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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, another weekend getting a few jobs done, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thanks for joining me. You're at home with Gary Sullivan
and uh, by the way, we got to line open.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Let's let h Kurt lead us off. Kurt, welcome, Good morning, Gary.
How are you doing fine, sir? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I just I heard your last call about the bathroom
remodel in law good green board. I'm just building a
house and I just had my drywall done. They had
a product that I had never heard of that they
used on my house where normally behind the shower they
would use green board. They have a drywall product and
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it's coded with FRP.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
There's a couple of them out there. Also there's and
I didn't get into that, Kurt, but yeah, there is.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
A couple of them out there. There's also a system
I don't know, I did mention kind of a system.
It's called the Schlooter.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
System, which is and I think they have a panel
called Advantage, which is even more waterproof. I went to
the cement board, which is not really quote waterproof, but
still better in green board.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Right. Yeah, because that that FRP, I mean, you could
run a wa yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it kind of blindsided me quite awesome.
Maybe I'm missing something, but he said he saw something
on OSB board behind the shower on a commercial with
one of these franchised bath replacement places. And I gotta admit,
I haven't really seen that being used, but he said, yeah,
(02:15):
you can see it in the commercial.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So but yeah, exactly, but there are Yeah, I didn't
delve into that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I probably should have. I just casually mentioned that there
are certainly some amazing products that go behind drywall or
substitute for that. And I'll tell you that green board.
I had the issue. I think thousands and thousands of
people had it where you know, you get a little
(02:46):
leak or calking or a little crack in the grouting,
and there'd be moisture on that green board and all
of a sudden, you could my second home. I could take
my hand just lightly push on about you know, four
or five ceramic tiles about the size of my hand
pushing that whole wall would move and you start tearing
off his all, you know, just just rotted.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just no good.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So some people want to stick the tile right to
that green board too, and then that's almost an instant tale.
Oh yeah, they can put the tile right to the
FRP without having to build it out with the half
inch of.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Their right right. Well, there's yeah. There's been a lot
of advancements in the whole ceramic tile field too, especially
in their mastics, in the pre mixed mastics too. All right, well,
enjoy building your house. That sounds exciting. All right, thank you,
(03:47):
all right, Kurt, take.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Care of.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
All right. Let's go, Tom, Tom, welcome.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Good morning, Gary morning. I heard your discussion with the
Collar about you know, bass hitter when he called in
about the companies that are offering a bathroom model, and
it harkened back to an incident for me about twenty
years ago. I was moving into an apartment and the tile,
the tile tubs around was really in bad shape, and
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I asked the landlord to fix it before I moved in.
So anyway, he got the bath fitter, which was basically
you know, the plastic the vinyl that goes over the
tub and then the sheets that cover the tile on
the tubs around. So you talk about the law of
unforeseen consequences or unanticipated consequences whenever you do something. What
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happened to me was that in shower curtains. If you
notice there are these little magnets at the base of
the shower curtain that actually stick at at the bottom
of the shower curtains of the tub. So when you
put that vinyl over the old cast iron or steel tub,
you lose that. You lose that magnetic grip to What
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happened and to me was the first few times in
the show was the h the aircarrent created by the
flowing water caused the shower curtain to envelop me. So
I was standing in the shower and this the curtain
would crawl away from the edge of the tub and
almost sort of like wrap me around.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh geez, I could see where the magnets aren't going
to stick. Obviously, soon as you start saying that, that's
why I kind of chuckled, getting wrapped up by the
shower curtain. Didn't see that coming. But a lot of
times that's a that's a real good point though on
the on the magnets is yeah, unforeseen circumstances. You're right. Listen,
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and again when we're talking about the bath fitter, and
only because of the caller talked about the amount of
marketing that's being done in the quick fixed bathroom remodels.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm not knocking the process at all. Like I said, Gosh,
I even did some work with bath Fitter on doing
the tub overlays, just as he was speaking of, and
it was a tremendous product and some of these. You know,
the reason there's so many people that are doing this
now is it's an inexpensive way to facelift a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
All right. So you got the panels, so you lose
the ceramic tile. You got the overlay, and there's different brands,
or not brands, but different types of that overlay. I
believe Bathfitter at one time. I guess they still are.
They're using the ABS plastic. I think it's ABS. It's
the same plastic it's used on Jacuzzi hot tubs. So
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it's very substantial.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So but it's not for everybody either. When I was
talking to the fella and he was questioning several things,
and I was talking about the panels, like the Bathfitter panel,
I know about them a little bit more than the
other ones. They've got a seamless panel, which is good
anything with the seam as baths like gutters. You know,
if you can get one straight piece. You know, there's
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not as much connections. There's a clocking, et cetera, et cetera.
And they got some of those seamless panels that they've
been with a hot wire, if you will, and that's
the way they position so that that's all good. But
he was showing some nervousness about that, and I asked
him if he was going to change the design and
the layout of the UH of the bathroom and he said, yeah, Well,
(07:36):
if that's the case, I was talking about the three
day kitchen in bath or if you want to talk
a bath contractor, that's just not doing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You know, keeping the same layout. Actually maybe even redesigning it,
utilizing different spaces. You know, you're better off of the
contractor at that point.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So again not knocking one end of the business, but
really again defining why you want to redo it. Is
it because I just want the least expensive way to
give it a new look. I want to re establish
some of the spacing that have given to the bathroom.
(08:16):
A lot of people right now that are remodeling bathrooms
are looking and going, you know what, that big garden tub.
I haven't used that in ten years. It's taken up
a lot of space.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't need that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And that's really when you want to work with somebody,
like a three day kitchen bathro where they're redesigning it
and utilizing the space differently, so you know it's not
just a cover up. And you know, we're not going
to really do the countertops, we're not going to really
do the cabinets, we're not going to reconfigure the square footage.
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We're going to cover that bathtub. We're going to cover
that ceramic. We're gonna make it waterproof. It's going to
look new. A thything wrong with that, No, no, not
at all. But but there's the other type of project,
and that's really probably for somebody else. All right again,
our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three, eight two
five five. Will take a break, Terry, you'll be up.
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If you'd like to join us with asking a question,
please do so, and we have Terry Terry welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Thanks. Our house is about twenty five years old, and
I would say for the last five if years, I've
had a patch of mold that comes in the crevice
of the ceilings of the bathroom, which is in the
top foo. I started just bleaching it out and painting
over for a couple of years, and then I went
(13:07):
to Kills and that was the best thing I did.
But now it has returned. So that's not a permanent solution, right.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, the permanent solution again is to remove as much
of the water in that environment as we can, because
there are molden mildew spores in your house as an
airyvice house, and there is organic material which is in
everybody's house. And then excessive moisture is what we're going
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to work on. So what's on the other side of
that wall? Just out of curiosity the outside, okay, so
I mean is it a bread?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I don't know that there would be sightingminum.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Siding aluminum side.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, there are gutters on that side of the house,
there are not, okay. And on the inside of the house,
do we have a ventilation fan in that bathroom?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, there is a fan, and it's the original one
that the house was built with, and I would like
to look at replacing it. I might have to for
this reason.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay. So basically on that quick little survey, so the
water can be penetrating from the outside inside, but at
a home that was built, would you say, like twenty
years ago, Yes, there's a vapor barrier in there as
insulation in there. So a vapor barrier would minimize water
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vapor from the outside coming to the inside, all right,
And the vapor barrier would keep the moisture from the
inside from going to the outside and like rotting the
wood on the outside of the house. That can't happen.
So I don't think it's a lot of times we'll
see that mildew that mold at the top of the
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ceiling from like a gutter that gets clogged up and
water starts spilling over the back. And it's a brick
home and it finds its way into that area. What's
the back of the dry wall and mold grows. I
don't think that's going on at your house. I think
what's going on in that house is it's a shower.
It's a shower. We got a lot of hot, steamy
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air when we take a shower, and if it's not
properly vented and I'll talk about that in a minute,
and poured out of that room. You know, warm air rises.
So the warm moist air, where's it going. It's going
to the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's going right in that area where it's mildewy, and
it's creating condensation. In fact, sometimes you can actually in
some homes you can actually see water run down on
the wall, little droplets. You know, it's not like a waterfalls,
but you can see little droplets. So my guest, Harry,
of what's causing that mold in that mildew right up
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on that surface is you know, the humidity level in
that bathroom is not being exhausted through that fan properly
or fast enough. So here's the way that fan should
be used. It should be turned on when the shower's starting,
and it should run for about a half hour after
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the shower's finished. That will evacuate all the moisture out
and should eliminate that problem. The other problem I see
in a lot of houses is the existing fan that's
there may not be big enough. That existing fan that
is there may not be vented outside. I see this
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a lot too. There's a little hose on the backside
of that fan. It's just laid back in that corner
where that mildew is. So it's putting all that moisture
and warm temperatures and creating condensation that's kind of leeching
in there and causing the mold. And you said you
were thinking about looking at a fan. There's some really
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neat little additions to fans. Now they actually have a
humidistat on there. So it is going to run in
that bathroom until it gets a humidity level of whatever
you said it at. So saying the summertime, you'd want
that down to about fifty five percent. And you know,
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if it runs ten minutes after the shower, that's fine.
If it runs an hour after the shower, that's fine too.
In the winter time, maybe you can pull a deck
to forty percent. So that's in a nutshell, I think
what's going on. You really don't eliminate the problem until
we eliminate the moisture. There's a excessive moisture that's causing
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the molded slash mildew. Until we correct that, you're going
to have the problem.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
If we do go to replacing that fan, and so
we take it out, is that the only way we'll
know if it has been vented out.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Or if you can.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Go up into the attic, you'll probably be able to
see where that fan is and you'll probably see a
little duck work or a little hose that will either
just be laying there or it'll be hung from a truss,
or it'll be going outside.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Okay, great, thank you, all righty.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Very good, Good luck to you, Take care, bye bye.
You know another thing that happens when we get moisture.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You know, we see the mildew, we see all that,
but we a lot of times we don't know that
we have mold. A lot of times will smell mold,
and you know the old ed ages. Jeez, if you
smell mold, you have mold, which is no kidd But
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you know that smells just that you can almost it
just smells sour.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Smells moldy. I guess the best way to say it,
and there's ways to eliminate the smell, and there's also
ways to eliminate mold and kind of what we want
to talk about. Summertimes especially, there's different smells in our
house that really need to be addressed. Yesterday I had
a ded Myron for odor exit and I'd like to
replay that interview because it kind of feathers into what
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we're talking about with a lot of mildew questions. We'll
do that next right here at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, time to get after it. And we're talking
about our homes and taking care of problems we have.
And I'll tell you one time or one thing is summertime.
Summertime has a tendency to bring odors to our home.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
There's mold, there's kids, odors, there's pets and sweaty uh
gym clothes and shoes and cars and everything. So our
friend Deb Meyer from Odor Exit is joining us, and
Deb welcome.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Good morning, Gary. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You're quite welcome. It's a stinky time of year, but
it's also a fun time of year. And it's been
wet and it's been hot, so it's extra stinky.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I know. And that the humidity, the heat, rain, it's
just a perfect environment for all those odors. The humidity
just comes out when it gets warm and you're red
and water and comes the mold and the stink. And
how do we get rid of that? How do how
do we live with it? And we don't have to?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, that's it eliminates these odors. There's a lot of
different odor killing but it doesn't kill them. It mask iss.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It smells like perfume or something. And tell us a
little bit about the whole concept of odor exit.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Let's start there.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Okay, Well, our two main products are water and essential oils.
So first of all, it sounds like it's got a fragrance,
but it is just a combination of essential oils that
work together two when they come in contact with the
odor eliminated. It's not going to be lilac fresh or vanilla.
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When you're done, it just goes away and your air
smells clean. Like it doesn't smell sure, it's just like
it's supposed to be. You know, we clean our house,
so why don't we clean our air? It shouldn't smell.
If you've got to have a smell, there's candles, but
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those are kind of hazardous. If you have pets that
walk on your sure sure, sure not that my cats
would ever do that. But you know I have this
vision of fluffy and flames. That's not good. So you
know we want to We want to just clean our
air and make it smell fresh. Sure like opening the
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door on a beautiful spring day, I guess.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And one of the things I noticed when visiting people's
house if they have pets, I can always tell there's
been a pet or is a pet in this home?
And how do you remove pet odors?
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Well, you're smelling that. Because they don't know about overrecksit,
we I tell them we have, thank you. One of
our products is called the eliminator. It again is water
and essential oils. It has to come in direct contact
with the source of the odor. So if these animals
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aren't well, even the cat who gets it in the
litter box, sometimes that litter box smells because their urine
is just so potent. The eliminator, you spray that directly
in the cat box on the litter. It doesn't prevent
the cat from using it. It's not got any chemicals
or any harsh smells that you know the cat's going
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to come back and use that box again. You spray
around the box on the wall and the floor dry wall.
It's not going to harm those surfaces. It's just got
to get to all that urine to eliminate the smell.
So that's one way. If you know they pets dogs
are going on the carpeting, you can put it on
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the carpeting. You just have to know where it is.
A black light black lights, yeah, like we used to, Yeah,
and we sell those two. It's just a little flash light.
Any black light will work. You know the ones when
we were kids and we make our shirts light up
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because that was the cool thing to do. Same concept.
It's making urine fluoreses like that, so you know where
to apply the product. Now, in a carpet, it acts
as a sponge, so you've got to go bigger than
what actually fluoresces all of it because it just wicks out. Yeah. Yeah,
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so that's going to make that sort of smell. And
that's really for all body fluids. Vomit specs, et cetera.
The second product we have that's water and essentral oils.
We call it magic, and it looks a little bit
like magic. I have a customer who says her husband
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calls it, get that Udini spray out.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So that's like when you're cooking, and maybe a garbage
can and that type of thing.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Uh huh. You can also, Yeah, you can also spray
your hands and pet your dog, and it's going to
keep down the body odor. I mean, if you're assessively
obsessively washing your dog to get rid of the smell,
the magic is going to let you stop doing that.
Put that on him. It absorbs the smells coming off
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of there. So the magic absorbs odors in the air. Okay,
And yes, you can spray it if you burnt dinner
or the trash can. My friend, the Houdini friend, she
says she she's a smoker and she kind of spritches
herself her car so people don't smell that she's a smoker.
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And she's very proud to tell people she's a smoker
because she doesn't smell. He uses a Houdini spray called magic.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So how about I mentioned summertime and sweaty gym clothes
and stuff like that. Is that the magic also or
is that the eliminator?
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Mostly that's going to be the magic. Spray it in
the the gym bag, in your shoes. Actually, either one
of them are going to work in your shoes. I
have another customer she goes through and sprays her and
her husband's shoes in the closet every month because we
just we don't wear socks. He works all day and
sweats and gets rid of that smell. So they're very
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versatile products. Neither one have that fragrance added to end
up with Lilac Fresh. People don't know you're doing that.
You just you just smell great, or you don't smell
right right.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You know one thing, and I've had many people tell
me this in the industry, if you if it smells moldy,
it's got mold. You said I said something, or you
said something about eliminating the smell for mold. Do you
use one of those two products so you got something.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Else for that.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
We have a third product for that molds a little
tougher than and we have a different products. We have
four different products because the dif different odors are from
different chemical compositions, so they need a different something else
to break it down. So what we have for the
mole and the musty smells. The chemical is chlorine dioxide.
(30:15):
It's not natural, but it is very safe. It's actually
chlorine with an extra oxygen molecule added, so it's chlorine
dioxide and so it oxidizes. It eliminates those spores. If
somebody smoked in their house for five or ten years,
it'll eliminate that smell. The one product is AQM Air
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Quality Manager, and it puts a safe gas in the
air and you have a fan on to stir that up,
and it goes after the spores in the air. The
spores you can't see the spores that are sitting on
a surface, concrete wall or somewhere in your house you're
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roof weak and you've got stains or something. It's going
to go after those spores coming from there. It's different
than chlorine. I know a lot of folks will use chlorine,
but chlorine does not go after the root of the mold.
It's going to come back. The chlorine dioxide does go
after that root, so it will not come back.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So so how long does when you're using that particular product.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Almost forever until you have another water leak.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, so it kills the original problem area of the mold.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Yes, okay, yes, so it can't grow back now, but
again if the roof leaks, yes, it's going to come back.
I'm working on a place right now where the plumbing
week and the carpet. One particular room smells real bad, right,
So we're used because it's a public hotel, they can't
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close up that room for any period of time. We're
using our other product, which is Mom's It stands for
mold odor, mildew smoke. It's the same chemical the chlorine dioxide.
But you put the packet into water, that gas disperses
in the water it comes to spray. So we're spraying
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that carpet real heavy underneath where you can look at
the drop ceiling and see exactly where the pipe right right,
and that we tell a huge difference in the smell.
People are now wanting to rent the space instead of
having to rent the space. But you know, we spray
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the ceiling as well. It's not going to stain, it's
not bleaching it. It just kind of gets oxidizes those
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Speaker 1 (37:32):
All right, talking home improvement.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And boy, I was just reading this whole story about
dex sealers and I'm always talking about different options, and
I can't wait to try this one. There's a deck
sealer out on the market now. It's for solid color
stains anywhere, not a semi transparent, but it's a a
(37:57):
solid color stain that read deuce is deck temperatures, so
there's radiant energy being bounced off the coating. It's made
by cabin and we'll be talking a little bit about
that next week, for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Catherine.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Welcome, Yeah, thank you, Gary, I live an Eastern time zone,
so I get you on a tape. So I was
this is the first time I've tried to call. I
had some guys come over to put up a rod
in my bathroom and they stood in the shower with
their shoes on. And my shower is an old one
(38:36):
that's kind of plastic robber like, and so you know,
I normally clean everything with clorox, but I thought, well,
I thought that might run it to just sanitize it
one time. What would you suggest I do to have
a one time good cleaning with it, but not run.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
The shower for well, so is there scuff marks on
there or what's what?
Speaker 10 (38:58):
Well, I get the hurt from the shoe, because I
like when I take a shower to think that my
shower for is clean.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, at this point I've done.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
I've done nothing except put dawn on it to wash
that off. And then I've been putting shower shoes in
there and wearing shower shoes like you do it camp.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
So the dog didn't I talk to you.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
I've called all the stores, the plumbing stores, the places
to sell appliances, and nobody knows the answer. And I
knew you were the only one that would know what
to do, not run the shower and yet to sanitize
this show.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Well, I don't think anything really, So is it like
a fiberglass or a plastic shower?
Speaker 10 (39:39):
And it's more like I think of it as like
a rubber made plastic like thing, and it's got the
little texture to it.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Run the bottom, you know.
Speaker 10 (39:50):
Well, it's a plastic type shower. It's I bought it
in nineteen seventy eight. I mean, it's it's an old shower,
you know. But it's been totally dirty and I just
absolutely love it. And I just didn't want to run
the surface by cleaning it. And I'd be better for
it to be dirty than to ruin the floor. Yeah,
but I thought, well, I'd feel more comfortable if I
(40:12):
just knew how to clean it one time. Then from
then on I'll just go back to what I always do.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, well, I guess the one thing I'm going to
say is, no matter what you try on there, I
want you to test it to make sure. Okay, you know,
because I don't you know, they're not gonna these things
are made for tub cleaners. They're not going to say, well,
I won't do this one tub from nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
One of the things that would come to mind would
be like magic eraser. Oh yeah, I think I would
try that. I think that would have a really good
chance of cleaning that up. I'm barkeeper's friend, same way.
I think that would do a good job. Comment is
(40:59):
a non embrace of that would probably clean that up
nicely also. Okay, So I think I would try those
three and feel pretty confident one of them would take
care of it.
Speaker 10 (41:10):
Okay, all right, Well I will try one of those,
And just one more question? Did you get my email
or do you have the idea from Catherine from the
Eastern time zone? Do you know if that you received
it or not? I didn't know if it was correct
or not. When did you send emails that I'm asking
the questions too hard?
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, that may be did you did you? When did
you send it?
Speaker 10 (41:34):
Send it Thursday? I think.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I don't recall that.
Speaker 10 (41:39):
About three days ago?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Was the question? The same as what were.
Speaker 10 (41:43):
Just talking about the yeah problem with the shower forth with?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Well, I don't recall it, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Weeks are crazy sometimes I try to answer most of
them but I don't always make it through.
Speaker 10 (41:56):
Well, I may not have had the email, right, I'm
not an email person. I'm a phone person.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
All right, we'll call anytime.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
Okay, Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Thank you, thank you, appreciate it. Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
So yeah, I go and kind of circle them back.
You know how we're always talking on decks, and I
know people are certainly in the next three months probably
doing a lot of deck stealing and different things like that.
I wanted to pass this along. You may know about
it already. It's been out for about a year or so,
maybe even longer a couple of years. I'm just kind
(42:33):
of getting really intrigued by it.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Uh. You know, I always talk about there's basically two kinds.
There's actually three or four, but it's a semi transparent
or a solid I'm seeing more and more people, especially
on older decks, kind of going into the solid color stains.
But there's a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Like I said, for solid color stains, you definitely want
to use a deck brightener that opens up the pores
of the woods so that it bites on there better
the solid color stain. But this new Cabot product, it
is a solid color stain. I think it's just three
or four colors. It looks the photographs I have, it
(43:18):
looks beautiful. It has just the slightest little sheen to it.
But it is it's a radiant barrier solid color stain.
What's that mean? That means it's not going to absorb
solar heat and it's actually going to lower the deck
(43:39):
temperature by twenty degrees. So if you've got a solid
color stain on your deck right now, and you know,
kids run across it in their bare feet and they're
going pretty fast and they're doing a little ouldance across
that deck, you might want to check out this particular
(43:59):
Cabot solid stained sealer. Again, it reduces the surface temperature
twenty degrees. I'm very intrigued by that. We're seeing some
of this come into the cap composite market also. All right,
I wanted to pass that a lot. Well, you know,
it was a kind of a fun weekend. We've got
(44:19):
a lot of really good questions and stayed dry. I
know a lot of parts.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Still kind of struggling with humidity and moisture. Danny Boy,
thank you very much for all your work.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
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Good Lord Willing. We'll be back next weekend for more
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At
Well, another weekend getting a few jobs done, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thanks for joining me. You're at home with Gary Sullivan
and uh, by the way, we got to line open.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Let's let h Kurt lead us off. Kurt, welcome, Good morning, Gary.
How are you doing fine, sir? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I just I heard your last call about the bathroom
remodel in law good green board. I'm just building a
house and I just had my drywall done. They had
a product that I had never heard of that they
used on my house where normally behind the shower they
would use green board. They have a drywall product and
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it's coded with FRP.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
There's a couple of them out there. Also there's and
I didn't get into that, Kurt, but yeah, there is.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
A couple of them out there. There's also a system
I don't know, I did mention kind of a system.
It's called the Schlooter.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
System, which is and I think they have a panel
called Advantage, which is even more waterproof. I went to
the cement board, which is not really quote waterproof, but
still better in green board.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Right. Yeah, because that that FRP, I mean, you could
run a wa yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it kind of blindsided me quite awesome.
Maybe I'm missing something, but he said he saw something
on OSB board behind the shower on a commercial with
one of these franchised bath replacement places. And I gotta admit,
I haven't really seen that being used, but he said, yeah,
(02:15):
you can see it in the commercial.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So but yeah, exactly, but there are Yeah, I didn't
delve into that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I probably should have. I just casually mentioned that there
are certainly some amazing products that go behind drywall or
substitute for that. And I'll tell you that green board.
I had the issue. I think thousands and thousands of
people had it where you know, you get a little
(02:46):
leak or calking or a little crack in the grouting,
and there'd be moisture on that green board and all
of a sudden, you could my second home. I could take
my hand just lightly push on about you know, four
or five ceramic tiles about the size of my hand
pushing that whole wall would move and you start tearing
off his all, you know, just just rotted.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just no good.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So some people want to stick the tile right to
that green board too, and then that's almost an instant tale.
Oh yeah, they can put the tile right to the
FRP without having to build it out with the half
inch of.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Their right right. Well, there's yeah. There's been a lot
of advancements in the whole ceramic tile field too, especially
in their mastics, in the pre mixed mastics too. All right, well,
enjoy building your house. That sounds exciting. All right, thank you,
(03:47):
all right, Kurt, take.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Care of.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
All right. Let's go, Tom, Tom, welcome.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Good morning, Gary morning. I heard your discussion with the
Collar about you know, bass hitter when he called in
about the companies that are offering a bathroom model, and
it harkened back to an incident for me about twenty
years ago. I was moving into an apartment and the tile,
the tile tubs around was really in bad shape, and
(04:15):
I asked the landlord to fix it before I moved in.
So anyway, he got the bath fitter, which was basically
you know, the plastic the vinyl that goes over the
tub and then the sheets that cover the tile on
the tubs around. So you talk about the law of
unforeseen consequences or unanticipated consequences whenever you do something. What
(04:39):
happened to me was that in shower curtains. If you
notice there are these little magnets at the base of
the shower curtain that actually stick at at the bottom
of the shower curtains of the tub. So when you
put that vinyl over the old cast iron or steel tub,
you lose that. You lose that magnetic grip to What
(04:59):
happened and to me was the first few times in
the show was the h the aircarrent created by the
flowing water caused the shower curtain to envelop me. So
I was standing in the shower and this the curtain
would crawl away from the edge of the tub and
almost sort of like wrap me around.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh geez, I could see where the magnets aren't going
to stick. Obviously, soon as you start saying that, that's
why I kind of chuckled, getting wrapped up by the
shower curtain. Didn't see that coming. But a lot of
times that's a that's a real good point though on
the on the magnets is yeah, unforeseen circumstances. You're right. Listen,
(05:40):
and again when we're talking about the bath fitter, and
only because of the caller talked about the amount of
marketing that's being done in the quick fixed bathroom remodels.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm not knocking the process at all. Like I said, Gosh,
I even did some work with bath Fitter on doing
the tub overlays, just as he was speaking of, and
it was a tremendous product and some of these. You know,
the reason there's so many people that are doing this
now is it's an inexpensive way to facelift a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
All right. So you got the panels, so you lose
the ceramic tile. You got the overlay, and there's different brands,
or not brands, but different types of that overlay. I
believe Bathfitter at one time. I guess they still are.
They're using the ABS plastic. I think it's ABS. It's
the same plastic it's used on Jacuzzi hot tubs. So
(06:41):
it's very substantial.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So but it's not for everybody either. When I was
talking to the fella and he was questioning several things,
and I was talking about the panels, like the Bathfitter panel,
I know about them a little bit more than the
other ones. They've got a seamless panel, which is good
anything with the seam as baths like gutters. You know,
if you can get one straight piece. You know, there's
(07:09):
not as much connections. There's a clocking, et cetera, et cetera.
And they got some of those seamless panels that they've
been with a hot wire, if you will, and that's
the way they position so that that's all good. But
he was showing some nervousness about that, and I asked
him if he was going to change the design and
the layout of the UH of the bathroom and he said, yeah, Well,
(07:36):
if that's the case, I was talking about the three
day kitchen in bath or if you want to talk
a bath contractor, that's just not doing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You know, keeping the same layout. Actually maybe even redesigning it,
utilizing different spaces. You know, you're better off of the
contractor at that point.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So again not knocking one end of the business, but
really again defining why you want to redo it. Is
it because I just want the least expensive way to
give it a new look. I want to re establish
some of the spacing that have given to the bathroom.
(08:16):
A lot of people right now that are remodeling bathrooms
are looking and going, you know what, that big garden tub.
I haven't used that in ten years. It's taken up
a lot of space.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't need that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And that's really when you want to work with somebody,
like a three day kitchen bathro where they're redesigning it
and utilizing the space differently, so you know it's not
just a cover up. And you know, we're not going
to really do the countertops, we're not going to really
do the cabinets, we're not going to reconfigure the square footage.
(08:54):
We're going to cover that bathtub. We're going to cover
that ceramic. We're gonna make it waterproof. It's going to
look new. A thything wrong with that, No, no, not
at all. But but there's the other type of project,
and that's really probably for somebody else. All right again,
our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three, eight two
five five. Will take a break, Terry, you'll be up.
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By the way, if you'd like to check out an
hour you may have missed this particular weekend, Danie'll have
those posted on the iHeart app and have them labeled accordingly,
whether it's Saturday, or Sunday hour one hour or two
and you can catch up during the course of the week.
So I just wanted to pass that along to you.
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If you'd like to join us with asking a question,
please do so, and we have Terry Terry welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Thanks. Our house is about twenty five years old, and
I would say for the last five if years, I've
had a patch of mold that comes in the crevice
of the ceilings of the bathroom, which is in the
top foo. I started just bleaching it out and painting
over for a couple of years, and then I went
(13:07):
to Kills and that was the best thing I did.
But now it has returned. So that's not a permanent solution, right.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, the permanent solution again is to remove as much
of the water in that environment as we can, because
there are molden mildew spores in your house as an
airyvice house, and there is organic material which is in
everybody's house. And then excessive moisture is what we're going
(13:41):
to work on. So what's on the other side of
that wall? Just out of curiosity the outside, okay, so
I mean is it a bread?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I don't know that there would be sightingminum.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Siding aluminum side.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, there are gutters on that side of the house,
there are not, okay. And on the inside of the house,
do we have a ventilation fan in that bathroom?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, there is a fan, and it's the original one
that the house was built with, and I would like
to look at replacing it. I might have to for
this reason.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay. So basically on that quick little survey, so the
water can be penetrating from the outside inside, but at
a home that was built, would you say, like twenty
years ago, Yes, there's a vapor barrier in there as
insulation in there. So a vapor barrier would minimize water
(14:48):
vapor from the outside coming to the inside, all right,
And the vapor barrier would keep the moisture from the
inside from going to the outside and like rotting the
wood on the outside of the house. That can't happen.
So I don't think it's a lot of times we'll
see that mildew that mold at the top of the
(15:08):
ceiling from like a gutter that gets clogged up and
water starts spilling over the back. And it's a brick
home and it finds its way into that area. What's
the back of the dry wall and mold grows. I
don't think that's going on at your house. I think
what's going on in that house is it's a shower.
It's a shower. We got a lot of hot, steamy
(15:31):
air when we take a shower, and if it's not
properly vented and I'll talk about that in a minute,
and poured out of that room. You know, warm air rises.
So the warm moist air, where's it going. It's going
to the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's going right in that area where it's mildewy, and
it's creating condensation. In fact, sometimes you can actually in
some homes you can actually see water run down on
the wall, little droplets. You know, it's not like a waterfalls,
but you can see little droplets. So my guest, Harry,
of what's causing that mold in that mildew right up
(16:11):
on that surface is you know, the humidity level in
that bathroom is not being exhausted through that fan properly
or fast enough. So here's the way that fan should
be used. It should be turned on when the shower's starting,
and it should run for about a half hour after
(16:34):
the shower's finished. That will evacuate all the moisture out
and should eliminate that problem. The other problem I see
in a lot of houses is the existing fan that's
there may not be big enough. That existing fan that
is there may not be vented outside. I see this
(16:57):
a lot too. There's a little hose on the backside
of that fan. It's just laid back in that corner
where that mildew is. So it's putting all that moisture
and warm temperatures and creating condensation that's kind of leeching
in there and causing the mold. And you said you
were thinking about looking at a fan. There's some really
(17:17):
neat little additions to fans. Now they actually have a
humidistat on there. So it is going to run in
that bathroom until it gets a humidity level of whatever
you said it at. So saying the summertime, you'd want
that down to about fifty five percent. And you know,
(17:40):
if it runs ten minutes after the shower, that's fine.
If it runs an hour after the shower, that's fine too.
In the winter time, maybe you can pull a deck
to forty percent. So that's in a nutshell, I think
what's going on. You really don't eliminate the problem until
we eliminate the moisture. There's a excessive moisture that's causing
(18:01):
the molded slash mildew. Until we correct that, you're going
to have the problem.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
If we do go to replacing that fan, and so
we take it out, is that the only way we'll
know if it has been vented out.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Or if you can.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Go up into the attic, you'll probably be able to
see where that fan is and you'll probably see a
little duck work or a little hose that will either
just be laying there or it'll be hung from a truss,
or it'll be going outside.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Okay, great, thank you, all righty.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Very good, Good luck to you, Take care, bye bye.
You know another thing that happens when we get moisture.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You know, we see the mildew, we see all that,
but we a lot of times we don't know that
we have mold. A lot of times will smell mold,
and you know the old ed ages. Jeez, if you
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(19:11):
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Speaker 1 (19:18):
Smells moldy. I guess the best way to say it,
and there's ways to eliminate the smell, and there's also
ways to eliminate mold and kind of what we want
to talk about. Summertimes especially, there's different smells in our
house that really need to be addressed. Yesterday I had
a ded Myron for odor exit and I'd like to
replay that interview because it kind of feathers into what
(19:41):
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All right, time to get after it. And we're talking
about our homes and taking care of problems we have.
And I'll tell you one time or one thing is summertime.
Summertime has a tendency to bring odors to our home.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
There's mold, there's kids, odors, there's pets and sweaty uh
gym clothes and shoes and cars and everything. So our
friend Deb Meyer from Odor Exit is joining us, and
Deb welcome.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Good morning, Gary. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You're quite welcome. It's a stinky time of year, but
it's also a fun time of year. And it's been
wet and it's been hot, so it's extra stinky.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I know. And that the humidity, the heat, rain, it's
just a perfect environment for all those odors. The humidity
just comes out when it gets warm and you're red
and water and comes the mold and the stink. And
how do we get rid of that? How do how
do we live with it? And we don't have to?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, that's it eliminates these odors. There's a lot of
different odor killing but it doesn't kill them. It mask iss.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It smells like perfume or something. And tell us a
little bit about the whole concept of odor exit.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Let's start there.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Okay, Well, our two main products are water and essential oils.
So first of all, it sounds like it's got a fragrance,
but it is just a combination of essential oils that
work together two when they come in contact with the
odor eliminated. It's not going to be lilac fresh or vanilla.
(24:36):
When you're done, it just goes away and your air
smells clean. Like it doesn't smell sure, it's just like
it's supposed to be. You know, we clean our house,
so why don't we clean our air? It shouldn't smell.
If you've got to have a smell, there's candles, but
(24:56):
those are kind of hazardous. If you have pets that
walk on your sure sure, sure not that my cats
would ever do that. But you know I have this
vision of fluffy and flames. That's not good. So you
know we want to We want to just clean our
air and make it smell fresh. Sure like opening the
(25:17):
door on a beautiful spring day, I guess.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And one of the things I noticed when visiting people's
house if they have pets, I can always tell there's
been a pet or is a pet in this home?
And how do you remove pet odors?
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Well, you're smelling that. Because they don't know about overrecksit,
we I tell them we have, thank you. One of
our products is called the eliminator. It again is water
and essential oils. It has to come in direct contact
with the source of the odor. So if these animals
(25:56):
aren't well, even the cat who gets it in the
litter box, sometimes that litter box smells because their urine
is just so potent. The eliminator, you spray that directly
in the cat box on the litter. It doesn't prevent
the cat from using it. It's not got any chemicals
or any harsh smells that you know the cat's going
(26:19):
to come back and use that box again. You spray
around the box on the wall and the floor dry wall.
It's not going to harm those surfaces. It's just got
to get to all that urine to eliminate the smell.
So that's one way. If you know they pets dogs
are going on the carpeting, you can put it on
(26:41):
the carpeting. You just have to know where it is.
A black light black lights, yeah, like we used to, Yeah,
and we sell those two. It's just a little flash light.
Any black light will work. You know the ones when
we were kids and we make our shirts light up
(27:01):
because that was the cool thing to do. Same concept.
It's making urine fluoreses like that, so you know where
to apply the product. Now, in a carpet, it acts
as a sponge, so you've got to go bigger than
what actually fluoresces all of it because it just wicks out. Yeah. Yeah,
(27:23):
so that's going to make that sort of smell. And
that's really for all body fluids. Vomit specs, et cetera.
The second product we have that's water and essentral oils.
We call it magic, and it looks a little bit
like magic. I have a customer who says her husband
(27:44):
calls it, get that Udini spray out.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So that's like when you're cooking, and maybe a garbage
can and that type of thing.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Uh huh. You can also, Yeah, you can also spray
your hands and pet your dog, and it's going to
keep down the body odor. I mean, if you're assessively
obsessively washing your dog to get rid of the smell,
the magic is going to let you stop doing that.
Put that on him. It absorbs the smells coming off
(28:15):
of there. So the magic absorbs odors in the air. Okay,
And yes, you can spray it if you burnt dinner
or the trash can. My friend, the Houdini friend, she
says she she's a smoker and she kind of spritches
herself her car so people don't smell that she's a smoker.
(28:37):
And she's very proud to tell people she's a smoker
because she doesn't smell. He uses a Houdini spray called magic.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So how about I mentioned summertime and sweaty gym clothes
and stuff like that. Is that the magic also or
is that the eliminator?
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Mostly that's going to be the magic. Spray it in
the the gym bag, in your shoes. Actually, either one
of them are going to work in your shoes. I
have another customer she goes through and sprays her and
her husband's shoes in the closet every month because we
just we don't wear socks. He works all day and
sweats and gets rid of that smell. So they're very
(29:18):
versatile products. Neither one have that fragrance added to end
up with Lilac Fresh. People don't know you're doing that.
You just you just smell great, or you don't smell
right right.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You know one thing, and I've had many people tell
me this in the industry, if you if it smells moldy,
it's got mold. You said I said something, or you
said something about eliminating the smell for mold. Do you
use one of those two products so you got something.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Else for that.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
We have a third product for that molds a little
tougher than and we have a different products. We have
four different products because the dif different odors are from
different chemical compositions, so they need a different something else
to break it down. So what we have for the
mole and the musty smells. The chemical is chlorine dioxide.
(30:15):
It's not natural, but it is very safe. It's actually
chlorine with an extra oxygen molecule added, so it's chlorine
dioxide and so it oxidizes. It eliminates those spores. If
somebody smoked in their house for five or ten years,
it'll eliminate that smell. The one product is AQM Air
(30:40):
Quality Manager, and it puts a safe gas in the
air and you have a fan on to stir that up,
and it goes after the spores in the air. The
spores you can't see the spores that are sitting on
a surface, concrete wall or somewhere in your house you're
(31:00):
roof weak and you've got stains or something. It's going
to go after those spores coming from there. It's different
than chlorine. I know a lot of folks will use chlorine,
but chlorine does not go after the root of the mold.
It's going to come back. The chlorine dioxide does go
after that root, so it will not come back.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So so how long does when you're using that particular product.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Almost forever until you have another water leak.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, so it kills the original problem area of the mold.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Yes, okay, yes, so it can't grow back now, but
again if the roof leaks, yes, it's going to come back.
I'm working on a place right now where the plumbing
week and the carpet. One particular room smells real bad, right,
So we're used because it's a public hotel, they can't
(32:08):
close up that room for any period of time. We're
using our other product, which is Mom's It stands for
mold odor, mildew smoke. It's the same chemical the chlorine dioxide.
But you put the packet into water, that gas disperses
in the water it comes to spray. So we're spraying
(32:29):
that carpet real heavy underneath where you can look at
the drop ceiling and see exactly where the pipe right right,
and that we tell a huge difference in the smell.
People are now wanting to rent the space instead of
having to rent the space. But you know, we spray
(32:50):
the ceiling as well. It's not going to stain, it's
not bleaching it. It just kind of gets oxidizes those
spores and eliminates and eliminates that smell, so you know
there's less coughing, less sniffing, sneezing, well.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
A lot of paces.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
That's a telltale sign that you got a problem, that's
for sure. Deb You always got something going on at
odor Exit. And any special pricing right.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Now, well we do, Gary, thanks for asking. Our discount
right now is fifteen percent off okay, and it's anything
you spend anything over twenty five dollars. They's free shipping okay.
And when you spend over thirty five dollars, there's a
free bottle of our Houdhini spray, our magic and free
(33:42):
six ounce bottle be included with your your shipment. So
all right, order now odor exit dot com and buy
direct from us. We love that and you're going to
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Speaker 1 (34:05):
Five all right, put a little smell good in your summer. Again.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
It's odor exit dot com fifteen percent off right now
and again over thirty five bucks. You'll get the shipping
and the free six ounce bottle of magic. Deb thank
you so much for joining us today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Thank you so much. Jar, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
You do the same. Thank you. Bye bye. All right
deb Meyer from motor Exit Again, it's O D O
r xit dot com. When we come back, we got
Bob Abraham, Tom sit tight. You can join us. You're
at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 2 (37:23):
All right, back ahead, we go at home with Jerry
Silvan again. That website was Odor Letter x it oder
exit dot com.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
All right, talking home improvement.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And boy, I was just reading this whole story about
dex sealers and I'm always talking about different options, and
I can't wait to try this one. There's a deck
sealer out on the market now. It's for solid color
stains anywhere, not a semi transparent, but it's a a
(37:57):
solid color stain that read deuce is deck temperatures, so
there's radiant energy being bounced off the coating. It's made
by cabin and we'll be talking a little bit about
that next week, for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Catherine.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Welcome, Yeah, thank you, Gary, I live an Eastern time zone,
so I get you on a tape. So I was
this is the first time I've tried to call. I
had some guys come over to put up a rod
in my bathroom and they stood in the shower with
their shoes on. And my shower is an old one
(38:36):
that's kind of plastic robber like, and so you know,
I normally clean everything with clorox, but I thought, well,
I thought that might run it to just sanitize it
one time. What would you suggest I do to have
a one time good cleaning with it, but not run.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
The shower for well, so is there scuff marks on
there or what's what?
Speaker 10 (38:58):
Well, I get the hurt from the shoe, because I
like when I take a shower to think that my
shower for is clean.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, at this point I've done.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
I've done nothing except put dawn on it to wash
that off. And then I've been putting shower shoes in
there and wearing shower shoes like you do it camp.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
So the dog didn't I talk to you.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
I've called all the stores, the plumbing stores, the places
to sell appliances, and nobody knows the answer. And I
knew you were the only one that would know what
to do, not run the shower and yet to sanitize
this show.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Well, I don't think anything really, So is it like
a fiberglass or a plastic shower?
Speaker 10 (39:39):
And it's more like I think of it as like
a rubber made plastic like thing, and it's got the
little texture to it.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Run the bottom, you know.
Speaker 10 (39:50):
Well, it's a plastic type shower. It's I bought it
in nineteen seventy eight. I mean, it's it's an old shower,
you know. But it's been totally dirty and I just
absolutely love it. And I just didn't want to run
the surface by cleaning it. And I'd be better for
it to be dirty than to ruin the floor. Yeah,
but I thought, well, I'd feel more comfortable if I
(40:12):
just knew how to clean it one time. Then from
then on I'll just go back to what I always do.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, well, I guess the one thing I'm going to
say is, no matter what you try on there, I
want you to test it to make sure. Okay, you know,
because I don't you know, they're not gonna these things
are made for tub cleaners. They're not going to say, well,
I won't do this one tub from nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
One of the things that would come to mind would
be like magic eraser. Oh yeah, I think I would
try that. I think that would have a really good
chance of cleaning that up. I'm barkeeper's friend, same way.
I think that would do a good job. Comment is
(40:59):
a non embrace of that would probably clean that up
nicely also. Okay, So I think I would try those
three and feel pretty confident one of them would take
care of it.
Speaker 10 (41:10):
Okay, all right, Well I will try one of those,
And just one more question? Did you get my email
or do you have the idea from Catherine from the
Eastern time zone? Do you know if that you received
it or not? I didn't know if it was correct
or not. When did you send emails that I'm asking
the questions too hard?
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, that may be did you did you? When did
you send it?
Speaker 10 (41:34):
Send it Thursday? I think.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I don't recall that.
Speaker 10 (41:39):
About three days ago?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Was the question? The same as what were.
Speaker 10 (41:43):
Just talking about the yeah problem with the shower forth with?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Well, I don't recall it, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Weeks are crazy sometimes I try to answer most of
them but I don't always make it through.
Speaker 10 (41:56):
Well, I may not have had the email, right, I'm
not an email person. I'm a phone person.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
All right, we'll call anytime.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
Okay, Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Thank you, thank you, appreciate it. Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
So yeah, I go and kind of circle them back.
You know how we're always talking on decks, and I
know people are certainly in the next three months probably
doing a lot of deck stealing and different things like that.
I wanted to pass this along. You may know about
it already. It's been out for about a year or so,
maybe even longer a couple of years. I'm just kind
(42:33):
of getting really intrigued by it.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Uh. You know, I always talk about there's basically two kinds.
There's actually three or four, but it's a semi transparent
or a solid I'm seeing more and more people, especially
on older decks, kind of going into the solid color stains.
But there's a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Like I said, for solid color stains, you definitely want
to use a deck brightener that opens up the pores
of the woods so that it bites on there better
the solid color stain. But this new Cabot product, it
is a solid color stain. I think it's just three
or four colors. It looks the photographs I have, it
(43:18):
looks beautiful. It has just the slightest little sheen to it.
But it is it's a radiant barrier solid color stain.
What's that mean? That means it's not going to absorb
solar heat and it's actually going to lower the deck
(43:39):
temperature by twenty degrees. So if you've got a solid
color stain on your deck right now, and you know,
kids run across it in their bare feet and they're
going pretty fast and they're doing a little ouldance across
that deck, you might want to check out this particular
(43:59):
Cabot solid stained sealer. Again, it reduces the surface temperature
twenty degrees. I'm very intrigued by that. We're seeing some
of this come into the cap composite market also. All right,
I wanted to pass that a lot. Well, you know,
it was a kind of a fun weekend. We've got
(44:19):
a lot of really good questions and stayed dry. I
know a lot of parts.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Still kind of struggling with humidity and moisture. Danny Boy,
thank you very much for all your work.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
He's going to each hour post it up on the
iHeart app if you'd like to visit an hour you
may have missed.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Good Lord Willing. We'll be back next weekend for more
At Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 6 (44:47):
If you don't have a list of things to do
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