wife Sandi. “Throughout all of our 35 years of business, Sandi has been my crutch in tough times, my biggest fan always, and a calm voice when needed,” he says. “I could not have done this without her.” These days, Heritage Design services both homeowners with smaller-type projects and home builders and general contractors with larger projects. Several of the builders they work with are long-lasting clients. Decks comprise about 50 per cent of their overall income, with fencing, roof projects, and snow removal comprising the other 50 per cent. Geographically, the bulk of Heritage Design’s work takes place within the Waterloo Region, though they are willing to travel to do larger projects – and Ken stresses that they are not afraid of the challenge that comes with those larger projects: “We have completed whole townhome projects, we have fenced complete subdivision perimeters, and we’ve enclosed complete commercial properties,” he says. “Our team is capable, well trained and quality conscious.” As examples of what they are capable of, Ken cites two recent projects, both new installation types for them. Both involved decking being installed on rooftops of new apartment buildings, both were in the Waterloo Region. All materials had to be craned to the rooftops and the materials not used had to be removed by crane as well. “We had not ever been involved in projects like this in the past, so a new challenge was faced,” Ken says. “In fact, we all enjoyed the challenge and both projects were completed on time and they looked fantastic.” In the near future, heritage Design is set to take on some other private homeowner projects that Ken describes as “large and varied” in terms of the number of things being constructed on site, which he says “always presents challenges.” Sometimes those challenges are directly related to the homeowner and other times to the local building department. In either case, Ken says that Heritage Design is eager to confront those kinds of challenges and find solutions. THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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