Our New Website Is Live

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July 28, 2026

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Our new website is live. It replaces the site we had before. The work we have finished, the services we offer and the areas we cover now sit together in one place.

Why we rebuilt it

The old site had stopped describing the company properly. Jobs we had finished were not on it. Services we run every day were buried or missing altogether. We could have patched it again, the way we had been patching it for years, but a patched roof and a patched website fail the same way. So we started over, kept the parts that were still true and wrote the rest fresh.

The full portfolio, not a sample

The biggest change is the project portfolio. It holds the completed projects we have documented rather than a handful of highlights, and you can browse it by category and by location. If you look after a school, filter for schools. If you own a building in Powell River, filter for Powell River. The idea is that you find a building like yours before you call us, so the first conversation starts from something real instead of a brochure.

What is on a project page

Each project shows what we did, where it is and which category it falls under. Roofing, cladding, repairs, sheet metal, mechanical. Some jobs are a single scope. Many are three or four, because on most buildings the roof, the flashings, the cladding and the rooftop mechanical all meet each other, and it is simpler when one contractor owns those joints.

Eight services, each with a page of its own

We are a roofing, sheet metal, cladding and HVAC contractor, and the site now lays that out plainly. On the commercial side there is commercial roofing, commercial cladding and commercial repairs. On the residential side there is residential roofing, residential cladding and residential repairs. Mechanical work sits under HVAC. And design assistance covers the help we give architects, engineers and builders while a building is still being drawn, which is when envelope details are easiest and cheapest to change.

Three service areas

We work from three branches. Cumberland and the Comox Valley, Campbell River, and Powell River. That is where our crews are based, so the site is organized the same way. If your building sits outside those areas, call and ask rather than guess! We'll do our best to help.

Who built it

The site was built by Reach Ecomm, a web development and digital marketing agency. We handed them the old site and told them what wasn't working. This is what they came back with. If your own site needs the same kind of rebuild, you can find them at reachecomm.com.

Estimates are still free

You can request an estimate from any page on the new site. Our estimates are free and include a detailed list of the work that will be done and the materials used. Nothing about that has changed and nothing about it will. If you would rather talk than type, call us at 250-336-8088. If you would rather write it down, use the contact page and tell us what the building is and what it is doing. We will get someone out to look at it.

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