Full Exterior and Interior Conservation

Tuckpointing With Jason

Gable Restoration

Berea Sandstone With Graeme

Margin Tooling

Tuckpointing And Stonework

Steam Stripping the Windows

Stained Glass And Door Restoration

Restoring Doors with Alex

Prepping For Paint With Lee

Gable Reconstruction with Roger Vaughan

Jordan Painting the Gable Woodwork

Wood Door Restoration With Roger

Paint Stripping and Wood Restoration

Large dormer projection to be restored.

Large dormer restored with dentil work. Prepped, primed and Painted with BM Aura "Cottage Red."

Exterior Conservation

62 Charles Before - Photo Credit to Daniel Lewis ERA Architects

Slate - Lead Coated Copper - Red Colour Wash

Ocher - Lime - Mortar Colour...Photo Credit to Daniel Lewis ERA Architects

Martin's (Kagter) amazing team - Slate

Dormers and Slate with Grey - Andrew Pruss - Colours

It All Starts Early With Brick Replacement

Antoni aka Tuckpointer 30yrs now

Brackets before restoration.

Roger's work on the dormer brackets

Tuckpointing Workshop with Daniel Lewis and ERA

Porch spindles were restored and painted

1 of 4 very tall turned columns that will support the porch roof. Thanks A and D!

Before and after - Door Restoration

Sripping many layers of paint and dutchman repairs to doors.

All brackets were made in our on-site woodshop.

Adam putting the final touches on one of 11 dormers.

Applying the red colour wash for English tuckpointing.

Wood Conservation - stripping and sanding all wood brackets as possible.

william Whitehead House - on the move

Credit Valley Sandstone in the tonnes is salvaged from the original site. All stone was clean, redressed and installed on the new foundation.

Salvaged sandstone laid in lime mortar with exposed aggregate

We shared the site with these little guys during the restoration.

Vines from 100 years of growth had to be carefully remove. The paint on the front of the house was stripped as well.

This is Dan Arellano - He supervised and worked on the tools during the restoration. Dan did a great job!

The exterior of this house was in very poor shape due to previous repairs and neglect.

The house move was as gentle as possible. The house unfortunately had many stress cracks as a result.

Clay Tiles had to be paint stripped and wood as well.

100% of the brick joints were raked back and repointed with a red mortar to match the original stopping mortar that was used in the tuckpointing process.

This entire house was traditionally tuckpointed using a 4mm ribbon on red stopping mortar. We wanted to recreate this but it was not in the budget.

These two hard working characters - Graeme Walsh and Edcar Ganuelas

Roger Vaughan working with the existing wood brackets. Roger, Lee and Joseph worked very hard to bring back all the wood detailing.

Terra cotta pilaster caps.

Adam Fullerton has moved on now to his metalwork. We will work together on future projects.

Dan Arellano took this beautiful shot of the morning slate installation by Kagter crew.

Painted metal chimney cap detail.

Exterior Conservation

76 Howard 1913 (photo from City of Toronto Archives

Front Gable wood, brick, terracotta, windows restored. (and the handsome chimney too!)

Accessibility ramp for the Canada Life Building. Project managed and completed by Hunt Heritage Ltd.

330 University Avenue - Canada Life Building

Hunt Heritage was given the task of recreating the gate spindles for the ramp railings.

A template was made for each (three) sections of the gate spindles.

After Mississauga foundry made our spindles, we put together a mockup for ERA Architects.

All granite work completed by Hunt Heritage prior to railing installation.

Building a custom handrail in accordance to strict building codes.

Each custom spindle was welded to holes drilled into the flat bar. The slope of the ramp had to be considered prior to installing the railing.

We prepped the metal for 3 days prior to painting with PPG Automotive paint. All masonry was masked out and we painted spindles onsite. The quality of paint and metal prep allowed us to do this over powdercoating. The railing was heavy and we felt it would be distorted if we shipped in large pieces. The installation was much better given the paint on site method.

As it turns out the railing was a show stopper. It matches the neoclassical detailing found on other areas of the building.

The clean lines and top flat bar make this railing work.

Era Architects and Hunt Heritage worked closely to pull off these sensitive changes to a historic landmark.

Exerior restoration - Brick, stone, windows, carpentry, slate and copper.

John Irwin House was moved onto this "table top" shoring. Excavation to expose 5 storeys of parking below.

The house was held up like this until the condo was built up under and beside it.

Once the chimneys were removed we began the cleaning process. Steam is used to carefully strip paint off of soft brick.

Lead coated copper on top of curved dormer roof. Slate detail.

The approach for the front and rear facades was to remove and flip all the good salvagable brick. This allowed us to ration the new and existing back into the wall for a more consistent look.

Another tuckpointed house! This should have been tuckpointed as it is a great solution to damaged brick.

All buff brick detailing was left up and we only replaced the red/orange brick. Buff brick from this era are very durable and did not deteriorate the same way as the red.

(Before) Keeping the buff detailing in place kept the facade looking original.

(After) Pictured here are the new wood windows and squint bricks on the bay window. The original sills were re-used.

Slate and lead coated copper look great as a contrast to modern glass and concrete.

The south elevation dormers were rebuilt as well as the brick facade.

Roger did a fantastic job on the custom dormers. The curved mouldings were done in house.

Lead coated copper large cornice and slate for a handsome mansard roof.

This is the project completed. Another condo is going up on the other side of the lane.

A very large project that involved paint stripping using steam, arch rebuilding, repointing, structural, windows, and a decorative parapet wall.

An original photo we were given to recreate the parapet.

Dundas and Keele Street looking West. 1923 (Street car track workers.)

Dundas and Keele during the 1950's. The paint was white.

Dundas and Keele before the restoration 2014. The building had a lot of paint and needed a lot of brick repairs.

System Scaffold and green netting complete.

A nice shot during the restoration. The building is huge and wraps around Keele Street.

Curved brickwork complete with interior "key" brick in place for concrete.

Formwork for the curved concrete parapet cap.

Adrian Working his magic with very hot steam to remove carbon buildup.

Michelle did an amazing job on the arches.

Recent photo of the retail restoration complete.