About us

An Ottawa company built around one thing.

Capital Steps was founded in Ottawa to do front steps properly. Not as an add-on to driveways or landscaping — as the main event.

Crew finishing a new concrete wall and steps with a mini excavator on site
New wall and steps, finishing day

Why steps deserve a specialist

Your front steps take more abuse than almost anything else on your house. They're soaked by rain and meltwater, frozen and thawed over and over every winter, shovelled, chipped at, and covered in de-icing salt. They carry everyone who comes through your door. And when they fail, the problem isn't only how they look — it's a sinking stair pulling away from the foundation, broken edges, and a trip hazard at the busiest door you have.

Across Ottawa's suburbs, a lot of homes still have the precast steps the builder installed with the house. Many of them are now scaling, spalling and settling. The repair-or-replace question comes up on street after street — and homeowners deserve someone who knows steps inside out to answer it honestly.

That's why Capital Steps exists. We build and replace front steps in every common material:

Around the steps, we handle the rest of the entrance: porches and landings, railings,repairs and quartz coating — plus residential concrete like driveways, walkways and pads.

Founded in Ottawa, working across it

We're a service-area business: we don't have a showroom, we come to you. Our in-house crew works across Ottawa — from Kanata and Stittsville in the west to Orléans in the east, and south through Barrhaven, Riverside South, Findlay Creek, Manotick, Richmond and Greely, and out to Carp.

Capital Steps at a glance

Based in
Ottawa, Ontario
Specialty
Front steps — concrete, wood & interlock
Also
Porches, railings, repair, quartz, residential concrete
Crew
In-house
Exterior concrete spec
32 MPa, air-entrained (CSA C-2)
Service area
12 Ottawa communities

How we work

Six things we do differently

  1. 01

    Steps first

    Front steps aren't a line item for us. They're the job — every material, every size, every way they fail. That focus is the whole point of the company.

  2. 02

    Built from the bottom up

    A step is only as good as what's under it. We put the time into excavation and a compacted granular base, because that's where most failures start.

  3. 03

    Specs you can check

    We publish the concrete spec we build exterior steps to — 32 MPa, air-entrained, CSA exposure class C-2 — and the sources behind it. Ask any contractor for theirs.

  4. 04

    Prices in the open

    Our cost guides and estimator show researched Ottawa ranges before you ever call. Your written quote follows a site visit, with the scope spelled out.

  5. 05

    Repair when repair is right

    Our own repair-or-replace quiz recommends the cheaper fix when the cheaper fix is right. We'd rather earn the replacement job five years from now.

  6. 06

    Our own crew

    The people who quote your steps are part of the same in-house crew that builds them. No handing your entrance to whoever is free that week.

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