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Speaker 1: All right, the weekends upon us. Welcome aboard. You are

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Speaker 1: at home with Gary Salvin live and in studio that

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Speaker 1: clean up the pieces from a couple of holidays. Why

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Speaker 1: not let me give you the phone number, happy to

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Speaker 1: take your calls regarding your home projects or maybe a

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just time to get up and moving. I

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Speaker 1: now we can kind of slowly edge back into life.

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Speaker 1: What do you say? All right, here's our phone number.

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Speaker 1: It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.

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Speaker 1: One of the things we'll all be talking about this

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Speaker 1: week is New Year's even making resolutions and all that

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Speaker 1: do you have your manual? You know, we get it

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Speaker 1: a lot. I'm not an appliance repair person by any

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Speaker 1: ask different questions and I always go, like, what do

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Speaker 1: make that a resolution. You can just save yourself so

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Speaker 1: You can probably find it online pretty easily, and that

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Speaker 1: might be another option for you also, so you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd put that as my other list for sure. And

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Speaker 1: then of course, when I implore you to do a lot

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Speaker 1: and we'll continue in the next year, which by the way,

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Speaker 1: will be our fortieth year of doing this show, and

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Speaker 1: that will be to take a walk around the house.

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Speaker 1: And I know I chat about that a lot, but

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Speaker 1: it absolutely still amazes me the things you find. And

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Speaker 1: you start doing that, you'll find something that doesn't look

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Speaker 1: In other words, if you've seen, you know, a metal

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Speaker 1: Or a wood door jam and the paint's peeling off

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Speaker 1: it and you put your fingernail against that wood and

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Speaker 1: that wood is soft, that doesn't look right, doesn't feel right,

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Speaker 1: Or the facia board, which I'm always talking about the

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Speaker 1: is it in line or how can we trim that up?

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Speaker 3: London plane. And it's what that is. It's a sycamore tree,

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Speaker 3: No river birch. I leave those up to your neighbors.

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Speaker 1: A lot of branches down this year?

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Speaker 1: And I like that because I need another job to

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Speaker 3: And you could pay your grandkids a penny apiece for

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Speaker 1: They were all here, boy, but.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're getting older now.

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Speaker 3: That the penny and the dimes don't work anymore.

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Speaker 1: Sure, Hey, I you mentioned planning a tree. Do balton

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Speaker 3: two days back into the garage plant it, yea. And

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Speaker 3: I have never had the ground in our area Gary

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Speaker 5: Welcome, Thank you Gary, good morning, and he had the

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Speaker 5: second chance here. So what ended up happening was they

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Speaker 5: in doing the resaying I had the old style nineteen sixties,

433
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Speaker 5: the built the house was built in nineteen fifty six,

434
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Speaker 5: the wooden doors with no tracks, everything was pull up. Well,

435
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Speaker 5: they ended up put They ended up putting those easy

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Speaker 5: glide doors in and shortened the drawers and some of

437
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Speaker 5: the cabinets underneath. So and so, and I was home

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Speaker 5: for every part of it except the terror out. I

439
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Speaker 5: was actually in the other room and I asked the contractor,

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Speaker 5: I said, please let me know before you're going to

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Speaker 5: hang the doors, because I wanted to see what they

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Speaker 5: look like. Never said anything until it was done. So

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Speaker 5: at that point I said, you know what I said,

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go ahead and stop the project. Just

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Speaker 5: go ahead and don't finish it, and I'll I will

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Speaker 5: find somebody else. Gary. Dat was two and a half

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Speaker 5: years ago. Jeez, I am yeah, I have they did

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Speaker 5: the whole tear out. I've been living. I've been cooking

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Speaker 5: in the basement. I have no kitchen sink. I had

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Speaker 5: the nineteen sixties style gas cook top, which dad has

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Speaker 5: been gone. The only thing I managed to keep was

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Speaker 5: the counter stops, so I am able to do things

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Speaker 5: on the countertops fine, and cooking in the basement and

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Speaker 5: from the dishes in the stationary job. So, if you

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Speaker 5: have any advice for me. The company was five star

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Speaker 5: rated Better Business Bureau.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sometimes I mean I hear you. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know it sounds like you did your due diligence. You

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Speaker 1: had the connection with the contractor. What went sideways who knows.

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Speaker 1: In a flash star rating you can't beat you know what,

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Speaker 1: was it a one man band or did he have

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Speaker 1: subcontractors in there?

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Speaker 5: He Yeah, he was the owner, sole owner of the company.

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Speaker 5: And he had a subcontractor, a son, the father and

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Speaker 5: son team with another helper with another help He was

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Speaker 5: the owner of the company. Yeah, I think a friend

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Speaker 5: of the sun. He was the owner. I saw good

468
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Speaker 5: about him. I thought, this is the contractor for me.

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Speaker 5: I have other jobs lined up well. And then everything

470
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Speaker 5: went in.

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Speaker 1: The toilet, so did they? So when you stopped the job,

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Speaker 1: how did the money shake out?

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Speaker 5: Well? I paid half of the cost up front, and

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Speaker 5: the one thing that I should have you should have

475
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Speaker 5: kicked in to the bad feeling, was that they wanted

476
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Speaker 5: half of the money in cash, right, Yeah, And I

477
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Speaker 5: was always told, yeah, that's.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of a red flag. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, in fifty percent, I mean, you probably wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have had to put that much upfront. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean every contractor is a little different. They have needs,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it depends on if they're small companies,

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Speaker 1: they're probably gonna want a little bit more money than

484
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Speaker 1: twenty percent up front. But yeah, yeah, so so where

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Speaker 1: are you going from here? What's your plan?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know what, I ended up doing the cabinet refacing.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what your probably have experience with it.

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Speaker 5: It's just what I didn't like the look of it.

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Speaker 5: So I tore it out, and I tore it out.

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Speaker 5: I pulled all the boards out, all the extra boards

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Speaker 5: that they put to shorten up the cupboards. I pulled

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Speaker 5: all those you know, easy guide doors out of there.

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Speaker 5: So now you know what I'm thinking. I took all

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Speaker 5: the carver doors off. I'm going to donate them. I

495
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Speaker 5: really like the open look. So you know what I think.

496
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Speaker 5: I think I'm just going to go get some glass doors.

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Speaker 5: I really would like new countertops. I don't have a say, sink,

498
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Speaker 5: and I'm keeping the cooked tabs. So basically all I

499
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Speaker 5: need is somebody to install things. Everything's already torn out.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think you can't let that particular

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Speaker 1: issue trouble you. It happened, it's gone, you did your

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Speaker 1: due diligence. Certainly, I would get back to the you know,

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Speaker 1: proper amounts deposited in I'd like to give twenty percent,

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Speaker 1: and then if we want incremental payouts depending on how

505
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: much work is done. You can even go to your

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Speaker 1: better Business Bureau in the Cleveland market and now have

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Speaker 1: recommendations of what you should be putting down. And then

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Speaker 1: I would, you know, I'd probably go to like an

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Speaker 1: Angie's List something along those lines. It's not called I

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Speaker 1: think it's just called Angie's Now. And you know, I

511
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Speaker 1: mean you're going to start the process over again. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know you're going to explain not what happened, but

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Speaker 1: what you want and you're gonna have to start the

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Speaker 1: process over again. I don't I don't think you really

515
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Speaker 1: did anything horrible. You know, you thought you made the

516
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Speaker 1: right decision. And you know who doesn't in their lifetime

517
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Speaker 1: get burned every now and then. It can happen to anybody.

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Speaker 1: We can certainly take the you know, safeguards not to

519
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Speaker 1: let it happen, but I wouldn't beat myself up about it.

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Speaker 1: I'd move forward and get somebody to do it. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of good contractors out there that you'd never

522
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Speaker 1: have a problem that would go above and beyond the call.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you felt good about everything, but it

524
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Speaker 1: didn't work out, and you know, so that's what happens sometimes.

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Speaker 1: But to get to get an idea. I would check

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Speaker 1: on Angel's. They also have ratings given by the people

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Speaker 1: that have done work form similar to your five star.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean it's not full proof, but right, yeah, certainly

529
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Speaker 1: that's what I would do to start that process over.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, in this better this company had one and forty

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Speaker 5: seven stellar rates. Now one person that had anything negative

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Speaker 5: about this company. As the owner said, you know, I've

533
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Speaker 5: been doing this for thirty years. I've never walked away

534
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Speaker 5: from a job in the whole time I've been in

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Speaker 5: the business. I thought, well, I'm the one in thirty

536
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Speaker 5: years that you're going to walk away from it. You

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Speaker 5: have an Is there anybody that you personally would recommend.

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Speaker 5: I'm in the Cleveland areas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not offhand. I know I'm in the Cincinnati market,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we have a one of the really

541
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Speaker 1: neat things and it's a sponsor of the local show.

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Speaker 1: It's called Three Day Kitchen in Bath. The thing I

543
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: like about this company, it's pretty cool and it's a franchise.

544
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Speaker 1: So you may have one in the Cleveland market against

545
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Speaker 1: Three Day Kitchen in Bath. But they'll come in and

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Speaker 1: they'll do they'll sit down and do the design with you,

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Speaker 1: so that it's one person accountability. They do this design.

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Speaker 1: When you're all finished with everything and you pick out everything,

549
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Speaker 1: you do sign off on the whole deal, and then

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Speaker 1: they actually put you up in a motel or a

551
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Speaker 1: hotel and they come in and in three days they

552
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Speaker 1: do the whole project. So they don't start anything until

553
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Speaker 1: they have every piece in the warehouse and ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And I always like that concept because you know, you've

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Speaker 1: designed mind it together, you've uh, you've you've picked it

556
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Speaker 1: out together. They have a mobile show room and you

557
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: can when it all comes in you can look at

558
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Speaker 1: it then too, and then it's just three days in bam,

559
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Speaker 1: you know it done out of your way. Always like

560
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Speaker 1: that for yours. What you might want to do is

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Speaker 1: go to a you know, maybe not a big box store,

562
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: but maybe a hardware store or a individual lumberyard or

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Speaker 1: something in the Cleveland area and ask them about some

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Speaker 1: contractors that they feel are you know, do good business

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Speaker 1: with them and aren't seem to be highly rated and

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Speaker 1: start that process with them. All right, Happy to you, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Take care you know that that that those things,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a marriage, right. Sometimes those don't

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Speaker 1: work out either. It seemed all right, but it didn't

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Speaker 1: work out. And you know, IM not gonna just drag

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Speaker 1: everybody down, but protect yourself the best you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I think the half down I've not I've come

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all messed up, you know. I'm it's like

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Speaker 1: an off day today. Everybody's kind of still kind of

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Speaker 1: Me too, but let's get those motors going. So one

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Speaker 1: of the things today I'd like to talk about, and

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Speaker 1: we talk about it often. We talk about our homes

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Speaker 1: being too dry, too wet, We talk about it being uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: We talk about moisture invading the basement areas and mold

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Speaker 1: and all that, and I'd like to kind of get

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Speaker 1: your take on that. And one of the things is

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Speaker 1: do you have a humidifier in your house? And if

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Speaker 1: you do have a humidifier in your house, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking about the little portable one that blows steam

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Speaker 1: in the air, which are nice, nothing wrong with that,

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Speaker 1: But I'm talking about a whole house humidifier. It's it's

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Speaker 1: usually installed on the furnace stuff quirk. And I'm curious

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Speaker 1: how if you're satisfied with that, can you control the

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Speaker 1: humidity levels in your home or is it still way

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Speaker 1: too dry or is it too wet and the windows

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Speaker 1: are sweating? And how do you control that? And then

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Speaker 1: what basis is it automatic? Do you have to turn

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Speaker 1: it on? And your humidity course fluctuates during the wintertime

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Speaker 1: depending on what the outdoor temperature is. And right now

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Speaker 1: we're about, oh, I don't know, ten to fifteen degrees

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Speaker 1: above normal, so it's more humid outside and more humid

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Speaker 1: inside than it normally is than just two weeks ago

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Speaker 1: when it was freezing cold. It is near zero and snowing.

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Speaker 1: So I'm asking you, is where is your home comfortable?

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Speaker 1: In other words, with the heat? That's one thing, and

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Speaker 1: a lot depends on where your thermostat is set, but

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Speaker 1: also where the humidity level is set, and do you

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Speaker 1: know where that humidity level is set? So that's one

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Speaker 1: thing I'd like to ask. The other thing I'd like

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Speaker 1: to ask is in the basement. Does that seem a

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Speaker 1: little bit more wet and humid than the rest of

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Speaker 1: the house. And is there signs that you could have

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Speaker 1: some mold or even mildew growth in that basement. Does

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Speaker 1: it have that basementy smell odor, that stagnant odor, and

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Speaker 1: what are you doing about that if anything? Also, do

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Speaker 1: you see efflorescence? Efflorescence is a white, chalky residue that

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Speaker 1: you'll usually see on concrete foundation or block foundations, and

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Speaker 1: that indicates a presence of more oyster that is reacting

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Speaker 1: with the lime and the salts inside the concrete, which

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Speaker 1: is causing efflorescence to grow just because of the stamp

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Speaker 1: all the time. So I'd like to hear your input

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Speaker 1: on that. Paul, Welcome, Hi Gary, How you doing doing fine?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Hi Gary, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Hey.

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Speaker 6: Just on the humidifier comment, we do have one. It's

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Speaker 6: a whole house and I have to manually adjust it.

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Speaker 6: But we've been in the house five years. I've only

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Speaker 6: used it the last couple of years. I never bothered

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Speaker 6: to even use it before, and I don't know if

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Speaker 6: it's a mental thing. I think I notice the difference

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Speaker 6: in the house in terms of moisture content, Things like

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Speaker 6: that we haven't had any issues with it, but I'm

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Speaker 6: pretty conscious of adjusting it now. My question, and I

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Speaker 6: was going to call you before, what's the best way

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Speaker 6: to clean the filter on that thing, because actually I

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Speaker 6: need to do it this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's not really a filter, it's more of

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Speaker 1: a media. So it's a I don't know, ten by ten,

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Speaker 1: twelve by twelve something like that steel frame about two

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Speaker 1: inches thick, and the water goes over that pall and

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Speaker 1: saturates the media in there to help distribute the moisture.

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Speaker 1: And it really should be replaced every year, to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, especially if it's used all the time. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: what happens is it calcifies from the hard water deposits

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Speaker 1: and that little filter humidity pad becomes like a rock

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't absorb the water, and then your humidification

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Speaker 1: drops significantly. And that was one of the reasons why

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Speaker 1: I was proposing that problem, because if people are doing

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Speaker 1: those adjustments like you've been doing those adjustments and they're

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Speaker 1: not getting any increased humidity, that pad has probably not

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Speaker 1: been replaced.

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Speaker 6: All right, hop it out and put a new one.

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Speaker 1: In there, Yes, sir, Pretty simple to do too. So

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Speaker 1: you should have no problem at all with it. Thank

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Speaker 1: you much for the call. If you'd like to join us,

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