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Twenty years of writing the report. Now we do the work.
McAra Design + Build is a Calgary renovation and custom home company owned by Chris McAra, a licensed Alberta home inspector with twenty years of experience.
TWENTY YEARS inspecting · LICENSED Alberta home inspector · FIXED price before we start
What twenty years teaches you that a contractor doesn't learn.
A contractor sees the work on handover day, finished and clean. An inspector sees it years later, after it's had time to go wrong — a bath fan venting into the attic, a wall removed without checking what it held up, a suite that was never permitted. Twenty years of that is twenty years of learning which shortcuts show up right away, and which ones take five years to surface.
That's the standard McAra Design + Build scopes every project against: not what looks right on the day the crew leaves, but what an inspector would find in that same house ten years from now.
Cowtown Home & Property Inspections.
Chris McAra ran Cowtown Home & Property Inspections for twenty years, inspecting Calgary homes for buyers, sellers and homeowners.
It isn't a former job left off a resume — it's the reason McAra Design + Build scopes the way it does. The inspection reports are the proof, not a competitor to be distanced from.
Credentials.
Three Alberta licences, each verifiable directly against the province's own registries: an Alberta home inspector licence, a prepaid contracting licence, and a residential builder licence.
Get a free in-home quote.
We visit your home, then you get a written price and a start date.
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Or call Chris directly: +1 (587) 837-3113