About Sawdust & Steel.

Sawdust & Steel started in 2019 with two people and one truck. Marcus Cole and Danny Reeves grew up swinging hammers in their dads' garages — Marcus in Scarborough, Danny outside of Ajax — and came up on the tools learning from carpenters who measured twice and cut once because the board was expensive and the mistake was worse.

They spent a decade in other people's crews before starting their own — eight years for Marcus framing new builds, ten years for Danny doing renovation work. They came out of it tired of the same three things: corners cut where the inspector wouldn't look, materials swapped on the way from the quote to the install, and warranties written on paper that couldn't be enforced. The first thing they agreed on as a company was that their name would go on every invoice.

Seven years later the crew is eight people. There's a 2,400 sq ft shop in Oakville with a shaper, a planer, a sliding table saw, and a small paint booth. There are four trucks, a trailer, and 350+ finished projects across the GTA. Marcus and Danny are still on every job site — not supervising, but with a tape measure and a saw. They didn't hire their way out of the work; they hired their way into doing more of it.