Some of the new metal looks quite good they say, don't know, i never notice that sort of thing, but i hear there is one design they stamp out to look like shakes, or at least shingles .... twenty-five years ago i was stuck on shakes, wanted as handmade a house as possible, after selling a series of houses wanted one to keep ... in fact, scoring the shake cedar was a factor in deciding to build, kind of a catalyst, along with finding a few yellow cedar logs on the beach and doing the illegal but highly effective whizzeroo on them ..... definitely into non-flammable now though, with the summers we've been getting recently
I'm going to check out Carmanah one of these days .... physically i mean, already familiar with it in the stock sense ... it's not an unhealthy chart they've got recently, and the news looks quite decent ..... as for manufacturing on the Island, lots of things are made there, and lots more could be, it's a completely pleasant place to live and not high-cost at all .... especially if you move north of Victoria, anywhere up island from Duncan will find much lower living costs, same available educated labour force, and just as close to ferries and airports ... when you make something high-value, transport cost becomes less of a factor, the thing is to make it right, keep the quality control ..... you go the maquiladora route when you're producing high volume and your product has become somewhat commoditised, and it doesn't always work out even then, there can be many problems ... can't write off BC for manufacturing, by those with the right ideas |
