Parging in Scarborough

Scarborough keeps a parging crew busy. Postwar bungalows and back-splits in Wexford, Bendale and Dorset Park sit on concrete block foundations that were first coated decades ago, and after that many winters the original parge is cracking, flaking or letting go in sheets. Down in Birch Cliff, Cliffside and Guildwood, homes near the bluffs take wind and moisture off the lake all year, which is hard on any exposed foundation wall. Toronto Parging & Concrete handles parging in Scarborough every week, and we back each job with a 5-year workmanship warranty.

Parging does two jobs on a Scarborough home. It shields the exposed top of your foundation from water and freeze-thaw damage, and it tidies up the band of bare block or rough concrete between the soil and your brick. Once it starts to fail, the wall underneath takes the weather directly. Fixing it early is a small, quick job. Waiting usually means more chipped material, more prep work and a bigger repair down the road. That goes for the older streets near Kennedy and Lawrence just as much as the newer builds up in Agincourt and Milliken.

Parging in Scarborough: what we do

Most of our Scarborough calls fall into a few buckets:

• Foundation parging, a fresh cement-based coat over block or poured concrete walls
• Parging repair for cracks, flaking, bubbling and sections that have fallen off
• Basement parging to seal and smooth interior foundation walls
• Full removal and recoat where the old parge is too far gone to patch
• Parging around porch bases, additions and garage foundations

Every job starts with proper prep. We remove loose material, clean the wall, apply a bonding agent, then trowel on a cement parge coat mixed for our freeze-thaw climate and let it cure properly. None of that is complicated, but prep is where cheap jobs cut corners, and it is why so much parging around Scarborough fails within a couple of years. Ours is built to stay put.

Concrete porches, steps and walkways too

Parging is the front door of our business, but concrete is the other half. A lot of Scarborough porches poured in the 1950s and 60s are now spalling, sinking or pulling away from the house. We rebuild and resurface concrete porches, replace crumbling front steps, and pour new walkways and pads. Salt, plows and our freeze-thaw winters are rough on flatwork here, so we mix and finish for durability, not just for looks on day one. If your porch and your parging both need attention, we can handle them in one visit and one quote, which saves you juggling two contractors and two schedules.

Why Scarborough homeowners choose us

We treat your home like our own. That means straight answers about whether a patch or a full recoat makes sense, a written quote with no pressure, and a crew that shows up when we say we will and leaves the site clean.

• 5-year workmanship warranty on every job
• 5.0 Google rating from 27 reviews
• Free quotes, most sent the same day
• 100% satisfaction guarantee

Getting started is simple. Send a few photos and a short description through the form below, and we follow the same clear process on every job: quote, schedule, done right. We also work right next door in East York and east along the 401 into Pickering, so if you have family or a rental property nearby, one call covers it all.