we attend and view many interesting products and vendors at the sixty eighth annual two thousand and twelve seattle home show we are the sixty eighth annual two thousand we can come across that's new and different as well as revisit some of the people we've seen before so as i was walking around checking out some of the first girlfriend  come along with me pointed out dog food clothing and vets and this young lady here you are christy peterson and we were talking about yes each one each dog has so the dogs can fight past each other over and over again while not tangle the limit or the only thing it does is bring it together so the dogs don't tangle up in the crowd so when you're in a crowd what you want to do is put the matter on when you're not in the crowd you want the dogs to run rampant they can they want to change it's meant for dogs under forty pounds it's not meant for  another thing that you had here that i found interesting not only because your local in the fiala area but you also have a line for hunters and  you can add to or take it away this particular vest is very warm if it's in the forty degrees you want to take it off your dogs the dogs are working and it will be too warm for a lot of older dogs they b vista because the dogs circulation fad and it keeps them  middle dogs small the middle dogs that anti microbial fabric protect them from parasites infection disease it's fabulous it's what most vets are using when when your dog has surgery and that's the first time they've ever put it into an actual outfit for the dog so if the dog has some of the skin diseases you can actually put it on and that will aid them in healing you're done the whole show here before last year was my so as i was walking around checking out this container shipping container with  very interesting and as it turns out the gentleman over here hails from seattle and has actually created the and so what are the side i mean you get the metal doors here still right and then what's the outside cover here well this is the end window that actually look out but none of these windows actually open right the window of the far as far as open and so it's a fire ah so you have an exit you have two ways of getting out through the front and through the back right here this is a marine type shower so the first thing is you'll notice there's a drain in the floor and normally there's a shower curtain and a privacy door if you want it but the whole compartment is basically the shower and then i have a low flo little side work for a while for four years i worked for starbucks here in seattle and then i just decided i was going to take a kind of a clean break and take a sabbatical so i  i did a bunch of sailing long long distance ocean sailing and in that time period i was very close to the marine industry i saw the container ships cross the ocean and thousands of these things come going back and forth on the highway out there so i started thinking about utilizing those as a building resource and what would take to actually take a steel metal box like that and and turn it into a livable house so  is just an example these are all obviously twenty foot containers that come in actually two separate different heights eight foot six height which is the standard height and then there's something called a high cube which is nine foot six but i mostly use that for say and then there's also the forty some containers to actually go all we have to fifty three feet but they're very hard to transport those in math mostly only used on trains and short distances from train yours you can't take them on the highway when they're big so they're  outside this is a picture of the before and all what you did a lot of different things to this in preparation just before you actually did the all the building on the inside well the first thing that we did is we have to we can't use just any container that has to the floors have to be relatively intact there are structural considerations no major punctures and stuff in the steel the doors have to be fully functioning so we have pretty stites and also a big part of that is we have to be assured that it's never carried or spilled hazardous cargo in the containers so we spend a little bit more than then then you'd find on craigslist or something  and then i do also a basic forty foot container which has two bedrooms and it's a sleeping area there's also there's a double twenty there's a double forty my customers seem to fall into two separate categories here in seattle we've actually talked to the city of seattle and they're they're very keen right now on accessory to whiling units in like in the backyard cottages basically and on an existing properties with with houses and then the there's quite a few people that want these kind of as vacation cabins up in the pretty much off the grid type type situation in order to fit into the exhilarate dwelling unit category which is that the city is trying to right now with the backyard cottage ideas you can't exceed eight hundred square feet you have to meet the set setback requirements of your property and you have to if it's going to be a dwelling unit instead of just like a spare bedroom or an office you have to provide at least one off screen parking spot because they don't fill the streets up with more cars this can also qualify for it set up properly can qualify as a temporary structure and there's a gray area about what temporary actually means so in that kind of a situation you would not need a permit but it has to be pretty much a portable unit so it could only be a single wide twenty as this as this model is that we save all the steel that with that we used to cut out the windows if this is an off off the grid type of situation we use that steel to to do security shutters for all the windows we we use the original a double learn more about the work that they do is for the structures that they create as they swing back and forth here you can visit their website and that was again the call would work as i continue down the aisles i came across here and it's their first time here at the home show how what you guys think of this so far that's a i'm not as familiar with ikea it's not something i usually do but i have put together a few products for my clients that and but now you guys have a storefront somewhere here in the area ren ren doing the kind of classic or country look the would look you see which we do also carry but here we have what you see is probably the most anterior kitchen in the entire home you know i heard somebody just saying that a minute ago that's like pretty sanitary the viewing public to know about labor and industry to check out your contractor before you hire protect yourself if they have their card and bonds and insurance before they do work for you and do yourself a favor and check them out first and of course you have a web site for more information to get kind of hiring a contractor and i don't want i've got a well we'll let you go and a good replacement for sherry being there because she's still not sa you know value all these pieces in today's market the one of my next value about four thousand dollars i promised the home of my neck but not for a while it was ok to take a picture you make idea your family i don't know where strong box inside half of the mailbox so that when you open it up you know men can slide in your important letters and stuff like that put other junk mail or bigger things up  and then it's also got like platter boxes on it or even for mail delivery and then the big sturdy metal posts which is and people are interested and want to know more information you have a website yes or stuff dot com right there ok i thank you for your time some different things and the difference in some of what you do a compact compared to say a typical home is some of the essentially preforms panels of prefabricated exterior wall sections and this showcase some of that correct and then these are this is a sample are one hundred percent completed development and it's acquired the first in zero energy multifamily development in the united states ok and then these are examples of sample products in japan now one of the things that you are telling me is in this case box you can see that little by right there even though the house fell down around it the box is still there safe and you might be two very interesting home and what kind of awards did it when you got salmon say certification it's the first salmon save certified project in washington state residential schools the residential we've got u p a waterston certification that is the first one in washington unusual because i hadn't seen a metal rail before and you are my name's chad amber and your partner here is ken still for ed what can you tell me about this particular rail cable doesn't have to be retightened your house how much i weigh about two hundred pounds and so my wife i can stand on the rock no problem we have another sales person that weighs a fair bit more than me and he climbs up the thing to show that it doesn't b a metal you also have to sew the same parts and pieces that are used in the stainless post can also be used in a wood post so pretty much any hardwood this just happens to be bamboo plywood we can turn that into a post so if you want some a little bit softer not so masculine or you want to match or flooring your cabinets or something like that traditionally is done on the inside but if you use like an e p a and exotic hardwood we could make a post for the outside out of wood  and then it's the same set up as the other part only the famous only it's done and what kind of initial showing the way it looks there to here one of the unique things about this is the corners right it's definitely a rail that can be used for if you have a view as ours are no corner posts you don't start with a post you come out from the wall and then you have a post on the rods we can leave or past one of the ways we take care of corners as we have  we're just out to home any degree that you needed to so if you're corners not exactly ninety or you're doing a forty five or something like that you can use a swivel some people choose to cut the rods back and leave leave that open so there's no nothing here in the middle and as long as you're under the four inches for code then no problem with that otherwise you can use a swivel on the installation is very simple and like you bolt a post into the vaccine or in this case over here into the stairs slide the rods through and there's a little set screw on the bottom of these barrels tighten the set screw up and you're basically done charge the top hat goes they all have flange is on  for interior caps so and when you install you loosen all these casters up and you plumb up the posts and then you tighten them up and at that point to the post is fairly rigid but you can still move it in and out when you tighten down the set screws the rail system then becomes talk and the idea being that you would have to stretch the bar in order for the rail to move because with cable right the cable you can stretch cable you can't stretch the valar and so therefore once the bar tight it doesn't move anywhere and that's what makes it region and also corners obviously help but just in general because this is tightened down at all acts as a single system and that's how you get this stability so that just opened down underneath those are four three inch long stainless steel bolts that are bolted to do a four by four that's underneath there and it's just a little we made a little four separate pattern pallets for each different kind of decking that are just slid together we could literally pull these two out right now if we wanted but yet it's strong enough that that's actually very interesting and and how does something like this without dollars being talked about specific as this is noncommercial how does something 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