On Today's EpisodeDan and Hailey discuss the effects of screen time on mental and physical health, exampling its addictive nature. The conversation shifts to cleaning, with specific sections dedicated to using steam cleaners and cordless vacuums. From there, they talk about how you can determine if the paint in your garage or basement is still good as well as how you should store paint so it remains in good condition. Finally, they cover a few caulk questions from listeners.00:00 Introduction and Show Overview01:35 The Impact of Screen Time on Our Lives04:36 Exploring the Dangers of Interactive Screen Time06:53 The Influence of Technology on Our Daily Lives15:35 The Power of a Steam Cleaner22:23 The Joy of a Cordless Vacuum24:50 The Pros and Cons of Cordless Vacuums27:53 The Unexpected History of Carrots29:47 The Strange Trend of Butter in Coffee30:26 The Importance of Proper Paint Storage30:57 The Dangers of Using Bad Paint32:24 The Proper Way to Store and Use Paint33:19 The Difference Between Caulk and Spackle33:58 The Importance of Using the Right Caulk35:18 The Proper Way to Store and Use Caulk40:56 The Big Game Contest Announcement
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Well, good morning everybody, Goodmorning Haley, Happy weekends all around.
You're listening to the Rep Coolite HomeImprovement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. I'm
Dan Hansen, I'm Haley Johnson,joined by Haley, and we've got all
kinds of stuff planned today. We'regoing to be talking about paint, how
to determine them. I had moreto Home improvement show. We're going to
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talk about paint. Yeah, butwe're going to be talking about how to
tell if the paint in your basementis good or bad. Yes, whether
it's like, if it's fired,if it says Repcolite on the front,
even then it still might be badand you probably need to get more.
It's what I'm getting at now.We'll tell you if it's expired, if
it's gone bad, what to lookfor, all the little things, party
tricks. You'll enjoy it. It'sgonna be great. We're gonna talk about
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how Haley influenced me, made memake a big purchase. Did I like
it? Did I hate it?We're going to cover that. That's next
segment. Right now, Let's talkabout something since we are talking about Haley,
I work with you on a regularbasis. I've done that for about
four years, three or four yearsor something like that, and you kind
of a nut in a lot ofways. You got a lot of nutty
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ideas. I am not any youdon't have nutty ideas, but I'm always
unclear unsure about what your ideas are. You understand my power of influence,
so you like to question to makesure I'm not just We don't always try
to get show here right. Wedon't always look at life from the exact
same paradigm. And you'll talk aboutcertain things and I need to dig into
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him a little bit before I figureout if I'm going to go on board
with that or if I'm going tobe in trouble. And one of the
things that you've talked about recently wasscreen time. Yeah, it's something that
I really started, I guess,just wanting to be like super mindful of
because I am a new parent andthis is a different age that we live
in now. There's a lot toconsider when it comes to screens. And
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you know, even though he's justan infant right now and he's not necessarily
using the screens, just my useof screens around him, can I packed
his later behavior. So it's somethingthat I really started digging into, and
you were talking about how potentially harmfulit is, and you know, quite
honestly, I think in the inthat conversation, I wasn't sure what I
thought about it. It didn't soundlike crazy talk. It made sense.
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But I do remember thinking, youknow, I'm glad I kind of dodged
that bullet. My kids are oldenough now that wasn't a real big issue.
Right well, they weren't babies whenall of this stuff happened. I
didn't have things strapped to them,right like that. I figured I was
fine, So I let you haveyour little exploration. Well like I have
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any say in it anyway, Butyou know, you did your thing,
and I didn't think it impacted meas the bottom line. Yes, anyway,
I stumbled on a news article,I think two days after we had
that conversation, and it's titled Igot to find it a minute, the
Silent epidemic eating away American minds,not just American baby mines, right,
And I think you could probably makethe case it's not just American minds,
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probably just mine any mind. Andit turns out it's screen time and I'm
reading this and they're talking about allthese terrible things that are happening. No
matter what age you're at, right, it really doesn't matter. I mean,
obviously, I think it's a bigdeal with infants because they're you're kind
of cementing things right now, rightthat you're going to play out later in
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life. But it still impacts you, Dan, and that's what matter.
Well, And that's the thing ittalks about, how you know your attention
spans are affected all the ADHD stuff. It's just skyrocketing aggression depression. Teachers
are saying increased all of that inschools, and scientists, you know,
scientists are finding a lot of things, but scientists are finding a connection between
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screen time and those things, right, And I think it's like important to
say too that we're not necessarily sayingthat there's causation here, but I think
that we can point to a correlationbetween increased screen time and increased anxiety depression
ADHD. All these things back thesame time exactly, and we're not saying
pull the plug and run away fromit. It's basically just information that I
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was a little bit surprised at.I shouldn't have been, but I was.
It impacts basically nobody, no agegroup is potentially safe from, you
know, investing too much time inthis, and I know that we do.
We invest a ton of time.I work on a computer all day
long and then I go home indetox by scrolling through my phone. Or
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I have guitars that I play andthey use smart technology, a smart amp
that connects with my iPads, soI'm never disconnected from it. And one
thing that I found really interesting inthis article, and I know you did
too, Haley, is that,you know, we would tend to think,
okay, vegging in front of aTV is probably worse than grabbing an
iPad and actually doing something interactive.I'm really you're playing a game. You
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know, there's problem solving involved there. I would always think that that's probably
better screen time than just sitting infront of a TV for hours. Turns
out that's not the case. Interactivestuff is actually worse. And what's really
interesting is that video game designers andanybody designing apps and stuff, they're building
in you know, little triggers,you know, buttons that go off when
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you get to a certain point,little sounds that play, and what that
does is psychologically, it pulls usin. They're intentionally doing this right to
keep you addicted and keep you lookingfor the next little ding or the next
whatever. Because we understand how theserewards systems work in our brains. We
understand what's going to feed us thosedopamine hits, that those feel good hormones
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that lead to these addictive behaviors.We're like Pavlovs dogs. Yeah, bell
rings and we start drooling. Well, and they're just all of that is
built in from the very core ofany of these games because their whole job
is to keep you playing. Soof course they're going to use this information
to make their game something where you'renot gonna want to leave it. Yeah.
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No, there's there's anecdote, evidenceor whatever stories in this article that
talk about people who I don't evenlike the game I'm playing, but if
I don't keep going to that nexttier, I'm not going to accomplish whatever,
So you know, they just keepgoing well and that too, but
they also incorporate, you know,these random rewards where you don't know when
it's going to come next, soyou keep playing because maybe something's about to
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happen again and you're going to getthat doping hitt and of course that's not
a conscious thought in our minds,but that's internally, you know, what's
happening to our brain chemistry. Well, it's very interesting. We're going to
keep going with this conversation and we'llair the rest of that in the podcast.
Right now, we've got to takea break, and when we come
back, we're going to be talkingabout this big influencing thing where Haley got
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me to make a big purchase,and we're going to decide or find out
together if I'm happy or if I'mreally disgruntled, and whether I can do
it again. Yeah, that's allnext stick around, all right, So
we're talking about this whole screen timething. Is there more you wanted to
say? I guess I should haveasked you before I said we're going to
keep talking about it after the break, because now we've got this on the
podcast and people are just chomping atthe bit for something brilliant. Well,
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I guess I wanted to throw outthere. You know, we just said
that this passive screen time is potentiallyless harmful than you know, the interactive
video game interactive screen time, whichis not what either of us thought the
results of No, absolutely not andI thought this point really highlighted it.
Where they're talking about this doctor thatobserved, you know, while watching two
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hours of TV was linked to signsof dysregulation in children. Only thirty minutes
of interactive screen time activities is stimulatingenough for that to occur. So you
can watch TV for two hours,or you can play a video game for
thirty minutes and you've got the sameamount of dysregulation that's happening in kids.
Or I'm assuming adults too. Well, yeah, I just the whole thing.
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I don't know what to think ofit. It certainly makes sense.
I mean, it's hard to kickagainst the concept. You know, I
certainly have seen, you know,even in my own house, even in
myself, attention spans, Yeah,dramatically dropping. You know. I don't
know that I could say that I'mmore stressed or not. I'm already stressed
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and I live in that zone,so it's hard to tell if I'm worse
or not. But I do noticethe attention span thing. Things that I
used to read great, big,long articles that just a few years ago
i'd love to dig into, andI'm looking for the really quick version.
I don't know where that comes frommaybe I'm just getting older, maybe I'm
just getting dumber, or maybe it'sa combination of everything. But I'm spoon
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fed everything in such little bites,right that maybe it's training me who knows
well. And I think the typeof rapid stimulation that's happening with rabbit rapit,
Oh, rabbit rapit, it's happeningvery quickly. Yeah. I got
five rabbits and tried to stimulate them, and we figured out which ones really
like certain things. This one likescarrots, this one loves TV well,
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so rapid, Yeah, stimulation iswhat's happening with a lot of the screen
time. You know, the waythat video is edited to keep our attention
spans, the way that video gamesare designed to keep our attention spans.
It's all extremely stimulating, and that'swhat really our brains are feeding off of
because it likes that to a certainextent. But what this article talked about
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too, is that because they're beingso stimulated with this type of screen time,
our brain's working to detimulate us atthe same time, so kind of
desensitize us to the amount of stimulationthat we're receiving, because it would be
really overwhelming if it didn't do that. And so because it's actively working to
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you know, destimulate us in thosesituations. Now in regular life where we
don't have this rapid stimulation happening allof a sudden, those things are you
know, each it's less stimulating,so it's still slowing us down, right,
and now we don't have these otherthings amp and us up. Now
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we're sleeping at the wheel basically,right. That's why we need coffee.
So if you're going to be watchinga lot of this stuff, you're going
to want to follow that down withcoffee so you can keep your edge,
right, Is that what you're saying, did I understand? Yeah? Yeah,
And that will help with the stressand the anxiety clearly, except will
make it even more pronounced. Sogood for any sort of stress or think
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about that, though, that's mylife. Get a cup of coffee,
open up a screen. Yeah,probably shortening my life span dramatically, my
intelligence, everything all down the drain. It's very interesting thanks to all of
this quite scary. Well. Yeah, and the thing is there's this other
side to it, and we talkedabout this in leading up to this little
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segment, and we talked about howyou know, you were mentioning that there's
there's value to it, you know, like virtual reality. That's something that
is a knee jerk. Just now. Yeah, her whole color changed.
I have like a very visceral reactionto the just the word, yeah,
virtual reality. It's very strange.I saw a movie. What was the
movie, Ready Player one? Ididn't know anything about it. I saw
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the movie. I was so pumped. I thought it was such an interesting
concept. It's a virtual reality concept, and I thought it was done so
well, so smart. And Icame to work all excited to tell my
little story. Everybody's been there.You've seen something, You come to work
and you can't wait to share.And I start speaking and literally four words
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get out of my mouth and Haleybecomes an entirely different person. And I
think we've all been there. We'vehad this exciting story to tell, and
the person we're telling it's just soangry at the very concept. And I
could not understand what your reaction wasto it. I still don't know,
but I know you hate it.And so when later I started recommending,
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I remember we had a contest atRepcolite and I said, oh, yeah,
give it a virtual reality That's whenI started putting all two and two
together and realized it's virtual reality thatmakes you really mad. And you know,
the more I've thought about it,the more I think that is scary
to be immersed in this situation.You know. The idea is like technology
is going to bring people together.That's a lot of what gets what gets
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floated. Yeah, it's connecting us. And I think ultimately, you know,
what we experience in real life isisolation. Actually, yeah, disconnection.
So I see all that, andyet on the other side we read
about people who, you know,surgeons, learning to do whatever. Yeah,
I think virtual reality two sides toit, and I try to remember
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that to kind of give myself hopebecause I guess I don't know why virtual
reality in particular gives me such avisceral reaction. I think it just sounds
very dystopian to me, like,Okay, let's not live in reality,
let's live in a virtual reality.It's just this like extra layer of you
know, the control technology could have. But I do think that there are
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so many good applications for all ofthese things, you know, for people
to have disabilities, or like yousaid, for doctors that are training getting
some sort of real life experience insituations. Yeah, I'm glad pilots train
simulation. Yeah, exactly, welcometo the training flight. Oh boy,
I don't want to be on thisone. Right. So there's a lot
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of value and it's a tool,right, I mean, I think that's
what it comes down to. Wehad this conversation before too, is you
know, you could do something reallyterrible with a hammer, but you could
also just use it as it's intendedto and nail something to the side of
your house, right, completely agree. The thing that makes this just a
slightly different thing than that is thatwhat we talked about in the part that
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aired earlier on air is that thisis literally extremely addicting and it's built that
to be that way, right,Right, So it's it's like a hammer
that kind of gets you hooked,right, You can't you can't put it
down. Once you pick that hammerup, better be careful because you might
not ever put it down again.That's not gonna happen. And if somebody
pulls it out of your hand,you're gonna have some kind of withdrawal.
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Right, You're gonna flip out.You're gonna be stealing hammers from places it's
just a train wreck, and sothat's what makes us different. It's a
tool, but it is designed tokind of hook us. And I think
that's the biggest point that we wantedto make in all of this. It's
just as parents and grandparents, aspeople out there for your wealth. Yeah,
you know, dig into the article, you make your own call.
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I'm not sure exactly where I stand. This makes a lot of sense to
me, and I think it helpsme want to adjust what I do now.
I'm not gonna give it up.So I'm learning my guitar stuff.
I'm not giving that up because culturethat's my second that's my fallback. If
the rep goallighte ever fails, I'mgonna be oh yeah, like a little
Paul McCartney. Okay, that's gonnabe me. So I'll keep it,
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but I'm gonna try to keep itin check a little bit. Yeah.
I think it's just about being mindfuland aware of these things that the information's
out there. You know. Yeah, we can act on it and however
we want to. But we soundedlike you were gonna say more. You
just kind of kind of quit there. Well, I don't want to go
on forever. I can talk aboutthis for a very long time. Okay,
yeah, all right, you justthink about virtual reality. That'll make
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you angry and sharpen your senses.I'm gonna go find a hammer because I've
just got this inkling that I needone. And we're gonna take a break.
And if you hung around for this, you're gonna catch what's coming next,
which is going to be the conversationabout the steamer that you influenced me
on or didn't. I'm still notgonna get you the answer. You're gonna
have to hang around to find thatout. That's all next. Stick around.
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Then we're back. You're listening tothe Repical Light home improvement show sponsored
by Benjamin Moore and Haley. Let'stalk about some influence that you've got.
I hate to say it that way. I love when you say it that
way. I know you get abig head, bigger head, and I'm
gonna hear about this for a while. But probably a year ago or more,
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we had a segment on the showwhere you talked about us steam cleaner
that you bought your house, andyou were so over the top excited about
the steam cleaner that you almost swayedme yeah, you talked about buying one.
I actually went online found it,yeah, and then you know,
cleared the page and walked away.But I almost bought it. Well anyway,
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maybe I think it was around Christmastime New Year's time. We played
a couple of reruns and you recommendedthat we air that steamer one. Yeah,
so it sounds good to me.So I get it, and I
have to go through all the audio. You know, I do all the
editing, so I had to doit again, and by the end of
that segment, I bought one.So you influenced me. It took you
two tries, all right, andI got this steam cleaner. It's a
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Due Prey steam cleaner. I'll puta link in the show notes. It
was about one hundred and fifty bucks. I think I got it on sale
for one hundred and thirty Yeah,something in that range. And I think
it's so worth it. Well,I wasn't sure. I was nervous.
I was, you know, trustingyou to have led me in the right
direction, but I wasn't sure.I remember when it came I was pretty
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excited to see it and to messwith it, because I do like cleaning,
you do, and I like havinga really clean space. And I
remember, you know, knowing thatit was coming, kind of tracking where
it's at on the phone, andI pulled into the driveway with all the
kids. Everybody was in the truck. I don't remember where we were,
and one of the kids said,Oh, there's a big box sitting by
the front door. Is that Christmasstuff? And I looked and then I
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squealed like a schoolgirl, completely unintentionallysteam cleaning. Yeah. I clapped my
hands and squealed because it was thesteam cleaner and I could see it right
on the package, got it inthe house, and in ten minutes I
had the thing filled up full upwith water and heating. It took a
good ten to fifteen minutes to gethot enough to go, and then I
started attacking everything in the house justto see what would happen. Yeah,
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you said that you did your floors. The well that was the floor was
the very first thing that I tackled, and I was really surprised and disgusted
with myself. I got all thetools out and I'm looking at this vinyl
floor and it looks like tile,like ceramic tile, and it's fine,
you know, it is what itis. But when we moved in eight
years ago or so, by thekickboards, the pattern on the tile just,
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you know, it just looks likeit's the pattern. You know.
There's all these little grooves and Ican't call them discolorations, it's just darkness
in the tile. And I assumethat's just the pattern because I've tried to
mop it. I've tried it.Just no, Yeah, it's not like
you don't clean your house. Iclean all the time. Yeah, all
the time. I mop all thetime. So it's just part of the
pattern. I got this thing downthere and I thought, let's just do
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one little square and I did thatand in seconds, thirty seconds, ten
seconds, it's clean. And Ilooked at it and all those spots were
gone. And I looked at thespot next to it, all these little
black spots that I can't believe Ithought were part of the pattern. It's
dirt. It's dirt. I wasso mortified. I was horrified. Well,
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yeah, there's nobody to blame butmyself and my own incompetence with I
mean, I had to reassess myentire life at that point. And I
went through and cleaned all of that, and yeah, in ten minutes,
I'd gone around the entire room andit looks so much better. It feels
better. Did the floors the floorsfeel better? Yeah, they don't just
look better, they feel better.And from that point on I just went
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nuts. I did you know yousample it in certain areas. I sampled
it on some surfaces to make sureI wasn't going to have a problem.
Sure, yeah, gotta be safe. But I cleaned off all kinds of
stuff. I went into the bathroom, sanitized the toilet seats and all of
that. I went nuts. Well, that's the part I love, too,
is that you can sanitize things.To the steam and cleaner, I've
you know, I would say therewas a lull in my steam cleaner use.
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You know, I used it alot when I first got it,
and then I kind of forgot aboutit for maybe like six months. But
I've really started using it again becauseof Wallace. Now that he's crawling and
moving around the floors. I feellike these need to be cleaner than just
a vacuuming. I want them sanitized. Yeah. No, it's super cool.
It does, you know, Likeyou said, it's very exciting when
you first get it, but itis work. It is something that you
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got to work into your system.Because you fill up the tank, it
doesn't fill up instantly. You gotto work on that. And that sounds
stupid, but you know what I'mtalking about. It it's not a very
big opening that you're pouring into andit's no, it's a little annoying.
Yeah, and then draining it orgetting all of that dealt with when you're
all done. There's a lot oflittle things, so it's not something that
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I daily do. Yeah, it'smore cumbersome than like a swift or clean
but so ridiculously cool to be ableto get certain areas cleaned once a week's
well. It works so well.The big thing that really tipped me off,
I've got the floor. I wassuper happy about getting the floor clean.
But in the living room when Imoved in, there was a big
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black spot by the front door.Door swings open over the carpet. I
don't know if there was a moistureproblem or something that happened. No,
it's it's not by that, it'sright by the door. It's this great
big section, you know, probablysix inches long and about two inches into
the room, but right at thebase of the door. That's black in
the carpet. Sounds horrible when Iexplain it. That come to my office
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move and I don't know what itwas. But we had some cleaners come,
you know, we got some carpetcleaners to come out, professional cleaners.
They went through the whole area.Everything's great, and then I asked
them about that spot, and theysaid, no, that spot, there's
nothing we can do. We triedeverything we've got. That's literally what they
told me. Everything. We've gotall our professional equipment, and we couldn't
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get that spot up. Everything elselooks great. We don't know what that
is. You're just gonna have tolive with it. Fortunately, it's way
off to the side you barely noticeit. So he just said, okay,
fine, yep, that's what Idid. I wrote them a big
check and said thanks so much foreverything. Else. Anyway, I figured,
why not, you know, I'msure it's not gonna work with my
steamer. Well, guess who's gota new carpet cleaning business. That worked.
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Yes, I had that thing upin five minutes, nineteen ninety five
percent of it. You can stillsee a shadow of it there still for
someone to say, that's a professional. We can't get that out and for
you to. They tried and tried. I don't know what the difference was.
I don't know. I couldn't tellyou. All I know is this
thing got that up. I've takenup other spots on the carpet. Blah
blah blah. The steamer's really cool. And I influenced you, and you
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influenced me. Now I think it'stime that you try one more time because
there's something else that you just boughtthat's cleaning related. Yes, which makes
me want to squeal like a schoolgirl. No, I think that you would
really like it. And I guessmy evidence to that is that. So
the reason I bought this, Igot a cordless vacuum. Yeah, let's
get that out there for out.Cordless vacuum not a dustbuster, a literal
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vacuum. Yep. Cordless just hasa battery attachment and you know, charge
it. It's good to go.So I got this. But the reason
I got is because we had somemoney, some Amazon money that I could
use because Joran's parents very sweetly gothim an ego blow up for his birthday.
Oh very nice, but we alreadyhave one. I bought you one.
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Yes, I was thinking it seemslike yeah, but anyway, yes,
you got us one for a housewarminggift, and so we already had
one. They didn't realize that,but they thought it was such a good
dad gift for him, and Ibet I influenced them. That's possible.
They do listen to the show.Well, there we go, we're both
in it. Yeah. So anywaythey got you that, you had to
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return it. You had some Ambimoney, and I told them, you
know what I really want to spendthat on is a cordless vacuum. And
he was mad most of the time. That's not going to be terribly exciting.
And it was his gift. Itwas his gift. I was going
to spend his birthday money on acordless vacuum. And he was not happy.
We already have a vacuum. Whydo we need a cordless vacuum.
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I don't understand we need multiple vacuumsin the house. Really, Haley,
and I said, no, we'regonna use this every single day. What's
the end result? What's your He'sthrilled, He's thrilled, life changer.
He said, this is huge.He loves to use it. Loves it.
It's so quiet, it's so light, and I know the core doesn't
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seem like something that should be anobstacle, but I really truly believe that
it is because you're unwrapping it.It's like the obstacles with the steam cleaner.
I think that maybe keeps us fromusing it on a daily basis or
a weekly basis. This removes allof those obstacles. I think it's the
same. It's that's the argument youmake with any battery powered piece of equipment.
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That was the argument we made whenwe talked about those Ego blowers and
stuff. I used all of thatstuff a lot more than the corded equipment
that they had, just because itwas such a pain in the neck to
get it out. It was sohandy with a battery powered thing. Well,
and when you've got a corded vacuumtwo, you're moving the plug multiple
times to try to get the firstfloor done, and that's annoy and you're
maybe running short on a couple becauseyou're trying to stretch it to the very
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limit, and that's annoying. Becausenow it comes unplugged and we have eight
extension cords draped through the whole home. It's just ridiculous. Yeah, you
know, I don't think that thiswill ever replace a corded vacuum in our
home. We're always going to haveour Shark vacuum. But I really love
it for daily use, just touse in the kitchen after cooking something,
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or hit the living room really quickbecause maybe there are some crumbs that drive.
Do you have hardwood in the livingroom or I have hardwood, but
I have rugs. So you're usingit on both surfaces, use it on
both, and I can say thatit picks up everything that I can see
in the fuel's floors feel cleaner afterI've swept them. So I just don't
believe vacuum. Yeah, that it'sworking, I just don't. I don't
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think that it's as strong as acorded one still, No, I can't
imagine that it's going to be.And like you said, we're not recommending
that it's a replacement or I thinknice supplement too exactly, it's supplemental.
But I also really think that thisis a great you know, for that
daily use, but it's a greatdeep cleaning tool as well, because it
allows me to get under the couchesin the living room really easily. Normally,
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that's always like a really embarrassing thingwhen you realize, oh my gosh,
like there's so many dust bunnies undermy couch. Is disgusting. It's
disgusting. Oh and now you'll beable to blame the children soon. I
can. I can clean it orthere so easily because it goes completely flat
or cobwebs. You know, there'swe've got a big open stairwell that goes
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up to the second floor, andthere's little cobwebs that get up in the
corners of that stairwell on the secondfloor, and there's no great way to
get to those. But with thecordless vacuum, it was really simple.
I mean, yeah, I've gota vacuum that's got the little hose attachment,
you know. Most the dw Yeah, but mine's supposed to be fifteen
foot long. It's what it sayson the box, and maybe it is.
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If you bolt the vacuum to theground and pull it as far as
you can get it that hose.But for me, I pull more than
three or four feet and the vacuumfalls over shoots at me. Yes,
because it just doesn't work. Absolutely, You've got none of that. With
the stopless thing, you can reachup wherever you want to go, it's
light, there's so many attachments still, you know, it's just cleaning certain
things so much easier. So we'renot making a big recommendation about the particular
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one that you bought at the concept. Yeah, so we'll put a link
in the show notes to the exactvacuum that Haley bought. If you really
want to follow Haley and live Haley'slife, eventually it can be stalkers and
stuff like that, but you gotto start with getting all the equipment that
you're gonna need a cordless vacuum first, so we'll put a link in the
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show notes for that. But mainlythe big thing is just consider that maybe
it's something you haven't thought about mightreally help with the cleaning process at home.
Yeah, all right, we're gonnatake a break. When we come
back, we'll be talking about howto tell if the paint on the shelves
in the basement or the garage,if that's any good and should be used,
or if it's something you never everwant to pop the lid on.
We'll talk about that in just aminute and stick around. Well, Haley,
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I have learned all kinds of stuffin the break and even though it's
not what we're playing on talking about, I want to talk about it.
You have regaled me with all kindsof information and I want to share.
You're listening to the Repcolite Home improvementshow, sponsored for the moment by Benjamin
Orr. We'll see how they feelabout this. After Haley tells us about
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carrots, carrots were not we goto break and Hailey says, this is
how she starts a conversation, Dan, did you know harrots weren't always edible?
Did you know people put butter intheir coffee in the two thousands?
Carrots weren't always edible. I recentlylearned that carrots were not always edible,
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and I think it's very interesting becauseI love carrots. It's weird to think
that at one point they could havepoisoned me. But it's true. They
weren't really like a farmed vegetable,and it wasn't until like three hundred BC
that they really started cultivating these tomake them edible. And they were white
to start with, right, andthat's when they were poisonous. And then
ultimately, and they were poisonous,like i'd croak. I don't know what
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do I get in urnstressed? ButI know that you shouldn't eat them,
And so eventually they made them orange. And you know that's that way you
knew which ones were good to eat, right? Is that it for that?
Yeah, you're at the store,at the Caveman's store. Don't buy
the white ones unless you're trying tokill rats. Oh, the orange ones,
those are good for people. Right, It would be a weird thing
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to test, I'm sure. Yeah, I can't imagine being the first guy.
No, try it. Did youfix the white carrot problem? Because
they used I was for a weekwith bad Oh it's better, trust me.
Yeah. So carrots, they're nowedible thanks to people in the three
hundreds, right, three hundred BC. I don't know what year, one
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of those timeframes, that's what Haleytalked about. Thousands of years ago,
thousands of years ago, a longtime ago. And then butter in coffee.
Yeah, I didn't know this wasa thing. Jordan told me recently
that people used to put butter incoffee in the two thousands, not just
for taste, right, it wasa big trend, like this diet hack
that people thought they it figured outwhere would like jumpstart your metabolism. It
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was very popular, like you couldgo to Starbucks and get like a dog
butter in your coffee. I wanta diet that involves eating more butter.
I would be so thin because Ieat so much butter. Anyway, none
of that matters. None of thatmatters. But I thought it was interesting.
And now everybody's got some insight intowhat the brakes are like with Haley,
who knows what I'm gonna learn nexttime? Maybe I'll share. Let's
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talk about paint in the garage inthe basement. You know a lot of
us either have that stuff sitting therethat we've put there, or we bought
a new house. There's old paintleftover, and you're wondering is this still
good? How old is it?You don't really wonder that until it comes
time to do a little touch uppainting. Yes, and then you start
wondering, First off, can Ifind the paint that was in whatever room?
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Yeah? And then you find itand then begins the big question is
this good enough to use? Howdo I know? And what happens if
I use it? And it wasbad. That's what we want to start
with, because Haley, you literallycan attest to this. You know what
fashion to make. I used badpaint recently, that exact scenario. It
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was old paint left over and wentinto the basement. This was when I
was sick at home and I wasjust bored looking for things to occupy myself
with. And I thought, I'mgoing to touch up the cabinets real quick,
you know, I'll just do that. And so I couldn't smell very
good at all, but I openedthe can up, mix it up real
quick, get it on the cabinets. Jordan comes in the room and thinks,
what are you doing? It reeksin here, not like in a
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normal paint way, in like abad, spoiled, soul free way.
And we'll get to that. That'sone of the reasons. And so you've
got that now. Yes, wellit's not there. The stink didn't last.
So your stink went away. Itdid go away. But the paint
is failing in the places where Idid touch up because it was bad paint.
Yeah, so you get all kindsof problems, a whole Schmorgsborg.
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I don't know how to say no. Word I should never have tried.
How do you say that word?You can't because you're in my head.
Okay, a whole pot luck ofproblems. You can end up with a
nasty smell that does linger, yes, and you don't want that. You
can end up with a gritty texture, poor durability, that's what Haley's experiencing.
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Even improper gloss level. Yeah.So all of those are reasons you
don't want to use bad paint.So let's get to how you tell if
what you've got is good. Well, like we talked about, Jordan walked
in the room and it smelled funky, and that's your first test. Pop
the lid and give it a goodwhiff, make sure your nostrils are clear.
Yeah, and this is going tobe one of those things that if
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you're going, boy, I don'tknow, is that no? See,
then it's fine. If you're askingyourself, I'm not sure. If you're
debating, it's probably fine. Obviouswhen you go and then you feel like
you're having an out of body experiencebecause the stench is so overpowering. That's
the one that's bad. It's gota spoiled smell like sulfur. Real most
in a way. It's just likemil dewy. It's most sour. You'll
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know it when you smell it.Yeah, and if you notice that that
paint's a no go, you've gotto get rid of that. Don't use
it. What if it's chunky,got chunky paint, No, don't use
it. Don't use it. Itlooks like cottage cheese inside, may look
yummy, may remind you of lasagna, you know Mom's lasagna, or what's
the eminem thing, spaghetti? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So anyway,
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if it looks like that, no, no go. What if it's
really really thick, the paint issuper thick, you know, pasty,
or maybe it's really really water Ifit's any extreme, don't use it.
Yeah, that's pretty much the casewith most things, right, I would
think. So if it's completely driedup, yeah, it's not good paint
anymore. If it's an extreme oneway or the other, probably bad.
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What if it's watery on the topand you know, the paint underneath seems
like it might be okay, butthat watery stuff, boy, that looks
pretty bad. What do you thinkis this one bad too? Haley?
It's just separated it'll be fine.We have good news. Finally, If
that that's your situation, all youneed to do is stir it back through.
Yes, but there's a technique thatyou should know about because this is
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a common mistake. It seems verysimple. Stir your paint. Yeah,
use a spiistick, not your arm, right, is that the clue or
the hit the tip? Now,well, you maybe use your arm,
I don't know. But either way, whether you use your arm or a
starerstick, you want to make surethat you're getting to the bottom of the
can and lifting up as you're stirringit around, and that's getting everything up
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to the top. All those solidsare getting mixed back in the paint really
well. And that's the key,right. A lot of us think it's
a circular motion and that's not goingto get the best results. So make
sure you're doing it with a stirstickfrom the bottom up. If that seems
like that's taking way too long,and sometimes that can Yeah, some of
us just don't have the upper bodystrength to stir for that long. So
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maybe hit the gym ahead of time, or you know, just take you
know, a cop out and geta drill mix or attachment. It's something
that will supert onto your cordless drillor whatever, and in seconds you'll have
that paint mixed and ready to go. It's really handy, right, all
right, So what if there's athick skin on top of the paint.
You know, you open it upand there's a skin in there. Maybe
it's a little rubbery, maybe it'spretty hard. What do you think?
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Is it bad? Well, youdon't know. You got to cut that
out. Don't mix up. Well, it's really kind of fun to do.
It's like surgery. But yeah,if you carefully cut that out,
you know you're gonna have to strainthe paint regardless. Yes, but get
that skin out of there. Don'tstir it through and don't shake the can.
It's just gonna make it all chunky. You're gonna have a those little
goobers in there that you get onthe wall and you're painting, and no
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one wants that. Then you spendthe rest of your day picking out all
the yees. So get that skinout carefully and then assess the situation.
Chances are the paint's probably still good, yeah, but it will need to
be strained. And let's talk aboutthat because you could have that problem.
But also a lot of us willopen up a can and rusty and you
know how you got to pry thatlid up and it's not coming and you're
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not sure if you're ever gonna getit. But as you're working it,
like all these flakes of rust areinto your paint, really dried paint that
you didn't get out of the rimgood enough. Right, we all know
that scenario. You can still fixthat if the paint is good, you
know, if decent quality is stillworkable, you can get all that out
by straining it. Yeah, Andthey make a few different kinds of strainers.
You're gonna see in the store.There's a five yellon bag strainer,
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there's a gallon bag strainer, andthen there's like these nice little pretty cone
strainers, and those look very friendly. I think people gravitate towards that one.
It's not what you want to usefor paint though. Yeah, don't
use the little cone strainers. They'remade for lackers and products like that refine
strainer. Yeah, use the gallonbag strainers or the five gallons bag strainers.
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Basically, you need to get anempty container, whether it's a five
gallon pail or a single gallon.Can we sell those in the store.
The little strainer has an elastic bandaround it like underpants to snap it on,
snaps right on, pour the oldpaint in, you lift it out.
We've got a video showing this processand Dan Altina, he's been on
the show multiple times. Yeah,he's demonstrating how to do this, and
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it's it's quite entertaining. It's whatdo they call that, those videos that
people watch for sound and ASMR ASMR. It's a little bit like that.
We should make a whole series ofASMR videos. I think, I think,
yes, we shall go to workon that, Hayley. But if
you want to see Dan demonstrating thestrainer technique, we'll have that on our
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social media pages. Super simple.But big thing is be aware of those
strainers and use them. You canget your paint back to absolutely pristine quality,
no matter what it was for themost part, exactly right. Okay,
So now we've got all of thatgoing on, that's how we figure
out if the pain is still usable. Before we wrap this up, let's
talk about how to store the paintso you can avoid some of these problems
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in the first place, Well,exactly, if you have a nice seal
on that can and are storing itin the proper way, it's going to
last a lot longer. So thefirst thing is really being careful on how
you open the can to begin with. Use a specific paint can opener.
Don't use other tools that are layingaround. They're convenient. We're all guilty
of this. But what's the weirdestthing you've ever opened to paint can?
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With the weirdest thing? Yeah,I don't know. Maybe a quarter a
quarter? Yeah, yep, that'spretty good. I've used screws, I've
used my keys, chicken. Neverused the chicken. I don't think that
would work. You'd have to befrozen, yeah, or the claw,
who know, little talons? Icould try, but that's see now,
I wouldn't want him to be aliving chicken because that would be cruel.
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I would never do that. Thethe reason you don't want to use all
these things is because it could dentthe rim of the can, and then
you've compromised that seal, letting airin, and then your paint is going to
spoil. So what do you use? Instead? You use one of those
little keys, the little can openerkeys. Ask about them at the store
when you're buying your paint. We'llget you one, all right, So
you've got that going on. Anotherthing you want to make sure you do
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is clean out the rim of thatcan before you seal everything. You know,
a lot of times we'll open upthe paint can we're pouring from it,
get a lot of paint in there. Most of us don't better than
to put the lid on and whackit shut. At that point, we
try to get the paint out,unless you're trying to do like some Jackson
Pollock splatter art, then go right, right right. But still most of
the time we see paint come intothe store where people want us to shake
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it or something like that. Andthere's a lot of paint in that rim,
right, and that also compromises theseal. So make sure you clean
that out before you try to closeit, or even better, use a
poor spout and then you don't haveto worry about it at all. Right.
These things snap onto the can rightinto the rim. They'll fit into
a gallon, they'll fit into aquart, none expensive, and yeah,
it makes pouring it super easy,and it keeps that rim clean. But
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either way, make sure the rimsclean before you close it. Another thing
before you close it. I don'tknow where this fits in the chronology of
things, but put the paint becausea lot of us will pour out of
the gallon can. And now we'vegot half a gallon left. Don't store
the gallon half full like that.Get a couple of quart cans, right,
something that you can fill exactly storeit that. I want a lot
of air left in the can.You know, if there's just a little
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bit of paint and a bunch ofair, you're again just any suggestion for
paint you can just you can seewhat's gonna happen. You just know it's
not gonna be good. It's gonnaspoil. That's the point, So get
small containers. And then lastly,this feels kind of like we're really really
belaboring the point here, But whenyou put the lid on and your thump
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it shut, so Naggie, usea rubber mallet. Yeah, again,
sounds ridiculous, But how many times, Haley, have you closed them with
a regular hammer? I have?I have done that little tap tap.
I gotta be careful, but ultimatelyyou end up denting that rim and letting
more air in the can. Yeah, do those things, and the paint
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will store really well for a verylong time as long as you put it
in a place that's not gonna freeze. Yes, that's another key, very
last thing that we're gonna say onthis. Put it in your basement,
normal room temperature. That paint willbe ready next time you need it.
All right, we're gonna take abreak when we come back. We're answering
a bunch of questions as fast aswe can that we received about cock Yeah,
(40:51):
crickets just sounded. It's gonna begreat because we're gonna have a lot
of fun with it. That's allnext. Oh and on top of that,
oh yeah, should have lead withthat, we're gonna tell you how
you can get entered to this weekendwin a two hundred and fifty dollars gift
card to Repolite, and it's allconnected to the big game on Sunday.
You know which one I'm talking about. So look, it's really fun.
You got to endure the call andthen we'll get to the boys in Blue
(41:15):
and the big giveaway. That's allnext. Stick around and we're back.
See you got a little more insightinto what I got to live with and
what I work with. Haley's justmumbling to herself, I'm gonna start eating
dirt or we have to start.I have no idea what that was even
about what I'm gonna keep it todaybecause that was fun. You're listening to
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the Rep Coolite Home improvement Show sponsoredby Benjamin Moore and Haley. We've got
a lot of stuff to cover inthis last segment. It's important. These
are real questions that people have aboutthe calling. Well, the questions about
col are important, but we've gotto even more importantly get to our big
contest centered around Sunday's big game.That's the stuff. But let's get through
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the cocking. We've been talking aboutcock the last couple of weekends on the
show, one segment each oh rightnow running on Tower Sealants Accelerator. It's
a really high quality cock that canbe painted over immediately with a sprayer or
brushed over in thirty minutes. Butwe've got a good deal on it and
it's inspired a lot of content forus. Right The deal ends at the
(42:23):
end of January, so a fewmore days after this weekend. If you
are in the market, for cockand you want to save some money,
definitely check it out. But becausewe've been producing this content, we have
received a fair amount of questions andwe're going to kind of just go through
them in no particular order. Really, I'm going to ask him, Hayley's
going to answer, and I'm goingto grade her on the quality of her
(42:44):
work. Fun So let's start withthis. Are coughed and spackle interchangeable?
No? And I say this tomy husband because I feel like this is
something that he could do. Maybewe don't have any spagle in the house,
I'll just use cocking. It's notthe same thing just for ceiling gaps
between two different materials or the samematerial, but it's for filling a cracker
(43:05):
a gap where spackle is really justused to fill things like nail holes or
other damage on a flat surface likewalls or trim. You know, spackle
can be sanded so you can geta really nice finish to be painted over.
Cock is not sandable, so you'renever gonna get as good of a
finish. Now, it's a realpain. I have talked to a few
people in the store who've come inand they've caked some nail holes and are
(43:25):
wondering how to get that smooth again, And yeah, it's a lot of
scraping with a razor to try toget that smooth again. So yeah,
cock and spackle different different applications.How about this one is all cock paintable?
No paintability is one of the maindifferences actually between like silicone cocks and
siliconized acrylic cocks like Accelerator that's onsale right now. That would be an
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acrylic where you can specifically paint overthat. They're paintable and non paintable cocks.
So don't just grab something off ashelf and assume you use it in
your house and assume you're good.Make sure you ask about it, or
make sure you're reading on the containeritself, the tube itself that it is
a paintable cock. Yes, okay, you mentioned silicone cock. Where would
I use silicone cock if it's notpaintable, And we do want to clarify
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that's absolutely not paintable. No,it's not. And you would use that
in a situation with a lot ofmoisture or you could be concerned about mildew.
It's great for water resistance, it'smade for bathrooms and you know,
kitchens or exteriors, even where there'sa real water concern. All right,
So let's say, and this hashappened. I think you, Haley,
have talked to people who've done this. I have. They've used silicone cock
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accidentally and then realize and then can'tpaint over it. Right, They're trying
to paint over it. It's notworking. They'll come in, what do
I do? You know? Howdo I get this fixed again? Yeah?
I mean, it's not going todo any harm, right, as
long as you're not trying to paintover it. If you use silicon and
you're not trying to paint over it, it's fine leave it on your baseboards.
But if you're hoping to paint overit, you really have to remove
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all of that and the residue leftbehind before you can then refill with a
paintable cock and get a finish onthere. All right, So a fair
amount of work there. If thathappens to you, stop out at any
recolite, tell us what you're workingwith, and we'll walk you through how
you get that fixed. How doyou remove cock itself? You know,
just regular cock, because that doeshave to be removed from time to time
(45:19):
and replace. Yeah. It's nota fun job, but it is an
important thing to do every so oftenbecause cock does fail, it does break
down over time, and it loosensfrom that gap. It's no longer stealing
things that are supposed to be watertight potentially like around the tub, and
it's there for a reason. We'retrying to prevent things like water damage and
mildew, so it's important to replacethat when it does start failing. In
order to do that, you shouldreally be using a cock removing tool.
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It's a specific tool for that.You can use other things, but this
is going to be much more efficientand save any damage from happening to surrounding
materials or you could you know,if it's really degraded, just use a
pair of you know, those pliersand just start peeling away. Yeah,
oh, just grab it and poleexactly. Yeah. I've scraped out with
razor knives. The cal removal toolis a lot easier. Yeah, but
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you got to go through all ofit, get all of the little crumblies
off. It takes a little bitof work. Yeah. I think people
hope to use a solivant for thatkind of thing, but they really don't
like dissolve it by any means.They might loosen it or soften it a
little maybe, but you really don'tneed a solivent necessarily. And then the
last thing is just removing any residuethat's left behind before you start again.
(46:24):
Yeah, so that's that. Let'ssee here, We've got time for one
more. Then we'll get to thelions. Sure, how do I store
and open tube? So I cutit open, used it, but I've
only used part of it. Ihave all kinds of tricks, so many
tricks, right, like use anail, use a screw. There are
specific caps that are sold for thispurpose. But you found a really interesting
tip that I'd never heard before.I liked it. It was, Yeah,
(46:46):
that the guy had a wax ringfrom a toilet. He just kept
that in the little container that itcame in, and he kept it in
his toolbox. Whenever he was donewith a tube of cock, he would
just press the nozzle right into thatwhack string. The wax would go into
the nozzle into the opening. Makea little plug, yeah, make a
little plug. And when he neededit later, he just triggered the gun.
(47:07):
It never really got hard enough thatit would cause a problem. It
just shoot right out, but itcreated that airtight seal. I like it,
all right, our big contest.We don't have long to talk about
it that I'll go fast. Weall know about Sunday's Big Game. Radio
rules don't let me say team namesor anything like that, so I'm giving
out clues. One of the teamswears Honolulu blue. Anyway, Big Game
(47:27):
on Sunday. Here's the deal.Go to Repcolite's Facebook page and find the
post about the game, and thengo ahead and in the comments, give
us your predictions for who's going towin and what the final score is going
to be for each team. Youhaven't telled ten am on Sunday to get
those predictions in, and then we'regoing to take no more predictions after ten
am on Sunday. So get thosepredictions in. Then we're all going to
(47:50):
watch to see how things shake out. And when it's all over, the
person who is closest to the finalresult and score will win a two hundred
and fifty dollars gift card to Repcolite. And if it's a group of people
who get it all right, we'regonna draw a random winner from that group.
All right, All The rules areon Repcolites Facebook page. Whatever you
do, have a great weekend,make pain a part of it, and
be sure to root the boys inBlue on this Sunday. I'm Dan Hansen,
(48:12):
I'm Heally Johnson. Thanks for listening.
Well, good morning everybody, Goodmorning Haley, Happy weekends all around.
You're listening to the Rep Coolite HomeImprovement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. I'm
Dan Hansen, I'm Haley Johnson,joined by Haley, and we've got all
kinds of stuff planned today. We'regoing to be talking about paint, how
to determine them. I had moreto Home improvement show. We're going to
(00:23):
talk about paint. Yeah, butwe're going to be talking about how to
tell if the paint in your basementis good or bad. Yes, whether
it's like, if it's fired,if it says Repcolite on the front,
even then it still might be badand you probably need to get more.
It's what I'm getting at now.We'll tell you if it's expired, if
it's gone bad, what to lookfor, all the little things, party
tricks. You'll enjoy it. It'sgonna be great. We're gonna talk about
(00:45):
how Haley influenced me, made memake a big purchase. Did I like
it? Did I hate it?We're going to cover that. That's next
segment. Right now, Let's talkabout something since we are talking about Haley,
I work with you on a regularbasis. I've done that for about
four years, three or four yearsor something like that, and you kind
of a nut in a lot ofways. You got a lot of nutty
(01:07):
ideas. I am not any youdon't have nutty ideas, but I'm always
unclear unsure about what your ideas are. You understand my power of influence,
so you like to question to makesure I'm not just We don't always try
to get show here right. Wedon't always look at life from the exact
same paradigm. And you'll talk aboutcertain things and I need to dig into
(01:30):
him a little bit before I figureout if I'm going to go on board
with that or if I'm going tobe in trouble. And one of the
things that you've talked about recently wasscreen time. Yeah, it's something that
I really started, I guess,just wanting to be like super mindful of
because I am a new parent andthis is a different age that we live
in now. There's a lot toconsider when it comes to screens. And
(01:53):
you know, even though he's justan infant right now and he's not necessarily
using the screens, just my useof screens around him, can I packed
his later behavior. So it's somethingthat I really started digging into, and
you were talking about how potentially harmfulit is, and you know, quite
honestly, I think in the inthat conversation, I wasn't sure what I
thought about it. It didn't soundlike crazy talk. It made sense.
(02:15):
But I do remember thinking, youknow, I'm glad I kind of dodged
that bullet. My kids are oldenough now that wasn't a real big issue.
Right well, they weren't babies whenall of this stuff happened. I
didn't have things strapped to them,right like that. I figured I was
fine, So I let you haveyour little exploration. Well like I have
(02:35):
any say in it anyway, Butyou know, you did your thing,
and I didn't think it impacted meas the bottom line. Yes, anyway,
I stumbled on a news article,I think two days after we had
that conversation, and it's titled Igot to find it a minute, the
Silent epidemic eating away American minds,not just American baby mines, right,
And I think you could probably makethe case it's not just American minds,
(02:58):
probably just mine any mind. Andit turns out it's screen time and I'm
reading this and they're talking about allthese terrible things that are happening. No
matter what age you're at, right, it really doesn't matter. I mean,
obviously, I think it's a bigdeal with infants because they're you're kind
of cementing things right now, rightthat you're going to play out later in
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life. But it still impacts you, Dan, and that's what matter.
Well, And that's the thing ittalks about, how you know your attention
spans are affected all the ADHD stuff. It's just skyrocketing aggression depression. Teachers
are saying increased all of that inschools, and scientists, you know,
scientists are finding a lot of things, but scientists are finding a connection between
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screen time and those things, right, And I think it's like important to
say too that we're not necessarily sayingthat there's causation here, but I think
that we can point to a correlationbetween increased screen time and increased anxiety depression
ADHD. All these things back thesame time exactly, and we're not saying
pull the plug and run away fromit. It's basically just information that I
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was a little bit surprised at.I shouldn't have been, but I was.
It impacts basically nobody, no agegroup is potentially safe from, you
know, investing too much time inthis, and I know that we do.
We invest a ton of time.I work on a computer all day
long and then I go home indetox by scrolling through my phone. Or
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I have guitars that I play andthey use smart technology, a smart amp
that connects with my iPads, soI'm never disconnected from it. And one
thing that I found really interesting inthis article, and I know you did
too, Haley, is that,you know, we would tend to think,
okay, vegging in front of aTV is probably worse than grabbing an
iPad and actually doing something interactive.I'm really you're playing a game. You
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know, there's problem solving involved there. I would always think that that's probably
better screen time than just sitting infront of a TV for hours. Turns
out that's not the case. Interactivestuff is actually worse. And what's really
interesting is that video game designers andanybody designing apps and stuff, they're building
in you know, little triggers,you know, buttons that go off when
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you get to a certain point,little sounds that play, and what that
does is psychologically, it pulls usin. They're intentionally doing this right to
keep you addicted and keep you lookingfor the next little ding or the next
whatever. Because we understand how theserewards systems work in our brains. We
understand what's going to feed us thosedopamine hits, that those feel good hormones
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that lead to these addictive behaviors.We're like Pavlovs dogs. Yeah, bell
rings and we start drooling. Well, and they're just all of that is
built in from the very core ofany of these games because their whole job
is to keep you playing. Soof course they're going to use this information
to make their game something where you'renot gonna want to leave it. Yeah.
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No, there's there's anecdote, evidenceor whatever stories in this article that
talk about people who I don't evenlike the game I'm playing, but if
I don't keep going to that nexttier, I'm not going to accomplish whatever,
So you know, they just keepgoing well and that too, but
they also incorporate, you know,these random rewards where you don't know when
it's going to come next, soyou keep playing because maybe something's about to
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happen again and you're going to getthat doping hitt and of course that's not
a conscious thought in our minds,but that's internally, you know, what's
happening to our brain chemistry. Well, it's very interesting. We're going to
keep going with this conversation and we'llair the rest of that in the podcast.
Right now, we've got to takea break, and when we come
back, we're going to be talkingabout this big influencing thing where Haley got
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me to make a big purchase,and we're going to decide or find out
together if I'm happy or if I'mreally disgruntled, and whether I can do
it again. Yeah, that's allnext stick around, all right, So
we're talking about this whole screen timething. Is there more you wanted to
say? I guess I should haveasked you before I said we're going to
keep talking about it after the break, because now we've got this on the
podcast and people are just chomping atthe bit for something brilliant. Well,
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I guess I wanted to throw outthere. You know, we just said
that this passive screen time is potentiallyless harmful than you know, the interactive
video game interactive screen time, whichis not what either of us thought the
results of No, absolutely not andI thought this point really highlighted it.
Where they're talking about this doctor thatobserved, you know, while watching two
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hours of TV was linked to signsof dysregulation in children. Only thirty minutes
of interactive screen time activities is stimulatingenough for that to occur. So you
can watch TV for two hours,or you can play a video game for
thirty minutes and you've got the sameamount of dysregulation that's happening in kids.
Or I'm assuming adults too. Well, yeah, I just the whole thing.
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I don't know what to think ofit. It certainly makes sense.
I mean, it's hard to kickagainst the concept. You know, I
certainly have seen, you know,even in my own house, even in
myself, attention spans, Yeah,dramatically dropping. You know. I don't
know that I could say that I'mmore stressed or not. I'm already stressed
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and I live in that zone,so it's hard to tell if I'm worse
or not. But I do noticethe attention span thing. Things that I
used to read great, big,long articles that just a few years ago
i'd love to dig into, andI'm looking for the really quick version.
I don't know where that comes frommaybe I'm just getting older, maybe I'm
just getting dumber, or maybe it'sa combination of everything. But I'm spoon
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fed everything in such little bites,right that maybe it's training me who knows
well. And I think the typeof rapid stimulation that's happening with rabbit rapit,
Oh, rabbit rapit, it's happeningvery quickly. Yeah. I got
five rabbits and tried to stimulate them, and we figured out which ones really
like certain things. This one likescarrots, this one loves TV well,
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so rapid, Yeah, stimulation iswhat's happening with a lot of the screen
time. You know, the waythat video is edited to keep our attention
spans, the way that video gamesare designed to keep our attention spans.
It's all extremely stimulating, and that'swhat really our brains are feeding off of
because it likes that to a certainextent. But what this article talked about
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too, is that because they're beingso stimulated with this type of screen time,
our brain's working to detimulate us atthe same time, so kind of
desensitize us to the amount of stimulationthat we're receiving, because it would be
really overwhelming if it didn't do that. And so because it's actively working to
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you know, destimulate us in thosesituations. Now in regular life where we
don't have this rapid stimulation happening allof a sudden, those things are you
know, each it's less stimulating,so it's still slowing us down, right,
and now we don't have these otherthings amp and us up. Now
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we're sleeping at the wheel basically,right. That's why we need coffee.
So if you're going to be watchinga lot of this stuff, you're going
to want to follow that down withcoffee so you can keep your edge,
right, Is that what you're saying, did I understand? Yeah? Yeah,
And that will help with the stressand the anxiety clearly, except will
make it even more pronounced. Sogood for any sort of stress or think
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about that, though, that's mylife. Get a cup of coffee,
open up a screen. Yeah,probably shortening my life span dramatically, my
intelligence, everything all down the drain. It's very interesting thanks to all of
this quite scary. Well. Yeah, and the thing is there's this other
side to it, and we talkedabout this in leading up to this little
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segment, and we talked about howyou know, you were mentioning that there's
there's value to it, you know, like virtual reality. That's something that
is a knee jerk. Just now. Yeah, her whole color changed.
I have like a very visceral reactionto the just the word, yeah,
virtual reality. It's very strange.I saw a movie. What was the
movie, Ready Player one? Ididn't know anything about it. I saw
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the movie. I was so pumped. I thought it was such an interesting
concept. It's a virtual reality concept, and I thought it was done so
well, so smart. And Icame to work all excited to tell my
little story. Everybody's been there.You've seen something, You come to work
and you can't wait to share.And I start speaking and literally four words
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get out of my mouth and Haleybecomes an entirely different person. And I
think we've all been there. We'vehad this exciting story to tell, and
the person we're telling it's just soangry at the very concept. And I
could not understand what your reaction wasto it. I still don't know,
but I know you hate it.And so when later I started recommending,
(11:50):
I remember we had a contest atRepcolite and I said, oh, yeah,
give it a virtual reality That's whenI started putting all two and two
together and realized it's virtual reality thatmakes you really mad. And you know,
the more I've thought about it,the more I think that is scary
to be immersed in this situation.You know. The idea is like technology
is going to bring people together.That's a lot of what gets what gets
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floated. Yeah, it's connecting us. And I think ultimately, you know,
what we experience in real life isisolation. Actually, yeah, disconnection.
So I see all that, andyet on the other side we read
about people who, you know,surgeons, learning to do whatever. Yeah,
I think virtual reality two sides toit, and I try to remember
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that to kind of give myself hopebecause I guess I don't know why virtual
reality in particular gives me such avisceral reaction. I think it just sounds
very dystopian to me, like,Okay, let's not live in reality,
let's live in a virtual reality.It's just this like extra layer of you
know, the control technology could have. But I do think that there are
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so many good applications for all ofthese things, you know, for people
to have disabilities, or like yousaid, for doctors that are training getting
some sort of real life experience insituations. Yeah, I'm glad pilots train
simulation. Yeah, exactly, welcometo the training flight. Oh boy,
I don't want to be on thisone. Right. So there's a lot
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of value and it's a tool,right, I mean, I think that's
what it comes down to. Wehad this conversation before too, is you
know, you could do something reallyterrible with a hammer, but you could
also just use it as it's intendedto and nail something to the side of
your house, right, completely agree. The thing that makes this just a
slightly different thing than that is thatwhat we talked about in the part that
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aired earlier on air is that thisis literally extremely addicting and it's built that
to be that way, right,Right, So it's it's like a hammer
that kind of gets you hooked,right, You can't you can't put it
down. Once you pick that hammerup, better be careful because you might
not ever put it down again.That's not gonna happen. And if somebody
pulls it out of your hand,you're gonna have some kind of withdrawal.
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Right, You're gonna flip out.You're gonna be stealing hammers from places it's
just a train wreck, and sothat's what makes us different. It's a
tool, but it is designed tokind of hook us. And I think
that's the biggest point that we wantedto make in all of this. It's
just as parents and grandparents, aspeople out there for your wealth. Yeah,
you know, dig into the article, you make your own call.
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I'm not sure exactly where I stand. This makes a lot of sense to
me, and I think it helpsme want to adjust what I do now.
I'm not gonna give it up.So I'm learning my guitar stuff.
I'm not giving that up because culturethat's my second that's my fallback. If
the rep goallighte ever fails, I'mgonna be oh yeah, like a little
Paul McCartney. Okay, that's gonnabe me. So I'll keep it,
(14:50):
but I'm gonna try to keep itin check a little bit. Yeah.
I think it's just about being mindfuland aware of these things that the information's
out there. You know. Yeah, we can act on it and however
we want to. But we soundedlike you were gonna say more. You
just kind of kind of quit there. Well, I don't want to go
on forever. I can talk aboutthis for a very long time. Okay,
yeah, all right, you justthink about virtual reality. That'll make
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you angry and sharpen your senses.I'm gonna go find a hammer because I've
just got this inkling that I needone. And we're gonna take a break.
And if you hung around for this, you're gonna catch what's coming next,
which is going to be the conversationabout the steamer that you influenced me
on or didn't. I'm still notgonna get you the answer. You're gonna
have to hang around to find thatout. That's all next. Stick around.
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Then we're back. You're listening tothe Repical Light home improvement show sponsored
by Benjamin Moore and Haley. Let'stalk about some influence that you've got.
I hate to say it that way. I love when you say it that
way. I know you get abig head, bigger head, and I'm
gonna hear about this for a while. But probably a year ago or more,
(15:56):
we had a segment on the showwhere you talked about us steam cleaner
that you bought your house, andyou were so over the top excited about
the steam cleaner that you almost swayedme yeah, you talked about buying one.
I actually went online found it,yeah, and then you know,
cleared the page and walked away.But I almost bought it. Well anyway,
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maybe I think it was around Christmastime New Year's time. We played
a couple of reruns and you recommendedthat we air that steamer one. Yeah,
so it sounds good to me.So I get it, and I
have to go through all the audio. You know, I do all the
editing, so I had to doit again, and by the end of
that segment, I bought one.So you influenced me. It took you
two tries, all right, andI got this steam cleaner. It's a
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Due Prey steam cleaner. I'll puta link in the show notes. It
was about one hundred and fifty bucks. I think I got it on sale
for one hundred and thirty Yeah,something in that range. And I think
it's so worth it. Well,I wasn't sure. I was nervous.
I was, you know, trustingyou to have led me in the right
direction, but I wasn't sure.I remember when it came I was pretty
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excited to see it and to messwith it, because I do like cleaning,
you do, and I like havinga really clean space. And I
remember, you know, knowing thatit was coming, kind of tracking where
it's at on the phone, andI pulled into the driveway with all the
kids. Everybody was in the truck. I don't remember where we were,
and one of the kids said,Oh, there's a big box sitting by
the front door. Is that Christmasstuff? And I looked and then I
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squealed like a schoolgirl, completely unintentionallysteam cleaning. Yeah. I clapped my
hands and squealed because it was thesteam cleaner and I could see it right
on the package, got it inthe house, and in ten minutes I
had the thing filled up full upwith water and heating. It took a
good ten to fifteen minutes to gethot enough to go, and then I
started attacking everything in the house justto see what would happen. Yeah,
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you said that you did your floors. The well that was the floor was
the very first thing that I tackled, and I was really surprised and disgusted
with myself. I got all thetools out and I'm looking at this vinyl
floor and it looks like tile,like ceramic tile, and it's fine,
you know, it is what itis. But when we moved in eight
years ago or so, by thekickboards, the pattern on the tile just,
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you know, it just looks likeit's the pattern. You know.
There's all these little grooves and Ican't call them discolorations, it's just darkness
in the tile. And I assumethat's just the pattern because I've tried to
mop it. I've tried it.Just no, Yeah, it's not like
you don't clean your house. Iclean all the time. Yeah, all
the time. I mop all thetime. So it's just part of the
pattern. I got this thing downthere and I thought, let's just do
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one little square and I did thatand in seconds, thirty seconds, ten
seconds, it's clean. And Ilooked at it and all those spots were
gone. And I looked at thespot next to it, all these little
black spots that I can't believe Ithought were part of the pattern. It's
dirt. It's dirt. I wasso mortified. I was horrified. Well,
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yeah, there's nobody to blame butmyself and my own incompetence with I
mean, I had to reassess myentire life at that point. And I
went through and cleaned all of that, and yeah, in ten minutes,
I'd gone around the entire room andit looks so much better. It feels
better. Did the floors the floorsfeel better? Yeah, they don't just
look better, they feel better.And from that point on I just went
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nuts. I did you know yousample it in certain areas. I sampled
it on some surfaces to make sureI wasn't going to have a problem.
Sure, yeah, gotta be safe. But I cleaned off all kinds of
stuff. I went into the bathroom, sanitized the toilet seats and all of
that. I went nuts. Well, that's the part I love, too,
is that you can sanitize things.To the steam and cleaner, I've
you know, I would say therewas a lull in my steam cleaner use.
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You know, I used it alot when I first got it,
and then I kind of forgot aboutit for maybe like six months. But
I've really started using it again becauseof Wallace. Now that he's crawling and
moving around the floors. I feellike these need to be cleaner than just
a vacuuming. I want them sanitized. Yeah. No, it's super cool.
It does, you know, Likeyou said, it's very exciting when
you first get it, but itis work. It is something that you
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got to work into your system.Because you fill up the tank, it
doesn't fill up instantly. You gotto work on that. And that sounds
stupid, but you know what I'mtalking about. It it's not a very
big opening that you're pouring into andit's no, it's a little annoying.
Yeah, and then draining it orgetting all of that dealt with when you're
all done. There's a lot oflittle things, so it's not something that
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I daily do. Yeah, it'smore cumbersome than like a swift or clean
but so ridiculously cool to be ableto get certain areas cleaned once a week's
well. It works so well.The big thing that really tipped me off,
I've got the floor. I wassuper happy about getting the floor clean.
But in the living room when Imoved in, there was a big
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black spot by the front door.Door swings open over the carpet. I
don't know if there was a moistureproblem or something that happened. No,
it's it's not by that, it'sright by the door. It's this great
big section, you know, probablysix inches long and about two inches into
the room, but right at thebase of the door. That's black in
the carpet. Sounds horrible when Iexplain it. That come to my office
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move and I don't know what itwas. But we had some cleaners come,
you know, we got some carpetcleaners to come out, professional cleaners.
They went through the whole area.Everything's great, and then I asked
them about that spot, and theysaid, no, that spot, there's
nothing we can do. We triedeverything we've got. That's literally what they
told me. Everything. We've gotall our professional equipment, and we couldn't
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get that spot up. Everything elselooks great. We don't know what that
is. You're just gonna have tolive with it. Fortunately, it's way
off to the side you barely noticeit. So he just said, okay,
fine, yep, that's what Idid. I wrote them a big
check and said thanks so much foreverything. Else. Anyway, I figured,
why not, you know, I'msure it's not gonna work with my
steamer. Well, guess who's gota new carpet cleaning business. That worked.
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Yes, I had that thing upin five minutes, nineteen ninety five
percent of it. You can stillsee a shadow of it there still for
someone to say, that's a professional. We can't get that out and for
you to. They tried and tried. I don't know what the difference was.
I don't know. I couldn't tellyou. All I know is this
thing got that up. I've takenup other spots on the carpet. Blah
blah blah. The steamer's really cool. And I influenced you, and you
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influenced me. Now I think it'stime that you try one more time because
there's something else that you just boughtthat's cleaning related. Yes, which makes
me want to squeal like a schoolgirl. No, I think that you would
really like it. And I guessmy evidence to that is that. So
the reason I bought this, Igot a cordless vacuum. Yeah, let's
get that out there for out.Cordless vacuum not a dustbuster, a literal
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vacuum. Yep. Cordless just hasa battery attachment and you know, charge
it. It's good to go.So I got this. But the reason
I got is because we had somemoney, some Amazon money that I could
use because Joran's parents very sweetly gothim an ego blow up for his birthday.
Oh very nice, but we alreadyhave one. I bought you one.
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Yes, I was thinking it seemslike yeah, but anyway, yes,
you got us one for a housewarminggift, and so we already had
one. They didn't realize that,but they thought it was such a good
dad gift for him, and Ibet I influenced them. That's possible.
They do listen to the show.Well, there we go, we're both
in it. Yeah. So anywaythey got you that, you had to
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return it. You had some Ambimoney, and I told them, you
know what I really want to spendthat on is a cordless vacuum. And
he was mad most of the time. That's not going to be terribly exciting.
And it was his gift. Itwas his gift. I was going
to spend his birthday money on acordless vacuum. And he was not happy.
We already have a vacuum. Whydo we need a cordless vacuum.
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I don't understand we need multiple vacuumsin the house. Really, Haley,
and I said, no, we'regonna use this every single day. What's
the end result? What's your He'sthrilled, He's thrilled, life changer.
He said, this is huge.He loves to use it. Loves it.
It's so quiet, it's so light, and I know the core doesn't
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seem like something that should be anobstacle, but I really truly believe that
it is because you're unwrapping it.It's like the obstacles with the steam cleaner.
I think that maybe keeps us fromusing it on a daily basis or
a weekly basis. This removes allof those obstacles. I think it's the
same. It's that's the argument youmake with any battery powered piece of equipment.
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That was the argument we made whenwe talked about those Ego blowers and
stuff. I used all of thatstuff a lot more than the corded equipment
that they had, just because itwas such a pain in the neck to
get it out. It was sohandy with a battery powered thing. Well,
and when you've got a corded vacuumtwo, you're moving the plug multiple
times to try to get the firstfloor done, and that's annoy and you're
maybe running short on a couple becauseyou're trying to stretch it to the very
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limit, and that's annoying. Becausenow it comes unplugged and we have eight
extension cords draped through the whole home. It's just ridiculous. Yeah, you
know, I don't think that thiswill ever replace a corded vacuum in our
home. We're always going to haveour Shark vacuum. But I really love
it for daily use, just touse in the kitchen after cooking something,
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or hit the living room really quickbecause maybe there are some crumbs that drive.
Do you have hardwood in the livingroom or I have hardwood, but
I have rugs. So you're usingit on both surfaces, use it on
both, and I can say thatit picks up everything that I can see
in the fuel's floors feel cleaner afterI've swept them. So I just don't
believe vacuum. Yeah, that it'sworking, I just don't. I don't
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think that it's as strong as acorded one still, No, I can't
imagine that it's going to be.And like you said, we're not recommending
that it's a replacement or I thinknice supplement too exactly, it's supplemental.
But I also really think that thisis a great you know, for that
daily use, but it's a greatdeep cleaning tool as well, because it
allows me to get under the couchesin the living room really easily. Normally,
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that's always like a really embarrassing thingwhen you realize, oh my gosh,
like there's so many dust bunnies undermy couch. Is disgusting. It's
disgusting. Oh and now you'll beable to blame the children soon. I
can. I can clean it orthere so easily because it goes completely flat
or cobwebs. You know, there'swe've got a big open stairwell that goes
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up to the second floor, andthere's little cobwebs that get up in the
corners of that stairwell on the secondfloor, and there's no great way to
get to those. But with thecordless vacuum, it was really simple.
I mean, yeah, I've gota vacuum that's got the little hose attachment,
you know. Most the dw Yeah, but mine's supposed to be fifteen
foot long. It's what it sayson the box, and maybe it is.
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If you bolt the vacuum to theground and pull it as far as
you can get it that hose.But for me, I pull more than
three or four feet and the vacuumfalls over shoots at me. Yes,
because it just doesn't work. Absolutely, You've got none of that. With
the stopless thing, you can reachup wherever you want to go, it's
light, there's so many attachments still, you know, it's just cleaning certain
things so much easier. So we'renot making a big recommendation about the particular
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one that you bought at the concept. Yeah, so we'll put a link
in the show notes to the exactvacuum that Haley bought. If you really
want to follow Haley and live Haley'slife, eventually it can be stalkers and
stuff like that, but you gotto start with getting all the equipment that
you're gonna need a cordless vacuum first, so we'll put a link in the
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show notes for that. But mainlythe big thing is just consider that maybe
it's something you haven't thought about mightreally help with the cleaning process at home.
Yeah, all right, we're gonnatake a break. When we come
back, we'll be talking about howto tell if the paint on the shelves
in the basement or the garage,if that's any good and should be used,
or if it's something you never everwant to pop the lid on.
We'll talk about that in just aminute and stick around. Well, Haley,
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I have learned all kinds of stuffin the break and even though it's
not what we're playing on talking about, I want to talk about it.
You have regaled me with all kindsof information and I want to share.
You're listening to the Repcolite Home improvementshow, sponsored for the moment by Benjamin
Orr. We'll see how they feelabout this. After Haley tells us about
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carrots, carrots were not we goto break and Hailey says, this is
how she starts a conversation, Dan, did you know harrots weren't always edible?
Did you know people put butter intheir coffee in the two thousands?
Carrots weren't always edible. I recentlylearned that carrots were not always edible,
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and I think it's very interesting becauseI love carrots. It's weird to think
that at one point they could havepoisoned me. But it's true. They
weren't really like a farmed vegetable,and it wasn't until like three hundred BC
that they really started cultivating these tomake them edible. And they were white
to start with, right, andthat's when they were poisonous. And then
ultimately, and they were poisonous,like i'd croak. I don't know what
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do I get in urnstressed? ButI know that you shouldn't eat them,
And so eventually they made them orange. And you know that's that way you
knew which ones were good to eat, right? Is that it for that?
Yeah, you're at the store,at the Caveman's store. Don't buy
the white ones unless you're trying tokill rats. Oh, the orange ones,
those are good for people. Right, It would be a weird thing
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to test, I'm sure. Yeah, I can't imagine being the first guy.
No, try it. Did youfix the white carrot problem? Because
they used I was for a weekwith bad Oh it's better, trust me.
Yeah. So carrots, they're nowedible thanks to people in the three
hundreds, right, three hundred BC. I don't know what year, one
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of those timeframes, that's what Haleytalked about. Thousands of years ago,
thousands of years ago, a longtime ago. And then butter in coffee.
Yeah, I didn't know this wasa thing. Jordan told me recently
that people used to put butter incoffee in the two thousands, not just
for taste, right, it wasa big trend, like this diet hack
that people thought they it figured outwhere would like jumpstart your metabolism. It
(30:02):
was very popular, like you couldgo to Starbucks and get like a dog
butter in your coffee. I wanta diet that involves eating more butter.
I would be so thin because Ieat so much butter. Anyway, none
of that matters. None of thatmatters. But I thought it was interesting.
And now everybody's got some insight intowhat the brakes are like with Haley,
who knows what I'm gonna learn nexttime? Maybe I'll share. Let's
(30:26):
talk about paint in the garage inthe basement. You know a lot of
us either have that stuff sitting therethat we've put there, or we bought
a new house. There's old paintleftover, and you're wondering is this still
good? How old is it?You don't really wonder that until it comes
time to do a little touch uppainting. Yes, and then you start
wondering, First off, can Ifind the paint that was in whatever room?
(30:47):
Yeah? And then you find itand then begins the big question is
this good enough to use? Howdo I know? And what happens if
I use it? And it wasbad. That's what we want to start
with, because Haley, you literallycan attest to this. You know what
fashion to make. I used badpaint recently, that exact scenario. It
(31:07):
was old paint left over and wentinto the basement. This was when I
was sick at home and I wasjust bored looking for things to occupy myself
with. And I thought, I'mgoing to touch up the cabinets real quick,
you know, I'll just do that. And so I couldn't smell very
good at all, but I openedthe can up, mix it up real
quick, get it on the cabinets. Jordan comes in the room and thinks,
what are you doing? It reeksin here, not like in a
(31:30):
normal paint way, in like abad, spoiled, soul free way.
And we'll get to that. That'sone of the reasons. And so you've
got that now. Yes, wellit's not there. The stink didn't last.
So your stink went away. Itdid go away. But the paint
is failing in the places where Idid touch up because it was bad paint.
Yeah, so you get all kindsof problems, a whole Schmorgsborg.
(31:55):
I don't know how to say no. Word I should never have tried.
How do you say that word?You can't because you're in my head.
Okay, a whole pot luck ofproblems. You can end up with a
nasty smell that does linger, yes, and you don't want that. You
can end up with a gritty texture, poor durability, that's what Haley's experiencing.
(32:15):
Even improper gloss level. Yeah.So all of those are reasons you
don't want to use bad paint.So let's get to how you tell if
what you've got is good. Well, like we talked about, Jordan walked
in the room and it smelled funky, and that's your first test. Pop
the lid and give it a goodwhiff, make sure your nostrils are clear.
Yeah, and this is going tobe one of those things that if
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you're going, boy, I don'tknow, is that no? See,
then it's fine. If you're askingyourself, I'm not sure. If you're
debating, it's probably fine. Obviouswhen you go and then you feel like
you're having an out of body experiencebecause the stench is so overpowering. That's
the one that's bad. It's gota spoiled smell like sulfur. Real most
in a way. It's just likemil dewy. It's most sour. You'll
(33:00):
know it when you smell it.Yeah, and if you notice that that
paint's a no go, you've gotto get rid of that. Don't use
it. What if it's chunky,got chunky paint, No, don't use
it. Don't use it. Itlooks like cottage cheese inside, may look
yummy, may remind you of lasagna, you know Mom's lasagna, or what's
the eminem thing, spaghetti? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So anyway,
(33:24):
if it looks like that, no, no go. What if it's
really really thick, the paint issuper thick, you know, pasty,
or maybe it's really really water Ifit's any extreme, don't use it.
Yeah, that's pretty much the casewith most things, right, I would
think. So if it's completely driedup, yeah, it's not good paint
anymore. If it's an extreme oneway or the other, probably bad.
(33:45):
What if it's watery on the topand you know, the paint underneath seems
like it might be okay, butthat watery stuff, boy, that looks
pretty bad. What do you thinkis this one bad too? Haley?
It's just separated it'll be fine.We have good news. Finally, If
that that's your situation, all youneed to do is stir it back through.
Yes, but there's a technique thatyou should know about because this is
(34:05):
a common mistake. It seems verysimple. Stir your paint. Yeah,
use a spiistick, not your arm, right, is that the clue or
the hit the tip? Now,well, you maybe use your arm,
I don't know. But either way, whether you use your arm or a
starerstick, you want to make surethat you're getting to the bottom of the
can and lifting up as you're stirringit around, and that's getting everything up
(34:27):
to the top. All those solidsare getting mixed back in the paint really
well. And that's the key,right. A lot of us think it's
a circular motion and that's not goingto get the best results. So make
sure you're doing it with a stirstickfrom the bottom up. If that seems
like that's taking way too long,and sometimes that can Yeah, some of
us just don't have the upper bodystrength to stir for that long. So
(34:49):
maybe hit the gym ahead of time, or you know, just take you
know, a cop out and geta drill mix or attachment. It's something
that will supert onto your cordless drillor whatever, and in seconds you'll have
that paint mixed and ready to go. It's really handy, right, all
right, So what if there's athick skin on top of the paint.
You know, you open it upand there's a skin in there. Maybe
it's a little rubbery, maybe it'spretty hard. What do you think?
(35:14):
Is it bad? Well, youdon't know. You got to cut that
out. Don't mix up. Well, it's really kind of fun to do.
It's like surgery. But yeah,if you carefully cut that out,
you know you're gonna have to strainthe paint regardless. Yes, but get
that skin out of there. Don'tstir it through and don't shake the can.
It's just gonna make it all chunky. You're gonna have a those little
goobers in there that you get onthe wall and you're painting, and no
(35:35):
one wants that. Then you spendthe rest of your day picking out all
the yees. So get that skinout carefully and then assess the situation.
Chances are the paint's probably still good, yeah, but it will need to
be strained. And let's talk aboutthat because you could have that problem.
But also a lot of us willopen up a can and rusty and you
know how you got to pry thatlid up and it's not coming and you're
(35:55):
not sure if you're ever gonna getit. But as you're working it,
like all these flakes of rust areinto your paint, really dried paint that
you didn't get out of the rimgood enough. Right, we all know
that scenario. You can still fixthat if the paint is good, you
know, if decent quality is stillworkable, you can get all that out
by straining it. Yeah, Andthey make a few different kinds of strainers.
You're gonna see in the store.There's a five yellon bag strainer,
(36:16):
there's a gallon bag strainer, andthen there's like these nice little pretty cone
strainers, and those look very friendly. I think people gravitate towards that one.
It's not what you want to usefor paint though. Yeah, don't
use the little cone strainers. They'remade for lackers and products like that refine
strainer. Yeah, use the gallonbag strainers or the five gallons bag strainers.
(36:37):
Basically, you need to get anempty container, whether it's a five
gallon pail or a single gallon.Can we sell those in the store.
The little strainer has an elastic bandaround it like underpants to snap it on,
snaps right on, pour the oldpaint in, you lift it out.
We've got a video showing this processand Dan Altina, he's been on
the show multiple times. Yeah,he's demonstrating how to do this, and
(36:58):
it's it's quite entertaining. It's whatdo they call that, those videos that
people watch for sound and ASMR ASMR. It's a little bit like that.
We should make a whole series ofASMR videos. I think, I think,
yes, we shall go to workon that, Hayley. But if
you want to see Dan demonstrating thestrainer technique, we'll have that on our
(37:19):
social media pages. Super simple.But big thing is be aware of those
strainers and use them. You canget your paint back to absolutely pristine quality,
no matter what it was for themost part, exactly right. Okay,
So now we've got all of thatgoing on, that's how we figure
out if the pain is still usable. Before we wrap this up, let's
talk about how to store the paintso you can avoid some of these problems
(37:39):
in the first place, Well,exactly, if you have a nice seal
on that can and are storing itin the proper way, it's going to
last a lot longer. So thefirst thing is really being careful on how
you open the can to begin with. Use a specific paint can opener.
Don't use other tools that are layingaround. They're convenient. We're all guilty
of this. But what's the weirdestthing you've ever opened to paint can?
(38:00):
With the weirdest thing? Yeah,I don't know. Maybe a quarter a
quarter? Yeah, yep, that'spretty good. I've used screws, I've
used my keys, chicken. Neverused the chicken. I don't think that
would work. You'd have to befrozen, yeah, or the claw,
who know, little talons? Icould try, but that's see now,
I wouldn't want him to be aliving chicken because that would be cruel.
(38:22):
I would never do that. Thethe reason you don't want to use all
these things is because it could dentthe rim of the can, and then
you've compromised that seal, letting airin, and then your paint is going to
spoil. So what do you use? Instead? You use one of those
little keys, the little can openerkeys. Ask about them at the store
when you're buying your paint. We'llget you one, all right, So
you've got that going on. Anotherthing you want to make sure you do
(38:44):
is clean out the rim of thatcan before you seal everything. You know,
a lot of times we'll open upthe paint can we're pouring from it,
get a lot of paint in there. Most of us don't better than
to put the lid on and whackit shut. At that point, we
try to get the paint out,unless you're trying to do like some Jackson
Pollock splatter art, then go right, right right. But still most of
the time we see paint come intothe store where people want us to shake
(39:05):
it or something like that. Andthere's a lot of paint in that rim,
right, and that also compromises theseal. So make sure you clean
that out before you try to closeit, or even better, use a
poor spout and then you don't haveto worry about it at all. Right.
These things snap onto the can rightinto the rim. They'll fit into
a gallon, they'll fit into aquart, none expensive, and yeah,
it makes pouring it super easy,and it keeps that rim clean. But
(39:27):
either way, make sure the rimsclean before you close it. Another thing
before you close it. I don'tknow where this fits in the chronology of
things, but put the paint becausea lot of us will pour out of
the gallon can. And now we'vegot half a gallon left. Don't store
the gallon half full like that.Get a couple of quart cans, right,
something that you can fill exactly storeit that. I want a lot
of air left in the can.You know, if there's just a little
(39:47):
bit of paint and a bunch ofair, you're again just any suggestion for
paint you can just you can seewhat's gonna happen. You just know it's
not gonna be good. It's gonnaspoil. That's the point, So get
small containers. And then lastly,this feels kind of like we're really really
belaboring the point here, But whenyou put the lid on and your thump
(40:07):
it shut, so Naggie, usea rubber mallet. Yeah, again,
sounds ridiculous, But how many times, Haley, have you closed them with
a regular hammer? I have?I have done that little tap tap.
I gotta be careful, but ultimatelyyou end up denting that rim and letting
more air in the can. Yeah, do those things, and the paint
(40:28):
will store really well for a verylong time as long as you put it
in a place that's not gonna freeze. Yes, that's another key, very
last thing that we're gonna say onthis. Put it in your basement,
normal room temperature. That paint willbe ready next time you need it.
All right, we're gonna take abreak when we come back. We're answering
a bunch of questions as fast aswe can that we received about cock Yeah,
(40:51):
crickets just sounded. It's gonna begreat because we're gonna have a lot
of fun with it. That's allnext. Oh and on top of that,
oh yeah, should have lead withthat, we're gonna tell you how
you can get entered to this weekendwin a two hundred and fifty dollars gift
card to Repolite, and it's allconnected to the big game on Sunday.
You know which one I'm talking about. So look, it's really fun.
You got to endure the call andthen we'll get to the boys in Blue
(41:15):
and the big giveaway. That's allnext. Stick around and we're back.
See you got a little more insightinto what I got to live with and
what I work with. Haley's justmumbling to herself, I'm gonna start eating
dirt or we have to start.I have no idea what that was even
about what I'm gonna keep it todaybecause that was fun. You're listening to
(41:39):
the Rep Coolite Home improvement Show sponsoredby Benjamin Moore and Haley. We've got
a lot of stuff to cover inthis last segment. It's important. These
are real questions that people have aboutthe calling. Well, the questions about
col are important, but we've gotto even more importantly get to our big
contest centered around Sunday's big game.That's the stuff. But let's get through
(42:01):
the cocking. We've been talking aboutcock the last couple of weekends on the
show, one segment each oh rightnow running on Tower Sealants Accelerator. It's
a really high quality cock that canbe painted over immediately with a sprayer or
brushed over in thirty minutes. Butwe've got a good deal on it and
it's inspired a lot of content forus. Right The deal ends at the
(42:23):
end of January, so a fewmore days after this weekend. If you
are in the market, for cockand you want to save some money,
definitely check it out. But becausewe've been producing this content, we have
received a fair amount of questions andwe're going to kind of just go through
them in no particular order. Really, I'm going to ask him, Hayley's
going to answer, and I'm goingto grade her on the quality of her
(42:44):
work. Fun So let's start withthis. Are coughed and spackle interchangeable?
No? And I say this tomy husband because I feel like this is
something that he could do. Maybewe don't have any spagle in the house,
I'll just use cocking. It's notthe same thing just for ceiling gaps
between two different materials or the samematerial, but it's for filling a cracker
(43:05):
a gap where spackle is really justused to fill things like nail holes or
other damage on a flat surface likewalls or trim. You know, spackle
can be sanded so you can geta really nice finish to be painted over.
Cock is not sandable, so you'renever gonna get as good of a
finish. Now, it's a realpain. I have talked to a few
people in the store who've come inand they've caked some nail holes and are
(43:25):
wondering how to get that smooth again, And yeah, it's a lot of
scraping with a razor to try toget that smooth again. So yeah,
cock and spackle different different applications.How about this one is all cock paintable?
No paintability is one of the maindifferences actually between like silicone cocks and
siliconized acrylic cocks like Accelerator that's onsale right now. That would be an
(43:49):
acrylic where you can specifically paint overthat. They're paintable and non paintable cocks.
So don't just grab something off ashelf and assume you use it in
your house and assume you're good.Make sure you ask about it, or
make sure you're reading on the containeritself, the tube itself that it is
a paintable cock. Yes, okay, you mentioned silicone cock. Where would
I use silicone cock if it's notpaintable, And we do want to clarify
(44:12):
that's absolutely not paintable. No,it's not. And you would use that
in a situation with a lot ofmoisture or you could be concerned about mildew.
It's great for water resistance, it'smade for bathrooms and you know,
kitchens or exteriors, even where there'sa real water concern. All right,
So let's say, and this hashappened. I think you, Haley,
have talked to people who've done this. I have. They've used silicone cock
(44:37):
accidentally and then realize and then can'tpaint over it. Right, They're trying
to paint over it. It's notworking. They'll come in, what do
I do? You know? Howdo I get this fixed again? Yeah?
I mean, it's not going todo any harm, right, as
long as you're not trying to paintover it. If you use silicon and
you're not trying to paint over it, it's fine leave it on your baseboards.
But if you're hoping to paint overit, you really have to remove
(44:58):
all of that and the residue leftbehind before you can then refill with a
paintable cock and get a finish onthere. All right, So a fair
amount of work there. If thathappens to you, stop out at any
recolite, tell us what you're workingwith, and we'll walk you through how
you get that fixed. How doyou remove cock itself? You know,
just regular cock, because that doeshave to be removed from time to time
(45:19):
and replace. Yeah. It's nota fun job, but it is an
important thing to do every so oftenbecause cock does fail, it does break
down over time, and it loosensfrom that gap. It's no longer stealing
things that are supposed to be watertight potentially like around the tub, and
it's there for a reason. We'retrying to prevent things like water damage and
mildew, so it's important to replacethat when it does start failing. In
order to do that, you shouldreally be using a cock removing tool.
(45:43):
It's a specific tool for that.You can use other things, but this
is going to be much more efficientand save any damage from happening to surrounding
materials or you could you know,if it's really degraded, just use a
pair of you know, those pliersand just start peeling away. Yeah,
oh, just grab it and poleexactly. Yeah. I've scraped out with
razor knives. The cal removal toolis a lot easier. Yeah, but
(46:04):
you got to go through all ofit, get all of the little crumblies
off. It takes a little bitof work. Yeah. I think people
hope to use a solivant for thatkind of thing, but they really don't
like dissolve it by any means.They might loosen it or soften it a
little maybe, but you really don'tneed a solivent necessarily. And then the
last thing is just removing any residuethat's left behind before you start again.
(46:24):
Yeah, so that's that. Let'ssee here, We've got time for one
more. Then we'll get to thelions. Sure, how do I store
and open tube? So I cutit open, used it, but I've
only used part of it. Ihave all kinds of tricks, so many
tricks, right, like use anail, use a screw. There are
specific caps that are sold for thispurpose. But you found a really interesting
tip that I'd never heard before.I liked it. It was, Yeah,
(46:46):
that the guy had a wax ringfrom a toilet. He just kept
that in the little container that itcame in, and he kept it in
his toolbox. Whenever he was donewith a tube of cock, he would
just press the nozzle right into thatwhack string. The wax would go into
the nozzle into the opening. Makea little plug, yeah, make a
little plug. And when he neededit later, he just triggered the gun.
(47:07):
It never really got hard enough thatit would cause a problem. It
just shoot right out, but itcreated that airtight seal. I like it,
all right, our big contest.We don't have long to talk about
it that I'll go fast. Weall know about Sunday's Big Game. Radio
rules don't let me say team namesor anything like that, so I'm giving
out clues. One of the teamswears Honolulu blue. Anyway, Big Game
(47:27):
on Sunday. Here's the deal.Go to Repcolite's Facebook page and find the
post about the game, and thengo ahead and in the comments, give
us your predictions for who's going towin and what the final score is going
to be for each team. Youhaven't telled ten am on Sunday to get
those predictions in, and then we'regoing to take no more predictions after ten
am on Sunday. So get thosepredictions in. Then we're all going to
(47:50):
watch to see how things shake out. And when it's all over, the
person who is closest to the finalresult and score will win a two hundred
and fifty dollars gift card to Repcolite. And if it's a group of people
who get it all right, we'regonna draw a random winner from that group.
All right, All The rules areon Repcolites Facebook page. Whatever you
do, have a great weekend,make pain a part of it, and
be sure to root the boys inBlue on this Sunday. I'm Dan Hansen,
(48:12):
I'm Heally Johnson. Thanks for listening.
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