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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well the weekends here. Welcome, you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Thanks for joining me. And we're talking about products today,
products that can make your project go a little bit easier.
This hour is brought to you by Dumont Global. We
just talked to Adam. They've got the smart strip advanced
by Dumont safely removes almost ninety percent of the coatings,
no harmful fumes or dangerous chemicals. And if you're not
(00:23):
sure what you're removing, as Adam Tadis, pick up the
Demand's test Kit. It'll tell you exactly which Demand product
you need for the job. It's available that you do
it best retailer Sherwin Williams or Dumont Global dot com. Well,
you hear me often talk about a product called Milsic
(00:43):
and probably over the last ten years we've recommended that
for different products, especially cleaning wood, cleaning, stainless steel. I
used to stainless steel cleaner on my cast aluminum table
on this green porch. They got the leather cleaner. So
Chris is here with us. He's here to do it
(01:05):
best show and let's talk a little Millsick.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Thanks Gary, I'd to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This is a problem you didn't invent because this has
been around for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Really wow. So tell me a little history of that
sty that company.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, Zultenzeki was a Hungarian immigrant, and there was no
fine products. He was a master cabinet maker, and there
was no products worthy of his creations. And he developed
the furniture polish back in nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Our cabinets take a beating, they sure, I mean they do.
And people I see all the advertisers. We're gonna paint
the front of your cabinets, and then so and so
wants to paint, and then we want to strip the cabinets.
I want to say, how about cleaning them? But sometimes
they're tough to clean. I think that's one of the
(01:54):
miracles of your products. I gotta tell you the story
I think I probably already told to you, but happened
probably fifteen years ago. I was talking to somebody and
they were talking about painting their cabinets, and I said,
you really ought to clean them. I've tried this, I've
tried it. I say, if you tried milsic. What's milsic?
And I told him and I said, man, it removes
(02:14):
the wax and the grease and everything else, and it
rejuvenates the wood. He goes like, I'll try it, but
I really want to paint it. And I said, I
tell you what. You try it still on a paint it,
call me back, will walk you through steps. He called
me back. He didn't paint his cabinets. That's a testimonial
if there ever is.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Absolutely it really makes them pop.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And it's amazing the amount of grease when you're cooking
frying bacon that gets on those cabinets around the knobs.
You talk about it off and you could scrape it
with your thumb. Oh yeah, And the Millsek really cleans
that right down to the finish and you know, and
that oil has nourished wood and rejuvenate the wood.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, one of the things, as you've educated me on
over the years is, and there's probably still a lot
of homeowners use this. They'll use an aerosol chemint wax,
which is probably the worst thing to use on kimmetry.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Credit right right, because you get that wax built up
over the years where it actually.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Becomes tacky, becomes a dust magnet.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Millsek has no harmful wax where silicons in it in fact,
the Millsek ingredients will remove all that wax build up
and clean right down to the finish. And that's how
it takes out a heat ring off a dining room table.
Somebody set something hot on that dining room table, right,
it melded that wax build up that's on the table
and you get that white ring. Well, since Millsek removes
wax every moves that heat ring, we've made a lot
(03:35):
of happy faces when they use our product.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And you've got in different sense too, right.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Absolutely, our furniture polish comes into our original lemon oil
and then we have an orange and then a cinnamon raspberry.
We used to call it our holiday oil because it
has a great Christmas scent.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sure, sure, how often would you have to do that?
You would you do that? Is it a maintenance thing
like every six month? Answer? Is it once a year?
Is it when I can't take it anymore? I know
what the answer for most people right now is, and
I can't take it anymore's when I clean it right?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right? And the kitchen cabinets, it depends how much you're cooking.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know, if you're cooking, you have family and you're
cooking a lot, you get a lot of build up
on those cabinets. And if you did it once a week,
once a month, it'll really keep those cabinets looking new.
Our oak cabinets are twenty four years old and they
still look brand new.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I've got some cherry cabinets. When we originally we
hit some oak cabinets, and remember when pickled oak was big. Yeah,
that was a mistake. But anyway, so I went traditional
as traditional gets. The reason I'm telling you the story
is I've got a couple of cabinets that I need
to pay attention to. I noticed it. One is where
(04:48):
the kitchen garbage can is underneath underneath by the sink.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's low.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We don't use the knob, we don't use the pool,
and we use the top of the ca. We don't
wax it. We use Millsic. We haven't used Milsic for
a while. And the other day I could feel just
the grid on it, you know, like this is not
a clean cabinet. And I've had that on that particular
(05:20):
cabinet several times. And I need to do what I
did probably three years ago and use that Millsick because
it knocked that right off. I don't have to scrub.
I mean it literally wipes off. Sometimes I even take
the reg and just let the rags sit on that
area for a while because it's right at the tolers
right now. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. So that's probably
(05:44):
oil from our hands too.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sure, you know, dirty hands, oil from the hands that
all builds up on a cabinet and never time and.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah it's I'm sure that's what it is, because
that's exactly what we grab it. Now. Is there any
finishes you can because I'm taking a hardwood flooring, I'm
taking a building deck, wood panels in a house. Can
you use it on all finishes?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, hardwood floors.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
There's directions on the bottle for cleaning a hardwood Floorish
you'd be amazed by how it cleans, the shine and
the dirt removes off those floors in the shine it
leaves behind.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's just phenomenal. But you got to dilute it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was gonna ask you, do you have to dilute
it on the cabinets or use it straight out of
the bottle.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
No, straight out of the bottle on the cabinets. I'll
dampen my cloth and then put the millsec on. That'll
activate the cleaning agent in it, okay, and then it'll
take that grease right off the cabinets.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So you can use it on hardwood floors, building desk. Sure,
a desk an.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oil finish, if you have an oil finish on it,
then I wouldn't. I wouldn't use the millsek on an
oil finish, But any other finish it does a outstanding joke.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh so like would a lacquer an finish.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Not a paly yourthane.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's is fine, okay, but there's actual some people use
an actual oil finish day oil or yeah, oil sex
and oil finish, so like products sometimes don't.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So that's why we always say trying.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And it works on your thane. Ye're on lacquer, it
works right, all right, All right, let's shift gears from
cad mccleaning stainless steel cleaner. They're still stilling, no stainless steps,
and there's still a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
They got some matt finishes and things like that, but
your stainless steel cleaner is second to none. Quite honestly,
I think it's just because these a thin coat of
oil on it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Right, You're absolutely right, we're here at the do a
Best rat show here and we had a uh do
it best customer from the Dominican Republic, and they said
with their salt air, they love our stainless steel because
it keeps them from rusting. And everybody says stainless still
don't rush, Well she stainless does.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
She does.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And they said it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Because it keeps a protected it's a.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Tacked it and so that's just an added benefit of it.
First of all, it's easy to use.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You know, it takes water mar fingerprints right off, and
then once it dries, it actually puts a little barrier
on there and keeps those fingerprints.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So my wife has tried so many different brand tried this,
I'm telling yeah, and now you're the hero. Yep again,
I didn't get points. Uh so the stainless steel cleaner
and the other one. In fact, you know, I used
that on the table on the porch. That's what I use.
(08:34):
Bronze blackish, bronze cast aluminum.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I put that thing on. I put it on usually
when we get the patio furniture out in March, and
I do it again around the fourth of July. And
I didn't do it Labor Day yet, but I usually
do it three times a year. It really makes that thing,
sure does. It looks really nice? And uh, as I
strolled through my social media, always see all these leather
things now, and I'm going, like, you guys got the
(08:59):
leather thing. I use that a bunch also.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Right, Our leather cleaner conditions phenomenal. It does a great job.
And all the leather furniture in your home. I even
use it in my pickup truck out leather seats. I
have a chocolate lab. She jumps in there with muddy paws.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, the leather furniture we have,
I mean it's old and it's okay. I kind of
like that not super worn look, but you can tell
it's warm when I use that. It doesn't look new,
but it looks pretty dog gone clothes. I mean the
real warn spots are just covered.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Up right rejuvenated.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I guess it's exactly better words. So you can get
some of the Millsake products I do it best value,
true value, and do it best one now and so
you can find them at those two stores.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, she can go to our website and find all
the locations. Oh good, little sec dot com. That's m
I L S e K.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You new to spell it too because I was how
do they always ask me? How do you a spell? At?
Its nott are So that's been around for one hundred
and ten years. So you're doing something right, right, It
must work, It must work. No, it's good stuff. It's
good stuff, and thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it, Chris.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We appreciate you. Gary.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
All right, take care my bike.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
All right, let's take a little break here.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We're sixteen minutes after the top of the hour and
talking a little home improvement. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Home Improvement one oh one with Gary Sullivan every weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Classes began at one eight hundred and eighty two three top.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Well the weekends here. Welcome, you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Thanks for joining me. And we're talking about products today,
products that can make your project go a little bit easier.
This hour is brought to you by Dumont Global. We
just talked to Adam. They've got the smart strip advanced
by Dumont safely removes almost ninety percent of the coatings,
no harmful fumes or dangerous chemicals. And if you're not
(00:23):
sure what you're removing, as Adam Tadis, pick up the
Demand's test Kit. It'll tell you exactly which Demand product
you need for the job. It's available that you do
it best retailer Sherwin Williams or Dumont Global dot com. Well,
you hear me often talk about a product called Milsic
(00:43):
and probably over the last ten years we've recommended that
for different products, especially cleaning wood, cleaning, stainless steel. I
used to stainless steel cleaner on my cast aluminum table
on this green porch. They got the leather cleaner. So
Chris is here with us. He's here to do it
(01:05):
best show and let's talk a little Millsick.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Thanks Gary, I'd to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This is a problem you didn't invent because this has
been around for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Really wow. So tell me a little history of that
sty that company.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, Zultenzeki was a Hungarian immigrant, and there was no
fine products. He was a master cabinet maker, and there
was no products worthy of his creations. And he developed
the furniture polish back in nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Our cabinets take a beating, they sure, I mean they do.
And people I see all the advertisers. We're gonna paint
the front of your cabinets, and then so and so
wants to paint, and then we want to strip the cabinets.
I want to say, how about cleaning them? But sometimes
they're tough to clean. I think that's one of the
(01:54):
miracles of your products. I gotta tell you the story
I think I probably already told to you, but happened
probably fifteen years ago. I was talking to somebody and
they were talking about painting their cabinets, and I said,
you really ought to clean them. I've tried this, I've
tried it. I say, if you tried milsic. What's milsic?
And I told him and I said, man, it removes
(02:14):
the wax and the grease and everything else, and it
rejuvenates the wood. He goes like, I'll try it, but
I really want to paint it. And I said, I
tell you what. You try it still on a paint it,
call me back, will walk you through steps. He called
me back. He didn't paint his cabinets. That's a testimonial
if there ever is.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Absolutely it really makes them pop.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And it's amazing the amount of grease when you're cooking
frying bacon that gets on those cabinets around the knobs.
You talk about it off and you could scrape it
with your thumb. Oh yeah, And the Millsek really cleans
that right down to the finish and you know, and
that oil has nourished wood and rejuvenate the wood.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, one of the things, as you've educated me on
over the years is, and there's probably still a lot
of homeowners use this. They'll use an aerosol chemint wax,
which is probably the worst thing to use on kimmetry.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Credit right right, because you get that wax built up
over the years where it actually.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Becomes tacky, becomes a dust magnet.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Millsek has no harmful wax where silicons in it in fact,
the Millsek ingredients will remove all that wax build up
and clean right down to the finish. And that's how
it takes out a heat ring off a dining room table.
Somebody set something hot on that dining room table, right,
it melded that wax build up that's on the table
and you get that white ring. Well, since Millsek removes
wax every moves that heat ring, we've made a lot
(03:35):
of happy faces when they use our product.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And you've got in different sense too, right.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Absolutely, our furniture polish comes into our original lemon oil
and then we have an orange and then a cinnamon raspberry.
We used to call it our holiday oil because it
has a great Christmas scent.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sure, sure, how often would you have to do that?
You would you do that? Is it a maintenance thing
like every six month? Answer? Is it once a year?
Is it when I can't take it anymore? I know
what the answer for most people right now is, and
I can't take it anymore's when I clean it right?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right? And the kitchen cabinets, it depends how much you're cooking.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know, if you're cooking, you have family and you're
cooking a lot, you get a lot of build up
on those cabinets. And if you did it once a week,
once a month, it'll really keep those cabinets looking new.
Our oak cabinets are twenty four years old and they
still look brand new.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I've got some cherry cabinets. When we originally we
hit some oak cabinets, and remember when pickled oak was big. Yeah,
that was a mistake. But anyway, so I went traditional
as traditional gets. The reason I'm telling you the story
is I've got a couple of cabinets that I need
to pay attention to. I noticed it. One is where
(04:48):
the kitchen garbage can is underneath underneath by the sink.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's low.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We don't use the knob, we don't use the pool,
and we use the top of the ca. We don't
wax it. We use Millsic. We haven't used Milsic for
a while. And the other day I could feel just
the grid on it, you know, like this is not
a clean cabinet. And I've had that on that particular
(05:20):
cabinet several times. And I need to do what I
did probably three years ago and use that Millsick because
it knocked that right off. I don't have to scrub.
I mean it literally wipes off. Sometimes I even take
the reg and just let the rags sit on that
area for a while because it's right at the tolers
right now. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. So that's probably
(05:44):
oil from our hands too.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sure, you know, dirty hands, oil from the hands that
all builds up on a cabinet and never time and.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah it's I'm sure that's what it is, because
that's exactly what we grab it. Now. Is there any
finishes you can because I'm taking a hardwood flooring, I'm
taking a building deck, wood panels in a house. Can
you use it on all finishes?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, hardwood floors.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
There's directions on the bottle for cleaning a hardwood Floorish
you'd be amazed by how it cleans, the shine and
the dirt removes off those floors in the shine it
leaves behind.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's just phenomenal. But you got to dilute it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was gonna ask you, do you have to dilute
it on the cabinets or use it straight out of
the bottle.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
No, straight out of the bottle on the cabinets. I'll
dampen my cloth and then put the millsec on. That'll
activate the cleaning agent in it, okay, and then it'll
take that grease right off the cabinets.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So you can use it on hardwood floors, building desk. Sure,
a desk an.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oil finish, if you have an oil finish on it,
then I wouldn't. I wouldn't use the millsek on an
oil finish, But any other finish it does a outstanding joke.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh so like would a lacquer an finish.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Not a paly yourthane.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's is fine, okay, but there's actual some people use
an actual oil finish day oil or yeah, oil sex
and oil finish, so like products sometimes don't.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So that's why we always say trying.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And it works on your thane. Ye're on lacquer, it
works right, all right, All right, let's shift gears from
cad mccleaning stainless steel cleaner. They're still stilling, no stainless steps,
and there's still a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
They got some matt finishes and things like that, but
your stainless steel cleaner is second to none. Quite honestly,
I think it's just because these a thin coat of
oil on it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Right, You're absolutely right, we're here at the do a
Best rat show here and we had a uh do
it best customer from the Dominican Republic, and they said
with their salt air, they love our stainless steel because
it keeps them from rusting. And everybody says stainless still
don't rush, Well she stainless does.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
She does.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And they said it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Because it keeps a protected it's a.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Tacked it and so that's just an added benefit of it.
First of all, it's easy to use.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You know, it takes water mar fingerprints right off, and
then once it dries, it actually puts a little barrier
on there and keeps those fingerprints.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So my wife has tried so many different brand tried this,
I'm telling yeah, and now you're the hero. Yep again,
I didn't get points. Uh so the stainless steel cleaner
and the other one. In fact, you know, I used
that on the table on the porch. That's what I use.
(08:34):
Bronze blackish, bronze cast aluminum.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I put that thing on. I put it on usually
when we get the patio furniture out in March, and
I do it again around the fourth of July. And
I didn't do it Labor Day yet, but I usually
do it three times a year. It really makes that thing,
sure does. It looks really nice? And uh, as I
strolled through my social media, always see all these leather
things now, and I'm going, like, you guys got the
(08:59):
leather thing. I use that a bunch also.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Right, Our leather cleaner conditions phenomenal. It does a great job.
And all the leather furniture in your home. I even
use it in my pickup truck out leather seats. I
have a chocolate lab. She jumps in there with muddy paws.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, the leather furniture we have,
I mean it's old and it's okay. I kind of
like that not super worn look, but you can tell
it's warm when I use that. It doesn't look new,
but it looks pretty dog gone clothes. I mean the
real warn spots are just covered.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Up right rejuvenated.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I guess it's exactly better words. So you can get
some of the Millsake products I do it best value,
true value, and do it best one now and so
you can find them at those two stores.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, she can go to our website and find all
the locations. Oh good, little sec dot com. That's m
I L S e K.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You new to spell it too because I was how
do they always ask me? How do you a spell? At?
Its nott are So that's been around for one hundred
and ten years. So you're doing something right, right, It
must work, It must work. No, it's good stuff. It's
good stuff, and thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it, Chris.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We appreciate you. Gary.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
All right, take care my bike.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
All right, let's take a little break here.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We're sixteen minutes after the top of the hour and
talking a little home improvement. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Home Improvement one oh one with Gary Sullivan every weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Classes began at one eight hundred and eighty two three top.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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