Surrey · September 2026
South Surrey mid-rise & townhouse row
A four-storey wood-frame residential building and the townhouse row beside it in South Surrey, finished in grey lap siding and white panel cladding, with glass balconies on the mid-rise and cantilevered entry canopies on the townhouses. Multi-family work is a different discipline from a custom house: a simpler palette, a great deal more of it, and details that repeat across a long elevation, so the flashing at one window and the corner where panel meets lap have to be right every time. This is the building complete, landscaped and lived in.
- Location
- South Surrey, Surrey, BC
- Building
- Multi-family · four-storey wood-frame residential building with a townhouse row
- Status
- Complete
- Photographed
- September 2026
Our scope
What we did here
- Grey lap siding across the field walls of the mid-rise and the townhouse row
- White panel cladding with reveals on the bays and upper storeys
- Corner, window and transition detailing where panel meets lap
- Trim and flashing across a long, repeating multi-family elevation
On site
The work, up close.
Worth knowing
What makes multi-family different from a house?
Scale and repetition. The material palette here is deliberately simple, grey lap and white panel, but there are hundreds of metres of it, and every window, balcony and corner is a detail that recurs down the elevation. On a custom house you can fuss over one transition; on a building like this the work is holding one standard across all of them and keeping to the builder's sequence so the next trade isn't waiting.
Where does the panel meet the lap?
At the bays and the upper storeys the white panel steps forward of the grey lap. That junction is the tell on a multi-family exterior: the reveal has to be consistent, the corner trim tight, and the flashing behind it continuous, or water finds the seam. The close-up of the corner shows the line as it should read — straight, even, and the same at every bay.
How does the townhouse row relate to the mid-rise?
Same palette, different rhythm. The townhouses carry the grey lap and white panel at a domestic scale, with cantilevered canopies over each entry and planting along the sidewalk. Finishing both together keeps the whole site reading as one project rather than two.
Materials
What it’s made of.
Lap siding, grey
Horizontal lap on the field walls, run true across the full length of each elevation.
Panel cladding, white
Smooth panel with reveals on the projecting bays and the upper storeys, meeting the lap at clean corners.
Glass balconies and entry canopies
The building's glazing and steel — shown here for context, not part of the cladding scope.
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