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Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, the weekends upon us. Welcome and you're at
home with Garry Selvan and we're going to get back
to the phones and you can grab a line. Love
to talk to you about your home project. And we
got Tom Tom Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey, good morning Gary.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I have a small it's party with like a one
foot all by one foot white stucco passed where the
stuck was heeled away from the wall. I was wondering.
I've been told that if you if you could repatch
it and if it's above for your degrees, whether it
will be fine as of the order. Is that is
(01:07):
true or not?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, I don't know. But on the stucco patch, it'll
have you, it'll have the in the directions, the range
of temperatures.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
There's there's a there's so many new products out. Usually
the old rule of thumb as if it is an
acrylic patch, sementatious acrylic patch, not to patch below fifty.
But a lot of the new products now quite honestly,
they go down to just above freezing, like thirty five degrees.
(01:44):
But you know, patchings, hawkings, ceilings. In the directions, it'll
have temperature limitations. So do you know what type of
patch you're going to use.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, it's I don't know if I could give the brand,
but it's a pre mixed as well. DApp the ap
and it's a already pre made pre mixed. You just
apply it and put it on there and and yeah,
it's it's already the pre mix stuff. And I definitely
will read the directions. See it says, but.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I would say by by you telling me what you're
using in the pre mix. There's a crylic resince in
there that are fortifiers, and I feel very confident that'll
that'll go down to probably thirty eight degrees and you'll
be fine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, thirty eight degrees. Yeah, because that was I guess
it was like a two part correction. If I can
do it now because it's you know, we're just about forty,
or if I should wait until you know, the summertime
or close like springtime when it gets.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Warmer, right, I think as long as you're wait that long, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
As long as you're in that forty degree range, I
think you're fine. And remember Tom, that's the surface temperature, yea,
not necessarily the air temperature, and that surface is probably yeah,
probably pretty close to the same temperature. If it's in
the forties, I don't reckon it would be too much
colder than that. It might even be a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, and it is an outside patch and it so
it is subject to the outside temperature. But it's uh,
and I'm looking at it right now, and the substrate
is there's still the samentatious. I guess it's the cement
substrate underneath it. And it it looks like it's in
good shape, you know, dry enough and clean enough to
(03:30):
put that stuff on. But I was just curious about
the temperature range.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yep, I'm I would guess, and I'd be ninety percent
certain that at forty forty five degrees you'd be fine.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
But do double check.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
If it's not on there, you can go on their
website and it'll it'll certainly have it there, Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, and I definitely won't look before we put it on.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But yeah, I just wanted.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
To get your Yeah, I think you'll be fine on this.
But thank you, Sar, and I actually love you show.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Thank you appreciate it. Thanks Tom, take care, bye bye.
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The phone number if you'd like to jump on board,
do so. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Paul, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Thank you Gary for taking that call. You're a help
to so many people.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Everybody's so nice today, Danny, thanks.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Paul, You're welcome. I'm trying to put some humidity in
a seven room slab without going into the burner system.
What would you recommend for that seven room slab?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Okay, so you say you are struggling with keeping humidity
or you got too much humidity or not enough?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
No, not enough, very very.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Dry, okay, And what type of heating system do you
have in there?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
It's force water, oil burner.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
M Yeah, that's a little bit of a struggle. They
do have home humidity or humidifiers. You can get a
maybe yeah, yeah, you know, like I got forced air
on natural gas, and I'm guessing you can't use anything
(05:16):
like that on your system. So this would be a
whole house humidifier on you know, and natural gas or
propane furnish unit on yours. I think you're almost looking
at humidification, you know, by they make it, Yeah, exactly exactly,
but those.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Do get really dry.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I know of two names, and I'm guessing they have
not only the ones for the you know, a furnace
like I have, but also uh for room ones.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Would be April air.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
In general, it's called general humidification.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But I don't I can't tell you a bunch of
brand names in this one's best. I would, you know,
just check them out at the hardware store or whatever.
But that's what you're gonna end up needing.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
There are different sizes also, and they're usually based on
square footage, Paul, and they still have.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
The I remember humidifiers who were very good, but they
put this white coating of dust everywhere. Do you remember those?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yep I do? Yep I do.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And of course a lot of that has to do
with the type of water you have. And it is
called white dust. That's exactly what it's called. And there
is an additive. Boy, I'm going way back, so bear
with me. I remember the old sponge real that would
turn and you would have to replace that sponge filter
(06:53):
on there, and there was an additive to eliminate white dust.
So that is something to pay attention to when you're
shopping for one. It'll it'll I'm sure describe or talk
about white dust and how to prevent it. Uh.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But that's that's what you'd be using.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Would warm humidifier or cool are they? Are they different
in one way or another other than the temperature.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I say, if it was.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Warm, yeah, A lot of times the warm ones are
used in like a bedroom for sleep. But otherwise I
think the cool water ones would be fine. I just
have to do a little research, like you're going to
have to do too, just to just to say, I
mean back in the day, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
One more quick one sure, shellac or polyurythe what are
you going to use it on? Would it would be
outdoor well as good as safe as your athane? I
mean to protect the product.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You're thing would be a stronger product. Okay, okay, now
let me plaution you here. And this is important. If
you're using it outside, you really don't want to use
salak and you really don't want to use polyurethane. If
it's being used outside, you want to use either a
(08:20):
marine your athane or a spar your thane. And the reason, yeah,
and the reason is it has ultraviolet light protection and
we get a lot of that in the summertime. And
if you use a polyrthane, it will yellow and it
will it'll yellow and crack over time, quicker than the
(08:42):
marine or the spar So that's the ones you want
to use. Carry very good, Thank you, my friend, Thanks
for calling.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I appreciate it. Take care. Yeah, and there.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Is gosh, that's slipping my mind exactly what brand there's one,
and I never could figure out why there's one manufacture
of this. But really, indoors, we're seeing a lot of
people using water based euthanes, acrylic eurothanes, where you're seeing
(09:15):
it on floors, you're seeing it on woodwork, seeing it
on cabinets and.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Even minwax. As far as I.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Know, I think they do have now a water based
eurethane for indoors, yes, but not an exterior I don't believe.
And the people that make dry lock they make a
line of stains, which is slipping my mind. And they're
the only ones that make an acrylic exterior euthane, and
(09:48):
those acrylics are also UV protectents. So but right now
we'll just stick with the spar erthanes and the marine eurothanes.
All right, Well, take a break, we'll take your calls again.
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Speaker 7 (14:13):
Dave welcome, Yes, I Gary a longtime listener.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Hello, Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Okay, Gary, Yeah, longtime listener. I got a question about
some insulation above a garage and a condo. You go
in the garage, you have to pull down stairs that
go upstairs to the kind of walk in space up there.
It's kind of storage area. The furnace is up there,
and then the area above the garage there is no
(14:45):
insulation whatsoever. So you're looking right down at the ceiling drywall.
What are your thoughts about putting insulation up in there?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
And it's surrounded by other garages, so there are garages on.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So about the walls. Tell me about the walls, because
I want to know really if the you know it
is it's above the garage. It's not above the house.
So the garage is not heated, nor is the attic
so you know, if it, if it, if that cold
air would bleed into the attic area over the house,
(15:21):
I would say I'd be more concerned about insulating the wall, okay,
rather than the Yeah, because another thing, if we I'm
going to guess there is not ventilation above that garage either.
It's just kind of a large unconditioned space, which is fine,
(15:44):
and if we start creating a conditioned space then it
might get warmer. In other words, that that balance of
temperature is probably good, but I would insulate the walls
to protect it from bleeding into the you know, attic
over the over the over the living quarters.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Okay, well, because right now, I mean the garage. During
the winter, it can be in the thirties and even
sometimes lower than that in the garage, and I just think, yeah,
you probably got the right idea about bleeding into the walls,
the cold air going into the walls. But I just
thought maybe with trying to keep some of the warmth
in the garage by putting insulation up above there, it
(16:26):
might help as well well, because like I said, there's
a garage on each side except for our side, the
living space.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right right, Well, I'm kind of you know, just thinking
about the whole thing too, and also think about the
garage door is probably not insulated, you know, whether it's
a metal pandor or just maybe maybe it has a
foam panel in there.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But it's not a.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
You know, a phone panel. It's a twenty year old door,
so it's not new technology, but it's it seems to
be fairly insulated. Plus it has stripping around each side,
so that does kind of keep some of it as well.
And I'm not sure if there's ridge vents up in
the upper roof or not, but I know there's soft events,
(17:15):
so there are soft events.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Well, if there's events, there may be a ridge vent,
you know, because the functionality is to bring the air
in and the ridge vents is to let the air out,
the hot air. Yeah, well, let me put it this way.
It's not gonna hurt you. Maybe it will help, uh,
you know, keep some of that in. I don't know
(17:39):
it there's you know, there's the other factors, the wall,
the garage door, the windows, that type of thing. But
if you want to put some insulation in there, just
don't use a faced insulation. Just you know, no no
vapor barriers needed. We don't have a conditioned space either
(18:00):
in the attic or in the garage, so it you know,
it may it may help, you know, it may keep
it quieter. It may make h the air handler work
a little better, but but it also may be minimal.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So that's just my take on it.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Okay, all right, well I think that's helpful information. I'll
definitely consider that and maybe I'll have some groups come
out and kind of give me their opinion. Sure, you know,
I don't know. It's an indianapolis. Do you know of
any insulation people.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Up in the Off the top of my head, I
do say, you know, so going back to the walls.
Think I don't have a name to throw at you there, Dave,
But if you go back to the walls, if you
do put batting in there again, unfaced would be would
be fine. And if you have somebody foam that area,
(18:55):
which is very very good, good our value, you would
use open and sell phoam. So just a couple of
things on how you would do that. But yeah, get
some people up there and let him really kind of
take a good look of the lay of the land
and make a determination that I think they'll be able
to give a little maybe more exact information once they
(19:15):
see how everything's set up. Thank you much, Dave, I
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And that's what we're going to talk about. That's next.
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All right, back at it, we go at home with
Gary Sullivan and uh, yeah, you've probably had this problem
and we've talked a lot about in the last couple
of weeks, and that is drains that just don't function
like they should. In other words, the stoppers up. We
got the water on and it's filling up the sink bowl.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
That's a problem. How about that? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Maybe you got one of those big garden tubs. You
don't use it anymore because every time you use it,
you see these black flakes of stuff floating around in
the water, and you, eh, well, we're gonna work on
cleaning those issues up for you. Joining me is Jim Parker.
He is with Awesome and Jim, Welcome again that home
with Gary Salvin.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Good morning, Gary, I'm doing well.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
How are you doing doing? Fine, doing fine.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Let's start with the old bathtub. Is that a common
that's common? And I mean if you have an old
it doesn't even have to be really old, just a
jetted tub and you use it all the time, or
you use it every now and then and then you
start seeing black gunk or you start having an odor
in it.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Is that very very common? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Sely common.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah, water that's just in the system. Is that what
that is?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah? Exactly. So think about it this way. Let's let's
talk about when you put that jet and sub in
your home, whether it's whether it's one month ago or
fifteen years ago, you're gonna use it right away because
you want to try it out.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, you use it.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You turn those jets on, feels good on your body,
and then you get out durin. The problem is that
that water that was just all over your body. We
drain most of it out the drain, but a lot
of it stays within the lines of the jetted tub.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Now you know where we're going. Stuff is a breeding
ground for bacteria. Yeah, and so what happens is over
the course of time, which you know, when I say time,
that could be just as much as a few days,
it starts building up and it builds up to what
we call biofilm. Biofilm. Think of biofilm as a colony
(24:39):
of bad guys bacteria, mold, and fungus. They're all congealed
together in a glue like substance and it just affects everything.
That's where people start getting that smell. They start seeing
those flakes coming out. Oftentimes they come out as black lakes,
and then you know that it's not only is it disgusting,
(24:59):
it also the potential to be dangerous. So think about
it this way. Let's say you're I've got you're a
construction worker, you work in the trades, or it doesn't
even matter. You work in a job where well you
really want that relaxation in a jetted tub because your
body hurts after a long day of work, but you
get cuts and scratches on your body throughout the day. Well,
(25:22):
now you get into that jetted tub that hasn't been
cleaned and you have bits and pieces of bacteria coming
out of those jets that settles into a cut on
your body. Well, now you have the potential to develop
staff infections and all kinds of nasty things that you
don't really want. So our goal is to clean that
jetted tubs, right.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And even when I'm taking a tub, or even a
hot tub for that matter, you get the steam coming off,
it's nice and warm.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You breathing that too.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
You are.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
In fact, it's funny you mentioned that that's a very
common problem. In fact, just last night I read a
new story about a gym in central Florida fourteen cases
of Legionella legioni's disease, which is the Legionella bacteria that is,
and they're sourcing that back to their aquatic center, whether
their pool and their hot tub center. And when you
(26:11):
sit in your bathtub or your or your or your
hot tub, oftentimes you relax and your nose is right
above the top of the water, and you got the
bubbles and they're bouncing up and down. If you have
a Legionella bacteria, you're going to breed that in. And
regardless of what your health condition is, if you're you
could be a healthy everything's perfect, Legionella will still kill you.
But if you have a lung condition copd asthma, now
(26:34):
you're in some some dire straight. So our goal, that
awesome is that is we want to clean that plumbing
out so you can safely use your jetted bathtub or
your hot tubs.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And I have people, and I'm sure you have people.
I just put some bleach in here.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah, that doesn't do.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, because I call it BlackBerry jellies in those pipes.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Exactly. Bleach is great for the actual water itself. So
you can utilize bleach in a lot of different ways.
And that's going to kill what are called free floating planktonics.
Those are the bacteria. Those are the bad guys that
are just floating around in the water. Gonna kill them.
The problem is, once it forms into this biofilm matrix
(27:21):
within the plumbing system, the bleach is just gonna cascade
right over the top of it, and it's gonna continue
to do what it does, but it's not gonna actually
remove the biofilms. And this is where awesome steps in.
So awesome works. You know, it works as a surfactant.
So think about it this way. You have our product.
(27:42):
The awesome product goes in there and it punctures trillions
of tiny holes in the outer layer of this biofilm,
so kind of like an epidural layer punctures trillions of holes,
and then the water pressure from those jets, whether it's
in a hot tub or a jetted bathtub, it pushes
that biofilm out into the main vessel. A love the tub.
Now you can wipe it down, and you gotta you
(28:03):
don't have to do it a few times, especially at
the beginning. Jetted tubs are notoriously dirty. And the most
important thing that I tell customers when they set out
on the adventure of cleaning their jeted tub is just
to have patience. It's gonna it's gonna take a minute
to get all of that biofilm out. Even with Awesome,
which is the strongest product on the market for its class,
(28:25):
doing what it does, it still is gonna take a
little bit of time. So have patience. But it is
important to clean these out just just for safety and sanitation.
You'll see it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I mean, you'll see the results. I mean when you use.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
The Awesome and we'll talk about how to use that.
When you use that, it just starts breaking this up,
and it starts going into the water and you're flushing
it down the drain, and I mean you'll go, holy cow,
I didn't know that was in my tub.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
It's it's a it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It's a very visceral experience. Therey you'll you'll visually see
this momentarily. You have to put the acome in there,
and it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, yeah, you know. One of the big trends. I'm
sure you're feeling that at awesome. One of the big
is these cold plunge tubs. A buddy of mine just
got one, and that doesn't turn me.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
On at all.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's good for your body, I get it. But those
are since it's cold water, are they? I mean, do
they have biofilm issues?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Also?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
They do? Ironically, Now, remember cold plunge tubs. We think,
we think, we see we see the advertisements on TV
or on the internet, and we see these, you know,
tubs that are at forty degrees. There's some tubs out there,
even the cold plunge tubs that go all the way
up to one hundred degrees, so people can use them
as a warm tub as well. Okay, either way, yeah,
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even with the cold water, though, you're putting your body.
It right, our bodies, regardless of how many times a
day we shower, we obviously most of us want to
keep ourselves clean. Our bodies just naturally produce oils and
skin cells are falling off every second of every day,
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So even after you're done showering, you've still got stuff
coming off your body. And cold plunge tubs are no
different than jetted bathtubs and such that you've got a
small body of water with a human being in it,
and it creates this soup. Now. Cold plunge tubs are
a little different because you can most people use a
sanitizer with them, which is great. The problem with a
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cold plunge tub is that oftentimes they get kind of
forgotten about at times, and so all bacteria, bacteria just
needs to grab a foothold and once it does, it's inescapable.
You cannot stop the process now, right, So yeah, we
use we use the our Liquid Awesome. We sell that
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in a gallon jug and and a sixteen ounce bottle.
Are Liquid Awesome, the product that we generally recommend for
our Jenet bath tubs and our cold plunged tubs, just
so that way the customers don't need to use hot water.
So our gels require warmer water to dissolve. Where the
liquids you can just put that right into the cold
water and it starts doing this job.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You know, as I was thinking, you know, there's other things.
I know, I get calls a lot about wash machines.
I don't know if we see black flex. I can
say I didn't until I used the product.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Awesome, but I had an.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Odor in it that I couldn't get rid of. I
wiped the seals down. I did, you know, all the
things I was supposed to do. And that's really how
you and I got connected. I found your product and
it was it was a little little jar and it
was a gel and it's like, yes, I don't know
how many teaspoons it has in but not many. And
it didn't require but I don't know, half a teaspoon
(31:55):
core of a teaspoon. But holy cow, when I used that,
the amount of gunked out came out into the drama
that washer was significant.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, it is, And you're right. It does come in
a very small two ounce jar. There are twelve teaspoons
and it so one little jar of that product will
if you use it solely for your washing machine, that'll
last you two years. You're only using a half a
tea spoon at a time. But you're right. The most
common reason we have customers that come to us is Jim,
I cannot stop my washing machine from smelling. I've gone
(32:30):
to other stores and purchased some of the smelly good
products that make it smell good for three or four days,
but it eventually comes back. Yeah, it eventually comes back.
So what again. Austome works the same way it works
as a surfactant. You put that into the basin of
your of your washing machine, turn it on, let it
do a full cycle, and it goes in there and
pulls out all that mold, fungus, bacteria that's harboring within
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the internals of your washing machine, and then it flushes
itself out. Now, now, granted, you're not gonna have a
washing machine that smells like lavender or a field designers.
You're just gonna have a washing Yeah, you're just gonna
have a machine that smells clean, and it's actually gonna
be more efficient for your machine to do its job.
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Folks, I know, I get your emails. I can't find it.
I can't find it. It's probably because you're.
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It's a h H s O m e A h
H s O m E dot com and uh, I
know you got it in different stores.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
You can buy it online.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And I also want to talk to you about drains.
Do you have about five ten more minutes? I do,
all right, let me uh, let me take a break.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
We'll come back.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Because we we are always talking about you know, spas
and hot tubs and cold plunge tubs and washing machines
and stuff. Drains are seemingly having this same issue. I
don't know whether it's the sticky products we use in
a bathroom, but I've been really talking a lot about
maintaining drains. Jim Parker, he's my guess, he's with all.
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here we go. Jim Parker, he is my guess. He
iss awesome, and that's a stuff that always uh tears
up and kills and removes biofilm, hot tubs, jetted tubs, washers, dishwashers.
But let's talk drains, Jim, because the last time we
chatted about three months ago. At the end, I said, well,
(37:18):
what about drains. I got a vanity drain that after
every three months or so, it just starts running a
little slow. And there's different enzyme cleaners out there, but
in three months it runs a little slow. I've got
another drain that does the same. And I said, hey,
does it awesome work in drains?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Doing? You go yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And I'm thinking, well, the world needs to hear about this,
and I think they need to hear about it again.
How can I use the awesome Which awesome product would
I use? And how do I maintain the drains in
my home?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
That is a phenomenal question. And yes, Awesome works incredibly
well in drains. Uh, it'll work better in certain drains
than others. So for example, your vanity drains, your kitchen,
sink drain, your garbage disposal, all of those. It works
well in a shower grain, but you end up having
to use a lot of it just because of the
(38:15):
larger pipe that's in the in the shower grain. But
think of your regular kitchen saying, bathrooms, whatnot, what have
you that have the you know, the smaller PBC piping
that goes down and around. Our recommendation is here's how
we do it, and then I'll explain why we do
it this way. So I recommend customers to get our
gallon jug of our liquid.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
I was, we're going to go there, Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
The most economically, YEA, love it.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I think people can relate to that for that particular
project better.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Right, And and yes, is the sticker price when you
buy it a little bit more expensive than say, if
you bought our four ounce tube of gel. Absolutely, you're
going to spend an extra twenty dollars on that gallon,
But we look at things from a cost per use basis.
You've got one hundred and twenty eight ounces a gallon
that you're only going to use four ounces in per
a drain, So you've got a lot of uses.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
In that gallon jug.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Okay, So what you're gonna do is you'd take four
ounces of the awesome liquid, mix that with three gallons
of water, and it can be cold or hot. Because
remember we're using the liquid products, we don't have to
worry about the gel dissalven you simply put four ounces
mix that with three gallons of water in a five
gallon pail. That is an incredibly strong mixture. Then we
(39:30):
just simply pour that down those drains. You know, I
like to tell customers when I talk to them on
the phone, you know, do your AVCS count. You know,
go start ADCD and by the time you get to
Z you want that You want that five gallon pail
with the three gallons of water in it to be
completely down the drain. So it doesn't need to be
(39:52):
super fast, but you don't want to go super slow either. Right,
Let that sit for about ten or fifteen minutes in
the drain, turn your cold water on and let it
rinse for a couple minutes, and that's going to eat
through those layers of bacteria, mold, and fungus that are
in the Think about it. You know, if you look
underneath your sink, you always see that elbow, you know
(40:14):
that that U shape underneath your sinks.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
A little bay, yeah, little goes down, then the wall
tube goes out and then ties into the way.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Correct. And when you when you drain your water, when
you turn the water off from your sink, where do
you think that water sits? Right? Not?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Jaymen?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
And hence the reason we now we start getting that
bacteria build up right, we start getting those odors, we
start getting the drain not flowing, not not going nearly
as well. So we want that awesome to percolate through
that that bend, let it sit there, and then letting
that water rinse in there for a couple of minutes
after we're done, kind of pushes all of that out.
So that creates that little bit of back pressure to
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put put a little bit of pressure on when where
the awesome has been working and it pulls it out. Now,
awesome is not going to if you shove, If you
brush your dog and you've got three pounds of hair
and you put that down your drain, the awesome isn't
going to do anything for the dog hair. But it
will work on all organic bacteria, mold, fungus type collectors
(41:16):
in your drains, and it's a great, great thing. Now
with the garbage disposal, it is phenomenal if you have
the garbage disposal. Those things smell all the time, especially
if you use it a lot. So when you're using it,
do the same thing. Four ounces of the liquid, three
gallons of water pour that down as your disposal is running.
So you want to have that disposal running while you're
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pouring it down. Once the bucket's done, turn off the disposal,
let it sit for a few minutes, and then run
a cold water rinse with the disposal on again. You're
going to have a very clean garbage disposal until you know,
just like everything else though, things are going to gunk
up again over the course of time. So this is
why you get the gallon jug so you can just
pull it out of the closet and do it again, right.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Right, Wow, it's great that that that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
I'm going to have to try that because I've used
different things. But there's you know, a little simple I know,
hair about the only way you can really get rid
of that is mechanically snaked little zip it strip where
you tangle the hair around the little barbs and pull
it out and I and I use that, but it
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amazes me where this. You know, if I turn both
faucets on full board, I can fill up this sinking
and the water is just kind of sitting there.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
It's weeping down the pipes. That's it.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
And I'll get the snack, yeah, and I'll be pushing
that thing in there and I'll get one little flake
or two. But then it starts straining, and I'm going
like that could not have been holding that water up,
but it was, and so you know, there's more gunk
in there, and I just loosened something probably to create
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a little drain way. And you're your description of using
that four ounces and the three gallons of water and
just pouring it down there, not like there's a flood,
but a good you know, just a nice good even
poor and just let it bore its way through is
exactly what it needs.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And just think of like, you know, the arteries in
your body when you know, uh, you know that. And
I'm not a I'm not a medical doctor, but you know,
when you've got clogged arteries, you know what do they do?
They when there with the cafeter of the balloon and
they you know, basically kind of to a certain extent,
scrape it or push it make the artery bigger.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Right right right, we're doing.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
The same We're doing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Just with often All right, folks, it's a h h
so o m me you can take a look at
the products we talked about and excuse me, Jim, thank
you very much for joining us for the for the
whole half hour I enjoyed it, and I'm gonna check
that gallon out.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
I'm gonna I'm gonna teest you. I have a great holiday,
my friend. You bet you take you all right? Bye bye,
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