Garage Door Repair in Kirkendall, Hamilton

Kirkendall lies along the foot of the escarpment in the lower city's southwest, close enough to the brow that the Bruce Trail and the Chedoke Park slopes form its southern edge. Seventy-eight per cent of its homes were built in 1960 or earlier and 14 per cent between 1961 and 1980, which puts almost nothing here in the modern era. The dwelling mix has shifted since: 52 per cent single-detached, 20 per cent low-rise, 12 per cent high-rise and 10 per cent duplex, so a good number of the original houses now hold more than one household.

That combination of age and subdivision is what makes the rear of the lot interesting. Local reporting on laneway housing points to a historic coachhouse in Kirkendall as the archetype of the rear-lane building found across Hamilton's older fabric, and notes that existing garages and coach houses are the usual stock for conversion into laneway dwellings. Around 15,000 Hamilton properties abut a laneway and roughly 70 laneway houses already exist, most of them in the lower city. Kirkendall is squarely in that territory.