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Combat Winter Dryness: Tips on Static, Dryer Balls, and Humidifiers · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. Happy weekend. I hope you all
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  Speaker 1: had a great Christmas, and I'm glad you're tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a special best of episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Repcolite Home improvement Show. I hope you enjoy it. Well, Hayley,
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  Speaker 1: this time of year one of the things that really
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  Speaker 1: comes out, especially in our little studio here, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to experience it. Well, I guess you experienced
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  Speaker 1: it last year. The air gets so dry and static
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  Speaker 1: becomes a major issue. Every time I hop off my
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  Speaker 1: little chair. I get almost.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I hop off chair.
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  Speaker 1: I should explain I have a great, big, tall raised chair.
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  Speaker 2: It's air.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like a normal chair, right, No wonder
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  Speaker 1: people when they meet me say, well, you're not quite
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  Speaker 1: as short as well. It's because of my own problem.
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  Speaker 1: I paint a bad picture anyway. When I hop off
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  Speaker 1: of my super tall raised chair and touch anything metal,
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  Speaker 1: I get a debilitating static shock.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're pretty dramatic about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we were laughing about that the other day and
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  Speaker 1: you talked about that you have the same problem at home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my hair gets staticky, my cat gets staticky. Burger's
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  Speaker 2: is getting like charged up every time I pet him.
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  Speaker 2: Poor cats getting trained on to get pet now because
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  Speaker 2: he's getting shocked every time. But yeah, it's just super dry,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously humidifiers help a lot with that. But the
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  Speaker 2: clothes and the dryer, I think I've got to fix
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  Speaker 2: for because when I pull clothes out of the dryer
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  Speaker 2: right now, they're like stuck together. Right, you can like
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  Speaker 2: peel them apart and hear the hear it crackle.
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  Speaker 1: Do it in the dark. It's like a light show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, actually pretty cool. But it is a pain
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  Speaker 1: in the neck and you've got to fix for it.
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  Speaker 1: I do, and I was kind of intrigued because it's
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  Speaker 1: something that I use, but I'm not using them correctly,
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  Speaker 1: nor am I understanding why I'm using them my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the right tools, I just don't understand them
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 2: So dryer balls, Yes, the wool dryer balls is what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about. And they're basically just wool tightly compacted
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  Speaker 2: in a ball form and you throw them in the
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  Speaker 2: dry like seven I think is typical for a regular.
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  Speaker 1: Load of laundry. And that's my first mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I bought them in packs of three, and I have
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  Speaker 1: three Okay, so I use three or two or one,
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  Speaker 1: depending on if I've found that.
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  Speaker 2: The one's not gonna do much.
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  Speaker 1: I yes, I thought it was doing amazing things, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: These friends never imagine what they would do. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: these in the stores for years and never understood why
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  Speaker 2: I would throw a wool ball into the dryer. I
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  Speaker 2: already have wool clothes in there.
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  Speaker 1: Lets us don't know why we do it. Why, but
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  Speaker 1: you figured it out.
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  Speaker 2: I did so like research, and I figured out what
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  Speaker 2: they actually do. And the first thing is that they
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  Speaker 2: reduce the dry time, So that right off, the bat
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  Speaker 2: is going to help reduce some of the static because
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  Speaker 2: they're spending less time in the dryer. But they do
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  Speaker 2: that because you're adding, you know, seven balls into the
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  Speaker 2: dryer with your clothes. They're getting mixed up with these
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  Speaker 2: wet clothes. They're helping to separate them. Creating these air
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  Speaker 2: pockets basically makes the airflow better inside of the dryer.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So that's my big problem. I don't use enough.
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  Speaker 1: If I used more, And to me, that's even bigger,
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  Speaker 1: bigger benefit than the static reduction, is just the reducing
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  Speaker 1: the dry time, because that's what kills me with laundry
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  Speaker 1: is waiting for the dryer. Yeah, the washer goes super
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  Speaker 1: lickety split, but then it piles up waiting for the dryer.
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  Speaker 2: It's true.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to get more dryer balls and that
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  Speaker 1: will reduce the dry time.
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  Speaker 2: But that also extends the life of the clothing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the less time that they're in that superheated air, the
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  Speaker 2: better it is for them. And again, because those dryer
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  Speaker 2: balls are reducing the dry time, it actually extends the
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  Speaker 2: life of our clothing.
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  Speaker 1: So that's cool, really cool. What other things did they do,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a couple other really cool things, Yet they're
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  Speaker 1: reducing did you hear my voice? You're not gonna even
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  Speaker 1: say anything, got my little chair, my cracky little voice.
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  Speaker 1: Someday I'll be a real boy.
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  Speaker 2: No. But they reduce the static, like we talked about,
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  Speaker 2: and they you know, we said that they reduce the
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  Speaker 2: dry time, so that helps. But the other reason they're
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  Speaker 2: reducing the static is because that wool is really absorbing.
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  Speaker 2: They're actually wicking moisture away from the close in there
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  Speaker 2: and holding on to some of that as they're in
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  Speaker 2: the dryer throughout the dry time, and that's increasing the humidity.
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  Speaker 2: Inside of the dryer.
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  Speaker 1: They're not little the static fires, yeah right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's how we reduce that's how we reduce the humidity
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  Speaker 1: or the static here in a room. That's the concept
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  Speaker 1: that's at play in the dryer with these dryer balls.
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  Speaker 1: So that's super cool.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing, I mean, there's they're like miracles. I know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe. I mean, now I feel silly for
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  Speaker 2: not understanding the magic of the dryer ball because they
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  Speaker 2: do so much.
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  Speaker 1: You're a rookie. It's a rookie move.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so I mean you're using one, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's an advanced dryer ball.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways. The other thing that they do that's really cool
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  Speaker 2: is they attract things inside of the dryer.
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  Speaker 1: The coins and stuff that we drop in. I don't not.
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  Speaker 2: That's not that stuff. You've got to deal with that,
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  Speaker 2: yeah I do. But the pet hair, the dander, the
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  Speaker 2: human hair, all the stuff we don't want to think
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  Speaker 2: about on our clothing. They're pulling in a way, But where.
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  Speaker 1: Does it go? Where do they?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Gotches to the ball? So if I would chuck that
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  Speaker 1: ball at one of the children, just for fun in
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  Speaker 1: a moment of frivolity. I'm smacking them with dander.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to wash your dryer balls?
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  Speaker 2: Huh No, that's a question.
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  Speaker 1: Well we'll dig into that. Yeah. Now I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a smell thing too yet.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, so this is another one of the big benefits,
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  Speaker 2: at least for me, because this is always a fight
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  Speaker 2: with Jordan. He really loves dryer sheets because they add
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  Speaker 2: the fresh scent to the clothes and the dryer. I
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  Speaker 2: hate them because my skin is really sensitive. So we've
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  Speaker 2: got to find very specific dryer sheets. Sure, or at
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  Speaker 2: least I have to find it really specific dryer sheets
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  Speaker 2: because he won't spend the time to look, and then
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  Speaker 2: I've got itchy skin. It's not fun.
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  Speaker 1: So how do these fix that?
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  Speaker 2: You can add a cent of oils to them, so
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  Speaker 2: they're wool. Right, we talked about them being absorbent. You
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  Speaker 2: just put a couple drops on there and then they're
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  Speaker 2: releasing a cent that's chemical free.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, we'll be talking about humidifiers and why you
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  Speaker 1: probably should be running one in your home. That's all next,
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  Speaker 1: and stick around. You're listening to a special best of
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  Speaker 1: episode of the Repical Light home improvement shows sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore. Well, Haley, I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 1: but Hanson's disease, yeah, leprosy. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 2: I did not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something my dad was very proud to tell
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  Speaker 1: us all years back. I remember when I was little
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  Speaker 1: and first hearing that we had a disease named after us,
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  Speaker 1: little bummed that it was leprosy.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I have a reason for that.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Recolleate home improvement show sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore, who's always happy to affix their name as
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  Speaker 1: a sponsor to our show. Anyway, I'm Dan Hanson, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Haley Johnson, and we're here talking about I started talking
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  Speaker 1: about Hanson's disease, leprosy, and I have a tongue in
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  Speaker 1: cheek reason for bringing this up. I thought we had
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  Speaker 1: it hilarious, hilarious. I know, no bloody noses, chapped lips,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all kinds of skin problems. I thought, either
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  Speaker 1: it's leprosy, or maybe we need to get a humidifier.
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  Speaker 1: Since I am always calm, cool and collected in my thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I opted to get the humidifier first and turns out
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was. So breathe a sigh of relief.
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  Speaker 1: No humidifiers, they do a huge service to our homes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think they're highly underrated. I got a
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  Speaker 2: humidifier in my bedroom a couple years ago because I
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  Speaker 2: deal with a lot of eggzma and dry.
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  Speaker 1: Skin, not leprosy.
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  Speaker 2: Not leprosy, there's a difference. And yeah, humidifier has really
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  Speaker 2: helped a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It licked that problem too well. That's probably well figuratively,
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  Speaker 1: I guess in a way, it's almost like saliva. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not aware and you don't have a humidifier, right,
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  Speaker 1: there are some things you should realize that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're waking up with a sore, itchy throat every morning,
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  Speaker 1: dry eyes, coughing, bloody nose is static, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: get out of your chair, you slide across the room
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  Speaker 1: to change the channel. Nobody does that anymore, so we've
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  Speaker 1: got remote controls. But if you go off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get a snack, that's more likely, and you touch
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  Speaker 1: the cupboard door and you get a pop, yep, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably because the air is too dry.
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  Speaker 2: Hum You always gets shocked in the living room because
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  Speaker 2: we don't have a humidifier in that room, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got big you know, it's an old house. Who've got
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  Speaker 2: this giant vents blasting hot air. And every time I
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  Speaker 2: get up to like pet the cat, he gets a
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  Speaker 2: shocked during the winter. Oh yeah, he has to. He's
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  Speaker 2: getting trained not to.
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  Speaker 1: Get past Wow. I like that anyway. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like that. I don't endorse that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't endorse shock, No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: Afire anyway, There's so many things that that it will
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  Speaker 1: solve or can solve. One of those things is even
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  Speaker 1: guitar problems, and that's honestly what got me down this
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  Speaker 1: whole trail in the first place. And we'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about a few of the things that
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  Speaker 1: humidifiers will help. And then I made a purchase and
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  Speaker 1: it's been working out so well. I want to brag
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  Speaker 1: about it, but kind of, you know, give you maybe
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  Speaker 1: a review, a mini review, a recommendation about a system
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  Speaker 1: that I've got that's working so well. So let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about some of the things that humidifiers will do. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a really fun one right off the bat. Since we
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  Speaker 1: started talking about diseases. Let's talk about more diseases. Bacteria
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  Speaker 1: and viruses cannot travel as well in moist air, so
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  Speaker 1: think about that. That's really interesting, really interesting. There's a
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  Speaker 1: study from twenty thirteen and it turns out that increasing
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  Speaker 1: humidity levels to forty three percent or higher will substantially
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  Speaker 1: minimize the capability of airborne viruses to cause illness.
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  Speaker 2: So does that make sense? I mean, they sell like
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  Speaker 2: those vis vapor humidifiers. When you're sick, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: like put one of those in your room.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought it was just to help you breathe.
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  Speaker 1: But who knows what exactly it's doing. But for the
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  Speaker 1: numbers people, because there are numbers people out there, even
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  Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning, they want to know the statistics.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the stats, tell me the numbers. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: can so. Over a span of sixty minutes in this test,
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  Speaker 1: that's the time they were running these particular tests, a
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  Speaker 1: virus was between seventy and seventy seven percent effective in
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  Speaker 1: environments of less than twenty three percent humidity.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So if the relative humidity in the room was less
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  Speaker 1: than twenty three percent, the virus was seventy to seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven percent effective. Now in the same rooms for the
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  Speaker 1: same timeframe, when the relative humidity was bumped up to
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  Speaker 1: forty three percent or higher, the virus was only between
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  Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty two percent of What a difference, huge difference.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of crazyh.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, it's all about for hands, just getting humidified,
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  Speaker 1: right right right, it all spreads in the air and
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  Speaker 1: the yuck can't spread quickly that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's very interesting. So anyway, I thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be such a dramatic difference seventy seven to fourteen exactly,
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  Speaker 2: that's huge.
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  Speaker 1: You heard it here on the Repcolite Home improvement show,
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  Speaker 1: and we're believing an article that we read online. So Dan,
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  Speaker 1: if you're if we're wrong, that's not my fault, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing it will do moisturize dry skin, So before
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  Speaker 1: you rush off to the Leopard doctors, doctor, consider okay. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it works anymore. My real only
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  Speaker 1: familiarity with leprosy is from Bible stories, so I'm not
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  Speaker 1: really sure how it plays out in the modern world. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: dry air sucks all the moisture out of our skin.
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  Speaker 1: Just pull it together, Haley, we're profects here and it
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  Speaker 1: leads to chap lips and dry flaking skin, even premature aging. Well,
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants that. Yeah, I want to stay young and shiny. Yes, supple,
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  Speaker 1: my skin is smooth like a baby's bottom, and it's
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  Speaker 1: because I've got a humidifier. Humidifiers will help with that.
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  Speaker 1: If you want.
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  Speaker 2: Bloody noses too, Like that's something that I deal with
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  Speaker 2: during the wintertime, is like just breathing through my nose
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  Speaker 2: at night and then waking.
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  Speaker 1: Up with That's why I mouth breathe. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: help me with that too. You'll sleep better if you've
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  Speaker 1: got a humidifier, and you're gonna feel better. So if
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  Speaker 1: you do sleep with your mouth open, and honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: do want to talk about this, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: get into it now, but I ran into it an
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  Speaker 1: article about taping your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 2: People are doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah for sleeping. People have wanted to tape my
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  Speaker 1: mouth shut during the waking hours. Nobody suggested that I
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  Speaker 1: do that while I'm sleeping. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: if that's a good idea or not. Spoiler it's not,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll get to that later. But if you do
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  Speaker 1: sleep with your mouth open on accident. It just happens.
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  Speaker 1: It can help, and it will not just get you
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  Speaker 1: better sleep, but it makes you feel better. Your throat
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  Speaker 1: isn't always scratchy all day long. All of that is good.
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  Speaker 1: It protects furniture, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean wood getting dried out, it starts cracking, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: It's apart and guitars, and that's what got me started
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  Speaker 1: on this whole thing. We've got guitars that I've been noticing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really struggling to keep them in tune and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. I start doing a little digging. I had
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  Speaker 1: already known some of this, sure, but you know I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't dug into it as deeply as I should.
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  Speaker 2: Have really expensive guitar, so now.
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  Speaker 1: You care for me, it was very expensive. It's not
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  Speaker 1: expensive for a lot of people, but for me, I
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  Speaker 1: was really pushing it. And yeah, it scared me. All
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  Speaker 1: the things I need to do. There's all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: stuff that can go wrong right. The wood can crack,
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  Speaker 1: glue joints can separate. It can be a nightmare fix
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  Speaker 1: all of that. So you've got to get a humidifire
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  Speaker 1: for the guitar. Now, guitars have all these little they're
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  Speaker 1: like little personal humidifiers. They'll fit in there and you
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  Speaker 1: can use those that way, and I'm sure those work
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  Speaker 1: just fine. The people at the stores that I was
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  Speaker 1: talking to recommend to just skip those and go straight
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  Speaker 1: to a regular room dehumidifier if you've got a space
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  Speaker 1: that you're using for your guitars, which we do so anyway,
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  Speaker 1: all of those reasons, you know, the potential leprosy and
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  Speaker 1: having the good guitars, the diseases, weakin, we wanted a humidifier.
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  Speaker 1: So my family dug into it and we bought one
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  Speaker 1: and put it in and I've had a ton of
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  Speaker 1: great fun with this, I mean as much fun as
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  Speaker 1: you can have with a humidifier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a little bit of like humidifier envy,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, because I've got a humidifier,
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  Speaker 2: but it is not like yours.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to give you all the info you
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  Speaker 1: need now. If you're gonna be jumping into getting a humidifier,
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  Speaker 1: you've got one. But maybe other people are thinking that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want to solve some of these problems
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  Speaker 1: and jump in. I've got a recommendation. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: first give you some basic things to keep in mind.
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  Speaker 1: You got to make sure that what you're buying is
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  Speaker 1: big enough for the room that you've got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crucial.
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  Speaker 1: All of them will tell you how big a space
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  Speaker 1: they're covering, of course, pretty basic. Make sure you do that.
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  Speaker 1: Consider how it's filled. This is another thing to think about.
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  Speaker 1: I had one that was bottom filled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing that's bottom filled is great. Not a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, Yeah, it was messy because we always
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  Speaker 1: drip all the way back. The one I have now
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  Speaker 1: is top filled, so I just have to haul a
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: little picture in there and pour it. I like that
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Better think about how well it breaks apart
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: for cleaning, because you do have to clean this.
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  Speaker 2: They early change the filter. That's important.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely look into that and then read reviews. You know,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of reviews out there that will help
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  Speaker 1: you figure out what you need. Now. For me, I
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  Speaker 1: ended up buying a go V g o v Ee
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  Speaker 1: go V Smart Wi Fi humidifier, and then I bought
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: also a go V Smart hygrometer. No, hygrometer is just
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: something that's going to measure the temperature and then it
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: also measures primarily humidity. Right, I did a fair amount
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: of researched, and these two for my space seem like
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the best bet. The whole expense putting both together was
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: about seventy bucks, So not bad.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, not bad if you're buying two separate things, like
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: It is for a smaller room, you know. The one
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: that I bought will cover about one hundred and sixty
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: square foot. That was the room that I had, and
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I think the humidifier itself was sixty The hygrometer was
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: another ten bucks. Anyway, I got them because they can
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: be paired. Now. It's very interesting and it's something that's
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit you wouldn't expect it. I expected that
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: when I buy one, I could set a smart one.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I could set a certain humidity and it will just
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: maintain that like a furnace maintains. It. Turns out a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: lot of them don't do that. If they've got the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: hygrometer built into it, it will achieve a certain humidity, sure,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: but sometimes you got to turn it on to do that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: It will maybe automatically turn itself off, but you've got
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to automatic you've got. It's not the smartest. It's kind
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: of smart, but not brilliant. Now, when I bought these two.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: They pair together, and now I can do exactly what
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I wanted. I set a target humidity, and it will
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: turn itself on and turn.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Itself off, and it just maintains that level that you want.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: It maintains it, you know, right within about a two
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: percent up or down plus or minus kind of a range.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I mean that seems like what you want. If we
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: talked about, you know, that ideal humidity being around forty
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: three percent. How do I know what I've got going on?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And how do I maintain that right? This does it
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: all for you right now?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Like I said, A lot of them will tell you
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: what it's at, you know, because they've got built in hygrometers,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and it will since sure where it's at. But it
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't turn itself on and doesn't turn itself off necessarily.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: And too, I mean, does it give you a different
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: or inaccurate reading because it's directly next to where the
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: water is coming out.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Of the machine. That's the other thing I liked about
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: this system is that I can put the hygrometer on
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the other side of the room. Yeah, so it's measuring
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the air over there right, not at the machine itself.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: That's kicking the moisture. It seems like I'm going to
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: get a better reading. I've been going for about three
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: weeks now with this, and yeah, for three weeks that
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: humidity level in the room has been rock steady at
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: what I wanted it to be at. When I started,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I think the room humidity was around seventeen percent. Okay,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: so yes, my guitars, hopefully they've survived. But I think
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: we're good to go now. I'll put links in the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: show notes for the model that I bought if you
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: want to check that out again. You got to make
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: sure you're getting the right size for your room. All
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of those things. Do your research, find what's right for you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: But it's really worked out well. The bigger point overall
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: is just if you're struggling with any of the things
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: we talked about earlier.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially this time of year. I mean, I think
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: everyone deals with some of those things to some extent.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a humidifier might solve those problems. Check it out,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: all right, Let's take a break, and when we come back,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: let's talk about moisturizing and conditioning our furniture. That's all
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: next stick around. You're listening to a special best of
• 19:03
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• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore. And before Haley gets running with her topic,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: she's got a topic all planned.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, it relates to a topic that we talked about last.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Right now, that topic from last time was something I
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: brought to the table, So it's that part's good. But
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: if you do have to go to the bathroom, now's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the time. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. But before
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: we get to that, I've got something I want to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: start with because I thought it was hilarious. I don't normally,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you know, laugh out loud when I'm watching a video
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: or watching something sure on TV?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Do you laugh like intern I laugh.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Internally, I chuckle.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It's a silent last, silent laughter.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Right. I don't like people to know what I'm thinking,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so keep it all inside. But I stumbled on a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: news story and watching the video, and that's the problem
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: with telling a story on the radio. The video was
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: what really sold it and made it funny. But here's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the scoop, here's the premise. I love it. It's England
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and maybe a lot of you have seen it. This
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: was a thing from a few years back before I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: was really big on the internet, you know, big on
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: spending time on the internet. Still not big on the internet, right, No, no,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: never gonna happen, And that's fine. Anyway, I stumble on
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the story of this poor guy loses his job and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: so he's applying for jobs and he gets an interview
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: lined up. This is all in England, if I didn't
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: say that already. So he shows up at this big
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: it sounded like a hotel lobby kind of a thing
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: or this this big area a collection of people that's
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: where he's supposed to meet the people for this job interview.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So he shows up all dressed up nice and ready
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to go, and as he's sitting there, this person comes
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: up with a clipboard and says, are you ready? And
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he says, well yes. So they haul him into an
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: area and they set him down at a little table
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and they put a microphone on him, and he's thinking,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: what is this is the strangest job interview I've ever
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: been on? And all of a sudden, this lady sets
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: down at a table next to him, and she's all
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: miked and ready to go. Somebody counts down three, two
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: one and points the lady and she says, well, good evening, everybody,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: we're talking and yes, it's a news broadcast. Gosh. Yes.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: She goes on and on about some Apple thing with Beatles,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Apple Core, the Beatles Company and Apple iTunes having a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: little bit of a conflict. There's a court case going on,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and she lays that all out and says, what do
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you think and then gives the guy's name and it's
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: not the guy's name. When she says that and asked him,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: his face is priceless. It's just a quick double take.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: He's trying to stop her, but he realizes this is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: live TV, he's on air, so he just rolls with it,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: answers the question, yes, keeps running through. He's got an
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it background, so he kind of has some answers for it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, I will put a link in the show
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: notes because that double take.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would have done.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I'd have just wept. I would have let people know
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: what I was thinking, and it would have been fear horror.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I just can't imagine. I thought the guy handled it well,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: rolled with it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would have done.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what the bottom of the worst case
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: or the worst part of the whole thing is he
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: ends up going to his job interview later. Yeah, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't get that either. Oh yeah, so it's a real
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: letdown for him. But he did have a few minutes
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: on the internet.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, Yes, it was TV and now it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the Interest.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: So it's still living on double famous.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to take too much time, but I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: saw that wrong place, wrong time. Thought it was hilarious. Haley,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: what do you want to talk about? And it's tied
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to something that I talked about, which means it's very
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart. Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Potentially it relates to your smart humidifier. Okay, because you mentioned,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: you know, all the terrible things that can happen because
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: of dry air.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Right leprosy, and remember everybody, my children, Yeah, my children
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: were so disappointed that I had done that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: But no, one of the things that you talked about
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: was how the dry air can affect our furniture and
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: actually cause the wood furniture to crack, you know, because
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it's getting enough water in the air, and that same
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: thing can happen to our cutting boards till their furniture
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: anytime the humidity drops in our spaces. For that long
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: winter month or.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Four month yeah, okay, I was gonna say it's like
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: four months. Yeah, it feels like it. So for what
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: do we do? I mean, the humidifier helps.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: The humidifier helps, but we probably don't all have humidifiers,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and even if we do have one, it's probably not
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: humidifying all of the areas of our homes and keeping
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: all of our furniture and cutting boards and everything beautiful. Okay,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So you're actually supposed to maintain this stuff during winter
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: months once a month, all right, like oiling your cutting board,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: moisturizing other any leather furniture once a month. I'm not
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: doing any of that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: What am I oiling my cutting board with? Like vegetable
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: oil type stuff?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you could. There's like special cutting
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: board oil. It's like a mineral oil. But you have
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: to it should say cutting board oil on the bottle.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: You can find it, you know a lot of different places.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Probably at the grocery store you're gonna see it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I can't even find the normal things at the grocery store.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I spend six days looking for tapioca. I did that once,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: so I didn't stay six days. The pudding aisle Dan, No, well,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I don't remember where maybe, but it wasn't in the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: box I was expecting to find. So if you're not
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a good finder and you know who you are, or order.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It online, there go. You know, let's use the internet.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Oil my cutting board. What other things do I need
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: The other thing would be, you know, moisturizing any wood furniture.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: So this would be wood furniture that's not necessarily like
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: lacquered or painted, you know, that's just sealed in, that's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: not going anywhere, okay, But anything that's waxed wood or
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: oiled wood that needs to be maintained throughout those winter months.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So what am I oiling that with? Not just myself
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: as I sweat while playing video games or something.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Like furniture polished or furniture. Okay, so maintain that, keep
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: up on it exactly once a month is what you're
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: supposed to be doing during those winter months. And then again,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: leather furniture.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one I'm really interested in. I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: have any. But should I ever have leather furniture?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Well, and it's expensive, right, Why don't have any? Exactly?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So if you do have it and you're not doing this.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: You spend all of this money and potentially you're like
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: cutting the life of it in half because you're not
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: maintaining it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So what do we do for the leather?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: So for the leather, you can either buy a cleaner
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that also is a two and one and has the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: conditioner in it, kind of like a two in one shampoo, right, Okay, okay,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Or you can find the separate cleaner, get it all cleaned,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and then you would condition it. After the furniture has
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: been fully cleaned.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: How long does it have to sit before I can
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: use it again?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: So okay, let's say you clean, you know, vacuum the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: furniture real quick. You're getting a cleaner on there. You
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: do that whole process, You let it dry out fully.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Then you're conditioning it with the leather furniture moisturizer. You
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: want to let that sit after you've rubbed it all
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: in and wiped off any excess after thirty minutes, let
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: that sit for like at least an hour before you're
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: sitting on the furniture. Okay, you're not like stain in
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: your clothes.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, So I'm going to need to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: keep one chair unconditioned for resting in between while I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: wait for the other chairs.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Even, you know, if you don't have leather furniture like you,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: you do have a leather coat. I know. I've seen
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: one of those. You've probably got a leather bag, all
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: of those things. Think the real leather you think, I
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: is for sure real leather.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: So even that's going to be wrecked if I don't
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: rub oils on it. And sweat doesn't count.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Sweat does not count. Oh no, I mean it's got
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: salt in it. It'srue.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: That's true. That is true. I am salty. I just
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: finally learned what that meant. The kids always throw that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: term around. Oh yeah, it' stop being so sold. My gosh,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I figured it meant
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I was sweaty. We're gonna put links in the show
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: notes for all of these little products and all of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the things that Haley talked about.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: We've got a whole process for you to look at
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: so you're doing it right. And yeah, it's just a
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: really good thing to be doing right.
• 27:17
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• 27:25
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• 27:27
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• 27:56
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• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Have you ever removed let's say the baseboard, or maybe
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a backsplash and a kitchen pull that off or maybe
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: even I know what really happens often with a toilet
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: paper roll holder. You know, you pull that off the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: wall and you end up ripping the drywall paper. You know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you pull that face paper off and you rip a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: big chunk off, and.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Now you're like the paint and everything with it, paint.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And everything with it. You're left with that brown paper,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you know, the back or paper kind of of the drywall.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: No, but I've got a ton of this to fix
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: in my garage. We put up the drywall. I talked
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: about that a while back. Sure, and Jordan, my husband
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: is he's very sweet.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, but there's a big butt in here.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: He can be a little clumsy, and he knocked a
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: couple of these pieces of drywall into things as he's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: moving them through the door, and he's gouged the drywall
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to the point where all of the paper's exposed. And
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at this thinking it's going to be
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a huge mess.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Right, So you've got the brown paper exposed, and you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: maybe people at home are thinking, well, you just mud
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: over that and you're good to go, but you can't.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Repcolite Home Improvement Show, and it's
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: lucky for you that you are, if that's what you're thinking,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: because we're going to tell you what can go wrong
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: with that and how to fix it. So, first off,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I guess let's talk about what could go wrong with that?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Why can't you just mud over that brown paper, make
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it nice and smooth again, and then just go right
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Because the face paper's paper, right, what's different? Well, the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: face paper will resist moisture better exactly, and that brown
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: paper is going to suck up the water from your mud.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: If you put drywall compound over that it can suck
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that water up and you'll get rippling. It will actually
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: bubble right up. Sometimes. You know, it doesn't happen immediately, right,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: but within thirty minutes or so, you could have a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: big mess going on.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's not something that you can just sand
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: over and then reapply more mud, because the same problem
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: will just keep happening over and over and over. Right.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: No, it's really frush trading when it happens when you're
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: working with dry well because you've got to let all
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: of that stuff dry at that point, cut out all
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: these bubbles, take care of it the right way, and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: then do all your mudding and all of that over again.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So that's why you don't want to just throw mud
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: over top of this brown drywall paper. Will it happen
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: every single time? Probably not every single time.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Now, because you've gotten lucky before.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I've gotten lucky because I didn't realize years back that
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I was even walking a razor's egg. I was clumsy
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like you talked about with your husband, and I just
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: went and mudded over it, and I got lucky. You
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: may get lucky, and maybe in the past you've gotten
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: lucky and the thing is, you could do a whole
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: room and you might have no problems except in a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: couple of areas. It's not going to be necessarily wholesale
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: failures like Roulette. The big thing is, it is like
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Russian Roulet, and it's one of those games you don't
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: want to play because if you do lose, you lose big. Exactly.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about what you can do. And what
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: you need to do is seal that brown paper before
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you go to any joint compound or dry wal mud
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. Exactly. There are a number of
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: options out there to seal it with some oil based products,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: some white pavemented.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, both stinky. Both require you know, a fair amount
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: of solvent to clean up that stuff, and it's not ideal.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: There's a specific product though, that's called Guards GA R
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: d Z yes, and it is essentially made to do
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: exactly what we're talking about.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Among other things. Guards is a really interesting product. It's
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: called a problem surface sealer. It's from Zenzer and it
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: does a lot of different things. You know, it will
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: oh Man Haley, what is the list? I'm trying to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: find their list of things because I don't want to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: miss anything.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: It seals the residual pace left over after you've stripped wallpaper. Right,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: you can strip that wallpaper off and sometimes you'll still
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: have like the glue left behind a little bit. You
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: should still clean the glue, but this will go over
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: that and make sure everything's locked down.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Right. The problem with that is glue, the wallpaper paste
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: residue that's left on the wall water activator. If you
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: put a water based product, a normal water based paint
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: over that or primer, it can reactivate that paste. You'll
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: get texturing and it's a problem. Guards will go over
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: that and seal it in. It's a chalk binder. If
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you've got a chalky surface, you can put it over
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that and it will bind everything down. It does a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: lot of different things, but one of the things that
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: will do really well is seal in this brown paper
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: so that you can actually do your you know, your
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: your repair work over top of it without worrying about
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: any of this bubbling. Right.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: And it's kind of unique too. It's not, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: pigmented like we think of normal primers. As it's almost clear.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: It's kind of milky in the can, and then it
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: dries clear, it's still kind of smelly, but it is
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: water based, so at least the cleanup is easier, right, the.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Clean up's easy. It is a little stinky, like Haley said,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be fumes in the same regard
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: that the oil base or the solvent based products that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: we talked about are. But it's not terribly fun to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: work with in that regard. So what do you do
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: with it? How does it work? You know, how would
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: you approach a situation. Let's just focus on a quick
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: concept of a project, and let's talk about removing baseboard.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think that's a really common issue.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Right, It happens a lot. And here's the deal. A
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: lot of the times when you paint your baseboard, you know,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: over the years, you just paint it over and over again.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: You've got caulks sometimes that right run along the edge
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of where the baseboard meets the wall. Paint film will
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: stretch over that or bridge that as well. It will
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: go from the trim to the wall to some extent,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and then you go and you start peeling or getting
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: that baseboard pulled apart from the wall. And then you
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: just pulled a big piece off. And sometimes if you
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: don't run a razor.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Along, separate them fully right to score that yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: To cut through that film, you can actually that film
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: will stay intact and it will rip straight up the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: wall and you can pull big chunks of your drywall
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: face paper right off with your trim. It's a real bugger.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: When it happens, nobody's happy. Everybody weeps. But if that
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: happens to you, we've got to fix. So let's say
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that's what you did. You just went through the room,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: ripped all that stuff. You've got all this face paper
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: or this face paper gone brown paper exposed. It's kind
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: of curling and it looks bad. What do you do? Well,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you can't just paint over it. It's uneven, got exactly.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: You can't just mud over it to make it even
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: because we told you why not, right, So you've got
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to go ahead and get this guard. So run out
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to repcolite or drive out, walk out, take a cab,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: take uber, you know, whatever you need to do to
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: get there, get guards and then get home and you're
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: ready to go. So you should probably get some sandpaper
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and go over very lightly, yes.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Very lightly, smooth all of that out, like any of
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the little pieces of paper that are curling or running still.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: You want to get that under control. Sand it so
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: it's a nice smooth surface. You know, you can use
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: a putty knife and kind of knock down those edges.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: A little bit.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And if it's still running, you know, it's just every
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: time you hit it with the sandpaper, you're creating a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: new little peeling. Right.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll be taking more face paper.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: You can score with a razor along, you know, just
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: to make a little box. Essentially, you're scoring a box
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: around that paper where it's curled up, and then it
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: won't curl past that line that you right made.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Right, that's a good fix if it just keeps unraveling
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: as you go, So do that, get all of that off.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: You do that light sanding to get it relatively smooth. Yep,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: you're not trying to get every little piece off, but
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: just smooth it down exactly, and then go ahead and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: roll that area with the guards. As we mentioned earlier,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it's going to go on kind of milky. It's going
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to dry in about three hours to a really hard
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: clear finish that actually looks pretty cool. Bring out the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: color in that brown paper. You might think that's the goal.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Let's go with that but you don't want to leave
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: it like that, but it will, once it's dry, be
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: a very hard surface. And now you can go back
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and get the rest of those little curled pieces off
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: because everything that's not completely smooth at that point is
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: going to be really easy to knock off. So you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: could take a putty knife, you know, a big joint
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: knife for the drywall and zip over it. That will
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: take most of those edges off. Again.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: You could stand it, Yeah, just do a light sand
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: and then you're ready to go over it with that
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: mud or would the joint compound just like you would
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: originally want to do.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So do as many coats as you need to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: with the drywall compound, you know, standing in between feathering
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it out all of that. When all of that is
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: dry and you've finished that part of it and done
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: your sanding and all of that, then you just go
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: ahead and prime those areas and then put your finished
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: paint over top. You could just hit those areas with
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: one coat of your finish paint first, just to seal
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: them up. Most finish paints are going to function as
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a primer in that instance. We would certainly say that
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: paint and primer all in one, which is going to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: be any of our high end water based products. We're
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: just fine on that. Get one coat on that patched
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: area first to kind of get it excited and equal
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: to the other areas.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Still want to seal it up.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: And then go ahead and roll over top of everything else.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Now we know that you're probably not going to remember
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: all of those steps. Our main goal here is just
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: to let you know that if you've got that brown
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: paper exposed like Hayley does in her garage, it's.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: A problem and there's up to take. And now you
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: know that you can't just jump right into this, you know,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: and go nuts with your joint compound in mud right away.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: There are things to do before that that are going
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: to ensure it's a good finished product.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Right And if you want to revisit the steps, or
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you've got a similar similar situation, or who knows what,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: it's an entirely different situation going on, just stop out
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: at any Repcolite store, tell us what you're working on,
• 37:23
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• 37:25
  Speaker 1: doing this since nineteen forty six, there's a really good
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: chance we've seen your problem. And if we haven't, and
• 37:31
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• 37:33
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• 37:35
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• 37:37
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• 37:39
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• 37:41
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• 38:00
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• 38:16
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• 38:18
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• 38:21
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• 38:24
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• 38:27
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• 38:31
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• 38:33
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• 38:35
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• 38:39
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• 38:46
  Speaker 1: whatever you do today makes your paints a part of it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Have a great week and a happy new Year, and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hanson. Thanks for listening.