To sell or renovate in Toronto’s heated housing market By: greening homes

May 18, 2017
Planning a Renovation

This blog is part of the series – Planning your home renovation. Should you sell your home or stay and renovate it? Many Toronto homeowners who desire a change are faced with this choice. With today’s heated market, where the average Toronto home as of April has already appreciated by 31.7 percent over last year, […]

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Homeowner? Carpenter? Site Supervisor? Visit us at the National Home Show! By: greening homes

March 7, 2017
Announcements

Visit us at the National Home Show, March 10 – 19 at the Enercare Centre (Exhibition Place) in Toronto (Booth #2226). We would love to discuss how we could transform your home renovation dreams into reality! Are you a skilled carpenter or site supervisor? Chris Phillips, Greening Homes’ President is happy to meet you at […]

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Greening Homes leads the industry on site and in the classroom By: greening homes

March 3, 2017
Community, Indoor Health, Resource Efficiency, Waste Diversion

Community involvement and education have always been core values since the founding of Greening Homes as an alternative renovations provider in Toronto.  We thought we’d share some of the initiatives our team are currently engaged in this winter! (Tim Moxam unloads material for his class on High Performance Window Installation at George Brown College, Casa […]

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High performance window installation meets a century-old brick opening By: greening homes

February 8, 2017
Indoor Health, Resource Efficiency

A visual tour Brick buildings love Greening Homes. We don’t know why. Maybe we can blame it on geography. Often we find ourselves tasked with improving century old structures made of fired clay. In this blog, I’ll focus on a high performance window installation on a double brick home. If you’ve spent anytime researching the […]

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Avoiding the Red List, in High Park Magazine By: greening homes

January 6, 2017
Green Materials, Indoor Health

In January 2017, High Park Magazine published another article by Christopher Phillips: Avoiding the Rest List: Insider tips on green building materials! To learn more about other green features and materials, visit our blog, The making of a healthy energy efficient home. This is Christopher’s second article for High Park Magazine. In September, the magazine […]

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Job opening: Site Supervisor/Construction Manager By: greening homes

December 9, 2016
Announcements

Join our growing company! Greening Homes is looking to fill one position: Site Supervisor/Construction Manager for Residential Renovation: Position: Site Supervisor/Construction Manager We’re looking for a Site Supervisor/Construction Manager who wants to join a young, growing, and multi-award winning renovations company, and help us build amazing green projects for our Toronto clients. We need candidates […]

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Christopher Phillips wins prestigious leadership award By: greening homes

October 14, 2016
Announcements, Awards, Community

An independent jury awarded Christopher Phillips, Greening Homes’ President, with the prestigious CaGBC-GTC Industry Leader Award on October 13 during the CaGBC Greater Toronto Chapter Gala and Awards. “I am really honoured to receive this award from the Greater Toronto Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council,” said Christopher. “The nomination came out of the blue, […]

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Space needed for exciting mystery project By: greening homes

September 19, 2016
Announcements

Greening Homes seeks to rent an industrial space to build its top secret project – a.k.a – Project X. And we need it soon. Can you help us? While we are unable to delve into the exciting juicy details of Project X at this time (except to say it involves creating a very special building), […]

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