Quality Features - Single Dwellings

Quality features of our standard homes, excluding our Murray Heights development

Exterior

Subdivision services including

  • Paved roads, curbs and sidewalks
  • Storm and sanitary sewers
  • Municipal water
  • Fully sodded lot including boulevards
  • Sub-division service by natural gas

All single-family detached homes

  • Two exterior frost-free hose bibs
  • Pre-finished metal insulated garage door
  • Driveway and walkway to be crushed stone gravel
  • Exterior colour scheme controlled by the vendor
  • Granite civic address stone

Construction

  • Genuine clay brick exterior
  • Maintenance-free aluminum soffit, fascia, eaves trough and downspouts
  • Poured concrete basement walls with waterproof membrane
  • Wood and steel beam construction
  • 2×6 Exterior wall construction
  • 5/8″ T & G premium plywood subfloor panels, glued and nailed
  • Self-sealing high-grade fibreglass architectural shingles with a limited lifetime manufactures warranty
  • Tyvek-wrapped exterior walls
  • R 22 wall insulation
  • R 60 ceiling insulation

Basement

  • Exterior walls wrapped with R20 continuous insulation with 6 mil polyethylene
  • Exterior walls strapped with 2 x 4’s
  • 2-3 Basement windows (grading permitted); rough-in for future bathroom
  • Rough-in for future bathroom
  • Sump pump supplied and installed with check valve
  • Garage drywall to comply with the Ontario Building Code requirements and Fire Regulations
  • Chamfer corners on all drywall

Interior Features

  • Premium porcelain tiles in the front entrance, laundry room, bathrooms and optional in kitchen
  • Quality carpet in bedrooms, dens and flex rooms
  • Quality carpet on the staircase in bungalows
  • Mirage engineered 3-5/16″ oak or maple hardwood flooring in main areas of the main floor excluding the tiled and carpeted areas – Kitchen is optional
  • Two-storey main staircase to be oak; staircase to the basement to be unfinished
  • Choice of staircase railing from vendor’s samples unless already installed
  • One (1) coat primer, and two (2) coats of high-quality paint on walls
  • Two (2) coats of quality paint on the woodwork trim
  • Rough-in central vac. (on two-storey models)
  • Partial rough-in on bungalows
  • Rough-in cable TV outlets (3)
  • Rough-in telephone outlets (3)
  • Space age ‘free sliding’ closet shelving provided in all closets
  • High speed internet including fibre optic

Kitchen

  • Quality Decor stacked kitchen cabinets with choice of solid wood doors with crown moulding (as per plans and vendor’s samples)
  • Soft close cabinet doors
  • Solid wood, full-extension, soft close drawers with dovetail corners
  • Pot and pan drawers
  • Heavy-duty plug receptacle for stove installation
  • Island or peninsula
  • Cambria Quartz countertops with double stainless steel under-mount sink

Bath

  • Quality vanity cabinets with the choice of solid wood doors (as per plans and vendor’s samples)
  • Quality American Standard white plumbing fixtures in all bathrooms
  • China basins
  • Right height elongated rim toilets with slow-close seat
  • 1-piece acrylic tub and surround with pressure-balanced valves in the main bathroom.
  • 1-piece acrylic shower stall with pressure-balanced valves in the ensuite bathroom: Please note some plans show the ensuite bathroom to have an additional white acrylic soaker tub
  • Standard single-lever faucets in all bedrooms
  • Soft close cabinet doors
  • Solid wood, full-extension, soft close drawers with dovetail corners
  • Brushed metal towel bars and paper holders
  • Laminate counters in bathrooms
  • Mirrors are not provided

Laundry

  • Single poly laundry tub with deck faucets (space permitting or as per plan)
  • Heavy-duty reciprocal plug for dryer hook-up
  • 4″ Dryer vent ducted to exterior

Doors, Windows, Trim

  • Maintenance-free vinyl-clad “low E” argon thermopane casement windows
  • Maintenance-free vinyl-clad “low E” argon thermopane slider windows in the basement
  • Operating windows to have screens
  • Sliding glass patio door where shown as per plans
  • Fibreglass insulated entry door(s) as per plans
  • Cambridge interior doors with a choice of hardware
  • Paint-grade trim
  • 2-3/4″ Paint-grade stepped casing
  • 5-1/4″ Paint-grade stepped baseboard

Heating and Cooling

  • Gas fired high efficiency forced air furnace – 2 stage with ECM motor
  • Central air conditioning
  • Natural gas tank-less water heater – Rental supplied by EnerCare Home Services
  • Air exchanger heat recovery ventilation system (HRV)
  • Programmable digital thermostat
  • Drain water heat recovery system

Electrical

  • 200 Amp. service with circuit breaker, and copper wiring throughout, as per Ontario Hydro standards and builder’s specifications
  • 100 Amp. sub-panel in the basement for future expansion
  • Four (4) receptacles in the unfinished basement
  • Two (2) exterior ground fault receptacles – front and back
  • Standard door chime kit
  • Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, as per municipal requirements
  • Up to five (5) 4″ LED Thin Line interior pot lights in the kitchen
  • Installation of one (1) ceiling fan – supplied by the purchaser
  • White Decora light switches and standard white receptacles

Colour Choices

Purchaser to have a choice of colours from available samples of the following unless already ordered or installed:

  • Exterior colour package – All white windows and doors (coloured available at an extra charge) and choice of coloured aluminum
  • Porcelain tiles
  • Kitchen cabinets and countertops from vendor’s samples
  • Carpet – one colour from our selection
  • Paint – Three colours from our selection – deeper colours are an extra cost
  • Hardwood flooring – one colour from our selection

Customized Features

  • Colour choices from available samples of the following (unless already ordered or installed)
  • Exterior colour package including brick, shingles, aluminum colour, garage door and front door
  • Hardwood flooring – maple or oak
  • Porcelain tiles
  • Hardware
  • Stair spindles

Optional Upgrades

These are a few of our available options:

  • Taller ceilings
  • Gas fireplace
  • Quartz countertops for vanities
  • Upgraded kitchen layouts and islands
  • Under cabinet lighting
  • Oak staircases
  • Finished basements
  • Coloured exterior windows and doors
  • Higher basement walls
  • Dual zone heating system
  • Custom tile shower with glass door in the ensuite bathroom (in select models)
  • …Many more!*

These are a few of our available upgrade options, though this is in no way a complete list of what could be possible. If you have questions about any others, please ask.