A person in a gray shirt and blue cap is using a crowbar to adjust a plank under a house, likely part of the home raising process. Wires dangle above as wooden beams stabilize the structure, hinting at plans for a brighter basement suite. The setting seems geared towards family living improvements.

Raising a Home to Create a Brighter Basement Suite for Family

ByKristina

Kerr Design Build completed a major home renovation for a client in central Vancouver. The homeowner wanted to bring family from Alberta to live with her and desired a total renovation to accommodate everyone.

Increase living space and sunlight

A major facet of the renovation was lifting the house so that higher basement walls could be built, increasing the sunlight that would come into the new basement suite.

Raised and lowered the house

Kerr liaised with Nichol Bros, a company that specializes in such house lifts, to lift the house off its foundation for repairs so the higher basement walls could be built. One of Kerr Design Build’s services is basement underpinning and foundation repairs, as well as award-winning renovations and custom home builds.

Once Kerr finished the framing of the walls, Nichol Bros was called back to lower the house onto the new structure.

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