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Silent Story Film to be felt. Real estate & construction films for Vancouver Island, for everyone who builds, sells & buys property. Victoria, across BC.

I ran job sites before I filmed, so I shoot like someone who built it. RPAS Advanced, $5M insured.

18/10/2026

Winter Rain on Site: Pumps, Heaters and the 5°C Rule

November in Victoria. Four to five degrees above freezing. Rain most days. The site keeps running anyway.

A four-minute film on building through a wet West Coast winter: pumping water out of the excavation, protecting a fresh pour, and keeping the crew warm and dry.

Two numbers from it:
5°C: at or below this, cold-weather concreting rules apply in Canada.
7 MPa: the strength fresh concrete needs before it can safely freeze.

Builders on the Island: what does your crew change first when November hits?

Made with AI: images and narration by Google's Gemini Notebook from our research, music and sound effects by ElevenLabs. Sources are in the YouTube description, link in the comments. General information, not engineering advice.

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30/09/2026

6 a.m. in Victoria. Rain on the forms. Trucks booked.
The super has to decide: pour or cancel.

Under CSA A23.1, if the forecast says it could drop below 5°C in the next 24 hours, your blankets and heaters need to be on site before the first truck arrives.

19/09/2026

The contract decides who eats the surprise — not the builder you like.

Fixed price puts the overrun on them. Cost plus puts it on you. The deciding factor is how finished your drawings are, and almost nobody checks that before they sign.

AI imagery, my research and my edit. Full film on YouTube.

31/08/2026

Three documents to ask any builder for before anything gets signed: their Licensed Residential Builder number, their 2-5-10 Home Warranty enrollment, and a current WorkSafeBC clearance letter.

All three are checkable in an afternoon. Most people check none of them.

25/08/2026

Two loans in a multiplex build, not one. Construction financing and term takeout. Most first-time developers only budget for the second, and that is where the pro-forma falls apart.

New video on what BC lenders actually want on a multiplex in 2026 — construction versus term, CMHC MLI Select, draws, and the BC Builders Lien Act holdback that shapes every subcontractor's cash flow.

15/08/2026

An illegal secondary suite in BC does not usually fail the way people expect. It doesn't fall down. It doesn't burn. It quietly costs the homeowner six figures on the insurance claim, the mortgage renewal, or the sale — years after the drywall went up.

New video today on what makes a suite legal in British Columbia, and what happens when it isn't.

Nine checks, in order:

1. Ceiling height under BC Building Code Section 9.37 — 2.0 metres, with a 1.95 metre alternate compliance path for existing dwelling conversions
2. Egress window in every bedroom — 0.35 square metres minimum unobstructed opening, no dimension under 380 millimetres
3. Fire separation between the primary dwelling and the suite — three legal paths, from 15 minutes with photoelectric interconnected alarms up to 45 minutes without
4. Parking, after Bill 44 removed off-street minimums within 400 metres of frequent transit on June 30, 2024
5. A separate, self-contained entrance
6. Permits, staged inspections, and a final Occupancy Permit
7. Insurance disclosure — the single most common way an unpermitted suite hurts a homeowner
8. CMHC's 100 percent rental-income rule on legal owner-occupied two-unit properties
9. Bill 44 itself — what it required municipalities to permit, and what it did not do

Every figure sourced to BC Building Code, BC Housing, CMHC, or a municipal bylaw. Vancouver Island focus, code applies BC-wide.

04/08/2026

Most custom home budgets don't die on the job site. They die in the paperwork.
The 7 mistakes that blow BC build budgets — in six minutes: youtube.com/

23/06/2026

Six months from now, a home stands on an empty Sooke lot. The space between those two points is not a mystery — but the five phases of a BC custom build are not what most homeowners expect.

Our newest short film walks through the full process honestly — lot evaluation, permits and pre-construction, foundation to lock-up, finishing, and handover with the 2-5-10 warranty. A 2,000 sq ft Greater Victoria custom home runs about $800K–$1.3M plus land in 2026, and site conditions are what drive the biggest cost variance.

For more information visit silentstory.ca

12/06/2026

Everyone asks how much. Almost nobody asks how long — until they're living in a rental for an extra eight months on a build that was supposed to take fourteen.

Our newest short film walks through the honest 2026 BC custom home build timeline. Pre-construction. Foundation to lock-up. Interior and finishing. The three things that stretch the timeline most in BC. And a realistic month-by-month roadmap. If you're planning a build anywhere from Victoria to Surrey, give it six minutes before you sign a contract.

For more information visit silentstory.ca

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868 Orono Avenue
Dhaka
V9B0X9

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 19:00
Thursday 09:00 - 19:00
Friday 09:00 - 19:00
Saturday 09:00 - 19:00
Sunday 09:00 - 19:00

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