Garage Door Repair in Westdale, Hamilton

Westdale was drawn on paper before it was built. Laid out in the 1920s as a master-planned community next to McMaster University, its streets curve in ovals around the Westdale Village shops instead of extending the lower-city grid, and Cootes Paradise closes the neighbourhood off to the north. Sixty-eight per cent of its homes date from 1960 or earlier and another 18 per cent from 1961 to 1980, so this is pre-war housing almost end to end. Fifty-seven per cent of dwellings are single-detached, with 20 per cent high-rise, 12 per cent low-rise and 7 per cent duplex.

Pre-war planning produced a particular garage arrangement. Lots are narrow by modern standards, the house sits close to the street, and vehicle storage went to the back of the property rather than into the front elevation. Westdale also lay inside the City of Hamilton as it existed before the 2001 amalgamation, which matters more than it sounds: the City's driveway access guide restricts boulevard parking eligibility to properties in the pre-amalgamation city, so a Westdale lot with no room for a conventional driveway has an option that the same lot in Ancaster or Dundas would not.