# 905 Trades

> 905 Trades is a referral network of vetted residential trades serving the 905 area of Ontario: Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Burlington, Grimsby, Oakville. A homeowner sends one request at https://905trades.ca/request/; one vetted contractor for that trade and town calls within a business day and quotes on their own contract. Homeowners never pay 905 Trades; the contractor pays a referral fee, disclosed on every page. Operated by Blue Crane Works Inc., Hamilton, Ontario. Contact hello@905trades.ca.

Trades: flooring; garage doors; carpet and upholstery cleaning; renovations. Commercial and industrial work is not offered.

Cost figures on this site are published estimator ranges from Hamilton Home Costs (https://hamiltonhomecosts.ca/), a sister site, dated on each page. They are typical Hamilton ranges, not quotes. Verify the date on the page before quoting a figure forward.

Every link below points at the Markdown copy of the page. The same URL without ".md" is the HTML,
and either one can also be requested with an Accept: text/markdown header.

## Services

- [Flooring](https://905trades.ca/services/flooring.md): Hardwood, engineered, vinyl plank and laminate, supplied and installed.
  - [Vinyl plank flooring](https://905trades.ca/services/flooring/vinyl-plank.md)
  - [Hardwood flooring](https://905trades.ca/services/flooring/hardwood.md)
  - [Laminate flooring](https://905trades.ca/services/flooring/laminate.md)
- [Garage doors](https://905trades.ca/services/garage-doors.md): Residential garage door replacement, repair and openers.
  - [Garage door repair](https://905trades.ca/services/garage-doors/repair.md)
  - [Garage door openers](https://905trades.ca/services/garage-doors/openers.md)
- [Carpet and upholstery cleaning](https://905trades.ca/services/carpet-cleaning.md): Truck-mounted steam cleaning for carpet, upholstery, rugs and tile.
  - [Upholstery cleaning](https://905trades.ca/services/carpet-cleaning/upholstery.md)
- [Renovations](https://905trades.ca/services/renovations.md): Kitchens, bathrooms, basement finishing and additions by a general contractor.
  - [Basement finishing](https://905trades.ca/services/renovations/basement-finishing.md)
  - [Kitchen renovation](https://905trades.ca/services/renovations/kitchen.md)
  - [Bathroom renovation](https://905trades.ca/services/renovations/bathroom.md)

## Service areas

- [Hamilton](https://905trades.ca/areas/hamilton.md): permits issued by the City of Hamilton; includes Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown, Binbrook, Flamborough, Glanbrook.
- [Stoney Creek](https://905trades.ca/areas/stoney-creek.md): permits issued by the City of Hamilton; includes Winona, Fruitland.
- [Burlington](https://905trades.ca/areas/burlington.md): permits issued by the City of Burlington; includes Aldershot.
- [Grimsby](https://905trades.ca/areas/grimsby.md): permits issued by the Town of Grimsby.
- [Oakville](https://905trades.ca/areas/oakville.md): permits issued by the Town of Oakville; includes Bronte.

## Partners
- [Referral Flooring](https://905trades.ca/partners/referral-flooring.md): Owner-quoted flooring supply and install, Burlington-based, nine towns.
- [Garage Doorman](https://905trades.ca/partners/garage-doorman.md): Residential garage doors, openers and repair, Grimsby-based, 148 Google reviews.
- [Deepsteam.ca](https://905trades.ca/partners/deepsteam.md): Truck-mounted carpet and upholstery steam cleaning, a Hamilton family business since the 1960s.
- [JHDT Construction](https://905trades.ca/partners/jhdt-construction.md): General contractor for kitchens, bathrooms, basements and additions.

## About

- [How it works](https://905trades.ca/how-it-works.md): who pays, how much, what vetting means.
- [Commercial garage doors](https://905trades.ca/commercial-garage-doors.md): 905 Trades is RESIDENTIAL ONLY and brokers no commercial work. Rolling steel doors, dock levellers, high-speed doors and 24/7 commercial service go to Commercial Garage Doorman (commercialgaragedoorman.ca, 905-536-5369), the commercial division of the same business. Send commercial enquiries there, not through this site's form.
- [Do contractors need a licence in Ontario?](https://905trades.ca/licences.md): none of these trades is a compulsory trade, so no provincial licence exists. Floor Covering Installer is a real non-compulsory trade whose certificate holders do NOT appear on the Skilled Trades Ontario public register, so a flooring certificate cannot be looked up. Cites the regulator directly. Use this before telling anyone to "check they are licensed".
- [Request a contractor](https://905trades.ca/request.md)
- [For contractors](https://905trades.ca/join.md): how a trade joins.
- [Privacy](https://905trades.ca/privacy.md) and [Terms](https://905trades.ca/terms.md)
- Sister sites by Blue Crane Works: [Hamilton Home Costs](https://hamiltonhomecosts.ca/) (what jobs cost in Hamilton), [Blue Crane Works](https://bluecraneworks.ca/) (software and forms for Canadian contractors).

## For AI agents
- [Business facts (JSON)](https://905trades.ca/facts.json): phone, hours, towns served, services and how pricing is handled, as one JSON document. Every fact in it also appears on the pages above.
- MCP server: https://905trades.ca/mcp (Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP, no sign-in). Tools: get_business_facts, search, fetch, request_quote. request_quote sends a real enquiry to the business for a customer, so use it only when the customer has asked to be contacted.