Who We Work With
Very little of this work starts with a homeowner searching for a concrete saw. It starts with an agent reading an egress item in a conditions document, a landlord being told a basement room cannot be rented as a bedroom, a basement contractor whose framing has stopped at a foundation wall, or an inspector who has just written the word "egress" on a report.
Each of those four conversations goes differently, so they get four different pages. Find yourself below.
For Realtors, Listing Agents & Home Stagers in Calgary
A basement described as a two-bedroom suite, and one of those bedrooms has a window nobody could climb out of. It surfaces at the listing appointment if you are lucky and in a conditions document if you are not. This page is so you know what is actually fixable, what is not, and what you can safely say to your client in the meantime.
Ask about a listing
For Landlords & Property Managers in Calgary
A basement room without a compliant escape opening is not a bedroom, whatever the last tenant used it as. That costs you twice: the rent a legal bedroom would carry, and the exposure you are holding while it is occupied. This page is about closing both.
Book a portfolio review
For Basement Development & Renovation Contractors in Calgary
You develop basements. Framing is up, the layout is drawn, and one bedroom needs an escape opening in a wall you are not in the business of cutting. This is the part of the job you can hand over whole — the cutting, the lintel, the engineering and the permit — rather than subbing three pieces of it and carrying the structural risk yourself.
Price an opening
For Home Inspectors & Structural Engineers in Calgary
You found it. You wrote it up. Your client asks who to call, and your name goes on the recommendation whether you like it or not. This page exists so you know exactly what happens next.
Talk to usNot sure which of these you are?
Call and describe the job. We will tell you what it needs, what it costs, and whether it is something we should be doing at all.