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Early Fall Home Maintenance, Pet Odor Fixes, and the Powers of Scuff-X · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, you're listening to Home in Progress, the show
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Speaker 1: we're brought to you by Repcolite Paints and Benjamin Moore.
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Speaker 1: And every week on this podcast we dig into the tips,
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Speaker 1: You know, whether it's tackling big seasonal chores, you know,
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Speaker 1: understanding the right products for the job, or just finding
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Speaker 1: You know, that's what we do here. In today's show,
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Speaker 1: it's packed. Coming up at the end, we're going to
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Speaker 1: be talking about scuff X from Benjamin Moore. I talk
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Speaker 1: about it a lot, but this time I've got some
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Speaker 1: really big news that should be interesting, I think to
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Speaker 1: pretty much everybody out there. So that's coming up at
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Speaker 1: the end. I'll also be talking about pets. You know,
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Speaker 1: we love our pets. Right specifically, I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about dealing with pets smells. I found a tool
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Speaker 1: at home that's helped me deal with dog smells at
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Speaker 1: my house. I'll talk about that and I'm also going
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Speaker 1: to be answering a listener question about a cat urine
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Speaker 1: smell in a house he just purchased. So that's coming up.
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Speaker 1: So you've been warned. We're going to talk about cat urine.
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Speaker 1: If you've got a weak stomach or a weak disposition,
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Speaker 1: finish your breakfast. Now you've got time. Just start chewing rapidly. Chew,
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Speaker 1: swallow too, swallow, don't choke, don't choke. Take it easy.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to rush it. We'll get to that
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Speaker 1: cat segment, that cat urine segment in a little bit,
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Speaker 1: all right, But right now it's officially fall, and that
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Speaker 1: means that we need to talk about some early autumn
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Speaker 1: jobs that need to be on your radar, you know,
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Speaker 1: little home maintenance things that you should be thinking about
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Speaker 1: getting done. So basically, this segment is going to be
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Speaker 1: me nagging you. But it's a kind hearted nagging, right,
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Speaker 1: It's a lovable nag. And I'm also nagging myself, so
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Speaker 1: really it's pretty fair. Anyway. My first job recommendation is
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Speaker 1: the one that I recommend every single year, and as usual,
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Speaker 1: I'm directing it specifically at myself. I'm recording with a
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Speaker 1: mirror in front of me, so I can directly relay
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Speaker 1: this message to myself. Clean out your gutters and your
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Speaker 1: down spouts, you lazy bomb. You know, that's the part
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Speaker 1: that I said to me. That's not the part I'm
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Speaker 1: saying to you for you. It's just clean out your
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Speaker 1: gutters and down spouts. I'm adding the lazy bum part
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Speaker 1: just for myself. Anyway, as the leaves start dumping, you know,
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Speaker 1: and the rain picks up a clogged gutter, it quickly becomes,
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Speaker 1: you know, almost a waterfall, dumping water right at your foundation,
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Speaker 1: and that can become a mess in a hurry. For example,
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Speaker 1: last year, I just you know, quote hadn't gotten to
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Speaker 1: it yet, you know, a last fall, and this big
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Speaker 1: storm rolls in as they always do, and it turns
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Speaker 1: out my gutters were mostly blocked, as they always are,
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Speaker 1: and the water ends up pouring over the sides. Well.
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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks later, I go into the crawl
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Speaker 1: space to find something. I don't know what I was
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Speaker 1: looking for, but it was late at night. I remember that,
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Speaker 1: and I remember crawling in there to find whatever I needed,
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Speaker 1: and that's when I discovered that the area was still damp,
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Speaker 1: but worse than that I had loads of cardboard boxes
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Speaker 1: that had all been damaged. I couldn't even move them
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Speaker 1: without the bottoms falling out, and incredibly disheartening and frustrating.
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Speaker 1: And really, that's home ownership in a nutshell for me.
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Speaker 1: You know, I go somewhere to do something mundane, something
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Speaker 1: that just should take minutes, and I usually end up
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Speaker 1: discovering some minor tragedy that's going to take hours to clean.
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Speaker 1: That's home ownership for me. And that's what happened to
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Speaker 1: me last year in my crawl space. Well, it took
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Speaker 1: hours to clean up. It was an incredible mess. And
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Speaker 1: what made it worse was that it was so preventable.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was the clogged gutters that caused that problem.
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Speaker 1: So a number of takeaways here. First off, get your
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Speaker 1: gutters cleaned out before you've got rain problems. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's obvious. That's the first one. Do it now. Second,
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Speaker 1: gutter cleaning isn't a once in done job in the fall.
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Speaker 1: You've got to probably put it on a weekly or
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Speaker 1: every two weeks loop, depending on your trees, your yard
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Speaker 1: and all of that. But it's got to be done
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Speaker 1: multiple times throughout the season. As the leaves are coming down.
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Speaker 1: You know, if they're coming down, they're gonna be clogging
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Speaker 1: the gutters. I tend to do it once and think
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Speaker 1: I'm good to go. That is complete, complete silliness, laziness,
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. I need to do
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Speaker 1: it more than once, so you probably do too. Small
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Speaker 1: battery powered leaf blower works really great for dry debris.
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Speaker 1: If you can get on the roof. I can get
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Speaker 1: on mine. It's a ranch, I walk around. I can
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Speaker 1: blow it out in probably ten minutes, So I've got
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Speaker 1: no excuse for not doing this more regularly. If it
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Speaker 1: gets wet and you've got wet mats of leaves in there,
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Speaker 1: you might want to go to a gutter scoop and
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Speaker 1: a bucket, you know, as your system for cleaning them out.
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Speaker 1: That's not as much fun. It's not as fast as
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Speaker 1: a leaf blower, but it's probably faster than blowing them
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Speaker 1: if it's wet. Now, I've got a good leaf blower.
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Speaker 1: I've got that Ego battery powered blower, very strong, and
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Speaker 1: it will blow through all of this stuff even though
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Speaker 1: there's wet leaves in there. But man, what a mess
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Speaker 1: and what a stink, What a profound smell that is
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Speaker 1: and you coat yourself with it. So if you're up
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Speaker 1: for that, you can get on your roof safely and
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Speaker 1: do that. And you've got a good blower, you could
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Speaker 1: blow them out. If you can't, just scoop them out
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Speaker 1: with the gutter, scoop whatever before you come down your ladder,
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Speaker 1: before you get off and put everything away. Also, you
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that you clean out the down
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Speaker 1: spout openings. You know, they can really clog up fast too.
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Speaker 1: Now at home, I've got a sewer snake in my basement.
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Speaker 1: You know, a sewer snake, And that sounds crazy cool, right,
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Speaker 1: everybody wants a s well, A lot of people probably
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Speaker 1: don't want a sewer snake. In fact, I don't know
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Speaker 1: how cool that really sounds. That actually sounds pretty terrible.
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Speaker 1: I don't like snakes, not big on the sewer. Imagine
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Speaker 1: a sewer snake. I mean, really, that's the worst of
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Speaker 1: many situations all combined. Well, my sewer snake is not
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Speaker 1: as bad or as cool, depending on how you feel
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Speaker 1: about snakes and sewers. It's not probably what you're thinking.
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Speaker 1: The previous owner left it. All it is is just
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Speaker 1: this flat, long metal band in a coil with kind
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Speaker 1: of a heavy ball on the end, and I saw
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Speaker 1: that sitting in my basement. For years, I had no
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Speaker 1: idea what he ever used it for until my downspouts
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Speaker 1: were so clogged that I was down there looking for
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Speaker 1: anything to ram down them and open them up. And
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Speaker 1: as I'm going through the basement frantically, all I'm finding
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Speaker 1: are things like rope. And I can't force rope down,
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Speaker 1: you know, if I could, Yeah, I don't need to
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Speaker 1: explain that rope doesn't work that way. And I thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: if I just had a metal band that I could,
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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you know, the lights
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Speaker 1: went off in my head, Angels saying, I had an epiphany,
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Speaker 1: and I saw that sewer snake sitting there, and I realized,
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Speaker 1: this is probably exactly why previous owner had this. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I use that to clear them out when they're really bad.
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Speaker 1: It's fast, it's not augur driven, you know, so it's
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Speaker 1: not damaging the gutters. That's good. Whatever you need to do,
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Speaker 1: do it. Make sure the downspouts are cleaned out, and
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Speaker 1: make sure the water is going to flow all right.
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Speaker 1: Another takeaway, you've got to make sure that the water
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Speaker 1: is moving away from your foundations. Right. Ideally, your down
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Speaker 1: spouts and all of that should move the water at
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Speaker 1: least five feet out. You know, ten is better if
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Speaker 1: you can make that happen, but at least you know
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Speaker 1: five feet out from the foundation is where that water
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Speaker 1: should be channeled. All right, when you're doing all of
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Speaker 1: this work, here's some quick gear and safety tips. Because
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Speaker 1: I am a safety person, I don't always do things safely,
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Speaker 1: So this is, you know, don't do things the way
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Speaker 1: I do them, but I do know from doing them
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Speaker 1: in the way that I've done them how you probably
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Speaker 1: shouldn't do them. So I can still speak to safety.
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Speaker 1: I just speak at it from a different level of
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Speaker 1: experience than other people who do things the right way. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: if you've got an extension ladder that you've got to use,
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Speaker 1: you know, rather than a step ladder to reach all
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Speaker 1: your gutters and stuff, be sure that you use a
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Speaker 1: ladder stabilizer or a ladder standoff on that extension ladder.
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Speaker 1: It's going to affix to the ladder. It's basically arms
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Speaker 1: that will keep it from resting against the gutters, so
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Speaker 1: you're not damaging the gutters when you're doing the work.
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Speaker 1: So use that ladder stabilizer or a ladder standoff. Also
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Speaker 1: have a spotter when you're on the ladder, you know,
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Speaker 1: on an extension ladder, and you want the spotter to
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Speaker 1: be a competent spotter. You know. Their jobs simple, but
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Speaker 1: it's really important. They're going to stand right at the
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Speaker 1: base of the ladder, facing the ladder. They're going to
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Speaker 1: plant their feet against the side rails, you know, at
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Speaker 1: the bottom there so the ladder can't slide back, and
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Speaker 1: then they hold onto those rails with both hands. That way,
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Speaker 1: if the ladder does start to shift, they can push
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Speaker 1: down and forward to keep it steady. Also, and this
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Speaker 1: is really important, they're not supposed to lean on the
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Speaker 1: ladder or climb it themselves. They just stay put, stay
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Speaker 1: ready and make sure the ladder doesn't go anywhere. So
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Speaker 1: use a spotter and clean out your gutters. It's a
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Speaker 1: great fall project. Do it now before you've got heavy rains.
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Speaker 1: In fact, this past weekend Saturday, we got crazy rains again,
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Speaker 1: same exact thing. My gutters were clogged. I ran out
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Speaker 1: this time because I didn't want water in the crawl space.
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Speaker 1: In all my brilliance, I ran out into the storm.
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Speaker 1: You know, lightning everywhere, I'm out there on a ladder
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Speaker 1: cleaning out my gutters. Do not do that. Completely idiotic,
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Speaker 1: completely dangerous. I should have just lived with potentially water
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Speaker 1: in the crawl space. That would have been way smarter,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't. I got out there in the heart
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Speaker 1: of the storm. Don't do that. Clean your gutters out
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Speaker 1: ahead of time. All right, enough of that, another project
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Speaker 1: for the fall. For right now, this part of fall,
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Speaker 1: get your snowblower ready. And I say this every single year,
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Speaker 1: and every year I still think this is absolutely brilliant advice.
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Speaker 1: I know none of us are ready for snow yet,
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Speaker 1: and it feels like it's probably a ways off at
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Speaker 1: this point yet. But really, all we're talking about here
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Speaker 1: is making sure that that snowblower actually works. So fire
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Speaker 1: it up, put in just enough gas to get it started,
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Speaker 1: check your oil, let it run for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and then run it dry before you store it again.
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Speaker 1: That way, you're not leaving gas sitting in the tank
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Speaker 1: to gum things up. You know. The whole point right
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Speaker 1: now is to find out if it's going to start,
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Speaker 1: and you want to find that out now, you know,
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Speaker 1: because if it needs repair work or something like that,
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Speaker 1: that's something you want to know, while the weather's decent
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Speaker 1: right you know, you can tinker with it in your
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Speaker 1: garage right now and it's not going to be miserable
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Speaker 1: to work on it. Or instead, if that's not your thing,
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Speaker 1: you can get it to a repair shop, you know,
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Speaker 1: and they've got openings most likely to do the work.
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Speaker 1: If it's not repairable. And you discover that, now you've
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Speaker 1: got time to buy a new one. Because normally this
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Speaker 1: is how it goes. That first big storm is going
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Speaker 1: to dump you know, eight inches in your driveway and
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Speaker 1: that's when you're going to discover that your snowblower won't start.
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Speaker 1: Now you're out there in the cold, you're under pressure
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Speaker 1: to clear the driveway out, you know. And then everybody
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Speaker 1: else whose snowblowers don't work, either they're flooding the repair
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Speaker 1: shops or they're buying up the last snowblowers that are
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Speaker 1: on the shelves. You don't want to be in that situation.
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Speaker 1: Give yourself a head start. Make sure that snowblower works. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Another smart fall job is this, take care of your chimney,
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Speaker 1: you know, either clean it out yourself, or better yet,
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Speaker 1: hire somebody to sweep it. And then you know, inspect
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Speaker 1: it that way. When the temperatures drop and you're ready
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Speaker 1: for a fire, you know it's going to be safe
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Speaker 1: for your home. And here's one last one for today.
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Speaker 1: There's other ones, and we'll talk about those in the
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Speaker 1: weeks to come, but here's one last one for the
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Speaker 1: early part of autumn. Get on the schedule to have
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Speaker 1: your sprinkler lines blown out. You know it's still early. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you don't need to do it yet. It's too early
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Speaker 1: to do it right now, probably, but call now to
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Speaker 1: reserve a spot. Get on the schedule. You know, every
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Speaker 1: single year I forget, Oh my gosh, I don't do
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Speaker 1: well with any of these things. I need lists and
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Speaker 1: I need a man serve to follow me around and
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Speaker 1: say did you do this? So I'm going to work
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Speaker 1: on that. But anyway, every year I end up scrambling
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Speaker 1: late in the season. You know, it just dawns on me.
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Speaker 1: I didn't do that yet. And a couple of times
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Speaker 1: we've had an early storm hit before the lines were flushed,
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Speaker 1: and I spent a few stressful days hoping I wasn't
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Speaker 1: going to have problems. Totally avoidable stress if you just
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Speaker 1: get on the calendar now and I do have one more.
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Speaker 1: I know I said that was the last one, but
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Speaker 1: I have one more that I think is pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Get all your water based paints and stains out of
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Speaker 1: your garage and get them inside, you know, into a
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Speaker 1: climate controlled area. You know, unless your garage is heated,
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Speaker 1: then they'll be fine. But if you don't heat your
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Speaker 1: garage during the winter, you want to get those water
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Speaker 1: based products inside, those paints and stains if you want
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Speaker 1: to use them again safely. A lot of times, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I guess I should say it's early to do that.
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Speaker 1: I understand that we're not worried about freezing right now
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Speaker 1: at this point, but what happens, you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of the times we forget that they're there. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's still a little fresh in our mind because we
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Speaker 1: did some summer jobs, summer projects and stuff, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe some early fall projects, and we've got them in
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Speaker 1: the garage. But as the season starts to deepen, as
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Speaker 1: we start to get leaves coming down and we're focused
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Speaker 1: on that, or when snow, God forbids snow starts falling,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to remember these things. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of times they end up sitting in the garage all
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Speaker 1: winter long, and the next spring you find them and
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Speaker 1: you're really running a risk are they going to be
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Speaker 1: good enough to use at that point? Paint is not inexpensive,
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Speaker 1: and you certainly don't want to just waste it if
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Speaker 1: you've got stuff that you'd like to use again. So
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Speaker 1: right now, you know, this weekend, go through the garage.
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Speaker 1: If you're not going to be using these products the
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Speaker 1: rest of the fall, get them out of the garage
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Speaker 1: and get them into the basement. All right, that's the
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Speaker 1: last little fall project. I know there are other things
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Speaker 1: that we'll talk about as the season deepens. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to those on future episodes, but that's enough for now.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk pet smells. Dogs, cats. They bring
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Speaker 1: a ton of joy into our lives, right, but they
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Speaker 1: also come with their fair share of odors, and a
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Speaker 1: little bit of pet odor isn't the biggest deal in
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Speaker 1: the world, but every now and then those smells seem
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Speaker 1: to take over the entire house. Well, we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about some practical ways to tackle those, and I'll
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Speaker 1: start with a simple dog for a trick that I
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Speaker 1: came across recently, and we're going to get to that
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Speaker 1: right after This home in progress is brought to you
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Speaker 1: by Recolite 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. Pets. We
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Speaker 1: all love pets. I guess some of us love pets.
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Speaker 1: A lot of us love pets. But even among those
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Speaker 1: who love them, we know that they bring their share
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Speaker 1: of work. I mean, two dogs live in my house
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Speaker 1: and we definitely have to work to deal with dog things,
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Speaker 1: you know, all the things that dogs bring, but also
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Speaker 1: dog smells and really, really I can't win here. If
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Speaker 1: I don't give them a bath, they get stinky. If
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Speaker 1: I give them a bath. You know, that's the miracle
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Speaker 1: of dogs. Is Now the house is gonna smell like
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Speaker 1: wet dog, which if you're not familiar with that smell,
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Speaker 1: you know it's truly a powerful, powerful odor. It's something else.
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Speaker 1: And then there's the shedding and the fur and the
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Speaker 1: dander that they leave behind. You know, it gets everywhere
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Speaker 1: and it really contributes to mess, but also that dog
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Speaker 1: smell that we all know, and it drives me absolutely nuts,
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Speaker 1: you know, because the house is clean. You know, I
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Speaker 1: clean a lot, a lot. You know, I vacuum every
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Speaker 1: single day, or the kids vacuum. You know, one of
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Speaker 1: us vacuums every single day. And I've got a good vacuum.
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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't chinse out on the vacuum. And yet,
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Speaker 1: especially when my Golden Retriever Maggie is shedding like crazy.
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Speaker 1: When that happens, I've previously noticed this ridiculous smell that
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Speaker 1: I didn't like at all. You know. It was a
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Speaker 1: bare and I didn't want to have people over even
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Speaker 1: you know, and not for the normal reasons, but because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that the house was stinky. Well when
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Speaker 1: that was happening the past, you know a little bit here.
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Speaker 1: I did everything I could think to do, but I
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Speaker 1: could not beat this dog smell problem. I gave them baths,
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Speaker 1: I dealt with the wet dog smell until they dried out.
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Speaker 1: I tried to air out the house. I used odor,
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Speaker 1: eating things like baking, soda and so on. But that
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Speaker 1: smell was so persistent. I knew it could be because
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Speaker 1: of the fur and the dander that they were leaving behind.
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Speaker 1: But since I was vacuuming every day and filling up
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Speaker 1: that canister regularly, I assumed it had to be something else. Well,
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Speaker 1: after a long time of doing that, I ran into
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Speaker 1: this floor rake thing for carpet, you know, a carpet
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Speaker 1: rake that's designed to pick up pet fur. The ad
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Speaker 1: that I saw that made me make the purchase. That
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Speaker 1: ad made the claim that even if you vacuum, the
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Speaker 1: fur can remain. Now, I didn't believe that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I didn't think that that was accurate. But I was desperate,
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Speaker 1: and desperation that makes a man do things that he
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Speaker 1: might not normally do, like part with his brass a
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Speaker 1: little bit. So I bought this little rake thing, which
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Speaker 1: was relatively cheap, and I thought i'd give it a try. Well,
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Speaker 1: when it arrived, I had really, you know, almost no
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Speaker 1: confidence that it was going to do anything. And to
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Speaker 1: be certain that it was doing something more than just
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Speaker 1: my vacuum, you know, I wanted to make sure this
17:26
Speaker 1: was a good test. To make sure that it was
17:28
Speaker 1: the rake doing something, I vacuumed the floor especially well
17:31
Speaker 1: before I used it, you know, And once I had
17:34
Speaker 1: done all of that, I started raking the carpet, expecting
17:37
Speaker 1: to find nothing, and oh my goodness, I found. I
17:41
Speaker 1: raked up like two more Golden Retrievers worth a fur
17:45
Speaker 1: that was somehow still in the carpet after I vacuumed.
17:49
Speaker 1: You know, I raked and I raked and I raked,
17:50
Speaker 1: and I removed these piles and piles of fur. And
17:53
Speaker 1: then I raked the floor again that first night, and
17:56
Speaker 1: I did that until I had no more fur coming up.
17:58
Speaker 1: The next day, I came home from work and the smell,
18:01
Speaker 1: the dog smell, was noticeably reduced. I've done that carpet
18:05
Speaker 1: raking about once a week from that point on, combined
18:08
Speaker 1: with regular vacuuming, and it's been incredibly, incredibly effective in
18:12
Speaker 1: reducing and removing the dog smell. So if you've got
18:15
Speaker 1: a shedding dog and you've got a bit of that
18:18
Speaker 1: dog smell in your house, check out these fur removing rakes.
18:21
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a link in the show notes to
18:22
Speaker 1: the one that I got. It's not the most sturdy,
18:25
Speaker 1: but it also wasn't terribly expensive the one that I got.
18:28
Speaker 1: In case you don't want to go to the show
18:30
Speaker 1: notes to check it out, you can look it up
18:32
Speaker 1: for yourself. It was a three and one carpet rake
18:35
Speaker 1: for pet removal or pet pet pet hair removal. It
18:39
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt your pets, you know, it's not removing your pet,
18:42
Speaker 1: just the pet hair. I think Bolthy bo l fi
18:47
Speaker 1: E Bo l f i E that's the name brand.
18:51
Speaker 1: It came with a little floor rake and then a
18:53
Speaker 1: little handheld thing and some other little dudad that I
18:56
Speaker 1: wasn't sure what it was for twenty six bucks. Definitely
19:00
Speaker 1: worked really well. There's a lot of them out there,
19:02
Speaker 1: you know, read reviews, but try it, you know, check
19:05
Speaker 1: it out and it might help you out. All right.
19:08
Speaker 1: That's dealing with dog smells. Now I want to talk
19:10
Speaker 1: about cat ear and smells, and we'll get to that
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Speaker 1: right after. This home in progress is brought to you
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19:34
Speaker 1: and smells in a house that he just purchased. And
19:38
Speaker 1: while this situation isn't fun, you know, it's not fun
19:41
Speaker 1: even a little bit if you're living in it. It's
19:44
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19:55
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19:58
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20:07
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20:33
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20:37
Speaker 1: We've tried everything to remove the odor of cat urin
20:40
Speaker 1: in a house that we've just purchased. We've pulled carpet,
20:42
Speaker 1: we've pulled pad, we've cleaned the ducts, We've had a
20:45
Speaker 1: company come in and treat the sment basement floors. Now
20:48
Speaker 1: we're wondering about sealing the subfloor. What product does Repcolite
20:52
Speaker 1: have that would seal that unpainted floor, that unpainted subfloor effectively?
20:57
Speaker 1: All right, getting to the answer, the first thing to
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Speaker 1: say is that the listener did a great job, you know,
21:02
Speaker 1: doing a ton of the heavy lifting. You know, got
21:05
Speaker 1: a lot of the main things out of the way.
21:07
Speaker 1: But typically, yeah, ceiling the subfloors is usually the final
21:10
Speaker 1: step to get rid of stubborn pet odors, especially cat
21:14
Speaker 1: urin and cat urin. You know what about it? Why
21:18
Speaker 1: does it seem so much worse than other smells? Is
21:20
Speaker 1: it just in our minds? Or is there something to it? Well,
21:23
Speaker 1: here's the short answer. It's a chemistry problem. Cat Urine
21:26
Speaker 1: contains uric acid that forms crystals as it dries. Now
21:30
Speaker 1: those crystals are water insoluble, which means regular cleaning doesn't
21:35
Speaker 1: always get rid of them. You know, even humidity in
21:37
Speaker 1: the air can reactivate them and bring that smell right back.
21:41
Speaker 1: Add to that, you know the ammonia and other compounds
21:44
Speaker 1: going on, and you've got really one of the most
21:46
Speaker 1: pervasive household odors out there. Now. The good news is
21:50
Speaker 1: sealing the surface usually solves it usually fixes it. At
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Speaker 1: rupcholite to get to the answer, while we recommend a
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Speaker 1: clear shalac shellac. It forms an incredibly dense, non porous
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Speaker 1: film that locks in stains and smells permanently. All right.
22:06
Speaker 1: It's been used for years and years as the go
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Speaker 1: to fix for fire and smoke damage, nicotine odors, and
22:12
Speaker 1: of course pet urine. And here's something interesting. If you
22:15
Speaker 1: use a pigmented version of these products, you know, like
22:18
Speaker 1: a pigmented shill act there's white pigmented shillaxe out there,
22:21
Speaker 1: or even an oil based primer, you actually end up
22:24
Speaker 1: with something that's got a little more breathability in the
22:26
Speaker 1: finish compared to a heavy clear coat. So that's why
22:30
Speaker 1: we're recommending a clear shellac. And that breathability means moisture
22:34
Speaker 1: vapor can still move through slowly, and that can be
22:37
Speaker 1: important when we're talking about sub floors or masonry where
22:39
Speaker 1: we're trying to seal in an odor. You know, you
22:41
Speaker 1: can seal in the odor to some extent, but you're
22:44
Speaker 1: not completely locking that surface down in the same way
22:46
Speaker 1: that a clear film can. So while these will work
22:50
Speaker 1: and people will recommend them, you know, white pigmented sllaxe
22:52
Speaker 1: and stuff, they're not as effective as something without any pigment.
22:57
Speaker 1: And here's another question that we get a lot. Can't
22:59
Speaker 1: you just roll code of semi gloss paint over the
23:01
Speaker 1: surface and call it good. Well, the short answer here
23:04
Speaker 1: is no. A glossy latex or acrylic paint is less
23:07
Speaker 1: porous than you know, a flat primer like I just
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Speaker 1: talked about, and it will slow down the transference of
23:13
Speaker 1: that odor a little bit, but it's still a breathable finish.
23:16
Speaker 1: And those cat eurine crystals that we talked about earlier,
23:19
Speaker 1: they're eventually going to sneak through, you know. Sillac, on
23:22
Speaker 1: the other hand, creates this dense, non porous barrier, and
23:26
Speaker 1: that's why it's the gold standard for sealing odors in.
23:29
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a little more economical option, Repcollites
23:32
Speaker 1: Finisher's Touch sanding Sealer, which is an oil based product,
23:36
Speaker 1: will also do a really great job. You know, both
23:38
Speaker 1: products are clear, both will block odors. Just keep in
23:40
Speaker 1: mind shellac is an alcohol based product, sanding sealer is
23:44
Speaker 1: oil based, so both are going to have strong odors
23:47
Speaker 1: during application, so make sure you've got good ventilation. All right,
23:51
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24:03
Speaker 1: from Benjamin Moore one of my favorite paints to talk about,
24:05
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do it again, but this time I've
24:08
Speaker 1: got something to say that's likely going to be interesting
24:10
Speaker 1: for every single person out there that's coming up. Right
24:13
Speaker 1: after this, you're listening to Home in Progress, where the
24:15
Speaker 1: projects are real, the mistakes, they're educational, sometimes painful, mostly educational.
24:22
Speaker 1: And the only thing more stubborn than that old wallpaper
24:26
Speaker 1: on your bathroom wall is your determination to get it fixed.
24:30
Speaker 1: Probably sponsored by Repcolite Paints and Benjamin Moore Paint with
24:33
Speaker 1: a purpose, people who care and everything you need to
24:35
Speaker 1: get the job done right, all right. The other day
24:38
Speaker 1: I was sitting around thinking for some unknown reason about
24:41
Speaker 1: an old Simpsons episode. In it, Homer discovers and I'm
24:47
Speaker 1: kind of paraphrasing trying to remember it as well as I,
24:50
Speaker 1: you know, as best I can. So I could be
24:52
Speaker 1: wrong about some of these details, but the crux of
24:55
Speaker 1: what I want to get to I'm right on. Anyway,
24:57
Speaker 1: Homer discovers through some X rays or something that the
25:01
Speaker 1: reason he's been so dumb all these years is because
25:04
Speaker 1: he's got a crayon stuck in his brain. You know,
25:08
Speaker 1: since he was six or so, he'd crammed I think
25:11
Speaker 1: a whole box of crayons up his nose, sneezed most
25:14
Speaker 1: of them out, but one of them remained, and from
25:17
Speaker 1: that point on he was dumb. You know, That's the idea.
25:19
Speaker 1: So they discover this rogue crayon and he has it
25:23
Speaker 1: surgically removed, and suddenly his IQ rises dramatically. You know,
25:27
Speaker 1: he's thinking deep thoughts, he's connecting with Lisa the smart
25:30
Speaker 1: daughter and so on. But being smart turns out to
25:34
Speaker 1: cause a number of problems for him. He ends up
25:36
Speaker 1: I think pointing out issues at the power plant where
25:39
Speaker 1: he works, people end up losing jobs and overall, overall,
25:43
Speaker 1: overall he creates, you know, by being smart, he creates
25:46
Speaker 1: a lot of social anxiety for himself, for others. He
25:49
Speaker 1: doesn't like it. He misses being old, dumb Homer. And
25:53
Speaker 1: he makes the decision to have the crayon reinserted, which
25:57
Speaker 1: I love. I love that. You know, we took it out,
25:59
Speaker 1: you got smart art. The only way to fix this
26:01
Speaker 1: is to put it back in. And during the procedure,
26:04
Speaker 1: as they're putting the crayon in, Mo the bartender and
26:08
Speaker 1: stand in surgeon in this particular episode, he keeps tapping
26:12
Speaker 1: the crayon, you know, back in. He's got a little
26:14
Speaker 1: little hammer and he's tapping it and he's trying to
26:17
Speaker 1: figure out how dumb to make Homer. And with each tap,
26:20
Speaker 1: Homer says something dumber and dumber. Finally Mo taps it
26:24
Speaker 1: in just right, and Homer blurts out, extended warranty, How
26:28
Speaker 1: can I lose? And Mo says, perfect, all right, So
26:31
Speaker 1: there you go. The perfect level of dumb is being
26:34
Speaker 1: excited about an extended warranty. And I love that for
26:38
Speaker 1: so many reasons. You know, first and foremost because I
26:42
Speaker 1: was that guy, you know, I bought every single extended
26:46
Speaker 1: warranty I could get my hands on. I was a
26:49
Speaker 1: sucker the capital s you know. I remember the first time,
26:53
Speaker 1: you know, do you remember your first time? I remember
26:56
Speaker 1: my first time with an extended warranty. I'd just broken
26:59
Speaker 1: up with a longtime girlfriend. I was full of angst
27:03
Speaker 1: and whoa, you know, and all of that. And for
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Speaker 1: the first time forever, I actually had some money in
27:10
Speaker 1: my pocket. I wasn't dating, so I actually had money.
27:13
Speaker 1: So I decided I was going to go buy an expensive,
27:16
Speaker 1: you know, nice stereo system so I could listen to
27:19
Speaker 1: sad music and style. And I remember as I was
27:22
Speaker 1: shelling out the money, the guy at the counter said, Hey,
27:25
Speaker 1: would you like to hear about our extended warranty? And
27:28
Speaker 1: I said extended? What tell me more? And he realized
27:34
Speaker 1: right then that I was an idiot, you know, ripe
27:36
Speaker 1: for the picking. So he goes on to explain it.
27:39
Speaker 1: It's the best thing in the whole wide world. I mean,
27:41
Speaker 1: I'm going to charge you a small, small, you know,
27:44
Speaker 1: a pittance, you know, it's a tiny bit of money,
27:47
Speaker 1: and then anything that goes wrong with your equipment in
27:50
Speaker 1: the next year is covered one hundred percent. You know,
27:53
Speaker 1: even if an earthquake happens and it falls, it's covered.
27:57
Speaker 1: Even if termites eat the legs off the table that
27:59
Speaker 1: it sits on and it crashes to the floor. Covered.
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Speaker 1: Even if your little brother or sister puts a pop
28:05
Speaker 1: tart in the tape deck, it's all covered. You'll get
28:07
Speaker 1: a new stereo from us if we can't repair yours,
28:11
Speaker 1: and it's all at no cost to you. And I
28:15
Speaker 1: remember saying, even if somebody puts a pop tart in
28:18
Speaker 1: this tape deck, it's still covered. You know. For some reason,
28:22
Speaker 1: that was the fact that just sealed the deal for me.
28:25
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask how much this extended warranty was
28:29
Speaker 1: gonna cost. It was worth it at that point just
28:31
Speaker 1: for the pop tart safety net. So I shelled out
28:34
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of extra cash and I went home happy.
28:37
Speaker 1: You know, I felt so protected, you know, like a
28:40
Speaker 1: hug from the store, you know. And of course I
28:44
Speaker 1: never ever used it. Nobody put a pop tart and
28:46
Speaker 1: let's say in the tape deck. You know, everybody in
28:49
Speaker 1: my family at that point was ten years old or older.
28:53
Speaker 1: Who's gonna put a pop tart? In tape deck. But anyway,
28:56
Speaker 1: I never used the thing. But of course that didn't
28:59
Speaker 1: stop me or make me think at all. Instead, I
29:03
Speaker 1: basically doubled down and I bought every extended warranty that
29:07
Speaker 1: was offered. And then I got even worse. If they
29:10
Speaker 1: didn't offer me an extended warranty that I wasn't going
29:13
Speaker 1: to use, I'd ask them, is there any way I can,
29:18
Speaker 1: you know, like, give you more money now and buy
29:22
Speaker 1: an extended warranty so I'm protected in the future if
29:25
Speaker 1: something crazy would happen, you know, a pop Tart involved
29:29
Speaker 1: in something, and you'd still cover this product and this
29:33
Speaker 1: equipment and maybe get me new if something went wrong
29:36
Speaker 1: and salespeople would just light up. They loved me. They'd
29:40
Speaker 1: sometimes fight over me, you know, they all wanted me
29:43
Speaker 1: to be their customer. I can only imagine how much
29:46
Speaker 1: money I have blown unextended warranties over the years, warranties
29:50
Speaker 1: I never once used. And that's why that Simpsons episode
29:53
Speaker 1: cracks me up, you know so much. It's so real,
29:57
Speaker 1: so real to me. Anyway, now I don't buy them anymore, right,
30:00
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not that guy, But at the time
30:02
Speaker 1: I always thought it seemed like the smart thing to
30:04
Speaker 1: go to do. Spend a little money and I'll protect
30:07
Speaker 1: my investment. I'm guessing you've been there too, Maybe not
30:09
Speaker 1: as often as me, but I bet you've signed on
30:12
Speaker 1: that dotted line at least once thinking this is going
30:14
Speaker 1: to keep me covered. And that gets me finally, long windedly,
30:18
Speaker 1: to the paint point. A lot of us have thrown
30:20
Speaker 1: down money on extended warranties that will never ever cash
30:23
Speaker 1: in because they make us feel safe. But when it
30:26
Speaker 1: comes to paint where the protection is real or could
30:29
Speaker 1: be real, where you can actually see the difference day
30:32
Speaker 1: after day, we hesitate. We don't want to drop any
30:34
Speaker 1: extra money down. It's kind of backwards. Specifically, I want
30:38
Speaker 1: to talk about scuff X from Benjamin Moore. Buying scuff
30:41
Speaker 1: X isn't really, you know, purchasing some someday safety net
30:46
Speaker 1: that you might use you probably will never use. When
30:49
Speaker 1: you buy scuff X, you're purchasing a finish that's going
30:51
Speaker 1: to outperform period. It's going to do it anything you've
30:55
Speaker 1: ever had on your walls. When it comes to resisting
30:57
Speaker 1: scuffs and marks, you know where that rex most finished
31:00
Speaker 1: isn't going to touch scuff X. It's going to keep
31:03
Speaker 1: your walls looking great for years. It's going to It's
31:06
Speaker 1: just how it is. We've seen it over all the
31:08
Speaker 1: years that scuff X has been out. I doubted it
31:10
Speaker 1: at first. I wasn't sure about it because it was
31:13
Speaker 1: crazy claims that Benjamin Moore was making about it. But
31:16
Speaker 1: it's panned out. It really does what they say it
31:19
Speaker 1: will do. It's so much fun to sell because people
31:22
Speaker 1: instantly see the results. For example, I've talked about it
31:26
Speaker 1: a ton of times on the show here. But you know,
31:29
Speaker 1: three four years ago something like that, I painted my
31:32
Speaker 1: entry with scuff X. And previously it had been a
31:35
Speaker 1: high end ceramic paint that was supposed to wash up
31:37
Speaker 1: really well, and it did a good job. But it
31:40
Speaker 1: was an entry way, and I've got five kids, you know,
31:43
Speaker 1: and they'd come in and they'd kick their shoes off,
31:45
Speaker 1: which apparently to them was like some kind of Olympic sport.
31:50
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I still can't figure it out. I
31:53
Speaker 1: couldn't figure it out then, I can't figure it out now.
31:55
Speaker 1: But I'd find scuff marks on the wall, you know,
31:57
Speaker 1: mostly at the first foot or so up from the floor,
32:01
Speaker 1: but every now and then they'd show up somewhere near
32:04
Speaker 1: the ceiling. You know, I don't know, like I said,
32:06
Speaker 1: as parents, I don't really think we're ever meant to understand,
32:11
Speaker 1: you know, our children's minds. Anyway, we had a ton
32:14
Speaker 1: of scuff marks all over that wall, and I'd wash
32:16
Speaker 1: them off periodically, but a lot of the time I
32:18
Speaker 1: couldn't get them all off, so they were there. But
32:21
Speaker 1: then I painted, like I said, three four years ago
32:23
Speaker 1: or so with scuff X, and the walls still look
32:27
Speaker 1: largely new. You know, the trim in there is beaten
32:30
Speaker 1: up a bit, but that wasn't painted with scuff X.
32:33
Speaker 1: The walls which were painted with scuff X look great.
32:35
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have a single scuff and I
32:37
Speaker 1: haven't in all of that time. Now the kids, you know,
32:41
Speaker 1: the argument could be made the kids have gotten older
32:43
Speaker 1: and wiser, and I'm certain that the older part is true.
32:48
Speaker 1: I'm sure the wiser part is true as well. So
32:51
Speaker 1: I'll give you that they've gotten wiser and older. But
32:54
Speaker 1: the scuffs went away overnight once I applied the scuff X,
32:58
Speaker 1: and no touchups. I haven't done a single touch up
33:01
Speaker 1: in that room, a single touch up on the walls
33:04
Speaker 1: in years in three years, never not a single one
33:07
Speaker 1: and no need for one. I'm not just living with
33:10
Speaker 1: marks on the wall. There is nothing, you know, it's fine.
33:13
Speaker 1: So scuff CK's a huge change in that space, and
33:15
Speaker 1: it really reinforced to me to my mind that Benjamin
33:19
Speaker 1: Moore's claims about this product were real. And that's just
33:23
Speaker 1: one of my scuff x stories. But take a look
33:25
Speaker 1: around your own home, you know, right now, just take
33:27
Speaker 1: a look around. Maybe you know you're thinking that you
33:30
Speaker 1: don't need scuff X. You're you're not going to benefit
33:32
Speaker 1: from it. You don't have kids kicking their shoes off
33:35
Speaker 1: or whatever, or scuff marks on the wall. But take
33:37
Speaker 1: a minute and just look, you know, look down the hallways,
33:40
Speaker 1: look in the entryways, the mud rooms, you know, maybe
33:43
Speaker 1: the laundry room, you name it. Check out the high
33:46
Speaker 1: traffic areas in your home and look for scuff marks,
33:49
Speaker 1: you know, from boots, from shoes, from furniture, you know,
33:52
Speaker 1: things like that. Now, if your walls truly are Christine,
33:56
Speaker 1: you know you've won at life. You know congradulates you've
34:00
Speaker 1: made it. But if they're marked up like most of
34:03
Speaker 1: our walls, you're going to find things that you've kind
34:06
Speaker 1: of overlooked or you've forgotten about. You just don't see
34:09
Speaker 1: them anymore. You're so used to seeing them. If you
34:11
Speaker 1: look at him, now, look for it. Now you'll find it.
34:13
Speaker 1: And if that's what you're finding, scuff X was made
34:16
Speaker 1: exactly for those spaces, but it's not just made for homes.
34:20
Speaker 1: In fact, it primarily wasn't made for homes. It was
34:23
Speaker 1: made for you know, schools and hospitals and things like that.
34:26
Speaker 1: That's where it was primarily made to be used. Last week,
34:30
Speaker 1: my dad he was in the hospital, you know, undergoing
34:33
Speaker 1: a bunch of tests as they tried to figure out
34:36
Speaker 1: if he had a stroke or what had happened. I
34:38
Speaker 1: talked about that last week. It was tough. He's home now,
34:41
Speaker 1: you know, so I'll say that he's home. He's doing
34:43
Speaker 1: really well. Still got this double vision thing that's kind
34:46
Speaker 1: of driving him nuts, so we're praying that that gets better.
34:49
Speaker 1: But you know, all things considered, he's doing well. But anyway,
34:53
Speaker 1: while he was in the hospital, I spent one of
34:56
Speaker 1: those days sitting there with my mom, you know, just
34:58
Speaker 1: waiting you do at the hospital. And as I was
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Speaker 1: working in this little sitting area, you know, off a hallway,
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Speaker 1: right near an elevator bay. I couldn't help but notice,
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Speaker 1: you know, as I'm sitting there, how beat up the
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Speaker 1: walls were. You know, I didn't notice them at first,
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Speaker 1: But the longer I sat there and the more I'm
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Speaker 1: looking around, I'm realizing, Wow, there's scuffs everywhere, you know,
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Speaker 1: all along the elevator wall, all down this big hallway.
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Speaker 1: Scuffs from wheelchairs, from gurnees, from carts, you know, you
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Speaker 1: name it, and look, I get it. You know, I'm
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Speaker 1: not judging anybody. I wasn't sitting there judging the look.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't going to deduct from the money we were willing. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not paying anything. It's dad and mom, But I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't suggest that they deduct anything from their bill or
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Speaker 1: from where they're willing to or what they would pay
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Speaker 1: for their bill because of the scuff marks. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's a hospital, it's not a showcase. I get all that.
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Those facilities, you know, places like that,
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Speaker 1: spend a ton of money designing, callming, welcoming spaces. They
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Speaker 1: work with interior designers to get just the right colors
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Speaker 1: for their spaces, and then their wall beat up like
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Speaker 1: that really work against everything they're trying to create. Now,
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Speaker 1: with scuff X, those same walls would be looking good
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Speaker 1: for months. We've seen it. We've seen people or places
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Speaker 1: like this who've switched to scuff X. It will look
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Speaker 1: good for months instead of needing touch ups every couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks. So if you're responsible for a space like that,
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Speaker 1: you know, a hospital, a waiting room, a senior living center,
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Speaker 1: a school, you know, any commercial setting that sees a
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Speaker 1: ton of traffic and wear, shoot me an email at
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Speaker 1: radio at repco light dot com. You know, we'll talk
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Speaker 1: it through and possibly we can get free gallons of
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Speaker 1: scuff X in your hands to try. We'll give it
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Speaker 1: to you because we know you're gonna like it. And
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Speaker 1: here's another thing to think about. A lot of times
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Speaker 1: people think, oh, you know, I'll just go to a
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Speaker 1: shinier finish with my usual paint that's going to resist
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Speaker 1: stuffs just as well as scuff X. Well, first off,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to and we can demonstrate that really
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Speaker 1: quickly to you. But also you can get scuff X
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Speaker 1: in a matte finish, and that matt finish is going
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Speaker 1: to resist more scuffs than most other products will in
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Speaker 1: a semi gloss, and that means that you can use
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Speaker 1: a matte finish on your walls, which is much easier
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Speaker 1: on the eyes, shows your color better, and also it
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Speaker 1: doesn't expose nearly as many or as much of the
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Speaker 1: wall's imperfections. You know, at the hospital where my dad was,
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Speaker 1: the walls were shiny for this exact reason. They went
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Speaker 1: with a shining your paint, a semi gloss to resist
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Speaker 1: wear and scuffs, and the walls are still scuffed on top,
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Speaker 1: you know, besides the fact that they use semi gloss.
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Speaker 1: And because they use semi gloss. You know, in that
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Speaker 1: big hallway, when I see the sun coming in, it's
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Speaker 1: reflecting off of that wall and it's exposing all kinds
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Speaker 1: of imperfections. The wall looks absolutely terrible. I've got photos
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Speaker 1: in the show notes, so check them out. A matte
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Speaker 1: finish is going to hide a lot of that, and
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Speaker 1: it's going to still resist the scuffs, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you get scuff X. So, if you're responsible for a
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Speaker 1: customer facing facility or a public facing space out there
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Speaker 1: that sees a lot of wear, reach out you know,
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Speaker 1: radio at repcolit dot com. We might be able to
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Speaker 1: put some free gallons of scuff X in your hands
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Speaker 1: so you can try it, no strings attached. All right.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of stuff for a certain you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of a niche group of people. But I've got
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Speaker 1: good stuff for everybody out there listening. Starting October one,
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Speaker 1: So next week and then running all of October, scuff
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Speaker 1: X in matt, eggshell, and satin, those three finishes is
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Speaker 1: going to be on sale for under fifty six bucks
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Speaker 1: a gallon, and that's about twenty four dollars off each gallon,
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Speaker 1: and there's no limits. You can buy one gallon, you
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Speaker 1: can buy twenty gallons, whatever you need. I don't think
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Speaker 1: we've ever had scuff X price like this before, so
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Speaker 1: it's a great time to give it a try. It
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Speaker 1: applies beautifully, you know, it looks great. It holds up,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I'm saying, holds up, you know, like
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Speaker 1: nothing else I've ever worked with. It's it's one of
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Speaker 1: those rare products that lives up to the hype. I
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Speaker 1: know you're gonna like it, so think about it for
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Speaker 1: your next project. And remember that sale starts October one
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Speaker 1: at every repco Light location. So there you go. We'll
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Speaker 1: have more information at repco Light dot com. As October
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Speaker 1: or starts. It's not a you know, come in while
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Speaker 1: supplies last don't, so don't worry about rushing there. Just
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Speaker 1: make sure you get there before the end of October
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Speaker 1: and snag some of that pain. All right, that's gonna
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Speaker 1: do it for this week's episode of Home in Progress.
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Speaker 1: If you've got a home improvement question that you'd like
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