Hastings Park Childcare Centre, in Vancouver, is a fantastic 7,100 square foot facility that sits beautifully located on Renfrew Street on a sloped hill facing mountain views and opening out to a lovely view of the racetrack.  It has 44 licensed child care spaces for infants up to 5 years old. The program is operated [...]

Here is a beautiful home on the lake in Nelson, BC,  built by Purcell Timber Frames, who also hail from Nelson. CBR Products worked closely with Purcell and Co. to come up with a custom colour, in our Broda Pro-Tek-Tor SLT (Siding Log & Timber), for the trim on this building. The colour was coined [...]

Jay Watts from AFM Safecoat has recently given us these tips and points on how to maintain your AFM Safecoat Oils. So if you have some lovely wooden furniture that has been graced with these awesome products then here’s a break down on just how to maintain their beauty and luster. Wood is a natural [...]

The South Bonson Community Centre is the heart of the Pitt Meadow community of Bonson.  The setting is beautifully located on the banks of the Fraser River on the site of an old saw mill. There are clusters of townhouses, condos, and a small grouping of supporting retail shops with the Community Centre sitting proudly in [...]

I was recently perusing the interwebs when something caught my eye. Bark houses it said. I thought, pfft, nah….that’d never hold up, but I couldn’t be more wrong! The home of writer Nan Chase has proven to be an amazing and environmentally sustainable way of using up Poplar bark that would otherwise be left to [...]

It took more than a decade of planning and 17 months of construction, but VanDusen Gardens’ new centerpiece of green building is now open to the public. And we are proud to say BRODA® Coatings are a part of it. The $21.9 Million Visitor Centre was designed to meet the LEED Platinum level of excellence, [...]

Our company was founded in Vancouver and Whistler, and even though our job is to make low-VOC coatings that protect buildings from the elements, we know we are all part of the natural world. So to help lighten our footprint, CBR President Bill Willis recently completed the ClimateSmart for Business program. This 3-session program was [...]

In the can, one acrylic coating looks pretty much like another. But at the chemical level, they can be quite different. One of the benefits of a water-based low-VOC coating is that wood is very receptive to the absorption of good old H20. This is positive news, as the deeper your pigments and film can [...]

AFM recently put out their annual winter newsletter. It’s great reading with really good articles on such things as their recent acing of emissions tests, Hyundai USA using AFM Acrylacq in their 2012 vehicles and of course Jay’s Kitchen, a great read written by the man himself, Jay Watts. Click here to read 2012 AFM [...]

Here’s a couple of great videos! First up, we have Jay Watt’s, from AFM Safecoat, discussing how to use AFM Safeseal correctly and some of the dos and don’ts. Jay gives a fantastic clarification of this product. Click here to watch the vid and also to see other awesome AFM videos too!! Secondly, we have [...]