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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson, and
as I promise, it is time for the man, the myth,
the legend. Here's the most listened to home improvement show
host in the entire Solar System. His website, Gary Sullivan
online dot com. That's Gary Sullivan online dot com. Ladies
and gentlemen, the one, the only Gary Son. How do
(00:25):
he do to you? Mister Wilson, you call me how
do Duty?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
No? I said a Howdy duty to you?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Howdy duty to me?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Howdy doody? Do you did you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Watch Howdy Duty?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
A little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I think when that that's actually actually how do you Duty?
Is a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Before our time?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, your time, yeah, my time? Especially. Gary was just
a kid when it was on. I No, he wasn't.
He was little, pretty little when.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That was on. Yeah, I kind of vaguely remembered.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's probably more of a captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Never was a big fan.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Didn't like him, didn't like mister and Dancing Bear.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I just didn't like them.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Bunny Rabbit.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Just I don't know. I feel guilty now saying that
ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Ding ding ding ding did linked? How do you turn
the music?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Off with a knob.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, he threw his keys on the key keyholder, you
never know what we're going to talk about. His music
would shut off the theme song. And that's where mister
green Jees came along. And you've referred to me as
mister green Jeans before. Yes, the gardening guy. I guess
big article this week. I told him I emailed it
(01:38):
to you and said, an appealing breaking, an appealing front door,
and how importance they are. But you know what, they
really are important And we we talk in our industry
about how important curb appeal is, you know, and all that,
and how to direct the eye to go to the
front door, which is important. We don't want to focus
on the garage door. We want to focus on the.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Entrance in the front investment. I got in this big
chat last week about that. It is the entry door
and the garage door. It's the largest return on investment.
Not that you should do all your you know, all
your sprucing up the house based on the ROI, but
that's that's where it's at.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But you do get your money back.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. I think it's also a fine line too on
the entry door. You talk about curve appeal, there's different
houses that like shock value to their entry door. Did
you ever notice that.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was going to ask you if there was a popular,
most popular color front front door. I mean every now
and you see that red, it's like.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, red, black, white, I would think would be your
most populars I don't have any data on that, but
you know it's changed over time. You know, we see
a lot of you know, fiberglass, wood tone doors now.
But just the other day, I saw a nice, beautiful
house and it had a teal colored door on it,
(03:02):
and TiO, is nowhere else to be found on that house.
I'm not saying that's bad. I'm just saying sometimes we'll
really use that front door as a strong focal point,
and I'll leave that for the homeowner to decide if
that's a good idea or not.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How about that our front doors?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Seriously, is there anywhere else? Because usually when I meet
your place, oh, we gardened by you know, the moon,
so it's always.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Dark, So it's always dark.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I never get to see the house, that's right, that's true.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Uh So you know, so when we're looking at replacing
front doors or putting in new house, are the metal
doors versus the wooden doors, one better than the other as.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Far as if they all have their own values. And
I'll tell you the price of entry doors is out
of this world right now. I used to get a
good front door for about three thousand bucks and I'm
talking to installed, right, Yeah, you can look about ten
to fourteen now what yep?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah. I had somebody calling yesterday or not yesterday, but
last weekend, and this fellow was really honked off. He goes,
tell me, tell me, tell me why that's happening. I said,
you know, tell me why eggs are seven dollars a dozen.
Don't say bird flu. I don't know it happens. Right,
if you've been paying attention, everything's going up. Yeah, but yeah,
(04:34):
entry doors are expensive. Metals a little less, and you know,
the fiberglass is still I would say, the most stable door.
And you can paint them, you can stain them. But
if you stain them, you better stay on top of it.
You don't want to be stripping that door and restaining it.
(04:55):
So maintenance and maintenance would be adding a coat of
spar you're a thing about every other year. Then you'll
never have to strip it. It'll always look good. Maintenance
is always key, as you know in gardening too, yep.
And so if you stay on top of it, you're
not gonna have a big project. If you don't, in
(05:15):
one of these days, you're gonna have a big old project.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, I was looking at and I was also going
to bring up the fact of how things have changed
over the years, you know, Carly and justin my youngest daughter,
and they bought that huge homedown and it's what one
hundred and twenty five years old, three story, nine foot
basement ceilings and their back door. They try to keep
the original back door still going, and everything was just
(05:41):
getting too old and it was just time to replace everything.
And they took that out contractor came in and replaced
that with a unit that is black. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And the threshold and everything is a part of the
everything right. It's like formed right. It's like you know,
there's no gets set in there. It just gets set
in the thing and and it fits perfectly around the
door and the way it comes up behind the door
and then the door, and it's the most solid thing.
I just stood there looking at it, like wow, look
(06:13):
at that stuff going on. Huh yeah, oh yeah, and
it's it's beautiful, it's gorgeous, it's a classy. Look.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My daughter when she rebuilt her house, she put in
black windows, black doors, painted house, really attractive.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, that's kind of their their theme also.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, and it's a lot of stone, a lot of
the big, huge, you know stone and stuff. But I
tell you what, I was impressed with that thing. I
mean it's and it was expensive. I mean it was
and it took a lot to install. It just wasn't
you take everything out do whatever. But man, you talk
about solid I mean you went back there with that
old door in the wintertime, it was the same temperature
on the inside of that door it was was outside
(06:54):
just about. But they were.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Trying to maintain the integrity.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Of that house and you're trying to keep as much
of that as you can. But there was a point
that you know, just wasn't right to do that. And man,
I haven't bought a new door, framing and all that.
I looked at that when that is pretty darn cool.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah. Yeah, those all one piece things are are very
very talking about efficient. Yeah, well, seiling it off, I mean,
we will just keep trying to find more efficient ways
to do everything. I mean, and it is amazing how
efficient our homes are. I know, people still getting their
you know, energy bill and grumbling and in me too
(07:36):
as the process go up. But we keep making you know,
as we change things in our homes, and you know,
year after year after year, add a little piece here
and a little piece there, it does start getting It
makes a big difference.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, they still have the old windows with the rope.
I mean, they're in good shape, all the frames are well,
are nice, but they're the five by five windows, right
that still go up and well, yeah, I stand in
front of those.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what you know. I mean,
with the quality of glass that we have now, with
heat reflectivity and different things along those lines, there's certainly
a lot of improvement can be made to the windows
and even keeping them in. I think it's Marvin windows.
They make a one that actually fits in kind of
(08:24):
like you were talking about that door, to keep that
same integrity, but to have you know, the really high
quality low E glass and the frame and the structure
and all that. But that's a pretty penny doing that. Also,
it takes your water recover that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
But that's not the bi six gets six free.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, no, no, this is a different one. But having
said that, though, like Champion windows and.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Stuff, well no, I was just yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, no, I was saying, they make, you know, the
vinyl replacement windows, but now they have a process where
it can look like wood and it's not just a laminate.
It's actually baked into the vinyl, kind of like what
would be on a steering wheel in a car. You know,
it looks like wood, but that's not wood, right, And
they had that same finish on their windows. So, you know,
(09:18):
window manufacturer's door manufacturers, they are trying to keep in
with the historic integrity of a neighborhood they're having. Doesn't
mean you have to do it, but that's available.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you remember when we did that all red garden
at the Home and Garden Show and I had Champion
windows come yeah, that I'd made a waterfall out of
the windows. Yes, And that was the first time I
think they were introducing that color color into the custom
colors into the frames, right and all that that was
several years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's probably be a good ten or twelve in it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Maybe, No, No, I would say a little bit more
than that, more net but yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Was, and they do the black windows. Now they do
the wood windows. They do you know, I mean everybody's
you know, things are always changing. You gotta change with
the times. And I was getting ready to say when
you and I were little boys were on black and
white houses were pretty popular. I've got pictures of me
about three years old, stand out in front of a house.
(10:20):
Our house was black and white. Oh yeah, we had
a black door, white painted sighting and trimmed out black windows.
It's a sharp look.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What are you gonna talk about today? Anything besides turning
your clocks forward.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We're gonna cover all kinds of things. Little things too, uh,
you know, nail pops and dry wall, squeaky floors. That's
all due to dry humidity. And we're gonna talk about
that again because everybody's writing me emails going why is
everything pulling away from the wall this year? Well, because
it's drying your house.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And Gary Sullivan always has the answers. Thank you, sir.
You bet you check on this website at Garysullivan online
dot com. Thanks to Gary Bakman, Thanks to Rita hiking
fellow Steve Folks. Of course Gary Sullivan as well for
joining us and Thank you Danny Gleeson for all that
you do as our producer, because without Danny Gleeson, none
other stuff. What happened March sixteenth, Next Sunday is his birthday.
Don't forget. Now, do yourself a favor. We're gonna plant
(11:14):
that tree or two or three, plant those native plants
and selections. Be Paul Nator friendly and have the best
weekend of your life. See you.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Dream tomb or not. Ron can help at one eight
hundred and eighty two three talk This is in the
Garden with Ron Wilson.
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson, and
as I promise, it is time for the man, the myth,
the legend. Here's the most listened to home improvement show
host in the entire Solar System. His website, Gary Sullivan
online dot com. That's Gary Sullivan online dot com. Ladies
and gentlemen, the one, the only Gary Son. How do
(00:25):
he do to you? Mister Wilson, you call me how
do Duty?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
No? I said a Howdy duty to you?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Howdy duty to me?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Howdy doody? Do you did you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Watch Howdy Duty?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
A little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I think when that that's actually actually how do you Duty?
Is a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Before our time?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, your time, yeah, my time? Especially. Gary was just
a kid when it was on. I No, he wasn't.
He was little, pretty little when.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That was on. Yeah, I kind of vaguely remembered.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's probably more of a captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Never was a big fan.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Didn't like him, didn't like mister and Dancing Bear.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I just didn't like them.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Bunny Rabbit.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Just I don't know. I feel guilty now saying that
ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Ding ding ding ding did linked? How do you turn
the music?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Off with a knob.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, he threw his keys on the key keyholder, you
never know what we're going to talk about. His music
would shut off the theme song. And that's where mister
green Jees came along. And you've referred to me as
mister green Jeans before. Yes, the gardening guy. I guess
big article this week. I told him I emailed it
(01:38):
to you and said, an appealing breaking, an appealing front door,
and how importance they are. But you know what, they
really are important And we we talk in our industry
about how important curb appeal is, you know, and all that,
and how to direct the eye to go to the
front door, which is important. We don't want to focus
on the garage door. We want to focus on the.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Entrance in the front investment. I got in this big
chat last week about that. It is the entry door
and the garage door. It's the largest return on investment.
Not that you should do all your you know, all
your sprucing up the house based on the ROI, but
that's that's where it's at.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But you do get your money back.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. I think it's also a fine line too on
the entry door. You talk about curve appeal, there's different
houses that like shock value to their entry door. Did
you ever notice that.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was going to ask you if there was a popular,
most popular color front front door. I mean every now
and you see that red, it's like.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, red, black, white, I would think would be your
most populars I don't have any data on that, but
you know it's changed over time. You know, we see
a lot of you know, fiberglass, wood tone doors now.
But just the other day, I saw a nice, beautiful
house and it had a teal colored door on it,
(03:02):
and TiO, is nowhere else to be found on that house.
I'm not saying that's bad. I'm just saying sometimes we'll
really use that front door as a strong focal point,
and I'll leave that for the homeowner to decide if
that's a good idea or not.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How about that our front doors?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Seriously, is there anywhere else? Because usually when I meet
your place, oh, we gardened by you know, the moon,
so it's always.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Dark, So it's always dark.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I never get to see the house, that's right, that's true.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Uh So you know, so when we're looking at replacing
front doors or putting in new house, are the metal
doors versus the wooden doors, one better than the other as.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Far as if they all have their own values. And
I'll tell you the price of entry doors is out
of this world right now. I used to get a
good front door for about three thousand bucks and I'm
talking to installed, right, Yeah, you can look about ten
to fourteen now what yep?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah. I had somebody calling yesterday or not yesterday, but
last weekend, and this fellow was really honked off. He goes,
tell me, tell me, tell me why that's happening. I said,
you know, tell me why eggs are seven dollars a dozen.
Don't say bird flu. I don't know it happens. Right,
if you've been paying attention, everything's going up. Yeah, but yeah,
(04:34):
entry doors are expensive. Metals a little less, and you know,
the fiberglass is still I would say, the most stable door.
And you can paint them, you can stain them. But
if you stain them, you better stay on top of it.
You don't want to be stripping that door and restaining it.
(04:55):
So maintenance and maintenance would be adding a coat of
spar you're a thing about every other year. Then you'll
never have to strip it. It'll always look good. Maintenance
is always key, as you know in gardening too, yep.
And so if you stay on top of it, you're
not gonna have a big project. If you don't, in
(05:15):
one of these days, you're gonna have a big old project.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, I was looking at and I was also going
to bring up the fact of how things have changed
over the years, you know, Carly and justin my youngest daughter,
and they bought that huge homedown and it's what one
hundred and twenty five years old, three story, nine foot
basement ceilings and their back door. They try to keep
the original back door still going, and everything was just
(05:41):
getting too old and it was just time to replace everything.
And they took that out contractor came in and replaced
that with a unit that is black. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And the threshold and everything is a part of the
everything right. It's like formed right. It's like you know,
there's no gets set in there. It just gets set
in the thing and and it fits perfectly around the
door and the way it comes up behind the door
and then the door, and it's the most solid thing.
I just stood there looking at it, like wow, look
(06:13):
at that stuff going on. Huh yeah, oh yeah, and
it's it's beautiful, it's gorgeous, it's a classy. Look.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My daughter when she rebuilt her house, she put in
black windows, black doors, painted house, really attractive.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, that's kind of their their theme also.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, and it's a lot of stone, a lot of
the big, huge, you know stone and stuff. But I
tell you what, I was impressed with that thing. I
mean it's and it was expensive. I mean it was
and it took a lot to install. It just wasn't
you take everything out do whatever. But man, you talk
about solid I mean you went back there with that
old door in the wintertime, it was the same temperature
on the inside of that door it was was outside
(06:54):
just about. But they were.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Trying to maintain the integrity.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Of that house and you're trying to keep as much
of that as you can. But there was a point
that you know, just wasn't right to do that. And man,
I haven't bought a new door, framing and all that.
I looked at that when that is pretty darn cool.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah. Yeah, those all one piece things are are very
very talking about efficient. Yeah, well, seiling it off, I mean,
we will just keep trying to find more efficient ways
to do everything. I mean, and it is amazing how
efficient our homes are. I know, people still getting their
you know, energy bill and grumbling and in me too
(07:36):
as the process go up. But we keep making you know,
as we change things in our homes, and you know,
year after year after year, add a little piece here
and a little piece there, it does start getting It
makes a big difference.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, they still have the old windows with the rope.
I mean, they're in good shape, all the frames are well,
are nice, but they're the five by five windows, right
that still go up and well, yeah, I stand in
front of those.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what you know. I mean,
with the quality of glass that we have now, with
heat reflectivity and different things along those lines, there's certainly
a lot of improvement can be made to the windows
and even keeping them in. I think it's Marvin windows.
They make a one that actually fits in kind of
(08:24):
like you were talking about that door, to keep that
same integrity, but to have you know, the really high
quality low E glass and the frame and the structure
and all that. But that's a pretty penny doing that. Also,
it takes your water recover that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
But that's not the bi six gets six free.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, no, no, this is a different one. But having
said that, though, like Champion windows and.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Stuff, well no, I was just yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, no, I was saying, they make, you know, the
vinyl replacement windows, but now they have a process where
it can look like wood and it's not just a laminate.
It's actually baked into the vinyl, kind of like what
would be on a steering wheel in a car. You know,
it looks like wood, but that's not wood, right, And
they had that same finish on their windows. So, you know,
(09:18):
window manufacturer's door manufacturers, they are trying to keep in
with the historic integrity of a neighborhood they're having. Doesn't
mean you have to do it, but that's available.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you remember when we did that all red garden
at the Home and Garden Show and I had Champion
windows come yeah, that I'd made a waterfall out of
the windows. Yes, And that was the first time I
think they were introducing that color color into the custom
colors into the frames, right and all that that was
several years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's probably be a good ten or twelve in it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Maybe, No, No, I would say a little bit more
than that, more net but yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Was, and they do the black windows. Now they do
the wood windows. They do you know, I mean everybody's
you know, things are always changing. You gotta change with
the times. And I was getting ready to say when
you and I were little boys were on black and
white houses were pretty popular. I've got pictures of me
about three years old, stand out in front of a house.
(10:20):
Our house was black and white. Oh yeah, we had
a black door, white painted sighting and trimmed out black windows.
It's a sharp look.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What are you gonna talk about today? Anything besides turning
your clocks forward.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We're gonna cover all kinds of things. Little things too, uh,
you know, nail pops and dry wall, squeaky floors. That's
all due to dry humidity. And we're gonna talk about
that again because everybody's writing me emails going why is
everything pulling away from the wall this year? Well, because
it's drying your house.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And Gary Sullivan always has the answers. Thank you, sir.
You bet you check on this website at Garysullivan online
dot com. Thanks to Gary Bakman, Thanks to Rita hiking
fellow Steve Folks. Of course Gary Sullivan as well for
joining us and Thank you Danny Gleeson for all that
you do as our producer, because without Danny Gleeson, none
other stuff. What happened March sixteenth, Next Sunday is his birthday.
Don't forget. Now, do yourself a favor. We're gonna plant
(11:14):
that tree or two or three, plant those native plants
and selections. Be Paul Nator friendly and have the best
weekend of your life. See you.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Dream tomb or not. Ron can help at one eight
hundred and eighty two three talk This is in the
Garden with Ron Wilson.
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