Winter in Calgary Construction Season

Our landscaping season has ended. It was an interesting year to say the least. We had as tough a weather year as ever, but we managed to get some incredible projects completed.

We are happy to announce our Fall and Winter offerings at this time. As many of you know, our backgrounds are of a fine woodworking and construction nature and in the past few winters we have entertained the idea of expanding our project portfolio. Please take a look below for examples of some of what we can do for you!

Construction projects we have completed the last 2 seasons include:

• Garage Finishing.

 

 

 

• Basement Finishing Including:

 

• Designing (in home)

 

• Framing

• Drywall

• Subflooring

• Doors, Windows and Glass Block

• Cabinets

• Finish woodworking

 

• Railings

• Murphy Beds

 

• Lighting and Electrical

And many other basement construction projects.

 

Let us know your Ideas and we can help make them a reality for any kind of room renovations you might require.

Please note: we are contracted for snow removal (when it snows) and this takes a priority over any other projects. We cleared snow 18 times last year, so it is not as big of disturbance to our construction projects as one might think.

In addition to the following construction services, we are available for daytime plowing of parking lots and driveways on non snowfall days.

 

Flagstone Patio, Calgary… Doing it right.

I have to admit, that we always steered clear of natural flagstone patios, because they never looked good to me. We pride ourselves on the finished look of our projects and the high quality if our installations. The Flagstone patios and walkways that we saw out there installed by others always left a LOT to be desired, in our opinion.

That is until now. We do NOT steer clear of Flagstone Patios anymore. We actually love them, and we love the look of them, we love how much care and attention they take to get them right. Well, let me clarify that.

We stumbled upon a system of installing Flagstone Patios (while researching install techniques), that is  incredibly labour intensive, but produces the best looking finished patio I have seen in a long while in Calgary, maybe anywhere. I am not going to share our new found, but incredibly smart, system, but I will show you the results.

This is Natural Rundle Flagstone, known for it’s dark color, and also know for it’s uneven thicknesses and sharp/irregular edges. These two things combine to make Rundle one of the most difficult Flags to work with making it hard to match up edges, and even harder to provide an even and smooth top surface.

See for yourself. on the left is Concrete Pavers, and on the right is Natural Flagstone. both very flat and useable.

 

 

So, if you want you patio to be uneven, with large gaps, and be totally unusable, don’t call us. We waited until we knew we could install these amazing features to our always higher than industry standards, before we made them available to you! No Flagstone patio is cheap, but it is frustratingly more expensive when you have to install the same patio 2 or 3 times because of installation defects or poor workmanship.

Interlocking Flagstone…

The Customer likes Pavers, AND the customer likes Flagstone. Lets do both!

Can't wait until we're finished! stay tuned.