01Custom homes
Building a new house was the biggest decision we’ve ever made, and it never felt rushed. We walked the site most Saturdays and always knew exactly where things stood.
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Custom Home Builder in Kitchener
Custom home builder in Kitchener who coordinates the electrical, plumbing and HVAC work inside the new house. The builder books each trade in order, and the work is inspected before the walls close.
- Licensed builder
- WSIB
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
What’s included
What’s included
in a new house.
Each stage is inspected before the next covers it, so walls close over work that has already passed.
Plans and permits, coordinated with your designer
The builder works out the application with the designer, who draws, and with the municipality. Nothing starts on site until the permit is issued.
Foundation, framing and roof
Once the foundation is in, the frame and roof go up and close the house in, so the trades can start work indoors.
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC, coordinated
The builder puts the HVAC, plumbing and electrical trades in order once the house is closed in, and the rough-in is inspected ahead of any drywall.
Interior and exterior finishes
Inside, insulation, drywall, flooring, trim and paint; outside, siding and windows; all under the builder who framed the house.
Final inspections and handover
Inspections come from the municipality at set stages along the way. The final one is last, and the handover comes only after it.
How it runs
The whole frame,
stage by stage.
Five stages in the same order for a room and a whole house, with one builder answering for each.
- 01
Permits
Before the first dig, the building permit is issued and your designer’s plans are ready.
- 02
Structure
Foundation, frame and roof come in turn, and the house is enclosed at the end.
- 03
Trades
Plumbing, electrical and HVAC are booked around one another, with inspection before walls close.
- 04
Finishes
The builder that framed the house also does the finishes, inside and out.
- 05
Handover
A signed-off final inspection comes first. The keys follow.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
A new house starts with approvals and the ground, and the roof is on before anything goes inside.
Changes to the drawings go back to the designer who drew them, and the builder works from your designer’s plans to see what gets built first.
Separate sanitary and storm lines run under the lot, so they are laid out before the foundation is formed and not worked out around the walls.
Once the house has its frame and roof, rough-in of the pipes, ducts and wiring goes ahead under that roof, in a fixed order.
Early checks look at whether the lot is regulated, how much building it allows and how it drains, so an approval does not send the plans back to be redrawn.
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Client reviews
Their house,
their words.
Whole homes and single rooms, in the words of the people who live in them.
02Whole home
We put off the whole house for years because we couldn’t picture living through it. Akram walked us through every stage before it started, and each week went the way he said it would.
03Kitchens
The crew covered the floors and cleaned up at the end of every day, which mattered with two kids at home. The new kitchen is the room everyone ends up in now. Worth every week of takeout.
04Basement apartments
We turned the basement into a unit for my mother-in-law. She has her own entrance and her own kitchen, and we still get Sunday dinners. The paperwork I was dreading turned out to be the part I thought about least.
05Additions
We needed more room but didn’t want to leave the street. The second storey went on over the summer, and from the sidewalk you’d think the house was always built that way.
06Bathrooms
One bathroom is a small job for a builder, but they treated it like the whole house. The tile lines up, the door finally closes properly, and they finished the week they said they would.
07Knockdown & rebuild
Our old bungalow wasn’t worth saving, so we took it down and built new on the same lot. They kept the neighbours in the loop from demolition to the final walk-through. We love coming home to it.
08Basements
The basement used to be storage and a furnace. Now it’s a family room the kids actually want to be in. A clear quote, no surprises, and the site was swept every night.
09Whole home
We bought an older house knowing it needed everything. Akram was straight with us from the first visit about what was worth keeping. Every room is new to us now, and it still feels like the house we fell for.
10Kitchens
Third builder we spoke to, and the only one who returned every call. When we changed our minds about the island halfway through, they made it work without any drama.
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Projects
Selected work,
inside and out.
Two whole homes and three rooms, each one finished: a bungalow, a new house, a kitchen, a bath and a basement.
01Custom Homes
A dark gable, glazed two storeys high.
The porch is cedar, the roof standing seam. Forecourt and base are limestone, with the board and batten a deep green-black.
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Gallery
From the street
to the basement.
Tapping a picture shows it whole. Each service is here, from street to basement.Kitchens, bathrooms and basements follow the street views of whole homes. Open a picture to see all of it.
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Service area
Within an hour
of Burlington.
Towns we build in
- 01BurlingtonHaltonHome base
- 02HamiltonHamiltonby Hwy 403, 15 min, 18 km by road, approximately
- 03OakvilleHaltonby the QEW, 20 min, 24 km by road, approximately
- 04AncasterHamiltonby Hwy 403, 25 min, 28 km by road, approximately
- 05MiltonHaltonby Hwy 407, 30 min, 30 km by road, approximately
- 06MississaugaPeelby Hwy 407 and Hwy 403, 30 min, 41 km by road, approximately
- 07CambridgeWaterloo Regionby Hwy 8 and Hwy 5, 45 min, 51 km by road, approximately
- 08KitchenerWaterloo Regionby Hwy 6 and Hwy 401, 55 min, 72 km by road, approximately
And anywhere else inside the line.
Common questions
Common questions
in Kitchener.
What Kitchener homeowners ask about custom homes: what it costs, how long it takes and what the city asks for.
The lot is the first thing that moves a Kitchener number, ahead of floor area. A heritage district puts design review and a heritage permit ahead of the building permit, and a lot in or near a river, stream or floodplain can need a Grand River Conservation Authority permit beside the City’s. Both are work before anything is built, and a figure follows the finished design, not a rate per square foot.
On a lot in a heritage district, the first date belongs to Heritage Kitchener. It reviews heritage permit applications at scheduled meetings and sets a deadline ahead of each, so the application is timed to a deadline and the building permit follows the committee’s answer. Without a district that wait drops out, and the City’s building permit and any conservation permit stand ahead of a build that then runs with its inspections. Hanna Homes promises no build duration.
Hanna Homes applies, working from your designer’s drawings, and the lot decides how many permits there are. The City’s building permit is the one every new house takes. A heritage permit joins it if the lot is in St. Mary’s, Upper Doon, Victoria Park or Civic Centre, and it comes first. A conservation authority permit joins it near a watercourse, floodplain or steep slope.
It can. The Grand River Conservation Authority regulates development in and near rivers, streams, floodplains, wetlands and steep slopes, and a new house on a lot that touches that mapping needs its permit beside the City’s building permit. Hanna Homes checks the lot against the regulated area before the designer’s drawings are fixed, because the answer can change where the house may sit.
Parts of them are. Kitchener has four heritage conservation districts: St. Mary’s, Upper Doon, Victoria Park and Civic Centre. Victoria Park is one, and Upper Doon is the district in Doon. Owners inside a district may need a heritage permit, and Heritage Kitchener reviews applications at scheduled meetings, so the address is checked first and the schedule follows its dates.
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Before you build,
people in Kitchener ask.
What people in Kitchener search before custom homes, answered for the town.
Ask who applies to the committee, how the build is scheduled around its meeting dates and who answers for each trade once the approvals are in. Hanna Homes answers for all three as the one builder.
Hanna Homes builds a new house on your lot to your designer’s plans, so the style is the designer’s. The scope runs from plans and permits through foundation, frame, trades and finishes to the final inspection.
The final inspection comes first and the keys after it. Nothing is handed over until the finished house has been inspected. The builder who framed it also did the finishes, so the person giving you the keys answered for each stage.
Good to know
Good to know
about custom home builders in Kitchener.
What changes the work in Kitchener: the rules, the houses and the ground.
Custom home builder in Kitchener: the heritage committee calendar
Kitchener has four heritage conservation districts: St. Mary’s, Upper Doon, Victoria Park and Civic Centre. Heritage Kitchener, the committee, reviews heritage permit applications at scheduled meetings, with a deadline ahead of each. For a house on one of those lots the application has a calendar of its own: a deadline to meet, a meeting to wait for, and only then the building permit and the schedule that depends on it.
That lead time is why the district question comes before a design is drawn. A new house in Victoria Park or in Upper Doon, the Doon area, is checked against the district plan, so the designer works to it and the heritage permit is applied for ahead of the building permit.
Source: City of Kitchener: heritage properties and districts
Custom homes in Kitchener: where the lot sits
The second check is the water. The Grand River Conservation Authority regulates development in and near rivers, streams, floodplains, wetlands and steep slopes, and development includes increasing the size of a building or the number of dwelling units. A new house on land like that needs the Authority’s permit beside the City’s, so the lot is checked against the regulated area before the design is drawn.
The designer draws inside both limits, and Hanna Homes takes the plans from there.
Source: Grand River Conservation Authority: planning and development
Pricing a custom home in Kitchener: size, finishes and the lot
Size and finishes set most of a custom house’s price. In Kitchener the lot can put two approvals in front of that: a conservation permit near water, and a heritage permit in a district with the committee’s calendar behind it. Hanna Homes looks at the lot before discussing a number for that reason.
The build itself follows its inspections as each stage is ready. This page quotes no price and no duration.
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Burlington, Ontario
15+ years
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300+ houses
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