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Dry pack contractor in Sarnia

Sarnia sits where Lake Huron empties into the St. Clair River, across the Blue Water Bridge from Michigan. Older houses near downtown, post-war streets built for the refinery and plant workers, and lakeside homes to the north make up most of the work.

Dry pack in Sarnia

Sarnia grew with the petrochemical plants along the St. Clair River, and many of its neighbourhoods were built after the war for the people who worked there: brick bungalows and storey-and-a-half houses with one bathroom and an unfinished basement. Many are now on their second or third bathroom renovation, and their basements are being finished.

Near downtown and in Point Edward, by the Blue Water Bridge, the houses are older, with wood floors that have settled. North along the lake, toward Bright's Grove, there are lakeside homes and cottages with terraces and patios, where the bed has to fall away from the house and shed water before winter.

The work that comes up most here is bathroom renovations, basement floors and outdoor beds. Sarnia jobs are scheduled with others in the southwest, so send photos and the postal code first.

Along the lake the wind and spray off Lake Huron are strong, so an outdoor bed near the water is given a generous fall away from the house. Inside, post-war basements often have a slab that has settled toward a floor drain; a dry pack screed brings the room flat for tile or plank while keeping the fall to that drain where it is needed.

In Sarnia

What the homes here usually need

  • Post-war houses

    Bathrooms and basements redone: a new shower floor and a screed over the slab.

    Shower pans and pre-slopes
  • Lakeside homes

    Terraces and patios sloped away from the house, ready for stone or pavers.

    Pool decks and terraces
  • Older floors downtown

    Scratch coat over metal lath before tile or stone on old wood subfloors.

    Scratch coat

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