Total Renovations is a licensed general contractor and one of the region's most established basement remodeling companies, delivering basement renovation services since 2011. We build the full range of basement development — from straightforward basement finishing to complete legal secondary suite construction — and we carry every permit, inspection, and trade from the first walkthrough through to handover.
Basement renovation on the West Coast is a harder engineering problem than most of Canada. Depending on where you live, homes here absorb somewhere between 1,100 mm and 1,900 mm of rain a year. Clay-heavy soils hold that water against foundation walls instead of draining it away, and every municipality interprets the BC Building Code with its own bylaws, forms, and inspection culture. Corners cut during basement finishing don't show up as bad-looking work — they show up as a remediation invoice four winters later.
Whether you are pricing affordable basement remodeling or a premium legal suite build, the standard is the same on every project: measured design, a fixed line-item quote, licensed trades, and all permits pulled on your behalf. That combination is why homeowners keep calling us the basement renovation experts who got it right the first time.
Our basement renovation services cover every scope and budget — entry-level basement finishing through to full basement development with a legal rental suite. Here is every type of project our basement remodeling contractors build:
Every basement remodeling project follows the same proven four-step process — built to keep your renovation on schedule, on budget, and free of the surprises that make people dread renovating:
Homes across the Lower Mainland take on 1,100 mm to 1,900 mm of rain a year, and the soil holds it. Saturated ground presses moisture against foundation walls in every season, not just during a storm. Almost none of the failed basements we are called in to fix failed because of a flood — they failed because of decisions made during the original basement finishing.
Every Total Renovations basement development is designed around a moisture strategy before a single stud is cut. Our basement renovation experts address water at each layer of the assembly:
A basement that is finished but not moisture-managed follows a predictable timeline: musty within three winters, mould behind the drywall by year five, and a demolition bill that exceeds what the original basement remodeling cost in the first place.
We have inspected hundreds of failed basement renovations before quoting a remediation, and the pattern almost never varies — fibreglass batts pressed against concrete, no vapour strategy at all, laminate laid straight onto the slab. It photographs beautifully for about a year. Then the climate does what the climate does.
Our basement remodeling services typically land 8–12% above a budget quote. That entire difference sits in the moisture assembly: the part of the build you will never see, and the only reason your basement renovation still looks and smells new at year fifteen.
There is no shortage of basement renovation contractors to choose from. Here is why homeowners keep choosing Total Renovations for their basement remodeling services — and how we have held a 4.9★ rating across 87 verified reviews:
