Speaker 1: Oh you eight eleven on the morning shows, seven hundred
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Speaker 1: mean the brand, the man Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 2: Mister Brenneman. How in the world are you good?
Speaker 1: Buddy? How you doing today?
Speaker 2: Good? You got your overalls. We're gonna work today.
Speaker 1: Are we? I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: Let's go, toolbox, got your goggles.
Speaker 1: I got a hat, need a hat. My hair's fallen out,
Speaker 1: and so all of a sudden it's skin being exposed
Speaker 1: rather than hair. Doesn't happen to you.
Speaker 2: I got hair.
Speaker 1: You got a whole head full of hair. Goodness, gracious,
Speaker 1: good yeous. All right, right now, you told me that
Speaker 1: there are a few things around your house that have
Speaker 1: bothered you lately. Right, okay, so you tell me. The
Speaker 1: first one is whenever you go to you say the
Speaker 1: vanity like shave in the morning, that kind of thing. Right,
Speaker 1: there's an odor there right now? Now? What is going
Speaker 1: on with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You ever have that problem?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a fairly common problem. And what it is,
Speaker 2: it's bacteria. I mean that's what causes odors and the reason.
Speaker 2: And there's always going to be bacterian drains, whether it's
Speaker 2: the kitchen and you got food particles, whether it's you know,
Speaker 2: the vanity and you've got flakes of skin, hair shaving residue,
Speaker 2: all that. But really, what's happened in the cosmetics industry?
Speaker 2: A lot everything is kind of sticky. I mean, we've
Speaker 2: got hairspray. Of course, you don't need that now you're losing.
Speaker 1: Your That's exactly right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: You needed that day. Yeah, thanks a lot, you bet you.
Speaker 2: We got shaving cream that's not really soapy, it's kind
Speaker 2: of just sticky. It's kind of like a gel. Yep,
Speaker 2: So we got all these things on toothpastes of a jail.
Speaker 2: Everything's a gel. So the inside of the pipes get
Speaker 2: a little sticky, and when we turn the water on,
Speaker 2: or before we turn the water on, you start having
Speaker 2: this odor from the bacteria. And so people will get
Speaker 2: in there and they'll put drain cleaners in there and
Speaker 2: different things like that. But we kind of started the odor.
Speaker 2: So what's going on?
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of cases people overlook one thing
Speaker 2: and that is the overflow tube on the inside of
Speaker 2: the vanity bowl. So in other words, if your drain
Speaker 2: was not running very well and somebody left the water on,
Speaker 2: which by the way, happened to me about thirty years
Speaker 2: ago when the kids were home, and the water spills over, well,
Speaker 2: that's because it wasn't able to take enough water down
Speaker 2: during that overflow hole. But that's where the odor is
Speaker 2: coming from. Everybody's concentrating on the drain and you should
Speaker 2: ud but bathrooms are humid in a lot of cases,
Speaker 2: that bacteria is being activated by moisture, and the odor
Speaker 2: is actually it's in the drain, but it's also coming
Speaker 2: up through uh the overflow tube. So the overflow tube
Speaker 2: agains on the front side of the ball tom usually
Speaker 2: about right where the right where your gut is on
Speaker 2: the inside of that bowl. Get some either bleach or
Speaker 2: dishwashing for the dishwasher, that soap, and just puts that
Speaker 2: down there. It'll migrate down into the pipe and it
Speaker 2: will also sanitize that overflow and I'll tell you, within
Speaker 2: a day or so that odor will be gone. And
Speaker 2: it's almost something that's going to be relatively a maintenance thing.
Speaker 2: You get a little whiff of that. Just get just
Speaker 2: get that. Uh, get that solved with the dishwashing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if I if I hear you right, this
Speaker 1: is not only you, you were making reference it for you.
Speaker 1: It's in the bathroom where you shave the vanity, et cetera.
Speaker 1: This is the same kind of thing. Because I noticed
Speaker 1: yesterday around our house that it was the kitchen sink right,
Speaker 1: the disposal. Right, So you're telling me this same thing
Speaker 1: works for.
Speaker 2: That, Well, I'll tell you what I would do. So
Speaker 2: there's different products that will sanitize your disposal. Some of
Speaker 2: them look like a big giant pill. It looks like
Speaker 2: a hockey puck. You just put it in there, grind
Speaker 2: it up, and it'll sanitize the inside of the disposal.
Speaker 2: But if you're having that odor, throw some ice cubes
Speaker 2: in there, threw a lemon in there, grind it up.
Speaker 2: That'll clean the inside up pretty good. Okay, But where
Speaker 2: the odors coming from on a disposal, Tommy, You that
Speaker 2: a little black gasket that fits down in the drainkyp
Speaker 2: pull that out, it just comes right out, sure, and
Speaker 2: scrub the back of it with just some dish soap.
Speaker 2: That's what happens when the food gets ground up, it
Speaker 2: splashes on the back side of that gasket and that
Speaker 2: bacteria starts growing. It creates an odor. So it's as
Speaker 2: simple as just as cleaning that out, and it's pretty
Speaker 2: simple to clean.
Speaker 1: It's funny you bring that up because just experiencing that yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 1: another thing that you said bothering you about your house.
Speaker 1: These days, you're getting gaps around the door and your
Speaker 1: floors are squeaking. Let's take each of those in and
Speaker 1: out by themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all related. Okay, they're all related, which makes
Speaker 2: it really simple. And I don't know if you have that,
Speaker 2: but if you got some crown molding and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden you can see a gap between the crown
Speaker 2: molding and the ceiling or baseboards, the baseboard to the wall,
Speaker 2: there gets to be a little grap gap. And it's
Speaker 2: especially this time of year or around the doors and
Speaker 2: the floor squeaking. And the reason is your house is
Speaker 2: drying out. It is cold out there. It's going to
Speaker 2: be cold all weekend, and when it's really cold, humidity
Speaker 2: gets very very low. When everybody checked their indoor humidity,
Speaker 2: it should be between thirty and thirty five percent, you
Speaker 2: probably are running. If you don't have a humidifier, you
Speaker 2: very well could be running humidity around twenty twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: It dries out the wood and it causes squeaks. It
Speaker 2: causes squeaks. So now a really good thing for around
Speaker 2: the gaps between the crown molding and the floor. This
Speaker 2: is a perfect time to clock those. You can use
Speaker 2: in acrylic, siliconized calcking good stretch ability. Because you go,
Speaker 2: your house goes.
Speaker 1: Here you go again, Gary, Here you go again, Here
Speaker 1: you go again.
Speaker 2: I told you talk about cruelty.
Speaker 1: Again, here we go. I'm not down for me how
Speaker 1: easy that is, because I'm sure it probably is.
Speaker 2: It's not that different, okay, And if you don't want
Speaker 2: to do it, it's okay. Just let's work on getting
Speaker 2: the humidity level up to around thirty five percent in
Speaker 2: your home. Maybe you get a umidifier in your furnace,
Speaker 2: maybe you get a bedroom youmidifier. Again. Putting some moisture
Speaker 2: in the air will alleviate some of these problems and
Speaker 2: you'll feel better. Your nasal passages will feel a lot
Speaker 2: better in the morning, and your skin's gonna feel better.
Speaker 2: So getting that humidity up so you can see it
Speaker 2: wherever there's organic material like wood, and you take the
Speaker 2: moisture out because the air is very, very drier. Of course,
Speaker 2: your wood floors are gonna squeak, right, and there's gonna
Speaker 2: be gaps. Things are shrinking your houses literally breathing and
Speaker 2: shrinking and expanding in contraction. So if you don't want
Speaker 2: to get the calking out, even though you can siliconized
Speaker 2: to crily calking, it's paintable, it's stretchable, and it will
Speaker 2: do a great job of filling that up and it'll
Speaker 2: close up real nice in the summer. As it stretches
Speaker 2: next winter, you'll have that elasticity to cover that gap.
Speaker 1: So this sounds like a stupid question, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a bright guy on this stuff. Generally, when
Speaker 1: the humidity comes back, as things warm up again, those
Speaker 1: things take care of themselves.
Speaker 2: By and large, they do, Okay, they really do. Yep.
Speaker 2: They'll expand and fill out. But it's not very you know,
Speaker 2: it's not very pretty in the winter time, and if
Speaker 2: you want to stay on top of it, this is
Speaker 2: a perfect time to fill those gaps.
Speaker 1: Okay, last thing I wanted to ask you about, and
Speaker 1: and look I don't care if you have a house
Speaker 1: it was built last year. It feels like this time
Speaker 1: of year, when it gets this cold, you get anywhere
Speaker 1: near a window, there seems to be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a draftiness to it.
Speaker 2: Is that fair? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay? And what to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know sometimes Toms, it's as basic as making
Speaker 2: sure the window is locked. I know it sounds weird,
Speaker 2: but if it's a casement window or a double hung window,
Speaker 2: there's locks. You know. You got the two little locks
Speaker 2: on the top of the slider of the double hung window.
Speaker 2: Make sure they're locked because that pulls the two windows together.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you when people complain to me about
Speaker 2: drafting windows and I tell them about checking to make
Speaker 2: sure it's locked, I can't tell you how many times
Speaker 2: they go, oh yeah, different, I bet. So that's one thing,
Speaker 2: just double check. Another thing you can do is pull
Speaker 2: the blinds down. That'll help, you know, alleviate a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's the draft's still gonna come in, but it's not
Speaker 2: gonna blow right on you, so pull the blinds down.
Speaker 2: There is also I'm gonna go back to the calking thing.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize this product exists. There's
Speaker 2: one called a draft stop, and I think one's called
Speaker 2: peel away. It's a clear calking. You can literally calk
Speaker 2: your windows closed. So where the two meet the frame,
Speaker 2: or where the two panels meet each other, you can
Speaker 2: put a bead of cocking there. Like the draft stop.
Speaker 2: It's clear. It'll seal that draft come March. You can
Speaker 2: just pick and peel that away.
Speaker 1: Hmm. Okay, I got one more question, all right, and
Speaker 1: this wasn't on our list as far as the flume
Speaker 1: is concerned. Okay. In a fireplace, okay, right, and it's
Speaker 1: really really cold, there has to be some air that's
Speaker 1: coming down there if you leave it open, and it
Speaker 1: probably it gets in even if you have it closed. Okay,
Speaker 1: But is there a rule of thumb about really should
Speaker 1: I close it or can I just leave it open?
Speaker 1: The difference?
Speaker 2: Do you have a gas fireplace?
Speaker 1: Yes, but then I turn off the gas and let
Speaker 1: the wood burn?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, uh, First of all, when the fires burn,
Speaker 2: of course, the flu stays open. Second or the four
Speaker 2: it's everything's extinguished, everything is out. I'd give it a
Speaker 2: half hour and i'd definitely close it, okay, because what
Speaker 2: it is, it's like a metal plate that just kind
Speaker 2: of you know, it's not like weather stripping and rubber
Speaker 2: on it or anything. It's just a metal plate. But
Speaker 2: it stops the draft. And as you turn a cooking
Speaker 2: fan on the bathroom fan, guess where it's pulling the
Speaker 2: air right down the chimney. Yep, yep, ok, yeah, make
Speaker 2: sure that's cool.
Speaker 1: My wife was all over my case yesterday about it.
Speaker 2: Did you win or lose?
Speaker 1: Why would you even ask me that?
Speaker 2: I just thought, I mean, are you kidding that?
Speaker 1: I just how long you've been marry Gary?
Speaker 2: Fifty years?
Speaker 1: Like, okay, you got me double. I hit twenty five
Speaker 1: a month and a half ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I can ask those questions.
Speaker 1: You've lost a lot more than I have.
Speaker 2: Oh I've lost one.
Speaker 1: All right, my friend, Thanks for your time. As always,
Speaker 1: all right, I goes Gary Sullivan. You can hear him
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