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Testimonial

record low interest rates

Each tenth of one per cent you can lower your mortgage interest rate will save you $1000 on a five year term, and interest rates are near their historic lows.

open concept

Lot 1,  "the Hudson"  is a custom designed 1775 sq.ft raised bungalow with a two car garage. It features a very large open concept kitchen, living room, and dining room area. The virtual furnishings has been added here to an actual picture. Please click on the image below for a better view and hit F11 to see it full screen.

Kitchens

We work with David Courtney - a noted Toronto kitchen designer - see http://www.kitchencourt.com/ .  Kitchen Court has an outstanding reputation for design excellence and installation quality. By working with the best you can be sure to get  a kitchen that is both functional and beautiful.

The kitchen in this model features a quartz countertop with many built in features.

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.

the sound of silence

In a busy household sometimes a quiet place to read or relax can be hard to find.

We use filled core heavyweight soundproof doors in the bedrooms and in the door separating the bedrooom area from the main living area. We also use Roxul fireproof insulation in the partition walls separating the bedrooms from the main living area. This means if you are trying to work, sleep or study you are separated from the main living area by two soundproof doors and an insulated wall.

Want to hear the difference? Come on over and give a tap on our walls.


A secondary benefit of insulating the partition walls is that should you not be using a room you can close down the heat to that room and save even more on your heating costs.

Casement windows provide a much tighter seal than any other type of window. This not only saves energy, it stops a lot of external noise and makes a quiet interior.

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laying the foundation for lot 1

Our 10 inch poured concrete foundation means we can minimise overlapping the brick or the wood frame on the foundation wall, and still put in a layer of insulation and sheathing behind the brick - beyond an R2000 home. A double run of 15mm rebar in the footing and both internal and external big "O" drainage pipe - neither of which are code requirements- protect against many future problems.

Securing the structure to the foundation wall is also key. Here you see the "T" anchor bolt arrangement designed by the structural engineer. Kuipers Concrete did an excellent job of carefully placing these in the foundation wall.

Here is a video of MG Masonry delivering bricks to the site.They work their people very hard as you can see.  (just kidding)