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'No one' can provide you with Better Results than Due West Carpentry and Renovations Ltd,
with our highly skilled and highly recommended service. We build corners, not cut them!

Workmanship Founded on experience, knowledge, creativity, talent and skill. To be recognized by the finer details of the finished product.

Service with accurate and realistic start and finish dates and a clean and safe working enviroment throughout the course of your project.

Results With a reputation for being creative, meticulous and focused on 'details', it is needless to say that your project will
have an outcome that far exceeds your expectations.

Select grade lumber. Sometimes sourced from supliers as far away as langley. Any pieces not deemed to be of good quality, get sent back for replacement.

Liability We carry 3 million in liability insurance, Just in case. We pay into 'Workers Compensation Board' coverage, Just in case.

Date: 2002 Client: Contractor Project description: Construct semi detached Pergola. Design & Construction Michael Ravenscroft

Constructed from S4S STK west coast red cedar. Rafter components 'notched' into horizontal support boards.

Angles, overghangs, distances, notching, reveals, added molding's, sanding cut edges, all contributing to the final design outcome.

Galvanized angled flashing implemented under the siding and over the support ledger to prevent water infiltration damage.

Date: 2001 Client: Cheung Project description: Construct four semi detached Pergolas Architect : David Poskitt

Front Pergolas consisting of 26ft 6X12 Fir beams. Rough cut 2" joists. ( not 1.5 ")

Beams are supported by custom fabricated brackets, design inspired by Due West, that were then sent out to be "Hot dipped galvanized"

Custom made flashing column caps, installed ontop of the custom fabricated redi-rod brackets that were through bolted to the beams
before the beams were installed onto the posts and into wall brackets.

All three front beams situated Parralel to each other at 30 degrees from house to match pre ordered 60 degree brackets.

All 60 & 30 degree beam cuts performed 'on site' with a chainsaw. Non granite support columns cladded in MDO plywood.

All unpaintable components were pre treated with 'copper napthate' prior to assembly.

This project certainly had its moments. And frankly I was glad when it was done. Other than thinking that I probably should have
quoted more for this project, there was a few memorable day's, one in particular that lasted into the dark and early evening of winter
with two guys and a hyab crane lifting 26 ft 6X12 beams into place while most people were finishing the remains of there dinner off.
I do admit the occasional skiffing of snow added to the ambience of it all.

Oh...and don't be fooled by the 'sunny day picture' because I can count all of this project's sunny days on one finger.
I think the highlight was being a worker short when the concrete truck showed up saturday morning which required four 2X2X18" post
footings to be filled with concrete by carring 5 gallon buckets up to the back and side of the house in the slippery mud with a 1/2 hr. deadline.
Hats off to my friends who came and helped me lift the beams (big+green+wet=Heavy) at the side and back of the house into place
one saturday morning. All said and done, the challenges this project offered, left me with a great sense of accomplishment.