Gary Sullivan 8/16/2025 Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, welcome there, number two at Home with Gary
Slivan taking it through another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home. It's gonna be hot today. So
if you're doing a project outside, yeah, I know you
got a hydrate.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I've heard that. But also read the label of the
products you're using.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
A lot of products have limitations, and you know they evaporate.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
And if you want to make sure that job is done.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Correctly your answers next right here and put the podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, the weekend is here.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
You're at home with Gary Sullivan and we're talking a
little home improvement. Thank you very much for joining me
as we talk home improvement.

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All right, let's get back to the phone calls. If
you'd like to join us, do so. Ron Welcome, Hello,
how are you this morning? Doing fine? Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
We've got the.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Two inch tiles in the bottom of our shower and
obviously all that grout, and my wife has that grout
cleans twice already in the last five years. Is there
a clear sealer once you clean the grout? Is there
a clear sealer you can put over the top of
that so you don't have to clean it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
There is a clear sailor that can go over the ground.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
But I'm not going to guarantee you don't have to
clean it ever again, So let me give you some options.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
All right, once you.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Clean that up, there are a couple of things you
can do. There's actually one of them is a grout paint.
So when you use a grout paint, it's pretty much
water proof, and.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's probably the closest.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I mean, it can still get mil dewy. I mean
it's in a shower, but using a grout paint would
be a really good option. There is also a grouse
sealer that has a fifteen year warranty. So grout has
about a three percent absorption rate of water. When you

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put a sealer on it, it's about a one percent
of sorrow option of water. So the warranty is not
that it'll stay clean for fifteen years. The warranty is
that the ground seiler will be active for fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
And there's one called Miracle seilance.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
You can spray it on and it's a non wipe
grout ceiling so you don't have to wipe it off
all the tiles, So that would that would be an option.
The other one is the person that was just talking
about the Wet and Forgets Shower product and I was
talking about applying it once a week.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's a maintenance product.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
So once you seal that grout or you clean that grout,
the Wet and Forgets shower can just be sprayed on
the floor the tiles and you know it's not a sealer,
but what it does is it will kill the spores
before they start growing where you can see the problem.

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It's also good for uh dissolving hard water stains on
the tile. Okay, so that would be probably my third solution.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Okay, Yeah, I was looking for something that I could
just fall on and brush around and you know.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Give it a coating.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
That you would never.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Have to go back and pull with the groud anymore,
like giving it a new floor completely and then covering
the ground up completely. You know.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
So you're talking about covering the tile and the ground right.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Correct with with a clear ceiling, Yeah, covering everything?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, No, I think we'd all like that. I don't
know if one like that.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I think, you know, there's some flora poxies. I don't
know how slippery that would be. I know Quick Creek
makes a floor, a clear floora POxy mainly for I
don't know if you could use that in there or not.
That's the only one I really know of that would
be clear, heavy duty, but probably be slick. It would

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probably be really slippery in the shower.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, that would be the only problem, being too slippery.
But okay, I'm gonna try one of these. I appreciate
and you have a wonderful day.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
All right, You do the same, Thank you, Take care
all right. Eleven minutes after the top of the hour,
let's go. Oops, where we going? Joe I'm sorry, we
go to brand. Yes, Brad, Hey, Brad, how you doing?

Speaker 6 (05:40):
I got two questions. One on I'm making some some
outdoor projects, and I know you want us to use
spar your thing. When I bought a court to test it,
I bought oil based, took blight the way it looked.
So then when I went bought a gown, I didn't

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pay attention and ended up buying water base.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
What is your opinions one to the other.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, first of all, both are supposed to be outdoor, okay,
all right? Is it a Tzar brand.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, they're the only ones that make an outdoor water
based How about that? You'd think everybody would actually the
the water bass has I would say, some real good advantages,
and so does the oil, So they're all They're coming
to either or. But the beautiful thing about a water
bas aa dries fast, so you can put multiple coats

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on in the same day. For most of us, that's important.
Number two is the Tzar spar your THINGE is non yellowing.
Your oil base will yellow. Sometimes that makes a big deal.
Sometimes it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Make it at all.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
So the spar, the our brand, spar urythane water base
will be crystal clear and stay that way, so dry faster.
It's also it doesn't yellow. It Also, being a water
base and a spar, it even has a tad better

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UV resistance than a.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Than a oil spar.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
The advantage of a spar oil over water is it
probably has a little better biting strength to the existing substrate,
so it sticks better. I'm not saying it's gonna be
the water bas gonna peel off. I'm just saying the

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adhesion on an oil is always better than a water base,
and the durability, the the the resistance to the sun
is always better with acrylics.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
My understanding is you can put water over oil, but
not the other way around.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
You can put let me think this thing through. It's
changed multiple times.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
You can put yeah, I so what's on there now?
Is it the oil? Well?

Speaker 6 (08:19):
I put oil on and then run out, and I thought, well,
if I'm more to put more on, can I put
the water on and just continue with with water from
then on?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Uh? Boy, if it was older stuff, I'd feel better
about it.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I I going over it, I'd really want to just
double check, and I don't want to do all that
work and then have a mistake. Ideally, like if I
had paint, and I know that's different. If I had
oil based paint and I used a non primary water

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based paint, I couldn't use it over the oil. I
don't know if that's the same with a clear finish,
and especially if it's a brand new clear finish. My
suggestion to you, if you've already started plying with the oil,
I'd stay with the oil.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Well, I'm building what the call tailgate benches, if you
know what those are, and so I'm using the oil
on the legs and then the water on the seat
and the rails and stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Okay, so have you.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
But you've used the oil on this, you're going to
use the water on the legs also, Well start I run.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
I ran out of oil and I didn't and I
need to put a couple more coats onto the onto legs.
I thought, well, if I didn't have to go buy
another quart of oil, then I would I would.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Do it quart of oil. I wouldn't gamble. And you're
using you're using, I mean I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I mean you're going to have a day's where of
work invested at least, right if it.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Starts peeling in a year. Now you got a.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Five day you know, take that off there because I'm
gonna tell you to strip it. So when you're putting
additional coats of oil on there, are you standing in
between the coats?

Speaker 6 (10:16):
I'm doing just a little light, Yeah, light, standing to
get something to bite too.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, that's good and you should so I would recommend
like a six hundred grid real fine and sand it
remove the residue.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
But yeah, you definitely need to do that.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
So if you definitely want to do it, I would
check with the manufacturer. Usually they have an eight hundred
number on there since you're still in the same brand,
and get their opinion. But if it's a weekend I
just want to get this thing going, I'd probably go
buy another quart of oil.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
Okay, all right, I'll probably end up doing that.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Very good. Thank you much, appreciate the call. All right,
let's take a little break.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
We got to Larry and Tim and Bob and Gary.

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Speaker 2 (11:47):
All right, back at it we go. Twenty one minutes
after the top they are talking a little home improvement
on your weekend. Thanks for joining me. Let's go to Bob.
Bob Welcome, Hey, good morning morning.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Hey, A quick question for you. You just talked about
these heat resistant decks and docking. I just put a
supposedly heat resistant, fifty year guaranteed composite dock together, and
my question is it's supposed to be heat resistant, but
it's very hot, like you talked about. Can you take

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one of these new products you discussed, the coating and
put it over a composite to see if that helps.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Because the coating that Cabot makes is a semi transparent
penetrating sealer, so it's not going to penetrate the coating, Okay,
so I'll just have.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
To be content that it's thirty degrees cooler than it
would have been.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, I does it make a difference or doesn't even
make a difference. I mean, if it's a dock, you're
right out in the sun and you know the reflection
and everything else.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
But right, yeah, I just did you know they said, oh,
it's heat resistant and it's fifty years, and you know guaranteed,
right you know, it's very hot, So I knew it
wouldn't be cool that. I just was curious if there
was something to put over that. It doesn't sound like
it that. I appreciate your insights.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
You're quite welcome, Thank you, take care, bye bye, and
think about it this way. With the technology, there was
nothing an there's something thirty degrees seems like a big deal.
But you got a dock in you. Let's say you're
in you know, Florida and it's super hot and that
sun's beaten down there. I don't know what the temperature
of that deck would be without a coating or without

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a you know, a heat resistant decking on there. But
I'll bet you one hundred and fifty plus and thirty
years thirty degrees.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah it's one.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Hundred and twenty still hot, but maybe we can walk
on it's versus the other I don't know, it's it's
it's something I would say in a lot of cases
it's it's a deal maker, but maybe in some cases not.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, Tim, welcome, welcome, good morning.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Air conditioning, two story house, nineteen hundred square feet. Typical
problem five degrees different between upstairs and down there. Closing
the registers, are addressing the duck workers. Are any good
things to do to try to get the temperature?

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, there's there's all kinds of things, some very inexpensive,
some doesn't cost anything at all, and sother some are expensive.
So it really depends which way you want to go.
Where's the thermostat located.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's in the center of the house, in the first floor.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
All right, So the furnace is what.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
It's about six years old, This is new basically, okay.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Okay, So adjusting the dampers in the pipes where they're
full throttle going upstairs and in throddling them back to
the first floor may be advantageous for you because that's
where the thermostat is. So you got to satisfy the

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thermostat right now. If you've got dampers open to the
first floor and maybe throttled back upstairs, or.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Maybe not even throttled back.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Hot air rises, so it's five degrees hotter up there,
and when the air conditioner's running and it's hitting that
thermostat downstairs, when it achieves the temperature that it's set,
it shuts off, So your upstairs is getting cheated. So
adjusting the dampers that may make a difference. There's all

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kinds of other variables from maybe with the doors closed,
maybe the cold air return is on the outside of
the room that can affect temperatures. The only shift fire away,
I said. An expensive way is they have zone thermostats
that you can actually put in the bedrooms, and then

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the dampers are computer controlled based on temperature. They open
and close automatically.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Okay, so play around with the dampers on my deck book,
I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think that's where I'd probably start.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
And you know, see if we can throttle some back
a little bit and please that thermostat and while we're
getting full board, you know, air upstairs also. You know,
it depends on the insulation and the attic over the ceiling,
if that's up to speed or not. You know, if
you got four inches of insulation, that's probably not going

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to be enough. You're probably going to need like sixteen
eighteen inches. Because we've got a furnace up in the
up in the attic right that's radiating heat also.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
So there's a lot of variables.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
All right, thank you, Then all right.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Thanks take care, bye bye. And the zone heating and
cooling is the ticket. I mean, we have that in
our cars. But if you can get thermostats upstairs so
it's satisfying the temperature in the rooms in a computer
that's installed in your home controls the dampers inside the

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duckwork to close off and open up as needed. That's
the only sure fire away that I know to take
care of it. But again, you know, checking where the
cold air returns him. An HVAC company out there, take
a look at if there's something we can do there,
it might be the answer. All right, coming up, we're
gonna get rid of bio film. That's gonna be our conversation. Next,

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All right, beckheare do we go at home with Garry
Solvan where we usually have a discussion and learn something
about a particular product or a particular problem in our home,
and today is no different. Jim Parker with Unique Solutions
is joining us and we're going to talk about biofilm. Jim,
welcome again that home with Gary Solvin. How you doing.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Hey, Jim? Oops?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Gerrett are you there?

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Grey there, We're here, We're here. Can you hear me now?

Speaker 4 (19:51):
I can?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay? Great?

Speaker 10 (19:53):
Well, technology, I tell you technology.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
I guess a little hiccup? Well, how you doing? Everything?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
All right?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Very good?

Speaker 11 (20:02):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, everything's been good.

Speaker 10 (20:04):
We've been we've had we've been busy over here.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
So that's great. That's great.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
So I teased our conversation by saying we're going to
talk about biofilm, because when I use that phrase sometimes
when I'm talking about your product, people go, huh, what's biofilm?
So I'll let you start out with what's biofilm? And
where is it in our houses?

Speaker 10 (20:26):
That's a great question. So biofilm is a combination of bacteria, mold,
and fungus. I want you to think of it kind of.
I use the word matrix. It's a it's a living
organism that has this outer protective shell around it. And
where it can be found in our houses is our

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sink drains, our shower dreams, our dishwashers, are washing machines.
And then if you have a hot tub or a
swimming pool, a jetted bathtub, all of those internal clothes
plumbing systems will eventually have or already have what's called biofilm.
And so what we do is we go in and

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basically clean that biofilm out.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Does it smell bad?

Speaker 10 (21:14):
It can, absolutely, So For example, I use washing machines
are very common. Most people have a washing machine in
their home or their apartment. And so if you've ever
opened up your washing machine and you have that odor,
it's that mildewy just it almost smells like you left
your clothes in there for a week after you wash
them type of smells, you know, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
There you go.

Speaker 10 (21:38):
Good analogy.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I like that one.

Speaker 10 (21:40):
And so if you're smelling that, more than likely you
have a biofilm build up within the machine itself, including
the internal components and the plumbing system and even the
drain going down.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah. In fact, that's how I found your company.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh gosh, it's probably been what six years ago with
Awesome And I had this smelly wash machine and you know,
I cleaned the seal it with some bleach and it
wasn't getting it done. And I found this product and
then when I got it in the mail, it was

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like two ounces in this little plat, Like.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
What in the world is this?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Well, we'll give it a try. Well, yeah, long story short,
it worked. And you were explaining that. So a lot
of people say when I tell them that story, there, oh,
I just put bleach in it.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
That'll do it.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
That doesn't do it all the time, right, I mean,
it doesn't do it.

Speaker 10 (22:37):
It doesn't do it at all. Actually, So bleach is
very good for killing what we like to call free
floating planktonics or single cell organisms.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Bacteria, that's just out there.

Speaker 10 (22:51):
It's great. And you know, if you put that in
sole water and you know, whatever ratio you want to use,
that can disinfect things, which is fantastic, and that's what
bleach is for. However, when you already have this biofilm matrix,
this organism that's already living, bleach is unfortunately not able
to penetrate those outer epidural layers. It just doesn't have

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the ability to do it.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Bove films kind of jelly, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
That's a great way too. That's a great analogy. It's
it is exactly like a jelly. And if you if
you had it in your hands, and so a lot
of customers who use it for their hot tubs, they
will notice that it is a very sticky, slimy substance.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
It's almost glue like.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
It's a sacarade by nature, so it's very glue like
and sticky. So it really is a very complicated organism.
And this is why awesome is we've been in business
for almost thirty years doing this, twenty nine and a
half years. This to be thirty years in twenty twenty six.
But this is why it's it's such a popular product
because it works so extremely well in breaking down that

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that organism and then flushing that out of the system.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
And hence the small containers. It doesn't take much for
a wash machine. And after you run that cycle and
that biofilm breaks down and it's kind of in the washer.
I mean you can see it and it's gross. It's
no wonder it's smelled bad.

Speaker 10 (24:22):
Yeah, it's it really is nasty, and it's just it's
one of those things that you don't like to have
to do. But knowing that you do it is a
good thing, not only for your you know, look at
it from this perspective too, not only for the odor
aspect of it, but now you're doing a very good
deep clean on your machine. So it does allow your

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washer or your dishwasher or your jetted bathtub to work
more efficiently, which then in turn, you don't have to
buy a new washing machine maybe as often, or a
dishwasher as often.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
We're keeping it much cleaner.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, I see that. Gosh, I think when you talk
about biofilm and I think of a hot tub. I
don't know if I want to jump in a hot
tub if it hasn't been clean to be honest with uh,
do hot dub people there talk about your product and
teach people.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
About that because it's definitely going to be in a
hot tub.

Speaker 10 (25:19):
Oh, it absolutely isn't hot tubs. If you own a
hot tub and you've never purged it with specifically awesome,
you have biofilm in your tub, that's just if you
and can it be dangerous? Absolutely, it can be dangerous
because what ends up happening is this, you you have biofilm.
Let's say we'll just use a hot tub, right and
if you know, if you're noticing that, so in a

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hot tub, we have to put a sanitizer like chlorine
or bromine into our hot tubs. And there are others,
but those are the two most common ones. If you're
noticing that, boy, my hot tub is just eating up
chlorine all the time. I'm putting it in every single day.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's the problem.

Speaker 10 (25:57):
And so that chlorine is attacking thing. Now it's not
getting to the biofilm, but it's seeing something bad in there,
so it's attacking it. Hence the reason why our chlorine
is dissipating so rapidly, and if by because our sanitizer
decay rate is so high then foreign stuff gets into
the water. And now if you get into a hot sub,
let's say you've had a cut on your hand or

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your leg and there's a low level of sanitation, you've
got bacteria in the water. Now, these are where you
can start getting you know, staff infections. There's a we
call it hot subrash pseudomonish. You know, you get into
your hot sub and you start getting itchy all over.
Oftentimes that's a hot sub rash, and that's caused by
a bacterial infection because of the water.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
One thing we haven't talked much about, Jim, is using
the awesome in drains. Can you kind of walk me
through that?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, what vanity journey.

Speaker 10 (26:52):
So you can use any one of our our awesome products,
any one of the gel products, particularly just because it's
a little bit stronger. And what you're gonna do is
you're gonna it's one tea spoon with about three gallons
of water, which is a very doesn't sound like a lot,
you know, we talk about such small amounts. Yeah, but
it's a very strong combination of a very good mixture.
And then all as you simply do is pour that

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right down the drain, let it sit for ten to
fifteen minutes, run through its course, and then just give
it a good rinse with you know, if you're using
it in a shower drain, obviously the shower drain is
a little bit bigger, right, So you want to you know,
get that poured down there, let it drain down there.
It's just as the water and the and the awesome
you know, is going through that piping. It's just going
to start clearing that stuff off and then the turn

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the shower around for five minutes with cold water and
just let it flush down. And you might have to
do it a couple of times. But you can do
that with every single drain in your house, your kitchen sink,
your garbage disposal. You can do it with your bathroom sinks,
all of them.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, because I got a lot of calls on vanities
that smell because everything we use them gel gel deodor
and gel toothpaste, you know, gel and hair spray and
it gets sticky and it's probably hell helps collect the biofilm,
does it not?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
It does absolutely.

Speaker 10 (28:04):
And our bathroom sinks are absolutely probably the dirtiest drains
that we have in our house. You know, when you
think about it, we're brushing our teeth, all of the
bacteria from our mouth is going right into the sink.
For you know, as guys we shave our faces. Well
as we shave our faces, we're taking off skin cells
with that razor blade. All of that goes right down

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the drain. We wash our hands, all of that goes
down there, and parts of it will stick and stay
into that plumbing system and over the course of and
it doesn't take long. You know, within a few days
that biofilm matrix can start to build up and now
you start getting those odors.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
So's the big question everybody's thinking right now is how
often do we need to do this deep cleaning of
hot tubs, spas, drains, dishwashers, wash machines. How often should
we do this? Is this a once a year thing
or every month?

Speaker 10 (28:56):
That's a great question. So myhilosophy is for your dishwasher,
for your washing machine. If you do have a jetted
bathtub in your master bathroom or in your home somewhere,
those are monthly. Those are those are a monthly cleaning.
And once you have that first initial set of cleanings done,
sometimes it takes a little bit, especially with the jetted bathtub.

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You might you might need to do several purges to
get that jetted bathtub clean, dishwashers and washing machines on
the on the first go around, and probably take a
couple of them after that once a month and then
just do that that maintenance. Just try to try to
get to it. I do mine on the first Sunday
of every month. I go around and clean everything out,
and then I do all my drains. Now, hot tubs,

(29:38):
swim spas, those are about for hot tubs, about every
six months is our recommendation.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, for swim spos.

Speaker 10 (29:46):
It's it varies with swim spots because they're a little
bit bigger. But most people will do a purge, drain
and rethal on a swim spot once a year. For
your hot tub about twice a year.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
A lot of jetted bathtubs aren't used.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Is that good for biofilm or bat for biofilm?

Speaker 10 (30:06):
That's a breeding ground for biofilm, Okay, I think we yeah,
even if you're not using your jetted tub. And I
get this call every day, I'm getting this oder, but
I don't use it, So does it really matter? Well,
remember a lot of a lot of pathogens. Specifically lee
Jionella is an airborne and so if by chance you
have that in your in your jetted tub, well, it's

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going to come out of there eventually as just air
motion flows through there. So even if you're not using
your jetted bath tub, it is still a good idea
to run the purge through there once a month to
just clean it out and make sure that that the
system is staying healthy.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Jim, when originally when I found your product, I think
I got it at Amazon, I might be wrong.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Where where do people uh pick up some awesome.

Speaker 10 (30:57):
So yeah, the vast majority of our customers purchase their
products through Amazon or through our our hundreds of retail
locations throughout the country. I think Amazon is is by
far and away the easiest option for most customers. Just
Amazon makes shopping easy. So Amazon Is is definitely a
great place to get our awesome products. We do have

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awesome products at various retailers throughout the country, mostly hot
tub stores and pool stores.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (31:23):
And then you can also get your awesome products from
our website directly at awesome dot com.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Okay, and that is a h H. S O n
ME dot com. Even though it is awesome. It's spelled
a little different, felt a little different.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
All right.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
H H s O m me dot com. Most people
have this problem. Some people know it and ignore it.
Other people want to get it fixed and so take action.
It's it's not healthy. I I do that washing machine.
Like I said, I don't know about every month, but

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it's probably every other month, and it certainly keeps things
in check. Hey, Jim, is great talking again. Thanks for
checking in. I appreciate it.

Speaker 10 (32:10):
Thanks, Gary, have a great rest of your slummer.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Great talking to you, all right, take care of my friend.
All right.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well, we haven't talked about that product for a while,
and we never really talked about it for drains, and
as I dug in, I think that's going to be
an answer to a lot of the drain issues that
we have and getting rid of odors.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
You can pour it down the you.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Know the little vent hole at the top, You can
put it in the drain and it's it certainly does.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
What it's meant to do. So we'll open up the
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Speaker 1 (33:26):
All right back to the phones we go. Oh one
other thing that that formulation. I did get a couple
of messages on the awesome one tablespoon or teaspoon, one teaspoon,
one teaspoon, three gallons of water.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
And you know for putting it in.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
The drains and then running on the washing machine. I
can tell you because I've used that multiple times. You
will put that in if you got a little spinner
at the top. If you don't, you put it in
the washer goes in the top of the the spinner
and you run you know, a cycle, not a little wash,

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a cycle. You don't put any close in it. And
then after it's finished, you're gonna see this debris that's
all broken down, and then you're gonna run another clear
cycle without any and it flush it all out.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's how that works. Again, it's ah h som me
dot com. All right, noll Bob welcome.

Speaker 11 (34:31):
Hi Gary, this is Bob. Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I hope you're doing well today, doing fine, Thank you good.

Speaker 11 (34:39):
I'm in northeast Ohio and I lost a lot of
roof granuals last year. And I heard you talk about
roof Max several times, and I understand the concepts.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
My question is I.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
Read somewhere that once you put it on, if you
go to replace that roof in five or ten years
or whatever, it's very difficult to get it off or
get the old shingles off because of this coding.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Have you heard anything about that. No.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
I have, in fact a lot of the information I've got, Bob,
And just to be transparent, they're not a sponsor, and
the information that I've got, I have not used it.
That's why I didn't recommend it. I just talked about
the pros and cons. I got through their technical service
people so that I understood exactly what it's you know,

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supposed to do, which it does, which it does. I've
talked to other people that have had it done, but
I have not run into that. But that is worth investigating.
Now when you tell me that does that mean it
can't come off. Ors that mean it costs more to
take it off? Or does that mean it's a harder
job to take it off? What's that mean?

Speaker 11 (35:50):
I mean, from what I remember when I was reading
doing some research on it, it probably was a roof
installer that said it was very difficult to get off
and it made it for a very tough time job.
Maybe it was a roof or just you know, it
might be a little biased.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I don't know. Well, I don't know. If I haven't
heard about it, I will check into that.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
I know a couple roofers fairly well, and I will
check into it.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
And you're right.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
I mean, it is a little competition for him, But
I really don't think it's for everybody. But I really
can see how some people.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
It would be. It would be an option for him.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
You know, if you're an older person, you're going to
be in that house for a couple two or three
more years and you're looking at replacing the whole roof.
If you can get me five years, I'm in, you know,
for thirty percent of the cost. So I think there's
a place for in the market. I don't think I
would stand there and say everybody should go do this tomorrow,

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because if you're going to be in your house for
your whole year or the rest of your life, whatever
however long that is, you know, it's probably something I
news another thing that I'll bring up, and I didn't
bring it up in that conversation, but since you're bringing
up things that say, hey, something to check into and
checking with.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Some roofers would be a real good idea.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Insurance companies right now they're getting very persnickety of what
they're ensuring and what they're paying.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
On roots on roofs.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
In other words, I've had several calls and talked to
several people where their insurance company said, you need to
replace the roof.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Now we're only now paying.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
You know, the we're pro rating the roof, and that's
you know that roots twenty five years old, and so
if I coaked that and extended five more years, do
they just pro rate that to one year? I would
say probably, But I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
For suod question.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
So that's that's the only question that I've come up
with that I haven't really dove into to see how
that's affected. And not all insurance companies are doing that,
but more and more are so eventually that will become
a question.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
Okay, gool, thanks for the insol Gary.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yep, we got a little bit more work to do,
but that's what we're here for, is just to kind
of give everybody an idea what it is and how
it works.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I appreciate your call. Thank you all right again our
phone number. We got a couple more hours to go.
It's eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.

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