April 20, 2024 • 45 mins
Gary takes your calls, questions and tips. We also hear from our friend Bruce from Jaws. Find out why you will like Jaws as much as I do!
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Well, the weekend's upon us.Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvan.
Thanks for joining us as we workour way through the weekend. We
do a show both Saturday and Sundaynine and noon nationally and always look forward
to well taking your calls regarding yourhome project. So jump on board.
The lines are wide open. It'seight hundred eight two three eight two five
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five and we'd be happy to discusswhat you're working on. We've covered a
few things from fading shutters and well, you know before we yeah, let
me give you. Let me talka little bit about garages only because I've
been in two really lousy ones thisweek and I thank goodness yours right.
Well, yeah, actually one Iwouldn't well, lousy for me, lousy
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for me. It needs it needsa little. Oh, it's got a
great floor on it, but Iwas looking at it's got great racks,
the tools are all up. It'snot bad. But garages get cluttered.
And we're not big pack rats byany stretch of the imagination, but I'm
pretty much a very orderly and thingshave to be laid out just right,
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and so over the course of winterand different things, you know, things
just get out of sorts a littlebit. So yeah, no matter how
cluttered the garage is, it coulduse your attention. I think you'll admit
that with a lot of the springworking in and out of that garage,
dragging in grass and leaves from thefall, it's just time for a cleanup.
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And you can certainly go through andpitch a bunch of stuff. I
got a little box where I've gota lot of half used LNG chemicals,
and I just want them out ofthe garage. I don't like to keep
chemicals, but over the course oftime, a little bit here and there
builds up and builds up, andthere's many communities and counties that have toxic
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waste pickups for chemicals and oil basedpaints and anti freezes and stuff. And
I wanted to just start accumulating abox and keeping them off the ground.
And so I got some of theshelves cleaned off, you know, stuff
I didn't need, and then justthe amount of stuff that if you don't
know where it goes, put ina garage that starts accumulating. And got
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that threaded down and I got alot done. I didn't I was going
to paint a couple of walls.I didn't get to that. And I
was also going to powerwash the stonefloor that I have in the garage,
and I didn't quite get to that. I did get the blower and kind
of blow things leaves and grass anddust and dirt. I got that done.
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But that was about it, andthat is put that on your list.
It was a morning's with a workmaybe not even a full morning,
but it sure made a huge difference. And I know a lot of people
because I get a lot of callsand get a lot of emails just about
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doing something about the floor. Nowmine just needs cleaning, but I know
a lot of you something's got tobe done about the floor. And happy
to take those calls too. Stain, epoxy, tiles, paint, you
know, what do you want todo with that? There's a lot of
options out there, all right,Eric, Welcome, Hey Gary, love
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your show. Thank you. Ihave got an interesting problem. I have
a bathroom in my basement that I'mwanting to model and it has a floor
drain in the doorway. I wantedto, you know, redo the floor,
and it's like, what do Ido with this? Well, you
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either cover up or you move it, right, I mean, there's another
drain in the basement in the laundryroom, but I didn't know if there's
any reason I would need to leaveit open and I can just cover it
up. Well, you know,I covered mine up. I'm going to
say that first. It's not necessarilysomething you should do or want to do,
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but sometimes you have to do.So it depends in the flooring and
what you're doing. Mine was overand I even had it marked if I
had to get to it. Itwas actually carpeting installed and it was already
flush, and I put a flashflush plug in an expendable flush flush plug
and then put the pay ad inthe carpet. Now, if you got
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tile, that's a whole different thing. I mean, you know, maybe
if it's a Kyle, maybe youcan leave the drain there. You know,
it's in a base well just thefloor is all the paper is going
to the drain, you know,so it's not level. I thought that
would be an issue if I wereto tile or something like that. Yeah,
so what is in this area?Why is the drain there? Can
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you determine that? Well, ithas been there since the bathroom was put
in there. It's been there twentyyears since I've been there, and it's
always just been a concrete floor withthe drain right there in the middle of
the doorway. And I just wantedto remodel that bathroom and saw a new
floor, you know, either tileor a floating floor or something. Okay,
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I just didn't know what I coulddo with an unleveled floor. Well,
well, you know, like coveringit up with a like a laminaate,
a below grade laminate. That's oneof the things you would have to
do because you can only install thaton a level floor. And even your
LVT's in LVPS, the planks that'sgonna have to be level two. So
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if you're gonna do the flooring,you're gonna have to eliminate that drain or
move that drain. If you thinkI'm assuming they put that in there in
case they shower flooded or something likethat, I mean, is it far
from the utility room. Yeah,I mean there's a there's a bathtub and
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shower in that bathroom. Yeah.Yeah, So if you cover it up
in something for whatever reason ever happened, you're gonna miss that drain. Right,
But if you're going to have afloor, you're gonna have to eliminate
the drain or move the drain.And when you when you move that or
eliminate that drain, It's not likeI was able to do where I just
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put a plug in there make itflush. You're gonna have to plug it
and then you're gonna have to levelthat whole floor. So you're gonna have
concrete on top of that. Ohmy goodness. Yeah, and then going
out into the halloway. You knowthat all tapers too, so that probably
that they'll probably all have to begoed in two leveled up. Wow.
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Yeah. So if I could justbe like a POxy and just a POxy
so the concrete just as a finishand eave it like it is. Well,
yeah, and I'll tell you what. There is a there's a couple
of things I would recommend. Numberone, Uh, there's a product called
nature Stone. It's got to beinstalled, and I don't know if they'll
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do a job that small. It'sa little tiny pebbles about the size of
your little fingernail, which is appliedin an epoxy batter. It can be
implied on levels uneven surfaces. Comesin a ray of different little riverstone colors.
It's very attractive, is what I'msaying. It's also slip resistant,
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it's not rough on your feet,and it looks so much better than a
POxy paint. So it's called natureStone. That's one I would put on
my list. The in fact,their headquarters are in your city. I
think it's I think it's in bath, Ohio. So that's one thing i'd
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take a look at. The otherthing is a product that I talk about.
It's called roller Rock. This issomething you could do yourself. It
is not in a POxy. It'sa very heavy duty acrylic resin coating which
has a pattern to it. Inother words, it would you could make
it look like torazzo. You couldmake it look like almost like a choreon,
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like a choreon countertop. So it'sdecorative, so close to like a
ceramic you know. Um, youwould endurability to compare h very durable.
You'd get fifteen years out of it, probably more indoors. And you could
put the roller rock on the floor. And then they have a product called
track Safe, which is a clearprotective ceilant which is slip resistant. Okay,
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it would be ideal. I'm goingto give you the name of the
website and take a look at it, take a lot of videos. It's
an online product and you can getit online at home Depot and Low's or
you can get it from there website. Also, it's Dice d A I
C. Ch Coatings dot com.So it's Dice Coatings dot com. Uh,
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take a look at that. Iwould recommend. That would be one
i'd recommend. Okay, but you'reyou're thinking I should probably just leave the
drain and I would, Yeah,maybe just dress up the floor. I
think I would, you know,based on what you're trying to do and
how much slope and how it continuesto slope. Yeah, I think I
would. Okay, sounds good.Well, I appreciate the advice. Very
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good. Thank you much for thecall. Take care all right, Well,
take a little break. When wecome back, Jack, you'll be
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we go twenty minutes after the topof the hour at home with Gary Salvan
talking a little home improvement. Bruces Iaco from the Jaws Cleaners. Yeah,
and it's Earth Day. What doyou think we're going to talk about
environmentally safe cleaners? I want youto pay attention. This is a great,
great story. I mean, they'regreat products, too, great products
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and a great story, does it? Is? It is? So we'll
talk to Bruce for about a halfhour a day and talk about some of
the cleaners and no off gassing andall that, and they work. They're
really good, all right, AndI know many of you tried it.
I get emails all the time fromyou, and I appreciate that. Let's
go to Jack. Jack Welcome,Thank you Gary for taking my call.
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I got some questions on basically onsome windows. My house is almost one
hundred years old. I got originalwindows. Okay, they're totally not energy
efficient, yep. So I've beengetting prices. I got three different quotes
from three different companies. Good.They're all obviously pushing their own product as
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the best, but the range ofcost is outrageous. One small company I
won't mention any names was twenty seventhousand for eighteen windows. And then the
two larger companies, national companies Iguess they are, they're always on television,
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went as high as starting price assixty six thousand for eighteen windows.
Then obviously they all come down,you know, with all these specials and
everything and one of the large companieseven decided on instead of doing eighteen windows,
we do eleven. And he camedown to the price of the smaller
company that was twenty seven thousand,and then the one in between. If
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I bought, if I committed thatthat night when I was talking to him,
came down to twenty nine thousand fromforty eight. So I don't know
where to go on this. It'syou know, I don't want to get
end up with a cheap junk windowand I'm looking replaced in five years,
and I don't want to over paywell I don't know. Well yeah,
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and a pay thing. I don'tknow. I hate playing games where you
gotta you get this price, yougotta sign a night, I'd say,
we don't need to do business together. Then bye, Yeah, I said
no. He kind of like stormedout of the house, like, O,
that's his problem. Okay, sowe can cross him off the list,
okay. And then the other guythat went down, you know,
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he's coming down a whole bunch realquick, and he's probably getting you the
price now or real close to theprice, and you know, you just
I you know, I guess yougot to you know, if you're interested
in those companies and you really likethat window. I guess you got to
play that game. It's like theold car dealers and car dealers. You
don't have to do that as muchanymore, right, or it doesn't seem
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like you do because everything's online,but window companies you still play some of
those games. So you got toyou gotta walk away. You gotta find
a window you want. When yousay, you know good windows and stuff,
what are you looking for? Whatmakes it a good window to you?
Well? I mean like originally whenI thought when I started getting estimates,
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the first guy that came was asmaller company, and I thought we
were doing you know frame, youknow, pull all the trim off,
pull the whole window frame and everythingcome out. And he says, no,
no, we just have an insert. It's just an interert Okay.
I know Marvin Windows has that also, and I think Pella does. Not
sure about Pella. I know Marven. The other two companies also were talking
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inserts. But the second quote,the second person that came and actually explained
it to me better. On theinsert, it kind of sounds okay,
but that's not what I was thinking. But it Okay, I think with
the insert it's actually better because nowI don't have to deal with the trim,
right, you know, because Ihave the original trim around the windows.
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And that's exactly why the insert wasoriginally designed and invented. Quite honestly,
as an historic districts, you weren'tallowed to mess with that trim,
so the window manufacturers came up withthat, and so you know, I
think again, I don't know howto answer your question for the pricing.
Obviously you're going to have to negotiateyour way to get to a point where
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it's an affordable maneuver for you orit's not. Another option would be to
find a contractor, and contractors doinstall windows, and they can go to
a window that you choose at ayou know, a lumber yard or a
big box store, and you cancheck off the nfr C rating to see,
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you know, the energy efficiency ofthat window and you can make a
decision based on that and whether that'scheaper or not. I don't know.
You know, you got you gotthe window people, then then you got
the retail place, and then yougot the instroller installer. So if there's
a problem, you're going to havethree people to negotiate with, but your
contractor could give you the one price, so that might be something you want
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to take a look at for comparablepricing. Okay, okay. Now,
these composite windows, they basically theway things are going now. They usually
pretty good. They're pretty good.Yeah, yeah, I know, Anderson's
got a good composite window. Andyou know, even the vinyl windows are
really good windows anymore because you know, your top name brands are using you
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know, virgin vinyl. It's notreclaimed vinyl. They're also getting it where
it can look like wood now andit's built into the vinyl. So the
composite or the very you know,high grade vinyl windows, those are all
very acceptable to me, no problemsat all, all right. And New
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Pro they are basically a good,reputable company to work with, you know,
to be honest with you, I'mnot familiar with New Pro. I've
heard the name, I'm just notfamiliar with them to speak on to speak
on their behalf, Jack, wegot to go, thank you very much.
And there's a lot to buy ina window and we're going to have
to talk about that someday. Butcoming up next we have Bruce Shako who
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All right, back at it wego, thirty three minutes after the
top of the iron. Yes,you're at home with Gary Sullivan. I'm
certain to feel like spring today,isn't it. It's about time. Maybe
the rainal go away, the cloudswill go away, and we'll have beautiful
days, and we certainly are inmany parts of the country. Hey,
joining me right now, Bruce,I echo. He is with Jaws.
You hear me always talking about theJaws cleaners. Well, the man is
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here in studio live and we canwant you. Gary. Are you hey?
Happy Earth? Earth Day? Yeah? Were coming? You know,
are we old enough to remember thefirst one? We are, actually,
Gail, we talked about it withour grandkids. Nineteen seventy was the first?
Is that the first one was Iknow, bike to school and back.
That was kind of their big deal. Tho class did that? You
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know. One of the things aboutearth Day and stuff, I remember earth
Day? What's earth Day? Gotall these new environmentally friendly products coming on
board, which a lot of themweren't worth a nickel. I mean,
the attempt was there. We're goingto get to how all that adjusted to
what we're going to talk about,but you know, it was the beginning
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of because I think some of theenvironmentally friendly cleaners and especially in cleaners and
paints, they're the leader. Theproducts today are ten times better than the
old product. And you guys arejaws. I'm going to use the words,
I don't know, you're modest.You were the leaders in it.
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Well, thank you. Yeah,we started a long time ago. That
was really something that we wanted tomake an impact with. And we brought
up JAWS, which is the justadd water system. People were buying ready
to use cleaners. Everywhere you looked, they were ready to use cleaners.
When that bottle was done, theythrew it away and they just kept all
that water. Oh yeah, ohyeah. And every product you bought fumed
like crazy. You know, youknow, you thought it had to fume
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to work, And we recognize nowthat they it's not necessary. You know,
we built safer products that work,performed beautifully. And so how long
you been at it with Jaells?So we've been at it since two thousand
and six. To tell you thetruth. We started commercially. I mean
we sold one hundred and sixty plusmillion cartridges to date, you know,
so we've done a lot of workthere and really started in the commercial world
because there you weren't cleaning a mirrora day. They were cleaning five hundred
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mirrors a day, and hotels orplaces, and they need a lot of
jaws number one. Number two,they needed to work. You know,
the labor was such an important partof their expense piece that having products that
didn't streak, that worked fast andefficiently. And they didn't want to buy
a bottle and throw it away.They wanted to use a concentrate. They
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had water, they had bottles,they had sprayers. So let's put something
in there that could could make thatover and over again. We talk to
a lot of people and is itsafe to say, I mean, obviously
this is the way the world's going. It has to go that way.
Is the US leading that or behind? I think the US is kind of
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in playing with the company. It'sreally part of it, and it's really
coming people people. You know,ten years ago I talked about and people
like their eyes would gloss over andsay, what are you talking about?
Yeah, but now it's much muchdifferent. And certainly the younger population are
looking at this as you know,Gary, you and I aren't you know,
young as young as we used tobe anyway, And the younger folks
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are going to be on this planetfor a much longer period of time than
you and I potentially sure, andso they want to take care of the
planet. They want to make surethat the things that are going and it's
not only just the Jaws system,it's the products that we have that are
going to aquifers. You know,after you clean that sink, we'll just
go it goes into the drain.Where's that drain go into your water system?
Safe? Is that? Yeah?Right? Right? So you don't
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want bleaches and you know things likethat said that bottles reusable, and I've
heard you can use that twenty fivetimes, thirty times over and over.
A cartridge you fill with war youput the cartridge in and I'm looking at
your plastic bottles and everything in thenews right now is plastic YEP and the
oceans, and just this week awhole story about plastic particles in municipal drinking
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water sure and in brains and inthe body and all that kind of stuff,
and so doesn't reuse it, Gary, That's that's the whole thing.
You know. Plastic doesn't give youany kind of heartburn if you're reusing it.
And so our whole Jaws thing isreuse that bottle over and over again.
It'll last a thousand years. Ifyou just take care of it in
a landfill, it'd last a thousandyears. So if it's in your cabinet,
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so it could be the last bottleyou ever buy and simply refill that.
So, you know, our concentratesto go from a commercial world to
a consumer, we had to finda good way to introduce a concentrate to
the consumer in an intuitive way,an easy way to reuse that, and
so we created the Jaws cartridge.It's a child resistant cartridge size roll on
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nickels and filled with a super concentratethat is diluted then with water, so
you fill up your bottle with water. It's an elegant long term use bottle
it's a heavy duty bottle but beautiful, and you simply fill it up with
water to the fill line, insertthat cartridge, which is a child resistant
cartridge, and when you tighten downon the sprayer, it makes the next
bottle of Jaws. And so it'skind of a fun and easy way to
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do it. It's very intuitive andit's it's so simple. Yeah, it's
so set here the whole time.Garrett said, why weren't we doing this
twenty years ago? I totally agree. Yeah, and since we had a
when we have conversations a lot,but one of the conversations not long ago,
I started just looking at waste inplastic. It's unbelievable how much stuff
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we throw away in plastic. Andit takes the whole cleaning field because you
got all kinds the products which we'lltalk about, the glass cleaner, phenomenal,
phenomenal product, and all of asudden at my house. I don't
know why this is my job,Bruce, but it is. When it's
empty, Sue doesn't go to thestore. She just says, I need
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another cartridge. So I'm like uberfiller. The worst part of all that,
Not only that, are you thatuberfiller. No matter how hard you try
to screw up the glass, youcan't. You can't. You just can't.
And then you can use it onyour So she's probably telling you clean
that big screen TV and clean iPad, my iPhone and all other kind of
stuff because it doesn't have any butteror alcohol or or ammony in there,
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so you're not going to screw thosethings up either. Yep, you know
I get I talk about products allday long. You know, people want
to know how to fix it,what to use, where to get it.
In all honesty, I get moreemails about Jall's products than any product
I ever talked about. And justgot one this morning. And there's person
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says, you know, I've heardyou talk about this stuff for about a
year and a half and I finallybroke down and bought one this week.
Bought I don't know what he bought. Well, I know he bought the
glass cleaner because he's talking about andhe goes, that's stuff's unbelievable. But
the products, you know, outsidebeing very environmentally friendly, even with the
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nature the makeup of the product whichis very safe, and the bottle you're
not thrown in the landfill. They'rethey're outstanding product. Well, most of
the products you see on shelf aremostly water, So why are you paying
for somebody else's water? Why arewe paying to ship somebody else's water.
I can put we can put amillion of these cartridges on a container and
ship them to Pluto for nothing versussixteen thousand quarts of cleaner. And so
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it's just everything's so much more efficient. It's just a better way of doing
it. And I think that thisis the next generational way that we're going
to clean our homes because we can'tcontinue with oil and the price. It
is a bottle half way with oil. Yeah, that's what it took to
get into your cabinet. Yeah,right, and then we get rid of
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it after one use single use bottles, which doesn't make any sense to me
at all. Right, and thenwhen you send it back to the recycler,
and then you send it back tothe guy who's filling it and back
to your cabinet, you've tripled thatthe volume of oil just to get it
back into your because we recycled it. Recycling it is not the answer.
Reusing it is the answer. SoI'm telling you it's a little box probably
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three by six that holds twenty fourcartridges maybe an inch and a half high.
It weighs a pound and a half. It weighs nothing like fottys a
bottle a cleaner. So so itreally is a very efficient way in doing
it. But you know we've hadyou know, Gary Sullivan, I appreciate
the way you go about your business. You know, you test things,
you make sure they work before youtalk about them. But then you go
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to you know, Good Housekeeping saidit was the only glass cleaner of seventeen
they tested that didn't streak. CookingClub of America I said they saw nothing
better on tomato paste and cooking oilsand things like that. You know,
the Wall Street Journal said on grillcleaning, which is that time of year
we're talking about springtime cleaning, youknow, just a phenomenal grill cleaner on
stainless deal without leaving streaks behind andall that kind of stuff. And so
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we've really had some great third partyyou know, safer choice certifications on these
products. Right, you know,people are starting to get what safer choice
is all about. And that's toughto get. Well, it is,
we really work, work are hardto get that, and there's a lot
of reformulation necessary. They look atevery ingredient and the ingredients that made up
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that ingredient to make sure that itall fits and conforms within a safer chemistry
place. And then, like yousaid in the beginning, a lot of
the cleaners that were being used,which kind of hurt the process, didn't
work very well. I mean,water is safe, okay, but it
doesn't clean very well, right,And so safer choice is not after you
do all that work. You haveto perform as well as anything out there
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in the marketplace or they will notgive you their certification. They will not
certify your products. And so,you know, we've really worked hard.
I think all the things we didearly on, we saw all these newer
surfaces coming. They're very expensive.Yeah, we wanted to make sure that
our grandits had more range. Youknow, our kitchen degreaser can't hurt granite,
can't hurt stainless steel, can't hurtmarble, or why would you buy
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it for your home? And there'sso many products that were developed back in
nineteen fifty that that stuff didn't exist. We had white for mica countertops and
things. Oh, don't worry aboutthat. No way to hurt that,
and don't forget that lovely mob.Bruce Jacko, he's with Jaws. We're
going to take a break. We'reactually going well, that was the history
of Jaws. We have a difficulttime saying hello. In five minutes,
I'll take another section and will actuallygo through the different products which are outstanding.
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We'll continue. You're at home withGary Sullivan. Help for your home
is just to click away at Garysullivanonline dot com. This is at Home
with Gary Sullivan. Take a biteout of spring cleaning with Jaws that just
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Spring cleaning caddy pack featuring five ofthe top selling Jaws cleaners, including my
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cleaning and you find a few plumbingissues around the house like dripping faucet,
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slow drains, or even a wornout garbage disposal or water heater, make
a list and call my friends atRotor Router Plumbing and Water clean Up.
Roto Routers. Licensed and experienced plumberscan fix any plumbing issues, so give
them a call. It's one eighthundred. Get roto or schedule online at
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its best with minimal effort, pickup a bottle wit and forget today at
Loew's, Walmart, Minards or asrdware. You're at home with Gary Salom Bruce
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I Echo from Jaws and Jaws JawsCleans dot com. That's our website.
You can check it out and BruceI know. During the holidays and in
the spring, you guys usually havea caddie peck, which is by the
way, very handy. It's gotmultiple products in there with refills in your
offering a spring it's it's been veryvery successful. We build a caddy because
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we wanted a place where you canconsolidate four different Jaws products. We designed
that caddy so that you can putthe cartridges inside. So there's a little
bullet holes or whatever you want toput in places for to hold the cartridges.
And it has four carts for differentproducts in it. And so the
spring time is certain products fit betterfor spring use. Know we're doing a
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lot of glass cleaning. We're doinga lot of grill and that kind of
stuff cleaning, and we always havebathrooms that need to get cleaned. And
then we're doing outdoor stuff like lawnmowersand garbage cans and you know, all
kinds of tool type. Face cleaningreally good. By the way, what
is that, Well, it's it'sa lavender. So it's a wonderful lavender.
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Most of our products that we havedesigned have kind of mid range fragrances.
A lot of people have a difficulttime with fragrance, and so you
know, fumes are a problem,but fragrance can be a problem too,
And so what we did was weput mid range fragrances and the rest of
them, but that one inoculated witha lot of good lavender in it.
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So if you like a lot offragrance in your product, do you like
a great cleaner? I certainly do. Multipurpose can do a lot of different
things, really a thousand different activitiesacross the home. And you want something
to smell like lavender, it's yourproduct for sure. So whether you have
someone clean your house, it shouldbe great. By the way, if
somebody's listening and they clean homes,so this as convenient as it gets.
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Or if you clean your house andyou'd just like to have something to take
with you, this caddy is verymuch I mean it's it's a little tray
with a handle and it's got allthe equipment in there. So what are
the four cleaners that are okay?So in the is a glass cleaner.
And again it's you know, ifyou have UV coded glass outside not going
to effect or attack the adhesis onthe UV coding on that, whether it
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be that or your car. Right, certainly all the glass that you have
to clean out there and the worstthing that just drives you crazy. You
clean the glass, the sun comesup, you look back through the grass
and there's streaks everywhere. And somany of the products out there today do
that and so this doesn't give youthe streaks that you had before. There's
a great variety of different ways hotinside or outside glass. If you're cleaning
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up your home mirrors and what doyou use use as a cloth, Well,
we have microfiber towels that we putin there, right, and so
we have a actually color coded sothe glass clanter is blue and the and
the kitchen degreaser is orange, andthe multi purpose cleaner is purple. Well
it's pink pank and so we havea pink towel. And so what we've
done is we've color coordinated them sothey work well within that system we have
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that we have the kitchen degreaser.You're going to be doing grill cleaning,
counter cleaning, all that kind ofstuff. Number two, it's just a
great product. Here. We gettorezo backsplash right by the cook range and
it always gets a little film ofs oils on it. I hit that
with that, I spray it down. I'll even stick paper towels off.
It's yeah, there's a lot ofit. Just let's sits there for about
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fifteen minutes. Come back, resprain, take the microphone. Clean that up
like it's new. Well, ifyou're looking for an easy way to do
baked on pans and things like that, that's a great way to do it.
Spraym down with the with the jaws. Just let's get it on there
and let us sit on there.Put a paper pepper towel over the top
and it wipes down. No fumes, yeah, no fumes on any of
these products. We will not sella product that will fuelm it. That's
amazing. I mean, a productthat's going to cut through grease and oil
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different things. You can't even smellit, Yeah, you can't smell.
So the kitchen cleaner's in there,the multipurpose cleaner, the glass cleaner,
and the bathroom cleaner. A bathroomcleaner you can actually spray in a shower
and not have to run for yourlife after you spray it because it fumes
up. If it's fuming and yourbody's choking, then that means it's a
product you shouldn't be using, becauseyeah, I go crazy. People still
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can I just use bleacher? Heyyou can, but it's not good.
But so anyway, we have that, and then we have the all Purpose.
We also have a product called thecream Cluncher, which I know is
one of your favorites. I honestly, I know. I keep saying a
favorite. I just used it.Sunbody. Used car had some scuffs on
it and it had been detailed.And he goes, they didn't get these.
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It was a fold down seat andhe goes, I can't get these
off. I said, let metry. I hit that with that.
I'm telling you what Bruce sitting knockedit right out, those black scuffs on
our light beige leather and tear andknocked it right off. Well, it
doesn't does a magnificent job. Weput it in there because there are times
when you just have that extra soilthat just needs something extra with us,
some extra punch and that cream willdo it. It comes bathtops, bathtubs,
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countertops, it goes on toilets.Yeah, it just has a wide
range of things. So where willyou have some extra soil? It really
is a great product to work withinthose areas. It has an oxygenated bleach.
So if you have a verry verrystains or coffee stains or tea stains
like that in your sink, ifyou have that area around your drain ring
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that you just can't get clean,is it just do it too much build
up with and it pulls that rightoff for nothing. We're going to run
out of time. That caddy peck. How much does that go for you?
Yeah, so it's on everything's onspecial through Gary promo code Gary.
But it'll cost you about fifty bucks. Okay, they can go to jawscleans
dot com shippings free right yes andcode Gary. Anything over thirty dollars is
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shipping free. Gary, all right, so that's the deal deal jawscleans dot
com. But you can't leave becauseI don't understand this one product. Okay,
you got to help me out.I'll help dish spray. What's going
on with you? Yeah? Soyou know, if you watch any of
the dawn commercials, they've told youfor the last forty years that you bought
down you did it the wrong way. You fill up your sink with water,
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you put in the dawn and thendo whatever, and then you went
and clean. Well, now they'resaying do it with a dish spray.
So rather than fill up your sinkwith water and do all that kind of
stuff, you simply spray the spray, the dish spray. The guys spray
your spray your wineglass or whatever.And really the beauty of it, Gary,
is that how it foams up.So it foams up beautifully. You
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know some of the other products inthis category that you've seen out there do
when you spray them, you're gonnachoke. Okay, you'll get the choking
sensation, But do you know howeasy it is to do this? You
simply fill up your bottle with water, insert the cartridge like we've done here,
tightened down on the spray. Butthe beauty of it is that you
can see Okay, the phone Garyright right, So that's that is your
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cleaner that goes in there and thatwill stay. And so basically, you
take that dirty dish, you takethe glass, you spray it in.
Here, we give you a wandto clean it with because we know in
the professional world you need a tool, right, and the tool helps you
do the job and in a goodway. But it gets inside the wine
glasses and gets inside your beer glasses, your coffee cups. I use it
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on utensils, and you know,I like things clean. I'm in the
right industry. I'm in the righthere, and I don't want it to
sit in the sink. So Iwash it as soon as I spray it.
I wash it, I rinse it, I try it, I rack
it, and I'm done. Okay, So I'm gonna go to confession to
Bruce Shako here. Oh, he'salways sending me a product, Try this,
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try that, and disspray. It'slike I couldn't do it. It's
like I don't understand this. Ihaven't experimented with it, and you keep
bringing it up, and I'm goinglike, I gotta figure out what this
is. Now I understand it,and that is it's our fastest growing item
right now and people love it.Am I going to go wow? Wow?
You know it's even better? Sowhen my wife goes, wow,
well, you're not gonna end withsink. You know your sink doesn't deserve
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to have a lot of And youknow what, Gary, if you don't
clean it right away, it justgets harder and harder and harder to clean
it. And so just clean itright away. Light cleaning, ye,
rinse, dry, and you're doneand you're ready to go. Folks,
I'm going to give a full reporton that. I guarantee I'm going to
try it now. So the dealis to the You can get all kinds
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of products on jawscleans dot com.You got the Spring Caddie pack, which
you've got to check out twenty percentoff and use the code Gary. Okay,
and Gary is right across the line. So you need extra cartridges.
Hey, if you've bought a bunchof Jaws products in the past and you
don't have a caddy, you canbuy it individually. But you know,
it's a great time to kind ofload up on things. You're going to
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do a lot of cleaning this timeof year. You have it all for
the summer. It doesn't take upa lot of space. It was very
efficient to use and going to doa lot of different things in your house
and very good. So have goodsummer, everybody. All right, it's
jawscleans dot com again. The promocode is Gary twenty percent off for shipping
over fifty bucks. I think jawscleansdot com. Bruce, thank you very
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much, appreciate it. Thank you, and folks did use this as your
part for Earth Day. Very good. We'll take a break and come back
and take your calls. You're atHome with Gary Soli Home Improvement one oh
one with Gary Sullivan every weekend.Classes begin at one eight hundred and eight
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two three taw You're at Home withGary Sullivan.
Well, the weekend's upon us.Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvan.
Thanks for joining us as we workour way through the weekend. We
do a show both Saturday and Sundaynine and noon nationally and always look forward
to well taking your calls regarding yourhome project. So jump on board.
The lines are wide open. It'seight hundred eight two three eight two five
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five and we'd be happy to discusswhat you're working on. We've covered a
few things from fading shutters and well, you know before we yeah, let
me give you. Let me talka little bit about garages only because I've
been in two really lousy ones thisweek and I thank goodness yours right.
Well, yeah, actually one Iwouldn't well, lousy for me, lousy
(01:18):
for me. It needs it needsa little. Oh, it's got a
great floor on it, but Iwas looking at it's got great racks,
the tools are all up. It'snot bad. But garages get cluttered.
And we're not big pack rats byany stretch of the imagination, but I'm
pretty much a very orderly and thingshave to be laid out just right,
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and so over the course of winterand different things, you know, things
just get out of sorts a littlebit. So yeah, no matter how
cluttered the garage is, it coulduse your attention. I think you'll admit
that with a lot of the springworking in and out of that garage,
dragging in grass and leaves from thefall, it's just time for a cleanup.
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And you can certainly go through andpitch a bunch of stuff. I
got a little box where I've gota lot of half used LNG chemicals,
and I just want them out ofthe garage. I don't like to keep
chemicals, but over the course oftime, a little bit here and there
builds up and builds up, andthere's many communities and counties that have toxic
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waste pickups for chemicals and oil basedpaints and anti freezes and stuff. And
I wanted to just start accumulating abox and keeping them off the ground.
And so I got some of theshelves cleaned off, you know, stuff
I didn't need, and then justthe amount of stuff that if you don't
know where it goes, put ina garage that starts accumulating. And got
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that threaded down and I got alot done. I didn't I was going
to paint a couple of walls.I didn't get to that. And I
was also going to powerwash the stonefloor that I have in the garage,
and I didn't quite get to that. I did get the blower and kind
of blow things leaves and grass anddust and dirt. I got that done.
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But that was about it, andthat is put that on your list.
It was a morning's with a workmaybe not even a full morning,
but it sure made a huge difference. And I know a lot of people
because I get a lot of callsand get a lot of emails just about
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doing something about the floor. Nowmine just needs cleaning, but I know
a lot of you something's got tobe done about the floor. And happy
to take those calls too. Stain, epoxy, tiles, paint, you
know, what do you want todo with that? There's a lot of
options out there, all right,Eric, Welcome, Hey Gary, love
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your show. Thank you. Ihave got an interesting problem. I have
a bathroom in my basement that I'mwanting to model and it has a floor
drain in the doorway. I wantedto, you know, redo the floor,
and it's like, what do Ido with this? Well, you
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either cover up or you move it, right, I mean, there's another
drain in the basement in the laundryroom, but I didn't know if there's
any reason I would need to leaveit open and I can just cover it
up. Well, you know,I covered mine up. I'm going to
say that first. It's not necessarilysomething you should do or want to do,
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but sometimes you have to do.So it depends in the flooring and
what you're doing. Mine was overand I even had it marked if I
had to get to it. Itwas actually carpeting installed and it was already
flush, and I put a flashflush plug in an expendable flush flush plug
and then put the pay ad inthe carpet. Now, if you got
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tile, that's a whole different thing. I mean, you know, maybe
if it's a Kyle, maybe youcan leave the drain there. You know,
it's in a base well just thefloor is all the paper is going
to the drain, you know,so it's not level. I thought that
would be an issue if I wereto tile or something like that. Yeah,
so what is in this area?Why is the drain there? Can
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you determine that? Well, ithas been there since the bathroom was put
in there. It's been there twentyyears since I've been there, and it's
always just been a concrete floor withthe drain right there in the middle of
the doorway. And I just wantedto remodel that bathroom and saw a new
floor, you know, either tileor a floating floor or something. Okay,
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I just didn't know what I coulddo with an unleveled floor. Well,
well, you know, like coveringit up with a like a laminaate,
a below grade laminate. That's oneof the things you would have to
do because you can only install thaton a level floor. And even your
LVT's in LVPS, the planks that'sgonna have to be level two. So
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if you're gonna do the flooring,you're gonna have to eliminate that drain or
move that drain. If you thinkI'm assuming they put that in there in
case they shower flooded or something likethat, I mean, is it far
from the utility room. Yeah,I mean there's a there's a bathtub and
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shower in that bathroom. Yeah.Yeah, So if you cover it up
in something for whatever reason ever happened, you're gonna miss that drain. Right,
But if you're going to have afloor, you're gonna have to eliminate
the drain or move the drain.And when you when you move that or
eliminate that drain, It's not likeI was able to do where I just
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put a plug in there make itflush. You're gonna have to plug it
and then you're gonna have to levelthat whole floor. So you're gonna have
concrete on top of that. Ohmy goodness. Yeah, and then going
out into the halloway. You knowthat all tapers too, so that probably
that they'll probably all have to begoed in two leveled up. Wow.
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Yeah. So if I could justbe like a POxy and just a POxy
so the concrete just as a finishand eave it like it is. Well,
yeah, and I'll tell you what. There is a there's a couple
of things I would recommend. Numberone, Uh, there's a product called
nature Stone. It's got to beinstalled, and I don't know if they'll
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do a job that small. It'sa little tiny pebbles about the size of
your little fingernail, which is appliedin an epoxy batter. It can be
implied on levels uneven surfaces. Comesin a ray of different little riverstone colors.
It's very attractive, is what I'msaying. It's also slip resistant,
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it's not rough on your feet,and it looks so much better than a
POxy paint. So it's called natureStone. That's one I would put on
my list. The in fact,their headquarters are in your city. I
think it's I think it's in bath, Ohio. So that's one thing i'd
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take a look at. The otherthing is a product that I talk about.
It's called roller Rock. This issomething you could do yourself. It
is not in a POxy. It'sa very heavy duty acrylic resin coating which
has a pattern to it. Inother words, it would you could make
it look like torazzo. You couldmake it look like almost like a choreon,
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like a choreon countertop. So it'sdecorative, so close to like a
ceramic you know. Um, youwould endurability to compare h very durable.
You'd get fifteen years out of it, probably more indoors. And you could
put the roller rock on the floor. And then they have a product called
track Safe, which is a clearprotective ceilant which is slip resistant. Okay,
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it would be ideal. I'm goingto give you the name of the
website and take a look at it, take a lot of videos. It's
an online product and you can getit online at home Depot and Low's or
you can get it from there website. Also, it's Dice d A I
C. Ch Coatings dot com.So it's Dice Coatings dot com. Uh,
(09:50):
take a look at that. Iwould recommend. That would be one
i'd recommend. Okay, but you'reyou're thinking I should probably just leave the
drain and I would, Yeah,maybe just dress up the floor. I
think I would, you know,based on what you're trying to do and
how much slope and how it continuesto slope. Yeah, I think I
would. Okay, sounds good.Well, I appreciate the advice. Very
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good. Thank you much for thecall. Take care all right, Well,
take a little break. When wecome back, Jack, you'll be
up first as we continue. You'reat home with Gary Sullivan. If you
don't have a list of things todo around the house, Gary will find
something for you at one eight hundredeighty two three talk. You're at home
with Gary sullivantor hey Gary Sullivan here. If you're spring cleaning and you find
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or even a worn out garbage disposalor water heater. Make a list and
call my friends at rotor Router Plumbingand Water clean Up Roto Routers. Licensed
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(11:37):
depot Lowserdish Coatings dot com. That'sDaichcoatings dot com. Looking for a simple
way to clean your outdoor surfaces.You need wet and forget, the bleach
free cleaner that's changed the way wetackle ugly black and green stains. There's
no need for scrubbing. Simply applywet and forget and let nature do the
rest. Say for all outdoor surfaces, decks, roofs, siding and walkways,
(12:01):
offering long lasting results and saving youtime and effort. If you want
your home six tier to look itsbest with minimal effort, pick up a
bottle, wet and forget today atLow's, Walmart, Minards or asrdware.
Take a bite out of spring cleaningwith Jaws that just add water system high
performance cleaners, and for a limitedtime, get their spring cleaning caddie pack
featuring five of the top selling Jawscleaners, including my favorite, streak free
(12:24):
glass cleaner, all organized in auniquely designed caddy that holds bottles, refilled
pods, and microfiber towels. Thiskit's only available this spring, so hurry
jawscleans dot com promo code Gary gettwenty percent off your entire order and free
shipping on all orders over thirty fivedollars jawscleans dot Com. Back to work
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we go twenty minutes after the topof the hour at home with Gary Salvan
talking a little home improvement. Bruces Iaco from the Jaws Cleaners. Yeah,
and it's Earth Day. What doyou think we're going to talk about
environmentally safe cleaners? I want youto pay attention. This is a great,
great story. I mean, they'regreat products, too, great products
(13:22):
and a great story, does it? Is? It is? So we'll
talk to Bruce for about a halfhour a day and talk about some of
the cleaners and no off gassing andall that, and they work. They're
really good, all right, AndI know many of you tried it.
I get emails all the time fromyou, and I appreciate that. Let's
go to Jack. Jack Welcome,Thank you Gary for taking my call.
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I got some questions on basically onsome windows. My house is almost one
hundred years old. I got originalwindows. Okay, they're totally not energy
efficient, yep. So I've beengetting prices. I got three different quotes
from three different companies. Good.They're all obviously pushing their own product as
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the best, but the range ofcost is outrageous. One small company I
won't mention any names was twenty seventhousand for eighteen windows. And then the
two larger companies, national companies Iguess they are, they're always on television,
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went as high as starting price assixty six thousand for eighteen windows.
Then obviously they all come down,you know, with all these specials and
everything and one of the large companieseven decided on instead of doing eighteen windows,
we do eleven. And he camedown to the price of the smaller
company that was twenty seven thousand,and then the one in between. If
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I bought, if I committed thatthat night when I was talking to him,
came down to twenty nine thousand fromforty eight. So I don't know
where to go on this. It'syou know, I don't want to get
end up with a cheap junk windowand I'm looking replaced in five years,
and I don't want to over paywell I don't know. Well yeah,
(15:15):
and a pay thing. I don'tknow. I hate playing games where you
gotta you get this price, yougotta sign a night, I'd say,
we don't need to do business together. Then bye, Yeah, I said
no. He kind of like stormedout of the house, like, O,
that's his problem. Okay, sowe can cross him off the list,
okay. And then the other guythat went down, you know,
(15:35):
he's coming down a whole bunch realquick, and he's probably getting you the
price now or real close to theprice, and you know, you just
I you know, I guess yougot to you know, if you're interested
in those companies and you really likethat window. I guess you got to
play that game. It's like theold car dealers and car dealers. You
don't have to do that as muchanymore, right, or it doesn't seem
(15:56):
like you do because everything's online,but window companies you still play some of
those games. So you got toyou gotta walk away. You gotta find
a window you want. When yousay, you know good windows and stuff,
what are you looking for? Whatmakes it a good window to you?
Well? I mean like originally whenI thought when I started getting estimates,
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the first guy that came was asmaller company, and I thought we
were doing you know frame, youknow, pull all the trim off,
pull the whole window frame and everythingcome out. And he says, no,
no, we just have an insert. It's just an interert Okay.
I know Marvin Windows has that also, and I think Pella does. Not
sure about Pella. I know Marven. The other two companies also were talking
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inserts. But the second quote,the second person that came and actually explained
it to me better. On theinsert, it kind of sounds okay,
but that's not what I was thinking. But it Okay, I think with
the insert it's actually better because nowI don't have to deal with the trim,
right, you know, because Ihave the original trim around the windows.
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And that's exactly why the insert wasoriginally designed and invented. Quite honestly,
as an historic districts, you weren'tallowed to mess with that trim,
so the window manufacturers came up withthat, and so you know, I
think again, I don't know howto answer your question for the pricing.
Obviously you're going to have to negotiateyour way to get to a point where
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it's an affordable maneuver for you orit's not. Another option would be to
find a contractor, and contractors doinstall windows, and they can go to
a window that you choose at ayou know, a lumber yard or a
big box store, and you cancheck off the nfr C rating to see,
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you know, the energy efficiency ofthat window and you can make a
decision based on that and whether that'scheaper or not. I don't know.
You know, you got you gotthe window people, then then you got
the retail place, and then yougot the instroller installer. So if there's
a problem, you're going to havethree people to negotiate with, but your
contractor could give you the one price, so that might be something you want
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to take a look at for comparablepricing. Okay, okay. Now,
these composite windows, they basically theway things are going now. They usually
pretty good. They're pretty good.Yeah, yeah, I know, Anderson's
got a good composite window. Andyou know, even the vinyl windows are
really good windows anymore because you know, your top name brands are using you
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know, virgin vinyl. It's notreclaimed vinyl. They're also getting it where
it can look like wood now andit's built into the vinyl. So the
composite or the very you know,high grade vinyl windows, those are all
very acceptable to me, no problemsat all, all right. And New
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Pro they are basically a good,reputable company to work with, you know,
to be honest with you, I'mnot familiar with New Pro. I've
heard the name, I'm just notfamiliar with them to speak on to speak
on their behalf, Jack, wegot to go, thank you very much.
And there's a lot to buy ina window and we're going to have
to talk about that someday. Butcoming up next we have Bruce Shako who
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All right, back at it wego, thirty three minutes after the
top of the iron. Yes,you're at home with Gary Sullivan. I'm
certain to feel like spring today,isn't it. It's about time. Maybe
the rainal go away, the cloudswill go away, and we'll have beautiful
days, and we certainly are inmany parts of the country. Hey,
joining me right now, Bruce,I echo. He is with Jaws.
You hear me always talking about theJaws cleaners. Well, the man is
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here in studio live and we canwant you. Gary. Are you hey?
Happy Earth? Earth Day? Yeah? Were coming? You know,
are we old enough to remember thefirst one? We are, actually,
Gail, we talked about it withour grandkids. Nineteen seventy was the first?
Is that the first one was Iknow, bike to school and back.
That was kind of their big deal. Tho class did that? You
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know. One of the things aboutearth Day and stuff, I remember earth
Day? What's earth Day? Gotall these new environmentally friendly products coming on
board, which a lot of themweren't worth a nickel. I mean,
the attempt was there. We're goingto get to how all that adjusted to
what we're going to talk about,but you know, it was the beginning
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of because I think some of theenvironmentally friendly cleaners and especially in cleaners and
paints, they're the leader. Theproducts today are ten times better than the
old product. And you guys arejaws. I'm going to use the words,
I don't know, you're modest.You were the leaders in it.
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Well, thank you. Yeah,we started a long time ago. That
was really something that we wanted tomake an impact with. And we brought
up JAWS, which is the justadd water system. People were buying ready
to use cleaners. Everywhere you looked, they were ready to use cleaners.
When that bottle was done, theythrew it away and they just kept all
that water. Oh yeah, ohyeah. And every product you bought fumed
like crazy. You know, youknow, you thought it had to fume
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to work, And we recognize nowthat they it's not necessary. You know,
we built safer products that work,performed beautifully. And so how long
you been at it with Jaells?So we've been at it since two thousand
and six. To tell you thetruth. We started commercially. I mean
we sold one hundred and sixty plusmillion cartridges to date, you know,
so we've done a lot of workthere and really started in the commercial world
because there you weren't cleaning a mirrora day. They were cleaning five hundred
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mirrors a day, and hotels orplaces, and they need a lot of
jaws number one. Number two,they needed to work. You know,
the labor was such an important partof their expense piece that having products that
didn't streak, that worked fast andefficiently. And they didn't want to buy
a bottle and throw it away.They wanted to use a concentrate. They
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had water, they had bottles,they had sprayers. So let's put something
in there that could could make thatover and over again. We talk to
a lot of people and is itsafe to say, I mean, obviously
this is the way the world's going. It has to go that way.
Is the US leading that or behind? I think the US is kind of
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in playing with the company. It'sreally part of it, and it's really
coming people people. You know,ten years ago I talked about and people
like their eyes would gloss over andsay, what are you talking about?
Yeah, but now it's much muchdifferent. And certainly the younger population are
looking at this as you know,Gary, you and I aren't you know,
young as young as we used tobe anyway, And the younger folks
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are going to be on this planetfor a much longer period of time than
you and I potentially sure, andso they want to take care of the
planet. They want to make surethat the things that are going and it's
not only just the Jaws system,it's the products that we have that are
going to aquifers. You know,after you clean that sink, we'll just
go it goes into the drain.Where's that drain go into your water system?
Safe? Is that? Yeah?Right? Right? So you don't
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want bleaches and you know things likethat said that bottles reusable, and I've
heard you can use that twenty fivetimes, thirty times over and over.
A cartridge you fill with war youput the cartridge in and I'm looking at
your plastic bottles and everything in thenews right now is plastic YEP and the
oceans, and just this week awhole story about plastic particles in municipal drinking
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water sure and in brains and inthe body and all that kind of stuff,
and so doesn't reuse it, Gary, That's that's the whole thing.
You know. Plastic doesn't give youany kind of heartburn if you're reusing it.
And so our whole Jaws thing isreuse that bottle over and over again.
It'll last a thousand years. Ifyou just take care of it in
a landfill, it'd last a thousandyears. So if it's in your cabinet,
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so it could be the last bottleyou ever buy and simply refill that.
So, you know, our concentratesto go from a commercial world to
a consumer, we had to finda good way to introduce a concentrate to
the consumer in an intuitive way,an easy way to reuse that, and
so we created the Jaws cartridge.It's a child resistant cartridge size roll on
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nickels and filled with a super concentratethat is diluted then with water, so
you fill up your bottle with water. It's an elegant long term use bottle
it's a heavy duty bottle but beautiful, and you simply fill it up with
water to the fill line, insertthat cartridge, which is a child resistant
cartridge, and when you tighten downon the sprayer, it makes the next
bottle of Jaws. And so it'skind of a fun and easy way to
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do it. It's very intuitive andit's it's so simple. Yeah, it's
so set here the whole time.Garrett said, why weren't we doing this
twenty years ago? I totally agree. Yeah, and since we had a
when we have conversations a lot,but one of the conversations not long ago,
I started just looking at waste inplastic. It's unbelievable how much stuff
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we throw away in plastic. Andit takes the whole cleaning field because you
got all kinds the products which we'lltalk about, the glass cleaner, phenomenal,
phenomenal product, and all of asudden at my house. I don't
know why this is my job,Bruce, but it is. When it's
empty, Sue doesn't go to thestore. She just says, I need
(28:15):
another cartridge. So I'm like uberfiller. The worst part of all that,
Not only that, are you thatuberfiller. No matter how hard you try
to screw up the glass, youcan't. You can't. You just can't.
And then you can use it onyour So she's probably telling you clean
that big screen TV and clean iPad, my iPhone and all other kind of
stuff because it doesn't have any butteror alcohol or or ammony in there,
(28:37):
so you're not going to screw thosethings up either. Yep, you know
I get I talk about products allday long. You know, people want
to know how to fix it,what to use, where to get it.
In all honesty, I get moreemails about Jall's products than any product
I ever talked about. And justgot one this morning. And there's person
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says, you know, I've heardyou talk about this stuff for about a
year and a half and I finallybroke down and bought one this week.
Bought I don't know what he bought. Well, I know he bought the
glass cleaner because he's talking about andhe goes, that's stuff's unbelievable. But
the products, you know, outsidebeing very environmentally friendly, even with the
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nature the makeup of the product whichis very safe, and the bottle you're
not thrown in the landfill. They'rethey're outstanding product. Well, most of
the products you see on shelf aremostly water, So why are you paying
for somebody else's water? Why arewe paying to ship somebody else's water.
I can put we can put amillion of these cartridges on a container and
ship them to Pluto for nothing versussixteen thousand quarts of cleaner. And so
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it's just everything's so much more efficient. It's just a better way of doing
it. And I think that thisis the next generational way that we're going
to clean our homes because we can'tcontinue with oil and the price. It
is a bottle half way with oil. Yeah, that's what it took to
get into your cabinet. Yeah,right, and then we get rid of
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it after one use single use bottles, which doesn't make any sense to me
at all. Right, and thenwhen you send it back to the recycler,
and then you send it back tothe guy who's filling it and back
to your cabinet, you've tripled thatthe volume of oil just to get it
back into your because we recycled it. Recycling it is not the answer.
Reusing it is the answer. SoI'm telling you it's a little box probably
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three by six that holds twenty fourcartridges maybe an inch and a half high.
It weighs a pound and a half. It weighs nothing like fottys a
bottle a cleaner. So so itreally is a very efficient way in doing
it. But you know we've hadyou know, Gary Sullivan, I appreciate
the way you go about your business. You know, you test things,
you make sure they work before youtalk about them. But then you go
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to you know, Good Housekeeping saidit was the only glass cleaner of seventeen
they tested that didn't streak. CookingClub of America I said they saw nothing
better on tomato paste and cooking oilsand things like that. You know,
the Wall Street Journal said on grillcleaning, which is that time of year
we're talking about springtime cleaning, youknow, just a phenomenal grill cleaner on
stainless deal without leaving streaks behind andall that kind of stuff. And so
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we've really had some great third partyyou know, safer choice certifications on these
products. Right, you know,people are starting to get what safer choice
is all about. And that's toughto get. Well, it is,
we really work, work are hardto get that, and there's a lot
of reformulation necessary. They look atevery ingredient and the ingredients that made up
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that ingredient to make sure that itall fits and conforms within a safer chemistry
place. And then, like yousaid in the beginning, a lot of
the cleaners that were being used,which kind of hurt the process, didn't
work very well. I mean,water is safe, okay, but it
doesn't clean very well, right,And so safer choice is not after you
do all that work. You haveto perform as well as anything out there
(31:56):
in the marketplace or they will notgive you their certification. They will not
certify your products. And so,you know, we've really worked hard.
I think all the things we didearly on, we saw all these newer
surfaces coming. They're very expensive.Yeah, we wanted to make sure that
our grandits had more range. Youknow, our kitchen degreaser can't hurt granite,
can't hurt stainless steel, can't hurtmarble, or why would you buy
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it for your home? And there'sso many products that were developed back in
nineteen fifty that that stuff didn't exist. We had white for mica countertops and
things. Oh, don't worry aboutthat. No way to hurt that,
and don't forget that lovely mob.Bruce Jacko, he's with Jaws. We're
going to take a break. We'reactually going well, that was the history
of Jaws. We have a difficulttime saying hello. In five minutes,
I'll take another section and will actuallygo through the different products which are outstanding.
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We'll continue. You're at home withGary Sullivan. Help for your home
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I Echo from Jaws and Jaws JawsCleans dot com. That's our website.
You can check it out and BruceI know. During the holidays and in
the spring, you guys usually havea caddie peck, which is by the
way, very handy. It's gotmultiple products in there with refills in your
offering a spring it's it's been veryvery successful. We build a caddy because
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we wanted a place where you canconsolidate four different Jaws products. We designed
that caddy so that you can putthe cartridges inside. So there's a little
bullet holes or whatever you want toput in places for to hold the cartridges.
And it has four carts for differentproducts in it. And so the
spring time is certain products fit betterfor spring use. Know we're doing a
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lot of glass cleaning. We're doinga lot of grill and that kind of
stuff cleaning, and we always havebathrooms that need to get cleaned. And
then we're doing outdoor stuff like lawnmowersand garbage cans and you know, all
kinds of tool type. Face cleaningreally good. By the way, what
is that, Well, it's it'sa lavender. So it's a wonderful lavender.
(36:53):
Most of our products that we havedesigned have kind of mid range fragrances.
A lot of people have a difficulttime with fragrance, and so you
know, fumes are a problem,but fragrance can be a problem too,
And so what we did was weput mid range fragrances and the rest of
them, but that one inoculated witha lot of good lavender in it.
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So if you like a lot offragrance in your product, do you like
a great cleaner? I certainly do. Multipurpose can do a lot of different
things, really a thousand different activitiesacross the home. And you want something
to smell like lavender, it's yourproduct for sure. So whether you have
someone clean your house, it shouldbe great. By the way, if
somebody's listening and they clean homes,so this as convenient as it gets.
(37:36):
Or if you clean your house andyou'd just like to have something to take
with you, this caddy is verymuch I mean it's it's a little tray
with a handle and it's got allthe equipment in there. So what are
the four cleaners that are okay?So in the is a glass cleaner.
And again it's you know, ifyou have UV coded glass outside not going
to effect or attack the adhesis onthe UV coding on that, whether it
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be that or your car. Right, certainly all the glass that you have
to clean out there and the worstthing that just drives you crazy. You
clean the glass, the sun comesup, you look back through the grass
and there's streaks everywhere. And somany of the products out there today do
that and so this doesn't give youthe streaks that you had before. There's
a great variety of different ways hotinside or outside glass. If you're cleaning
(38:21):
up your home mirrors and what doyou use use as a cloth, Well,
we have microfiber towels that we putin there, right, and so
we have a actually color coded sothe glass clanter is blue and the and
the kitchen degreaser is orange, andthe multi purpose cleaner is purple. Well
it's pink pank and so we havea pink towel. And so what we've
done is we've color coordinated them sothey work well within that system we have
(38:43):
that we have the kitchen degreaser.You're going to be doing grill cleaning,
counter cleaning, all that kind ofstuff. Number two, it's just a
great product. Here. We gettorezo backsplash right by the cook range and
it always gets a little film ofs oils on it. I hit that
with that, I spray it down. I'll even stick paper towels off.
It's yeah, there's a lot ofit. Just let's sits there for about
(39:05):
fifteen minutes. Come back, resprain, take the microphone. Clean that up
like it's new. Well, ifyou're looking for an easy way to do
baked on pans and things like that, that's a great way to do it.
Spraym down with the with the jaws. Just let's get it on there
and let us sit on there.Put a paper pepper towel over the top
and it wipes down. No fumes, yeah, no fumes on any of
these products. We will not sella product that will fuelm it. That's
amazing. I mean, a productthat's going to cut through grease and oil
(39:30):
different things. You can't even smellit, Yeah, you can't smell.
So the kitchen cleaner's in there,the multipurpose cleaner, the glass cleaner,
and the bathroom cleaner. A bathroomcleaner you can actually spray in a shower
and not have to run for yourlife after you spray it because it fumes
up. If it's fuming and yourbody's choking, then that means it's a
product you shouldn't be using, becauseyeah, I go crazy. People still
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can I just use bleacher? Heyyou can, but it's not good.
But so anyway, we have that, and then we have the all Purpose.
We also have a product called thecream Cluncher, which I know is
one of your favorites. I honestly, I know. I keep saying a
favorite. I just used it.Sunbody. Used car had some scuffs on
it and it had been detailed.And he goes, they didn't get these.
(40:13):
It was a fold down seat andhe goes, I can't get these
off. I said, let metry. I hit that with that.
I'm telling you what Bruce sitting knockedit right out, those black scuffs on
our light beige leather and tear andknocked it right off. Well, it
doesn't does a magnificent job. Weput it in there because there are times
when you just have that extra soilthat just needs something extra with us,
some extra punch and that cream willdo it. It comes bathtops, bathtubs,
(40:37):
countertops, it goes on toilets.Yeah, it just has a wide
range of things. So where willyou have some extra soil? It really
is a great product to work withinthose areas. It has an oxygenated bleach.
So if you have a verry verrystains or coffee stains or tea stains
like that in your sink, ifyou have that area around your drain ring
(40:58):
that you just can't get clean,is it just do it too much build
up with and it pulls that rightoff for nothing. We're going to run
out of time. That caddy peck. How much does that go for you?
Yeah, so it's on everything's onspecial through Gary promo code Gary.
But it'll cost you about fifty bucks. Okay, they can go to jawscleans
dot com shippings free right yes andcode Gary. Anything over thirty dollars is
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shipping free. Gary, all right, so that's the deal deal jawscleans dot
com. But you can't leave becauseI don't understand this one product. Okay,
you got to help me out.I'll help dish spray. What's going
on with you? Yeah? Soyou know, if you watch any of
the dawn commercials, they've told youfor the last forty years that you bought
down you did it the wrong way. You fill up your sink with water,
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you put in the dawn and thendo whatever, and then you went
and clean. Well, now they'resaying do it with a dish spray.
So rather than fill up your sinkwith water and do all that kind of
stuff, you simply spray the spray, the dish spray. The guys spray
your spray your wineglass or whatever.And really the beauty of it, Gary,
is that how it foams up.So it foams up beautifully. You
(42:05):
know some of the other products inthis category that you've seen out there do
when you spray them, you're gonnachoke. Okay, you'll get the choking
sensation, But do you know howeasy it is to do this? You
simply fill up your bottle with water, insert the cartridge like we've done here,
tightened down on the spray. Butthe beauty of it is that you
can see Okay, the phone Garyright right, So that's that is your
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cleaner that goes in there and thatwill stay. And so basically, you
take that dirty dish, you takethe glass, you spray it in.
Here, we give you a wandto clean it with because we know in
the professional world you need a tool, right, and the tool helps you
do the job and in a goodway. But it gets inside the wine
glasses and gets inside your beer glasses, your coffee cups. I use it
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on utensils, and you know,I like things clean. I'm in the
right industry. I'm in the righthere, and I don't want it to
sit in the sink. So Iwash it as soon as I spray it.
I wash it, I rinse it, I try it, I rack
it, and I'm done. Okay, So I'm gonna go to confession to
Bruce Shako here. Oh, he'salways sending me a product, Try this,
(43:13):
try that, and disspray. It'slike I couldn't do it. It's
like I don't understand this. Ihaven't experimented with it, and you keep
bringing it up, and I'm goinglike, I gotta figure out what this
is. Now I understand it,and that is it's our fastest growing item
right now and people love it.Am I going to go wow? Wow?
You know it's even better? Sowhen my wife goes, wow,
well, you're not gonna end withsink. You know your sink doesn't deserve
(43:37):
to have a lot of And youknow what, Gary, if you don't
clean it right away, it justgets harder and harder and harder to clean
it. And so just clean itright away. Light cleaning, ye,
rinse, dry, and you're doneand you're ready to go. Folks,
I'm going to give a full reporton that. I guarantee I'm going to
try it now. So the dealis to the You can get all kinds
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of products on jawscleans dot com.You got the Spring Caddie pack, which
you've got to check out twenty percentoff and use the code Gary. Okay,
and Gary is right across the line. So you need extra cartridges.
Hey, if you've bought a bunchof Jaws products in the past and you
don't have a caddy, you canbuy it individually. But you know,
it's a great time to kind ofload up on things. You're going to
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do a lot of cleaning this timeof year. You have it all for
the summer. It doesn't take upa lot of space. It was very
efficient to use and going to doa lot of different things in your house
and very good. So have goodsummer, everybody. All right, it's
jawscleans dot com again. The promocode is Gary twenty percent off for shipping
over fifty bucks. I think jawscleansdot com. Bruce, thank you very
(44:44):
much, appreciate it. Thank you, and folks did use this as your
part for Earth Day. Very good. We'll take a break and come back
and take your calls. You're atHome with Gary Soli Home Improvement one oh
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An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.