Why Build With Landmark

About Landmark Custom Homes and Remodeling

Landmark Inc
8950 Lake Jane Trail
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
651-770-9100 Office
651-770-3366 Fax
dianne@landmarkcustomhomes.com

Landmark Inc. is a family–owned company dedicated to building and remodeling fine homes. Owners Bob and Dianne McAdam began building homes 30 years ago employing a simple philosophy: Combine quality, value and one-on-one contact with the customer. Past customers refer Landmark Custom Homes to their friends and family.

Buying a new home or remodeling an existing home is a major step, perhaps the most important investment you will ever make. Our main goal at Landmark is to make your custom home building and remodeling experience a simple yet satisfying one. We never forget that we are in
the business of making you feel at home, which starts with the personal design consultation, including a lifestyle assessment.

When you choose Landmark Inc. to build or remodel your home, you are not choosing just any builder, you are choosing a company committed to meeting your family’s needs.

We are members of:

The Builders Association of the Twin Cities since 1987
National Builders Association
Remodelers Council
Stillwater Area Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Realtors
St. Paul Board of Realtors

We have been incorporated since 1978 as Landmark, Inc.

Some of our Construction practices include the following:

We use only service-oriented subcontractors who take pride in their work.

We use only the highest quality building materials. All of our sub floor decking is genuine 7/8" thick (not 3/4" like many others) tongue & groove CDX plywood. Our floors are quiet!

For wall sheathing we use genuine Plywood, no OSB!

We use only engineered floor and roof truss systems. The advantages are numerous. Besides being strong, they allow us to hide the heating, cooling and plumbing mechanicals within the floor system. This keeps ceilings free from most soffits. Others use off the rack TGI floor systems that necessitate soffits in many instances.

All of our hardwood floors are genuine 3/4" tongue and groove which is installed unfinished. All finishing takes place onsite within the last few weeks of construction. We then cover the wood to protect it.

Our cabinetry is all custom made! There are no "box cabinets" in any of our homes.

Our plumbers use only copper and Wirsbo hot & cold-water piping. Others use plastic "PVC" for hot and cold-water piping!

We use cast iron main waste stacks to cut down on water noise.

In developments that require wells, we use only high capacity well pumps and pressure tanks that are designed to support irrigation systems. We also include water softeners as standard!

We insulate the walls and sheetrock the entire garage of every house! .

We build all of our houses to exceed the stringent Minnesota Category One standards. We use FORMALDEHYDE FREE R-21 wall and R-50 ceiling insulation. The Category One Standards are R-19 and R-44. We use gasketed electrical boxes on exterior walls and high efficiency recessed cans. We insulate our rim joist area with expandable closed cell foam. All of the polyethylene sheeting joints are taped and sealed.

We offer open or closed cell foam for walls and ceilings to those who desire it

We can do many types of Ultra High Efficiency HVAC to suit budgetary needs. Our standard HVAC system consists of a High Efficiency Lennox furnace and AC unit, April Aire Humidifier and Venmar air exchanger.

We are experts in the area of Ultra High Efficiency Hot Water In floor Heat

We can install Geo Thermal and other Energy Saving heating and cooling systems

We continue to keep our customers happy long after closing. We have built multiple houses for people. We can be your builder for life!

Awards

Landmark has won four Trillium Awards for “Best Interior Design”, Best Bathroom Design”, “Best Cabinetry Design” and Best Window Design” in the last 5 years. The Trilliums are awards given to builders for excellence in various categories by the Builders Association of the Twin Cities (BATC). To find out more about Trillium Awards and BATC, click on the links above.

Contact Information

Landmark Custom Homes and Remodeling
8950 Lake Jane Trail
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
651-770-9100 Office
651-770-3366 Fax
651-492-7936 Jim's Cell
651-436-8598 Jim's Fax
Dianne McAdam dianne@landmarkcustomhomes.com
Bob McAdam bob@landmarkcustomhomes.com
Jim Zuccone jzuccone@gmail.com

Updated 4-24-2009