Areas We Serve Across Toronto

Three areas is fewer than most companies in this trade advertise, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation we are apologising for.

A service area on a website is usually a list of every place within an hour's drive, written to catch searches rather than to describe where anyone actually goes. It costs nothing to add another town to it. What it costs is the customer in that town, who books a job with a company that has never worked there and finds out what the drive does to the schedule.

This trade moves things. Thirty doors leave your house, go to a booth on Barmac Drive, come back. Somebody returns to adjust a door that has settled. A colour sample needs a second look in your kitchen at a different time of day. Every one of those is a round trip, and beyond a certain distance the arithmetic stops working — not for us, for you, in the form of a crew that arrives late and leaves early.

So the list is where the van goes, and the honest edges of it are around Meadowvale to the west and the eastern end of the old city.

Toronto is the largest and the most varied — pre-war semis in the east and west ends, postwar bungalows across the old boroughs, eighties infill, and condo kitchens downtown and along the waterfront. The layer a house belongs to predicts its kitchen better than anything else about it, and the right service differs between them.

Etobicoke is the closest to the shop, and it spans about seventy years of building in one municipality — inter-war houses in the Kingsway with joinery worth matching, postwar stock in Alderwood and Long Branch, and towers at Humber Bay with their own set of building rules.

Mississauga is the western edge and it is dominated by subdivision building from the mid-eighties onward. Sound frames, real five-piece oak doors, and an amber lacquer that has yellowed for thirty years. It is the area where the choice between painting, refinishing and new fronts comes up most often, because all three are genuinely viable on the same kitchen.