Commercial and industrial drywall contractor in Etobicoke
Office, industrial and retail drywall across Etobicoke, from the 427 employment lands to the Islington and Six Points office nodes.
What we build in Etobicoke
Etobicoke is unusually mixed. The employment lands along Highway 427 and the airport corridor are industrial and logistics. The Six Points and Islington nodes are office and increasingly residential. The Queensway and Lake Shore carry retail, restaurants and older commercial stock being converted. Each of those produces a different kind of drywall package.
- Office and warehouse build-outs in the 427 and airport employment lands
- Tenant fit-outs in Islington and Six Points office buildings
- Retail and restaurant build-outs along The Queensway and Lake Shore
- Condominium amenity and corridor work
- Fire-rated assemblies, shaft walls and rated demising walls
- T-bar and acoustic ceilings, drywall bulkheads and ceilings
Older building stock, and what it hides
A good share of Etobicoke's commercial buildings are decades old, and renovation work in them turns up conditions a new build never has. This is the main reason we walk a renovation site before bidding it rather than pricing from drawings alone.
| What we check | Why it matters to the price |
|---|---|
| Existing wall construction | Block, plaster and lath, or drywall each demolish differently |
| Whether existing walls are plumb | Out of plumb structure adds furring that was never drawn |
| Slab and deck condition | Track fastening and floor levelling both change with the substrate |
| Existing rated assemblies | A rated wall being cut has to be restored to a listed detail |
| Designated substances survey | Older buildings need this settled before demolition starts |
| Access and hoisting | A tight urban site can add more cost than the drywall itself |
Industrial work near the 427 and the airport
The employment lands work looks much like our Brampton and Mississauga projects. Office pods inside a shell, washroom and lunchroom blocks, demising walls between units, and rated separations. Clear heights mean lift access, and unconditioned space in winter means temporary heat is a schedule item rather than an afterthought.
Where a building sits inside the airport operating area, site access and security clearance add lead time. We would rather build that into the schedule at tender than explain it in week one.
Retail and restaurant build-outs
Retail and restaurant work along The Queensway, Lake Shore and the plaza units through central Etobicoke runs on a different clock from office work. The tenant is paying rent from the day they take possession, so the schedule is driven by an opening date that was set before anyone priced the drywall.
- Confirm the landlord's construction rules early, because plaza and mall landlords set working hours, hoarding standards and delivery routes that are not on the drawings
- Check whether the unit is being handed over as a shell or with existing walls to demolish, since that changes the schedule more than the new work does
- Identify the rated demising walls between units, which in an older plaza are often not what the drawings assume
- Confirm ceiling heights against the mechanical layout before framing bulkheads, because restaurant exhaust routing regularly moves them
- Agree the sequence with the millwork and equipment suppliers, whose deliveries usually need the walls closed and painted first
Restaurant work adds two more items worth pricing openly. Moisture resistant board is normally required behind kitchen and washroom finishes, and the kitchen envelope often needs a rated separation that the tenant's designer has drawn but nobody has taken off. We call both out in the bid rather than treating them as assumed inclusions.
Working with us
We bid as a subcontractor from your drawing set and self perform framing, boarding, taping and finishing, so the scope handoffs inside the drywall package stay ours to manage.
- Two million dollar commercial general liability, certificate on request
- WSIB coverage in good standing
- Non-union open shop
- Five years and more of commercial and industrial work across the GTA
For the underlying scope, see commercial drywall and fire-rated assemblies.
Etobicoke drywall questions
What general contractors and property managers ask before awarding the work.