Wilkens Contracting Inc.

Excellent work! Frank & Mike were outstanding. We are thrilled with the finished result. Clean, professional and respectful. Experts in their craft. I would highly recommend the team. Thanks!

Can’t thank Jake from Wilkens Contracting enough. Our chimney was badly needing repair and he came out after business hours to repair it. The job was done in a very timely manner and he cleaned up thoroughly after he was done. He was extremely professional and was very knowledgeable. I wouldn’t hesitate to use them again in the future should the need arise.

My chimney was in bad shape and while searching for a company to repair it I found Wilkens. A local family owned business with great reviews. Perfect. Richard gave me a timely quote at a reasonable price and answered all my questions. Frank and his son Mike tore down the old chimney and rebuilt a beautiful new chimney. I am very happy. Thanks Christopher

The Wilkens family are great at their craft and are very pleasant to work with. They have great integrity and avoid unnecessary work. They are punctual and communicated well. Their prices also were the best in all the quotes I received for the work. Fantastic experience.

This is a fantastic company. It is a family run business and their interactions are honest , timely and respectful. I had a broken concrete step and they fixed it quickly as well as parged other parts of my steps that they recognized needed repair. All for one flat price. The work is excellent and affordable and they clean up too!!!!! Jake is expanding the business into Hamilton so if you need any work done at all call them!!! I would definitely hire them again!

Amazing company! We had Wilkens rebuild one chimney and remove a second one. The team arrived on time, worked tirelessly, and left the site very clean at the end of each day. The work is flawless, they matched the bricks perfectly! Many neighbours have already commented on how good it looks! I'd happily recommend them to anyone

We cannot speak highly enough of Wilkens Contracting. They excelled in every way at carrying out a very tricky fireplace installation job, with results of superlative quality, for a very reasonable price. Our old Victorian came with a gas fireplace installed in what used to be a coal/wood fireplace; we wanted to convert the fireplace back to wood-burning, and also to replace the existing mantle with a lovely old carved marble mantle that we found at The Door Store (in four pieces). The mantle replacement meant that the interior of the fireplace had to be rebuilt. In addition, a slate hearth had to be installed in our inlaid wood floor, the fireplace flue needed to be vetted, and the deteriorated chimney on the rooftop repaired. I contacted several companies before settling on Wilkens. Ernie's 35+-year expertise was immediately evident in the way he went about assessing the situation. For example, unlike other estimators who simply recited existing code as regards how far the hearth needed to extend into our narrow living room, Ernie went into the basement, opened a small hole in a closet ceiling with my permission, and measured the underlying concrete slab in order to establish a smaller (grandfathered-in) legal extension, saving us precious inches of floor space. More generally, Ernie was completely confident about all aspects of this complicated job, and offered us interesting options we hadn't thought about, including a herringbone brick design for the interior fire box. Again, the overall (fixed) price for all the needed work was extremely reasonable. Having settled on Wilkens, we were impressed throughout the process of getting the job done. Ernie and Olivia were pleasant and flexible in light of an unexpected delay in getting started associated with first removing the gas fireplace. When the job started, the main artisan---Bill---was patient and thorough in protecting our furniture etc. with plastic from brick dust due to necessary demolition and repair. Bill---with Wilkens for 35+ years---did a truly exceptional job, with occasional assistance from Ernie and Richard. The pictures tell part of the story, as in the perfect matching of the herringbone design on the sides, the exact positioning of the hearth vis-a-vis the floor, the expert installation of the interior marble surround and marble (not pictured is the impressive repair of the rooftop chimney). But in the background was Bill's lifetime of experience and his patience and careful dedication to getting everything exactly right, both aesthetically and structurally. He takes his time, because that's what it takes. If you are looking for a true artist who will create a fireplace of lasting extraordinary beauty, Bill is your man. We doubt that there is anyone else in Toronto who could have produced anything close to this outstanding result, for any price. More generally, we recommend Wilkens Contracting in the highest terms as a gem of an old-school fireplace and masonry company, capable of beautifully handling the most difficult and delicate jobs for a very reasonable price and in a pleasant and professional manner.

No muss, no fuss. Great job tuckpointing the side of our house. Connor gave me a call weeks earlier than I expected that he could take care of our tuck pointing (100 year old double brick home). Very pleasant man who explained what needed to be done, got it done, great job, great clean up and on his way. The world should work this way!