01Additions
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.
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Home Additions in Burlington
A home addition in Burlington goes behind the house or on top of it. Either way it is a join: new framing and roof meeting the house that is already there, on new footings when it goes out.
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
- Rated
- 5★
What’s included
What’s included
in an addition.
Rear and second-storey additions, and everything that joins the new rooms to the old ones: structure, roof, services and the outside.
Rear additions
Built out into the yard on new footings, sized to the setbacks and the coverage the lot has left.
Second-storey additions
Built up over the house you have, once the foundation and framing below are shown to carry another floor.
Tied into the existing structure, roofline and systems
New framing, roof and services connected to the old, so the roof sheds water and the wiring, pipes and ducts run through as one house.
Exterior matched to the house
Siding, trim, windows and roof matched to the house, so the new rooms do not look attached after the fact.
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
A building permit always, a zoning clearance where needed, and Conservation Halton on a regulated lot.
- 02
Structure
Footings where it goes out, then framing tied into the house and roofline.
- 03
Trades
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC extended into the new rooms, coordinated on one schedule.
- 04
Finishes
Finished inside, and the exterior matched to the house in siding, trim and windows.
- 05
Handover
Inspections at each stage up to the final, then the new rooms are yours.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
Four things the builder settles at the join, before an addition is framed.
Whether the foundation and framing already there can take the new load is settled before the new rooms are drawn.
The new roof is carried across the seam to the old one, and the framing at the join stays open for the inspector before it is covered.
Wiring, pipes and ducts continue from the old rooms into the new ones, on trades the builder coordinates around the inspections.
Siding, trim, windows and roof are matched to what is already on the house, so the new rooms do not look added on later.
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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.
04Custom 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.
05Basement 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.
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,
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Two whole homes and three rooms, each one finished: a bungalow, a new house, a kitchen, a bath and a basement.
01Whole-Home Renovations
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Limewashed brick, cedar under the eaves, windows floor to ceiling and an oak door onto a limestone forecourt.
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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 home additions.
What people ask about home additions first, then about Hanna Homes itself. The short answer is on every line.
It depends on the job, and no figure is quoted before the house and the lot have been seen. Out or up comes first, then what the foundation needs, how much of the roof and services must be reworked to tie in, and the exterior match.
Approvals come first, then footings where the addition goes out, then the tie-in to the house, with an inspection at each stage up to the final. Building up skips the footings but not the check on the structure below, and building out adds the dig. No duration is quoted before the house and lot are seen.
Yes, always: an addition adds to the structure, so it needs a building permit. A zoning clearance may come before the application, and on a lot in Conservation Halton’s regulated area, enlarging the house needs that authority’s permission too. The City inspects each stage, and a final inspection is what closes the permit.
The roof framing at the join stays open until the inspector has reviewed it, because Burlington does not allow construction to be covered or continued before each inspection stage is reviewed. The new roof covering and the exterior finishes go over the join after that, so the seam is checked before it is hidden.
It depends on where the addition meets the house and which rooms the work touches, so it is settled in planning. A rear addition is framed beside the existing rooms, and a second storey goes over them. If the electrical service has to change, the utility disconnects the power for that stretch.
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 home additions, answered by the builder.
Yes, it adds load. The foundation and the framing below take the weight of the new floor, so both are checked against it before the plans are drawn, and the result decides whether the house can take a second storey.
It may be needed. Burlington issues a zoning clearance certificate, the City’s written confirmation that the proposed construction complies with the zoning on the property, and it can come before the building permit application. The design is checked against the lot’s zoning first for that reason.
Yes, in Burlington’s grading and drainage review. Buildings, driveways, patios, sheds and walkways are counted together as hard surface lot coverage, so a large driveway or patio leaves less room for the new rooms.
Good to know
Good to know
about home additions in Burlington.
Home addition in Burlington comes down to the join: what the old foundation and framing can carry, and how the new roof meets the old one.
Home addition permits in Burlington
Under Ontario’s conservation authorities regulation, enlarging a building and adding dwelling units both count as development. On a lot inside Conservation Halton’s regulated area, the addition itself needs the authority’s permission, so the scope triggers the permit before any drawing is final.
That permission comes on top of the City’s building permit, which every addition needs. Neither approval stands in for the other, so a regulated lot runs two tracks side by side, and work that goes beyond what Conservation Halton approved is a contravention of the Conservation Authorities Act.
Source: Conservation Halton: permitting
Second storey addition or rear addition
The two put different questions to the City. A rear addition adds ground to the review: the grading and drainage clearance has to be in place before the building permit can issue, and a private tree 20 cm or more across inside the Urban Boundary needs its own permit before site work, so where the trees stand can move the footprint.
A second storey leaves the yard and its trees as they are. What it adds is work over the rooms you live in, so how the stairs land on the floor below and how the household gets through the stretch with the roof opened are settled in planning.
House additions in Burlington: before work begins
A permit is needed before anyone excavates or builds a foundation, so the day the permit is issued, not the crew’s calendar, sets the first day on site.
The scope is settled before the application. On a regulated lot a footprint that grows partway through has to go back to Conservation Halton first, so the size of the addition is decided before the permit is applied for, not after the framing starts.
Source: Ontario: building permits
Addition contractors in Burlington: who runs the trades
Hanna Homes runs the schedule, and the electrician it brings in has to be a Licensed Electrical Contractor, who files the ESA notification of work before wiring starts. A building permit does not stand in for that notification, so an addition runs two inspection tracks side by side.
Wiring cannot be covered by insulation or drywall until an ESA inspector authorizes it, and Burlington asks that no stage be covered until its inspection is reviewed. Smoke alarms for the new rooms go in before the final inspection, which is what closes the permit.
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