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.
Whole homes · 02 · A new house on your lot
Custom Home Builder in Burlington
Custom home builder in Burlington for a new house on your lot, built from your designer’s plans. The permits come first, and the builder holds the schedule while your designer holds the drawings.
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
- Rated
- 5★
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 designer draws; the builder coordinates the application with them and the municipality, so no work starts before the permit is issued.
Foundation, framing and roof
The foundation goes in, then the frame and the roof, until the house is closed in and the trades can work inside it.
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC, coordinated
The builder sequences the electrical, plumbing and HVAC trades inside the closed-in house, and their rough-in is inspected before drywall covers it.
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 foundation, then the frame and the roof, until the house is closed in.
- 03
Trades
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC booked against each other and inspected before the walls close.
- 04
Finishes
Interior and exterior finishes, carried out by the builder who framed the house.
- 05
Handover
Final inspection signed off, then the keys change hands.
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.
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.
The house is framed and roofed first, so the wiring, pipes and ducts are roughed in under a roof and 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.
Two whole homes and three rooms, each one finished: a bungalow, a new house, a kitchen, a bath and a basement.
01Custom Homes
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Board and batten in deep green-black on a limestone base, a standing-seam roof, a cedar porch and a limestone forecourt.
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to the basement.
Every service, from the street to the basement. Tap a picture to see it whole.Whole homes from the street, then kitchens, bathrooms and basements. Open any picture to see it whole.
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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
about custom home builders.
What people ask about custom homes first, then about Hanna Homes itself. The short answer is on every line.
The building permit is the main one, applied for from your designer’s plans, with Burlington’s zoning clearance and its grading and drainage clearance ahead of it. The lot decides the rest, such as Conservation Halton or Halton Region water and sewer permits. The builder reads the lot first and orders the applications from there.
The approvals set the start, and the lot decides how many there are, because a regulated area or a Region permit adds a track beside the building permit. After that the house is framed and roofed before the trades start inside it, and drywall waits on each inspection. No number of months is quoted before the plans and the lot are known.
The lot and its servicing, the size of the house, how complex the plans are and the finishes chosen move the cost most. No figure is quoted before the lot and the plans are known. The drawings define the job, and the number follows them.
A utility locate comes first, and the building permit has to be issued before the foundation is dug. Ontario Dig Authority says requesting a locate is free and required by law, so the excavation date is set after it, not before.
The review is about how the lot drains, and the submission can include a grading and drainage plan stamped by an engineer or an Ontario Land Surveyor. That adds a survey and drainage step ahead of the permit, so it is arranged while the plans are still being drawn.
Yes. Hanna Homes Construction is a licensed builder, and the same licensed builder takes on the whole project, whether it is one room, a whole home or a new house.
Hanna Homes Construction is based in Burlington and builds within about an hour's drive of it, in places including Hamilton, Oakville, Ancaster, Milton, Mississauga, Cambridge and Kitchener. If your house is close to that drive but not on the list, ask.
Call Hanna Homes Construction on (519) 897-8564 and say where the house is and what you have in mind: a room, an addition, a whole-home renovation or a new house. That first call is where a project starts.
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Before you build,
people also ask.
What people search before custom home builders, answered by the builder.
Inside the Urban Boundary, Burlington’s Private Tree By-law requires a permit to injure or remove a private tree 20 cm in diameter or more. Trees near the build area affect where excavation, access and the footprint can go, so the permit is arranged before site work.
Zoning sets the limits, and Burlington’s zoning clearance confirms the design complies before the permit application is made. The grading review also counts buildings, driveways, patios, sheds and walkways together as hard surface coverage, so the footprint shares its allowance with them.
No. In Burlington an inspection is required before occupancy, and a final inspection closes the building permit, so the move-in date waits on that sign-off.
Good to know
Good to know
about custom home builders in Burlington.
Before the first shovel, a new house in Burlington needs its plans and approvals settled and its servicing worked out under the lot.
Custom home builder in Burlington: from your designer’s plans
The designer draws the house and the builder builds from the drawings. Before you hire or pay anyone to prepare plans for a permit application, the province advises checking that they are registered on its QuARTS public search registry. That check comes first, because the plans are what the permit application is made from.
Once drawn, the plans carry the whole build: the foundation, the servicing, the framing and the openings all come from them. A question about what the house should be goes back to your designer. A question about sequence and access is the builder’s. Each question has one person answering it.
Source: Ontario: building permits
Approvals before a custom home gets a permit
Burlington’s pre-building approvals come in order. A zoning clearance lets the permit application be filed, the Grading and Drainage Clearance Certificate lets the permit issue, and a tree permit lets construction start. The application therefore sits behind two clearances, and the schedule is built from that order.
A lot inside a Conservation Halton regulated area adds a second permit track beside the municipal one, because building there needs the authority’s permission. The design can change to satisfy it, which is why the lot’s status is worth finding out before the plans are drawn.
Custom homes in Burlington start underground
The Building Code bars a combined building drain or sewer, so a new house is drained with separate sanitary and storm lines. That sets the servicing layout under the lot before the foundation work begins.
Halton Region issues the water and sanitary sewer permits, and they are in addition to the municipality’s permits. A new house therefore carries the Region’s approval beside the City’s building permit, and the builder tracks both so the connections do not surprise the schedule.
Source: Halton Region: permits
Who does what once the permit is issued
The builder runs the site and your designer answers for the drawings. Electrical, plumbing and HVAC are coordinated by the builder and not claimed as its own work. The electrical contractor holds the ESA notification and asks for the electrical inspections, and the builder sequences the other trades around those dates.
Burlington requires that work not be covered or continued until each inspection stage has been reviewed. Framing and insulation stay open until the inspector signs off, and wiring cannot be covered until an ESA inspector authorizes it, so drywall waits behind both.
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Licensed builder
Burlington, Ontario
15+ years
Building
300+ houses
Completed