Parging in St. Catharines

St. Catharines has some of the best older housing stock on the Niagara side of the lake. Century brick homes around the downtown core and Merritton, wartime and postwar bungalows through Grantham and the north end, and lakeside places out in Port Dalhousie. Most of them sit on foundations that take a beating every winter, and it shows in the parging. If the parge coat on your St. Catharines home is cracked, flaking or coming off in sheets, we can fix it properly.

We are Toronto Parging & Concrete, and we work the whole Golden Horseshoe, from Oakville and Hamilton around the lake to St. Catharines. The trade does not change with the postal code. We prep the wall, bond the new coat, trowel it clean and stand behind the work with a 5-year workmanship warranty and a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Parging services we offer in St. Catharines

Parging is the main event for us. Here is what we handle across St. Catharines:

• Foundation parging. A fresh cement based parge coat over exposed foundation walls, on block, poured concrete or older rubble stone.
• Parging repair. Patching and recoating cracked, hollow or flaking parge so it bonds properly instead of failing again next spring.
• Basement parging. Interior parge coats that tidy up rough basement walls and cover decades of old patchwork.
• Exterior parging. Garage bases, porch foundations, chimney bases and any masonry that needs a clean, uniform finish.
• Concrete work. Steps, walkways, pads and porch surfaces, poured and finished to last.

Concrete is the second half of our name for a reason. If your front steps are spalling or the walkway has heaved, we can often quote it in the same visit as the parging.

Why parge coats fail fast in Niagara

St. Catharines winters cross the freezing mark dozens of times a season, and moisture off the lake keeps foundation walls damp for months at a stretch. Water works into any gap behind the parge coat, freezes, expands and pops the coat loose. Once one section lets go, the next thaw gets in behind the rest, and by spring you are looking at bare block.

The fix is not a thicker smear of cement. A coat that lasts starts with removing every loose section, cleaning the wall down to sound material and applying a bonding agent so the new cement based coat grips the wall instead of just sitting on it. We mix for the conditions, work the coat into the surface and let it cure at the right pace. Done that way, parging handles freeze and thaw for years instead of one winter.

Older St. Catharines homes add their own wrinkle. Century foundations around downtown and Merritton were often laid with softer lime mortar, and a hard modern coat applied straight over them can trap moisture and spall. We look at what the wall is made of before we pick the mix, not after.

Why homeowners choose us

We keep it simple. We show up when we say we will, we quote what the job actually needs, and we clean up like it is our own place. No pressure, no surprises.

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

Getting started is easy. Send a few photos and a short note through the form below and we will usually have a written quote back to you the same day. If you want to see how a job runs from first call to final walkthrough, take a look at our process.