1 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: All right, the weekend is upon us. Thank you for 2 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: joining me. You're at home with Gary Sullivan. This hours 3 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: brought to you by Dumont Global. They make a body 4 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: called smart Strip Advanced. It safely removes almost ninety percent 5 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: of the codings, no harmful fumes, no dangerous chemicals, and 6 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: if you're not sure what type of coding you're removing, 7 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: Dumont's test kit. We'll tell you exactly which Dumont products 8 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: you need for the job. You'll find Smart Strip that 9 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: you do it best. Retailer Sherwan Williams, or you can 10 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: visit Dumont Global. All right, our phone number eight hundred 11 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: eight two three eighty two five five. Got a question 12 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: regarding maintenance or repair of your home, feel free to 13 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: join us. Danie'll take your call. We'll chat and get 14 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: you back at it no time at all. All right, 15 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: Let's go to Bill. Bill, Welcome, good morning, Good morning. 16 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: I love the show, and I love writ and forget shower. 17 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 2: Very good work, work works great. You were talking to 18 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: Ron Wilson earlier, and I didn't hear all of it 19 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,279 Speaker 2: about different ways people had trouble with Christmas trees. 20 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: Uh huh. 21 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 2: In the house, my father in law knew had a 22 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: doctor who was an orthopedic doctor, and he was the 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: years ago. He was the orthopedic doctor for the Bengals, 24 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: and he had like at least three boys at home, 25 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: and the tree got knocked over so many times. He 26 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: put an anchor in the ceiling and he hung the 27 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: tree so that the tree swam and he didn't have 28 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: to pick it up all the time. 29 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,279 Speaker 1: That's the best I think I remember as a kid. 30 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: I'm not positive, but it's in my head, and that's 31 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: why I asked Ron the question. I think when I 32 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: was a kid, one year, my dad had tied some 33 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: wire around the middle or the top part of the 34 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: tree and put an anchor in a wall with a 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: screw eye or a screw hook or something, and because 36 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: it tilted too much, the kids were. 37 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 2: Chasing the dog. And he had like at least three boys. 38 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to mention his name because 39 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 2: I don't know personally. I heard it from my father 40 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 2: in law, but this is many years ago, and he 41 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 2: was the orthopedic doctor for the Bend and Bengals. 42 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: So very good. I appreciate that. That's that's a maybe, that's. 43 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: A soy you have a great day. 44 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: All right, Bill, thank you. Yeah, sometimes that could be 45 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: a I don't think I've ever had a tree fall, 46 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: but I I know that happens for sure, And I 47 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: think when Ron was talking about he had a tree fall, 48 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: and you know, having now they have some of these bases. 49 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: But back in the day, I remember on our stand 50 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: we did have a decent sized piece of plywood where 51 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: it extended out and the stand was actually attached to 52 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: the plywood. It just didn't sit on there. It was 53 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: screwed on there. And boy, it was always it was solid. 54 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: May have been crooked, but solid. He might have had 55 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: to shim that plywood when he tied it to the wall. 56 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't remember. I was a little kid, 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: but I kind of do remember that. Now they got 58 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: these big If you haven't seen those, and you're going 59 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: to do a live tree, they have oh jeez, you know, 60 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: it's not just a metal one. It's home. It's a bigger, wider, 61 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: cone shaped stand. They're awesome, hold a lot of water, 62 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: very very balanced, and maybe if you're going with the 63 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: live tree action, maybe that's something you want to take 64 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: a look at. All right, let me give you that 65 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: phone number love to have you join us. Kind of 66 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: slow today, holiday weekend. I get that, but we can 67 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: talk about things maybe for next year, projects you want 68 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: to do, or like I said, if your house is 69 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: going all I want for Christmas. My my suggestion is 70 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: the wallpaper borders goodbye. And the only reason I bring 71 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: that up is he was upstairs the other day and 72 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: in the one bathroom between the Jack and Jill bedrooms. 73 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: I remember painting that I don't know eight years ago, 74 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: and I remember Sue telling me, you know, why don't 75 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: you just take that border off before you paint it? 76 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: And I'm like, nah, No, that border looks fun. There's 77 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that border. See, I'm just like everybody else, 78 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to do that. It looks fine. 79 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: Nobody's ever up here and painted it, trimmed that painted 80 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: and uh. And when I was upstairs, I saw the 81 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: border and I went, yeah, we probably need to get 82 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: in that border. It is very dated this time of year, 83 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: is uh, not so much right now, but I'd say 84 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: in the next four weeks. You know, right now, we're 85 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: all busy, we're all kind of happy, you know, the 86 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: holidays and people coming over the house and decorations are 87 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: up and everything's good, and then in January we take 88 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: all the decorations down and I don't know about you, 89 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: but you just see things that you'd really like to address. 90 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: You'd really you know that floor, man, we really ought 91 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,559 Speaker 1: to do something with that floor or that I start 92 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: off the show today talking like, oh, we really ought 93 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: to do something with those countertops or those cabinets, and 94 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: maybe we just clean that cabinets. Cabinets depends on the 95 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: type of cabmis you have and the type of wood 96 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: or if they're for mic or whatever. But sometimes they 97 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:16,239 Speaker 1: just get really tired looking because maybe you used wax 98 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: on them or silicons and things like that, and they 99 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: just get tired. You got to get them cleaned and 100 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 1: spruced up, rejuvenated. But that's when we start seeing that stuff. 101 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: So happy to chat about that those types of projects. 102 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: You know the phone number, and this is usually that time. 103 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: I also give you the holiday cleaning tips that jaws. 104 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: We usually do it about six weeks before the holidays. 105 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: Got a couple more to go. But here's a little 106 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: cleaning tip. When you're using glass cleaners. And I've had 107 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,239 Speaker 1: this call before. Gus cleaners are not to be used 108 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: on TV screens, computer screens, eyeglasses, and they'll they'll literally 109 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: compromise the TV screen. 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All right, 182 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: you're at home with Gary Salvan twenty minutes after the 183 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: top of the air, talking a little home improvement and 184 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: happy to take your calls. And let's go to Bob 185 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: Bob Welcome. 186 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 4: Hey Gary, sir, I can you hear me? 187 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: Okay, I can. 188 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 4: Okay, you're talking about the furnaces earlier and running the 189 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: fan and whatever else with humidity and blah blah blah. Anyway, 190 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 4: one of the things I tell my or I should 191 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 4: say it this way. I see a lot of no 192 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 4: heat calls where the customer is sitting there. Here's a 193 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 4: flowers running, puts his hand down by the register, flowing 194 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 4: cool cool air, great temperature air right right. So I 195 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 4: go out there. The first thing I do as I 196 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 4: go to the thermostat and I see the fan is on. 197 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 4: I've flipped the auto. I raised the thermostad and I 198 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 4: look like a hero. 199 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: That's great as the Yeah, So what's your take on 200 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: leaving the fan on though? 201 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 4: Okay, so in the winter time, I suggest that the 202 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 4: fan is in auto at whatever temperature. You guys are 203 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 4: comfortable at stealing fans reverse. So we're pulling the heat 204 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 4: off the cteialing correction of the house. And that's it. 205 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 4: And then as far as running the fan for air conditioning, 206 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 4: leaving the fan run all the time will make on 207 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 4: a two story house, it'll make upstairs more bearable. It 208 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 4: won't make it like it is downstairs because hot air 209 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 4: rises call their falls. But it will still make it 210 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 4: more bearable on a ranch a single story home. By 211 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 4: running the lower all the time, depending on the load, 212 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 4: how hot and humid it is outside, you can eliminate one, 213 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 4: maybe even two cycles of that outdoor in it per hour, 214 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 4: just by moving the air that you've already taken. 215 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: Let me give you my take. And I'm not an 216 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: HVAC guy, but I have HVAC guys call me a lot, 217 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: and I was having an issue one time, and so anyway, 218 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: I agree with you on the heat. There are people 219 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: I know that just like to move the air around 220 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: some hot spots, like in a bedroom and then the 221 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: family room's a cooler one. But I get your take 222 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: on it. But it does move air. Certainly, Ceiling fans 223 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: do a better job. So I'm neutral on that. You know, 224 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: if you feel like you need it, fine, you know, 225 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: like maybe you run the fireplace or something like that. 226 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, so I'm kind of neutral that the 227 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: air conditioning one. This is a crazy story, and I've 228 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: talked to a lot a lot of HVAC companies and 229 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: no one like they're like, no, I don't I don't 230 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: think so. But I had a problem of running high 231 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: humidity in my home. Out of nowhere. I was having problems, 232 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: and I'm pretty conscious of that. And it wasn't super high, 233 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: but it was like sixty percent in the summertime. And 234 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: I was doing the show and kind of whining about it. Bob, 235 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: an HVAC guy, called me. He goes, I know exactly 236 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: what your problem is. I said, what's what's my problem? 237 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: I was always told moving air is dry air. So 238 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: I got my fan on and he goes, that's the problem, 239 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: and he said that I was pulling the humidity out. 240 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: The coils were wet, but since the fan was on, 241 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: I was just redistributing that moisture throughout the home. And 242 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: I got off the air. I went home, I turned 243 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: the fan to auto, and within two days my humidity 244 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: was fine. It's been fine ever since for three years. 245 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 4: Excuse me. 246 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 5: A lot of times. 247 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 4: You know, every house is different, right, it's positive for everyone. 248 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 4: So if the house is late or the house is loose, 249 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 4: that's when you can run into those problems. But the 250 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 4: moisture on the coil, it seems if I don't know, 251 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 4: I think it's I think that moisture is minimal. My 252 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 4: hair flow going across that coil will dry it off. 253 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 4: Not like it's there all the time. It's there when 254 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 4: it's running, when the ac is right, and then it 255 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 4: dreamed out. But a little bit that's that's stepped on 256 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 4: the coil. I don't know. 257 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: I know either, and I've I've said this to a 258 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: bunch of guys in fact, that you know, when I 259 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: get my UH air conditioner and furnace service every year. 260 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: I've even said to the guy, I mean, it's a 261 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: great company and been using them for years, and he 262 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, And I said, well, you 263 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: know what, I'm nobody to challenge you, but I can 264 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,479 Speaker 1: tell you for me in my house that worked. And 265 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: I've mentioned that a couple of times on the show 266 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: and I've had good response. I'm just throwing that out there. 267 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you can use it someday. You helped me, so, uh, 268 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. It's a crazy thing. I 269 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: never heard of it, never really thought about it that way, 270 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: but but anyway, it worked for me. 271 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 4: Anyway, that's that's good. That's good. Whatever works. 272 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. 273 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 4: I wanted to enjoy your show. I listened to you 274 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 4: every week, So. 275 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: Very good and I thank you for your call, Bob. 276 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: That's how we all learned, So thank you, all right, 277 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: And uh yeah, it's it is kind of like a 278 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: I like his comment. And I've used that many times 279 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: doing home improvement, when somebody will say we'll do this. 280 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: You you said do that, and somebody will say and 281 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: I'll go like, well, I don't know about that. Well 282 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: it worked for me, and that's all that counts. If 283 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: it worked, that's fine. Maybe we're not going to find 284 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: it in a book, but if it worked for one 285 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: of us. And we've had crazy calls over the years. 286 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: Remember the one I can't remember. It was a beeping 287 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: sound and it would go off in the middle of 288 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: the night. I still reb yeah, remember that, you remember that? 289 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: And it was an alarm or something on a on 290 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: a watch, on an old watch that was in a 291 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: dresser and they could never pinpoint where it was coming from. 292 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: And somebody called and said, I know exactly what that 293 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 1: is as I had that happen, So you never really 294 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: know as all as it works. I agree totally. All right, 295 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: let's see Lewis and then Phil and Steven. We will 296 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: get you. I promise our phone number. 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Yes, sir, Yeah, I have. 344 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 5: I've been in this house is a new house for 345 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 5: a couple of years now. The the the cabinets are 346 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 5: painted and the island is black and the rest of 347 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 5: them are light blue collar and the black is getting 348 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 5: kind of I would like to kind of put something 349 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 5: on it that makes it look it makes it popping 350 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 5: set up, because it's getting kind of a dull, a 351 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 5: little bit dull. What would you recommend me? 352 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: Well, what have you tried at this point? And is 353 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: it it enamel pain on there or is that the 354 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: laminate finish or what's the finish? Also nice enamel? 355 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 5: And I've tried water so far because I you know, 356 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 5: like you were saying previously, you don't want to put 357 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 5: stuff that it might have them build up right, and 358 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 5: it makes it worse. So that's why I mean, and 359 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 5: that's that's the problem. 360 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So was that cabinet, were they waxed or 361 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: anything along those lines, or is it because inside the 362 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: reason I'm asking these questions inside the dirt we have 363 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: inside our home usually contains oils, oils from our hands, 364 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: oil from cooking, et cetera, et cetera. So you know, 365 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: quite honestly, I'm kind of thinking about dawn soap and water. 366 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: If it's a good enammel, I think that would be 367 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: a really good cleaner. 368 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, my son in law made the cabinet, she's 369 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 5: a cabinet maker, so I know they were made right. 370 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 5: It's just it's just one of them things that again 371 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 5: it's only been two years, sure, but I just just 372 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 5: kind of want to pick your brain about that. 373 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we want to make sure we don't 374 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: use an ambrasive We want to make sure we you know, 375 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: like normally if it were like a wood grain and 376 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: it was stained and it had a varnish on there, 377 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: you know, like some cabinets are. I've got a couple 378 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: of In fact, I got a product that was made 379 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: by a cabinet maker one hundred years ago, which is excellent, 380 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: but when they're painted, they're already sealed, and that particular 381 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: product is also designed to rejuvenate the wood, et cetera, 382 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: et cetera, So that really wouldn't be appropriate for a 383 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: painted surface. And really I think I would just try again, 384 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: no braces. We don't want to dull it anymore. But 385 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: I try a little don soap in a damp cloth, 386 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: warm water, and then come back with you know, just 387 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: damp cloth and no soap, just to get any residue 388 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: off it. I think that would be one option. I 389 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: also talk about products called jaws. Jaws. They have one 390 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: called kitchen Degreaser. It is a pH neutral product. It's 391 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: not going to hurt a painted finish at all. I've 392 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: not used it on a painted cabinet, but I've used 393 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 1: it on everything in my kitchen, my grill and everything. 394 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: It is pH neutral, there is no grit to it. 395 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: You would spray it on. It'll loosen any type of 396 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 1: oiled residue, which would be also a great cleaner. I 397 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: would use that also, but Okay, dawn and soap and water. 398 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: Give that a try first. 399 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 5: Okay, I have a second question. I'm along the same. 400 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 5: It's a new house. I have some hardwood planks on 401 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 5: the on the floor, you know, real wood, and uh 402 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 5: they they put some water based uh paint or not paint, 403 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 5: but you know the water based feel around the on 404 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 5: the on the floor, and it's always creaking and cracking 405 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 5: like you walk on it and it's it's always creaking 406 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 5: and uh. In my other house, it it never the 407 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 5: floor never creaked like this, and it was just a 408 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 5: regular petroleum based seala that we put And this one 409 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 5: is creaking and it's just kind of awful. 410 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: I yeah, I don't think it's in and I don't 411 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: think it's the ceiler, you know, because there's there's three 412 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: main components that make wood floors creak, and none of 413 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: it really has to do with the ceiler. So let 414 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: me just give you the scoop. The first thing that 415 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 1: would make a wood floor creek is if it's a 416 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: wood floor and it's a tongue in groove, and that 417 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: tongue in groove just over walking on it gets loose 418 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: and it rubs against the groove. The tongue rubs against 419 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: the groove and that makes it creak, okay, And the 420 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: way that can be solved is taking some talk powder 421 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,719 Speaker 1: or baby powder and just brushing it into the wood floor. 422 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: Well sometime eliminate that, I say sometime, but that's that's 423 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: an option. The second place a floor creeks is where 424 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: the wood is attached to the wood sub floor, so 425 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 1: usually glued, glueden, screwed, whatever, but if nailed, yeah, nailed 426 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: and and and it's it's loose maybe in some areas, 427 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: which is causing that creek. Probably more prevalent in the 428 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: winter time than the summertime. Probably more prevalent right now 429 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,199 Speaker 1: since it's just starting to dry out and there's some 430 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: shrinking or minimizing going on. And the third place is 431 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: where the sub floor, and this is really quite honest, 432 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: I think that's probably where it is where the sub 433 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: floor is attached to the joist. Over time, those are nailed, 434 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: they're they're nailed in, glued sometimes depends how old the 435 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: house is, and there gets to be that nail. The 436 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: hole gets worn just from walking on that that nail 437 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: starts rubbing and almost becomes a piston. And downstairs, if 438 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: you can get underneath it. Sometimes you can, but shims. 439 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: There's even a product called a squeak ender that loops 440 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: around the rafter. And then there's a plate that screwed 441 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: to the subfloor and you literally tighten up a big 442 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: thumbscrew to pull the sub floor down. But that's the 443 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: three places that a floor will squeak. 444 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 5: All right, Gary, well, I guess major day. 445 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: Major day. All right, thank you much for the call. 446 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: You take care all right, Phil, welcome. Yes, yes, I 447 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: have a question. 448 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 6: Yes, I have a question on the uh, radiant barrier 449 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 6: spray paint that you put on erneath your attic. Uh 450 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 6: huh do you know if any if it actually works. 451 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: Well, radiant barrier paint is available, and yeah, it does work. Now, 452 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: it's not like an insulation. It's a radiant barrier. I 453 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: tell people. It's like this, Phil. Let's see. It took 454 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: me a long time to figure out how to explain 455 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: radiant barrier paint. But radiant barrier paint is essentially when 456 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: you're a kid and you're outstanding in the ball field 457 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: on an August day and it's hotter in the heck 458 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: and you're sweating, and that radiant heat's just cooking you 459 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: and then you go over by the bench and you 460 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: sit underneath the big old shade tree and it's like, huh, 461 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: it's not bad at all. So that's what a radiant 462 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: barrier does. It's a it cuts down the radiant heat 463 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: that's coming through the roof and it does it creates 464 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: and helps minimize the heat that's going into the attic. Now, 465 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: we got other things that helped that too, right, We 466 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: got you know, radium barrier paint. We also have ridge 467 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: vents and soft events where we bring in the outdoor 468 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: air temperature and we push out the one hundred and 469 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: forty degree temperature it's in the attic out through the 470 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: ridge vent. But radium barriers work, there's no question. They're 471 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: just like they're just hard to explain. But it's like 472 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: putting a shade tree over your house. Think of it 473 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: that way. 474 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 6: Yes, it doesn't mess with the the roof for anything. 475 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 6: As far as the no. 476 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: No, sure, Williams. What I'm familiar with, I think it's 477 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: called E barrier. It's a paint and it's sprayed. You 478 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: got to cover all of the underneath part. You just 479 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: can't do patches of it. And this comes in like 480 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: a gallon canner, five gallon pan. It's sprayed in the attic. Okay, 481 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: sometimes during construction, sometimes after construction. And yeah it works, 482 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it works. It it's it doesn't affect 483 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: the roof. It's just a coating on the inside underside 484 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: of the roof which minimizes solar gain into the attic. 485 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 6: Oh okay, yes, all right, Oh okay, that's that's all 486 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 6: I need to know. 487 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: Very good. I hope I explained that. Well, now, thank you. 488 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: All right, let's take a little break. We got Randy 489 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: and Steven and Wilson and you can grab a line 490 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: as we march through the weekend. And we got a 491 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: good another hour ago. So don't be don't be shy. 492 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: Step on in. We'll chat about your home project. 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I'm 539 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,480 Speaker 7: a piano technician, okay, And I heard you talking about humidity, 540 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 7: and you mentioned a room human fires, and as you know, 541 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 7: I'm sure most people don't. Those aren't very good for 542 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:13,880 Speaker 7: a piano. No, because they're putting out cold air humidity, 543 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 7: and cold air humidity goes to the coldest thing in 544 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 7: the room, which is usually the strings of a piano. 545 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. 546 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 5: They do make a. 547 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 7: Humidifier that goes inside of a vertical piano and underneath 548 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 7: the soundboard of a grand piano. And I said humidifier, 549 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,360 Speaker 7: but I mean humidity control system. 550 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: Okay, it's made. 551 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 7: By it's made by a company called damp Chaser. And no, 552 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 7: I don't have any financial. 553 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: No, that's fine, that's fine. And I don't have a piano, 554 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 1: so I wouldn't have knowne that. I really didn't know that. 555 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,320 Speaker 1: But I do know that, you know, kind of along 556 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: those same lines, you know, too much humidity or not 557 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:05,240 Speaker 1: enough humidity, even in our homes causes problems with wood floors, 558 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: with furniture, with all kinds of things. And we can 559 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 1: see it taking place right now, that squeaky floor from 560 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,359 Speaker 1: the fell in Boston may be related just to the 561 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 1: time of year and the you know, drying out of 562 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: the house. So it's critical that we work with humidity 563 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 1: inside our homes, right. 564 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 7: And this system has a humidifier and a dehumidifier and 565 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 7: a humanist stat which makes humidity because and then an 566 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 7: easy way to you know, fill the water without having 567 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,239 Speaker 7: to open the whole piano upon and a light that 568 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 7: tells you if it needs more water. 569 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:51,480 Speaker 1: Nice. 570 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 7: So anyway, they've they've worked very well. I've been a 571 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 7: piano technician for fifty years. This is my fiftieth year, 572 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 7: and so I thank you. I put a lot of 573 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 7: these in and I wrote a course to teach people 574 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 7: to tune in. One of the important sections for piano 575 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 7: technicians to learn is you know when a piano should 576 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 7: have one of these. People in Hawaii, for example, don't 577 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 7: need the humidifier part. They just need the dehumidifier and 578 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 7: the ministat. And anyway, I just thought, I'd no. 579 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: That's fascinating. It's fascinating. I know, I you know, I 580 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 1: don't know anything about tuning pianos, so I do fight 581 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,560 Speaker 1: it fascinating because you know, I talk, I speak a 582 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: lot about humidity, just from the health of the inside 583 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,919 Speaker 1: of the home and you're nuttnet down to a real 584 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: niche part of the home for a lot of people. 585 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,240 Speaker 1: And do most people that have pianos know that exist. 586 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 7: No, and most of them really don't need that. Don't 587 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,360 Speaker 7: need it now. Now, the main thing that causes a 588 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 7: piano to go out of tune despite the fact, I mean, 589 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 7: in addition to the fact that it has forty thousand 590 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,879 Speaker 7: pounds of tension on it, and that's going to make 591 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 7: it go out of tune. It's just like your tires 592 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 7: have thirty five pounds of pressure in them, and even 593 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 7: if they just sit in the driveway, they're still going 594 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 7: to lose some of that tension. Their piano has forty 595 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 7: thousand pounds of tension on it. And it's the changes 596 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 7: in the humidity more than the changes in the temperature 597 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:47,560 Speaker 7: that make a piano go out of tune. Some kinds 598 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 7: of pianos, particularly those made in the sixties, seventies and older, 599 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 7: older uprights, that have what we call salt spruce soundboards, 600 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 7: and solid means solid from the front of the soundboard 601 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 7: to the back of the soundboard. A soundboard is like 602 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 7: a picket fence where all the pickets got slid slid together, 603 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 7: so that piece of wood is solid front to back, 604 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:17,120 Speaker 7: but not. 605 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 5: Solid edge to edge. 606 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 7: But anyway, they can get cracks in them from excessive dryness. However, 607 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 7: in the times of the year, when there's too much humidity, 608 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 7: it can cause the soundboard and the annual rings you 609 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 7: know in wood, the ones that are furthest apart, they 610 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,040 Speaker 7: get crushed so that in the winter when it dries out, 611 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 7: those ones that were crushed can open up and get 612 00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 7: cracks in them. Most boards today, not all, most, for 613 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:07,319 Speaker 7: many are made with what we call laminated soundboard, where 614 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 7: it has you know, like plywood, one layer going one 615 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 7: way or another layer and then a third layer, and 616 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:15,839 Speaker 7: those aren't going to crack. 617 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 1: They never study. 618 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:24,359 Speaker 7: Sure, yeah, but there's other parts of the piano as well, 619 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:31,239 Speaker 7: case parts and stuff that sometimes will stick and make 620 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 7: it hard for me to get the front off the 621 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:41,320 Speaker 7: piano because the ends have the sides of the pieces 622 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,719 Speaker 7: have spread out side to side, and so it's kind 623 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,200 Speaker 7: of in pinch. So sometimes test a struggle taking those 624 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,720 Speaker 7: parts off. My clients are watching me thinking I don't 625 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,560 Speaker 7: know what I'm doing. 626 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,959 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So really I question if a 627 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:04,360 Speaker 1: homeowner does a good job of just controlling the humidity 628 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,800 Speaker 1: in their home. Is that helpful? 629 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 7: It is helpful. And I have, for example, as Steinley 630 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 7: Grand piano, which has a solid spruce soundboard and not 631 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,799 Speaker 7: a crack in it. It's twenty five years old, not 632 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 7: a crack in it. I have a humidity control system 633 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:29,279 Speaker 7: in my whole house, okay, you know what, And I 634 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 7: have that service twice a year, and they changed the 635 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,920 Speaker 7: cylinger in it. 636 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 5: And. 637 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,560 Speaker 7: I keep my humidity in my house at around thirty 638 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,279 Speaker 7: eight forty. Yeah, and I love it. 639 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's perfect. Well, it's nice to know there's somebody 640 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,960 Speaker 1: that's as concerned about humidity in their house as I am. So, Randy, 641 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,000 Speaker 1: thank you for the education. I certainly appreciate it. Thank 642 00:42:55,040 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 1: you very much. All Right. Yeah, that's that's that's niched down. 643 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,000 Speaker 1: I get that. But kind of what he's talking about 644 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,800 Speaker 1: is the same kind of things that I talk about, 645 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,839 Speaker 1: and I might take it, you know, to a much 646 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,640 Speaker 1: greater degree in terms of out of control humidity inside 647 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:21,640 Speaker 1: a home. When I'm talking about mildew and smelling mold. Yeah, 648 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,279 Speaker 1: well that's really goofing up Randy's piano for sure. All right. 649 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,120 Speaker 1: Uh Wilson Don You are one and two. If you'd 650 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,600 Speaker 1: like to join us, please do. 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