December 14, 2025 • 45 mins
In this hour of At Home with Gary Sullivan, Gary discusses the importance of maintaining your home's floors during the winter months. He talks about the risks of dragging in salt and ice melters, which can damage your floors. Dan Rosenberg, CEO of National Floor Direct, joins the show to share tips on preserving your current floors and exploring waterproof LVT options. They also discuss the benefits of regular maintenance, including vacuuming and cleaning, to prevent damage and extend the life of your floors.
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, it's a weekend welcome Aboard at Home with Gary
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are you know, maybe going a rye at your house.
Always talk about in extreme weather conditions, we have things fail,
and one of the things that fail is the hardware
on that garage door. Just a quick reminder if you
got some really really cold temperatures. You know, I'm not
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going to tell you not to use the garage door
of the garage door with the opener, because you're gonna
have to, But how important that is to keep that
well lubricated this time of year. So if you did
not get a chance to do that when we were
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Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just need to know what should the humidity be
in the house when it's this cold outside.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, i'd say thirty thirty five percent? Oh okay, yeah,
that's kind of dry.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Around forty Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's you know what that's Your windows aren't sweating or anything, well,
they are, okay, So it's a little ubited. In the summertime,
really fifty to fifty five percent. In the wintertime, it's
kind of a sliding scale. That's why I was a
little hesitant when I asked. In the winter, when it's
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thirty two degrees outside, the probably perfect humidity is thirty
five to forty percent. When it gets down to twenty,
it's probably thirty percent. When is below that, really twenty
five percent is fine, But you get up to forty percent,
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which is usually perfect, you're probably gonna start having some
condensation on the windows. So I don't know just watch.
I wouldn't panic over it. I mean, it's really not
hurting anything. It's only really hurting things if we just
have that all the time, and you know, we don't
dry the window sill or it's dripping on plaster or
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wood and can cause you know, that to degrade a
little bit, so you know, keep an eye on. You
don't want that like that every day. But I kind
of enjoy the moisture right now. And you know, run
the fan when you're cooking, run the fan when you're showering,
and that'll that'll slowly lower.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, we have an april air. Oh okay, you know,
and control.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It that way, okay, rottle.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, already, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Bye bye. I have to
check mine. I'm gonna bet you it's about thirty two.
I don't know that, but I'm gonna guess it is.
I had noticed the April air was a couple of
weeks ago. I was downstairs and downstairs which is always
more humid than probably most of our homes, and it
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was like twenty five percent. It's like, why in the world, man,
that's crazy dry and upstairs in the living area and
you know, you got some plans, you got cooking going on,
you got showers, and we are pretty good with a fan.
But it and it was like thirty three percent. It
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was kind of cold, but it was it was that's
really perfect. But it was really dry in the basement.
And you know, I'm always talking about air exchanging easy
breathe and how good it is for evacuating, you know,
the polluted air which usually settles down in the basement
and there's a umdistat on there and I usually just
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I've said it many times on the show, I just
keep it on on year round. Well, when I saw
a twenty percent humidity in the basement, that's probably a
little too dry. Didn't feel dry, certainly, didn't smell moist,
it didn't smell mildewy like it does or it can
in the summertime. So I put that on on low,
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which was about forty thirty percent, and that humidity went up,
so it's it was running. I guess it was last week.
It was running about thirty five percent in the basement,
which I thought was really good. But that's also another proof,
you know, how those air exchangers work. And like I said,
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there is a humidistat depending on the generation of it,
a humidistat or there's a high, medium low. And in
the winter time, you know, you can set that thirty
five forty percent in the basement, you'd be golden. In
the summertime, you'll probably struggle like heck to get it
to that point. But set it at fifty to fifty
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five percent or just turn it on. And in a summertime,
I always just turn it on on because there's there's
a lot going on in basements in the summertime where
it does have a it's a haven for humidity levels.
Uh So with all the moisture, it's it's coming through
walls and coming up through floors. And I'm not talking
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about a leak. I'm just talking about water vapor. And again,
when you have too much humidity in your home in
the summertime, you're uncomfortable. And it might even smell a
little mildewy in your home, but mainly you'll just feel uncomfortable.
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You'll have to turn the air. Can it surn down
a little bit, get a little bit more of that
humidity out of there in the winter time, a little humidity,
a little too much humidity is going to show up,
just as she said, as water droplets on the windows.
Don't panic, don't panic. You can check the windows, make
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sure they're locked, make sure there's not a lot of
draft there. And if there is, we can talk about
eliminating and fixing that too. But if it's just the
water vapor hitting a cold window and shedding some of
that moisture into water droplets, you're okay. I mean, you're okay.
You don't want that like that every day during the
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winter because you could start having some damage to the
wood sills or the plaster. But you know, if you
have it for a few days, it's not a big deal.
But that's where your humidity levels should be. When I
was talking about a drafting to window, make sure the
window is locked. I mean, that's step number one. There
is weather stripping on like a double hung window, and
when you lock it, it pushes that window against the
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other window and the frames and it creates the seal.
And if they're older windows and you can lock them
and you know, they still rattle because that it's not
getting that weather stripping up against it. I've mentioned this
a lot of times. I don't know if have you
ever tried it. But if you can feel a lot
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of draft coming through that window or around the sides
of the window, or when it was real windy, maybe
a couple days ago, and you hear the windows rattling,
there's a there, there's clocking out there. Draft stop peel away.
It's a clear cocking. You can colck that window closed.
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I know it sounds crazy, it's clear. You can't tell it,
and it eliminate that draft. And when you know it
becomes early spring and you want to ventilate the house
or something, you just take your fingernail and just peel
that calocking away. So simple to use, and if it
and it'll really stop a lot of the draft, and
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if you want to really create a little dead space,
then you can use the draft stop peel away calock
the window closed, the double hung window, just do at
the top and do it the sides. If it's a casement,
you do around the whole thing where it hits that
metal bar in the center. There's still plenty of those
windows out there, and cock it close. And then take
those window wraps storm window plastic. It's a double sided
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tape and it's a shrink proof plastic. Put that on
hit it with a hair dryer and you can't tell
there's a piece of plastic up there. Then you create
a dead space. You're not going to worry about water
vapor showing up on that because you have eliminated the draft.
You had created a dead air pocket. That plastic's never
going to get that cold to collect the condensation. All right.
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So I want to talk a little bit about protection
for your chairs. Well, it's actually not protection for your chair.
It's more protection for the flooring under your chairs. And
you know, if you've got an island and you got
you know, three or four barstools, and then you've got
a table over there, and maybe they're wrought iron, and
you've got you six chairs over there, and you've got
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a I don't know, a laminate or an engineered floor,
and all of a sudden, the holidays come and you
have more people in there, and you haven't really been
paying attention, you know, to the maintenance of your chairs.
I mean, at first you kind of think, who worries
about the maintenance of your chairs? But if I paint
a scenario, you may say, oh, I've had that problem before,
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or geez, I think I got that problem now. And
that is, if you move the table chairs around, or
you slide the bar stools out, and you just it
just doesn't slide, there's a good chance that the protector
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at the bottom of that chair, be it wrought iron
or wood or whatever, has been compromised or is missing,
or you have worn through the nylon cap that fits
at the bottom of that chair leg. So when the
holidays come and we start having a little more kitchen traffic,
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if you will, and those chairs start being moved around
and maybe moved around without a whole lot of care
or thought, which certainly happens this time of year, we
end up with scratches. We end up with scratches. An
engineered wood floor or regular wood flooring or even LVT
can be damaged. So if you just very easy. First
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of all, it's so easy, you don't really have to
do anything special. Just pay attention to maybe the chairs
you use in that kitchen area and how well do
they slide or don't they slide well at all? Or
are they unbalanced and they rock a little bit? Because
these are so easily repaired. And by the way, those
little glides on the bottom of a chair leg, they're
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not real expensive, but they're not cheap either, So and
if you change one, quite honestly, I'd take a look
at all of them. Just did this. It's probably been
about six months, but I started having a you know,
a kitchen where the counter is the stool there that
I use. It was very clunky, okay, And we have
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ceramic tile in the kitchen, so I didn't have to
worry about it really damaging the top per se, but
it could scratch it. They were a metal stool, if
you will, and there were natural glides on the bottom
of that which would allow that to move comfortably across
the floor. And I was thinking at that point, geez,
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if that was wood or something a I might not
even notice it. And b if I did notice it
but not in time, it certainly could lead to scratches.
So if you just pay attention to how well the
table or the chair slide, and just maybe walk through
the kitchen pull out stools, pull out chairs, and just
you know, see see how well they glide on the
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floor itself. And if they don't glide very well, before
the holidays, in the rampage of people coming to your home,
you get those repaired. You can repair them again, very
easy to do on them little barstool, there might be
little nylon caps that just snap onto the bottom, or
maybe it's a metal where you're actually going to put
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the tubular steel into and it's got a metal glide
or a nylon glide underneath it. There's even adjustments, there's
felt glides, try and find what you have on there
and maybe the you know, duplicate that or change them
all out to another type of glide. But again it's
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just thinking ahead. I know a lot of times on
this show we always address you know, the incident, the accident,
the thing that happened, and if we had just taken
a little step back and looked at the bigger picture
of things that could go wrong and things that might
you might want to check really can save you some
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damage to your house or to a floor or or whatever.
You know, It's like it's it's all encompassing. This is
the time of year. Animals love to get into our homes,
you know. I always talk about looking around the Soviet
lines of your home, look for openings. So that kind
of forward thinking can save you, you know, a costly
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repair to your home. And speaking of floors, we are
going to have the man that's going to help us
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all right, let's get back to work. Where thirty three
minutes after the top of the hour and you're at
home with Gary Sullivan has stated. Dan Rosenberg is joining us.
He's the CEO of National floor Direct and Dan, welcome
that home with Gary Salvan. How you doing, Gary, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Great to be here. I really appreciate the opportunity to
call into the show.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You're great, welcome. I'm looking out. I'm looking outside, Dan,
and there's like six inches of snow at zero degrees.
I wanted to stay out there, but I know it's
going to get inside.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luckily for me. You know, I've got
a different view nowadays. I'm actually calling in from South Florida.
But the majority of the folks that represent our business
are dealing with the same stuff as you are right now.
I think anywhere from from Maine all the way down
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to Maryland right now. So everybody's in the same boat.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah for sure. So as this melts, and as we
use ice melters and calcium chlorides, and you know, we
we dragged this into our home, and I guess you
know you're you're familiar with all different types of flooring
products too. I guess the first thing is give us
some tips on preserving what we have, and then we'll
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talk about maybe some different flooring products that you know
stand up to that abuse a little bit better than others.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Absolutely. Yeah, So the the benefit for most homeowners today
is that most floring products that we have installed in
our homes right now have been manufactured with these sorts
of things in mind, whether they're five years or ten
years or twenty years old. All these synthetic flooring options
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like carpet, laminate, vinyl flooring, even a lot of pre
finished hardwood flooring as these sorts of inherent protections ingrained
in them through the manufacturing process nowadays. So we can
talk about new flooring options a little bit later, but
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as far as what folks can do, it's exactly what
you're talking about. How do we protect what's on the
floor now from what's outside the home. Well, let's just
logically prepare the entry areas of our home for what
we know is going to come in and out right,
heavy foot traffic, cold flush, rocks, salt, chemicals, sand, all
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the stuff that we're using to treat the roads and
sidewalks and things like that. Outside the home. We want
to keep those exactly like you said, outside so entry mats,
walk off mats for inside the house. Really during this
time of year, trying to urge everyone to keep those
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shoes and boots at the door. And you know, frankly,
whether you have heart surface flooring or carpeting, the best
thing you can do is vacuum all those areas frequently
high suction vacuum, rotating beet bar. Try to keep all
that dirt and grit and debris off the floors at
all costs.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Sure, so getting rid of the residue and stuff. I
guess even pH neutral products would probably work a little
bit for we don't have any reaction with different flooring products.
Is that a good tip?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Sure? Yeah, I think you know, when you're talking about uh,
you know, floor maintenance, I mean anything that's non abrasive
or not overly uh encumbered with chemicals is obviously the
best thing you can do. But as simple as wiping
your floor with uh you know, not a soaking wet
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mop but a kind of damp rag. At these times
of year, keeping everything dry, keeping everything clean, and really
trying to think about how you keep those little rocks
and and bits of things that get caught on people's
shoes from from tracking around the homes and causing those
gouges and scratches on your hard floors.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yep, yeah, keep it clean, wipe it down. I love
the you know, the good vacuuming too, because especially you
know there's some of the older homes. You walk in
the front door, you're writing carpet and you know that's
that's a main traffic aisle, and you know, all that
grit that you're talking about in dirt gets down into
the fibers of the carpet. It's not good for the carpet.
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It gets sold faster and really deep. I had somebody
tell me a long time ago, Dan, you might you
can use this sign. I feel like carpet doesn't wear out.
It ugly is out?
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Sure it does. And you know you can see carpeting,
especially in the entry and high traffic areas of homes
that really visibly appears dirty. But it could be the
cleanest carpet there is.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
When you get those little bits of rocks and debris
that get dammed in there through improper care and maintenance,
it damages the pile and that damages the aesthetic of
the carpet. Over time, sure, and that's how you start
to see that added or discolored look relative to the
rest of your space.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Is flooring?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I know, there's so. I mean, our homes have changed
so much. Once everything was wood, then everything was carpet,
and now we've got ceramic, we got laminits, we got LVT,
we got LVP, we got all kinds of things. Is
flooring g a graphical? I mean, does does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I mean, believe it or not? You know, my my
business operates in uh in fourteen states and the district
of Columbia, and the trends and flooring are pretty ubiquitous
even within those areas. You know, I think folks consistently
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love carpet in the in the more comfortable areas of
the home, the bedrooms, the living rooms, and for the
more practical areas LVT luxury vinyl plank, luxury vinyl tile. However,
we want to quantify this, you know, there's a there's
all different classifications. Is is and has become over the
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past five or eight years, a clear winner in terms
of practicality for for the home or even for for
a high traffic commercial states.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I agree the LVT is just just taught as a
firecraker right now. Still remember the fast time I saw
the International Builder Show, I stood on there, so you
stand on wood right now and yeah, yeah, yeah, I
am right, good looking stuff. How about basements. I mean
we've seen, especially since COVID, people looking for more room
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in their homes, exercise rooms, offices, maybe not a theater room,
but a place to watch TV and stuff, get a
lot of cage. Yeah, garage, Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The garage is like the new basement. Yeah right, But yeah,
for basements, I think again it comes down to personal preference.
You know, carpet is always going to require a little
bit more maintenance and a little bit more care to
keep the longevity from it than something like a heart
surface product. But I think practical application for carpet in
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the basement again, like you said, movie room, sound reduction,
comfort style, a little bit of warmth, especially during those
winter months. Uh, you want to focus on keeping it dry,
keeping a climate controlled, keeping things vacuumed and fresh, hard surface.
Let's say if you were to put LVT into your basement, Uh,
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you're going to put it down once and never change it, right,
but you know, keep it, keep it clean, keep it dry, mopped,
make sure we take shoes off and install or at
least place walk off mats in all major entry and
exit points from the space.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So LVT is that waterproof? And I know some laminates
are termed water resistant and waterproof kind of walk us
through that.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yes, So waterproof is uh is? It is, let's say,
a classification that manufacturers are using for laminates and LVT
products these days. And it really has to do with
the construction of the product itself, like primarily the core board.
And so I think what we want to think about
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there is, especially in climates like the Northeast or you
all are located, when we have these dramatic shifts in
relative humidity and moisture and temperature from season to season.
If you go back ten years and you look at
the not only the vinyl products, but like specifically the
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laminate flooring products, these synthetic floring products, the amount of
expansion and contraction associated with those things has really been
mitigated through use of technology vinyl and stone composites, LVT
products and stale vinyl and other synthetic material composite core
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core boards for lamin apport and so you can get
this waterproof classification, which basically means that your floor isn't
going to buckle. Uh if you get a dishwasher pop
on it, or if you know, you get a reasonable
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amount of uh standing water, right, you have a chance
to save the floor. But if if we get a flood,
or if we get our toilet backed up and we
get you know, six inches of water, I think there
are other issues around the floor that are going to
impact the viability of the product going forward. Uh, these
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are these are where and longevity benefits asciate these coreboard features.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Right, So what things should people consider? What mistakes do
people make when picking out flooring? Now? In other words,
just kind of a buyer's guide if you can help
me with that, is it just cosmetic or you know,
kind of give me a little course on that.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, I think if and I'm sure this is consistent
throughout you know, most areas of home renovation. Right, really
getting a deep dive, a comprehensive understanding of what are
the most important factors to consider for your individual application,
and then relying on the right guidance, right, using a
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company that's going to help you make the right choices,
and rely on accurate and comprehensive information based on your
specific use case is the best way to do it.
I know that di Y and you know, home center,
let's say, cash and carry businesses is probably leading the
(33:47):
charge where customers can kind of I don't want to
say get misled, but go down the wrong path. But
you really want to make sure that you talk to
you know, a series of profects that understand the application,
that have been through the installation space and understand your
needs for the home so you can make the right choice.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
We answer a lot of those questions, Dan, and you're right.
I tell people all the time, you know, you got
to understand the project before you dive into the project.
Seems like simple advice, but very true. Tell me a
little bit about National floorce Direct.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Sure, so, National Force Direct. We're entering our twentieth year.
We're a direct to consumer in home sales and installation service,
you know, really specializing in residential replacement for covering products,
carpet would lamin it, final porcelain, and natural stone products.
(34:53):
Our tagline basically is, you know, we bring the store
to your door, and that's exactly what we try to do.
We try to really differentiate the experience that we provide
for consumers by you know, walking through their home, getting
a sense of how they use it, what they use
it for, and what their goals are for their replace
(35:13):
on foreign projects, so we can pose the right solutions
for their needs.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Very good people can get more informations at the website
also National floor diirect dot com.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
National floorsdirect dot com. It's eighty and eight four hundred floor.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Eight four hundred floor. That's creative. Did you come up
with that? Dan?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I wish, I wish.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Gerry, Hey, thank you so much for spending your sunday
with us. I certainly appreciate good timely advice. Just to
wrap it up, maintenance when you get harsh weather and
stuff man shoes off, vacuum mop, worket.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Vacuum mop, put those signs up, shoes off when you
come in. Yeah, we keep those boots outside in the garage,
keep him outside in the in the mudroom or the vestibule,
and really try to keep those floors as clean and
free of any kind of debris as possible, especially during
these challenging months, and especially during those inclement periods with
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snow and slush on the ground.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I'm guiltiest charged on many of those.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
But they're all working on it, he is.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
But yeah, hey, appreciate it. Thanks for joining us, Gary,
Thanks so much, all right, take care. Dan Rosenberg, you
bet you. He's the CEO of National floor Direct and
we thank him for joining us today again if you
want to check that out. A nice website, National Floorsdirect
dot com and you can always call him at eight
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during those hours, and you can maybe pick up some
tips to make your home improvement projects go a little
bit easier. Well, that was interesting, and I know how
busy our houses will all become. And I was just
talking about, you know, floor protectors being used on chairs,
and then he's talking about dragging you know, little tiny
(40:43):
rocks and sand and you know, salt into the floors
and the damage that it does, and certainly a lot
of that goes on when he's talking about the floors
and garages. That is a big trend we've been talking about.
I think niches for garages, maybe not so much of
creating another room. But I have to tell you when
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he said garages have become a new basement, he's exactly correct.
There's no question about that. We see people cleaning out
garages and altering them a little bit, eliminating garage doors,
me putting in you know, filling those garage door openers,
or even keeping the garage doors some cases and having
(41:31):
screens that come down. But creating a room in the
garage absolutely and like I said, seeing a lot of that,
a waterproof LVT is really a perfect flooring solution for that,
as is for a basement floor. But if you're not
going that far and you just want to just get
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the junk out of the garages step one for many
of us, and getting that all cleaned out, and then
maybe you just spending a little money in a little time.
You know, whether you do it in the winter and
you got an insulate a gradu door to keep your
warm when you're doing the project, or you wait till spring,
getting the gunk out and then putting it together in
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an organized fashion and then looking at working on the floor.
We've talked about Dice coatings. They have an industrial POxy,
they have the roller rock, they have a spreadstone product.
They are just wonderful floor coverings and you put a
(42:35):
gloss sealer on it which is slip resistant, and like
I said many times, it's an entryway to our homes
in a lot of cases, and that's not really a
flooring product. That's just a celant or it's a decorative
finish on that. And in some of the new polyurea
floors that are professionally applied, that's another option. And then
(42:55):
there's even you know, like I said, if you're waterproof
and stuff, and then use the water proof LVT and
you're not going to have the car in there, that's fine.
You can take a look at that type of flooring.
So I guess the real thing we're maintaining what we
got and what a surprise here is just a maintenance
of keeping it clean, staying on top of it, you know,
(43:18):
removing the risk of any damage of floors, of carrying
in abrasives on that floor, changing the bottoms on chair
legs and things like that will sure make your floors
last so much longer. So yeah, that might be something
maybe you don't do it right before the holiday. Maybe
it's something you take a look at afterwards and kind
(43:39):
of do different assessments of the rooms in your home
and also doing assessments of the exterior of your home.
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Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just need to know what should the humidity be
in the house when it's this cold outside.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, i'd say thirty thirty five percent? Oh okay, yeah,
that's kind of dry.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Around forty Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's you know what that's Your windows aren't sweating or anything, well,
they are, okay, So it's a little ubited. In the summertime,
really fifty to fifty five percent. In the wintertime, it's
kind of a sliding scale. That's why I was a
little hesitant when I asked. In the winter, when it's
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thirty two degrees outside, the probably perfect humidity is thirty
five to forty percent. When it gets down to twenty,
it's probably thirty percent. When is below that, really twenty
five percent is fine, But you get up to forty percent,
(04:17):
which is usually perfect, you're probably gonna start having some
condensation on the windows. So I don't know just watch.
I wouldn't panic over it. I mean, it's really not
hurting anything. It's only really hurting things if we just
have that all the time, and you know, we don't
dry the window sill or it's dripping on plaster or
(04:39):
wood and can cause you know, that to degrade a
little bit, so you know, keep an eye on. You
don't want that like that every day. But I kind
of enjoy the moisture right now. And you know, run
the fan when you're cooking, run the fan when you're showering,
and that'll that'll slowly lower.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, we have an april air. Oh okay, you know,
and control.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It that way, okay, rottle.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, already, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Bye bye. I have to
check mine. I'm gonna bet you it's about thirty two.
I don't know that, but I'm gonna guess it is.
I had noticed the April air was a couple of
weeks ago. I was downstairs and downstairs which is always
more humid than probably most of our homes, and it
(05:30):
was like twenty five percent. It's like, why in the world, man,
that's crazy dry and upstairs in the living area and
you know, you got some plans, you got cooking going on,
you got showers, and we are pretty good with a fan.
But it and it was like thirty three percent. It
(05:50):
was kind of cold, but it was it was that's
really perfect. But it was really dry in the basement.
And you know, I'm always talking about air exchanging easy
breathe and how good it is for evacuating, you know,
the polluted air which usually settles down in the basement
and there's a umdistat on there and I usually just
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I've said it many times on the show, I just
keep it on on year round. Well, when I saw
a twenty percent humidity in the basement, that's probably a
little too dry. Didn't feel dry, certainly, didn't smell moist,
it didn't smell mildewy like it does or it can
in the summertime. So I put that on on low,
(06:38):
which was about forty thirty percent, and that humidity went up,
so it's it was running. I guess it was last week.
It was running about thirty five percent in the basement,
which I thought was really good. But that's also another proof,
you know, how those air exchangers work. And like I said,
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there is a humidistat depending on the generation of it,
a humidistat or there's a high, medium low. And in
the winter time, you know, you can set that thirty
five forty percent in the basement, you'd be golden. In
the summertime, you'll probably struggle like heck to get it
to that point. But set it at fifty to fifty
(07:20):
five percent or just turn it on. And in a summertime,
I always just turn it on on because there's there's
a lot going on in basements in the summertime where
it does have a it's a haven for humidity levels.
Uh So with all the moisture, it's it's coming through
walls and coming up through floors. And I'm not talking
(07:41):
about a leak. I'm just talking about water vapor. And again,
when you have too much humidity in your home in
the summertime, you're uncomfortable. And it might even smell a
little mildewy in your home, but mainly you'll just feel uncomfortable.
(08:04):
You'll have to turn the air. Can it surn down
a little bit, get a little bit more of that
humidity out of there in the winter time, a little humidity,
a little too much humidity is going to show up,
just as she said, as water droplets on the windows.
Don't panic, don't panic. You can check the windows, make
(08:25):
sure they're locked, make sure there's not a lot of
draft there. And if there is, we can talk about
eliminating and fixing that too. But if it's just the
water vapor hitting a cold window and shedding some of
that moisture into water droplets, you're okay. I mean, you're okay.
You don't want that like that every day during the
(08:47):
winter because you could start having some damage to the
wood sills or the plaster. But you know, if you
have it for a few days, it's not a big deal.
But that's where your humidity levels should be. When I
was talking about a drafting to window, make sure the
window is locked. I mean, that's step number one. There
is weather stripping on like a double hung window, and
when you lock it, it pushes that window against the
(09:12):
other window and the frames and it creates the seal.
And if they're older windows and you can lock them
and you know, they still rattle because that it's not
getting that weather stripping up against it. I've mentioned this
a lot of times. I don't know if have you
ever tried it. But if you can feel a lot
(09:33):
of draft coming through that window or around the sides
of the window, or when it was real windy, maybe
a couple days ago, and you hear the windows rattling,
there's a there, there's clocking out there. Draft stop peel away.
It's a clear cocking. You can colck that window closed.
(09:53):
I know it sounds crazy, it's clear. You can't tell it,
and it eliminate that draft. And when you know it
becomes early spring and you want to ventilate the house
or something, you just take your fingernail and just peel
that calocking away. So simple to use, and if it
and it'll really stop a lot of the draft, and
(10:13):
if you want to really create a little dead space,
then you can use the draft stop peel away calock
the window closed, the double hung window, just do at
the top and do it the sides. If it's a casement,
you do around the whole thing where it hits that
metal bar in the center. There's still plenty of those
windows out there, and cock it close. And then take
those window wraps storm window plastic. It's a double sided
(10:40):
tape and it's a shrink proof plastic. Put that on
hit it with a hair dryer and you can't tell
there's a piece of plastic up there. Then you create
a dead space. You're not going to worry about water
vapor showing up on that because you have eliminated the draft.
You had created a dead air pocket. That plastic's never
going to get that cold to collect the condensation. All right.
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A line open for you. Danny Boy is ready to
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So I want to talk a little bit about protection
for your chairs. Well, it's actually not protection for your chair.
It's more protection for the flooring under your chairs. And
you know, if you've got an island and you got
you know, three or four barstools, and then you've got
a table over there, and maybe they're wrought iron, and
you've got you six chairs over there, and you've got
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a I don't know, a laminate or an engineered floor,
and all of a sudden, the holidays come and you
have more people in there, and you haven't really been
paying attention, you know, to the maintenance of your chairs.
I mean, at first you kind of think, who worries
about the maintenance of your chairs? But if I paint
a scenario, you may say, oh, I've had that problem before,
(15:10):
or geez, I think I got that problem now. And
that is, if you move the table chairs around, or
you slide the bar stools out, and you just it
just doesn't slide, there's a good chance that the protector
(15:32):
at the bottom of that chair, be it wrought iron
or wood or whatever, has been compromised or is missing,
or you have worn through the nylon cap that fits
at the bottom of that chair leg. So when the
holidays come and we start having a little more kitchen traffic,
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if you will, and those chairs start being moved around
and maybe moved around without a whole lot of care
or thought, which certainly happens this time of year, we
end up with scratches. We end up with scratches. An
engineered wood floor or regular wood flooring or even LVT
can be damaged. So if you just very easy. First
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of all, it's so easy, you don't really have to
do anything special. Just pay attention to maybe the chairs
you use in that kitchen area and how well do
they slide or don't they slide well at all? Or
are they unbalanced and they rock a little bit? Because
these are so easily repaired. And by the way, those
little glides on the bottom of a chair leg, they're
(16:37):
not real expensive, but they're not cheap either, So and
if you change one, quite honestly, I'd take a look
at all of them. Just did this. It's probably been
about six months, but I started having a you know,
a kitchen where the counter is the stool there that
I use. It was very clunky, okay, And we have
(17:01):
ceramic tile in the kitchen, so I didn't have to
worry about it really damaging the top per se, but
it could scratch it. They were a metal stool, if
you will, and there were natural glides on the bottom
of that which would allow that to move comfortably across
the floor. And I was thinking at that point, geez,
(17:23):
if that was wood or something a I might not
even notice it. And b if I did notice it
but not in time, it certainly could lead to scratches.
So if you just pay attention to how well the
table or the chair slide, and just maybe walk through
the kitchen pull out stools, pull out chairs, and just
you know, see see how well they glide on the
(17:46):
floor itself. And if they don't glide very well, before
the holidays, in the rampage of people coming to your home,
you get those repaired. You can repair them again, very
easy to do on them little barstool, there might be
little nylon caps that just snap onto the bottom, or
maybe it's a metal where you're actually going to put
(18:11):
the tubular steel into and it's got a metal glide
or a nylon glide underneath it. There's even adjustments, there's
felt glides, try and find what you have on there
and maybe the you know, duplicate that or change them
all out to another type of glide. But again it's
(18:32):
just thinking ahead. I know a lot of times on
this show we always address you know, the incident, the accident,
the thing that happened, and if we had just taken
a little step back and looked at the bigger picture
of things that could go wrong and things that might
you might want to check really can save you some
(18:55):
damage to your house or to a floor or or whatever.
You know, It's like it's it's all encompassing. This is
the time of year. Animals love to get into our homes,
you know. I always talk about looking around the Soviet
lines of your home, look for openings. So that kind
of forward thinking can save you, you know, a costly
(19:17):
repair to your home. And speaking of floors, we are
going to have the man that's going to help us
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good conversation regarding that. Dan Rosenberg would be joined and
Seas the CEO of National Floor Direct that's next. You're
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all right, let's get back to work. Where thirty three
minutes after the top of the hour and you're at
home with Gary Sullivan has stated. Dan Rosenberg is joining us.
He's the CEO of National floor Direct and Dan, welcome
that home with Gary Salvan. How you doing, Gary, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Great to be here. I really appreciate the opportunity to
call into the show.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You're great, welcome. I'm looking out. I'm looking outside, Dan,
and there's like six inches of snow at zero degrees.
I wanted to stay out there, but I know it's
going to get inside.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luckily for me. You know, I've got
a different view nowadays. I'm actually calling in from South Florida.
But the majority of the folks that represent our business
are dealing with the same stuff as you are right now.
I think anywhere from from Maine all the way down
(23:18):
to Maryland right now. So everybody's in the same boat.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah for sure. So as this melts, and as we
use ice melters and calcium chlorides, and you know, we
we dragged this into our home, and I guess you
know you're you're familiar with all different types of flooring
products too. I guess the first thing is give us
some tips on preserving what we have, and then we'll
(23:45):
talk about maybe some different flooring products that you know
stand up to that abuse a little bit better than others.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Absolutely. Yeah, So the the benefit for most homeowners today
is that most floring products that we have installed in
our homes right now have been manufactured with these sorts
of things in mind, whether they're five years or ten
years or twenty years old. All these synthetic flooring options
(24:16):
like carpet, laminate, vinyl flooring, even a lot of pre
finished hardwood flooring as these sorts of inherent protections ingrained
in them through the manufacturing process nowadays. So we can
talk about new flooring options a little bit later, but
(24:37):
as far as what folks can do, it's exactly what
you're talking about. How do we protect what's on the
floor now from what's outside the home. Well, let's just
logically prepare the entry areas of our home for what
we know is going to come in and out right,
heavy foot traffic, cold flush, rocks, salt, chemicals, sand, all
(25:05):
the stuff that we're using to treat the roads and
sidewalks and things like that. Outside the home. We want
to keep those exactly like you said, outside so entry mats,
walk off mats for inside the house. Really during this
time of year, trying to urge everyone to keep those
(25:27):
shoes and boots at the door. And you know, frankly,
whether you have heart surface flooring or carpeting, the best
thing you can do is vacuum all those areas frequently
high suction vacuum, rotating beet bar. Try to keep all
that dirt and grit and debris off the floors at
all costs.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Sure, so getting rid of the residue and stuff. I
guess even pH neutral products would probably work a little
bit for we don't have any reaction with different flooring products.
Is that a good tip?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Sure? Yeah, I think you know, when you're talking about uh,
you know, floor maintenance, I mean anything that's non abrasive
or not overly uh encumbered with chemicals is obviously the
best thing you can do. But as simple as wiping
your floor with uh you know, not a soaking wet
(26:24):
mop but a kind of damp rag. At these times
of year, keeping everything dry, keeping everything clean, and really
trying to think about how you keep those little rocks
and and bits of things that get caught on people's
shoes from from tracking around the homes and causing those
gouges and scratches on your hard floors.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yep, yeah, keep it clean, wipe it down. I love
the you know, the good vacuuming too, because especially you
know there's some of the older homes. You walk in
the front door, you're writing carpet and you know that's
that's a main traffic aisle, and you know, all that
grit that you're talking about in dirt gets down into
the fibers of the carpet. It's not good for the carpet.
(27:07):
It gets sold faster and really deep. I had somebody
tell me a long time ago, Dan, you might you
can use this sign. I feel like carpet doesn't wear out.
It ugly is out?
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Sure it does. And you know you can see carpeting,
especially in the entry and high traffic areas of homes
that really visibly appears dirty. But it could be the
cleanest carpet there is.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
When you get those little bits of rocks and debris
that get dammed in there through improper care and maintenance,
it damages the pile and that damages the aesthetic of
the carpet. Over time, sure, and that's how you start
to see that added or discolored look relative to the
rest of your space.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Is flooring?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I know, there's so. I mean, our homes have changed
so much. Once everything was wood, then everything was carpet,
and now we've got ceramic, we got laminits, we got LVT,
we got LVP, we got all kinds of things. Is
flooring g a graphical? I mean, does does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I mean, believe it or not? You know, my my
business operates in uh in fourteen states and the district
of Columbia, and the trends and flooring are pretty ubiquitous
even within those areas. You know, I think folks consistently
(28:25):
love carpet in the in the more comfortable areas of
the home, the bedrooms, the living rooms, and for the
more practical areas LVT luxury vinyl plank, luxury vinyl tile. However,
we want to quantify this, you know, there's a there's
all different classifications. Is is and has become over the
(28:46):
past five or eight years, a clear winner in terms
of practicality for for the home or even for for
a high traffic commercial states.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I agree the LVT is just just taught as a
firecraker right now. Still remember the fast time I saw
the International Builder Show, I stood on there, so you
stand on wood right now and yeah, yeah, yeah, I
am right, good looking stuff. How about basements. I mean
we've seen, especially since COVID, people looking for more room
(29:16):
in their homes, exercise rooms, offices, maybe not a theater room,
but a place to watch TV and stuff, get a
lot of cage. Yeah, garage, Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The garage is like the new basement. Yeah right, But yeah,
for basements, I think again it comes down to personal preference.
You know, carpet is always going to require a little
bit more maintenance and a little bit more care to
keep the longevity from it than something like a heart
surface product. But I think practical application for carpet in
(29:51):
the basement again, like you said, movie room, sound reduction,
comfort style, a little bit of warmth, especially during those
winter months. Uh, you want to focus on keeping it dry,
keeping a climate controlled, keeping things vacuumed and fresh, hard surface.
Let's say if you were to put LVT into your basement, Uh,
(30:12):
you're going to put it down once and never change it, right,
but you know, keep it, keep it clean, keep it dry, mopped,
make sure we take shoes off and install or at
least place walk off mats in all major entry and
exit points from the space.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So LVT is that waterproof? And I know some laminates
are termed water resistant and waterproof kind of walk us
through that.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yes, So waterproof is uh is? It is, let's say,
a classification that manufacturers are using for laminates and LVT
products these days. And it really has to do with
the construction of the product itself, like primarily the core board.
And so I think what we want to think about
(31:05):
there is, especially in climates like the Northeast or you
all are located, when we have these dramatic shifts in
relative humidity and moisture and temperature from season to season.
If you go back ten years and you look at
the not only the vinyl products, but like specifically the
(31:27):
laminate flooring products, these synthetic floring products, the amount of
expansion and contraction associated with those things has really been
mitigated through use of technology vinyl and stone composites, LVT
products and stale vinyl and other synthetic material composite core
(31:50):
core boards for lamin apport and so you can get
this waterproof classification, which basically means that your floor isn't
going to buckle. Uh if you get a dishwasher pop
on it, or if you know, you get a reasonable
(32:11):
amount of uh standing water, right, you have a chance
to save the floor. But if if we get a flood,
or if we get our toilet backed up and we
get you know, six inches of water, I think there
are other issues around the floor that are going to
impact the viability of the product going forward. Uh, these
(32:31):
are these are where and longevity benefits asciate these coreboard features.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Right, So what things should people consider? What mistakes do
people make when picking out flooring? Now? In other words,
just kind of a buyer's guide if you can help
me with that, is it just cosmetic or you know,
kind of give me a little course on that.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, I think if and I'm sure this is consistent
throughout you know, most areas of home renovation. Right, really
getting a deep dive, a comprehensive understanding of what are
the most important factors to consider for your individual application,
and then relying on the right guidance, right, using a
(33:25):
company that's going to help you make the right choices,
and rely on accurate and comprehensive information based on your
specific use case is the best way to do it.
I know that di Y and you know, home center,
let's say, cash and carry businesses is probably leading the
(33:47):
charge where customers can kind of I don't want to
say get misled, but go down the wrong path. But
you really want to make sure that you talk to
you know, a series of profects that understand the application,
that have been through the installation space and understand your
needs for the home so you can make the right choice.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
We answer a lot of those questions, Dan, and you're right.
I tell people all the time, you know, you got
to understand the project before you dive into the project.
Seems like simple advice, but very true. Tell me a
little bit about National floorce Direct.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Sure, so, National Force Direct. We're entering our twentieth year.
We're a direct to consumer in home sales and installation service,
you know, really specializing in residential replacement for covering products,
carpet would lamin it, final porcelain, and natural stone products.
(34:53):
Our tagline basically is, you know, we bring the store
to your door, and that's exactly what we try to do.
We try to really differentiate the experience that we provide
for consumers by you know, walking through their home, getting
a sense of how they use it, what they use
it for, and what their goals are for their replace
(35:13):
on foreign projects, so we can pose the right solutions
for their needs.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Very good people can get more informations at the website
also National floor diirect dot com.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
National floorsdirect dot com. It's eighty and eight four hundred floor.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Eight four hundred floor. That's creative. Did you come up
with that? Dan?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I wish, I wish.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Gerry, Hey, thank you so much for spending your sunday
with us. I certainly appreciate good timely advice. Just to
wrap it up, maintenance when you get harsh weather and
stuff man shoes off, vacuum mop, worket.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Vacuum mop, put those signs up, shoes off when you
come in. Yeah, we keep those boots outside in the garage,
keep him outside in the in the mudroom or the vestibule,
and really try to keep those floors as clean and
free of any kind of debris as possible, especially during
these challenging months, and especially during those inclement periods with
(36:18):
snow and slush on the ground.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I'm guiltiest charged on many of those.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
But they're all working on it, he is.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
But yeah, hey, appreciate it. Thanks for joining us, Gary,
Thanks so much, all right, take care. Dan Rosenberg, you
bet you. He's the CEO of National floor Direct and
we thank him for joining us today again if you
want to check that out. A nice website, National Floorsdirect
dot com and you can always call him at eight
(36:49):
four hundred floor So we'll take your calls at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Working our
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during those hours, and you can maybe pick up some
tips to make your home improvement projects go a little
bit easier. Well, that was interesting, and I know how
busy our houses will all become. And I was just
talking about, you know, floor protectors being used on chairs,
and then he's talking about dragging you know, little tiny
(40:43):
rocks and sand and you know, salt into the floors
and the damage that it does, and certainly a lot
of that goes on when he's talking about the floors
and garages. That is a big trend we've been talking about.
I think niches for garages, maybe not so much of
creating another room. But I have to tell you when
(41:07):
he said garages have become a new basement, he's exactly correct.
There's no question about that. We see people cleaning out
garages and altering them a little bit, eliminating garage doors,
me putting in you know, filling those garage door openers,
or even keeping the garage doors some cases and having
(41:31):
screens that come down. But creating a room in the
garage absolutely and like I said, seeing a lot of that,
a waterproof LVT is really a perfect flooring solution for that,
as is for a basement floor. But if you're not
going that far and you just want to just get
(41:52):
the junk out of the garages step one for many
of us, and getting that all cleaned out, and then
maybe you just spending a little money in a little time.
You know, whether you do it in the winter and
you got an insulate a gradu door to keep your
warm when you're doing the project, or you wait till spring,
getting the gunk out and then putting it together in
(42:15):
an organized fashion and then looking at working on the floor.
We've talked about Dice coatings. They have an industrial POxy,
they have the roller rock, they have a spreadstone product.
They are just wonderful floor coverings and you put a
(42:35):
gloss sealer on it which is slip resistant, and like
I said many times, it's an entryway to our homes
in a lot of cases, and that's not really a
flooring product. That's just a celant or it's a decorative
finish on that. And in some of the new polyurea
floors that are professionally applied, that's another option. And then
(42:55):
there's even you know, like I said, if you're waterproof
and stuff, and then use the water proof LVT and
you're not going to have the car in there, that's fine.
You can take a look at that type of flooring.
So I guess the real thing we're maintaining what we
got and what a surprise here is just a maintenance
of keeping it clean, staying on top of it, you know,
(43:18):
removing the risk of any damage of floors, of carrying
in abrasives on that floor, changing the bottoms on chair
legs and things like that will sure make your floors
last so much longer. So yeah, that might be something
maybe you don't do it right before the holiday. Maybe
it's something you take a look at afterwards and kind
(43:39):
of do different assessments of the rooms in your home
and also doing assessments of the exterior of your home.
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