High-Quality Residential and Commercial Renovations and Restorations
High-Quality Residential and Commercial Renovations and Restorations
We serve homeowners and businesses across Greater Vancouver, including Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey, Langley, and nine other Lower Mainland communities. Wherever your property sits, our crews, project managers, and in-house designers are already working nearby, which means we understand the permitting timelines, housing stock, and site conditions specific to your municipality before we ever walk through your door.
Every renovation we take on runs on a fixed-budget quote with a structured payment schedule, so you know the full cost and the payment milestones before work starts, no matter which city you’re in. That consistency matters in a region where permit offices, inspection schedules, and older housing stock vary block to block. Below, we’ve broken down what working with us looks like in each of the communities we serve.
At Norum Construction & Renovations, we strive to provide exceptional construction and renovation services to customers throughout the Greater Vancouver area, including customers living and working in:
Vancouver’s older neighbourhoods, from Kitsilano to Mount Pleasant, are full of homes that were never built with today’s families in mind: narrow galley kitchens, single bathrooms, and basements that were never meant to be lived in. We handle full interior and exterior renovations, additions, and basement underpinning across the city, and our in-house design and permit team manages the drawings the City of Vancouver requires for structural, electrical, and plumbing work so you’re not chasing paperwork on top of a construction schedule.
East Van’s character homes and Vancouver Specials are some of the most renovation-ready stock in the region, and we’ve converted more than a few of them into secondary suites for owners who want rental income or space for extended family. When a project touches the building envelope, windows, siding, roof, or deck, we scope it as one coordinated job rather than a string of separate trades, which keeps East Van’s tighter lots and shared property lines from turning into a scheduling headache.
Burnaby’s mix of post-war bungalows near Metrotown and newer infill along the SkyTrain corridors means we’re often working on two very different kinds of homes in the same week. The city processes most residential permits through its online ePlan portal, and we handle that submission process as part of our design and permit package so your project isn’t sitting in a queue longer than it needs to.
From the older homes around Maillardville to newer construction on Burke Mountain and Westwood Plateau, Coquitlam’s housing stock spans decades, and each era comes with its own quirks once you open the walls. We build full design and permit packages for Coquitlam projects up front, which helps avoid the delays that come from discovering a structural or code issue mid-renovation.
Port Coquitlam’s established neighbourhoods near the Lougheed corridor tend to move through permitting faster than some of the larger municipalities nearby, and we plan our project schedules to take advantage of that. Whether it’s a full home renovation or exterior envelope work, we build our timelines around the city’s actual review process instead of a generic estimate.
Queen’s Park is one of the most intact heritage character areas in Metro Vancouver, with homes dating from the 1890s through the 1940s, and Sapperton isn’t far behind. Renovating a home this old means working with the city’s heritage and permitting requirements from day one, and our design team scopes those conversations into the project before a single wall comes down, so the character that makes these neighbourhoods valuable stays intact.
Richmond is a city of two eras: pockets of older Steveston homes alongside the wave of detached construction built between the late 1980s and 2010. Both come with their own renovation considerations, and for strata properties, that often means securing strata approval alongside the municipal building permit before work begins, something our team manages as part of the process rather than leaving it to you to sort out.
Surrey is one of the fastest-growing cities in the Lower Mainland, and we see that growth reflected in the renovation requests we get, from South Surrey families expanding an established home to owners converting a single-family property into a multi-suite home for rental income. Whichever direction your project runs, we scope it against Surrey’s current zoning and permit requirements before we quote it, not after.
Langley’s mix of larger township lots and land near the Agricultural Land Reserve boundary means every renovation or addition has to account for setback and zoning rules that don’t always match what’s standard in the denser parts of the region. We factor those boundaries into the design and permit package from the start so your addition or extension doesn’t run into a surprise partway through approval.
Walnut Grove’s homes, many built through the 1990s and 2000s around the community centre and Carvolth Exchange, are reaching the age where kitchens, bathrooms, and exteriors need real updates rather than patch repairs. We handle full interior renovations and exterior envelope work, windows, siding, deck, and roof, as one coordinated project so you’re not managing separate trades and separate timelines.
White Rock’s waterfront and view properties face coastal exposure that inland Lower Mainland homes don’t deal with in the same way, from salt air to wind-driven rain against siding and window seals. Our exterior envelope work accounts for that exposure rather than treating a White Rock home the same as one twenty minutes inland, and we’ve expanded more than a few of the area’s older beach cottages into full-time family homes.
Maple Ridge’s larger lots and acreage properties open up renovation options that denser cities can’t offer, from significant additions to full basement underpinning for extra living space. We also work with the rural zoning considerations that come with larger parcels, so an addition or extension gets designed to actually clear approval rather than getting redrawn after the fact.
No matter where you live or work in Greater Vancouver, our team is committed to delivering high-quality craftsmanship, personalized service, and lasting results that you can cherish for years to come. By only using the highest-quality materials and cutting-edge techniques, we can ensure your project exceeds your expectations and adheres to the highest industry standards. Contact our professional team today to learn more about how we can help you with your next residential or commercial construction project!
No matter which of these communities you’re in, the process stays the same: a fixed-budget quote, a structured payment schedule, and an in-house design and permit team that handles the paperwork specific to your city. If your renovation or restoration project also touches ongoing upkeep, our property maintenance plans cover annual inspections and priority scheduling for subscribers across the whole service area, including 24-hour emergency response when something needs attention outside business hours.
Norum Construction & Renovations (NCR) is a family-owned and operated business that has been providing customers throughout the Fraser Valley with comprehensive residential and commercial renovations and restorations for over 25 years. We strive to help our clients bring their dream spaces, homes, and designs to life.
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