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Tackling Greenish Walls, Sanding Techniques, and Wooster Jumbo Koters · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. You're listening to the Repical Light
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Speaker 1: home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and yeah, on
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Speaker 1: the show this week, I've got all kinds of stuff planned.
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Speaker 1: It's a spring break week. I get that it's the
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Speaker 1: first week of spring break for a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: A lot of folks are heading out, probably not catching
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Speaker 1: the show. But that doesn't mean I'm going to phone
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Speaker 1: it in. I'm still delivering a grade material here, or
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Speaker 1: at least high bees. High bees. It's passing grade stuff.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I've got for you. We're going to
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Speaker 1: be talking about orbits orbital orbital orbital sanders and how
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Speaker 1: to get the best results possible with those. If you've
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Speaker 1: ever used one and gotten all done with your project
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Speaker 1: and noticed maybe when you applied stain or maybe when
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Speaker 1: you put paint on, you noticed all these little swirls,
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Speaker 1: little pigtail swirls, it's really really frustrating and it kind
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Speaker 1: of drives you nuts. And in the past it's made
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Speaker 1: me think that orbital sanders are just something that I
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Speaker 1: can't use on projects that really matter. It turns out
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Speaker 1: I was just using them wrong. What a surprise that was.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that. I can walk you through
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Speaker 1: how to get flawless results with an orbital sander. So
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. I'll probably have to sneak something
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Speaker 1: else in there. I'm not sure what that's gonna be yet.
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Speaker 1: We'll wing that segment. It's gonna be great though. Right now,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about something that i've well, I
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Speaker 1: guess i've annoyed is probably the right word all of
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Speaker 1: my coworkers with I've annoyed them with this for the
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Speaker 1: last week or so, probably the last few weeks. Let's
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Speaker 1: be honest, Dan, Let's be honest. It's been a while
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Speaker 1: that people have been a little bit annoyed with me. Basically,
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Speaker 1: I've just gone on and on and on about this,
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Speaker 1: and I've watched their eyes glaze over, you know as
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Speaker 1: I talk. Has that ever happened to you? Have you
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Speaker 1: ever had that? I'm sure some of you have. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure some of you some of you have spoken with
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Speaker 1: me and you've had that. Let me tell you you've had
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Speaker 1: that happen. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. That's not
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Speaker 1: very nice anyway. You know what It's like you're saying
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Speaker 1: something that you're crazy wrapped up in you create you know,
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Speaker 1: really believe this stuff. You're really pumped, and you can
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Speaker 1: tell that the person listening would rather, you know, peel
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Speaker 1: their fingernails off with tweezers than listen to you talk anymore. Right,
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Speaker 1: have you been there? I've been there. But here's what
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Speaker 1: separates me and probably you. I can't quit. I can't,
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Speaker 1: I can't quit. My eyes. They're working. They see the
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Speaker 1: tears forming in my listener's eyes, and they send that
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Speaker 1: message to my brain. They do a great job getting
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Speaker 1: that message sent my brain. This beautiful complex machine. My
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Speaker 1: brain starts running diagnostics. Is this person sad? Are they
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Speaker 1: having a deep emotional crisis? Are they hurt? And then
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Speaker 1: lightning fast, This beautiful, beautiful complex machine, lightning fast. It
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Speaker 1: tells me that the problem is none of those things.
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Speaker 1: The problem is me. I am the cause of the tears.
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Speaker 1: I'm still talking. So my brain drafts a cease and
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Speaker 1: desist letter to my mouth. But the problem is my
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Speaker 1: mouth never ever gets that letter, or it ignores it,
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Speaker 1: or it just doesn't care. Maybe it's a rebel. I've
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Speaker 1: got a rebel. Mouth just doesn't care, so it keeps going,
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Speaker 1: which brings us here. To the moment where I say
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Speaker 1: that I'm about to share the very same thing with
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Speaker 1: you that's made my coworkers cry. And if that doesn't
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Speaker 1: peak your interest and really make you want to hang
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Speaker 1: around for a full segment, I don't know what will.
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Speaker 1: It's good stuff. It's a little bit salesy, a little
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Speaker 1: bit more than normal. I don't mean it too. I've
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Speaker 1: really tried to take the edge off of that. But
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Speaker 1: I do have to pay the bills. You know, we
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Speaker 1: don't do do this just for fun. But anyway, the
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Speaker 1: things I'm going to talk about little sales, but they
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Speaker 1: are good, good, good things. These will change how you pay,
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Speaker 1: ain't all right? This month, that Repcolite, We've got a
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Speaker 1: sale on Wooster Jumbo coder roller frames and Wooster microplush
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Speaker 1: four and a half inch jumbo coder roller covers. Now
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Speaker 1: it's a really good sale. These things aren't terribly expensive
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Speaker 1: to begin with, but right now the roller frame is
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Speaker 1: fifty six percent off. I mean, we picked some ridiculous
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Speaker 1: percentage numbers. Most people would go with, you know, fifty
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Speaker 1: percent off, sixty percent off. It's not how we roll.
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Speaker 1: We like to be very very specific, you know, dial
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Speaker 1: it in to the very best possible percentage, and so
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Speaker 1: we've got a fifty six percent off price, fifty six
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Speaker 1: percent off the regular price on the roller frames, so
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Speaker 1: that's great. The covers are sixty eight percent off, almost
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Speaker 1: seventy percent off the normal price, so it's a huge savings.
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Speaker 1: And there's no limit on how many you can buy.
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Speaker 1: You can come in and buy as many as we've got.
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Speaker 1: We'd love that. Please come in and buy as many
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Speaker 1: as we've got, all right, So why would people cry
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Speaker 1: about that? Why would I talk about that for so long?
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Speaker 1: To make people cry? Well, I talk about these things
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Speaker 1: for so long because I love them so much. The
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Speaker 1: Jumbo Coder system is something that I talk about all
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Speaker 1: the time on the show. I use them all the
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Speaker 1: time at home when I'm painting. They're just so crazy convenient.
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Speaker 1: To clarify if you're not familiar with what a jumbo
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Speaker 1: coder is, it's actually a mini mini roller system. So
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Speaker 1: they're small, four and a half inch roller frames, and
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Speaker 1: the covers that go with them there are six and
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Speaker 1: a half inch covers. The covers that we're selling on
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Speaker 1: sale are four and a half inch covers. And this combo,
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Speaker 1: you know, this Jumbo Coder system. These rollers they fit
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Speaker 1: into all kinds of tiny spaces, tight areas. They're great
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Speaker 1: for cabinet repaints, for touching up, for applying samples on
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Speaker 1: the wall. In fact, I usually find a way to
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Speaker 1: use one on every single paint job that I tackle.
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Speaker 1: They're just that convenient. And while there are a ton
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Speaker 1: of mini rollers out there, you know, if you go
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Speaker 1: to different stores, which I can't imagine why anybody would,
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Speaker 1: but should you perchance wander into another store that sells
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Speaker 1: paint and you just happen to look and see the
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Speaker 1: roller covers, you're gonna see. There's all kinds of different,
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Speaker 1: you know, mini roller systems out there, but the Jumbo
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Speaker 1: Coder system from Wooster is my favorite of all of
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Speaker 1: these for a number of reasons. First off, it's a
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Speaker 1: high quality tool, and that really does matter. A lot
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Speaker 1: of the other mini rollers they're just kind of chinsey
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Speaker 1: a little bit, you know. The Wooster Jumbo Coder system
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Speaker 1: is super solid. You know, it's got a really nice
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Speaker 1: roller frame. It's going to last and last if you
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Speaker 1: take care of it and clean it, you know, after
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Speaker 1: each project. It feels great in your hand, which is
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Speaker 1: maybe nerdy to say, but if you use roller frames
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Speaker 1: on a regular basis, or even just a few times,
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Speaker 1: you'll know one that feels really good. This is one
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Speaker 1: that feels really good. It's just nice to hold, easy
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Speaker 1: to work with. It's got a good weight, it's got
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Speaker 1: a good rigidity to it. You know. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's not chinzy, it's not wobbly, not in the least.
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Speaker 1: It's a professional tool and it really does feel like it.
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Speaker 1: And I know that sounds crazy and dumb, but really,
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Speaker 1: the cheap roller frames, once you use one and feel it,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get what I'm talking about. Those cheap
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Speaker 1: ones don't roll well. They've got all kinds of little
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Speaker 1: issues that happen. These Jumbo coder frames high quality stuff.
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Speaker 1: I love that. So that's cool. But as cool as
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Speaker 1: that is, maybe cooler than that, the main reason that
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Speaker 1: I love these things, this entire system, is that the
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Speaker 1: entire line of Jumbo Coder roller covers matches the full
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Speaker 1: line of Wooster nine inch covers and up. You know,
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Speaker 1: for the most part, whatever roller cover you're using as
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Speaker 1: your main roller cover, if you're using a Wooster cover,
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Speaker 1: there's going to be a matching cover in the Jumbo
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Speaker 1: Coder line and That's important because when you keep those
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Speaker 1: covers exactly the same, even though you switch to a
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Speaker 1: smaller or a bigger version, the look of your applied
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Speaker 1: paint on the wall or whatever surface is going to
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Speaker 1: stay the same. You know, if you switch from one
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Speaker 1: roller cover to another one that doesn't match, even if
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Speaker 1: it's the same nap you know, but it's not identical
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Speaker 1: to the other cover, you run a real risk of
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Speaker 1: being able to see all of the places that you
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Speaker 1: used that different cover. So many of those mini roller
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Speaker 1: systems out there don't match the bigger roller covers that
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Speaker 1: you're using for the rest of your project, and that
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Speaker 1: canon does lead to problems down the road, So just
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Speaker 1: be aware of that. The jumbo coder system from Wooster
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Speaker 1: fixes that entirely. And that's again, like I said, that's
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite things about it. It's super cool
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Speaker 1: in that regard. And like I said, it's on sale.
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Speaker 1: The frame is under three bucks, and so are the
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Speaker 1: two packs of microplush roller covers that go with it,
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Speaker 1: So it's really inexpensive normally, even it's not that bad,
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Speaker 1: but especially right now, super cheap. But wait, there's more.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's where the infomercially part comes in. But
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Speaker 1: I told you I love these things, and the reason
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Speaker 1: my coworkers are so sick of me talking about them
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Speaker 1: is because I get all nerdily, get nerdily nerdally. I
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Speaker 1: get nerdally excited, you know what I'm talking about. I
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Speaker 1: get excited about all the cool different components that work
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Speaker 1: with this system. And that's why I drive people nuts.
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Speaker 1: I already drove you nuts, but there's more that I
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Speaker 1: do that makes it even worse. And we're going to
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Speaker 1: do that on the other side of the break. And
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Speaker 1: just hang with me, because if you do any amount
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Speaker 1: of painting at home, I Am going to make it
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Speaker 1: much easier than it has been previously with all of
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Speaker 1: these things. So just hang around. There's more good stuff
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Speaker 1: coming and we're back. You're listening to the repco Light
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Speaker 1: home improvement shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and the last segment,
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Speaker 1: I told you how I've been boring my coworkers to
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Speaker 1: tears because I'm really pumped about some specials that were
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Speaker 1: running at Repcolite this month. Jumbo Cooder roller frames from
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Speaker 1: Wooster and microplush covers that go with them. They're on
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Speaker 1: sale and I'm excited about those things. As dumb as
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Speaker 1: that sounds, I'm excited about them because they're so convenient.
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Speaker 1: You know, as a marketing person, you know you've got
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Speaker 1: to make things sound good and every now and then.
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Speaker 1: It's not easy to make paint sound exciting. It's just
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Speaker 1: not you know, Primer's primer. It's hard to make that
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Speaker 1: sound really fun and exciting. But these things are so convenient.
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Speaker 1: I know how much they're going to change just how
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Speaker 1: you work, because it's changed how I work when I'm painting.
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Speaker 1: So I love talking about them for that reason. But
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Speaker 1: I also love talking about them because there are so
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Speaker 1: many components that Wooster makes that work so flawlessly with
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Speaker 1: these tools. In fact, if you do any amount of
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Speaker 1: painting at home, you owe it to yourself to at
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Speaker 1: least consider some of these items. Just look at them once,
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Speaker 1: you know, think about if that would help you. You know,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna make your work easier to do, They're going
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Speaker 1: to help you get better results. And I really wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be surprised if they took some of the yuck you
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Speaker 1: know that you may feel if you don't like painting.
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Speaker 1: They're going to take some of that out of every
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Speaker 1: single project, all right, first, one of these components that
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about that work really well with
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Speaker 1: that jumbo coder system that's on special right now. First
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Speaker 1: thing is a Wooster Sherlock extension pole, and I talk
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Speaker 1: about them all the time on the show. They've got
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Speaker 1: huge extension poles that contractors use, you know, twelve foot
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Speaker 1: and more, but they also make smaller ones. My personal
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Speaker 1: favorite being a smaller person, my personal favorite is the
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Speaker 1: two to four foot one. And if you can google
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Speaker 1: it right now while I'm talking about it, that will
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Speaker 1: help a lot. You know, radio it's not really terribly visual,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's probably an understatement, so if you can
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Speaker 1: google it, that's going to help. Anyway. The Sherlock extension pole,
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Speaker 1: it telescopes from two to four foot, and that alone
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Speaker 1: is really handy, you know, working in a hallway for example,
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Speaker 1: I was doing that not too long ago, and I
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Speaker 1: needed that four foot reach to be able to get
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Speaker 1: up to the ceiling. You know, this area had to
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Speaker 1: higher than normal ceiling, so I needed that extra reach
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Speaker 1: on the extension pole and that was great. But then
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Speaker 1: as I was working my way lower down the wall,
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Speaker 1: that four foot pole was pretty much almost hitting the
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Speaker 1: wall directly. Behind me. With that pole, I could move it,
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Speaker 1: I could adjust it, I could make it. You know,
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Speaker 1: now it's four foot. Now, I could shrink it down
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Speaker 1: to two foot quickly and easily. If I'm using a
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Speaker 1: wooden extension pole, I can't do that. I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: to unthread it. So I love them for that. But
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Speaker 1: there's an even cooler future, and I kind of just
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Speaker 1: hinted at it. They've got a quick connect system. These
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Speaker 1: Wooster Sherlock extension poles have a quick connect system. Now,
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Speaker 1: most extension poles, when we think about them, they're threaded,
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Speaker 1: and lots of you right now, I know how this works.
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Speaker 1: I know people, a lot of you right now. Some
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Speaker 1: of you at least are thinking that, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I don't need an extension pole because I'm going to
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Speaker 1: just use the handle from the push broom or something,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of those threaded four foot five foot handles,
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Speaker 1: And yeah, you can do that. It absolutely will work.
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Speaker 1: But these Wooster extension poles that I'm talking about, the
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Speaker 1: Sherlock ones, they don't have those threaded ends on them. Now.
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Speaker 1: They actually, I guess they do. They've gotten a little
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Speaker 1: attachment that you can snap on to the extension pole
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Speaker 1: that gives it threaded ends if you need them, but
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Speaker 1: typically speaking, the main extension poll has a smooth, quick
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Speaker 1: connect post and locking system. It's kind of tough to describe,
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Speaker 1: but basically, you just slide the Wooster shairlock handle onto
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Speaker 1: it and it clips in. It stays in place, and
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Speaker 1: because of another feature that I'm not going to go into,
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Speaker 1: it won't rock back and forth, it won't work its
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Speaker 1: way loose at all. It's locked in place and it
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Speaker 1: does that almost instantaneously. And then when you want to
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Speaker 1: switch to another Wooster sharelock roller frame, you just push
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Speaker 1: a little button, pop off the old frame, and pop
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Speaker 1: the new one in place, and it locks right back in.
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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. You're gonna be switching roller handles so fast
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Speaker 1: it'll be like the old West, like wide Up. It'll
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Speaker 1: just be switching them in and out the quickest straw,
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Speaker 1: no more unthreading or anything like that. It's super, super cool,
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's people saying, why in the world
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Speaker 1: would I switch roller handles. Once I get the roller
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Speaker 1: handle on the frame, I don't need to switch it out. Well,
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Speaker 1: that goes back to the jumbo coder frames and the
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Speaker 1: roller covers that whole system. Those Jumbo Coders have that
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Speaker 1: Wooster sharlock locking system built into their handles. Now you
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Speaker 1: can use them on any extension pole, even just the
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Speaker 1: boring threaded ones. But they also work beautifully on the
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Speaker 1: Wooster Sherlock extension poles that I just talked about. Now.
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Speaker 1: I've been on a number of different projects where I
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Speaker 1: would use my nine inch handle for most of the
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Speaker 1: work and then quickly swap it out for the smaller
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Speaker 1: Jumbo Coder handle and then swap everything back again. It
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Speaker 1: is really really cool. I don't know how else to
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Speaker 1: explain it. It's a game changer. That's just such a
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Speaker 1: dumb way to say it. It's slick. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if that's any better. It simplifies the process. It's really
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Speaker 1: cool stuff. So with the Jumbo Coder, you've got that
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Speaker 1: cool extension pole to at least look at. You'll love it.
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Speaker 1: You'll thank me later if you buy one, but at
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Speaker 1: least look at it. Push the buttons, just see what
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Speaker 1: it does. Take it for a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: spin in the store. You'll like it. So there's that.
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Speaker 1: But there's also something that we sell called a Pelican
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Speaker 1: paint pail like the bird Pelican Pelican Paint pal It's
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Speaker 1: just a paint bucket designed to be held easily in
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Speaker 1: your hand. It's super easy to hold. It's got a
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Speaker 1: little strap that goes around your hand. It looks like
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Speaker 1: a great big coffee mug, like an enormous coffee mug,
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Speaker 1: like the kind of coffee mug you want, you know,
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Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning, or more like a Monday morning.
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Speaker 1: But it's got a nice little handle goes around your hand,
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Speaker 1: a little strap that goes around your hand, easy to hold.
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Speaker 1: You fill it up with your paint and then you can,
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Speaker 1: you know, just easily carry it around to do your
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Speaker 1: cut in work or your touch ups or whatever. It's
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Speaker 1: got a magnet built into one side on the inside
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Speaker 1: of that little pail. Again google it Pelican Paint Pale.
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Speaker 1: That will help a lot. But there's a magnet on
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Speaker 1: the inside and you use that to hold your brush
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Speaker 1: in place, either with the tips suspended in your paint
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Speaker 1: or just above it. You know, that alone makes these
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Speaker 1: really cool to have. You know, if you've ever been
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Speaker 1: working out of a small cut in container and then
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Speaker 1: you set it down for a minute, you know, so
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Speaker 1: you could I don't know, get a drink, go to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom, whatever. You set it down for a second.
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Speaker 1: You kind of prop the brush up. Oh, it's perfect.
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Speaker 1: You walk away, You come back and you find that
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Speaker 1: the brush didn't stay there. It kind of slipped right
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Speaker 1: into the container. Now it's submerged in the paint and
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Speaker 1: you can't really work with it until you wash it
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Speaker 1: out real paint in the neck. Well, the Pelican paint
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Speaker 1: pails won't let that happen. The magnet holds the brush
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Speaker 1: upright and keeps it out of the paint. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's perfect. So they're really cool in that regard. But
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Speaker 1: the Pelican paint pail is also built specifically to work
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Speaker 1: as an easy handheld roller tray for the Jumble Coda
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Speaker 1: roller frames. It's so handy. It's come in so handy
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Speaker 1: on so many projects for me. You know, you're on
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Speaker 1: a ladder. You know I've been on a ladder. I
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Speaker 1: can't talk about you. I can talk about me. I've
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Speaker 1: been on a ladder holding that little Pelican paint pail
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Speaker 1: and I can roll into it with the little Jumbo
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Speaker 1: Coder roller frame and roller cover and I can do
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Speaker 1: my rolling. You know whatever, I'm doing up there. But
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Speaker 1: oh wait, wait, wait, I need to brush something, so
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Speaker 1: I can put the little roller frame back in that
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Speaker 1: pelican pail. It hooks on the side so it doesn't
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Speaker 1: roll into your paint and become a mess. You know,
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Speaker 1: it just kind of sits there. I can grab the
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Speaker 1: brush that's magnetically attached to the other side of the pail,
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Speaker 1: do my brush work whatever I got. Then I can
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Speaker 1: hang that brush back up on that magnet and go
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Speaker 1: back to the jumbo coder, all without leaving the ladder.
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Speaker 1: Google it pelican paint pail. If none of that makes
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Speaker 1: sense and you have no idea what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 1: and you're just waiting for my brain to get the
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Speaker 1: message to my mouth to shut up, just google it
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Speaker 1: pelican paint pail. You'll see what I'm talking about. It's
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Speaker 1: really cool. Or if you don't want to google it,
17:28
Speaker 1: come into Repcolite and ask about it. The thing is
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Speaker 1: not expensive, you know. Just come in, grab a jumbo coder,
17:35
Speaker 1: grab some covers they're on sale, save a bunch of money,
17:39
Speaker 1: all kinds of different percentages off. Remember the crazy percentages
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Speaker 1: I talked about, not even going to go over them again.
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Speaker 1: Big savings get those, and then check out the Pelican
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Speaker 1: paint pail. Check out one of those extension polls, you know,
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Speaker 1: take a look at them. Oh and one last thing,
17:53
Speaker 1: I almost forgot about those Pelican paint pails. There are
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Speaker 1: tray liners available for those as well. You know, tray
17:59
Speaker 1: liners that just drop in and then when you're done painting,
18:02
Speaker 1: you just toss them and you don't have to spend
18:04
Speaker 1: all this time cleaning that Pelican paint pal out. It's
18:07
Speaker 1: all really really good stuff. All right. I apologize. I
18:12
Speaker 1: have made all of your eyes water, I have brought tears,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry. But the items that we've got on
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Speaker 1: sale this month are just so handy. Absolutely stop out
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Speaker 1: at any Repcolite and check them out, ask about them.
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Speaker 1: I use them all the time. There's no gimmicks with
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Speaker 1: these tools. These things are the real deal. Check it out.
18:30
Speaker 1: Jumbo coders at Repcolite on sale. Now, all right, that's
18:33
Speaker 1: enough of that. Let's take a break. When we come back,
18:36
Speaker 1: I want to talk about orbital sanders. If you've ever
18:38
Speaker 1: sanded something kitchen cabinets, maybe a furniture piece, and then
18:41
Speaker 1: you stained it or painted it and noticed these little
18:44
Speaker 1: swirls coming through, if you notice that you were really
18:47
Speaker 1: bummed they happened because you were using the sander wrong.
18:50
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the right way to use
18:51
Speaker 1: it so you avoid all of that. Coming up next.
18:54
Speaker 1: Stick around and we're back. You're listening to the Repco
19:03
Speaker 1: Light Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And right now,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about how you can avoid a crazy common
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Speaker 1: sanding frustration. Those swirls or those little pigtails that you
19:13
Speaker 1: end up getting in your surface in your wood when
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Speaker 1: you're using an orbital sander. Now, it might not seem
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Speaker 1: like a big deal when you're working on the wood.
19:20
Speaker 1: You know, we've all been there sanding away. You see
19:22
Speaker 1: the little swirls. Maybe you see them and you think, ay,
19:25
Speaker 1: no big deal. Then you apply the stain and suddenly
19:28
Speaker 1: you know, every single mistake is magnified. And really, this
19:33
Speaker 1: isn't just a problem that happens when you're staining and
19:35
Speaker 1: finishing wood. It's not unheard of for these little swirls
19:38
Speaker 1: to really make their presence known when you're painting as well.
19:42
Speaker 1: You know, I did my kitchen cabinets years back. I
19:44
Speaker 1: had smooth poplar doors and I decided I was going
19:47
Speaker 1: to remove the entire finish, you know, all that old finish,
19:50
Speaker 1: bring it all the way down to bear wood. That's
19:52
Speaker 1: how I roll clean burn start start from bare bones here,
19:56
Speaker 1: So I sand it them all down, and I noticed
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Speaker 1: the whirls when I looked at the wood, but it
20:02
Speaker 1: all felt smooth, So I figured I was fine, right,
20:06
Speaker 1: figured that was gonna be no big deal. Then I
20:08
Speaker 1: got my paint on and I could definitely still see
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Speaker 1: them through the finish. Now it wasn't horrible, but it
20:15
Speaker 1: was bad enough, right, I mean, who in the world
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Speaker 1: wants to go through all that work and then end
20:20
Speaker 1: up with all these little swirls. I do remember being
20:23
Speaker 1: really really bummed about that. You know, lots of my
20:27
Speaker 1: projects end previously, you know, many years back. Now I'm
20:32
Speaker 1: much smarter, but many of my first projects ended with
20:36
Speaker 1: this sense of disappointment. So if you're in that boat,
20:40
Speaker 1: you know, quick segue here. If you're in that boat
20:42
Speaker 1: and you feel like I'm just not cut out to
20:45
Speaker 1: do home projects or painting or anything. You know, not
20:49
Speaker 1: that I'm necessarily the gold standard or anything, but many,
20:54
Speaker 1: if not most, of my projects, my first projects, second
20:57
Speaker 1: and third tries, sometimes did with little elements of disappointment
21:03
Speaker 1: or being bummed. You know, I didn't produce the perfection
21:07
Speaker 1: every single time that I set out to do, But
21:10
Speaker 1: I kept going, and you get better and you get
21:12
Speaker 1: better and you get better. So if you are feeling
21:14
Speaker 1: bummed at the end of a project, it's just part
21:17
Speaker 1: of the learning process. You're going to get better, all right.
21:19
Speaker 1: So that was a quick segue back to where I
21:22
Speaker 1: needed to go get my kitchen cabinets done. I see
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Speaker 1: these little swirls, and I'm bommed, you know. But once
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Speaker 1: the paint is on, fixing the problem is way tough,
21:31
Speaker 1: so tough that of course I didn't bother. I didn't
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Speaker 1: bother to fix it. Some poor sucker somewhere bought that
21:36
Speaker 1: house and now they've got those swirly cabinet doors to
21:39
Speaker 1: deal with. It's not my problem anymore anyway, Happily. The
21:42
Speaker 1: reason those swirls were in my cabinet doors and maybe
21:45
Speaker 1: in some of your projects too, is because we're using
21:48
Speaker 1: the orbital sander incorrectly. It's not the tool's fault. It's
21:52
Speaker 1: the right tool, we're just using it wrong. So I'm
21:55
Speaker 1: going to walk you through I think eight simple tips
21:57
Speaker 1: that will help you eliminate swirls before the ruin your project.
22:01
Speaker 1: And if you're using a high quality sander like the
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Speaker 1: festival sanders that we carry out Repcolite, you've already got
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Speaker 1: a leg up. But these tips are going to help
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Speaker 1: you improve your results no matter what brand sander you're using.
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Speaker 1: All right, Tip number one, You've got to start right. Okay.
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Speaker 1: The first mistake a lot of people make is they
22:18
Speaker 1: power on the sander before it's on the wood or
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Speaker 1: on the surface that you're sanding. You know, half the
22:23
Speaker 1: fun I think previously dumb Dan used to find half
22:28
Speaker 1: the fun of sanding with an orbital sander. Half of
22:31
Speaker 1: that fun was turning it on and letting it spin
22:34
Speaker 1: in the air, you know, kind of like Thor's hammer.
22:38
Speaker 1: You know, your arm starts moving with the momentum because
22:40
Speaker 1: it's spinning so fast. You feel the power building, building, building, building,
22:44
Speaker 1: and then at its peak you slam it down and
22:48
Speaker 1: watch it chew through whatever is on the surface that
22:51
Speaker 1: you're trying to sand. Right, that's actually not the right
22:54
Speaker 1: way to do it. If you're doing it that way wrong,
22:58
Speaker 1: bad don't do that. I am exaggerating a little bit
23:02
Speaker 1: for effect. But here's the deal. The orbital sander spins fast, right,
23:06
Speaker 1: we know that really fast when it's in the air.
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Speaker 1: If you set it down while it's already running at
23:10
Speaker 1: full speed, it can skip, it can gouge, it can
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Speaker 1: leave swirls. Before you even you know, really get sanding,
23:17
Speaker 1: you know, on your project, before you're really even moving,
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Speaker 1: you've already caused problems. The right way to do it
23:22
Speaker 1: is to start the sander flat on the surface. First.
23:25
Speaker 1: You apply a little bit of pressure just to hold it,
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Speaker 1: you know, in place, so it's not going to run
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Speaker 1: all over or kind of walk over the board. When
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Speaker 1: you turn it on, a little bit of pressure to
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Speaker 1: hold it steady, and then turn it on. Turn it
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Speaker 1: on while it's on the surface. That keeps the disc
23:37
Speaker 1: spinning at a controlled speed, and it gives you a
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Speaker 1: smooth start instead of a bumpy one right off the bat. Okay,
23:43
Speaker 1: start right. Tip number one. Tip number two, You've got
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Speaker 1: to have the correct speed as you're working, not so
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Speaker 1: much how fast it's spinning, how fast you're moving, because
23:53
Speaker 1: a big reason for swirls is that we move too fast.
23:56
Speaker 1: A lot of us tend to sand back and forth
23:58
Speaker 1: pretty quickly with our orbital sander. Very quickly. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I generally would use that orbital sander as if it
24:05
Speaker 1: were a motorized piece of sandpaper, as fast as I
24:09
Speaker 1: could zip sand paper over a surface. That's what I
24:11
Speaker 1: was doing, or trying to do with my sander. And
24:14
Speaker 1: many of you are groaning right now. I know that.
24:16
Speaker 1: I know that because I get the emails. You're groaning
24:18
Speaker 1: right now, and you're thinking, he's not really that dumb,
24:21
Speaker 1: or maybe you're begging or or pleating. You know, he
24:24
Speaker 1: can't be that dumb, right well, I'll tell you this.
24:28
Speaker 1: I'm a lot of things, but I'm not a liar.
24:31
Speaker 1: I am that dumb at least I used to be.
24:34
Speaker 1: That's how I used an orbital sander years back, and
24:37
Speaker 1: that's not how you want to use one if you
24:39
Speaker 1: want really good results. They're not designed to be zipped
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Speaker 1: all over the surface that you're sanding. They're designed for
24:45
Speaker 1: even steady removal. So a good rule of thumb, this
24:48
Speaker 1: is really solid. You can easily remember this and put
24:53
Speaker 1: it into practice the next time you're using a sander.
24:56
Speaker 1: Good rule of thumb, move about one inch per second.
24:59
Speaker 1: That is way slower than you think, way slower than
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Speaker 1: you want to move. But it's going to give the
25:04
Speaker 1: sander time to do its job, and when you try it,
25:06
Speaker 1: you're going to be surprised. It's going to do a
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Speaker 1: better job, generally speaking, then zipping it all over the
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Speaker 1: place quickly. It just works. So one inch per second,
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Speaker 1: move that way, move at the right speed. Tip number three,
25:19
Speaker 1: you've got to keep it flat. Here is another tip
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Speaker 1: that I was breaking all the time. If you tilt
25:25
Speaker 1: the sander, you know, trying to put more pressure on
25:27
Speaker 1: a stubborn area, you're actually making things way worse. You know,
25:31
Speaker 1: that leading edge digs in and now you're not only
25:34
Speaker 1: getting squirrels, but you're also risking gouges. So instead keep
25:38
Speaker 1: it flat. Let the whole disc work evenly. All right,
25:40
Speaker 1: so far I'm kind of stinking at least dumb Dan,
25:43
Speaker 1: Old Dan is stinking I didn't do any of these
25:46
Speaker 1: things right. Well, here's another one that I always did wrong.
25:49
Speaker 1: And if you thought I was dumb or lying about
25:51
Speaker 1: being dumb earlier, buckle up. Tip four is this use
25:55
Speaker 1: light pressure. This should not need to be said. It shouldn't,
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Speaker 1: but maybe somewhere out there someone like me is listening.
26:04
Speaker 1: Here's the scoop. If you hear the motor slow down
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Speaker 1: while you're sanding because you're pushing so hard. That is
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Speaker 1: not a sign that you're really getting the most out
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Speaker 1: of the sander. That is not the sound of a
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Speaker 1: quality sanding job. That is not the sound of accomplishment.
26:20
Speaker 1: I literally used to think that once I hit that zone,
26:24
Speaker 1: you know, when the motor slowed down, that's where the
26:26
Speaker 1: rubber was really meeting the road. Now I was really
26:29
Speaker 1: working that sander. That is so dumb. I am almost
26:33
Speaker 1: embarrassed to say it out loud. Almost. I've talked about
26:36
Speaker 1: so many dumb things that I've done on this show,
26:39
Speaker 1: on other things that I, you know, do on the radio.
26:42
Speaker 1: It's just nothing's embarrassing anymore. So you think I would
26:46
Speaker 1: be embarrassed, but I'm not. It's not how you do
26:49
Speaker 1: it with a sander. If you hear the motor slow down,
26:51
Speaker 1: you're pressing too hard. Don't do that. Use even pressure
26:55
Speaker 1: and keep it light. Let the sander do its thing.
26:57
Speaker 1: The more you try to force the issue and speed
26:59
Speaker 1: it long by applying more pressure, the more likely you're
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Speaker 1: going to end up with swirl marks or worse in
27:05
Speaker 1: your surface. So light pressure, steady pressure, even pressure, all right.
27:10
Speaker 1: Tip number five. Work through your grits. You know, a
27:13
Speaker 1: lot of people think they can go straight from eighty
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Speaker 1: grit to two twenty grit and be done, but standing
27:18
Speaker 1: is a process. Each grit is going to refine the
27:20
Speaker 1: scratches left by the previous one. Skipping grits leaves behind
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Speaker 1: rough marks that show up in the finish later. So
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Speaker 1: a really solid progression looks like this. Start with eighty
27:29
Speaker 1: or one hundred grid. You move from there to the
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Speaker 1: one twenty grit. From there you go to one fifty,
27:34
Speaker 1: then to one eighty. You finished with two twenty. Now,
27:37
Speaker 1: if you're staining, don't go past two twenty. Sometimes even
27:41
Speaker 1: two twenty might be too much. You might need to
27:43
Speaker 1: check that. But if you go past two twenty, there's
27:46
Speaker 1: a really good chance that the wood's not going to
27:47
Speaker 1: absorb stain evenly. So two twenty is usually the max
27:51
Speaker 1: four staining. You might want to still test that out,
27:54
Speaker 1: like I said, with a one eighty and see once
27:56
Speaker 1: if that was enough for you. And I know that
27:59
Speaker 1: if you do this it means you're going to be
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Speaker 1: going through a lot more sanding discs. But taking the
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Speaker 1: time to step through each grit is definitely going to
28:06
Speaker 1: save you frustration down the road, so it's worth it,
28:08
Speaker 1: all right. That's tip number five. Tip number six get
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Speaker 1: the dust out of there all right. Even if you're
28:14
Speaker 1: doing everything right, swirls can still show up because of dust.
28:17
Speaker 1: Fine sanding. Dust gets trapped under the disk from time
28:20
Speaker 1: to time, and when that happens at x just like sandpaper,
28:23
Speaker 1: scratching the surface instead of smoothing it. The best way
28:26
Speaker 1: to handle that is to use a sander with dust extraction.
28:29
Speaker 1: Most of them already have something, you know, they've got
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Speaker 1: the little bags. A lot of them can have shop
28:36
Speaker 1: vacs attached to you know, you remove the little collection
28:39
Speaker 1: bag and you can attach a shop bac to that
28:41
Speaker 1: to aid with the extraction. Whatever you're doing, make sure
28:45
Speaker 1: you use something with dust extraction. If it's your livelihood,
28:48
Speaker 1: you know, your painting contractor or something you probably want
28:51
Speaker 1: to look into at least look into festuol sanders. You
28:54
Speaker 1: know we carry them at Repcholite and the dust extraction
28:56
Speaker 1: on Festual tools, you know, any of the fest tools equipment,
29:00
Speaker 1: the dust extraction is renowned. It's probably it's one of
29:05
Speaker 1: its main features. They're absolutely brilliant at keeping dust out
29:09
Speaker 1: of the work environment. So If you do this regularly,
29:12
Speaker 1: look into the right tools, it's going to help. If
29:14
Speaker 1: you don't do it regularly, at least make sure you're
29:16
Speaker 1: getting that dust out of there, and then also make
29:18
Speaker 1: sure you're cleaning between grits. You know, we talked about
29:21
Speaker 1: switching grits and working through that whole system. Every time
29:25
Speaker 1: you switch, you want to make sure you get that
29:26
Speaker 1: surface free of dust. So vacuum it, blow any of
29:29
Speaker 1: the remaining dust off, use a soft brush, whatever you've
29:32
Speaker 1: got to do to get all the dust off the
29:34
Speaker 1: surface before moving on to your next grit. All right,
29:38
Speaker 1: So dust extraction surface cleaning, that's tip six. Tip seven.
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Speaker 1: You've got to stop right. You know, we talked about
29:44
Speaker 1: starting right, but how you stop matters just as much.
29:47
Speaker 1: If you turn the sander off while it's still on
29:49
Speaker 1: the surface, it's like slamming the brakes on a moving car.
29:52
Speaker 1: The momentum stops suddenly, and it's just like tire marks
29:55
Speaker 1: on the pavement. You're going to get these swirl marks
29:56
Speaker 1: in the wood. So the right way to stop lift
29:59
Speaker 1: the sander off the surface first, and then turn it
30:01
Speaker 1: off right, not complicated, pick it up, turn it off
30:06
Speaker 1: all right. One last tip Tip number eight. Before you
30:08
Speaker 1: reach for your stain or your top coat, do a
30:10
Speaker 1: final check because nothing is worse than finishing a project,
30:14
Speaker 1: you know, applying your stain, paint, whatever, and then realizing
30:18
Speaker 1: that you missswirls by that point. Like we said earlier,
30:21
Speaker 1: they're way hard to fix. So take one minute when
30:23
Speaker 1: you're all done standing to check the workover. You know
30:26
Speaker 1: two ways to do it. You can wipe the surface
30:28
Speaker 1: down with mineral spirits. That's going to evaporate quickly, but
30:30
Speaker 1: it's going to reveal swirl marks right away, you know,
30:33
Speaker 1: before you apply your stain, or you can just use
30:36
Speaker 1: a flashlight or led worklight. Hold it at a really
30:38
Speaker 1: low angle and any misscratches are going to stand out instantly.
30:42
Speaker 1: Trust me, taking this extra step is going to save
30:45
Speaker 1: a ton of frustration later. There you go eight tips
30:49
Speaker 1: to help you get the best results possible with your
30:51
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Speaker 1: everything that I just went through so that you've got
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Speaker 1: a guide and you get great results every single time
31:12
Speaker 1: you're using that orbital stander. All right, let's take a break.
31:15
Speaker 1: When we come back, I'm gonna wing it. I don't
31:18
Speaker 1: even know what I'm going to talk about yet, but
31:19
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out over the break and it'll be
31:21
Speaker 1: gold on the other side. That's next. Stick around, and
31:31
Speaker 1: we're back. You're listening to the repel Light home improvement
31:33
Speaker 1: show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And I said last segment
31:38
Speaker 1: that I was gonna wing this one. What am I
31:41
Speaker 1: going to talk about? What am I gonna blander on
31:43
Speaker 1: and on about? Well, I dug up a listener question
31:46
Speaker 1: that I received in an email, and I am going
31:50
Speaker 1: to go through that and answer it here. We'll kind
31:53
Speaker 1: of walk through it. It's a great question. The listener
31:56
Speaker 1: wrote in I would love for you to come and
31:58
Speaker 1: take a look at my kitchen, and which appears puke green?
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Speaker 1: Her words, not mine. It appears put green because of
32:05
Speaker 1: the reflection from the carpeting in the next room. It's
32:08
Speaker 1: a pale gray blue. No matter which oatmeal paint I
32:11
Speaker 1: put on the walls, the kitchen turns green. The rest
32:14
Speaker 1: of the house is that same off white oatmeal shade,
32:16
Speaker 1: and it looks fine, but in the kitchen puke green.
32:20
Speaker 1: I love to cook and spend time there, and honestly,
32:22
Speaker 1: it gets me down. I've even had a couple of
32:24
Speaker 1: decorators come to help and nothing's worked. What do I
32:27
Speaker 1: do now? First off, I totally get this. She's done
32:31
Speaker 1: everything right, or at least it seems that way. She's
32:35
Speaker 1: matched the color to the rest of the home, she's
32:37
Speaker 1: getting advice from a decorator, she's trying different recommendations, and
32:41
Speaker 1: none of it's working. That's really really frustrating. On top
32:44
Speaker 1: of that, you have a space that you used to
32:46
Speaker 1: love being in a place where you did things that
32:49
Speaker 1: you love to do, cooking in this particular instance, and
32:53
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, the color on the walls
32:56
Speaker 1: is making it worse. It's making it feel like a
32:58
Speaker 1: place you don't want to be, and that's the opposite
33:01
Speaker 1: of what paint should be doing. It should be enhancing
33:03
Speaker 1: those spaces, not turning them into something that you don't
33:07
Speaker 1: want to spend time in. So we got to figure
33:09
Speaker 1: out what's going on. And it seems like it's complicated,
33:12
Speaker 1: but actually, you know, I haven't seen it and I
33:15
Speaker 1: am just winging it here. But it does seem like
33:17
Speaker 1: there's kind of a simple explanation, and it's all about
33:19
Speaker 1: color reflection and undertones. Color reflection and undertones. See, the
33:24
Speaker 1: pale gray blue carpet that she's got going on in
33:27
Speaker 1: the adjoining room has cool undertones, blues, maybe greens, whatever,
33:32
Speaker 1: cool undertones, and the oatmeal color that she's using on
33:34
Speaker 1: the walls likely has warm undertones, yellows or soft browns.
33:38
Speaker 1: When the light bounces off of that cool toned carpet
33:41
Speaker 1: and hits the walls, it's interacting with that warm paint color,
33:44
Speaker 1: and visually it's creating this weird greenish cast. But wait
33:49
Speaker 1: a minute. She seemed to be saying earlier that the
33:51
Speaker 1: wall color in the carpeted room is the same as
33:54
Speaker 1: the wall color in the kitchen. They're both oatmeal colors.
33:56
Speaker 1: Why does it look green in the kitchen but fine
33:59
Speaker 1: in the room with the actual carpet in it? Isn't
34:01
Speaker 1: that contradictory? You know, that's certainly something to ask, And
34:05
Speaker 1: you know, again, it could be any number of things.
34:07
Speaker 1: It could be that the oatmeal colors are not exactly
34:10
Speaker 1: the same. You know that it's a neutral or kind
34:12
Speaker 1: of a beige color, but there are different undertones going on,
34:16
Speaker 1: and one is you know, leaning more green. You know,
34:18
Speaker 1: that's definitely possible. But light also reflects differently in every
34:22
Speaker 1: room in the carpeted space, so you could have furniture,
34:25
Speaker 1: softer lighting and room layout and that might minimize color reflections.
34:29
Speaker 1: But in the kitchen, that room likely has harder surfaces,
34:32
Speaker 1: you know, fewer absorbent materials, and possibly cooler natural light.
34:36
Speaker 1: You know, all of those things could be happening. So
34:38
Speaker 1: when light bounces off the cool toned carpet, it carries
34:41
Speaker 1: those blue gray tones into the kitchen, and when they
34:43
Speaker 1: hit the warm undertones and the oatmeal paint, Bam, there
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Speaker 1: you go. You got that green. So it's not about
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Speaker 1: a bad paint color necessarily, it's just the science of light,
34:52
Speaker 1: surface and context. So how do you fix it. Let's
34:55
Speaker 1: get to that first thing. You could look at switching
34:58
Speaker 1: to a new paint color with more neutrals or grayish
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Speaker 1: undertones in the kitchen, you know, something like Benjamin Moore's
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Speaker 1: classic gray pale oak edgecomb gray. These soft grays and
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Speaker 1: topes will likely hold up better under the color influence
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Speaker 1: of the carpet, So that's definitely something you could look at,
35:15
Speaker 1: you know, and there could be a many other colors.
35:17
Speaker 1: You know, we'd want to see more samples of everything
35:20
Speaker 1: going on before you just dish out colors on the radio.
35:23
Speaker 1: But there's probably a good color that you could go
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Speaker 1: to that's going to minimize or work better with the
35:29
Speaker 1: influence coming in from that carpet. Second thing you could do,
35:31
Speaker 1: this is super easy. Take a look at the lighting
35:34
Speaker 1: that's going on in your situation. You know, if you're
35:37
Speaker 1: using cool toned led or fluorescent bulbs, they're only going
35:40
Speaker 1: to make the effect worse. You could try switching to
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Speaker 1: warmer toned bulbs and see what happens. That might shift
35:46
Speaker 1: the feel of the room immediately. Lighting makes a huge difference,
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Speaker 1: and the wrong temperature bulb can really really change things,
35:54
Speaker 1: So check that out. That's probably the first place to start.
35:57
Speaker 1: That could be the easiest fix. Third, if you don't
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Speaker 1: want to repaint and it's not the problem with the lighting,
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Speaker 1: you could try introducing some warm tone de core, you know,
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Speaker 1: a warmer toned rugs, some soft based curtains, art with
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Speaker 1: golds and creams to offset the influence from the carpet.
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Speaker 1: All of that might help warm that space up. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: just a small change like that will make a big difference.
36:17
Speaker 1: So check all of those things out. That's where I'd start.
36:21
Speaker 1: By all means, swing out to any Repcolite and bring pictures,
36:25
Speaker 1: maybe even get one of our color consultants out to
36:28
Speaker 1: your house and we can analyze the situation a little better.
36:31
Speaker 1: But that's the best I can do winging it and
36:34
Speaker 1: you know, without seeing it. Finally, last thing I'll say
36:38
Speaker 1: for everybody out there, test always, test, always sample. If
36:41
Speaker 1: you try new color, hold the color sample up next
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Speaker 1: to your carpet, to your furniture, and do all of
36:47
Speaker 1: that in your space, in your lighting. Better Yet, rather
36:50
Speaker 1: than just rely on one of those little color chips
36:52
Speaker 1: that we've gotten the stores, buy a Benjamin More color
36:55
Speaker 1: sample and actually get some paint applied. You can put
36:57
Speaker 1: it on a piece of foam boards, you can move
36:59
Speaker 1: it around, or you could use one of those jumbo
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Speaker 1: coders that we talked about at the beginning of the
37:03
Speaker 1: show to actually roll some onto your walls. Either way,
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Speaker 1: sample that color. Make sure you're sampling the color, See
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Speaker 1: how it feels over the course of the day, see
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Speaker 1: what it looks like in your space. Make sure it
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Speaker 1: does what you want it to. Do and feels the
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Speaker 1: way that it should before you buy your paint. And
37:19
Speaker 1: also I already said it, but by all means, remember
37:21
Speaker 1: that we have color experts at every Repcollite waiting to
37:24
Speaker 1: help you find the right color. Even if you're not
37:26
Speaker 1: sure where to begin, just stop out. We'll help get
37:28
Speaker 1: you moving. Thanks so much for the question. I think
37:31
Speaker 1: it's one that a lot of people can relate to.
37:33
Speaker 1: And if you out there listening, yes you, I'm talking
37:36
Speaker 1: to you. If you've got a question that you'd like
37:38
Speaker 1: discussed on the air, just reach out. You know. I'm
37:41
Speaker 1: not set up to take phone calls. That might be
37:44
Speaker 1: interesting someday, but I see what's left on the cutting
37:48
Speaker 1: room floor when I record the shows, and I don't
37:51
Speaker 1: think I'm cut out for live radio, so might not
37:54
Speaker 1: be best to take phone calls live. But I certainly
37:56
Speaker 1: can handle emails, and I will respond to those by
37:59
Speaker 1: all means, even if they don't make the air. I'll
38:01
Speaker 1: still respond to your questions, every single one of them.
38:04
Speaker 1: So send your questions to radio at Repcolight dot com.
38:08
Speaker 1: Make them good, maybe they'll be on the show someday.
38:11
Speaker 1: All right, that's all the time we've got before I
38:13
Speaker 1: wrap it up. Though. Last thing I want to say
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Speaker 1: is that April is contractor Appreciation Month at Repcolite. It's
38:19
Speaker 1: a whole month where we do what we can to
38:21
Speaker 1: thank all of the painting contractors who make us successful.
38:24
Speaker 1: And one way that you out there listening can do
38:27
Speaker 1: that can help us is to do something that we
38:30
Speaker 1: talked about a couple weeks ago on the show. Mike
38:32
Speaker 1: Cherry from Cherry Painting was here and he said, referrals
38:36
Speaker 1: make his day. So if you've got a contractor that
38:39
Speaker 1: you've used and you had a great experience with, remember
38:42
Speaker 1: to hand out that name. When you hear people looking
38:44
Speaker 1: for contractors, Handing a contractor the opportunity to land another
38:48
Speaker 1: job is a great way to thank them. So think
38:50
Speaker 1: about that. And if you're looking to hire a contractor,
38:53
Speaker 1: we can definitely help you with that. Just head to
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Speaker 1: and I'll get you three names within twenty four hours.
39:05
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Whatever you do today makes your
39:08
Speaker 1: paints a part of it. And remember your next project
39:11
Speaker 1: is easier than you think. Let us help have a
39:13
Speaker 1: great weekend everybody, and i'll see you next week. I'm
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Speaker 1: Dan Hansen. Thanks for listening.