Mature housing
- Original base far below current practice
- Settled and heaved surfaces
- Narrow mutual and shared drives
- Careful work near old services
Usually a rebuild rather than a re-lay.
Interlocking driveways and patios in Scarborough.
FOUR40 builds interlocking driveways, walkways, patios and steps across Scarborough — on a 300 mm compacted Granular A base, with City of Toronto driveway and boulevard rules confirmed before quoting. Free on-site estimates.
Based in
Whitchurch-Stouffville
Estimates
Free & on-site
Before we start
Written scope
On site
Same crew throughout
In Scarborough
What we see locally.
Scarborough is mostly mature post-war housing, which means two things. First, the original driveways were built to standards nobody would accept now, and by the time a homeowner calls us the base is usually the problem rather than the surface. Second, Toronto regulates front yards, driveway widths and boulevard work more tightly than the 905 municipalities do — so what is allowed matters as much as what is possible.
Toronto rules
- Front yard parking and hard-surface limits are regulated
- Driveway widening needs approval
- Boulevard and curb work is City property
- Tree protection applies to larger private trees
We confirm what is permitted for your address before quoting.
Access
- Tight side yards and shared drives
- Wheelbarrow work on many lots
- Material staging planned in advance
- Street parking and permits where needed
Our work
Recent jobs.
Job locations are being added to these captions as we confirm them — we will not label a photo with a city it was not taken in.
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A Scarborough driveway
Reserved for our next driveway build in the area.
Neighbourhoods
Where in Scarborough we work.
Anywhere else in Scarborough, call and ask.
Working with us
Five steps, no surprises.
01
Site visit
We measure, check drainage and grade, and talk through what you actually want. Free, and no pressure to sign anything.
02
Written quote
Scope, materials, base depth and price in writing. You'll know exactly what's included before a shovel moves.
03
Schedule & locates
Ontario One Call locates booked, materials ordered, start date confirmed. A realistic window, not an optimistic one.
04
Build
Excavation, base, compaction, install. Site cleaned at the end of each day — you still have to live there.
05
Walkthrough
We walk it together before final payment. Anything on your list gets fixed, then we're back if settling shows up.
Questions
Scarborough, answered.
Do I need a permit to redo a driveway in Scarborough?
Replacing a driveway in its existing footprint generally does not need a building permit. Widening it, or cutting a new curb across the boulevard, does need approval from the City of Toronto, and the rules on maximum width and how much of the front yard can be hard surface differ between municipalities. We confirm what applies to your address before quoting.
How quickly can you start in Scarborough?
It depends on the season. Spring and early summer are booked over the winter, so a job signed in January is usually in the ground by April. Interior work has much shorter lead times year-round.
Do you charge extra for travel?
No. Scarborough is inside our normal working radius from Stouffville, which is deliberately kept tight — travel time comes out of the working day, and a contractor who is two hours away is a contractor who does not come back.
Will you come back if something settles?
Yes. Minor settling in the first season is not unusual and lifting and resetting a small area is straightforward. Being twenty minutes away is the practical reason we can do that.
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