Kildrin
Kildrin turns the City's building permit records into honest renovation cost benchmarks, so a Toronto homeowner holding a contractor's quote can see how it compares to what 15,000 comparable permits actually declared.
Why this exists
Search for the cost of any renovation job and you get the same shape of answer every time: a range so wide it tells you nothing, published by a company that makes money introducing you to a contractor. Nobody shows their working, because there usually isn’t any.
Meanwhile the City of Toronto has published a detailed record of over 200,000 building permits, including what each applicant declared their project would cost. It has sat there in a data portal, in a format nobody outside city planning was going to open.
That gap is the whole reason for this site. The numbers already existed. They just needed someone to match the work types, strip the typos, and draw the distribution.
How we make money, stated plainly
One way, and you should know it before you trust a number here. If you ask for quotes, we pass your details to one vetted contractor and they pay us a flat fee for the introduction. Not three, not five. You will not be buried in calls. The fee is flat and identical across contractors, so no one can pay for a better position.
No display advertising runs on this site. If that changes, this page will say so.