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Triumphs, Paint Spills, and Countertop Insights · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. How have you been? How was
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Speaker 1: your week? Did you accomplish you know, did you accomplish
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Speaker 1: something really huge, really momentous this week? You know, maybe
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Speaker 1: somebody did. Did you do something that you're absolutely thrilled with,
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Speaker 1: absolutely proud of? Are you coasting into this weekend feeling
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Speaker 1: like a million bucks? I'm Dan Hanson and you're listening
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Speaker 1: to the Repco Lighte Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I had a momentous,
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Speaker 1: momentous week this week. It was absolutely huge. The highlight,
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Speaker 1: the highlight, My big accomplishment was my daughter. She mentioned
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Speaker 1: a few days ago that she needed to go shopping
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Speaker 1: for new church pants, and honestly, that scared me. You know,
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Speaker 1: she's not easy to shop for. She's got a very
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Speaker 1: definite style that she likes, but I'm not sure she
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Speaker 1: even knows what it exactly is. You know, she knows
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Speaker 1: it when she sees it. It's that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I can walk into a store and
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Speaker 1: I can pick out clothes in five It's like a superpower.
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Speaker 1: I'm that good. You know, I've got a trick, and
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Speaker 1: my trick is I don't care how I look, you know,
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Speaker 1: as long as the pants don't need to be rolled up.
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Speaker 1: That sometimes is a trick to find pants that will work.
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Speaker 1: But if I can find pants that don't need to
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Speaker 1: be rolled up, and as long as my belly, you know,
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Speaker 1: doesn't poke out underneath the edge of my shirt, I
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Speaker 1: figure I'm styling. I'm looking pretty good, at least as
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Speaker 1: good as I'm gonna look. Well, my daughter's not that way.
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Speaker 1: She's picky, and so when she needed me to help
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Speaker 1: her shop, I was concerned. You know, I do remember
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Speaker 1: other shopping trips full of tears and stress. Some of
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Speaker 1: that was hers, most of it was mine. You know,
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Speaker 1: the trick questions that they give. You know, I'm especially
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Speaker 1: thinking about women when we're shopping with them, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I'll get questions like does this outfit highlight the fact
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Speaker 1: that I'm short? Now, how do you answer that? If
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Speaker 1: you parse it and really think about it, you see,
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Speaker 1: there's no good answer. I normally don't think that far ahead,
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Speaker 1: and I just remember when that question literally came up
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Speaker 1: and I came up with the answer no, no, Well instantly,
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Speaker 1: you know, of course, tears came because anybody out there
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Speaker 1: thinking and listening knows I implicitly agreed with the premise
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Speaker 1: that she really was short, and I tried to dig
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Speaker 1: my way out of that. I remember that. But if
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Speaker 1: you've listened to this show any length of time, you
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Speaker 1: know that digging out of something like that is not
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Speaker 1: probably going to be my strong suit. So those are
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Speaker 1: my memories of shopping experiences, lots of things like that,
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Speaker 1: and so I was nervous to do it again. But
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Speaker 1: this time, I've got to tell you, I am happy
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Speaker 1: to report that I nailed it. I sent her off
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Speaker 1: to the little dressing rooms and I had her deside
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Speaker 1: what she thought, you know. Then when she'd come out,
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Speaker 1: I would read her expression and i'd lean into that.
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Speaker 1: You know, I used color talk that I pick up
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Speaker 1: at work, and I'd say things like those brown corduroys,
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Speaker 1: they really create a nice ambiance with your hair, you know,
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Speaker 1: things like that. She'd roll her eyes, which was better
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Speaker 1: than crying, and then we'd keep shopping. Eventually we found pants.
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Speaker 1: Not that anybody cares, but you know, this was big
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Speaker 1: to me. So I'm going to recount it all play
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Speaker 1: by play, moment by moment. We found pants, And because
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Speaker 1: I've raised her so well, we found those pants on
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Speaker 1: the clearance rack. Absolutely thrilled about that. The clearance rack
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Speaker 1: and not just any clearance rack. This clearance rack allowed
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Speaker 1: you to give a second pair of pants for free.
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Speaker 1: It was heaven on a Sunday. On a Wednesday, we
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Speaker 1: hung out at the mall, found girl clothes that she loved,
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Speaker 1: and we had fun along the way. So it was great.
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Speaker 1: I had all of that pre shopping stress for no
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Speaker 1: reason at all. So anyway, I am riding high today
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Speaker 1: and I'm carrying all of that into the show, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the best show I know
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Speaker 1: how to give. At the end, we're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about air nailers, electric nailers, and battery powered nailers.
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Speaker 1: We highlighted air nailers a couple weeks ago, but I
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Speaker 1: did want to throw some light on some alternatives, so
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Speaker 1: we'll dig into that. I'm also going to be sitting
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Speaker 1: down and talking about trends in countertops with Village Custom interiors.
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Speaker 1: You know what's trending, what's cool, what's economical. We'll dig
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Speaker 1: into all of that and a ton more. But right now,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the paint point for the week. And
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Speaker 1: it's really straightforward and simple, and yes, I do want
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Speaker 1: to say that. About two months ago or so, we
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Speaker 1: talked about some of this. But here's the deal. And
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Speaker 1: before I get going, I've got to take a big
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Speaker 1: swig of water here, getting a little dry with my throat.
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Speaker 1: And there's a lot to tell. That's pretty fun. A refreshing, refreshing, refreshing,
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Speaker 1: all right, here's the deal. Last week a friend of mine,
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Speaker 1: Ali Bride from Mustard Seed Beginnings, was on our show,
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Speaker 1: on this radio show, talking about a hardwood floor refinishing
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Speaker 1: project that she just tackled. Now if you missed that
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Speaker 1: segment last week, Ali does all kinds of design work
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Speaker 1: in her home. You know, she'll jump into pretty much
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Speaker 1: any project, and then she shares her journey on Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 1: her block and so on. You can find her if
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Speaker 1: you want to buy searching Mustard Seed Beginnings. Anyway, this
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Speaker 1: past week, Ali was working in a different room, you know,
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Speaker 1: painting the walls, and she made huge mistake, huge mistake.
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Speaker 1: She posted about it so and I told her I
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Speaker 1: was going to talk about it. I told her I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't use her name. She said, oh, everybody's gonna know anyway,
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Speaker 1: because she talked about it on her Instagram, so I'm
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Speaker 1: just using her name. I don't think she cares. She
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Speaker 1: had fun with it, but she posted about this mistake,
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Speaker 1: and that's how I ran into it. You know, I
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Speaker 1: was sitting here working, little notification came up on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching her video, and what happened was she was
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Speaker 1: painting the walls in a carpeted room. The carpet that's
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Speaker 1: gonna stay there. She's not intending to remove that carpet.
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Speaker 1: She removed other carpet for that hardwood flooring project, but
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Speaker 1: this carpet's staying. You know, someday it'll go, but not yet. Now.
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Speaker 1: She needs that carpet to look good. So as she's
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Speaker 1: painting that room, she's got a plastic paint tray on
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Speaker 1: the floor and she's carefully, you know, scooching it long.
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Speaker 1: She gets nearly done with the room, and that's when
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Speaker 1: she realizes there's a crack in the tray and dark
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Speaker 1: blue paint has been dripping out slowly, leaving a number
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Speaker 1: of little dime sized spots all around the room on
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Speaker 1: her carpet. Well. Seeing that, she panicked, grabbed a rag
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Speaker 1: and started trying to dab up the paint, you know,
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Speaker 1: scrub it up, but instead she ended up smearing it
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Speaker 1: into larger, you know, dinner plate sized spots all around
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Speaker 1: the room. And then she ran to the internet and
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Speaker 1: gave it a quick goog and was greeted by a
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Speaker 1: number of suggestions from the Google, including things like get
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Speaker 1: some paint dinner, and go after it with nail polish remover. Now,
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Speaker 1: she was explaining all of those things in her little
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Speaker 1: Instagram page on her page in a little story. When
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Speaker 1: I that's what I was watching. I quit watching immediately
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Speaker 1: at that point and texted her, are you still dealing
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Speaker 1: with this? Because don't do any of the things that
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Speaker 1: you've just found on the internet to do. So I thought,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a perfect paint point. Let's figure
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Speaker 1: out what the right way is to deal with paint spills.
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Speaker 1: And as I said earlier, I talked about this a
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Speaker 1: few weeks or so ago, and some of this is
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Speaker 1: going to be repeated info, but it's good info. And
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Speaker 1: in the heat of the moment, you know, we don't
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Speaker 1: always remember everything, so it's good to hear it again.
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Speaker 1: And the hope is here that more people will just
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Speaker 1: lock this into your brains. So paint spills. First thing
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about, you know, specifically referencing Ali's situation.
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Speaker 1: First thing I want to talk about is prevention. You know,
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Speaker 1: what's the old saying an ounce of prevention is worth
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Speaker 1: a pound of cure something like that. Well, prevention, it's
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Speaker 1: a big deal. So first thing that you want to
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Speaker 1: do to prevent this from even happening to you is
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Speaker 1: use a drop cloth on every paint project that you tackle.
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Speaker 1: You know, that alone could help save people from so
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Speaker 1: many minor paint disasters, you know, just having that drop
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Speaker 1: cloth down in this situation, you know Ali's situation, a
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Speaker 1: good canvas drop cloth probably would have captured all of
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Speaker 1: those paint drips completely and there would have been no
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Speaker 1: issues for her to deal with at all. So get
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Speaker 1: a good drop cloth, and I really do recommend a
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Speaker 1: canvas one. They're more expensive, you know, than the plastic
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Speaker 1: throwaway ones, and they're more expensive by a fair amount.
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Speaker 1: You know, no, kid, they're not inexpensive by any means,
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Speaker 1: but they are nicer to work with. You know, they're
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Speaker 1: easier to spread out, easier to walk on because they're
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Speaker 1: not slippery like the plastic is. And from my point
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Speaker 1: of view, you know, my favorite thing about the canvas
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Speaker 1: drip cloths is that they're not disposable, which means when
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Speaker 1: I buy one, I've got one. You know it's mine now,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to go away. And that means when
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Speaker 1: I tackle that next project that I didn't realize I
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Speaker 1: was going to be doing today, you know those projects
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Speaker 1: that kind of sneak up on you and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you jump in because the timing seems right. Well,
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Speaker 1: when I do that, I've got the drop cloth on
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Speaker 1: hand ready to go. And when I've got it, I
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Speaker 1: am way more likely to use it if I don't
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Speaker 1: have it. You know, I know I can run out
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Speaker 1: and I can get one. I can get a cheap one,
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Speaker 1: but will I You know, I know me, I'm probably
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Speaker 1: not going to run out and get one. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to try to wing it. I'm going to try to
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Speaker 1: get by, and that's when things go wrong. So get
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Speaker 1: a good drop cloth and with the canvas ones. Last
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Speaker 1: thing I'll say about them, there are four by fifteen
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Speaker 1: foot runners, you know, just little neural runners. They're economical,
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Speaker 1: way cheaper than the big full drop cloths, and that
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Speaker 1: runner might be all you need for most of your projects.
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Speaker 1: I use mine all the time, so go grab one
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Speaker 1: and use it. Second prevention step, use good metal trays
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Speaker 1: and tray liners. You know. The plastic trays like Ali
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Speaker 1: was using are good for periodic use, but they're definitely,
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Speaker 1: you know, more likely to crack than a metal tray
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Speaker 1: would be. They're not much cheaper than a good metal
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Speaker 1: tray is. So really, unless it's just you know, a
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Speaker 1: one or two use situation and you're going to toss it,
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Speaker 1: I'd probably just I'd go get the metal tray and
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Speaker 1: then spring for that tray liner, you know, the little
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Speaker 1: tray liners that drop in there. Do that because it
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Speaker 1: makes clean up so much easier because all you need
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Speaker 1: to do is toss that liner when you're done. Now,
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Speaker 1: those two things right there would probably have helped Ali
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Speaker 1: completely avoid her mess, But there are a few other
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Speaker 1: prevention things to keep in mind on your next project.
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Speaker 1: Do the first things I mentioned, and then number three,
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Speaker 1: make sure that you always put the lid securely back
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Speaker 1: on the paint can after you pour your paint into
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Speaker 1: the tray. Don't just lay it on top of the
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Speaker 1: paint can. You know, my kid worked with a painter
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Speaker 1: this summer and he said One of the key mistakes
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Speaker 1: he saw happen all the time, you know, with the crew,
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Speaker 1: is that somebody would set the lid on the can
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Speaker 1: of paint. That would just set it on top. It
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Speaker 1: looks like the cans closed. Somebody else would walk by
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Speaker 1: and grab it. Somebody would walk by and bump it
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Speaker 1: with their foot, and paint would go all over the place.
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Speaker 1: Looks like it's sealed up, but it's not. Trust me,
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Speaker 1: you will trick yourself. I did that working in the
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Speaker 1: paint store. I worked at the Lakewood Repcolite in Holland
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Speaker 1: for ten years or more, ten twelve years, something like that,
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Speaker 1: and not many times that I spill paint all over
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Speaker 1: the place, but a couple of times I did really badly.
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Speaker 1: And those times were times where I had finished tinting
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Speaker 1: a gallon of paint or color matching, you know, added
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Speaker 1: some color to it, put the can on the counter,
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Speaker 1: set the lid on top. Somebody called me a to
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Speaker 1: do something else. I ran over there to help with
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Speaker 1: whatever it was. It's like a little superhero over there,
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Speaker 1: always helping. Mister Helpful, That's what I like to call myself. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'm busy doing whatever and I come back and I
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Speaker 1: see the lid on the paint can on the counter,
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Speaker 1: and I just forgot. I never whacked it down to
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Speaker 1: the hammer. I would grab it to write, you know,
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Speaker 1: flip it on its side so I could write the
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Speaker 1: formula on it. What a mess. Poured paint, full gallon
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Speaker 1: of paint all over a counter is definitely not a
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Speaker 1: way that you want to spend any time of your day.
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Speaker 1: And that's just at work. That's not my stuff. Don't
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Speaker 1: do that at home. Put that lid on and whack
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Speaker 1: it down tight. Super important, all right. Couple other things
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Speaker 1: when you're painting a room, clear the space out ahead
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Speaker 1: of time. You know you want to give yourself room
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Speaker 1: to work without bumping into furniture. That's gonna help you
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Speaker 1: a ton. And then finally, last thing, have a plan
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Speaker 1: in case of a paint spill. Knowing what you're gonna
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Speaker 1: do in case something bad happens is huge. And we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get to what that plan is after we take
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Speaker 1: a quick break, So stick around and we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. You're listening to the Repcolite Home improvement show
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Speaker 1: sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and in the last segment we
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Speaker 1: talked about some things to do to prevent a paint spill. Now,
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Speaker 1: in this segment, let's talk about what you need to
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Speaker 1: do if you do won't won't won't if you do
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Speaker 1: spill paint all over your floor. And let's look at
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Speaker 1: this specifically from the perspective of my friend Ali, and
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Speaker 1: I explained it all last segment. But the short story,
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Speaker 1: if you miss that, is that Ali had a few
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Speaker 1: dime sized paint spills on her carpet, you know, after
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Speaker 1: she finished painting a room recently. She tried to remove
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Speaker 1: them or to minimize them with a dry rag, and
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Speaker 1: she only made them worse, like ten times worse. She
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Speaker 1: spread them to the point where they were like dinner
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Speaker 1: plate sized. Then she went to the internet looking for help,
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Speaker 1: and the first suggestions that she encountered were to use
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Speaker 1: paint dinner and then if that doesn't work, it's time
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Speaker 1: to break out the nail polish. All right, that's the
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Speaker 1: scenario she was dealing with. That's the scenario we're dealing with.
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Speaker 1: What's fix the spill? And first thing when you're dealing
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Speaker 1: with a paint spill, the most important thing is response time.
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Speaker 1: Don't delay, you know, don't wait to finish rolling out
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Speaker 1: the wall. Don't give it a few minutes and then
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Speaker 1: get on it. The right thing to do is to
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Speaker 1: act immediately. Now, I know that may sound crazy that
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Speaker 1: I've got to say that, but you'd be surprised how
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Speaker 1: many people don't sense the urgency here. Don't be those
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Speaker 1: people sense the urgency, sense it in a big way.
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Speaker 1: Get moving on it right away, because once the paint
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Speaker 1: starts to dry, removing it completely becomes much much more difficult.
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Speaker 1: So it's important to act right away. Now. First thing
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Speaker 1: that I would do with a paint spill is actually
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Speaker 1: kind of a cheat. It's a preliminary step. It's like
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Speaker 1: a prep step. It's not prevention. Otherwise I would have
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Speaker 1: talked about it last segment, but it is kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, preliminary. Whenever I start a paint project, I
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Speaker 1: make sure that I've got the proper thinning agent ready
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Speaker 1: to go. Now that's just a fancy way of saying
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Speaker 1: I've probably got water sitting there. You know, in most instances,
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Speaker 1: the thinning agent of the paint that we're using in
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Speaker 1: our homes is going to be water. If you're using
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Speaker 1: latex paint, water based paint, acrylic paints, water's going to
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Speaker 1: be what you use to clean up spills. And if
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Speaker 1: you do have any question at all about you know,
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Speaker 1: what you would use for the paint that you're working with,
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Speaker 1: just check the label on the can. It's going to
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Speaker 1: tell you right there what you need to use to
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Speaker 1: clean up your brushes and rollers. That's the product that
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Speaker 1: you would use in case of a spill. Now, generally,
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Speaker 1: whenever I start a paint job, one of my initial steps,
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Speaker 1: that preliminary step, that prep step, is to get a
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Speaker 1: bucket of clean water in some fresh rags, and I
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Speaker 1: just keep them handy just in case. I assure you
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Speaker 1: from experience running through the house, you know, to grab
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Speaker 1: all of those things, the bucket of water, in the rags,
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Speaker 1: running through the house, to get those things when you're panicking,
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Speaker 1: it's usually a recipe for a disaster, you know, relationships.
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Speaker 1: Relationships usually end up getting stressed to their limits in
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Speaker 1: those situations because you're shouting things that are you know, incoherent,
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Speaker 1: I guess is probably the best way to say it.
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Speaker 1: And you're mad because nobody seems to understand the terrified,
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Speaker 1: in coherent babble that's coming out of your mouth. So
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Speaker 1: skip that whole panic thing, and that relationship bridge burning thing,
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Speaker 1: and just have some water and rags ready to go.
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Speaker 1: When you start a paint project. You're gonna end up
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Speaker 1: using them for little mistakes that you make, you know,
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Speaker 1: during the project, and if something really bad happens, you've
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Speaker 1: got them ready to go, and it's going to help
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Speaker 1: you a lot. Now, if you do spill paint onto
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Speaker 1: the carpet, let's get to actually dealing with the spill
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Speaker 1: when it happens. If you spill paint onto the carpet,
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Speaker 1: you need to immediately remove as much of it as
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Speaker 1: you can carefully. Don't wipe it with a rag or
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Speaker 1: you're gonna end up spreading it around instead, dab at
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Speaker 1: it if it's a small amount. If it's a little
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Speaker 1: bit larger spill, you know, even quarter sized or so,
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Speaker 1: and there's paint, you know, kind of puddled there, get
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Speaker 1: some flat pieces of cardboard, you know, maybe a wide
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Speaker 1: putting knife or two, anything that you can use to
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Speaker 1: carefully scrape over the carpet and kind of scoop off
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Speaker 1: or squeegeye off as much of that puddled paint as possible.
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Speaker 1: So get that off. And once you've done that, then
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Speaker 1: you come at that spot with some water, and you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna go crazy here. You're not bringing divine judgment,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the form of a flood onto your carpet.
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Speaker 1: Just pour some out of a cup or whatever onto
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Speaker 1: the spill. And then when you've done that, you've got
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Speaker 1: a couple options. The best option, absolute best option is
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Speaker 1: to vacuum up that spot with a wet, dryack, and
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Speaker 1: once you've done that, reapply a little more water. Work
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Speaker 1: it in with your fingers, you know, being careful not
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Speaker 1: to spread the spill further over the carpet. Work it
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Speaker 1: around a little bit, and then vacuum it up again. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you're vacuuming, go easy on your carpet. You're kind
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Speaker 1: of dabbing at it with the vacuum nozzle and you're
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Speaker 1: lightly dragging it over the spot. Now, if you go
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Speaker 1: nuts with the vacuum, you can damage the twist of
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Speaker 1: the fibers, and you don't want to do that. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: keep applying a little bit of water and then vacuuming
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Speaker 1: the spot up, and then probably in about two or
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Speaker 1: three applications, you know, two or three times of doing that.
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Speaker 1: If it's a reasonably small spill and you got on
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Speaker 1: it quickly, you're probably going to have most of it
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Speaker 1: up at that point. If you don't have a wet
16:59
Speaker 1: dry you can dab it the spot with a clean
17:02
Speaker 1: rag after you apply that first little bit of water,
17:04
Speaker 1: you know, just carefully dab it. Don't scrub the carpet
17:07
Speaker 1: or you're gonna spread the spot a lot further and
17:09
Speaker 1: you could damage the fibers. Just dab at it with
17:11
Speaker 1: a clean rag and then reapply the water. Keep doing
17:15
Speaker 1: this until you get it clean. Now, that will work.
17:18
Speaker 1: It just takes a little bit longer than the shop
17:20
Speaker 1: back or the wet DRIVEAC would, which is really one
17:23
Speaker 1: of my reasons for always always always including a wet
17:26
Speaker 1: DRIVEAC in any list of must have paint tools. You know,
17:30
Speaker 1: make sure you've got one for those projects. Now, one
17:33
Speaker 1: thing from experience, don't use that vacuum to clean out
17:37
Speaker 1: the cold, you know, the cold soot from your fireplace
17:40
Speaker 1: and then go and spill paint later that day and
17:43
Speaker 1: then use that same vacuum, at least not without cleaning
17:46
Speaker 1: off that nozzle. You know, I did that one time,
17:48
Speaker 1: one single time, and that time I made my paint
17:52
Speaker 1: spill ten times worse by going at it with this
17:54
Speaker 1: soot stained vacuum nozzle, so keep that in mind. Make
17:57
Speaker 1: sure the vacuum is clean. If you wait too long
18:00
Speaker 1: and the paint ends up starting to dry or it's
18:02
Speaker 1: really stubborn, you could always try hotter water, certainly not
18:05
Speaker 1: boiling water, just hotter water from the tap and possibly
18:08
Speaker 1: add in some ammonia. Ammonia's going to dissolve latex paint
18:11
Speaker 1: and that might help. You can also try a steamer
18:13
Speaker 1: if you happen to have one. You know, same process
18:15
Speaker 1: with the rags and shot back that we talked about earlier.
18:17
Speaker 1: Just use the steamer to introduce the water and then
18:20
Speaker 1: shot back it up. Spilling paint in your carpet. It's
18:23
Speaker 1: a major bummer when you're working on a project, but
18:25
Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world, you know, at
18:27
Speaker 1: least it doesn't have to be. Now. I've got more
18:28
Speaker 1: info in the show notes, and keep your eye on
18:31
Speaker 1: Repcollite social media pages Instagram, Facebook, as well as the
18:35
Speaker 1: Repcoalite Home improvement shows, Facebook and Instagram pages. Check those out.
18:40
Speaker 1: Keep your eye on them, because I've got a quick
18:42
Speaker 1: video that I shot demonstrating this entire process and I'm
18:45
Speaker 1: going to be dropping that early next week on those pages.
18:48
Speaker 1: All right, that's the long winded paint point for the week.
18:51
Speaker 1: Now we're going to take a break. When we come back,
18:53
Speaker 1: we'll be talking countertops with Village Custom Interiors. Stick around
19:01
Speaker 1: and we're back. You're listening to the Recolhite home improvement
19:03
Speaker 1: shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And right now I'm on
19:06
Speaker 1: site at Village Custom Interiors and I want to get
19:10
Speaker 1: a bunch of countertop questions answered, actually to countertop questions.
19:14
Speaker 1: Let's not overblow the story here. I'm here with Mark Prime.
19:19
Speaker 1: Mark you were on a few weeks ago and we
19:21
Speaker 1: talked about cabinets. Thanks for letting me come back to
19:26
Speaker 1: your conference room and ask you more questions.
19:29
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we enjoy it.
19:30
Speaker 1: Now, Village Custom Interiors, what do you guys all do?
19:34
Speaker 1: I mean you do cabinets, you'll do countertops, flooring.
19:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do really anything that has to do with
19:43
Speaker 2: home construction. On the interior side, we'll do tile work.
19:47
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of backsplashes, floors, showers, countertaps. We
19:52
Speaker 2: have quartz, lambin it cabinetry, wood floor LVP.
19:58
Speaker 1: All kinds of stuff. And they've got a great showroom
20:01
Speaker 1: in Byron Center and coincidentally, ironically interestingly enough, the showroom
20:09
Speaker 1: is directly connected to a Byron Center Repcoal Light store.
20:13
Speaker 1: There's just a doorway between the two, so you can
20:16
Speaker 1: look at all your cabinet stuff, look at your flooring,
20:18
Speaker 1: and then what go get color samples? Do you let
20:20
Speaker 1: people drag a flooring sample.
20:22
Speaker 2: Yes, the color rackets go back and forth each way.
20:26
Speaker 2: We have them take color samples from Repcallight over here
20:29
Speaker 2: and wood floor and carpet samples over there.
20:32
Speaker 1: No, that's it's really interesting. I mean, it's a great
20:35
Speaker 1: system because it really helps people. I mean, they can
20:38
Speaker 1: do all of that at one time, you know, get
20:41
Speaker 1: all of those things figured out. I know that doesn't
20:43
Speaker 1: help the folks listening on the east side of the state,
20:46
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you've got places kind of like that.
20:48
Speaker 1: But if you're on the West side, man works out
20:50
Speaker 1: pretty well, especially if you're near Byron Center. Now, all right,
20:53
Speaker 1: let's talk about counters. I've got a couple of questions
20:56
Speaker 1: from listeners, and I've said it on and on and
20:59
Speaker 1: on for the last few weeks, but I'll say it
21:02
Speaker 1: a couple more times yet, I'm getting questions from all
21:05
Speaker 1: of you listeners. You're emailing them, you're calling them in,
21:08
Speaker 1: you're texting them in. I mean, they come from all
21:10
Speaker 1: over the place, and I'm bringing them to the experts
21:13
Speaker 1: that we're interviewing. And if you've got questions home improvement questions,
21:18
Speaker 1: send them to me radio at repcoll Light dot com
21:20
Speaker 1: is the easiest way to email them to me. They
21:23
Speaker 1: don't have to be about anything, and specifically just home
21:26
Speaker 1: improvement questions that you've got. I'll find the right experts
21:30
Speaker 1: and get those questions answered. And best of all, if
21:32
Speaker 1: I do use your question on air on any upcoming episode,
21:36
Speaker 1: I'll send you a twenty five dollars gift certificate to Repkolite.
21:39
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. I got a couple people who
21:41
Speaker 1: are going to get those gift certificates. Let's get to them,
21:44
Speaker 1: and let's start with Sharon. She's got a question where
21:48
Speaker 1: she says, I've got for Micah counters right now, but
21:50
Speaker 1: I'm interested in something different like quartz. Can courts be
21:54
Speaker 1: installed after the for mica has been removed? Or do
21:57
Speaker 1: my cabinets need to be adjusted to make them able
21:59
Speaker 1: to handle quarts? Does that make sense? Well, the courts
22:02
Speaker 1: be too heavy, is what she's getting at so I
22:05
Speaker 1: think it's a good question. For Micah counters laminate counters,
22:09
Speaker 1: those are the same. It's kind of an interchangeable thing, right, Yeah, absolutely.
22:12
Speaker 2: The same product of a thing. Yep. We do a
22:16
Speaker 2: lot of that work many houses. You know, twenty years ago,
22:22
Speaker 2: Laminae countertops were more of the standard, and everybody's standards
22:26
Speaker 2: has gone up over the years, and so course.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll hold on mark because my counters are still laminate,
22:34
Speaker 1: so my standards have not gone up. I just want
22:37
Speaker 1: to let you know that's where I'm at. I'm that person.
22:42
Speaker 1: Sharon is trying to not be that person. So you're
22:44
Speaker 1: saying a lot of people have transitioned from form for
22:46
Speaker 1: MICA laminate counters, course something else. Yeah, is there work
22:51
Speaker 1: that needs to be done on those counters or are
22:53
Speaker 1: they suited to handle the weight at the extra weight
22:56
Speaker 1: of the courts or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, it's a pretty easy Press says. People will
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Speaker 2: come in, We'll send somebody out to do a template
23:04
Speaker 2: on the countertaps, and then we handle lamin at countertap
23:08
Speaker 2: removal and new quarts install. Usually the same day they
23:12
Speaker 2: come out, remove the from like our lamin at countertaps
23:15
Speaker 2: and install the courts. There isn't any additional cabinetry work
23:19
Speaker 2: that needs to be done. The cabinets are fully capable
23:22
Speaker 2: of supporting the courtz. The only exception might be if
23:25
Speaker 2: you had a bar overhang, but the courtz fabricators they'll
23:30
Speaker 2: include brackets to support that, so there's really there's no
23:33
Speaker 2: extra work involved for the homeowner. It's pretty seamless.
23:37
Speaker 1: Okay, so quarts, you know, let's just go off script here.
23:42
Speaker 1: This is nobody's question. I guess I just want to
23:44
Speaker 1: dig into it. The different conor top materials. We still
23:48
Speaker 1: have laminate, but you're not seeing that used a whole
23:50
Speaker 1: lot anymore.
23:52
Speaker 2: Not as common it is. It is probably less than
23:55
Speaker 2: half the price of courts, so people are using it.
23:58
Speaker 1: And why I've got it mark, that's why it's there.
24:01
Speaker 1: In fact, I guess that's probably why the previous owners
24:04
Speaker 1: installed it and I haven't removed it. Still there. I
24:07
Speaker 1: had a realtor come through, Oh man, I don't remember
24:11
Speaker 1: three four years ago, and I don't even think about it.
24:13
Speaker 1: You know, it's my house. I'm sure you've got places
24:15
Speaker 1: in your house. You just don't think about it. It's
24:17
Speaker 1: your home. And then somebody comes through and this realtor
24:21
Speaker 1: came through just I needed a price. I needed to
24:23
Speaker 1: know what the house would sell for if I wanted
24:25
Speaker 1: to do that. And she's a friend, she's been on
24:28
Speaker 1: the show. I've called her out for this. But she
24:30
Speaker 1: walked through and she couldn't. She stopped in my kitchen
24:33
Speaker 1: to just stare at the counters, and then she walked through,
24:35
Speaker 1: and then she stopped and came back and she said, Dan,
24:37
Speaker 1: why do you have these counters? These need to be replaced,
24:41
Speaker 1: These need to be Oh now I can't look at
24:43
Speaker 1: them the same anymore. But anyway, there's lamb in it.
24:46
Speaker 1: Some of us do that. But we got quarts. We
24:50
Speaker 1: talked about that. Is that the next lowest in price?
24:54
Speaker 1: Or I mean, what are the other options out there?
24:55
Speaker 1: When it comes to counters.
24:57
Speaker 2: Granted is still an option? Granted, Yeah, we don't sell
25:00
Speaker 2: much granted anymore. Everything seems to have.
25:02
Speaker 1: Shape moved up from granted.
25:05
Speaker 2: Granted is similar in price, maybe just a little bit less.
25:09
Speaker 2: But quartz is just a more modern material, and a
25:12
Speaker 2: lot of the design world is more modern right now,
25:16
Speaker 2: a lot of lighter whites and grays, and grantede is
25:20
Speaker 2: a you know, natural product from the earth and it's
25:22
Speaker 2: more earth tones, So I think from a design standpoint,
25:26
Speaker 2: quartz is more popular in that regard. The other benefit
25:29
Speaker 2: is it's super consistent. So if you go into the
25:32
Speaker 2: showroom and you look at a sample of quartz, that's
25:35
Speaker 2: what your courts is going to look like. Where granted,
25:37
Speaker 2: you know each one is different, so you know, usually
25:40
Speaker 2: involves going to view a slab and you know, select
25:44
Speaker 2: that slab for your home.
25:45
Speaker 1: All right, So that's I did want to get to that,
25:47
Speaker 1: but you've covered that already. So the quartz, when I
25:50
Speaker 1: see the little the little sample that you've got in
25:52
Speaker 1: the showroom, that's what I'm going to get. Yes, yep,
25:56
Speaker 1: but granted I need to see a slab really because
25:59
Speaker 1: you're maybe all kinds of different.
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Speaker 2: Yep, everyone is different.
26:02
Speaker 1: All right, all right, sounds good. I think that answers
26:06
Speaker 1: Sharon's question. She doesn't need to do anything extra. The
26:09
Speaker 1: counter should be able to support that weight, and let's
26:12
Speaker 1: move on. I've got a question from Gabe. He says,
26:14
Speaker 1: I'm going to be redoing the kitchen. I'm curious about
26:17
Speaker 1: the pros and cons of quartz versus granite versus laminate.
26:21
Speaker 1: We covered a little bit of that, but I don't
26:23
Speaker 1: think we really got into tons of the pros and
26:25
Speaker 1: cons of quarts versus granite versus laminate. What do we
26:29
Speaker 1: got Mark?
26:29
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Lambinet's going to be the most cost effective
26:33
Speaker 2: and it is a very durable product, So I don't want.
26:36
Speaker 1: To It looks amazing in the right finish, right, And yeah,
26:39
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different style options out there.
26:42
Speaker 2: There really is, and I actually think it's having a
26:44
Speaker 2: little bit of a comeback. We're seeing it, you know,
26:46
Speaker 2: used in more areas where just the you know, the
26:49
Speaker 2: uniqueness of the design, the different.
26:52
Speaker 1: I've been talking about it on the show more Okay,
26:54
Speaker 1: and it's just really driving up the deed and the
26:57
Speaker 1: desire for more of this this. You know, people want
27:01
Speaker 1: my kitchen in their home. Oh, I bet the oak cab.
27:04
Speaker 1: You said that sarcastically, the eighties oak. And I don't
27:08
Speaker 1: even know what color. Oh, this is so embarrassing. I
27:10
Speaker 1: don't even know what color my laminate is supposed to be.
27:13
Speaker 1: It's kind of mushed to a given color now. But
27:16
Speaker 1: I don't think it was that in the beginning, because
27:18
Speaker 1: in the corners I can see there was a pattern
27:19
Speaker 1: on it. That's how old it is ow I gotta
27:22
Speaker 1: change it. It's embarrassing.
27:24
Speaker 2: Do you have avocado green appliances?
27:26
Speaker 1: No, not anymore. I covered those a few years ago.
27:29
Speaker 1: All right, So laminate is going to give me a
27:31
Speaker 1: good price point. Yes, a lot of different style options,
27:35
Speaker 1: but it's certainly not not the most common thing that
27:38
Speaker 1: you're seeing right now. There's a lot more common things.
27:41
Speaker 1: So we talked about quartz some of the benefits, I mean,
27:45
Speaker 1: consistency of color, and it's very modern in style. What
27:48
Speaker 1: else am I gaining with quartz?
27:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, with quartz, it's a non porous material, which people
27:55
Speaker 2: really like, and there's no ceiling that needs to be done.
27:58
Speaker 2: It's very resistant to any staining, doesn't crack or chip
28:03
Speaker 2: or scratch as easily as granite. So those are the
28:06
Speaker 2: main advantage.
28:07
Speaker 1: So grantite needs to be sealed. That's more porous.
28:11
Speaker 2: Yes, you don't have to seal it a lot. I
28:13
Speaker 2: think there's good sealers out there where you know there's
28:17
Speaker 2: it might last ten fifteen years, but it does need
28:19
Speaker 2: to be sealed, and it is a porous material.
28:21
Speaker 1: So I throw a steak on the counter or the
28:26
Speaker 1: let's say I didn't do that because I probably wouldn't
28:28
Speaker 1: do that in real life, and certainly I wouldn't say
28:31
Speaker 1: it on the radio that I did. Let's say I'm
28:33
Speaker 1: thawing a steak on the counter and the wrapping is
28:36
Speaker 1: kind of goofy and it kind of oozes out and
28:39
Speaker 1: there's you know, blood or whatever on the counter on
28:42
Speaker 1: it granite? Is that not a good thing If it's
28:45
Speaker 1: not been sealed, that can actually penetrate in and then
28:48
Speaker 1: it becomes part of my counter for a while.
28:50
Speaker 2: Yep, forever where the courts is non porous, so there's
28:53
Speaker 2: no risk there.
28:54
Speaker 1: What about staining and stuff.
28:56
Speaker 2: You can stain, granted, and I think you pass could
29:00
Speaker 2: stain quartz, but it's really unlikely.
29:03
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'd have to work at it. Yeah, with
29:05
Speaker 1: the quartz, but I could do it maybe right that
29:08
Speaker 1: i'd want to. But that's going to resist if the
29:11
Speaker 1: food prep or something like that gets on the counter.
29:13
Speaker 1: But that could penetrate into the granite, which is strange
29:17
Speaker 1: to think about. But I think a lot of us
29:19
Speaker 1: have rtten into that. I know we ran into that.
29:22
Speaker 1: I don't remember where we were. We were on vacation.
29:25
Speaker 1: This is a long time ago, but there was a
29:26
Speaker 1: granite countertop in like the little kitchenette area in the
29:30
Speaker 1: hotel and the kids, I mean this is fifteen twenty
29:34
Speaker 1: years ago. They left glass of water or pop or something.
29:37
Speaker 1: I think it was just water on the counter, but
29:39
Speaker 1: then it condensed on the old fide. It dripped on
29:43
Speaker 1: the we picked the cup up. At the end there's
29:45
Speaker 1: this big dark ring in the grand. It just evaporated out.
29:49
Speaker 1: But in the beginning, I freaked out, chewed out all
29:52
Speaker 1: the children, told them we can never go on vacation
29:54
Speaker 1: again because we're gonna have to pay for this expensive
29:56
Speaker 1: countertop and I tend to fly off the handle fast.
30:00
Speaker 1: Granite is going to give you some of those things
30:04
Speaker 1: very natural. Look, I mean that's a plus. It's not
30:06
Speaker 1: going to be a man made you know. It's not
30:08
Speaker 1: going to give that consistency. You're going to get some
30:10
Speaker 1: natural variance, which people go to natural wood. You know wood,
30:13
Speaker 1: Sure that same reason you want that natural beauty, you
30:16
Speaker 1: get that with granite. Should probably seal it from time
30:19
Speaker 1: to time. Ye, courts don't need to do that. You're
30:22
Speaker 1: going to get more consistent colors, more chip resistant.
30:25
Speaker 2: Yep.
30:26
Speaker 1: What about price? How do they compare price wise?
30:28
Speaker 2: Granted is slightly less there are you know, obviously different
30:33
Speaker 2: price groups and variables. So you know, you could choose
30:36
Speaker 2: a granite that's more expensive than the courts you're comparing
30:39
Speaker 2: it to, but on the average, grantite is slightly less.
30:42
Speaker 1: All right, So let's say a listener comes in or
30:45
Speaker 1: just anybody comes in to your showroom, or anybody you
30:48
Speaker 1: know east side of the state, to st episode at
30:50
Speaker 1: any showroom, they start talking about granite, and you mentioned
30:54
Speaker 1: needing to see a slab. How does that process? Look?
30:57
Speaker 1: How do you handle that here? How do I find
30:59
Speaker 1: a slab to go look at.
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Speaker 2: We work with different fabricators and they have basically a
31:04
Speaker 2: stack supply of slabs, and if you, you know, choose
31:06
Speaker 2: a certain colored granite, you can go look at samples
31:09
Speaker 2: there and select your piece.
31:11
Speaker 1: All right, perfect, that sounds good. All right. I've got
31:13
Speaker 1: one more quick question and I'm going to just you
31:16
Speaker 1: don't have any idea what this question is, but it's
31:18
Speaker 1: easy one. I'm curious about backsplashes right now? What do
31:22
Speaker 1: you see trending? You know, we're talking about the counter tops.
31:25
Speaker 1: What are you guys putting on the backsplashes in the kitchen?
31:28
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that.
31:29
Speaker 2: The majority of the backsplash is they're going to be tile.
31:31
Speaker 2: In the kitchen, you can do a full courtz backsplash,
31:34
Speaker 2: it's a little bit more difficult and challenging of an installation,
31:39
Speaker 2: but it is kind of a unique look and has
31:42
Speaker 2: its place for sure.
31:43
Speaker 1: But most of the time it's going to be tile. Yes,
31:46
Speaker 1: And do they go from the counter to the cabinets
31:47
Speaker 1: do they?
31:48
Speaker 2: Yes, they go from the counter to the cab all.
31:50
Speaker 1: The way up. Ye. Anything super trendy that you're seeing
31:54
Speaker 1: any material with the with the ceramic or the tile.
31:58
Speaker 2: There's just so many options of ceramic tile. You know,
32:02
Speaker 2: used to just kind of be like a subway tile
32:05
Speaker 2: brick set, and you know, and now we'll see different
32:07
Speaker 2: you know, maybe vertically stacked tiles.
32:11
Speaker 1: There's just really a lot of different options. Yeah, all right, Well,
32:15
Speaker 1: if you have any countertop work coming up, things that
32:19
Speaker 1: you think you're going to do in the home, bathroom, kitchen,
32:22
Speaker 1: something like that, a lot of options out there. Swing
32:26
Speaker 1: out to Village Custom Interiors. You can find them online
32:28
Speaker 1: at VILLAGECI dot com and you've got a contact form there.
32:33
Speaker 1: You've got all kinds of ways to reach out your
32:34
Speaker 1: phone number, and yeah, they can get their questions answered
32:37
Speaker 1: and start their process.
32:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here to help Mark.
32:41
Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me hang out with you guys and
32:43
Speaker 1: ask you these questions.
32:45
Speaker 2: You got my pleasure, all right.
32:46
Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
32:48
Speaker 1: I've got an overview on nailers, corded nailers, cordless nailers,
32:52
Speaker 1: and then we'll take a quick look at pneumatic nailers
32:54
Speaker 1: and help you figure out which one's right for you.
32:56
Speaker 1: That's all coming up next. Stick around, and we're back
33:05
Speaker 1: here listening to the recro Light Home improvement Show sponsored
33:07
Speaker 1: by Benjamin Moore, and we're in the home stretch here.
33:10
Speaker 1: On this last segment, I want to jump in one
33:12
Speaker 1: more time into a conversation that we've had about nail guns.
33:16
Speaker 1: We looked at in the past few weeks ago. We
33:18
Speaker 1: looked at the different sizes that they come in, and
33:20
Speaker 1: we helped you figure out which one was right for
33:22
Speaker 1: the things that you do. But when we did that,
33:25
Speaker 1: we really only look strictly at air nailers pneumatic nailers. Now,
33:29
Speaker 1: let's look at some of the alternatives out there so
33:31
Speaker 1: you can figure out which of those might be right
33:33
Speaker 1: for you. And let's start with corded electric nailers. This
33:37
Speaker 1: is a small part of the market when it comes
33:40
Speaker 1: to nail guns. A lot of these corded nailers they're
33:43
Speaker 1: brad nailers or electric staplers, or they're sometimes a combo.
33:47
Speaker 1: You know, I've got one that's a brad nailer, but
33:49
Speaker 1: there are combos out there, so just be aware of that.
33:52
Speaker 1: They're ideal for little things, you know, simple trim work,
33:54
Speaker 1: other small scale projects. The benefits are the fact that
33:58
Speaker 1: they're light, you know, super easy to maneuver in a space.
34:02
Speaker 1: You don't have other extra things to bring with you.
34:04
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about batteries. You just got
34:06
Speaker 1: the extension cord and the nailer. They're ready to go
34:09
Speaker 1: the minute you plug them in. There's no downtime waiting
34:12
Speaker 1: for a compressor to kick in or fill up. They
34:15
Speaker 1: provide consistent power. There's no battery that could run down
34:18
Speaker 1: things like that. So those are the positives. On the downside,
34:21
Speaker 1: they don't provide an absolute ton of power. They don't
34:24
Speaker 1: provide much power at all. Really, you know, they'll do
34:26
Speaker 1: what they need to do. But yeah, a lot of
34:28
Speaker 1: the times when I would use mine, you know, and
34:30
Speaker 1: try to stretch it and make it work on surfaces
34:32
Speaker 1: that we're probably pushing it a bit, you know, thicker
34:35
Speaker 1: trim stuff like that. In a lot of those instances,
34:38
Speaker 1: it wouldn't drive the nail all the way into the wood,
34:40
Speaker 1: so I'd have to usually go back with a nail
34:42
Speaker 1: set to counter sync all the heads. So a little
34:45
Speaker 1: bit frustrating there. Overall, these corded electric nailers, they're going
34:48
Speaker 1: to be suitable for small scale, you know DIY projects,
34:52
Speaker 1: light work stuff like that, not for professionals. They're way
34:55
Speaker 1: cheaper than buying a compressor and a pneumatic nail gun.
34:58
Speaker 1: But don't kids yourself. They're definitely a niche tool for
35:01
Speaker 1: a very specific, you know, small scale situation. All right, now,
35:04
Speaker 1: let's look at cordless nailers, you know, battery powered nailers.
35:07
Speaker 1: These have been gaining a ton of popularity over the
35:10
Speaker 1: last little bit because they're convenient and they work really well.
35:14
Speaker 1: They provide much more power than the corded nailers that
35:17
Speaker 1: we just spoke about, and because of that, they're suitable
35:20
Speaker 1: for many, many, many more projects. So they'll cover everything
35:23
Speaker 1: from light duty trim work all the way up to
35:26
Speaker 1: heavier duty applications. Now, they don't match the power of
35:30
Speaker 1: pneumatic tools for the most demanding projects out there, but
35:33
Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, for most DIY projects
35:36
Speaker 1: and a lot of professional stuff, these are going to
35:39
Speaker 1: work really well. Some of the other pros that I
35:41
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned is that they provide great mobility. I mean,
35:45
Speaker 1: don't really need to say that, but you know, think
35:47
Speaker 1: about it. You don't need an air compressor, you don't
35:49
Speaker 1: need hoses, you don't need an extension cord. You just
35:51
Speaker 1: grab the nailer and you're good. This also reduces set
35:55
Speaker 1: up time and downtime is eliminated because you're not waiting
35:59
Speaker 1: for a compressor to pressureize or anything like that. Also, obviously,
36:03
Speaker 1: another great plus or pro is that you don't need
36:05
Speaker 1: to be in a location that has power. So if
36:08
Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff you do, or you find
36:10
Speaker 1: yourself in those situations, this might be perfect for you,
36:13
Speaker 1: or would be perfect. It's way better than trying to
36:16
Speaker 1: use an electric nailer or even a compressor out there
36:21
Speaker 1: if you don't have power. That's one long extension cord.
36:24
Speaker 1: So that's where these really shine. Like most corded models,
36:27
Speaker 1: you know, this would be the last thing, last big pro.
36:30
Speaker 1: The corded models are going to do the same thing too.
36:33
Speaker 1: They're quieter than pneumatic nailers. All right, downsides to the
36:37
Speaker 1: battery powered nailers the cordless ones. The downside's going to
36:40
Speaker 1: be the price. They're typically way more expensive than pneumatic nailers,
36:44
Speaker 1: and I know you can find cheaper ones, but a
36:47
Speaker 1: recognizable brand is usually going to cost you more. And also,
36:51
Speaker 1: if you have other cordless equipment, other battery powered equipment,
36:54
Speaker 1: you're likely going to want to stay within the brand
36:57
Speaker 1: and line if that's possible with your nailer, and that's
37:01
Speaker 1: going to make the batteries interchangeable in most situations, so
37:04
Speaker 1: that can be a big plus, but it also might
37:06
Speaker 1: mean that you've got to jump into a brand that
37:08
Speaker 1: could be pricier than other ones out there. You know,
37:10
Speaker 1: everything I have at home is Dwault, and a Dwault
37:13
Speaker 1: cordless nailer is going to be in the mid two
37:15
Speaker 1: hundreds or so. I can find cheaper ones, but then
37:18
Speaker 1: I need you know, the batteries aren't interchangeable, and that
37:20
Speaker 1: would be a deal breaker for me. I want at
37:22
Speaker 1: least to have the benefit of having all these extra
37:24
Speaker 1: batteries that I've got for my other equipment be able
37:26
Speaker 1: to work in the nailer and vice versa. So that
37:29
Speaker 1: would push me into a price bracket that's higher than
37:32
Speaker 1: I would probably want to go. Another downside with these
37:34
Speaker 1: is battery life and replacement expense. You know, the batteries
37:37
Speaker 1: do run down and need charging. That can be a pain,
37:40
Speaker 1: But the battery packs themselves eventually fail and need replacement
37:44
Speaker 1: down the road, and that's usually not inexpensive. Third downside,
37:47
Speaker 1: final downside is weight. They're usually a fair amount heavier
37:51
Speaker 1: than the other options. All right, last nailer that we're
37:53
Speaker 1: going to look at very briefly is the old standby,
37:56
Speaker 1: a pneumatic or air nailer. We already talked about these
37:59
Speaker 1: in previous epithes, but they're still regarded as the gold
38:02
Speaker 1: standard when it comes to nail guns. You know, they're
38:04
Speaker 1: going to give you consistent power, speed, and reliability. You've
38:07
Speaker 1: got all of those pros going for you. For the
38:10
Speaker 1: cons there's really just the additional setup. You know, you've
38:13
Speaker 1: got to set up that air compressor, haul those hoses around.
38:15
Speaker 1: That can be a pain. You've got to tolerate the
38:18
Speaker 1: noise of the compressor kicking on and off and so on.
38:21
Speaker 1: Those would be some of the main downsides for me.
38:24
Speaker 1: I'd love a cordless nailer, but it's just not worth
38:26
Speaker 1: the extra money for the work that I do. My
38:28
Speaker 1: pneumatic nailor and compressor both priced out lower than a
38:32
Speaker 1: good cordless nailer would have. And now I've got the
38:35
Speaker 1: added functionality, that extra functionality of having the compressor. So
38:39
Speaker 1: many things I can do with that. So for me,
38:41
Speaker 1: that was the answer. What's the answer for you, Well,
38:44
Speaker 1: that's for you to decide. It's America. You get to
38:46
Speaker 1: do it that way. All right. That's all the time
38:48
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