Whole-Home Remodeling and Additions: Quality, Design, and Long-Term Value
Host:
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The telephone number for Edge Construction is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
Joining us this morning is the owner of Edge Construction, Mike Twohig. Mike, how have you been?
Mike:
Great, Sean. It is good to talk to you.
Host:
We are talking whole-home remodeling, and that is a big subject. You do a few of these each year, don’t you?
Mike:
We do. Three is kind of our magic number.
To be honest, I think it would be hard for any company to do more than that. You do not want too much food on your plate. You do not want to overwhelm your people, and you have to keep things moving.
We try to have a spring one, a midsummer one, and then one a little bit later.
We also sort of throw additions into that category.
Host:
Additions, yes.
Mike:
Once in a while, there is a small addition that is not too hard to do, and we love those. It is really nice to have something simple once in a while.
But additions usually affect more than just the space you are adding on.
Additions and whole-home remodels are very popular right now, and there are a lot of factors driving that. People are not necessarily looking for that next big move-up house, which I think is healthy.
This idea that we are moving all the time may not have been healthy for housing.
Host:
Is some of that driven by the materials and things that are available now?
I think about the workmanship you do at Edge Construction, and it feels like things have gotten better. People seem to have a higher expectation for quality.
When I think about the type of work you do at Edge Construction, it seems like people are saying, “We are going to do a remodel, but we want really good countertops. We want real wood floors. We want high-quality cabinets. We want these things done by really good carpenters.”
Are you seeing that? Is that part of it too, because people are staying in their houses longer?
Mike:
It is an interesting thing.
We went through the early 2000s when it was kind of turn and burn. People would throw on another coat of white paint, maybe put in particleboard cabinets and laminate floors, and do whatever it took to get the house sold and move up to the next house.
To be honest, that was not a fun time to be doing this job because it was not about putting in quality products that were going to last. It was about asking, “How can we facelift this thing?”
It was like people did not really want to commit to the house because they did not think they would be there very long. Back then, the average time people stayed in a house was five to seven years, believe it or not. That seems crazy.
Why would you invest in good stuff if you are only going to be there that long?
There has been a move toward quality and natural products. We talk so much about how it is not just about how it looks, but how it feels.
You want the right amount of light. You want the right amount of windows. You want a good quality product.
You mentioned wood floors, and those people should probably send me a check because I talk about wood floors all the time. I really love natural products.
When something has to be engineered and processed, I do not know — that word “processed” feels a little dirty. It means it has to get trucked somewhere else. It has to use resources to turn it into something it is not.
We have these great natural products with stone countertops and real wood. We cut down trees and make things out of them. I think that is a better pathway.
Host:
I have to assume this overall trend toward quality has been good for Edge Construction too.
I know there is a standard, and people cannot really say, “I want to go lower than this.” You have a level where you say, “This is where we work.”
When we talk about whole-home remodels or additions, people are looking to put quality materials in. That has to be good for you guys too.
Mike:
It is because we do have a floor for products.
We have a level of product that we will not go below. That comes after years and years of trying things that failed or caused problems, and maybe we had to overcome those problems.
Very occasionally, we get talked into a product we probably should not use, and maybe we knew ahead of time we should not use it. Sometimes we are matching up to things that are already there, and it is wasteful to tear something out if it still has life left in it. So we will do that.
But there are times when we have dipped below our standard.
Kohler is one of the only brands I regularly talk about, and I do not feel bad about it because it is a Wisconsin company, a Wisconsin family, and the family is still there. I also really believe in the product. They make a great product.
Does that mean you are never going to have an issue with a Kohler faucet, tub, or whatever it is? No. Every product can have an issue. But I think we have fewer issues with Kohler. It is more dependable, and when it comes to standing behind it, there have not been problems.
In the past, I have been talked into using some off-the-rack stuff from big-box stores because people liked the look. Sometimes an inferior product has a really great look.
Here is what can happen. We had a homeowner who used a fixture in a powder bath one time. If you force us to use a product we are not comfortable with, like most remodelers, we probably will not want to stand behind that. You are going to accept liability for that. That is the nature of things in this business.
The homeowner went on vacation or left for the weekend and came back to a flooded house. We actually got to do the house twice.
On the good side, we were really in practice by then. But it was pretty frustrating for the homeowner.
There was an even chance nothing would have happened. I am not saying all those products are bad. But you want your remodeler to work in their comfort zone. You want them to use products they are familiar with and willing to stand behind.
There are a lot of reasons people pick the products they do.
Host:
My feeling is the second time around, they probably trusted your recommendations much more.
Mike:
We did not use that product again.
Host:
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig of Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
We are talking this week about whole-home remodels, and we will also get into additions. We are kind of laying the groundwork for the conversation.
I think about the term “custom builder” or “custom home.” That can have a very wide meaning.
Mike:
Everybody is a custom builder.
Host:
Exactly.
Is that where some of this comes in? Maybe somebody has a house built in the 1980s or 1990s, and it still has that feel. They want a personalized, custom home, and they say, “We want to sit down with a designer and have someone actually listen to what we want.”
Then on the remodeled side, they come out with something truly custom, unique, and personalized.
Mike:
Yes.
I poke at builders, and we build a couple houses here and there, so it applies to us too. As far as the word custom, I do like poking fun at it.
There is a saying that there are no new ideas, or maybe only 10 percent new ideas, and it is kind of that way in construction.
How many different ways are there to build a three-bedroom ranch? The houses we have built over the past several years all started with a blank sheet or in CAD, but we know we are not reinventing the wheel.
When you remodel, it is much different.
I do think new builders should spend more time in design because the process is probably too fast. If you do not spend enough time in design on the front end, you are not going to end up with something that will last on the other end, unless you have a great design and ride that thing forever.
On the remodel side, we can take an 1980s house that has fatal flaws we can see now. In the 1980s, we thought we were cutting edge.
Now you take that house and say, “Okay, we need to solve the problems, but we have to work within the confines of this 1980s structure.”
So I think it takes a lot more design to do a good remodel than it sometimes does on the front end of a new build.
Host:
I think of those 1980s and even some 1990s houses with corner cabinets and peninsulas, especially the backside of the peninsula. What do you do with that space?
Mike:
If you love your peninsula, by the way, we are not picking on you.
There are times when they work. We had two jobs this year where we either put in a peninsula or went through the remodel and it was really our only option to get a couple of seats and a little more storage.
But islands have taken over. Opening things up has taken over.
And you mentioned corner cabinets. They are kind of the bane of my existence. I try to get rid of those too.
Host:
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.
If you have some ideas and would like to start that conversation, pick up the phone and call Edge Construction at 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
We are talking this week about whole-home remodels and additions. We will get into the design process. Obviously, when you are designing an entire house and touching most of the main areas, there is going to be a lot of conversation around design.
We will get into that and so much more as the Home Remodeling Show with Edge Construction continues 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 is 636-EDGE.
We are talking with Mike Twohig this week about whole-home remodels and additions.
Mike, we laid some of the foundation for this conversation in the previous segment. One of the big areas is the design process. Whether it is a smaller project or a whole-home remodel, design is vital.
As you alluded to during the break, sometimes you are seeing the consequences of poor design and people not putting enough time into design.
At Edge Construction, design is a very high priority. I have to guess that with a whole-home remodel, there is a lot to do when it comes to the design process.
Mike:
There is.
We talk about the buzzwords like green, efficiency, and quality products. But to me, if I had the ultimate call, it would be that the remodel lasts as long as possible. Ideally, it would go 40 or 50 years without someone having to go back in and redo everything.
You have to have products that will last that long. That is the base level, and I think a lot of homeowners assume that is what they are getting when they buy a remodel or buy products themselves and install them.
But it is really hard to know how long something will last unless you have installed it and have a track record to look back on.
The other thing is design. We are talking a lot about design today because if you put the best products in with a poor design, I guarantee that 10 years from now, somebody who buys that house will hate it and call somebody like us to tear it back out.
And we will say, “Well, yes, it was relatively new. There was nothing wrong with it. It was still working.”
So the other half of the coin is great design. If you like it and you build something other people are going to like, there is a good chance those products will stay in that house for a lot longer.
Host:
It is an interesting balance.
That probably highlights the skill of your designers at Edge Construction. You want the remodel to be truly custom and special for the homeowner, but you also have to make sure it is not too far out there.
We are not gluing pink fur to the ceiling here.
There is something special about people who can create a design that is custom and unique to the homeowner, but still not “out there.” I do not know if that makes sense, but it is an art.
Mike:
People generally want the same things.
You want something that fits all your needs. It has to be attractive. The space has to feel good. And you do not want your friends and neighbors making fun of you because you did something wrong, like pink fur on the ceiling.
It would be unreasonable for me to ask my good carpenters to also be great designers. I do not have all those gifts either.
I can look at the plan and build it. If you give me the picture, I can build it. That is the construction side. They live in that world.
Our carpenters complain if they do not get a good plan. If the plan is not quite right or there are things that are unclear, it slows them down, and they do not like that.
But if I try to step onto the design side, I like teasing our designers. If they are working with someone and I come in to give my opinion, they look at me like I am such a child. They tell me to go back and build something.
When you work with great designers, you can underestimate the value because they see things differently. They think differently. It is very helpful in our process.
Host:
When it comes to a whole-home remodel, what does the building side bring to the designers?
As far as dimensions, structure, and how things currently sit, how does your expertise get brought to the designers so they know where they are starting?
Mike:
It actually kind of works in reverse.
When I come out, usually with Heather, our head designer, she has the big brain over there. Homeowners are throwing around ideas, and they are not necessarily thinking about nuts and bolts, bearing points, beam loads, how to make this truss, whether we need a girder, rooflines, and so on.
Through experience, I now let the designers design. My theory is that we are going to solve the problems later.
We had one last week. It is an addition coming up. We are still trying to get it out this year, believe it or not. It is not a super complicated one, but there were a couple of things the designers drew where I said, “You really made this much harder by extending this wall one foot.”
Believe it or not, that one foot affected the roofline.
The designers come back to me and say, “Hey, I thought you guys knew what you were doing over there.”
So it does have to go back and forth. We ironed it out, and we can do it the way they drew it. It will not be especially brutal, and it is going to work.
There is some back and forth, and sometimes some heated back and forth, between construction and design. It has always been that way.
When I started, there were architects working in residential. They would send plans, and the first thing you would do is look at them and say, “We cannot build this. This is not going to work.”
But through back and forth, you iron out the problems.
I have come to think that design should come first. Let’s get a great design and then solve the problems to make it happen.
Host:
Are there some things that are easier with a whole-home remodel because you are able to work in different areas?
If you are just doing a bathroom or kitchen — and for the homeowner, those are still substantial projects — you are limited to that space. But when you are doing a whole home and touching all these different spaces, does that give you a little more flexibility with design and construction?
Mike:
Yes.
Logistically, if we are doing a bathroom or kitchen and homeowners are living there with kids and pets, we have to define our pathways. We are trying to stay out of their living space and protect their living space.
When we have the place to ourselves, it is different.
This happened last week. We got going on a big old house downtown, I think on Dayton Street. It is empty. Nobody is in it. There is a lot of demo on two floors. It is a two-flat that we are turning into a single house.
It had been a rental, so you can imagine it was not the friendliest situation for the house.
I was able to put six or seven people in there and really attack the demo. We did not have to worry about somebody in a home office or shutting off power for an hour. That gives us flexibility.
Our bread and butter is kitchens, baths, lower levels, and interior projects. That is what we have been doing forever, and I think that is where our strength is.
We also have enough horsepower that we can do these bigger projects, and those are fun too. If you had to do the exact same thing every day, you would probably get sick of it.
Host:
Do you ever get people who start with a smaller scope and then decide to expand it before you start?
Maybe they originally wanted to do a kitchen and bath, but then they say, “Maybe we should do the primary bedroom too,” or maybe the basement.
Mike:
Yes.
I call those tag-along projects.
Pie in the sky, a homeowner might say, “I hate my kitchen, and I need three new baths.” Almost nobody can afford to do all of that at the same time.
But if the main project is the kitchen, and maybe one of the baths is a someday project, it may be able to make it into the budget this time.
Generally, you are getting a 20 to 30 percent break on that second project because our guys are already in there doing drywall in the kitchen. To do a little more in a bath is relatively easy, and we can almost do that part for half the cost. So it affects the whole budget quite a bit.
One fun thing for me is to figure out what drove the original project.
So many times, it is something simple. Maybe they want to open up a wall or change the flooring. They want to take out carpet and put in a wood floor. Well, that leads to a kitchen, which leads to a hallway, which might lead to a bath or painting or cabinets. Cabinets obviously lead to a lot of things.
Failures in bathrooms will lead to kitchens a lot of times too.
Host:
I think people are probably surprised when they learn about the cost of logistics: the planning, travel, scheduling, and all those things.
When you can share those logistics, planning, materials, and deliveries across one project, the savings can be significant.
We think about the tangible things we see, but not necessarily how much planning went into it. You mentioned drywallers, for example. If they are already scheduled to be there that day, having them do another small area can create a lot of savings.
A big part of your job is figuring out who is going to be where and when.
Mike:
Yes, very much so.
Anybody in remodeling or construction is very schedule-driven.
From the homeowner side, it may seem like, “Why are they not here this minute?” or “What is happening?” But there are a lot of moving parts and pieces.
Permitting is something we have not talked about in a long time. On a whole-house remodel, the permitting demands have gotten more and more intense.
I think our average time now to get permits for a whole-house remodel or addition is a couple of months. We had a house we are finishing now where it took us five months to get the permit.
It is not just signing the contract and starting. It is signing the contract and starting the permitting process.
Just getting through the preliminaries can take several months, depending on where you are.
Host:
Can doing a bigger project help with that?
Rather than doing a bathroom this year and the kitchen next year, is it more efficient to get all those permits done up front?
Mike:
It depends on what is happening structurally. That is where the slowdown happens.
If you are opening up a roof or doing an addition, you are going to be engineering things, and that can slow things down.
Smaller projects are fairly easy to permit. If you are doing a kitchen or bath, it is relatively simple from their end because you are not necessarily changing the whole structure of the house.
You might be putting a beam in here or there. I generally know how to size those beams because I have been around long enough, and I can do the math. I can pull out the book and figure out how much load we are carrying.
This gets into projects where somebody has flipped a house, which was popular for a long time, or homeowners bit off more than they could chew and put in a beam supporting a second floor and possibly roof load.
I know, and an inspector would know if they saw it, that some things can be undersized and need to be fixed.
That is why the permitting process is important. They will catch those things.
They will say, “You are going to open up a wall 14 feet that is carrying the second floor.” In my head, I know that once you get above 12 or 13 feet, the beam changes. The demands on that beam get much greater.
There is a reason for permitting. It solves those problems too.
Host:
That is an angle I had not thought of before.
Mike:
I will give you a quick rundown on the worst offender I have seen.
It was a homeowner in an old house out in the country. When I walked in, they had what looked like two 2x8s going about 24 feet and carrying the floor load for the upstairs. The deflection, meaning how much it bowed down in the middle, was about three inches.
It was like living next to a volcano. The second floor was kind of sliding.
Host:
Oh my goodness.
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig of Edge Construction. The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
With additions, what generally drives people to explore adding on to a home? Do they start by thinking about a basement remodel or something else, or have they just run out of space?
What causes people to say, “Let’s pour a foundation and go”?
Mike:
You have to have a really good reason for an addition.
They are expensive, and they are a pain. They are tough to do in a lot of areas.
Interestingly, people put a lot of thought into additions. I do not think these happen willy-nilly, like, “I got this idea this week, and now we are going to explore an addition.”
There has to be a good reason.
Most of the ones we have done over the past several years have either been primary suites — because a lot of houses from the utilitarian 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s did not really have much of a primary bedroom — or extra living space.
Older houses often had one bedroom and another bedroom, but not really something you could call a primary suite. If you have the lot to make it happen, that can be a great addition.
Another popular one is extra living space on the first floor, just another place for people to go and congregate.
One we are digging in a couple of weeks, I hope, is kind of a sunroom addition. It will have a fireplace, lots of windows, and it is right off the great room and kitchen. It is another place for people to go.
A lot of our design now is thinking in terms of areas where people can hang out and congregate: the kitchen, lower level, great room, maybe a sunroom.
Host:
I want to ask you coming up about goals and what people are trying to accomplish. As you mentioned, when you are planning out how people will congregate, there has to be thought around why homeowners want to do a whole-home remodel or addition.
There have to be some big goals and big ideas.
We will ask Mike about that next. The Home Remodeling Show with Edge Construction continues right here on 1310 WIBA.
The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com. Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
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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 is 636-EDGE.
Before the break, I was asking you about the overall idea of what drives homeowners to do whole-home remodels and additions.
Is it generally remedying old issues? Is it modernization? What drives the planning, goals, and motivation?
Mike:
I think it is a cascading bunch of reasons.
If you think about your own house, it is from whatever era it is from, and maybe that era is still there. Maybe it is the 1970s, 1960s, or earlier.
Maybe nothing has been updated. Maybe the kitchen has been updated, but the bathrooms have not. Maybe there are a bunch of small rooms, the windows are not great, and there are eight different types of flooring.
You start adding all of that up. Electrically, it probably has issues. Mechanically, with heating and plumbing, there are probably issues.
Then you start asking, “Do I piecemeal this and go through 10 years of pain, or do I really attack it and make it nice?”
You may not live in it for half a year, five months, or six months. But then you are moving back into a new house in the area where you want to live, and you do not have all these problems.
You do not have to think about maintenance for probably 10 years.
When we do whole-home remodels, we often take care of things like siding, a bunch of windows, and sometimes roofs. I think that is attractive to people because it is great not to have to worry for a while.
It is almost like having a new house.
Host:
You mentioned mechanicals. I think of old houses and old furnaces and how inefficient they were.
Maybe it is not the driving force, but people quickly realize the benefits of modern systems. We are not talking about flashy stuff like countertops or flooring. We are talking about the things that make the house work.
Those can make a profound difference.
Mike:
Yes.
When you were talking, I was thinking about some of the old furnaces we have replaced. They are not efficient, and they also do not work that great.
Maybe the furnace works fine, but all the heat trunks coming off it and the returns are not in the right spots. Maybe it was not balanced well.
Some of those old furnaces should be in a kids’ movie with eyebrows and a frown. They never die. They inefficiently go on forever in some cases.
That can be a great driver for remodeling. Anybody who owns a house has probably had to replace something major, like air conditioning or other HVAC components.
Plumbing kind of operates on its own. You forget about it until there is a problem, and then it is, “Oh my gosh.”
There are so many times we go into houses that have three or four different types of pipe. You might have galvanized, copper, PVC, and some newer stuff like PEX. It is messy, and to me, it is asking for trouble.
A remodel is a chance to clean that up.
Host:
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig, owner of 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 is 636-EDGE.
We are talking about whole-home remodeling projects and additions. Edge Construction does those, and I know a lot of folks who have done smaller projects with you may call and say, “We have been thinking about doing something more significant.”
It is a great day to start that conversation. Pick up the phone and call 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
Let’s talk about some of the glitzy stuff — the fun stuff you get to see.
One great thing about a whole-home remodel is that you can really make the house yours. You alluded to it earlier: you go away while the project is going on, and you are often walking into basically a brand-new house in your favorite neighborhood.
All the things you loved about your house before are still there, but now everything is modern, and it looks fantastic. That has to be a great feeling for homeowners.
Mike:
I think it is.
It is designed for you. When you buy a house and the kitchen has already been done, that is great, but it may not be what you would have picked if you had the choice.
When you are doing it, you get to enjoy the things you like.
Host:
I want to ask about countertops too.
We were talking about some of the inferior products that may still hold up but not look great. I think of this countertop here at the radio station. It will not die. It is a nauseating color and pattern, but it has durability going for it.
Now the other side of the spectrum is beauty.
The countertop here is completely black, and it is amazing what they can do now, especially with quartz. You can make it look absolutely stunning. It can look like natural stone, if that is what you are looking for. You can get unique colors and patterns, and it is amazingly durable.
When you think about drivers for remodeling, imagine having that perfect surface that not only performs well but looks fantastic in your kitchen.
Mike:
Quartz really does that.
Probably 95 percent or more of the countertops we do are quartz. It has the durability. It is a harder stone than granite, which is harder than almost anything, especially compared to marble.
There are thousand-year-old marble countertops in Europe and the Middle East.
Host:
And 2,000-year-old columns.
Mike:
Right.
Stone is a great product.
What has really sold quartz for design is that if you like a stone from basically anywhere in the world, I think you can find a sample in our showroom because quartz manufacturers can reproduce just about anything.
The Builder Show is coming up in February, and I am excited to go again. Our designers are going this year too, which makes it doubly fun.
Last year at the show, we saw companies in the quartz product line coming up with unique looks — things not found in nature. Some of it made me think, “I do not know about that.” Our designers were saying, “What do you mean? That is cool stuff. We can use that in designs.”
Host:
Could we get a Badger or Bucky red countertop?
Mike:
Probably.
Host:
We need to replace this one in here with Badger red.
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig, owner of 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 is 636-EDGE.
We will continue our conversation with Mike Twohig of Edge Construction next as the Home Remodeling Show continues right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
We are talking about whole-home remodeling projects and additions. As always, we are coming down the home stretch, and it feels like we are just getting started.
We left off talking about quartz, which is one of those amazingly high-quality products available now. Not only does it perform well, but it looks absolutely beautiful.
I feel like we would be remiss if we did not talk about flooring, specifically natural real wood floors.
When you are doing a whole-home remodel, what a great opportunity to get out all that mismatched flooring and put in a really nice floor.
A lot of folks decide to do just that with whole-home remodels, don’t they?
Mike:
They do.
I know I talk about wood floors a lot, but we refinish wood floors in our projects routinely. We refinish wood floors that are 100 years old and add on to them. We feather into them, and they still have at least another 100 years of life left in them.
I think it is one of the best products ever made, at least in our side of construction.
We have done pretty much every other product. We still do some LVPs. But I think there is a healthy trend toward natural products.
Builders love click flooring and snap-together flooring because it is a one-day install, and it is in. But it is not necessarily cheaper than a real wood product that will last much longer than we are going to be around.
So the inconvenience might be blocking out four or five days instead of one day. To me, in the life of a house, we can spare a few days to put in a better product.
We should do that.
Host:
On TV shows, you always hear about amazing reveals where they open up a wall and find something spectacular.
Mike:
We hardly ever find something good. Usually it is bad.
Host:
But sometimes it is good.
Do you ever get to a house and discover that someone covered up a beautiful wood floor that you are able to reveal and make use of?
Mike:
Yes, but it is a tough process.
A lot of times, those floors have been carpeted over. Or if somebody has nailed down or stapled down a bunch of quarter-inch plywood and then put vinyl floor over the wood, it is probably unrecoverable.
Generally, they did that for a reason. In kitchens, for example, there may have been big wear areas, and that is why they covered it.
You cannot always bring those back. But in those cases, we can selectively take out what needs to come out, put new material where we need it, sand everything down, and you are none the wiser. It all looks good.
I think it is a great use of resources.
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How awesome is that?
Whether you are thinking about doing a whole-home remodel, an addition, going up and adding another story, getting a bathroom ready, or remodeling a kitchen, Edge Construction would love to talk with you.
Maybe you are going to a holiday party or visiting family at Christmas and you get some ideas. It is a great time to call Edge Construction.
Pick up the phone and call 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
Edge Construction brings you the Home Remodeling Show right here on 1310 WIBA.