Mayfield Area Home
Completed 2010
This house features an 8' concrete foundation, with a poured concrete floor. The house has two full storeys, featuring 9' ceilings in each. The attic area is also massive, as it has a 9/12 pitch roof, featuring a bonus room rafter, which gives you living or storage space, plus the attic area extends completely out over the balconies at the end of the house, to make for yet more space on the third storey. The house has vinyl as an exterior siding, and uses steel as the roofing product.

Steel roofing products seem to be becoming more and more popular all the time, as many people in the high wind areas seem to be having problems with the new fiberglass shingles staying on the roof. We have put steel on several roofs in the past couple of years.

North Granville Area Home
Completed 2009
Constructed from the ground up, this new home was completed in less than six months, despite the complexity of the design, which included a complicated roof system and multiple angles in the floorplan.

Built on the side of a scenic hill, this bungalow features a double attached carport, a thirty foot wide rear deck and a full basement. The walkout lower level has a six foot wide garage door for easy storage of lawn equipment or other large items.

The framing is 2" x 6" wood construction with 5/8" plywood sheathing on the exterior walls and 3/4" plywood on the roof and floors. Doc's Construction did the footings, basement, framing, sheathing, roofing and siding on the exterior, as well as installing all windows and doors. On the interior Doc's did all finishing carpentry, including gyproc, hardwood floor installation, doors and trim as well as building custom kitchen cabinets.

North Tryon Area Home
Completed 2000
We started with an old house on the property, raised the house, put a full 8' concrete foundation under the house with a poured concrete floor. There was a mobile home on the property, which we attached to the farmhouse by a garage and storage area. Then we added two sections, approximately 56' long, both having a full concrete foundation and poured floor, onto the other end of the house. The old house was totally gutted, rewired, replumbed, insulated, gyprock installed, as well as the two new sections, plus the garage and storage area. New windows were installed in the old house, to match the new additions. The homeowners chose hardiplank for the exterior siding on this project. All interior doors on the first storey were of the pocket door design, as one of the homeowners is in a wheelchair. Finally, we came to the issue of the cupboards, which firstly had to be designed to be wheelchair accessible. Plus, the homeowners had found numerous old fashioned hundred year old doors in New York, thus making the construction of any and all storage spaces in the cupboard area more difficult, as we normally build the cupboards, and then order the doors. In this case, we already had the doors, and had to design cupboards around the door shapes and sizes, plus the alotted area available in the kitchen.

Fernwood Area Cottage
Completed 2005
The couple lived in the Burlington, Ontario area, at the time, while we were constructing their cottage to be completed upon their arrival that summer. Therefore, there were understandably many phone calls made during the evening hours, to discuss numerous details during the construction process. It was totally new construction, a lot of the interior is gyprock, which we crackfilled and had painted.The main living room area is tongue-and-groove pine boards, with click flooring and ceramic tile throughout the cottage area. Vinyl siding and eaves were chosen as the exterior finish for this cottage, as it was to be a maintenance free environment for the couple during the summer. The cupboards, in this project, were also a bit of a handful, as the couple had purchased a demo set of cupboards from an IKEA store in Ontario, shipped them down, and asked us to either cut, bang, bend, or somehow make them fit into the kitchen area alotted for this cottage.

Margate Area Home
Completed 2000
A rancher style house, with full 8' basement, with poured concrete floor, gyprock inside, with vinyl siding and eaves as exterior finish. The cupboards and interior trim were made of ash, and all hand-framed onsite. Keeping with our policy of doing whatever the home or project owner wants done, this house was not completed by ourselves. As the husband was a former employee of mine, and in the latter years worked part time after he started farming (growing potatoes), we did not complete the interior of this house. We poured the foundation, framed the house completely, shingled the roof, and installed all the windows, making the home completely waterproof before we left the responsibility of completing it with the couple. In 1996 we constructed a potato storage warehouse and a 'Coverall' for this family.

Margate Area Home
Completed 2004
Cape Cod style, with a 4/12 pitch roof on the water side, to allow for larger windows, and therefore a better view of the river area behind the house. The front side of the roof was handframed, with a 12/12 pitch.This house features the first Integraspec insulated concrete wall system we had ever erected. This is a styrofoam block foundation, with a poured concrete interior, therefore creating an insulated foundation wall as soon as you have completed pouring. This house has an attached garage on the front side, with a bonus room over the top, to allow for more second storey space. This house has hardiplank exterior siding, as the homeowners were nervous as to how the vinyl siding would stand up to the harsh conditions living right on the edge of a river.

Darnley Area Home
Completed 2007
This home is constructed on wooden posts, buried approximately 5 feet into the ground, wrapped with plastic before being packed in to ensure that frost cannot grab and lift the post, therefore adjusting the elevation of the house. This house has only a single storey living area, but with an extended pitch roof to allow for higher ceilings and a more Island farmhouse look.Keeping with the Island farmhouse look, wood and wood products were used for all trims, and Eastern cedar shingles were used for an exterior siding, and as you can see by the pictures, vinyl windows were used to keep out Mother Nature's wrath. As the homeowner is of the artistic sort, shall we say, it was requested that we add additional wooden trim over the windows, to enhance their look, as a plain Jane vinyl window was not all that appealing to the homeowner. Just another example of the extra lengths that we will go to to please our customers.

Margate Area Home
Completed 1997
This has the old barn roof design, therefore allowing for less exterior wall area to be seen, yet more roof area becomes visible. This style of roof allows for a great deal of inexpensive second storey space in the house. A very large percentage of the interior walls are of the tongue-and-groove pine style, containing knotty pine cupboards, which were hand-framed onsite.The exterior is B.C. wavy cedar siding, stained with a water perservative to keep the beautiful wood look. The house features a full 8' basement, with a poured concrete floor, attached garage and large workshop area in the rear of the garage, both containing poured concrete floor with infloor heating.

Margate Area Home
Completed 1990
This Cape Cod style home has a full 8' concrete basement, with concrete poured floor, and in-floor heating was installed in the basement floor to help with the heating process of the house. One of our biggest obstacles to overcome in the construction of this particular house was the fact that the house is 48' long, and the homeowner only wanted to have 2 interior petitions that would act as load bearing walls which would act as supports for the roof system. As it turned out, we ended up with a 4' deep 3 ply thick 48' long girder, that went through the center of the house, to carry the 4/12 pitch monotruss rafters that formed the back side of the house roof, also carrying the 12/12 pitch hand framed roof that formed the front of this house. The exterior was completed totally in wood, all eaves and corner trims, and Eastern cedar shingles were applied as an exterior siding. The interior of the house was mainly gyprock, with hardwood floors throughout the living room and den area, and ceramic tile in the kitchen, entrance and bathroom area. Knotty pine cupboards were framed onsite and raised panel knotty pine doors were ordered to fit the constructed cupboard frames. A machine shop and machine storage building were also constructed for this family.

Potato Warehouse
Completed 1996
In the summer of 1995, the first year that the couple for whom we later built a Margate area home grew potatoes, we constructed a potato storage facility, measuring 50' x 120'. We did all the concrete work, framing work, steel application on roofs, eaves, fascia, and siding, later insulating, strapping, and applying all interior steels, framing air plennums, and interior partitions. In the following year, 1996, we added another 70 feet to the length of the warehouse.

Coverall
Completed 2002
In the summer of 2002, we assisted the same couple in the erection of a COVERALL, better known as a tarp barn. Another avenue that we have touched on is the erection of the COVERALL buildings as a sideline, when we're not busy on other projects.

Machine Storage Building
Completed 2003
In the summer of 2003, we constructed a machine storage building, measuring 60' x 120'. This building has a full 4' concrete foundation, with studded walls and steel as exterior roofing and siding materials. As this was going to be used only as a machine storage building, insulating of the walls and applying interior sheathing was unnecessary, and we did not bother with a poured concrete floor. A gravel based floor was applied, just to allow the machinery to be on a solid base, and not parked in a clay floor situation. This storage building and the machine shop below were constructed for the family whose Cape Cod style home we built in Margate in 1990.

Machine Shop
Completed 2002
In the summer of 2002, we built a machine workshop, measuring 60' x 60'. We did all the concrete work, framing, steel application for exterior roofing and siding. The interior was totally insulated, and steel was applied throughout the ceiling and interior walls. In-floor heating was installed before we poured the concrete floor in this application, as this is to be a day-to-day machine repair workshop, a constant source of heat was necessary to create a comfortable working environment.