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3 Reasons to Get Those Projects Finished; A History of Glass; Window Fixes 101 · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. You're listening to the reco Light
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Speaker 1: Home improvement show is sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and I'm
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Speaker 1: glad you're here. I'm glad you're starting your weekend off
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Speaker 1: right in the best possible manner. You're starting by listening
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Speaker 1: to the show and speaking of mornings, weekend mornings, what
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Speaker 1: is your plan for today? I'm curious. You know, everybody's
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Speaker 1: got weekend plans. We always have something in our heads,
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Speaker 1: whatever we're intending to do for the day. What are
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Speaker 1: you intending to do today? For me? I'm torn. You know.
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Speaker 1: There are three things that I want to do, three
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Speaker 1: different things. And when I say want to do, I
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Speaker 1: should clarify these are things that I want to have
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Speaker 1: done to see finished. They're not necessarily terribly exciting things,
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Speaker 1: but they are things that I want to get done.
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Speaker 1: And one of them is I want to continue my
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Speaker 1: spring cleaning. And yeah, I said spring cleaning in March,
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Speaker 1: in the beginning of March. That's how optimistic I am.
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Speaker 1: You know, people who know tell me sometimes say I'm
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Speaker 1: too pessimistic. That is not true. I am the eternal optimist.
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Speaker 1: I am convinced that spring is coming and that there
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Speaker 1: will be no more cold weather, no more sadness, no
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Speaker 1: more despair out there. And I know I probably jinxed
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Speaker 1: everybody listening. You know, all of us are probably gonna
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Speaker 1: have a terrible, terrible cold, snowy March because of everything
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Speaker 1: I just said. But really I'm thinking positive. And I
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Speaker 1: did start spring cleaning last week, and I tackled a
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Speaker 1: spare room that we've got a spare bedroom, and we
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Speaker 1: went to town. In there, let me tell you, let
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Speaker 1: me just brag a little bit, we went nuts. We
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Speaker 1: got out the fabuloso or fabulosa, I don't remember. I
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Speaker 1: don't remember how it's spelled. I know how it smells,
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Speaker 1: That's what I know about it. And it's the purple stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I got that out. We went to town. We
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Speaker 1: washed the walls, we washed the windows, and we washed
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Speaker 1: both sides. I didn't do the normal you know, wash
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Speaker 1: the inside of the window, the one part that I
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Speaker 1: can reach easily. I even folded them in and did
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Speaker 1: the other side as well, both sides of the windows
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Speaker 1: with minimal streakage. So I got the windows washed, wash
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Speaker 1: the walls. We exterminated more dust bunnies than we could
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Speaker 1: even count. I mean, it was the killing fields in there.
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Speaker 1: It was great. Now when you walk past the room,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you go fast enough, the displacement of
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Speaker 1: air kind of pulls the clean air out of that
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Speaker 1: room and it kind of hugs you with that fabulosa, fabuloso,
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Speaker 1: whichever it is. That purple smell kind of wraps around
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Speaker 1: you and you know, just patsy on the head and
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Speaker 1: tells you you did a good job. So that's one
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Speaker 1: thing I would like to do. I would like to
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Speaker 1: continue that spring cleaning and carry that purple smell into
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Speaker 1: other rooms of the house. Now, another thing that I'd
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Speaker 1: kind of like to do is to prime some raised
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Speaker 1: plaster decorative bands that are around the top of my
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Speaker 1: walls and the ceiling in my living room. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you've listened to the show for a while, you know
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Speaker 1: you kind of been consistent. If you followed it, you
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Speaker 1: probably know that I've got a living room in the house,
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Speaker 1: a formal living room, for lack of a better phrase.
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Speaker 1: That's what the people called it when we went through
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Speaker 1: the house. What's this room called? You know, is this
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Speaker 1: a second living room? This is the formal living room? Oh,
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Speaker 1: we just call it the second living room anyway, The
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Speaker 1: second living room, the front living room. If you followed
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Speaker 1: the show, you know that along the top of the
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Speaker 1: walls and on the ceiling there are some bands of
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Speaker 1: plaster raised bands that are like four inches wide. Two
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Speaker 1: of them are side by side on the ceiling and
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Speaker 1: one on the top of the walls. Really smooth. They've
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Speaker 1: got paint on them. The paint has peeled in some areas,
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Speaker 1: and I've got this mess now. The paint peeled. You
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Speaker 1: know that whole problem that occurred. It actually happened years
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Speaker 1: and years back when my daughter Hannah exposed all of this.
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Speaker 1: She's the one who discovered this problem. She's the one
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Speaker 1: who made the problem. Is probably the best way to
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Speaker 1: say it. Basically, she spent all of her spare time.
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Speaker 1: She didn't play with toy when she was grown up.
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Speaker 1: She was a teacher. That's what she did. We didn't
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Speaker 1: buy her toys for Christmas or birthdays or anything. We
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Speaker 1: would buy her teaching supplies. Little fingers on a stick
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Speaker 1: for like point and at stuff. I mean, it sounds dumb,
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Speaker 1: but it really is. It's a finger on a stick
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Speaker 1: and you point out things with it. And she had
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Speaker 1: a projector, even a cheap o projector, and a chromebook.
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Speaker 1: She would do spreadsheets with grades and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: Hannah taught, and she taught hard, you know, hardcore teaching.
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Speaker 1: She was laying it on thick for all these invisible
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Speaker 1: kids that filled the classroom. Anyway, one of the tools,
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Speaker 1: one of the supplies that we bought her were these
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Speaker 1: great big poster sized sticky notes, and she would write
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Speaker 1: all the lesson plans or whatever the kids needed to know,
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Speaker 1: the spelling list, whatever. She'd write it on these notes
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Speaker 1: and then stick them all over the wall. Well, eventually,
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Speaker 1: you know, we'd leave them up for a while and
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Speaker 1: she covered so much space. She would get a ladder
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Speaker 1: out of the garage. We didn't endorse this. Sometimes we
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Speaker 1: just walk into the room and there's Hannah on the
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Speaker 1: six foot ladder putting stuff all over the walls. And
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Speaker 1: one of the times she got it all the way
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Speaker 1: up to that band. You know. So she puts this
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Speaker 1: poster up there with a sticky note kind of backer
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Speaker 1: on it, sticks it on one of those painted bands,
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Speaker 1: and she does her teaching. We didn't think about it
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Speaker 1: for a while. Well, eventually it comes time to take
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Speaker 1: that poster down, and when we pull it down, we
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Speaker 1: find that it removes all the paint along that raised
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Speaker 1: plaster edge, you know, everywhere where that post it note was.
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Speaker 1: So we got about a one and a half foot
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Speaker 1: section where where there's no paint. You know, it's all
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Speaker 1: the way down to the plaster or a primer. It's
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Speaker 1: too long of a story. It's just the paint's gone,
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Speaker 1: that's the main thing. So that's really sad, right, I've
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Speaker 1: got to touch it up. Well, the whole thing got
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Speaker 1: sadder because I did the sanding, you know, hoping to
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Speaker 1: just touch up those spots and move on. And that's
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Speaker 1: when I found out that all the paint on these
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Speaker 1: bands wasn't sticking at all. It just kept flaking off
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Speaker 1: further and further. You know, I never really got to
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Speaker 1: a point where it wasn't flaking away as I was sanding. Now, normally,
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Speaker 1: when you've got flaking or appealing paint situation like that,
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Speaker 1: we would tell you, you know, we'd responsibly tell you
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Speaker 1: you've got a sand or scrape all the way to
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Speaker 1: the point where the paint is bonded well, and that
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Speaker 1: whatever's left. You know, that paint that's on that surface
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Speaker 1: needs to be bonded well. And when you've got that
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Speaker 1: then you sand those edges, you know, feather them down
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Speaker 1: a little bit, and then you do your touch ups.
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Speaker 1: But in this situation, whatever I hit with the sand
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Speaker 1: paper would start to come loose. And the saddest thing
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Speaker 1: was that it didn't come loose to the point where
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Speaker 1: it just kind of easily came away. That wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: been so bad. Now, it was still a lot of
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Speaker 1: work to get it off. I could just see that
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Speaker 1: the paint wasn't bonding as I would hit it with
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Speaker 1: the sandpaper. So it was horrible. You know, it was
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Speaker 1: a big room. I had all this sanding work that
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Speaker 1: I had to do. It was all over my head,
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Speaker 1: which is really exhausting to do. And the mess that
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Speaker 1: the sanding created was monumental. And so I did what
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Speaker 1: I tell everybody not to do. I skimped on the
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Speaker 1: prep work. I phoned it in, you know. I sanded
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Speaker 1: the spot where the paint had peeled, and I touched
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Speaker 1: it up, hoping for the best. You know, completely ridiculous
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Speaker 1: that I would think that I'm going to get good
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Speaker 1: results out of this, but I was hoping for the best.
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Speaker 1: You know, That's what desperation will do. It will make
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Speaker 1: you absolutely cling and grasp at straws. That's what I
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Speaker 1: was doing, and so I did it. I put the
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Speaker 1: new paint on there, and literally an hour later, as
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Speaker 1: the paint is drying everywhere that that new paint had
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Speaker 1: been applied over top of the old existing paint. Everywhere
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Speaker 1: that the two overlapped, the old paint was peeling, you know,
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Speaker 1: peeling right off with the new paint. It was literally
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Speaker 1: curling up on the ceiling in the walls. It was
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Speaker 1: a huge mess. Unfortunately I had just did a little
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Speaker 1: bit of painting, but man, what a mess. And that
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Speaker 1: whole idea, you know, I should clarify a minute, that's
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Speaker 1: why you can't paint over paint, or one of the
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Speaker 1: reasons why you can't paint over paint that isn't bonded. Well.
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Speaker 1: What was happening for me was even the surface tension
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Speaker 1: of the new paint drying, that surface tension was enough
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Speaker 1: to completely pull that old paint off and the whole
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Speaker 1: thing came down. Sometimes people think that the new paint
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Speaker 1: is some how going to bond the old one to
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Speaker 1: the surface. Not so, if your foundation, I shouldn't say
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Speaker 1: not so. There are new paints that claim to do
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Speaker 1: just that. New peel bonding primers, things like that. In
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Speaker 1: most instances, a new code of paint over top of
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Speaker 1: something isn't going to make it bond any better. It's
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Speaker 1: just gonna all come off, all right. So that's what
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Speaker 1: I'm dealing with. It was a monumental mess, and I
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Speaker 1: sat on that for I don't even know how many years.
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Speaker 1: I've talked about it on the show. For three years,
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Speaker 1: and I just lived with that mess. It was embarrassing
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Speaker 1: when people would come over. It was frustrating because I absolutely,
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Speaker 1: of course hated how it looked. Who likes that, you know,
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Speaker 1: the peeling paint on the ceiling. I do like this esthetic,
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Speaker 1: you know, nobody likes that esthetic. So I hated how
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Speaker 1: it looked. And it was depressing and exhausting in a
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Speaker 1: way because literally hanging over my head was this ton
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Speaker 1: of messy work that I eventually had to do, you know,
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Speaker 1: if I was ever going to get that room fixed,
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Speaker 1: I had to do this work. And it really weighed
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Speaker 1: on me. But I still, of course I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to bite off the mess of all that work, so
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Speaker 1: I sat on it. Well. Finally, about a month ago,
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah, long story about a month ago, I
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Speaker 1: jumped in. I found a solution. You know, it dawned
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Speaker 1: on me that Hannah had used adhesive to get that
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Speaker 1: paint off, you know, the post it note, the sticky
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Speaker 1: note thing. What if I would do that? Brainstorm? You know,
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Speaker 1: I can't believe it took me four years, eight years,
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Speaker 1: however long it took me to figure this out. But
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Speaker 1: I have a brainstorm finally, and I got a hold
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Speaker 1: of some four inch duct tape and I applied it
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Speaker 1: all around the plaster strip on the ceiling, the four
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Speaker 1: inch strip on the upper walls, all of it, and
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Speaker 1: then I yanked it off, you know, like a band aid,
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Speaker 1: and it was beautiful. It was like pulling a band
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Speaker 1: aid off of a hairy leg, you know, all kinds
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Speaker 1: of little hairs stuck to the adhesive, and then this
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Speaker 1: bear patch on your shin, right, that was what was
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Speaker 1: happening on my walls. Paint came off in huge sections,
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Speaker 1: all stuck to the back of my tape, and it
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Speaker 1: was great. You know, the mess was minimal. I didn't
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Speaker 1: have flakes all over the place. Most of it's on
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Speaker 1: the tape, and I was removing almost eighty five percent
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Speaker 1: of the paint with that technique. So I did all
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Speaker 1: of that all the way around the room, and then
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Speaker 1: I followed up with a sander, and now I've got
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Speaker 1: about ninety eight percent of all of that off. It
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Speaker 1: feels so good. You know, the parts that are on,
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Speaker 1: they're stuck down well. So all of that to say today,
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah, I might like to wipe that surface
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Speaker 1: clean and prime it. Repolites. Quicksand is what I'm going
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Speaker 1: to use. It's a water based primer. And while it's
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Speaker 1: going to seal the surface and give me a good
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Speaker 1: foundation for my finished paint, you know, that's of course
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Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. The other big benefit with Quicksand
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Speaker 1: is that it's a really really great bonding primer, and
10:32
Speaker 1: that's kind of interesting. It was a happy discovery when
10:35
Speaker 1: we first formulated it and tested it. Most of you
10:38
Speaker 1: probably know Repcollites a manufacture of paint as well as
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10:45
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Speaker 1: even make line striping paint for parking lots and so on,
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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. Well, we formulate all these products
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Speaker 1: in our lab in Holland, and our chemists are always working,
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Speaker 1: you know, to fine tune and innovate, you know, come
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Speaker 1: up with new products and make other products better. Well.
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Speaker 1: Quicksand it was a product that they made to be
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Speaker 1: you're using wall and wood and you'd like another option,
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Speaker 1: Quicksand from Repcolite is a great choice something to look into.
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Speaker 1: It's locally made in Michigan. It's a premium product to boot,
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Speaker 1: and they did that, but one additional trait they were
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Speaker 1: surprised to discover was its ability to bond with incredible
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Speaker 1: you know, tenacity. You know, all primers are designed to
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Speaker 1: bond to a surface really well, that's part of the
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Speaker 1: point of a primer, but Quicksand kind of takes it
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Speaker 1: to another level. So for me in my living room.
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Speaker 1: It's the perfect, you know, kind of silver bullet solution.
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Speaker 1: I don't want any peeling paint to ever occur again.
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Speaker 1: And I know that in my situation, the problem was
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Speaker 1: a bonding problem between the paint that was applied probably
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Speaker 1: twelve years ago and a previous coating of paint. I
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Speaker 1: know that that was the issue. It wasn't an issue
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Speaker 1: with the plaster. That was possible. It could have been
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Speaker 1: a plaster issue for me. That wasn't the case. So
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Speaker 1: in my instance, I need to send everything to create
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Speaker 1: a profile for my primer to bond to, which I've done,
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Speaker 1: and then I need to make sure the sanding dust
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Speaker 1: is all removed from the surface, and then I need
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Speaker 1: to prime with a good bonding primer. So that blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah is something that i'd like to do today.
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Speaker 1: That's the second thing. The third thing. Third thing I'd
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Speaker 1: like to do is just sit and relax and rest.
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Speaker 1: After telling you all of that, I really want to
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Speaker 1: sit back and relax and rest. But I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to do that, at least not entirely. And I don't
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Speaker 1: think that you should do that either. And I've got
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Speaker 1: three reasons why, and they're good reasons, you know, impactful reasons,
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Speaker 1: monetarily beneficial reasons in fact. But I've got to take
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Speaker 1: a break before I get to them. So hang with
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Speaker 1: me over the break, and then on the other side,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you how you can feel accomplished and make
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Speaker 1: some money ify tech a project this weekend. That's all
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Speaker 1: just ahead, stick around, welcome back. You're listening to the
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Speaker 1: Repcolite Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And last segment,
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Speaker 1: I went on and on. I blathered on and on
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Speaker 1: about a few projects, a couple projects that I'm considering
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Speaker 1: tackling this weekend, and I mentioned that I've got three
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Speaker 1: good reasons for doing this, for jumping into the work,
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Speaker 1: reasons to work rather than relax. And I also suggested
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Speaker 1: that these reasons might inspire you to take on a
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Speaker 1: project or two as well. And as a bonus, one
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Speaker 1: of these reasons, one of these three even has a
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Speaker 1: financial payoff. So let's get to that. What are these reasons,
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Speaker 1: these reasons to work rather than relax. Well, the first
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Speaker 1: one is this spring is coming, you know it really
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Speaker 1: is coming, and when it does hit, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: want to be outside getting the yard cleaned up. I
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Speaker 1: know myself really well, I'm going to want to be
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Speaker 1: getting the garden ready, cleaning the garage. You know, that's
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Speaker 1: how bad I've got the winter blues. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: got clean the garage on my calendar and I've got
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Speaker 1: it circled with a heart. I'm that excited to just
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Speaker 1: get outside and get things done. So done with winter
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Speaker 1: that cleaning the garage looks fun. It gets a heart
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Speaker 1: on the calendar. That's sad. Well, I want to do that.
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Speaker 1: I want to winterize the snowblower another heart, winterize that
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Speaker 1: thing and put it away. I want to get the
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Speaker 1: mower ready, all of those things. You know, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to have outdoor projects coming out of my ears when
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Speaker 1: the weather turns, and my indoor projects are going to
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Speaker 1: get put on the back burner. Happens every single year.
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Speaker 1: So while it's still too early right now to do
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Speaker 1: those outdoor things, it is the perfect time to finish
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Speaker 1: up the things on your indoor list. So start your
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Speaker 1: spring cleaning a little bit early, get a head start
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Speaker 1: on it. If you've got you know, a rumor too,
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Speaker 1: maybe that needs paint in the house, do that now.
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Speaker 1: Tackle those projects now so you've got them crossed off
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Speaker 1: your list before the weather calls you outside, all right,
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Speaker 1: that's the first reason. Another reason to get those jobs
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Speaker 1: done is because the alleviation of the guilt or the
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Speaker 1: feeling of accomplishment is so powerful. You know, the guilt
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Speaker 1: or the accomplishment, it's two sides of the same coin.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've lived with a room that I've hated
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Speaker 1: for I don't know, I don't know how many years,
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Speaker 1: eight years, seven years. I've talked about it on the
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Speaker 1: show for three years. But that room, that mess that
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Speaker 1: happened in that room with appeeling paint and Hannah pulling
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Speaker 1: the little poster off the wall and exposing it. All
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Speaker 1: that happened a long time ago, and I have lived
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Speaker 1: with it and hated it for all that time. You know,
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Speaker 1: maybe I'm unique in this, or maybe I think I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be like a fair amount of you. But
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Speaker 1: I didn't tackle it. I didn't finish that project for
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Speaker 1: all those years because it was completely overwhelming to think about.
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Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be a ton of work,
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Speaker 1: a ton of mess that I was going to create.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how I was going to do it.
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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of reasons led to my procrastination
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Speaker 1: on that project, but leaving it undone that really weighed
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Speaker 1: me down. And finally, when I had enough of it
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Speaker 1: and I tackled it, I learned a huge lesson that
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Speaker 1: I hope I can remember in the future, a lesson
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Speaker 1: that I really hope I can pass along to everybody listening.
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Speaker 1: In fact, if you don't hear anything else that I
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Speaker 1: say on this show, maybe ever, I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: haven't thought this through that far, but for sure today,
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Speaker 1: for sure today, if you don't hear anything else, hear this.
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Speaker 1: The work wasn't fun, you know that I did, but
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Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going
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Speaker 1: to be. Right, it wasn't great, but it was not
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Speaker 1: nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the very worst moment, the hardest moment in
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Speaker 1: that whole project, was the moment when I stood up
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Speaker 1: out of my chair and I went to the garage
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Speaker 1: to get the ladder so I could start. You know,
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Speaker 1: it probably sounds utterly ridiculous and stupid, and maybe it is,
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Speaker 1: but for me, that was the moment I had to
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16:47
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16:53
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18:39
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18:44
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18:47
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19:27
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19:42
Speaker 1: any issues that you're dealing with you know, with my
19:44
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19:50
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20:06
Speaker 1: abrupt shift and talk about glass. Now, when I think
20:11
Speaker 1: about all of the amazing inventions that have happened throughout history,
20:15
Speaker 1: I can tell you glass isn't going to be on
20:17
Speaker 1: that list, you know, not initially anyway. I'd think of
20:20
Speaker 1: the wheel, you know, the steam engine, the computer, the
20:24
Speaker 1: printing press, you know, quite honestly, the indoor flushing toilet, right,
20:29
Speaker 1: I mean that would that would be way up on
20:31
Speaker 1: my charts. Think about what life would be like without
20:36
Speaker 1: the indoor flushing toilet. It was a cold week last week.
20:39
Speaker 1: Can you imagine we'd be spending so much time outside,
20:42
Speaker 1: so much frostbite in so many strange places. So indoor
20:46
Speaker 1: flushing toilet, that's big. I think about all of those
20:50
Speaker 1: things before I think about glass, and yet when you
20:53
Speaker 1: look at it, glass has profoundly shaped civilization and it
20:57
Speaker 1: doesn't really take much thinking to see all of its contributions.
21:01
Speaker 1: You know, right off the bat. It's transparency, revolutionized architecture.
21:05
Speaker 1: You know, now we can allow natural light into buildings
21:07
Speaker 1: while still providing insulation and protection. So it's huge in
21:11
Speaker 1: that regard. In science, glass enabled the creation of microscopes
21:15
Speaker 1: and telescopes. You know, all of a sudden, we can
21:18
Speaker 1: look out to the universe way out there, thanks to glass,
21:21
Speaker 1: and we can also look at the universe, you know, microscopically,
21:24
Speaker 1: you know, look at the tiny little world that's happening,
21:27
Speaker 1: you know, not just at my house, because it's a
21:28
Speaker 1: tiny little world at my house too, but the microscopically
21:32
Speaker 1: tiny little world that happens all around us. Thanks to glass,
21:35
Speaker 1: we can explore those things. Artists and craftsmen, they've used
21:38
Speaker 1: glass for centuries, you know, from intricate stained glass windows
21:42
Speaker 1: and cathedrals to delicate Venetian glass work that symbolizes you know,
21:46
Speaker 1: luxury and refinement. The things that you'd find at the
21:50
Speaker 1: Hanson House, you know, luxury, refinement, sheer culture, all thanks
21:55
Speaker 1: to glass. Now glass has also become essential in communication
21:58
Speaker 1: and entertainment. You know, forms the screens of our televisions,
22:01
Speaker 1: our smartphones, our computers. In daily life, it simplifies everything
22:05
Speaker 1: from preserving food in jars to keeping us comfortable with
22:08
Speaker 1: energy efficient windows. Really, you know, bottom line, it's one
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Speaker 1: of the most impactful materials in human history, you know,
22:15
Speaker 1: blending function with art, it's like the perfect thing. So
22:19
Speaker 1: glass is a major contender, and it should be a
22:21
Speaker 1: major contender when we're considering, you know, top inventions of
22:25
Speaker 1: all time. But is glass really an invention? There's probably
22:28
Speaker 1: people out there right now saying is glass an invention
22:32
Speaker 1: or was it a discovery? Maybe it was an innovation. Well,
22:35
Speaker 1: it turns out really it's all three of those things.
22:38
Speaker 1: It's a discovery because glass exists in nature. You're right,
22:42
Speaker 1: when certain conditions cause silica rich materials to melt and
22:45
Speaker 1: cool rapidly, we get naturally occurring glass, you know, to
22:49
Speaker 1: some extent. A well known example is obsidian, which is
22:53
Speaker 1: naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava cools rapidly without crystallizing.
22:58
Speaker 1: So it is a discovery one invention because there was
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Speaker 1: a point in time when humans figured out how to
23:05
Speaker 1: reproduce and control the formation of glass for tools, decorative items,
23:09
Speaker 1: and so on. So it's an invention too, and it's
23:11
Speaker 1: also an innovation because, of course, over thousands of years,
23:15
Speaker 1: glass making has been continuously improved like everything else, to
23:19
Speaker 1: create everything from super clear window panes to fiber optics
23:23
Speaker 1: and on and on and on. So it's all three discovery,
23:25
Speaker 1: invention and innovation. And it all started, according to legend,
23:31
Speaker 1: around thirty five hundred BC, when some Phoenician merchants they're
23:34
Speaker 1: cooking on a sandy beach. You know, they've been traveling
23:38
Speaker 1: around selling their stuff, probably selling paint to people all
23:42
Speaker 1: over the place, and they got to stop. They got
23:44
Speaker 1: a rest. They pull up to some beach somewhere and
23:47
Speaker 1: they start cooking dinner, and they're using these blocks of natron,
23:50
Speaker 1: which is basically a type of soda ash, using those
23:53
Speaker 1: blocks to prop up their pots. So they're sitting there
23:56
Speaker 1: they're cooking. The fire ends up getting hot enough that
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Speaker 1: the sand and the ash melt together and boom, there
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Speaker 1: you go. Glass. They've got some kind of glassy substance
24:05
Speaker 1: that they find. That's one legend. Another supposition is that
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Speaker 1: around the same time, thirty five hundred BC, glass was
24:12
Speaker 1: discovered as an accidental byproduct of pottery kilns. Early artisans
24:17
Speaker 1: discovered that mixing sand so to ash and lime and
24:20
Speaker 1: then heating it up, really really heating it up. Doing
24:24
Speaker 1: that resulted in a translucent material. Now, however, glass was
24:28
Speaker 1: first discovered. We don't know if either one of those
24:30
Speaker 1: are even remotely accurate, but they're the guesses. However, glass
24:35
Speaker 1: was first discovered. Throughout the subsequent years, people did figure
24:38
Speaker 1: out how to create it, so that by two thousand BC,
24:42
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred years later, yet the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians
24:46
Speaker 1: were crafting glass beads. By fifteen hundred BC, the first
24:50
Speaker 1: glass containers were made in Egypt and the Middle East
24:52
Speaker 1: using a method where glass was wrapped around a clay
24:55
Speaker 1: core and then the core was scraped away once that
24:58
Speaker 1: glass hardened. Then later, like fourteen hundred years or so later, yet,
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Speaker 1: in the first century BC, the big breakthrough came when
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Speaker 1: the Romans adopted the Syrian art of glass blowing and
25:09
Speaker 1: turned it into a major industry. You know, previously they
25:12
Speaker 1: had kind of left glass alone, the Romans had, but
25:15
Speaker 1: when this comes about, they latch onto it and they
25:19
Speaker 1: go crazy with it. Glass Blowing allowed the glass to
25:22
Speaker 1: be shaped really really quickly and in a wide variety
25:25
Speaker 1: of sizes and styles, and the Romans, like I said,
25:28
Speaker 1: latched onto that, and they were soon crafting everything from
25:31
Speaker 1: you know, delicate perfume bottles to heavy storage jars, all
25:35
Speaker 1: the way up to tableware, you know, all kinds of tableware.
25:38
Speaker 1: So lots and lots of stuff happens, and there's this
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Speaker 1: huge explosion of glassware around the first century BC, and
25:44
Speaker 1: then later about the first century a D we start
25:47
Speaker 1: to see evidence of the Romans using glass for windows. Now,
25:50
Speaker 1: initially these glass panes were produced by casting molten glass
25:54
Speaker 1: onto wooden frames and then placing those frames on sand
25:57
Speaker 1: or stone surfaces to cool, and then they'd end up
25:59
Speaker 1: with you know, panes of glass from that. Now, these
26:03
Speaker 1: Roman windows that they made this way, they were cloudy,
26:05
Speaker 1: they were thick, they were full of imperfections. They looked
26:08
Speaker 1: like my windows before I did my spring cleaning. Although
26:11
Speaker 1: my windows, you know, it could be cleaned off. These
26:14
Speaker 1: these issues were in the glass. Mine were just on
26:17
Speaker 1: the glass, you know, squished mosquitoes and things like that.
26:20
Speaker 1: But anyway, they weren't the best. They weren't the most
26:23
Speaker 1: crystal clear windows that we would think of, but they
26:26
Speaker 1: were still revolutionary. You know, for the first time some
26:29
Speaker 1: structures could have actual windows, glass windows instead of wooden
26:33
Speaker 1: shutters or cloth coverings. Now, sure it was only the
26:36
Speaker 1: wealthy people. Wealthy people got all these things to begin with,
26:39
Speaker 1: but for the first time, bugs, wind rain, all of
26:42
Speaker 1: that could be kept out while still being able to
26:44
Speaker 1: see out. You know, they could let light in but
26:47
Speaker 1: not let the elements her all of God's little creatures
26:50
Speaker 1: come crawling in. So that's going on first century AD.
26:53
Speaker 1: By the late third century, the broadsheet or muff process
26:57
Speaker 1: was introduced for producing windows. And all this means is
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Speaker 1: glass was blown into a big cylinder and that cylinder
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Speaker 1: was cut and then flattened into a sheet. That's the
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Speaker 1: broad sheet or muff process. There were other methods that
27:11
Speaker 1: developed later, the crown method for creating windows. I'm not
27:14
Speaker 1: going to go all into all of that. There's just
27:16
Speaker 1: not enough time. But later in the Middle Ages things
27:19
Speaker 1: got fancier yet, and that's when we saw the introduction
27:22
Speaker 1: of intricate stained glass windows in Gothic cathedral. Stained glass
27:26
Speaker 1: existed before this, but it got crazy intricate in these
27:29
Speaker 1: cathedrals in the Middle Ages. Now fast forward to the
27:32
Speaker 1: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and suddenly glasses starting to become
27:36
Speaker 1: a lot more common. And the reason is the Industrial Revolution.
27:40
Speaker 1: New production processes allowed for bigger, clearer, more affordable glass panes.
27:45
Speaker 1: And then by the nineteenth century, we've got glass windows. Everywhere.
27:49
Speaker 1: Everywhere you look, there's glass windows. And that's when we
27:52
Speaker 1: start to get a whole big crop of kids who
27:54
Speaker 1: realized the fun of throwing rocks through those glass windows.
27:57
Speaker 1: It all started right around that same time. The windows
28:01
Speaker 1: at this point were single pain so that meant they
28:03
Speaker 1: were drafty and not terribly great at insulation. A lot
28:07
Speaker 1: better than an open hole in the house, but still
28:10
Speaker 1: not great. That problem was solved in the twentieth century
28:15
Speaker 1: with the birth of double pain windows nineteen thirties. In
28:19
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, i think, is when the patent was
28:22
Speaker 1: filed or approved, and that's when the first double pain
28:25
Speaker 1: windows were developed. And this was a big deal because
28:29
Speaker 1: the double pain windows trapped heat in in the winter
28:31
Speaker 1: and it kept it out in the summer. Homeowners suddenly had,
28:34
Speaker 1: you know, quite a bit more comfortable home. And it
28:37
Speaker 1: also had a tendency to lower energy bills. By the seventies,
28:41
Speaker 1: gases were being introduced between those double pained windows to
28:45
Speaker 1: help with efficiency. And then by the nineteen eighties, low
28:48
Speaker 1: E codings came along in these coatings. If you've never
28:50
Speaker 1: heard of them, you've probably heard of them. But these
28:53
Speaker 1: coatings reflected heat, that's the whole point, while still letting
28:56
Speaker 1: light through. All of that came about in the eighties
28:59
Speaker 1: or so, the eight eighties into the nineties. We're starting
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Speaker 1: to see triple paine glass. You know, that's becoming a
29:04
Speaker 1: growing option. It's more energy efficient and soundproof than double
29:08
Speaker 1: pain windows, but it's also, of course, you know, kaching pricier.
29:13
Speaker 1: And that's kind of where we're at. I mean, there's
29:16
Speaker 1: there's advancements, there's always advancements, but that gives you a
29:19
Speaker 1: really good thumbnail sketch of the history of glass. How
29:22
Speaker 1: we got from you know, beads in the sand somewhere,
29:26
Speaker 1: you know, glass beads in the sand, all the way
29:28
Speaker 1: up to windows in our homes. So now let's take
29:32
Speaker 1: a break, and when we come back, I want to
29:34
Speaker 1: kind of settle in on windows and talk about some
29:36
Speaker 1: common issues that occur and how you can deal with them.
29:39
Speaker 1: That's all just ahead, stick around, Welcome back. You're listening
29:50
Speaker 1: to the Repcolite home improvement shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore.
29:53
Speaker 1: And last segment we talked about the history of glass
29:57
Speaker 1: and how we got two windows in in the first place.
30:01
Speaker 1: And now in this last segment, I want to talk
30:03
Speaker 1: about some common issues that can occur with windows and
30:06
Speaker 1: how you can address them. And I should be extremely
30:10
Speaker 1: clear here you probably already know this. I'm skimming over these.
30:13
Speaker 1: I mean it's radio. I'm doing what I can. But
30:15
Speaker 1: if you do need more info or need to pursue
30:17
Speaker 1: a fix, of course, you know, contact a windows specialist
30:21
Speaker 1: and get them out to your home or do a
30:22
Speaker 1: little googling. Some of these things are things that you
30:25
Speaker 1: can fix, you know, easily on your own. All right,
30:27
Speaker 1: some common problems, drafty windows and air leaks. Here are
30:31
Speaker 1: some things that you can do to try to fix it.
30:33
Speaker 1: You first need to determine where this is all coming from.
30:36
Speaker 1: Where's the source of the problem. If it's coming in
30:38
Speaker 1: around the trim of your window, which is entirely possible,
30:42
Speaker 1: you can go around and caulk all the edges to
30:45
Speaker 1: seal the gaps there there are a variety of different
30:48
Speaker 1: cals that we carry at Repcolite that would work for this,
30:51
Speaker 1: and in a decent range of colors, to be honest,
30:54
Speaker 1: everything from whites and clears to grays and browns. So
30:57
Speaker 1: really you should be able to find something that will
30:59
Speaker 1: blend away against whatever your window trim looks like. And
31:03
Speaker 1: if you are going to be repainting that window trim,
31:06
Speaker 1: you know you want to calck it and then repaint everything.
31:08
Speaker 1: If you're going to do that, make sure, absolute sure
31:11
Speaker 1: that you're getting a paintable calck. You know, that's the
31:13
Speaker 1: first thing. Get a paintable calck and go from there.
31:16
Speaker 1: And if that is what you're going to be doing
31:17
Speaker 1: calking and then painting and you're looking for a calck recommendation,
31:20
Speaker 1: I'd recommend Accelerator calck from Tower Ceilings, or if you're
31:24
Speaker 1: in the Metro Detroit area shopping at any of the
31:26
Speaker 1: Repcolite stores out there, ask for Quick to Coat cock.
31:30
Speaker 1: Accelerator and Quick to Coat basically the same product. They're
31:34
Speaker 1: just packaged differently depending on where you get it. Either way,
31:37
Speaker 1: that calt can be applied and then painted over with
31:40
Speaker 1: a brush or roller in just thirty minutes and that's
31:43
Speaker 1: pretty much unheard of. So you can paint over it
31:46
Speaker 1: right away. If you're spraying over it, you can spray
31:49
Speaker 1: over it immediately after application. So if you're painting contractor
31:53
Speaker 1: accelerator call quick to Coat, those can be sprayed over immediately.
31:57
Speaker 1: So think about that. Keep that in mind. Most of
31:59
Speaker 1: the problems that we see with calling are due to
32:01
Speaker 1: people painting over it too quickly. Accelerator or quick to
32:04
Speaker 1: Coat pretty much removes that concern. So if you're calking
32:08
Speaker 1: around your window trim to seal those gaps and you're
32:10
Speaker 1: going to be painting over all of that, Accelerator or
32:13
Speaker 1: quick to Coat that's the perfect call solution. So that's
32:16
Speaker 1: one fix. Another fix is maybe to install one of
32:19
Speaker 1: those window insulation kits. You know, it's not permanent, it's
32:23
Speaker 1: probably not the most convenient thing in the whole wide world.
32:26
Speaker 1: No probably is about it. It's not the most convenient
32:29
Speaker 1: thing in the whole wide world, but it will get
32:30
Speaker 1: you some relief. So think about that. Long term solutions
32:34
Speaker 1: pretty much. You know, you can consider upgrading to double
32:37
Speaker 1: or triple paane windows, you know, with advanced sealing technology
32:40
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Really look into those things. As you're
32:44
Speaker 1: looking into new windows, let the people know that's one
32:46
Speaker 1: of your main issues that you need to fix, and
32:48
Speaker 1: make sure you're selecting windows and installers and all of that.
32:52
Speaker 1: Who are going to make sure that you achieve those goals?
32:56
Speaker 1: All right? So that's drafty, drafty windows or windows with
32:59
Speaker 1: a lot of air leaks, condensation on the windows. Now,
33:02
Speaker 1: sometimes we get water forming on the windows, you know,
33:05
Speaker 1: inside the home, and I'm talking about on the glass,
33:08
Speaker 1: not between the panes. That's different. Sometimes it's just a
33:11
Speaker 1: little bit of water that we get on the glass,
33:13
Speaker 1: but sometimes it can be significant, and if there's a
33:16
Speaker 1: fair amount of water condensing there, it can lead to
33:19
Speaker 1: the growth of mold and mildew on your trim, on
33:22
Speaker 1: your blinds, on the window itself. Reality, this really isn't
33:26
Speaker 1: a window problem per se. The condensation appears when warm,
33:30
Speaker 1: moist air comes into contact with a cooler surface. And
33:34
Speaker 1: even though we're in winter and the air in the
33:36
Speaker 1: home seems pretty dry, condensation can still occur on windows
33:39
Speaker 1: as long as there's a significant temperature difference between the
33:43
Speaker 1: warm indoor air and the cold window surface. Now, the
33:46
Speaker 1: moisture that we've got in our indoor air comes from
33:49
Speaker 1: pretty much everyday living, you know, cooking, showering, doing the dishes,
33:53
Speaker 1: pretty much any activity that we do that uses water
33:56
Speaker 1: adds to it. You know. Right now, a lot of
33:59
Speaker 1: us this time are running a humidifier in the home
34:02
Speaker 1: to help with the dry air. But even doing that,
34:05
Speaker 1: you know, running that humidifier obviously is adding to the
34:08
Speaker 1: condensation problem on the windows if you're experiencing one. So
34:12
Speaker 1: some things to try if you've got that problem going
34:14
Speaker 1: on and you want to limit it or minimize it.
34:18
Speaker 1: Lower First off, the settings on your humidifier. If you're
34:21
Speaker 1: running one, see if you can lower it down to
34:23
Speaker 1: the point where you find the balance, you know, the
34:25
Speaker 1: butter zone, the Goldilocks number between humidifying the air enough
34:31
Speaker 1: but not too much, you know, See if you can
34:33
Speaker 1: do that. Another thing you can do is run your
34:35
Speaker 1: exhaust fan when you're boiling water while cooking. You can
34:39
Speaker 1: run the bathroom exhaust fans during and after showering. The
34:42
Speaker 1: rule of thumb when you're running your bathroom fan, just
34:44
Speaker 1: to throw this out there, is that you run that
34:47
Speaker 1: bathroom fan until the mirror is clear. And I'm talking
34:50
Speaker 1: about you're doing this if you've got a condensation problem
34:52
Speaker 1: on your windows. If you don't, well, then you're just
34:55
Speaker 1: sucking the home completely dry and you're going to static
34:58
Speaker 1: cling yourself into Kingdom. Come. So this is for the
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Speaker 1: people with the window problems, with the condensation on the windows.
35:05
Speaker 1: Another trick that you can try or a solution. It's
35:07
Speaker 1: not a trick. You use the trickle vents on your
35:10
Speaker 1: windows if you've got them, and trickle events. If you're
35:13
Speaker 1: unsure of what these are. There essentially slits in the frame.
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Speaker 1: They're staggered on the inside and the outside, and they've
35:18
Speaker 1: got to cover that can be opened and closed. If
35:20
Speaker 1: you've got newer windows and you see these little trickle vents,
35:23
Speaker 1: make sure they're opened. That can help a lot by
35:25
Speaker 1: providing continual ventilation. All right, that's condensation on the glass.
35:29
Speaker 1: What if you've got condensation between the two panes of glass. Now,
35:34
Speaker 1: if that's where it's happening, the cause for that is
35:36
Speaker 1: that there's a broken seal in the window, and fixing
35:39
Speaker 1: this is usually going to need an expert, depending on
35:42
Speaker 1: the condition in the age of the windows. It's possible
35:44
Speaker 1: that just the glass unit can be replaced and that
35:47
Speaker 1: can save you some money. Other times you know, if
35:50
Speaker 1: it's just not worth doing that, you're probably looking at
35:53
Speaker 1: replacing the entire window to get things back up to speeds.
35:58
Speaker 1: You can see through it and in joy the clarity
36:01
Speaker 1: of the view rather than look at all that condensation
36:03
Speaker 1: in there. All right, what about windows that won't open
36:06
Speaker 1: or close properly? This really stinks. Right, you got a window,
36:09
Speaker 1: you can open it. All you want to do is
36:12
Speaker 1: just enjoy the fresh air or whatever. And it keeps
36:14
Speaker 1: lowering itself closed, or it doesn't slide up easily or whatever. Well,
36:18
Speaker 1: if you've got that going on, there are a complete
36:21
Speaker 1: huge list of reasons why it could be doing this.
36:24
Speaker 1: You'll have to do a little research here. It could
36:26
Speaker 1: be swollen wooden frames, you know, moisture problems or something
36:29
Speaker 1: like that that has swelled the wooden frames. It could
36:32
Speaker 1: be warped components. It could be any number of things.
36:35
Speaker 1: You know, in my double hung replacement windows at home,
36:37
Speaker 1: there's a component in the track that's called a pivot shoe.
36:41
Speaker 1: Pretty much most of the windows that we all encounter
36:44
Speaker 1: are going to have these, not all, but most replacement windows. Well,
36:49
Speaker 1: there's a pivot shoe. It's called it's something that we
36:51
Speaker 1: don't usually see when everything's working fine, but I've had
36:55
Speaker 1: a number of times when the window won't stay open.
36:57
Speaker 1: It just kind of slides its way down, and then
36:59
Speaker 1: when I try to close, it won't go all the
37:01
Speaker 1: way down because there's this small mechanism thing in the
37:04
Speaker 1: track that seems to be blocking it. Well, if you
37:06
Speaker 1: see that or have that going on, that's the pivot
37:08
Speaker 1: shoe right there. It's not in the right place. And
37:11
Speaker 1: what happens is sometimes that window sash can come loose
37:14
Speaker 1: from that pivot shoe if the window is tilted incorrectly,
37:17
Speaker 1: or if it's forced out of alignment. Either way, the
37:20
Speaker 1: good news is that if this has happened to you,
37:22
Speaker 1: it's a relatively simple fix. I don't have time to
37:25
Speaker 1: walk through it here because there are some specifics that
37:28
Speaker 1: I just it's too much to explain in the time
37:31
Speaker 1: I've got, But I've got a great video linked in
37:34
Speaker 1: the show notes. So if this sounds like your issue
37:37
Speaker 1: and you want to know the simple fix to getting
37:38
Speaker 1: everything working just fine again on your own, do it
37:42
Speaker 1: yourself solution probably take you twenty minutes. If that, just
37:46
Speaker 1: head to repcollite dot com and check out the show
37:48
Speaker 1: notes for episode three ninety eight. I'll have a link
37:51
Speaker 1: for the video right there. You can watch it and
37:54
Speaker 1: he'll walk you through everything you need to know. Now,
37:56
Speaker 1: for window issues beyond this pivot shoe problem, you really
37:58
Speaker 1: need to determine whether repairs are possible or if a
38:01
Speaker 1: full replacement is necessary to maintain functionality and safety. Now,
38:04
Speaker 1: if your window sticks, you know, all the things we
38:06
Speaker 1: talked about, It doesn't stay open, won't won't open smoothly,
38:10
Speaker 1: but you can't see anything obvious. You know, there's no
38:13
Speaker 1: obvious damage or obstruction. It's possible the issue could be
38:16
Speaker 1: due to the house settling. You know, over time, a
38:18
Speaker 1: shifting foundation will cause windows, you know, window frames to
38:22
Speaker 1: become misaligned, and that can make operation difficult. Now, if
38:25
Speaker 1: you do suspect that I've got that going on in
38:28
Speaker 1: a window in my home, it may be worth consulting airs,
38:31
Speaker 1: basement systems, or a similar foundation specialist to assess whether
38:35
Speaker 1: the settling is normal. You know, it's just kind of
38:37
Speaker 1: a it happened, it's a done deal. This is what
38:39
Speaker 1: you've got. Move on. Or if there's a bigger problem,
38:43
Speaker 1: the house is sinking, you know, into some kind of sinkhole.
38:46
Speaker 1: It's not fun to find that out. But it's better
38:48
Speaker 1: to find it out now than it is to find
38:50
Speaker 1: it out later. Anyway, those are some common window issues
38:54
Speaker 1: and some of the solutions dig into it further. If
38:58
Speaker 1: you've got any of those issues. All right, that's all
39:00
Speaker 1: the time we've got. We're gonna wrap this one up.
39:01
Speaker 1: If you want to catch it again, you can find
39:03
Speaker 1: it online at repco light dot com. Whatever you do
39:06
Speaker 1: today makes your paints a part of it. Have a
39:08
Speaker 1: great weekend, everybody, and I'll see you next week. I'm
39:11
Speaker 1: Dan Hansen. Thanks for listening.