Fort Sask Reno Weekly Roundup | Shower Conversion in Fort Saskatchewan
This week at Fort Sask Reno, we wrapped a mix of interior and exterior projects around Fort Saskatchewan. First, we upgraded a condo for Barb with a bath-to-shower conversion, vinyl click-lock flooring with acoustic underlayment, new counters, a vanity with quartz top, glass tile, and added ceiling fans. Next, we fixed severe oil canning caused by painted vinyl siding at a neighbor’s home and re-sided in a matching standard color, with plans to reroute exposed electrical for a cleaner look. We also completed two basement egress window installs under our small-job pricing model. Finally, we rebuilt a bouncy deck using a grippy composite with picture-frame borders, added joist tape, reinforced interior stairs, and handled a few custom touches. Below is the full, verbatim transcript of our weekly roundup.
Fort Saskatchewan Condo Upgrade
Hey all, you got Jim and Tom with Fort Sask Reno here. We’re jumping back on to do another YouTube video for you. We’re going back to an old methodology that we had for some video content, and we’re going to do like a weekly roundup.
So, starting off this week, we are going to review this job. This is one of the projects that we had undergoing this week, and client is a lady named Barb, and she’s living in an apartment here in Fort Saskatchewan. And basically, what we’ll do is just kind of talk through the process from the initial request and up to the current project status where we’re at with it, and and go from there. Hopefully, this will be interesting for you.
We’ve got up on our screen some before pictures. Is that right, Tom?
Yeah.
Yeah. You were just looking at the original kitchen before we started the project. So, got the little kitchen there, the countertops and whatnot. So, she was looking for a fairly major upgrade on this little apartment.
Just going through the initial request, she had interior renovation. she was looking for things such as let’s see, tiling the countertop in the kitchen. some electrical upgrades, some ceiling fans put in. kitchen rail light. I’m not sure if that ended up as part of the project originally. And bathroom flooring.
It was flooring throughout as well, Tom.
Yep. and flooring, baseboards, and there was no shower work at all to start with on this one. But the project expanded as we started moving through the project, and then the client ended up expanding the scope and requested some more work. Once she had us in there, she was happy with the progress and decided to move forward with some additional work.
And maybe we could just flick through the initial pictures here. So we got—
Yeah, there’s the original kitchen.
Current Project Status and Renderings
Yep. So we started out with the tile backsplash existing here and some vinyl flooring as well as carpet, probably original to the building. So, getting to be quite a few years old, but yeah, not the worst shape, but the customer wanted something a little nicer and newer.
So, here’s the living room area, the dining room area, I should say. Moving right along, we got—this is your front entrance, and this is the washroom in there. So yeah, on the day one we ended up ripping out this bathroom. She wanted a shower. She ages in the home. Like anyone else, she wanted an accessible bathroom. So, we ripped out the bathtub to install a shower for her. So as you can see, we got it all cleanly ripped out. And then the vanity was also an add-on. Originally, it was supposed to just be a vanity top, but we ended up doing all new vanity in there as well.
Why? Why was that, Tom? How come she decided to go with all new vanity in in the end when originally started out as a lesser scope?
She must have just had some some extra cash and she wanted a little bit more work done, I guess.
Oh, yeah. Okay. So, as you can see, this is the vinyl floor that we ended up installing in here. Turned out pretty nice. So, it’s all the same flooring throughout. No, no different transitions anymore. No transition strips at all.
No.
And then this is a special sound bending underlayment we used.
Right. That was specified by the condo board as a requirement for that application.
Yeah. So, this is a product that we get in Edmonton, and it’s our number one flooring we install these days. It’s from our tile and stone source supplier and seems like pretty decent quality vinyl click lock flooring. There’s the bedroom all done up. It was quite the battle to deal with all the customers furniture in this small space. We had to play a lot of musical furniture to get this one done.
So, moving right along. The new counters have been installed at this point, and then the drywall and old backsplash was removed. The new drywall is installed here.
What type of countertop did she end up going with there?
So, this one is a laminate countertop.
Okay. And here’s your new vanity, nicely installed. It’s a MDF doors, shaker style, new quartz top and backsplash built into it.
And here’s the glass tile that we installed for her. Turned out really nice. It’s a clear glass with a beveled edge. And we just put down some roofing paper on top of the new counters to keep those protected during the construction process. And we also ended up adding new closet doors for her. She had sliding doors before, and she didn’t like those doors. They are falling apart and whatnot. So, we did new bifolding doors, install and painted them.
So, this is backing that we added, and she’s going to have a mowing fold down bench in her shower after.
So, okay.
Structural Challenges: Creating an Open Concept
Yeah, Johan thinks ahead, and he made sure to put the picture with the measurements in, so that way when he mounts the the grab bar and the folding bench, we’ll know exactly where to put it to get some framing.
Perfect. Here we’ll see the shower waterproofing has been completed. We we always use the Schlutoter Dietra. Had quite a bit of luck with that stuff.
This is one of three ceiling fans that we installed for her. The condo doesn’t have AC, so it’s nice to get some air moving at the least, for sure.
And here’s the tile that we got installed today. So, funny story there. Just waiting for Johan, our tile setter, to have his firstborn daughter, and all week long, we’ve been a little bit on the fence if he’s going to be in to work the next day or at the hospital.
But that baby wants this condo renovation done because it’s holding off. The due date was yesterday, and Johan’s still in work today, still working away.
Yeah, he’s getting the grout installed today. And we’re going to be doing four Schlutoter shelves in here in the corners, which is going to be really nice. Lots of room for soap and whatnot. This is probably one of the nicest parts of the whole house. Now, for sure, the whole condo is the custom tile shower.
You can see all the leveling clips here. These are used, the wedge clips, to make sure there’s no slippage on the tile. Make sure it’s all nice and smooth. We have an amazing tile setter in Johan. He’s been with us for how long, Tom?
About close to a year.
Asbestos Testing and Load-Bearing Walls
About a year. And a young German man. He’s—I think they’ve been in Canada for some time. I think since he was a kid, but comes from a family of tile setters there in Germany. and they were living out in Vancouver and just the cost of living he could have never really make it as you can in Alberta. So came and joined us and bought a house already. As a matter of fact, something that he had never been able to do very easily in Vancouver. So we are super fortunate to have Johan as part of the team. He’s fast and good, like two awesome combinations for us and our and our clientele as well.
Yep. 100%.
And there it is. It’s all cleaned out, ready for grouting.
And how long would that take? How long would that take him all together? Do you recall that?
Which part?
So, from taking from the original condition and to what the picture you’re looking at right now. If it was all continuous, how many hours you think?
It’s a few days with work for sure. By the time you do the waterproofing, shower conversion in Fort Saskatchewan and and all that good stuff.
So, yeah, that’s fast.
Yeah, for sure. For sure.
So, that’s pretty much it for pictures of this one. So, as we mentioned earlier, we started out as a bit of a modest condo upgrade. Nothing touching the shower bath area as well as the vanity was going to be retained but and and the shower and the bifolding doors here weren’t included but she ended up changing her scope. So, good thing for for everyone, this was bid at a cost plus basis, which is the most common way we bid jobs because we know the scope is endlessly changing on a on jobs. if it’s not because the customer has other requests. It’s because a lot of time there’s unforeseen issues arise like rot or mold or just changes come up midway through, and with a cost plus quote it we’re able to just continue along, and we don’t have to try and re quote or try and pinch pennies to keep them in a specific budget, and that works really well for us and for the clients for sure.
So, with that cost plus system, it’s one of two options for the larger jobs, and so we just believe in full transparency on these type of jobs. We do free estimates, and quotations cost money. So, Barb here, she was quite comfortable with us as a company and what we could offer after the initial consultation. We’d also gone through the same process of proving ourselves for her daughter, and her daughter ended up getting a basement development that’s also underway. So, she had some confidence that her daughter had done her homework and made sure she had the right people to do her basement. So, that was in our favor and in hers as well. And so when we came in, she did have a couple other quotes, but to be honest, it’s really hard for anyone to compete with us over our 18 years in business and almost 70 now five-star Google reviews, lifetime warranty on workmanship, multiple fulltime chamber of commerce, business award winners. So once you stack all those things up, it’s very difficult to compete with us. And so with our cost plus, we just show our clients all of our all of our cost. We come up with that ballpark pricing, and then as we’re moving through, you know, the if there’s some scope change one way or the other, it’s reduced or increased, the client is fully aware of all of the cost, and they know the formula. So, it’s really beneficial. It’s just open book policy. honesty is the best policy is what they say, and that’s what we find.
The Complexity of Legal Basement Suite Codes
So, that’s what we started out with her, and we had given her a ballpark range of 17 to $20,000 for this work, and of course it changed quite a lot but really just because she just kept adding to the scope and to the cost. She’s well aware of it. We don’t pressure anybody to increase budgets really. The client’s priority becomes our priority. There’s plenty of customers, plenty of work out there. So, we don’t need to try and upsell anybody anything. I just want—I put try and put myself in the shoes of the client, and whatever is important to them. That’s what’s important to me, and that’s the only way it works really for me. I and yeah, I’ve been on I’ve been on the back end of high pressure sales. It’s not fun. I don’t enjoy it. It just pushes me away, as a matter of fact. So, that’s how we came up with this methodology.
Yep. So, that’s pretty much it for Barb Marshalls. And take you through a tour on a couple other ones. And that was just one of many projects this week.
Yeah, it’s coming along pretty good. So, to wrap this up, we are where where—about what’s the most, the latest before you move on, Tom?
This one we’re just putting the final touches, grout today, and then final touch-ups. Move the washer dryer back and painting and a couple lights and then we’re done.
Okay. Shower door should go in with a curtain or on that one.
Yeah, and shower door will be installed next door.
Yeah.
Sliding glass door.
Yeah.
Okay, perfect. Yeah, that’s for this one. Okay, what’s up next?
Exterior Siding Remediation After Painted Vinyl Siding (Oil Canning)
Okay, so this is the next project we’re going to talk about in the weekly recap here. This is my neighbor’s house, actually. We’ve just been doing the exterior this week and take you on a little tour of some of the issues that was going on before. So, a company called Spraynet—here to put them on blast—they came and they did this painting on the exterior, but it was white siding before, and then once it was sprayed with the dark color siding, it made the expansion and contraction much worse. And as you can see, we call it oil canning. Kind of like when you leave your jerry can in the sun or what have you. It’s oil canning pretty bad here. And then it’s also unclipping here as well. So, this is what my customer was dealing with. And he said, “Tom, can you fix this?” And I said, “Sure. We’re going to have to remove it all, or we’re going to have to put face screws in it.” And that’s really not a proper solution.
Yeah.
Yeah. Painting vinyl siding is never recommended, and there’s companies who say they can do it, and sure it’ll look okay at first until the weather gets after it, and then even where the joints—vinyl siding will move like close to an inch. A 12ft piece of vinyl siding will expand and contract. You know, you’re going from minus 40 to close to—you know, you could be in the high 30s. There’s a great picture of it right there. Like, look at that. And it wasn’t like that from day one. At first it looked kind of okay if you didn’t look too close. And then it siding you could actually get away with painting that. It looks overall fine. Minus there’s of face screws here, but that might have just been a repair.
But yeah, so this is what it was originally. This is because they were trying to match the garage, which I understand. Keep on moving along here. We also did this customer’s roof this year, too. So, getting the homestead spruced up. Beautiful property in the mature Fort Saskatchewan.
Here’s another picture of that wall with all that oil canning.
Okay, fast forward to this week. We started the demo, and what we found underneath was lots of different layers of material. So, there was the old vinyl siding. There’s old vinyl siding with about 3/8 insulation underneath that. And then underneath that there was the strapping on the diagonal, which is a little bit different. You don’t see that every day.
Yeah.
A little strange. I don’t quite understand why they did it that way, but it worked, I guess, somewhat. So, and then underneath that, the second story had woodlap siding, and the bottom half of the entire house was stucco from the first story was all stucco. So, I wasn’t expecting that. We have some terms in our quote that we only remove one layer of siding as in the quote because if someone has 13 different layers of siding, we can’t do it for the same price. Takes a lot of time to cut off stucco and could possibly have asbestos in it too. Definitely the back wall. You can see that stucco popping out here.
Couple of quick things to note here. So, the customer—this is their main electrical conduit. We’re going to have the electricians reroute that because the wife really doesn’t like the look of it. Pretty god awful how it runs across the entire house.
Yeah.
What’s the plan for that?
They’re going to trench it and run it straight into the home and then run the main under inside the wall of the home so it’s not so visible.
Kitchen Renovations: Upstairs and Downstairs
Nice. Yeah, that’s a goal we always have for exterior renovation, or really any renovation. We want it to look as close to a new construction exterior or interior project when we’re done with it. And when you’ve got these old homes, you end up with all types of accessories on the outside that are no longer pretty or useful, such as this. Here’s another pretty ugly one. So, this is the range hood vent. So, I don’t know why it’s so big. This is only a 4in vent, but that is like a 16in square box with a chain on it. So, that’s a unique one. Never seen that one either. We swapped that out.
So, the house is pretty much demoed at this point. So we gave the customer a few options on this one. Sided with this material on the wall already, the insulation, or remove it. And we were originally going to do inch insulation. And we would have to strap over top of that as well due to the stucco. And the customer chose to keep this siding. They’re not planning to be in the home for too many more years. Just maybe a few more. Not looking to stay here for another decade or anything. But we did go ahead and spray foam these joints and fill in the spray foam or the rigid insulation where it was missing to try and make it a seal.
And here’s the first wall about half sided. We did the paper on the house to make sure that we could add drip edge and tie it into a proper drainage plane because there was no drip edge on the windows before. Here’s our carpenter item. That’s pretty much it on this one. So at this point the wall sided completely here. take a picture of that one. But the walls sided, and they’re working on the back wall here today.
What product is this?
This is Stone Crest.
Oh yeah, Stone Crest.
Yeah, that’ll be a standard color vinyl siding probably. So that’s the most basic pricing.
Yeah, that’s a standard color. Was a bang on match to the garage. That worked out perfect.
Yeah. Again, just briefly on costing on this one. How was this one priced? I think you bid this one yourself as this is your neighbor, and you’ve got some history with them.
I’m not sure off the top of my head. I’d have to double check that, but it’s around 25 grand, I would say approximately.
Yeah.
Yeah. Not 100% on top of my head.
Yeah. Is is this one a cost plus as well, or is it was it quotation?
This is fixed price.
Fixed price.
Yeah.
Okay. And did Stuart—did you do the hover on this one? Do you have some 3D modeling or—
No.
Yeah.
Permitting and Safety Requirements in the Fort
Yeah, that’s an extra service to do some 3D modeling. And we do offer that and give them an option to visualize the exterior of their home in whatever color they want. I guess in this case, he knew he wanted to match the garage. So, not really super necessary to do that. But it’s it’s pretty nice, pretty nice little system. Give you your full report on all material measurements, and then you can change the colors of the entire exterior. So, it really helps you visualize. It’s difficult to look at a tiny piece of a little swatch there—piece of vinyl siding—and imagine what that would look like on your home. So, we could show that in some upcoming videos. Could probably have a wrap up on an overview on hover and how that works, even coming up in the future. It’d be interesting to show.
Yeah.
Okay. Well, that one—that’s about it for this project, but stay tuned for some after pictures and keep you posted.
Right. Good job, Tom.
Two Egress Windows (Small-Job Pricing and Timeline)
Okay, we’ve got another little job here. And so we often get calls, probably the majority of our calls are for very small stuff. Anything from a piece of fascia off to some melted siding. In this case, it’s a single window or two. Is it two windows in this job, Tom?
Two windows.
And they wanted some egress windows. And so we often get those questions. Do you do these small type of jobs? And we do now. We do offer these this smaller work, but we have a different formula for it because it is so small. There’s a lot of overhead goes into those type of things. So we do want to help help out folks with these small things. So we’ve come up with a plan which a 40% markup on any materials and 120 an hour as the smallest type of jobs that we’ll do. That’s how we charge for them, with a $500 labor minimum. And then that way we could still help out folks, and there it could work into some some other opportunities in the future. There’s Fort Sask is a small town relatively, and you definitely still need someone to do these small jobs for you.
Yeah. And that’s 120 a man hour too. That’s not for the whole crew, but that’s a—just like when you go to the shop, it’s per man hour.
Great. So, this one I think again, Tom, you I think you fielded this originally.
Yeah I sold this one.
Yeah. How did this go down? How did you get in touch with this individual, or how did they get in touch with us and settle on this project?
So, what happened here was we had a job for roof and east, and after that was completed the customer was pretty happy. So, he casually mentioned that he had a couple windows that he would need some installation on. So, I told him exactly the pricing method that Jim just mentioned, the $120 an hour, and he thought that sounded fair enough. So, we wrote it up, and he supplied the window. He had that already ordered. And we don’t have after pictures, but on this one, it was 1970s aluminum slider window. And since it’s a slider, just like this one, if this window wasn’t a window—see how there’s the hinge here? If that wasn’t a window, this would not meet egress cuz that’s just a very small opening space. And that was the way it was originally. So, this customer wants to have some bedrooms down there for his kids. So, these Lux windows work awesome for that. You can swing this open in case of emergency.
Okay, just like that.
And then that meets your egress.
Cool. Does your—does the whole frame swings out effectively?
Yeah.
So, you get a maximum opening space. Did the client purchase the windows himself, or did this is something that we purchased?
Okay. So that—that’s another good point there is often we get those kind of calls where clients trying to save a couple bucks, and that’s good and and well, and so they’ve purchased all the material. So, that again—that’s the type of service agreement we come up with if you’ve purchased all your material, and it’s 120 an hour and 40% markup any—anything that we might use. In this case, it’d be of the little bit of capping and cocking.
I’ve got the expenses up on this one. Do you think this is up to date? The expense on this one, Tom?
Groundwork, Framing, and Finishing
Yeah, the job’s fully finished.
Okay. So, it’s $124 in expenses and the labor at 575.
No, that labor is off. It’s that we’re just going by the hourly rate on this one. It’s not—
Oh, so 575 is our internal cost.
Yeah.
So, how many hours is it on that one?
Total hours is 12.
So, 1,200 or it would be 12 hours.
Yeah.
1,400.
So, about $2,000, which is about, you know, thousand bucks a window. And yeah, that’s about the norm. On average, even some of the better windows we install can average up to 3,000 per window on a full house. So 1,000 bucks for this is pretty good deal, I would say. Supply or—well, for the supply of the u materials outside the window. Those windows are not cheap either, I don’t believe.
No, they’re probably 600 700 bucks each. And yeah, you see here there was a bit of buildout that we added in, and we’re kind of tossing and turning what idea to to come up with. So, we ended up capping the outside of the window in white aluminum, and that worked out good. It blends in nicely with the window.
Mhm.
Yeah. That’s one common way we do these smaller supply—the customer supplies the material jobs, and just labor is 120 an hour.
Yeah.
Yeah. It’s so a lot cheaper than in this case than cutting into the foundation. You’re looking at, you know, over 2,000 for sure. 25 three for for cutting your foundation and getting a window installed.
Yep.
Yeah. Okay, perfect. Well, that’s all for this little guy, but turned out good, and the customer is happy. Another five star. I don’t know if we got one on this one, but yeah, it all worked out well.
I’m sure he’s happy.
Okay, perfect. Let’s keep on rolling.
Deck Rebuild, Stair Reinforcement, and Interior Touch-Ups
Okay, so lastly, we’re going to discuss this job that we have just finished up towards the end of last week here. But what was going on here was there was some decking, and there was a lot of movement in it, and the customer was pretty concerned that they might have fall through because it was pretty bouncy.
So, start off—I can show you this video. So you can see they framed it with the 2 by sixes on edge, which is not not ideal. There’s a lot of—like, see it moving around in there. There was a previous contractor had built this deck for him. I don’t think it was very old either. It was track decking back then. So, it’s not not a super old product, but it needed to be replaced. Never nevertheless.
Yeah. The framing was all pulling away from the house, I think, in the one corner when—what was what flagged him originally as it being an issue.
Mhm. And it was really soft, too. It was bouncy as—like in the video. So, here’s all of our material staged nicely on the back porch here. So, this is a cool product. It actually has bamboo in it and a composite bamboo board. It’s super super grippy. That was another concern is they had Trex decking before, and was glare ice in the winter basically. Super slippery. They customer had to put some like a textured non-slip paddle over his deck, but kind of takes away from the look.
So, here’s the guys starting to put the header back on properly. I guess you can see the floor jack here. So, it was obviously getting jacked up. There’s that non-slip membrane I was talking about. They had put on every single deck board.
Okay. So Daryl, our carpenter, was just showing that the deck is not not level, but in this instance, you kind of want a slight slope away from the house so the water’s not coming back running towards your home.
And here’s some reframing towards the back of the house that they did. Basically, we tried to put this back together with retaining as much of the original as possible.
Yeah, that’s right.
Yeah, we tried to salvage what we could, and overall the framing was—we added all this blocking in here. You can see all new lumber here. There wasn’t very much blocking.
Okay. So, again, a cost plus on this one likely, right?
That’s right. Cost pay as you go. Hard to know what’s going on with this one. You really rip into it. Since it was under two feet off the ground, we didn’t have to do permits. It’s nice. Nice.
There’s the guys working away hard at it. Yeah, we’re not necessarily all about demo completely and rebuild. I always kind of put myself in the situation of the homeowner. That’s my rule of thumb when every time I go to see a client. It’s like what’s important to you, and then I’m gonna try and be you. I’m trying to think through, you know, the view of yourself as a client. As if it was mine, I definitely wouldn’t be replacing everything. I would want to try and keep the cost minimal, and we understand that. So, I am totally against pushing upselling or necessarily demoing the whole project unless it’s really really necessary. And and that’s why we bid it as a cost plus. And in this case, luckily enough, we’re able to salvage a good portion of the framing there.
Yeah, exactly. We’re not—we’re not desperate for work. You could say we have over 30 sold jobs. So, if we get this job done a little bit faster than we anticipated, just like my neighbor’s home there, Stuart, we originally bid him for insulation. But when we found out that his house already had insulation, we just omitted that from our scope of work, and we just carried on like we would because we got lots of other work to get to. So, there’s no point trying to upsell someone something they don’t need.
No, 100%. So, here you can see we got the joist tape that protects the top of the framing from water. So, a nice little touch here. And you can see our plywood temporary deck cuz the customer was on a scooter at the time. He had an injured foot. So, we needed to make sure that he could still get in and out of his home.
So, that joist tape was something that was missing in the first place.
Mhm. That’s true. from the original contractor, right?
Yeah. It’s not mandatory, but it does prolong the life of your framing joist. So, new deck, pressure treated or not, everything eventually will return to soil, return to the earth.
Yep. So, here’s the new decking versus the old. Oh, I guess this is a—just a deck board, but yeah, really nice looking product. And here’s the gas meter. We had to notch around that to make kind of a an access panel in case it ever needs to be serviced. And then you can see we get the joist tape over towards the backyard here. And there’s the customer trying out the new deck on their scooter.
Power Demands and Electrical Solutions
So, we did a picture frame. These will be the groove board, so all the fasteners are mainly hidden. There’ll be a couple times that you need to pin it in the face of the board, but we have a nice special plug, a wood grain plug, so you can hardly tell, but on the perimeter of the the deck, you won’t use a groove board. You use a solid board. That way it’s not exposed groove. And you can see here—I’ll zoom in—you can see plugs or the holes where the plugs will go. Nice miter joint here. This is all Daryl’s work.
Yeah, it was a combination of the crew. We had Adam, Daryl, and Levi working on this one. Daryl being the lead.
And then here’s a product. It’s—we call it the fascia of the deck. Covers the side of the deck, makes it nice and cover all the framing up basically that. And then this is jumping into the house. So, this job, as Jim mentioned, it was cost plus, and it was a pretty random scope we could call it. So inside the house, the customer—his stairs—he was worried that they were going to fall off. So, we were went in there and we added some extra framing and resecured the the interior stairs because he did have part of his stairs fall off in towards the basement, and he was worried about that. This one fall down the stairs.
So, we had to open up the ceiling and add some framing in here and extra screws and whatnot to make sure that this is going to last the test of time. All put back together. And again, that’ll be our journeyman carpenter, Daryl. And he knows all the codes, and he can definitely build things to code and strong. He’s knows what he’s doing definitely in those areas. So, good to have him on the staff.
Yeah, for sure. So this was a little add-on. The customer wanted us to put a top on his table. So, we used the same deck material, the fascia board, and turned out pretty good, honestly.
Yeah. Expensive table for sure because these boards are not cheap. I think each one is about 160 bucks, if I’m not mistaken.
Yeah, if not more. Plus you need the plugs and everything, the labor to install it. But, they got a beautiful spot right on the ravine in the Fort Saskatchewan here.
Sure.
Yeah. A nice spot for them to hang out.
Yeah. Again, this is one that started out with a repair interior. The very first job we started for these guys was a leaking shower. And in the end, we ended up rebuilding the entire thing. And that wasn’t a very old shower either.
Yeah. And he really could get behind the lifetime workmanship warranty that we offer. So, ever since that first job, he comes to us for all of his contracting needs. We’re going to be doing windows. We’ve done his deck. We’ve done his basement shower. And then next year, he says he wants the front deck done in the same material.
So, as you can see here, we have the stairs all buttoned up, nicely mitered, and we stained a little bit of wood here, too, because it was never done. Some of the slats got stained, and yeah, turned out awesome. Here’s the mud work beginning on the inside of the home repair. Some of the containment that we set up to try and mitigate the dust from sanding.
Another little project. They had this table, and it had a glass top on it, but the customer wanted us to cut a circle out of plywood, and then they were going to fill this up with corks from wine bottles as a talking point. So, I’m sure now they got this cork pole, pun intended, and the glass top on there in your backyard. So, just a random little project we added in there for him.
Nice. It’s one of the advantages of cost plus is we can do whatever they want for us.
Yeah. Start with the most essential things, as we did here. We started rebuilding the shower, make sure that it didn’t leak. And then the clients were very happy with our work and especially were happy with our lifetime workmanship guarantee is—that’s again—they had they had just had this other work done probably all within the last 10 years, and it’s failed, and where’s the contractor? Who knows? But they didn’t come back to fix it. And we definitely do if there’s ever any issues. We take care of our people in Fort Sask here.
So, this is just a small little additional project. This screen door was pretty loose, and underneath here was a smart trim. So, we got color match aluminum, and we resecured it and capped the the door for him.
So, he was super happy with this aluminum. He didn’t actually know this existed. So, he wants to use the same material when we do the windows. He was super happy with the way that turned out.
Yeah. Don’t have to do any painting then.
Yeah. He even wanted us to do the front of this door now as well.
Oh, is that all right?
Some more pictures of the interior. And we’re back to the wobbly deck project. The the status of this one, we’re pretty well done except for waiting on the the windows to come in. We have a door we’re going to be changing out as well. And then this one for the outback here, you can see this little building is a hair studio, and we’re going to change an exterior door on that. And then we got windows coming up, and next year they want to replace the deck out front as well.
Nice.
Yeah. turned out. Some awesome awesome people, good customers.
Yeah, I got a beautiful spot here. It’s nice to hang out. I was chatting on the phone, taking a couple calls that came my way, and right out back there’s a nice creek, and it’s an enjoyable spot to hang out.
Nice. That’s right on Ross Creek, right?
Yeah.
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Yeah. Okay. Well, I think that’s most of most of the key points we wanted to review with you guys today, but lots more coming up next week.
Yeah, nice work, Tom and team.
For sure. I really enjoy these videos and hope you do as well. We’re going to continue with these and have a like kind of weekly roundup, whether it’s every week or every other week, to show you what we’ve been up to. And think we’re going to start bringing some pricing in as well. I have a couple screenshots because everyone’s interested in this type of thing. But, you know, bottom line, what is it? What does it cost? It’s not usually the very top concern for our clients, but it’s usually in the top three or four things. You know, price, quality, communication, warranty, those type of things. So, we’ll add a little bit of that as we go so people can see the full picture.
All right, you guys have a great weekend. Thank you.
Awesome. Thanks so much, Tom. Good work. We’ll catch you guys next time.