Winnipeg, MB
While national chains like Rona and Home Depot came to Winnipeg long after Advanced Design/Build was established, they can never offer the level of service that local lumber yards can provide. We have done business with our local lumber yard since Day One (mid '70's) in its many incarnations. For many years it was Charleswood Building Supplies, then part of the Do-It chain, then TimberMart, and finally McMunn and Yates - a Manitoba business based in Dauphin. This supplier can always be counted on to provide building materials ranging from dimensional lumber and sheet goods to metal roofing, specialty plywood products, windows, and fastener specialties.
Local yards cannot provide the vast selection of specialty electrical, plumbing, and floor covering options that a national chain can, and builders don't expect them to do so. What the small local yards can provide is a close working relationship with a builder that helps to keep a project moving on schedule. It comes down to the personal service and help needed to allow a small builder to deliver a high quality home to its clients. For Advanced Design/Build, our supplier of choice is McMunn and Yates, Charleswood branch.
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