Summerstone is a small family-run construction business. We've been in business since 1981. Summer Porch Ottawa is our porch specialty website. Our main older website is summerstone.com. We also have summerdecksottawa.com. It describes the work we do building decks, which includes some very ambitious ones. 

   We do porches, including heritage and replacement porches, additions such as 3 season rooms, screened porches and sunrooms. We have done a lot of natural stone work, mostly flagstone and stone walls. We've built a couple of stone bridges at golf courses. We  like doing unusual or difficult work.We don't cut corners.

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   We're  happy to help clients come up with a suitable design for their place , but  have absolutely no "designer agenda". We are not going to jam the same deck that we have built 50 times before into your backyard. 

   I often work on the jobsite. My daughter , Clara usually  works  as well. Usually we have a few  other employees. Occasionally, I also have other people helping out, electricians or students.

I often have had people telling me that , with the quality of our work, we could be a much larger company, but the satisfaction is in actually building well-made things, not supervising a lot of people. When I have allowed the business to grow to 8 or 10 employees, it just resulted in frustration and speeding tickets.

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---The pictures on this page are of us on jobs, me and some of the people who have worked with us over the years.