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 Mississauga
Custom home builder in Mississauga: the builder who frames your house also does the interior and exterior finishes, and the handover waits for the final inspection to be signed off.
- Licensed builder
- WSIB
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
What’s included
What’s included
in a new house.
Each stage gets inspected first, then the next covers it. Whatever the walls close over has already passed.
Plans and permits, coordinated with your designer
Drawing is the designer’s part. The builder coordinates with the designer and the municipality on the application, and work waits on the permit.
Foundation, framing and roof
Work runs in order: foundation, frame, roof. Closing the house in comes next, and the trades start inside it.
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
The municipality inspects at set stages through the build. The final inspection comes last, and the handover waits on 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
Your designer’s plans and the building permit, in hand before the foundation is dug.
- 02
Structure
The house goes up in order: foundation, frame, roof. Then it is closed in.
- 03
Trades
The walls close once electrical, plumbing and HVAC are scheduled around each other and inspected.
- 04
Finishes
Interior and exterior finishes, carried out by the builder who framed the house.
- 05
Handover
A signed-off final inspection comes first. The keys follow.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
On a new house the approvals and the ground come first, and nothing goes inside until the roof is on.
The builder reads your designer’s plans for what has to be built first, and any change to the drawings goes back to the person who drew them.
Drains are laid out ahead of the foundation: sanitary and storm lines go in separately under the lot, so the walls do not dictate where they go.
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.
Whether a lot is regulated, how it drains and how much of it can be built on are checked early, so the plans are not redrawn to fit an approval.
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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.
The two whole homes are a bungalow and a new house, the three rooms a basement, a kitchen and a bath, each one complete.
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A dark gable, glazed two storeys high.
A limestone base carries deep green-black board and batten, with a cedar porch and limestone forecourt, and a standing-seam roof.
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Gallery
From the street
to the basement.
Every service is covered, street to basement. A tap on any picture shows it whole.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 Mississauga.
What Mississauga homeowners ask about custom homes: what it costs, how long it takes and what the city asks for.
Mississauga's lot rules come before any rate. A tree 15 cm or more across needs a permit to remove, an arborist report is required on development and construction projects except for dead trees, and a lot near a creek or the lakeshore may need Credit Valley Conservation's review. Those land on the lot before the house is drawn, so a figure per square foot says little. The price follows the finished plans, and none is quoted until they exist.
Mississauga's tree rules put steps ahead of the foundation: a permit for any tree of 15 cm or more across that will be injured or removed, and an arborist report in the application, which means a consultant visit before the permits. A lot near Credit Valley Conservation's regulated area may need review before the building permit. Build time follows once those are cleared.
A City of Mississauga building permit, a tree permit where a tree of 15 cm or more across is affected, and Credit Valley Conservation's permit where the lot is in its regulated area. In a heritage conservation district, heritage approval comes into it as well. Hanna Homes handles the paperwork alongside your designer's plans.
It can. Meadowvale Village, Old Port Credit Village and Streetsville are Mississauga's three heritage conservation districts, and an owner inside one checks the Heritage District Plan to learn what needs heritage approval. That approval may be required before the building permit, so the plan is read before the design is drawn. Outside the districts the house goes to the building permit and any tree or conservation permit.
The builder answers on site for the trades and the schedule, and the plans your designer drew are what the build follows. That keeps one person responsible for the foundation, the frame, the services and the finishes, rather than a series of contractors each answering for a piece.
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Before you build,
people in Mississauga ask.
What people in Mississauga search before custom homes, answered for the town.
Ask whether the quote includes an arborist report and a tree permit where the lot has trees 15 cm or more across, and whether Credit Valley Conservation's mapping has been checked. A bid that mentions neither was written without reading the lot.
Possibly. A new house is a new building, and Credit Valley Conservation may want a permit for it where the lot sits in the Credit River Watershed's regulated area. Its mapping is read before the drawings are finalised.
Someone has to read the lot before the plans are drawn: trees 15 cm or more across, Credit Valley Conservation's mapping and any heritage district plan. Mississauga's arborist report also goes into a construction application. Hanna Homes, as the builder, works from the finished plans and coordinates the permits.
Good to know
Good to know
about custom home builders in Mississauga.
What changes the work in Mississauga: the rules, the houses and the ground.
Custom home builder in Mississauga: what the Credit River watershed changes
A new house changes the dwelling count and the building size on its lot, and Credit Valley Conservation may require a permit for both inside its regulated area. That area follows the Credit River Watershed and reaches lots beside a watercourse, a floodplain, a valley slope, a wetland, hazardous lands or Lake Ontario. We have the lot read against CVC mapping before the house is drawn.
Heritage is the other lot-level check. Meadowvale Village, Old Port Credit Village and Streetsville are Mississauga's three heritage conservation districts, and an owner in one reads the Heritage District Plan to learn what needs heritage approval. A new house there is designed to the plan, not fitted to it afterwards.
Tree permits in Mississauga
Mississauga does not allow anyone to injure or remove a tree 15 cm (6 inches) or more across without a permit. Where the footprint of a new house touches a mature tree, that permit is sorted before site work, so tree locations are checked at the design stage and the house is drawn around them where it can be.
The city also requires arborist reports for all development and construction projects except dead trees. For a new house that is a consultant step and some lead time inside the permit package, not an afterthought on the day the excavator arrives.
Source: City of Mississauga: request to injure or remove trees
Custom homes in Mississauga, lot first, design second
On a lot you already own, the order is the lot, then the design, then the permits. Your designer draws against what the trees, the conservation mapping and any heritage district leave you, and the builder then works from those plans through foundation, framing and roof, trades, finishes and final inspections.
What shapes the price and schedule of a Mississauga custom home
In Mississauga the approvals start with the trees: a permit for any tree of 15 cm or more across, an arborist report, and near water a conservation review. Each is a separate piece of work with its own lead time, paid for in time before a frame goes up. Size and finishes then set the rest of the figure, so a custom home is priced from its plans.
The build cannot be scheduled until those are in the application and cleared, so the start date follows the lot work, not the other way round.
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Burlington, Ontario
15+ years
Building
300+ houses
Completed