Parging in North York

North York is bungalow and side-split country. Most of the houses between Wilson and Steeles went up in the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of them sit on concrete block foundations wearing their original parge coat, now sixty years old or more. If the grey coating around the base of your house is cracking, flaking or letting go in sheets, that is the parging, and we repair it every week in neighbourhoods like Willowdale, Downsview, Bathurst Manor and Don Mills.

We're Toronto Parging & Concrete, a local crew that covers North York and the rest of the Greater Toronto Area. Parging is our bread and butter: foundation coats, repairs, basement walls, and the concrete work that usually goes with it. We treat your home like our own. We show up when we say we will, keep the site tidy, and back every job with a 5-year workmanship warranty.

Parging work we do in North York

Most of the calls we get in North York fall into a few buckets. Here is what we handle:

• Foundation parging. A fresh cement-based parge coat over exposed foundation walls, on older homes and new builds alike.
• Parging repair. Patching cracks, chips and flaking sections where the rest of the coat is still sound.
• Full removal and recoat. When the old parging is failing across the whole wall, we strip it back, prep the surface and apply a new coat that bonds properly.
• Basement wall parging. A clean, durable finish for interior block or concrete walls in unfinished basements.
• Concrete work. Steps, walkways and pads, poured and finished to last through our winters.

Why parging fails on North York homes

Those postwar block foundations are the big one. Concrete block is porous, and once water gets behind an old parge coat, our freeze-thaw winters do the rest. The coat loses its bond, sounds hollow when you tap it, and starts dropping off in chunks. Grading is a common culprit too. Plenty of North York lots have settled toward the house over the decades, and downspouts that dump water right at the foundation speed everything up. Road salt splashing off driveways and walkways eats away at the bottom edge of the coat as well.

There is also a lot of rebuilding going on. Along the Yonge corridor and through Willowdale and Newtonbrook, older bungalows are being renovated, added onto or replaced, and those projects usually leave a band of raw foundation showing above grade. A proper parge coat protects that concrete from moisture and cleans up the look of the whole house.

Concrete goes hand in hand with parging on most of our North York jobs. Front steps are the usual suspect. If your concrete steps are cracked, sunken or crumbling at the edges, we can repair or repour them while we're on site, so the whole front of the house gets sorted in one visit.

Why North York homeowners choose us

We keep it simple. Straight answers, fair written quotes, and work we're happy to put our name on. Our Google rating sits at 5.0 across 27 reviews, and we plan to keep it there.

• 5-year workmanship warranty on every job
• Free quotes, most sent the same day
• No pressure and no surprises, ever
• Tidy job sites, start to finish

Getting started is easy. Send us a few details through the form below and you'll have a clear quote in hand fast. You can read about how our process works before you reach out. And if you're just outside North York, we cover the neighbours too: see our Vaughan and East York pages.