Complete Framing Contractor Scope in Caledon

Full frame from the footings up, to the architect's set and the engineer's beam schedule. These jobs live or die on the load path, because a beam needs at least 89 mm of level end bearing and a loadbearing wall running parallel to the joists has to land on something stiff enough to carry it. So a wall that looks fine on the plan can be quietly overloading the floor underneath.

We trace that path to the footings before we start, not after the second floor is on.

Repetition is the economics of these builds, so the first unit is framed as the template and checked hard before the rest follow. Fire blocking and the separations between units get framed as designed rather than adapted on site, because anything concealed before the inspector sees it can be ordered uncovered.

Half the structure already exists and none of it is square. Permit drawings have to distinguish existing construction from proposed, so we measure what is actually there rather than trusting the original plans. Where new framing ties into old joists, we confirm what is carrying the load before anything is cut.

Steel stud partitions, bulkheads, backing and fire-rated assemblies for offices, retail, restaurants and industrial fit-outs. These sit outside Part 9 of the Ontario Building Code. So the assemblies, the engineering and the notice your municipality needs before framing can be closed in are all different from a house. A contractor who only does houses will find that out late.

The address, project type, floor area and storey count, dimensioned architectural and structural drawings with all revisions, opening schedules, truss and engineered member layouts where they are specified, permit status and your target framing window. If the set is incomplete we tell you which decision is missing and who makes it, rather than burying an allowance in the price.