New Construction
Ground up builds, from the foundation and framing through to the final trim, finished to code and to the schedule we agree on.
Read moreTrim is the last thing we install and the first thing anybody notices.
Nobody inspects your framing at a dinner party. They do run a hand along the stair rail and look at the mitre on the casing. Finish carpentry is slow work by nature, and the only way to get tight joints is to take the time to cut, fit and back cut each piece.
We cope inside corners rather than mitring them, because a coped joint stays closed when the house moves through the seasons and a mitre opens up.
Nobody runs a finger along a stud. Everybody runs a finger along a casing. Trim is the only part of the build most people ever touch, so it carries the whole impression of the work behind it, fairly or not.
Inside corners get coped, not mitred. A mitre on an inside corner looks identical on the day and opens into a visible line the first winter, because the wood moves and the joint has nothing to hold it. A coped joint closes on itself as it moves. It takes longer, it is the difference between trim that still looks right in five years and trim that gets caulked every spring.
Outside corners get glued as well as nailed. Long runs get a scarf joint over a stud rather than a butt joint in mid air. Nail holes get filled and sanded, not just puttied proud and painted over.
One crew from the foundation to the final piece of trim. See everything we do.
Ground up builds, from the foundation and framing through to the final trim, finished to code and to the schedule we agree on.
Read moreExtra room, second storey, in law suite or garage. We tie the new structure into the existing house so the join does not show.
Read moreA second, self contained home on the lot you already own. Detached backyard units, garage conversions and basement apartments.
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