These are regulated trades in Ontario. FOUR40 plans and coordinates them as part of your project, and the work is performed and certified by licensed contractors with the permit under their own licence. We will tell you plainly which parts of your job this covers.
What's included
Plenty of contractors blur this line. Doing so moves the liability onto them — and onto you — and is exactly the sort of thing that surfaces years later at claim time.
ESA notification under the electrician's licence, never ours.
Note that sump pumps and backwater valves qualify for municipal rebates in several GTA municipalities — worth asking about.
Easy to overlook on an outdoor living job, and not optional.
What it costs
We publish real numbers rather than "it depends" — but only once they're ours to publish. Our written ranges are being finalised; call and we'll give you one over the phone in a minute. What moves the number:
Working with us
We measure, check drainage and grade, and talk through what you actually want. Free, and no pressure to sign anything.
Scope, materials, base depth and price in writing. You'll know exactly what's included before a shovel moves.
Ontario One Call locates booked, materials ordered, start date confirmed. A realistic window, not an optimistic one.
Excavation, base, compaction, install. Site cleaned at the end of each day — you still have to live there.
We walk it together before final payment. Anything on your list gets fixed, then we're back if settling shows up.
Questions
Because they come up constantly on jobs we are already doing, and because you should hear the regulatory position from us rather than from someone happy to blur it. We coordinate these trades; we do not perform them, and the permit sits under the licensed contractor's number, not ours.
Electrical work in Ontario has to be filed with the Electrical Safety Authority under a Licensed Electrical Contractor's own licence number. That detail decides whose insurer responds if there is ever a fire loss. A contractor filing electrical work under someone else's arrangement is a red flag worth walking away from.
Not usually, and it saves you the sequencing. Where you would rather contract the trade directly we will work around them happily — that arrangement lowers your exposure and ours.
The short list that matters here: electrical, plumbing, gas and HVAC. Most construction trades — carpentry, masonry, tiling, flooring, painting, concrete finishing and landscaping — are voluntary, which is why we perform those ourselves.
Service area
Close enough to come back if something needs attention — which matters more than it sounds.
Elsewhere in the GTA? Call and ask — we travel for the right project.
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