About This Project

Cherokee Dr., Maple – 18‑ft Flush Steel Beam Installation

The Cherokee Drive project involved installing an 18‑foot flush steel beam to create a fully open‑concept main floor as part of a time‑sensitive kitchen renovation. After reviewing the engineer’s drawings with the homeowners, we walked them through each structural option and helped them choose the safest long‑term solution: replacing the existing bulky LVL with a custom steel beam.

Because the renovation schedule was tight, we coordinated directly with the steel manufacturer and secured the beam on short notice, avoiding delays. Our crew worked carefully and respectfully in the home each day, managing dust during concrete cutting, protecting the existing granite floors, and keeping the workspace clean throughout the project.

The scope included removing a bulky LVL beam, building a new concrete footing in the basement, and completing the flush beam installation with precise load alignment. During demolition, we also uncovered a few original builder deficiencies and corrected them to ensure the structure was fully sound before closing the project.

The result was a clean, safe, and fully open space ready for the homeowners’ new kitchen — completed on time, with clear communication and attention to detail from start to finish.

What Our Client Said

Patrick

Cherokee dr, Maple

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We are doing a kitchen Reno and in order to extend our kitchen we had to remove a structural wall. After reviewing the drawings from the engineer (that was referred by Alex) Alex took the time to further explain the options we had based on the engineer’s drawings. After understanding each option and which would be more structurally sound we decided to replace existing LVL beam with a steel beam in order to completely remove existing wall. We had originally decided on an extended LVL beam but after further discussions decided on the steel beam instead. Knowing that this Reno was a time sensitive project Alex was able to deal with the steel manufacturer last minute and get the beam delivered without any delays.

After negotiating the price and before any work began Alex again took the time to explain every intricate detail of the work that needed to be done and how it was going to be done. He also told us exactly how much time was involved and when he would have the job completed by.

Everyday Alex’s team would arrive on time and ready to work. As a 3 man crew Alex did an impeccable job with every aspect of the job. It could have been a messy job as a cement footing needed to be build in the basement after the old one was dug out. Alex took extra precautions in order to try and keep the dust level to a minimum with all the concrete sawing that took place. He was able to reduce the amount of dust and keep in just the area of work without it spreading all over like it usually does.

Alex and his team did an impeccable job on the beam and the footing and cleaned up every day after each part of the construction was completed indoor and out. He left the place immaculate once completed. Not only did Alex do a fantastic job on what he was paid do do but on the preparation part of the job when taking walls down he had found some building flaws from the builder that again with perfect knowledge was able to explain the effects of the flaws. He also went above and beyond his job and after explaining to me what I needed to do to fix it he went ahead and fixed it before completing the entire job.

Overall Alex and his team did a fantastic job and made everything look brand new and better than the builder quality. The team was efficient at what they did and they did very professionally without leaving a mess anywhere. They also took extra precautions not to destroy my existing granite floors with all the heavy machines that were used to get the job done. They also completed the job on time as they said the would.

Alex has been doing this job for a number of years and is very passionate and knowledgeable about structural engineering and the type of work he leaves for his customers.

I was absolutely, completely satisfied of the job he did and would absolutely call up on him again if I needed a similar job and definitely refer him to anyone who would need this type or similar work done.

This job was done to perfection!

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