Austin Garliman
Project Superintendent
Runs the schedule, the trades, and the site. Austin is the person you'll call with a question, and the person who walks the finished space with you at the end.
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Builders who finish what they start
Hampton Construction & Interior Design Ltd. is a Saskatoon company built around a simple idea: the people framing the walls and the people choosing what goes on them should be on the same team.
Why the two halves belong together
On most renovations, the homeowner ends up as the middleman. The contractor needs a decision on the vanity before Thursday. The designer specified a fixture that won't clear the joist. Nobody's wrong, exactly, but the schedule slips and the budget follows it.
Hampton was set up to remove that problem. We carry construction and interior design in one company, so selections are made against real dimensions, real lead times, and a real budget. When a wall opens up and reveals something unexpected — and in older Saskatoon homes, it usually does — one team absorbs it instead of two trading emails about it.
The same thinking applies before a shovel goes in the ground. We sit down with you and work through the proposed project together, taking the architectural design and developing it toward a lower cost while keeping the durability intact. Where it helps, we render the design so you can see the finished space in real time before committing to it, and we run a quantitative analysis so the cost is on the table early rather than discovered late.
That's where the line on our business cards comes from. Doing it right the first time is cheaper than doing it twice, and it's the only version of the job we're interested in.
What you can count on
The commitments we make on every job, written down so you can hold us to them.
- Clear scope before we startAn itemized estimate that says what's included and what isn't, in plain language.
- No surprise invoicesChanges are priced and approved in writing before the work happens.
- Respect for your homeDust barriers, floor protection, daily cleanup, and no crew tracking mud through your living room.
- Realistic timelinesWe'd rather quote you an honest six weeks than a hopeful three.
- Proper permits and inspectionsWork that needs a City of Saskatoon permit gets one.
- We finish the punch listThe last five percent is the part most people remember. We come back and close it out.
Who you'll be working with
Small enough that you'll know the person running your project by name.
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Interior Designer
Handles layouts, finish and fixture selection, and keeps the design buildable against the drawings and the budget.
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Lead Carpenter
Framing, structural work, and finish carpentry. The reason the trim lines up and the doors close the way they should.
Building for this climate
Saskatoon is hard on buildings. Forty-degree summer swings, frost that moves footings, and a shell that has to hold heat through five months of real winter.
There is a second effect that gets less attention. As winter turns to summer the water table under a foundation rises, the load-bearing capacity of the soil changes, and the ground moves. That movement is what opens cracks along the same corners and joints year after year. We reinforce all inside corners, outside corners and butt joints, on ceilings as well as walls, so the finish holds when the ground shifts.
We plan around it. Excavation and exterior envelope work is scheduled into the open season. Interior work carries the winter, which is often the best time to renovate a kitchen anyway — trades are easier to book and lead times are shorter. Insulation, vapour barrier, and air sealing get detailed properly, because the cost of getting those wrong shows up on a utility bill every month for thirty years.
Let's talk about your project
Book a site visit and we'll give you an honest read on scope, budget, and timeline.