FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Both. Our own crews handle work where reliability outweighs shaving a percentage off a quote, and we tender larger packages competitively. Either way they work under our contract and our supervisor checks the site daily. 

Yes, and we do it fairly often. We audit what has been built, what you have already paid out, and what the drawings actually require, then rebuild the schedule and the estimate from that reality forward. 

We open a few spots and look before quoting. Old drawings are wrong more often than not, and what sits behind the wall changes the price. One afternoon of checking saves a big surprise later.

Usually yes. We seal off the work area, keep the dust down, and clean up before we leave each night. For shops and offices we can run evening or weekend shifts so you never close.

That falls to us. Our office prepares the drawings, files the application, answers whatever questions the city sends back, and books each inspection. You are never left working out which form comes next on your own.

If the wall holds weight, yes. The city will not approve it without a stamped drawing, and your insurer will ask later. We arrange the engineer for you and build exactly to their final design.

Each one is written up with materials, labour, and schedule impact before anybody proceeds. You approve or decline in writing. Nothing gets built on a verbal agreement that two memories later remember differently. 

Yes, and we prefer it. We review the set for buildability, raise conflicts with the consultant before the trades reach them, and build the detail as issued. Proposed changes go back through the engineer.

Regularly. Schools, clinics, community facilities, and municipal properties carry documentation, security, and procurement obligations most projects never encounter. We work inside those requirements and deliver the closeout package administrators need for permanent records.

The kitchen exhaust, the gas supply, and the grease trap. Those three sit under the floor or up on the roof, so they cost the most. We deal with them during the design stage instead.

Absolutely, and we treat the manual as the rulebook. Our team photographs whatever stages head office wants and sends in the sign off packages. Any clash with local code gets flagged early rather than later.

Reading it properly comes first, because the items vary a lot in cost and urgency. Integrated Contracting then walks the building, prices every item, and starts on the most serious corrections first across Hamilton, Ontario.

Often it does, at least for the area you are changing and sometimes the route leading to it. We check this while the design is being done, so it does not land on you afterwards.

It depends on how much force it takes to pull them open. Plenty of older doors fail that test even with lever handles. Where adjusting the closer does not fix it, an opener is needed.

One floor at a time, with written notice going out to tenants first. We keep the elevator and laundry running, cover the hallway floors, and tidy up every night so nobody lives in a mess.

Fast, once the scope is standard and materials are ordered ahead. The same crew does the same rooms in the same order, which puts the unit back on the rent roll far quicker than usual.

General contracting means we give you one fixed price and carry the risk. Construction management means we run the job openly for you and tender the trades, which suits bigger jobs where things keep changing.

Every week, in writing. You get progress, money spent against the budget, anything we need you to decide, and anything coming up that could push the date. Chasing us for updates is never really necessary.

With 18+ years, and nearly all of it inside buildings that were already standing. That is why we look before we quote. Integrated Contracting knows what Hamilton, Ontario buildings tend to hide behind their own walls.