Our Services
Types of Construction
At Pebblestone Homes, we pride ourselves on providing a wide range of construction services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. Our expertise spans across various types of construction projects, ensuring that we can bring your vision to life, regardless of the scale or complexity.
Custom Homes
A Custom Home is one built to your exact requests and designs. Custom Home projects are where you work directly with a homebuilder (and sometimes with your own architect) to plan, design, and select every single detail about the home’s construction, layout, and finish.
Multi-Family
A Multi-Family home is a single building that’s divided to accommodate more than one family living separately. They can range from a duplex, which has two dwellings within a single building, to homes or small apartment buildings with up to four individual units.
Commercial
Commercial construction involves bidding on contracts for buildings like office spaces, warehouses, or restaurants. These buildings and projects are intended to turn a profit once in use. The projects tend to require heavier equipment and more materials than residential construction, too.
Renovations & Additions
Renovation is the process of improving broken, damaged, or outdated structures. Renovations are typically done on either commercial or residential buildings.
Bungalow
A bungalow describes any plan with one floor. A variation of the bungalow is a “raised bungalow” designed to keep the basement windows out of the ground. The bungalow is the preferred type of home for most families, in that everything is handy on one level. However, the cost of land in urban areas has all but eliminated bungalows as an option inside the city. In small communities and rural settings, the space and land cost still allows this preferred style.
Bi-Level
As its name implies, this type raises the foundation well out of the ground, creating a basement that is easily developed into living space with good natural light. This is popular where the intention is to use the basement as living space, and offers a cost effective solution to budget conscious families in need of that extra living space at a reduced cost overall.
Two-Storey
This type of home maximizes the efficiency and enables a small property to support a large square footage of finished space. Even a small two-storey home will be cost effective when compared square-foot against square-foot with a bungalow. In Urban developments the two-storey home is predominant, simply because of the high cost of land and the need to maximize living space on the land. A common formula coined by CMHC describes a healthy ratio of land cost against building cost. The land should only represent a maximum of 25% of the total cost of a build. When land exceeds $150,000 it’s tough to justify a modest bungalow, and the small lot sizes force builders to design two-storey models to achieve the above ratio.
Cabover
As the name implies, this hybrid model bridged the gap between bungalows and two-storey homes, as it added developed space in the area over the garage. This technique drove the market for many years, enabling builders to provide enhanced square footage on a bungalow base plan, to achieve and maintain the correct land-to-house cost ratio. Land prices have driven this model out of popularity in recent years, and the full two-storey now dominates, with a portion developed over the garage space typically.