What if … everyone settled for average?
What if … no one raised the bar?
What if … everyone followed, but nobody lead the way?

Paul and Shareen – Owners of Nutmeg Homes

We only build one or two homes at a time and we to ‘do it right’ the first time. If you are looking for a high quality, comfortable, efficient home in the Comox Valley, you should contact us. We have voluntarily started to rate our homes with the Energuide rating system (80 or higher), and are exploring the LEED rating system (our homes would probably rate silver or gold as built).

As useful as the building code is in terms of safety, it’s not enough. Why? Because the building code doesn’t set standards that will necessarily give you long term comfort or lasting value. That’s not it’s job. It’s job is to ensure houses are safe and to help keep house prices reasonable by setting out the minimum that has to be done. But we can and we must do better.

Warm quiet comfort

It seems that the average Canadian spends more time and effort researching a new car purchase than they do a new house purchase. It’s true that a house is also an investment, and ‘buy low – sell high’ is good financial advice, but comfort, efficiency and peace of mind, are not just criteria for a new car. We encourage our customers to do their own research and we have written a “how we build” section as one source. We have found that ICF exterior walls are clearly superior to stick and chip board framing, log walls, timber framing, SIPs or any other method we researched and we built our first ICF house in 2000. ICFs are Insulated Concrete Forms, a system of hollow insulating expanded polystyrene blocks that hold steel rebar, click together (like Leggo blocks). The forms are then filled with concrete. The insulated form now has a permanent solid concrete core; ready for siding and dry wall. Our home owners love their homes, and we are proud to have built them.