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4 Reasons to get Floor-to-Ceiling Windows

There are so many features you can have implemented into your home design when remodeling or starting from scratch. From porches to skylights to so much more, the possibilities are only limited by imagination. However, there’s one particular feature we think deserves some extra consideration. Here are 4 reasons you should consider floor-to-ceiling windows in your home.

1. Save Money on Electricity

The first thing floor-to-ceiling windows are good for is saving money on electricity. How is that the case? Just take a look at how many lights you have on in your home right now. Floor-to-ceiling windows let in so much sunlight that you can actually save money. Keeping your electric lights off in favor of lighting up your space with natural sunlight can help you save significantly. Even one of these windows can be enough to light up the entire living room from sunup to sundown.

2. Make Your Space Feel Bigger

Saving money is one thing, but for some people it’s no burden to shoulder the cost of their indoor lighting. However, even those people can benefit from adding extra space to their home. And that’s exactly what adding floor-to-ceiling windows can do. Turning a large portion of the wall into glass makes the expanse of the outdoors feel like it’s part of your home.

The claustrophobic feeling of solid walls can’t contain you anymore. With floor-to-ceiling windows, it will suddenly feel like you have room to breathe again. Even small homes can benefit from that optical life-hack.

3. Improve Your View

Fine with your electric bill and plenty of space to spare? Don’t fret; there’s a benefit for you as well! Floor-to-ceiling windows will open up your home to beautiful new views. Let the beauty of the outdoors become part of your interior. Do you really want to spend your days looking at paint or wallpaper? Give yourself something that makes your home feel more beautiful.

Whether you have mountains outside your home, forests, or even just a suburban garden, you’ve got a view. Don’t let the beauty of the outdoors be wasted where you can’t see it. It’s yours to enjoy and you should make the most of it, even when you don’t want to leave the house.

4. Raise the Value of Your Home

If all else fails, or even if everything else applies, adding floor-to-ceiling windows will increase the value of your home. Even if you plan to stay there for many years yet, the eventual sale of your home is likely. Floor-to-ceiling windows will guarantee you make more money than you would have otherwise.

Why do these windows affect your home’s sale price so much? Because people find value in the previously mentioned points – especially the view. Having a good view from your home is a huge money-maker when it comes to resale value. This boost to your home’s value is only helped by adding big windows to make access to that view even easier.

If you’d like to inquire about home renovations or building your own custom home, give us a call at Heidan Construction. We’re ready to help with any home construction you’ve got on your to-do list.

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Invest in a Dining Room Addition for Thanksgiving

With the holidays quickly approaching and the summer sun leaving, it’s time to make preparations. There’s not much time left of the season for remodels. You can get your home renovated at any time of the year, but there are a lot of reasons to do it in summer. And, at this time of the year, there are additional reasons. If you get your remodel done now, you can invest in a dining room addition in time for Thanksgiving.

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Getting a full-sized dining room is a great home improvement. Not only does it give you somewhere formal to host dinners, it also frees up space in the kitchen and living room, allowing guests and family to socialize at the table. Growing families, especially, can benefit from any extra space in the home.

Preparing for Thanksgiving

A must-have part of Thanksgiving is throwing a feast. Whether it’s just you and your immediate family, all of your relatives, or hosted coworkers, you’ll need a lot of food. Preparing a lot of food means needing a place to put it. Trying to fit a feast’s worth of food onto a kitchen table or on extra counter space is impossible. Plus, serving in the kitchen doesn’t have the same pizazz or opportunity for place setting as serving in a dining room. Take your hosting to the next level with a dedicated dining room.

A Cohesive Dinner

Everyone celebrates Thanksgiving a little differently. Some eat formally at a table, some gather in the living room, and some disperse and eat where they want. However, if you’re hosting a dinner, there’s good reason to make your dinner a formal one.

Having everyone in one place around the dinner table means great conversation, easy access to seconds, and a holiday to remember. How are you going to achieve that if you’ve only got a 4-seat kitchen table? That’s plenty of seating for a small family during breakfast, but not for hosting. Give yourself the space you need to bring people together, all in one spot, with a dining room addition.

Hiring Heidan

Naturally, when it comes time to choose a company for your renovation, you’ll want to choose Heidan. We’re the best construction company in the Greater Toronto Area and here’s why:

  • We’ve got almost 20 years in the construction industry doing beautiful renovations and remodels on people’s homes. Not only do we do renovations, we build luxury homes from scratch. You know when you hire us to do a job, you’ll have a beautiful end result. You can even look at our portfolio to get a taste for what we can do.
  • We do the job right. From designs to construction, all the way to picking up the building site when we’re done, we do things properly. There will be no mess left behind and there will be no cutting corners. Heidan serves quality only.
  • You will be involved in the process as much or as little as you like. Our friendly and communicative employees will make sure you know what’s being done, how long it will take, and how much it will cost, all before we’ve made a single change. You deserve upfront business.

Give us a call if you have questions or would like to schedule a consultation. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Making More Space for Your Growing Family

Buying a house is a big step and for many, it means settling down for good. However, sometimes plans change and we end up needing a little more space than we expected. If your family is growing beyond the space your house provides but you’ve grown attached to it, it’s time for some home renovation!

How to Expand

There are a number of ways to expand an existing home, many of them more extensive than many realize is possible. Did you know you can add a second floor to your one-story home? If you need more bedroom and bathroom space, a new sitting area, or even all three, this is a great solution. However, if your budget is more narrow than that, or you don’t need as much additional space, there are other options. Perhaps a new bedroom or two is all you need. No matter what your space requirements, Heidan Construction can make it happen.

Planning Ahead

When you have an idea of what kind of space you need added to your home, it’s time for consultation. Come see us at our office in Toronto and we can discuss plans for your home. If you’re not entirely set on what you want, we’d be happy to give you the pros and cons of each option. We have plenty of experience in the construction business and we know what each process involves.

When you’ve decided what kind of additions you need, we can work together to fit them into the existing building. We can give you a quote on how much the renovations will cost so that you can plan ahead.

Making Plans Reality

When it comes to actually constructing the additions, Heidan Construction really excels. Our company has over 15 years of experience delivering top of the line service. When your home renovation is finished, it will be truly finished. Our policy at Heidan is that we leave no mess behind. Your new space will be ready to use and with no construction remnants in sight. The same goes for your yard. We don’t expect our clients to clean up after us. Part of delivering quality service is truly finishing the job.

Excellent Service

Here at Heidan, we have high expectations for our crew. When you hire us to complete any kind of project, we prioritize these things:

  • Efficiency. We get the job done right and we get the job done in a timely manner.
  • Professionalism. Our crew is professional with clients. Heidan chooses employees that are respectable and reflect well on our company values. You can count on having good, professional service.
  • Friendliness and open communication. These two things are the cornerstone of good customer service. The construction crew you’ll have working on your home will be approachable and understanding. Your questions will be answered with honesty, to the best of our crew members’ ability. Ensuring you understand the construction process as much as you desire is important to us. After all, you have a right to know what’s going on in your home.

Contact us if you’d like to discuss home renovation plans. We’re happy to answer any questions you may have or schedule a meeting.

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Why You Should do Your Home Remodel in Summer

Planning to get your home remodeled? There are some methods to going about home remodels that you should take note of. For one thing, you should have your home remodel done in summer. Let’s take a look at why.

Get Away from the Noise

One of the small reasons you should consider planning for a summer remodel is the ability to escape the noise. Colder times of the year can leave you feeling trapped in the house while it’s being worked on. With not much to do outside the house, it may feel like there’s little alternative. However, in the summer, there are ample opportunities to leave. 

  • Going to a park for some sun or a walk
  • Taking a day trip to the beach
  • Spending a day at the fair or a farmer’s market
  • Going camping for a little while and taking the opportunity to enjoy the peace and quiet of nature
  • Grabbing lunch at a cafe with some friends

The possible outings you could plan over the course of your home remodel are only limited by the imagination. With great weather, you could do all kinds of things.

Better Weather

Speaking of better weather, there are more benefits to that than just making outings more attainable. They also make the building process faster. Cement for an expanded foundation or anchoring points will set faster in the heat. Paint will dry faster, making it possible to move on to new tasks quicker. Overall, having the heat around does good things for the progress of construction.

Happier Crew

One such good thing is make working conditions better for the construction crew. While heat is its own challenge, it’s certainly better than working in the cold. Bundling up to spend a day outside building in winter is a lot harder than coping with sweat. Plus, working in warm weather is actually better for the body. Injuries from repetitive motion are less likely to occur when it’s warm. The cold can make joints ache after a lot of work, especially in more seasoned crew members.

Selling Season

Last but not least, summer is a great time for your remodel because house-selling season is just around the corner. The end of summer and all throughout fall is when most real estate movement happens. Not only do people rush to get moved in to a new home before winter, there’s also the housing turnover from the new school year. College students return from school in search of new housing or search for housing nearby the campus. Parents try to move smoothly before their younger kids’ school year starts. 

There are a variety of reasons why this time of year is most popular for moving, but the specifics don’t all matter. What’s important is that getting your home remodeled in summer sets you up to be ready for sale season. If you plan on selling your house, having it done before fall is ideal for you and everyone seeking new real estate.

If you have questions regarding our services, contact us. Our team at Heidan Construction is greatly looking forward to helping with your home remodel.

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Update Your Outdated Medical Office with Heidan

After a number of years of regular use, a medical office really needs a facelift. It’s fairly often that one can stumble upon a medical office that looks like it hasn’t seen an update since the eighties. Heidan Construction is looking to fix that by extending our remodeling services to medical offices. Make your office look professional and attractive again with a little professional help.

Aesthetic

One of the most obvious parts of updating an old building is improving the aesthetic. After all, most people don’t much appreciate the look and feel of the seventies and eighties anymore. That’s especially true when things haven’t been upkept properly. Chipped paint, cracked tiles, and stained carpet aren’t doing you or your business any favors. It’s time to do a little touching up to breathe life back into your office.

Functionality

After a number of years, the functional bits of an office begin to wear down and break. There are so many things that fall victim to the passage of time that it’s hard to find a place to start. From sink faucets to filing cupboards and from windows to medical equipment, functional features need to be replaced.

When new clients show up to a medical office and feel that it’s been neglected, they’re going to worry that they, too, will be neglected. Investing in the functional parts of your office is a way of showing that you’re committed to quality and care about your clients. It isn’t just a show of up-keeping the building, it also means providing comfort and ease to those visiting the office.

Have your windows replaced so that that cold draft stays outdoors where it belongs. Have sink fixtures upgraded to be more sanitary and functional. Replace out of date or broken down medical equipment to ensure your patients get the best care possible. Get new cabinets for storing file boxes and other equipment. Your staff will appreciate working doors that don’t squeak and the new fixtures will look nicer too.

Hire Heidan

When you decide it’s time to put forward the money to invest in your office and the future of your business, Heidan will be ready. Our team of friendly and efficient workers will be glad to turn your medical office back into the beautiful, up-to-date building it once was.

Heidan Construction provides efficient and professional service with a focus on doing things right the first time. Nearly two decades of providing quality remodels in Toronto has made us one of the best in service. We’re ready to take on whatever level of project you throw at us and we’ll really give it our best. One of our best features? We leave everything ready to go and with no mess left behind. Your office will be able to go right back into business when the work is done!

Contact us if you have any questions or would like to inquire about a quote for your medical office project.

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The Importance of Accessible Medical Office Design

Designing a medical office means taking into account a whole lot of factors. From the psychology of paint color to the layout of a building, many things impact an office’s functionality.
Because of that, we want to take a look at how important accessibility is in medical office design.

A Variety of Disabilities

The first thing we should note is how varied disabilities can be. Many people, when designing their offices, only take into consideration the obvious things, like wheelchair users. While wheelchair accessibility is incredibly important, especially in a medical setting, there are other disabilities to consider as well.

  • Blindness makes it hard to navigate in a world made for the sighted. One way to make your medical office more accessible to those affected is by including braille at the bottom of each door placard. Doing this ensures that the blind can find their way around a building without finding themselves in the wrong room by mistake. It’s also important to keep braille copies of forms or provide assistance with filling out paperwork if needed.
  • Deafness can also make navigating public buildings difficult. Something to keep in mind for the safety of your deaf patients is including visual signals for things like smoke alarms and whatnot. If an emergency occurs and a deaf patient is unable to hear an alarm, it could have devastating consequences.
  • Something of huge importance that is often overlooked are invisible disabilities. These are the disabilities that aren’t visible to the outside observer. Things like Ehlers Danlos Syndrome(EDS), Fibromyalgia, and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome(POTS) are a few invisible disabilities that can make navigating public spaces incredibly difficult. EDS is a connective joint tissue disorder that can cause partial and full dislocations many times a day. Fibromyalgia causes severe pain in muscles and joints. POTS causes a person’s heart rate to rise 30+ BPM when they’re on their feet. All of these have something in common. People dealing with these invisible disabilities need adequate access to seating to prevent injury.

Making Your Office Accessible

So, now that we’ve taken a look at some under-represented disabilities, let’s consider how we can accommodate them.

  • Make signage and forms accessible to the blind by providing them in braille.
  • Ensure the safety of the deaf by making emergency signals visible to the eye.
  • Provide seating for those who suffer from body weakness and/or chronic pain. Allowing enough space in your medical office is incredibly important for this reason among many others.
  • Allow enough space in your office for wheelchair users to navigate freely and without difficulty. This one is very important. Many buildings offer ramps inside the building without ensuring enough space to navigate once inside. Make sure you have a wide enough main path that a wheelchair user can pass by someone walking without the two having to climb around each other or reroute.

Hire Professionals

The best way to ensure your medical office is as accessible as it should be is to hire a company that’s experienced in producing accessible results. Because Heidan Construction has nearly two decades of experience in bringing building designs to life, we know how to make a medical office its best. Therefore, we make a good choice for medical office design. Contact us today with questions or to get a quote.