Building your home - your dream home - is one of the most
important investments you'll ever make.
At Double 'S' Cedar Homes. we realize how important your dreams
can be. Since the 1970's we've worked with hundreds of people like you to bring
special homes to life.
We invite you to join us in building a house you'll be proud to
call home.
Double 'S' creates the very best cedar post and beam homes from
superior British Columbia wood. Homes of authentic quality, personal character
and durability.
Whether you're looking for a principal residence, recreational
home, commercial structure or that special place off the beaten path, you'll
find that Double 'S' Homes are competitively priced.
Post and beam homes date back over two thousand years. In
nineteenth-century Canada, buildings with timber posts and beams were highly
prized. Skilled carpenters and joiners used an assortment of hand tools to
combine the finest ingredients of the building art.
Today's carefully fabricated, durable cedar post and beam homes
from Double 'S' use the most beautiful building material
available: wood
Soaring roof lines, cathedral ceilings, finished with Western
Red Cedar, panoramic glass-fronted prows, cozy second-storey
lofts, and everything the warmth and freshness of wood brought
indoors. That's a post and beam home by Double 'S'
Whether you're working, entertaining or just relaxing, Double
'S' offers an environment in harmony with your home's natural settings.
Our post and beam engineering ensures that the structural
framework, not interior walls, support the weight of the roof. As a result,
room and interior walls can be designed in almost any configuration desired.
There's flexibility to develop the floor plan that you really want. Double 'S'
helps you design spacious, open living areas: vaulted ceiling, open lofts,
bright and airy family areas.
Cedar is the ideal wood for your Double 'S' home. It's strong,
durable and highly resistant to harm from temperature extremes, moisture and
insects. What's more, cedar's rich palette of colour literally glows with
warmth. Its accepts stain or paint well and, if left untouched, ages
beautifully.
Double 'S' accepts only the best cedar available. We believe the
time we take to search for select wood is worthwhile, because it results in a
better quality, more attractive home.
Prefabricating sections of the home such as wall panels and
gable ends in the Double 'S' factory saves you a considerable
amount of time and money, since your home is complete to a much
greater degree by the time it arrives at the job site.
There are other benefits to a prefabrication besides saving you
time and money. Since Double 'S' builds in clean, dry factory,
adverse weather and other site problems do not harm the quality
of your home or slows its progress.
As well, building in a controlled environment lets Double 'S'
systematically monitor and control the quality of each and every section of the
home. Waste is reduced. Moreover, home buyers can save time and money by
dealing with a single supplier. And you know ahead of time the final,
guaranteed cost for your home package will be.
Double 'S' has the design and construction planning expertise to
help you create your dream home. We offer a wide variety of stock plans to
choose from, and we'll modify a plan to suit your particular tastes and
requirements.
Or bring us your ideas and plans, and we'll custom design a
house from scratch. In fact, Double 'S' will do whatever it
takes to adapt your ideas to is post and beam system - without
betraying or compromising your plan's overall integrity.
Whatever option you choose, Double 'S' provides it own design
services without charge.
Each Double 'S' home is approved and certified by a Canadian
Engineer, and often exceeds applicable building codes and standards. And each
comes with a full structural warranty. We'll engineer homes to meet particular
challenges such as heavy snow loads or unusual conditions.
Double 'S' uses top-quality kiln-dried framing lumber and
plywood sheathing to ensure maximum structural integrity and precision. We
offer four different patterns of cedar siding. Channel, Board and Batten
siding, (both pre-stained) are applied in our factory, while Bevelled
(pre-stained) and smooth Tongue-and-Groove (non-stained) are applied on
site.
You can choose any roof slope that accents your home, ranging
from the low-pitch 4/12, the moderate pitch 6/12 and the steep 12/12 Chalet to
the traditional Saltbox, Cottage roof or the attractive Gambrel, with two
different slopes on each side. You can also combine various roof lines. Double
'S' provides durable asphalt shingles, fibreglass shingles, colourful
profiled steel, or optional cedar shingles, shakes or tiles.
Energy efficiency is a top priority. We'll insulate to suit your
regions's weather conditions and required building code applications. All
Double 'S' windows are supplied with thermal-pane insulating glass. Our
standard window frames are vinyl. Frame options include thermally broken
aluminium and two types of wood, Eastern Pine and West Coast
Douglas Fir. Glass can be upgraded to Low E or heat mirror.
Standard exterior doors are insulated steel or beautifully
milled Western Red Cedar and/or West Coast Douglas Fir. All
exterior doors are available in variety of styles, with
insulating glass if desired.
Double 'S' homes can be built on top of various foundations:
crawl space, post and pad, full or daylight basement, concrete slab or PWF
(preserved wood foundation), The design and Canadian Engineering of your
foundation are included in the cost of your home package.
Relaxing with family and friends is a natural part of your
Double 'S' home. Entertain in airy kitchen and dinning areas, brightened by
skylites and generous window space. Or enjoy the view from your spacious living
or family rooms.
A marriage of the aesthetic and the practical, hardwood floors
convey the warmth and style found in Double 'S' homes. Optional
hardwood flooring is durable and easy to maintain, so it retains
its beauty and value year after year. Other options, too, are
available.
Double 'S' bedroom, dens and offices offer privacy and a
comfortable work environment for every member of the household.
Detailing is as important to us as it is to you. All interior
wood finishes - such as window casements, mouldings and hand railings - are
composed of select kiln-dried B.C. woods.
Double 'S' post and beam buildings are ideal for commercial or
office environments.
We design, manufacture and provide all the assembled and
finished materials you need to put up your home. For ease and
simplicity, Double 'S' provides full construction drawings and
designates building components by code number.
Our responsibility does not end with the sale. We offer
continuing assistance to ensure that you are fully satisfied
with your Double 'S' cedar home. If you wish, we will arrange to
erect your Double 'S' home to any degree you desire, ranging
from shell or lock-up to complete finishing.
So when you're planning a Cedar Post and Beam Home, check with
Double 'S' before you buy. You'll discover how affordable quality can
be.
