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Art in the Bathroom, Raised Bed Gardening, and Masking Tape Tips · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody, and happy November. November weekend. Man November,
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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 this November weekend. Not terribly thrilled
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  Speaker 1: that it's November, but I'm thrilled about what I've got
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  Speaker 1: on the show on this weekend. I've got a really
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  Speaker 1: kind of a weird mix of different topics. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about art in the bathroom. Turns out that's
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  Speaker 1: a controversial topic. Who knew. We'll talk about what you
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  Speaker 1: need to know so you can bring art, you know,
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  Speaker 1: real art into your bathroom, not just plaques with witty
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  Speaker 1: bathroom sayings on them, but real art. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: to that. I'm also gonna be talking about raised bed gardening.
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  Speaker 1: You know, follows the perfect time to start getting things
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  Speaker 1: ready with an eye on next spring. So I've got info.
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  Speaker 1: I've got money saving wisdom, well wisdom, let's just say tips.
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  Speaker 1: I've got money saving tips. Wisdom might be trying too hard,
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  Speaker 1: so we've got that coming. And I'm also going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about masking tape and when you can use
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  Speaker 1: masking tape or should use it, and then to sweeten
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  Speaker 1: the deal when maybe you can skip it on a project.
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  Speaker 1: So all of that's coming up, But right now, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about something that happened a long time ago when
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  Speaker 1: my kids were little. We were all talking about it
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  Speaker 1: the other day and reminiscing, and I remembered this experience
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  Speaker 1: that I had with Andrew at the time, he was
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  Speaker 1: about five, So keep that in mind. Anyway, I was
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  Speaker 1: in the living room, you know, as best I can remember.
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  Speaker 1: I'm filling in some gaps along the way, but I
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  Speaker 1: was in the living room watching something on TV, and
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  Speaker 1: the kids were just going nuts. You know. It was
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  Speaker 1: nearing bedtime, and that's usually when their second wind always
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  Speaker 1: kicked in. Well, you can only tolerate the jumping and
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  Speaker 1: the thumping and the hollering and the shouting just so long,
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  Speaker 1: and I hit my breaking point. So I stood up,
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  Speaker 1: put my hands on my hips, and I said, okay, bedtime,
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  Speaker 1: time to brush your teeth now. I remember Caleb laughed
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  Speaker 1: at that. It's been an ongoing thing. He pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pointed at me, and it out to everybody
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  Speaker 1: that I was doing my Superman pose again, all right,
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  Speaker 1: standing there with my hands on my hips. Everybody laughed.
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  Speaker 1: I took away from my authority, but he was right there.
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  Speaker 1: I am standing there just like Superman. Well, I got
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  Speaker 1: him to go to the bathroom. So they hopped and
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  Speaker 1: jumped all the way there, and you know, all five
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  Speaker 1: of them, shaking the whole stinking house like a herd
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  Speaker 1: of small you know, domestic beasts moving through. They made
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  Speaker 1: their way to the bathroom. I listened to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that my bidding was being done, and when I heard
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  Speaker 1: the sound of the running water, I started to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the living room. And then I heard something
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  Speaker 1: that I couldn't believe. I heard Andrew, in confidential and
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  Speaker 1: extremely boastful tones, say the following, Hey, everybody, don't do it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't brushed my teeth in four days. So I
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  Speaker 1: heard him say that. Then I heard Caleb respond with wow,
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  Speaker 1: how do you get away with it? And then I
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  Speaker 1: heard Andrews say, I fake it. Well, at that point
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  Speaker 1: I'd heard enough. You know, last thing I need with
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  Speaker 1: five kids is for Andrew to start promulgating some gospel
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  Speaker 1: of dental neglect. You know, last thing I need is
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  Speaker 1: that I stomped into the room, you know, stood with
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  Speaker 1: my feet shoulder length apart. I straightened my back, puffed
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  Speaker 1: out my chest, put my hands on my hips, and said, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna brush your teeth at least twice every single day,
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  Speaker 1: or you're gonna pay your own dental bills. Well Andrew
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  Speaker 1: looked crestfallen for a minute. But then Caleb, of course
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  Speaker 1: it starts laughing again, points out that I'm standing there
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  Speaker 1: like Superman. Superman spoken do as he says. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: was actually pretty funny, so we kind of let the
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  Speaker 1: thing diffuse a little bit. But seriously, I remember wondering
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  Speaker 1: about Andrew, why in the world would you fake brushing
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  Speaker 1: your teeth for four days? You know, he said it
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  Speaker 1: was to save time, But wow, who would ignore such
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  Speaker 1: a simple thing, especially when ignoring that project, that simple
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  Speaker 1: little project, if you want to call it, that is
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  Speaker 1: going to lead to expensive and painful work down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Who would do that? And that brings me to the
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  Speaker 1: paint point or the home improvement point, or whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it. I've been doing almost exactly that
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  Speaker 1: same thing as Andrew for years, with almost exactly the
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  Speaker 1: same consequences. See, there are all sorts of little projects
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  Speaker 1: around my home. You know, a ceiling that needs painting,
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  Speaker 1: bathroom cupboards that need to be touched up. A ding
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  Speaker 1: in the back entry wall that should be spackled and painted.
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  Speaker 1: I've got all kinds of little projects. Some are bigger
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  Speaker 1: than others, but most are really just ten and fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minute jobs in the grand scheme of things. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to take no time at all. They cost almost nothing
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  Speaker 1: to fix, they don't require lots of expertise or special
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  Speaker 1: equipment anything like that. And yet I routinely ignore them.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I don't know why. I wish I knew why.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could understand myself physician heal myself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. In fact, the thing is, I
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  Speaker 1: don't just ignore them. I actively avoid them. I look
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  Speaker 1: away from them. I avert my eyes when I'm in
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  Speaker 1: those rooms. I don't want to take the time to
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  Speaker 1: do these little fixes, and I keep telling myself it's
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  Speaker 1: not a big deal. I'll get to it later, right,
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  Speaker 1: I've got other things to do, bigger fish to fry.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem with many of these little things is
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  Speaker 1: that failure to act now only causes bigger problems later,
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  Speaker 1: Just like Andrew and his teeth. You know, I'm saving
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  Speaker 1: some time now, but I'm gonna pay the piper later.
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  Speaker 1: The best example that I've got of this, the most
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking one, was a peeling edge on wallpaper in the
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  Speaker 1: dining room of my old house. The spot I needed
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  Speaker 1: to fix three inches long, you know, and it was
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  Speaker 1: the longest seam. It was nothing. A little bit of
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  Speaker 1: paper had peeled back. It literally wouldn't have taken any
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  Speaker 1: time or money at all, just a little dab of
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  Speaker 1: paste or some glue, some safe release tape to hold
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  Speaker 1: it down, and the whole thing would have look new.
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  Speaker 1: I left it. I ignored it. I didn't do it. I
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  Speaker 1: was always going to do it a little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: while Tessa beat me to it when she was learning
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  Speaker 1: to walk. The little bugger went and found that section
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  Speaker 1: at her eye level, and you know, one thing leads
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  Speaker 1: to another, and before long she's peeled it all back,
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  Speaker 1: and she's created this problem that was huge. It took
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  Speaker 1: so much longer to fix, and on top of it all,
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  Speaker 1: the fix that I could come up with at that
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  Speaker 1: point wasn't nearly as good as it would have been earlier.
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  Speaker 1: You know, had I taken care of it, if I'd
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  Speaker 1: have glued it down, she never would have peeled it up.
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  Speaker 1: In the first place. So anyway, that's me. What's your situation?
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  Speaker 1: You know, do you have little projects at home like
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  Speaker 1: I do, easy quick projects that you kind of keep
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  Speaker 1: ignoring or avoiding. Well, maybe it's time for all of
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  Speaker 1: us to tackle them. Maybe it's time to cross them
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  Speaker 1: off your list. Maybe it's time for me to cross
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  Speaker 1: them off my list and deal with AM on a
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  Speaker 1: more regular basis before they become bigger, more expensive problems
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  Speaker 1: down the road. Now is better than later. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot less painful. All right, that's the paint point for
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  Speaker 1: the week. Let's take a break, and when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about masking tape. So please stay there, Please
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  Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. I'll make it interesting, I promise, and
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  Speaker 1: stick her out. Masking tape. Masking tape. Those words, they
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  Speaker 1: just they just sound musical in your ears, don't they.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this is going to be a great, exciting,
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  Speaker 1: fun topic. When you hear masking tape, you know, be
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that comes from my mouth. As we
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  Speaker 1: come back from the break. You're listening to the Repco
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  Speaker 1: Lighte Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: some segments some days I feel like I should lead
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  Speaker 1: the show or lead each segment with an apology. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's early in the morning and it's the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and I wish I could think of a more exciting
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  Speaker 1: name for the segment than masking tape. I'm so bad
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  Speaker 1: at that. I mean, man, I've lost half the audience already.
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  Speaker 1: But don't don't leave yet. It's gonna be good. I've
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  Speaker 1: got basically what I'm gonna do. I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 1: what I've got here. I've got a segment that's going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about when you should consider using masking tape
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  Speaker 1: on your projects and which projects you could you really
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  Speaker 1: could consider skipping the masking tape. So it's not just
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  Speaker 1: masking tape that we're talking about. We're talking about saving time,
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  Speaker 1: saving money perhaps, and getting great results, all of those
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  Speaker 1: things rolled into one, and we're just keeping the focus
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  Speaker 1: on masking tape. So let's start right off the bat
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  Speaker 1: with when are some places where you could consider skipping
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  Speaker 1: masking tape on your project? Well, first off, if you
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  Speaker 1: or the crew doing the work are good with a
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  Speaker 1: paint brush, you can cut in neatly, cleanly and with skill. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, you might be able to pass
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  Speaker 1: on the tape entirely. Some painters do. In fact, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of established painters scoff literally scoff. It's old school.
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  Speaker 1: They're scoffing pretty hard at the idea of using tape
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  Speaker 1: at all. If you listen right now, you probably can
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  Speaker 1: hear them scoffing out there, you know, in the wild
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  Speaker 1: at the idea of using masking tape. You know, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of established painters just don't use tons of it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's great, you know, for you, you know your skill level.
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  Speaker 1: If it's just you doing the work in your home,
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  Speaker 1: or if you've got a skilled team on board or
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  Speaker 1: the people that are doing the work with you, they
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  Speaker 1: really know what they're doing, it's possible to go without
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  Speaker 1: it and still have great results. So first off, and
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  Speaker 1: most obviously, using it or not using it, it really
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  Speaker 1: depends on your skill level. So that's the first thing.
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  Speaker 1: If you guys are good, you can skip it. Another
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  Speaker 1: place where you might be able to skip masking tape
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  Speaker 1: is when we're talking about that line where the wall
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  Speaker 1: meets the ceiling. You know, skip the tape there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's honestly an area where taping can sometimes do more
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  Speaker 1: harm than good ceilings, especially textured ones. They can be
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  Speaker 1: really tricky, if not impossible to tape cleanly. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's bumpy, for heaven's sake, So yeah, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be a clean paint job up there. But even
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  Speaker 1: though that's the case, having the tape up there, because
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  Speaker 1: there are people who will go and you just take
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  Speaker 1: insane amounts of time to apply tape to that area
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  Speaker 1: over all the bumps, I've seen it. And when they
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  Speaker 1: do that, it gives them this false sense of security.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you think you're safe, so you slather on
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  Speaker 1: the painting up there like you're you know, putting jelly
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  Speaker 1: on a bagele, and then you peel the tape back
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  Speaker 1: and you discover this obscene amounts of paint that's bled
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  Speaker 1: through onto the ceiling. So that's just not the place
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  Speaker 1: to tape, So skip the taping there. Practice good cutting
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  Speaker 1: in techniques, which we'll talk about in future episodes in
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  Speaker 1: the month, and if you do that, you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to get really good results on that edge, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where the wall meets the ceiling. You're gonna get good
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  Speaker 1: results just doing it by hand. If you do some
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  Speaker 1: practice ahead of time, people don't usually scrutinize that cut
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  Speaker 1: in line anyway. It's way up at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the room, and even if you get a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a tiny wave in that line, it's barely going
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  Speaker 1: to be noticeable from below. And if anybody does notice it,
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  Speaker 1: it just gives it that hand painted look, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you tell them, all right, So skip taping up. There.
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  Speaker 1: A third place that you can consider skipping the t
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  Speaker 1: is perhaps around windows and doors, you know, the casing
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  Speaker 1: around windows and doors, you know, if you've got some
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  Speaker 1: painting experience, I think that's a great spot to practice
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  Speaker 1: those freehand skills. And I think that's largely the case
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  Speaker 1: because of the angle in which you're working, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the side casing and the windows. Let's say you
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  Speaker 1: can stand up and work top to bottom, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: moving my arm in that top to bottom up and
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  Speaker 1: down fashion is just much more fluid than a side
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  Speaker 1: to side motion on a baseboard, and I'm able to
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  Speaker 1: get a nice smoother line, a longer cut line doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So that area is a great place to start. And
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  Speaker 1: another thing, you know, another reason I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: great place to practice those skills is that standing up
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  Speaker 1: to paint the side casing around a window or a door.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a way more comfortable position than working on
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  Speaker 1: the floor, you know, hunched over trying to cut in
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  Speaker 1: around the base. Last of all, you know, cutting in
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  Speaker 1: the casing beneath the window and above the window or
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  Speaker 1: door is just another great place to up your free
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  Speaker 1: hand skills because in most situations those lines above the door,
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  Speaker 1: you know, above the casing, above the door, and below
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  Speaker 1: the windowcasing, most of those lines aren't even going to
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  Speaker 1: be really visible. They're too low or too high for
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  Speaker 1: most people to really even see them or pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to them. If you've got people who are scoping those
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  Speaker 1: lines out, those people don't need to be in your home,
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  Speaker 1: right they can be shown the door, and you can
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  Speaker 1: feel just fine about that. You weren't rude. They started
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  Speaker 1: looking at stuff they didn't need to be putting their
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  Speaker 1: nose into, so nobody's going to notice those lines. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: save yourself sometime doing the taping around all those areas
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  Speaker 1: and just free hand those get your practice in that way,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Those are some areas you might want to
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  Speaker 1: consider skipping the tape. Now, let's look at the other
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  Speaker 1: side of things. You know, when is it worth using tape? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you're working with people you know, remember the first
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  Speaker 1: reason that we gave or the first place that we
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  Speaker 1: gave where you could skip the taping we talked about, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if everybody on the job site is guild, you could
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  Speaker 1: probably skip it. Well, this is the reverse of that.
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  Speaker 1: If you're working with people who don't have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of experience, you know, Di Wires, family members lending a hand,
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  Speaker 1: maybe new crew members on a job site, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a contractor. In all of those situations, taping really can
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  Speaker 1: be a life saver. You know, it takes a bit
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  Speaker 1: of time upfront, but it's gonna save a ton of time,
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  Speaker 1: save you a ton of time from touch ups and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of headaches down the road. You know, taping
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  Speaker 1: can help with quality control if you're running a crew
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  Speaker 1: and for di Wires, taping can make your work look
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  Speaker 1: professionally done, and it can help you get there much
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  Speaker 1: more quickly. Now I'm going to post a link to
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  Speaker 1: a video that I ran into. I'll put it in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes, but it was a demonstration that was
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  Speaker 1: really kind of helpful. You know, the guy making it
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  Speaker 1: is a handyman. He paints more than di wiers do,
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  Speaker 1: but way less than contractors, so keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: He was working in a room with two identical walls
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  Speaker 1: opposite each other. He decided to cut in the baseboard
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  Speaker 1: free hand on one wall, and then tape and brush
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  Speaker 1: the cut in on the other wall. He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see which one took longer, which one was faster. While
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  Speaker 1: he had practiced his free hand work beforehand and was
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  Speaker 1: comfortable doing it, and yet in the end, cutting in
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  Speaker 1: the wall freehand took more than twice the time it
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  Speaker 1: took him to paint and tape the wall, and he
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  Speaker 1: had better results with the tape section. Now that's anecdotal,
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  Speaker 1: that's his experience. It won't be the same for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but it is interesting. If you're not a professional painter,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty likely that the tape's going to help you
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  Speaker 1: get better results more quickly. All right, Moving on, Also
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  Speaker 1: consider taping if there's a massive amount of cut in work.
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  Speaker 1: I recently heard from a contractor who had to cut
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  Speaker 1: around a three tiered tray ceiling crown molding on each level.
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  Speaker 1: If you can imagine that, first off, he was going
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  Speaker 1: to just freehand the job like he typically would have done,
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  Speaker 1: but when he was looking at it and he considered
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  Speaker 1: all the different trips he was going to be making
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  Speaker 1: around the room trying to get straight lines on all
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  Speaker 1: of them. He decided he's just going to tape everything.
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  Speaker 1: So it took him about two and a half hours
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  Speaker 1: to get all the tape up, but it paid off
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  Speaker 1: because he could blaze around the room and he ended
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  Speaker 1: up with perfect lines in the He estimated that he
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  Speaker 1: saved time and painted with less stress because he was
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  Speaker 1: using the tape. So if you've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: cut in work to do, might want to go to tape.
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  Speaker 1: Might just save you some time, even if you're a
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  Speaker 1: professional contractor maybe who knows. Another scenario where taping would
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  Speaker 1: probably help is when you're painting your walls and the
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  Speaker 1: baseboards are already done. You know, you're not doing the baseboards.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the color was good, you're not changing that, just
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  Speaker 1: changing the wall color. If that's the case, Taping the
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  Speaker 1: top edge of those baseboards is going to help you
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  Speaker 1: get that sharp, crisp blind that you want. And when
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  Speaker 1: you do that taping, use a wider tape, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe an inch and a half that's probably ideal, and
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  Speaker 1: only press down that edge that sits on top of
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  Speaker 1: the base. That way, the tape is going to help
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  Speaker 1: keep roller spatter off of the baseboard as well, so
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  Speaker 1: kind of a bonus there. It'll get you that straight
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  Speaker 1: line and keep that spatter off the base. Similarly, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're only painting the baseboards, but you're leaving the wall alone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just changing that baseboard color. You love the
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  Speaker 1: wall color, need a new color on the base. If
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  Speaker 1: that's the case, I still consider taping along the wall
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  Speaker 1: where it meets the baseboard. Again, it's just going to
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: help you get that clean edge easier and quicker. All right,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: That's about it. I could keep going, but that's that's enough.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: That's plenty. Here are our last few things I guess
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: to think about before we move on to other fields
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: other topics. Painting without tape is a skill. There's a
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: lot of pride in it, and a lot of pros
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: work hard to develop it. And even if you're di
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I Wyer, it's worth practicing in areas, you know, around
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the house, when you're working on your projects, on parts
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: of those projects where it makes sense and where you're
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: comfortable practice getting these these skills and developing these skills.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: It feels great. Nothing really feels better than running your
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: brush along you know, the window casing or something without
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: having taped anything and still getting a nice, nice clean,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: crisp blind feels great. A lot of people are impressed,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you know, the people in your family, as much as
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: they can ever be impressed with stuff we do. But
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: you know, it's one of our best shots at it,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: at least when it comes to a skilled trade that
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: we've picked up, they'll be blown away that you can
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: do it. Take pictures, put them on social media. Work
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: to develop that skill. It's worth it. But don't let
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: that pursuit of excellence there convince you to ditch tape altogether.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Tape can be a huge help, even for the pros.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: You know, there are tons of instances where good tape
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: applied correctly can speed up the process. It can help
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you produce consistent quality work, even if the painting crew
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: isn't as experienced as you prefer. Now, another thing to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: keep in mind if you're a di wire is that
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: tape isn't the place to try to save a lot
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: of money on your project. You know, for most average
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: DIY projects, you're probably needing one to two rolls of
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: tape skipping it might save you a grand total of
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: five to twenty bucks, you know, depending on the tape
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that you buy, but those savings really aren't worth it
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: if you end up with poor results. High quality tape
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: is going to give you sharper lines, less bleed through
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: and just overall a more professional finish. And using tape
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: when you're not as proficient at painting as you'd like
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to be, is really going to help you get those
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: great results faster. You know, I've said that a couple times,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: but that's the big takeaway here, just going to get
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: those great results faster. Finally, speaking of tape, last thing,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: a little heads up for everybody. We've got Scotch Blue
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Painters tape on sale for five point fifty a roll
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: all of this month at Repcolite. It's a step up
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: if you're used to lower quality tapes, and if you're
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a contractor, this might be cheaper than what you're paying now.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So grab a roller two next time you're in or
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: stock up. You know, maybe you just want to have
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: boatloads of this stuff in case there's an apocalypse. Who
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: knows the tape might come in handy. The deal goes
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: all the way through the end of the month that
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: all Repcolite stores, so definitely take advantage of that. All Right,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: enough about tape for now, we're going to take a break,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and when we come back, I've got tips for a fun,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: family friendly fall project that's perfect for getting into raised
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: bed gardening before the winter sets in. All of that's next,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: stick around and we're back. You're listening to the Repcolite
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and I'm pumped
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: about this next segment, the stegment segment. Ugh, I wish
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: language was easier. I just wish it wasn't always putting
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: up such a fight. Anyway, I'm excited for this next segment.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: We're going to be diving into a project that's simple
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: yet rewarding. I love it that it's simple. I love
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: it even more that it's rewarding, and best of all,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it's perfect for fall raised bad gardening now this spring.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: If you listen to the show on a regular basis,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: if you're one of the true believers out there, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: know that my family a handsome clan. We jumped into
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: our first raised bad gardening experience. We built one on
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a whim back in April. I think it was, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: at the time, I knew it would have been better
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: for me to have started in the previous fall, or
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to wait, you know, for right now to get started.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: But once spring hit and the weather was starting to turn,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: my daughter Tessa was really chomping at the bit to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: do some gardening, and she was adamant that she wanted
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to try raised bed gardening, and so I figured, what
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the heck, why not let's jump in and give it
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a try, And so we did, and the whole thing
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: went crazy. We planted way too many tomatoes, you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: way too many tomato plants. We expected only a few
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to survive. That's been our previous experience. You know, we
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: plant a bunch of stuff, there's a mass extinction event.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It feels like everything we planted dies. Then we go
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to the store and buy packaged tomatoes. That's normally how
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: it goes. So we bought and planted a ton of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: these plants, thinking maybe one or two will make it. Well,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it turns out they all made it. They all thrived.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: It was literally insane. It's like a jungle out there,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you know. We had tomatoes coming out of our ears,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: really like out of our ears. It was that that insane.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'd come home from work and the entire kitchen counter
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: would be full of tomatoes. Every single night. We chop
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: them up, we turn them into salsa, chili, spaghetti sauce,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: pizza sauce, homemade tomato soups. We do that all the time,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and then the next day, boop, there they are all
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: over the counter again, trying to take over the kitchen.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Crazy fun, but man, what a lot of tomatoes. We
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: loved going out there. You know. Every night we'd get
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: home and we wouldn't go as a group. We're not
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that family. Sometimes we did go as a group, I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: can't lie, But most of the time we'd each kind
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of wander out there on our own to take a look.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You know, what's coming up, what's getting close to being ready?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Oh this is ready? You know all that really really fun,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: really really fun. So raise bed gardening. If you've ever
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: thought about gardening, but for one reason or another you
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: haven't jumped in. You know, this is a really small
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: scale way to do it and have a lot of fun.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You got to think about it. In the time that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: we've got left. I want to share a few pointers,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you know, things that I learned during my raised bed
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: gardening experience. You know, because I've done it for a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: year now, that pretty much makes me a grizzled veteran farmer.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I've seen things. I put grass in my
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: mouth and chew on it like farmers do. You know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I've got stories. So let's start with why raised bed
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: gardening is so great and why you out there listening
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: need to try it now. First off, if you do it,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you can garden anywhere. Well, you know, within reason, but
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you can garden anywhere on your property even if you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: don't have great soil or much space. You can always
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: put a raised bed garden on a patio, you can
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: put it on gravel, you can put it on less
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: than ideal garden soil. You can pretty much garden anywhere
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: with a raised bed garden. Second, you control the quality
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: of the soil. You know, my yard soil isn't fantastic.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It's pretty bad, which is why we have those mass
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: extinction events. But since I filled the raised bed with
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: high quality soil, we had incredible results. You know, the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: tomatoes alone were more reductive than any previous year. We
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: never saw that success coming. So that's two reasons. The
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: third reason it's easier to reach. It's just easier to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: work this thing than a regular garden bed, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: since it's raised weeding and harvesting, they're just a lot
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: more comfortable. You know, if you're not big into bending
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: over and walking around all hunched, you know this is great.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You just kneel by the side of the bed and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: you can comfortably work the whole thing. It's amazing, all right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: If this sounds like something you'd like to try, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: hopefully we're getting there, you know, maybe I hooked you
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe I'm hooking you a little more
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: if you're thinking about, you know, I might want to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: try this. All you need to do is find a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: good sunny spot on your yard and then build or
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: buy that box or that raised bed. And really, when
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: it comes to that, you know that part of things.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: There are a ton of different ways you could go here,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you know, lots of plans online, lots of instructions. There's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: not a lot of variance to what these things look like,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: but you know there are little tweaks that you can do.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to walk you through the whole building
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: problem and just laying it out step by step. It's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: it's not easy to do that on the radio, you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: even for someone with my you know, firm grip on
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the English language, still do struggle. You know, I can't
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: imagine trying to explain. Take the leftmost board, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and then fix the end to the end of you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the flanking board, and make sure you use all weather
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: fasteners and stuff like that. You know, I don't want
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to explain it. You don't want to listen to it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: It's not a complicated process. I did it in about
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: twenty minutes. All you need is some woods, some exterior
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: grade screws, and soil for the bed. You know. Just
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: picture a four x eight you know, four foot by
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: eight foot frame made with two by tens or stacked
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: two by eight to get it up to about sixteen
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: inches high. You know. Picture that. You've got the idea.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: If you do need more info, just do a little googling.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: You know. YouTube has so many things out there you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: can watch, watch people build them till the cows come home.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So do that. Go to Google, Go to YouTube. I'll
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: put a couple links of my favorite how to videos
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in the show notes. If you want to see those,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: just go to repco Light dot com. Click the on
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the radio tab on the homepage and then you'll find
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the latest episode and the links will be right there. Now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: if you'd rather skip building, you know, maybe that's not
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: your thing, maybe you're a point and payer, or you
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: just want to buy it and put it on your
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: property and be ready to go, well you can buy
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you know, pre made raised beds, or you could even
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: use a large galvanized stock tank. You know, I've seen
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: plenty of that. Just remember, if you do go that route,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you've got to drill drainage holes in the bottom of
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: those tanks. If you don't, it's not going to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the best experience. Drill drainage holes. You know. Stock tanks
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: are going to last for years, they're going to eliminate
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: bending almost entirely because they're so much taller. But they
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: are going to require a ton more soil to fill,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: so keep that in mind, and that's going to add
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to the cost. We'll talk about a quick workaround to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: save you some cash on soil in a bit, but first,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: if you're maybe thinking about building it and you're gonna
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: go with you just build it out of wood. We
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: do need to talk about wood very briefly. There's a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: number of options, of course, that you could use cedar
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: or redwood. Those would be great. Cedar is kind of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the gold standard, but both are naturally rot resistant the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: last years and years and years, but they're pricey. Cedars
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: easier to find. Redwood's going to be a little harder
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to locate and get a hold of, but both would
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: work really well if you could pull that off. Pine
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: it's a less expensive option, but it's not going to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: last nearly as long. I of course went with pine
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: for mine. I know it's not going to last. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: know that I'm going to have to rebuild it down
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the road, but the initial buy in was so much easier,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: so much more inexpensive, so I went with that. Now,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: what about treated lumber. There's a lot that we could
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: say about this, but I'm going to just simplify it
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: for the sake of time. While treated lumber is rot resistant,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: it's not always safe for food gardens. Not always safe.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Some may be, but some you know, treated woods are
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: not going to be safe, So do your research. If
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you're considering this option for a food garden, you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a raised bed that's going to grow food, So keep
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that in mind, all right, now let's talk in the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: last little bit that we've got about filling the bed
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: with soil, because this is where things can get a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: little costly. And surprisingly I did not expect this, but
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: filling that raised bed with soil was not cheap. You know,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: for a four x eight bed that was around fifteen
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: inches deep, that's what I had. I ended up spending well,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I would have spent close to about one hundred and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars or more on soil. But there is a
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: cost effective method that will help you reduce that. It's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: called and it's it's a crazy word. It's called hoogle culture.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Google culture. Hoogle culture, google culture. I don't know how
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to say it. H U g E l k U
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: L t u R. Another way to talk about it
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: is lasagna layering. I get that. I you know, lasagna,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: that's my love language. So lasagna layering. That's what I did.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And here's how it works. Basically, you break that garden bed,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that raised bad into multiple layers lasagna layering. Right the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: base layer, you start by filling the bottom with rotting logs, branches,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: sticks from your yard, things like that. You know, these
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: things take up space. They create a great moisture holding
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: foundation as they decompose, and yeah, they just eat up
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of that extra space that you're not just
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you know, filling with soil, so base layer, rotting, logs, branches,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: sticks like you know, things like that intermediate layer. The
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: next layer of your garden lasagna, you're gonna add grass clippings, leaves,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: kitchen scraps, things like that. These are gonna enrich the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: soil as they break down. Now for the top layer
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of your lasagna, you know, the mozzarella, cheese and all that,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the money layer. For that top layer, you're gonna want
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to have about eight to twelve inches of high quality
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: garden mixed soil, you know, seventy five percent top soil,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: twenty five percent compost. That would be ideal. This layering
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: on the lower two parts of the lasagna. That saves
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you money. But make sure if you're going to do that,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that you don't try to save so much money. You
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: know that you kind of shortchange your garden. You've got
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to have about eight to twelve inches of high quality
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: soil at the top for your plants to grow. If
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: you're growing deep rooted vegetables, you'll need to add a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: few more inches yet. All right, one last tip if
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you're going to fill multiple beds. You know, we did
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: just one bed, but if you're going to do multiple ones,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: consider buying soil in bulk, you know, from a local supplier.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: If you do that, you can generally get better quality
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: soil for less money compared to the bagged options. But
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: there's always a butt, right, there's always a big butt.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You can save money, like crazy amounts of money. You know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I priced it out. You can get forty two dollars
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: is what it's going to cost to get better soil
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: from a local supplier, and it's going to be like
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars to get that same amount
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: of soil that's not quite as good, probably just in bags.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: So wow, huge savings. But there's delivery fees, and the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: delivery fees you usually make it price out similarly, so
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: look into that. If you've got multiple beds going, you
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: probably don't want to be hauling you know, forty to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: fifty sixty bags around. Just get it delivered, but look
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: into it. Don't forget about delivery. All right, that's the scoop.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: There's so much more I could say, but that's enough
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: hopefully got your interest peaked a little bit, and you've
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: got time. Fall is the perfect time to get your
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: raised bed ready. And if you do it now, get
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: all that soil in there, get everything ready to go,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: it's going to be set and ready when spring arrives.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: You're going to just be able to jump right in
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and you'll have a ton of fun. You'll be eating
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: tomatoes un till you can hardly even stand it anymore.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: It's that much fun. All right. I know that was
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a ton to cover, but I hope it gave you
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the information that you needed, answered some of your questions,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and maybe got you ready to jump into this. It's
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a fun, relatively budget friendly project, and it's a great
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: family activity. Need to boots, so check it out. All right,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: let's take a break. When we come back, we're gonna
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: be talking about art in the bathroom. What do you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: need to do in order to bring real art into
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: your bathroom and have it be tasteful and stay safe.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I've got all of that coming up in just a minute.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Stick around and we're back. You're listening to the Repcolite
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and I want
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: to talk about a unique and often overlook space for
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: art the bathroom. But before I jump into that, I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: got to talk about the fact that I was surprised
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to find that this is a controversial topic. That blows
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: my mind. This really can get people amped up, This
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: can trigger people, get them upset. I mean, the world's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: burning to the ground, but you talk about putting art
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: in the bathroom, and man, the torches and the pitchforks
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: come out. But anyway, I'm going to plow ahead with
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: this topic because I'm fearless, or you know, because I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: really don't have a lot of common sense. Either way,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: let's find out how triggering this really is. I don't
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: believe people are really going to be triggered, not regular people.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna find out though, for sure. So the bathroom
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: might not be the first place that you think of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: when it comes to showcasing or displaying art, but with
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the right pieces and some considerations those are both important.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: With both of those things, it can be a great
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  Speaker 1: place to display real art. You know, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: real art, not just bathroom decor pieces, you know, funny
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  Speaker 1: little signs or something like that. I'm talking about actual art,
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  Speaker 1: which is already offensive because maybe some people find those
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  Speaker 1: funny little signs to be actual art. Art is subjective,
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  Speaker 1: so I've already triggered people. Anyway, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: In order to successfully bring art into the bathroom, the
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  Speaker 1: very first thing that you need to do is consider
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things, the elements and the materials that
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing in. And what I'm getting at here is
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  Speaker 1: this mold and mildew. They thrive in humid environments, and
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  Speaker 1: that makes the bathroom a pretty tricky space sometimes for
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  Speaker 1: art materials like paper and wood, they are particularly vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: to molden mildew. So you want to avoid those materials
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  Speaker 1: if possible. And make sure also that you're only installing
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  Speaker 1: in your bathroom replaceable art. That means no limited edition prints,
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  Speaker 1: it means no you know, just priceless documents. So the
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  Speaker 1: original letters that you've got from George Washington during the
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary War, you know, the copy of the original Constitution
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, all of those documents. There are
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  Speaker 1: no goes in the bathroom. Right, shouldn't need to be said,
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  Speaker 1: Probably doesn't need to be said, but that's my way
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  Speaker 1: I will say it anyway. So don't use those don't
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  Speaker 1: use original paintings. You know, don't use vintage posters things
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  Speaker 1: like that. If it's valuable, if it's irreplaceable, if you
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  Speaker 1: love it more than life itself, the bathroom might not
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  Speaker 1: be the place for it. Canvas prints, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: they're generally safe for bathrooms, especially those that have a
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  Speaker 1: special moisture resistant coating. Some do. Those would be ideal
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom. Another consideration when it comes to materials
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  Speaker 1: is framing. You know, if you are opting for framed art,
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  Speaker 1: you need to consider a couple other things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: further things here. First off, consider aluminum or stainless steel
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  Speaker 1: frames as they're not going to rust. Plastic and acrylic
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  Speaker 1: frames those would be good choices too, if you can
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  Speaker 1: find ones that work for you, know your style, your
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  Speaker 1: decor what you're trying to do. Wood frames they can
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  Speaker 1: be a little more problematic. They can work if they're
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  Speaker 1: sealed properly, but you do want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they are sealed properly before you bring them in there.
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  Speaker 1: The other materials that I mentioned are going to be better. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing to mention when we're talking about framed
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  Speaker 1: art and the materials that you're bringing into the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: is glazing. Now, glazing is the you know, oh, how
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  Speaker 1: do I describe it? It's the clear protective sheet overframed art.
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  Speaker 1: You know, generally there's two different options. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be glass or it's going to be a crylic In
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  Speaker 1: an ideal situation in a bathroom, you wouldn't use any
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  Speaker 1: glazing in the bathroom, you know, that would be the ideal.
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  Speaker 1: But if you do use the glazing, make sure that
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  Speaker 1: it's acrylic. Glass can trap moisture, but acrylic will actually
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  Speaker 1: allow some of that moisture to pass through, and that's
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  Speaker 1: going to reduce the risk that moisture builds up inside
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  Speaker 1: the frame. All right, that's the first thing. Consider the
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  Speaker 1: moisture in the room and plan accordingly with your materials.
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  Speaker 1: The second thing to remember is that ventilation is key,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely key. So ensure that you've got an exhaust fan
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  Speaker 1: installed that's appropriately sized for your bathroom and make sure
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  Speaker 1: it's in working order, and of course don't forget to
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  Speaker 1: run it. That's going to save your bathroom from moisture,
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  Speaker 1: which is a huge win, and it will also keep
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  Speaker 1: your art in great condition as well. All right, next thing,
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  Speaker 1: remember scale. Basically, what we're getting at here is. Bathrooms
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  Speaker 1: are typically smaller rooms, right, so choose art that fills
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  Speaker 1: that space without overpowering it, without over whelming it. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously smaller pieces can work better. But to make this
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  Speaker 1: not just a throwaway point, I want to consider the
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  Speaker 1: power of color as well. You know, a bright yellow
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  Speaker 1: or orange or red can really pack a punch, even
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  Speaker 1: in a small format. So just because a piece of
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  Speaker 1: art is small doesn't mean that its color impact is
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  Speaker 1: going to be diminished enough. So keep all of that
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  Speaker 1: in mind, scale, keep all of that in mind when
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  Speaker 1: you're making your selections. Not right now, we're getting to
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  Speaker 1: the really fun stuff. I love this part of this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: What about subject matter? You know, what kind of art
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  Speaker 1: can you hang in a bathroom? Are there unwritten rules
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  Speaker 1: out there? Does all bathroom art need to be spa
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  Speaker 1: themed or calming? No? The beauty of art is its subjectivity, right,
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you love can find a home in your bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: So if you love abstracts or landscapes, go for it
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  Speaker 1: even in the bathroom. If you want something stark or modern,
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  Speaker 1: go for it. If you want portraits in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: go for it. Dogs, poker, go for it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: nothing is off the table here really, But the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: should reflect your personality, just like your whole home, but
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  Speaker 1: your bathroom that's your space more than anything else. That
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  Speaker 1: should reflect your personality. So whatever you like, go for it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's spot themed and all that that you love, well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. It's perfect. Nobody's going to argue with that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's say you found some art. Where should
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  Speaker 1: you place it on the walls? Are there rules that
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  Speaker 1: you need to consider? Or is any blank space in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom fair game? Well, in this situation there are rules.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of surprising, but there are rules. Two of them.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I call them Dan's Rules of Bathroom art displays,
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  Speaker 1: and they're brilliant rules. The first one is this, will
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  Speaker 1: any blank space is fair game for your art? For
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  Speaker 1: the most part, you want to avoid areas directly exposed
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  Speaker 1: to water, you know, like above the shower. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not smart. Don't put art there. Find another spot. The
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  Speaker 1: second rule is this, think about the subject matter. See,
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  Speaker 1: it's possible that the subject matter of the art itself
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  Speaker 1: may limit where that art would work in your bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Case in point, a beautiful landscape hung above the toilet
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  Speaker 1: might be perfect beautiful, flawless, wonderful. A portrait of some
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  Speaker 1: Victorian gent or lady hung above the toilet might be
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  Speaker 1: a little weird. You know. Personally, I know that I
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  Speaker 1: would forget that that portrait was in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hanging up at least in the beginning. And I know,
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  Speaker 1: my first time getting up to go to the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, that would be an
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  Speaker 1: experience that I'd never forget if I managed to live
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  Speaker 1: through it. You know, seeing some person hovering in the
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  Speaker 1: air over the toilet in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: That is not conducive to my health. So think about
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  Speaker 1: the subject matter, all right. Last thing I'll say about
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  Speaker 1: this is remember that art comes in all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: shapes and sizes. It's not just limited to framed prints
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  Speaker 1: of photos or paintings or stuff like that. Sculpture can
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  Speaker 1: add dimension and character to a space without you know,
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  Speaker 1: typically at least with a lot of materials, without the
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  Speaker 1: worry of damage from moisture. So there you go, Art
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom. I don't think it was really all
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  Speaker 1: that controversial, right, I think we weathered it like champions. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it gives you some infos so you can bring
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  Speaker 1: in some interesting art pieces and make your bathroom even
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  Speaker 1: cooler than I'm sure it already is. Anyway, there you go,
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  Speaker 1: times up. If you want to catch this episode again,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you can find it online at repcolight dot com. Whatever
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: you do today makes your paints a part of it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend everybody, and I'll see you next week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks for listening.