Stucco Contractor in Scarborough
Stucco, EIFS, repair and parging for Scarborough houses, from the Bluffs to Malvern. How we plan the job on ravine and treed lots, our published prices, and a fixed quote in writing.
In Scarborough the lot decides as much as the wall does
Scarborough is part of the City of Toronto, so the City's rules for building permits, heritage addresses and street use are the same ones we explain on our Toronto stucco repair page.
What changes here is the land. Plenty of houses back onto the Bluffs, Highland Creek, the Rouge valley or a ravine lot full of old trees. A stucco job puts a scaffold, a lift and a bin on that ground for days, and that is where the rules about trees and slopes come in.
We are based in Oakville and work across Toronto. Call (905) 973-6470, any day, any hour.
Three maps to look at before the crew comes
Each one takes a couple of minutes with your address. Tell us what they show when you call, and we plan where the equipment goes before we price the job.
The City's ravine and natural feature map
The City's tree and ravine permit page explains it: open the map at map.toronto.ca, search your address and turn on the Ravine and Natural Feature Protection By-law layer under Boundaries. A striped area is protected.
Inside the stripes, the City needs a permit before anyone harms a tree of any size, adds soil on a slope, changes the ground by digging or dumps fill.
TRCA's Regulated Area Search
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority covers shorelines and river valleys, which in Scarborough means the Bluffs, Highland Creek and the Rouge. Its Regulated Area Search takes an address or postal code.
TRCA's permits page says development in a regulated area may need its permit, and lists home additions and fill. If your lot is inside, ask TRCA about your job before it starts.
The tape measure on your biggest tree
Off the ravine map, the City still protects any private tree 30 cm or more across, measured 1.4 m above the ground. A tree with several stems counts if one stem reaches 30 cm.
If a big tree stands within a few metres of the wall we are working on, the next section matters.
How close the scaffold can stand to a big tree
The City calls the ground around a protected tree its Tree Protection Zone. For a tree 30 to 40 cm across, the zone runs at least 2.4 m from the trunk on a private lot and 4.8 m in a ravine area. Bigger trees get bigger zones.
The City's page lists what injures a tree, and a stucco job can do several of them:
- storing materials or equipment near it
- driving a lift or a loaded cart over the roots
- digging or changing the ground level, for example at the foundation
When the work, access or storage would reach into that zone, the City wants a permit first. When it stays out, no permit is needed, but the tree still has to be protected. So we decide at the visit which side the scaffold goes up, where the bin lands and whether the lift fits, and if the only way in crosses a zone, you hear that before you get a price. Base-of-wall work such as re-parging a foundation is the job most likely to touch roots.
Where your street sits changes what we ask at the visit
Along the Bluffs and the creek valleys
- Birch Cliff, Cliffside, Scarborough Village, Guildwood
- The south edge of Scarborough runs along the top of the Bluffs. A rear wall on the lake side can sit close to the slope, so we check both maps first and keep heavy loads off the slope side.
- Highland Creek, West Hill, Morningside
- These areas sit around the Highland Creek valley. Expect the ravine map and the TRCA search to matter on lots that back onto it.
- Rouge
- The streets beside the Rouge valley are the ones where we ask TRCA's map first.
Inland streets
Agincourt, Malvern, Wexford, Dorset Park, Woburn and the streets between them are mostly away from the big valleys.
Most jobs there come down to the usual questions: what is on the wall now, how the crew reaches it, and whether there is room for a bin on the driveway.
Ravines branch through these areas too, so run the address through the City map anyway. It takes a minute.
Finished work elsewhere in the City of Toronto
We have no Scarborough project on this site yet. These three are inside the same City, under the same rules, and each has its own page.
The ranges we quote a Scarborough job from
These are the prices on every page of this site, and Scarborough is priced from them like anywhere else in Toronto.
What moves a job up or down inside a range is the wall itself and how we get to it. A lot where the scaffold has to go up on the far side to stay clear of a tree takes longer to set up, and we say so in the quote.
After the free visit you get one fixed figure in writing. A soft or broken patch on a foam wall is covered on our EIFS repair page.
What to text us from a Scarborough address
Send it to (905) 973-6470 or attach it to the quote form. Musa usually calls back within a day.
For a whole new exterior rather than a repair, our residential stucco page covers how that job runs.
- Your address and the nearest main road.
- A photo of each wall, from far enough back to see the whole side.
- Close photos of every crack, stain or loose patch, with a hand beside it for size.
- What the two maps showed: striped City area, TRCA regulated area, or neither.
- Any tree within about 5 m of the walls we would work on.
- How a truck reaches the house, and whether a bin fits on the driveway.
Scarborough stucco questions
Do you take stucco jobs in Scarborough?
My house backs onto a ravine. Can you still repair the stucco?
Is my lot in a TRCA regulated area?
Does a big tree near the wall stop the job?
What does stucco cost in Scarborough?
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