November 9, 2025 • 45 mins
Gary takes your calls, tips and questions. We also replay our interview with Dumond Global.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard, you're at home
with Garry Sullivan. This hour brought to you by Unique Solutions,
the hippop product. It's called Awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's a h H S O M.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Most of the country. Now we're done with pool season,
but Awesome can still work for you to remove the
gunk and goo and jetted bathtubs, spaws, wash machines, dishwashers.
It's non corrosive, it's septic safe. It works fast. If
you got a say, a washing machine that just smells bad,
it's biofilm. It's a closed plumbing system back there, and
(01:07):
it's like a black jelly. It is gross and it stinks.
Awesome breaks that down. Bleach won't, and you'll eliminate the odor.
And after you use a load of Awesome, it only
takes like.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
A couple of teaspoon. I think one teaspoon I.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Believe used to mind a number of years ago, and
it cleans all that out. And then you run a
just a regular load just water, and you get to
see all the gunk that you've just literally killed. It's
it's amazing. It's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's AHH. Some dot com if you want to check
it out all right.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. What we're talking about is your home,
maybe a home project, maybe something that's not working right.
You can give us a call and can you lead
us off.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, you're there, Yes, sir, good morning, morning, you're having.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
A good day.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Hey, I was just listening and the woman you had
on their ahead ivy on sighting to get riddowed.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes, sir, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
This has been several years back, and it worked like
a charm for me. Okay, my father, of course, this
is a brick home, but I don't see why it
wouldn't work on sighting it. You did it sideways. This
this ivy was grown the whole end of the house
up and anyway. The edges, the flat edges that you
use along sidewalk, you know, just to break the grass back.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Uh huh, you know what I'm talking The manual ones
or the or the manual Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I took one of those and started at the edge
of the house and worked my way across and off,
just kept scraping and it. When I got done, the
whole end of the ivy, the whole shape of the
house gable and all fell on the ground, just completely
fell off.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Let me ask you a couple of questions. First of all,
she had it on brick and it was growing underneath
the siding, and her main question was, I think she's
torn it off, but she wants to know how to
get the roots and the remnants of that ivy off
the brick.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Okay, Well man, your suggestion was probably the best. I
mean by using that blade, I mean I took almost
every bit of the read off. There was just barely
a little bit there. And like you said, it took
maybe a year, but it finally came off. But I
mean that was a slick way to get it off.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So when you're talking about the edgeer are you talking?
It's it's half half moon shaped and it's a place.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's just across the fron Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So it's like an ice scraper rights.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's about six or eight inches okay. And I just
started on that thing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The whole thing stayed up there until I got to
the end and it just fell off. Looked like the
end of the house was later on the ground.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So so Ken, when you used that was it mainly
to pull off the actual I'm gonna call it ivy
ivy branches or the stems. It's getting those that the
plant off the house. That's what you were using it for.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, it was the whole ivy of still green and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
All right, I got you. Yeah, he was on side.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You might just have to side.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, No, that's a great, a great way. I was
telling you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
When I had it on my home, I was a
young guy and I literally, you know, I guess a
little meathead, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I was just pulling it off.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
With my hands and digging up the stumps and everything else,
which I wouldn't even tackle now. But I like your
idea of getting it off the house with that. But
the problem I had and what she had is all
the little fuzzy roots that stay there, and it drives
some people nuts. This was on the side of our homes,
so we never really saw it. So we let it go.
(05:08):
And it was about two years and it dehydrated and
we literally just swept it off after a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Right, Well, if I mean, she has a lot there
and maybe she could try it and maybe just be careful.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We don't want to be chipping the brick. That's that's
one thing for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh yeah, as long as you lay it flat, I
never had any problem. Well, listen, thank you to take
my call.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're quite welcome. Thanks for the tip. I appreciate again.
All right, and you can join us again. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. And I
told you I was going to talk a little bit about,
you know, kind of giving our.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Kitchen a facelift.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And when you uh look at your kitchen, what is
what do you see that you don't like? We'll start
there and I'm not selling of forty thousand dollars kitchen
and remodeling job. I'm just talking about improving what we have.
(06:12):
Is it the floor, maybe it's an old vinyl floor.
Is it the countertop? Or is it the cabinets. A
lot of people are really focusing on the cabinets, and
there's some really neat products that can help you rejuvenate
a cabinet. For engine instance, there's one called restore a finish.
(06:38):
If you have cabnetry that it's old, maybe the finish
is crazed. You ever seen that kind of crackly it's
not peeling off, but it's just not smooth anymore. Restore
A Finishes is not quite like a paint stripper. It's
(07:02):
more like a more like a restoration. I'm not going
to use the word melts the finish, but it kind
of softens that finish and you can get rid of.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Some of that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Uneven or not smooth finish. It comes in a stained color.
There's about eight different colors. The name of the manufacturer
that if this is something that maybe you have, Howard
Products is the name. I think they're out on the
West coast. And restore a Finish comes in like a mahogany,
(07:42):
a cherry, an oak, you know, walnut, that type. And
what it does is it just kind of smooths everything out.
I've used it on furniture before Old Furniture did a
really good job. Then you can also we talked a
(08:03):
lot about a product called Millsic. Maybe you got kitchen
cabinets and around the handles, it's gooey, it's soft, it's gummy,
it's black.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It's distasteful.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The mill Sic will actually remove that gumminess which has
caused from oils in the kitchen, oils from our hands,
old waxes make it soft, so it is a cleaner
and a restore. It's not going to change the color,
(08:43):
it's not going to really change the finish. It's simply
cleaning and restoring, whereas the other one's restoring a finish.
And then, of course, if somebody has tried to paint
those cabinets and didn't do a a very good job,
maybe there's a lot of brush marks and the cabinets
(09:05):
are old. There's a product called smart Strip. In fact,
I'm gonna replay an interview that we did with Adam
Smith at the bottom of this hour. Smart Strip is
environmentally safe product that will remove oils in water, bass
(09:29):
and acrylic paints. So there's the three steps to kind
of rejuvenate the cabnetry.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And maybe it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Takes you, you know, a few days to do that.
The payoff is big, especially if they're looking pretty distressed.
And the one thing we always talk about how prices
went up on so many things. I tell you what's
really went up a lot is cabinet hardware. But what
(09:59):
a what a while for your dollar? You clean those
cabinets up and then change out the hardware. It really
really looks good. And one other thing, as we take
you through those steps. Maybe the next thing is no,
I want to totally refinish them. I want to paint them.
(10:20):
I want to send them down. Sure we can do that.
A tip there is getting a paint that is brushable.
A lot of our enamels today are modified acrylics or
acrylics and they just don't brush out like an old
oil based wood. And I've recommended this product for front doors,
(10:46):
for woodworks, and I'll recommend it for cabinetry. It's a
Sherman Williams product. I think it's the best trim enamel
on the market today. It's called Emerald Urethane AIM and
you might you might cough a little bit when you
get the price, but I'm telling you it'll be worth it.
(11:08):
Get yourself a good mohair four inch roller, if it's
a flat surface or a polyester brush. It'll give you
a super super finish and really dress up that kitchen
without a lot of money. Maybe a lot of time,
but not a lot of money. All right, taking your
calls regarding your home project, you can join us and
(11:28):
you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
If you don't have a list of things to do
around the house, Gary will find something for you at
one eight hundred eighty two three todd You're at home
with Gary.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Cellivator, Gary Salvent here for the Zalor Pump Company. Salar
leads the way and some pumps and battery backup systems.
(12:01):
With continuous innovation. Now you can see the light with
their LED plug illuminating Zalor green when the power is present.
You no longer have to wonder if your some pump
pass power. The plug is always illuminated when power is present.
Check it out today on the popular Zolar model sixty
three and M fifty three. Go to zalarpumps dot com
the located factory certified installer in your area zalorpumps dot com.
(12:26):
For over forty years, Dumont has made powerful pain coating
removers that are tough on layers but save for you
in the environment. Tried demand smart Strip Advanced. It works
on over ninety percent of the coatings. No harmful fumes,
no dangerous chemicals. Not sure what you're removing, Well, Demon's
easy test kid tells you exactly what you need. Find
smart Strip at You're participating do it Best Retailer Sherwin
(12:48):
Williams are visit Dumont Global dot Com at Dumont Global
dot Com Dumont Smart, safe and proven. So do it
yourself with Demon. With all the cooler, damp weathers on
the way, so more rust and corrosion issues you're likely
to have to deal with.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So buddy up with Blaster.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The folks that know Russ Blaster knows how to treat it,
break it up, remove it, and how to prevent rust
in the first place. Like Blaster's premium MultiMAX synthetic lubricant,
It's odorless and provides the longest lasting lubrication and protection
against rust and corrosion you can get.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So pick up.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Blaster products at home hardware autos stores near you and
always use Blaster products and work it like a pro.
Soon we're going to be spending more time inside our
home where there is five times worse than the outdoor air.
Get that stagnant, stuffy air out with an easy breathe
then reduce airborne particles by eighty five percent. Don't get
trapped inside a sick house breathing dirty, musty damp air
(13:44):
this winter right now, Get two yamdistats with every easy
Breathe purchase. Give them a call at eight six six eight, two, two,
seventy three, twenty eight or visit easybreed dot com. Well,
(14:09):
here's a problem some of us will experience, probably in
the next four weeks as we start decorating outside our
homes for the holidays. And by the way, if you
are doing lights and different things outside, make sure they're
(14:29):
protected with a ground false circuit interrupter. Newer homes from
the eighties on up pretty much have them. You can
buy extension cords with ground false circuit interrupters.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
In the in the.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Receptacle part of an extension cord, And basically what it is,
it's a protection device that shuts off lights if there's
a problem, a short moisture, et cetera, et cetera. When
I said many of us will or not many, some
of us will have a problem, and that is you
(15:10):
plug into Christmas lights and all of a sudden they
turn off. It's it's probably gonna be moisture. It could
be a small ground fault, but it's probably moisture. So
(15:32):
the first thing you want to do, and this is
really important, is really check where the plugs, the extension cords,
where the light sockets, and make sure that moisture can't
get in those do create a problem that would then
protect your house and shut everything off in terms of
the electricity. But one of the things you can help
(15:55):
yourself when you're doing this, and like I said, a
lot of people going to be decorating over the next
four weeks is the connections outside. Maybe you're doing the bushes,
maybe you're doing some trees and jumping down to the bushes.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Is is keep the.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Connections off the ground. That's that's kind of rule number one.
And if you want to wrap the plug connections with
a plastic wrap outdoor covers for electrical connections also, so
we want to take moisture out of play, and then
(16:35):
really inspect the lights in the cords even before you
get them up, and look for nicks and cracks and
cracks in the insulation. And boy, if you stored those
lighting fixtures up in the attic. We spoke about that
a lot a year ago about that's a no. No attics,
(16:55):
even if they're ventilating, get very, very hot in that
insulation around the holiday lights just is not that good.
It's not designed to last long, and it's not designed
to last in the heat of an attic. And then
you might as well, just discard it. Even a small
(17:18):
leak around, maybe even the outlet box. A GFI with
would usually have insulated covers that snap over the outlet,
but they're open when they're plugged in, and moisture gets
in there and that can cause the problem. Make sure
the extension cords you're using are all marked UL and
(17:38):
outdoor use. And you know it used to be we
would trip gfis because we had incandescent bulbs on our
outdoor lights. Well they're all all i'd say for the
most part, probably ninety five percent led now, so it's
(17:58):
really hard to have too many lights plugged into one outlet.
But that used to trip him a lot also. But anyway,
if it does, you know, shut everything off, press the
reset and then you can test to make sure it
resets properly. If it's not resetting, it could be the
(18:23):
ground fall circuit interrupt itself.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But usually.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I can almost guarantee it. You might even be the
one that just says all that outlet's bad. No, it's
probably not. It's probably doing its job. So if you
can unplug it and let it sit for a minute
or so and then plug it back in, it should reset. Otherwise,
you win, and it is the outlet. But in most cases.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Moisture moisture, moisture moisture.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So keep the lights, keep the extension course, keep as
much as you can off the ground. You'll be way
ahead of the game because it's very frustrating when that
when that happens, and you can kind of start, uh,
you know, also paying attention if it trips only during
wet weather, shower, snow, et cetera. It's a good signed.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Too, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Coming up Adam Smith from Demand Global, We're going to
talk about removing lead based paints just to crily paints,
oil paints, paints.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Uh, he'll teach us how and what to use. That's next.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Time to get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan. Give
them a call at one eight eight two three talk.
You're at home with Gary Cellivant.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You've heard me talk about Awesome for years in their
fantastic lineup of products has just gotten better. If you're
in a hot tub, spa swimming pool, jetted tub, dishwasher
wash machine, you'd need to be using one of Awesome's
powerful products designed to clean the internal plumbing of all
the gunk and grime that builds up. Awesome removes the
bile contaminants that lead to stinky, smelly, and dangerous bacteria.
(20:22):
For more information and to get your Awesome today, head
on over to Awesome dot com, Amazon, Walmart, or your
favorite retailer. Fall cleanup just got easier with Jaws the
just Add Water system. From streak free glass to heavy
duty grime. Jaws delivers pro strength cleaners trusted by the pros.
Jaws Glass Cleaner, Crystal Clear shine every time, Jaws Cream
(20:45):
cleanser your fall, MVP tackling, grills, tools, even rust. There's
a Jaws cleaner for every room. Shop now at jawscleans
dot com. Jaws is tough on dirt, easy on you.
Trust me, you're gonna love it. That's Jaws cleans dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I talk about a lot of products that can make
your life easier, and I use and love ter Mender.
It repairs tears and all types of clothing, fabrics, leather,
even buttons. It's time to get those holiday decorations out,
and it's one product you gotta have around your home.
In fact, listeners tell me tear menders you must have
for all their holiday decoration repairs. No so gifts, holiday
crafts and stocking stuffers. Tear Meinders available at your local
(21:23):
hardware store Amazon or find a store at tear mender
dot com and find more great make doing men's solutions
and ideas folks. Gary solvent here. If your gutters are
overflowing and causing water damage, listen up gutter brushes. The
gutter guard that slides right in, no tools, no installation, headaches,
and it works keeps leaves in, debris out so water
flows freely. Right now, get thirty percent off plus free
(21:45):
shipping with my exclusive code Gary thirty Act fast offer
ends and days. Go to gutterbrush dot com or use
code Gary. Call eight A eight three ninety seven ninety
four to thirty three, made in the USA, Trusted for
twenty years. Don't wait order now.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well, let's get back to work.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We're thirty three minutes after the top of the iron.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan. Joining me now is
Adam Smith. He's the vice president of North American retail
sales for Dumont Global. You've heard me talk about Dumont
Global and the smart strip and.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Adam welcome again at home with Gary Sullivan. How no
world are you doing.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I'm fantastic, Gary, thanks for having me again. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Well, i'll tell you what we're at that time of year,
we're s going to be spending a lot more time indoors,
and we start thinking about stripping surfaces, maybe a garage floor,
banquet table, and of course I always turn to Dumont Global.
Tell us a little bit about Dumont Global. I mean,
you guys got forty years of experienced manufacturing sturing, water based,
(23:01):
user friendly products. You were a kind of ahead of
the curve.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah, we kind of work. Forty years ago, we made
a decision to kind of be a little bit safer
alternative in the paint removal category. And we all know
in nineteen seventy eight they outlawed lead based paint, So
about forty years ago we decided to come out of
the product that would work to remove lead based paints safely,
easily and effectively. And that's when we came up with
(23:29):
Peva Way one for that product to actually remove up
to thirty coatings of organic lead based oil alka based paints. Okay,
it's a simple process, it's ritually no VOCs in the products,
So using the dendors is not a problem. You put
it on, put our performance paper over the top of it,
(23:54):
test it and see how long it's going to take
to remove that coding. Now that's if you know that
surface is actually older than nineteen seventy eight. Okay, And
we've talked about this in the past with our test kits.
With our test kits, that way you guarantee you know
type of coatings you need to remove. It's going to
be more of a modern coating like you know your
(24:15):
water based latex paints, or you're even more modern, you're
two part of proxies, you're a thane and all last
Americ coatings. So once you test, you find the right product,
and then you would you would proceed with the project.
And in this case, if you're using PA one, you
put it on, you leave it set, you test it,
see how long it takes to get down to the
(24:36):
base level of wood or metal, whatever the surface is,
and then you can go from there. And the nice
thing there's no airborne lead, so all the leg gets
encapsulated in the performance paine.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'll tell you that's a big project, but so worthy
because you know, if you're living a home that was built,
you know, early nineteen hundreds or eight late eighteen hundreds.
I mean the lead based paint. You could have thirty
five coats of paint on walls, and if you're rehabbing,
it's kind of a dangerous house.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Absolutely. I mean, you think about a home that was
built in nineteen seventy for old guys like us. It
doesn't seem like it was that long ago, but it
was really quite quite a long time ago. And so
you just think about those homes as well. You know,
people painted their fireplaces that were you know, that were
brown at one time. They put multiple coats of paint
on there. So you know, we offer the opportunity, your
(25:31):
options to remove that paint and bring it back. And
you know, the nice thing with the restoration projects out there,
people are starting to understand that you don't find wood
like this anymore. Oh carrying the wood out, throwing it out.
They're trying to preserve it and bring it down to
its natural beauty that it was once was.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, the carpentry on that wood or the milling or
whatever you call it, the ornate features of it are
just you don't see that anymore. I mean, the only
way you're ever going to enjoy that is to restore it.
So that would be the keel away one. But if
I've got a mom's dresser that I'm going to restore,
(26:14):
that's a whole different ballgame, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Yeah, it really is. Again, we always suggest testing, okay,
but if you know you purchased that dresser in nineteen
eighty nine, you're probably going to be perfectly fine to
use you the smart Strip Advance or smart Stript Pro.
And it's really the same process. You do the test,
find out which product works best. Apply either smart Shript
(26:38):
Pro or smart Shrip Advanced, cover it with the performance paper.
Test it, let it sit, see how long it takes
to get down to that base layer. And the nice
thing is using the performance paper it helps it here
the product, the smart strip to the surface because you
don't want penting. What will happen if you have multiple
layers of paints and you just leave it, it'll start
(27:01):
to bubble up. And once it starts to do that,
the product red you know there's multiple layers underneath there.
It won't touch those areas. So the performance paper it
holds everything in place. And then when it times when
it comes time to scrape it off, you're scraping it
right into.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The paper, so it that way.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, So this is a job that's a whole lot
easier than the old days of methylene chloride, right because
I remember that and outside of it being extremely caustic,
but you know, you'd get that, you'd get like thick
soup on the top of a dresser and you're trying
in the newspaper or something, I mean or metal can.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yeah, that old stuff is pretty pretty nasty. And the
one thing with our products you mentioned earlier about doing
projects indoors, especially in the winter time, we're very very
low VOCs with our product. Okay, but you don't have
that harsh chemical smell that you get a lot with
(28:07):
the you know, petroleum based type of removers. Sure, okay,
so you don't get those harsh fumes, you don't have
to keep the windows open. Fully, it's a much easier,
much safer project. Then.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, you read those old cans and it was like
turn off your furnace burner and open your windows. Well
I'm not doing that at thirty exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
And you know, non flammability is important as well. You
know those other products we'd mentioned, like you just said,
turn everything off. You don't want to spark, you don't
want to fire. You just want to be able to
do the job the way you want to do it right.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, So let me reverse just a little bit, because
these you feel away one that you were talking about
and then the smarts rip Advantage Advanced or pro. There
are really two different, big, different products.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And I guess correct.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Dumont Global is a global company and it's sold around
the world, and there's some big structures that I know
Dumont Global was involved in. It was like stripping the
Niffel Tower is not what I would consider a small job.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
No, it's that's that's a very that's a multi year job.
So yeah, so Eiffel Tower is one of the projects
are using our product down. They've used it on the
Brooklyn Bridge. One of the cool ones is the Hollywood
Signing California. They've used it at the Louver Museum in France,
the Sydney Harbor Bridge and if you're in France, the
(29:49):
Chateau de Prunand is an old chateau that was purchased
and these two people are rehabbing the house or chateau,
not a house but a and that's in Guardoo friends.
So yes, our products are used all around the world
because they weren't. They're and they're safe.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah. So one of the things I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
We just had some conversations on the show regarding garage floors.
You know I've used for years, twenty years now. The
garage floor has become a modern day foyer, and you
know we used to talk about clean them up and
getting ridd of oil spots.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
We still do. And now we're.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Talking about coatings on there. You know, we have the
box the POxy coatings, which I still managed and claim
that you'll be doing really well if you get four
to six years out of it. At some point you
may want to improve because science has improved in the
(30:52):
type of coatings and you can grind it off right
or you can strip it off. And this is kind
of where we get into, well, which one of the
those products do I use? And you do alright, test yet,
so tell me a little bit about the test it
and then tell me what product to wemove like in
epoxy coating.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
So if you can use if it's an epoxy floor,
the test kit will definitely drow right down to the
smart script pro what we would call blue That would
be the product that you definitely want to use, is
that was designed to go after you know, dual part
of poxyse erothans, elastameric coatings and the more complex coatings
(31:32):
that are coming out. And again process is very simple.
You put it down, cover it with paper, come back script,
scrape it off with the paper and throw it out
and rinse it down with water. The nice thing about
all of our products, you literally use water to clean
the surface to get any residual off. There are other
(31:54):
products out there that you have to use after washes
or mineral spirits and things like that after you move,
so you're using a chemical to remove a chemical with ours.
Once you are done, you literally just use water to
clean that up. So you can pressure wash it off,
you can scrub it off, rinse it off with a
(32:14):
spray bottle if it's a smaller area. There's things I
brought out to my yard, hosted down with my with
my gardens.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So here's a question.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know if I've ever but you know, we
talk a lot about decks on this show, and I
know that's a stain, but there's also solid color stains
that are used. There's these resurfacing decks, which again I'm
not a fan of, but would your test kit identify well,
(32:47):
I know it would identify which strip to use, which
stripper to use.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, and in that case it would be the perfect
time to use the test kit just to make sure
that's doing what you expec expected to do. And in
most cases, in most cases, one of the three products
will work. And if it's a modern deck, obviously it
will be Smart Strip Advanced or Smart Strip Pro. If
it's more of a modern deck, you know, concrete seilers
(33:17):
will work great on concrete seilers as well.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
This is a fascinating and not to confuse people, but
the majority of coatings is going to be able to
be removed by the Smart Strip Advance correct.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
If it's more of a modern absolutely, yeah, that is
one of the safest ones you'll find in the marketplace.
The nice thing about it doesn't have a huge horrible
scent or smell, and we don't mask them with other
sense the red, green or the blue. So so, but you.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I was gonna say, you guys got it right, and
that's probably why you were kind of first out of
the box here. But so many other people have done
different things and their their kind of story is it
removes coatings. Well, it doesn't remove all the coatings. It's
got some bad press over the years. Other brands and
you guys now have developed a test kit where if
(34:20):
you're not sure, and most of us wouldn't be, it
doesn't matter. You can get a test it and be
one hundred percent sure, or you can go with the
smart strip and probably be eighty ninety percent sure.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
It sounds like it's a little bit of a back
you know.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
We like to say you're going to narrow it down
to probably ninety okay, using the testkit, one of our
products is gonna work. You know. I recently talked to
a gentleman that decided not to use a test it
and went out and bought a bunch of gallons and
the product didn't work.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, if you're going to go to that length.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Right, I'd prefer you to spend a little bit of money.
I think it's a job done correctly. You then spend
a lot of money to figure out you did it incorrectly,
then spend a lot of money to do it again.
We prefer you just want and done with our products.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So speak to me. Where do I get test kits?
Where do I get some of the Demong Global products?
Speaker 5 (35:16):
You can find them online, Gay do my global Amazon
at participating do it Best, in true value stores, your
local paint retailers, and in most Sherwan Williams. You'll be
able to find our three products out the shelves at
Sherwan Williams.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Well, Adam, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
This show for years has been designed to teach people
what's out in the market and make it as easy
as we can for it. And when you look at
it renovating a house and you got you know, twenty
coats of lead based paint on there, you want to
think that's not an easy project, but you certainly make
(35:58):
it doable about asy as you can be because you're
not going to send it off or that's a major
health concern, right.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
You know. The one thing I would like to you know,
offer up to your listenership, Gary, if in doubt call us.
We have people that can answer your questions. We have
really qualified people that can pretty much, i'm gonna say,
in most cases, be able to walk you through the
process because sometimes people just need that little bit of
(36:30):
help to push them over to do the job and
to do it properly. And we have people in place
in Pennsylvania they can answer these questions.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
For you for them very good. Do you happen to
have that number or not? I know, I can send
you your.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Well, I do give me one second.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Here and then while you're looking that up, I'll tell everybody.
Of course, the website is do momd Global dot com
and the number Adam.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Is going to should be six six five five seven
seven zero zero. And you can go on to our
website as well to get this information. Probably the better
way to direct people. Go there first, see if it
can answer some of your questions that if not, you
can call her number.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Very good, Thank you so much for your time. You
have a great holiday season, my friend. All right, thanks Gary,
you two I can take care of bye bye, all right,
tay a little break, come back and get your questions answered.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Help for your home.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Is just a click away at Garysullivan online dot com.
Is at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Hey, it's Gary Sullivan for Ruta, Ruter Plumbing and Water Cleanup,
a company that has been trusted and recommended for generations.
Coast to coast. Roto Router fixes clogged drains, leaky faucets
and running toilets. They repair and replace water heaters, garbage disposals,
some pumps, water softeners, and every other residential a commercial
plumbing fixture. I use Roto Ruter at my house and
(38:19):
you should leave plumbing to the pros too. Call one
eight hundred, get roto or go to rotrouter dot com today.
Ready to win Big dish Coding says hosting a Show
us our Countertops contest. Send in pictures of a kitchen
or bathroom countertop project you've done using their lux Rock,
Ultra Marble, Dream or Spreadstone Mineral Select countertop kits. You
(38:42):
could win cash our prizes. It's free and easy to
enter into October thirty. First, just visit dich codings dot
com for details. That's Daiicchcoatings dot com. Go ahead, show
them your dish coatings countertop. For over forty years, DeMont
has made powerful pain coding removers that are tough on
layers but safe for you in the environment. Tried demands
(39:03):
smart Strip Advanced. It works on over ninety percent of
the coatings, no harmful fumes, no dangerous chemicals, not sure
what you're removing. Well, Demon's easy test kit tells you
exactly what you need. Find smart strip that you're participating.
Do it best retailer Sherwin Williams or visit Dumont Global
dot com. That's Dumont Global dot Com. Dumont Smart, safe
(39:24):
and proven, so do it yourself with demand. Get chemicals
out of your life and come over to the natural
side with odo exit Odor Eliminator made with essential oils
and water.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
This essential oil based formula.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Contains no harsh chemicals, making it safe for moms, dads, babies,
and pets. It's even safe for those with sinus or
respiratory concerns or if you just hate artificial fragrances. Odor
exits Essential Oils Odor Eliminator just might be the healthiest
odor eliminator you can buy. Come to otor exit dot
com for the best pricing, combos and service. That's odor
(39:57):
exit dot Com. Oh, we certainly thank Adam Smith to
(40:25):
join us today.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
That was informative.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Hopefully you got something out of it, and that's what
it's all about. We try to well motivate you and
give you some ideas of things to use around your home.
You can join us. The phone lines are open. It's
eight hundred and eight two three A two five five.
And well as the weather begins to chill and get cold,
(40:51):
especially in some parts of the country, are going to
get the luck colder faster than other parts. Plumbing is
one of the things that seemed to get affected more
than anything else. Drains run slower, maybe water heaters give up,
and so there is a couple of management things and
maintenance things you can do around your home. Something that's
(41:14):
very simple. It doesn't take any amount of time, but
it seems something it seems a tad silly to do,
but I really recommend that you do do it, maybe
once a year, and that is and now would be
a good time, would be too. Take a walk around
(41:35):
the inside of your home and concentrate in areas where
you have the vanity underneath the kitchen cabinets, by the toilet,
you have supply valves in most cases, not in every home,
but in most cases you'll have a shut off underneath
the vanity, underneath the kitchen cabinet, underneath the toilet, and
(41:57):
go ahead and turn those off, and then turn the
water on, drain it and then turn it back on
and the reason you're doing that a is to make
sure that the valve is still functioning. And when you
turn it on and turn it off, then I want
you to just double check for leaks. I mean, we're
(42:17):
not trying to cause problems, but sometimes there's already an
issue and you don't know that there is an issue,
and you shut it off, you drain it, you close it,
you turn it back on, and put a little piece
of tissue paper underneath that and just make sure there's
not a drip or two on there in the next
(42:38):
hour or so.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Is a good.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
A good way to make sure there is no problem
at all. Another thing unscrewing the air raider on the
end of the faucet. That's the little cap. A lot
of times, not a lot of times, but sometimes there'll
be a lot of sentiment that builds up there, and
quite honestly, you're really not getting the full volume of
water out of your faucet just because the sentiment is
(43:06):
blocking the opening in the air rator. So those are
a couple of little plumbing things you can do, and
I guess the last one is just check the drains.
I got involved in this last week and so simple,
and especially the vanities. The ones that are used a lot,
(43:28):
I find are maybe the problem ones. It just turned
the water on and make sure all the water is
going down the drain and not causing some black In
other words, it's just not draining as smooth as it
normally does. And I've talked about a zip it strip,
a thirty inch long piece of plastic with little barbs
(43:51):
on it is a great way to do it.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
It took me this one vanity sink. It was very,
very slow.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
By the time I let the water run for maybe
thirty seconds, it was halfway up in the bowl. Well
there was something blocking it, and running that zippet down
there cleaned it out and you could just hear it
like somebody just unplugged it and the water went down,
and well it's maintained now. I won't have to worry
about that running slow anymore, all right. Our phone number
(44:19):
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
looking forward to your calls.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
And You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Home Improvement one oh one with Gary Sullivan. Every weekend
classes began at one eight hundred eighty two three tap.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
The depot, the contain,
Well the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard, you're at home
with Garry Sullivan. This hour brought to you by Unique Solutions,
the hippop product. It's called Awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's a h H S O M.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Most of the country. Now we're done with pool season,
but Awesome can still work for you to remove the
gunk and goo and jetted bathtubs, spaws, wash machines, dishwashers.
It's non corrosive, it's septic safe. It works fast. If
you got a say, a washing machine that just smells bad,
it's biofilm. It's a closed plumbing system back there, and
(01:07):
it's like a black jelly. It is gross and it stinks.
Awesome breaks that down. Bleach won't, and you'll eliminate the odor.
And after you use a load of Awesome, it only
takes like.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
A couple of teaspoon. I think one teaspoon I.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Believe used to mind a number of years ago, and
it cleans all that out. And then you run a
just a regular load just water, and you get to
see all the gunk that you've just literally killed. It's
it's amazing. It's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's AHH. Some dot com if you want to check
it out all right.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. What we're talking about is your home,
maybe a home project, maybe something that's not working right.
You can give us a call and can you lead
us off.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, you're there, Yes, sir, good morning, morning, you're having.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
A good day.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Hey, I was just listening and the woman you had
on their ahead ivy on sighting to get riddowed.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes, sir, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
This has been several years back, and it worked like
a charm for me. Okay, my father, of course, this
is a brick home, but I don't see why it
wouldn't work on sighting it. You did it sideways. This
this ivy was grown the whole end of the house
up and anyway. The edges, the flat edges that you
use along sidewalk, you know, just to break the grass back.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Uh huh, you know what I'm talking The manual ones
or the or the manual Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I took one of those and started at the edge
of the house and worked my way across and off,
just kept scraping and it. When I got done, the
whole end of the ivy, the whole shape of the
house gable and all fell on the ground, just completely
fell off.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Let me ask you a couple of questions. First of all,
she had it on brick and it was growing underneath
the siding, and her main question was, I think she's
torn it off, but she wants to know how to
get the roots and the remnants of that ivy off
the brick.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Okay, Well man, your suggestion was probably the best. I
mean by using that blade, I mean I took almost
every bit of the read off. There was just barely
a little bit there. And like you said, it took
maybe a year, but it finally came off. But I
mean that was a slick way to get it off.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So when you're talking about the edgeer are you talking?
It's it's half half moon shaped and it's a place.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's just across the fron Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So it's like an ice scraper rights.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's about six or eight inches okay. And I just
started on that thing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The whole thing stayed up there until I got to
the end and it just fell off. Looked like the
end of the house was later on the ground.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So so Ken, when you used that was it mainly
to pull off the actual I'm gonna call it ivy
ivy branches or the stems. It's getting those that the
plant off the house. That's what you were using it for.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, it was the whole ivy of still green and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
All right, I got you. Yeah, he was on side.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You might just have to side.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, No, that's a great, a great way. I was
telling you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
When I had it on my home, I was a
young guy and I literally, you know, I guess a
little meathead, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I was just pulling it off.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
With my hands and digging up the stumps and everything else,
which I wouldn't even tackle now. But I like your
idea of getting it off the house with that. But
the problem I had and what she had is all
the little fuzzy roots that stay there, and it drives
some people nuts. This was on the side of our homes,
so we never really saw it. So we let it go.
(05:08):
And it was about two years and it dehydrated and
we literally just swept it off after a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Right, Well, if I mean, she has a lot there
and maybe she could try it and maybe just be careful.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We don't want to be chipping the brick. That's that's
one thing for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh yeah, as long as you lay it flat, I
never had any problem. Well, listen, thank you to take
my call.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're quite welcome. Thanks for the tip. I appreciate again.
All right, and you can join us again. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. And I
told you I was going to talk a little bit about,
you know, kind of giving our.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Kitchen a facelift.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And when you uh look at your kitchen, what is
what do you see that you don't like? We'll start
there and I'm not selling of forty thousand dollars kitchen
and remodeling job. I'm just talking about improving what we have.
(06:12):
Is it the floor, maybe it's an old vinyl floor.
Is it the countertop? Or is it the cabinets. A
lot of people are really focusing on the cabinets, and
there's some really neat products that can help you rejuvenate
a cabinet. For engine instance, there's one called restore a finish.
(06:38):
If you have cabnetry that it's old, maybe the finish
is crazed. You ever seen that kind of crackly it's
not peeling off, but it's just not smooth anymore. Restore
A Finishes is not quite like a paint stripper. It's
(07:02):
more like a more like a restoration. I'm not going
to use the word melts the finish, but it kind
of softens that finish and you can get rid of.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Some of that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Uneven or not smooth finish. It comes in a stained color.
There's about eight different colors. The name of the manufacturer
that if this is something that maybe you have, Howard
Products is the name. I think they're out on the
West coast. And restore a Finish comes in like a mahogany,
(07:42):
a cherry, an oak, you know, walnut, that type. And
what it does is it just kind of smooths everything out.
I've used it on furniture before Old Furniture did a
really good job. Then you can also we talked a
(08:03):
lot about a product called Millsic. Maybe you got kitchen
cabinets and around the handles, it's gooey, it's soft, it's gummy,
it's black.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It's distasteful.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The mill Sic will actually remove that gumminess which has
caused from oils in the kitchen, oils from our hands,
old waxes make it soft, so it is a cleaner
and a restore. It's not going to change the color,
(08:43):
it's not going to really change the finish. It's simply
cleaning and restoring, whereas the other one's restoring a finish.
And then, of course, if somebody has tried to paint
those cabinets and didn't do a a very good job,
maybe there's a lot of brush marks and the cabinets
(09:05):
are old. There's a product called smart Strip. In fact,
I'm gonna replay an interview that we did with Adam
Smith at the bottom of this hour. Smart Strip is
environmentally safe product that will remove oils in water, bass
(09:29):
and acrylic paints. So there's the three steps to kind
of rejuvenate the cabnetry.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And maybe it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Takes you, you know, a few days to do that.
The payoff is big, especially if they're looking pretty distressed.
And the one thing we always talk about how prices
went up on so many things. I tell you what's
really went up a lot is cabinet hardware. But what
(09:59):
a what a while for your dollar? You clean those
cabinets up and then change out the hardware. It really
really looks good. And one other thing, as we take
you through those steps. Maybe the next thing is no,
I want to totally refinish them. I want to paint them.
(10:20):
I want to send them down. Sure we can do that.
A tip there is getting a paint that is brushable.
A lot of our enamels today are modified acrylics or
acrylics and they just don't brush out like an old
oil based wood. And I've recommended this product for front doors,
(10:46):
for woodworks, and I'll recommend it for cabinetry. It's a
Sherman Williams product. I think it's the best trim enamel
on the market today. It's called Emerald Urethane AIM and
you might you might cough a little bit when you
get the price, but I'm telling you it'll be worth it.
(11:08):
Get yourself a good mohair four inch roller, if it's
a flat surface or a polyester brush. It'll give you
a super super finish and really dress up that kitchen
without a lot of money. Maybe a lot of time,
but not a lot of money. All right, taking your
calls regarding your home project, you can join us and
(11:28):
you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
If you don't have a list of things to do
around the house, Gary will find something for you at
one eight hundred eighty two three todd You're at home
with Gary.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Cellivator, Gary Salvent here for the Zalor Pump Company. Salar
leads the way and some pumps and battery backup systems.
(12:01):
With continuous innovation. Now you can see the light with
their LED plug illuminating Zalor green when the power is present.
You no longer have to wonder if your some pump
pass power. The plug is always illuminated when power is present.
Check it out today on the popular Zolar model sixty
three and M fifty three. Go to zalarpumps dot com
the located factory certified installer in your area zalorpumps dot com.
(12:26):
For over forty years, Dumont has made powerful pain coating
removers that are tough on layers but save for you
in the environment. Tried demand smart Strip Advanced. It works
on over ninety percent of the coatings. No harmful fumes,
no dangerous chemicals. Not sure what you're removing, Well, Demon's
easy test kid tells you exactly what you need. Find
smart Strip at You're participating do it Best Retailer Sherwin
(12:48):
Williams are visit Dumont Global dot Com at Dumont Global
dot Com Dumont Smart, safe and proven. So do it
yourself with Demon. With all the cooler, damp weathers on
the way, so more rust and corrosion issues you're likely
to have to deal with.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So buddy up with Blaster.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The folks that know Russ Blaster knows how to treat it,
break it up, remove it, and how to prevent rust
in the first place. Like Blaster's premium MultiMAX synthetic lubricant,
It's odorless and provides the longest lasting lubrication and protection
against rust and corrosion you can get.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So pick up.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Blaster products at home hardware autos stores near you and
always use Blaster products and work it like a pro.
Soon we're going to be spending more time inside our
home where there is five times worse than the outdoor air.
Get that stagnant, stuffy air out with an easy breathe
then reduce airborne particles by eighty five percent. Don't get
trapped inside a sick house breathing dirty, musty damp air
(13:44):
this winter right now, Get two yamdistats with every easy
Breathe purchase. Give them a call at eight six six eight, two, two,
seventy three, twenty eight or visit easybreed dot com. Well,
(14:09):
here's a problem some of us will experience, probably in
the next four weeks as we start decorating outside our
homes for the holidays. And by the way, if you
are doing lights and different things outside, make sure they're
(14:29):
protected with a ground false circuit interrupter. Newer homes from
the eighties on up pretty much have them. You can
buy extension cords with ground false circuit interrupters.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
In the in the.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Receptacle part of an extension cord, And basically what it is,
it's a protection device that shuts off lights if there's
a problem, a short moisture, et cetera, et cetera. When
I said many of us will or not many, some
of us will have a problem, and that is you
(15:10):
plug into Christmas lights and all of a sudden they
turn off. It's it's probably gonna be moisture. It could
be a small ground fault, but it's probably moisture. So
(15:32):
the first thing you want to do, and this is
really important, is really check where the plugs, the extension cords,
where the light sockets, and make sure that moisture can't
get in those do create a problem that would then
protect your house and shut everything off in terms of
the electricity. But one of the things you can help
(15:55):
yourself when you're doing this, and like I said, a
lot of people going to be decorating over the next
four weeks is the connections outside. Maybe you're doing the bushes,
maybe you're doing some trees and jumping down to the bushes.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Is is keep the.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Connections off the ground. That's that's kind of rule number one.
And if you want to wrap the plug connections with
a plastic wrap outdoor covers for electrical connections also, so
we want to take moisture out of play, and then
(16:35):
really inspect the lights in the cords even before you
get them up, and look for nicks and cracks and
cracks in the insulation. And boy, if you stored those
lighting fixtures up in the attic. We spoke about that
a lot a year ago about that's a no. No attics,
(16:55):
even if they're ventilating, get very, very hot in that
insulation around the holiday lights just is not that good.
It's not designed to last long, and it's not designed
to last in the heat of an attic. And then
you might as well, just discard it. Even a small
(17:18):
leak around, maybe even the outlet box. A GFI with
would usually have insulated covers that snap over the outlet,
but they're open when they're plugged in, and moisture gets
in there and that can cause the problem. Make sure
the extension cords you're using are all marked UL and
(17:38):
outdoor use. And you know it used to be we
would trip gfis because we had incandescent bulbs on our
outdoor lights. Well they're all all i'd say for the
most part, probably ninety five percent led now, so it's
(17:58):
really hard to have too many lights plugged into one outlet.
But that used to trip him a lot also. But anyway,
if it does, you know, shut everything off, press the
reset and then you can test to make sure it
resets properly. If it's not resetting, it could be the
(18:23):
ground fall circuit interrupt itself.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But usually.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I can almost guarantee it. You might even be the
one that just says all that outlet's bad. No, it's
probably not. It's probably doing its job. So if you
can unplug it and let it sit for a minute
or so and then plug it back in, it should reset. Otherwise,
you win, and it is the outlet. But in most cases.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Moisture moisture, moisture moisture.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So keep the lights, keep the extension course, keep as
much as you can off the ground. You'll be way
ahead of the game because it's very frustrating when that
when that happens, and you can kind of start, uh,
you know, also paying attention if it trips only during
wet weather, shower, snow, et cetera. It's a good signed.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Too, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Coming up Adam Smith from Demand Global, We're going to
talk about removing lead based paints just to crily paints,
oil paints, paints.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Uh, he'll teach us how and what to use. That's next.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Time to get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan. Give
them a call at one eight eight two three talk.
You're at home with Gary Cellivant.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You've heard me talk about Awesome for years in their
fantastic lineup of products has just gotten better. If you're
in a hot tub, spa swimming pool, jetted tub, dishwasher
wash machine, you'd need to be using one of Awesome's
powerful products designed to clean the internal plumbing of all
the gunk and grime that builds up. Awesome removes the
bile contaminants that lead to stinky, smelly, and dangerous bacteria.
(20:22):
For more information and to get your Awesome today, head
on over to Awesome dot com, Amazon, Walmart, or your
favorite retailer. Fall cleanup just got easier with Jaws the
just Add Water system. From streak free glass to heavy
duty grime. Jaws delivers pro strength cleaners trusted by the pros.
Jaws Glass Cleaner, Crystal Clear shine every time, Jaws Cream
(20:45):
cleanser your fall, MVP tackling, grills, tools, even rust. There's
a Jaws cleaner for every room. Shop now at jawscleans
dot com. Jaws is tough on dirt, easy on you.
Trust me, you're gonna love it. That's Jaws cleans dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I talk about a lot of products that can make
your life easier, and I use and love ter Mender.
It repairs tears and all types of clothing, fabrics, leather,
even buttons. It's time to get those holiday decorations out,
and it's one product you gotta have around your home.
In fact, listeners tell me tear menders you must have
for all their holiday decoration repairs. No so gifts, holiday
crafts and stocking stuffers. Tear Meinders available at your local
(21:23):
hardware store Amazon or find a store at tear mender
dot com and find more great make doing men's solutions
and ideas folks. Gary solvent here. If your gutters are
overflowing and causing water damage, listen up gutter brushes. The
gutter guard that slides right in, no tools, no installation, headaches,
and it works keeps leaves in, debris out so water
flows freely. Right now, get thirty percent off plus free
(21:45):
shipping with my exclusive code Gary thirty Act fast offer
ends and days. Go to gutterbrush dot com or use
code Gary. Call eight A eight three ninety seven ninety
four to thirty three, made in the USA, Trusted for
twenty years. Don't wait order now.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well, let's get back to work.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We're thirty three minutes after the top of the iron.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan. Joining me now is
Adam Smith. He's the vice president of North American retail
sales for Dumont Global. You've heard me talk about Dumont
Global and the smart strip and.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Adam welcome again at home with Gary Sullivan. How no
world are you doing.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I'm fantastic, Gary, thanks for having me again. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Well, i'll tell you what we're at that time of year,
we're s going to be spending a lot more time indoors,
and we start thinking about stripping surfaces, maybe a garage floor,
banquet table, and of course I always turn to Dumont Global.
Tell us a little bit about Dumont Global. I mean,
you guys got forty years of experienced manufacturing sturing, water based,
(23:01):
user friendly products. You were a kind of ahead of
the curve.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah, we kind of work. Forty years ago, we made
a decision to kind of be a little bit safer
alternative in the paint removal category. And we all know
in nineteen seventy eight they outlawed lead based paint, So
about forty years ago we decided to come out of
the product that would work to remove lead based paints safely,
easily and effectively. And that's when we came up with
(23:29):
Peva Way one for that product to actually remove up
to thirty coatings of organic lead based oil alka based paints. Okay,
it's a simple process, it's ritually no VOCs in the products,
So using the dendors is not a problem. You put
it on, put our performance paper over the top of it,
(23:54):
test it and see how long it's going to take
to remove that coding. Now that's if you know that
surface is actually older than nineteen seventy eight. Okay, And
we've talked about this in the past with our test kits.
With our test kits, that way you guarantee you know
type of coatings you need to remove. It's going to
be more of a modern coating like you know your
(24:15):
water based latex paints, or you're even more modern, you're
two part of proxies, you're a thane and all last
Americ coatings. So once you test, you find the right product,
and then you would you would proceed with the project.
And in this case, if you're using PA one, you
put it on, you leave it set, you test it,
see how long it takes to get down to the
(24:36):
base level of wood or metal, whatever the surface is,
and then you can go from there. And the nice
thing there's no airborne lead, so all the leg gets
encapsulated in the performance paine.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'll tell you that's a big project, but so worthy
because you know, if you're living a home that was built,
you know, early nineteen hundreds or eight late eighteen hundreds.
I mean the lead based paint. You could have thirty
five coats of paint on walls, and if you're rehabbing,
it's kind of a dangerous house.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Absolutely. I mean, you think about a home that was
built in nineteen seventy for old guys like us. It
doesn't seem like it was that long ago, but it
was really quite quite a long time ago. And so
you just think about those homes as well. You know,
people painted their fireplaces that were you know, that were
brown at one time. They put multiple coats of paint
on there. So you know, we offer the opportunity, your
(25:31):
options to remove that paint and bring it back. And
you know, the nice thing with the restoration projects out there,
people are starting to understand that you don't find wood
like this anymore. Oh carrying the wood out, throwing it out.
They're trying to preserve it and bring it down to
its natural beauty that it was once was.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, the carpentry on that wood or the milling or
whatever you call it, the ornate features of it are
just you don't see that anymore. I mean, the only
way you're ever going to enjoy that is to restore it.
So that would be the keel away one. But if
I've got a mom's dresser that I'm going to restore,
(26:14):
that's a whole different ballgame, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Yeah, it really is. Again, we always suggest testing, okay,
but if you know you purchased that dresser in nineteen
eighty nine, you're probably going to be perfectly fine to
use you the smart Strip Advance or smart Stript Pro.
And it's really the same process. You do the test,
find out which product works best. Apply either smart Shript
(26:38):
Pro or smart Shrip Advanced, cover it with the performance paper.
Test it, let it sit, see how long it takes
to get down to that base layer. And the nice
thing is using the performance paper it helps it here
the product, the smart strip to the surface because you
don't want penting. What will happen if you have multiple
layers of paints and you just leave it, it'll start
(27:01):
to bubble up. And once it starts to do that,
the product red you know there's multiple layers underneath there.
It won't touch those areas. So the performance paper it
holds everything in place. And then when it times when
it comes time to scrape it off, you're scraping it
right into.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The paper, so it that way.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, So this is a job that's a whole lot
easier than the old days of methylene chloride, right because
I remember that and outside of it being extremely caustic,
but you know, you'd get that, you'd get like thick
soup on the top of a dresser and you're trying
in the newspaper or something, I mean or metal can.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yeah, that old stuff is pretty pretty nasty. And the
one thing with our products you mentioned earlier about doing
projects indoors, especially in the winter time, we're very very
low VOCs with our product. Okay, but you don't have
that harsh chemical smell that you get a lot with
(28:07):
the you know, petroleum based type of removers. Sure, okay,
so you don't get those harsh fumes, you don't have
to keep the windows open. Fully, it's a much easier,
much safer project. Then.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, you read those old cans and it was like
turn off your furnace burner and open your windows. Well
I'm not doing that at thirty exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
And you know, non flammability is important as well. You
know those other products we'd mentioned, like you just said,
turn everything off. You don't want to spark, you don't
want to fire. You just want to be able to
do the job the way you want to do it right.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, So let me reverse just a little bit, because
these you feel away one that you were talking about
and then the smarts rip Advantage Advanced or pro. There
are really two different, big, different products.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And I guess correct.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Dumont Global is a global company and it's sold around
the world, and there's some big structures that I know
Dumont Global was involved in. It was like stripping the
Niffel Tower is not what I would consider a small job.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
No, it's that's that's a very that's a multi year job.
So yeah, so Eiffel Tower is one of the projects
are using our product down. They've used it on the
Brooklyn Bridge. One of the cool ones is the Hollywood
Signing California. They've used it at the Louver Museum in France,
the Sydney Harbor Bridge and if you're in France, the
(29:49):
Chateau de Prunand is an old chateau that was purchased
and these two people are rehabbing the house or chateau,
not a house but a and that's in Guardoo friends.
So yes, our products are used all around the world
because they weren't. They're and they're safe.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah. So one of the things I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
We just had some conversations on the show regarding garage floors.
You know I've used for years, twenty years now. The
garage floor has become a modern day foyer, and you
know we used to talk about clean them up and
getting ridd of oil spots.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
We still do. And now we're.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Talking about coatings on there. You know, we have the
box the POxy coatings, which I still managed and claim
that you'll be doing really well if you get four
to six years out of it. At some point you
may want to improve because science has improved in the
(30:52):
type of coatings and you can grind it off right
or you can strip it off. And this is kind
of where we get into, well, which one of the
those products do I use? And you do alright, test yet,
so tell me a little bit about the test it
and then tell me what product to wemove like in
epoxy coating.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
So if you can use if it's an epoxy floor,
the test kit will definitely drow right down to the
smart script pro what we would call blue That would
be the product that you definitely want to use, is
that was designed to go after you know, dual part
of poxyse erothans, elastameric coatings and the more complex coatings
(31:32):
that are coming out. And again process is very simple.
You put it down, cover it with paper, come back script,
scrape it off with the paper and throw it out
and rinse it down with water. The nice thing about
all of our products, you literally use water to clean
the surface to get any residual off. There are other
(31:54):
products out there that you have to use after washes
or mineral spirits and things like that after you move,
so you're using a chemical to remove a chemical with ours.
Once you are done, you literally just use water to
clean that up. So you can pressure wash it off,
you can scrub it off, rinse it off with a
(32:14):
spray bottle if it's a smaller area. There's things I
brought out to my yard, hosted down with my with
my gardens.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So here's a question.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know if I've ever but you know, we
talk a lot about decks on this show, and I
know that's a stain, but there's also solid color stains
that are used. There's these resurfacing decks, which again I'm
not a fan of, but would your test kit identify well,
(32:47):
I know it would identify which strip to use, which
stripper to use.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, and in that case it would be the perfect
time to use the test kit just to make sure
that's doing what you expec expected to do. And in
most cases, in most cases, one of the three products
will work. And if it's a modern deck, obviously it
will be Smart Strip Advanced or Smart Strip Pro. If
it's more of a modern deck, you know, concrete seilers
(33:17):
will work great on concrete seilers as well.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
This is a fascinating and not to confuse people, but
the majority of coatings is going to be able to
be removed by the Smart Strip Advance correct.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
If it's more of a modern absolutely, yeah, that is
one of the safest ones you'll find in the marketplace.
The nice thing about it doesn't have a huge horrible
scent or smell, and we don't mask them with other
sense the red, green or the blue. So so, but you.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I was gonna say, you guys got it right, and
that's probably why you were kind of first out of
the box here. But so many other people have done
different things and their their kind of story is it
removes coatings. Well, it doesn't remove all the coatings. It's
got some bad press over the years. Other brands and
you guys now have developed a test kit where if
(34:20):
you're not sure, and most of us wouldn't be, it
doesn't matter. You can get a test it and be
one hundred percent sure, or you can go with the
smart strip and probably be eighty ninety percent sure.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
It sounds like it's a little bit of a back
you know.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
We like to say you're going to narrow it down
to probably ninety okay, using the testkit, one of our
products is gonna work. You know. I recently talked to
a gentleman that decided not to use a test it
and went out and bought a bunch of gallons and
the product didn't work.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, if you're going to go to that length.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Right, I'd prefer you to spend a little bit of money.
I think it's a job done correctly. You then spend
a lot of money to figure out you did it incorrectly,
then spend a lot of money to do it again.
We prefer you just want and done with our products.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So speak to me. Where do I get test kits?
Where do I get some of the Demong Global products?
Speaker 5 (35:16):
You can find them online, Gay do my global Amazon
at participating do it Best, in true value stores, your
local paint retailers, and in most Sherwan Williams. You'll be
able to find our three products out the shelves at
Sherwan Williams.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Well, Adam, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
This show for years has been designed to teach people
what's out in the market and make it as easy
as we can for it. And when you look at
it renovating a house and you got you know, twenty
coats of lead based paint on there, you want to
think that's not an easy project, but you certainly make
(35:58):
it doable about asy as you can be because you're
not going to send it off or that's a major
health concern, right.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
You know. The one thing I would like to you know,
offer up to your listenership, Gary, if in doubt call us.
We have people that can answer your questions. We have
really qualified people that can pretty much, i'm gonna say,
in most cases, be able to walk you through the
process because sometimes people just need that little bit of
(36:30):
help to push them over to do the job and
to do it properly. And we have people in place
in Pennsylvania they can answer these questions.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
For you for them very good. Do you happen to
have that number or not? I know, I can send
you your.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Well, I do give me one second.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Here and then while you're looking that up, I'll tell everybody.
Of course, the website is do momd Global dot com
and the number Adam.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Is going to should be six six five five seven
seven zero zero. And you can go on to our
website as well to get this information. Probably the better
way to direct people. Go there first, see if it
can answer some of your questions that if not, you
can call her number.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Very good, Thank you so much for your time. You
have a great holiday season, my friend. All right, thanks Gary,
you two I can take care of bye bye, all right,
tay a little break, come back and get your questions answered.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Help for your home.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Is just a click away at Garysullivan online dot com.
Is at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Hey, it's Gary Sullivan for Ruta, Ruter Plumbing and Water Cleanup,
a company that has been trusted and recommended for generations.
Coast to coast. Roto Router fixes clogged drains, leaky faucets
and running toilets. They repair and replace water heaters, garbage disposals,
some pumps, water softeners, and every other residential a commercial
plumbing fixture. I use Roto Ruter at my house and
(38:19):
you should leave plumbing to the pros too. Call one
eight hundred, get roto or go to rotrouter dot com today.
Ready to win Big dish Coding says hosting a Show
us our Countertops contest. Send in pictures of a kitchen
or bathroom countertop project you've done using their lux Rock,
Ultra Marble, Dream or Spreadstone Mineral Select countertop kits. You
(38:42):
could win cash our prizes. It's free and easy to
enter into October thirty. First, just visit dich codings dot
com for details. That's Daiicchcoatings dot com. Go ahead, show
them your dish coatings countertop. For over forty years, DeMont
has made powerful pain coding removers that are tough on
layers but safe for you in the environment. Tried demands
(39:03):
smart Strip Advanced. It works on over ninety percent of
the coatings, no harmful fumes, no dangerous chemicals, not sure
what you're removing. Well, Demon's easy test kit tells you
exactly what you need. Find smart strip that you're participating.
Do it best retailer Sherwin Williams or visit Dumont Global
dot com. That's Dumont Global dot Com. Dumont Smart, safe
(39:24):
and proven, so do it yourself with demand. Get chemicals
out of your life and come over to the natural
side with odo exit Odor Eliminator made with essential oils
and water.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
This essential oil based formula.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Contains no harsh chemicals, making it safe for moms, dads, babies,
and pets. It's even safe for those with sinus or
respiratory concerns or if you just hate artificial fragrances. Odor
exits Essential Oils Odor Eliminator just might be the healthiest
odor eliminator you can buy. Come to otor exit dot
com for the best pricing, combos and service. That's odor
(39:57):
exit dot Com. Oh, we certainly thank Adam Smith to
(40:25):
join us today.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
That was informative.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Hopefully you got something out of it, and that's what
it's all about. We try to well motivate you and
give you some ideas of things to use around your home.
You can join us. The phone lines are open. It's
eight hundred and eight two three A two five five.
And well as the weather begins to chill and get cold,
(40:51):
especially in some parts of the country, are going to
get the luck colder faster than other parts. Plumbing is
one of the things that seemed to get affected more
than anything else. Drains run slower, maybe water heaters give up,
and so there is a couple of management things and
maintenance things you can do around your home. Something that's
(41:14):
very simple. It doesn't take any amount of time, but
it seems something it seems a tad silly to do,
but I really recommend that you do do it, maybe
once a year, and that is and now would be
a good time, would be too. Take a walk around
(41:35):
the inside of your home and concentrate in areas where
you have the vanity underneath the kitchen cabinets, by the toilet,
you have supply valves in most cases, not in every home,
but in most cases you'll have a shut off underneath
the vanity, underneath the kitchen cabinet, underneath the toilet, and
(41:57):
go ahead and turn those off, and then turn the
water on, drain it and then turn it back on
and the reason you're doing that a is to make
sure that the valve is still functioning. And when you
turn it on and turn it off, then I want
you to just double check for leaks. I mean, we're
(42:17):
not trying to cause problems, but sometimes there's already an
issue and you don't know that there is an issue,
and you shut it off, you drain it, you close it,
you turn it back on, and put a little piece
of tissue paper underneath that and just make sure there's
not a drip or two on there in the next
(42:38):
hour or so.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Is a good.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
A good way to make sure there is no problem
at all. Another thing unscrewing the air raider on the
end of the faucet. That's the little cap. A lot
of times, not a lot of times, but sometimes there'll
be a lot of sentiment that builds up there, and
quite honestly, you're really not getting the full volume of
water out of your faucet just because the sentiment is
(43:06):
blocking the opening in the air rator. So those are
a couple of little plumbing things you can do, and
I guess the last one is just check the drains.
I got involved in this last week and so simple,
and especially the vanities. The ones that are used a lot,
(43:28):
I find are maybe the problem ones. It just turned
the water on and make sure all the water is
going down the drain and not causing some black In
other words, it's just not draining as smooth as it
normally does. And I've talked about a zip it strip,
a thirty inch long piece of plastic with little barbs
(43:51):
on it is a great way to do it.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
It took me this one vanity sink. It was very,
very slow.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
By the time I let the water run for maybe
thirty seconds, it was halfway up in the bowl. Well
there was something blocking it, and running that zippet down
there cleaned it out and you could just hear it
like somebody just unplugged it and the water went down,
and well it's maintained now. I won't have to worry
about that running slow anymore, all right. Our phone number
(44:19):
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
looking forward to your calls.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
And You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Home Improvement one oh one with Gary Sullivan. Every weekend
classes began at one eight hundred eighty two three tap.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
The depot, the contain,
At Home with Gary Sullivan News
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.