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Tackling Driveway Weeds and Q&A with Designer Andy Yates · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody, Happy weekend, and yeah, here we are again.
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Speaker 1: The summer continues to fly by. You've got to find
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Speaker 1: a way to slow it down, don't you think? You're
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Speaker 1: listening to the Repcolite Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore,
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Speaker 1: And this week on the show, I've got a lot
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Speaker 1: of different things for you. I'm going to be doling
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Speaker 1: out another George Job. And if you've got no idea
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Speaker 1: what in the world I'm talking about or what I
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Speaker 1: even said, I'll explain it all later. Don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: Just ride with me. I'll explain it at the end.
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Speaker 1: This week's George Job is focused on eradicating weeds from
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Speaker 1: the cracks in our driveways and possibly eradicating them for good.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to cost you much and it's not
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Speaker 1: going to take you too long, so it's a pretty
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Speaker 1: great solution and it's coming up at the end of
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Speaker 1: the show. I'm also going to be getting more of
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Speaker 1: your interior design questions answered by designer Andy Yates. That's
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Speaker 1: coming up next, But right now, I want to launch
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Speaker 1: kind of what I'm thinking might be a new segment
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Speaker 1: for opening the show. Not sure. If it really stinks,
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Speaker 1: then this will probably be the last time we ever
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Speaker 1: talked about it, will act like it never happened. But
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Speaker 1: if it's good, you'll hear about it every week. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm calling the segment the paint Point, and you'll see
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Speaker 1: why in just a minute. That's such a brilliant name.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal. Let me set the stage.
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Speaker 1: I've got two dogs living at my house, Maggie and Fern. Now,
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Speaker 1: Maggie is an angel created specifically by God to be
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Speaker 1: the greatest, gentlest, kindest golden retriever who's ever walked the planet.
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Speaker 1: And then the second dog that we have is Fern. Now,
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Speaker 1: Fern is almost the exact opposite of Maggie. She's a
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Speaker 1: little black lab and she seems to be, you know,
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Speaker 1: entirely I'm being nice when I say this. She seems
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Speaker 1: to be all muscle and no brains, absolutely no brains
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Speaker 1: at all. She's literally insane. The two of them couldn't
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Speaker 1: possibly be more different. Well, a couple of nights ago,
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Speaker 1: we take the dogs out, and Fern for it's just
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Speaker 1: absolutely two nuts to be let loose, you know, entirely
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Speaker 1: loose on the yard. But we're not in good enough
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Speaker 1: shape to kind of just snap a leash on her
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Speaker 1: and call that good. You know, she's strong, crazy strong.
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Speaker 1: She'll she'll pull us all over the place. We're pretty weak.
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Speaker 1: She's fast like a rocket, and we're slow. She's at
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Speaker 1: her peak. Physically, I'm on a slippery slope personally. Because
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Speaker 1: of all of that, we've devised a system. We have
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Speaker 1: a twenty foot rope that we attached to Fern's leash,
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Speaker 1: and then we kind of just let her run loose
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Speaker 1: on the yard. She pretty much always stays on the yard,
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Speaker 1: so that's pretty good. But if if she would happen
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Speaker 1: to leave or look like she was wandering off, we
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Speaker 1: have a plan. We have a strategy. We all drop
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Speaker 1: what we're doing and throw ourselves on the rope that's
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Speaker 1: running around, trailing around the yard, and eventually one of
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Speaker 1: us is going to be able to hold on long
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Speaker 1: enough to stop Fern. That's the plan. It's not a
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Speaker 1: great system, I admit that. And we're working on the training,
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Speaker 1: you know, and she's coming along, so you can save
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Speaker 1: the emails. We're working on training. She's coming along, but
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Speaker 1: she is still you know, she's still nuts. Anyway, we
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Speaker 1: go outside the other night and we hook her up
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Speaker 1: to her rope and we're all standing in a circle
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Speaker 1: around it. We're laughing, we're joking, you know, doing family stuff,
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Speaker 1: just kind of hanging back. We're having fun, no worries,
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Speaker 1: you know, no concerns, everything's great. And then suddenly, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what, Fern senses a squirrel, maybe in the backyard,
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Speaker 1: and she takes off like a rocket. Well, that rope
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Speaker 1: is uncoiling on the ground as she's running, and it,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's hissing like a snake. It's sizzling because
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Speaker 1: it's moving that fast, and almost, you know, the friction
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Speaker 1: is almost starting a fire. Basically, you know, picture this.
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Speaker 1: It looks like the anchorchain on a big ship, you know,
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Speaker 1: after they let the anchor go. It's flying that fast. Well,
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Speaker 1: I look down, and you've got to understand, this all
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Speaker 1: happened in the blink of an eye. I look down
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Speaker 1: and realize, to nobody's surprise out there, I'm sure none
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Speaker 1: of you are surprised. Nobody's going to lean back and seriously,
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Speaker 1: this is what happened to him. Now, I know you're
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Speaker 1: going to get this right off the bat. I look
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Speaker 1: down and of course, the rope is loosely coiled around
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Speaker 1: my face. Well, I've only got fractions of a second
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Speaker 1: to react and save myself from this. So I hop
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Speaker 1: from one foot to the other, trying to extract myself
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Speaker 1: from the rapidly tightening coils. And then suddenly, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm out of time. The coil tightens around my ankle,
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Speaker 1: you know, the ankle of course, of the foot that
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Speaker 1: was planted on the ground. And the next thing I know,
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Speaker 1: my face and my teeth are embedded in the grass
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Speaker 1: and the dirt of my front yard. Now my teeth
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Speaker 1: embedded in the yard. You may be tempted out there
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Speaker 1: listening to think that maybe I'm exaggerating, Maybe I'm stretching
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Speaker 1: the truth here, just a little bit to make it funnier,
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Speaker 1: to make the story a little more poignant, maybe to
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Speaker 1: tug on some heart strings. No, my mouth was open
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Speaker 1: in a yell, and then all next thing I remember,
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Speaker 1: my teeth were embedded in the yard. I never even
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Speaker 1: had time to close my mouth. I have never fallen
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Speaker 1: down so quickly in my life. Well as I lay there,
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Speaker 1: you know, with my arms at my side, because I
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Speaker 1: never even had time think about this, I never even
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Speaker 1: had time to brace my fall with my hands instead,
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Speaker 1: I just braced my fall with my face. And as
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Speaker 1: I lay there, face first on the yard with my
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Speaker 1: hands at my side, I hear utter silence descend on
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Speaker 1: the children, and then you know the worried questions, Dad,
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Speaker 1: are you okay? Are you okay? And then you know,
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Speaker 1: the sweetest moment of it all. Sarcastically speaking, I hear
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Speaker 1: the sound of a neighbor family walking by on the
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Speaker 1: front yard and then slowing down. You know, you can
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Speaker 1: hear their little feet crunching on the gravel on the road,
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Speaker 1: and I hear them slow down. I can only assume
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Speaker 1: so they could take in this whole scene of my
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Speaker 1: family huddled around me, laying there on the ground with
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Speaker 1: my face in the yard. Anyway, it was a great moment.
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Speaker 1: Turns out there wasn't even a squirrel, so the whole
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Speaker 1: thing was just utterly ridiculous. So that's my story. That's
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Speaker 1: my great fun thing that happened to me this week.
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Speaker 1: What's the paint point? Life comes at you fast? Now,
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Speaker 1: I know that's not just a paint point, that's kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, an everything point. But ride with me on
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Speaker 1: this just for a minute. Life comes at you fast,
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Speaker 1: and things can get crazy messy when you're painting and
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Speaker 1: life comes at you fast, you know, when the paint
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Speaker 1: life comes and knocks your legs out from under you
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Speaker 1: and you land on your face. Well, it's not just messy.
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Speaker 1: It can be expensive and it can be embarrassing. For example,
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Speaker 1: I remember this like it was yesterday. My mom had
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Speaker 1: a half full paint tray on a ladder, and she
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Speaker 1: decided she was going to just, you know, scooch that
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Speaker 1: ladder over just maybe two feet to the right so
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Speaker 1: she could finish painting the wall in whatever room she
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Speaker 1: was working on, the very last thing she had to do,
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Speaker 1: and then she's all done. So she'll just scooch that
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Speaker 1: little ladder over with that paint tray on it, and
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Speaker 1: she'll be done well seconds later. You know, you know
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Speaker 1: how it ends, The paint tray's laying upside down on
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Speaker 1: the floor, and we have this circle of paint nearly
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Speaker 1: two feet in diameter on the carpet. Man, the whole
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Speaker 1: thing took hours and hours to clean up, and even then,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, if I remember right, the carpet had
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Speaker 1: to be replaced. A customer. Here's another example. A customer
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Speaker 1: I spoke with several years ago told me one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite painting stories that I think I've ever heard
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Speaker 1: in my whole life. And I've told that on the
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Speaker 1: show before, but I'll summarize it again. This customer told
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Speaker 1: me that several years ago, he was painting in a
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Speaker 1: small bathroom with his wife. He had just finished painting
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Speaker 1: the wall that she had assigned him to work on,
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Speaker 1: and so he set his paint tray down. Then he
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Speaker 1: takes a step back so we can admire his work,
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Speaker 1: and he steps right into his wife's paint tray that
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Speaker 1: she had just set down on the floor. Now he
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Speaker 1: spins around in surprise, Why did I just step in?
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Speaker 1: And then when he spins around, he ends up slashing
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Speaker 1: paint everywhere all over the place. What a mess. Well stunned,
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Speaker 1: you know, looking at his foot, looking at the mess.
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Speaker 1: He's stunned for the second and he decides to just
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Speaker 1: sit down and collect his thoughts. So he sits down
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Speaker 1: on the closed toilet and actually sits down right in
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Speaker 1: the tray that he had just set down moments before.
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Speaker 1: Ton of mess, ton of paint everywhere, embarrassing messy right
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Speaker 1: at the end of the project. I've heard tons of
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Speaker 1: horror stories like that. You know, dogs knocking over paint buckets,
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Speaker 1: cats walking through paint lids that have been left on
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Speaker 1: the floor. You know, personally, I had a plastic drop
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Speaker 1: cloth down once. I remember this, I spilled a little
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Speaker 1: bit of paint on it, and then five minutes later
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Speaker 1: walked over that same spot with a tray full of
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Speaker 1: paint and I end up slipping. Now, I didn't fall down,
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Speaker 1: not even close to that, which kind of surprises me
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Speaker 1: because I'm pretty kutzy. But I slip, and I slipped
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Speaker 1: enough to slosh paint from that tray all over the place. Again,
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Speaker 1: big mess. Didn't need to happen. The paint life comes
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Speaker 1: at you fast. That's the whole point. So what's the solution. Well, honestly,
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Speaker 1: I guess I don't really have a solution, and that's
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Speaker 1: kind of a lot down because it really felt like
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Speaker 1: this was building towards a solution. Now I don't really
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Speaker 1: technically have a solution, but I do have recommendations. You know,
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Speaker 1: don't get complacent, don't get careless, don't get lazy when
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Speaker 1: you're working. Take the paint tray off the ladder before
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Speaker 1: you try to move it, even if you're only moving
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Speaker 1: it you know, skeoching it over just a few feet.
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Speaker 1: Take that tray off. Take the time to clean up
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Speaker 1: paint spills, even if they're on a drop cloth. You
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Speaker 1: know you don't want to slip in them, or more likely,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to step in them, and just track
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Speaker 1: that paint wherever you go. Don't leave half full gallons
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Speaker 1: of paint sitting in your workspace with the lid off,
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Speaker 1: or worse yet, don't place the lid loosely on top
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Speaker 1: of a gallon of paint or a half full gallon
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Speaker 1: of paint and leave that in your workspace. That will
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Speaker 1: trick you and cause all kinds of trouble. Don't leave
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Speaker 1: that paint lid laying wet side you know, wet side
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Speaker 1: up on the floor where you're working. Get your dogs
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Speaker 1: and your cats and your kids out of the workspace,
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Speaker 1: and then do everything you can to find a way
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Speaker 1: to keep them out of that workspace. Take the time
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Speaker 1: to spread out drop claus when you're working, and use
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Speaker 1: good ones when you do. You know, the cheap plastic
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Speaker 1: ones aren't always the best. In fact, most of the
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Speaker 1: time they're not the best. Use canvas drop claus because
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Speaker 1: they'll absorb paint a lot better and they won't let
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Speaker 1: it puddle on the surface. If you don't do enough
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Speaker 1: painting to warrant getting a canvas drop cloth, then use
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Speaker 1: a paper in plastic drop cloth. It's at least going
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Speaker 1: to help absorb any spills. Now, move your furniture out
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Speaker 1: of the way when you're painting, and if you can't
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Speaker 1: get it out of the room, at least protect it
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Speaker 1: with some canvas drops, some plastic drop claws, maybe even
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Speaker 1: some sheets, and by all means, keep bucket of water
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Speaker 1: and some rags handy whenever you're painting. And then, you know,
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Speaker 1: just to be on the safe side, I've always got
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Speaker 1: a wet drive vacuum in the house just in case.
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Speaker 1: You know, I can't tell you how helpful having a
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Speaker 1: wet drive vacuum has been for a number of different situations.
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Speaker 1: And really, if you've got the budget, might be a
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Speaker 1: great idea to buy one that's entirely dedicated to wet
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Speaker 1: vacuuming situations. You know, I finally did that because I
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Speaker 1: would use the main shop back that I've got for
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Speaker 1: wet spills, and usually when I'm using it and there's
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Speaker 1: there's a wet spill, usually in that situation, there's an
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Speaker 1: edge of panic. Some might even call it hysteria. And
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Speaker 1: it's not uncommon for me to forget to remove the
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Speaker 1: paper filters before I set to work. And then it's
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Speaker 1: not completely unheard of for me to forget to deal
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Speaker 1: with the water and the wet paper filter in the
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Speaker 1: vacuum until several weeks later. And you know, by then,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you there's a bit of an odor
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Speaker 1: and some mold going on. So be diligent remove those
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Speaker 1: filters before you use a shop back for wet vacuuming situations,
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Speaker 1: or you know, with all your excess cash, because I
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Speaker 1: know we're all rolling in tons of excess cash right now.
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Speaker 1: With your excess cash, buy maybe a backup wet drive
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Speaker 1: ac for those wet situations. Either way, make sure you've
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Speaker 1: got at least one of those shotbacks on hand, and
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Speaker 1: hopefully you'll never need it for a paint mess, but
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Speaker 1: if you do, you're gonna be really glad you've got one. Now,
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Speaker 1: with Fern on the yard, with the danger rope trailing
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Speaker 1: behind her, there really wasn't a lot of preparedness steps
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Speaker 1: that I could have taken. I never saw it coming,
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Speaker 1: but with a paint project. There are some things that
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Speaker 1: you can do to make sure you don't find yourself
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Speaker 1: in a mess. All right, that's the paint point for
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Speaker 1: the week. We're going to take a break. When we
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Speaker 1: come back, I'll be getting some of your design questions answered.
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Speaker 1: That's all just ahead, stick around now. A few months ago,
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite people reached out to me and
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Speaker 1: suggested that we start doing Q and A segments on
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Speaker 1: the radio show here, and then he offered, you know,
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Speaker 1: big hearted as he is, he offered to be the
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Speaker 1: first person to be subjected to the verbal grilling that
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Speaker 1: I would obviously and most likely hand out on air.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Repco Light Home improvement show sponsored
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Speaker 1: by Benjamin Moore, and I'm talking about Andy Yates, interior
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Speaker 1: designer Andy Yates. And Andy floated that idea of these
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Speaker 1: recurring Q and A segments, and I loved it so
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Speaker 1: much I took him up on it. I went online
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Speaker 1: to all of our different social media channels, Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 1: that TikTok, and I asked for your questions. And when
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Speaker 1: I got enough, I got in touch with Andy and
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Speaker 1: we scheduled some sessions. Now, today is going to be
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Speaker 1: another one of those. Andy, thanks for being here, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me Dan. No, all right, let's get started,
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Speaker 1: and let's start with a really short question. But I
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Speaker 1: don't know the answer seems like it could be pretty loaded.
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Speaker 1: It's from Abby and Birmingham. What's your favorite paint color?
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Speaker 2: Abby? That is a loaded question. Color is very subjective, right,
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Speaker 2: So I often say the best color is the one
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Speaker 2: that's appropriate for the project and that the client loves, right,
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Speaker 2: So that can be any real hue or intensity or value.
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Speaker 2: I shy away from grays because it's generally not a
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Speaker 2: color that you can make feel happy and joyful and
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Speaker 2: playful and all of those aspects of design that I
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Speaker 2: love to imbue. A space with gray just doesn't feel
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Speaker 2: right to me in so many instances.
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Speaker 1: How did you handle was it? What? Several years back,
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Speaker 1: we just we lived with gray. It was the thing
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Speaker 1: for a while.
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Speaker 3: Many people did. Yes.
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Speaker 2: I would often approach the gray conversation in the same way.
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Speaker 2: And when you have a pure mix of black and white,
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Speaker 2: let me phrase that correctly. Those grays tend to be
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Speaker 2: very flat. They can be more somber. So because like whites,
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Speaker 2: like black, like any color, there's just you know a
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Speaker 2: plethora of different options. I would always try to search
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Speaker 2: for grays that felt like a mix of with blues,
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Speaker 2: with browns especially. I've always enjoyed the colors of coffee
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Speaker 2: and topes more so I look at grays and blacks
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Speaker 2: that have more brown in them. They're just richer, They're
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Speaker 2: more earthy, and they feel more comfortable. If I were to,
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, have to choose a favorite color,
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Speaker 2: I would say I have probably two. I split split
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Speaker 2: my time between blushes and corals, So anyone that's seen
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Speaker 2: my brand and my website knows that are We sort
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Speaker 2: of have a blush coral hue as our brand color,
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Speaker 2: which I love. Those colors are just really fun to me.
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Speaker 2: They can always feel happy, but they're pretty intense. They're
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Speaker 2: on the hot end of the spectrum, so you have
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Speaker 2: to use them sparingly. On the cool end, I would
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Speaker 2: say a gean blues and greens like in that realm.
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Speaker 2: I love how those colors are both chameleons. At any
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Speaker 2: time during the day or the year, they can look
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Speaker 2: more pink or green or orange or blue or gray
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Speaker 2: or bright or subdued, and I think that's a really
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Speaker 2: interesting balance but again I always say, there's no wrong color, right,
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Speaker 2: there's just bad color combinations. Except there are colors that
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Speaker 2: tend to be awkward because they're a little too close
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Speaker 2: to the colors of human flesh. Those are band aid color.
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Speaker 2: Band Aid colors are kind of odd. Yeah, colors that
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Speaker 2: tend to get too close to like anatomical I don't
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Speaker 2: know if I don't want to go that far. It's
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Speaker 2: just I'm very interested where you're going any day. They're
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Speaker 2: just there are colors that I think you can see
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Speaker 2: them and know they remind you of something that isn't pleasant.
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Speaker 2: So I would just say, don't ever try to convince
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Speaker 2: yourself that you like that color or want.
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Speaker 3: To use it. Just steer clear.
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Speaker 1: Those colors are danger colors. Stay away from those colors.
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Speaker 1: They just feel uncomfortable. No, I get it, I completely
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Speaker 1: get it. The band aid color, it just doesn't work
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Speaker 1: for me at all. So I know what you're saying, Well,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about this is not a question. I want
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Speaker 1: to just build off of this particular answer that you're
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Speaker 1: working with. I get the question all the time, what's
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Speaker 1: the best like off white white to go with for
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Speaker 1: my cabinets or my do you have anything like that
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Speaker 1: that you fall back on on a regular basis. Again,
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Speaker 1: best is really it's subjective in the situation, it's situational.
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Speaker 1: But is there something that you find yourself using a lot.
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Speaker 2: Benjamin Moore Swiss coffee. Oh see, forty. I believe I
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Speaker 2: almost have the number memorized. We can, we can fact
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Speaker 2: check that I don't.
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Speaker 1: I'll look that up while you're talking.
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Speaker 2: I have loved that white for a very long time.
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Speaker 2: It's a wonderful white that feels warm, cozy. I also,
16:55
Speaker 2: you know, fall back on some of the standards right
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Speaker 2: in Benjamin more decorators white, super white white. There are
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Speaker 2: some wonderful grays as well in those whites, So whites
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Speaker 2: that have a little bit of gray, a little bit
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Speaker 2: more moody. I can't think of them off the top
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Speaker 2: of my head right now. Dove owl, there's some names
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Speaker 2: that come to mind. Okay, I really do love especially
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Speaker 2: when I'm looking at whites, I almost exclusively go to
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Speaker 2: the Benjamin Moore palette because it's my favorite base. I
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Speaker 2: think that Benjamin Moore has the best white base for whites,
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Speaker 2: and I really appreciate the hues that they've collected in
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Speaker 2: their off white collection. I tend to look at those
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Speaker 2: whites that feel etherial. They aren't really one color, right,
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Speaker 2: so they're going to reflect what is adjacent. But also
17:45
Speaker 2: they are chameleons, and they're kind of those whites that
17:47
Speaker 2: I love. But Swiss coffee is one that I've used
17:50
Speaker 2: again and again. It never fails me because it's just
17:53
Speaker 2: a beautiful white with a high reflective value that again
17:56
Speaker 2: has enough warmth in it that it never goes cold
17:58
Speaker 2: or sterile. And those are the kind of whites that
18:01
Speaker 2: I love again, thinking of like adding a little bit
18:03
Speaker 2: of latte foam and you're white, right, Like, think about
18:07
Speaker 2: a white that just it has some warmth to it,
18:10
Speaker 2: some gold undertones. They're always really beautiful and lovely, and
18:15
Speaker 2: they've never gone out of style. Even when we've been
18:17
Speaker 2: in a very stark white and gray moment in interiors,
18:21
Speaker 2: these still work. I still fell back on them, especially
18:24
Speaker 2: when you're trying to balance your white with a cool color.
18:28
Speaker 2: A warm white really helps, right.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're right on OC forty five Swiss coffee, so
18:34
Speaker 1: fact checked, you pass that one favorite.
18:36
Speaker 3: I love that. I love that white.
18:38
Speaker 1: All right, Andy, I think we need to take a break.
18:40
Speaker 1: I'm wondering. Can you wait with me for a little
18:42
Speaker 1: bit and then we'll get to more questions on the
18:44
Speaker 1: other side.
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Speaker 3: Sure, happy to stay all.
18:46
Speaker 1: Right, We'll be back with Andy Yates getting more of
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Speaker 1: your design questions answered in just a minute. Stick around
19:01
Speaker 1: and we're back. You're listening to the Repco Light Home
19:03
Speaker 1: Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. I'm in the studio
19:06
Speaker 1: with Andy Yates from Andy ATE's Design and we're basically
19:09
Speaker 1: doing a designer Q and A. Andy, thanks for hanging
19:13
Speaker 1: out with me and just reeling off brilliant answer after
19:16
Speaker 1: brilliant answer.
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Speaker 2: Oh you're too kind, Dan, Yeah, certainly, it's my pleasure
19:20
Speaker 2: to be here.
19:20
Speaker 1: I'm not even being sarcastic. This has been great, and
19:23
Speaker 1: normally my way is to be sarcastic, so oh it's
19:27
Speaker 1: my default.
19:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I have to be careful in professional settings.
19:30
Speaker 1: I know. I wish I were careful. I don't even
19:33
Speaker 1: think to be careful till after I've said stuff, and
19:35
Speaker 1: then I've thought about it on the drive home or
19:37
Speaker 1: away from any particular meeting. The kids always talk about
19:40
Speaker 1: how I'm socially. I don't know if they've used the
19:42
Speaker 1: word inept yet, but socially clumsy, socially awkward for sure.
19:48
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm professionally awkward as well. Anyway, we've been
19:51
Speaker 1: going through questions. I've got a couple of short ones
19:54
Speaker 1: and actually it's two from the same guy, Daven Zealand.
19:58
Speaker 1: And basically all he asked is carpet or hardwood for
20:01
Speaker 1: living rooms? What do you think That's a tough one.
20:03
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really a situational It.
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Speaker 2: Is situational in his personal choice. From a budget perspective,
20:11
Speaker 2: Apples to apples, you can buy nice hardwood and nice
20:14
Speaker 2: carpet for relatively the same pricing. I think it's a
20:17
Speaker 2: matter of what you're more comfortable, you know, feeling and
20:22
Speaker 2: seeing in that space. I like the properties of hardwood.
20:26
Speaker 2: Often I do find we'll still add area rugs right
20:30
Speaker 2: because we love that softness and warmth underfoot, but we
20:33
Speaker 2: love the beauty of wood. So that's kind of the
20:35
Speaker 2: best of both worlds. And I would say most of
20:38
Speaker 2: the time I'm installing and specifying hardwoods for living rooms
20:44
Speaker 2: with area rugs. I tend to use broad looms in
20:48
Speaker 2: bedrooms more often than not, because that is where we
20:51
Speaker 2: want that warmth, that absorption of sound to lessen the
20:55
Speaker 2: reverberation of noise. It's calming, it's quiet, and it's lovely
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Speaker 2: when you're barefoot.
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Speaker 1: What about bathrooms? Carpet in bathrooms? You're big on them, right,
21:05
Speaker 1: I mean that just sounds carpet.
21:08
Speaker 2: Shag carpet a bathroom every chance.
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Speaker 3: I get.
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Speaker 1: That was a big thing, right, It was way back.
21:15
Speaker 3: Like hairy bathroom floors.
21:17
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, which is I can't imagine disgusting so
21:20
Speaker 1: many levels. Okay, so we won't put carpet in bathrooms,
21:24
Speaker 1: and we're not necessarily saying put hardwood there. I just
21:27
Speaker 1: had to take us off the trail because that's how
21:28
Speaker 1: my brain works. You were saying bedrooms, you like carpet,
21:32
Speaker 1: and then you were starting to say something more intelligent
21:34
Speaker 1: than I took us where we're going.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I feel like you have to just
21:40
Speaker 2: be really cautious with how you install either of those surfaces,
21:46
Speaker 2: because there are different maintenance requirements, right, different aesthetic decisions.
21:51
Speaker 2: I would say, if I had to choose, I would
21:55
Speaker 2: probably place in a living room in this specific instance, again,
21:59
Speaker 2: hardwood with an area rug over broad loom.
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Speaker 3: All right.
22:04
Speaker 2: That's also like living rooms tend to be more open,
22:06
Speaker 2: and it can be challenging to stop carpet and transition
22:10
Speaker 2: to another surface. And I think, to extrapolate into the
22:14
Speaker 2: larger sense, whenever you stop and start a floor surface
22:18
Speaker 2: from room to room, it makes us space feel smaller.
22:21
Speaker 2: So anytime you have a more open plan and finishes
22:24
Speaker 2: continue from one room into another, whether that's the trim color,
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Speaker 2: the paint color, the floor finish, it makes us space
22:31
Speaker 2: feel larger. And there's something really lovely about that. It's cohesive,
22:36
Speaker 2: it's graceful. So I often look at it, you know,
22:39
Speaker 2: instance per instance. However, normally yes, yeah, with rugs.
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Speaker 1: I like the idea what you're saying that that is
22:46
Speaker 1: really smart about keeping that floor in the same and
22:48
Speaker 1: we talk about that with paint that will make those
22:51
Speaker 1: rooms everything feels bigger when everything has its own color.
22:54
Speaker 1: There's you know, some interest to that, but it does
22:57
Speaker 1: make everything feel more enclosed, more segment.
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Speaker 2: Right, and your eye stops at contrast. So the more
23:05
Speaker 2: contrast is in a space, the more sort of chaotic
23:10
Speaker 2: or phrenetic, and that there's a dynamicism to that, right,
23:13
Speaker 2: It's dynamic. So the concept of carpet stopping and starting
23:19
Speaker 2: to I always you know, if there's a rule of
23:22
Speaker 2: thumb where there's a door, like a door that closes,
23:25
Speaker 2: that's a great place to have a threshold. That's a
23:27
Speaker 2: sort of natural place to change any finish wall flooring.
23:33
Speaker 2: So from that aspect, those transitional spaces work a little
23:39
Speaker 2: bit better than sort of having a more open space
23:42
Speaker 2: and just stopping would at a very open plan dining
23:46
Speaker 2: room or living room, you know, kitchen, it can just
23:52
Speaker 2: be jarring, and it really it creates a definition which
23:55
Speaker 2: then of course creates a size limitation. We see a
23:58
Speaker 2: space as stopping hard, stop there, and that gives us
24:03
Speaker 2: a termination which tells your brain this is only how
24:06
Speaker 2: big this space is. So it can make spaces feel smaller,
24:09
Speaker 2: all right. So that's Dave's first question.
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Speaker 1: His second one is just as straight to the point,
24:14
Speaker 1: what is your go to material for countertops?
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Speaker 3: Quartz?
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Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That was pretty straightforward too, huh.
24:22
Speaker 2: It's whitey, afordable, there's a diversity of color and texture.
24:28
Speaker 2: It is very affordable on the more entry level price point.
24:33
Speaker 2: And because it's a man made product, because there's so
24:37
Speaker 2: much artistry in creating it, there is almost unlimited potential
24:43
Speaker 2: for what you can install in your home. However, it's
24:47
Speaker 2: very controlled and most clients enjoy that because it is consistent, right, Like,
24:54
Speaker 2: it's going to look the same no matter what slab
24:58
Speaker 2: you choose, because it's control in that environment. From a
25:01
Speaker 2: fabrication level, I love natural stone, and for countertop applications,
25:08
Speaker 2: it's again going to be more dynamic. You're going to
25:11
Speaker 2: have more variety. You have to be very cautious about
25:14
Speaker 2: selecting the exact slabs you want from a slab yard.
25:17
Speaker 2: When you're talking natural stuff, yeah, natural stuff, because no
25:21
Speaker 2: two marbles, no two granted it's no two quartzites.
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Speaker 3: None of those are the same.
25:25
Speaker 2: Even slabs cut from the same exact quarry you know
25:28
Speaker 2: that are butterfly matched. They still I mean, that's how
25:31
Speaker 2: nature works, and that's why natural stone is so beautiful.
25:34
Speaker 2: There's always going to be interesting quirks and variety. So
25:39
Speaker 2: what I find is most people are more comfortable with quartz.
25:42
Speaker 2: It's a great price point, it's consistent, it's easier at
25:47
Speaker 2: a higher level. Or people that are looking to spend
25:50
Speaker 2: and invest more in their countertop materials, especially or cladding,
25:55
Speaker 2: so like for a fireplace or a wall, that's where
25:58
Speaker 2: we may venture into looking at more natural stones because
26:02
Speaker 2: there's also a maintenance issue, right, Marbles are porous and
26:05
Speaker 2: very absorbent, and you know they require more maintenance. So
26:10
Speaker 2: how much do you really want to worry about leaving
26:12
Speaker 2: you know, a wine glass or a grape juice sippy
26:15
Speaker 2: cup on the kitchen counter overnight? Do you want to
26:18
Speaker 2: worry about things that are too acidic like lemons or vinegars?
26:22
Speaker 2: If you are fastidious, I would say look at natural
26:26
Speaker 2: stones because you won't be afraid to have to, you know,
26:30
Speaker 2: work on the upkeep and maintenance. But quartz is just
26:33
Speaker 2: super easy and beautiful. And we're seeing a lot more
26:37
Speaker 2: ethicism in the manufacture of courts, like care for how
26:42
Speaker 2: it's created and those involved right from a fabrication standpoint,
26:45
Speaker 2: the actual workers. So I think that's the easiest answer.
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Speaker 1: Perfect. That's a great answer for a very very short question.
26:54
Speaker 1: All right, that's all the time. We've got a lot
26:56
Speaker 1: of questions that you covered, Andy. I appreciate it. Definitely
27:00
Speaker 1: would encourage any listeners out there if you've got questions.
27:02
Speaker 1: Now you've kind of seen what we're working through and
27:05
Speaker 1: what Andy's going to do with those questions. If you've
27:08
Speaker 1: got questions, Even if we don't have a segment coming
27:10
Speaker 1: up in the next week or two. Get those questions
27:13
Speaker 1: to me Radio at repco Light dot com. Just ask them,
27:17
Speaker 1: I'll get them to Andy, and the next time we
27:18
Speaker 1: sit down together, I'll throw them your way. Now, Andy,
27:21
Speaker 1: if our listeners want to reach out to you, check
27:23
Speaker 1: out your website, because I know you've got a lot
27:24
Speaker 1: of photos blogs out there, all kinds of different stuff.
27:27
Speaker 1: How do they get in touch with you? That way?
27:30
Speaker 2: You can find our website at Andy Yatesdesign dot com.
27:34
Speaker 2: And we are also on all of the socials at
27:38
Speaker 2: Andy Yates Design so Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. We do
27:43
Speaker 2: try to keep all of those updated with fresh new content,
27:46
Speaker 2: and I'm very excited to photograph several projects this summer,
27:51
Speaker 2: so we will have a really great portfolio expansion with
27:54
Speaker 2: wonderful new content for twenty twenty four.
27:56
Speaker 1: All right, awesome. I'll put links in the show notes
27:59
Speaker 1: so people can check it out. Andy, thanks for hanging
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Speaker 1: out today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Dan, It's been great.
28:03
Speaker 1: Okay, We've got to play some commercials for a little bit.
28:07
Speaker 1: It's just the rules. I don't make those rules, but
28:10
Speaker 1: I'm not above them. I have to abide by them.
28:12
Speaker 1: So we're going to play those commercials, and then when
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Speaker 1: we come back, I've got the next George Job for
28:17
Speaker 1: the week. And if you've got no idea what in
28:19
Speaker 1: the world that even means, I'll explain when we get back.
28:22
Speaker 1: But just to give you a quick teaser for the
28:24
Speaker 1: upcoming segment, think about your driveway. Is it full of
28:27
Speaker 1: weeds in the cracks and the gaps? Now, if it's not, congratulations,
28:31
Speaker 1: you win at this part of life. You've won this
28:35
Speaker 1: part of life. But if it is full of weeds
28:37
Speaker 1: and the cracks and the gaps, then you know what
28:39
Speaker 1: a pain it is to get them out and make
28:41
Speaker 1: that driveway look good again. Well, what if I had
28:43
Speaker 1: a permanent solution to the problem, something that you could
28:46
Speaker 1: implement for very little cost and in less than a
28:49
Speaker 1: few hours on a Saturday. Well, I tackled this project
28:52
Speaker 1: last week at home, and I've got the scoop coming up.
28:54
Speaker 1: Stick around. All right, here we go, it's time for
29:03
Speaker 1: this week's George Job. And if you've been paying attention
29:06
Speaker 1: all show long, and I can't imagine that you haven't been.
29:10
Speaker 1: If you've been paying attention, you already know what it is.
29:12
Speaker 1: It's getting the weeds out of your driveway and keeping
29:15
Speaker 1: them out. You're listening to the Repco Lite home improvement
29:18
Speaker 1: shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore. But before we jump into
29:21
Speaker 1: all of that, I really better explain George Jobs now
29:24
Speaker 1: at George Job is just my name for a small
29:27
Speaker 1: project that we can tackle that might help us get
29:30
Speaker 1: life a little more under control. Now. I've given them
29:32
Speaker 1: this name because of George Washington, and I've talked about
29:36
Speaker 1: this for the last two weeks or so. But let
29:38
Speaker 1: me summarize quickly. Good old George Washington was sending letters
29:42
Speaker 1: home during the Revolutionary War, and amongst all the normal greetings,
29:45
Speaker 1: all the normal stuff you'd expect to find in those letters,
29:48
Speaker 1: the letters also contained many details and directions for various
29:52
Speaker 1: home projects that were happening around Mount Vernon. Now, historians
29:56
Speaker 1: and psychologists have said that they believe the reason he
29:58
Speaker 1: did this was because working on these projects helped him
30:02
Speaker 1: settle his mind and gave him, you know, the psychological
30:04
Speaker 1: momentum that he needed to make weightier decisions later. Now,
30:08
Speaker 1: it turns out making little decisions helps clear the way
30:11
Speaker 1: for us to make bigger decisions. You know, we kind
30:13
Speaker 1: of move from feeling out of control to feeling in control. So,
30:18
Speaker 1: whether we're talking about getting on top of projects at
30:20
Speaker 1: home or even you know, even gaining maybe a little
30:23
Speaker 1: bit of sanity in life in general, tackling these little
30:26
Speaker 1: projects might help, might help, can't hurt. So anyway, I'm
30:30
Speaker 1: recommending George jobs for the rest of the summer. And
30:33
Speaker 1: this week's George job is removing the weeds in the driveway. Now.
30:36
Speaker 1: I tackled it at home this past week myself, because
30:40
Speaker 1: my driveway is so full of weeds. The whole thing
30:43
Speaker 1: looks like an abandoned parking lot. It's like photos that
30:46
Speaker 1: you see, you know, the buildings around Chernobyl. Have you
30:49
Speaker 1: ever looked at that Google those pictures. Find a big,
30:52
Speaker 1: wide expanse of concrete at Chernobyl. See all the weeds.
30:56
Speaker 1: Imagine a car sitting there. There you go, that's my house. Well,
31:00
Speaker 1: every summer I wage war on these weeds, but they're
31:03
Speaker 1: crazy tough to eradicate, and they come back almost right away.
31:07
Speaker 1: It's very depressing. Well, this year I stumbled on a
31:10
Speaker 1: different method of dealing with them on YouTube. I've got
31:13
Speaker 1: a link to that video with the instructions and all
31:15
Speaker 1: that in the show notes, so check that out. And
31:17
Speaker 1: I've done what's recommended in that video, and so far,
31:21
Speaker 1: I'm really happy with the results. It's better than anything
31:23
Speaker 1: I've done to date. I mean, it's not rocket science either,
31:26
Speaker 1: so it's not like I've stumbled on to some kind
31:29
Speaker 1: of mystery of the universe here. It's just a combination
31:32
Speaker 1: of things that I didn't do all of these, and
31:34
Speaker 1: now that I have, I've got tremendously great results so far.
31:38
Speaker 1: You know, I'm only a couple of weeks in. I
31:40
Speaker 1: don't know how long it's going to last, how permanent
31:42
Speaker 1: it's going to be, but as of now, the driveway
31:44
Speaker 1: looks tons better. So if you want your driveway to
31:47
Speaker 1: look good, here's what you need to do. First step,
31:49
Speaker 1: you've got to get the weeds out. So we're starting
31:52
Speaker 1: with rocket science here. Rocket science one oh one. Now,
31:55
Speaker 1: about two weeks or so ago, before I actually got
31:58
Speaker 1: to removing the weeds, I went through and I hit
32:01
Speaker 1: all of the driveway weeds with roundup. Now you could
32:03
Speaker 1: use that. You could use you know, a homemade, maybe
32:07
Speaker 1: environmentally friendlier mixture of vinegar and salt. You could even
32:10
Speaker 1: use the old standby, you know, boiling water. Though you
32:13
Speaker 1: do have to be careful because you know it's boiling water.
32:16
Speaker 1: I didn't use it because of that reason. I know myself,
32:20
Speaker 1: I know how I work, how many quick decisions I make,
32:23
Speaker 1: And all I could think is that me pouring boiling water,
32:27
Speaker 1: you know, all over the place is really just a
32:29
Speaker 1: recipe for disasters. So I went with something else. Whatever
32:33
Speaker 1: you do, hit the weeds with one of these products,
32:36
Speaker 1: and then give it a few days, maybe a week
32:38
Speaker 1: or so. And then by the time I got to mine,
32:40
Speaker 1: the weeds were pretty much largely brown. Many of the
32:43
Speaker 1: root systems had died or were dying. And at that
32:46
Speaker 1: point it's time to do the hardest part of the
32:48
Speaker 1: whole process, and that's to manually dig out the weeds,
32:51
Speaker 1: the grass and the dirt. Now, there are a number
32:53
Speaker 1: of different ways you can go here. If you've got
32:55
Speaker 1: a weed whip, you could turn it on an angle
32:57
Speaker 1: and then just kind of beat the weeds out of there.
33:00
Speaker 1: I didn't think to do that. Instead, I kind of
33:02
Speaker 1: went old school, and I got out an old flathead screwdriver,
33:05
Speaker 1: sat on the driveway kind of like a caveman, and
33:08
Speaker 1: then I began digging all the junk out of the gaps.
33:11
Speaker 1: That way. It wasn't terrible work, didn't take too long.
33:14
Speaker 1: It wasn't like a party, but it wasn't awful. Didn't
33:17
Speaker 1: take me too long. If you do go that route,
33:20
Speaker 1: just make sure you use an old screwdriver, because I
33:23
Speaker 1: ground mine completely to a point it's no longer a screwdriver.
33:26
Speaker 1: In fact, one of the kids said I had made
33:28
Speaker 1: a shive. So just just don't use a good screwdriver.
33:32
Speaker 1: Spend your time working the roots out, the dirt out,
33:35
Speaker 1: get as much of that out as possible. And then
33:37
Speaker 1: once you've done that, you're still most likely won't won't
33:40
Speaker 1: won't gonna have a fair amount of dirt and all
33:43
Speaker 1: of that in those gaps. You know, That's what happened
33:45
Speaker 1: to me anyway. And here's where the whole process gets
33:48
Speaker 1: a little more fun. I mean, as far as this
33:51
Speaker 1: project goes, this is the money part, this is the
33:54
Speaker 1: fun part. It's important to get all of that dirt out.
33:56
Speaker 1: You know, you can't just leave it there. You've got
33:58
Speaker 1: to get it out because that dirt aid in new
34:00
Speaker 1: weed growth. And a great way to get it out,
34:03
Speaker 1: you know, after you've scraped it and loosened it, a
34:05
Speaker 1: great way to get it out is to blast it out.
34:07
Speaker 1: With a hose or a pressure washer. I mean, everything
34:10
Speaker 1: is ten times more fun when you're using water, high
34:13
Speaker 1: pressure water. Now, I used a power washer, you don't
34:16
Speaker 1: need to. A garden hose with a high pressure nozzle
34:18
Speaker 1: would work just as well. But like I said, for me,
34:21
Speaker 1: had a power washer, went with that, went with a
34:23
Speaker 1: medium tip, and went to work blasting all of that
34:26
Speaker 1: stuff out crazy fast. Just be aware, it's super messy.
34:29
Speaker 1: It's going to blow back on you, so don't wear
34:31
Speaker 1: your Sunday best when you're out there working on this.
34:34
Speaker 1: Be aware you're gonna get wet and muddy. Another thing,
34:37
Speaker 1: if you're using a power washer, wherever you hit, you
34:40
Speaker 1: know wherever it's directed. Wherever that blast is directed on
34:43
Speaker 1: the concrete, it's going to brighten up those parts of
34:46
Speaker 1: the driveway, it's going to clean them.
34:47
Speaker 3: Now.
34:47
Speaker 1: At first it seemed really great, but power washing an
34:50
Speaker 1: entire driveway is a major job in and of itself,
34:54
Speaker 1: and so for my driveway, I quickly decided. It didn't
34:57
Speaker 1: take me long to realize I needed to be more
34:59
Speaker 1: careful about directing the stream only into those cracks. I
35:02
Speaker 1: didn't want a bunch of white stripes all over the driveway.
35:05
Speaker 1: So however you want to handle that, just be aware
35:09
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. Now. Once you've got the cracks
35:11
Speaker 1: clean and the dirt and the debris off the driveway,
35:13
Speaker 1: at that point, you're really pretty close to being done
35:16
Speaker 1: with the whole project. If all you're looking for is
35:18
Speaker 1: a seasonal fix, you know, just sprinkle in some weed
35:21
Speaker 1: prevention into those gaps and you probably won't see weeds
35:24
Speaker 1: again for the rest of the summer. Now, Preeing is
35:26
Speaker 1: one brand that you could use of weed prevention. There
35:28
Speaker 1: are plenty of others out there. Just do your research,
35:31
Speaker 1: ask some questions if necessary. Now I did all of that,
35:35
Speaker 1: and to get to that point in the project, I'd
35:37
Speaker 1: probably spent about three hours on a Saturday. And at
35:40
Speaker 1: that point in the project, after spending three hours on
35:42
Speaker 1: a Saturday, I was thrilled with the results. I mean,
35:46
Speaker 1: this was the best I had the driveway looking in years.
35:49
Speaker 1: And maybe for you, that's all you need to do.
35:52
Speaker 1: Maybe that's all you want to do, Maybe that's plenty,
35:54
Speaker 1: But if you are interested in pursuing what you might
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Speaker 1: be a more permanent solution to the problem, you can
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Speaker 1: fill the gaps and the cracks with backer rod if necessary,
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Speaker 1: and then seal them with an appropriate concrete ceiler. Now
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Speaker 1: I'll run through this kind of fast again. Links to
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Speaker 1: videos and the show notes if you need more info.
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Speaker 1: But if you're going to go this route, first, take
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Speaker 1: a look at the gaps and the cracks in the driveway.
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Speaker 1: If they're deeper than half an inch and they're around
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Speaker 1: a quarter inch or more in width, you're gonna want
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Speaker 1: to fill them first with a product called backer rod.
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Speaker 1: And if you're not familiar, backer rod is basically the
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Speaker 1: same material as a pool noodle. It's just much smaller
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Speaker 1: in diameter, and among other things, it's used to help
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Speaker 1: produce how much celant you need to use on your
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Speaker 1: project because it reduces the depth of the gap you're filling.
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Speaker 1: You stuff it into that gap and it just reduces
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Speaker 1: how much cal or sealant or whatever needs to go
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Speaker 1: into that. So take a look at the gaps that
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Speaker 1: you've got to fill, and then pick up the appropriate
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Speaker 1: backer rod and once you've got it, stuff it securely
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Speaker 1: into the gaps in the driveway, tamp it down with
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Speaker 1: a carpenter's pencil or something like that, and then make
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Speaker 1: sure it's snug and make sure it's about a quarter
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Speaker 1: of an inch or so below the main surface of
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Speaker 1: the driveway. Now, once that's in place, you're ready to
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Speaker 1: seal the gaps at that point. And there are a
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Speaker 1: ton of different products out there that you could use.
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Speaker 1: A lot of them are self leveling, like seek As
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Speaker 1: self leveling. There's a quick crete polyurthane self leveling sealer,
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Speaker 1: lots of different things. I used Concrete repair from Tower Sealants.
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Speaker 1: Now it's something that we can order at Repcolite, and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to try it out. It's a textured concrete
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Speaker 1: sealan for gaps and cracks. It doesn't self level like
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Speaker 1: the other ones do, and it had to be tooled
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Speaker 1: like calk. Not having used the self leveling products, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if it was easier with the product I used,
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Speaker 1: or if it was more difficult with the product I used.
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Speaker 1: My driveway's in poor shape and it slants and slopes
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Speaker 1: all over the place, so I was kind of uncertain
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Speaker 1: how well a self leveling sealant was going to work
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Speaker 1: in my situation, so I went with the concrete repair.
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Speaker 1: We'll see how it shakes out down the road. Now,
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Speaker 1: for your project, do the research on the best sealant
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Speaker 1: and go with that now. Anyway, with that concrete repair
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Speaker 1: that I used, didn't take long to get the hang
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Speaker 1: of how to apply it and to get good results.
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Speaker 1: And pretty much after just a few more hours of work,
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Speaker 1: a couple more hours of work, we had the driveway
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Speaker 1: sealed up. Now. I'll definitely keep you updated as the
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Speaker 1: months go by. You know, if I see massive failure
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Speaker 1: or anything like that, I'll let you know. But right now,
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy with the project, with the end results.
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Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest impact projects that I've tackled
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Speaker 1: around the house for a long time. And I can
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Speaker 1: tell you, you know, the psychological impact of these little George
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Speaker 1: jobs seems to be working, at least for me. Either
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Speaker 1: that or it's all psychosomatic, which I guess I really
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Speaker 1: think we could argue. Still means they're working. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm crossing little things off and I'm feeling more energized
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Speaker 1: to tackle what's next. Anyway, there you go. That's the
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Speaker 1: George job for the week. I've got more info in
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Speaker 1: the show notes and a link to the video that
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Speaker 1: I mentioned. All Right, that's all the time we've got.
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Speaker 1: I've got to wrap it up. If you want to
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Speaker 1: catch this episode again. You can find it online at
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Speaker 1: repco light dot com. One last reminder, Regal Select Eggshell
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Speaker 1: and Matt are on sale at All Upcollite locations for
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Speaker 1: thirty percent off the usual price until July thirty one,
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Speaker 1: so a few more days yet. And also Rep Coollites
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Speaker 1: Quick sealed drywall primer is on sale for over fifty
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Speaker 1: percent off the standard price again. That sale ends July
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Speaker 1: thirty one, so check that out. Whatever you do today
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Speaker 1: makes your paints a part of it. Have a great
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Speaker 1: weekend everybody, and I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hanson.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.