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Best of Home in Progress: Small-Room Paint Tricks; and the Story of Window Glass · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning into the special best of
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  Speaker 1: episode of Home in Progress sponsored by repcol Like Paints
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  Speaker 1: and Benjamin Moore and I kind of figured with the
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  Speaker 1: holidays all around us, I just picked some of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite segments from this past year and play them today
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  Speaker 1: in next week. I hope you enjoy them. Well, good morning, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Happy weekend. How are y'all doing? I mean, we hit
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, so really, there can't be that much complaining
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  Speaker 1: out there, right, I mean we hit the best part
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  Speaker 1: of the whole week, and I'm wondering, what has everybody
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  Speaker 1: got going on today? You know, after the show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you're not going to bail on the show, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're gonna work while the show's going. But what
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  Speaker 1: do you got going Maybe a home project, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little painting. Maybe you're just gonna crash, you know, watch
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  Speaker 1: a few movies. That sounds kind of good. Personally, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of got a hankering to go roller skating. Don't
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  Speaker 1: really know why we watched Back to the Future over
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas break. I'm wondering if that's it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the eighties nostalgia kind of hit a little hard
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  Speaker 1: and brought me you know, back to my big time memories,
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  Speaker 1: you know, skating around the Grand roller Rink in Holland,
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  Speaker 1: if any of you remember that place doing that when
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  Speaker 1: I was in elementary school, I had some big times,
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  Speaker 1: some big memories back then. You know, a cooler kid
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  Speaker 1: you've never seen, you know, skating smoothly in this huge
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  Speaker 1: loop around this place, the disco ball and all the
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  Speaker 1: music going on, you know, only falling periodically. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was pretty good skating with a girl, even a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times. I remember that, you know, getting a
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  Speaker 1: little sweaty, you know, my little sweaty hand while I
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  Speaker 1: was doing that, and then finding it really hard to
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  Speaker 1: keep a hold of her over you know, the turns
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  Speaker 1: because of the sweaty hand. Sometimes who she just kind
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  Speaker 1: of zip off to the side and crash into the wall.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd go back to skating alone. Anyway, rambling roller
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  Speaker 1: skating the golden years when I was in elementary school. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how I got to roller skating, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a thought. It's something that you might want to consider, right,
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  Speaker 1: think about it, all right, who cares, Let's get back
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  Speaker 1: to the show today. We're going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: new Year's resolutions. Now, last week Friday, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was was Quitter's Day, the day most people give up
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  Speaker 1: on their New Year's resolutions. There's actually a day devoted
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  Speaker 1: to it, Quitter's Day. Yeah, that was last week Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're going to talk now about a mind trick,
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  Speaker 1: like a little Jedi mind trick to help you stick
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  Speaker 1: to your resolutions longer and actually see them to completion.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to get to that at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the show. We're also going to talk briefly about primers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really, in a world full of paint and
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  Speaker 1: primer all in one products, why do primers even exist
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  Speaker 1: in the first place? You know, why would you want
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  Speaker 1: one or why would you use one? Is it just
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  Speaker 1: you know, wasted steps, you know, money, extra money spent,
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  Speaker 1: or or is it a secret weapon to help you
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  Speaker 1: achieve professional results and actually save money. Who knows? Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Only the shadow knows. And we'll talk about that in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But right now, I've got a paint
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  Speaker 1: point that I want to get to and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to take me a long time to do it because
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  Speaker 1: I found a really fun article that sets it up.
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  Speaker 1: And this fun article was supposed to be just this
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  Speaker 1: brief introduction to the topic that I wanted to cover
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  Speaker 1: the paint point itself. But this little article is so
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  Speaker 1: good it warrants its own segment. It's not a brief introduction,
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  Speaker 1: it's its own segment. So we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that I'm short, right, I don't hide that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I'm ridiculously short. I like to say average height,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I'm having conversations with friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: But when I do say that, people around me always
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  Speaker 1: look at me and say, you know, you're on the
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  Speaker 1: shorter side of average, Just so you know, people like
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  Speaker 1: to keep me honest. I guess let's just say I'm
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  Speaker 1: not tall, all right, let's just establish that. But could
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  Speaker 1: I be? That is the bigger question. Is it pos possible,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to make a few, you know, outer changes,
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  Speaker 1: something simple and gain some height. And I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: silly changes like walk around in stilts. I mean legitimate
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  Speaker 1: changes that will give height to somebody of average or
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the shorter side of average height. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I did a lot of research into this topic, and
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  Speaker 1: I found an article online that seems really super legit,
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  Speaker 1: and I discovered that yes, with a few simple changes
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  Speaker 1: and a little exercise, but really mainly some simple changes.
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  Speaker 1: I can go, listen to this from five foot seven
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  Speaker 1: ish all the way up to six foot three in
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  Speaker 1: about six months. In fact, I could go from five
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  Speaker 1: foot seven to six foot one in hours. That extra
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  Speaker 1: two inches, you know, to get to six foot three,
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  Speaker 1: that comes from exercise, that's going to take time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to decide if it's worth it. Do I really
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  Speaker 1: need those extra two inches or shall I just go
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  Speaker 1: with this, you know, the plan that will will have
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  Speaker 1: me at six foot one in hours? Anyway, Here are
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  Speaker 1: my find these, find to find these, Here are my
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  Speaker 1: find these my findings, and here's my plan. And for
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  Speaker 1: all of you other height challenge folks, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: out the notepads. I'm dishing out gold here all right,
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  Speaker 1: tips to consider. So if you want to look taller,
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  Speaker 1: the tips that you'll need. We're going to start simple.
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  Speaker 1: First off, wear shoes that make you look taller. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't rocket science. I just need to find some
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  Speaker 1: shoes that have a bit of a sole, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sole, and I need to find it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, shoes that have a sole composed of lightweight material.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you know, it can't be thick, heavy rubber,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm going to get tired, you know, really quick,
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  Speaker 1: really quick. I don't want that. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: look for tall shoes that are lightweight, and when I
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  Speaker 1: find them, I'm easily, according to this article, going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to add at least half an inch. So
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  Speaker 1: there we go. I am right now at five foot
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half. We're going to do the math
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  Speaker 1: and keep track. Okay, five foot seven and a half
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  Speaker 1: just from shoes alone. I could go higher, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be ridiculous, all right. Second thing, lose
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  Speaker 1: body fat. All right, this one's the exercise thing. I'll
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  Speaker 1: decide if I want to do it. But it turns
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  Speaker 1: out weight actually compresses the spine. I guess that's not
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  Speaker 1: rocket science either. Really, it does make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if I wore a necklace of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: pound weight plates, I'd compress my spine. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: of it. I'm not a doctor. It just seems to flow.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense. So the same is probably true when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to a little extra girth. Probably weighs me
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit, compresses my spine. I bet my
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  Speaker 1: body blubber. You know, it's probably holding me back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe from another inch. So if I lose that weight,
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  Speaker 1: my spine's gonna decompress and boop, I'm gonna shoot up
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  Speaker 1: probably another inch, maybe maybe more. So it's not easy
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  Speaker 1: to lose weight. I get that, but it's not impossible.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm planning on it. And if I do that
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  Speaker 1: and pull it off, that'll make me five foot eight
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  Speaker 1: and a half. Okay. Third thing, improve your posture. Again,
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  Speaker 1: no rocket science here, still not at that point yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming. But slouching makes you look shorter. So the
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  Speaker 1: guy who wrote the article he went into the military
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  Speaker 1: and after twenty six weeks of training he had grown
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  Speaker 1: another inch and a half. Another inch and a half
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  Speaker 1: after just twenty six weeks of boot camp and training.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he attributes it to good posture. So slouching,
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  Speaker 1: it's the short man's enemy. So I'm going to work
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  Speaker 1: on eliminating the slouch and let's just say that by
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  Speaker 1: doing so, I'm going to gain you know, another inch,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, five foot nine and a half. Right, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now number four wear fitted clothing and I really don't
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  Speaker 1: know how I feel about this one. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that it's really all about being tall. It's about
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  Speaker 1: creating the illusion of being tall. One of his paragraphs. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: when I look at this this point, I only included
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  Speaker 1: it because of this, this paragraph that he has in there.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of cutting. It hurts a little bit. Let
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  Speaker 1: me quote it. You wear well fitting cloth clothing because
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  Speaker 1: quote those things won't make you look taller, per se,
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  Speaker 1: but because we associate good things in clusters, and being
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  Speaker 1: tall is good, says in his quote, Dressing well goes
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  Speaker 1: a long way in creating the illusion of height, or
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  Speaker 1: at the very least, it draws attention away from how
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  Speaker 1: short you are. End quote. Wow, I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure what to do with that. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where fitted clothing. I'll let you decide
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to pursue that one. I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give his quotes because I thought he's pulling no
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  Speaker 1: punches here. He's trying to help us, and he's being
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  Speaker 1: brutal in the process. All right, And it's funny, I
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  Speaker 1: should say. The guy's six foot something, so it's not
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  Speaker 1: like he's one of us talking to us. He's talking
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  Speaker 1: down to us in every every way that you can
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  Speaker 1: talk down to people. You know, he's six foot three
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know how tall he
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  Speaker 1: is after boot camp gained another three inches. He could
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  Speaker 1: be seven foot tall by now. Who knows he talking
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  Speaker 1: down to short people anyway. Number five, let's get back
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  Speaker 1: to his recommendations. Wear a hat now here. Here we're
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  Speaker 1: hitting some dark horse, unexpected gold star recommendations. Hats make
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  Speaker 1: you look taller, of course, because they extend the top
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  Speaker 1: of your head, and you know, as an aside, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a freebie if you will tall hair. I could do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, a few people realize it,
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  Speaker 1: but I think Lyle love it. You know that singer.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's actually five foot two, but with the hair,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he clocks in over six foot. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get my hair to do that. But I can PLoP
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  Speaker 1: a hat on my head now, Panama hat. That would
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  Speaker 1: give me a good inch or so, I think it could.
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  Speaker 1: It make me look like Indiana Jones. So that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: But a top hat here's where I'm going. A top
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  Speaker 1: hat that seems to be the way to go. You know,
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  Speaker 1: first you gain another six inches or more depending on
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  Speaker 1: your top hat. Secondly, it's super classy, right, and classy clothes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, also distract from how short you are. We
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  Speaker 1: just talked about that wear fitted clothes. I'm reading that
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  Speaker 1: as as classy clothes. So top hat, that's classy. It'll
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  Speaker 1: distract from how short I am. So if I take
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  Speaker 1: that top hat, you know, I'm gonna add four more inches,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe six more inches if I went nuts,
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  Speaker 1: but let's just be reasonable, four more inches. I was
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  Speaker 1: at five nine something. I'm over six foot at this point. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of his points. Don't wear belts because belts
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  Speaker 1: divide your body into segments and they draw the eye downward.
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  Speaker 1: You know, hats do the same, they draw your eye upwards.
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  Speaker 1: So don't wear belts. You know, you want to wear
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  Speaker 1: high waisted pants. Again, you don't want to divide your
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  Speaker 1: body and have your eye drawn downward. So if you
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  Speaker 1: wear high waisted pants, you know, up around, just tucked
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  Speaker 1: under your armpits, it's going to draw people's eyes up.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to think, man, that kid has amazingly long legs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, look where the waste of his pants is.
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  Speaker 1: He's got an incredibly small Torso though, so I think
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  Speaker 1: this part's problematic, but you know, who knows it might
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  Speaker 1: work for you. Last one that He's got that I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna focus on is dress in monochromatic color schemes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you only wear one color, your eye doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to factor in any breaks. Again, we're talking about how
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  Speaker 1: the belt breaks things up. Your pants breaks things up.
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  Speaker 1: If it's all monochrome, a monochromatic color scheme, there's no breaks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, your shoes, your pants, your shirt, all of
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  Speaker 1: those things are the same color. Your big hat, all
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  Speaker 1: of those are the same color. You're naturally gonna pear,
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  Speaker 1: you know, up here taller along those lines. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: what happens if you'd wear you know, like a jumpsuit
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  Speaker 1: or something. It's a one piece, so no breaks at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's a one color kind of a thing. There's no belt.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like it's checking all the boxes. You know. Just
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  Speaker 1: get something that looks like prison garb and you might
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  Speaker 1: be good to go. You know, prisoners. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of experience, but they do seem,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quite tall. When I encounter them or when
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  Speaker 1: I see them in movies, they seem seem big. Might
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  Speaker 1: be the jumpsuit doing that. So if I can find
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  Speaker 1: a prison suit that, you know, kind of feels business casual,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that might help me help me clock in
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  Speaker 1: at some bigger heights, some taller heights. But with all
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  Speaker 1: of these things that I'm doing, with the hat, the
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  Speaker 1: shoes and all of those things, and the illusions that
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  Speaker 1: I'm creating by wearing my prison business casual suit, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really I've gained I don't even know how many inches anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm clocking in around six one sixty two. If
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  Speaker 1: I do the exercise, lose the belly fat, and my
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  Speaker 1: spine decompresses. Oh my goodness, look out, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to be bending to get into doorways. So anyway, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. If you're struggling with height and you want
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  Speaker 1: to look taller, you want to be a mountain of
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  Speaker 1: a man, it's all about how you dress. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about the accouterments that you bring to the process. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's take a break. When we come back, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get to the actual paint point. How to make
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  Speaker 1: your small room look bigger using nothing but paint. It's
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  Speaker 1: similar in concept, but way better because it's smart and
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  Speaker 1: I came up with it all right, it's all next
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  Speaker 1: stick around. Home in Progress is brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: repcoal Like Paints and Benjamin Moore. You know, people often
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  Speaker 1: think of paint as just another line item on the
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  Speaker 1: project's supply list. But here's the thing. Everything you do,
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  Speaker 1: every hour of prep, every stroke of the brush, all
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  Speaker 1: comes down to the quality of the paint. The paint
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  Speaker 1: is the project. Make sure it's the best. And we're back.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a special best of episode of Home
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  Speaker 1: in Progress sponsored by Repcolite Paints and Benjamin Moore. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the paint point, I mean, finally, right, let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the paint point. You know, last segment I
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  Speaker 1: gave out some solid gold advice on how to make
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  Speaker 1: yourself look taller using nothing but clothes, shoes, good posture,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of weight loss, but not much. But
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  Speaker 1: now let's get to the paint point, and let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about how to make small rooms in your home feel
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  Speaker 1: larger just by using paint. You know, if we all
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  Speaker 1: had the budget and the layout of the home allowed
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  Speaker 1: us to, it'd be really nice, you know, to knock
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  Speaker 1: down walls, expand rooms and really make our spaces bigger,
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  Speaker 1: but that's expensive and often it's impossible with our homes layout.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about an easier way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, let's talk about five practical ways to make
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  Speaker 1: a room feel larger just by using paint. All right,
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  Speaker 1: First up, you've got to use the right colors, and
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  Speaker 1: typically we'd recommend lighter colors because they reflect more light,
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  Speaker 1: and this, in turn, when it's reflecting light, is going
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  Speaker 1: to create a sense of openness. So think off whites, light, neutrals, pails, pastels,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much anything that doesn't weigh the room down visually.
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  Speaker 1: A great example of this would be to think about
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  Speaker 1: some soft blues. You know, I know, blue isn't everybody's color,
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  Speaker 1: but these shades naturally recede, so the walls seem to
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  Speaker 1: push back to fall back. For dim rooms, you could
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  Speaker 1: try an airy blue, kind of like Benjamin Moore smoke,
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  Speaker 1: and actually just put it on the ceiling and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like you rip the ceiling off of the
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  Speaker 1: home and there's nothing but blue sky overhead. It's open,
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  Speaker 1: it's airy, it's expansive, and if the room doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of natural lighting coming through, you could pair
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  Speaker 1: that blue ceiling with an off white that kind of
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  Speaker 1: has a warm, you know, sunny undertone, and if you
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  Speaker 1: do that, you've got this, you know, some that feels
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  Speaker 1: like an eternal spring day going on in that room,
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of tone gives off open, expansive, airy
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  Speaker 1: vibes all day long. Right, So, light neutral colors, that's
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  Speaker 1: the way to go. But there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Now if you listen to the show on
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  Speaker 1: a regular basis, and if you don't, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's wrong with you. But if you listen on
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  Speaker 1: a regular basis, you've got to be wondering about some
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  Speaker 1: of what I'm saying. You know, after all, we've talked
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  Speaker 1: on the show tons of times about how darker colors
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  Speaker 1: can make a room feel bigger too, Right, You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be wondering what's up with that. Well, here's the scoop.
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  Speaker 1: Darker colors can create depth by making walls visually received.
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  Speaker 1: All of that's true, However, there is a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a catch. It works best on one or two walls
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  Speaker 1: or the ceiling, not the whole room. Also, and probably
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, good lighting is absolutely crucial, you know, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: you just risk making the room feel enclosed. So in
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  Speaker 1: smaller rooms with limited light, which is what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: lighter colors are usually going to be your best bet.
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  Speaker 1: Dark colors can work wonders too, but only with the
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  Speaker 1: right setup. All right, Next, try a monochromatic color scheme.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's almost like we rip this off from the
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  Speaker 1: fashion article, but really, what's true in fashion is true
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: with design. Using different shades and tones of the same
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: color for the walls, trim, and ceiling is going to
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: create a continuous look and really help minimize visual breaks.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: And this is going to expand the space. For example,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: if your walls are a canvas colored neutral, you could
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: use a lighter neutral or a deeper off white on
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the trim. You know, a stark white on the trim
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: would break the room into more clearly defined segments, and
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: that would make it feel more closed in. If you
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: really want to eliminate the line, you know, really go
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: whole hog into you know, opening up that space. You
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: could look at the third trick, and that's color drenching.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: And basically this means using one single color everywhere walls, trim, ceilings,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: maybe even furniture. You know, it's dramatic. It's crazy bold,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: but it does a better job than monochromatic schemes when
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: it comes to eliminating visual breaks. You know, no more
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: crown molding, no more baseboard, no more doors cutting up
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: your space into smaller chunks. It's all one color. Everything
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: blends and you've got this unified, larger feel. Now, for
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: those with the imagination out there, just imagine a small
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: room with soft green on every single surface, you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the same color on everything. And when you've got that,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the breaks completely disappear, the room flows, the space just
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: feels way bigger. Now if you can't imagine that, well,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the Google. The Google is going to help you out
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Google color drenching. You'll get an idea, all right. Moving on,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Idea number four is to consider accent walls. You know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: a darker shade on the far end of a narrow
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: room can add depth and make that room feel longer, last,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and kind of similar to accent walls. Don't forget about
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the power of two toned walls to draw the eye upward.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: You know, paint the lower half of your walls all
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the way around the room a lighter shade, and then
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the upper half, including the ceiling a little bit darker,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: or you could try the reverse. You know. Either way,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: this is going to blend the ceiling with the walls,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and it erases that dividing line and naturally draws your
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: eye upward and gives the illusion or impression of height
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and space. We talked about that a couple of times
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: in the last month or so, and if you miss
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: those shows, just head back to the archives and check
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: them out. All right, there you go. That's the paint
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: point for the week. Five techniques to make small spaces
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: feel bigger. You know, remember that paint it's not just
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: about color. It's about creating atmosphere, about tone, you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: creating the tone that you want. It's even about creating space.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: For a relatively small investment, you can transform pretty much
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: any room in your house, no matter what architectural constraints
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you're working with. If you do have questions or tips
• 18:36
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• 18:40
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• 18:42
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• 18:45
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• 18:48
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• 18:50
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• 18:53
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• 18:55
  Speaker 1: take a break right now. When we come back, we'll
• 18:57
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  Speaker 1: lot of you are thinking about a couple of projects
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that you can tackle today, or this weekend or even
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: next week. You know who cares. Just get some of
• 19:36
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• 19:39
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I move on to the topic, I want to talk
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: about next if any of the projects that you're thinking
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: about tackling, if they do involve paint, issues that you're
• 19:48
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• 19:51
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• 19:52
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• 19:57
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• 20:00
  Speaker 1: also help you troubleshoot any issues that you're dealing with.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: You know, with my plaster problems, the first thing I
• 20:05
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• 20:08
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• 20:10
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• 20:13
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• 20:17
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• 20:18
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
  Speaker 1: All right, let's make an abrupt shift and talk about glass. Now,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: when I think about all of the amazing inventions that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: have happened throughout history, I can tell you glass isn't
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: going to be on that list, you know, not initially. Anyway.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I'd think of the wheel, you know, the steam engine,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the computer, the printing press, you know, quite honestly, the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: indoor flushing toilet, right, I mean that that would be
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: way up on my charts. Think about what life would
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: be like without the indoor flushing toilet. It was a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: cold week last week. Can you imagine we'd be spending
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: so much time outside, so much frostbite, in so many
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: strange places, so into our flushing toilet. That's big. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: think about all of those things before I think about glass.
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  Speaker 1: And yet when you look at it, glass has profoundly
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: shaped civilization and it doesn't really take much thinking to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: see all of its contributions. You know, right off the bat,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it's transparency, revolutionized architecture. You know, now we can allow
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: natural light into buildings while still providing insulation and protection.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: So it's huge in that regard. In science, glass enabled
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the creation of microscopes and telescopes. You know, all of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a sudden, we can look out to the universe way
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: out there, thanks to glass, and we can also look
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: at the universe, you know, microscopically, you know, look at
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the tiny little world that's happening. You know, not just
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: at my house, because it's a tiny little world at
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: my house too, but the microscopically, tiny little world that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: happens all around us. Thanks to glass, we can explore
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: those things. Artists and craftsmen, they've used glass for centuries,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: from intricate stained glass windows and cathedrals to delicate Venetian
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: glass work that symbolizes you know, luxury and refinement. The
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: things that you'd find at the Hanson House, you know, luxury, refinement,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: sheer culture, all thanks to glass. Now, glass has also
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: become essential in communication and entertainment. You know, it forms
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the screens of our televisions, our smartphones, our computers. In
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: daily life, it simplifies everything from preserving food in jars
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: to keeping us comfortable with energy efficient windows. Really, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: bottom line, it's one of the most impactful materials in
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: human history, you know, blending function with art. It's like
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the perfect thing. So glass is a major contender, and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it should be a major contender when we're considering, you know,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: top inventions of all time. But is glass really an invention?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: There's probably people out there right now saying is glass
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: an invention or was it a discovery? Maybe it was
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: an innovation. Well it turns out really it's all three
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of those things. It's a discovery because glass exists in nature.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You're right, when certain conditions cause silica rich materials to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: melt and cool rapidly. We get naturally occurring glass, you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to some extent. A well known example is obsidian, which
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava cools rapidly
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: without crystallizing. So it is a discovery. It's also an
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: invention because there was a point in time when humans
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: figured out how to reproduce and control the formation of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: glass for tools, decorative items, and so on, So it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: an invention too. And it's also an innovation because, of course,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: over thousands of years, glass making has been continuously improved
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: like everything else, to create everything from super clear window
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: panes to fiber optics and on and on and on.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So it's all three discovery, invention, and innovation. And it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: all started, according to legend, around thirty five hundred BC,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: when some Phoenician merchants they're cooking on a sandy beach.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: You know, they've been traveling around selling their stuff, selling
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: paint to people all over the place, and they got
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to stop. They got a rest. They pull up to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: some beach somewhere and they start cooking dinner, and they're
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: using these blocks of natron which is basically a type
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of soda ash, using those blocks to prop up their pots,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: so they're sitting there, they're cooking, the fire ends up
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: getting hot enough that the sand and the ash melt
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: together and boom, there you go. Glass. They've got some
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: kind of glassy substance that they find. That's one legend.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Another supposition is that around the same time thirty five
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: hundred BC, glass was discovered as an accidental byproduct of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: pottery kilns. Early artisans discovered that mixing sand soa ash
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and lime and then heating it up, really really heating
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it up. Doing that resulted in a translucent material. Now,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: however glass was first discovered. We don't know if either
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: one of those are even remotely accurate, but they're the guesses. However,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: glass was first discovered. Throughout the subsequent years, people did
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: figure out how to create it, so that by two
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: thousand in BC, like fifteen hundred years later, yet, the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Egyptians and the Mesopotamians were crafting glass beads. By fifteen
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: hundred BC, the first glass containers were made in Egypt
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and the Middle East, using a method where glass was
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: wrapped around a clay core and then the core was
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: scraped away once the glass hardened. Then later, like fourteen
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: hundred years or so later, yet in the first century BC,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the big breakthrough came when the Romans adopted the Syrian
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: art of glass blowing and turned it into a major industry.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You know, previously they had kind of left glass alone,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Romans had, but when this comes about, they latch
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: onto it and they go crazy with it. Glass blowing
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: allowed the glass to be shaped really really quickly and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in a wide variety of sizes and styles, and the Romans,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: like I said, latched onto that, and they were soon
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: crafting everything from you know, delicate perfume bottles to heavy
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: storage jars all the way up to tableware, you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: all kinds of tableware. So lots and lots of stuff happens,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and there's says Hue, explosion of glassware are on the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: first century BC, and then later about the first century
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a D we start to see evidence of the Romans
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: using glass for windows. Now, initially these glass panes were
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: produced by casting molten glass onto wooden frames and then
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: placing those frames on sand or stone surfaces to cool,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and then they'd end up with you know, panes of
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: glass from that. Now, these Roman windows that they made
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this way, they were cloudy, they were thick, they were
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: full of imperfections. They looked like my windows before I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: did my spring cleaning. Although my windows, you know, it
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: could be cleaned off. These these issues were in the glass.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Mine were just on the glass, you know, squished mosquitoes
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and things like that. But anyway, they weren't the best.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: They weren't the most crystal clear windows that we would
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: think of, but they were still revolutionary. You know, for
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the first time some structures could have actual windows, glass windows,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: instead of wooden shutters or cloth coverings. Now, sure it
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: was only the wealthy people. Wealthy people got all these
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: things to begin with. But for the first time, bugs
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: wind rain all of that could be kept out while
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: still being able to see out. You know, they could
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: let light in but not let the elements her all
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: of God's little creatures come crawling in. So that's going
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: on first century AD. By the late third century, the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: broad sheet or muff process was introduced for producing windows.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: And all this means is glass was blown into a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: big cylinder and that cylinder was cut and then flattened
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: into a sheet. That's the broad sheet or muff process.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: There were other methods that developed later, the crown method
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: for creating windows. I'm not going to go out into
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: all of that. There's just not enough time. But later
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in the Middle Ages things got fancier yet, and that's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: when we saw the introduction of intricate stained glass windows
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: in Gothic cathedral. Stained glass existed before this, but it
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: got crazy intricate in these cathedrals in the Middle Ages.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Now fast forward to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: suddenly glass is starting to become a lot more common,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and the reason is the Industrial Revolution. Production processes allowed
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for bigger, clearer, more affordable glass panes. And then by
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, we've got glass windows everywhere. Everywhere you look,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: there's glass windows. And that's when we start to get
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a whole big crop of kids who realized the fun
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of throwing rocks through those glass windows. It all started
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: right around that same time. The windows at this point
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: were single pain so that meant they were drafty and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: not terribly great at insulation. A lot better than an
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: open hole in the house, but still not great. That
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: problem was solved in the twentieth century with the birth
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: of double pain windows nineteen thirties. In nineteen thirty four,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I think, is when the patent was filed or approved,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and that's when the first double pain windows were developed.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And this was a big deal because the double pain
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: windows trapped heat in in the winter and it kept
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it out in the summer. Homeowners suddenly had, you know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: quite a bit more comfortable home, and it also had
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a tendency to lower energy bills. The seventies, gases were
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: being introduced between those double pained windows to help with efficiency,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and then by the nineteen eighties, low e coatings came along.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And these coatings, if you've never heard of them, you've
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: probably heard of them. But these coatings reflected heat, that's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the whole point, while still letting light through. All of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that came about in the eighties or so. By the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: late eighties into the nineties, we're starting to see triple
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: paine glass. You know, that's becoming a growing option. It's
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: more energy efficient and soundproof than double pain windows, but
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it's also, of course, you know, kaching pricier. And that's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: kind of where we're at. I mean, there's advancements, there's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: always advancements, but that gives you a really good thumbnail
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: sketch of the history of glass. How we got from
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you know, beads in the sand somewhere, you know, glass,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: beads in the sand, all the way up to windows
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in our homes. So now let's take a break, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: when we come back, I want to kind of settle
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: in on windows and talk about some common issues that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: occur and how you can deal with them. That's all
• 29:59
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• 30:02
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• 30:08
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• 30:12
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• 30:20
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• 30:22
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• 30:25
  Speaker 1: You're listening to a special best of episode of Home
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in Progress sponsored by Repcolite Paints and Benjamin Moore. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: last segment we talked about the history of glass and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: how we got two windows in the first place. And
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: now in this last segment, I want to talk about
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: some common issues that can occur with windows and how
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you can address them. And I should be extremely clear here.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: You probably already know this. I'm skimming over these, I
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: mean it's radio. I'm doing what I can. But if
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you do need more info or need to pursue a fix,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of course, you know, contact a window specialist and get
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: them out to your home, or do a little googling.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Some of these things are things that you can fix,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: you know, easily, on your own. All right, some common
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: problems drafty windows and air leaks. Here are some things
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that you can do to try to fix it. You
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: first need to determine where this is all coming from.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Where's the source of the problem. If it's coming in
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: around the trim of your window, which is entirely possible,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you can go around and calk all the edges to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: seal the gaps there. There are a variety of different
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: caulks that we carry at Repcolite that would work for this,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and in a decent range of colors, to be honest,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: everything from whites and clears to grays and browns. So
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: really you should be able to find something that will
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: blend away against whatever your window trim looks like. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: if you are going to be repainting that window trim,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you know you want to calk it and then repaint everything.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: If you're going to do that, make sure, absolute sure
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: that you're getting a paintable calk. You know, that's the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: first thing. Get a paintable calck and go from there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And if that is what you're going to be doing
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: caulking in the painting and you're looking for a calk recommendation,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I'd recommend accelerator calck from Tower Ceilings or if you're
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: in the Metro Detroit area shopping at any of the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Repcolite stores out there, ask for quick to coat cock.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Accelerator and quick to coat basically the same product. They're
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: just packaged differently depending on where you get it. Either way,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that calt can be applied and then painted over with
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a brush or roller in just thirty minutes and that's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: pretty much unheard of. So you can paint over it
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: right away. If you're spraying over it, you can spray
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: over it immediately after application. So if you're painting contractor accelerator,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: call it quick to coat. Those can be sprayed over immediately,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: So think about that. Keep that in mind. Most of
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the problems that we see with calking are due to
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: people painting over it. Too quickly. Accelerator or quick to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: coat pretty much removes that concern. So if you're calking
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: around your window trim to seal those gaps and you're
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: going to be painting over all of that, accelerator or
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: quick to coat, that's the perfect call solution. So that's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: one fix. Another fix is maybe to install one of
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: those window insulation kits. You know, it's not permanent. It's
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  Speaker 1: probably not the most convenient thing in the whole wide world.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: No probably is about it. It's not the most convenient
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: thing in the whole wide world, but it will get
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you some relief. So think about that long term solutions
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  Speaker 1: pretty much. You know, you can consider upgrading to double
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: or triple pane windows, you know, with advanced ceiling technology
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Really look into those things as you're
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: looking into new windows. Let the people know that's one
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  Speaker 1: of your main issues that you need to fix, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: make sure you're selecting windows and installers and all of that,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: who are going to make sure that you achieve those goals?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: All right, So that's drafty, drafty windows or windows with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of air leaks, condensation on the windows. Now
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: sometimes we get water forming on the windows. You know,
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  Speaker 1: inside the home, and I'm talking about on the glass,
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  Speaker 1: not between the panes. That's different. Sometimes it's just a
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: little bit of water that we get on the glass,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: but sometimes it can be significant, and if there's a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: fair amount of water condensing there, it can lead to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the growth of mold and mildew on your trim, on
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: your blood, on the window itself. Reality, this really isn't
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a window problem, per se. The condensation appears when warm
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: moist air comes into contact with a cooler surface. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: even though we're in winter and the air in the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: home seems pretty dry, condensation can still occur on windows
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: as long as there's a significant temperature difference between the
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  Speaker 1: warm indoor air and the cold window surface. Now, the
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: moisture that we've got in our indoor air comes from
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: pretty much everyday living, you know, cooking, showering, doing the dishes,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: pretty much any activity that we do that uses water
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  Speaker 1: adds to it, you know. Right now, a lot of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: us this time of year are running a humidifier in
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the home to help with the dry air. But even
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: doing that, you know, running that humidifier obviously is adding
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to the condensation problem on the windows. If you're experiencing one.
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  Speaker 1: So some things to try if you've got that problem
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  Speaker 1: going on and you want to limit it or minimize it. Lower.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: First off, the settings on your humidifier. If you're running one,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: See if you can low down to the point where
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: you find the balance, you know, the butter zone, the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Goldilocks number between humidifying the air enough but not too much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, See if you can do that. Another thing
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you can do is run your exhaust fan when you're
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: boiling water while cooking. You can run the bathroom exhaust
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: fans during and after showering. The rule of thumb when
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you're running your bathroom fan, just to throw this out there,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: is that you run that bathroom fan until the mirror
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  Speaker 1: is clear. And I'm talking about you're doing this if
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you've got a condensation problem on your windows. If you don't, well,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: then you're just sucking the home completely dry and you're
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: going to static cling yourself into Kingdom. Come. So this
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is for the people with the window problems with the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: condensation on the windows. Another trick that you can try
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: or a solution, it's not a trick. You use the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: trickle vents on your windows if you've got them, and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: trickle events. If you're unsure of what these are, they're
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: essentially slits in the frame. They're staggered on the inside
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and the outside, and they've got to cover that can
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: be opened and closed. If you've got newer windows and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: you see these little tricks events, make sure they're opened.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: That can help a lot by providing continual ventilation. All right,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: that's condensation on the glass. What if you've got condensation
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: between the two panes of glass. Now, if that's where
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: it's happening, the cause for that is that there's a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: broken seal in the window, and fixing this is usually
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: going to need an expert depending on the condition in
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the age of the windows. It's possible that just the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: glass unit can be replaced, and that can save you
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: some money. Other times, you know, if it's just not
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: worth doing that, you're probably looking at replacing the entire
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: window to get things back up to speeds. You can
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: see through it and enjoy the clarity of the view
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: rather than look at all that condensation in there. All right,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: what about windows that won't open or close properly? This
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: really stinks. Right, you got a window, you can open it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: All you want to do is just enjoy the fresh
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: air or whatever, and it keeps lowering itself closed, or
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: it doesn't slide up easily or whatever. Well, if you've
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: got that going on, there are a complete huge list
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: of reasons why it could be doing this. You'll have
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to do a little research here. It could be swollen
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: wooden frames, moisture problems or something like that that has
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: swelled the wooden frames. It could be warped components, it
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: could be any number of things. You know, in my
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: double hung replacement windows at home, there's a component in
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the track that's called a pivot shoe. Pretty much most
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of the windows that we all encounter are going to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: have these, not all, but most replacement windows. Well, there's
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a pivot shoe. It's called it's something that we don't
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: usually see when everything's working fine. But I've had a
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: number of times when the window won't stay open. It
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: just kind of slides its way down, and then when
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I try to close it, it won't go all the way
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: down because there's this small mechanism thing in the track
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that seems to be blocking it. Well, if you see
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: that or have that going on, that's the pivot shoe
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: right there. It's not in the right place, and what
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: happens is sometimes that window sash can come loose from
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: that pivot shoe if the window is tilted incorrectly or
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: if it's forced out of alignment. Either way, the good
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: news is that if this has happened to you, it's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a relatively simple fix. I don't have time to walk
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: through it here because there are some specifics that I
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: just it's too much to explain in the time I've got.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: But I've got a great video linked in the show notes.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: So if this sounds like your issue and you want
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: to know the simple fix to getting everything working just
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: fine again on your own, do it yourself solution probably
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: take you twenty minutes. If that, just head to repcollite
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: dot com and check out the show notes for episode
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  Speaker 1: three ninety eight. I'll have a link for the video
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: right there. You can watch it and he'll walk you
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: through everything you need to know. Now, for window issues
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: beyond this pivot shoe problem, you really need to determine
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: whether repairs are possible or if a full replacement is
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: necessary to maintain functionality and safety. Now, if your window sticks,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: you know all the things we talked about, it doesn't
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: stay open, won't open smoothly, but you can't see anything obvious.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: You know, there's no obvious damage or obstruction. It's possible
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the issue could be due to the house settling. You know,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: over time, a shifting foundation will cause windows, you know,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: window frames to become misaligned and that can make operation difficult. Now,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: if you do suspect that I've got that going on
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: in a window in my home, it may be worth
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: consulting airs, basement systems or a similar foundation specialist to
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: assess whether the settling is normal. You know, it's just
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: kind of a it happened, it's a done deal. This
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: is what you've got, move on. Or if there's a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: bigger problem, the house is sinking, you know, into some
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: kind of sinkhole. It's not fun to find that out,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: but it's better to find it out now than it
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: is to find it out later. Anyway, those are some
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: common window issues, and some of the solutions dig into
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: it further. If you've got any of those issues. All right,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: that's all the time we've got. We're going to wrap
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: this one up. If you want to catch it again,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you can find it online at repco light dot com.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Whatever you do today makes your paints a part of it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend everybody, and i'll see you next week.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks for listening.