Testimonials

In custom building, the smallest things sometimes count for a lot. For homeowners, that might mean having a tiled shampoo niche in the shower placed exactly where they want it. For custom builders, the small blessing might be a preformed fitting that saves time and effort every time they have to build, say, a shampoo niche. Chicago custom builder Jake Goldberg uses Innovis' line of preformed aluminum alloy niches, which allow him to skip the process of fabricating niche out of cement board. "The most important thing is, you don't have to waterproof them," Goldberg says. "You just screw them in and caulk them." The niches' thin flange lies flat enough on the face of the backer board to be buried in thin-set mortar or mastic. "They have a rough coating on them, so the tile sticks to them." The company also produces coated aluminum corner shelves and corner benches that install in a similar fashion.