Starting out in residential construction doing renovations in carpentry, I found I really enjoyed working with concrete. I loved being outside and had an affinity for physical work. Concrete took me from residential, then industrial and back to commercial and municipal work, hand forming sidewalks. But I always remembered the days of hard work on small close-knit teams in residential renovations, and what a small organized group could get done with hard work and organization.
        
        that transition now was over 10 years ago, and after surveying, cutting, pouring, forming, lifting, patching, and resurfacing you start realize the ridiculous amount of knowledge you acquire about sidewalks and the industry .

          that’s why Western Walkway Warriors was established.  We wanted to change the standards.

       The first big step was safety. Experience working for commercial concrete around cities made me want to draw from the example set by big crews, and integrate that into the repair industry. Repairing generally involves moving to locations quicker which meant finding tools and barriers as mobile as our work, as well as improving  dust collection using high end available equipment (this should be standard). We have also designed our own dust collection shroud in house, by the most experienced cutters in Canada, likely North America ( I’ll stand by that, it’s earned).

       The second step was a combination of all the repair services, and offering that education to our customers. Everyone just wants to make the most informed decision they can. We think that’s reasonable. If you were to walk out to the sidewalk right now, and start a survey, seems easy enough right? Trip hazard here, little bit of pooling there. I’ll cut this panel lift that panel. But this one has a trip, and a dip. Is that sidewalk crack a problem? Now there’s a really big trip, with spalling on either side. . . . do I cut it, resurface it? Now you turn around and look back at everything you already marked, and it’s all starting to feel very ambiguous.

        hiring any particular company might just end up with them looking for only things that they can service, and sometimes shouldn’t, leading to repairing the same problem multiple times.  So maybe you conduct a survey. Now we're getting closer to the problem! Not all, but often companies hire students for surveys with little to no experience. A quick job posting search at the beginning of the summer will validate those findings for you.

         I promise you, it is not ambiguous! Those problems are easily solved by having an experienced professional conduct the survey. It’s how we approach solving this industry’s problems          

               that’s what we offer , it’s what we love doing.