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A-03.C · Custom Homes

Lot to keys,
one contractor.

Class B · Ground-up residential

Building a house is the largest single contract most people ever sign. The difference between a good experience and a ruinous one is almost entirely about how the contract and the schedule are written.

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What building
a home involves

A custom home is not one project. It is roughly a dozen sequenced trade packages — grading, foundation, framing, roofing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, insulation, drywall, finish carpentry, and exterior — each of which has to be inspected before the next one can bury it.

A Class B general building licence is what authorises a contractor to coordinate all of that under a single contract. It also means one entity is accountable when a trade gets it wrong, rather than a homeowner arbitrating between subcontractors who have never met.

Because we also hold the C-39, the roof on a house we build is installed by the same licensed entity that framed it. That is a smaller thing than it sounds until something goes wrong at the roof-to-wall intersection and there is nobody to point at.

Completed custom home · exterior
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The build
sequence

Six phases, each gated by an inspection. Nothing gets covered until it has been signed off.

  1. 01

    Site and grading

    Survey, soils, grading and drainage. Water management around a foundation is decided here, and it is extremely expensive to fix later.

  2. 02

    Foundation

    Excavation, forms, reinforcement, pour. Inspected before concrete goes in — rebar placement is not something anyone can verify after the fact.

  3. 03

    Framing and envelope

    Structural framing, sheathing, roof structure, windows and doors. The house takes shape here and the framing inspection is one of the most consequential of the build.

  4. 04

    Rough trades

    Electrical, plumbing and mechanical rough-in, then insulation. Multiple inspections before any of it is closed up behind drywall.

  5. 05

    Finish

    Drywall, interior and exterior finishes, cabinetry, fixtures, flooring. The stage homeowners enjoy and where allowance overruns most often appear if the contract was written loosely.

  6. 06

    Final inspection

    Jurisdiction final, certificate of occupancy, and a walkthrough with a written punch list before final payment. We do not ask for the last cheque before the list is closed.

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Common questions

Longer than anyone tells you at the sales stage. The construction itself is a known quantity; plan check, permit issuance and inspection scheduling are not fully within any contractor's control, and material lead times move. We give a realistic schedule and identify which stages we control.
Either. We regularly build from a homeowner's own architect's plans, and we can bring in design where you do not already have it. Where we build from someone else's drawings we review them for constructability before pricing, not after.
Allowances — the placeholder budgets for fixtures, finishes and appliances chosen later — are the single most common source of custom home budget blowouts. Ours are itemized, and we tell you plainly when an allowance is set at a level you will realistically exceed.
The same legal cap as any other job: $1,000 or 10% of the contract, whichever is less. On a custom home that means a very small deposit relative to contract value, with progress payments tied to completed and inspected stages.

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