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Hamilton's best neighbourhoods are its oldest — and a hundred-year-old brick house needs a roofer who understands chimneys, flashing and stone foundations as well as shingles. That's the work we do here.(416) 846-3797Or send the form and we'll call you back.
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Westdale, Kirkendall and Durand are streets of brick houses from 1900 to 1940: steep slate-pitch roofs that were re-done in asphalt decades ago, tall brick chimneys that have been repointed once or never, and foundations of stone or early block that were laid before anyone waterproofed anything. Dundas has the same stock in a smaller town. The Mountain is mostly post-war — 1950s and 60s bungalows and split-levels on their second or third roof, with the flat garage roofs and rear additions of that era. Ancaster and Waterdown add larger houses from the 80s onward, and Stoney Creek is where most of the newer subdivisions are — 1990s and 2000s two-storeys now reaching the end of their first shingles, plus the older lakefront houses along the water.
The Niagara Escarpment runs through the middle of the city, and it makes Hamilton's weather. The Mountain gets more snow and holds it longer; the lower city gets the wind that comes across the harbour and the lake. On a 1920 house in Kirkendall that means wind working at old chimney flashing and snow sitting on a steep north slope until March, when it comes off all at once. Freeze-thaw is hard on old brick and mortar — chimneys spall, joints open, and water gets behind the flashing from the masonry side rather than the roof side. Stoney Creek along the lake takes the storms straight off the water.
On a century home in Hamilton, the roof, the chimney, the masonry and the foundation are one system and they fail as one. The chimney that needs rebuilding above the roofline is usually leaking at the flashing below it, and the water that gets in there ends up on top of a stone foundation that was already letting the spring runoff through. We handle all of it — roofing, masonry, waterproofing and foundation — with one crew and one written quote, so there's one person responsible for where the water goes. The owner inspects the house himself and does the quote. No salesperson, no commission, no one recommending more than the house needs.
Yes. Chimney rebuilding and restoration is a core part of our Hamilton work — rebuilding from the roofline up on Westdale and Kirkendall houses where the brick has spalled and the crown has failed, repointing where the masonry is sound, and replacing the flashing at the roof properly instead of caulking over the old. We match brick and mortar as closely as the original allows.
Yes. Stone foundations in Durand, Kirkendall and Dundas leak through washed-out mortar joints, not at a single crack, and the durable fix is from outside: excavate, clean, repoint the joints, apply membrane and drainage, and regrade so water moves away from the house. It's careful work on a wall that has stood for a century, and it's how it stands for another.
Yes. Burlington is part of our regular service area, along with Waterdown, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek. Same crew, same owner inspection, same written quote.
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