Speaker 1: Gary Sullivan and me little Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
Speaker 1: Gary Sullivan, you're old enough to know Smokey Robinson, right,
Speaker 1: I am. Absolutely, it's good stuff. Dandy Gleason picked that
Speaker 1: just for you.
Speaker 2: Gary oh Man.
Speaker 1: He's great and he is the producer, of course, of
Speaker 1: your show, which is syndicated to nearly three hundred stations
Speaker 1: around America.
Speaker 2: I mean, you are a big leaguer.
Speaker 1: And this is a segment where I love feeling dumb
Speaker 1: because you come on with us every Thursday at this time,
Speaker 1: and we talked about different things you can do around
Speaker 1: your house, whether it's in preparation of summer, winter, whatever.
Speaker 2: The case may be. But here's one that's a big one.
Speaker 1: Today we're really getting into something that I am fascinated
Speaker 1: to hear you tell us about the holidays. Roughly about
Speaker 1: six weeks away Thanksgiving, and people are thinking about maybe
Speaker 1: freshening up that kitchen. Now, my wife and I had
Speaker 1: somebody come in and we have a beautiful home. We're
Speaker 1: very blessed to have it. The oldest part of our
Speaker 1: home which we've not done something to is the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It's an incredibly efficient, conditioned kitchen. It's a great kitchen,
Speaker 1: but it's an older kitchen, right, all right, So you're
Speaker 1: telling me that you can give a kitchen like that
Speaker 1: maybe a little face left without spending a ton of cash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you want to have a brand
Speaker 3: new looking kitchen for the holidays, you're probably not going
Speaker 3: to make it at this point, and not everybody's budget.
Speaker 3: I was reading some statistics without doing many structural changes
Speaker 3: in a kitchen, that kitchen redo can go between twenty
Speaker 3: and forty thousand dollars. Yeah, you start, you know, an
Speaker 3: older kitchen, less covered space and pantries maybe, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot more structural changes that need to be made,
Speaker 3: you can be up in the sixty thousand dollars range.
Speaker 3: So what I'm thinking is a lot of people just
Speaker 3: don't have forty fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And we were in that sixty thousand dollars rant, and
Speaker 1: you know, everybody, it's kind of like keeping up with
Speaker 1: the Joneses a lot of time, right, you know, your
Speaker 1: cabinets maybe like hours. You know it's a foot foot
Speaker 1: and a half from the ceiling. Now everybody wants the
Speaker 1: cabinet to go all the way to the ceiling. I
Speaker 1: don't know how they get anything out of there. Uh,
Speaker 1: if the ceiling's high enough and they want to do
Speaker 1: this and do that. Okay, anyway, let's start with countertop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, isn't it all about the
Speaker 3: countertops or the cabinets one of the other. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: and so one of the things. So this is just
Speaker 3: the spruce up. Maybe we're gonna do a two thousand
Speaker 3: dollars just give it a fresher look. We're not doing
Speaker 3: any structural changes, no traffic flow changes. We're just gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, give it a little more sex opeace. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna look at those countertops. Say, I haven't got
Speaker 3: five six thousand dollars to put in granted countertops, so
Speaker 3: what can I do? Well, you don't have to replace them.
Speaker 3: You can actually resurface an old laminate countertop. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So I got that pink laminate countertop and you go, no, baby, no,
Speaker 3: that's not work going to hitch it anymore. There's a
Speaker 3: product out there. It's actually very cool. They have products.
Speaker 3: I should say. You can take that lambin countertop. You
Speaker 3: can make it look like marble, you can make it
Speaker 3: look like granite. You don't have to be an artist.
Speaker 3: You can make it look like Corey in. You can
Speaker 3: probably do that over a weekend Tom and there might
Speaker 3: be uh, you know, an hour here, an hour here,
Speaker 3: an hour here, and then the next day an hour here,
Speaker 3: in an hour and you're done. So you might want
Speaker 3: to check this out. It's really cool. It's it's made
Speaker 3: of stone. It's a an acrylic resident and stone that's
Speaker 3: applied with a roller over countertops.
Speaker 2: No rolling. Wow, it's very cool.
Speaker 3: So let me just walk you through the process of it,
Speaker 3: because it really is a game changer. The name of
Speaker 3: the company is Dice Coatings Dai c H Coatings, And
Speaker 3: I found this product about twenty years ago and I
Speaker 3: loved it, and now it just keeps growing and growing.
Speaker 3: So what you do is you it comes in a kit.
Speaker 3: You got a sanding sponge, so you scratch up the countertop,
Speaker 3: just lightly give it, you know, just a little bite,
Speaker 3: put on a primer with a roller, and then come
Speaker 3: back with this stone coating. It's amazing. If you if
Speaker 3: you can put paint on a wall, you can do
Speaker 3: it to your countertop. It's hitting and so you put
Speaker 3: a coat, you let it dry, you come back you
Speaker 3: put a second coat, you let it dry, you take
Speaker 3: that sanding sponge, scratch it up again, and there's since
Speaker 3: there's stone in there, you get a little bling, all right,
Speaker 3: So it starts looking pretty cool, just like granted. And
Speaker 3: at that point you're putting on a ceiler. You might
Speaker 3: have to seal that once every five years. You probably
Speaker 3: get fifteen years worth of life. Probably do that for
Speaker 3: two three, four hundred dollars. Maybe it depends on how
Speaker 3: big the countertop is. But what a great way to
Speaker 3: give those countertops new life.
Speaker 1: Right, no kidding, kid, that's great stuff. Okay, Now let's
Speaker 1: get to the floor. Yeah, okay, maybe it's a little
Speaker 1: beat up, a little tired. Whether it's a wood, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a tile. What do you do here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even if it's the old asbestos tile, you know,
Speaker 3: and you start talking to people about removing that, you've
Speaker 3: got an expensive project going on. So there's products out
Speaker 3: there now, they've been around maybe fifteen years now. LVT
Speaker 3: and LVP it stands for Luxury vinyl tile and Luxury
Speaker 3: vinyl plank. And then of course we all know about
Speaker 3: the lambined flooring, the purgo if you will, those tiles
Speaker 3: that I just mentioned can literally go over anything. It
Speaker 3: can go over ceramic, it can go over the asbestos
Speaker 3: tile and encapsulate it. It can go over vinyl, so
Speaker 3: you eliminate all that labor. And man, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: The first time I saw LVT was probably fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: I was standing on it.
Speaker 2: I thought I was standing on wood. No kidding.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful, beautiful stuff. It's really caught on the last
Speaker 3: fifteen years. It's probably the hottest flooring products out there
Speaker 3: right now. But take and investigate the LVT again. We
Speaker 3: change the countertops, you change the floor and then take
Speaker 3: a look at that old Tiffany lamp over the kitchen table.
Speaker 3: You might want to update that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's not only some lighting fixtures, but
Speaker 1: you can do, you know, sort of change your lighting entirely,
Speaker 1: whether it's in recess lighting, whatever it might be, without
Speaker 1: spending a ton of money.
Speaker 2: And man, what a difference it can make.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you got that rope lighting, you got that under
Speaker 3: the counter lighting. We had some can lights. I just
Speaker 3: changed all those out where you can actually change the
Speaker 3: Kelvin units, which is the brightness and the color. Yep,
Speaker 3: And man, you can go from soft white to daylight
Speaker 3: to warm white with and I change them seasonally from summer.
Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't really want to really
Speaker 3: bright bright light, so I do a warm white in
Speaker 3: the winter time just to kind of give you a
Speaker 3: cozy feel. But lighting is you can do.
Speaker 2: So many, no doubt about it. And then last, but
Speaker 2: not least, painting, painting.
Speaker 1: We just now you know, we decided to go, okay,
Speaker 1: what's something we can dumb this down a little bit
Speaker 1: from a price standpoint, and we painted it.
Speaker 2: And what a difference it makes.
Speaker 3: Sure sure, in the quality of paints. I think we
Speaker 3: talked about this a few weeks ago. You get that
Speaker 3: swayed look very warm, very inviting. I don't care whether
Speaker 3: you go dark colors or you're having a really you know,
Speaker 3: bright white type kitchen area. The textures and the just
Speaker 3: the tone of the paints and maybe a flat is
Speaker 3: a little bit more inviting versus an old semi gloss.
Speaker 3: And if you use those self priming paints, now, Tom,
Speaker 3: you scratch up the paint on the wall and wipe
Speaker 3: it down and you're ready to go. Man, no primer.
Speaker 3: The primer's in the paint, and it'll do a great
Speaker 3: job for you.
Speaker 1: The other and I left out one thing that that
Speaker 1: again we have. We didn't change them out, but I
Speaker 1: could certainly see where people might think about changing them out,
Speaker 1: especially if they have a lot of age to them.
Speaker 1: Are blinds if you have them in your kitchen, right.
Speaker 3: Just take a look at some blinds as you go
Speaker 3: visit friends. There are some ugly, ugly you know.
Speaker 2: In our house. You can start there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and seriously, I mean you know, if you got
Speaker 3: a kitchen it's got two three windows in it or
Speaker 3: a door or something. Uh, and you got those old
Speaker 3: mini blinds on her, I mean, get rid of them.
Speaker 3: Get get a nice custom bind blind. They're not cheap,
Speaker 3: but it's as important as the flooring. It is as
Speaker 3: important as the redoing the countertops or replacing the countertops.
Speaker 3: It'll it really adds to the wow factor. So those
Speaker 3: many blinds, dump them. Man, even that cabinet hardware. If
Speaker 3: you're not going to change out the cabinets, Tom, maybe
Speaker 3: you're not gonna paint the cabinet, you can clean them
Speaker 3: up and get that dull look grime off the surface
Speaker 3: and change the hardware. And another it's a big wow factor.
Speaker 1: So I mean, you tie a ribbon around this whole thing,
Speaker 1: and the bottom line is is okay, maybe you can't
Speaker 1: do all of this yourself. I mean maybe it sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot of it you can. But if you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, you find somebody handy man. Whatever it might
Speaker 1: be that you pay a few bucks to come in,
Speaker 1: but you're not spending the thirty, the forty, the fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on your kitchen. You don't have to, right,
Speaker 1: and you don't even have to do everything that we
Speaker 1: just talked about.
Speaker 3: Like I said, the first thing most people will see
Speaker 3: is you said cabinets or what countertops? So if you
Speaker 3: just want to sprust it up for the holidays, give
Speaker 3: it a new look. I mean, we're down the six weeks.
Speaker 3: I find that hard to believe. But it's coming like
Speaker 3: a freight train and now's a great time. We got
Speaker 3: good weather. Tackle one of those projects. You don't have
Speaker 3: to do them all, but take a look at the
Speaker 3: floor of the countertops and the cabinet tree.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this before I let you go,
Speaker 1: because I'm just curious in hearing you talk about some
Speaker 1: of the countertops that folks might have. Let's say you
Speaker 1: already have a granite countertop right now. You can't apply
Speaker 1: those kinds of products that you were talking about to
Speaker 1: a granite countertop.
Speaker 3: Came you can clame the wood in for mica. You
Speaker 3: probably could apply it to granted, because I know it
Speaker 3: will also stick to concrete, but I don't think you'd
Speaker 3: really want to do that. I will say though, with
Speaker 3: the holidays coming, if you haven't sealed the granite countertop
Speaker 3: for a while, just take a teaspoon a dollup of water,
Speaker 3: pour it on the granite countertop, give it forty seconds.
Speaker 3: If it starts soaking in, seal the granite countertop. If
Speaker 3: it doesn't, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well this is great stuff because I
Speaker 1: you know, look, this is one of those and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, Gary, you and I have
Speaker 1: talked about this specific topic many, many times. A lot
Speaker 1: of us are reluctant to think about pouring some money
Speaker 1: into our home. Sure, but for almost all of us,
Speaker 1: it's the largest single investment that you have in your
Speaker 1: in your life right and redoing your kitchen in some
Speaker 1: form or fashion, I'm told that that gives you the
Speaker 1: best chance on resale.
Speaker 3: It gives about an eighty five percent return. You know
Speaker 3: what's a hundred percent return?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: You're gonna die? What a garage door?
Speaker 2: You're kidding me.
Speaker 3: It's a garage door and entry doors return about one
Speaker 3: hundred percent.
Speaker 1: No kidding, Yeah, I would never guess. I wonder why,
Speaker 1: I mean, am I just dumb not understand?
Speaker 3: Well, when you think about it, and especially in track housing,
Speaker 3: a third of the front of your house is the
Speaker 3: garage door. And they've got some really sharp we'll talk
Speaker 3: about those sometimes. I mean, they got all glass garage doores.
Speaker 3: I don't know why anybode what one, but they got
Speaker 3: those ones that look like carriage doors, which would be
Speaker 3: great in your neighborhood. So there's there's designs in garage doors.
Speaker 3: And seriously, and the insulation quality and the return is outstanding.
Speaker 1: Don't don't give my wife any idea. She's on her
Speaker 1: way to work right now, Gary and she's listening to this.
Speaker 1: So thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: Well, I think Tom, you could use a little pressure
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the best man. Great having you with us.
Speaker 1: Hope you have a great weekend. But hey, you do
Speaker 1: say you'll be over on fifty five KRC of course
Speaker 1: nine to noon on both Saturday and Sunday, and Gary
Speaker 1: Sullivan syndicated over two hundred and seventy five stations nationwide. Okay,
Speaker 1: the biggest topic of the day by far is traffic.
Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram, what is the very latest, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of people are stuck in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 4: People have needed extra time this morning, and there's not
Speaker 4: a whole lot of change to deal with. On northbound
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Speaker 4: We're not seeing a whole lot of delay, Sorry, I
Speaker 4: should say a whole lot of change in the delays
Speaker 4: on the eastbound two seventy five, which is heavy from
Speaker 4: before Dixie towards Taylor Mill North found four to seventy
Speaker 4: one pretty much full from two seventy five into town
Speaker 4: as folks look for alternatives. So is westbound two seventy
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Speaker 4: from Petersburg trying to get across that bridge southbound. Seventy
Speaker 4: one Cruis are also working with an accident near Montgomery
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