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Battling Dust and Repainting Kitchen Cabinets: Step-by-Step Guide · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. Good morning. You are listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Repco Light Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to jump right into things. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we're talking about at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the show. The last half of the show, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be walking through a kitchen cabinet repaint project.
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  Speaker 1: Step by step. I'm going to lay it all out
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  Speaker 1: everything you need to know to decide if this is
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  Speaker 1: a project you can tackle, that you should tackle, if
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  Speaker 1: it's a project maybe you should hire out. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to lay it all out. Coming up in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit right now, I want to talk about dust. I've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of frustration right now and a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a confession to make you know. My house is dusty,
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  Speaker 1: really dusty. I mean, I can't stress that enough. All right,
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  Speaker 1: it's like the dust bowl in there. A couple weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: for example, I took my own advice and I spring
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  Speaker 1: cleaned one of the rooms that we've got in the house,
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  Speaker 1: and I went through it thoroughly. We vacuumed, we moved furniture,
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  Speaker 1: we washed walls, we dusted, we did it all really well.
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  Speaker 1: We washed windows, we did all of that, and then
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  Speaker 1: within a week everything's covered with dust again. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. I don't know how. It's horrible, it's everywhere. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me glad that I'm short. In fact, let
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  Speaker 1: me let me get off on a quick tangent here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know short people catch a lot of grief.
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  Speaker 1: We do, We really do. Most of the time. It's
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  Speaker 1: well meaning, you know, everybody thinks it's well meaning. But
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  Speaker 1: we do get teased all the time. And that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine whatever. You know, Ali, I can only speak
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  Speaker 1: for me. You know, I'm not speaking for all short people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not their short or they're they're spokesperson, they're short person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not their spokesperson. I'm not king of the short people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get to just say what works for me
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  Speaker 1: and it works for all of us. Now we are
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  Speaker 1: individuals and everybody's got their own decisions to make. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind it. I can deal with it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can roll with it. But you know what, the
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  Speaker 1: more I think about it, the more I think it's
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  Speaker 1: actually ideal. You know, it's not just something that I
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  Speaker 1: kind of make fun of and laugh about. I think
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  Speaker 1: I've got the ideal situation. You know. For one thing,
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking with somebody about traveling, you know,
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  Speaker 1: by plane, and he hates it. Hates air travel. Why
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  Speaker 1: does he hate it? He hates it because he's a
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  Speaker 1: tall person. He can never get comfortable in the seats.
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  Speaker 1: There's no leg room. Guess what. I can sit in
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  Speaker 1: the seat in the airplane with my legs stretched out
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  Speaker 1: fully and my toes extended, and I still can't touch
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  Speaker 1: the back of the seat in front of me. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about leg room, I mean, my goodness, I can swim
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  Speaker 1: in that seat. My space on the plane feels like
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  Speaker 1: my living room at home. I've got so much legroom,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy. Same thing with traveling by car. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I hear tall people complaining NonStop from the back seat.
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  Speaker 1: My legs don't fit. Can you move your seat forward?
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  Speaker 1: They're always asking things like that, you know, Can I
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  Speaker 1: move my seat forward? Of course I cannot move my
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  Speaker 1: seat forward. My seat has been adjusted at the dealership
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  Speaker 1: to go further forward than other seats so that I
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  Speaker 1: can reach the pedals. I can't move it forward anymore
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  Speaker 1: than it already. Is what you're experiencing right now is
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  Speaker 1: more leg room than normal in the back of my car,
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  Speaker 1: and you still don't have enough. Guess what. I am
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  Speaker 1: always comfortable no matter where I'm going, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: vehicle I'm riding in. I could live in a back
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  Speaker 1: seat and feel perfectly at peace. So being short has
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  Speaker 1: tremendous benefits, and one of them gets me back to
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  Speaker 1: my dust problem. I'm glad I'm short because a number
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  Speaker 1: of furniture pieces in the room that I spring cleaned
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  Speaker 1: and around the house. For Heaven's sake, you know, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much most furniture pieces are too tall for me to
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  Speaker 1: see the tops of them. You know, tall people living
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  Speaker 1: in my home. There's no tall people living in my home.
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  Speaker 1: What am I talking about tall people visiting my home?
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  Speaker 1: Should such a thing happen, they would be in a
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  Speaker 1: constant state of sadness or just spare over the dust
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  Speaker 1: that they would see. Me. I am blissfully unaware of
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  Speaker 1: most of it. So that's one blessing, one little blessing
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  Speaker 1: that I've got. Little blessing. It's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a joke there, anyway. The dust is driving me nuts.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know how I got off on that.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. The dust is driving me nuts, and
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  Speaker 1: I can hear a lot of you out there. You
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  Speaker 1: know a number of you are probably shouting at me
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  Speaker 1: right now and telling me to get the air ducts
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  Speaker 1: cleaned out and that that's going to fix everything. But
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  Speaker 1: will it? Will it? Will that fix everything? We're going
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  Speaker 1: to dig into that next week, actually, and the answer
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  Speaker 1: might surprise you. But right now, let's focus on dust.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Where does it come from? And what
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  Speaker 1: can I do about it? And I know that sounds
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  Speaker 1: really ridiculous that we're going to talk about dust. If
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  Speaker 1: you've got a dusty home, this is all really good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised at a lot of this. I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's not the that's not necessarily you know, the definitive, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the determiner of whether this is good info. If I'm surprised,
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  Speaker 1: I think you'll be ride with me. This is good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about dust. What is it? Sounds really dumb,
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  Speaker 1: but like I said, it's interesting, more interesting and grosser
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  Speaker 1: than you might think. So dust isn't just one thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just a thing you know that's dust. It's
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  Speaker 1: a mix of stuff. It's dead skin cells, it's tiny
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  Speaker 1: textile fibers from your clothes, your furniture, your carpet. It's
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  Speaker 1: pet dander, it's pollen, it's soil, it's hair, it's all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of microscopic debris from just living your life. And
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  Speaker 1: then on top of all of that, to make it
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  Speaker 1: a little weirder and maybe a little grosser, you've got
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  Speaker 1: dust mites. You know you do. You've got dust mites.
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  Speaker 1: Now you may be thinking, oh, I think not. We
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  Speaker 1: are meticulous without cleaning, and I can guarantee you, you
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  Speaker 1: filthy little man, there are no dust mites here. Well
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  Speaker 1: you can think that, you can think that, but you're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You've got dust mites. I've got dust mites. We're all
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  Speaker 1: the same here. You know, nobody's better than everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: You've got dust mites sodo either everywhere, live in all
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  Speaker 1: that dust and debris that we've got. They feed off
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  Speaker 1: of our dead skin cells and they add to the
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  Speaker 1: dust in our homes. You know, they're waste yay, and
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  Speaker 1: their body parts become part of that dust cloud floating
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  Speaker 1: around our homes. So first thing you need to understand
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  Speaker 1: about dust is that you don't need to open your
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  Speaker 1: windows for the dust to get in, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: keeping your windows closed doesn't keep it out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sealed up homes with closed windows can build up dust
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  Speaker 1: faster than you'd expect. And it's all because a huge
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  Speaker 1: portion of the dust that we're living with is all
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  Speaker 1: created inside the home. It's created by you and your family,
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  Speaker 1: your pets, those wonderful little dust mites, and all the
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  Speaker 1: soft surfaces and belongings that make your house feel like home.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So the first bit of good news that
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  Speaker 1: I have for everybody is that you're probably at least
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  Speaker 1: maybe not messy like you might be thinking. You're not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a filthy pig. It's just that you're alive and
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  Speaker 1: you're living in your home, and that generates dust. So
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  Speaker 1: give yourself a break. You're not a pig. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: might just be alive, you know, in generating dust. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's dig a little deeper now into the sources of
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  Speaker 1: this dust, and let's start with the people. And this
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  Speaker 1: is really fun. Every human being sheds about one point
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  Speaker 1: five grams of dead skin cells every day. Now, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a lot, maybe, but it adds up.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, for an average person living an average lifespan,
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  Speaker 1: it's like eighty pounds eighty pounds of skin in our lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: You know, skin cells that we're shedding. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of me that's getting spread around the house on a
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  Speaker 1: regular basis and inhaled by everybody. Right, it's more than
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  Speaker 1: enough to feed a thriving dust might population. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get back to the sources of dust. We've covered people.
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  Speaker 1: Another big one is our pets. Right, same story as
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  Speaker 1: with people. If you've got a dog or cat, especially
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  Speaker 1: one that sheds, you've got another significant contributor to dust.
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  Speaker 1: So Maggie, my golden retriever, who sheds like it's a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual gift of hers she's a problem, at least in
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  Speaker 1: this regard. She's a wonderful problem, but she is contributing
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  Speaker 1: to my dust problem. So you've got people, You've got
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  Speaker 1: pets causing dust. Then there are the fabrics in your home.
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  Speaker 1: You know, your furniture, your betting, your rugs, your curtains,
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  Speaker 1: your clothes, all of those create dust. Because every time
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  Speaker 1: you sit down, roll over in bed, walk across the carpet,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you do any of those things, tiny fibers are
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  Speaker 1: breaking loose. You know, they float into the air, they
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  Speaker 1: settle onto surfaces, and they add to that dust cocktail
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  Speaker 1: that we've all been brewing. All right, last one I
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  Speaker 1: want to get to is what about your HVAC system. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: your HVAC system plays into this. You know, every time
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  Speaker 1: your furnace or your AC kicks on, it's moving air
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  Speaker 1: through a network of ducks, and depending on the condition
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  Speaker 1: of those ducks, that air might be picking up more
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  Speaker 1: than just warmth or coolness on the way to your
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  Speaker 1: living room. You know, over time, dust can settle in
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  Speaker 1: those ducks, especially in bends and dead spots, and when
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  Speaker 1: the system turns on, some of that dust gets stirred
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  Speaker 1: up and blown into your space, or some they're just
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  Speaker 1: not sealed well, and dust from attic spaces or whatever
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  Speaker 1: can get pulled into them and then redistributed through the home.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's your furnace filter. You know, it's meant
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  Speaker 1: to catch airborne particles, but not all filters are created equal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, basic fiberglass ones will grab the bigger stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but they let the finer particles slip right through. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if it's been a while since you've changed your filter,
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  Speaker 1: or if you're using one of those low efficiency ones,
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  Speaker 1: that could be part of the problem. Filters with a
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  Speaker 1: nerve rating between eight and eleven can strike a good balance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trapping more of that fine dust without choking
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  Speaker 1: your airflow down. Now, on a quick side note, we
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  Speaker 1: have talked about this before. Bumping up to a higher
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  Speaker 1: nerve rated filter. It might seem like a great way
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate dust, but it actually can put added strain
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  Speaker 1: on your HVAC system. You know, a filter that's too
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  Speaker 1: restrictive can reduce airflow and make your system work harder
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  Speaker 1: than it should. So don't just go all in on
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  Speaker 1: the highest nerve rating out there. If you're not sure
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  Speaker 1: what your system can handle, check with the folks who
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  Speaker 1: installed it or a qualified HVAC Technician's always better to
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  Speaker 1: be safe than to create bigger problems trying to solve
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  Speaker 1: a different problem, all right, So bottom line, with all
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  Speaker 1: the HVAC stuff, if you feel like you're dusting constantly,
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  Speaker 1: your HVAC system might be quietly working against you, circulating
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  Speaker 1: dust instead of trapping it. So it's worth checking your filter.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're curious what's inside those ducks, there are
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  Speaker 1: some cheap little inspection cameras that you can grab online.
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  Speaker 1: You can feed them down the ducks they've got little
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  Speaker 1: lights on them. They'll snake their way around and send
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  Speaker 1: images directly back to your phone, or sometimes they've got
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  Speaker 1: their own little monitor that they come with. They're a
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  Speaker 1: great way to scope out what's going on in there.
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  Speaker 1: And they're usually like twenty five to fifty bucks, so
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  Speaker 1: super inexpensive, and you'll find a lot of other uses
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  Speaker 1: for them. So snag one, toss it in your ducks
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  Speaker 1: and take a peek, just in case your system's hiding
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  Speaker 1: a few decades worth a gunk. All right, what about
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  Speaker 1: duct cleaning? Is it worth it? Would that fix the problem? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to dig into that next week. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of questions that I want to ask about it,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things I want to dig into, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll cover that next week on the show. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: before you run out and hire that service done for
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  Speaker 1: your home, hang around till next week to see if
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  Speaker 1: it's going to solve your problem. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: next weekend. All right, last thing I want to mention
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  Speaker 1: on this segment is that dry air can play into
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  Speaker 1: the problem. It doesn't create more dust, but it does
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  Speaker 1: keep it floating around longer. Now, the sweet spot for
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  Speaker 1: humidity is forty to fifty percent. If your home is
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  Speaker 1: sitting at thirty percent or lower, you might want to
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  Speaker 1: look into a humidifier that's going to help you. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not sure where you're at, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of humidity in your home, A ten dollars hygrometer is
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you. Go grab one online that'll let
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  Speaker 1: you know exactly where you're sitting. All right, all of
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  Speaker 1: that is good info, but it doesn't really help us
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  Speaker 1: unless we get to the action steps. What can I
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  Speaker 1: do about the dust in my home? We're going to
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  Speaker 1: get to all of that after a quick break. Stay
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  Speaker 1: right there and we're back. You're listening to the Repco
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  Speaker 1: Light home improvement shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about dealing with dust in your home. I hate
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  Speaker 1: dust in my home. It drives me nuts. Makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm a filthy pig. Like my family is
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  Speaker 1: a filthy well, a group of filthy pigs. Whatever that's called,
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  Speaker 1: a herd of pigs. I don't know what that's called.
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  Speaker 1: A group of pigs, a bunion of pigs. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound right anyway. A group of pigs, filthy pigs. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we feel like. That's what I think of us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I see photos of all of us together,
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  Speaker 1: I think, wow, look at all those filthy pigs. I
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  Speaker 1: know what they do in a home. I know the
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  Speaker 1: dust they create drives me nuts. I hate it. So
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  Speaker 1: last segment we dug into the sources of dust in
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  Speaker 1: our homes and what makes it worse in all of
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  Speaker 1: those things. Now, let's get to some practical steps to
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  Speaker 1: help you reduce it dramatically. And I can't believe that
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  Speaker 1: I just suggested that a photo of my children all
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  Speaker 1: gathered together reminded me of filthy pigs. I am so sorry, children.
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  Speaker 1: I was just being colorful with my language, trying to
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun with a topic that's
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  Speaker 1: not terribly fun anyway. Let's get to some tips that
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  Speaker 1: will help you reduce dust in your home and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: reduce it drastically. And let's start with one that's bound
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  Speaker 1: to be a big hit. Vacuum regularly. Now. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to use the word regularly a lot in the next
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  Speaker 1: couple minutes here, and in this instance, the word regularly
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  Speaker 1: means way more often than you're already doing. So, if
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  Speaker 1: you've got a dust problem, vacuum way more often than
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  Speaker 1: you're already doing vacuum more and make sure you're using
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  Speaker 1: a vacuum that has a HEPA filter. All right, that
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  Speaker 1: is not rocket science. That is not startling news. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows that, that's not breaking news. But here are some
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  Speaker 1: things that you might not realize and it might help you.
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  Speaker 1: A bag vacuum system, you know, the old fashioned bag vacuums,
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  Speaker 1: Those are better, significantly better at trapping dust than the
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  Speaker 1: fancy bagless systems unless you drop a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: and go with a really good, high end bagless vacuum,
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  Speaker 1: but the standard bagless vacuums that most of us have.
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  Speaker 1: A bagged system is generally going to trap and keep
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  Speaker 1: that dust better, not just the emptying of it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen the commercials where you empty the canister, the
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  Speaker 1: bagless canister, and dust goes everywhere. Because on the commercials,
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  Speaker 1: everybody empties that in their home. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 1: doing that, that's probably where your dust problem is starting from.
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  Speaker 1: Don't empty your canister in your home, do that outside.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, a bagged system makes that much easier.
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  Speaker 1: There's way less dust created. But also just in pulling
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  Speaker 1: the dust and keeping it contained in the system as
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  Speaker 1: you're working, as you're vacuuming, A bagged system does a
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  Speaker 1: better job. So if you're in the market for a
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  Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner and you do have a dust problem, something
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  Speaker 1: to consider. You know, the bag system. They're not as cool,
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  Speaker 1: not as flashy, but it does at least trap and
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  Speaker 1: hold the dust better. So either way, whatever vacuum system
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  Speaker 1: you've got, vcuum more often, and make sure that you're
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  Speaker 1: routinely replacing or cleaning your HEPA filter. That's going to
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  Speaker 1: depend on your vacuum cleaner, whether you clean it or
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  Speaker 1: replace it. Dig into that and make sure that you're
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  Speaker 1: maintaining that. Okay, that's the first one. Second, let's just
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  Speaker 1: stay right here with the vacuums. You've got to not
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  Speaker 1: just vacuum your carpets and rugs regularly, you also need
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  Speaker 1: to vacuum your upholstered furniture. And when you're doing that,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget to get under the cushions. So do all
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  Speaker 1: of that regularly, and regularly in this instance means once
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  Speaker 1: a week, So once a week you're vacuuming the couch,
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  Speaker 1: the chairs, anything that's upholstered and under the cushions. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the ideal. It sounds pretty bad, but it gets worse.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got pets, you need to do it even
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  Speaker 1: more often than that. I have pets, I probably will
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  Speaker 1: never turn the vacuum off from the way things look.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, those are two things. A third thing dust smarter.
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  Speaker 1: Use a damp microfiber cloth instead of a feather duster,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dry dusting. Just flings the dust back in
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  Speaker 1: the air, right, trap it in the damp cloth, and
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  Speaker 1: then toss it straight into the washer. That's the third idea.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth idea, and I'm going to warn you this one's depressing.
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  Speaker 1: At least it was depressing to me. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the first two that I talked about. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to wash your betting and your curtains regularly. There's that
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  Speaker 1: word again. Once a week is ideal for sheets. That's regularly.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So once a week you're washing your sheets. Every couple
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: of weeks you're washing curtains and throws and all of
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Oh my goodness. I got to decide how
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: much I hate dust, because it's either tolerate the dust
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: or spend the rest of my life cleaning. I don't know.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Trying to decide which one's worse anyway. Sixth, moving on,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: simplify your space. You know, if you have a lot
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: of fabric heavy furniture and you are considering, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: getting new furniture, maybe consider switching to leather or wood pieces.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: You know, they're just not going to hold dust the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: same way. That might help you. Seventh, use air purifiers
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: in high traffic areas. You know, this is not rocket science.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: They do work. I've got one, it's working overtime. I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: need more, or I need a bigger one. But try
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: an air purifier that can help. Eighth, control your humidity.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: You know we talked about that in the last segment.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: If it's too dry, dust hangs in the air. So
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: make sure that you've got the right humidity level, but
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: don't make it too high because if it's too damp,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you feed the dust mites that I said everybody has,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and you also risk mold. So keep it between forty
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and fifty percent in your home. That's a great way
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to go. Ninth, make sure you're swapping out your furnace
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: filters regularly. And tenth, what about cleaning out your air ducks.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to do a deeper dive into
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: this next week. I've already said that I want to
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: talk about it because it's a popular idea out there
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and it makes sense, you know, it seems like it
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: would do a great job to clean up the air
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: in our homes, but it's also pricey. So before you
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: jump in and get somebody out to your home thinking
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: this is going to solve all of your dust problems,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: let's dig into it a little bit further. And we're
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: going to do that next week. And with that in mind,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: if any of you out there have had your ducks
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: cleaned and you've got feedback or opinions one way or
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the other, by all means share your experience, you can
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: email me at radio at repco Light dot com. I'm
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: looking for as much info as I can gather, So
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: if you've had a company come out and clean out
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: your air ducks, let me know what you thought about
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the results, Radio at repco Light dot com. All Right, dust,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it's a fact of life. It's not a sign that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you're doing a bad job keeping house. It just means
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: your home is lived in. But that doesn't mean we
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: need to be overrun by it. It can't be eliminated,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: but it can be controlled, So don't get discouraged. Try
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a few of these tips that we talked about. See
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: what works. Anything you do is probably gonna help. All right,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: let's take a break. When we come back, we're going
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: to be talking about painting your cabinets. It's a big project,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: but it's also a project with a huge payoff. We'll
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: talk about everything you need to know coming up next.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Stick around and we're back. You're listening to the Repcolite
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. Because you have impeccable,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: impeccable taste, you're incredibly wise. So yeah, you're listening to
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the show. And right now I want to jump into
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a major project. Over the last few weeks, we've talked
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: about things like choosing colors, you know, working with neutrals,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: painting ceilings, all kinds of stuff like that. But today
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: let's go to probably the pre eminent DIY home improvement project,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: painting your kitchen cabinets. I think this is one of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: those projects where I can safely say that we have
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: all either done this project at least once, or we've
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: thought about doing it, you know, multiple multiple times. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: think everybody falls into one of those two categories. Now,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: if you're in the second group, you know you've thought
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: about repainting your kitchen cabinets, but you haven't jumped in.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: You haven't done it yet. The rest of the show
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it's for you. It's gift to you. It's going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: help you. And if you have done the job before
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: but felt like you kind of struggled to get the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: great results that you wanted, well you get a gift too.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: This rest of the show is for you as well.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna win here. This is one of those best
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: bang for your buck projects that you can possibly tackle
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: around your home. You know, the cabinets in your kitchen
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: largely set the tone for how that space feels. They
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: take up so much wall space and they're the main
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: fixture in there. That's what really attracts our attention in
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that room. So with that said, what are yours saying?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: You know, if your kitchen cabinets are in good shape,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you know, they just look dated, maybe they're a color
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that you don't care for. If that's what you're dealing with,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you can fix it. For a relatively small investment for
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: paint and supplies, plus your time and labor, you can
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: completely change the entire look and feel of your kitchen.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: You'll be blown away at the difference, you know. Just
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: go online. I'm sure you've already done this because this
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is such a big project we all think about. But
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: just look at before and after pictures online, just google
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: them and it's sometimes hard to even imagine that that's
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the same kitchen and all that's changed is the kitchen
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: cabinet color. So huge difference. Not a big buy in
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: when it comes to expense, Yeah, there's expense involved, but
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it's not big compared to you know a lot of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: projects and what you get for it. It's a huge
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: bang for your buck. So let's walk through the process
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: step by step. And if you do want a free
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: downloadable guide, just head torepco light dot com backslash Cabinet
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Guide all one word cabinet guide, fill out that quick
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: form and then I'll email you the PDF and you'll
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: have all the info that you need to confidently tackle
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: this project. All right, One last thing to clarify before
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I jump in. There are a lot of different cabinet
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: situations out there. You know. You could have stained and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: varnished cabinets, you could have painted cabinets, who knows what else,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: you know, all kinds of different things. The steps I'm
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: going to describe in the rest of the show are
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: similar for all kitchen cabinet repaints, but I'm specifically going
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to talk about the project is if you've got stained
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: in varnished cabinets. All right, so some things will be
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: a little different if you've got painted cabinets. For the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: most part, it's going to be all the same. But
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I had to pick one of these to focus on,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: or you know, it's just too complicated. So we're looking
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: at this as if you've got stained in varnished cabinets,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and let's walk through the process. The very first step
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: in this whole kitchen cabinet repaint project is to remove
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and label everything. So start this project by removing your
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: cabinet doors, drawers, and all the hardware, the hinges, the screws,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the handles, everything. And here's the most important part of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: this step, label everything. You'd be amazed how differently things
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: can sit after years in one spot. Swapping them around
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: might seem harmless. It does seem harmless, seem harmless to me,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: but it can cause doors to hang crooked and open weirdly.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You don't want that, so use a numbering system. You know,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Cabinet one gets labeled one. If it has two doors,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: call them one L and one R, you know, left
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and right. Mark it on the back of the doors
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: where the hinge goes so it's hidden. Later, you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: just drop a piece of painter's tape in that hole
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: or on that spot, and then label it with a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: sharpie marker. Label it clearly, and then once you've done that,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: label your hardware. Two people forget the step. I forget
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: this step, But you've got a bag each cabinet's hinges
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and screws in its own plastic bag and mark it
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: with the matching numbers so that it stays with the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: cabinet door that it came from for extra safety. If
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you really want to be good and methodical and complete
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in the step, sketch a quick layout of your kitchen
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: so you know where each number belongs. When it's time
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to put it all back together, I skip this step.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Normally I number everything and then I forget which side
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I started on by the time I get everything ready
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to go back together, and I'm a little always a
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: little bit confused. If one starts on the left side,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of the kitchen or on the right side. So draw
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that little sketch that'll help you out. Now. I know
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: this part feels tedious, but you're gonna thank yourself later.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I've already implied it. I've already said it. I've skipped
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: this step. I've labeled doors but not the hardware. And
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I assure you, even though the hinges look identical, my
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: door's never hung is evenly after I painted them, So
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: swapping hinges really does make a difference. Keep them all together,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: same doors, same hinges, same screws. All right, that's step one.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Now it's time to dig into the actual prep work.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And I know prep work absolutely stinks. It does it stinks.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It's boring, it doesn't provide a lot of visual payoff.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It's not like rolling primer on or paint. You know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's just not fun like that. Prep work is pretty
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: much everybody's least favorite part of pretty much every project,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and yet it's crazy critical. You know, prep is easily
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: ninety percent of almost every project. It should be, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: ninety percent of the time you should be prepping and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: ten percent of the time you're actually applying the paint.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You just need to get used to That's that's how
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: it works. If you can accept that and stick to it,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you're going to have great results. All right, So doing
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the right prep work, it's all about laying a great foundation.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: If that foundation is poor, everything that you pile on
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: top of it, you know, everything you build on top
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of that foundation is going to be questionable. You know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: if you skip your prep and you don't adequately clean
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the surface, scuff sand or prime where you should be priming,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you just shouldn't expect great, long lasting results. And one
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: other thing to think about is if you do skimp
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: on the prep work and go ahead and just paint
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: anyway and then run into issues down the road, it's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: not easy to fix. At that point. You know, you've
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: got one shot, really at doing the foundational work, the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: prep work, right, So don't skimp on it. It feels boring.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I get all of that, but it's kind of you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: it's the make or break point of your project. Do
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the prep work, do it well, you'll have good results.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: All right, all of that blathering on, and let's get
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to the actual prep work. The first thing that really
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: falls into this prep work stage is going to be
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: cleaning the cabinets. You know, you've got years of cooking, grease,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: oily fingers, airborne gunk of all kinds. All of that's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: there in your kitchen and it's going to kill your
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: paint job if you skip the step and leave it
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: on there. So use a good degreaser spray nine. That's
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a great option. We carry it at Repcolite TSP tri
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: sodium phosphate. That works really well. Even you know don
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: dish soap will do. Scrub everything down using a Scotch
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: bright pad and then rinse everything with clean water and
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: let it dry completely. All right, that's your first step.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Now that you've got that done, scuff sanding is next,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and everybody groans when this step gets brought up. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: don't think anybody likes scuff sanding. Nobody likes scuff sanding.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: But there's good news. It is not as bad as
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you think. You are not trying to remove your varnish
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: or layers and layers of old paint. All you're trying
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to do is dull the surface down so your primer
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: has something to grab onto. A quick once over with
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: one eighty grit sandpaper should be perfect. And if your
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: brain is like mine and you need more details or
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a more clearly defined idea to work with. How about this.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: You should be able to scuff sand a typical cabinet
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: door in under a minute. It's not an intensive sanding,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you know, just zip over it, dull that surface down,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and you're good to go. When you've got that done,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: wipe off all that sanding dust with clean water and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: let it dry. Now, if you're going to use an
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: orbital sander for any sanding in this project, be sure
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that you're following that information that I laid out last week.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We talked about it on the show. I talked about
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: how you can avoid swirls in your finish when you're
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: using an orbital sander. So you can access a blog
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: post about it by heading to repco light dot com
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: backslash sand right, all one word sand right. That's got
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: all that info. So if you're going to use an
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: orbital sander on this project, make sure you're following what
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I laid out there. So check that out, all right,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: stuff sand the doors and then wipe them clean with
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a damp rag because you've got to get that sanding
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: done off of them. And I know there's probably a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: few people out there wondering you know, thinking about wait
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a minute, I had to wash them first, then I
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: wipe them again later. Why would I do that? Why
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: not just skip that first washing step and do it later.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Here's why you've got to do it in the order
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that I laid out. If you don't wash them first,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: but you go straight to scuff sanding, you're probably going
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to grind all kinds of whatever surface contaminants were there.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: You're going to grind them into the finish deeper and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that's going to cause problems down the road. So you've
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: got to wash them off first. Then you've got a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: scuff sand and then you've got to remove any of
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that sanding dust that you created by wiping them down
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to the damp rag and some clean water. All right.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Once you've got all of that done, you're finally ready
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to prime. And this is a crucial bonding step that
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: sets the tone for the whole project moving forward. So
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: choose the right primer for the surface. Sticks, quicksand from
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Repcolite or Benjamin Moore's Fresh Start. They're all excellent choices.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: You know, I love Sticks. It's an incredible bonding primer.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It really gives you a tremendous foundation that will will
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: help resist chipping down the road. So stick's absolutely a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: great way to go. Repcollate's Quicksand it's another great option.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It's one of those sneaky surprises for us. You know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: we engineered it to be a great all purpose primer,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: but we were really surprised to find out how well
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it bonds. So if you're looking to save some money
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and still get a primer with some good bonding power,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Repcollites Quicksand is a great option. So check into that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: whatever you use, whatever primer you use, once you put
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it on, you need the check for stains after it's dry.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: All right, we're talking about this project. You know. If
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: you remember is if you're painting over stained and varnished cabinets.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: If that's the case, it's possible that there could be
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: some discoloration from tannins bleeding through the wood. Now, the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: chances are the varnish that's on there, we'll seal them in,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: but you should still look for them. Maybe you stand
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: it through the varnish in some places, or maybe the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: deep open grain of some oak doors just didn't seal well.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Either way, see if you can detect any brownish discoloration
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: bleeding through your primer. And if you notice that, you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: don't need to panic. You just need to spot prime
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: those areas with bin Schalac primer or Repcolite zip prime.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: These products are going to seal those stains off and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: prevent them from bleeding through your final code. Now, you
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: could use zipprimer bin on the whole project, but they're
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: just not fun to work with. You know, there's a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: lot of odor to them. And if you can get
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: by with a regular water based primer for most of
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the work and then just spot prime a few little areas,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you're way better off. Now, most of the time there's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: not going to be any tannin stains bleeding through, but
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: you do want to catch it if there is. You know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: just putting another code of water based paint or primer
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: over top of them won't help. They'll keep bleeding through
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: unless you block them with the right primer, all right,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: so you've got to make sure you catch them. All right.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: That's halfway through the project. And I know it's a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: lot of information, a lot of product recommendations that I've given.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Remember you can find all of what I just said
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: online at repcolite dot com. Backslash cabinet Guide, So go
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and check that out. You can follow along with that.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: It'll just give you all the extra info that you
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: might might have missed as I'm rambling on and on.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to take a break right now. When we
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: come back, we're going to talk about sanding your primer,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: choosing the right finish paint, and then how to avoid
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: some of the biggest mistakes most people make in the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: final steps. It's all just ahead, stick around, Welcome back.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Repcolite home improvement show sponsored by
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore, And in the last segment, we walked through
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the first half of a kitchen cabinet repainting project. You know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: we covered everything from removing and labeling the doors and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: hardware all the way through cleaning, sanding, and we just
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: covered the priming step. Now, after your primer dries, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: before you go to your finished paint, there's an extra
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: step that a lot of people skip, and yet it's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: one that really, you know, separates a good finish from
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a great one. Here's the scoop. Once that primer's completely dry,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: it's got to be completely dry. Once it's completely dry,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: take some two to twenty grits sandpaper and just give
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: everything a light dusting, not removing the primer. You're just
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: smoothing the surface. You're knocking down little lumps, little goobers,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, that ended up in
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the primer. Do that light sanding, and then wipe everything
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: down with a damp cloth to remove the dust that
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: you created. All right, Once you've done that, finally comes
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: what most people think of as the fun part, you know,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the color or the paint part, you know, putting the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: finish on. When it comes to this point, use a
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  Speaker 1: high quality product like Benjamin Moore's Advance Cabinet Coat Scuff
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  Speaker 1: X if you're brushing and rolling it, or consider repco
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  Speaker 1: Light's Optima. All of these are great, excellent options for cabinets.
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  Speaker 1: They're durable, they're smooth, They're designed for beautiful finishes that
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  Speaker 1: will hold up. Now, as for tools, I'd recommend a
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  Speaker 1: good brush. You know, get a good brush like the
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  Speaker 1: Corona Excalibur, the Chinax brush. It's easy to clean up,
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  Speaker 1: it applies paint beautifully and evenly. Great brush to have.
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  Speaker 1: Don't skimp on your brush, get a good one. And
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to roller covers, I really love to
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  Speaker 1: recommend Wooster's microplush cup. These are ideal rollers when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to cabinets. They're going to give you a smooth,
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  Speaker 1: almost sprayed look. So Wooster's microplush covers great way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Apply a nice even coat of your finish. Don't rush it,
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  Speaker 1: don't glob it on, and once you've got that first
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  Speaker 1: coat down, just let it dry. You know, according to
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  Speaker 1: the manufacturer's instructions, whichever product you picked, it will tell
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  Speaker 1: you how long it needs to dry. Let it dry
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  Speaker 1: that time. You know, it's usually between three and six hours,
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  Speaker 1: depending on temperature and humidity. Now, after that paint has dried,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: here's another one of those steps that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people skip. You would ideally do another light sanding, just
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  Speaker 1: like you did after your primer dried. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same deal. You're going to take a two twenty
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  Speaker 1: grit sandpaper and just give it a light pass, you know,
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  Speaker 1: over your doors and drawers, just to knock down any
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  Speaker 1: bumps or imperfections that might be in that first coat
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  Speaker 1: of finish. Once you've done that light sanding, wipe everything
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  Speaker 1: down again with a damp rag, let it dry, and
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  Speaker 1: then you're ready for your final coat. Now, this step,
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  Speaker 1: this extra little sanding step in between, is what gives
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  Speaker 1: your cabinets that professional you know, buttery smooth, buttery smooth.
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  Speaker 1: We all want that. This is what gives it that
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  Speaker 1: buttery smooth finish. So don't skip this step. All right.
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  Speaker 1: After that light sanding, and after wiping that dust off,
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  Speaker 1: and after the doors dry down from your damp rag
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  Speaker 1: that you went over them with. Once that's already, you're
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  Speaker 1: ready for your second and final code of finish, and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to apply it just like you did the
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  Speaker 1: first one. Thin, even and smooth. If you've done your
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  Speaker 1: prep work right, the second coat is going to lay
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  Speaker 1: on beautifully and it's going to give your cabinets a
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  Speaker 1: really professional finished look. Now, when it's all said and done,
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  Speaker 1: you've got everything finished, everything painted, let everything dry thoroughly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a few days is best before you reinstall.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to help you avoid smudges, dings, you know, tackiness,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Definitely, you don't want to run into
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  Speaker 1: issues where you damage or mar the finish that you
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  Speaker 1: just painstakingly put on. These don't mar that by rushing
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  Speaker 1: to get them reinstalled, all right, So give it the
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  Speaker 1: proper amount of time to dry so that you can
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  Speaker 1: reinstall it without any of those concerns. And once you've
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  Speaker 1: got all of that done, you know it's time to
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  Speaker 1: bring it back together. So you're going to grab your
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  Speaker 1: layout sketch, grab those labeled bags of hardware, and then
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  Speaker 1: reassemble the kitchen. You know, everything needs to go back
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  Speaker 1: right where it came from, and it should be easy
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  Speaker 1: because you labeled everything really well at the beginning. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a matter of matching the numbers up at
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  Speaker 1: this point. And let me tell you, when everything is hung, leveled,
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  Speaker 1: and clicked back into place, it is a really good feeling.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're going to stand there in that freshly
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  Speaker 1: painted kitchen and you're gonna think, yeah, I did this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's amazing, really great project. You know, you're dropping
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  Speaker 1: some money for the paint, but you're not going through
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  Speaker 1: tons and tons of paint, tons and tons of primer,
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  Speaker 1: a relatively small investment when it comes to the paint
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  Speaker 1: side of things and the tools. All of that's a
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  Speaker 1: relatively low buy in. The payoff is absolutely huge. So
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  Speaker 1: really consider this project if you're interested in getting the
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  Speaker 1: full rundown again and you know something written down repcolit
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  Speaker 1: dot com backslash cabinet guide. You'll get everything everything that
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  Speaker 1: I spelled out, plus some all right, last thing I've
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  Speaker 1: got for you a few final things to keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind when you're rolling that paint on. Don't overload your
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  Speaker 1: roller cover. You know, too much paint means more drips
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  Speaker 1: and lapmarks. Plan on two coats. You know, people run
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  Speaker 1: into problems when they try to make one coat cover,
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  Speaker 1: and this is true for walls, for anything. You need
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  Speaker 1: to apply it at the right pace and just if
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  Speaker 1: it takes two coats, it's going to take two coats.
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  Speaker 1: If you try to make one coat cover by overloading
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  Speaker 1: the paint most of the time, if not all of
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  Speaker 1: the time, you're going to run into some problems down
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  Speaker 1: the road. So with your cabinets, plan on two coats
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  Speaker 1: of finish paint and just apply it evenly, and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to deal with less problems down the road. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's first. One second, and this is really important,
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  Speaker 1: don't try to wash and reuse your roller covers. That
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  Speaker 1: can work for some projects. I'm not a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of that regardless, you know, unless you're working outside or
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  Speaker 1: just plying primer or something like that. If you're working
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  Speaker 1: inside on your walls or for sure on your cabinets,
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  Speaker 1: get a new roller cover for every step of the process.
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  Speaker 1: They are not expensive, you know, it's a cheap buy
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  Speaker 1: in to give yourself some extra insurance to get a
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  Speaker 1: really nice finish. When you wash out a roller cover,
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  Speaker 1: it can clump a little bit and it can definitely
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  Speaker 1: affect how that finish looks. So when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: this project, use a new one for your primer, Use
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  Speaker 1: a new roller cover for your finish. Use new roller
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  Speaker 1: covers for the second code of finish. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate of better results down the road. If you do that,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably gonna cost you an extra ten bucks total.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there's that third thing. Give yourself some grace.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody is going to be inspecting your work with a
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  Speaker 1: magnifying glass except probably you. Everybody else. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: just think it looks great. So do your best and
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  Speaker 1: then let the little imperfections that do happen. Let them go.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's going to notice them. Don't point them out. I
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: point them out all the time. That's just dumb. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: else will see them. Don't point them out out and
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  Speaker 1: finally last thing, always always use a quality paint. It's
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  Speaker 1: easier to work with, it's going to give better coverage,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to last longer. All right, there you go,
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  Speaker 1: a complete guide, a complete audio guide to repainting your
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  Speaker 1: kitchen cabinets and getting great results. If you missed any
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  Speaker 1: of it, or if you want to check out something
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  Speaker 1: that you can just read read all those steps, head
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  Speaker 1: torepcolight dot com backslash Cabinet Guide and I've got it
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: all there for you. And of course swing by any
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Repcollite store. We're always happy to walk you through this
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: project or any project that you've got going. We'll help
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: you find the right products, the right tools. We'll give
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you all the info you need to get through your
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: project and get great results in the end. And if
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: you heard all of that, listen to all of those
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: steps and thought, man, that is beyond me. That is
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: not something I want to tackle. I'd love the results,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: but I don't want to do the work. If that's you,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: maybe you need to find the right pro And if
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that's the case, you can do that by heading to
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: repcollite dot com backslash find a painter. Just fill out
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: that form. I'll send you some names and you can
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: get that process rolling. And there you go. That's it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: That's going to do it. If you want to catch
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: this episode again, you can find it online at Repcolight
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: dot com. Just click the on the radio tab on
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the homepage and check it out. All right, whatever you
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: do today, make sure paints a part of it. And
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: remember your next project is way way easier than you
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: think it's going to be. Stop out at your nearest Rep.
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  Speaker 1: Col lighte and let us help. Have a great weekend, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening.