Duncan Harwood Custom Homes

THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA “You get a little bit more of a helping hand with our company than you do with others,” he says. For example, Duncan Harwood employs an interior designer directly to help clients with their material selections. Many builders send their clients to deal with their suppliers and leave them to make decisions without them. Duncan Harwood walks them through the process in-house. They stay involved at every step. The company also takes extra steps in order to ensure that their jobs progress smoothly and without interruption. Another thing they do that many builders do not is they conduct mechanical and electrical coordinationmeetings with clients before the house is even framed. They then draft designs, so clients can visualise and approve them well in advance. Those drawings then go out for pricing, and ae then printed, laminated, and posted at the job site for everybody to review and coordinate. “That’s probably why our sites run a little more smoothly than most,” Matt says. “With most builders, when a mechanical subcontractor shows up to a job site, they need someone to walk them through where everything goes,” he explains. “They have to figure out ’Where is the BBQ gas line going? Is there a gas stove or not? Is it a left hand drain or a right hand drain?’ With us, that information is readily available right away.”