Assured Basements

We decided to finish our basement and we absolutely love it! We initially got 3 quotes and Assured Basements was by far the best. The sales rep came to our home and spent a lot of time measuring the space and creating a drawing. Other companies did Zoom, which was fine, but one company wanted us to measure the basement ourselves and do a drawing etc. That seemed like way to much time and work. The quote from Assured was pretty accurate - except we ended up adding some upgrades, widened the hall at the bottom of the stairs, and moved the HRV unit. No regrets at all - was worth the extra cost for the finished product!

There were a lot of finishing options in the show-room. I liked how a lot of the modern finishes were already included in the base price. The bathroom, for example, was all included and we just bough our own mirror. The flooring we upgraded to Cortex as it looked so much better than the base vinyl product. It was approx 4k extra, but it looks amazing - I like it better than our hardwood upstairs! When the process began, it was very quick and I was surprised how quickly and efficiently things were done. The workers were nice and courteous. Things seemed to slow down towards the very end, but I was impressed with how the time-line was pretty on par with what we were told. We opted to do the tiles for the fireplace to our upstairs one as the wall perimeter around the TV and fireplace is pretty small in the basement. So we are just waiting to get that done. We opted to hold off on doing the wet-bar, but have all the rough-ins ready to go. This was to save cost and will do it in a year or two.

We purchased our fireplace separately as I found the exact same one for a few hundred dollars cheaper. I would suggest if you're looking to do a fireplace, then buy your own and have the workers install it. I found the same one from a store that was on sale. So it's worth looking into to save some money.

I would recommend Assured Basements and glad we got other quotes to compare, as we knew we made the right decision. Everyone was friendly and helpful and made sure we were happy with the final product. The architect really knew his stuff as well and the layout he proposed was far superior to other ones suggested from other companies.