Gravenhurst Home Building Centre

In days of yore the lumber yard was just that – a large outdoor retail space that sold a lot of lumber and a tiny little indoor space that housed bits and pieces of hardware. Today’s lumber yards are entire building centres where you can find just about anything you need for a new build or renovation.

Now, take it one step further: it’s not just an expansion of “stuff on a shelf” to yet even more stuff on a shelf. Staff expertise redefines the modern-day lumberyard as they seek out and hire former tradespeople as well as focus their recruitment efforts on designers in specific skills such as kitchen, woodstoves, and doors and windows. These designers look at your needs, space and budget and then present various styles and options to provide you with the whole tamale – ensuring both form and function. Bring a magazine photo of your dream kitchen and these designers will help create it. Window experts work with the customer to select from a vast array of suppliers and styles to find the most suitable for your project. Fireplace specialists customize your home’s focal point – whether it be a full-blown hearth adorning the great room or a pellet stove warming the rec room.

This combination of retail selection and expertise brings both convenience and accountability into play – a sort of ‘one-stop-shop’ that enables homeowners to express their vision and then wave their hands and ask the building centre to ‘make it so’. The do-it-yourselfer or the homeowner with contractor can both benefit from these services.

Local builders are a key component, partnering with the building centre to bring the homeowner’s dreams to fruition. Building centres have become essential resources for the professional builder, sourcing out new products, providing manufacturer’s installation requirements and specifications, providing specialty equipment and even offering payment terms. All this serves to liberate the contractor from various supply-related tasks, freeing them up to focus on building, production and keeping the homeowner happy. Contractors often send the homeowner into the building centre to pick out the finishings of their choice.

This model of one-stop-supplier makes the too oft onerous task much easier for both the contractor and the homeowner as they tap into the existing resources that flow from the building centre – range of selection, design, scheduling, shipping and installation.

Yet another option available to the homeowner is to take advantage of the building centre’s in-house installers. Warranteed by the building centre, these installers are typically well-established, experienced and provide consistently high quality work. Although these installers are independent contractors, they depend on the repeated referrals driven by satisfied customers.

The evolution of the lumber yard has been driven by anticipating the needs of the homeowner and the builder. Those lumberyards who have risen to the challenge bask in the limelight of customer satisfaction.

Gravenhurst Home Building Centre is a family-owned business that supports a large contractor base as well as services both the local and cottage customer clientele. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff are here to help with all your projects, big or small. We’re homeowners helping homeowners with expert advice.

1111 Highway 169, Gravenhurst, ON
Tel: (705) 687-2289
Toll free: 1 (888) 200-9860
http://hbcgravenhurst.ca/
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