September 7, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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You're at Home with Gary Salvin. Today is a unique show.
We are not going to be taking phone calls. We're
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going to be learning together and we are at the
Do It Best Show. It's a hardware co op with
stores all across the country and they have their big
buying show. They have one in the spring and one
in the fall. Obviously we're at the September show and
of vendors here with all kinds of power equipment. Well really,
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anything you need for your home is in this building.
I assure you. Let me introduce it to our host.
He is from Dumont Global, Adam Smith, and Adam I
guess I'll welcome you to the show because I think
I've been to the show maybe a couple of times
before you started going. As we examined last night, we've
been to the show a long time ago, Yes, we have.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I did my first show in nineteen eighty nine, so
that tells you how how long I beat you by?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Five years?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, just a couple of years. Yeah, you know, it's
great to be in Indianapolis. It's one of my favorite
cities in the country, and it's awesome coming down here
every year. For how many years I've been coming down,
It's been really great.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sure, so do it best, certainly one of the big
co ops. And I got a little bigger yeah, big merger. Yeah,
very exciting news here to do it best. First officer
eightieth anniversary. So they've been a great business in Indiana
for over eighty years. Big party last night. You know, look,
you don't look that bad. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's over at the field House for the Pacers play
and the Fever, the Indiana Fever Play. It was a
great time, and you know, it's exciting to be here
for a couple of reasons. One is that Dupes is
a great, great customer, They're they're a good retailer. They're
just really great people here. But over the past year
they've had they made a couple of acquisitions. One was
True Value Hardware, which is a national hardware company, and
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United Hardware, which is was a regional company up in
the Upper Midwest. And so it's kind of exciting to
see all that do Best Members, the True Value members,
and the United members in one place.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, got really big. You do business with Duman Global
both all three of those places. Now it's one right, right,
and it is exciting. It's it's pretty exciting. You know.
I'm guessing is probably over eight thousand combined stores between
the three. Yeah, that that's a that's a wow. That's
a lot of stores. Yeah, talking sales, it well into
the billions now. Oh, absolutely incredible growth over the years.
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I remember back in my hardware days, we were one
of their largest members. Yeah, we're one of their biggest customers.
And now there's there's a lot of activity in this fair. Yeah.
For those that think independent hardware stores are struggling. That's
not the case. They're growing. It's kind of come in
full circle.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I agree with that, agree that the services you get
at the local level, yeah, you can't beat it. They're
they are entrenched in their communities. They mean a lot
to their communities, and at the end of the day,
people still want to support them.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, and probably the biggest thing, well my background being
an independent of course I'm going to support them, but
really the big thing is, gosh, I hate to get
in this, but I'm going to anyway. When you go
to the big box stores, you got to buy eighteen woodscrews.
I really need three, and it drives me nuts, it
really does. And independent stores you kind of get what
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you need and you get out of them. And yet
the perception is sometimes that they're overpriced, and that's not
the case. I mean, I've done personal studies myself. Plus
you get the service. But the big thing is is
I don't have to walk half an acre across the
parking lot and then an acre inside the building. And
that's a big deal. It really is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And you know, you get that personal attention when you
walk into these stores. They know exactly where the product's at.
They know how to answer your question. These are things
that you don't normally get at the big box.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Sure, and for the most part, very knowledgeable comparatively, and
I like that. In fact, it might have been yesterday's show,
it might have been last weekend show. I said something. Now,
this dry lock product, I'm talking about basement waterproofing. You
contint that it doesn't have to be white. Now, your
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people in the stores and the big Bucks stores may
not know that. So I'm going to tell you, tell
them mix it at half strength, and I'm going to
say at an independent store, they probably know that. Yeah,
they probably do. Yeah, crowd, that's the difference. That's the difference. Well,
tell me a little bit about maybe Demand Global. I've
been very familiar with their probably original product, sure the way. Absolutely,
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they talked about it years and years probably twenty five
years ago, but still very viable. Yeah, you got other products, Yes,
we do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Peeaway was our first product, which was basically came out
to help fight the lead in paint. Okay, in nineteen
seventy eight, the outlawed lead paint, and a few years
later we came out with peel Away to help.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Remove that in a safe and effective way.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
All of our products peel Away, Smart Strip Advanced Smart
Strip Pro are all water based. Okay, so you don't
need anything else to clean up afterwards. So fairly safe products, right,
and that product is designed to when you use our
performance paper on there, when you remove it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The whole code comes right off. It's amazing, it really is.
So that paper's important.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
To the performance paper is extremely important for several reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It keeps it wet, so if you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Have if you have done right, so like Peterwick, can
go up to thirty layers, so it's gonna take some times.
You want to keep it wet, you want to keep
it adhere to the surface, and you want to be
sure that if you put it on a vertical surface
it doesn't sag.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And then you come back. You're always say put the
performance paper on, let it cook exactly exactly, and that's
what you're doing. You're letting the product do the work
for you, right, and then cleanup is relatively easy. The
nice thing is is with all three of our paint.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Removers, you use water to clean up, so you're not
using an afterwa wash as something else to clean up,
as you.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Can clean up a stripper that takes up thirty five
layers and you can clean up with water.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Right, So if you have a big say you're doing
a big door from an antique house, you strip it
down to the wood, you bring it out in the backyard,
you rinse it down with water.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So this was used in Europe and a lot of
speed rills with.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes under year old one of the right, right, one
of the one of our favorite things we've done, okay
is the Eiffel Tower. So they're using our product to
strip they paint off the Eiffel Tower and they're they
painted it every four to seven years, four layers of paint,
so there's countless layers of paint on there. And so
they're actually using our product, our plaway product, to remove
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the paint on the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We've done the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We're doing a really cool piece out in Boston Harbor,
the cass and Young, which is a World War two battleship.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes, just the Capital, Yeah, we did the Capitalzone.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, the Capitol Dome. There's so many large projects, it's
hard to remember them all. And in the world that
we were really strong and it is in that professional
paint world, and we're starting to stretch out to the
independent world, like the do it best the true values
of the world, because these people understand our product right,
and they will be able to help build this brand.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Because market knowledge based be very much. So you know
when you're thinking of peel away, you know you mentioned
lead based paints and I think, I just think of
all the generations of paints, right, and yet you can
roll this up, but I don't want to really do that.
If I've got mom's dresser that I just want to strip,
and I know not to knock other products, but the
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environmentally friendly stripper industry, there's a lot of negatives. People,
it doesn't work right, right, Well, we have the efficacy.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, if if some of the world's most recognize
landmarks use our brand, it's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's gonna work. You're gonna see to it though, well
absolutely absolutely so old that thought. Yep, We'll take a
break and then I want to come back and go
through the product line because this is very important. Like
so and so brand will have one pain strip, right,
and that's not always going to get it done. That's
why it's got a bad name in the industry. Exactly,
all rightactly, all right, well, let's take a break and
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we'll come back. Adam Smith, he is my guest, he
is with Touman Global. Will take a come back and
continue our conversation with Adam. You're at home with Gary
Sullivan weekends. I mean a never writing list of things
to do around your home. Get help at one.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Eight hundred and eighty two three talk You're at home
with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And back at it we go twenty minutes after the
top of the hour. We are the guest of Dumont
Global and Adam Smith is with me. We're at the
Do It Best show in Indianapolis, and we're just talking
about a product called peel Away and how it removes
thirty five coats of paint and I'm including, you know,
lead based paints and everything else. Thirty okay, thank you.
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What's five more? If you can do thirty right, right exactly?
What's five more? But you were talking about the A
lot of those are commercial. People are going to use
those for commercial jobs. And in the hardware stores, I
find different products like pro strip, and then I see
other brands and somehow they don't well, you explain what
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the issue is. So it's important.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So peelu is our first product, which you know, when
you use a product, you understand why we call it
peeling okay.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Our other two.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Products are Smart Strip Advanced and Smart Strip Pro Okay,
Paint removal and not one paint remover does everything okay.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So with our with our system.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You're guaranteed you're going to get it probably right ninety
nine percent of the time. You know, we offer the
test skit to make sure what you're testing you get the.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Right product for that job. So let me interrupt. Is
it safe to say do other companies offer different not
that you paint not, not that I'm aware of. So
it's it's supposed to be a one job. That's a maybe.
That's why it's not always successful and then gets a
bad name, very true, and it gets a bad name
for the whole industry.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Right, And so you know, we want our customers to
be happy. We want to make sure that they have
a good experience with our products. So shortly after we
came out with Peel Away, we came out with Smart
Strip Advance. Because as the coating industry changed away from
lead based paints, they moved into safer call them safer paints. Sure, Okay,
water based and so that item our Smart Strip Advance,
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which is green, so we call it green, red and blue.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
The Green one.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Smart Strip Advance works fantastic on your more modern coatings,
water based Okay, I've seen things. I've stripped panels from.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
A kitchen cabinet. Okay, it starts to work immediately and
literally you can be down to the wood in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now that's it can change. It can very depending on
how many layers you have there. But if it's just
a one thin coat of varnish, it'll go right down
there very very quickly. And you with the test kit,
you put it on, scrape it. You look, oh, come off.
Now I know that's the time that I can leave
this on and take it off and get down to
the wood. And then after that with his painting, paint
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coatings became more complex.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
You dual part of poxy's you got one to take
care of it. We do. Smart strip Pro works fantastic.
So with the each product, each one does a little
something a little bit different as the test kit exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So it's pretty remarkable with our Smart Strip Pro, especially
on powder coating.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It takes off, It takes off powder coating, you put
it on, you cover it with the performance paper, and
depending how that the powder coating is is how long
it's gonna take.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I see issues, So peel away may not touch the
powder coat. That's very true. So give you an example.
I could have ten layers of what base paint they
text paint, right, and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
If the bottom layer is not an organic, being a
lead based paint anything like that, Peter Way doesn't have
anything to attach itself to.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Okay, so it'll stop working. So we'll laugh at these
rodern so and you hear you hurt all those thirty
coats and it does this, it does and it's not
gonna take late take paint off a dresser. But if
they have ten layers of latex paint and an organic
on the bottom, yeah, it'll take it right off right. Wow,
So in our other products, so slow down. So tell
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me about that test kit because that's the key to success.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That that really is a test kit is your way
to define the right product to purchase.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't I'm be for you not.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
To go out there and spend sixty seventy hundred dollars
two hundred dollars on a paint remover to remove paint
from an old dresser and it's gonna laugh at you
and it's not gonna work if you do a little
test strip. Now you know which product works best for
that particular job, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
So it's got your products in there and tubes or whatever,
and you'd try it and ye, then you know which
one to get, and we're you get those that do
it best store.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, absolutely, do it best, absolutely okay, and paint stores camera, Yeah,
a lot of paint stories Sherwan Williams. Okay, so your
independent paint showing Williams and and you know, do it
best if you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Got a decent sized project then you know, I mean yeah,
and it's ten to fifteen bucks something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Tesco, Yeah, actually we're coming out with a new single
used test it later this year, okay, So that'll be
fantastic for especially this classic trade.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Our our current tesket is built more for your commercial guy, okay,
you know the guy that's going to use it multiple
times over and all. So the smart strap pro will
do the powder coatings, your rolot coatings and the other one.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yep, yep, okay, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's pretty remarkable
to see how these products work.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And again the nice thing is to clean up water.
Do you put the paper over the other ones? Also? Yes,
use it, Yeah, you use performance papers. That's really important,
isn't that. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And we've done some pre big jobs like we did
Franklin Dollan or Roosevelt's house in Hyde Park, right, the
whole outside of the house. Well, they covered the paper
because it protects it from the weather, right, it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Keeps it from sagging. Yeah, and it keeps and it
keeps the product adhere to the surface. So when you
do remove it, it's removing the paint. Probably makes it
a little cleaner too, doesn't it very much? So, very
much so, So not only is important, it's gonna be cleaner.
So they're all kind of advantage. Don't skip that step
exactly exactly. And the performance paper works as it's supposed to.
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It helps make the job easier for you. Excellent, excellent.
So the smart strip products that we were talking about,
would you from a time management standpoint, would you just
code it at night, put the paper on it, and
then just you can wake up and do it in
the morning. Yeah, you can leave it on it for
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up to twenty four hours. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So the other thing too is if you do the
test and you find out, oh, went down to the
wood in two hours, then there's that's your number.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So you know, so you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So you know, so you kind of you can manage
it that way absolutely, you know with furniture flipping. One
other thing that I find I'd like about our products
is you find a dresser on the side of the
road or you go to good will and you find it.
So when you use our product with the performance paper,
you can do the whole thing at one time, right,
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because you got the vertical and right, so it doesn't
say so you can you can coat the whole surface
at one time and you're done.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Sounds great. Adam Smith, he's with DUMO Global. Weirre at
to Do It Best Show. Quick break and back to you. Adam.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
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Speaker 1 (16:53):
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around the house, Gary will find something for you. At
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All about it well, thanks for joining me today. You're
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at home with Gary Salvan. We are at to Do
It Best Show, which is a hardware show in Indianapolis.
Indiana and joining me is Adam Smith, my host from
Dumont Global. We've been talking about. They're paint strippers, the
peel Away, the smart strip pro, the smart strip and
which brings me to one of the biggest things probably
going on right now and my hometown. There's a section
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called over the Rhine, a lot of older, older homes
and god knows what's on those walls. They're milk paint,
lead paint, vinyl paint, they got everything. So when you
have something like that, how do you tackle that? I
guess it starts with the test. It starts well. One
of the things is, you know, we're so used to
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taking old buildings and just tearing them out right, tear
the wood out, start new making. Oh and you got
all that beautiful wooden mint was that eight inch base boards?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh my gosh, ya, that's a sin. And so what
people are finding now is that this is beautiful old
growth wood. Oh yeah, it could be from the eighteen
hundreds or nineteen hundreds, and they're like, I'm not throwing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
This out, We're gonna strip it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And again with our products, it makes it easy for them, Okay,
right down to the wood, easy clean up with water.
So in restoration, they're really starting to instead of tear out,
they're basically starting bringing the product back to its original state,
which is beautiful old growth wood.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, there was a gal, she was a rep or
something at Gorilla Glue, and she bought this old, old
house and it was exactly. I had this conversations probably
eight years ago, seven years ago with her, and that's
they were trying. I don't know what they were using.
I mean, she was just telling me about this project
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she was in. She's like, we're taking off this eight
ten inch base for it and it could be, you know,
a hundred and fifty years old, and oh my gosh,
you can't sand that folks, No, I mean you want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well when you see it, and if you have lead
based paint down there, then you have to you don't
have to wear a respirator.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
The area needs to be closed off. There's a lot
of hazards to do, a lot of hazards, and then
you get it in between the grooves of the flooring.
You can't get it out all the way. Yeah, it's
a mess. So that's why people just tear it out
because they don't want to go through the hassle. Right now,
there's a way, an easier way for them to do this, right,
So now they're starting to do this with our products.
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So do you leave it on the wall? Do you
take it off? I mean, yeah, I got take it off. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I'm thinking. I just want to make sure
everybody doesn't think we're just gonna put some go on
there and throw some paper on it and pull it
off and finish you. No, no, you had I'm done.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know, there might be you know, you got cleaned
up with some water if you have a little residual,
just a you know, a little scrub on there, little sandpaper,
but then you're able to stain it the way it
probably was originally.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh my god, you know. And it's just beautiful, beautiful
old wood that we just we just toss out. Wow.
So yeah, because you go through some model homes now
and you're lucky if you got a two inch base
exactly and it's all made out of particle board. Yeah,
you know, sad, Yeah, sad. So you've got something to
remove pretty much any coating, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
We have a great set of graffiti removers, and so
with a lot of things, one product doesn't do everything.
So we have our smart strip graffiti remover for smooth surfaces.
So somebody tags a stop sign or an electrical box.
It's designed to work off of to work on smooth surfaces.
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But we also have one for porous surface porous non
painted surfaces. Okay, so somebody tags or it's graffiti on
a brick wall. With that's porous, you'd use our porous.
You'd put it on there, leave it set fifteen minutes
or so, then you come back with the powersher you
and your power wash it off. Then anything about that
product though, It lifts the paint away from the surface,
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so you don't get that ghosting.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh get this shadowy right, So we've all seen it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You've driven down the road and see where they scrubbed
or powerwashed or use something else on there, and you
can still see what was there at one time.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And with our products they do a great job removing
all of the paint from the stuff. I love. I
don't know if i'd say love. I like and accept
murals on buildings, right, Graffiti is so nasty, it really is,
really is. It makes people not care and I think
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when in New York City, Rudy JUDI. Yeah, it was
this big thing. And if I replace the broken glass
and get rid of the graffiti, people will respect the city.
I agree with that. Now, So who buys your graffiti?
I mean, do you sell that to cities? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Actually, within our commercial division, we do sell the cities.
A lot of our large projects that we've done in
New York City, Boston, Sydney Harbor areas like that, they've
used our graffiti removers. Okay, So those are you know,
primarily through our paint channel Okay, the Sherwin Williams of
the world and our independent pain people.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So taking it back to the home owner, one of
the questions I get asked is a home that was
built in nineteen thirty, nineteen forty, the old red brick home. Sure,
Mom and Dad put aluminum sighting above it, which was
designed to clean itself. Right. I don't know where it
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was going to go after they cleaned it, but I
do now because now the red brick is now pink
and white. Sure, does the graffiti can does the graffiti
remove it? Do you think it'll work on that? And
I don't think so. No, that's a that's a great question,
and I'm not sure. I can answer that. Yeah, well,
you can get your lab boys on that. I'd like
to know. I've often thought whenever I see graffiti removers
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in the hardware story, but I never taken any further.
It's like, I wonder if that would take off that chalking,
I mean, is virtually pain.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right, to be honest with you, I don't think so.
I'm not really sure if that would work. All right,
I'll look forward to your email on that one. You
can't have all the answers, oh no, trying to take
what else I can do to.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Stop yeah, no kidding. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
One of the big things is, you know, people built
their homes in the late sixties, early seventies, and then
at some point I don't like this brown brick face anywhere, right, Yeah,
And we're finding great success with that removing paint off
that brick. Oh yeah, okay, so it brings it right down.
So you're going to use either one of our products,
either be the Way or Smart Strip Brow or Smart
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Strip Advance.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But our performance paper around there. Take it off, rent
it down with water, and now you have that beautiful
brown brick. There is company that makes it for removing soot,
okay off of around the fireplace. We our paint removers.
Probably wouldn't remove this remove it with the paint, but
we do have stone and masonry cleaner that is oh phenomenal, phenomenal.
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So how easy do I got a scrub real hard
and put it on, leave it sit for about fifteen minutes,
rinse it off. Now, talk to me. Yeah, yeah, so,
so talk to me about this. So is this like
writstone or is it manufactured stone or both? Both? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
and it's it does amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I I showed you a picture of my front of
my house where I have my sprinklers and night and day,
night and day.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So talk to me. How do you use it? Literally?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Put in the tanks, prayer, spray it on, leave it
sit for about fifteen minutes. Now, I don't have a
washer because I'm I'm not qualified.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You have that exactly? You find her, you'd find you
down the street doing somebody's house or not.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So she she I can use a jet tip on
my my host. That's all she allows me, right with her.
And so I just use a jet tip your name
and rints it off. And that's it, I mean, and
that's it. It is truly truly remarkable.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
How well that products. A lot of listeners right now
are in Florida and Florida with the uh you us,
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So where do you get something
like that? Well, right now you can get that online. Okay,
you can go to I guess say the name of it.
It's a smart strip stone and masonry cleaner. Okay, smart
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strips cleaner and get through all that dirtum and rust.
And how's it do with that fluorescence? Can it do anything?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
We actually have an efflorescence cleaner as well, so you
can look for that as well. We have rest remover
efflorescence and the stone and masonry cleaner. So you're still
in a masonry clean is going to be more for
your dirt, grimy stuff, yeah, obviously the effluorescence is going
to be for effluorescence.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah. So the masonry cleaner again, is that a liquid?
It is liquid to mix. You don't have to mix.
It's not bleach, no, no bleach. The nice thing is
is you don't have to wait for it to work. Okay,
you get done in fifteen minutes and there's no bleach
in it. Nice. It's a pretty pretty nice proposition. Should
get some points with that.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yes you could, Yes, you could always looking for you
Sometimes you need to clean it right away, and this
is a great product for it. You don't have that
harsh bleach smell, you're not bleaching your shoes or your pants, and.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
You don't have to wait up to six months for
it to work. Awesome. Well, it sounds like hopefully we've
inspired some people, you know, stripping off furniture and things.
There's a huge market in that, and I get frustrated.
I'm sure you get frustrated when people go, I bought
some of this blank blank blank, and it isn't worth
a nickel. It doesn't work. And I go, well, you know,
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there really are some strippers that are very much specialty
strippers for specialty product. It's like a POxy garage floors.
You know, you can remove that epoxy either mechanically or chemically. Right,
And if I can find an easy chemical stripper, I'm in. Yeah,
it's weama based. You know there's no petroleum in there. Yeah,
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you know, it's it's all water based. Yeah. Adam's website,
of course is DuMond Global and you can go to
do It best stores and they've got the smart strips. Yeah,
probably get it online too. Yes, thanks for joining us,
Thanks for hosting us here at the.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Course our pleasures. It's it's always great to be here
at Do it Best. They're a great group of people.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's exciting times here with the True Value acquisition of
the United Hardware acquisition, and it's a good time to
be a partner.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Will Do it Best. Very good. Thank you, Adam, appreciate it.
Take care all right, Coming up, we got another guest
for you. In fact, we have guessed all day long,
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going to be learning together and we are at the
Do It Best Show. It's a hardware co op with
stores all across the country and they have their big
buying show. They have one in the spring and one
in the fall. Obviously we're at the September show and
of vendors here with all kinds of power equipment. Well really,
(01:03):
anything you need for your home is in this building.
I assure you. Let me introduce it to our host.
He is from Dumont Global, Adam Smith, and Adam I
guess I'll welcome you to the show because I think
I've been to the show maybe a couple of times
before you started going. As we examined last night, we've
been to the show a long time ago, Yes, we have.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I did my first show in nineteen eighty nine, so
that tells you how how long I beat you by?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Five years?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, just a couple of years. Yeah, you know, it's
great to be in Indianapolis. It's one of my favorite
cities in the country, and it's awesome coming down here
every year. For how many years I've been coming down,
It's been really great.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sure, so do it best, certainly one of the big
co ops. And I got a little bigger yeah, big merger. Yeah,
very exciting news here to do it best. First officer
eightieth anniversary. So they've been a great business in Indiana
for over eighty years. Big party last night. You know, look,
you don't look that bad. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's over at the field House for the Pacers play
and the Fever, the Indiana Fever Play. It was a
great time, and you know, it's exciting to be here
for a couple of reasons. One is that Dupes is
a great, great customer, They're they're a good retailer. They're
just really great people here. But over the past year
they've had they made a couple of acquisitions. One was
True Value Hardware, which is a national hardware company, and
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United Hardware, which is was a regional company up in
the Upper Midwest. And so it's kind of exciting to
see all that do Best Members, the True Value members,
and the United members in one place.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, got really big. You do business with Duman Global
both all three of those places. Now it's one right, right,
and it is exciting. It's it's pretty exciting. You know.
I'm guessing is probably over eight thousand combined stores between
the three. Yeah, that that's a that's a wow. That's
a lot of stores. Yeah, talking sales, it well into
the billions now. Oh, absolutely incredible growth over the years.
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I remember back in my hardware days, we were one
of their largest members. Yeah, we're one of their biggest customers.
And now there's there's a lot of activity in this fair. Yeah.
For those that think independent hardware stores are struggling. That's
not the case. They're growing. It's kind of come in
full circle.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I agree with that, agree that the services you get
at the local level, yeah, you can't beat it. They're
they are entrenched in their communities. They mean a lot
to their communities, and at the end of the day,
people still want to support them.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, and probably the biggest thing, well my background being
an independent of course I'm going to support them, but
really the big thing is, gosh, I hate to get
in this, but I'm going to anyway. When you go
to the big box stores, you got to buy eighteen woodscrews.
I really need three, and it drives me nuts, it
really does. And independent stores you kind of get what
(03:58):
you need and you get out of them. And yet
the perception is sometimes that they're overpriced, and that's not
the case. I mean, I've done personal studies myself. Plus
you get the service. But the big thing is is
I don't have to walk half an acre across the
parking lot and then an acre inside the building. And
that's a big deal. It really is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And you know, you get that personal attention when you
walk into these stores. They know exactly where the product's at.
They know how to answer your question. These are things
that you don't normally get at the big box.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Sure, and for the most part, very knowledgeable comparatively, and
I like that. In fact, it might have been yesterday's show,
it might have been last weekend show. I said something. Now,
this dry lock product, I'm talking about basement waterproofing. You
contint that it doesn't have to be white. Now, your
(04:51):
people in the stores and the big Bucks stores may
not know that. So I'm going to tell you, tell
them mix it at half strength, and I'm going to
say at an independent store, they probably know that. Yeah,
they probably do. Yeah, crowd, that's the difference. That's the difference. Well,
tell me a little bit about maybe Demand Global. I've
been very familiar with their probably original product, sure the way. Absolutely,
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they talked about it years and years probably twenty five
years ago, but still very viable. Yeah, you got other products, Yes,
we do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Peeaway was our first product, which was basically came out
to help fight the lead in paint. Okay, in nineteen
seventy eight, the outlawed lead paint, and a few years
later we came out with peel Away to help.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Remove that in a safe and effective way.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
All of our products peel Away, Smart Strip Advanced Smart
Strip Pro are all water based. Okay, so you don't
need anything else to clean up afterwards. So fairly safe products, right,
and that product is designed to when you use our
performance paper on there, when you remove it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The whole code comes right off. It's amazing, it really is.
So that paper's important.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
To the performance paper is extremely important for several reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It keeps it wet, so if you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Have if you have done right, so like Peterwick, can
go up to thirty layers, so it's gonna take some times.
You want to keep it wet, you want to keep
it adhere to the surface, and you want to be
sure that if you put it on a vertical surface
it doesn't sag.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And then you come back. You're always say put the
performance paper on, let it cook exactly exactly, and that's
what you're doing. You're letting the product do the work
for you, right, and then cleanup is relatively easy. The
nice thing is is with all three of our paint.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Removers, you use water to clean up, so you're not
using an afterwa wash as something else to clean up,
as you.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Can clean up a stripper that takes up thirty five
layers and you can clean up with water.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Right, So if you have a big say you're doing
a big door from an antique house, you strip it
down to the wood, you bring it out in the backyard,
you rinse it down with water.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So this was used in Europe and a lot of
speed rills with.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes under year old one of the right, right, one
of the one of our favorite things we've done, okay
is the Eiffel Tower. So they're using our product to
strip they paint off the Eiffel Tower and they're they
painted it every four to seven years, four layers of paint,
so there's countless layers of paint on there. And so
they're actually using our product, our plaway product, to remove
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the paint on the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We've done the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We're doing a really cool piece out in Boston Harbor,
the cass and Young, which is a World War two battleship.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes, just the Capital, Yeah, we did the Capitalzone.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, the Capitol Dome. There's so many large projects, it's
hard to remember them all. And in the world that
we were really strong and it is in that professional
paint world, and we're starting to stretch out to the
independent world, like the do it best the true values
of the world, because these people understand our product right,
and they will be able to help build this brand.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Because market knowledge based be very much. So you know
when you're thinking of peel away, you know you mentioned
lead based paints and I think, I just think of
all the generations of paints, right, and yet you can
roll this up, but I don't want to really do that.
If I've got mom's dresser that I just want to strip,
and I know not to knock other products, but the
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environmentally friendly stripper industry, there's a lot of negatives. People,
it doesn't work right, right, Well, we have the efficacy.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, if if some of the world's most recognize
landmarks use our brand, it's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's gonna work. You're gonna see to it though, well
absolutely absolutely so old that thought. Yep, We'll take a
break and then I want to come back and go
through the product line because this is very important. Like
so and so brand will have one pain strip, right,
and that's not always going to get it done. That's
why it's got a bad name in the industry. Exactly,
all rightactly, all right, well, let's take a break and
(08:55):
we'll come back. Adam Smith, he is my guest, he
is with Touman Global. Will take a come back and
continue our conversation with Adam. You're at home with Gary
Sullivan weekends. I mean a never writing list of things
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Speaker 3 (09:09):
Eight hundred and eighty two three talk You're at home
with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And back at it we go twenty minutes after the
top of the hour. We are the guest of Dumont
Global and Adam Smith is with me. We're at the
Do It Best show in Indianapolis, and we're just talking
about a product called peel Away and how it removes
thirty five coats of paint and I'm including, you know,
lead based paints and everything else. Thirty okay, thank you.
(09:52):
What's five more? If you can do thirty right, right exactly?
What's five more? But you were talking about the A
lot of those are commercial. People are going to use
those for commercial jobs. And in the hardware stores, I
find different products like pro strip, and then I see
other brands and somehow they don't well, you explain what
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the issue is. So it's important.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So peelu is our first product, which you know, when
you use a product, you understand why we call it
peeling okay.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Our other two.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Products are Smart Strip Advanced and Smart Strip Pro Okay,
Paint removal and not one paint remover does everything okay.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So with our with our system.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You're guaranteed you're going to get it probably right ninety
nine percent of the time. You know, we offer the
test skit to make sure what you're testing you get the.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Right product for that job. So let me interrupt. Is
it safe to say do other companies offer different not
that you paint not, not that I'm aware of. So
it's it's supposed to be a one job. That's a maybe.
That's why it's not always successful and then gets a
bad name, very true, and it gets a bad name
for the whole industry.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Right, And so you know, we want our customers to
be happy. We want to make sure that they have
a good experience with our products. So shortly after we
came out with Peel Away, we came out with Smart
Strip Advance. Because as the coating industry changed away from
lead based paints, they moved into safer call them safer paints. Sure, Okay,
water based and so that item our Smart Strip Advance,
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which is green, so we call it green, red and blue.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
The Green one.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Smart Strip Advance works fantastic on your more modern coatings,
water based Okay, I've seen things. I've stripped panels from.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
A kitchen cabinet. Okay, it starts to work immediately and
literally you can be down to the wood in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now that's it can change. It can very depending on
how many layers you have there. But if it's just
a one thin coat of varnish, it'll go right down
there very very quickly. And you with the test kit,
you put it on, scrape it. You look, oh, come off.
Now I know that's the time that I can leave
this on and take it off and get down to
the wood. And then after that with his painting, paint
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coatings became more complex.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
You dual part of poxy's you got one to take
care of it. We do. Smart strip Pro works fantastic.
So with the each product, each one does a little
something a little bit different as the test kit exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So it's pretty remarkable with our Smart Strip Pro, especially
on powder coating.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It takes off, It takes off powder coating, you put
it on, you cover it with the performance paper, and
depending how that the powder coating is is how long
it's gonna take.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I see issues, So peel away may not touch the
powder coat. That's very true. So give you an example.
I could have ten layers of what base paint they
text paint, right, and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
If the bottom layer is not an organic, being a
lead based paint anything like that, Peter Way doesn't have
anything to attach itself to.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Okay, so it'll stop working. So we'll laugh at these
rodern so and you hear you hurt all those thirty
coats and it does this, it does and it's not
gonna take late take paint off a dresser. But if
they have ten layers of latex paint and an organic
on the bottom, yeah, it'll take it right off right. Wow,
So in our other products, so slow down. So tell
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me about that test kit because that's the key to success.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That that really is a test kit is your way
to define the right product to purchase.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't I'm be for you not.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
To go out there and spend sixty seventy hundred dollars
two hundred dollars on a paint remover to remove paint
from an old dresser and it's gonna laugh at you
and it's not gonna work if you do a little
test strip. Now you know which product works best for
that particular job, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
So it's got your products in there and tubes or whatever,
and you'd try it and ye, then you know which
one to get, and we're you get those that do
it best store.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, absolutely, do it best, absolutely okay, and paint stores camera, Yeah,
a lot of paint stories Sherwan Williams. Okay, so your
independent paint showing Williams and and you know, do it
best if you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Got a decent sized project then you know, I mean yeah,
and it's ten to fifteen bucks something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Tesco, Yeah, actually we're coming out with a new single
used test it later this year, okay, So that'll be
fantastic for especially this classic trade.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Our our current tesket is built more for your commercial guy, okay,
you know the guy that's going to use it multiple
times over and all. So the smart strap pro will
do the powder coatings, your rolot coatings and the other one.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yep, yep, okay, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's pretty remarkable
to see how these products work.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And again the nice thing is to clean up water.
Do you put the paper over the other ones? Also? Yes,
use it, Yeah, you use performance papers. That's really important,
isn't that. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And we've done some pre big jobs like we did
Franklin Dollan or Roosevelt's house in Hyde Park, right, the
whole outside of the house. Well, they covered the paper
because it protects it from the weather, right, it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Keeps it from sagging. Yeah, and it keeps and it
keeps the product adhere to the surface. So when you
do remove it, it's removing the paint. Probably makes it
a little cleaner too, doesn't it very much? So, very
much so, So not only is important, it's gonna be cleaner.
So they're all kind of advantage. Don't skip that step
exactly exactly. And the performance paper works as it's supposed to.
(15:33):
It helps make the job easier for you. Excellent, excellent.
So the smart strip products that we were talking about,
would you from a time management standpoint, would you just
code it at night, put the paper on it, and
then just you can wake up and do it in
the morning. Yeah, you can leave it on it for
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up to twenty four hours. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So the other thing too is if you do the
test and you find out, oh, went down to the
wood in two hours, then there's that's your number.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So you know, so you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So you know, so you kind of you can manage
it that way absolutely, you know with furniture flipping. One
other thing that I find I'd like about our products
is you find a dresser on the side of the
road or you go to good will and you find it.
So when you use our product with the performance paper,
you can do the whole thing at one time, right,
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because you got the vertical and right, so it doesn't
say so you can you can coat the whole surface
at one time and you're done.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Sounds great. Adam Smith, he's with DUMO Global. Weirre at
to Do It Best Show. Quick break and back to you. Adam.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
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Speaker 1 (16:53):
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All about it well, thanks for joining me today. You're
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at home with Gary Salvan. We are at to Do
It Best Show, which is a hardware show in Indianapolis.
Indiana and joining me is Adam Smith, my host from
Dumont Global. We've been talking about. They're paint strippers, the
peel Away, the smart strip pro, the smart strip and
which brings me to one of the biggest things probably
going on right now and my hometown. There's a section
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called over the Rhine, a lot of older, older homes
and god knows what's on those walls. They're milk paint,
lead paint, vinyl paint, they got everything. So when you
have something like that, how do you tackle that? I
guess it starts with the test. It starts well. One
of the things is, you know, we're so used to
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taking old buildings and just tearing them out right, tear
the wood out, start new making. Oh and you got
all that beautiful wooden mint was that eight inch base boards?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh my gosh, ya, that's a sin. And so what
people are finding now is that this is beautiful old
growth wood. Oh yeah, it could be from the eighteen
hundreds or nineteen hundreds, and they're like, I'm not throwing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
This out, We're gonna strip it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And again with our products, it makes it easy for them, Okay,
right down to the wood, easy clean up with water.
So in restoration, they're really starting to instead of tear out,
they're basically starting bringing the product back to its original state,
which is beautiful old growth wood.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, there was a gal, she was a rep or
something at Gorilla Glue, and she bought this old, old
house and it was exactly. I had this conversations probably
eight years ago, seven years ago with her, and that's
they were trying. I don't know what they were using.
I mean, she was just telling me about this project
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she was in. She's like, we're taking off this eight
ten inch base for it and it could be, you know,
a hundred and fifty years old, and oh my gosh,
you can't sand that folks, No, I mean you want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well when you see it, and if you have lead
based paint down there, then you have to you don't
have to wear a respirator.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
The area needs to be closed off. There's a lot
of hazards to do, a lot of hazards, and then
you get it in between the grooves of the flooring.
You can't get it out all the way. Yeah, it's
a mess. So that's why people just tear it out
because they don't want to go through the hassle. Right now,
there's a way, an easier way for them to do this, right,
So now they're starting to do this with our products.
(19:42):
So do you leave it on the wall? Do you
take it off? I mean, yeah, I got take it off. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I'm thinking. I just want to make sure
everybody doesn't think we're just gonna put some go on
there and throw some paper on it and pull it
off and finish you. No, no, you had I'm done.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know, there might be you know, you got cleaned
up with some water if you have a little residual,
just a you know, a little scrub on there, little sandpaper,
but then you're able to stain it the way it
probably was originally.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh my god, you know. And it's just beautiful, beautiful
old wood that we just we just toss out. Wow.
So yeah, because you go through some model homes now
and you're lucky if you got a two inch base
exactly and it's all made out of particle board. Yeah,
you know, sad, Yeah, sad. So you've got something to
remove pretty much any coating, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
We have a great set of graffiti removers, and so
with a lot of things, one product doesn't do everything.
So we have our smart strip graffiti remover for smooth surfaces.
So somebody tags a stop sign or an electrical box.
It's designed to work off of to work on smooth surfaces.
(20:53):
But we also have one for porous surface porous non
painted surfaces. Okay, so somebody tags or it's graffiti on
a brick wall. With that's porous, you'd use our porous.
You'd put it on there, leave it set fifteen minutes
or so, then you come back with the powersher you
and your power wash it off. Then anything about that
product though, It lifts the paint away from the surface,
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so you don't get that ghosting.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh get this shadowy right, So we've all seen it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You've driven down the road and see where they scrubbed
or powerwashed or use something else on there, and you
can still see what was there at one time.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And with our products they do a great job removing
all of the paint from the stuff. I love. I
don't know if i'd say love. I like and accept
murals on buildings, right, Graffiti is so nasty, it really is,
really is. It makes people not care and I think
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when in New York City, Rudy JUDI. Yeah, it was
this big thing. And if I replace the broken glass
and get rid of the graffiti, people will respect the city.
I agree with that. Now, So who buys your graffiti?
I mean, do you sell that to cities? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Actually, within our commercial division, we do sell the cities.
A lot of our large projects that we've done in
New York City, Boston, Sydney Harbor areas like that, they've
used our graffiti removers. Okay, So those are you know,
primarily through our paint channel Okay, the Sherwin Williams of
the world and our independent pain people.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So taking it back to the home owner, one of
the questions I get asked is a home that was
built in nineteen thirty, nineteen forty, the old red brick home. Sure,
Mom and Dad put aluminum sighting above it, which was
designed to clean itself. Right. I don't know where it
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was going to go after they cleaned it, but I
do now because now the red brick is now pink
and white. Sure, does the graffiti can does the graffiti
remove it? Do you think it'll work on that? And
I don't think so. No, that's a that's a great question,
and I'm not sure. I can answer that. Yeah, well,
you can get your lab boys on that. I'd like
to know. I've often thought whenever I see graffiti removers
(23:12):
in the hardware story, but I never taken any further.
It's like, I wonder if that would take off that chalking,
I mean, is virtually pain.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right, to be honest with you, I don't think so.
I'm not really sure if that would work. All right,
I'll look forward to your email on that one. You
can't have all the answers, oh no, trying to take
what else I can do to.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Stop yeah, no kidding. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
One of the big things is, you know, people built
their homes in the late sixties, early seventies, and then
at some point I don't like this brown brick face anywhere, right, Yeah,
And we're finding great success with that removing paint off
that brick. Oh yeah, okay, so it brings it right down.
So you're going to use either one of our products,
either be the Way or Smart Strip Brow or Smart
(23:56):
Strip Advance.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But our performance paper around there. Take it off, rent
it down with water, and now you have that beautiful
brown brick. There is company that makes it for removing soot,
okay off of around the fireplace. We our paint removers.
Probably wouldn't remove this remove it with the paint, but
we do have stone and masonry cleaner that is oh phenomenal, phenomenal.
(24:23):
So how easy do I got a scrub real hard
and put it on, leave it sit for about fifteen minutes,
rinse it off. Now, talk to me. Yeah, yeah, so,
so talk to me about this. So is this like
writstone or is it manufactured stone or both? Both? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
and it's it does amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I I showed you a picture of my front of
my house where I have my sprinklers and night and day,
night and day.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So talk to me. How do you use it? Literally?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Put in the tanks, prayer, spray it on, leave it
sit for about fifteen minutes. Now, I don't have a
washer because I'm I'm not qualified.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You have that exactly? You find her, you'd find you
down the street doing somebody's house or not.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So she she I can use a jet tip on
my my host. That's all she allows me, right with her.
And so I just use a jet tip your name
and rints it off. And that's it, I mean, and
that's it. It is truly truly remarkable.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
How well that products. A lot of listeners right now
are in Florida and Florida with the uh you us,
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So where do you get something
like that? Well, right now you can get that online. Okay,
you can go to I guess say the name of it.
It's a smart strip stone and masonry cleaner. Okay, smart
(25:45):
strips cleaner and get through all that dirtum and rust.
And how's it do with that fluorescence? Can it do anything?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
We actually have an efflorescence cleaner as well, so you
can look for that as well. We have rest remover
efflorescence and the stone and masonry cleaner. So you're still
in a masonry clean is going to be more for
your dirt, grimy stuff, yeah, obviously the effluorescence is going
to be for effluorescence.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah. So the masonry cleaner again, is that a liquid?
It is liquid to mix. You don't have to mix.
It's not bleach, no, no bleach. The nice thing is
is you don't have to wait for it to work. Okay,
you get done in fifteen minutes and there's no bleach
in it. Nice. It's a pretty pretty nice proposition. Should
get some points with that.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yes you could, Yes, you could always looking for you
Sometimes you need to clean it right away, and this
is a great product for it. You don't have that
harsh bleach smell, you're not bleaching your shoes or your pants, and.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
You don't have to wait up to six months for
it to work. Awesome. Well, it sounds like hopefully we've
inspired some people, you know, stripping off furniture and things.
There's a huge market in that, and I get frustrated.
I'm sure you get frustrated when people go, I bought
some of this blank blank blank, and it isn't worth
a nickel. It doesn't work. And I go, well, you know,
(26:59):
there really are some strippers that are very much specialty
strippers for specialty product. It's like a POxy garage floors.
You know, you can remove that epoxy either mechanically or chemically. Right,
And if I can find an easy chemical stripper, I'm in. Yeah,
it's weama based. You know there's no petroleum in there. Yeah,
(27:19):
you know, it's it's all water based. Yeah. Adam's website,
of course is DuMond Global and you can go to
do It best stores and they've got the smart strips. Yeah,
probably get it online too. Yes, thanks for joining us,
Thanks for hosting us here at the.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Course our pleasures. It's it's always great to be here
at Do it Best. They're a great group of people.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's exciting times here with the True Value acquisition of
the United Hardware acquisition, and it's a good time to
be a partner.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Will Do it Best. Very good. Thank you, Adam, appreciate it.
Take care all right, Coming up, we got another guest
for you. In fact, we have guessed all day long,
learning a little bit as we go a long year
at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Help for your home is just a click away at
Garysullivan online dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
This is at Home with Garysullivan.
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