Surprised no one has mentioned, but even in SoCal, I love my Warm Floors in the bathroom under the travertine - could be my favorite thing! During the winter, I wanted to lie down on my bathroom floor. Glad I held out for an outside spiral staircase to the upstairs deck, two-sided office desk, pot filler, upstairs laundry, pool bath, undercounter micro drawer, trash compactor (everyone tried to talk me out of that & said they were passe'), recycling bin, fixed & handheld shower (overhead shower was a bit of a waste...), doggie door hidden under kitchen desk - people think she's magic when she appears :), pull-out shelves for printers, etc in office & grommets for wires & got rid of most of the clutter, LOVE the light system & setting up scenes - esp. our 'night track' button that saves me turning on & off 6 banks of lights just to get down to the kitchen at night, my daughter's 'all-off' button that blinks until she turns all the lights off @ night Bain-Ultra air bath - no more gross jacuzzi jets shooting out gunk! Wish I had closet lights that come on when doors are opened, had organized the pantry lay-out a little better, figured out drawers/pull-outs for wrapping paper better, looked more closely at cabinet depths - can't fit a whole lot in, perhaps put an elevator in - was $10K in the beginning & just heard a woman is paying $70K to retrofit her house for one. I need the exercise now, but who knows what the future will hold... not a whole lot more than that though - we thought it out pretty throughly. STUPIDEST purchase ever - the Aquatics laundry air sink - basically a jacuzzi for my underwear that you can't even use soap in as it bubbles over & makes a mess. You can do a better job swishing your hand around in the sink a couple of times. Whatever possessed me to get this, I don't know... Almost Done!!

They are comparable with an edge to MWB. I personally maintain them both and regularly recommend others do too. Updated layered protection and remediation applications is a smart practice. I just encourage users not to develop a deep seeded desire to have excessive applications. DA

After a five month long Reno I was not interested in tearing out the whole laundry room. Logically I know it is likely what I should have pushed for but was looking for alternatives to doing so. Thanks anyway! May have to go that route.

Lack of control is my middle name according to DH. I'm always removing a bit of this or that to see what is under something. It drives him nuts BUT for me it helps me plan my mode of attack on a project. The last one I did that I got scolded for was to peel back the wall paper on the stair well. Mind you I have two rooms already in the midst of wallpaper removal plus a rental house that I'm ripping the bathroom out of to the studs. I just wanted to see if maybe someone had left a nice surprise behind the wall paper like maybe a mural. Instead all I got was a few lousy Roman numbers and a few arrows telling the wallpaper pro where to start. At least I did find out the paper in the stair well and upstairs hallway was all done by a pro so removing it should not be a major problem like the music room was. BTW I find my best finds when I'm not looking for them. There's a beam up in the attic that I passed nearly every day for a year. I was arranging the attic storing stuff from the move ect. I never in all that time noticed the writing on that beam till one afternoon I had gone up to check on the roofers work. I happened to shine a flashlight just right and noticed pencil writing on the beam. It was the name, address and ages of the PO's kids playmates from back in the 60's. Keep trying eventually the house will give up a few secretes. In the mean time you could add a few of your own for the next owner to find. I never do a repair or alteration with out leaving a date behind or some clue as to why it was done. Every wallpapered room that I've de-papered I save a piece of the paper for the houses history book. I figure when the next person takes over they'll have a better idea on just how loved this house was and what kind of things it went thru.