Keswick Homes Were Built for August, Not February
A lot of homes in Keswick didn’t start out as year-round houses. They started as summer cottages along Lake Simcoe, built for weekends in July and closed up by Thanksgiving. Over the decades, many of those cottages got converted into full-time residences — new furnaces, finished basements, four-season windows — without anyone ever going back […]
Attic Insulation and Mold: How to Tell When It’s Time to Remove and Replace Yours
If you haven’t looked at your attic insulation in the last few years, it’s worth a five-minute check. Attic insulation does two jobs at once. It keeps conditioned air where you paid for it. It’s also often the first place mold shows up when your home has a moisture problem. These two issues connect more often than […]
Attic Insulation in Keswick: Signs You Need an Upgrade Before Winter Hits
Every fall, homeowners across Keswick — on the southern shore of Lake Simcoe in the Town of Georgina — ask the same question once the first cold snap hits: “why does this house feel so drafty upstairs?” More often than not, the answer is sitting right above the ceiling. Attic insulation settles, compresses, and thins […]
Keswick’s Lakeside Homes Have an Insulation Problem the Rest of York Region Doesn’t Share
Keswick, on the south shore of Lake Simcoe in Georgina, has a housing mix you don’t see everywhere: a real concentration of homes that started life as seasonal cottages and were converted to year-round living, sitting alongside newer lakeside subdivisions. Cottage conversions in particular were rarely built with full-time winter performance in mind, and it […]
Insulation Rebate in Keswick: Fix the Cold Floors and Ice Dams — and Get Half the Cost Back
If you’ve got ice building on your eaves every winter or floors so cold you won’t cross them barefoot, you already know you need to do something about it. Here’s the part you might not know: the work that fixes those problems — attic air sealing and insulation, crawlspace and floor insulation — is exactly […]
Spray Foam in Keswick: Why Your Lakeside Floor Is So Cold (and How to Fix It)
There’s a complaint we hear constantly in Keswick’s lakeside homes and former cottages: the floor is freezing. Socks-and-slippers-in-October freezing. You crank the heat and the air warms up, but the floor stays cold underfoot all winter. It’s almost never the heating system. It’s what’s under the floor — and in a Lake Simcoe home built […]
Attic Insulation in Keswick: Why Your Home Gets Ice Dams by the Lake
If you live in Keswick, you know the Lake Simcoe winter. Wind off the lake, heavy snow, the freeze-thaw swings — and every year, ice building along the eaves, icicles hanging off the gutters, and maybe a water stain appearing on a ceiling in February. Most people file that under “just what winter does here.” […]