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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's a pleasure every Thursday and this time to welcome
in you. Hear him over on fifty five kr C
on Saturdays and Sundays, and of course you can hear
him on nearly three hundred stations coast to coast. He's
a national guy. He's not just some local guy talking
about Gary Sullivan. Nice to have you in the studio today.
How about that, man, I am a local guy. You are,
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although you know, hey, look when the rest of us
were freezing to death, you were hanging out down in Florida.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, you're good for you. Oh you look tan and
fit and rested in the whole deal.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm working on it. I know you are. We're always
working on it, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, we're going to get to that now here in
a minute, because I went through a little bit of
this the other day and I'm about to embark on
a little bit more of it the other day. And
we're talking about window and or door and or porch screens. Okay,
well they do, and this was our porch screen. We
don't have, but you know, as a year round glass
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and closed. It's just the screens and it's on a
nice munch you sit out there, eat dinner out there
a lot with my wife and I are when the
kids are over what have you. But because we're next
to a gravel driveway that goes to the back of
our property, all that dirt dut right. Okay, Now the screens,
So my wife and I were debating it the other day,
how would you go about really being able to clean
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those because if you get the power washer out which
I had out right, okay, I mean I've had a
busy week. When you get that thing out there and
you put it on the lowest setting because you don't
want to blast the screens, right, But are you really
getting it clean when you're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That to a degree?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
But if you've done it where you're doing a wand yeah,
you can never really tell where the dirt is, yeah,
I mean, and then when it dries you see the streaks. Right,
So you can do it that way, you know, the
old hose, a little scrub right, so water. That's a
lot of work, but I mean that'll get them clean.
The other way is the wet and forget product called
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window and glass cleaner and screen clear window window glass
and screen cleaner I got it right now. There's a
hose and attachment that you just spray it on and
literally it will clean the screen, no kidd, rinsing clean
the string. Figured that does a pretty good job. It
really does. They just brought it to market about two
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years ago. So that's my new favorite. But I used
to always use because I'm lazy.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I didn't want to get the scrub brushed out. Yeah. Uh,
the pressure washer was my go to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And then I'd always get to see the streaks over
there because this was set right now on. We got
a porch too. You see a streets there. No, I
can't see any streaks, that's the answer.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Time. It's like, there's no. I mean, maybe you do.
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now it's pallen A lot of pollen that well, no kidding,
Oh no kidding. Now does that add I mean, since
you bring it up, does that add another literally and
figuratively a layer on screen, windows, porches, what have you.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just started noticing it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
We cleaned our screens about two weeks ago, and I
just started noticing pollen on them, like in the last
day or so.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
We got a big pine tree right next to it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I guess it depends on the type of trees you
have around and you know the winds and all that.
But yeah, I'm starting to notice it. We'll probably have
to clean them again for sure. The worst part is
when they wear out, though, Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Well? You take the frame to the hardware store.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Some people say I can replace that screen, all right,
which you can, so it's really not that difficult of
a process. First thing, I decide what kind of screen
do you want? You probably got a screen at yours.
It's almost like a fabric. Yeah, yeah, okay, I guess. Yeah,
so they used to and they still do. They have aluminum,
which is kind of rigid, a little more difficult to replace,
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and it's aluminum color that creates a big glare. There's
a black which eliminates the glare. So you got to
pick up what kind of screen you want. The fiberglass
screens and that's the one I'm talking about, a cloth
that comes in a black and a gray to act
like the aluminum, so the same side, depending on the
looky one. It is easily replaced, but it also wears
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out after about fifteen years without any issues besides rain
and sun, it'll wear out. They'll start getting threadbare, or
if you've got grain kids or kids and they're pushing
on the screen, it'll say.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So what you do is you can take the frame out.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Whether it's the inside of the house or the outside
of the house.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Along the window.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You get a good work bench or slash ping pong table,
a couple clants. Get that nice and rigid to the table,
and there's a little spleen, a little rubber insert that
goes all the way. That's what holds the screen in
the frame, all right. So you can get a little
scratch all or screwdriver and pick that out and pull
that all out. There's about eight different sizes, so you
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got to bring that to the hardware store to make
sure you get the right size screen. Don't use the
old stuff. It's very non flexible. It's almost as hard
as a rock at this point. Then you buy the
screen and you lay the screen over the frame, okay,
and then you just push that new spleen right down and.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Splying, I'm sorry, splying the spleens insides.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Push that in the corner and it's like it's it's
looks like a doll pizza cutter, and you just roll
that spline into the frame and it holds the uh screen?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Rice, Really, that's that's it. Because Chunk was talking about
doing this. He did it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think it. I know it was because I've only
been on the show a year. He did it roughly
about this time last year. And you tell me, it
really isn't that sold to do?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's it's really nice and get at.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
That.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, when you're you're you're you're getting ready now for
the spring in summer? What type of things need lubrication
in the house.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I'll tell you here's a funny story.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You're just talking at your wife, right, Gary, what's wrong
with this desk drawer?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Come on, give me a well, first of all, God,
first of all, it's off the track, right, Well, can
you get it on the track? Yeah, get on the US.
This office off the.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Track eighteen years anyway, I have to admit I have
to admit this.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It hurts, but I have to admit this. I got
it on the track.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
She come, man, she checked my desktros, checked my work,
of course, and she said the thing's still kind of
a little, a little tough to pull out.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And we're like, well, what do you want? You want
this thing? Like on the highway.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, So I went out, I got some
teflon spray, did all the desk drawers.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I went, my god, those things really.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Of course, of course there's nothing wrong with giving it
up to her for.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That, So I was breaking the day. I said, you
know what, wonder how many other people's desk drawers bureau doors.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So I'm getting all these guys in trouble now or
the windows if you have replacement.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
When no doubt, yeah, clean that up and just don't
use like a WD forty or a real refined oil
that kind of attracts dirt and it gets kind of gummy,
and then you can actually wear out those nylon rollers.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
So you want to use silicone or teflon, and basically
what I used. I used a Blasters garage door lubricant
which is a combination of silicon and teflon.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Did a great job, and I was wrong again.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But well, you know what, though, I mean to take
it a step further. I mean, you're talking about the
drawers and the desk, but I mean it is nice
once on windows. Oh well, you know you feel like
you have a hernia for God's some of them, you know,
after a long winter or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's nice to get them where it's just a little lifting. Man.
There was, it was really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So I want a mission now, man, I mean another
place that the patio door has a little locking mechanism there.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I hadn't noticed.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You didn't know anything about it, right, she had noticed
it yet, so we hadn't done anything about it. And
I thought, you know what, I got this canon. I
think I'll just hit that dead bolt and that scored
scores scored, didn't even clean to squirt. Oh my god,
that the works a good bango. So yeah, I'll be
that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What else a door, a window, desk, drawer, but I
mean anything else come to mind. That's been the guy
I might want to say, Hey you, I can bang
all this out this weekend going.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And no, I think anything that moves in and out
or closes you could do hinges if it was you know, sticky.
A lot of times with hinges in a door, the
door just closes by itself, or it won't close at all.
And really that's not really a lubrication, is shit. It's
more of a check the hinges. A lot of times
the screws get loose. Sometimes you can pull one of
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those pins out that go in between the two.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Halves of the spins. And that's if it always stays open.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Everyone that always closes, and you just put a little
bend in it and then drive that back in there.
It's perfect. Just adds frushing. So but you know, anything
that moves, I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean, I was thinking about a closet drawer, you know,
for example, you know, I mean something like that, because
after a while, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Have to admit, and I said, they were not difficult
to close.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But man, they're awesome now yeah, yeah, yeah, they really are.
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Last thing I want to ask you here is about
water around would trim say to the entry door for example, okay,
and I noticed it strikes to peel and all that
kind of thing. Why they are more than anywhere else
people coming in and out and then bringing in the moisture.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Well it's interesting because it's on the outside of the door,
and it's the trim molding, yeah, goes and hides where
the door fits in the wall and all that. But
it's a lot of people think it's all water that
lines up against the bottom of that trim, and that's
not the case. So what they do. If you look
at that trimming and when you go home, take a
look at it, it's about this high off the conquering
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half inch, and so everybody says, oh, well, there it is.
There's this and water's going in there and the woods
sucking it up. Yeah, it could be I get that cocking,
I put the cock in there.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Done.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Then the peeling paint keeps going up. It's like, well,
where's the water coming from? From the top of the molding.
The top of the molding. So the folks that when
there's paint peeling, there's a problem. In ninety percent of
it's caused by water. Okay, So if you're calking the bottom,
you've basically made a bathtub because the opening is if
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you had a brick house or a sighting house, the
water's flushing down the front of the house, the molding's
about a quarter inch off the brick or whatever. Water's
going down in there, and you're calking the bottom of it.
Now can't get out of space at the bottom is
designed to allow the water out, not bring the water in.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's a great way of.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Looking at it, like, yeah, well, even on a brick house,
every six spaces on a vertical mortar joint. There's a
little screen and that screen is because the brick is
not right on the house. It's about half inch off
the house. In case water ever got behind that brick,
like missing mortar, and then that water washes down. That
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screen is an outlet port for the water that's between the.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Brick and the house. Okay, so yeah, you don't want
to trap water there ever.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Okay, Well, I just want to tell you, over the
last fifteen minutes you have created a borderline nightmare for
a lot of the men out there. And I mean
you have given and our female audience in this eight
o'clock hour over the last year has multiplied by seven
and now the headaches are multiplied by double that for
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their husbands. After hearing this today.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I agree because I get that feedback on a pretty
relative regular basis of church.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The other day, the guy says to me, Oh, it's you.
I love your tips. I make this lesson. I'm going like,
that's why I have very few friends. That's right, that's right. Hey,
good luck at your meeting today.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And a great scene is always so glad you made
it in always a pleasure scene to Gary had a
great weekend. My man Gary Sultivan. He is the best.
You can hear him on nearly three hundred stations coast
to coast. Great stuff as always with Gary Sulivan. He'll
be back next Thursday.