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Douville Contracting Your first call for home improvement construction in the Shuswap. Renos, bathrooms, decks.

Swipe to see the transformation! This was one of those times when my client wasn’t excited to call me. This is a trailer...
06/13/2026

Swipe to see the transformation!

This was one of those times when my client wasn’t excited to call me. This is a trailer/tiny home that wasn’t constructed properly and specific details like the window flashing and siding installation created this massive moisture issue that if left unchecked was going to create a total loss for my clients.

Luckily, when they sent me their project video we were still at the point where we could save this tiny home. It was a big repair that started with cutting out each rotten piece of framing one by one cutting off all of the fasteners from the interior finishing and cutting out the utilities in the studs and then installing new full studs from the bottom plate to the top plate, not to mention the sections of bottom plate that had to be replaced. This painstaking process allowed us to leave the interior finishing intact, which reduced the overall scope of this repair. Once the framing was fixed and insulation put back in we were able to re-sheathe the framing, adding plywood around the bottom plate to keep everything tied in.

Once the framing and sheeting repair was finished, I continued by properly wrapping the trailer with the proper detail around the windows and siding changes so that this problem can’t happen again. Despite the poor original siding installation, we were able to reuse it with a couple changes to ensure there are no more moisture issues. Then installed new LP smart siding to replace the original wooden siding that had rotted.

This is a permanent repair that I am 100% certain will outlast the rest of the structure and now my clients can go back to enjoying their tiny home in their slice of the Shuswap and not have to worry about their trailer falling apart.

Swipe to see the transformation! This was one of those times when my client wasn’t excited to need to call me. The first...
06/13/2026

Swipe to see the transformation!

This was one of those times when my client wasn’t excited to need to call me. The first picture shows what my clients sent me in their project video. This is a trailer/tiny home that wasn’t construction properly and specific details like the window flashing, and the siding installation created this massive moisture issue that if left unchecked was going to create a total loss for my clients.

luckily, when they approached me, we were still at the point where we could save this tiny home. It was a big repair that started with cutting out each rotten piece of framing one by one cutting off all of the fasteners from the interior finishing and cutting out the utilities in the studs and then installing new full studs from the bottom plate to the top plate, not to mention the sections of bottom plate that had to be replaced. This painstaking process allowed us to leave the interior finishing intact, which reduced the overall scope of this repair. Once the framing was fixed, we were able to re-sheathe the framing, adding plywood around the bottom plate to keep everything tied in.

Once the framing and sheeting repair was finished, I continued by properly wrapping the trailer with the proper detail around the windows and siding changes so that this problem can’t happen again. Despite the poor original siding installation, we were able to reuse it with a couple changes. Then installed new LP smart siding to replace the original wooden siding that had rotted.

This is a permanent repair that I am 100% certain will outlast the rest of the structure and now my clients can go back to enjoying their tiny home in their slice of the Shuswap and not have to worry about their trailer falling apart.

Not every job is a big sexy high end remodel. And that’s perfectly ok. Often the small repairs are the jobs that can pro...
04/25/2026

Not every job is a big sexy high end remodel.

And that’s perfectly ok. Often the small repairs are the jobs that can provide the biggest opportunities to help our clients.

These photos are a super sexy new bathroom, but they represent a gruelling focused effort over 2 1/2 days to make sure our clients suffered as little inconvenience as possible while repairing the subfloor that failed around the toilet because of a leaking wax ring.

This is the kind of leak that you don’t notice until the damage is done. At that point no one is excited to call the contractor, but you need the job done and you want to get it done right as quickly and efficiently as possible.

And that’s what we did here. We did our consultation, and found that if we wanted to have a factory looking repair we would need to remove the vanity so that it could be installed over the new flooring. This meant we had to remove the sink counter and backsplash to take out the vanity.

In order to make sure our repair stopped there we picked a tile that would cover where the old backsplash was removed so that we don’t have to go to paint the walls.

With a plan, a timeline and a price our clients knew exactly what we were getting into before they started.

Before showing up to start this repair we sourced all our clients finish selections to make sure we could stick to our timeline. Despite finding some questionable plumbing on the toilet drain that we had to redo, we were able to repair this subfloor and have the bathroom back in service in less than 48 hours. 2 days of straight hustle and our clients had their home, privacy and bathroom back. It looks easy when you have the right contractor, but one wrong move turns your two job in to several days or weeks of the worst happens.

Don’t wing it and hope for the best with your project. Go with Douville Contracting and be confident in our experience and expertise.

Go to Douvillecontracting.ca and send us your project video to get your free estimate, usually same or next day.

11/11/2024

Here’s Josh to give you a quick demo of how one of the team’s favourite tools, the Festool Domino, works!




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1952 Eagle Bay Road, Columbia-Shuswap
Sorrento, BC
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