Gary Sullivan 8/17/2025 Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome now our number three at home with

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Gary Salvin. Not a bad looking day. Sure it's warm,
but it's summertime. So let's pay attention to named products
you're using outside. Make sure you know what the limitations
temperature wise are, or you might work real hard and
not be as successful as you think you should be.
So pay attention to that. All right, we'll take your
calls till noon. So we got an hour to go

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right here on fifty five kro seed de talk station.
Well the weekends upon us. Welcome, you're at home with
Gary Salvent, taking you through another hour getting a few
things done around the home. And if you'd like to
jump on board, do so. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five and let's go to Ken Ken.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Welcome, Thank you Garrett taking my call.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
You bet you.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I got an issue with asphalt guideway, and I looked
through a lot of different solutions to try and fix it.
I'd even call the contractor to have and see what
they charged me to dig it up and pour concrete.
And they're earning about twenty thousand dollars and I just
don't have that my budget right now, So I'm looking

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for something that can buy me a couple of years
so I can save up a little bit. The asphalt
itself has cracks throughout it, anywhere from half inch to
inch and a half. It's got some valleys in it.
I can't have somebody come out and put asphalt over
the top of it because the peninsula is about an

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inch and that would give me water flowing back into
the garage. And I can't get a decent quote on
somebody come out and rip up the asphalt and relay it.
I'm just wondering if you might have a solution that
could buy me a couple of years until I could
get a dug up and have concrete.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah. I mean there's a solution. It's not going to
be perfect. I mean it's not going to do everything
thing you wanted to do.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean we got some time.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, we got some We got some major major cracks there,
and uh we do. Yeah a lot of times when
the asphalt cracks, you know, it's sometimes like in a
corner or in a radius or something and there's like
fifteen cracks and there's a you know a little honk
asphalt and it's surrounded the asphalt surrounded by cracks if

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it looks like that.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Literally, this is this is right in the middle of
the driveway going across, maybe not all the way across,
but right. Yeah, well it's going from side to side mostly.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, well angle, but yeah, here's here's the story on
patching asphalt. There's three generally three types of patch, depending
on the size, and you're looking at it so this
will make sense to you. The first one is for
small cracks. It's it's a liquid. It's a rubberized liquid

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that you pour into the crack. That's probably not gonna
help you.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, that's probably not gonna help you. No, that's what
I thought, all right.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
The next type is a mastic. It's it's close to
like roof tar. You know how thick and gooey that is. Yeah,
so you know we'd have to clean that up. And
you're just you're just using a mastic to cover up
the cracks. You're pushing it down. I don't know how

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much you'll need, but a mastic patch, you know, they
even have a fiberglass that can go over the different uh,
you know, if you have multiple cracks, but then the
mastic is just applied. So a mastic is number two
to fill cracks. And then the third option is it's

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the patch. It's the cold tar patch that you fill
potholes with, right, it's got small gravel, it's got tar
and even the smoke. The way you would use that
is you wouldn't necessarily just fill the cracks. I guess
the inch and a half one. You could and just
get a trial and put it down in there and
tamp it when it gets to the surface. Or you

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can dig that up, you know, so if there's an
intersection of multiple cracks, you can dig some of that up,
leave your base down there, square the sides with a
cold chisel, and just use a cold patch and a
tamper and stamp that down where there's the swale. You know,

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it's pretty much you're going to have to cut into
that asphalt and create sides like a cake pan so
it doesn't squish out, and tamp that down in there.
I would say, without even seeing it, you're number one
old pat. It's the cold patch, and it's going to

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require a little bit more work, but again it will
buy you a few years.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay, Yeah, I'll just have to find somebody that can
supply me with a cold patch. That's not something you're
just gonna go out.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, somewhere they have They have it in hardware stores.
It's in a sixty five pound bag, sixty six pound bag,
somewhere in a sacred has it. The quick Creed has it.
Some people just have it in buckets, and you're gonna
need bags. But I get to the hardware store and
just ask for a cold a cold patch. Brewer makes it.

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Quick cre makes it. I mean it's out there. You
know you're not going to get the steaming hot stuff,
but you'll get it out there where you can make
a nice patch.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Okay, I appreciate your hand.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
But all right, very good, thanks, good luck, good luck
to you. All right, and let's go to Let's go
to Dave. Dave, welcome, hell, thank you, Yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
My question is I have a friend of mine that
passed in her house. She had six cats, and her
children want to clean this house up. And this house
thinks I haven't ammonia. Yeah, I reckon, I'll call Overraxt.
But I I heard you say there was something he

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was better than outo axid.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, I think they have a couple different products in
Oto exit Dave, and you got at They're going to
have a lot of work to do before they get
even into the odor exit. So you know, if there's
carpets in there, they're gonna end up tearing the carpets up.
I would assume are they going to sell the house then,
or what are they looking to do?

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, they're going to sell the house.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So I would get rid of all the carpets. That'd
be step one for me. There is an otor exit
product called eliminator, all right, that's the one you want
that'll kill natural, natural occurring odors, and cats are famous

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for that. I would also spray that heavily on any area.
So oto exit also, let me back up, just a
little bit urine from a cat, a dog, a human,
whatever will glow with a black light that is shown
onto it. So they have little pen light flash light

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which produces a black light. And since cats can spray walls,
they can spray baseboards, they can spray you know, the floor,
you can identify exactly where it is, and it might
be everywhere, but then you'll know that for sure because
you don't want to miss a spot. So I would
spray the eliminator first heavily on all those areas. I'd

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give it a week or so after I got rid
of all the carpet and get the padding and get
all that stuff out of the house. And if you
still have an odor in it, and you may. She
has two other products. One of them is called MOMS
m o MS and the other one is called AQM.

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The AQM means air Quality Manager. The MOMS is a
packet that is wet wetted, add water to it, clip
it onto a fan, and it produces chlorine dioxide that
will eventually kill that odor. What I would do if

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I were you is is you know it's three steps,
identify wear, four steps clean out all the gunk out
of there. Step step two is to remove carpeting and
things like that. The next step would be to use
the eliminator and see where you're at and maybe use

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the Mom's product after that. Odor Exit has a history
of dealing with severe problems like that, and if you
would like to consult with them, I believe their phone
number is eight seven seven odo r x it so

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oder Exit. Give them a call and ask for Deb.
Deb is the owner of that company and she gets
very involved in these difficult to handle situations. I think
you can I think you can get it cleaned up.
That's that's how I'd handle that whole issue. All right,
good luck to you. We'll take a break, we'll come

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back with Keith and Bill and well we'll keep answering
those questions. How's that fair enough? You're at home with
Gary Sullivan.

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Speaker 1 (10:41):
All right, back at it, we go at Home with
Gary Sullivan. And a quick reminder, if you missed an hour,
you can pick him up at the podcast. It's on
the iHeart app and it's at Home with Gary Sullivan. Keith. Welcome, Hey, Keith.

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All right, we'll go to Bill, Bill welcome, Hello, Yes.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
Hello, How is everything going today?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
That excellent?

Speaker 7 (11:12):
Okay? I was going to say I have some comments
about earlier about the gentleman. He's talking about the oil
versus the gas and I just want to tell you
about a general experience that I had with that h
After my dad died, I guess we had to move
back to the as they call it the widow's retreat,
my my grandmother's house, who was billed as a wedding

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present in my family in eighteen ninety five. But it
was a huge house. It's thirteen rooms and it had
huge feelings and it really didn't have much insulation in
it because they hadn't modified it but much. But we
had oil oil oil stoves, gravity fat and we had

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when we moved in there, it was so cold, we
were thinking about, oh well, we'll just switch it over
to gas, and we switched over to gas stoves because
of course we didn't need to pump it up to
the second floor. We could put some up on the
second floor. Well, what happened is my grandmother's house was
located on the lower eastern shore of Maryland and was

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service serviced by a gas company which ran between Salisbury
and Dover, and at that time period, you know, it
was so we had a very bad winner. And what
happened is the gas bill was was like one hundred
and twenty one dollars. This is back in the early eighties.

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And what happened though, is that then they added a
gas purchase adjustment for everybody else who couldn't pay for
it of one hundred and twenty dollars and we had
to pay it. So it was not had not only
is gas a lower a lower BTU firm and I

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should we should have gone with the system which pumps
the oil up to make the stoves work or work
and so, and of course eventually put insulation. But instead
we got out of the house because it was just
a lot of work, right, right, and so, but but
I mean, I I just think people need to keep
that in mind. You know, you don't know whether well

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you got your gas company is going to put a
gas purchase adjustment and double your bill.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Sure, that's exactly right. And I was jokingly said it
was the first call I ever took on this show.
It was thirty nine years ago. And the person wanted
to know should I heat with propane or natural gas?
Which which is or no? Wasn't it was should I
go to natural gas? I have electricity? What's what's going
to be cheaper? And you know everybody's trying to get

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out of electricity. But it's like how much cheaper and
I don't know, I don't know, And things change now
they're almost in balance, They're about to cost the same.
So just even the fuel oil, you know, I mean
it's kind of the uh, you know, mercy of the
the trading of fuel oil. I mean, those prices fluctuate too,

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so it definitely changes. Uh, Paul, welcome.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yes, good morning morning.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
I live in Oklahoma and I love your show. I
learned something every time I turn it on. I actually
have two questions. The first is about outside fascets. I
have too, and they both leak when I turn them on. Now,

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I'm not that experienced in plumbing, and I'm scared today
it's to try to take that thing apart and screw
it up. So I suspect that I just need to
replace some washers in there. But can you assure me

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that I'm not going to get into a situation.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
You know, you're in a plumbing you know things happen
all the time. But answer me, where is it leaking?
Is it leaking around the handle? Is it dripping out
the spout? Or where is it leaking?

Speaker 3 (15:28):
No, it's around the hand, It's around the stem of
the handles.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, so there's a bonnet in there, so you know,
you're not really getting into the mechanism. And it is
a frost proof faucet or not.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
No, but I at each winter I put covers on them, all.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Right, all right, so shut off the water, right, yeah, yeah,
you can open up and drain, drain it out and
uh and just get your you know, your wrench and
take off that that nut right at the bottom, right
underneath that handle. And when you when you turn that over,
you'll then screw out the stem. The stem will still

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be connected with the handle. You don't even to take
it off. When you turn that over, you're going to
see inside that nuts a little graphite bonnet and you
could either dig that out or in some cases, what
I'd do is I'd just get some graphite packing running
around the stem, tighten that down, and it'll mesh right

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in there. There are specific sizes, but usually your graphite
stem packing will take take care of the problem. So yeah,
I don't think you yeah, I don't think you're going
to mess it up at all. I think you'll be
good to go. And speaking of good to go, we're

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up against the clock coming up. I want to have
a conversation about biofilmed. If we have a washer that smells,
a hot tub that smells, a dishwasher, or even you know,
a drain, they've got the answer. Biofilm is very different.

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You'll learn a lot that'll be next as we continue.
You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Takes it right with a call to Gary sullivantor at
one eight hundred eighty two three talk. This is at
home with Gary Cellibator.

Speaker 8 (17:36):
This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well with summer weather, there's a lot of outdoors at
Home with Gary Sullivan where we usually have a discussion
and learn something about a particular product or 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 Salvin.

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How you doing. I'm good.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
Yeah, everything's been good. We've been we've had we've been
busy over here, so that's great.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's great. 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 8 (18:35):
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 sink. Dreams,

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our 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 closed loop plumbing systems
will eventually have or already have what's called biofilm. And
so what we do is we go in and basically

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clean that biofilm out.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Does it smell bad?

Speaker 8 (19:23):
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.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
You wash them.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
Type of smells you know, yeah, exactly, there you go.
It's good analogy. I like that one. 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 1 (20:01):
In fact, that's how I found your company. Oh gosh,
it's probably been what six years ago, uh, with a
awesome and I had this smelly wash machine and you know,
I cleaned the sea with some bleach and it wasn't
getting it done. And I found this product and then

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when I got it in the mail, it was like
two ounces in this little platform. The world is this. 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, they're, oh,
I just put bleach in it, that'll do it. That
doesn't do it all the time, right, I mean, it

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doesn't do it.

Speaker 8 (20:47):
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 bacteria that's just out
there great in you know, if you put that in
so water and you know, whatever ratio you want to
use that can disinfect things, which is fantastic, and that's

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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 the ability.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
To do it. Of jelly, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
That's a that's a great way too. That's a great analogy.
It's 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, fliiny substance. It's
almost glue like. It's a saccharide by nature, so it's
very glue like and sticky. So it really is a

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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'd be thirty years and
twenty twenty six. But this is why it's such a
popular product because it works so extremely well in breaking
down that that organism and then flushing that out of
the system.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
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 8 (22:31):
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 it does allow

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your 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. We're keeping it much cleaner.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
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,
do hot dub people there talk about your product and
teach people about that because it's definitely going to be

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in a hot tub.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
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.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Tub, that's just if you and.

Speaker 8 (23:39):
Can it be dangerous? Absolutely, it can be dangerous because
what ends up happening is this, you you have biofil
Let's say, we'll just use a hot tub, right, and
if you know, if you're noticing that, so in a
hot sub, we have to put a sanitizer like corine
or broamine into our hot tubs, and there are others,
but those are the two most common ones. If you're
noticing that, boy, my hotb is just eating up chlorine

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all the time. I'm putting it in every single day.
That's a problem. And so that chlorine is attacking things.
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

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foreign stuff gets into the water. And now if you
get into a hot sub, let's say you've got a
cut on your hand or 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

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itchy all over. Oftentimes that's a hot sub rash, and
that's caused by a bacterial infection. Because the water.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
One thing we haven't talked much about, Jim, is using
the awesome in drains. Can you kind of walk me
through that? Yeah, what was vanity journey.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
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 mix one tea spoon with about three gallons
of water, which is a very doesn't sound like a
lot we you know, we talk about such small amounts,
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 drains 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 in the and the awesome
you know, is going through that piping. It's just gonna
start clearing that stuff off. And then the turn the

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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 (25:57):
Yeah, because I get a lot of calls on vanities
that smell because everything we use them is gel gel
deodor and Jel toothpaste, you know, gel and hair spray,
and it gets sticky, and it's probably helps collect the biofilm,
does it not? Oh, it does absolutely.

Speaker 8 (26:13):
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 (26:47):
So that's a big question everybody's thinking right now is
how often do we need to do this deep cleaning
of hot tubs, spas, drains, dishwashers, washing machines. How often
should we do this? Is this a once a year
thing or every month?

Speaker 8 (27:05):
That's a great question. So my philosophy 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 a 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 and clean everything out,
and then I do all my drains. Now, hot tubs,

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swim spas, those are about for hot tubs, about every
six months is our recommendation. Okay, for swim spos 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 1 (28:06):
A lot of jetted bathtubs aren't used. Is that good
for biofilm or bat for biofilm?

Speaker 8 (28:15):
That's a breeding ground for biofilm, Okay, thinking, yeah, even
if you're not using your jetted tub, and I get
this call every day, I'm getting this odor, 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 jetted tub. Well, it's going to come

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

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Jim, When originally when I found your product, I think
I got it at Amazon, I might be wrong. Where
where do people pick up some awesome.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
So yeah, the vast majority of our customers do 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

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have awesome products at various retailers throughout the country, mostly
hot tub stores and pool stores. Okay, And then you
can also get your awesome products from our website directly
at awesome dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, and that is a h H s O n
me dot com. Even though it is awesome, it's spelled
a little different, spelt a little different, all right, h
h so O m me dot com. Most people have
this problem. Some people know it and ignore it. Other

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people want to get it fixed and so take action.
It's it's not healthy. I do that washing machine, Like
I said, I don't know about every month, but it's
probably every other month, and it certainly keeps things in checked. Hey, Jim,
is great talking again. Thanks for checking in. I appreciate it. Thanks.

Speaker 10 (30:19):
Gary, have a great rest of your slummer.

Speaker 8 (30:20):
Great talking to you.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
All right, take care of my friend. All right. Uh, well,
we haven't talked about that product for a while. 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. You can pour it down
the you know the little vent hole at the top.

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You can put it in the drain and it's it
certainly does what it's meant to do. So we'll open
up the phone lines for your calls. It's eight hundred
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Speaker 1 (31:36):
All right, so again it's a H H S O
m me dot com. If interested, I'm gonna try it.
I got still got some I'm gonna try it for
the bathroom sinc for sure. Uh Sue, welcome, Hi on.

Speaker 9 (31:53):
My question relates to the fella you just head on
from awesome. So when I run a load of laundry,
after it's done, I'm getting this gunk in the bottom
of the laundry of the wash machine. Is that this

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biofilm that you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Well, I don't know. When you say in the bottom
of the inside the the tough yeah, So the biofilm
is usually in a closed system. Is it little flex?
Is it a big chunk or what is it?

Speaker 9 (32:33):
It's I would say, like pea size yeah, pump yeah.
And this just started happening, and I thought, I don't
know if the waterline needs to be cleaned or if
I need a new wash machine.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Does it happen on every load? Is this happening all
the time?

Speaker 9 (32:49):
Almost every load?

Speaker 10 (32:50):
Now?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Okay, well again I can't see it. I I don't know.
I'll bet you it is okay. And here's why I said,
the biofilm is he said, and I think I responded,
so it's kind of like jelly, and he goes, yeah,
that's a really good description of it. So if you
can just kind of think of an inch and a
half pipe or an inch pipe and being a tube

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and this jelly packed in there, there's going to be
pieces that are going to come off and they're going
to end up in the drum per se. When I
used that, I said, I had used it on a
wash machine when I originally found the product. I didn't
even know Jim and I used it and I read

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the directions and it said, you know, run it, don't
put any clothes in it. Run a load, put this
in the top of the agitator at that time, and
when you're finished, you're going to have a lot of
this biofilm, right, and make sure you run another load

(33:58):
clear without clothes to rent it all the way and
the other until And I did that, and I'll tell
you what. After that first load, there was just as
you described, there was all kinds of gunk on the insight.
It's disgusting. And then ran it clear and never had
you know, I use it on occasion. I might use

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it every two or three months. I don't use it
every month, but I can usually get a little whiff
of the smell and I'll use it at that point.
So I'm guessing it is unless it's something coming off
the clothes. That's why I asked if it was off
every you know, it happened during every load.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
Yeah, I don't really think it's coming off the clothes.
And you know, it's kind of like a wind almost,
but it's.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
You know, is there an odor to it?

Speaker 10 (34:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:49):
No, well even with your fingers. Just see if it's
like you said, it's sticky, slippery. I don't know, just
feels like a grease ball. I guess the best way
to describe it.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
Okay, Yeah, it's worth giving try before I, you know,
get a new washing machine or call a plumber to
clean the line.

Speaker 10 (35:11):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, well you'll be basically cleaning the line, so if
it's that, that'll take care of it.

Speaker 9 (35:18):
Oh okay, all right, very.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Good, you bet ray. We got about a minute and
a half far away.

Speaker 10 (35:26):
Hey, Gary, real quick then, So I've got a mice
mouse issue and I heard you talking about it earlier.
In the past, I've tried snap traps and I've caught
a handful here and there. I have an old house,
you know, stone foundation. I've spent you know, a week
going around the inside and the outside filling holes.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Had a company come out.

Speaker 10 (35:48):
They want to charge me eight thousand, you know, their stuff.
But yeah, it's quite a bit of money with know,
we know guarantees obviously because it's so old. I'm just wondering,
am I now I'm no longer catching anything with bay traps,
and I'm just wondering if there's something I might be
doing it correctly or I've just recently seen two other

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types of traps, one with a flip lid that you
put on top of a five gallon bucket, and then
another of that from Victor that kind of shocks them.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, yeah, but you still have the mice. You know,
they're still in the house, right I do. Yeah. Well,
I'm just going by my story. I don't necessarily I
don't like bringing up the glue traps because people yell.

Speaker 10 (36:34):
At right, yeah, I have not done that.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah, that to me was the most effective trap I've
ever used. Okay, some people will have a problem with it,
and I understand that. But even it was funny because
I had went through a series of different traps and
then I have a friend who's in pest control is here.
Let me give you here's ten glue traps. Just put

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a couple of those out you. You'll eliminate this thing
in like, you know, a week, and I did so.
I you know, I don't know about the shock ones,
and I don't know about the other ones. I know
there are a lot of different types of traps. Originally
I got one with the old spring trap, but then
I can't abate it, and I just didn't get another one.

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And I had a mouse problem and I knew it,
and you know, found some holes outside, got those fixed
up and eliminated with the blue traps after that. I
hope that helps. And Joe, thank you very much. Joe
Strecker was our producer this weekend. It's funny, probably the
longest producer I ever had in the past, but we
joined powers once again. So thank you, good Lord Willing.

(37:43):
We'll be back next weekend for more at Home with
Gary Sullivan.

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