Renovation in Mascouche and Terrebonne
A full storey is waiting under your feet.
The buildings here
Developments from the nineties and two-thousands, mostly family homes. Their most useful shared trait: 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 least costly way to give you more room.
What we're asked for most
Finishing the basement to take back a full storey, most often with a bedroom and a bathroom. Adding a second bathroom upstairs. Building a deck, a shelter or an annex at the back.
The area's own challenge
The basement of that generation gets finished fast and badly when the diagnosis is skipped. Three things come up systematically: headroom just under the threshold that makes a space pleasant to live in, an original drain reaching maturity at the exact moment you decide to finish, and no ventilation because none was ever 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 always exceeds the first.
Distance. We serve the area, but it sits at the edge of our radius. So we plan sites there in blocks rather than back-and-forth trips, and we are more selective about the jobs we take on.
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.