Big and Small Bathrooms

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Home Remodeling Show withEdge Construction on Newstalk thirteen ten WYBA.
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dot com. That's all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com. I
deelphen number six O eight six threesix three three four three That number six
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by Mike two. Wag up EdgeConstruction. Mike, how you ben great
Sean, it's good to see you. And we're going to talk bathrooms this
week. And we haven't talk bathroomsfor for a while. I haven't talked

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about them all year. Mike.Oh yeah, well it's about time we
get at it. Yes, exactly, and we'll get into get into that.
And we were actually talking about arecent bathroom remodel project you guys had
up on the website Edgeconstruction Company dotcom. Speaking of the website, not
only can you see recent work there, there's also great links to Pinterest,
Facebook, and house which is anamazing tool of showing a lot of great

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ideas for doing remodeling. Its headon over to Edge Construction Company dot com.
That's Edgeconstruction Company dot com. Let'stalk about though, that recent bathroom
remodel in it or I say bathroomsbathroom two bathrooms room model. You guys
did some really amazing work taking onebathroom making it into two as amazing as

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Edge Construction Company dot Com is andthe great tools like the slider and all
the great pictures and talking with youbefore the show. It doesn't the photos
don't tell the full story at all. Man. We've talked about some of
the small spaces we worked on.Yeah, this was like down to the
Sonia before we started that. Youknow, I want to talk about these

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because they were It was interesting.It was a great design challenge for our
gang and construction challenge because there arecodes for everything like that that toilet in
a bath You need thirty inches ofspace for a toilet, but it can't
be off center. It's gotta befifteen one way, fifteen to the other.
That's the minimum, right, andthis one was literally down to like

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fifteen in a eighth I think wow. Between the you know, each way
from the shower. Yeah, andwe took a kind of an odd space.
Like there's you work on so manyhouses and there's a lot of times
that homeowners are going why did theydo that? And we're going, why
did they do that? And thiswas one of those. It was kind
of a they had a very nicehouse in a beautiful area and very up

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and coming area and had this long, kind of awkward bathroom and then behind
it was a three foot deep,weirdly deep closet and so like you got
to go on this tunnel in thecloset to get to the back of that
down this three foot tunnel. Andso the idea was homeowners approached us and
they said, you know, isthere any way to get too bad side
of the space, And that's whatwe did and it is It is a

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really cool couple of things too thatjumped out. One the tile and I
don't know, I don't I thinkI may have seen this before, but
like the the overall kind of thoselong I don't have to describe as like
glassy kind of kind of tile onthe wall is beautiful. But the stuff
that caught my eye was there's apattern on the tile on the floor.

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That's also repeated in those in thoseniches, Yeah, niches in the shower.
Those tiles and I haven't seen thosebefore. Those are beautiful. Those
are really nice looking tiles. Yeah, and these are patterned after. These
are tiles that are made to looklike the old concrete tiles that were painted
and now you now you can getregular stuff, really durable. And this

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one I like because a lot ofthose I'm just gonna call them concrete tiles
because that's what already knows them as. But a lot of them are really
bold designs on them. Right,We've we've seen those and we can point
to some of those on our websitewhere they have really intricate bold designs on
them. They're very cool and theyhave made a comeback and we're doing those
on backsplashes and in bathrooms. Thisone is kind of a muted it's almost

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like you're looking through a fog atthe design and it's one that I really
like. So I'm glad you broughtthat up. It was and what I
what I what grabs my attention toabout that is it's it's it's just subtle
enough where it's not distracting, butit really like in that room and with
the with the with the the woodthat's in the in that bathroom and kind
of I don't know what and obviouslythis goes to design and I think that's

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probably the mark of great design isI don't necessarily know exactly what it is,
but when you look at it,you go, that is just like
just like the perfect compliment. Allthe all the pieces in the space all
compliment each other very very well.Yeah, that that child. Like I
was excited to get these pictures upbecause that's one that we haven't done before.

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I wasn't even a that it wasout there. And this is when
I talked to Heather and her gang. You know, they said this was
something that they found at or theysaw it at the builder show last year.
And it's a great reason to gothat stuff for us because you know,
we're we're seeing products that I mean, this this product has kind of
a an age to it almost right, like it looks like it's something from

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a long time ago. But it'sreally done well. Like I said,
it's a super durable product. Sofor looking at that shower, so there's
one of the bass was tied tothe to the master bedroom and it's got
a tile surround in there. Andis there anything you noticed about the niches
I was going to ask you.I see that there's three of them,

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and there's an elongated lower one thatkind of stands out to me. I
have a guess what it might befor, but I don't know for sure.
I would if my guess is correct, I probably would never use I
wouldn't think you unless you like reallywanted to be aerodynamic and swimming. Yeah.
Yeah, it's a shavior legs whenyou So it's a little niche for

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your foot. So if you youknow, like I said, this is
not a big space, Like itwasn't like we had room to put a
bench in there because we just wedidn't. Uh so we got a couple
of niches to to put all yourall your goodies up and then you know,
shampoos and things like that, andthen uh one load nitche to to
put you foot up. Is thatlike a smaller bathroom? Is that?
Is that a common thing that youguys do? I mean, that's just

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it seems like a like as yousay it, it's like, well that's
brilliant. But at the same it'slike I guarantee there's a lot of people
that have never thought of doing that. Yeah, weirdly, I know that.
I know that we've we've brought itup in designs for a couple of
years. But I think this isif I'm if I'm not wrong, this
is the first time we've done it. I could be wrong, but uh,
I think it. You know,we do a lot of benches and

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a lot of steps and things likethat, so it's I don't know people
have just gotten away without doing it, but I think I'm it's pretty pretty
much does the trick. I know, I know my wife would greatly appreciate
that. Uh. The other thingthat caught me with that, with that,
with that bathroom as well, ishow the how the faucet's mounted is

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as you were talking about, nota lot of space. And I look
at that, look at the sinkbelow. It goes able to go right
back. And one of the reasonswhy it's able to go right back is
it's a wall mounted faucet, andand I don't see that often. I'm
guessing its form and function as towhy it's it's it looks fantastic. Why
it's mounted that way? Yeah,I think I don't know which led to

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which I know people like the lookof the wall mounted fixture so like you're
you're hot and cold and your andyour foster actually comes right out of the
tile in that bathroom. And butI think I think it might have had
something to do with getting a Theywanted a vessel sink because they wanted to
look at it. So that vesselsink more or less, it looks like

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it's sitting. It's it's kind ofthe countertop on all. But it's a
nice big vessel sink, which isnice for people sometimes that I think I
would like this because sometimes I feellike that where the water comes out the
faucet there is too low, likeit's maybe splashes around or something. But
I think it's a great look andallowed allowed these homeowners to get the vessel

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sink they wanted and worked out nice. I know it was quite a trick
to get all the tile turned around. There really wasn't much tolerance there for
that tile, so it pretty muchhad to be cut really tight around around
all those fixtures. And you're talkingabout tolerance the overall layout you're talking about,
because it's such a tight area toget everything in, you kind of

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alluded to this earlier. This isa really to get to pull this off.
Obviously, when it comes to carpentryand what you guys are doing,
we're talking about very exact measurements andthose kind of things. When you're talking
about a space like this, everyevery little inch, quarter inch, eight
of an inch, everything is matteringat that point, doesn't it. It
does. And the thing is like, when you're from our standpoint, we

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don't want somebody to walk in thatbath and go, oh, they really
crammed everything in here, you know, like that meaning we don't want it
to be obvious that it was atight fit. Right. It needs to
look like you're meant to do itthat way. And I think a lot
of design is that way when you'reworking on houses where you go, okay,
design has to make sense, notjust because of we're standing here right

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now making these decisions. It's gotto make sense. Design has to make
sense for somebody down the road afew years going, oh, I love
what they did there, and there'sno you know, the reason is doesn't
stand out at you and hitch inthe face. You know, does the
cab the computer aided drafting? Doesthat help with projects like this as well
is being able to as we talkabout scale and design to all of this,

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making it feel the space, maximizefeel spacious, even though it's not
a big space. Just having thosethose computer drafts and designs help kind of
accomplish that. I think it's reallythe best tool that we have right now,
because if you I don't know ifif the gang put up our renderings,

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our CAD renderings from before we started, usually do those through the design
phase and that contract we kind oftie those to the contract. But and
then you know it's in our scopewhen you go out there that people can
look at it. Our people canlook at it. You do get a
feel, you get much more,You get much more feel from looking at
the renderings than you would something elsein the renderings. Now, boy,

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it's it's really fun for me tohave the renderings with the pictures because you
can go, wow, that wereally nailed it on that rendering, and
you can okay, this is awhite rectangular tile. It's a I don't
know what you call. It's afour x twelve I believe, and these
ones have texture. It's like usuallywhen they fire a tile if it's not

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perfect, unless it's perfect like it'slaying perfectly flat, all the corners are
down. This one is purposely firedto be imperfect. So it's a white,
uh rectangle tile, but it's butit's got a lot of texture and
it's got a lot of movement there, and so it gives it some gives
it some personality. I think oneof my favorite things about this this too

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was and at the time, Iwas like, really, we've got to
do a wood ledge, you know, underneath the mirror in you know,
we did this wains coat tile aroundand had our foster coming out of that
tile above the toilet and stuff.And but what it did, it's just
kind of broke it up enough andgave it just a little bit of personality

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there. And and again designers alwaysare right. I can't help I have
to admit it that that shelve itlooks. I mean it, as you
mentioned, is you know, partof the it's it's a beautiful design and
it really really looks nice in thatspace. The other thing too, and
this and I don't know the backgroundto this remodel, but looking at the

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before pictures the bathroom is not tosay that it was not in need of
updating, but it wasn't like inrough shape. Is this one of those
situations where the people were like,we'd love the neighborhood, we'd love the
home overall, but it's not necessarilythe perfect fit for our lifestyle. Let's
make some changes, because again,I look at some of those before and

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it's hard to exactly tell from thepictures, but I look, it doesn't
look to me, it doesn't looklike if I walked into the bathroom,
I would be like going like,oh my god, it wasn't in horrible
It doesn't look to be in horrible. Shit. If if if you could
take that bathroom and put it inthe house she grew up in the seventies,
you'd be like, wow, thisis amazing. Sure, yeah,
but by today's standards, you know, yeah, I think it was.

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You know, it was still functioningas a bath I mean, I don't
think there were any major problems.I think at some point somebody had done
a little bit of updating here andthere, trying to trying to Martha Stewart
this thing for get another few yearsout of it. But I think,
you know it, this family wasgrowing and I think they just had enough

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of trying to deal with the onebath up there, and you know,
and if there was a chance ifyou're gonna remodel a bathroom, went,
oh, it sure be nice tohave two bads. So, like I
said, it was a real trickto get it in there. Pictures are
not going to do it justice.That's why we're talking about it, I
guess. But yeah, I loveit. And some of those finished pictures
you can you can really see thatfloor and how the cabinet tied everything together.

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And I'm you know that cabinet Ithink was eighteen inches. I mean
it's just really if you want toknow how small an area you can get
a legit bath into, that's itright there. Check that out right now.
If you head on over to EdgeConstruction Company dot com, that's Edgeconstruction
Company dot com. Check out theportfolio if you go into bathrooms, two
bathrooms. Maximizing Minimal Space is thetitle, Lina. You will see it

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right away. It is absolutely amazing. But thinking about doing some remodeling,
whether it's bathroom, kitchen, youwant to do a basement, thinking about
additions up you want to go out, any of that type of stuff.
MIKEE the team at Edge Construction lefttalk with you all. I got to
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remodels. We will do that next. It's the Homer Modeling Show with Edge
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out this Saturday morning with Mike twoegg up edge Construction talking about bathroom remodels.
We just talked about a recent project. Definitely check out the website.
See that in so much more.Edge Construction Company dot com. That's Edge
Construction Company dot com. And Mike, one of the things that I've loved
as far as and obviously we talkabout bathrooms generally a smaller space than the
scale of things around the house.And when we were talking about that,

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that one of those recent projects youguys worked on in a smaller bathroom,
which is by nature again a smallerspace. One of the things you notice
is a lot of glass and specificallyshower doors, those type of things,
And not only does it look fantastic, it seems like and correct me if
I'm wrong on this. Having thatsince it's transparent, does aid and help
making that space feel a little bigger? Is am? I am I off

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on that? Or is that highattention? I think it definitely does like
and the glass is just looking throughour website, see if we have any
room the traditional kind of kind ofthe old cool glass panels, and we
really don't. It's it's a lotof clear stuff. I would say,
it's kind of like, uh,you know, if you've got a piece

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of artwork, you gotta want toshow it up, and so you're you're
gonna want to look at that tileand stuff, and I you know,
some of those kicks on on uhon glass from the past, like where
it you know, spotted a lotand things like that. I know there's
treatments now that that we've we've wehave in the industry that'll that make that

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job easier a lot easier to maintain. And and I always think, you
know, we're going back and takingpictures. Generally, we're going back and
taking these pictures after somebody's living inthat space for a week or two or
what. We kind of get theflood of construction done and then let things
settle down, and then we goback in and try and get some pixel
and uh, you know, ifyou look at the glass, it all

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looks pretty good. And then thereare different treatments that glass too, Like
if you look down on our onthe bath page of our Partolio, you'll
see sometimes people will fog the glassin the middle, you know, so
that you could be on an episodeof the Simpsons. There is an episode
of the Simpsons. I'm just thinkingabout. Yeah, and with that and

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I look at your work. Isis that like most I'd say most,
but a lot of bathrooms are incorporatingthose if if it fits the project incorporating
glass glass panels, Oh definitely.Yeah. We went through a time where
where you know, it got popularto not have a totally glassed indoor and

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and I even liked the idea,but I didn't have it in my own
house, so I guess, uh, I might not have liked it if
I had. But we did havewe did. We didn't get complaints on
it, but we did get alot of comments that, Okay, this
is they wish they would have puta door on, just to kind of
keep the water where it's supposed tobe and not out onto the coles.
Is something you had to be cleaningup all the time. I noticed it

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in like a few nicer hotels andthings A lot of times they have it.
They would have it open. Themore open the better. But I'm
curious where that's gonna go with itwith it glass completely glassed and you know
you can see most of the stuffyou do. Is is I want to
I don't want to. I wantto say custom glass right, and it

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is. It's all custom done,it's by somebody local. I don't want
to scare people away because of theyou know, thinking, wow, it's
just super expensive to do this,because that is one thing that I really
do think it's it's worthwhile doing yougo the frameless glass, Uh do see
some fasteners, but everything looks prettytasteful and clean. And then like I
said, it doesn't you mentioned thelightness. It kind of makes the room

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feel more open and you get tosee the b a flowerwork in the shower.
You know. One of the thingsthat I think about too is without
the if folks that are going likekind of like the open entry, I
kind of like conserving that. That'sanother thing. Yeah, speaking of heat,
but I actually we should all studyif we're if we're people are opting
for that in the summer and thenforgetting about the winter off interesting and speaking

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of heat and bathrooms, that isanother area and I know we've we've talked
about this in the past, butjust amazing options for and really able to
dial in that heat, whether it'sheating the tiles, heating the spaces it
is. It is amazing what youguys are able to do at edge construction
when it comes to making that spacevery, very comfortable. And that is

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a space that experiences all sorts ofdifferent temperatures and humidities. It's quite the
art form to be able to makethat place as comfortable as it is.
Yeah, and you need obviously heatand bath because if you're gonna have a
good fan in there, like weI love those good fans. We use
those beautiful Panasonic fans that move aton of air quietly. You're you're you're

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drawing right, so you need somethingcoming in there to warm that space up.
So generally we're whatever their system is. If it's hot water, we
figure that out. If it's ifit's forest air like most of them,
we have that coming in. Butyou were getting to the tile too,
and probably about a third of thejobs we do with a tile floor people
are opting for the heated floor.Once in a while we do get a

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customer that says, hey, Iwish I would have put that in there
now. Is there any chance wecan do it now? Like, no,
it's unfortunately it's once that tile islaid, we're done. But the
system for that has just improved somuch over the years. Used to be
if we wanted to do a tileflour and you can still buy these,
I think sometimes a homew or installation. They're using these pads. It looks

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like a small electric blanket. Youlay this thing down, mortar it in
and then tile over the top andthose those were fine. It's just it's
only heating like that one spot andif you if you step just off of
it, it's going to be coldtile. So the we use it's the
uh I know, we've talked aboutit plenty, but it's the shooter system.

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So if you see tile work goingon and it's that orange membrane that
goes around, well, they've gotone for the floor. It almost like
has little pucks and you wind thewire through it, so you can you
can wind this wire all the waythrough and heat all of the areas in
a really custom way that you wantto. It's it's very efficient on power,

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low voltage, and the heat isright where you want it right,
it's right on your feet. Theonly I know, I'm going on and
on, but the last thing Iwant to hit on was the the ability
to control that heat. And sonow with great electronic programmable thermostats, we
if you get up at six,that's the dream per you probably shan't buch

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earlier. If you get it atsix, you can have this thing fire
up at five thirty. Then whenyou're walking in that floor is nice and
warm. You can have it turningoff at seven or whenever you get out
of there, so it's not usingvery much electricity and you have heat when
you need it. Is that?And we were talking about I think a
lot of times as a homeowner,I think visual design. I don't always

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think mechanical design. Is that partof the we talked about how in those
areas and how you're going to heatthat floor, for example. Is that
part of the design process. Itis? But you know, generally there's
there's no reason to you know,we're not going to put underneath the cabinet,
sure, but we're pretty much gonnaput it everywhere else because there's no
reason not to. Now you can, you can, you can, There's

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there's always plenty of wire. Wecan run it where we need to,
and then it's a closed loop.We uh good installers and we install our
own. We'll put an extra thermostator two. So the thermostats actually are
separate wires that go out into acouple of different spots. And the theory
is that if if or not,I don't know, I'm calling a thermostat

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is probably not the right term,but uh, this point that measures temperature
and it and it comes back upand so goes back into the end of
the unit, and so if oneof those would fail at some point,
usually you've got another one that youcan just hook right up into. Oh
that's very very cool. You knowwe were talking earlier too, and then
it starts to start thinking more abouttyle is we're talking earlier about the niche

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or the notch or uh in thatin that recent bathroom or model you did.
And one of the things you mentionedobviously what that that unique one was
for is for you know, yougot somebody in the house, she's going
to shave her legs and having thatgreat thing. A lot of the bathrooms
I see that that you guys havedone at Edge Construction that have the space
include a and I'm so jealous ofthis, have a nice beautiful bench built

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right in there. And how convenientyou know, would you ever have to
leave? No, no, bringme dinner, I just get owes me
off and yeah, no, I'dnever leave the bathroom. You gotta niche
put yeah, put your drink upthere. Yeah yeah. I The benches
are really nice too, and andthat for just a lot of reasons,

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right, I know. Uh,some we've done are well, I get
my dog a bath. It's reallynice for me to sit on the bench
of the dog, you know,uh, just pose the dog down in
there. Or we mentioned shaving legs. We you know, we have an
aging population and that's another thing thatto think about, another benefit, and

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so it's it fits in really wellwith universal design. Also. One of
the things I U I and Idon't know that we talked about this and
I'm looking as because we're obviously talkingbathrooms this week, and there's a there's
a bathroom up at Edgeconstruction Company dotcom called titled Primary Bathroom Oasis, and
I don't think we've talked about thisone. I was just kind of casually
scrolling through and the more I lookat it, the more I see and

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the more I realize that may bethe perfect bath. It's really nice.
It was really fun project. Andwith that, it's got a cathedral ceiling
in there, so that ceiling slopesup and gave us a chance to really
do something neat with that shower.I think was that and that's obviously that
you had. You had quite abit of space in there from what I

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can tell, and the pictures kindof kind of really is that is that
a master bath? Is that thisis a bath where you know, okay,
we got we almost had more roomthan we needed. Really, it's
like, what do we do withthis space? So we got some extra
storage down on the low end ofthe ceiling. Down there, we've got
the beautiful free standing soaker tub andyou can tell by looking out if you

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tell by looking at it or not. But it's one of the heavy ones.
It's that acrylic tub or resin tubthat weighs three hundred plus pods.
So we got that thing up therebut holds the here. It really looks
nice too, and it's it's Ithink it's much nicer than you think.
And then you got the private watercloset sean as they call it, across

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the pond. Yeah, it's beautiful. I urge folks to check that out.
Primary bathroom oasis up at Edgeconstruction Companydot com. That's Edgeconstruction Company dot
com. Some great projects there.And as you look at some of these
projects, and of course I wouldalso urge you to click their link to
hows, you will get some greatideas and you'll start kind of talking about

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an oasis. You'll start thinking aboutyourself and then you've been thinking about doing
summer modeling. Mike, the teamEdge Construction love to talk with you,
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Check out the website some great eightrecent projects the work times matter. I
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Telp number six so eight six threesix three three four to three that
number six three six Edge talking aboutbathroom remodeling this week, and I had

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started looking at a recent project postedup at Edgeconstruction Company dot com, the
Primary bathroom Oasis, and just startedto fall in love with that bathroom.
And one of the things that Ilove about it too, is is that
vanity. And you were telling meduring the break that's obviously kind of that
furniture style, which which we're seeingquite often, and it's a really really

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cool look. And a Wisconsin companyyou work with on those Yeah, I
talked a little bit about this company. For the last year or so,
we sort of have been easing intoit. It's a it's in rib Lake,
Wisconsin. Don't if you know wherethat I don't, well shot,
everybody knows that. I guess it'slike up here somewhere you find the North

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Pole and then you go about anhour north, get there, you keep
going. So we want to Okay, we actually try I like their product.
We had seen their product, uhprobably five years ago, and we
had tried to do business with them, and it's just a company that was

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trying to control their growth and theydidn't want to overextend, which were we
appreciate it. Yeah, and sowe actually waited a couple of years and
I sort of forgot about them,and then somebody showed up at our door
and said, okay, we can, we can, We want to talk
to you now, and uh sowe went up to rib Lake, Wisconsin.
We hired Santa and the sleigh wentup there and it's actually it was

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it was. It wasn't that badas it was very cool to see it.
And one thing I really liked abouttheir facility was, you know,
so many times when we look atthese facilities, it's like they're trying to
eliminate people and everything's done by aCNC machine and a vacuum conveyors taking parts
over here, and nobody's even lookingat this stuff. And I'm going,
well, okay, what if somethingdoesn't look right, who catches it?

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Well, you know, and uhso these this it's a little bit old
school, but the benefit of itis when when their stuff shows up,
I mean, it just looks great. We tend to not have I'm not
saying it it's perfect, you know, a thousand percent of the time that's
just too tough a test, butit's almost there, like it's been really

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good. They package everything really wellin our world to get up product nowadays.
That's that's that nice and Wisconsin made. It is an upgrade a little
bit in cost from our our normalWarblin Forest product. But uh, and
there's room for both and our youknow, we're still doing both, but

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we we are edging into more stuff. And one bene of it too is
like you look at this vanity.It looks like a custom made piece of
furniture and this is this is someof the capabilities that they have. You
mentioned to the look and how itfits that that space so perfectly. It
looks like it was designed and builtspecifically custom for that space. The other
thing I noticed too is and I'vegot to guess they created it as well,

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which is the that storage on theother side. Every the hardware is
a perfect match, the wood grainsa perfect match, and that also has
that that furniture style feel to it. Is that was that also done by
them? It was It's it's allthem, and I just I can't say
enough how happy we are with them. Like I said, now, it's

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it's probably at least half of thecabinets that we're moving our great Northern and
uh, and so like I said, it's been great for us and the
capability they have to do things thatare you know, I don't want to
say completely custom. You still gotto work within their system, but we

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can do whatever we've dreamt up.They've been able to do. When it
comes to bathroom cabinetry, and obviouslyyou've mentioned a couple of different different folks.
You're able to work with that edgethat you work regularly with at Edge
Construction for that, you guys alsodo can do custom stuff. I know
we talk a lot of times inthe bathroom or in the in the kitchen
about about custom things, things thatyou're personally building yourself in the shop.

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Those are things that are able tobe done if if that's something folks want
to do, is you know thatabsolute one of a kind piece. You
guys are able to execute that aswell at Edge Construction, aren't you.
We are? You know, it'sit's we're cautious on that because you know,
it does take a fair amount oftime to build things customer, but
sometimes you just can't get there,you know, when you when you're looking

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for an out of the box product, and and even with the custom capabilities,
then occasionally people go, hey,can you. They bring in a
picture that's that's that is very unusualand they like it. They don't know
why. They want us to designaround it and build it. And you

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just can't get those things off theshelf. And so we do have the
capability to build some of those customthings. Talking this morning with Mike two
Egg, owner at edge Construction thewebsite edge Construction Company dot com. That's
Edge Construction Company dot com. Beentalking about a lot of stuff from the
website and it behooves you, assome might say, to check out the
website Edge Construction Company dot com.It's a fun thing to do. I

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love on a Saturday morning. I'llget home later today and sit down and
just kind of scroll through some ofthe pictures and show Christina some of the
cool stuff as well. It's ait's a fun little uh little escape.
Edge Construction Company dot com. Butthink about putting some of that stuff into
action. You saying, you knowwhat, I'd love to upgrade through kitchen
anywhere around the home. Mike andthe team love to talk to you.
Ill gott to just pick up phone, give me a call six so eight

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six three six three three four threeThat number six three six Edge. We've
touched on it. Floor tiles youtouched on in a project, some of
the tiles on the wall as well. Tiles, tiles, tiles, And
one of the great things in thetimes we live in, Mike is tiles
are endless. Options are endless.Design is endless, how do And as

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great of a benefit that is ofhaving all the different varieties, it can
be overwhelming for homeowners. And Iknow at Edge Construction, working with a
designer that can narrow that stuff downto fit your style. That's a huge,
huge thing for homeowners to not beoverwhelmed by options on that stuff.

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It is, and there's a coupleof ways to sort of circumvent that that
short circuit of having too many choices, right because I sometimes people that is
a fear of some people that golisten, I am overwhelmed by all of
these choices. And so our designerswe pull from quite a few of the

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showrooms in town, and so wewe have and what we're looking for are
things that are in style, butstyles that will last. We're also looking
for things that are that are thatare popular right now. We budget comes
in, So I have this theoryand I know it's true that just because

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you're paying more for something doesn't meanit's better quality. It doesn't mean it's
It might just be rare, itmight just be a one off. It
might be there might be other reasonsthat it's that it's more expensive. And
so we're we're looking for things thatfit in budgets, we're looking for the
cool stuff, and we're filtering out. You know, Okay, there's ten
thousand choices of tile. There's probablya lot more, but nine thousand of

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the you could toss out right away, like they're just not things that are
that that people generally buy, andit still leaves a lot of choices.
And and that designer, that gooddesigner working with you, they're going to
get a feel for what you likeand and bring you on first car.
They might bring you four or fivetiles that we have. If that doesn't

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cut it, we can always stretchout from there and look for some other
things. But designers can really helpin that process. It's pretty amazing too,
is and the other thing I loveis and I think tiles are probably
part of why I know there's moreto it with the design. As one
of the things I love is whenI'm at the website Edgeconstruction Company dot com.
And you know, for example,a narrow it down. You start
looking into bathroom models, you quicklyrealize and I know that's a challenge you

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put out for designers, is notwo bathrooms are alike? Is they all
are very unique? And I thinkone of the ways that folks are able
to accomplish that working with their designers. Different types of tiles, different types
of materials. If you go thatlooks absolutely fantastic. As a matter of
fact, we started our conversation offthis week talking about a smaller bathroom remodel
where they were able to get tooin and one of the first things that

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caught my eye was very subtle,but a very very cool tile pattern that
they had in the bathroom. That'sa fun thing about working with edge construction.
You don't know what's available until youstart that conversation. You've got some
ideas. So they'd love to talkthat Edge Construction. I gotta just pick
up phone, give a call sixso eight six three six three three four
three that number six three six Edgelearn more online Edge Construction Company dot com.
That's Edge Construction Company dot com.Talk more about some bathroom shower and

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other space. Thanks. I'm gonnaask you about tubs in the next segment.
We'll do all of that. Nextis the Homer Modeling Show with Edge
Construction continues right here. I'm thirteenten WIBA. The Home Remodeling Show with
Edge Construction continues now on news Talkthirteen ten WIBA. This is the home
Modeling Show brought to you by EdgeConstruction Online, Edgeconstruction Company dot com.

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That's Edge Construction Company dot com.Talking shower, bath remodels, bathroom remodels.
One of my notes says showers.I'm going to cross out the words
shower. I can't saying today thatis definitely shower is part of your bathroom
model. But talking about some bathroomremodel ideas. So we talk with Mike
two Week, owner of Edge Construction, the website Edge Construction Company dot com.
That's Edgeconstruction Company dot com. Beforewe talk, I was going to

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ask you a little bit about bathtubs. But quick, one of the cool
things we mentioned the shlooter system inthe last segment is there is actually a
picture of one in progress up atEdgeconstruction Company dot com. And one of
the things that you were kind ofexplaining to me during the break, which
I hadn't thought much about. Andas a homeowner, it's always what's on

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the surface, what we see.I think of like tiles, beautiful tiles.
You're pointing out that that really whenit comes to modern tiles, modern
flooring, it's really important that thepart that's really doing the heavy lifting is
the stuff is a homeowner. Youdon't see those tiles look beautiful, the
grout looks fantastic or lack thereof,however you would design it that looks great

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and performs great. But the realityis the heavy lifting is the stuff that
a homeowner's not ever going to see. Yeah, it's that orange memory.
And so if you go to thatbathroom talking about I can't remember what it's
called, but I'm getting their primarybathum oasis. That's anyway, if you
get down to in progress, andwe do have some pictures of of the

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the shower is built, but notit's about at the start of the tile
process, so you can kind ofsee what that looks like with the orange
membrane, but all the prep workthat has to go in. So that
is our view is that the theheavy lifting this membrane really now or we're

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building a bowl that's impenetrable and thisand if you do it right right that
it's not your tile that's stopping waterfrom going into your to your downstairs or
or lower level. It's this.It's this, uh, this memory and
the shouter membrane membrane, so's that'sthe one we use. But anyways,
the tile then becomes the artwork thethings you the thing you see is the

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tile. Now we we're not naiveenough to say like that the towel doesn't
do anything. But but over theyears of tearing apart tile, you when
you when you pull that tile off, you can tell that water had gotten
behind there, that that that mortarthat grout, there's a lot of airspace
in that and water does seep itsway through there just a little bit in

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some cases a lot so well,and that that's a product that actually can
you know, so all's damp.If you don't have much much air moving
in there, you don't have agood bath fan, that mortar can actually
rot a little bit. And youcan you can see those humanon houses with
all block foundations where that mortar kindof gets bad after a while and crumbling,
and the same thing happens with Kyle. You mentioned to see actually seeing

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and I know there's the great thingabout that primary bathroom oasis is there's a
few different angles of it, andit's pretty amazing when you see, like
how much coverage it's a lot ofit is. Yeah, I cannot imagine
what all goes into into getting thatstuff installed. But obviously when it comes
to with a lot of this stuff, it's the things that you don't see
that really make all of the difference. And as we talk with Mike and

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of course with Edge Construction about theirprojects and about their work, a lot
of times it's the things that wedon't necessarily talk about on this program that
make all the difference. Is obviouslylove seeing a beautiful result, but it's
not gonna last if it's not doneproperly. And that's a great thing about
working with Mike and the team atEdge Construction getting all of those layers,
getting all that stuff done right.And I want to ask you about tubs
and why I want to ask youabout tubbs is have we reached a point?

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And I think I know the answerand I think it's no, but
I'm gonna ask is have we reacheda point where where a homeowner could get
away with simply having a shower witha bench and it. Our tubs still
standard, specifically in the Midwest,like having at least just one. Well,
I think the concern is even ifyou don't use the tub, someday

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a family might buy it and theythey would want a tub. You know,
there are plenty of small houses inMadison where it's one bath, and
maybe aging homeowners have said, youknow, can I I don't use the
bath. It's it's more inconvenient forme. It'd be so much nice step
shower, and I say, dowhat you want to do. I mean,
if somebody later on says I needa tub, let them deal with

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it. You know, I don'tthink it's going to stop somebody from beuying
your house at some point. Ifthey really want it, and if or
if you just want to let thenext generation worry about it, that's fine.
You know, you're an adult.You bought this house. Make it
fit your knees. You know.Generally, yes, if you've got two
or two or more bass, oneof them is going to have a tub,

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and that makes sense, that makesgood sense. But I think two
do you really need it? Mostpeople don't. What about the materials,
And we were talking earlier about aboutmentioned that that beautiful bathroom model that you
did, that that has that thatgreat soaking tub. The materials for tubs,

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now, uh, there are someamazing ones out there, not just
look beautiful, but performance wise.We're talking earlier too about heated towels are
things, uh just the tubs themselvesthat that they hold that heat better and
just they're they've got great depth andI'm I mean there's some if going down
then you got the project for it. It's amazing what you can do with

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toms. There are there are optionson those tubs, and I the standard.
We have one in our showroom.It's very nice. It's a fiber
last tub and the kick on itis okay, this is what most people
put in and it works fine.It's it's just that there's other levels to
this thing. So if you ifyou go to that next step up,

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it might be a resin tub,which I talked about, which they have
a certain look to them. They'revery thin walled and you're thinking like,
how can this thing weigh two hundredpounds, But it's you know, go
go pick one up you'll believe me. But the advantage to the resin tub
is it's a look. It's alittle more of a contemporary look, so
it's not for everybody, but itholds the heat much better. So if

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you are going to use this tuba lot, then it becomes more important.
Something like that becomes more important.Last year at the Biller Show,
I'm headed out there actually in amonth or so. Last year, I
actually sat in some copper tubs andwood tubs. Believe it, really they
were beautiful. But I'm like,uh, how much, I'll mean,
stop my heart here, how much? Sure they cost very expensive. I

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suppose if you had the right spacefor it, and the look, I
mean, they were super cool.Part of me says like wood and water
don't usually mix. But then again, I know I saw him sad at
him, I thought, this issuch an amazing looking product. Might be
maybe just don't use it. It'sjust like artwork. I don't know,
you know, would be great asif you're listening this morning, but thinking
about doing a bathroom model, maybethink about that, because man, I'd

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love to see I'd love to seethe pictures and love to see how that
turns out. And something great aboutworking with Mike and the team at edge
Construction is they've got a little somethingfor everybody. Every project. Love to
get to know you. You canget to know the team at edge Construction
see all their work edge Construction Companydot com, especially through those links Pinterest
house and Facebook houses. The bigone again at Edgeconstruction Company dot com.

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Tell if number six so eight sixthree six three three four three number six
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