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Creative Home Design Ideas for Your Renovation

Planning to renovate your home soon? If you’re still in the design stages of your renovation, some more ideas never hurt. Heidan Construction, one of the leading construction companies in Toronto, is here to give you a creativity boost. Here are some creative home design ideas to consider for your upcoming renovation.

Open Concept

One of the easiest ways you can improve your home during a renovation is by moving into open concept design. A lot of older houses feel cramped and small because of how many dividing walls were used during construction. Removing some of those dividing walls is a fantastic way to increase perceived interior space. Open up your kitchen to your dining room. Take away the divider between the kitchen and living room.

Not only does removing these dividing walls make the entire space feel much larger, it makes it feel more social too. Being able to see and talk to someone who’s in the kitchen while you lounge on the couch is amazing. Sound travels much easier and the home begins to feel much more like one space than many small, separate ones.

Take Advantage of the Process

If you’re going to have your home torn apart in one place or another, now is the time to consider some of those little additions that you always wanted. Have a wall being moved outward to expand the kitchen or living room? Now is the perfect time to install a fireplace or a lovely bay window.

If your renovation is going to make its way toward expanding your bedroom or master bath, consider a dividing fireplace. Putting a fireplace in the dividing wall between your master bath and bedroom is a great way to kill two birds with one stone. You can enjoy the fire from either location without having to pay the price for two fireplaces. Plus, it really brings the two rooms together, making your room and bathroom both feel bigger. The increased light flow from one room to the other is also a bonus.

Built-In Shelving

A personal favorite is the implementation of built-in shelving. If your renovation will be moving or adjusting a wall where you have or will have a fireplace or entertainment center, consider this: imagine having shelving built into the walls on either side. You can use these shelves to line up your collection of books by the fireplace. You could use it for setting up consoles beside your TV or storing games or movies. Your imagination is the only limit.

And, no matter what kind of design you end up with for your renovated home, know you can count on Heidan Construction to give you a successful renovation. Our team of experienced builders has been renovating homes for nearly 20 years. Let us take on yours too.

Plus, if you haven’t had professional help with your renovation design, we can help with that to. Our team specializes not only in construction, but in design build. Give us a call today if you’re interested in our services and we’ll be happy to set up a consultation.

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Bring to Life the Office Building of Your Dreams

Are you ready to make your dreams of starting a business come to life? Whether you’re a first-time business owner or you’re upgrading to the next step, getting a new office is thrilling. Making it the exact building you’ve been envisioning working in for the last decade? Priceless. That’s why you should rely on Heidan Construction to build your office up right. From beginning to end, relying on our team is the best way to ensure your office buildingturns out exactly as you expect it to.

Design Build

One of the most important facets of Heidan Construction is that we do design build. What does that mean? Well, it means that, no matter what you’re building, we can help you through the process from the very beginning. Whether you want a medical office, a dental office, a commercial office, or a home, we’ve got you covered.

At the first consultation, we’ll take all of your ideas down and begin the process of designing your building. Ensuring our design is exactly what you’re looking for is a priority. After all, this is the building you’re paying for. You deserve to get exactly what you’ve asked for. After we have your building designed and blueprinted, we can bring it to life.

Unique Qualities of Office Design

The thing about office buildings is that they’re unique in their design needs. You’ll need a lot of open workspace for employees to work from. Ensuring there’s an open concept design as well as ample plugins for computers is important. Plus, employees need their workspace to be somewhere they can thrive. For some, that might mean large windows to let in lots of sunlight. For others, that might mean a controlled temperature. It’s really up to you in the end. But, because you’re catering to your workers rather than customers, you get to prioritize things that commercial buildings don’t.

Get Creative

Your design doesn’t need to be like all the rest. So many offices look exactly the same. Cut yourself loose and think creatively with us about the way you want your office to look. Help us design a building that inspires you every day that you go to work. Help us design a building that inspires your employees as well to give it their all when they come to work each day.

There are so many ways to make a space unique. Take a look at our portfolio and see how we approach unique design. We’re sure you’ll like what you see. Now, imagine what your own office building would look like if it was the next feature in our finished project spread.

Hire Heidan

If you want great results on your, you need to hire Heidan for your next Toronto office building construction project. We have the experience and the professionalism to get the job done right. Give us a call to book a consultation today. If you have any questions, we’ll be happy to clear things up for you.

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Construction Company Red Flags to Watch Out For: Part 2

Heidan Construction, a leading company construction company in Toronto, is here to let you in on construction company red flags. There are a lot of businesses out there with a less than ideal track record. We want to inform you on how to tell who’s the real deal and who’s a bad idea. In Part 1, we covered why bad communication and a lack of portfolio are bad signs in a construction company. Here are some more things to look out for.

No Respect for Your Needs

When you go in for an initial consultation with your construction company, there are a lot of things you should be looking for. Feeling like you’re being heard is a huge deal. There is almost nothing more important than feeling like you’re being listened to when working with a construction team.

Having a house built or renovated is a massive and expensive undertaking. When putting forward that much money, you need to know you can trust the people you’re paying. Don’t settle for a team that:

  • Talks over you when you try to explain your needs.
  • Tries to tell you that you don’t want something that you’re sure you do, unless they have code-based reasons for depriving you.
  • Doesn’t understand basic construction concepts. If you know more than them, without notable amounts of construction experience, that’s a bad sign. 
  • Is unwilling to change their design. If you work with a design build team and they create a design that you feel isn’t what you want, they should be willing to change it. You’re not paying your design build team to build whatever they want.

Weird Fees

When you hire a construction team, there shouldn’t be any weird side fees for their work. One way a company can scam you out of extra money is by tacking on unnecessary and substandard fees for things like certain pieces of equipment. If you’re hiring a team and see a fee that you’re unsure about, give us a call and we’ll let you know if that’s a normal fee for the practice.

Lack of Respectable Behavior

Something you should keep an eye out for is a construction team that isn’t respectable in their appearance and behavior. This is one of the biggest construction company red flags. Even in a hard work industry like construction, team members should be dressed for the job and on their best behavior. Construction sites aren’t a playground.

While it’s fairly normal for a team of friends to joke around with each other here and there. However, crude jokes, alcohol, and reckless behavior on a job-site is a huge red flag. If you’re looking for someone to get injured on your property, this is a great way to achieve that. Don’t settle for dangerous, juvenile behavior. Instead, hire professionals who have pride in themselves and their work.

If you’re looking for a consultation for your next renovation or building project in Toronto, give us a call. Heidan Construction has the experience and professionalism that you need.

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Construction Company Red Flags to Watch Out For: Part 1

When it comes time to upgrade your home – or even build a new one – you’ll need to hire trusted professionals. Unfortunately, there are a lot of construction companies that just aren’t worth their salt. Leading construction specialists in Toronto, Heidan Construction, wants to let you know what to watch out for. Here are some construction company red flags you should keep an eye out for. If you see any of these bad signs, you might want to check with other companies before hiring.

Bad Communication

A big red flag to look out for in any industry is bad communication. This can come in many forms.

  • No one at the phone. If you call for the first time, during business hours, and get an answering machine, that’s not ideal. While some businesses do take most client information through the answering machine to screen calls, it’s not the best business practice. It shows a lack of enthusiasm with client dealings and it makes communication harder for prospective clients.
  • Slow response times. If you’ve called to get a consultation and left a voicemail you should get a prompt response time. Within 24 hours, you should have been called back with a follow-up to schedule your consultation. More than 48 hours is a bad sign.
  • Telephone pinball. If the phone gets answered by a different person every time and they have no way of finding you and your needs in their records, that’s a bad sign. You shouldn’t need to take ten minutes filling in each new person on what’s already happened. This speaks of a disorganized office. If a team can’t even keep your consultation plans together, how will they complete a complicated construction job successfully?

No Portfolio

Every successful construction company will be happy to show off their successful projects. Even if they don’t have it readily available online, they should be able to show you a portfolio upon request.

The majority of quality construction companies will keep photos of their work right on their website. After all, if they have successful work, why wouldn’t they want to put it up for prospective clients to see? After all, seeing someone’s finished work is what creates most business.

If the company you’re considering has no record of their work online and they’re trying to tell you they’re experienced, find someone else. While there’s nothing sketchy about a new business having a little less record of their work, they wouldn’t lie about being a new business. A dishonest company is one you should avoid having any dealings with.

If you want to know more construction company red flags to look out for, check out part 2. However, if you’re looking for a consultation now, give us a call at Heidan Construction. We look forward to hearing from you.

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3 Ways a Second Floor is Better than an Outward Home Expansion

If you’re planning on a home renovation sometime soon and you’re unsure how to go about an expansion, here’s some food for thought. Our team at Heidan Construction is here to tell you why a second floor is better than an outward expansion. There are countless points to be made but, today, we’ll focus on the three biggest reasons.

Distance from Neighbors

When you expand upward instead of outward, you maintain your distance from neighbors. This might not seem like a big deal to you if privacy isn’t your top priority, but there are other reasons it matters. Building code in different areas requires certain distances between houses. This requirement can be affected by the size of the house, the location, how many neighbors you have, and how it’s zoned. If you expand outward, you risk breaking building codes for your area. While this isn’t going to be a problem for many people, for those who cannot expand any further outward, a second floor is the best solution. Not to mention, there are other perks to going taller instead of wider.

Maintain Your Footprint

The footprint of your house may not seem like it matters. However, there are benefits to keeping it the same. For instance, if you expand outward, your renovators will have to dig up part of the yard and create more foundation. This can be very expensive.

Foundation isn’t the only thing affected by outward expansion. Creating more space on the ground floor also means building more roof. Building a second floor will also require the rebuilding of some of your roof, but the end product is different. With an upward expansion, your roof will remain roughly the same size. An outward expansion will leave you with a much larger roof. More roof means more roof maintenance. That means more gutters to clean, more attic space that can fall victim to pests, and more surface area that can be damaged by storms or other such occurrences. The maintenance costs of roofing can get pretty expensive over the years.

Save Money

Last, but not least, expanding upward can save you money. How? There are a number of ways but the most obvious is that there’s less surface area that needs heating or cooling. When you expand outward, you have to heat a whole new section of the house. When you expand upward, heat from the first floor will rise to the second, making heating more efficient. Therefore, you save more money. Plus, with the two floors being connected, less of your addition is wall to wall with the outdoors. That means less heat leaks out or in, depending on the season. The house is more self-contained, temperature-wise.

If you’re planning a home renovation soon, no matter what expansion method you prefer, Heidan Construction is here to help. If you live in the Toronto area, give us a call and we’ll be more than happy to discuss your renovation and expansion options with you. 

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What Sets Heidan Apart From Other Construction Companies

If you’re in Toronto and looking to hire professionals in the construction industry, Heidan Construction is the number one choice for the job. You may be wondering what sets Heidan apart from other construction companies in the area. We’ve come together today to determine the qualities that make us a uniquely good choice for the job.

Getting Started

When considering a renovation becomes planning for one, getting things started with Heidan Construction is easy. A call or email can turn into a productive discussion about your future construction project. Our professionals know the quality of communication and will have you in to discuss the project in more detail before getting started. We’ll nail down all the details and ensure we have a clear idea of what you have in mind. After all, it’s your home and your satisfaction with the resulting work is the highest priority. 

Work in Progress

While working on your home, Heidan’s team of skilled construction workers will make sure to communicate with you about progress. Getting your opinion on the work in progress will ensure our work stays on the right path. Anything that is less than satisfactory to you, we’ll take very seriously. Adjustments will be made until you feel we’re accurately following the plan we put in place before starting. Stopping deviations from the plan in their tracks before they’re completed is a great way to save time and give you the home upgrade you had in mind.

Not all construction companies communicate and operate the same way. Finding a team that will work with you to get the desired results can be tricky. That’s especially true when you consider how saturated the field of construction is. There are a lot of companies and not all of them are cut from the same quality of cloth.

Finished Product

One of the things that really makes Heidan Construction shine is our finished products. We build some of the highest quality homes and offices in Toronto. If you want to see some examples of our work, check out our portfolio where you can see high res images of some of our best work. The quality of these homes that we have on display in our portfolio could easily become a reality for you.

Getting this kind of quality is not something you’ll find from just any construction company. Delivering mediocre results is not uncommon for many groups. Heidan has set a standard for itself and we won’t stoop beneath it or cut corners to meet our previously-made precedent.

Results aren’t just in the finished product, but the finished site as well. Presentation is just as important as product. Even if we built you a fantastic addition, if we left it a mess, littered with construction leftovers and trash, it would take down the beauty of the product by several notches. Unfortunately, this isn’t an uncommon occurrence within construction companies. Just know that when you hire Heidan, you get a great product and a clean work site. Turn-key is our standard for every project. So, give us a call when you’re ready to start planning your next renovation. We’ll be waiting to serve you!