July 27, 2025 • 29 mins
Dean is joined by Brian Gold from ALDIK Home to talk all things outdoor patio furnishings — from weatherproofing tips to choosing the right materials. Dean shares his personal experience with ECO LA and how he tackled a mosquito problem at home. Plus, a deep dive into rigid structures vs. umbrellas and a recap on creating the perfect outdoor patio space.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kf I AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp
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area from six to eight, but nine to noon every Sunday.
Here we are and today we're talking patio furnishings. Why not,
because it's a gorgeous, good, go, go, gorgeous summer day
out there. Time to thinking about getting outside and spending
some time out there, having that conversation with my very
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special in studio guest. You know him, you love him,
Brian Gold from al Dick Home. We're talking all things
patio furniture today. I want to get into umbrellas too, Brian.
But while we're still on the subject of the actual
furniture itself, we talked about construction quality, what to look for,
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what not to look for. It talked about comfort. You
got to spend some time sitting in soft furniture to
make sure it's actually built right for your body so
that you want to keep sitting in it. Fabrics, weather, rain, water,
all that you said something really interesting during the break
that as far as cleaning exterior fabrics, if you just
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kind of feather dust them on a weekly basis, or
if the gardener's in the backyard mowing and blowing, have
them blow off the patio furniture. And the reason was interesting.
I hadn't really thought of it, but the struggle that
some people have with mildew on patio furniture, mildew actually
really starts with a little you know, organic compounds like
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pollen and stuff, and then a little moisture from evening
dew mixed in, and you've got a source. So you
were saying, just just have them kind of blown off
regularly and keep that amount of so dust really becomes
the root of some problems.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It can be just a little bit of maintenance, a
little bit of wherewithal of just cleaning those cushions every
once in a while. That'll help you avoid any problems.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It all right now. People are listening who live in
much more severe seasonal environments. They understand completely the idea that, hey,
you know, when fall and winter start to kick in,
you're grabbing all of the the the cushions and you're
storing them away somewhere, Okay, here in southern California, though,
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you know, our seasonal thing is you know, a few
weeks and it's not that severe, and so chances are
we're just going to keep it out there. Okay, it
is a good set of patio furniture. Does it come
with covers? Should you have covers? Or is that even
the most important thing you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Can purchase covers for? There? It's generally used as more
of a off season storage here. We use our furniture
all year round, right, I think last year we did
Christmas outside. It's just a weird Southern California tradition. Yeah,
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So what my thought is most people aren't going to
be putting the covers on and taking them every day
or every week. They might do for a few at
a time during rainy season.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay, So what kind of fabric are we talking about?
I mean, we're a long ways away from you know,
nineteen fifties sticky vinyl. You're right against and that not
that that even helped. Right, you get a good rainstorm
and now that thing is just soaked, Right, you sit
down and you just like you're sitting on a wet sponge.
Nobody wants that so a good cushion should have what
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a weatherization jacket underneath it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right, at least the water resistant jacket too, at least
protect you against those light rains that we get. It
could maybe even use the furniture if if you get
a little missed in the morning, you can use it
for that evening. Otherwise, if you're doing if you're planning
on having people over after a rainstorm or something like that,
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I would at least open up the zippers on the
back of the covers. The covers will have for the furniture.
Cushions will have zippers on the back to allow the
cushion to be entered into the fabric jacket. So I
would at least open that up, maybe tilt it so
that the zipper is down, and let the water drain.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Out, moisture drain. I get a little air flow in there,
and that's probably all it needs.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's that's probably all you need, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So let's talk about the fabric itself. What are we
looking for? What's the key? What kind of fabric do
you want a key into?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Here, you're looking for what is labeled as outdoor performance fabric.
So the most popular brand of out or fabric would be.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Umbrella, umbrella, which has come. If you think umbrella is
just about awnings or umbrella covers, you need to catch
up because they have come light years from that. There
are some umbrella fabrics that you showed me in the store.
I'm like, is this this is not something? This is
just pure cotton. It just felt like just lush, pure cotton.
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And you're like, no, that's this umbrella.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And we get people who buy the furniture for indoors
because it's comfortable, and they figure it to hold up
to their grandkids because it's built the whole.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh absolutely, I wouldn't hesitate, not with that kind of
soft touch on the field. But these are fabrics. Now,
you say, what was the term weather.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
A water resistant back, weather performance performance.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Outdoor performance? So what what's the real enemy of outdoor fabrics?
Is it rain? Snow, wind? Sun?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What's the enemy for the For the right cushion or
the right fabric, it'll perform in all of those environments.
You will notice if you buy a lower grade fabric
fairly quickly, you buy something from a big box store
or something like that that maybe is only rated for
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a hundred app of UV protection.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Ah you'll set it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You'll notice that UV protection.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So here in southern California, I mean, honestly, the biggest
enemy is sunlight. It's that so you UV race. They're
breaking everything down the same reason. So you're really looking
for fabric that is very much designed to hold up
long term in UV conditions, heavy UV conditions.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And a covering would help with that too. So put
an umbrella over it. You block some of those rays.
You also make it more comfortable to be all.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Right, let's I want to talk about umbrellas. It because
I've been jones in to talk about the pergola on
a pole just because it's so fun to talk about.
But we'll talk about umbrellas next. All right, more great
stuff on the way. You're listening to Home with Dean
Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm sitting here with my specially in studio guest, Brian Gold.
You know him. He's been on many many times before.
From Aldick Home. Aldick the source of amazing silk flowers,
floral displays, custom designed interior trees. Also every holiday season
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literally southern California's greatest holiday store, Winter Wonderland al Dick
is best Christmas trees on the planet. Decor, unbelievable decor.
I mean, I can't say enough of you guys sold
a Christmas tree to show hey Otani.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, yes, I got to do that. That was awesome,
That was an honor.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, you got a lot of celebs coming into the store.
I'm not saying that too so that people come by
and just hang out in the store wait for celebs
to come in. But it's just it's the truth. You
guys understand. You just need to understand something about Aldic.
They have a reputation among the design community, the designers
of those people who are looking for the very best
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in their homes. We get to Aldick all the time
for very very good reason. And so yeah, the Holiday Wonderland.
But during the summer, Aldick also happens to be literally
Southern California's finest purveyor of patio furniture. Summer Classics is
the line that you guys decided on because it is
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built so well and it's got so much diversity of style,
whether it's you're going hardwoods, antiques or aluminum frame furniture
and more contemporary. Look, you've got all of that, and
it's built really well. And we were just talking about
the framework the building, what to look for. The fabrics.
The umbrella fabrics these days are mind bog I have
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no idea how they get weather proof fabrics that are
so soft and feel like like, oh my gosh. And
you were saying, people are buying some of these summer
classic pieces and putting them inside their home because they
truly are interior worthy pieces of furniture that somehow unbelievably
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hold up to the weather at the same time. So anyway,
now you and I said at the beginning of the show,
mosquitoes and shade. That's the thing. If you've got to
get your essentials for outside right and I might say
on an during the evening, maybe a good fire pit
as well, okay, to keep you warm, and we'll spend
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some time. I don't know if I've got time to
talk fire pits today. We'll see. But mosquitos in shade,
and I shared earlier by the way, Eco La has
an extraordinary solution for the mosquito problem. And some of
you have been actually emailing me saying who who, who
should I call, what's that device. It's not a device,
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it's a system, and it's not spraying your yard out
with toxic chemicals. It's safe for everybody, even the wildlife
in your yard. It's only it's very specifically mosquito targeted.
I've had it go on here. I didn't want to
start endorsing it, even from my trusted company, Eco La,
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until I knew that it was going to work, and honestly,
I thought, well, maybe there'll be fewer mosquitos. There are
zero mosquitoes. Now, I'm not saying that that's the promise
to you. I'm just saying, in my case, we have
not seen a mosquito in eight weeks in this yard.
Eight weeks. And man, how awesome is that? That's Eco La,
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Eco La. Just look them up Ecola, Okay, Eco La.
Whether you're anywhere in southern California, whether you're in San
Diego or Orange County or LA area, just look them
up and they will get you hooked up. So all right,
so we solve the mosquito problem. Right We're sitting on
unbelievably comfortable furniture, Brian and now umbrellas. Right now, I
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start out the show by saying rigid structures, they can
be beautiful. Maybe it's the right move for you. But
the problem with the rigid structure is it doesn't move.
The sun keeps moving, it doesn't move. And once you
have a rigid structure, you're not even technically sort of
outside anymore. Right, you got a solid roof over you.
With an umbrella, it can be there, it can go away.
It can be there and go away.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It can rotate around to cover a different area.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It can follow the sun and keep you in the
shade all day long. Right, And so that's what we
need to talk about. Now, what are we looking for
in a good umbrella.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
First you need to know what size you're looking for,
the size of area that you have, and then whether
you want an offset umbrella or a standard market umbrella
with the pole in the middle.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, so standard umbrella pole in the middle, right center pole,
and then it spreads out from there. An offset or
sometimes called candileever umbrella is it's hanging the whole canopy
off to the off to the side, no pole, the
poles off to the side. Usually a pretty sizeable base
if you're in there. I mean, some of those can
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be mounted designed into the decking to mount into concrete
and no base. But the base is pretty sizeable because
it's got to have enough weight to offset the weight
of the canopy hanging out, and.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You want it to be heavy as a lot of
the Candiliver umbrellas that they sell online they might have
one hundred pound base or something like that, which will
be great when you're picking it up out of the
neighbor's yard because the blue over the sense.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's good to have a light base on your umbrella
when you have to go to the neighbor's yard to
get your umbrella, to bring your umbrella back because it
blew out with the last windstorm.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But the ones that we care so we carry Treasure
Garden umbrellas, and they're very high end umbrellas that have
a lot of functionality. They tilt side to side, front
to back, and the bases are four hundred pounds, which
is we want for a high end candilee of umbrella
that's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, So that sounds like an impractical impossibility of four
hundred pound base. Let's talk about why it's not. When
we come back so much more to come your home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
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Speaker 1 (13:53):
We're back and we're talking umbrellas. That's the thing outdoor umbrellas.
Brian Gold with me from Aldacombe patio furnishing discussion today.
Uh and so now I want to give you a
thick of it umbrella, one of my you guys, I
don't know how many of these do you sell, but uh,
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if if you can get to Aldacombe and see the
pergola on a pole that's not its official name, is it.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's official for us, you guys will follow us and
we'll and we'll show you in the other room warehouse area.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I okay. So here's the thing. It's it's obviously
not for everybody, right uh and uh and and it's
a it's a high end umbrella, a high end umbrella.
But it's so I think it's so important that you
guys have it there in the warehouse functional because it's
so indicative of what I mean. It's like the ultimate
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example of what a quality umbrella could and should be. Right,
you've got this little section here, Brian brought this in.
Can you guys see this. Can you hear that? Remember
what you were talking earlier in the show about aluminum
frame furniture and how you tap it with your fingernail.
What you get that tinny, high pitch sound. And you
know that it's very thin wall aluminum. All right, Well,
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I'm holding this piece of material here. It's three millimeters
thick aircraft aluminum, right, and the pole, the central pole
is four millimeters thick. All right, I'm gonna hit one
piece of aluminum against the other. You're how deep and thuddy?
That is? Okay? That is thick stuff. That's crazy thick stuff.
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Uh So it's like the mast of a ship. Almost.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
If I was on an airplane and they brought me
that cross accident, this is what your airplane's made out of,
I would close my eyes and sleep like a baby.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I know you're feeling really confident, all right. So the
pergol on the pole is a massive technically a market
umbrella central pole, market umbrella sixteen and a half.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Half sixteen and a half feet square.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Square, sixteen and a half feet this way, sixteen and
a half feet the other way. That is a massive
area of coverage, and you you basically can get a
dining area and a seating area underneath this thing. And
if that wasn't enough, Uh, it's fully deployed. If it's
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mounted into the deck, can withstand.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It can with stand up to a sixty mile an
hour wind gus.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So no issues.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well while it's open.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
While it's open, not a prompt, not a problem. And
here's what I love. Now, you've got this umbrella over
all of this furniture, right, massive umbrella. Typically when umbrellas
closed down, right, you're gonna have to move the furniture
out of the way because you know, all the ribs
are coming down low. But no, not the pergola on
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a pole. No, as you close it, which, by the way,
you know a child could close this thing. The gearing
and the bearings on it are so perfectly balanced that
a child could just literally.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
My six year old made me watch her do it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Okay, so it's a proven fact. But as you crank
it closed, the mast extends upwards and so the umbrella
clears the furniture.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It does as you close it. You don't have to
move a single thing, all.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Right, So, like like I said, now, it's it's a
pricey umbrella. It's a high end umbrella, and some people
are listening right now thinking we got to go get
that umbrella. Okay, that's great, that's not the point. We're
not trying to sell a thousand pergolagna poles, but we're
using it as an example of what a hot what
a good quality umbrella should be. Again, like the furniture,
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we should be looking for a good gauge, a good
solid gauge of aluminum, the ribs, the mechanism before the
break you set. A good quality large offset umbrella should
have a base that's four or five hundred pounds, right, right,
But the one at the shop have got such high quality,
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high bearing casters on them that moving that around on
the deck is not an issue at all. They just
kind of glide around. It's like a no big deal.
You know. It's shocking how easy it is to move
an umbrella with that kind of base. But again, that's
the point, right, It's not like this is five hundred
pounds scraping on the deck. You got to get a
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team of six guys out there to move it five feet. Now, again,
just unlock the wheel, move it over, reposition it there
you go. And then the umbrella and offset umbrella, which
I love, so I'm favoring them. I just love the
idea that they do their job and they stay out
of the way, right over the fire pit, over the
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seating area, over a table, nothing in the way, no
pole in the center to obscure conversation. Plus most important
part for me, and this is where, this is where
umbrella's really out per form in my opinion, something considerably
more expensive, like a rigid pergola or patio cover or
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roof extension, as lovely as those are, but this relatively lightweight,
very movable, very lithe thing, an offset umbrella doesn't have
to have. It's cannot be fully extended out, it can
be backed off, so now it becomes more like an
angled shade screen. And then reposition, so no matter where
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the sun is, what time of year it is, or
what time of day it is, you can just keep
adjusting the umbrella to keep that one seating area that
you want to spend all that time in in the
shade the whole time, all shade, all the time. And
then on days when well, like last night, we've got
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two offset umbrellas on our deck. But last night it
was night and the sky was relatively clear, and our
guests wanted to to see the tops of the ash
trees in the I said, oh yeah, I'll pull the
umbrellas back and suddenly they're just gone. And now we're
outdoors again because conditions were perfect for being outdoors without
any issues, no mosquitoes, no sun and you know we
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had a fire to keep us warm. So these are
the areas now, the the fabric and we're pushing up
against a break. But the fabric on and offset umbrella.
Are there any things that we need to know about
that that canopy?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All the fabrics are going to be that outdoor performance
umbrella fabrics, that solution dietocrylic for the shade maker umbrellas,
which are that pergola and a pole, these aircraft cage, yes, yes,
those you can get on in grade fabric thicker and
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that's a ten year fa ten year fade warranty. And
the others do we know what they? Those are a
five year it's called furniture grade fabric at the five.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, that just a fade warranty. It doesn't change their
weather proofness or anything like that. It's just the color
fastness of that fabric again being completely exposed day by
day to all that UV bleaching light from the sun.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
All right, more to come your Home with Dean Sharp
the house whisper.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (21:26):
Here we are at the end of another three hours together.
Just flies by when you're having fun. And when it
comes to designing patio furniture, the design of that furniture
it does matter most. And the good news is that
there is some brilliantly great patio furniture out there made
with super soft supple, unbelievable. It should be sitting in
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your living room kind of fabrics that are designed to
be bomb proof when it comes to their resistance to
weather UV, of course, especially in southern California, but everywhere
on the planet. Here the fact of the matter is
if it's outside, whether it's your roof, whether it's the
paint that you put on your house, whether it's the decking,
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whether it's the stain that's on the decking, or whether
it's the patio furniture that sets on the decking. UV
is the thing that is the most potent enemy of
those things. Lasting UV rays break down material They just
break it down. Materials like teak would outside amazingly by
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natural design, incredibly UV resistant when it comes to actually deteriorating,
teak does not deteriorate. Okay, teak wood outside. I get
this question a lot. Don't you have to constantly oil
and restain teak in order to preserve it? No, you don't.
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What you have to do is you have to you
oil it and restain it if you want to preserve.
In most cases it's color. It's natural kind of tan color.
Because as you've seen on you know, outside furniture and
just teak wood, it will gray out. And that's the
action of UV light, right, Brian, it's UV just making them. Now.
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The teakwood table that I've got sitting out there, I
actually got it from al Dick already pre grade so
it doesn't change and uh and there it sits, and
of course you know we take care of it. But
the fact is natural uh, hardwoods, high grade hardwoods like
teak will uh they'll hear, they'll be here long before,
long after the house is gone. But they'll be gray.
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So if you don't want them to be gray, then
you've got to treat them and take care of them.
Otherwise they're just going to turn gray and they'll stay
right where they are. Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
When I sell teak furniture, I ask people if they're
going to be updating their will soon to include the
furniture to pass it along.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yes, and so you know. And it's an interesting conversation
because when it comes to outdoor furniture, does Summer Classic
make anything for anything in wood that isn't teak for outdoors?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
They do not.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
They just do the teak. And some people are saying, well,
you know, teak, teak is rainforest being cut down, and
actually that's not entirely accurate. Okay, there is a teak
being cut down in the rainforest, not for harvesting for materials.
Most of it is just being cut down and burnt
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because they're making room for more cattle in the middle
of the rainforest. Just to be clear about that, Okay,
that's a problem in and of itself. Teak has become
a sustainably harvestable material number one and number two. I
want you to think about this. We can talk all
day long about quote unquote green materials. There's a lot
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of green washing, and I'm all for it, by the way,
not greenwashing. I'm all for eco friendly materials. The greatest
sustainable purchase you can make is when it comes to furniture,
is to save up and buy the right piece of
furniture that will last multiple lifetimes. And as Brian said,
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buy it right and buy it once. You talk about
not wanting to cut down too many trees, well have
those trees made into a high quality piece of furniture
and you won't have to replace it. There's no need
to replace it for a generation after generation it lasts.
It stands. I have sitting in my granddaughter's room right now,
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one hundred and thirty year old mahogany wardrobe, and it
is serving its function today just like it was when
it was built one hundred and thirty years ago. Her
clothes are hanging in it, her toys are down in
the bottom shelves, and it is doing exactly but it
was intended to do one hundred and thirty years ago.
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That's that's about uh twenty one generations of Ikea furniture
come and gone for this one mahogany wardrobe. Okay, And
so that's what I'm saying, all right, if it takes
a little more time to save up for do it
if it takes a little bit more budgeting, do it,
but by the right furniture once and and that's all
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you'll need to do. Same with tools, by the right
tool one time instead of you know, fifty tools, you
know multiple times. That's quality making its effect on the
planet and your home and design all at once. Brian,
thanks so much for Bud for being on the show again.
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Any closing thoughts. How about was the semin role by.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The way, that was amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It was our touch and go with getting the micro messy,
but it was it was great.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right. So just so because everybody was asking, so
I just got to say Old West. I think it's
Old West Cinnamon Roll Company in Pismo Beach. Right, if
you're up in that area, you already know this is
not news to you, but we discovered this a while back.
These are Tina's favorite cinnamon rolls on the planet. If
you want to make Tina, but don't send her too
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many cinnamon rolls because she's it. It's a treat, right,
don't mail us a cinnamon roll. But Brian ate one
day old you know cinnamon roll that we heated up
this morning from Old West Cinnamon roles because my friend
brought some down to us yesterday and that cream cheese
frosting on the top. Oh my god, I don't know
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exactly what makes a superior cinnamon roll, like, I'm not,
I'm not. I don't know if they're supposed to be
light and fluffy or I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
But we'll do another show on cinnamonal How.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
About we do that? Will you come back in the
holiday show? You know what, when we do the live
Holiday show, we're gonna bring We're gonna do some taste
testing of cinnamon roals. Right, we'll put old Western up
against Cinnabon and whatever else is out there. But I'm
telling you, this is an outstanding cinnamon role, all right,
just saying, all right, everybody, my special in studio guest
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much thanks to Brian Gold. He's always great to work with.
I love talking shop with him because he knows exactly
what he's talking about. When it comes to this patio furniture.
It's not too late, And Brian said this at the
beginning of the show. I just want to say, you
always want to You're gonna get your best deals if
you can catch a store like Aldick in transition mode. Okay. Now,
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for most patio furniture stores, their transmission mode is going
to be at the end of summer. It's going to
be too late. Okay. For Aldick, they're actually getting they're
on the cusp. But you're just like four days away
from starting to get ready for the holidays. So your
patio floor samples are all on sale right now.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's forty percent off any floor sample sets, so you
can save thousands on patio furniture that will last generation.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Will there you go? All right, Thanks Bud for being
on the show, and thank you all for listening. It's
a gorgeous day. I hope your plan is to get
out there, make the most of it, go outside and
get busy building yourself a beautiful life. And we will
see you right back here next weekend. This has been
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Here we are and today we're talking patio furnishings. Why not,
because it's a gorgeous, good, go, go, gorgeous summer day
out there. Time to thinking about getting outside and spending
some time out there, having that conversation with my very
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special in studio guest. You know him, you love him,
Brian Gold from al Dick Home. We're talking all things
patio furniture today. I want to get into umbrellas too, Brian.
But while we're still on the subject of the actual
furniture itself, we talked about construction quality, what to look for,
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what not to look for. It talked about comfort. You
got to spend some time sitting in soft furniture to
make sure it's actually built right for your body so
that you want to keep sitting in it. Fabrics, weather, rain, water,
all that you said something really interesting during the break
that as far as cleaning exterior fabrics, if you just
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kind of feather dust them on a weekly basis, or
if the gardener's in the backyard mowing and blowing, have
them blow off the patio furniture. And the reason was interesting.
I hadn't really thought of it, but the struggle that
some people have with mildew on patio furniture, mildew actually
really starts with a little you know, organic compounds like
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pollen and stuff, and then a little moisture from evening
dew mixed in, and you've got a source. So you
were saying, just just have them kind of blown off
regularly and keep that amount of so dust really becomes
the root of some problems.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It can be just a little bit of maintenance, a
little bit of wherewithal of just cleaning those cushions every
once in a while. That'll help you avoid any problems.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It all right now. People are listening who live in
much more severe seasonal environments. They understand completely the idea that, hey,
you know, when fall and winter start to kick in,
you're grabbing all of the the the cushions and you're
storing them away somewhere, Okay, here in southern California, though,
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you know, our seasonal thing is you know, a few
weeks and it's not that severe, and so chances are
we're just going to keep it out there. Okay, it
is a good set of patio furniture. Does it come
with covers? Should you have covers? Or is that even
the most important thing you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Can purchase covers for? There? It's generally used as more
of a off season storage here. We use our furniture
all year round, right, I think last year we did
Christmas outside. It's just a weird Southern California tradition. Yeah,
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So what my thought is most people aren't going to
be putting the covers on and taking them every day
or every week. They might do for a few at
a time during rainy season.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay, So what kind of fabric are we talking about?
I mean, we're a long ways away from you know,
nineteen fifties sticky vinyl. You're right against and that not
that that even helped. Right, you get a good rainstorm
and now that thing is just soaked, Right, you sit
down and you just like you're sitting on a wet sponge.
Nobody wants that so a good cushion should have what
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a weatherization jacket underneath it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right, at least the water resistant jacket too, at least
protect you against those light rains that we get. It
could maybe even use the furniture if if you get
a little missed in the morning, you can use it
for that evening. Otherwise, if you're doing if you're planning
on having people over after a rainstorm or something like that,
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I would at least open up the zippers on the
back of the covers. The covers will have for the furniture.
Cushions will have zippers on the back to allow the
cushion to be entered into the fabric jacket. So I
would at least open that up, maybe tilt it so
that the zipper is down, and let the water drain.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Out, moisture drain. I get a little air flow in there,
and that's probably all it needs.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's that's probably all you need, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So let's talk about the fabric itself. What are we
looking for? What's the key? What kind of fabric do
you want a key into?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Here, you're looking for what is labeled as outdoor performance fabric.
So the most popular brand of out or fabric would be.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Umbrella, umbrella, which has come. If you think umbrella is
just about awnings or umbrella covers, you need to catch
up because they have come light years from that. There
are some umbrella fabrics that you showed me in the store.
I'm like, is this this is not something? This is
just pure cotton. It just felt like just lush, pure cotton.
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And you're like, no, that's this umbrella.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And we get people who buy the furniture for indoors
because it's comfortable, and they figure it to hold up
to their grandkids because it's built the whole.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh absolutely, I wouldn't hesitate, not with that kind of
soft touch on the field. But these are fabrics. Now,
you say, what was the term weather.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
A water resistant back, weather performance performance.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Outdoor performance? So what what's the real enemy of outdoor fabrics?
Is it rain? Snow, wind? Sun?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What's the enemy for the For the right cushion or
the right fabric, it'll perform in all of those environments.
You will notice if you buy a lower grade fabric
fairly quickly, you buy something from a big box store
or something like that that maybe is only rated for
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a hundred app of UV protection.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Ah you'll set it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You'll notice that UV protection.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So here in southern California, I mean, honestly, the biggest
enemy is sunlight. It's that so you UV race. They're
breaking everything down the same reason. So you're really looking
for fabric that is very much designed to hold up
long term in UV conditions, heavy UV conditions.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And a covering would help with that too. So put
an umbrella over it. You block some of those rays.
You also make it more comfortable to be all.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Right, let's I want to talk about umbrellas. It because
I've been jones in to talk about the pergola on
a pole just because it's so fun to talk about.
But we'll talk about umbrellas next. All right, more great
stuff on the way. You're listening to Home with Dean
Sharp the House Whisper.
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I'm sitting here with my specially in studio guest, Brian Gold.
You know him. He's been on many many times before.
From Aldick Home. Aldick the source of amazing silk flowers,
floral displays, custom designed interior trees. Also every holiday season
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literally southern California's greatest holiday store, Winter Wonderland al Dick
is best Christmas trees on the planet. Decor, unbelievable decor.
I mean, I can't say enough of you guys sold
a Christmas tree to show hey Otani.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, yes, I got to do that. That was awesome,
That was an honor.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, you got a lot of celebs coming into the store.
I'm not saying that too so that people come by
and just hang out in the store wait for celebs
to come in. But it's just it's the truth. You
guys understand. You just need to understand something about Aldic.
They have a reputation among the design community, the designers
of those people who are looking for the very best
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in their homes. We get to Aldick all the time
for very very good reason. And so yeah, the Holiday Wonderland.
But during the summer, Aldick also happens to be literally
Southern California's finest purveyor of patio furniture. Summer Classics is
the line that you guys decided on because it is
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built so well and it's got so much diversity of style,
whether it's you're going hardwoods, antiques or aluminum frame furniture
and more contemporary. Look, you've got all of that, and
it's built really well. And we were just talking about
the framework the building, what to look for. The fabrics.
The umbrella fabrics these days are mind bog I have
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no idea how they get weather proof fabrics that are
so soft and feel like like, oh my gosh. And
you were saying, people are buying some of these summer
classic pieces and putting them inside their home because they
truly are interior worthy pieces of furniture that somehow unbelievably
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hold up to the weather at the same time. So anyway,
now you and I said at the beginning of the show,
mosquitoes and shade. That's the thing. If you've got to
get your essentials for outside right and I might say
on an during the evening, maybe a good fire pit
as well, okay, to keep you warm, and we'll spend
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some time. I don't know if I've got time to
talk fire pits today. We'll see. But mosquitos in shade,
and I shared earlier by the way, Eco La has
an extraordinary solution for the mosquito problem. And some of
you have been actually emailing me saying who who, who
should I call, what's that device. It's not a device,
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it's a system, and it's not spraying your yard out
with toxic chemicals. It's safe for everybody, even the wildlife
in your yard. It's only it's very specifically mosquito targeted.
I've had it go on here. I didn't want to
start endorsing it, even from my trusted company, Eco La,
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until I knew that it was going to work, and honestly,
I thought, well, maybe there'll be fewer mosquitos. There are
zero mosquitoes. Now, I'm not saying that that's the promise
to you. I'm just saying, in my case, we have
not seen a mosquito in eight weeks in this yard.
Eight weeks. And man, how awesome is that? That's Eco La,
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Eco La. Just look them up Ecola, Okay, Eco La.
Whether you're anywhere in southern California, whether you're in San
Diego or Orange County or LA area, just look them
up and they will get you hooked up. So all right,
so we solve the mosquito problem. Right We're sitting on
unbelievably comfortable furniture, Brian and now umbrellas. Right now, I
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start out the show by saying rigid structures, they can
be beautiful. Maybe it's the right move for you. But
the problem with the rigid structure is it doesn't move.
The sun keeps moving, it doesn't move. And once you
have a rigid structure, you're not even technically sort of
outside anymore. Right, you got a solid roof over you.
With an umbrella, it can be there, it can go away.
It can be there and go away.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It can rotate around to cover a different area.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It can follow the sun and keep you in the
shade all day long. Right, And so that's what we
need to talk about. Now, what are we looking for
in a good umbrella.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
First you need to know what size you're looking for,
the size of area that you have, and then whether
you want an offset umbrella or a standard market umbrella
with the pole in the middle.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, so standard umbrella pole in the middle, right center pole,
and then it spreads out from there. An offset or
sometimes called candileever umbrella is it's hanging the whole canopy
off to the off to the side, no pole, the
poles off to the side. Usually a pretty sizeable base
if you're in there. I mean, some of those can
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be mounted designed into the decking to mount into concrete
and no base. But the base is pretty sizeable because
it's got to have enough weight to offset the weight
of the canopy hanging out, and.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You want it to be heavy as a lot of
the Candiliver umbrellas that they sell online they might have
one hundred pound base or something like that, which will
be great when you're picking it up out of the
neighbor's yard because the blue over the sense.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's good to have a light base on your umbrella
when you have to go to the neighbor's yard to
get your umbrella, to bring your umbrella back because it
blew out with the last windstorm.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But the ones that we care so we carry Treasure
Garden umbrellas, and they're very high end umbrellas that have
a lot of functionality. They tilt side to side, front
to back, and the bases are four hundred pounds, which
is we want for a high end candilee of umbrella
that's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, So that sounds like an impractical impossibility of four
hundred pound base. Let's talk about why it's not. When
we come back so much more to come your home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
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Speaker 1 (13:53):
We're back and we're talking umbrellas. That's the thing outdoor umbrellas.
Brian Gold with me from Aldacombe patio furnishing discussion today.
Uh and so now I want to give you a
thick of it umbrella, one of my you guys, I
don't know how many of these do you sell, but uh,
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if if you can get to Aldacombe and see the
pergola on a pole that's not its official name, is it.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's official for us, you guys will follow us and
we'll and we'll show you in the other room warehouse area.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I okay. So here's the thing. It's it's obviously
not for everybody, right uh and uh and and it's
a it's a high end umbrella, a high end umbrella.
But it's so I think it's so important that you
guys have it there in the warehouse functional because it's
so indicative of what I mean. It's like the ultimate
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example of what a quality umbrella could and should be. Right,
you've got this little section here, Brian brought this in.
Can you guys see this. Can you hear that? Remember
what you were talking earlier in the show about aluminum
frame furniture and how you tap it with your fingernail.
What you get that tinny, high pitch sound. And you
know that it's very thin wall aluminum. All right, Well,
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I'm holding this piece of material here. It's three millimeters
thick aircraft aluminum, right, and the pole, the central pole
is four millimeters thick. All right, I'm gonna hit one
piece of aluminum against the other. You're how deep and thuddy?
That is? Okay? That is thick stuff. That's crazy thick stuff.
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Uh So it's like the mast of a ship. Almost.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
If I was on an airplane and they brought me
that cross accident, this is what your airplane's made out of,
I would close my eyes and sleep like a baby.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I know you're feeling really confident, all right. So the
pergol on the pole is a massive technically a market
umbrella central pole, market umbrella sixteen and a half.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Half sixteen and a half feet square.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Square, sixteen and a half feet this way, sixteen and
a half feet the other way. That is a massive
area of coverage, and you you basically can get a
dining area and a seating area underneath this thing. And
if that wasn't enough, Uh, it's fully deployed. If it's
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mounted into the deck, can withstand.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It can with stand up to a sixty mile an
hour wind gus.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So no issues.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well while it's open.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
While it's open, not a prompt, not a problem. And
here's what I love. Now, you've got this umbrella over
all of this furniture, right, massive umbrella. Typically when umbrellas
closed down, right, you're gonna have to move the furniture
out of the way because you know, all the ribs
are coming down low. But no, not the pergola on
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a pole. No, as you close it, which, by the way,
you know a child could close this thing. The gearing
and the bearings on it are so perfectly balanced that
a child could just literally.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
My six year old made me watch her do it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Okay, so it's a proven fact. But as you crank
it closed, the mast extends upwards and so the umbrella
clears the furniture.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It does as you close it. You don't have to
move a single thing, all.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Right, So, like like I said, now, it's it's a
pricey umbrella. It's a high end umbrella, and some people
are listening right now thinking we got to go get
that umbrella. Okay, that's great, that's not the point. We're
not trying to sell a thousand pergolagna poles, but we're
using it as an example of what a hot what
a good quality umbrella should be. Again, like the furniture,
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we should be looking for a good gauge, a good
solid gauge of aluminum, the ribs, the mechanism before the
break you set. A good quality large offset umbrella should
have a base that's four or five hundred pounds, right, right,
But the one at the shop have got such high quality,
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high bearing casters on them that moving that around on
the deck is not an issue at all. They just
kind of glide around. It's like a no big deal.
You know. It's shocking how easy it is to move
an umbrella with that kind of base. But again, that's
the point, right, It's not like this is five hundred
pounds scraping on the deck. You got to get a
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team of six guys out there to move it five feet. Now, again,
just unlock the wheel, move it over, reposition it there
you go. And then the umbrella and offset umbrella, which
I love, so I'm favoring them. I just love the
idea that they do their job and they stay out
of the way, right over the fire pit, over the
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seating area, over a table, nothing in the way, no
pole in the center to obscure conversation. Plus most important
part for me, and this is where, this is where
umbrella's really out per form in my opinion, something considerably
more expensive, like a rigid pergola or patio cover or
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roof extension, as lovely as those are, but this relatively lightweight,
very movable, very lithe thing, an offset umbrella doesn't have
to have. It's cannot be fully extended out, it can
be backed off, so now it becomes more like an
angled shade screen. And then reposition, so no matter where
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the sun is, what time of year it is, or
what time of day it is, you can just keep
adjusting the umbrella to keep that one seating area that
you want to spend all that time in in the
shade the whole time, all shade, all the time. And
then on days when well, like last night, we've got
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two offset umbrellas on our deck. But last night it
was night and the sky was relatively clear, and our
guests wanted to to see the tops of the ash
trees in the I said, oh yeah, I'll pull the
umbrellas back and suddenly they're just gone. And now we're
outdoors again because conditions were perfect for being outdoors without
any issues, no mosquitoes, no sun and you know we
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had a fire to keep us warm. So these are
the areas now, the the fabric and we're pushing up
against a break. But the fabric on and offset umbrella.
Are there any things that we need to know about
that that canopy?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All the fabrics are going to be that outdoor performance
umbrella fabrics, that solution dietocrylic for the shade maker umbrellas,
which are that pergola and a pole, these aircraft cage, yes, yes,
those you can get on in grade fabric thicker and
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that's a ten year fa ten year fade warranty. And
the others do we know what they? Those are a
five year it's called furniture grade fabric at the five.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, that just a fade warranty. It doesn't change their
weather proofness or anything like that. It's just the color
fastness of that fabric again being completely exposed day by
day to all that UV bleaching light from the sun.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
All right, more to come your Home with Dean Sharp
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Speaker 1 (21:26):
Here we are at the end of another three hours together.
Just flies by when you're having fun. And when it
comes to designing patio furniture, the design of that furniture
it does matter most. And the good news is that
there is some brilliantly great patio furniture out there made
with super soft supple, unbelievable. It should be sitting in
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your living room kind of fabrics that are designed to
be bomb proof when it comes to their resistance to
weather UV, of course, especially in southern California, but everywhere
on the planet. Here the fact of the matter is
if it's outside, whether it's your roof, whether it's the
paint that you put on your house, whether it's the decking,
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whether it's the stain that's on the decking, or whether
it's the patio furniture that sets on the decking. UV
is the thing that is the most potent enemy of
those things. Lasting UV rays break down material They just
break it down. Materials like teak would outside amazingly by
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natural design, incredibly UV resistant when it comes to actually deteriorating,
teak does not deteriorate. Okay, teak wood outside. I get
this question a lot. Don't you have to constantly oil
and restain teak in order to preserve it? No, you don't.
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What you have to do is you have to you
oil it and restain it if you want to preserve.
In most cases it's color. It's natural kind of tan color.
Because as you've seen on you know, outside furniture and
just teak wood, it will gray out. And that's the
action of UV light, right, Brian, it's UV just making them. Now.
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The teakwood table that I've got sitting out there, I
actually got it from al Dick already pre grade so
it doesn't change and uh and there it sits, and
of course you know we take care of it. But
the fact is natural uh, hardwoods, high grade hardwoods like
teak will uh they'll hear, they'll be here long before,
long after the house is gone. But they'll be gray.
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So if you don't want them to be gray, then
you've got to treat them and take care of them.
Otherwise they're just going to turn gray and they'll stay
right where they are. Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
When I sell teak furniture, I ask people if they're
going to be updating their will soon to include the
furniture to pass it along.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yes, and so you know. And it's an interesting conversation
because when it comes to outdoor furniture, does Summer Classic
make anything for anything in wood that isn't teak for outdoors?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
They do not.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
They just do the teak. And some people are saying, well,
you know, teak, teak is rainforest being cut down, and
actually that's not entirely accurate. Okay, there is a teak
being cut down in the rainforest, not for harvesting for materials.
Most of it is just being cut down and burnt
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because they're making room for more cattle in the middle
of the rainforest. Just to be clear about that, Okay,
that's a problem in and of itself. Teak has become
a sustainably harvestable material number one and number two. I
want you to think about this. We can talk all
day long about quote unquote green materials. There's a lot
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of green washing, and I'm all for it, by the way,
not greenwashing. I'm all for eco friendly materials. The greatest
sustainable purchase you can make is when it comes to furniture,
is to save up and buy the right piece of
furniture that will last multiple lifetimes. And as Brian said,
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buy it right and buy it once. You talk about
not wanting to cut down too many trees, well have
those trees made into a high quality piece of furniture
and you won't have to replace it. There's no need
to replace it for a generation after generation it lasts.
It stands. I have sitting in my granddaughter's room right now,
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one hundred and thirty year old mahogany wardrobe, and it
is serving its function today just like it was when
it was built one hundred and thirty years ago. Her
clothes are hanging in it, her toys are down in
the bottom shelves, and it is doing exactly but it
was intended to do one hundred and thirty years ago.
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That's that's about uh twenty one generations of Ikea furniture
come and gone for this one mahogany wardrobe. Okay, And
so that's what I'm saying, all right, if it takes
a little more time to save up for do it
if it takes a little bit more budgeting, do it,
but by the right furniture once and and that's all
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you'll need to do. Same with tools, by the right
tool one time instead of you know, fifty tools, you
know multiple times. That's quality making its effect on the
planet and your home and design all at once. Brian,
thanks so much for Bud for being on the show again.
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Any closing thoughts. How about was the semin role by.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The way, that was amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It was our touch and go with getting the micro messy,
but it was it was great.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right. So just so because everybody was asking, so
I just got to say Old West. I think it's
Old West Cinnamon Roll Company in Pismo Beach. Right, if
you're up in that area, you already know this is
not news to you, but we discovered this a while back.
These are Tina's favorite cinnamon rolls on the planet. If
you want to make Tina, but don't send her too
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many cinnamon rolls because she's it. It's a treat, right,
don't mail us a cinnamon roll. But Brian ate one
day old you know cinnamon roll that we heated up
this morning from Old West Cinnamon roles because my friend
brought some down to us yesterday and that cream cheese
frosting on the top. Oh my god, I don't know
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exactly what makes a superior cinnamon roll, like, I'm not,
I'm not. I don't know if they're supposed to be
light and fluffy or I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
But we'll do another show on cinnamonal How.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
About we do that? Will you come back in the
holiday show? You know what, when we do the live
Holiday show, we're gonna bring We're gonna do some taste
testing of cinnamon roals. Right, we'll put old Western up
against Cinnabon and whatever else is out there. But I'm
telling you, this is an outstanding cinnamon role, all right,
just saying, all right, everybody, my special in studio guest
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much thanks to Brian Gold. He's always great to work with.
I love talking shop with him because he knows exactly
what he's talking about. When it comes to this patio furniture.
It's not too late, And Brian said this at the
beginning of the show. I just want to say, you
always want to You're gonna get your best deals if
you can catch a store like Aldick in transition mode. Okay. Now,
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for most patio furniture stores, their transmission mode is going
to be at the end of summer. It's going to
be too late. Okay. For Aldick, they're actually getting they're
on the cusp. But you're just like four days away
from starting to get ready for the holidays. So your
patio floor samples are all on sale right now.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's forty percent off any floor sample sets, so you
can save thousands on patio furniture that will last generation.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Will there you go? All right, Thanks Bud for being
on the show, and thank you all for listening. It's
a gorgeous day. I hope your plan is to get
out there, make the most of it, go outside and
get busy building yourself a beautiful life. And we will
see you right back here next weekend. This has been
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