Demolition contractor, Barrie and South Simcoe
Houses, garages, barns and outbuildings taken down in Barrie, Innisfil, Midhurst, Minesing and Angus. Send the form and an owner calls you back today.
Demolition contractor work around Barrie is mostly older houses on large rural lots in Innisfil, Springwater and Essa coming down for a new build, plus garages and farm buildings. The townships go easy on backfilling the old basement, as long as the grade goes back to what it was. Our own machines handle the teardown, the foundation and the backfill, and an owner is on every job.
A whole structure down and the site cleared: the house, cottage, barn or outbuilding comes down, the debris is hauled away and the lot is graded for whatever comes next.
In-ground or above-ground: the concrete or liner comes out, the hole is filled and compacted in lifts, and you get a yard ready for grass or a build.
We run our own excavators and skid steers, so the teardown, the haul-away and the final grade are one crew's work, with an owner on every job.
We take whole structures down. We do not do interior tear-outs, kitchen or bathroom demo, or renovation prep. If you need a wall opened for a reno, we will point you to someone who does that work.
The Building Code Act governs demolition, so the City or the township issues a permit before the building comes down. Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act the owner identifies the designated substances on site and lists them for contractors before tendering; in houses built decades ago, asbestos is the first check. Gas and hydro services are shut off and removed by the utilities, and a rural well that will not be reused is sealed to the Wells Regulation. Locates and the demolition permit are filed by us.
North of Barrie the ground is a rolling till plain cut by glacial valleys, and lower land toward the Minesing Wetlands stays wet. Till holds water against a foundation, so the old basement gets filled with clean, free-draining material, compacted in lifts, and graded to carry water off the lot. Where the lot slopes to a valley, the grade is set so runoff does not cut a new channel down the bank.
Innisfil's Site Alteration By-law exempts work in the excavation after a demolition with a building permit, as long as it stays within 3 metres of the old building's perimeter and the finished grade matches the previous grade there. Springwater's by-law similarly exempts filling an excavation back to existing grade after a permitted demolition. We keep the backfill inside those limits, so no separate fill permit is needed.
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Not if the work stays within 3 metres of the old building's perimeter and the finished grade matches what was there. Anything beyond that falls under Innisfil's site alteration permit.
Close. Springwater's By-law 2022-105 exempts placing fill in an excavation up to existing grade after a building is removed under a demolition permit.
Yes. Outbuildings come down the same way: substances checked, utilities off, structure and foundation removed, site graded.
Yes. Ontario's Building Code Act requires a permit to demolish a building, issued by your municipality's building department. We prepare the application and book the inspections.
Hydro, gas and water are disconnected and capped by the utilities before demolition starts, and many building departments ask to see that before they issue the permit. We make the requests and keep you posted.
Under Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act, the owner of a project determines whether designated substances such as asbestos are present before work starts. On older buildings we line up that check, and anything found is removed by an abatement contractor before we demolish.
Yes. Hauling the debris to proper disposal and recycling sites is part of the job and part of the written price you get after the site visit.
No. We take whole structures down: houses, cottages, barns, garages and pools. For kitchen, bathroom or renovation tear-outs we will point you to someone who does that work.
Yes. Tell us at the site visit what you want saved, and we set beams, barn board or brick aside before the rest comes down.
Every page has the local permit office, the ground and the rules for that area.
Send the form and an owner calls you back today. Or call now and talk to the person who will dig the job.
