Design and Construction Week 2022 is a combination of the National Association of Home Builders International Building Show and the National Kitchen and Bath Associations Kitchen and Bath Industry Show. In 2022 it will be the most attended convention in North America. In the world of Building and Design this is the show that many manufacturers release those new products for builders, designers and the media to see.

Eric G found a lot of new products and home tech at the show and we will be talking about them in today's episode.

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[00:00:33] Eric Goranson: Like it's a pantry door, but when it's swings open, there are things hiding behind it, which is cool. So The Hidden Space! ,

[00:00:47] Intro: remodeling and renovating your home, there is a lot

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[00:01:03] Eric Goranson: We're here to talk about healthy homes, new technology, DIY projects, and construction every single week. Thanks for joining us, Caroline. Hello,

[00:01:22] Eric Goranson: I was down at the international design and construction.

[00:01:32] Caroline Blazovsky: and tell everybody what you were doing. So you got off the plane, you shot over to the hotel, and then you started to build. And

[00:01:51] Eric Goranson: So I was on a main stage on the Fort here. Wow. We were building, we were building just like that. So we were, yeah, we were building [00:02:00] on the home tech stage. So what happened is, is we, we have this huge figure, this home can, this big, huge convention center. So. All of this space, which was kind of cool. And I mean, how much space we are talking about like 700,000 square feet of space, which is pretty crazy.

[00:02:39] Eric Goranson: We had to sit there and hook up all the electronics and get that all hooked into the wifi and all that stuff. So that's, what's pretty cool. And then up

[00:03:01] Caroline Blazovsky: And then behind him, there are all the latest and greatest appliances and technology services and he had bathroom fans and you name it up behind him. So it's really. Who picked, who picked the coloring too? He did this great color scheme.

[00:03:20] Eric Goranson: I'm like, I'm gonna do something fun. So, uh, we use this multicolor flooring from floor and decor. That was a, uh, there's actually a bamboo flooring, but stained in different colors and we put it up there. So it had a real kind of old Barnwood painted Bard. One looked like it was out of three different.

[00:04:00] Eric Goranson: And a, uh, one of those was a. Uh, round table that we did with three or four people. And it was all teaching seminars on technology around your home to builders, remodelers and designers.

[00:04:23] Caroline Blazovsky: And, um, he got some great opportunities to bring the show. Some of our friends and innovators that we work with.

[00:04:41] Eric Goranson: And we had some good conversations. And so. I mean, it's fast. It's get up there. Talk 15 minute break, which means I'm talking to people afterwards, get a drink of water, go up and do it again for another half hour and you just keep going. And then of course, we got to do the around the house show they're over in people's [00:05:00] booth.

[00:05:34] Eric Goranson: And I felt bad because some of the speakers that were on my stage and our other stage over there on the other stage, that over there was the high-performance buildings. And Emily and architect that I worked with there, I felt so bad for her because she did one seminar on that stage. Had to walk over to my stage, had to walk over to the other stage and then come back to mine.

[00:06:08] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah. You need your cocktails. You're going to pour some of your

[00:06:14] Eric Goranson: Absolutely. I had a few, I had a few over in the evenings, you know, but here's the thing that I, and I've really learned going to these shows is 10 years ago. It was like party every night, hinted hard, we'd have four or five parties to go to this year. It was very much dialed down from that. And I turned a few down too, because I just had so many seminars and podcast recordings to give.

[00:06:52] Caroline Blazovsky: biggest takeaway, what did you learn? Because you're teaching so many people about everything else. What did you learn?

[00:06:58] Eric Goranson: takeaway? First [00:07:00] thing between the two shows, there were 70,000 people that showed up for this event. So trade shows you're back. Those have come back to life. The people are there. Another note that I want to put in there are there were some companies that really kind of misplayed and misread.

[00:07:35] Eric Goranson: And they're like, yeah, we made a call. We didn't, they're going to, it's going to be here, but we put the boots up anyway and they didn't take the other steps. So it was severely. Can I see why it was so severely. I mean, it was just like holy smokes and it's a company I like, but really when it came down to it, there was a lot of new, innovative products that we're going to talk about today that were there.

[00:08:20] Eric Goranson: It's it's, this'll open your door for you this whole turn on the lights, all that stuff. But we've all had like 42 apps on our phones. Um, to, to actually have to operator, or you had a smart home system that ran half of it. Now, moving forward, there are a lot of products out there that are intuitive that are actually going to learn what you need.

[00:09:01] Eric Goranson: We're in anticipates what we need and what we want. It's going to learn what those lights settings are. It's going to learn what you think is comfortable in. It's going to set it for that around your house, which is going to be.

[00:09:19] Caroline Blazovsky: I don't want to play with my app on my phone. I don't have. I think we had that discussion with

[00:09:26] Caroline Blazovsky: had that discussion with Samsung. I mean, they brought that to our attention that, you know, they want it to be automated to do it for us. We don't have to think about it.

[00:09:40] Eric Goranson: and, and that is no coming out. We'll talk about that. When we come back, just as soon is around the house returns.[00:10:00]

[00:10:05] Eric Goranson: back to around the house with Eric G and Caroline, be your single source for everything, home improvement, DIY construction, design, and healthy home information every single week. Well, Caroline and I have been talking about kind of our little debrief here in home technology from the international building show or design and construction week.

[00:10:38] Intro: Yeah.

[00:10:44] Eric Goranson: Yeah. This has made my Oro and their website is get oro.com and you almost have to think about, this is a light switch that's designed. Almost like it's your phone there? So you don't need your phone to operate this. [00:11:00] So throw your phone away. Don't need it. This is a lighting home control that has its own only switch face on there.

[00:11:36] Eric Goranson: It doesn't care what you're saying, but it's sensing all of these things within your home.

[00:11:47] Eric Goranson: different colors? Yeah. Well, you have different colors of trim. You can put around them, but yes, they are black because it's a black glass like your phone, you know what I mean?

[00:12:17] Eric Goranson: So now it's watching to see how bright or dark the room is with motion detection. It's knows if you're in there and because it's listing, it can hear you in that. And so that's kinda cool. So it knows it's okay, well, it's mid day. It's going to be brighter outside typically. So it knows that you need some light there, but it knows in the evening, as it gets darker, Hey, you want to have this stay the same brightness.

[00:13:08] Eric Goranson: So, you know, disrupt sleep, lowers, metabolism, increases stress, right? All of those things. So what this does. Is this auto dims as it gets closer to your bedtime. So it jumps into that circadian rhythm and starts to make things darker around the house, but just slightly, you can still see, but it's trying to bring that down.

[00:13:40] Intro: night.

[00:13:52] Caroline Blazovsky: So

[00:14:10] Eric Goranson: And there's about a 32nd of an inch between the full on button and the button that goes just a little bit on the Daimler side of things. And there's about a 50 50 chance that when I turn around half in the middle of the way, you know, two o'clock in the morning. Dennis sleep for me to slap that switch and I go blue.

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[00:15:00] Eric Goranson: You can direct them. You can get them directing them through stores. You can get them through your, um, your professional out there that is designing your space for you, which would be called your integrator.

[00:15:36] Eric Goranson: You can have your Google assistant nest Bryant Arlo. Yeah. See, so control four, which is a much higher end. Control system for your home. So it's really meant to integrate with that stuff, you know, which is awesome, you know, and sonar, it works with your Sono system. [00:16:00] So if you want to have the same sound around, it's actually monitoring what the sound output in that room is because it has that sensor, you know, at the same time, you can say, you can use voice control and say, Hey, Alexa, You know, do whatever, right?

[00:16:22] Caroline Blazovsky: So you can tell it to turn the lights off or on through your Alexa and it'll be compatible.

[00:16:37] Eric Goranson: So it's really. Like your smart home system with your phone on it. It's just mounted to the wall. You can. Now, when you want to unplug, you can lay your phone down and this is going to run your smart home stuff. Very similar to what your phone is. And that's kind of cool. Very cool. And an anticipates things.

[00:17:19] Eric Goranson: You know, one thing I do like about this it's very important is these new lights, switches, Carolyn change, how we design out homes. You know, it used to be that if you had four doors coming into a, like a living room or dining room, those four doorways, you kind of wanted to have a switch. She could walk in and turn the lights on right now.

[00:18:10] Eric Goranson: So

[00:18:11] Caroline Blazovsky: our listeners, it's O R R O Auro kind of like Oreo,

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[00:18:57] Eric Goranson: Angelina, if you're listening to around the [00:19:00] house

[00:19:10] Intro: Clara golden color red never looks so good. So

[00:19:37] Eric Goranson: And, uh, there are so many cool products, Caroline, that it's just too many to even put into one show. So we'll have this in a couple episodes here. Attack it correctly and get that information out because man, there was some groundbreaking.

[00:19:57] Caroline Blazovsky: And I want to put it on something that isn't going to look [00:20:00] so ugly and blocky and take away from the aesthetics of the house, but yet not also cause leaks and mold. And this thing is super cool. So talk about this and this is by our friends. It's a Timberline, right? It's called the new Timberlines.

[00:20:17] Eric Goranson: Timberline is at GAF, has the, is the roofing company. Timberline is one of their many roofing lines that they carry under the GAF line. So, you know, they've got different series of roofs. Timberline is kind of their, their high-end roof. Under the GAF brand. They created a new company called GAF energy. So what they have is roof with power added to.

[00:21:09] Eric Goranson: But you have one company for the warranty, right? Nice. She don't have the, you don't have the solar company. Well, Hey, well, water leakages in our problem. We're about the energy and the roofing company going, Hey man, they drove big holes in the roof. Um, that's a problem, right? So explain to me,

[00:21:32] Caroline Blazovsky: Is it blends in with the color tone of your roof? So if your roof isn't say a charcoal color, it seems to blend in, are they all, do they do that or is it just in this photograph that it's particularly matching? Cause you can't see it cause it's blending right?

[00:21:51] Eric Goranson: They don't really do a white roof. So that is what it is. You know what I mean? Right. And so there's in the Timberline series. There there's always a little darkness to it in that, [00:22:00] but what I like about it is that the tumor lines solar is made up of shingles, not panels are heavy tiles, right? So the shingles automatically are watershed.

[00:22:29] Eric Goranson: So this is really a nail bubble product that comes on there and it has the. Wind and water shedding warranty coverage is the shingle itself. Explain to the audience.

[00:22:50] Caroline Blazovsky: So they're not high, they're not jacked up. They're like they look like part of your roof, but it's actually the panels that you're used to seeing.

[00:23:18] Eric Goranson: And so. What's awesome is you got the roof up there. You've got these thin panels that are on the roof and the electrical goes up through there, but it's all in nails products. So you're not cutting huge holes. We've got to cut some holes for electrical, but it's pretty amazing. And now your roofer can come up and install that up there and you don't have to bring in a whole different company to do.

[00:23:51] Eric Goranson: Yeah. I mean it is trick. And so they go through and they've got the whole service package with this. So they actually go through and help design it and help do [00:24:00] the electrical service. They've got all their financing partners. They've got everything lined up for the contractor out there.

[00:24:23] Caroline Blazovsky: sells this? I mean, is it the roofing company? I mean, do they incorporate it with, are they partnering with your solar company?

[00:24:31] Eric Goranson: that working? So these guys here. Trying to explain it here. So you come in and your roofing companies actually going to work with GAF energy to do this. So it's not, your you'll have solar companies. That'll do it. You'll have roofing companies. You're going to do it. It's a brand new product out there.

[00:25:01] Intro: I agree.

[00:25:22] Eric Goranson: So that's kind of trick. So I liked that they won that. So super smart. We're going to see more of that kind of stuff out there. I think it's gonna work really well. And, uh, you know, if you're a roofer out there, it might be something you want to take, you know, get ahold of, they have their own people to come in and help get you trained up and ready to go for this product.

[00:25:54] Caroline Blazovsky: good. It's clean all in one solar power. How long do these [00:26:00] last at anybody talk about. The length of time that when do they have

[00:26:06] Eric Goranson: They have not released any of that stuff out there, but you know, usually with solar panels, you're getting, you know, 20 years or so out of it. So, you know, uh, I'm not sure what the lifespan on this is. It's not information that they release. Cause this is just rolling out as of

[00:26:24] Caroline Blazovsky: Right. So. I'll say 25 years out of your roof, they would go in court and coordinates with that. But I don't know

[00:26:45] Eric Goranson: With a 50 year old warranty on it. By the time we get to that point, I got a feeling that technology is going to have jumped, uh, jumped the shark on that. You're going to go, Hey, I need something newer. Right?

[00:27:01] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah.

[00:27:20] Eric Goranson: So

[00:27:37] Caroline Blazovsky: So this is much better alternative, and we're still use it using the roof

[00:27:57] Eric Goranson: That you start putting other heavy products up [00:28:00] there with, with solar panels and stuff. And it puts a whole new wind load on it as well. There's times that I've had to see people go in and do some framing to beef that up. Now there's going to be a new product. We're going to talk about when we come back that.

[00:28:19] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh yeah.

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[00:28:53] Eric Goranson: command from Eva. Novelas bam. And you're listening to around the house with Eric [00:29:00] G

[00:29:05] Eric Goranson: Welcome back to around the house with Eric G N Caroline B. This is not your grandmother and grandfather's home improvement show. This is where we talk everything home improvement every single week. Thanks for joining us. Well, Caroline, we've been talking about all these cool new things that I ran into, including some new technology at design and construction week.

[00:29:30] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm glad you did the walk-in and now you're doing the talking I'm listening. I'm absorbing all your information. No, that's great. Look at the Murphy bed. I'm

[00:29:50] Eric Goranson: And when I got to actually, we got to hang out with them twice, which was awesome because two or three times,

[00:30:00] Eric Goranson: Yeah.

[00:30:37] Eric Goranson: Well, everybody's heard of Murphy beds. So here's what's crazy. Wait, wait,

[00:30:47] Eric Goranson: Okay.

[00:30:49] Eric Goranson: No, no. Yeah. So these are the fold-up beds that we see who we've seen around for over a hundred years. Right? I mean, that's the crazy thing [00:31:00] with this.

[00:31:24] Eric Goranson: Amato's we'll start working on that. So it took him eight years to go through the process. And just this last year, there were no contesting things on it. So he now has the trademark for Murphy beds, even though he was making. And it was like Kleenex. Nobody had, even though Kleenex has been around, that was just one of those terms that nobody had trademarked it for nearly a hundred years.

[00:32:12] Caroline Blazovsky: So for people who don't know Murphy, um, you know, I associate them with hidden beds. So if you lived in the city, I lived in New York city and Hoboken. And so we always wanted additional space. So these were beds that fold up, you know, they become like a wall. So you fold them in, you fold them out. And the great for really tiny spaces.

[00:32:40] Eric Goranson: Yeah. So if you've seen, they have, they had the Murphy ladder, which folds up.

[00:33:06] Eric Goranson: You waste so much space within that, right? So these are about eight inches thick and they look like a bookcase could look like a wine rack. It could look like a pool cue door where you're storing all your stuff for your pool room, or it could even look like it's, uh, a pantry door, but when it's swings open, There are things hiding behind it, which is cool.

[00:33:34] Eric Goranson: the hidden space. So think about it. If you have a door going into your pantry, right. And you're in a tight space and you've got that space between what would be the shelves there and the door you can put in this pantry door. You can make it. So it looks like a door swings open, but when it swings open, there's its own pantry.

[00:34:06] Caroline Blazovsky: Cool. Look at all these, they have the spice rack, the wine rack. Oh. You'd like that the dresser

[00:34:14] Eric Goranson: They have a gun cabinet door as well, which is kind of cool for all you people out there that

[00:34:19] Caroline Blazovsky: rifles. That would be a big hit and

[00:34:31] Caroline Blazovsky: Look at the hamper so you can have a door and then you open it up.

[00:34:40] Intro: Correct.

[00:34:59] Eric Goranson: It's ready to [00:35:00] go. And you can literally. It looks like a book book case and open it up. And now you have access into the back, which is pretty cool. That's how you get to the bad cave. Right. And I like,

[00:35:22] Eric Goranson: C, it looks like a shoe rack in the closet. Now that might be that second doorway out works pretty cool. Well, what are they made out

[00:35:36] Eric Goranson: out of? Yeah. That's maiden, maiden USA coming out of Utah.

[00:35:58] Caroline Blazovsky: one.[00:36:00]

[00:36:15] Intro: What's the width

[00:36:18] Eric Goranson: You can, uh, you can, uh, do all that stuff so you can paint it to match. There are so many different things, you know, if you want to make a statement going into your wine room, you can make it that way. See a stain to match everything else. You could have a going into your home office where it looks like it's a hidden home office.

[00:36:40] Caroline Blazovsky: bathroom though. That's what I'm trying to figure out the deep, like, look at the drawer when it's open. It looks like,

[00:36:50] Eric Goranson: Eight or 10 inches? I didn't throw a tape on it, but you've got eight or 10 inches, but it makes it look like it's a. He had more room, which is pretty cool. And [00:37:00] I think it's a smart way to go. You can have that full length mirror in the room, have storage on the other side. So when you're getting ready, you want the full like mirror, but maybe you don't have a place to put that full length mirror.

[00:37:20] Caroline Blazovsky: You guys have to check this out. This is really cool.

[00:37:36] Eric Goranson: And so what this is SW I D G E T. It is a smart technology light switch company. And what they do is you have a regular lights. And think of that to coral light switch to this square, and then you have all these little modules that go in the middle of it. And this is all about you, Caroline. So you can [00:38:00] measure humidity with that.

[00:38:28] Eric Goranson: 24, 7 Carolina. I hear that music, you know what time it is, and it's time to wrap it up real quickly. Now let's jump over here. You don't wanna miss this next one because we've. Our show from Broan NuTone booth. This is going to be fun. I love them.

[00:38:48] Eric Goranson: We're gonna talk about all that cool stuff. We'll do that just as soon as we return. I'm Eric G and Caroline B, and you were listening [00:39:00] to