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Advance Plumbing can help create a spa-like oasis in your own home.

Lynne Konstantin { Contributing Writer

rave the relaxing serenity of a spa get-
away or the quick fix of an invigorat-
ing steam room?
No need to book a trip for a blissfully
therapeutic retreat — you can just head
to Advance Plumbing and Heating Supply
Company to create a spa-like atmosphere in
your own home. And it doesn't have to be as
costly as one would imagine.
With locations in Detroit and Walled Lake,
Advance Plumbing is renowned locally and
Combining ecology and luxury, Toto Neorest
nationally for its selection of plumbing and
heating products. And in keeping with its
toilets's eWater+ mists the bowl with electro-
commitment to the best customer service
lyzed water, reducing the need for harsh cleaning
possible, its highly trained staff works with
chemicals.
BainUltra's Essencia Oval tub in ThermaSens
each individual client or designer to create a
combines AromaCloud, WarmTouchShell and
toilet bowl surface, which aids in cleaning
personalized spa-like atmosphere at home,
Chromatherapy therapies.
the bowl 80 percent better than a dry bowl.
with as many or as few bells and whistles as
The bowl itself is coated with SanaGloss, a
desired — or within a budget. And it all starts
therapeutic bath, shower stall or relaxation
ceramic glaze that helps prevent substances
with a bathtub or shower.
room, combines five therapies — aroma,
from sticking to the bowl, resulting in fewer
No longer just a means to a soak and a
thermo, light, chroma and sound — for a
chemicals (and less cleaning) needed.
scrub, "tubs today are the cutting edge of the
complete and personalized approach to relax-
Another soothing extra: Heated floors
spa experience," says Joshua Moss, opera-
ation, health and wellness.
from Nuheat, which not only prevent the
tions manager of Advance Plumbing. Among
Advance Plumbing also offers Mr. Steam
shock of stepping on a cold floor, but also
the options available in its specialty lines of
designs steambaths to create a luxurious,
serve to warm the entire bathroom. Acting
tubs and steambaths include:
European-style spa in your home. Although a
as radiant zone heating, a programmable
• Chromatherapy, or color therapy, har-
steambath does have a higher-end initial cost,
thermostat, which allows users to heat room
nesses the beneficial effects of color to
the price of maintaining its usage can be an af-
by room and use by use, means floors are
enhance different aspects of physical and
fordable luxury. Each steam uses less than two
heated when you want, where you want,
mental health and well-being,
gallons of water, and requires
making the Nuheat floor system highly
depending on the color used.
less energy than a 100-watt
energy efficient. Homeowners can lower
The colored light is amplified
light bulb. In addition to blissful
their central heating system while maintain-
through the water in the tub.
relaxation, especially with the
ing temperature-perfect comfort, or use the
• Aromatherapy, much more
aid of chromatherapy, aroma-
system as an alternative to keeping forced air
than simply enjoying a pleasant
therapy and sound therapy, the
on throughout the house.
fragrance, uses essential oils
benefits of a steambath include
Finish off your in-home spa with towel
extracted from flowers, bark,
decongestion, hydration of the
warmers that warm not just towels, but
stems and other parts of plants
Mr. Steam's iSteam Touch
skin, improved metabolism and
robes and clothing as
to aid in relieving congestion
well-rested sleep.
allows easy control of
well. It also exudes
and stress.
Finish
the
temperature, time, aroma,
a soothing scent
Both of these therapies, as
in-home spa-like
Advanc e Plumbing Supply
music and more in a
through a built-in aro-
well as sound therapy, are avail-
experience with lux-
steambath.
2984 Gra nd River Avenue
matherapy system.
able in two of Advance Plumb-
urious details: Toto
Detroit, M I 48201
"With today's tech-
ing's most popular collections. BainUltra is
Neorest Bidet Toilets, for exam-
nology, you can create
a line of therapeutic baths with a focus on
(313) 831 -7770
ple, offer heated seats, automatic
a complete spa-like
Geysair, an air jet bath technology that heats
flushing, rear and front cleaning,
experience within
and humidifies the jets of air and provides an
a dryer and a deodorizer, all built
1977 E. W est Maple Road
your own home," says
overall massage of the body.
into a seamless design. They also
Walled La ke, MI 48390
Moss. "All you have to
Some models offer BainUltra's Warm-
feature ewater+ — a technology
do is sit down, relax
TouchShell, heating zones built into the
(248) 669 -7474
that sprays a coat of electrolyzed
and let it do all the
headrest, backrest and seat. And BainUltra's
water (a proven disinfectant used
advancep lumbing.com
work for you."
Vedana Care Unit, which can be added to a
in food prep and cleaning) on the

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Floor Space Magazine • November 2013