What we walk into in Dundas
Nineteenth-century brick and stone homes on narrow lots, many with original pine and early oak. Access is genuinely difficult — parking, stairs, and material handling all need planning before a crew arrives.
Careful heritage restoration, pine repair, and stair work in flights that predate any modern rise-and-run expectation.
How we specify railings here
- Graspable oak, maple, and walnut profiles, including farmhouse and contemporary
- Box newels, pin-top newels, and metal newel conversions
- Iron, steel, wood, and cable infill — mixed-material stairs done cleanly
- Wall rails on both sides where the code or a toddler requires them
A railing is a piece of millwork you put your full weight on at 11 p.m. If the newel is toe-nailed into a hollow newel block, it will fail. Green Hardwood through-bolts newels into structure, not into trim.
We mill and install hardwood handrails in the same species as the stair, or we specify a painted newel with a clear-finish oak rail — a combination that reads expensive in Forest Hill and stays wipeable in a family house in Burlington.
Ontario requires a graspable handrail and a guard height that depends on the drop. Decorative 2x6 caps with no graspable profile fail inspection. We will not install them. We will show you three profiles that pass and still match the architecture.
Jobs Dundas keeps calling us for
- Heritage pine restoration
- Pre-code stair rebuilds
- Tight-access refinishing
Railings in Dundas — questions
Looking for the full service detail rather than the Dundas view? Hardwood Railings covers method, materials, and warranty. For everything we do in this city, see hardwood flooring in Dundas.