Commercial and industrial drywall contractor in Vaughan

What we build in Vaughan

Vaughan is where our commercial work is closest to home. The employment lands along Highway 7, Highway 400 and the 407 hold a dense belt of industrial buildings, and the office and retail work clusters around Woodbridge, Concord and the towers going up at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.

• Office pods, mezzanine offices and amenity blocks inside Vaughan warehouses
• Demising walls between leased industrial units and rated separations at the office to warehouse line
• Tenant fit-outs in Woodbridge and Concord office buildings
• Retail, restaurant and mall hoarding work along the Highway 7 plaza corridor and at the malls
• Suites, corridors and amenity spaces in the new towers at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
• T-bar and acoustic ceilings across all of it

The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre adds a third kind of work: suites, corridors and amenity floors in new residential and office towers, with freight elevator bookings and after hours rules that look more like downtown Toronto than the rest of York Region. We price those constraints at bid stage rather than meeting them at mobilization.

A recent Vaughan project

In Woodbridge we framed a set of private offices inside an occupied office floor. Steel stud partitions were framed to the existing T-bar grid, filled with mineral wool acoustic batts, boarded, taped and fitted with doors while the rest of the floor kept working. The photo record is on the Woodbridge office fit-out page.

The lesson from that job applies to every occupied floor in Vaughan. The noisy work, meaning shooting track to the slab and cutting studs, was grouped into agreed windows. The existing grid, tile and carpet were protected before the first stud went up, and a clear walkway was kept between the tenant's desks and the door. The tenant stayed productive and the schedule held.

Retail hoarding is its own discipline: built fast, finished to the landlord's standard on the public side, and taken down cleanly at the end. Our KFC hoarding wall project shows the sequence from the old wall to the new one.

Industrial work in the 400 and 407 corridors

An office pod inside a Vaughan distribution centre is not an office fit-out with a bigger door. The conditions change the schedule more than the quantities.

• Tall clear heights, so lift access and hoisting drive the labour rather than the square footage
• An unconditioned shell in winter, where compound will not cure without temporary heat
• Live shipping operations, so the work is sequenced around dock hours and forklift routes
• Long runs of demising wall where the deflection detail at the deck matters more than on a low partition
• Rated separations at the office to warehouse line, built to the listing and documented

We price these conditions in the bid rather than discovering them in week two. For the full scope, see industrial drywall.

Working with Vaughan general contractors

We work as a subcontractor to general contractors, developers, property managers and facility managers. A proper bid from your drawing set, a certificate of insurance before we mobilize, and a crew size we can staff for the dates on your schedule.

• 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
• Framing, boarding, taping, finishing and ceilings self performed under one contract

Vaughan borders Richmond Hill. Woodbridge, Concord and Maple are a short run from our base, which makes site walks, small return visits and warranty calls simple to arrange.

Getting a number

Send the drawing set, the addenda and the wall schedule. We come back with a bid that lists every partition type by tag, the finish level assumed for each area, and a plain statement of what we carried and what we excluded. If you are still at concept, tell us the area, the clear height and the intended use and we will give you a budget range with the assumptions attached.

Vaughan homeowners and custom home builders: our residential drywall page covers boarding, finishing and repairs.