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Boost Your Home's Look with Two-Toned Walls and Get Your Drains Sparkling Clea · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. How are you doing. We've made
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Speaker 1: it through another week and we've arrived here at the weekend.
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Speaker 1: You know, breathe in a sigh of relief. Ready to
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Speaker 1: crash a little bit and have some fun. Right now,
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Speaker 1: the fund's going to start, well, I guess we're going
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Speaker 1: to find out you're listening to the Repcolite Home improvement
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Speaker 1: show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And as for fun, here's
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Speaker 1: what I've got planned for the show today. You decide
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Speaker 1: if it's going to be fun and spoiler alert, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be all right. Here's what I've got At
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Speaker 1: the end. I'm going to be talking about a popular
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Speaker 1: design trend, two toned walls. It's gaining traction around here.
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Speaker 1: It's been around for a while, but we're seeing more
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Speaker 1: and more of it being used around here, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to cover four reasons why you might want to
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Speaker 1: try it in your home. I'm also going to have
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Speaker 1: Jeff Rousch from East End Plumbing in the studio and
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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about drain cleaning. It's a more cost
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Speaker 1: effective solution than replacing clogglines. We'll get to all of
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Speaker 1: that in a little bit, but first I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about something that I learned a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure, absolutely one hundred percent certain that I'm
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Speaker 1: late to the party here. I'm sure this is completely
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Speaker 1: ridiculous to even talk about, but that's okay. It's still
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Speaker 1: gonna make my point. See, I learned a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago or so that cutting vegetables or whatever with
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Speaker 1: a really sharp kitchen knife doesn't need to be a bloodbath. See, previously,
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Speaker 1: the state of things in my home was this. If
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Speaker 1: I went to prepare a meal, and if that preparation required,
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Speaker 1: you know, cutting up an onion, Let's say, if that
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Speaker 1: was all on the docket for the dinner plans, Hannah
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Speaker 1: would usually meet me in the kitchen with a box
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Speaker 1: of band aids. You know, I'd go to work on
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Speaker 1: that onion or whatever with good intentions. I'd always tell myself,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be careful this time. I'm gonna go slowly,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be mindful of what I'm doing. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: stay in this. I'm in it to win it, right.
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Speaker 1: I tell myself all of that stuff as I chopped
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Speaker 1: the onion up every single time. But no matter what
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Speaker 1: I did, no matter how hard. I tried. I'd always
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Speaker 1: always draw blood, sometimes a lot. It was inevitable, and
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Speaker 1: I figured, really, at the end of the day, I
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Speaker 1: figured I was just an idiot. I had no other
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Speaker 1: no other answers. Here. It's a kitchen knife. You're chopping
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Speaker 1: up an onion, and you can't do it, You're an idiot,
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Speaker 1: That's what I figured. Well, then one of the kids
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Speaker 1: finally took pity on me and said I needed to
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Speaker 1: use the claw, you know, the claw, And that intrigued me.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a gadget person, and I figured this
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Speaker 1: was something new, this was something cool. But no, it's
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Speaker 1: just a technique. Apparently there's a way to hold a
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Speaker 1: vegetable when cutting it. There's a proper form. So this kid,
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Speaker 1: I think it was Andrew, made me sit down and
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Speaker 1: watch this YouTube video of some guy showing me how
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Speaker 1: to hold an onion with this grip that he was
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Speaker 1: calling the claw. And once I figured that out, you
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Speaker 1: know how to hold my fingers and what to do
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Speaker 1: with them, I only need it. Did one single trip
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Speaker 1: to the band aid box since then in over a year.
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Speaker 1: That's a miracle in my house. So yeah, turns out
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Speaker 1: technique makes a difference even with something as mundane and
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Speaker 1: basic is chopping up vegetables with a knife. So that
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Speaker 1: brings me to the paint point. I think all of
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Speaker 1: that everything I just said that technique makes a difference
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Speaker 1: thing applies to masking tape as well. There's a right
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Speaker 1: way to use it, and I think with masking tape
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Speaker 1: it seems so mundane. You know what is there to know?
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Speaker 1: You put it down, you paint, then you peel it off.
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Speaker 1: The thing is, with the right approach, you're going to
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Speaker 1: get cleaner lines in fewer frustrations. So with that in mind,
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Speaker 1: here are some quick masking tape tips. First off, choose
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Speaker 1: the right tape. You know, tapes aren't one size fits all.
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Speaker 1: For example, frog tape it's not just a fancy brand
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Speaker 1: of tape that's a bit more expensive than others. It's
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Speaker 1: actually different from other tapes. It's got a special paint
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Speaker 1: block technology that seals edges and prevents paint from bleeding
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Speaker 1: underneath it, and that makes it great for getting sharp lines.
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Speaker 1: Delicate surface tape is another kind of tape that's specifically
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Speaker 1: made for taping off recently painted surfaces or even wallpaper.
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Speaker 1: So don't just grab masking tape. Grab the right masking
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Speaker 1: tape for your project. That's first. Second, surface prep is
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Speaker 1: important even when you're taping. Dirt, dust, moisture. All of
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Speaker 1: those things prevent tape from sticking well, I mean obviously,
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Speaker 1: So make sure that if you're going to tape off
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Speaker 1: your trim or whatever, wipe those surfaces clean with a
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Speaker 1: damp cloth and then make sure you give them time
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Speaker 1: to dry before trying to get the tape on them.
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Speaker 1: It'll drive you nuts if you try to rush it.
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Speaker 1: Third thing, don't work from the roll as you're putting
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Speaker 1: the tape on. Instead, use manageable tape lengths. Apply tape
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Speaker 1: and roughly, you know, three foot sections whatever your little
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Speaker 1: arms will reach and use those smaller sections and overlap
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Speaker 1: the end slightly and that's going to make it easier
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Speaker 1: to remove as one single piece. Later. Fourth, it's critical
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Speaker 1: that you press the edges firmly after you've applied it.
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Speaker 1: So run a dull putty knife along the edge to
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Speaker 1: seal it, and that prevents paint from being able to
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Speaker 1: bleed under that edge. And as we're talking about this,
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Speaker 1: be sure to use a putty knife or a painter's
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Speaker 1: five and one tool to do that ceiling. You know,
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Speaker 1: your finger alone isn't going to be enough to keep
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Speaker 1: paint from seeping underneath it, so make sure you seal
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Speaker 1: the edges. Finally, fifth thing, remove the tape at the
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Speaker 1: right time. For the cleanest line and the easiest removal,
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Speaker 1: You've got to get the tape off before the paint
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Speaker 1: has a chance to dry. So while the paint is
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Speaker 1: tacky but not fully dry, pull that tape off at
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Speaker 1: a forty five degree angle to avoid tearing or peeling
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Speaker 1: the paint. Just be careful when you're doing that to
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Speaker 1: make sure that the paint that's on, you know, the tape,
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Speaker 1: make sure that that doesn't end up getting all over
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Speaker 1: some surface that's going to make you sad or get
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Speaker 1: you into trouble. It's entirely possible, so keep an eye
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Speaker 1: on that. Speaking of tape, before I wrap this one up,
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Speaker 1: we do have a sale going on at Repcolite for
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Speaker 1: our one and a half inch painter's masking tape. It's
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Speaker 1: five point fifty a roll, which is about a two
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Speaker 1: dollars and twenty five cent savings per role, and it's
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Speaker 1: going on till the end of November, so stop buying
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Speaker 1: stock up all right, that's enough of that. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back, I'll be chatting
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Speaker 1: with Jeff rousch about how drain cleaning can save you
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Speaker 1: some time and money. Stick around, and we're backtually listening
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Speaker 1: to the Recolite home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore.
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Speaker 1: And right now I'm in the studio with Jeff rous
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Speaker 1: general manager at Grand Bay Electric and East End Plumbing. Jeff,
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Speaker 1: thanks for being here, Thanks for having me. Now you've
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Speaker 1: been on just a few weeks ago, and we talked
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Speaker 1: about that. But if people don't listen every single week,
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Speaker 1: there's a handful that don't. We're working on them, but
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Speaker 1: still not everybody hears us every week. The general manager
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Speaker 1: of two different companies, electric and plumbing, help me understand that.
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Speaker 1: And on top of it, you guys are connected to
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Speaker 1: Airs Basement Systems as well, so kind of like this trifecta.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely help us understand that a little bit. I know
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Speaker 1: you explained it once before, one more time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Airs Basement Systems has been around for a
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Speaker 2: long time, you know, specializing in waterproofing and foundation repair.
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Speaker 2: They're based out of Lansing, Michigan, but they serviced the
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Speaker 2: entirety of Michigan. So a lot of their projects involved
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Speaker 2: subcontracting electrical and plumbing companies to help them with their projects.
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Speaker 3: And you can imagine working all over the state.
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Speaker 2: You know, they'd have to basically go out of their
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Speaker 2: way to try to find different electrical and plumbing contractors
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Speaker 2: to you know, subcontract to help them with these projects.
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Speaker 3: And it got to be a little bit chaotic, right, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, just trying to run that exactly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a whole job exactly.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, a few years ago, back in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: the CEO decided to acquire Grand Bay Electric and East
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Speaker 2: End Plumbing and add them under the umbrella of Ayers
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Speaker 2: to you know, previously full service standalone plumbing and electric
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Speaker 2: companies with no relation. Acquired them both, brought them under
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Speaker 2: the same roof. So we're all under the same manage.
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Speaker 2: We're all able to come together and provide that turnkey
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Speaker 2: solution to our customers, all.
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Speaker 1: The same people, absolutely least most of them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, really really cool. Yeah cool.
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Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk about drain cleaning and
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Speaker 1: its importance. All right, So drain cleaning and its importance
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Speaker 1: On a Saturday or Sunday, morning, depending on when, when,
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Speaker 1: and where you catch this. What's the difference between drain
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Speaker 1: clearing and drain cleaning? Are they interchangeable terms? I thought
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Speaker 1: they were, but I know they're not.
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Speaker 2: They are exclusive in its own way. So clearing is
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Speaker 2: more think about. Clearing is kind of just removing a blockage.
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Speaker 2: Poking a hole in it is usually what the solution
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Speaker 2: is for that using a handog er, whereas cleaning is
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Speaker 2: going that extra step, right, not only poking a hole
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Speaker 2: in it and getting rid of that blockage, but then
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Speaker 2: cleaning the entire drain in its entirety most of the
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Speaker 2: time with the use of a hydrojetter.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, So why I guess maybe I'm dumb,
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Speaker 1: and maybe that's no surprise to anybody listening. But I
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Speaker 1: don't know that I've heard of drain cleaning. I love cleaning.
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Speaker 1: I love clean things, So I know that this term
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Speaker 1: would have jumped out at me, because you know, when
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Speaker 1: I moved into the house, those drains were slow drains,
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Speaker 1: and they weren't slow because of me. So that was
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Speaker 1: other people's stuff in there. Whatever that was, Yeah, whatever
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Speaker 1: that was exactly it was there, never known. I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to mess with it. So if I could have
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Speaker 1: thought of the idea of cleaning out these drains, I
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Speaker 1: would have been I would have been all over that.
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Speaker 1: Is this something that's common? Is this an important thing
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Speaker 1: for us to know or is it only important as
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Speaker 1: homeowners when we run into an issue.
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Speaker 2: It is very important really when it comes to drain cleaning,
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Speaker 2: proactivity is the name of the game. You don't want
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Speaker 2: to get to the point where you're reacting to a
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Speaker 2: clogged drain because that is hectic.
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Speaker 1: Oh oh it's gross. It is gross depressing.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it can really put it damper on your day.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, the idea with drain cleaning is really that proactivity,
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Speaker 2: and you got to think what we're what we're cleaning
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Speaker 2: out of there. You might be wondering, you know, what
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Speaker 2: is in my drain that needs to be cleaned, right?
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Speaker 2: I thought water just goes down there. Well, you know,
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Speaker 2: there can be a lot of different things actually that
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Speaker 2: come up. Tree roots are are a big cause. So
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Speaker 2: tree roots can actually penetrate your line where where maybe
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Speaker 2: your city plumbing connects to your home plumbing. If there's
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Speaker 2: a break in the line anywhere, tree roots can start
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Speaker 2: to infect that line and even start to spread and
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Speaker 2: and essentially fill that entire drain line with roots, which
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Speaker 2: can form a very severe blockage. Now, if that gets
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Speaker 2: severe enough, you might be looking at digging up that
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Speaker 2: entire line and having it fully replaced. Right, But that's
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Speaker 2: if you let it get that bad.
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Speaker 1: That's what I did. No, I'll let it get that bad. Oh,
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Speaker 1: they just moved in and that's how it was. Okay,
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Speaker 1: But I remember we went downstairs one evening when dark
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Speaker 1: sad evening in our lives and the base smith was
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Speaker 1: full of water, but not the good kind of water. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was pretty gross, pretty terrible, I can imagine. And so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so the drains can be clogged with anything.
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Speaker 3: Anything, and you know, we see tree roots a lot.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of grease build up, you know,
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Speaker 2: especially in restaurants, you know, but even in your kitchen sink,
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Speaker 2: you could, you know, if you if you pour any
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Speaker 2: amount of grease down there after you cook some ground
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Speaker 2: beef or bacon or anything like that. Right, definitely don't
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Speaker 2: put grease down your drains. Eggshells are are a common
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Speaker 2: uh cause there as well. They can get broken down
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Speaker 2: and they don't really flush down the drains very easily.
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Speaker 2: You're also talking about some things that are non fleshables.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to toilets and things like that. You
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Speaker 2: could be talking yeah, you can be talking toys, you
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Speaker 2: can be talking baby wife or sometimes even diapers or
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Speaker 2: you know, feminine care products.
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Speaker 3: All of that stuff can can contribute. And it's not
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Speaker 3: just one over the other, right, it's if it's if you're.
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Speaker 2: Constantly putting all of those things down your drain, that
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Speaker 2: problem becomes exponential.
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Speaker 1: All right. So when we're talking drain cleaning, are we
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Speaker 1: talking exclusively or largely? Like the main lines out of
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Speaker 1: my house, like where I had all the roots was
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Speaker 1: my main line, have a new sewer lune to put in.
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Speaker 1: But then you mentioned pouring grease down the sink.
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Speaker 3: That's when I say any kind of drain.
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Speaker 1: All right, So you will work on any of the.
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Speaker 2: Anything we're talking kitchen sinks, bathroom sinks, toilets, you know
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Speaker 2: your main drain clean out all.
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Speaker 1: Of them could be clean as a whistle if you
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Speaker 1: want to exactly, you could eat off of those drains.
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Speaker 1: You said, it's a proactive thing. It's something we need
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Speaker 1: to be on top of, or should be. How often
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Speaker 1: should homeowners consider getting their drains cleaned at thet if
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Speaker 1: we're not noticing a major problem, should we get them clean?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yes, The answer is that's not just throwing money away.
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Speaker 3: No, it is not.
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Speaker 2: No, And what we can do too, before we even
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Speaker 2: get to the cleaning element is we can come in
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Speaker 2: and we offer camera inspections.
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Speaker 3: So we would go ahead and we'd throw a line
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Speaker 3: down there.
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Speaker 2: We have a nifty little monitor that you can see
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Speaker 2: on our end and actually watch with us as we
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Speaker 2: snake that line with our camera tool, and you'll be
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Speaker 2: able to see every little thing in there. It's got
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Speaker 2: a little light on there too, so that'd be able
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Speaker 2: to identify.
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Speaker 1: Really cool retly fun. We photograph all of our big events, right, marriages,
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Speaker 1: things like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you might as well hang a picture of your
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Speaker 3: drain in your kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah no, so no, we had that done and we
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Speaker 1: could see exactly all what the roots were doing. Very
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Speaker 1: interesting to watch that system. So you could do all that.
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Speaker 1: But you're saying that's definitely something we should think about doing.
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Speaker 1: Is there, like what if our drains aren't even slow,
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Speaker 1: how do we know when the right time is it?
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Speaker 1: How often are we doing this? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: So I would at the bare minimum recommend at least
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Speaker 2: once per year. Okay, but depending on how many people
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Speaker 2: are in your home, how many drains you have, and
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, all of that can contribute to,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe a more frequent service plan.
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Speaker 1: All right, So what if I'm on I just want
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Speaker 1: to understand. So at my old house, when I had
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Speaker 1: the tree roots, you know, about every year, we knew
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Speaker 1: we had to get somebody out there too, And I
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Speaker 1: don't think they were They weren't drain cleaning them. They
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Speaker 1: were just probably just poking a hole in a hole,
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Speaker 1: you know, running that through and I assumed making it
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Speaker 1: pristine and amazingly ring inside, But chances are you just
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Speaker 1: popped a little hole in there. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That is a common misconception on a lot of drain
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Speaker 2: cleaning companies as they go out there and they sell
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Speaker 2: drain cleaning as their service. What they're really doing is
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Speaker 2: selling drain clearing. They're taking a handog or they're poking
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Speaker 2: a little tiny hole about the size of a penny
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Speaker 2: through whatever blockage is there. And what that is you're
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Speaker 2: just putting a band aid over.
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Speaker 1: It, right, That's what I did for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why you have that recurring issue where
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Speaker 2: every year, right, it's probably like clockwork. You're like, I
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Speaker 2: got to go check my floor drain in the basement
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Speaker 2: because chances are it's backflooding again, and it's almost like clockwork.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: But if you were to come in there and we
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Speaker 2: could stick one of our hydrogetters down there, we could
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Speaker 2: blast those tree roots out of there permanently and you
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Speaker 2: would never have that problem again. Now, you would still
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Speaker 2: want to have a yearly maintenance just to make sure
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Speaker 2: that every time we go down there, you know, we
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Speaker 2: get any residuals.
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Speaker 3: Right out of the way.
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Speaker 2: But once you do that jetter one time, that entire
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Speaker 2: line becomes completely open and clear, free flowing for a
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Speaker 2: long long time.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the studio with Jeff Rousch from Grand Bay
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Speaker 1: Electric and East End Plumbing, which is what makes this
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Speaker 1: conversation makes sense. We're talking about drain cleaning. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about how that should be done potentially every year. That's
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Speaker 1: what Jeff's recommending here. What I wanted to get to is,
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Speaker 1: previously I had a line that was infected with drain
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Speaker 1: you know, tree roots. I've got new stuff. Now I'm
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Speaker 1: in a new place. Tree roots are not an issue
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Speaker 1: for me? Is that still a yearly thing? You're still
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Speaker 1: thinking that's a yearly thing.
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Speaker 2: It may not be a yearly drain cleaning that's required.
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Speaker 2: But again that's why we offer that camera inspection. So
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Speaker 2: if you have any any doubts in your mind, if
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Speaker 2: you have a one sink that's maybe draining slowly, or
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Speaker 2: a toilet that's not draining completely when you flush, If
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Speaker 2: you have smells, you know, coming from your drains, or
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Speaker 2: you hear gurgling in things, that's usually because there's some
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Speaker 2: type of a blockage in the way.
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Speaker 1: I just wish you'd stop talking about that because all
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Speaker 1: of those things I experience in the kitchen. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: the drain. It's the bane of my existence, all right,
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Speaker 1: So I get it. I should look into that. I've
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Speaker 1: got questions about it, but we're gonna get to that.
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Speaker 1: Can clog drains lead to more serious plumbing issues other
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Speaker 1: than just the water backing up? That's serious enough. But
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Speaker 1: are there is there any other concerns that could happen? Absolutely?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I don't mean.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the you know, the unfortunate thing is we keep
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Speaker 2: going back to these tree roots because they are a
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Speaker 2: very severe problem. If you have an infection of tree
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Speaker 2: roots that's so severe, you could be potentially looking at
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Speaker 2: uprooting that entire pipeline, getting it excavated and then replaced,
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Speaker 2: And that can be a multi thousands of dollars worth
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Speaker 2: of work. Right Whereas being proactive allowing us to come
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Speaker 2: out put a camera down there if we notice anything,
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Speaker 2: allowing it to clean that for you will avoid that
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Speaker 2: potential headache in the future completely.
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Speaker 1: Now, I, like I said, I had to put a
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Speaker 1: whole new line, and it was twenty years ago, eighteen
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Speaker 1: years ago, it was six thousand dollars. Yeah, did not
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Speaker 1: enjoy that, but I loved flushing the toilet and all
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Speaker 1: of those things afterwards, you know, running the sink, draining
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Speaker 1: the bathtub, because we knew we were good at that
17:22
Speaker 1: point and it was so good to be done with that.
17:24
Speaker 1: I did not know about this possibility. Maybe it didn't
17:28
Speaker 1: exist back then. Did this exist back then? Drain cleaning
17:31
Speaker 1: eighteen years ago? Hydrojetting?
17:33
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not sure if that equipment was around.
17:36
Speaker 1: Let's say no, yet's say no, you know, and we
17:39
Speaker 1: don't know. We don't want to be fact checked. I'm
17:41
Speaker 1: just going to figure that I did the best I could.
17:43
Speaker 1: But you just said a few minutes ago that if
17:46
Speaker 1: you jetted, water, jetted, hydrojetted my line with tree roots,
17:51
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't get them back, they wouldn't continue to grow,
17:54
Speaker 1: or they would continue to grow, and my yearly maintenance
17:56
Speaker 1: is going to eliminate new growth that comes through.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, tree routes usually come from some type of an
18:02
Speaker 2: obstruction in the line.
18:04
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is.
18:05
Speaker 2: If there's a separation or if there's a puncture or
18:08
Speaker 2: something like that that will allow tree roots to come
18:10
Speaker 2: through to begin with. Right now, we can of course
18:14
Speaker 2: fix that, okay, but that would involve excavating. The idea
18:17
Speaker 2: behind drain cleaning is that you don't even need to
18:20
Speaker 2: necessarily address a very small puncture or an offset pipeline
18:23
Speaker 2: like that, because we're gonna go in and we're gonna
18:25
Speaker 2: clear that out and it's going to be permanent. But
18:28
Speaker 2: you will need a yearly service right to make sure
18:31
Speaker 2: that all of those tree roots get flushed out every
18:34
Speaker 2: single year.
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Speaker 1: Makes perfect sense, makes perfect sense. Well, Jeff, I'm wondering,
18:38
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the clock. I'm wondering if we should
18:40
Speaker 1: probably take a break and then finish this conversation on
18:43
Speaker 1: the other side. Can you wait with me for just
18:45
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Absolutely, all right, we'll be back in
18:48
Speaker 1: just a minute with Jeff Rousch from Grand Bay Electric
18:50
Speaker 1: and East End Plumbing talking about drain cleaning. That's all
18:53
Speaker 1: come up next. Stick around and we're back. You're listening
19:03
Speaker 1: to the Repco Light Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore,
19:06
Speaker 1: and I'm in the studio, still in the studio with
19:09
Speaker 1: Jeff Rousch from East End Plumbing and Grand Bay Electric,
19:12
Speaker 1: and we're talking about drain cleaning. We started this conversation
19:15
Speaker 1: in the last segment, got through a fair chunk of it,
19:18
Speaker 1: but there's more to do, and I want to do
19:21
Speaker 1: that on this side, and I guess to get us started, Jeff,
19:24
Speaker 1: in the last segment you mentioned, you know, some different
19:27
Speaker 1: drain cleaning tools and technologies, hydro jetting, the different cameras
19:31
Speaker 1: that you use, stuff like that. I wonder if you
19:33
Speaker 1: would just talk about the whole process, you know, what
19:35
Speaker 1: does that look like and how is the process of
19:38
Speaker 1: drain cleaning different from other things that could be done
19:41
Speaker 1: to open up our drains.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'll tie this back to kind of the difference
19:44
Speaker 2: between drain clearing and cleaning. Right, So when we're talking
19:47
Speaker 2: drain clearing, the most common used tool there is going
19:50
Speaker 2: to be a handogger, so otherwise known as like a
19:52
Speaker 2: drained snake. So you may find them at your big
19:54
Speaker 2: box stores right in your community. We would highly recommend
19:58
Speaker 2: not buying one from a big box store. A common
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Speaker 2: misconception there is that they're available for homeowners to use
20:05
Speaker 2: on their own, but they're not the most effective tool, right.
20:08
Speaker 3: The handboggers that we use come.
20:10
Speaker 2: With specialized bits that will fit in the drains that
20:15
Speaker 2: we're servicing in your home. So the ones that you
20:17
Speaker 2: may buy at a big box store, they're not going
20:19
Speaker 2: to have custom fit solutions for those bits. There's kind
20:23
Speaker 2: of just one size fit all, and you can really
20:25
Speaker 2: run into situations and risk getting that stuck in your line,
20:29
Speaker 2: depending on what kind of drain you're you're attempting to clear,
20:32
Speaker 2: and in fact that gets stuck.
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Speaker 3: Now you're in a problem.
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Speaker 1: Right, sounds like how I would do it, Yeah, it
20:37
Speaker 1: sounds like the Saturday that I would live through. Well,
20:40
Speaker 1: you got to give us a call then if that happens.
20:43
Speaker 1: So you do have those what does the hydro jetting look.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's where drain cleaning comes into place. So
20:49
Speaker 2: the hydro jetter is called the Spartan Urban Warrior. Okay,
20:53
Speaker 2: so yeah, this, this, this piece of equipment is the
20:55
Speaker 2: end all be all for drain cleaning. Usually, before we
20:59
Speaker 2: use that equipment, we will use our handgogger and we'll
21:01
Speaker 2: poke a hole in there. And the reason for that
21:03
Speaker 2: is because we want that hole there so we can
21:05
Speaker 2: then take take our camera, put that down the line,
21:08
Speaker 2: and show you what.
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Speaker 3: Type of a blockage you're up against.
21:10
Speaker 2: Sure, right, so the first step to drain cleaning is
21:13
Speaker 2: always clearing the blockage, right, removing that blockage. Once that
21:17
Speaker 2: blockage is removed, we stick that camera down there. Now
21:19
Speaker 2: you can see what you're up against. Then we bust
21:21
Speaker 2: out the jetter and whatever you just saw on that
21:24
Speaker 2: camera monitor is going to be gone lickety split, no problem.
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Speaker 1: Does the do I run the risk of the jetter
21:30
Speaker 1: damaging anything? Not it?
21:33
Speaker 3: No? Nope.
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Speaker 2: So again, those comes with those comes with specialized bits
21:37
Speaker 2: that would fit in your drain. Right, they're not one
21:40
Speaker 2: size fit all, so we're never going to put a
21:42
Speaker 2: bit that's too large right into your drain. But on
21:45
Speaker 2: top of that it's really just highly pressurized water. So
21:47
Speaker 2: we take our time. Our drain experts has been doing
21:50
Speaker 2: this for five plus years apiece. They've got hundreds, if
21:53
Speaker 2: not thousands of these projects under their belt. What it
21:56
Speaker 2: comes down to is experience, expertise, and skill. Right, So
22:00
Speaker 2: we have never damaged a line with a hydrogena before.
22:02
Speaker 2: That's just not what the equipment does.
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Speaker 1: All right, All right? Perfect? What about well? And I
22:07
Speaker 1: know the answer to this, but just because it's good
22:10
Speaker 1: to know, we just had a plumber on I don't know,
22:14
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, five weeks ago. All time runs together,
22:17
Speaker 1: but we talked about chemical drain cleaners. You don't have
22:20
Speaker 1: to go along on this. How do you feel about
22:22
Speaker 1: those and the risks they may or may not pose
22:24
Speaker 1: to a plumbing system.
22:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, you know, just to summarize that,
22:29
Speaker 2: they're just ineffective. They're not as effective as even an
22:32
Speaker 2: augur or a hydrojeta.
22:34
Speaker 3: Right.
22:35
Speaker 2: You got to think, let's take you know, a product
22:37
Speaker 2: like draino for instance. You know, if not used correctly,
22:40
Speaker 2: that will actually solidify if it's left in the system,
22:43
Speaker 2: and if it's not rinch thoroughly, it can actually corrode
22:45
Speaker 2: your line, right, It can even cause chemical reactions right
22:49
Speaker 2: within whatever's mixed down there. Right, You maybe add some
22:52
Speaker 2: DRAINO to the equation, and now you're cooking with some chemicals.
22:55
Speaker 1: Right. So I've never thought about that. Yeah, Yeah, you
22:58
Speaker 1: got to be very mindfully don't want that, you don't know?
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, I would say, you know again, when it
23:03
Speaker 2: comes to those chemical drain cleaners, they're more of a
23:06
Speaker 2: band aid.
23:07
Speaker 1: All right, No, it makes perfect sense. Let's talk about DIY.
23:10
Speaker 1: You've talked about some of this, but DIY versus professional
23:14
Speaker 1: drain cleaning. I guess I'm curious. What are some common
23:17
Speaker 1: mistakes homeowners make when trying to clean their drains themselves? Now,
23:21
Speaker 1: one of them you mentioned we get the snake, yep,
23:24
Speaker 1: And I've done that. It's one size fits all, yep.
23:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, one size fits all.
23:28
Speaker 1: It's always the best.
23:29
Speaker 2: It's not always the best, and you do run a
23:31
Speaker 2: very high risk of getting that stuck in there, and
23:33
Speaker 2: then you're talking about getting that unstuck, right, which is
23:36
Speaker 2: not a pleasant process, right.
23:38
Speaker 3: And it can be costly.
23:39
Speaker 1: Any other common mistakes you run into or is that
23:42
Speaker 1: really the main one that people?
23:43
Speaker 3: That's pretty much it.
23:44
Speaker 2: I mean, my suggestion for you is, if you're up
23:46
Speaker 2: against a drain clearing problem and you don't know what
23:48
Speaker 2: to do. At the most, I would attempt to plunge it,
23:51
Speaker 2: and if you can't get anywhere after plunging for fifteen
23:54
Speaker 2: to twenty minutes, then I would call it quits and
23:57
Speaker 2: rely on a professional to handle that for you, because
23:59
Speaker 2: that's going to be a little bit old your head
24:00
Speaker 2: to begin with.
24:01
Speaker 1: It's just like one of those movies where they're doing
24:03
Speaker 1: the CPR and I, you know, we did the paddles
24:06
Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes exactly. Now you put the tarp over
24:10
Speaker 1: your sink. Can you just call it good and call
24:12
Speaker 1: it professional?
24:12
Speaker 3: Exactly? Exactly?
24:14
Speaker 2: No.
24:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of these things are no fun because even
24:18
Speaker 1: when you have success, it doesn't feel like winning. You know,
24:21
Speaker 1: you're plunging your sink and all that clean water that
24:25
Speaker 1: you just had is now black and there's other floaties
24:28
Speaker 1: and you know you're having success maybe maybe, but you're
24:33
Speaker 1: just you know, completely immersed in this filth water. Sometimes
24:38
Speaker 1: I end up just moving whatever is there into a
24:41
Speaker 1: more secure position. Yeah, it feels like it used to
24:44
Speaker 1: be a slow drain. Now it's not doing anything. I
24:47
Speaker 1: have had success with the little snake thing. And normally
24:51
Speaker 1: I am so grossed out at the beginning of my process,
24:54
Speaker 1: but I become one with the filth at some point
24:58
Speaker 1: and I just become really cure about what is this?
25:02
Speaker 1: Is this a dead rat or is this just a hairball?
25:05
Speaker 1: Not sure? And I'll poke and proput everybody runs away
25:08
Speaker 1: because it's really gross. How about success stories? Let's end
25:12
Speaker 1: with that. You know, everybody loves one. Do you have
25:16
Speaker 1: any good success stories about this strain cleaning of stuff?
25:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, one that stands out to me.
25:21
Speaker 2: And because drain cleaning is is kind of a niche service,
25:24
Speaker 2: not a lot of companies offer it, and yet alone
25:26
Speaker 2: do they offer it correctly. We run into a lot
25:28
Speaker 2: of situations where customers call us after they've been given
25:31
Speaker 2: a quote from another company to replace their entire line.
25:35
Speaker 3: Right, So they call us with this fear.
25:38
Speaker 2: And they're almost like kind of doing a you know,
25:40
Speaker 2: just they're just dotting their eyes, crossing their t's, trying
25:43
Speaker 2: to get a second opinion, right, So.
25:45
Speaker 1: They call the last ditch.
25:46
Speaker 3: It's called the last.
25:47
Speaker 2: You're exactly right, So you know this quote and these
25:50
Speaker 2: and to replace a line like that, it can be expensive.
25:52
Speaker 2: It could be anywhere from ten to twenty thousand dollars, right,
25:55
Speaker 2: So that alone is a lot to swallow. So they
25:57
Speaker 2: call us out for a second opinion, and one that
25:59
Speaker 2: stands out to was we went to a customer's home
26:01
Speaker 2: once where their their floor drain and their basement was
26:04
Speaker 2: backing up.
26:05
Speaker 3: And you know, they were concerned.
26:06
Speaker 2: They had a quote for seventeen thousand dollars for a
26:08
Speaker 2: company to come out excavate their entire front yard, rip
26:11
Speaker 2: up their existing cast iron, and install new piping. Right,
26:15
Speaker 2: they were scared to death of that. They didn't want
26:16
Speaker 2: to move forward. They called us out for a camera inspection.
26:19
Speaker 2: We put our camera down there, and yes, we did
26:21
Speaker 2: find tree roots and it was infected. It was bad, right,
26:25
Speaker 2: But after our thorough inspection, we drew up our diagram. Okay,
26:29
Speaker 2: we ploked a hole in it using our handogger. We
26:32
Speaker 2: stuck the camera down there and again showed the customer
26:34
Speaker 2: of the tree roots, and right after that they approved
26:36
Speaker 2: us to throw the jetter down there. Within two hours,
26:39
Speaker 2: we had that drain completely cleared and we threw the
26:43
Speaker 2: camera back down there afterwards, and the customer was just ecstatic.
26:46
Speaker 2: They were shocked because they had just seen tree roots
26:51
Speaker 2: I would say three inches thick around the entire wall
26:53
Speaker 2: of the pipe now completely obliterated and moved completely out
26:58
Speaker 2: of the drain, which was a fraction of the cost
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Speaker 2: of having us, you know, having a different company rather
27:04
Speaker 2: excavate their entire front yard and replace that pipe for them.
27:07
Speaker 1: Oh man. Yeah, And just the peace of mind that
27:12
Speaker 1: goes with that, because once you know, the water backs up,
27:16
Speaker 1: once you have one of those issues. And I made
27:19
Speaker 1: a comment at the beginning that I had the really
27:21
Speaker 1: gross water in the basement. I didn't. I was lucky
27:25
Speaker 1: because really it was just the kids that you know,
27:27
Speaker 1: every time the kids would drain the bath is when
27:29
Speaker 1: we would notice it. The bath drain. That's when once
27:32
Speaker 1: a year we'll just get all this bath water in
27:34
Speaker 1: the basement. Just drove me nuts, though. And the peace
27:39
Speaker 1: of mind when I put new in. Yeah, but being
27:43
Speaker 1: able to not have paid as much as we did, Yeah,
27:46
Speaker 1: to get there would have been great. And just just
27:48
Speaker 1: knowing that I can drain my tub and not worry
27:51
Speaker 1: about it. I just watched the toilet drain the sink
27:54
Speaker 1: and all that really really interesting. If our listeners do
27:56
Speaker 1: want to reach out talk to you about that, maybe
27:59
Speaker 1: they want to talk to you about the whole house
28:02
Speaker 1: generator thing or anything else that you do at any
28:04
Speaker 1: of the places that you work Grand Bay Electric, East
28:08
Speaker 1: End Plumbing, airs, basement systems. If they have any questions
28:11
Speaker 1: about any of this, how's the best way for them
28:12
Speaker 1: to get in touch.
28:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you're looking for some drain cleaning, absolutely
28:16
Speaker 2: give us a call at East End Plumbing.
28:17
Speaker 3: You can call us at six.
28:18
Speaker 2: One six four five seven eight six seven eight, or
28:22
Speaker 2: find us online at our website at get east End
28:24
Speaker 2: dot com.
28:25
Speaker 3: If you'd like to.
28:26
Speaker 2: Reach out for a generator estimate or any electrical service
28:29
Speaker 2: at all, you can contact us at Grand Bay Electric
28:31
Speaker 2: by giving us a call at six one six sixty
28:33
Speaker 2: six to two zero three six four or reaching us
28:36
Speaker 2: online at our website Grandbayelectric dot com.
28:39
Speaker 1: And you guys cover the whole state, the entire state,
28:41
Speaker 1: entire state of Michigan. If you have any questions, reach out.
28:45
Speaker 1: Jeff Rouse, general manager of Grand Bay Electric and East
28:48
Speaker 1: End Plumbing. Thanks for being here, Thanks so much. Dan. Now,
28:51
Speaker 1: all right, we're going to take a break. When we
28:52
Speaker 1: come back, I'm going to be talking about four reasons
28:55
Speaker 1: why you might want to try two toned walls in
28:57
Speaker 1: your home. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
29:00
Speaker 1: I'll fill you in on the other side. Stick around,
29:07
Speaker 1: Welcome back. You're listening to the Recolite Home Improvement Show
29:10
Speaker 1: sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and for this last segment, I
29:14
Speaker 1: want to talk about two toned walls. Two toned walls.
29:18
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar, they're kind of like the accent walls.
29:22
Speaker 1: Cooler little brother, you know, and accent walls. If you
29:25
Speaker 1: remember years back, they were a big deal. You know,
29:29
Speaker 1: if you were cool, if you were anybody, you had
29:31
Speaker 1: an accent wall and you talked about it wherever you went,
29:35
Speaker 1: and you had an opportunity, you told people, well, I
29:37
Speaker 1: do have an accent wall, and they were always impressed.
29:40
Speaker 1: It was that big way back then. But the idea
29:42
Speaker 1: was you pick one single wall, a focal wall, and
29:45
Speaker 1: you give it a bold or you know, otherwise visually
29:48
Speaker 1: compelling color, and then that transforms your space, your room. Right.
29:52
Speaker 1: Take that idea fast forward to today, and what we're
29:55
Speaker 1: seeing is kind of a twist on that with two
29:57
Speaker 1: toned walls. And instead of painting one entire wall a
30:01
Speaker 1: solid accent color, what we're seeing people do is take
30:04
Speaker 1: a couple of different colors and then split them on
30:06
Speaker 1: either one wall, or they'll wrap the whole room. But
30:09
Speaker 1: they'll create a horizontal line that divides the wall, and
30:12
Speaker 1: they'll put one color on the lower section. Let's say
30:16
Speaker 1: they'll put a second color on the upper section. They'll
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Speaker 1: run that horizontally around the room, and there you go.
30:21
Speaker 1: There's your two tone wall. It can be vertical as well.
30:24
Speaker 1: They can divide the walls or the room vertically. There
30:27
Speaker 1: are a number of different ways to do it, but
30:29
Speaker 1: that's the general idea behind two tone walls. Now, with
30:33
Speaker 1: that in mind, let's dig into four reasons why you
30:36
Speaker 1: might want to try two toned walls in your home,
30:38
Speaker 1: and let's start with this one. Two toned walls give
30:41
Speaker 1: you a really great way to bring drama and color
30:45
Speaker 1: into a space without overwhelming the room. And I'm talking
30:48
Speaker 1: about the good kind of drama, not the you know,
30:51
Speaker 1: he's looking at me, or he laughed at me, or
30:54
Speaker 1: somebody ate my something, not that kind of drama. The
30:58
Speaker 1: good kind of drama, the drama that makes people say,
31:00
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, there's a lot of drama in this room,
31:03
Speaker 1: and it's good drama. That's what you're trying to create.
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Speaker 1: You can do that easily with two toned walls, and
31:09
Speaker 1: you can do it without overwhelming the space. You can
31:11
Speaker 1: use a color with a lot of power really in
31:14
Speaker 1: your space, but since it's only on part of the wall,
31:17
Speaker 1: and because it's usually balanced by a second color that
31:20
Speaker 1: tones things down a little bit, you can bring that
31:23
Speaker 1: color in with less concern that it's going to freak
31:25
Speaker 1: out or completely overwhelm the space or your family. You know,
31:29
Speaker 1: as a full accent wall, that color might be too much,
31:31
Speaker 1: too dark, too heavy, too bold, whatever, But on just
31:34
Speaker 1: half the wall it might be just right. It might
31:37
Speaker 1: be the Goldilocks zone there. It might be just right
31:41
Speaker 1: right like her porridge. I think that's called the Goldilocks
31:45
Speaker 1: zone something like that. If not, who cares, I'm just
31:48
Speaker 1: gonna keep going on top of that. Kind of as
31:51
Speaker 1: a bonus, having that color on only half of the wall,
31:55
Speaker 1: I think that actually increases its visual impact because it's unexpected. Yes,
32:01
Speaker 1: there's less of it, but it's so completely unexpected it
32:04
Speaker 1: catches our eye more than I think an accent wall would.
32:07
Speaker 1: It creates a pattern and a contrast, and it becomes
32:10
Speaker 1: an actual feature of the space even more than just
32:13
Speaker 1: a solid color would have done as an accent wall.
32:16
Speaker 1: So two tone walls a powerful way to bring energy
32:19
Speaker 1: and good drama into a room. That's one reason to
32:22
Speaker 1: give it a try. Second reason, two tone walls they're
32:26
Speaker 1: very aesthetic. There's a lot of esthetic qualities to them,
32:29
Speaker 1: but they also can be functional. Are they a fantastic
32:32
Speaker 1: way to highlight or hide certain architectural elements that maybe
32:37
Speaker 1: you want to show off or hide? I don't know.
32:41
Speaker 1: I just keep rambling in circles when I was growing up.
32:44
Speaker 1: Let me try to make the case here for hiding
32:46
Speaker 1: certain architectural elements or features when I was growing up.
32:50
Speaker 1: And this is not a great example, it's the best
32:52
Speaker 1: I've got. You just kind have to ride with me.
32:54
Speaker 1: But when I was growing up, we had a lower
32:55
Speaker 1: lower level space filled not filled, but had a cast
32:59
Speaker 1: iron stone there. And it wasn't our favorite element in
33:02
Speaker 1: that area. It was it was not the cool kind
33:05
Speaker 1: of stove. It was extremely utilitarian. Now, with a situation
33:08
Speaker 1: like that, painting a gray horizontal stripe behind it, you know,
33:12
Speaker 1: behind that stove on that wall, or even around the
33:15
Speaker 1: whole room. However, doing that and then setting that band
33:19
Speaker 1: that line at the height of the stove would have
33:22
Speaker 1: blended the stove away. It would have toned down its
33:24
Speaker 1: visual impacts significantly. It wouldn't have just stood out to us.
33:28
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have jumped off of, you know, out of
33:30
Speaker 1: its little corner and kind of beat us over the
33:33
Speaker 1: head with its presence. It would have kind of faded
33:35
Speaker 1: away just because we had that band around the room.
33:38
Speaker 1: Here's another example, probably a better one. Picture of room
33:42
Speaker 1: that's basically a central hub in a home. You know,
33:44
Speaker 1: a space just off the entry. Make it a big space.
33:48
Speaker 1: Put in a number of doors leading to multiple areas.
33:51
Speaker 1: We talked about this exact room months ago on the
33:54
Speaker 1: show here when Haley was still here. She had visited
33:56
Speaker 1: this house and she was trying to give them help,
33:58
Speaker 1: you know, to helpigure out what color would be right
34:01
Speaker 1: in this space. But picture the space a lot of
34:04
Speaker 1: different doors. It's visually busy, it's visually cluttered. You know,
34:07
Speaker 1: they've got colors on the walls. You've got all kinds
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Speaker 1: of materials coming together. The doors they're a color, they're stained.
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Speaker 1: Let's say you've got, like I said, the wall colors,
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Speaker 1: you've got trim colors. Maybe the trim is painted a
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Speaker 1: color different from the walls. It's not a stained wood trim.
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Speaker 1: So you got all that going on, You've got maybe
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Speaker 1: a bookcase something like that, a ton going on. It's
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Speaker 1: a cluttery kind of area visually, but if you introduce
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Speaker 1: two colors, one for the lower half of the walls
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Speaker 1: in that space and another for the top half, you
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Speaker 1: can really create a sense of flow. You know, painting
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Speaker 1: a single color around the base of the room and
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Speaker 1: then even bringing that color. This is kind of a
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Speaker 1: crazy idea, but it's it's a cool idea, bringing that
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Speaker 1: color across the lower half of the doors, and even
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Speaker 1: across and onto the bottom half of the bookcases, anywhere
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Speaker 1: that that color would have touched by that straight line.
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Speaker 1: Just completely cover that surface with that color. Do that,
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Speaker 1: and then take the second color and apply that over
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Speaker 1: the top half of the room and the top half
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Speaker 1: of the door, the top half of the bookcase. Do that,
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Speaker 1: and you're going to completely streamline that area. That whole
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Speaker 1: room is going to look much less cluttered, much less
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Speaker 1: visually busy. It's going to be streamlined. I know it
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Speaker 1: sounds probably insane, but if you can't visualize what I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about, go online. Look for pictures of two toned
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Speaker 1: walls where the color covers the doors and the trim
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Speaker 1: and the furniture and more. It's a cool look. Check
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Speaker 1: that out. It's kind of like color drenching. Really, color
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Speaker 1: drenching of space, and color drenching is where you paint
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Speaker 1: one color over every surface. It's just like that, only
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Speaker 1: with two colors. Right, It can really work to minimize
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Speaker 1: or subtly hide unwanted elements. But on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: two toned walls they can also enhance, highlight our showcase,
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Speaker 1: architectural features, furniture, artwork, and more things we want to
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Speaker 1: show off. This two two toned effect on your wall
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Speaker 1: can really help to do that. Take artwork, for example,
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Speaker 1: Imagine some incredibly visual and high brow piece of art
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Speaker 1: that you've got hanging on a wall. In fact, don't
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Speaker 1: imagine it. If you're in your house, just look. You're
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Speaker 1: right there. You might as well look look at that
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Speaker 1: piece of art hanging there in all its glory, powerful
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Speaker 1: right moving. Now, imagine that you've run two colors across
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Speaker 1: your wall or around your room horizontally. The bottom color
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Speaker 1: is a darker color, the top color is a somewhat
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Speaker 1: lighter color. Colors that would work in your space, all right,
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Speaker 1: imagine that. Imagine your art centered over the line where
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Speaker 1: those two colors meet. Now half of it's displayed against
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Speaker 1: the backdrop of one color, and the other half of
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Speaker 1: the artwork is displayed against the backdrop of the second color.
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Speaker 1: Those two background colors and that dividing line behind the
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Speaker 1: art creates some really interesting and powerful visuals. You're taking
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Speaker 1: art that already has power and a voice, because that's art, right,
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Speaker 1: power and a voice. You're taking that, and you're amplifying
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Speaker 1: it by showcasing it against the two different wall colors.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot that you could do with this, a
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Speaker 1: lot to think about with an idea like that, And
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Speaker 1: it doesn't just apply to art. That same concept would
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Speaker 1: apply to furniture or anything else in the room. Really,
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Speaker 1: a sofa or a bookshelf along that dividing wall that'd
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Speaker 1: become an anchor, balancing the two colors and then adding
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Speaker 1: interest to the room in a way that feels intentional
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Speaker 1: and cohesive. All right. That's the second reason to give
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Speaker 1: it a try. A third reason is that they can mimic.
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Speaker 1: These two toned walls can mimic classic architectural elements like
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Speaker 1: paneling or wains coating, you know, without any actual wood
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Speaker 1: or molding being used. And I love that. By simply
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Speaker 1: painting the lower half of your wall one color and
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Speaker 1: the upper half another, you're going to get the look
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Speaker 1: of depth and detail. You're going to get this traditional
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Speaker 1: look of Wayne's coating, paneling, beadboard, whatever you want, and
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Speaker 1: you're going to do that in a modern and sleek manner.
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Speaker 1: There's going to be no extra woodwork on the wall,
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Speaker 1: nothing to install, nothing to remove. When you want a
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Speaker 1: different look, it's just paint. Really great way to get
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Speaker 1: that look. So that's the third reason last one that
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Speaker 1: I've got. Two tone walls can help you create an
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Speaker 1: illusion of height and space in a room. For example,
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Speaker 1: a horizontal two tone line in a hallway or a
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Speaker 1: short room can make it feel longer, kind of draws
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Speaker 1: your eye along the space. Similarly, they can also help
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Speaker 1: the room feel taller. When you paint the top half
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Speaker 1: a lighter shade and then carry that color onto the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: that instantly is going to create a vibe of higher
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Speaker 1: ceilings and it's going to make the room feel more expansive.
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Speaker 1: All right, there's more to say, but I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: get the idea. Two tone walls there are a great
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Speaker 1: way to change up a room without a full overhaul.
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Speaker 1: They're versatile, they're eye catching, and they can be customized
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Speaker 1: really to suit pretty much any style. In future episodes,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to dig into all kinds of different things.
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Speaker 1: They don't planning two tone projects, choosing the right tools
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Speaker 1: and techniques. We'll talk about how you get that straight line,
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Speaker 1: that really clean line with your tape. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: all of that. If today's episode has you thinking, scratching
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Speaker 1: your head, wondering, maybe maybe I'd like to try this.
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Speaker 1: If that's you, just stop by any Repcolite location. We'd
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Speaker 1: love to help you find the right color combinations and
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Speaker 1: give you all the tips you need to pull off
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Speaker 1: the look in your own home. All right, that's gonna
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Speaker 1: do it. That's all the time we've got. If you
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Speaker 1: find the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, pretty much
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Speaker 1: anywhere you go to get your podcasts. All right, whatever
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Speaker 1: you do today makes your paints a part of it.
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, everybody, and I'll see you next week.
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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Handsome, Thanks for listening.