01Kitchens
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.
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Kitchen Renovations in Burlington
Kitchen renovation in Burlington starts from where the sink, range and fridge will land. That decides the plumbing, electrical and gas, and the order the cabinets, counters and backsplash follow.
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
- Rated
- 5★
What’s included
What goes into
a kitchen renovation.
The layout and the walls come first. Every piece that goes in after them is measured off the piece before.
Layout changes and opening up walls
Walls can open up and the room can take a new shape. The sink, range and fridge positions are fixed here.
Cabinetry and millwork
Cabinets and millwork are built to the new layout rather than the old one, and the counters are templated from them.
Counters and backsplash
The counter template is taken from the installed cabinets. The backsplash comes last, set to the finished counters.
Flooring and lighting
Flooring goes in with the finishes. Light and outlet positions are fixed at the layout stage, before the wiring is inspected.
Plumbing, electrical and gas, coordinated
The builder schedules the three trades in one room and keeps the walls open until the plumbing and electrical inspections pass.
How it runs
One bay of it,
stage by stage.
Five stages in the same order for a room and a whole house, with one builder answering for each.
- 01
Permits
The application and drawings go in first when a wall or the sink moves.
- 02
Structure
Walls come out or move, and the layout is set before any trade arrives.
- 03
Trades
Plumbing, electrical and gas rough in behind open walls. Drywall waits for the inspections.
- 04
Finishes
Cabinets go in, the counters are templated from them, and the backsplash follows.
- 05
Handover
Final inspection where a permit applies, then the kitchen is handed over.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
A kitchen puts three trades in one room and measures each finish off the one before, so the builder’s order of work matters.
Everything after is measured off the layout, so the walls and the positions of the sink, range and fridge are decided before demolition starts.
A range that moves takes its gas line, hood duct and circuit along, so that wall is drawn with all three first.
A template is taken from the cabinets once they are installed, and the backsplash is cut to the finished counters, so each piece fits the one before.
Where each outlet, light and appliance goes is decided on paper first, so a late idea does not mean pulling out inspected wiring.
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Client reviews
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Whole homes and single rooms, in the words of the people who live in them.
02Kitchens
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.
03Whole 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.
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.
06Additions
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.
07Bathrooms
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.
08Knockdown & 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.
09Basements
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.
10Whole 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.
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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.
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Linen cabinets to the ceiling, a white oak island with a limestone top, and the table under a wide window.
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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 kitchen renovations.
What people ask about kitchen renovations first, then about Hanna Homes itself. The short answer is on every line.
Counters wait on cabinets. Cabinets are built to the new layout, so it has to be final before they are made, and the counters are templated only once those cabinets are installed. The backsplash then waits for the counters. A range that moves adds a gas line and hood duct run ahead of all of it.
The cost follows how much of the layout changes. Keeping the sink and range where they are avoids rerouting plumbing and gas behind open walls; moving them adds that work, and a permit for the plumbing. Cabinetry, counter material, flooring and lighting then set the rest.
Yes, once a wall, the sink or the range moves. Burlington requires a permit for a renovation to a house, and the application goes in with drawings before demolition. New cabinets and counters, and a sink replaced with the same type in the same spot, stay off the permit list.
Later changes mean reworking wiring that has already been inspected. The rough-in inspection comes once every circuit and outlet box is installed, which is why outlet, light and appliance positions are drawn at the layout stage, before the walls are closed.
The gas line, the hood duct and the range’s own circuit all move with it, so one wall carries three trades. The electrical contractor files the ESA notification for the new circuit, and a building permit does not replace that notice. Hanna Homes sequences the gas and plumbing around those inspection dates.
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 kitchen renovations, answered by the builder.
A kitchen needs 2,300 mm of ceiling height over at least 75% of its floor area, with 2,100 mm clear at any point. A soffit or bulkhead can come down to 2,100 mm only over the remaining area.
Yes. Opening a wall to the dining room is part of the layout work, so it is settled first, before the plumbing, electrical and gas are roughed in. Where a wall comes out, drawings and an application go in before demolition.
A kitchen renovation suits work that stays in the kitchen. Once walls, structure or the electrical, plumbing and HVAC need changes in other rooms too, a whole-home renovation covers them as one project.
Good to know
Good to know
about kitchen renovations in Burlington.
A kitchen goes together as a chain, each piece measured off the one before it. Where that chain starts, and what a moved sink or range adds ahead of it, sets both the permit and the pace.
Kitchen renovation permits in Burlington
New cabinets and a sink swapped for the same kind in the same spot stay on Burlington’s no-permit list. A kitchen leaves that list sooner than most rooms, because the layout is the work.
The usual triggers are a wall opened to the dining room, a sink that moves, and a range that takes its gas line and hood duct to a new spot. A moved sink puts the plumbing under a building permit, and each of the others moves a wall or a rough-in, so the drawings and the application go in before demolition, not after.
Source: Burlington: do I need a permit?
How to remodel a kitchen in the right order
To remodel a kitchen in order, fix the layout first. The rough-ins go in behind open walls, then the cabinets, counters and backsplash, each measured off the last.
Outlet and light positions are drawn at the layout stage because the ESA rough-in inspection takes place once every circuit and outlet box is installed. A move after that means reworking wiring that has already been inspected.
Kitchen contractor: who fits the cabinets, counters and appliances
A kitchen contractor here fits the cabinets, counters and backsplash in sequence with the flooring and lighting, so the finishes are one job rather than three separate visits. The plumbing roughed in behind the wall waits for its inspection before drywall closes it.
Appliance sizes set the cabinet openings, so the range, fridge and dishwasher are chosen before the cabinets are built. Their circuits go to a licensed electrical contractor, because only those businesses are legally authorized to do electrical work for hire in Ontario.
Kitchen backsplash comes last, after the counters
Cabinets are built to the layout. The counters are templated once the cabinets are installed, and the backsplash is set to the finished counters, so it is the last piece to go in.
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