Serving Willowdale, Newtonbrook, Lawrence Park, Bayview Village, York Mills, Don Mills, and all of North York — FAIME self-performs tile, EIFS, sealant and flashing replacement, level 3 to 5 drywall finishing and painting.
FAIME Construction is an owner-managed building envelope and finishing contractor serving North York and surrounding neighbourhoods including Willowdale, Newtonbrook, Lawrence Park. Our own crews self-perform tile and flooring, EIFS and exterior systems, sealant and flashing replacement, level 3 to 5 drywall and painting, and patch repairs. Electrical, plumbing and HVAC are carried out by licensed subcontractors under our coordination. Established 2021 with 15+ years' experience — free North York site visit and written quote within 48 hours.15+ years of trade experience · 100+ GTA projects · WSIB Active · $2M CGL · Free site visits
Complete specialty trades for North York homeowners, property managers, and commercial clients — all under one owner-managed roof.
Serving all North York communities — no surcharge within the GTA service zone.
North York is really two building stocks sharing a map. Willowdale, Bathurst Manor, Downsview and Don Mills are dense with 1950s and 60s bungalows and side-splits. Along Jane, Finch, Sheppard and Wilson sits one of the largest concentrations of 1960s and 70s concrete apartment slabs anywhere in Canada. Then the Yonge spine, from Sheppard to Finch, is newer high-rise. Those three stocks fail in completely different ways, and they are not one job.
A North York bungalow of that vintage was almost always built with a parged or stucco band wrapping the foundation, the porch and the side steps. Six or seven decades on, that band is the first exterior element to go — the coating dulls, goes patchy, then lifts off the wall in sheets. It is cosmetic right up until the day water gets behind it, and then it is not.
Refinishing it properly means grinding the failed coating back to a sound substrate before anything new goes on, because a fresh coat bonded to a flaking old one fails along with it. The wall is then rebuilt with a mesh-reinforced cementitious base coat levelled flat, and finished in a tinted stucco. That is the method we document stage by stage on our Scarborough refinish — same era of house, same failure, same sequence. Materials are Durabond and Sto throughout.
Repainting corridors, lobbies, stairwells, garages and underside decks in a tenanted North York tower is a logistics problem before it is a painting problem. People still have to get to their doors. Work gets sequenced floor by floor, protection goes down before a lid comes off a pail, and the schedule bends around the building rather than the other way round. We spray Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore and Dulux products, and on tall open decks the method is airless spray immediately back-rolled — the back-roll is what builds a real film and an even sheen instead of a thin, blotchy spray halo. Our commercial ceiling project shows that sequence in full, including the scissor-lift access.
If you manage a North York property or own one of the bungalows, the estimate starts the same way: we come and look. We do not quote exterior work without seeing the wall, and we do not quote a building we have not walked.
Nearby areas we serve: Toronto · Scarborough · Vaughan.
Most-requested North York services: Drywall & Painting · EIFS & Exterior · General Repairs.
Yes. FAIME works across North York, including Willowdale, Newtonbrook, Lawrence Park, Bayview Village. We have completed building envelope and finishing work across the GTA, backed by 15+ years of trade experience, and owner Talha Karaboga is personally on every job from the first site visit to the final walkthrough.
Yes. FAIME carries $2M Commercial General Liability insurance and is WSIB Active (Class G5). Electrical is performed by an ESA-licensed Master Electrician, plumbing by a Licensed Master Plumber, and HVAC by TSSA-licensed technicians. Permits are the client's responsibility — we advise on what each project requires.
Yes — every North York estimate is free and no-obligation. We visit the property, assess the full scope on-site, and return a written quote within 48 hours.
Across Willowdale, Newtonbrook, Lawrence Park and Bayview Village, our crews handle tile and flooring, EIFS and exterior systems, sealant and flashing replacement, level 3 to 5 drywall finishing and painting, and drywall patch and repair calls, plus full renovation management. The regulated trades — electrical, plumbing and HVAC — are subcontracted to licensed specialists and coordinated by FAIME.
Free site visit. Written quote within 48 hours. Owner-managed from first call to final walkthrough.
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