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I'm Scott Carr, the.
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Well, as I was mentioning before, we have had probably
more discussions about asphalt seilers in the last four weeks
than we have in the last couple of years. And
I don't know why that is, but we have Amanda Pool,
she is with Blackjack Coating, is gonna kind of talk
us through the new age products that are out there.
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And I keep giving you two year, five year, seven year,
ten year. You can did different qualities of coatings for
your driveway, and certainly you know the better coatings their
drive maximum thousand, which I've talked about often. It's a
ten year warning on that and that's against fade resistance.
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So it looks no longer kind of the same thing
we're talking about with deck sealers.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hey, Amanda, welcome again at Home of Gary. How you doing.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I'm doing well, Gary. How about yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm doing fine.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's like this whole asphalt coating business going crazy this
year or is it just me?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It has a little bit. I mean it was a
little bit of a rougher winter and there's been a
lot of rain, so I think everyone's ready to get
outside and get a refresh going you know, I.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Guess that's it, or everybody's looking at the driveway and
going like, uh, it looks terrible.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But I know you folks at Blackjack Co.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Have really you know, pushed the envelope and given people choices.
You want to just talk about the line or you
want to talk about the top of the line.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
First we can.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We can talk about the full line then kind of
dive into the crundle of crime as you will.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Sure sure, so, yeah, you have what you know, depends
on what the person needs, and you've got something for
everybody exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So our drivemax lineup has uh, there's a one thousand formula,
seven hundred and five hundred. All that translates to is
your ten year, your seven year, and your five year formulas.
The seven and a ten year are are gel formulas.
The ten's got a few more features we'll talk to
in a second, and our five year formula is just
a basic you know asphalt stiller, steeler excuse me. We
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also have a line of BEA repair products, so we've
got like a tube of porable gallon, a trial gate
braide patch just to be able to you know, fix
up any holes or deeper cracks that you might have
in your driveway before you go ahead and feel it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And that is actually we were talking about it this morning,
you know, kind of kicking things off. Of course, it's
always about the prep work that really is the beginning
of having a good project. And I was talking about
the poorable crack sales the mastics. How do you make
the delineation of which one to use. I mean, we
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all have cracks in the driveway for the most part.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, so it's it's pretty simple. It is on all
of the packaging. Just in case you forget what I'm
about to tell you, But the two filler is for
any holes and cracks up to about an inch wide.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The the tub is more of like a trowel grade formula,
so larger cracks and small holes. Let's not try to
fill potholes with it, right, But if you have anything
a little bigger than an inch and then the poorable
filler is for repairs up to three quarter inches wide.
So it's basically just slightly different. In the massive formulas.
It gets a little bit thicker as your hoole get larger.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So yeah, when you need more guts, get that one, huh.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Exactly right. Everyone really likes the porable because it's so easy.
It's you know, slip this spout and you pour that out.
It's really great. But do you know, do the due
diligence and bust up the call gun if you've got
something a little bit thicker for that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Driveway sailors, I mean they've changed dramatically. And if you
don't know, you've been living under a rock. U. I
mean they really have changed. Are these These are pretty
much acrylics or what is the base to them now
because you can use them and I'm not going to
say all kinds of weather, but they're very versatile.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They are so now nowadays they're asful emulsions, right, so
they're more voc compliant and easier to use. And like
I said, the seven to ten year formula are also
have a gel in it that kind of keeps all
the settlement suspended, so that instead of you know, getting
your drill mix around like you used to have to do,
and you're strenuous work beforehand to get everything mixed up,
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everything's kind of ready to go right out of the bucket.
A quick stir and you're good to go. So it's
really come a long way.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well, I've been doing this for thirty nine years, and
after about five years of doing it, my moniker suddenly
became I'm all about easy times limited. And you know,
when you want to and you have a home, you
got to maintain that home.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's a big investment.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But boy, the easier I can make that project for myself,
I'm all in. So, So let's talk about that drive
Max one thousand. You say it's a gel formula. I
just picked it up at Low's or Ace and I
get it home. Walk me through the whole process on
how you use the drive Max one thousand.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Sure, So the drive Max one thousand is our like
I said, criminler Crime, because this is going to be
the easiest, fastest, quickest product to use. It is eurothin
enhanced and it's got some speed dry features in it. So,
as you mentioned before, the most important part of any
home project is the prep work. So you want to
pick a nice sunny day, start in the morning and
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just go ahead and sweep off your driveway, give it
a nice pressure wash, and then if you have any
oil or grease steams, treat that with the basic household degreaser.
Get that nice and clear and clean, and as it's drying,
you can actually start to fill in your cracks and
your surfaces. So you know, grab that gallon jahag or
the tube, go through, do any prep work and spot
treat those areas and then you, let's say, crack siller
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drive for only one hour, which is huge, right awesome. Yeah,
in the past this used to be like a three
day project, and you reduce it to one. So yeah,
So then once you've you've cleaned and you filled your surfaces,
you're ready to go and apply the actual coating.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So you go ahead and take a bucket, give it
a good stir, and you would apply it in one
direction on your driveway with either a brush or squeegee
and just kind of work your way down one thin
coat for the first application. Go ahead, get yourself some
winch after that, and once that's dry again one hour
dry time so you can recoat. So that's huge, and
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then apply a second coat perpendicular to the first. Kind
of get a good cross cross hash battern to make
sure you get any good coverage.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So you can use a regular asphalt driveway coatings brush
that usually has a squeegee on the back. You're basically
just distributing the product then.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Right exactly, you pour it out, and I mean if
you could squeeze it, you gotta know like that, it
moves like a dream. Again that the gel formula makes
it really easy to use the brush you were just
kind of used to work it into any like a
little rougher areas.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Is there an aggregate in there for traction at all?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
No, not here for traction, but there is a sentiment
just to be like a basic filler. Right, So it's
not quite like a court paint, but it is, you know,
it's it's eurothane enhanced it to give it a sleeker finish.
So it almost looks like those old oil formulas that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
My friends at Sherman Williams they have a eurothane trimming
now when it's a water base, and they use the
same phrase and that the magic word is the eurethane.
But they go, it looks just like the old oil
based paints. And I just did all the woodwork in
my house and it looks just like the old oil base.
So I love that finish that you're speaking of. And
that's kind of in that drive max one thousand, then.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Exclusively in the drive back one thousand, and then the
other nice factor about that is there's an extended temperature
range on our one thousand. So typically with driveway sealers
you need to apply them, you know, sixty five degrees
in rising. This you can use down to forty five
degrees in rising, so you can get out a little
ahead of season. If it's a little cooler in the morning,
you don't have to worry about you know, a lot
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of time people hear, you know, emulsions or corylics that
get a little worried about cooler temperatures, as you should,
but this one's you know, it's it's beefed up to
be able to get out there and do it early
in the day so you could spend your afternoon enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Well, I was just gonna say, you had to cut
that project down in half, at least half, maybe more. Yeah,
it's so, so what why is it last ten years?
Is it the your thane? Is it the the UV protection?
I remember back as a kid, my job was to
do the driveway. We did it every year, and we
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probably put waiting too much on there because in twenty
years appealed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
We don't have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yes, we just sealed it because we wanted it nice
and black, right, and so the year thing is going
to keep it looking that deep were blacker longer and
also add some durability to it, right, and.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
These days too shockingly too thin coat is definitely the
way to go. That's going to prevent future tracking. It's
going to make its shockingly more durable, right. So it's
really just a change in technology and our chemis being
wizards these days. Yeah, yeah, love deliver something easy.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Should we still not drive on it for a day.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Or yeah, I would wait twenty four to forty eight hours,
depending on the humidity that it does impact the drive time.
But it is foot traffic ready in one hour, so
that's you don't have to worry about totally staying off that.
If your dog your kids run across, it not an issue.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Well, when we started chatting about the Blackjack codings a
few years ago, you know, you were just kind of
introducing this whole technology to people. Obviously it's been well received.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Where is it available now?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh, it is available through the majority of your local
hardware store. So I don't want to pick favorite. Whoever,
you shop at your local dealer, is we okay you
can get it for you?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, I know my local waste.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'm in and out of that and I see it there,
and occasion I go to Low's and I see it there.
So I assumed you're making big headways. That is.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I gotta say. People love the Blackjack. It's fantastic products.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, the web website, folks, is Blackjack Coatings dot com.
If you'd like to study a little more on the
different type of products. You certainly can remember preparations the
key and Amanda, thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Of course, Gary, I thought I could talk to him.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
All right, take care kiddo, all right, bye bye, all right.
So yeah, forty three minutes past the hour and easy
to use. I love that, last long love that and
easy to get. So I love that. So there you go.
Sounds like a project. I don't have an asphalt driveway,
so I don't have to worry about that. Now we've
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been talking about ceiling concrete too. But man, I'll tell
you the advancement in asphalt seilers.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's dramatic, it really is, so.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
If you have questions on that or anything else around
your home, the lines are wide open.
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It's eight hundred.
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Eight two three eight two five five.
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Grab a line. We'll talk to you next year. At
Home with Gary.
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