Planning a Home Remodel: Design, Scale, Budget, and Whole-Home Updates
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
It is a great website, and if you have not been there recently, I urge you to stop by and check it frequently. They are always updating EdgeConstructionCompany.com with recent projects and work.
Another great link from EdgeConstructionCompany.com is to their Houzz page. If you are interested in keeping up with really cool projects and ideas, the Houzz page from Edge Construction has a ton of projects there as well.
If you are thinking about doing some remodeling, they would love to talk with you at Edge Construction. Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is easy to remember: 636-EDGE.
Joining us in studio this morning is the owner of Edge Construction, Mr. Mike Twohig. Mike, how have you been?
Mike:
Great, Sean.
Host:
You need to do a podcast. Obviously, this is a podcast, but I have a feeling you could solve many of the world’s problems with a podcast.
Mike:
Nobody is asking.
Host:
I would listen. I will say that.
It is great to have you along this morning. We have a great topic this week about walking through the process of home remodeling, what goes into it, and some of the steps along the way.
Before we get to that, I mentioned the website, EdgeConstructionCompany.com, but also Houzz. I know Houzz is a great place to start. I almost feel like you should check out Houzz first, then head to Edge Construction.
Correct me if I am wrong, but getting some of those ideas can really be inspiring. As you walk into the process, it gives you some ideas, concepts, and maybe things you had not thought about before.
Mike:
We work for some really busy people who say, “I do not have time to dig into this,” and I believe them. But if I were excited about fixing my house, getting a new kitchen, or doing something big, I would want to use all the resources possible.
Houzz is my favorite spot. It is sort of a “just the facts” kind of place. I think we have more than 200 projects out there now.
Host:
Are you looking this up?
Mike:
We try to get everything up there. It gives people a bird’s-eye view of what a company can do.
You can also steer Houzz. If you have a picture in your head, you can usually find something close to it on Houzz. That can be helpful.
A lot of times, my first question when we pull up on a job and have that first conversation is, “Have you built a library anywhere online?” It could be Pinterest, Houzz, or whatever your flavor is.
The designers in our office have also built their own library on Pinterest. I believe it is accessible from our website. It is not necessarily all projects we have done, but it includes things they think are cool.
Sometimes they have to do the same thing with me. They might ask, “Can you build this in CAD?” And I might say, “Yes, but I do not really know what that looks like.” Then they show me where they started. Maybe it was a picture on Pinterest, Houzz, or somewhere else.
Host:
For folks who do not know, if you head to EdgeConstructionCompany.com, the links are in the top left corner of the page.
Houzz has a little heart you can click for things you like, and it builds a collection. I think you can do even more now. I admit I have not done any home remodeling recently, or we would probably be talking about my project right now.
Pinterest is easy too, because you can go to EdgeConstructionCompany.com and pin things.
Mike:
There are a lot of resources online. It is not that we want to build exactly what is in a picture that somebody else built, but a lot of times people will say, “I like this part.”
Sometimes they will say, “I like this picture, but I am not sure why.” A good designer can find clues in that.
Host:
They translate it.
You mentioned not necessarily doing that exact thing. One of the great things about Houzz is that you can see the projects Edge Construction has done, and no two projects are the same.
For people looking to remodel, you want something that stands out and is unique. You do not want someone to walk in and say, “Oh, this looks like the same Edge Construction kitchen my neighbor has.”
You guys do unique work, and I think the first step is working with a designer. That is a big part of it, isn’t it?
Mike:
It is. Over the years, I have probably picked on builders for not doing enough design. I think they should do more.
A friend of mine who builds houses said, “How many different ways can you build a four-bedroom ranch?” He is right that there are only so many ways. A bedroom is a bedroom. You do not need to be a rocket scientist to design a bedroom.
But the common areas could use more thought.
I like to share ideas with friends in the industry. If we have designed something in CAD, or if we are doing a bigger remodel, a whole-home remodel, or building a house, and it looks great to me, I might send it to three or four friends and ask them to look it over.
Occasionally, they catch something. I am grateful for that.
As a homeowner, you can get tunnel vision. A lot of homeowners, when we first arrive, already think the project is going to go a certain way. But they are standing in the space. They are not getting the top-down view that CAD provides.
A designer has an advantage because we can look from the top down and rearrange things. But even builders and designers can get tunnel vision after spending many hours looking at a screen and fine-tuning things.
Sometimes it helps to have outside input. Our designers will call me in once a design has progressed or matured in CAD and ask, “What am I missing? Is this okay?” I think that is a healthy relationship.
Host:
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig, owner of Edge Construction, about working with a design team.
One of the first things the team may do, if you have not already brought in ideas, is send you home with some homework: check out Houzz, Pinterest, and other resources.
Across the country and around the world, people are also coming to Edge Construction’s Houzz page. You mentioned sending ideas to colleagues locally, but people are looking at the work you are doing globally and working on replicating some of that.
Mike:
You do not really get to see who downloads your stuff, but Houzz has become a clearinghouse for ideas.
They also have a stories section where you can find articles written by industry professionals. Some detail what it takes to do a job. Some show a house that went through a remodel, almost like a start-to-finish remodeling story, with pictures, things they did wrong, and things they did right.
But I think the pictures on Houzz are the main focus.
We probably have 20 or 30 pictures per job, times 200 or more jobs. That is a lot of pictures. Our stuff gets downloaded a lot — thousands and thousands of pictures a month. Who knows where they go? It could be anywhere in the world.
I think it has really progressed design and made things move faster. People can build a library of pictures and say, “I like this one and this one, but when I put them next to each other, they do not really work.” That is what designers are doing too.
Host:
Another big tool is what happens once those ideas come together from Houzz, Pinterest, and the designers themselves.
Designers have a creative gift that you and I have talked about before. I do not have it. You see the work and think, “How did they come up with that?”
There is that human component, but once they have the vision, there is also the ability to express it through CAD and other tools. They are not just explaining it to you or trying to pencil it out. They can take those concepts, put them together, give you options, and fine-tune everything.
If you would have told me even 10 years ago that you could do that, I would have said, “No, you cannot.” But you guys are doing it every day at Edge Construction.
Mike:
That has become a big part of the designers’ job. We are all trying to design spaces and understand how they are going to feel.
We do not want pinch points. We do not want rooms that feel wrong. I talk a lot in our company about having right-sized rooms.
There was a time in the early 2000s when every house was a move-up house. They just got bigger and bigger. We built these big houses, and people sometimes could not afford to furnish them.
We once built a house with a 1,200-square-foot master bedroom. I thought, “This is the dumbest thing I have ever done.” There was nothing cozy about the space. Nobody was ever going to see it, so what was the point?
I am glad we are out of that phase. I like right-sizing spaces, and all these tools help us get there.
CAD is really important. At the International Builders’ Show a couple of months ago, one reason I wanted to go was to see how AI is influencing design programs and CAD.
I thought it might be something like taking a picture of a space with your phone and having it build the room. There are apps now where I can point my phone into a room and it will measure every wall and surface, then import it into CAD. It is just not quite accurate enough for us to use professionally yet.
We tried it. We still had to measure and adjust everything. By the time we did that, it was easier to do it directly in CAD. But it is coming. We are almost there.
Where AI is really starting to influence design is with renderings. We still design in CAD, pull up renderings, and import those into a design program that uses AI. Then AI makes the renderings better.
Almost instantly, the rendering becomes more like a high-resolution picture from a great camera rather than a cartoonish rendering. Renderings have improved over the years, but this is a big step.
You can also input information and say, “Give me three style changes on this room. Add a family with four kids playing video games on the TV. Give me different couch and furniture colors.”
You can hardline certain things, like the cabinets, flooring, and couch are not changing color, but ask for different looks around those elements. It can quickly give you fantastic options that would have taken 20 hours in current CAD programs.
All of this is meant to make it easier for homeowners to make a decision. There are a lot of options, and that can be overwhelming. But when you can quickly see the application and say, “I can see us living there,” that makes a big difference.
I am sure next year, Sean, I will go and say, “Okay, add a family of four.” Then the question will be, “Which family of four? Do you have a picture of your family?” And we will put them right in there.
Host:
I look forward to hearing about that. I have just the family for it.
That is so cool. As we talk about this, I want to ask you about right-sizing, scale, room scale, and those types of things. Sometimes we see things online on Houzz or other sites, and we have to picture them in our own space. The great tools you use, including CAD and design software, help with that.
We will talk with Mike about that in just a moment.
In the meantime, I hope you get a chance to head over to EdgeConstructionCompany.com. Do it right now, because it is a lot of fun to check out the great portfolio. The links to Houzz and Pinterest are right there as well.
If you are thinking about doing a remodeling project, Mike and the team would love to talk with you. Pick up the phone and give them a call at 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
The Home Remodeling Show is brought to you by Edge Construction right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
Mike, before the break, you mentioned the term “right-sizing” and how that plays into design.
One thing that can be hard for homeowners is understanding scale. We do not go through remodeling projects every day. You guys do this day in and day out.
If you asked me to visualize the inside of my house right now proportionally, I would probably be completely off. Then when I look online, I might see a grand staircase and not understand whether it would fit in a split-level house.
One of the great things about working with designers at Edge Construction is understanding scale. Maybe that grand staircase is not going to work in your house, but the team can take design cues and styles and make them the right size, the right scale, and the right fit.
That popped into my head when you were talking about the 1,200-square-foot bedroom. I remember seeing houses in the 1980s and 1990s where certain things were so opulent and gaudy that they did not fit the character or size of the house.
Scale is an important part of this, isn’t it?
Mike:
It is. The 1980s and 1990s are great examples. There were nice, not-huge houses built, but by today’s standards, they often have strangely small kitchens.
We run into that. We have a couple of designs right now where the kitchen does not quite fit the house, so we need to scale things up.
CAD can get you a lot of the way there. We draw things to scale, and sometimes people put tape down on the floor and say, “Okay, this is what we are thinking about doing.”
Our designers may ask for the size of your furniture because they can input that into the design and show you how much space is between things.
I see families in selections with the designer, and they have a tape measure out. They are measuring 42 inches from a wall and saying, “Oh yeah, that makes sense.”
Some of it is experience. Some of it is CAD. Some of it is simply asking, “What is this space? Does it feel good? Can we get enough space between everything?”
A common question now is about dining room tables. You have the table and chairs, and you need to know how much space you need around them so the room does not look weird and feels right.
There are a lot of ways to get that wrong, so it is nice when it works out well.
CAD is part of it, the tape measure is part of it, and experience is part of it. When those designs get finalized, I might look at one and say, “I see what you are trying to do here, but we end up with a 32-inch walkway between an island and a pantry, and that is just not enough.”
In that case, we may need to downsize a cabinet or make another adjustment. In the end, the homeowner will usually be happier if everything is right-sized.
Host:
It sounds like a right-brain, left-brain thing.
We talk about Heather and the design team you have at Edge Construction. We have also talked about hiring and finding the right people for carpentry and the work being done in the field.
How do you find people like Heather?
Mike:
Good question. We find them, and then we hope and pray they never leave.
Construction has changed. When we first started doing the show, when I was younger, I probably talked a lot about what the tradespeople did on the jobs — the carpenters, tile setters, and everyone else.
Those tradespeople used to get a lot of the glory. Now, from a homeowner’s standpoint, they are more removed from the people doing the work. I think homeowners largely assume that everybody on the job can do what they are supposed to do.
The art of the project has increasingly become the designers. In our company, and in a lot of companies, they are the rock stars.
We can build the picture. We can build cool things in construction, but somebody has to give us the picture and take homeowners through the process of getting to the right decision for that job.
Think about all the variables. In a kitchen, you have appliances, countertops, cabinets, flooring, paint, light fixtures, tile, backsplash, and cabinet hardware. There are probably more, but those all have to coordinate and work together.
Then you walk out of that room into another room. If the design is done well, that room will coordinate with the kitchen too.
That is hard to do. Like you said, not everyone has that gene or gift. Clint Eastwood said a man has to know his limitations. We know our limitations.
I love building stuff. The other day, Heather showed me a project with custom built-ins and cabinets in a kitchen. She showed me where it was going, and I groaned a little bit.
She asked, “Can we do this?” And the answer was yes, we can do it.
In the end, once I saw how important it was to the design, I thought, “Okay, this is some work for me.” I might complain a little bit, but I do like the challenge. It is fun to show off a little bit and show what we can do.
Host:
One of the great benefits of having great designers is that those designs are handed off to great craftspeople.
You are getting great design and then highly skilled people who can execute it. That is really a win-win.
I think about you looking at a cabinet, for example. You can tell right away whether it is good quality. Finding people who complement each other is a really big part of this.
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig, owner of Edge Construction. The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is Edge Construction Company dot com.
We will talk a little more about the design process and some of the step-by-step guide for doing home remodeling in just a moment.
Again, visit EdgeConstructionCompany.com. If you are thinking about remodeling, give them a call at 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
Edge Construction brings you the Home Remodeling Show right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
It is a great website, and I hope you had a chance during the break to stop by. I would urge you to bookmark the page because it is regularly updated with new projects. There are also links to Houzz, Pinterest, and Facebook, all accessible at EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
If you are thinking about doing some remodeling, give them a call at 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
We are talking this week about a step-by-step guide to doing a full remodel. We have spent quite a bit of time on the initial design and design in general.
Mike, where we left off last segment was talking about the people implementing these designs — the craftspeople, carpenters, electricians, and others. They do their jobs very well every day.
The design part is different. I do not want to say it is less definable, but it is not always as measurable.
Mike:
Right. You know a good design when you see it. Carpentry can be checked, measured, and verified. Design is different.
Host:
When you are thinking about the initial design stages, I know you do a home visit and then a meeting at the office.
Do ideas start coming together then? Is there homework given, like putting together some kind of portfolio? Years ago, that probably would have been magazines. Now it is all online.
Mike:
You are old enough to remember magazines, Sean.
Host:
Oh yeah. Hot Rod and everything else.
Mike:
The way it works now is that we come in and brainstorm the project. That is the first round.
I have a saying: if you are not talking about money, you are not talking about anything. If you are dealing with a remodeler early in the process and they are not giving you some kind of feedback on how much you are going to spend, I think I would keep shopping.
We go back and do enough design to begin solving the project. If it is an addition, or if we need to get your house into CAD, we will invest a fair amount of CAD time — enough that we can build your project in a spreadsheet and get to pricing that is as accurate as possible.
We want to give you that estimate early.
If a homeowner thinks they can do their kitchen for $50,000, but what they really want is a $100,000 kitchen, we want to let them know early. Then we can adjust expectations, make the job smaller, change some things, or maybe the homeowner decides to wait a year or two so they can get what they really want.
That happens routinely.
We send the homeowner a scope, which is a list of the things, pieces, and parts we think will go into the job. Then we put a number on it.
We do not give our designs away, even though they are behind the scenes at Edge. At that point, we are looking for feedback.
Homeowners then come in for a consultation. They see what we drew and they see the potential. Nobody ever says it is less than they thought — that is my little joke — but we want to be accurate.
We want it to be like ripping off a bandage. You have to get used to the number.
Our industry has a bad reputation for giving a low first price. If the job is really $50,000, the first price a homeowner sees might be $30,000. Then every time they pick something out, the price goes up, and eventually they are paying much more.
I do not think that is a good way to do it. I would rather rip the bandage off and get going.
When homeowners come in, they might say, “We like the designs. We see the potential. If there is some flexibility in the price, or if we are okay with the price, let’s move forward.”
Then they sign a design contract. At that point, we start producing drawings that the homeowners own. We are tied together in a small way, and that covers some of the design cost.
Then we move into the next processes: coming back to the house, remeasuring everything, bringing tradespeople out, troubleshooting, and then going back through the process again.
Eventually, the homeowner gets to the point where they are picking out tile, cabinets, and the other selections.
Host:
For homeowners, how do they evaluate those numbers? You mentioned the example where someone might start with a $30,000 bid, but the actual project ends up much higher.
My wife is smart about this. She wants to weigh everything and know everything. Is there a way to figure out whether the numbers are realistic? Is it talking to someone who has worked with the contractor before?
Mike:
That helps, and it also depends on the type of bid.
If things are on spec, the opening bid may have a flooring estimate. Let’s say it is $5,000. I am just picking a number out of thin air. If you pick something more expensive, the number goes up. If you pick something less expensive, the number goes down.
One way to come in lower on the initial bid is to underbid all of those allowances. That could be flooring, plumbing fixtures, and other items.
Plumbing fixtures alone can double or triple throughout the selection process. There is a lot of cool stuff out there. Sometimes a signature piece makes the room. It might be a sink, faucet, shower fixture, or something else.
We recently put in tile that was about an inch and a quarter thick. These 12-by-12 tiles weighed around 30 pounds each. They were super heavy. We had to reinforce the floor, and the way we laid it was much different than originally planned.
It was a very expensive entryway with a couple hundred square feet of tile, but it made the job. In the homeowner’s eyes, it was everything they wanted.
So homeowners can check those allowance numbers. Instead of asking, “Is $30,000 reasonable for my kitchen?” — because it probably is not — start looking at the allowances in the initial bid. If those look low, you may have a problem.
It is hard to compare apples to apples.
Host:
That is tough for homeowners. One thing Edge Construction has going for it is that people you have worked with in the past call you again, and people refer others to you.
If someone has had a great experience working with you, I would urge them to tell others what it was like. As a homeowner, it can be tough to understand.
Mike:
Yes. Last week we had homeowners call us. We did their kitchen about seven years ago on the near east side. I remembered them because it was a unique old house, and the kitchen had a great design that has held up very well.
I said, “Last time we were here, I thought you were planning on having kids and this was your temporary house.”
They said that was the plan, but they love the area. They thought about moving a few blocks, but everything they could move into was either really expensive, under-remodeled, or remodeled in a way that was not to their taste.
They loved their kitchen, and the rest of the house was in great shape, so they wanted to fix up a few things in the lower level.
Host:
That is one of the benefits of a tight housing market. People are committing to quality, and to me, you cannot go wrong there.
Compared to the opposite kind of market, where there are too many sellers and not enough buyers, people sometimes do things to their house just to sell it. They are not necessarily putting in quality products for the next person because they are not going to enjoy it themselves.
Mike:
I think it is healthier now. Though it has gone too far, and it would be nice if there were more homes on the market. Sometimes people do outgrow their house and want to move, and that is tough right now. It is also tough for people who want to downsize because there is not much for them either.
Host:
How do builders keep up with that? At this point, maybe it is not even keeping up. It is catching up.
Mike:
They do not.
In Dane County, we are very tied into new construction. We work for a lot of builders. The trend line for Dane County, going back to the early 1970s, suggests we should be at around 2,200 to 2,500 permits per year.
We dropped down to roughly 400 or 450. We got back up to around 1,000 or 1,100, but we just cannot get above that.
There are not enough people to do the work. Dane County has not always been friendly to construction, though that seems to be changing. I have heard both the city and county board say they are housing-friendly now, so maybe good times are coming.
But you still need people to build the houses. There is not much residential land development in Dane County, and the process can be painful.
If they can streamline that and get more people into it, that would help. We get asked to build houses quite often, but there are not many lots or places to build. When we do build a house, it is usually a country house or somewhere unusual.
Host:
Since we are in the weeds, I am going to ask about careers.
For young people listening, or parents listening this morning, there are opportunities in the trades. It can be a very rewarding career. We all know carpenters who drive around and can point to projects they worked on. It can also be lucrative.
Mike:
It can be a good career.
I was just talking the other day about two, maybe three, of our young guys who are building their own houses right now. They are carpenters who work for us. They are young and single.
They are hard-working guys, and they have the wherewithal to build a new house. On the news, all we hear is that nobody can build a house now. They are doing a lot of the work themselves, but they are making it happen.
In our company, we promote saving. It is not quite the Mike Academy of Finance, but we try to educate our people. They can make a great living, but we encourage them not to waste it.
They might surprise themselves and end up in a position to build a house for themselves. They also do not have college debt. It can be a very good gig.
Host:
We talk about the different skill sets you learn and the different areas you can go into. It is a great career.
There is also the benefit of being able to take care of things yourself. If something goes wrong in your own house, you know how to fix it.
Really good stuff. We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig, owner of Edge Construction. The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
We will get out of the weeds and get back to our conversation about the steps involved in a full home remodel next with Mike.
In the meantime, visit EdgeConstructionCompany.com or call 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
Edge Construction brings you the Home Remodeling Show right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
Stop by the website. There are a lot of great projects there, plus links to Houzz, Pinterest, and Facebook.
Now, we are supposed to be talking about full home remodeling.
Mike:
We will get to it.
Host:
I did want to ask you a little bit about that. We have talked about maybe doing a kitchen or bathroom. For people who have the opportunity to do a whole-home remodel, what a great project that can be.
We have talked about the design process, the carpentry, and all the work that goes into it. But if a house needs TLC, updating, and a more comprehensive approach, a whole-home remodel can check all those boxes.
Mike:
It can.
We get asked about that a lot. When does a project get thrown into the whole-home remodel category?
A lot of houses have had bandages put on them. That may have happened during COVID. It may have been flippers, or homeowners doing things when they were a little in over their heads.
There may not have been a comprehensive design. Maybe the house has real flaws.
Older houses often had small rooms, and a lot of them. Now we have moved toward centralized kitchens and fewer walls, at least in common areas.
Other things can push you into whole-home remodel territory, such as mechanical systems.
We remodeled a house a few years ago, and we are going back to it now. We did their kitchen maybe four or five years ago. When I looked in the basement, they had four different kinds of plumbing pipe. Whoever came next just tacked onto the previous work. Nobody fixed the underlying problems.
The electrical panel in that house was interesting too. You know how electric panels are usually gray and have a door? At first glance, I thought it did not have a door. When I looked closer, someone had tacked on another bar so they could add more breakers. Then the cover did not fit, so they took a piece of plywood and painted it gray.
I am laughing, but I felt bad for the homeowners. We fixed it, and the house is much safer now.
That was not what I would call a whole-home remodel. It was a kitchen and a couple of rooms, and we fixed a lot of things in the basement mechanically.
But what if that house also needed a roof? What if the furnace was 15 years old, the water heater was 15 years old, and the windows were bad?
A lot of people call us and say they want to do siding. Then I look and see that the windows are bad. I tell them, “You are not going to do siding without doing the windows.” Sometimes that kicks us out of the job because siding and windows can be more of a replacement trade.
We do them all the time, but usually as part of other projects.
All of those things can weigh into whether a project becomes a whole-home remodel. It is worth checking those items.
Host:
One of the benefits of a whole-home remodel, or really any remodel, is that you can update mechanicals and other hidden systems.
You mentioned someone with multiple types of plumbing pipe. You can almost see what decade different pieces came from. During a project, even a kitchen or bathroom remodel, updating those old issues can be a big part of the work.
Safety issues can be addressed too.
It is funny. We are talking about a whole-home remodel, but it is not just the whole thing you see. It is also the whole thing you do not see.
Mike:
Right.
If your house is a little older, we know that even if we are only doing a kitchen remodel, we will probably have to peel off some drywall just to rewire it. There have been a lot of code changes. We need more dedicated circuits, and we almost always want to add lighting.
At that point, we may expose a house that is not well insulated. Then the question is, what is the plan? Are we going to ignore that, or are we going to go a little further and make sure the house is tightened up and will last longer?
We do not want to ignore those things.
Host:
What is the deal with kitchens having cold spots? It seems like I hear a lot from people that their kitchen is the worst when it comes to temperature and insulation.
Mike:
There are things running in those walls, and sometimes that takes up insulation space or affects how the insulation was installed.
When we have the chance, we fix that stuff.
That is also where the cheap starting bid can be misleading. If someone starts with a low price and it sounds great, it probably does not include fixing the four different types of pipe, insulation problems, or other things you cannot see.
Host:
And that is the important stuff.
As I have gotten older and I am getting closer to 50, I have started to appreciate that, especially with your home, the important things are often the things you do not see or do not think about every day: the roof, windows, electrical, plumbing.
I love the idea of beautiful granite countertops and all those visible upgrades, but I also really like the idea of the house being safe, functional, and built to last.
Mike:
Exactly.
Host:
If you are thinking about doing a remodeling project, Mike and the team would love to talk with you. Pick up the phone and give them a call at 608-636-3343. That number again is 636-EDGE.
You can also visit EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
Edge Construction brings you the Home Remodeling Show right here on 1310 WIBA.