VY Build Inc

Tired of painting white PVC sheets black, only to watch the joints open up and the paint peel? 📉

In Atlantic Canada, painting white PVC a dark color drives the surface temperature past what the material is designed for. The result? Massive expansion that ruins your joints, and every cut requires a tedious touch-up.

💡 THE SOLUTION: Our Cellular PVC Sheet (4' x 8' x 3/4") is pigmented and heat-stabilized BLACK right through the core!

✅ No painting, no peeling, no chalking.
✅ Cut, rout, or chamfer—the edge stays perfectly black.
✅ Reversible: Woodgrain texture on one side, smooth on the other.
✅ Perfect for column wraps, soffits, wide window surrounds, and cabinet bases.

Stop compromising on your dark-trim details. Build smarter and make the finish last a lifetime with VY Build.

🛒 Order yours today: https://vybuild.ca/product/cellular-pvc-sheet-4x8-3-4-black/
📍 Available online and at our Charlottetown store (27 A Third Street)!

Attention Atlantic Canada contractors, dealers, and large installation crews! 🏗️ Stop making mid-week supply runs and secure your inventory with the VY Build Multi-Purpose Gun Foam — Pallet Lot.

With 40 cases (480 cans) delivered straight to you, you're getting top-tier, energy-efficient sealing power designed for our climate.

✅ High-yield: Up to 45 litres per 24 oz can
✅ All-Weather Application: Works in -12 °C to +30 °C
✅ Fully Certified: UL/ULC listed and AAMA verified

💡 Pro Tip: Buying your foam in bulk pallet lots not only guarantees you have crucial materials on hand during peak building season, but it also dramatically lowers your cost-per-unit, keeping your project bids competitive and your margins healthy.

Reserve your pallet today and keep your sites moving: https://vybuild.ca/product/vy-build-gun-foam-pallet-lot/

Builders, contractors, and dealers in Atlantic Canada! 🏗️ When you're managing large crews or multiple sites, material shortages can cause costly delays. The smartest way to keep your projects on schedule? Buying in bulk.

Keep your sites insulated, sealed, and moving forward with the VY Build Multi-Purpose Gun Foam – now available in a Pallet Lot! Engineered for our tough climate, this foam applies flawlessly even when temperatures drop to -12°C.

📦 What’s in the lot?
• 40 cases (480 cans total)
• Massive yield: up to 45 litres per can
• Winter-ready: Application temp -12°C to +30°C
• Fully certified: UL/ULC listed & AAMA verified

Perfect for dealers, large installation crews, and commercial builders who need top-tier energy-efficient materials on hand at all times.

Secure your supply today: https://vybuild.ca/product/vy-build-gun-foam-pallet-lot/

📍 Shop online or visit us at 27 A Third Street, Charlottetown, PE.

When clients arrive with passive house targets and a European spec sheet, the gap between what they're asking for and what ships in six weeks is where most builders lose margin. Our spec team works through the same five checkpoints on every custom window order: 1. Rough opening vs. frame size confirmed against the drawing set — not assumed from a typical. A mismatch discovered at delivery costs far more than a 10-minute plan review. 2. Operating type matched to orientation. Tilt-and-turn on windward coastal elevations; single-hung or slider where interior access matters more than infiltration control. The wrong type at rough-in is a callback waiting to happen. 3. Glazing unit verified against the energy model. The Vinyl Pro Single-Hung comes with advanced insulation properties and a tight seal — confirm the thermal spec matches what your energy consultant logged before the model is stamped. 4. Colour and finish confirmed in writing before manufacturing. Custom size and colour orders are available, but changes after production confirmation add lead time that a tight Atlantic Canada construction schedule can't absorb. 5. Warranty documentation collected at order, not at closeout. The Vinyl Pro line carries a lifetime warranty — make sure that paperwork is in the homeowner's file before you walk off the job. We ship to builders across PEI, NS, NB, and NL. If your next custom home bid needs a window schedule reviewed against the drawing set before you commit to a price, our spec team handles that conversation before the order is placed. Anyone else running a pre-order checklist on custom window specs? What step do you find builders most consistently skip?

Here's why that math works. The building envelope does one job: stop heat from escaping before the mechanical system ever has to react. Most builders we work with understand this in principle. Fewer have seen it broken down by layer. The IGLO ENERGY Alaska 2 door we carry runs on a 7-chamber frame and 5-chamber sash, 82mm installation depth. Two EPDM gaskets, Ug = 1.1 W/(m²K) glass, and a thermal-break threshold. That door's Ud = 0.8 W/(m²K). At that number, the entry point — historically the biggest single thermal weak spot in a residential envelope — stops being a liability on your blower-door result. Here's the teardown contractors ask us about: → Chamber count matters because it multiplies dead-air barriers between inside and outside. Seven chambers in the frame means seven consecutive thermal breaks before conductivity reaches the interior wall. → The EPDM gasket pair isn't redundancy — it's sequential: the outer seal handles weather, the inner seal handles air. One task each, both done well. → The 3-point espagnolette distributes lock force evenly across the slab. No flex, no gap, no cold draft at 2am in January. → Hidden hinges aren't cosmetic — they eliminate the metal-to-frame thermal bridge that surface-mounted hardware creates. None of that replaces good wall R-value or a calibrated heat pump. But it means your mechanical system starts from a better baseline — and your client's heating bill reflects it. Spec questions on IGLO ENERGY for your next project? Contact VY Build Inc. — [email protected]

Your client qualifies for up to $15,000 toward a heat pump switch through the Oil-to-Heat-Pump Affordability Program — but does the install include the lineset channel, or does that come back as a callback next winter?

The federal OHPA rebate (up to $15,000, with provincial top-ups for income-qualified households switching from oil heat) is real money, and it's moving clients off the fence. The paperwork, though, triggers a specific inspection checklist — and the lineset installation is where we see the most overlooked items.

Before the OHPA application goes in, run through this with your client:

✓ Lineset spec confirmed — our VY Heat Pump Accessories line includes 1/4" x 3/8" and 1/4" x 1/2" 50 ft options. Match the spec to your unit before you order.

✓ Lineset channel selected — the 8-foot channel sections with couplings, flat 90 elbows, outside 90 elbows, and tee fittings protect the refrigerant lines and keep the install looking clean for the inspection photo the rebate program requires.

✓ Liquid tight conduit in place — 1/2" liquid tight (available in 100 ft rolls) handles the electrical run to the outdoor unit, required on most Atlantic Canada installs.

✓ Wall bracket or floor stand confirmed — both are in our VY Heat Pump Accessories package. Don't order the unit without confirming which mount the wall construction supports.

✓ Rebate pre-approval in hand before equipment is purchased — OHPA requires pre-approval for the federal portion. Provincial top-up timing varies; verify with your provincial program before install date.

One sourcing call to us covers the full accessories package. We stock these at our Charlottetown yard and ship across Atlantic Canada.

Visit vybuild.ca to review the accessories spec sheet, or reach out at [email protected].

We ship 300–400 windows a year to Atlantic Canada builders. The ones calling us back about problems aren't asking about U-values or glass packages — they're asking why their rough openings are failing air-tightness. Here's what we keep seeing: builders spec a high-performance window, then lose the thermal gains in the framing gap. The window does its job. The connection between window and wall does not. Our SPC Flooring VY 107 Oak Beige is a good example of how we think about spec coherence in general — every layer of a build has to work with the one beside it. At $2.60/sqft, it's a line item your clients can understand without a spreadsheet. When you're pricing a net-zero or high-performance custom home this spring, interior finish specs like flooring matter more than most builders budget for — because a client who paid for performance expects the whole package to feel premium, not just the envelope. We have two stock colours in Charlottetown — VY 107 Oak Beige is one of them. If you're speccing for a spring groundbreaking, come by or contact us to check current availability. What's the interior finish spec question your high-performance clients are asking most right now? Drop it below — we read every one.

https://vybuild.ca/product/spc-flooring-vy-107-oak-beige/

We built 50 of these and we are not keeping them.

A corner of a European triple-glazed window with a Canadian nail fl**ge, an infrared thermometer, and a draft tester. You measure your own glass, then you measure ours, and you decide what the difference is worth.

$39 with shipping. One per customer.



https://vybuild.ca/cold-test/

Did you know that up to 30% of residential heating and cooling energy is lost through inefficient windows? Stop guessing about your home's energy efficiency and start proving it. 🪟❄️

Meet the Vybuild Cold Test Kit Triple-Glazed Window Sample Box. We believe in our European tilt-turn windows so much that we want you to test them in your own hands before you buy.

What’s inside the box?
✅ A 14″ × 14″ cross-section of our triple-glazed window (count the 3 panes and 2 sealed cavities yourself!)
✅ An infrared laser thermometer to read surface temperatures
✅ A draft tester to see exactly where air moves
✅ A Canadian nail fl**ge so your crew knows installation is a breeze
🎁 PLUS: A $300 credit toward any window order of $5,000 or more!

Get $40+ in guaranteed testing products with shipping included, and feel the difference of intelligent construction.

🔗 Order your Cold Test Kit today: https://vybuild.ca/product/cold-test-kit-triple-glazed-window-sample-box/

Two of the contractors we work with in PEI both bid a net-zero custom home this spring — same footprint, similar specs, different window suppliers.

One came back to us with a window schedule. We pulled the spec sheets, confirmed the U-values against the passive house target, formatted the schedule for the permit submission, and had everything ready in 48 hours. The other contractor went to a regional distributor, got a quote, and spent the next three weeks chasing a technical data sheet that never matched the plan.

We ship 300–400 windows a year to Atlantic Canada builders (per our own shipping data). The pattern we see consistently: builders don't lose net-zero bids on price. They lose because their supplier can't produce the documentation the building inspector or the certifier needs — fast enough, or at all.

The spec consultation we provide isn't a sales add-on. It's the actual product. We pull the performance data from the manufacturer's technical sheet before you order, confirm it matches your energy model, and format it for your permit set. If the U-value doesn't work for your target, we tell you before you're committed to a rough opening.

If you're running a high-performance custom home brief right now and you're not sure your window schedule will survive the blower-door test phase, that's worth a conversation before the slab is poured.

Contact VY Build Inc. for pricing and spec consultation — [email protected]





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