At our company, we are curious. We are always on the lookout for new and better ways of doing things.
In the modern world, many of the old ways of building no longer work. The building materials of old are no longer available. People live in their homes now very differently than they did 20 to 50 years ago. These changes are even more apparent when we work on an 80 – 100-year-old home. Kitchens are no longer in the shed out back to prevent fires from consuming the whole home. Bathrooms have moved from the back yard or back porch into the sleeping quarters and near new kitchen locations inside, thanks to indoor plumbing technology — which is amazing if you think about it.
Back in the 1980s, Myers Constructs, Inc. co-founder Tamara Myers decided the small remodeling company she owned at that time was always going to use a cement board product in the tub/shower walls of her bathroom projects. At the time, the use of cheaper, much lighter drywall was standard and to code, but Tamara wanted the best for her customer’s projects. In her business, she had encountered too many newer bathrooms built by others where the shower walls made of drywall had rotted away.
Tamara’s savvy vision for using modern materials was key to creating long-lasting, high-quality bathrooms. Now, cement board and similar products are code; they are the minimal building standard. In fact, you can’t build a shower with drywall anymore. But Myers Constructs has been “doing it right” since the 1980s.
Recently, a new tub/shower wall-sealing product hit the market. Bob, our carpenter, discovered it when he was doing some tiling systems research. He wanted to know if there was a way to do such projects even better than we were currently doing them. He found that this product was tested in Germany for many years with excellent results. That’s an example of our company’s “curiosity culture.”
Here is a photo of what it looks like installed. It’s the red stuff.
We use this product to tape and seal the cement board. It creates a moisture seal in the wall behind the tile.
This is another example of how our company takes extra steps to make sure your renovation dollars are well spent. You would never know it was there if we didn’t tell you. And while it costs a bit more to do it right, this bathroom will last!