Framing

We often hear "I wish we had done that at the time" from visitors who are current homeowners.  A lot of the items they are referring to are the result of choices made at the foundation and framing stage. Faced with a choice, we always choose in favour of long term homeowner value - especially on things that are difficult to change or upgrade in the future.Two examples are ceiling heights and insulation.

We also like our structures to be extremely solid - the home on the street you want to be in if severe weather should strike.

For this reason we use an Ottawa snow load on our engineered roof trusses, our walls use 2x6 plus wood sheathing. Our floors are supported by TrussJoist beams at well under maximun span. Our floors are 3/4 inch plywood and not OSB.

We also use real 3-1/2 inch Ardox hand-driven  steel nails on most structural elements, not just airnails. We just hope you never want to take one of our structural walls apart - because it won't be easy.