Basement Renovations in Pickering
Luxury basement finishing for Pickering homes. Free 3D design, an itemized price that locks before you sign, a lifetime workmanship warranty and a written finish date that pays you $200 for every late day.
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Pickering spans lakeside Rosebank and West Shore streets to brand-new Seaton and Duffin Heights communities. New builds bring tall, dry basements ready to finish, while mature homes near the lake reward moisture-first construction.
Durham's growth keeps rental demand strong, and a code-built Pickering basement suite rents quickly. Whatever you start with, you end with finished square footage your family uses every week, and a number your Pickering house carries at resale.
What we build in Pickering basements
Basement finishing
Theatres, bars, gyms and family spaces. Wood studs with metal tracks and moisture-resistant drywall as standard, finished to match the rest of your home.
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Home renovations
Kitchens, bathrooms and whole-home updates for Pickering families, built with the same crew and warranty as our basements.
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Structural & legal suites
Underpinning for ceiling height, waterproofing, and permitted separate entrances for legal Pickering second suites.
EXPLORE STRUCTURAL WORK →Seaton and Duffin Heights builds, West Shore's older stock
Pickering has two kinds of basement. The newer one lives in Duffin Heights, Seaton and the subdivisions north of Highway 2, built from the late 1990s to the present with poured-concrete foundations, ceilings over eight feet and, often, a bathroom rough-in already in the slab. There we skip the structural questions and go straight to design: how big the bar gets, where the theatre wall lands, whether the guest room needs its own bathroom.
The older one sits near the lake. West Shore, Rosebank and Bay Ridges carry 1960s and 1970s houses with lower ceilings and more moisture history, so drainage, waterproofing and an egress plan come before any talk of finishes. It costs less to solve that at the start than to open a finished wall later.
Permits go through the City of Pickering building services department, and a finished basement with a new bathroom or bedroom needs one. Our licensed structural engineer prepares and stamps the drawings, and we file the application.
Our recent Pickering project on Park Crescent finished 808 square feet for $80,000 to $90,000, with a real stone feature wall and a coffered ceiling, which is the kind of detail that makes a basement feel like the rest of the house rather than the bottom of it. Richmond Hill to Pickering is about 35 minutes via the 407, the shortest Durham drive we make.
Every basement is priced from the same quote sheet, line by line. Permit drawings, 3D design and the lifetime workmanship warranty are included.
An 808 sq ft basement on Park Crescent
- Completed 2022
- 808 sq ft
- About 11 weeks
- $80,000 to $90,000
A real stone feature wall behind a 60-inch linear fireplace, a coffered ceiling with LED, a bar with three custom cabinets and a 5-foot island, and a three-piece bathroom with a custom tiled shower. An MDF feature wall, 42 pot lights and a resurfaced staircase.
What a basement in Pickering costs, by scope
The same quote sheet we use everywhere in the GTA, line by line. Permit drawings, 3D design and the lifetime workmanship warranty are included.
| Scope | Price before HST |
|---|---|
| 600 sq ft with a three-piece bathroom | $56,000 |
| 800 sq ft with a three-piece bathroom | $62,000 |
| 1,000 sq ft with a three-piece bathroom | $67,800 |
| 1,200 sq ft with a three-piece bathroom and two bedrooms | $75,200 |
| 1,500 sq ft with a three-piece bathroom and two bedrooms | $83,700 |
| The family basement: media wall, full bathroom, laundry, around 1,000 sq ft | $60,000 to $85,000 |
| The entertainment build: theatre or media room, bar, gym, spa bathroom, 1,000 to 1,300 sq ft | $95,000 to $130,000 |
| Three-piece bathroom, added to a basement without one | $11,700 |
| Custom wet bar | +$15,000 |
| Home theatre setup | +$20,000 |
| Walkout entrance, permits included | $15,000 to $25,000 |
| Full-perimeter underpinning for low ceilings | $60,000 to $120,000 |
| Legal basement apartment, purpose-built | $75,000 to $110,000 or more |
Every basement is priced from the same quote sheet, line by line: a 1,000 sq ft basement with a three-piece bathroom comes to about $67,800 before HST, and the price per square foot falls as the basement grows because the permit, bin, breakers, stairs and bathroom cost the same at any size. Use the calculator to price yours. Cost guides: bathroom, walkout and underpinning.
A real basement we finished in Pickering
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