Devon’s Original Townsite Is One Attic, Repeated
Devon is not a town that grew. It was planned and built, deliberately and quickly, after the Leduc oil strike — and the original townsite still shows it in the most literal way possible.
Old Devon: one era, one spec, one settling curve
The Old Devon townsite went up in a concentrated postwar push, which makes it the most uniform housing stock we work in anywhere. These homes were built to the insulation expectations of the late 1940s and 1950s, which is to say very little by any modern measure, and whatever is in those attics now was added afterwards — usually once, usually decades ago, and usually only over the accessible middle. When we measure one of these attics we are effectively measuring the street. The gap to a current standard is the largest we routinely find in the region.
The river valley edge
Devon sits above the North Saskatchewan, and the homes along the valley rim take weather from a direction the rest of the town doesn’t. Exposure there does the usual thing to an attic perimeter — strips it back from the eaves — and it compounds an already thin starting point on the older streets.
Riverview, The Ravines, Highwood and Imperial Park
Devon’s later growth brought normal modern attics, built to the standards of their decades. The 1980s and 1990s streets are candidates for a straightforward top-up; anything built in the last fifteen years generally measures fine and we will say so.
A small town is an easy drive
Devon is a short run for us and always has been — the furnace and duct work we have done here since 2002 is why we know the townsite floorplans by heart. There is no travel charge on the inspection or the work.
If you live in the original townsite
Assume you are a long way short, and assume your neighbours are too. These are the biggest single-step improvements available to any homes we work on, precisely because they started from the lowest base.
