Tight lots, shared walls, laneways and a lot of houses that are closer to the sidewalk than they are to each other. Toronto is the most access-constrained work we do, and the part of the job that gets planned hardest before anyone arrives.
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Most of what we light in the old city is a pre-war semi or detached house on a 25-to-40-foot lot. Etobicoke and East York add mid-century bungalows on something wider.
Short frontages change the design. On a 30-foot elevation the lamps are seen from twenty feet away rather than from across a suburban lawn, which is the one case where tighter spacing genuinely earns its cost — the run reads as a line rather than a row of points. It also means a smaller Control Box and a lower total than the linear footage on a suburban job.
The rest is logistics. No driveway, a permit-parking street, a laneway you cannot get a full-size truck down, and a semi where the track has to end cleanly at a party wall rather than run past it. None of that is an obstacle, but all of it is a scheduling decision, and we make it at the site visit rather than on install morning.
Roofline on the residential side, and a steady amount of commercial: sign bands and facades on the retail strips, and patio and canopy lighting for restaurants that now run outdoor seating most of the year.
Colour-matched track under the roofline holding addressable RGBW LEDs. Warm white every night, full colour when you want it, and no ladder in November.
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Be the brightest thing on the block at 5pm in December. Facade, signage band and entry lighting that turns dark-at-4:30 into an advantage.
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Patios that stay usable into October, facades that photograph well, and a scene change for every holiday without anyone on a ladder.
Learn moreThe old city, Etobicoke and East York. Scarborough and North York have their own pages. Not listed is not the same as not served — call and ask.
It is a scheduling problem, not an obstacle. We arrange street occupancy permits where they are needed, work off a smaller vehicle in the older neighbourhoods, and pick install windows that avoid the worst of the street. Tell us about the access at the site visit and we plan around it.
At the party wall line, in a finished end cap. We do not run past it onto shared fascia and we do not fasten anything to your neighbour's half. If both halves want it done, doing them together is cheaper for both of you and the result actually lines up.
Often more worth doing than a big one. A 30-foot frontage is a short run, a smaller controller and a lower total, and at close viewing distance a well-spaced roofline has more effect per dollar than it does on a house set back forty feet from the road.
Into the mortar joints, not the brick face. Mortar is the sacrificial layer in a masonry wall and it is meant to be repointed; drilling the face is what causes spalling after a few freeze-thaw cycles, and we will not do it.
We will measure, hold track colours against your own fascia and leave you an itemised number. No deposit, no obligation.
