The airtightness of your home is supported by a 96 percent energy-efficient furnace with an HRV system. It helps to reduce air leakage, which means less draft, noise, and odors, as well as lost heated and cooled air in the winter and summer. An HRV system works by continuously supplying you with fresh air while recovering heat from the stale air being exhausted from your home. As a result, you’ll be able to maintain a more pleasant and healthy indoor atmosphere. A programmable WIFI thermostat can help you control the temperature in each room in your house, on any given day. We also ensure that our mechanical systems are designed to the home size ensuring equal distribution of heating and cooling systems.

In your home, you are provided with a direct vent hot water heater. Due to the high cost of electricity in Saskatchewan, this saves you over $500 per year compared to an electric water heater.

Our homes include triple-glazed, low-E windows filled with argon gas that are designed to maximize your home’s energy efficiency by preventing air and water leakage through their five-seal defence system. All windows and doors are sealed with a top-of-the-line waterproof membrane and insulated with spray foam to ensure airtightness.

You want your home to be as airtight as possible to eliminate drafts and maintain an even temperature throughout your home. This means that it is important to properly seal around all windows and doors, vents and electrical outlets. Our homes come standard with R50 blown-in ceiling insulation, and we go above the standard building code for our climate by using spray foam sealant at all attic penetrations. We also use vapour-sealed electrical boxes on all exterior walls and attics to eliminate drafts. Lower utility bills result from an airtight home that will help with the cost of new home ownership and add great resale value to your home!

High-efficiency LED lighting is used throughout our homes, which cuts down on energy consumption and has a longer life span and shouldn’t need to be replaced for up to 15 years! LEDs use less energy than other bulbs, which allows them last about 25,000 hours on average.

We use some recycled materials for our insulation and take great care to reduce, reuse and recycle all building materials. We occasionally donate extra materials that cannot be returned to the restore for Habitat for Humanity.

We have diligently defined Industry Leading Air Tightness Scopes of Work for all trades involving any building envelope penetrations. This ensures that our 3rd party blower door test achieves less than 1.0 air exchanges per hour, which means it will take less energy to maintain a comfortable temperature in your home.

Prior to drywall being installed in our homes, we complete a thermal imaging test to ensure that no areas in the home lack insulation.

We use low flow toilets, showerheads and faucets with our standard now being dual flush toilets.

We use a high-efficiency HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilator) to ensure air freshness. In addition, we use Hypo-Allergenic premium carpet underlay, and all of the paints we use are low VOC (volatile organic compound). After completing all construction, we do a complete cleaning of all ductwork to ensure no dust or drywall particles remain in the vents.

Homesites are chosen with the orientation of homes in mind to take advantage of future solar panel generation and passive solar gain from window locations. We also select home sites close to each other to increase building efficiencies while reducing carbon emissions and waste.