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Legal basement apartmentsSecond-unit compliant In-law & multi-gen suitesA parent moving in Home theatres Wet bars & lounges Home offices & studios Home gyms & wellness

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What could your basement actually become?
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Every basement we build includes a kitchen and a bathroom. Fixed price agreed in writing before a single wall comes down, and a $1,000 per week penalty if we run past the completion date in your contract.
What it costs

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Basement renovation cost guideReal Durham Region numbers Cost calculatorA range in two minutes Basement Potential ReportWhat your basement can take

Paying for it
Financing optionsAvailable quietly, never the hook The Feasibility Assessment$697, credited to your project

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One fixed price, in writing.
The Feasibility Assessment measures everything that decides the build, then gives you a written scope and a price that does not move.
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We publish real costs. No free estimates, no price ranges designed to win the job, and no number that changes once the walls are open.
Why BCR

The proof
Reviews14 client videos and transcripts Client storiesSix projects, start to finish Our workPhotographs and real figures

How we work
The BCR PromiseFixed price, on-time penalty, 7-year warranty Is BCR right for my project?An honest read, including no About BCR Contact

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Are we even the right fit?
Some projects are not ours. This page says which, plainly, so you do not spend a month finding out the hard way.
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Learning Centre

What it costs
Cost & pricing37 articles, real numbers The cost guideWhat a basement actually costs here Comparisons8 articles, us against the alternatives

Getting it right
Legal suites & permits20 articles on what Ontario requires Problems & pitfalls9 articles on what goes wrong Choosing a contractor9 articles, including on us

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109 articles, written by the person who does the work. Real prices, the jobs we turn down, and the parts other contractors leave out. Nothing here is written to rank.
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Six BCR clients, on camera, talking about what they were worried about beforehand and what happened. Full transcripts on every page. Where we have the invoice, the number is published.

Legal basement apartment

A realtor built a legal suite in Whitby. It rented for top dollar.

Sabina Peary sells houses for a living, which means she has watched a lot of renovations go wrong from the outside. When she needed…

Sabina Peary, Whitby · 3 min 57 video

In-law suite$185,532

One family under one roof, and $185,532 to do it properly.

Brian and his wife were working out where to go when he retires. Then their daughter and son-in-law bought the house, and the answer…

Brian Paul, Millbrook · 3 min 04 video

In-law suite$264,341

She moved into the basement so her daughter could afford the house.

The plan came from her daughter: she would take the upstairs, and her mother would live below. Before she agreed to any of it,…

Erica, Durham Region · 11 min 37 video

Basement finishing

They had built two homes. They knew exactly what usually goes wrong.

Marie and Vincent downsized from London to Oakville and needed the basement to make the smaller house work. They interviewed four or five companies.…

Marie & Vincent Rocco, Oakville · 5 min 02 video

Basement finishing

One month, on budget, under real time pressure.

Christian and his family had just moved into the Oshawa and Courtice area. They were on a deadline and his father was worried about…

Christian, Courtice · 3 min 32 video

Two other companies kept escalating the price. Then he got fed up.

Dan wanted a family space big enough to host Christmas. Two contractors in, he had a price that kept moving and a start date…

Dan Coonin, Oshawa · 2 min 50 video

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Every BCR video testimonial, with transcripts, in one place.

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