Roofing & Waterproofing in Forest Hill

Forest Hill North and South, the Village, Chaplin Estates, and across into Cedarvale. The whole neighbourhood is small and central, so every street in it gets the same response window from our crews.

Some of it does. Toronto Building issues permits for structural roof changes and foundation alterations, while renewing a covering in the same material usually needs none. Certain houses here are listed or designated heritage properties, where exterior alterations go through an extra review, and we find out whether yours is one of them before the estimate is written.

In most cases yes, and where we cannot we say so before the work starts rather than after. If the tile on your roof has gone out of production, we take good pieces off a back or side slope to use where the repair faces the street, and the closest modern equivalent goes where nobody looks. You should choose that with your eyes open rather than find it afterwards.

A core part of the work, and never the only part. Slate, tile, and copper have been on our books since the business started in 1999, next to the flat roofing and membrane side, and doing both is what keeps the advice honest: a heritage-only firm prices every job as specialist work, and a volume firm will cheerfully put asphalt over slate.

Yes. The low-rise buildings in both villages, often with apartments or offices over the stores, mostly carry flat roofs, parapets, and rear additions rather than slate, so our flat roofing crews handle them. Work is planned around the businesses trading below, and the owner receives a written condition report with photographs.

Carefully, because broken slate and tile are heavy and sharp, and the lots here are defined by mature trees and planting close to the house. We plan how debris leaves the roof before the first piece is lifted, keep bins and ladders clear of trunks and beds, and cover paths and plantings under the work area.

Because the slate is rarely what fails first. Nails rust through long before good slate wears out, and counter flashing at a chimney or parapet works loose as the mortar around it softens, so a roof can look intact from the street while water gets in at its edges and fixings.