Product·2026-02-10·7 min
Heritage pilot: first fifty panels off the line.
We milled fifty Heritage Lattice panels. Here’s what we learned.
Gabrielle Côté
/Operations manager
We milled fifty Heritage Lattice panels. Here’s what we learned.
The Heritage Lattice panel went through its first pilot last week. We ran fifty panels, destructive-tested twelve, installed twenty at our own mill perimeter, and shipped the remaining eighteen to three Polaris Pro yards for customer-observed testing.
The lattice itself was the open question. Most Canadian yards carry diamond lattice — milled cheap, sags in two winters, looks suburban. We milled square. The advantage: structural rigidity roughly 2.3× at the same thickness, and a pattern that reads closer to 1920s Queen Anne than 1990s backyard.
What we learned: the sixteen-inch lattice cap is a hair too tall. It reads monumental rather than decorative against our 48″ shadowbox base. We’re retooling to a 14″ cap for the first production run, which moves the base up to 50″ and the open top to 8″. The proportion shift is subtle but it makes the panel feel like furniture instead of architecture.
Full production opens Q4 2026. Polaris Pro dealers can reserve pre-production capacity now at $128 per panel — same unit cost as the Good Neighbour PT panel. Retail pricing will be set with the first pallet.