Restoring yesterday’s works
to today’s standards.

October 7, 2020  – Three years ago, we met Fannela & Mitch  at a Home @ Garden trade show in Ottawa. We presented a problem with our garage that was built back in 1947 and was starting to leak quite badly and some additional parging work around the front of the garage. Compounding the problem was a neighbour house where the brick wall was collapsing onto the top of our driveway roof. The neighbour was unhelpful and left it up to us if we wanted to fix the garage. We were able to complete the parging work right away (Canadian Masonry did a great job on this part) but had to hold off on the garage work until this year when the neighbors wall started its final collapse as the 150-year bricks were reduced to dust slowly. Canadian Masonry first sent in a team to demolish the partially collapsed wall on our neighbor’s house and secure their wall with a plastic barrier. When the work site was safe, they then removed the old concrete from the top of the garage and the garage floor. A drain was installed running from the top of the garage through our garage and out onto the driveway for drainage. The trick was to pour a roof that allowed the water from the two houses to drain properly out to the street. A frame was built, two membranes were applied and then a very tricky pour was handled brilliantly. They also went the extra mile, checking my window sills around the brick work in our Circa 1910 house and fixing a bad hole under one window sill. We also learned that the Canadian Masonry team has been with the company for a while and contained years of expertise. They have a combination of young and old staff but all very knowledgeable about concrete work. These guys are professionals. To say Canadian Masonry was brilliant is an understatement. We now have a garage floor where we can easily back out our motorcycles and car without problems and a garage roof not dripping calcium deposits onto the car. When it rains heavy the drain handles the water and the garage stays dry. Thank you, Fannela & Mitch and your great staff for sticking with this very difficult job and delivering a great product.