House Painters in L'Amoreaux, Toronto
L'Amoreaux West is City of Toronto neighbourhood 147, and it sits in Scarborough. The City drew the current boundary in 2022, when it split the old L'Amoreaux neighbourhood into L'Amoreaux West and East L'Amoreaux as part of the update that took Toronto from 140 neighbourhoods to 158. The edges are easy to hold in your head. Victoria Park Avenue on the west, Warden Avenue on the east, McNicoll Avenue on the north, Sheppard Avenue East on the south. That is roughly 2 km across and 3.4 km top to bottom. Before amalgamation in 1998, all of it was the city of Scarborough.
The name goes back to Josue L'Amoreaux, a French Huguenot loyalist who lived from 1738 to 1834, and European settlement here started in 1816. The farms lasted a long time after that. The subdivisions arrived in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and that is the part that decides what a repaint takes. The City's 2016 profile for the old combined L'Amoreaux neighbourhood, which covered this area and East L'Amoreaux together, puts 66% of dwellings in the 1961 to 1980 band against 31% across Toronto, and only 3% of the stock was built after 2005.
So the houses read as one generation. Bridlewood Mall opened at 2900 Warden Avenue in 1975, the same era as most of the housing around it, and it still anchors the area at 377,400 square feet. The Bridlewood branch of the Toronto Public Library and Sir John A Macdonald Collegiate Institute are both inside the boundary. We paint on Silver Spruce Drive, Tidefall Drive, Glen Springs Drive, Kelvinway Drive, Leafield Drive and Heatherside Drive, along Chester Le Boulevard and Beverly Glen Boulevard, and around Bridletowne Circle.
What Painting a L'Amoreaux Home Involves
A sixty-year-old house is a different paint job than a new build, and it is worth knowing why before you collect quotes.
Start with the surface. Two thirds of the housing here went up between 1961 and 1980, and the City's profile flags 1,195 occupied dwellings, about 8%, as needing major repairs against a 7% city rate. Those figures cover the old combined L'Amoreaux, so read them as the shape of the neighbourhood rather than a verdict on your address. On site it shows up the same way every time. Nail pops down the long walls, hairline cracks at the corners of door openings, trim carrying five or six coats of history, and caulk lines that have given up. We fill, sand and prime all of that before any colour goes on, because prep decides how long the coat lasts.
Then there is lead, which nobody sees. Canada did not put a limit on lead in interior consumer paint until 1976, and that first limit was 5,000 mg/kg. The industry adopted a voluntary 600 mg/kg limit in 1991, the federal Surface Coating Materials Regulations made 600 mg/kg mandatory in 2005, and the number only came down to 90 mg/kg in 2010. Nearly three quarters of the housing here was built before 1981, so the original coats sit on the wrong side of that line. Here is the honest version of the risk. Canadian children turned up with lead poisoning in the late 1980s from paint chips and dust in homes that were being renovated, not from paint that was left alone. The prep is what stirs it up. So no dry sanding and no heat gun. We seal the room off, keep surfaces wet while we scrape, and run a HEPA vacuum throughout.
Townhouses change the job again. Row houses are 16% of the housing here against 6% across Toronto, nearly triple the city rate. A townhouse packs a lot of wall into a narrow footprint, and the two-storey stair wall is the slow part, not the floor area. There is nowhere flat to stand, the trim runs are long, and the unit next door is the same plan, so a sloppy cut line repeats down the block. We set up proper scaffold over the stairs instead of balancing a ladder on a tread.
Last, the calendar. Toronto's freeze-thaw is hard on exposed wood, and paint needs a dry, mild stretch to cure, so we book most exterior work between late April and mid-October. See our interior painting and exterior painting.
Residential and Commercial Painting in L'Amoreaux
L'Amoreaux is not a detached-home neighbourhood, and a painter who writes for one misses most of the work. In the City's 2016 profile of the old combined neighbourhood, apartments of five storeys or more are 45% of dwellings, single-detached homes 24%, row houses 16% and semis 6%. Fourteen buildings of ten storeys or more stand inside the L'Amoreaux West boundary. Bridletowne Place runs 23 storeys, 55 Huntingdale runs 20, Royalcrest Condominiums 18, Chichester Place 17, and St. Paul's Terrace and Wishing Well Manor 13 apiece. Corinthian Tower is here too, and so is St. Paul's L'Amoreaux Centre, the seniors facility at 3333 Finch Avenue East. Condominiums account for 4,835 of the 15,035 occupied dwellings, 32%, against 26% citywide.
That mix means two kinds of work in the same week. Suites get repainted between tenants or before a sale, and common areas get done on the building's schedule, which is why we work evenings and weekends. Renters are 5,215 of the households here, 35% of the total, so turnover is steady. The other 9,820 households own, and a lot of that work is renovation-driven. Somebody opens up a wall, which needs a City of Toronto building permit and a different trade, and we come in after. New drywall meeting original walls leaves a seam that telegraphs through paint if you just roll over it. We skim it flat and prime it so the room reads as one surface again.
The commercial work sits on the arterials. Finch Avenue East, Sheppard Avenue East, Victoria Park Avenue, Warden Avenue, Pharmacy Avenue and Huntingwood Drive carry the plazas and the storefronts, and Bridlewood Mall has been the anchor since 1975, with Metro, Shoppers Drug Mart and Dollarama in it now where Towers, Kmart, Food City and Dominion opened it. Retail units get painted after hours so nobody loses a trading day. The bungalow and the suite in the tower get the same crew and the same prep list.
The Painting Services We Offer in L'Amoreaux
These are the jobs we handle on a L'Amoreaux home, most of them on the same visit.
Interior painting
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and closets, in low-odour paint.
Exterior painting
Siding, fascia, soffits, trim and brick, washed, scraped and primed first.
Cabinet painting
Doors off, degreased, sanded and sprayed. No brush marks. See cabinet painting.
Drywall and plaster repair
Cracks, nail pops, holes and the seams where new drywall joins original walls. See drywall and plaster repair.
Deck and fence staining
Fences and decks grey out fast through a Toronto winter. See deck and fence staining.
Wallpaper removal
Scored, steamed, stripped and skimmed smooth.
Ceiling painting
Water stains sealed first so they do not bleed through.
Trim, doors and railings
Baseboards, casings, and the long stair walls and railings in the townhouses and split-levels.
Power washing
Dirt, chalk and mildew off before any exterior coat goes on.
Great customer service, job done professionally, very happy with the result, definitely recommend.
Why choose us
Why L'Amoreaux Homeowners Choose Co Painting
One build era, and we know it
Two thirds of the housing here went up between 1961 and 1980. Tired trim, nail pops and five layers of old coating are not a surprise on site, they are the normal starting point.
Lead-era prep comes standard
Canada's first limit on lead in interior paint landed in 1976 and most of this housing predates 1981. We prep wet, sealed and vacuumed on the original coats, not as a special request.
Houses, townhouses and towers
Row houses are 16% of the stock here and apartments of five storeys or more are 45%. We are set up for repeated townhouse units and for suite turnovers on a building's schedule.
The price is in writing and the work is backed
We look at the actual walls and put the estimate in writing before we start. Insured and licensed in Ontario, rated 4.9 across 75 Google reviews, with a three-year warranty and up to 12 years on cabinets.
Detailed Written Estimates in L'Amoreaux
Our shop is at 25 St Dennis Drive and the run out to L'Amoreaux is 10.6 km, about 13 minutes. Wynford Drive, up the Don Valley Parkway, east on Highway 401, then north on Victoria Park Avenue and across on Sheppard Avenue East or Pharmacy Avenue. There is no subway station inside L'Amoreaux, and the nearest one is Don Mills on Line 4, about 2.5 km from the middle of the neighbourhood, so everything we need comes with us in the truck. Call or fill in the form. We come out, look at the actual walls, and put the number in writing.
Co Painting, 25 St Dennis Drive, Toronto, ON M3C 1E6. Call (416) 319-8444.
FAQ
L'Amoreaux Painting Questions, Answered
Do you actually paint in L'Amoreaux, or just Scarborough in general?
We paint in L'Amoreaux itself. From our shop at 25 St Dennis Drive it is a 10.6 km run, about 13 minutes, up the Don Valley Parkway, east on Highway 401, then north on Victoria Park Avenue. We come to you.
My place is an original two-storey off Silver Spruce Drive. Is lead paint a real concern?
Treat it as a given on the original coats. Canada did not limit lead in interior consumer paint until 1976, and the limit only dropped to 90 mg/kg in 2010. Two thirds of the housing here went up between 1961 and 1980. The risk shows up when someone dry-sands old paint or takes a heat gun to it, and we do neither.
We are in a townhouse. Does that change how you price it?
It changes how we plan it. Row houses are 16% of the housing in L'Amoreaux against 6% across Toronto, and a townhouse stacks a lot of wall into a narrow footprint. The two-storey stair wall is the slow part, not the square footage, and we scaffold it rather than working off a ladder on the treads.
Do you paint condo and apartment suites in the L'Amoreaux towers?
Yes, and it is a big part of our work here. Fourteen buildings of ten storeys or more sit inside the boundary, including Bridletowne Place at 23 storeys and 55 Huntingdale at 20, and condominiums are 32% of occupied dwellings. Suites between tenants or before a sale, plus common areas, scheduled around the building's hours.
We are renovating. Can you make the new drywall and the old walls match?
Yes. Where fresh drywall meets original walls, the joint telegraphs through the paint if you just roll over it. We skim those seams flat and prime them, so the finished room reads as one surface.
Can you paint the original wood trim, or does it all have to be stripped?
Most of it can be painted, and on a house this age painting over is usually the safer call. Trim, banisters and cupboard doors carried the highest lead levels in old paint, so stripping them stirs up the worst of it. We clean and lightly prepare the wood, prime it, then finish it.
When is the best time for exterior painting in L'Amoreaux?
Spring through fall, roughly late April to mid-October. The paint needs a dry, mild stretch to cure, and Toronto only gives you so many of those. The exterior calendar fills early, so it helps to call ahead.
Can you repaint my kitchen cabinets instead of replacing them?
Yes, and most people are surprised how close it comes to new. We take the doors off and spray them, so there are no brush lines, and it costs a lot less than new cabinets in a kitchen that is otherwise solid. Cabinets carry a warranty of up to 12 years.
Are you insured, and how do I get a price?
Fully insured and licensed in Ontario, and we can show you the paperwork before we start. For a price, book the detailed written estimate. We come out to your L'Amoreaux home, look at the walls, and give you the number in writing.
See the Other Areas We Serve
L'Amoreaux West shares a boundary with East L'Amoreaux, Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan, Steeles and Pleasant View, and we work west and south of there too: Don Valley Village, Henry Farm, Parkwoods, Bayview Village and Willowdale.