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.