Holmes on Homes Podcast: Healthy Homes

By Mike Holmes For me, being on TV was always about educating people on how to do it right when it came to their homes. How to Build it Right, Own it Right, Protect it Right, and Sell it Right. From teaching you what’s behind your walls to picking the right materials,...

Leave these 5 Jobs To a Pro

By Mike Holmes If you have seen any of my TV shows, you KNOW I don’t recommend that homeowners try to save a few dollars by doing work around the house they aren’t qualified to do. You can make a much bigger mess and compromise the safety, structure or durability of...
Building a Comfortable Home

Building a Comfortable Home

New home buyers have been looking for energy efficiency in their new home builds for quite some time, especially since the 1980s and the R2000 home program.  As knowledge and technology have improved since then, residential builds across Canada have continued the path...

Building Code Changes Related to Energy Efficiency

Did you know there will be major changes to the Building Code in Saskatchewan coming into effect on January 1 2019?  Our province is the last one in Canada to adopt Section 9.36 of the National Building Code.  This section sets out minimum standards (for the first...

Five Things to Ask your Builder

Many times, new home buyers make a decision on a new home based almost entirely on what the house looks like.  While looks are important, as the old saying goes – its what’s inside that counts!  What is in the walls, and how did it get there?  While you don’t...

Inspections – A Vital Part of Your New Home Build

When building a new home, many owners have that nagging feeling after they’ve moved in – how do I know my builder didn’t cut corners?  This is for good reason – I read once that the typical new home has as many as 60,000 potential points of failure.  A new home is...