January 3, 2026 • 45 mins
In this hour of At Home with Gary Sullivan, Gary dives into home improvement projects with a focus on rejuvenating kitchen cabinets. He shares tips on how to restore a finish, remove old waxes and oils, and even paint cabinets like a pro. Gary also talks to Adam Smith from Dumond Global about their products, including Smart Strip, which can safely remove lead-based paints and other coatings. With a focus on safety and ease of use, Adam explains how to use the product to strip surfaces without harsh chemicals or fumes.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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about is your home, maybe a home project, maybe something
that's not working right. You can give us a call
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and can you lead us off. Yeah, you're there, Yes, sir,
good morning, morning.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You're having a good day.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Hey, I was just listening and the woman you had
on their ahead ivy on sighting to get riddow.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yes, sir, I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
This has been several years back, and it worked like
a charm for me.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, my father.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
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 savy 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 2 (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 1 (03:00):
Okay. 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 2 (03:21):
Okay, Well, a 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 1 (03:40):
Yeah. 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. It's just quad across, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So it's like an ice scraper.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right, It's about six or eight inches okay. And I
just started on that thing.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (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 going to 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 2 (04:26):
Yeah, it was the whole ivy of still green and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
All right, I got you.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, he was on side. You might just have to
side as Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, that's a great, a great way. I was telling you.
When I had it on my home, I was a
young guy and i'd literally, you know, I guess a
little meathead. You know. I was just pulling it off
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
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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.
And it was about two years and it dehydrated and
we literally just swept it off after a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right, Well, if I mean she has a lot there
and maybe she could try it and maybe just be careful.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We don't want to be chipping the brick. That's that's
one thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
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 kitchen a facelift. And
when you uh look at your kitchen, what is what
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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.
Is it the floor, maybe it's an old vinyl floor.
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Is it the countertop? Or is it the cabinets. A
lot of people 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. If
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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
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is not quite like a paint stripper. It's 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 some of
that uneven or not smooth finish. It comes in a
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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, a cherry an oak, you know, walnut, that type.
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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 lot about a product called Millsic. Maybe you
got kitchen cabinets and around the handles, it's gooey, it's soft,
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it's gummy, it's black, it's distasteful. The Millsic will actually
remove that gumminess which has caused from oils in the kitchen,
oils from our hands, old waxes, make it soft. So
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it is a cleaner and a restore. It's not going
to change the color, 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
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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 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.
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Smart Strip is environmentally safe product that will remove oils
in water, bass and acrylic paints. So there's the three
steps to kind of rejuvenate the cabnetry. And maybe it
takes you, you know, a few days to do that.
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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
a what a while for your dollar you clean those
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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.
I want to send them down. Sure we can do that.
A tip there is getting a paint that is brushable.
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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,
for woodworks, and I'll recommend it for cabinetry. It's a
Sherman Williams product. I think it's the best trim enamel
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on the market today. It's called Emerald urethanem and you
might you might cough a little bit when you get
the price, but I'm telling you it'll be worth it.
Get yourself a good mohair four inch roller, if it's
a flat surface or a polyester brush. It'll give you
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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
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homes for the holidays. And by the way, if you
are doing lights and different things outside, make sure they're
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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 in the
in the receptacle part of an extension cord, And basically
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what it is, it's a protection device that shuts off
lights if there's a problem, a short moisture, et cetera,
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not many, some of us will have a problem, and
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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.
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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 yourself when you're doing this, and like I said,
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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. Is is keep the connections off the ground.
That's that's kind of rule number one. And if you
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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 really inspect the
lights in the cords even before you get them up,
and look for nicks and cracks and cracks in the insulation.
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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, even if they're ventilating,
get very very hot in that insulation around the holiday
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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 leak around, maybe even
the outlet box. A GFI with would usually have insulated
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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 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
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all all i'd say for the most part, probably ninety
five percent led now, so it's 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
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you can test to make sure it resets properly. If
it's not resetting, it could be the ground fall circuit
interrupt itself, but usually I can almost guarantee it. You
might even be the one that just says all that
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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, moisture moisture, moisture moisture. So keep
the lights, keep the extension courts, keep as much as
you can off the ground. You'll be way ahead of
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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 sign too. All right, Coming
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he'll teach us how and what to use. That's next.
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Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, let's get back to work. 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 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 1 (22:35):
You're quite welcome. Well, i'll tell you what we're at
that time of year, we're 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
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of experienced manufacturing, sturing, water based, user friendly products. You
were a kind of a head 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
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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,
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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
the type of coatings you need to remove. It's going
to be more of a modern coating like you know
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your water based latex paints, or you're even more modern,
you're two part of poxies, 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
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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, you're 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 absolutely.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
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 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 options to
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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.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
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,
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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 Shrift
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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
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to bubble up. And once it starts to do that,
the product read 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 the.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Paper, so of it that way. 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 throwing it in the newspaper
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or something, I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
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
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the you know, petroleum based type of pay removers.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Sure, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Exactly exactly, And you know, non flammability is important as well.
You know those other products we had 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. And I guess correct.
Dumont Global is a global company and it's sold around
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the world, and there's some big structures that I know
Dumont Global was involved in. It was like stripping the
Kniffel 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
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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 gardoo friends.
So yes, our products are used all around the world
because they weren't they're and they're safe.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah. So one of the things I'm thinking. 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 floyer. And you know
we used to talk about clean them up and getting
ridd of oil spots. We still do. And now we're
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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
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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 do 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 strip 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 poxys erathans e last Americ coatings and the more
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complex coatings 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.
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There are other 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
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it off with a spray bottle if it's a smaller area.
There's things I brought out to my yard, hosted down
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So here's a question. I don't know if I've everch
but you know, we talk a lot about decks on
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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, I know it would identify which
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strip to use, which stripper to use.
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Well. This is a fascinating and not to confuse people,
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If it's more of a modern absolutely, yeah, Like that
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The anything about it doesn't have that huge horrible scent
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It sounds like it's a little bit of a back
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I recently talked to a gentleman that decided not to
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We prefer you just want and done with our products.
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Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, Adam, thanks for joining us. 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,
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but you certainly make it doable about asy as you
can be because you're not going to send it off
or that's a major health concern.
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Right, you know. The one thing I would like to
you know, offer up to you to your listenership, Gary,
if in doubt, call us. We have people that can
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we have people in place in Pennsylvania they can answer
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For you for them very good. Do you happen to
have that number or not? I know, I can send.
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You your well, I do, give me one second.
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Here, and then while you're looking that up, I'll tell everybody.
Of course, the website is do momd Global dot com
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it can answer some of your questions that if not,
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have a great holiday season, my friend. All right, thanks Gary,
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five five. And well as the weather begins to chill
and get cold, 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
(41:05):
heaters give up, and so there is a couple of
management things and maintenance things you can do around your home.
Something that's 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
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once a year, and that is and now would be
a good time, would be too. Take a walk around
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,
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but in most cases you'll have a shut off underneath
the vanity, underneath the kitchen cabinet, underneath the toilet. And
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
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turn it on and turn it off, then I want
you to just double check for leaks. I mean, we're
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
(42:32):
of tissue paper underneath that and just make sure there's
not a drip or two on there in the next
hour or so. Is a good 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
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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 blocking the opening in
the aer rator. So those are a couple of little
plumbing things you can do. And I guess the last
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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, I find are
maybe the problem ones. It just turned the water on
and make sure all the water is going down the
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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 on it is
a great way to do it. It took me this
one vanity sink. It was very, very slow. By the
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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 zipp it 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.
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Hey, I was just listening and the woman you had
on their ahead ivy on sighting to get riddow.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yes, sir, I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
This has been several years back, and it worked like
a charm for me.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, my father.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
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 savy 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 2 (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 1 (03:00):
Okay. 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 2 (03:21):
Okay, Well, a 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 1 (03:40):
Yeah. 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. It's just quad across, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So it's like an ice scraper.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right, It's about six or eight inches okay. And I
just started on that thing.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (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 going to 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 2 (04:26):
Yeah, it was the whole ivy of still green and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
All right, I got you.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, he was on side. You might just have to
side as Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, that's a great, a great way. I was telling you.
When I had it on my home, I was a
young guy and i'd literally, you know, I guess a
little meathead. You know. I was just pulling it off
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
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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.
And it was about two years and it dehydrated and
we literally just swept it off after a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right, Well, if I mean she has a lot there
and maybe she could try it and maybe just be careful.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We don't want to be chipping the brick. That's that's
one thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
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 kitchen a facelift. And
when you uh look at your kitchen, what is what
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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.
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you have cabnetry that it's old, maybe the finish is crazed.
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is not quite like a paint stripper. It's more like
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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
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And what it does is it just kind of smooths
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did a really good job. Then you can also we
talked a lot about a product called Millsic. Maybe you
got kitchen cabinets and around the handles, it's gooey, it's soft,
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it's gummy, it's black, it's distasteful. The Millsic will actually
remove that gumminess which has caused from oils in the kitchen,
oils from our hands, old waxes, make it soft. So
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it is a cleaner and a restore. It's not going
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one's restoring a finish. And then of course, if somebody
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has tried to paint those cabinets and didn't do a
a very good job, maybe there's a lot of brush
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smart Strip. In fact, I'm gonna replay an interview that
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Smart Strip is environmentally safe product that will remove oils
in water, bass and acrylic paints. So there's the three
steps to kind of rejuvenate the cabnetry. And maybe it
takes you, you know, a few days to do that.
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The payoff is big, especially if they're looking pretty distressed.
And the one thing we always talk about how prices
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cabinets up and then change out the hardware. It really
really looks good. And one other thing, as we take
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I want to totally refinish them. I want to paint them.
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A tip there is getting a paint that is brushable.
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acrylics and they just don't brush out like an old
oil based wood. And I've recommended this product for front doors,
for woodworks, and I'll recommend it for cabinetry. It's a
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Get yourself a good mohair four inch roller, if it's
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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
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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
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protected with a ground false circuit interrupter. Newer homes from
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what it is, it's a protection device that shuts off
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that is you plug into Christmas lights and all of
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a sudden they turn off. It's it's probably gonna be moisture.
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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 yourself when you're doing this, and like I said,
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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. Is is keep the connections off the ground.
That's that's kind of rule number one. And if you
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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 really inspect the
lights in the cords even before you get them up,
and look for nicks and cracks and cracks in the insulation.
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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, even if they're ventilating,
get very very hot in that insulation around the holiday
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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 leak around, maybe even
the outlet box. A GFI with would usually have insulated
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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 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
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all all i'd say for the most part, probably ninety
five percent led now, so it's 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
(18:15):
you can test to make sure it resets properly. If
it's not resetting, it could be the ground fall circuit
interrupt itself, but usually 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.
(18:37):
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, moisture moisture, moisture moisture. So keep
the lights, keep the extension courts, keep as much as
you can off the ground. You'll be way ahead of
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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 sign too. All right, Coming
up Adam Smith from Demand Global, We're going to talk
about removing lead based paints, just to crily paints, oil paints, paints. Uh,
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he'll teach us how and what to use. That's next.
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Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, let's get back to work. 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 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 1 (22:35):
You're quite welcome. Well, i'll tell you what we're at
that time of year, we're 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
(22:57):
of experienced manufacturing, sturing, water based, user friendly products. You
were a kind of a head 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
the type of coatings you need to remove. It's going
to be more of a modern coating like you know
(24:15):
your water based latex paints, or you're even more modern,
you're two part of poxies, 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, you're 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 absolutely.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
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 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 options to
(25:32):
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.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
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 Shrift
(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 read 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 the.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Paper, so of it that way. 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 throwing it in the newspaper
(27:41):
or something, I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
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 pay removers.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Sure, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Exactly exactly, And you know, non flammability is important as well.
You know those other products we had 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. And I guess correct.
Dumont Global is a global company and it's sold around
(29:13):
the world, and there's some big structures that I know
Dumont Global was involved in. It was like stripping the
Kniffel 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 gardoo friends.
So yes, our products are used all around the world
because they weren't they're and they're safe.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah. So one of the things I'm thinking. 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 floyer. And you know
we used to talk about clean them up and getting
ridd of oil spots. We still do. And now we're
(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 do 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 strip 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 poxys erathans e last Americ coatings and the more
(31:31):
complex coatings 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.
(31:53):
There are other 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
(32:14):
it off with a 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 1 (32:25):
So here's a question. I don't know if I've everch
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, I know it would identify which
(32:49):
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 it's doing what you expe effected 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
(33:15):
seilers will work great on concrete seilers as well.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well. 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, Like that
is one of the safest ones you'll find in the marketplace.
The anything about it doesn't have that huge horrible scent
or smell, and we don't mask them with other sense, right,
the red, green or the blue. So so, but.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You 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
(34:16):
and you guys now have developed a test kit where
if 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're can go with
the smart strip and probably be eighty ninety percent sure.
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 a testkit, one of our
products is gonna work.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
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 1 (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 on the shelves at
Sherwan Williams.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, Adam, thanks for joining us. 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,
(35:57):
but you certainly make it doable about asy as you
can be because you're not going to send it off
or that's a major health concern.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Right, you know. The one thing I would like to
you know, offer up to you 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
(36:28):
need that little bit of 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 1 (36:40):
For you for them very good. Do you happen to
have that number or not? I know, I can send.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
You your 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 nine 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 too, I can take care of bye bye, all right,
tay a little break, come back and get your questions answered.
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five five. And well as the weather begins to chill
and get cold, 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
(41:05):
heaters give up, and so there is a couple of
management things and maintenance things you can do around your home.
Something that's 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
(41:27):
once a year, and that is and now would be
a good time, would be too. Take a walk around
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,
(41:49):
but in most cases you'll have a shut off underneath
the vanity, underneath the kitchen cabinet, underneath the toilet. And
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
(42:12):
turn it on and turn it off, then I want
you to just double check for leaks. I mean, we're
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
(42:32):
of tissue paper underneath that and just make sure there's
not a drip or two on there in the next
hour or so. Is a good 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
(42:53):
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 blocking the opening in
the aer rator. So those are a couple of little
plumbing things you can do. And I guess the last
(43:16):
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, I find are
maybe the problem ones. It just turned the water on
and make sure all the water is going down the
(43:37):
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 on it is
a great way to do it. It took me this
one vanity sink. It was very, very slow. By the
(43:58):
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 zipp it 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.
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