Renovation in Mascouche and Terrebonne.
The buildings here
Developments from the nineties and two-thousands, mostly family homes. The most useful shared characteristic to know: the basement was almost always left unfinished at construction, because that was the way to fit the house into the original buyer's budget.
Fifteen or twenty years later, the family has grown and that unused storey is the cheapest way to get bigger.
What we're asked for most
Finishing the basement to gain a full storey, often with a bathroom and a bedroom. Adding a second bathroom upstairs. Building a deck, a shelter or an annex at the back.
The area's own constraint
The basement of that generation gets finished fast and badly if the diagnosis is skipped. Three points come up systematically: headroom just under the threshold that makes a space comfortable, an original drain reaching maturity at the exact moment you decide to finish, and no ventilation because none was planned for a non-habitable space.
Those three things are checked before drawing up a quote. A finish laid on top gets demolished within five years on average, and the second bill is always higher than the first.
Distance. We serve the area, but it's at the edge of our radius. That means we plan sites there in blocks rather than back-and-forth trips, and we're more selective about the jobs we accept there.
So, what are we working on?
Eight questions, two minutes. We call you back to talk it through, and we tell you frankly whether it's a project for us or whether you'd be better served elsewhere.