About BCR Basements
BCR Basements was founded by Quacy Barry after 20 years of watching this industry fail homeowners in ways it didn’t have to. So he built a company around a different standard.
Projects completed
Years in the GTA
Google rating
Warranty on every project
The founder
Quacy Barry knew he wanted to build since he was five years old. That’s not a story crafted for a website: it’s just true. While other kids were doing other things, he was watching how structures went together and asking why they were built the way they were.
He moved to Canada over 20 years ago and spent two decades doing exactly what he came here to do: building. Construction projects, renovation companies, client relationships, and operating businesses across Durham Region and Toronto. He didn’t start BCR as a second career. He built it as the natural next step of a lifetime in construction.
What started BCR wasn’t ambition alone. It was frustration. After two decades on job sites and in boardrooms, Quacy had seen the same pattern repeat: homeowners trusting contractors with significant money, and contractors, not all of them, but enough: failing to treat that trust with the seriousness it deserved.
Free quotes that became expensive surprises. Timelines that evaporated. Finishes that didn’t match what was agreed. And no mechanism anywhere in the process that protected the homeowner.
BCR was built to be that mechanism. Fixed prices in writing. A timeline with financial accountability behind it. A process built around a single question: what would I want if it were my home?
Quacy is also the founder of the BackHome Group, a privately held portfolio of construction and development companies operating across Guyana and Canada. BCR is the Canadian arm: and the company that started it all.
“This industry often doesn’t treat people the way they deserve. I built BCR to change that: at least in the projects we take on.”
Quacy Barry, Founder & CEO
BCR founded in the GTA
Started as a basement and renovation specialist in Durham Region. First fixed-price contract in the company’s first year.
Projects completed across Durham & Toronto
Legal suites, in-law suites, home theatres, wet bars, home offices, home gyms. Every one backed by The BCR Promise.
The Basement Authority Podcast launched
The GTA’s only basement-focused podcast. Built on the principle that the most trusted contractor is the one who teaches you the most.
What we stand for
These aren’t values that went on a wall. They’re the decisions that shaped how BCR works.
We don't give you a number until we've done the homework. That's why we charge for the Feasibility Assessment: and why the number we give you is real.
The BCR Promise puts real money behind our commitments. If we're late, we pay. If it's not perfect, you don't pay. That's not a slogan: it's in your contract.
The question we ask on every project is the same: what would we want if this were our home? Every trade, every finish, every decision runs through that filter.
The Basement Authority Podcast, the Learning Centre, the published cost guides: we believe the most educated homeowner is the best client. We teach everything, including how to evaluate our competitors.
We don't run late. Not because we're lucky, but because we plan. Every project gets a real timeline and the trades to back it up. The $1,000/week penalty exists because we mean it.
BCR isn't the right company for every project or every homeowner. We say that openly. The homeowners who choose us should be the ones who value quality, accountability, and a process that protects them.
The company
BCR Basements Inc., also operating as BCR Design Build: is a Durham Region and Toronto-based design-build renovation company specialising in basement finishing, legal suite construction, and major home remodels.
We are a fully independent Canadian brand. BCR is part of the BackHome Group, a privately held portfolio of construction and development companies founded by Quacy Barry and operating across Canada and Guyana: but BCR operates independently in the Canadian market, focused entirely on GTA homeowners.
Our trades are vetted, long-term relationships: not whoever’s available. Every sub-contractor who works on a BCR project has been qualified against our standards and has agreed to our timeline and quality commitments. When we sign your contract, that commitment runs all the way down the chain.
BCR is a RenoMark member, listed on HomeStars, and holds a 4.7★ Google rating across verified reviews.
Our service area
Oshawa · Whitby · Ajax · Pickering · Clarington · Uxbridge · Scugog
Scarborough · North York · East York · Toronto · Etobicoke
Markham · Richmond Hill · Stouffville · Unionville
Not sure if you’re in our area? Book a free Planning Call and we’ll confirm.
4.7★
Best of Customer Service
Verified listing
Member in good standing
Ontario Home Builders
The Basement Authority Podcast
BASEMENT
AUTHORITY
PODCAST
BY BCR BASEMENTS
The Basement Authority is the only podcast in the GTA dedicated entirely to basement renovation, legal suite strategy, and homeowner education. Hosted by Quacy Barry, each episode covers the questions homeowners are actually asking, cost, permits, what goes wrong, how to hire right: with straight answers and no sales agenda.
Marcus Sheridan calls it the most powerful trust-building content format for high-stakes, high-cost service businesses. We agree. That’s why we built it.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
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