New stair builds, refinishing, custom treads and risers, balustrades. Open-riser modern, closed-riser traditional, floating treads — built to last decades.
BuildMan builds and renovates staircases across Toronto and the GTA, including hardwood tread upgrades, refinishing, iron or glass railings and new floating-tread stairs. A refinish with new railings typically costs $8,000–$15,000, a full new build $15,000–$35,000, and floating-tread stairs $25,000–$60,000. A railing-only swap is typically a 2-day job. Call (905) 660-9992 or request a free consult and fixed-price quote.
A staircase is the most-touched piece of carpentry in your home. Wobbly newels, squeaks, gaps at the wall — they all come from cutting corners. We build stairs to architectural-grade tolerances.
Code-compliant rise/run, custom stringers, hardwood treads, choice of closed or open risers.
Sand back to bare wood, stain to spec, two coats of polyurethane. Matches existing flooring or stands alone.
Old colonial spindles swapped for iron pickets or glass panels. Newel posts re-set with proper anchoring.
Steel stringer hidden behind drywall, floating wood treads — modern statement piece.
Squeak fixes, tread/riser replacement, refinishing — without rebuilding the whole house.
Pressure-treated, cedar, composite, or stone — properly fastened, properly drained.
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15+ years building and renovating GTA homes from the ground up — not a general handyman doing renovations on the side. That structural knowledge is why our finishes last.
Full liability insurance and WSIB coverage on every trade on your site, so your home and our crew are protected throughout the build.
Registered with Ontario's Tarion new-home warranty program — a bar most renovators never have to meet.
A single all-in quote and one point of contact from demo to sign-off. No open-ended hourly billing, no chasing five separate trades.
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We file, schedule and pass every required building, plumbing and electrical permit and inspection — you never deal with the city.
Most staircase renovations in the GTA start with the same stair: a carpeted staircase in a 1990s or early-2000s two-storey home in Vaughan, Markham, Brampton or Mississauga, with oak handrails and turned spindles. The structure under the carpet is usually sound, so the stair can be transformed with new hardwood treads and risers over the existing stringers and a new railing system, without rebuilding it. Older homes downtown are different: narrow, steep stairs in Victorian semis often have worn treads, loose balusters and step heights that vary from one tread to the next.
Railings are where the building code shows up most. Guards have to meet minimum heights, the openings between pickets must be small enough that a child can't slip through, and the handrail has to be graspable and run the length of the flight. Swapping wood spindles for iron pickets or tempered glass is a popular upgrade, and the new posts must be anchored into framing, not just the subfloor, to handle the required loads. Rebuilding or reconfiguring a stair generally needs a permit, which we file and pass.
The detail most people overlook is matching. New treads should match the hallway floor in species, width and stain, and the nosing should meet the landing cleanly. That is why we often plan stairs alongside hardwood flooring installation, and why newel posts, skirt boards and trim are handled with the same care as our custom carpentry. Before quoting, we check the stringers from below where the basement ceiling is open, since a squeak or bounce often points to loose blocking that is cheap to fix during the job and expensive to fix after.
Yes — railing-only swaps are very common. We can swap colonial wood spindles for iron pickets or tempered glass without touching the treads/risers. Typical 2-day job.
$8,000–$15,000 for a standard interior stair refinish + new railings. $15,000–$35,000 for a full new build with hardwood treads and iron or glass railings. Floating-tread modern stairs run $25,000–$60,000.
Often yes — wedges and glue blocks installed from underneath (if the basement ceiling is open) or top-down screws into the stringer covered with wood plugs.
