Garage Door Repair in Lynde Creek, Whitby

Lynde Creek covers southwest Whitby immediately west of the downtown, close to Highways 401 and 412, and it is the clearest example in town of a community that aged as one piece. Fifty-five per cent of its dwellings were built between 1961 and 1980 and 10 per cent earlier still; a local tour of the neighbourhood puts roughly 65 per cent of the homes before 1980, with the majority arriving between 1960 and 1980. Eighty-two per cent of the stock is single-detached. Iroquois Park Sports Centre, one of the largest minor sports centres in North America with six ice pads, sits south of the 401 just west of Brock.

The original housing here is ranch-style bungalows, Colonial Revival two-storey detached homes and entry-level townhomes, while the newer part of the neighbourhood carries large detached homes with built-in garages on spacious lots. That is a real split, not a cosmetic one. A 1970s bungalow opening was framed for the cars of its decade, and the surrounding structure has had fifty winters of movement; a built-in garage on a newer house sits inside the heated envelope with different insulation and sealing expectations. Both are common within a few streets of each other.