Victorian Sunroom Addition – Full Build in Cargill, Brockton
We recently broke ground on a sunroom addition for a heritage Victorian home in Cargill, part of Brockton, Ontario—just north of Walkerton and south of Port Elgin. JCB & SONS was hired as the general contractor to oversee the entire project, from excavation and foundation to framing and finish. The new sunroom is designed to blend seamlessly with the architecture of the original home while providing a bright, year-round space for the homeowners.
This is a full-scope renovation and new build, combining structural carpentry, foundation work, and careful detailing around an existing heritage structure. It’s the kind of addition that requires experience, precision, and respect for both the old and the new—hallmarks of the sunroom and addition work we deliver across Hanover, Brockton, and the surrounding Grey-Bruce region.
Excavating the material from the foundation hole and loading to be removed from the construction site.
The Miller Group provided the cement for our project. These are our freshly poured concrete footings with a keyway cut in to receive the new foundation walls for this addition.
The walls are freshly poured and have been covered with insulated tarps to protect from the temperature drops. Chemicals have been added to the cement mix to make it generate heat as well as the cement was made with hot water because of the time of year to help it cure.
The boys (Gabriel Bender and Jude Bender) took time from school to come be a part of pouring this foundation. This gets them a hands on experience at a young age and provides opportunity for the next generation to take on and experience the work organically and develop skills naturally. Work ethic is developed and skills are learned.
Farlow’s Home Hardware provided the Home Builder fibrated asphalt foundation coating to waterproof the new crawlspace.
After the foundation coating has cured we installed Delta MS foundation wrap from Farlow’s Home Hardware to provide drainage to the new crawlspace. It is wrapped down to the weeping tile which is covered in drainage stone and filter cloth before material that was removed during excavating is place back around the foundation. The weeping tile ties into a sump pail in the new crawlspace.
The foundation is backfilled and ready for the sill plates to be installed on the anchor bolts that were placed in the concrete to secure the floor system to the foundation walls.
Welbeck Sawmill delivered our floor system and we have installed the new Pressure Treated sill plates on sill gasket and Typar house wrap. This is holding the new 2” x 12” floor joists @ 12” on centre with two runs of solid blocking to ensure a floor with very little deflection. This all gets covered in a 3/4” tounge & groove plywood sub-floor which is glued and screwed.
Solid blocking ensures all the joists stay in their place, can’t twist and makes everything binds together and shares the load on the floor joists.
Would also like to give a big thank you to Jamie Kuhl of ArchLines for all the design work on this project and with the permit process to make this all happen for our customer.
After the sub-floor was completed we covered the entire floor with insulated tarps to ensure the cold stays out of the foundation until the walls are up and everything is closed in.
Framing a Heritage Log Home Addition – West Grey Builder
Framing is now complete on this heritage log home addition near Priceville, in the heart of West Grey. JCB & SONS served as the builder and carpenter on this rural home improvement project, handling slab layout and full structural framing. The new space ties into the original log structure and will house mechanical systems like the HRV and high-efficiency furnace, while adding practical year-round storage. This type of log home addition—solid, functional, and built with care—is exactly the kind of craftsmanship we bring to heritage renovations throughout Markdale, Durham, Flesherton, and the surrounding Grey Highlands.
Ethan Bender from Acewood Carpentry was an integral part of this project and was with us from start to finish.
Our Branson is on site with JCB himself and used to safely handle and place materials for this project. Ethan is prepping for installing rigging to set the 40’ LVL ridge beam.
The 40’ 3ply LVL ridge beam is in place with the middle column installed ready to receive the first of our rafters.
JCB cutting our rafters and placing them on our Branson to lift them into place.
Rafters are set higher then the ridge beam to allow baffle vents to run continuously from the vented soffit at the eaves to vented ridge cap at the peak, preventing any ice damming on this roof.
Fascia board lookouts are installed and gable Fascia is started. Almost ready for sheathing.
The roof was sheathed with 5/8” plywood and covered in a combination of Alco ice and water shield as well as Rex synthetic roofing underlayment.
The bump out window roof sheathing was left off so that the spray foam insulators could spray closed cell foam in it while spray foaming all the rim joist in the new addition. These areas are difficult to seal properly with other insulating methods.
The 2” x 12” rafters provide maximum space for storage in the new attic as well as room for insulation and ventilation allowing the correct R value required to keep this home cool in the summer and warm in the winter and prevent any ice damming.
John Manville AP foil-faced 1” foam sheathing was used for the wall sheathing to provide continuous insulation over the whole addition. Providing and R-28 wall with the Rockwool batt insulation.
The interior is a blank canvas, ready for windows, doors and then removing the old exterior wall to open up the existing home to the new addition. This will become the new kitchen and dining room as well as a main floor master bedroom with walk in closet and ensuite.
