Heritage Home Exterior Restoration

Extraordinary League is a quality heritage general contractor in Vancouver. A side of our business that we have not shared online is our exterior heritage restorations. This type of work is incredibly popular in Vancouver as the majority of people purchasing their...

Vancouver SRO Renewal Initiative

The Downtown Eastside is Vancouver’s most historically significant area as it was the city’s center throughout the 20th century and it currently holds the highest concentration of heritage buildings built between 1886 & 1920. The Downtown Eastside as...

Heritage Vancouver’s Top 10 for 2011

Heritage Vancouver Society has come out with its list of the Top 10 Endangered Heritage Sites in Vancouver for 2011. The top 3 are listed below and you can find the full list on the HVS website.  This year the HVS Endangered list has a definite focus on Vancouver...

Vancouver’s McPherson Building 1912

EXLE Contracting had the recent pleasure of taking on a heritage tenant improvement project in The McPherson Building – built in 1912 -down on the historic Water Street strip in the district of Gastown.  The McPherson Building was distinguished by a bluff brick...

Jack’s New & Used….Finders – Keepers

Jack’s New & Used is a dream for anyone that likes to rummage through old stuff in hopes of finding a diamond in the rough. This architectural salvage store in Burnaby has a unique collection of lighting & bath fixtures, doors, windows, hardware and...

What’s With The Wood

You may wonder why wood is such a prevalent decorative finishing material in Vancouver and the answer is quite simple…we’ve got a lot of wood.  Vancouver  was originally covered with a thick forest of fir, cedar, hemlock, spruce and salal and in the...