screed through it.
Laurier has a campus downtown, and the houses around it include rentals renovated between terms. Brantford jobs are scheduled with others west of Toronto, so send photos and the postal code first.
In West Brant and the north end, many houses from the 2000s now have their first bathroom renovation, and their basements are being finished, some as second units built to a plan.
In Brantford
What the homes here usually need
Workers' houses near downtown
Small bathrooms on settled wood floors, taken back to the joists and given a flat, solid base.
Interior demolitionNew subdivisions
Builder showers replaced with a mortar bed and a new drain; basements screeded flat.
Shower pans and pre-slopesBasement floors
A dry pack screed over an uneven slab before tile or plank.
Dry pack floor levelling
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Do you come to Brantford?
Yes. Ricardo works across Ontario, Ottawa included. Jobs further from Toronto are scheduled by region, so send photos and the postal code with the quote request first.
How is a Brantford job priced?
Send photos through the quote form and Ricardo prices the job from them, or asks for a site visit when the photos cannot show enough.
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