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Installing Custom Shower Doors and Bath Hardware and CO Detector

Bob meets with Greg VanGrover of Ketcham Reflections to observe the finishing touches in the bathroom shower. VanGrover works with architectural drawings to custom fit the shower doors and glass walls. In older homes his factory-trained installers make a site visit prior to fabrication to insure the space is plumb and level. If its not his team will make the piece to fit whole so once its made the installer is not trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Downstairs Bob meets with Barry Driscoll, the electrician to discuss the importance of Carbon Monoxide detectors. In the basement Bob shows off his mini Wine Cellar with a Marvel Cellarette. Also in the basement is a Wood Waiter from Bruce Fowler Industries of Quebec, Canada. This nifty device saves your back from having to haul wood from the basement to the main floor. This wood elevator transports wood from a basement storage area to a cabinet near the fireplace.

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Installing Custom Shower Doors and Bath Hardware and CO Detector

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" Joining us now grant them grow for from the -- reflections company -- and we're talking -- here. Yes now upper -- to tell us what's out there right now we're finishing up what we're doing is putting on silicone sealant. To seal this unit opposition is not only -- sealed for water leakage in seepage. It's also going to be sealed the -- he does yes he showering question right. And so that means that you have to put silicon in addition to the regular metal scripting that's going up against the correct we use silicone around the whole perimeter and in certain instances. We're using magnets and weather stripping will also seal so the weather stripping is that you see right on the edge here correct and want to get a little bit too. To close in there. That you need to be able to vent this somewhat yes hello -- Is yet today constant -- here. So what happens after you that you're seeing that you can generally so you don't create mildew. Too much moisture inside the shower. And on normal mornings when you take a shower."

" And nothing -- Steve you're gonna rush. You can open -- up and taken almost an hour and we'll be to shop excellent now what type of finish is this is because. The actual. Components are solid brass -- that correct there's solid brass and inside each panel and get together a solid brass corner blocks. Which will prevent the unit from corroding inside and blowing up coming apart. And this particular finished just brushed chrome and you we chose not to match your fixtures. Not -- rest of the bathroom -- we will match the finishes are now. Now there's an unusual little most remote most -- to shine your finishes right right most times he was -- polished chrome plated brass. And that's because most fixtures that you see here are. Polished chrome plated brass -- most durable finish and holds up. And it's right and we didn't want like patting. You less fat exactly talks about an hour now what we did was since it's bigger and it's a little bit more open we wanted to join -- we remove the vertical metal movement and that we were able to Buckley is the glass. And open up the whole shower when you walk in it's a very open appearance. Now tell us of a little bit about installations like this this is really custom it's not very easier it's very accustomed to look simple but really it's not because what happens -- as the units and the openings are designed by designers and architects and but since everything budget bill especially with what you -- an older homes and not all the walls are -- upon what the angle -- sure -- so what we do basically is we -- the drawings -- we come out field measure it. And we put levels honesty of the walls clean -- we will cut this out of square just after the opening to fit your particular bat if you have to. -- right you have to and family do is we have -- factory trained installers. Because these pieces will fit right in. But they have to know exactly where each piece goes to lay it out so it is it's a very tight -- I'm familiar with them it's -- going to thank you okay what we're gonna go down to the basement now look at some other fabulous -- month."

" Clubs. Now when gadget that you really should have carbon monoxide detectors. And missile battery parts that we don't really need the electrician to do it but thanks for getting up there well now you have done. All the wiring this house every light fixture I want to thank you for that for sticking around preflight is an important items that. Well come -- monoxide is colorless and odorless and you never know what's coming until it sinks appointments to it exactly and these of course can be tested it should be to."

" It's working right yeah good thanks Spirit they'll -- Now I reserve to spaces in the basement for special purposes one of them is. A wine cellar cellar it's only about eight by eight but we're below grade we've got the old stone walls here and one of my treats as this marvel wine storage system. For special bottles or for party needs you can. Till about four cases of -- and each one of these and you can keep all your Chardonnay -- and stuff for party and then you can also control humidity and temperature so that you can take good care special red -- and then on the other side of this area I've got plenty of room for wood storage and one of the key things that I wanted was to be obligated opt to the first floor easily. So there's a Canadian company called Bruce Fowler industries that makes this would waiter and you loaded up its got a warm drive on either side so that he can really really move a lot of -- Firewood. Good. Politics at the bottom minute. And it'll be in my living. And of course the firewood is right where you needed. In the corner of the living room but just about five feet from our fireplace so that it makes life pretty darn comfortable."

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