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link to Modular Home Building FAQ – From the Customer’s Point of View

Modular Home Building FAQ – From the Customer’s Point of View

Every good manufactured/modular home builder will have a list of frequently asked questions on their website. Those pages are a wealth of information but they’re from a sales point of view. Here is...

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link to Making Our Well Water Drinkable

Making Our Well Water Drinkable

In the midst of all the other finishing work for our new build, we had to look after making our well water potable. This is one of the few things that our builder leaves to the homeowner to complete....

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link to Moving Into Our New Build: Our Story and Best Tips for an Easy Move

Moving Into Our New Build: Our Story and Best Tips for an Easy Move

Well, if delivery day and final inspection days weren't surreal enough, moving day certainly was! After years of wishing, dreaming and planning, plus 3 months of not having a home of our own and...

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link to New Home Pre-Delivery Inspection and Tarion Warranty Activation

New Home Pre-Delivery Inspection and Tarion Warranty Activation

Our Pre-Delivery Inspection went on as expected on our HUG date - that’s the Quality Homes guaranteed completion date. Even with the bumps along the way, Quality Homes actually pulled this one off!...

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link to Our New Build: Countdown to Completion

Our New Build: Countdown to Completion

Things seem to move really fast near the end of the project. Organizing a move, and making sure all of our “to-dos” are complete in time can get hectic, so this post is definitely later than...

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link to Garden Planning for Our New Home

Garden Planning for Our New Home

Our Quality Home is in the finishing stages on site (less than 1 week to go!) and we’ve completed all the things we’re responsible for:  Hydro connection  Water treatment...

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Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we're going to build our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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