Parging in Aurora

Aurora covers a wide range of housing. There are heritage homes along Yonge Street through Aurora Village, postwar bungalows in Aurora Heights, and newer subdivisions on the east side around Bayview Wellington and Aurora Grove. The one thing they share is an exposed foundation wall that takes the full force of every winter. Give it enough seasons and the parge coat starts to crack, flake or drop off in chunks.

That is the work we do. Toronto Parging & Concrete is in Aurora on a regular basis, repairing and recoating foundations, patching spalled walls and making the base of the house look tidy again. Quotes are free, most go out the same day, and every job carries our 5-year workmanship warranty.

Parging services we offer in Aurora

Most of the calls we get from Aurora fall into a few buckets:

• Foundation parging. A fresh cement parge coat over the exposed concrete or block at the base of your home.
• Parging repair. Patching cracks, flaking and hollow spots before water gets in behind them.
• Basement parging. Smoothing and sealing interior or exterior basement walls.
• Concrete work. New concrete patios, steps and walkways, poured and finished properly.

Parging is the bulk of what we do, and concrete comes second. If your back patio is heaving or your front steps are crumbling, we can sort that out on the same visit. Plenty of Aurora customers bundle a parging job with new concrete and knock both off in one go.

Why parge coats fail in Aurora

Aurora sits at the top of York Region, and winters here are hard on masonry. Every freeze-thaw cycle drives moisture in and out of the parge coat. Once a hairline crack opens, water works in behind the coating, freezes, expands and pops it off in sheets. Snowbanked up against the foundation makes it worse, and so does a downspout that dumps water right at the wall.

The age of the house shapes the problem. The heritage homes along Yonge Street and the postwar bungalows in Aurora Heights often sit on older block foundations where the parge has been patched over more than once, and we usually find several layers that have to come off. The newer east-side subdivisions tend to have poured foundations with thin builder-grade coatings that start flaking within a few years. Either way, the fix is the same discipline. We remove anything loose or hollow, prep the surface, apply a bonding agent, then trowel on a cement-based parge coat built to handle our winters. Done properly, it protects the foundation instead of just dressing it up.

Catch it early and a repair is quick and straightforward. Leave it and the damage spreads, water reaches the concrete itself, and winter widens every gap it finds. If you can see bare foundation, bubbling or white staining at the base of your wall, it is time to have someone look at it.

Why Aurora homeowners choose us

No pressure, no surprises. We treat your home like our own, we show up when we say we will, and we leave the site clean when we go. That approach has earned us a 5.0 rating on Google, and we work hard to keep it.

• 5-year workmanship warranty on every job
• Free quotes, most sent the same day
• 100% satisfaction guarantee

We cover the whole town, from the older streets around Aurora Village out to the newer pockets near the Hills of St. Andrew, and we also serve neighbouring Newmarket and Richmond Hill. Same crew, same warranty, whichever side of Wellington Street you are on.

Getting started is simple. Send a few details and photos through the form below and we will come back with a firm quote, usually the same day. You can see how a typical job runs in our process overview, and there is more about who we are and how we work on our homepage.