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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, so weekend, Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvan.
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(00:55):
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All right, you got the phone number, grab a line,
we got a spot for you. We're going to Joe Joe. Welcome. Hey,
how you doing Gary, Yes, sir, fine.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hey, I got a kind of a strange issue. What
I did was I purchased a condominium down in Jacksonville, Florida,
mainly for when I retire in a few years. But
what I'm doing now is I'm renting it out, okay
on that vrbo or verbo. And it came with staying
I didn't want to invest a lot of money in
this place until I moved into it. It has stainless
(01:36):
still appliances throughout the whole thing. What's happening. I pay
a cleaning service in the last couple times or maybe
I don't know. Two of the last five times I've
had people give reviews, they said that the appliances look dirty. Okay,
So what I did is I contact I can't fly
down it. I contacted the cleaning service. It says, hey,
if you've got something better to use, you use it.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We use this.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I forget what type of wax they put on the staying.
Let's say, use some sort of paste. I don't know
what I think you waxed on. Take it off, and
the people say it looks like there's like fingerprints and
stuff all over it. And I can't handle these reviews
being like that. Not that I care because eventually I'm
going to move into the place, but what they said,
if I bought the products, send it down to them.
(02:19):
If I had something I liked better, had them pick
up something better. But they use what they use. So
do you have any suggestions of something to keep the
fingerprints off or or make it look better, because.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know, it's a common problem. I mean, to be
honest with you, I mean it's a it's a common
problem stainless steel, you know, and it it has fingerprints.
I've talked about a product and it's called MILLSIIC M
I L S E K. They have a stainless steel cleaner,
(02:53):
and that's probably my favorite. I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you it's not going to show fingerprint though,
it's going to clean it. It's kind of an oil
that that it's made of. So you clean it, the
oil stays on. I mean it stays clean for a
week or so. Which is you know, I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Probably that am I L S E Kid.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is that the same as the wood company.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It is the same as the wood company, and they
make a stainless.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Steel Okay, okay, awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
What are they using I mean you said they say that.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They well they say they didn't say it was a wax.
But the girl I actually talked to the girl that
actually does the clean and she says, well, we wipe
it on and then we wipe it off like and
it's it's like it's like dryes on like a No.
I've seen sprays, you know, I've seen spray cleaners. I
don't know stainless. I just I don't have the time
for that, but they I have. I know that that
(03:57):
name that you said, I've heard of their wood product stuff,
and I heard they're very good, so I mean I
can just send them, Yeah, send them that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And see if it helps. If you know, I mean
I think we've even just we've used that product periodically
and not say fairly regularly. I've also seen my wife
tissues a glass cleaner on it, like the Jaws glass cleaner. So,
I you know, the stainless steel does show the fingerprints,
(04:24):
but the millsiics. I like the mill sick one. Uh
okay for a longer steak clean because it leaves a
little bit of an oil residue which protects it from
getting fingerprints on it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, well, you know what I'll do. I'll get a
bottle or two of them. I'll just send it down
to them and say try that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, give this one.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Isn't that When I retire, I'm gonna get rid of
all that stingless still, hopefully if I can afford it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They've tried different things they have it where there's different
brushed ones that don't leave the fingerprints, but that smooth one.
I just got a ge Cafe refrigerator. It's so smooth
and it shows fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do Okay, Well, hey, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, let me know if that solves the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Sure, well, thanks very, have a great.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You bet, take care bye bay. All right, and again
it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
If you like to jump on board, do so. Let's
go to Marry Mary.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Welcome good in wine.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes, yes, I have a problem on the east side
of our house with snails and they're leaving traces on
the brick and we have put out there's no moisture
under the house, and we put out snail to help
kill them. But it's still a problem, and I was
(05:46):
wondering is there something we could do?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well? Probably the best thing that I've used for snails
is die Tamacious Earth. And yeah, so you know, and
it comes under names, you know, I don't you know,
snail away or whatever, but it is dietamacious earth. It's
a natural product. It is applied not to the to
a wall or a sidewalk, but it's actually applied to
(06:12):
the soil around the area. Okay, Yeah, and die Tamacious
Earth seems to do a real good job. I've used
it for snails many times around the Hostess and did
things like that, and it did a good job of
eradicating him.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, we use the food grade for our chickens.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, so I'll try that very good.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Give that a track and see if that doesn't happen.
All right, thank you. I want to jump the bill
real quick if we can. Danny, he's got some stainless
steel questions to it. Curious, Yeah, Bill, do you.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Suppose these staining on the stainless steel has changed? Because
the stainless steel that's at a lot of appliances that
out today must be fair speak or have you know
magnetic capability? Because I've got a whole kitchen that was
done with ge profile and couldn't get a Megan on there,
(07:17):
and you can put a Magan on the new microwave.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah yeah, Now, I don't think that's had anything to
do with it. I mean that's my opinion, because you know,
it's nice at the magnet stick. I know exactly what
you're talking about, because my first stainless steel appliance, a
magnet didn't stick. I was going, like, what is going
on here?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But I think it's been a you know, one of
the drawbacks to stainless steel. I think, especially if we
have a lot of kids too is the fingerprints. It
is the fingerprints. Now, I can't say that I've ever
had it where it was overwhelming. I mean, we clean
them once a week, sometimes with like the Jaws glass
(07:59):
tope cleaner sometimes will do the Millsick stainless steel, which
creates a little bit of an oily film on it,
which seems to last longer. But you know, it's certainly
an area that has to be clean periodically. But I
don't think to change in the composition. I think it's
always been kind of a problem.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Oh okay, Well, I just I know for years, many
years you said stainless nothing wants stick to it. That
was magnetic, right, You've all got those phone numbers for hotlines, right, whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And it's interesting you bring that up. It's gonna be
curious because I'm going to go try. I got stainless
steel ge three months ago, and we've now lived without
magnets on a refrigerator for twenty some years. But I'm
going to go try and see if one sticks.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Yeah, you just just never one other question, Yeah, if
I may sure. On housing construction, some years ago, it
seems like a lot of people were using metal studs
for remodeling and in new construction. But we really I
haven't heard that much about it. Is it not taken
(09:15):
off to the extent they thought they would or am
I just well, I think.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's a different instances that you wanted. I mean, I
don't think it's a bad deal to do it, like
if you're doing a basement, but you know, it all
gets into cost construction. And but no, it hasn't lost
its luster.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I would say, Okay, well, since we're talking about luster
on stainleus.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Okay, Well, I'm definitely glad you're there on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Thanks Bill, appreciated. Thanks. All right, let's take a little break.
We'll come back, and we got a caller too, and
if you'd like to join us, you may do so.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and we'll continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan weekends.
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twenty minutes after the top of the air, and we're
talking home improvement. And let's go back to the phones.
If you'd like to grab a line. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five Bill.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Welcome Garry, good afternoon. Always a pleasure of listening to
your show makes my weekend. Hey, I have a follow
up on the previous Gentleman with the stainless steel finished.
I worked in restaurants for fifty years. Here's what I found.
(13:22):
All my appliances and not utensils, but the cabinets and
the refrigerators and everything. We'll all stayless steel. It looks
clean when it's clean. Here's my suggestion. It's very easy.
Un Let's just get grease down like the bottom with
(13:42):
the runners and the rollers and the tracks. I mean
you pick that up with a brillo pad. But for
every day use, and this is what the restaurant used
every day. You spray it down windocks. It's going to
be rinty from the paper towels. It's going to be streaky,
(14:04):
it's going to be circles. It looks like it doesn't
look good. There is a product out there, it's been
out there for years. It's called Sheeler Shine and what
that is. And if you don't have sheiel A Shine,
I'm sure you can go to Walmart, Walgreen, CBS. It
gets some kind of a stainless steel polish spray. They
(14:28):
say it are clean and polish. It doesn't clean. You
got to clean it. Win decks. It doesn't clean it.
That's a lazy way out. But when you spray this on,
you just hit it with paper towels and wipe it smooth.
It's got a glass like finish. Once you start using it,
the next day you can fingerprints all over it. That's
(14:50):
that's just the price you pay for having good stainless steel.
But that stainless steel polish spray, you wipe it day
get rid of the prints. Well evenators affrederators used to
have that problem. Now they have like an eggshell finish
(15:10):
so it hides the fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But it's just basic every day when it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Does depend on the finish, there's no question about it.
And I think the one thing you said that really
makes a lot of sense and it's very true. And
you know this guy's getting uh you know, comments on
his VRBO rental that you know the clients is aren't clean. Well,
what's wrong with the appliance? Well there's fingerprints all over it? Well, right,
(15:37):
you know, maybe they I'm making.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
I'm thinking it's very easy if they're cleaning it every day.
But it's streaked and it is lint and from old fingerprints.
Hit it with that. It's like a FOURD all a
can stainless polish spray. But you got to keep it up,
you know, every every day or two. You got to
(15:59):
keep up.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, that's the key, and that's like so which also
brings you to the point is did the cleaning service
really clean it after the last people that rented it?
Or did the.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
People they probably cleaned it. They cleaned it, but don't
forget a lot of the service cleaners they don't know
about the technology that's here in America. They don't know
about the extra It's like when you do your deck,
I guess you got to seal it. It's the same thing.
So you spray that polish on, you wipe it and
(16:34):
it looks like it looks like it looks like a
million dollars until the next day then you got to
do it over again. So it's a simple. I think
it's a simple fix, to be honest with ya. You
just got to tell these the clean of people here,
here's this product. Afterwards, use that spray.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, well that's what they asked him to do, is
send the product down. And you know, again, I was
talking about the Jaws glass clean which to a streak
free cleaner. It works really good on stainless steel too.
It doesn't have silicon or buttle in it, so it
doesn't leave a residue and it cleans it very nicely.
And again it's something you got to stay up with.
(17:14):
The mill Sick is a cleaner and a protectant and
it leaves just the slightest oily finish on there and
it'll keep fingerprints off for a week. It really will.
It's more of a long term type cleaner and protectant,
and so there's options, but there's something else going on
(17:37):
there too. So appreciate the call bill, Thank you, and
thanks for your input on that. I appreciate it all right,
now let's go Terry. Terry welcome.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Hi. My question is about storage barn we have on
our property. It was made for us, It was still
livered and and set. All we had to do was
have a rock base ready for it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, so it's about.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Fifteen plus years right now. And once we had it,
we put landscaping around it. So this year for the
first time when I was watering our plants, I noticed
that the board that this barn hit sound is deteriorating.
So I don't know what to do about that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, probably going to have to replace that board would
be my guess. Is there a vapor barrier underneath the
gravel base?
Speaker 10 (18:36):
How would I know?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, I guess you could scrape down her and see
if you see a plastic base to it. Is it
sitting So the board is sitting right on the ground correct,
as far as I know, it's probably not pressure treated wood.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, well, I think what you got to do is
I wouldn't worry about trying to patch that board up
if it's sitting on the ground. I would get some
ground contact pressure treated wood and reposition that on that
particular board. And if the sighting is damaged, you're probably
(19:18):
gonna have to cut some of that siding off and
patch it up. I'm guessing it would be like the
T one eleven. And if you have some follow up
questions based on what I just gave you, if you
want to sit on hold, I will get you on
the other side of the break. Then we can delve
into it a little deeper. All right, we will continue
with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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go at Home with Garry Salivan thirty three minutes after
the top of the air and the lady I was
talking to from Wisconsin with the outbuilding. She moved on,
but I want to add a couple of things for
everyone else that may be listening. And I don't know
what kind of sighting. That was one of the questions.
(23:00):
What didn't have enough time to really ask her. But
if you've get a you know, story shed or something
along that lines, where it's delivered, prepping the base and
where it's going to set is really key. And one
of the things I'd asked her was was there a
vapor barrier underneath the gravel? She said, well, how would
(23:22):
I know, Well, you'd have to remove some of the
gravel to see if there is a bed to stop
water vapor from penetrating up maybe stop weed growth. They
make a fabric that can do that, or they can
use plastic which will eventually deteriorate. But if you keep
(23:43):
the moisture in check, obviously we minimize wood rot. Then
I asked her if it was a pressure tree wood
or was it regular wood or what did we set
that on? And wasn't really sure on that. So I
just wanted to add to that pressure tree wood it
should be used. And there's different types of pressure tree wood.
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You would want to use a ground contact pressure treated
wood or use something else to you know, get it
off the ground. A lot of times that sighting is
that T one to eleven is basically plywood that goes
down to the base of that shed and it's it's
(24:27):
rough cut at the bottom of it, and some of it.
In other words, that foundation or that piece of wood
or something that is just like a half inch off
the ground, it's not enough. If you can get four
to six inches of like a foundation to set that on,
you take water really out of play. And we all
(24:48):
know that story. But just a ground moisture can start
rotting that siding. We see it all the time, especially
with T one eleven siding where that first two or
three inches starts swelling, and it starts and people want
to know how to repair that. You're better off just
cutting it out and putting a new uh T one
(25:08):
to eleven siding in that base area and then take
some colcking and smear cocking at the bay bottom of
that siding. You're not going to see it. You're not
going to see that calcking. It'll seal it up, it'll
you know, eliminate ground moisture from going into the siding.
And then with uh you know, maybe a two by
(25:29):
four pressure treated piece of wood to elevate that a
little bit, you would eliminate some of your problems. So
I I, you know, she may not have the ability
to reposition that, but it sounds like long term that
would be something you'd want to do. I don't think
you want to try and patch it. I think you're
going to continue to have the problem. Tom welcome, Hey Tom,
(25:57):
hang on computer stock. Oh the computer stock. It's been
kind of a stucky kind of day today. Okay, Hi Gary,
how are you doing doing good?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Good? I'm talking about this guy with the fingerprints on
the stainless I live in the Youngstown area, and believe
it or not, Mill Sector Is was developed right here
pretty close by. And I was in a large furnisure
furniture store years ago, and I was watching this lady
(26:33):
cleaning all the stainless steel refrigerators and they do a
furniture and appliances. She was cleaning all the stainless steel stoves,
and so I asked her what she used, and she
was using Millsek and not the stainless steel one, just
the regular furniture polish.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well they feel kind of the same, to be honest
with you, I don't know if they are, but.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, you know, and I think after I talked to her,
I tried the regular one and it worked fantastic on everything, right,
And then I bought the stainless steel one, which came
out later, okay, and I don't think it worked as well.
Oh okay, all right, I really don't. And the trick
is you got to rub that in good with the
soft damp cloth, right and let it come to a haze,
(27:24):
and then polish it out like you're waxing a car, right,
And then once a week I go over it, which
is a dry rag and wipe it and it probably
lasts a month or two months before I redo it again.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wow, it really does.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
A nice job, you know. But I used the regular.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
One, okay, so I just I appreciate that input. Yeah,
we used the stainless steel one at home. You know,
I said a week or so. But my point being
is you didn't have to do it every day. I mean,
it was a long term solution to the fingerprints on
stainless steel.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
So yeah, I have a little bit of all kinds
of stainless you know. I got old good stainless the
ge profile, right, and I've got the new ones that
come on the toasters and the coffee pots.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
All right, it works on everything, very good.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
It works great long as you wipe it off once
a week, okay, I mean you don't have to redo
it for a month or two.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Super. Hey, I appreciate that input. Tom, Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir, And again you can get that at
milsig M I L S e K dot com. Let's
go to ron Ron Welcome.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Thank you Gary.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yes, sir, I appreciate you taking my call. I've got
to have several questions for you this morning. Okay, start
out talking about old two bedroom bungalow I'm guessing was
built about nineteen twenty five, give or take five or
ten years. About sixty years ago, there as a bedroom
(29:02):
that was built on to the side of it, and
the original two bedrooms were converted into one long skinning bedroom.
The bedroom that was built on the door on it
does not even come close to matching the original doors.
(29:25):
Is there any place better than a restore to try
to find the door that would look more original?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well? No, probably restores are people that sell used building
materials would be the place. I mean, you know, if
you're looking for old maple flat panel door from the
thirties and forties, that's about the only place you're going
to find it, right.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Okay, Electrical and plumbing, if you were going to make
this into a good, reliable residence, again, shouldn't both of
those original wiring and plumbing be.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Updated?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Well? I think what I would do ron really, when
you started a conversation and we're talking, you know, knowing
you were going to talk about wiring and plumbing, I
think maybe an inspection of that system might be something
you'd want to do, And especially on the wiring, you know,
(30:40):
do you have enough service? Is the system grounded. Is
there you know, GF eyes that should be installed. So
I'd say, you know, hopefully it's not old enough where
you have still the knob and tube wiring, because that
would definitely need upgrading. But yeah, I would have it inspected.
See see if that's the case, I would say it
(31:03):
would be nice to have it upgraded.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Mm hm m hmm.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Question on milsic, M I am I'm blind, and I
was using Milsic on a kitchen cherry yesterday and I
found one spot after everything else was dry and and nice,
that still felt just a little packy. I just went
(31:37):
back on with a little more Milsic on a damp
cloth and scrub that like crazy. Is that probably going
to come out and be like the rest.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Of the Yes, yes it would because of its cleaning action. Also, yes,
it's you know, it's not like a penetrant or anything
along those lines. So it was probably us not you know,
buffed out all the way or wiped out all the way.
If you use a little bit more of than millsick,
what it'll do is it will clean that off and
(32:09):
then just take it in, uh you know, buffet a
little bit more. But yeah, it'll it should get rid
of that tackingess. Or wait a couple of days and
we'll get rid of the attackingess too.
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And uh our phone number if you'd like to jump
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Speaker 3 (36:23):
There.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
All right, let's go to Pat Pat.
Speaker 11 (36:25):
Welcome, Hey Gary, you got a great show. I just
got to tell you, man, I love it. I try
to tune it every time I can.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I got an issue at my office.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I had a water leak.
Speaker 11 (36:35):
I'm a dentist and I have my Camry's kind of
like a mid tone oak, and everything is a swing
out from the right delivery where where where the water
lines were on the halfisess of it kind of like
dripped down and lenked. And so what it did is
it lifted up to grain a little bit on that
mid tone stained oak to dark tomp And what it's
also done is there's like black areas where that water
(36:56):
is set. And this like happened over the weekend. I
came back and I go, oh, man, you know so
now I want to try to figure out the best
way to fix it so it looks halfway decent.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I mean, uh, do is it on a horizontal surface
or a vertical surface.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's a horizontal surface.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (37:16):
What happens is the arm swings out and there's a
cutout in the cabinet and everything goes back in there,
and it's all lined with the oak.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, and it is the part that's got the water
stains oak also correct, Yes, sir, okay. And so the
grain is slightly raised.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
Yeah, the grain is raised. Plus is also like a
like a blackness to it.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I don't even know how to describe it.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know, that's kind of got me buffalo too, so
is the And this happened this weekend, right, I mean.
Speaker 11 (37:53):
It's you know, it's happened probably about two years ago,
and I just get tired of looking at it. And
I mean I cleaned the water up right away, but
it's death.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
For a weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Okay. Okay, you're trying to figure out that.
Speaker 11 (38:07):
Do I put a cleaner on at first to see
if it'll try it?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It's probably yeah, you're probably gonna end up sanding it
down and restaining it, to be honest with you. And
the reason I was asking you how long it? Uh
you know it happened? Uh? Is because when when you
get that water on wood, even if it's a wood
floor for folks listening, if you give it six months,
(38:33):
a lot of that'll just settle and calm down and go,
you know, shrink kind of get back the grain tight.
But it sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and and
it didn't, so you still have raised grain. So that's
going to have to be sanded anyway. And you'll probably well,
(38:57):
let's let me just yeah, I'll get to that in
just a second, because you're whenever you have a water
stain and they do turn black, and whether it's a
mold that's kind of in that wood fiber TiO, or
it's just a reaction with the wood, they turn black
and sometimes you can't sand it out and you actually
(39:21):
have to come in with like a peroxide or a
an oxolic acid like a wood bleach and try and
bleach it out, so you know, it might you know,
and then sometimes you can't get it out. But I
would start with sanding. I'd probably start with how coarse
(39:44):
is it? I mean, would you say it's you know,
raised just a little bit?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's really rough. I feel like I get a splinter
off it.
Speaker 11 (39:53):
No, No, it's raised just a little bit, not too
different for what it was hard to stain just barely Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I'd probably go with like you know, a medium grid
and then to a fine and then to an extra fine.
The medium grid if you're running out, and you probably
use like a little mouse sander or something along those
lines with the grain, and you'll be able to tell
whether you're gonna are you just smoothing the grain or
are we actually taking some of that blackout. And that's
(40:24):
gonna have to be your call. We'll definitely smooth the grain,
going with a medium to a fine to an extra fine.
We'll dress that part up. Whether we get the blackout,
that I don't know. And when we get to that point,
what I would do is you can get a you know,
(40:44):
you can get wood bleach at the hardware store, create
a paste and put that paste over there and see
if you can bleach that out. A lot of people
that do wood floors will use like a twenty percent
solution of peroxide that you can get from like a
beauty slum supplier, because the hydrom peroxide is like three percent,
(41:06):
and you can use that. You can use the twenty
percent peroxide as a bleach and see if you bleach
it out with that. But let's sand it and see
what we got and see if it can be and
maybe you could go to a different color stain. I
don't know. You're just gonna have to see where you're at.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
I'll play with it, Okay, I'll get back to you.
Speaker 9 (41:28):
Let's you know the results.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
All right, sounds great, Thank you much appreciate it. Take care. Yeah,
when the saying in wood floor refinishing business, basically as
you sand and then if it's still not there, well
then you can use either the peroxide or you can
use the exolic acid. And then the third thing is
(41:50):
you call it character or you replace the wood. So
not the game ice hopes up. Just kind of want
to march through the process. Let's go today. Well Dale, welcome,
good morning. How are you doing, sir? Thank you good.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
I heard this business on stainless steel, and I worked
in the stainless steel business for fifty years. One I
heard the one guy say he used brillo.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, I heard that too.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Don't ever use brillo, you know in bed steel, iron
or iron in there will rust.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, it will rust. I heard that too. We had
bigger problems.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Yeah, God. And the other guy with the magnetic business, yeah,
they're they're probably probably now close to one thousand different
kinds of stainless.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Steel, Is that right? Okay?
Speaker 4 (42:50):
Most of the refrigerators and so forth are made of
a four hundred series stainless steel, which is magnetic. Okay,
three hundred series or the old eighteen eight series. It's
not magnetic unless you could work it in other words,
bended a lot that then that area will be magnetic.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Is that right? I had a ge monogram refrigerator for
twenty five years. Just got rid of it, and I
didn't know that, but I knew when I got it
that magnets didn't stick to it, and I just replaced
it with a stainless steel. And I've learned to live
without magnets on my refrigerator. But I'm curious now to
see if that does stick on the newer one.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Well, if it sticks, it's probably a four hundred series,
four ten, four twenty four thirty stainless steel.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
So you can still get them either way.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
Cheaper.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, it's cheaper, okay.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
Because it's got more. It's it's not. These stainless steels
each are made for different applications, right, there's there's.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
You know.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
I'll tell you one thing. I had a guy he
put these magnets on his refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Uh huh, and he had a lot of his He.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Had high humidity in the house, and underneath these magnets,
it would.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Rush, it would rush. Sure, Hey, I appreciate your input
on that, Thank you very much. And uh, I'm gonna
go test. I got something to test. I don't know.
That refriger wasn't cheap, so maybe the magnets still won't
stick to it. All right, Danny boy, thank you very much,
and uh, well we'll sign off. It's been a busy
(44:33):
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Well, so weekend, Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvan.
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All right, you got the phone number, grab a line,
we got a spot for you. We're going to Joe Joe. Welcome. Hey,
how you doing Gary, Yes, sir, fine.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hey, I got a kind of a strange issue. What
I did was I purchased a condominium down in Jacksonville, Florida,
mainly for when I retire in a few years. But
what I'm doing now is I'm renting it out, okay
on that vrbo or verbo. And it came with staying
I didn't want to invest a lot of money in
this place until I moved into it. It has stainless
(01:36):
still appliances throughout the whole thing. What's happening. I pay
a cleaning service in the last couple times or maybe
I don't know. Two of the last five times I've
had people give reviews, they said that the appliances look dirty. Okay,
So what I did is I contact I can't fly
down it. I contacted the cleaning service. It says, hey,
if you've got something better to use, you use it.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We use this.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I forget what type of wax they put on the staying.
Let's say, use some sort of paste. I don't know
what I think you waxed on. Take it off, and
the people say it looks like there's like fingerprints and
stuff all over it. And I can't handle these reviews
being like that. Not that I care because eventually I'm
going to move into the place, but what they said,
if I bought the products, send it down to them.
(02:19):
If I had something I liked better, had them pick
up something better. But they use what they use. So
do you have any suggestions of something to keep the
fingerprints off or or make it look better, because.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know, it's a common problem. I mean, to be
honest with you, I mean it's a it's a common
problem stainless steel, you know, and it it has fingerprints.
I've talked about a product and it's called MILLSIIC M
I L S E K. They have a stainless steel cleaner,
(02:53):
and that's probably my favorite. I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you it's not going to show fingerprint though,
it's going to clean it. It's kind of an oil
that that it's made of. So you clean it, the
oil stays on. I mean it stays clean for a
week or so. Which is you know, I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Probably that am I L S E Kid.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is that the same as the wood company.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It is the same as the wood company, and they
make a stainless.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Steel Okay, okay, awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
What are they using I mean you said they say that.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They well they say they didn't say it was a wax.
But the girl I actually talked to the girl that
actually does the clean and she says, well, we wipe
it on and then we wipe it off like and
it's it's like it's like dryes on like a No.
I've seen sprays, you know, I've seen spray cleaners. I
don't know stainless. I just I don't have the time
for that, but they I have. I know that that
(03:57):
name that you said, I've heard of their wood product stuff,
and I heard they're very good, so I mean I
can just send them, Yeah, send them that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And see if it helps. If you know, I mean
I think we've even just we've used that product periodically
and not say fairly regularly. I've also seen my wife
tissues a glass cleaner on it, like the Jaws glass cleaner. So,
I you know, the stainless steel does show the fingerprints,
(04:24):
but the millsiics. I like the mill sick one. Uh
okay for a longer steak clean because it leaves a
little bit of an oil residue which protects it from
getting fingerprints on it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, well, you know what I'll do. I'll get a
bottle or two of them. I'll just send it down
to them and say try that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, give this one.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Isn't that When I retire, I'm gonna get rid of
all that stingless still, hopefully if I can afford it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They've tried different things they have it where there's different
brushed ones that don't leave the fingerprints, but that smooth one.
I just got a ge Cafe refrigerator. It's so smooth
and it shows fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do Okay, Well, hey, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, let me know if that solves the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Sure, well, thanks very, have a great.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You bet, take care bye bay. All right, and again
it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
If you like to jump on board, do so. Let's
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Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes, yes, I have a problem on the east side
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(05:46):
wondering is there something we could do?
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Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, so I'll try that very good.
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Give that a track and see if that doesn't happen.
All right, thank you. I want to jump the bill
real quick if we can. Danny, he's got some stainless
steel questions to it. Curious, Yeah, Bill, do you.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Suppose these staining on the stainless steel has changed? Because
the stainless steel that's at a lot of appliances that
out today must be fair speak or have you know
magnetic capability? Because I've got a whole kitchen that was
done with ge profile and couldn't get a Megan on there,
(07:17):
and you can put a Magan on the new microwave.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah yeah, Now, I don't think that's had anything to
do with it. I mean that's my opinion, because you know,
it's nice at the magnet stick. I know exactly what
you're talking about, because my first stainless steel appliance, a
magnet didn't stick. I was going, like, what is going
on here?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But I think it's been a you know, one of
the drawbacks to stainless steel. I think, especially if we
have a lot of kids too is the fingerprints. It
is the fingerprints. Now, I can't say that I've ever
had it where it was overwhelming. I mean, we clean
them once a week, sometimes with like the Jaws glass
(07:59):
tope cleaner sometimes will do the Millsick stainless steel, which
creates a little bit of an oily film on it,
which seems to last longer. But you know, it's certainly
an area that has to be clean periodically. But I
don't think to change in the composition. I think it's
always been kind of a problem.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Oh okay, Well, I just I know for years, many
years you said stainless nothing wants stick to it. That
was magnetic, right, You've all got those phone numbers for hotlines, right, whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And it's interesting you bring that up. It's gonna be
curious because I'm going to go try. I got stainless
steel ge three months ago, and we've now lived without
magnets on a refrigerator for twenty some years. But I'm
going to go try and see if one sticks.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Yeah, you just just never one other question, Yeah, if
I may sure. On housing construction, some years ago, it
seems like a lot of people were using metal studs
for remodeling and in new construction. But we really I
haven't heard that much about it. Is it not taken
(09:15):
off to the extent they thought they would or am
I just well, I think.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's a different instances that you wanted. I mean, I
don't think it's a bad deal to do it, like
if you're doing a basement, but you know, it all
gets into cost construction. And but no, it hasn't lost
its luster.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I would say, Okay, well, since we're talking about luster
on stainleus.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Okay, Well, I'm definitely glad you're there on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Thanks Bill, appreciated. Thanks. All right, let's take a little break.
We'll come back, and we got a caller too, and
if you'd like to join us, you may do so.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
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If you'd like to grab a line. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five Bill.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Welcome Garry, good afternoon. Always a pleasure of listening to
your show makes my weekend. Hey, I have a follow
up on the previous Gentleman with the stainless steel finished.
I worked in restaurants for fifty years. Here's what I found.
(13:22):
All my appliances and not utensils, but the cabinets and
the refrigerators and everything. We'll all stayless steel. It looks
clean when it's clean. Here's my suggestion. It's very easy.
Un Let's just get grease down like the bottom with
(13:42):
the runners and the rollers and the tracks. I mean
you pick that up with a brillo pad. But for
every day use, and this is what the restaurant used
every day. You spray it down windocks. It's going to
be rinty from the paper towels. It's going to be streaky,
(14:04):
it's going to be circles. It looks like it doesn't
look good. There is a product out there, it's been
out there for years. It's called Sheeler Shine and what
that is. And if you don't have sheiel A Shine,
I'm sure you can go to Walmart, Walgreen, CBS. It
gets some kind of a stainless steel polish spray. They
(14:28):
say it are clean and polish. It doesn't clean. You
got to clean it. Win decks. It doesn't clean it.
That's a lazy way out. But when you spray this on,
you just hit it with paper towels and wipe it smooth.
It's got a glass like finish. Once you start using it,
the next day you can fingerprints all over it. That's
(14:50):
that's just the price you pay for having good stainless steel.
But that stainless steel polish spray, you wipe it day
get rid of the prints. Well evenators affrederators used to
have that problem. Now they have like an eggshell finish
(15:10):
so it hides the fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But it's just basic every day when it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Does depend on the finish, there's no question about it.
And I think the one thing you said that really
makes a lot of sense and it's very true. And
you know this guy's getting uh you know, comments on
his VRBO rental that you know the clients is aren't clean. Well,
what's wrong with the appliance? Well there's fingerprints all over it? Well, right,
(15:37):
you know, maybe they I'm making.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
I'm thinking it's very easy if they're cleaning it every day.
But it's streaked and it is lint and from old fingerprints.
Hit it with that. It's like a FOURD all a
can stainless polish spray. But you got to keep it up,
you know, every every day or two. You got to
(15:59):
keep up.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, that's the key, and that's like so which also
brings you to the point is did the cleaning service
really clean it after the last people that rented it?
Or did the.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
People they probably cleaned it. They cleaned it, but don't
forget a lot of the service cleaners they don't know
about the technology that's here in America. They don't know
about the extra It's like when you do your deck,
I guess you got to seal it. It's the same thing.
So you spray that polish on, you wipe it and
(16:34):
it looks like it looks like it looks like a
million dollars until the next day then you got to
do it over again. So it's a simple. I think
it's a simple fix, to be honest with ya. You
just got to tell these the clean of people here,
here's this product. Afterwards, use that spray.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, well that's what they asked him to do, is
send the product down. And you know, again, I was
talking about the Jaws glass clean which to a streak
free cleaner. It works really good on stainless steel too.
It doesn't have silicon or buttle in it, so it
doesn't leave a residue and it cleans it very nicely.
And again it's something you got to stay up with.
(17:14):
The mill Sick is a cleaner and a protectant and
it leaves just the slightest oily finish on there and
it'll keep fingerprints off for a week. It really will.
It's more of a long term type cleaner and protectant,
and so there's options, but there's something else going on
(17:37):
there too. So appreciate the call bill, Thank you, and
thanks for your input on that. I appreciate it all right,
now let's go Terry. Terry welcome.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Hi. My question is about storage barn we have on
our property. It was made for us, It was still
livered and and set. All we had to do was
have a rock base ready for it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, so it's about.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Fifteen plus years right now. And once we had it,
we put landscaping around it. So this year for the
first time when I was watering our plants, I noticed
that the board that this barn hit sound is deteriorating.
So I don't know what to do about that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, probably going to have to replace that board would
be my guess. Is there a vapor barrier underneath the
gravel base?
Speaker 10 (18:36):
How would I know?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, I guess you could scrape down her and see
if you see a plastic base to it. Is it
sitting So the board is sitting right on the ground correct,
as far as I know, it's probably not pressure treated wood.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, well, I think what you got to do is
I wouldn't worry about trying to patch that board up
if it's sitting on the ground. I would get some
ground contact pressure treated wood and reposition that on that
particular board. And if the sighting is damaged, you're probably
(19:18):
gonna have to cut some of that siding off and
patch it up. I'm guessing it would be like the
T one eleven. And if you have some follow up
questions based on what I just gave you, if you
want to sit on hold, I will get you on
the other side of the break. Then we can delve
into it a little deeper. All right, we will continue
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go at Home with Garry Salivan thirty three minutes after
the top of the air and the lady I was
talking to from Wisconsin with the outbuilding. She moved on,
but I want to add a couple of things for
everyone else that may be listening. And I don't know
what kind of sighting. That was one of the questions.
(23:00):
What didn't have enough time to really ask her. But
if you've get a you know, story shed or something
along that lines, where it's delivered, prepping the base and
where it's going to set is really key. And one
of the things I'd asked her was was there a
vapor barrier underneath the gravel? She said, well, how would
(23:22):
I know, Well, you'd have to remove some of the
gravel to see if there is a bed to stop
water vapor from penetrating up maybe stop weed growth. They
make a fabric that can do that, or they can
use plastic which will eventually deteriorate. But if you keep
(23:43):
the moisture in check, obviously we minimize wood rot. Then
I asked her if it was a pressure tree wood
or was it regular wood or what did we set
that on? And wasn't really sure on that. So I
just wanted to add to that pressure tree wood it
should be used. And there's different types of pressure tree wood.
(24:03):
You would want to use a ground contact pressure treated
wood or use something else to you know, get it
off the ground. A lot of times that sighting is
that T one to eleven is basically plywood that goes
down to the base of that shed and it's it's
(24:27):
rough cut at the bottom of it, and some of it.
In other words, that foundation or that piece of wood
or something that is just like a half inch off
the ground, it's not enough. If you can get four
to six inches of like a foundation to set that on,
you take water really out of play. And we all
(24:48):
know that story. But just a ground moisture can start
rotting that siding. We see it all the time, especially
with T one eleven siding where that first two or
three inches starts swelling, and it starts and people want
to know how to repair that. You're better off just
cutting it out and putting a new uh T one
(25:08):
to eleven siding in that base area and then take
some colcking and smear cocking at the bay bottom of
that siding. You're not going to see it. You're not
going to see that calcking. It'll seal it up, it'll
you know, eliminate ground moisture from going into the siding.
And then with uh you know, maybe a two by
(25:29):
four pressure treated piece of wood to elevate that a
little bit, you would eliminate some of your problems. So
I I, you know, she may not have the ability
to reposition that, but it sounds like long term that
would be something you'd want to do. I don't think
you want to try and patch it. I think you're
going to continue to have the problem. Tom welcome, Hey Tom,
(25:57):
hang on computer stock. Oh the computer stock. It's been
kind of a stucky kind of day today. Okay, Hi Gary,
how are you doing doing good?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Good? I'm talking about this guy with the fingerprints on
the stainless I live in the Youngstown area, and believe
it or not, Mill Sector Is was developed right here
pretty close by. And I was in a large furnisure
furniture store years ago, and I was watching this lady
(26:33):
cleaning all the stainless steel refrigerators and they do a
furniture and appliances. She was cleaning all the stainless steel stoves,
and so I asked her what she used, and she
was using Millsek and not the stainless steel one, just
the regular furniture polish.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well they feel kind of the same, to be honest
with you, I don't know if they are, but.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, you know, and I think after I talked to her,
I tried the regular one and it worked fantastic on everything, right,
And then I bought the stainless steel one, which came
out later, okay, and I don't think it worked as well.
Oh okay, all right, I really don't. And the trick
is you got to rub that in good with the
soft damp cloth, right and let it come to a haze,
(27:24):
and then polish it out like you're waxing a car, right,
And then once a week I go over it, which
is a dry rag and wipe it and it probably
lasts a month or two months before I redo it again.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wow, it really does.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
A nice job, you know. But I used the regular.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
One, okay, so I just I appreciate that input. Yeah,
we used the stainless steel one at home. You know,
I said a week or so. But my point being
is you didn't have to do it every day. I mean,
it was a long term solution to the fingerprints on
stainless steel.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
So yeah, I have a little bit of all kinds
of stainless you know. I got old good stainless the
ge profile, right, and I've got the new ones that
come on the toasters and the coffee pots.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
All right, it works on everything, very good.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
It works great long as you wipe it off once
a week, okay, I mean you don't have to redo
it for a month or two.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Super. Hey, I appreciate that input. Tom, Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir, And again you can get that at
milsig M I L S e K dot com. Let's
go to ron Ron Welcome.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Thank you Gary.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yes, sir, I appreciate you taking my call. I've got
to have several questions for you this morning. Okay, start
out talking about old two bedroom bungalow I'm guessing was
built about nineteen twenty five, give or take five or
ten years. About sixty years ago, there as a bedroom
(29:02):
that was built on to the side of it, and
the original two bedrooms were converted into one long skinning bedroom.
The bedroom that was built on the door on it
does not even come close to matching the original doors.
(29:25):
Is there any place better than a restore to try
to find the door that would look more original?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well? No, probably restores are people that sell used building
materials would be the place. I mean, you know, if
you're looking for old maple flat panel door from the
thirties and forties, that's about the only place you're going
to find it, right.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Okay, Electrical and plumbing, if you were going to make
this into a good, reliable residence, again, shouldn't both of
those original wiring and plumbing be.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Updated?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Well? I think what I would do ron really, when
you started a conversation and we're talking, you know, knowing
you were going to talk about wiring and plumbing, I
think maybe an inspection of that system might be something
you'd want to do, And especially on the wiring, you know,
(30:40):
do you have enough service? Is the system grounded. Is
there you know, GF eyes that should be installed. So
I'd say, you know, hopefully it's not old enough where
you have still the knob and tube wiring, because that
would definitely need upgrading. But yeah, I would have it inspected.
See see if that's the case, I would say it
(31:03):
would be nice to have it upgraded.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Mm hm m hmm.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Question on milsic, M I am I'm blind, and I
was using Milsic on a kitchen cherry yesterday and I
found one spot after everything else was dry and and nice,
that still felt just a little packy. I just went
(31:37):
back on with a little more Milsic on a damp
cloth and scrub that like crazy. Is that probably going
to come out and be like the rest.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Of the Yes, yes it would because of its cleaning action. Also, yes,
it's you know, it's not like a penetrant or anything
along those lines. So it was probably us not you know,
buffed out all the way or wiped out all the way.
If you use a little bit more of than millsick,
what it'll do is it will clean that off and
(32:09):
then just take it in, uh you know, buffet a
little bit more. But yeah, it'll it should get rid
of that tackingess. Or wait a couple of days and
we'll get rid of the attackingess too.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Okay, okay, hey, next time you've come towards into an
apple sweat me know, I'll buy a midpile of coffee
and a dozen donuts and we can have a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Sounds like a plan. Ron, Thank you very much, appreciate it.
And uh our phone number if you'd like to jump
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Speaker 3 (36:23):
There.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
All right, let's go to Pat Pat.
Speaker 11 (36:25):
Welcome, Hey Gary, you got a great show. I just
got to tell you, man, I love it. I try
to tune it every time I can.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I got an issue at my office.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I had a water leak.
Speaker 11 (36:35):
I'm a dentist and I have my Camry's kind of
like a mid tone oak, and everything is a swing
out from the right delivery where where where the water
lines were on the halfisess of it kind of like
dripped down and lenked. And so what it did is
it lifted up to grain a little bit on that
mid tone stained oak to dark tomp And what it's
also done is there's like black areas where that water
(36:56):
is set. And this like happened over the weekend. I
came back and I go, oh, man, you know so
now I want to try to figure out the best
way to fix it so it looks halfway decent.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I mean, uh, do is it on a horizontal surface
or a vertical surface.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's a horizontal surface.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (37:16):
What happens is the arm swings out and there's a
cutout in the cabinet and everything goes back in there,
and it's all lined with the oak.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, and it is the part that's got the water
stains oak also correct, Yes, sir, okay. And so the
grain is slightly raised.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
Yeah, the grain is raised. Plus is also like a
like a blackness to it.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I don't even know how to describe it.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know, that's kind of got me buffalo too, so
is the And this happened this weekend, right, I mean.
Speaker 11 (37:53):
It's you know, it's happened probably about two years ago,
and I just get tired of looking at it. And
I mean I cleaned the water up right away, but
it's death.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
For a weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Okay. Okay, you're trying to figure out that.
Speaker 11 (38:07):
Do I put a cleaner on at first to see
if it'll try it?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It's probably yeah, you're probably gonna end up sanding it
down and restaining it, to be honest with you. And
the reason I was asking you how long it? Uh
you know it happened? Uh? Is because when when you
get that water on wood, even if it's a wood
floor for folks listening, if you give it six months,
(38:33):
a lot of that'll just settle and calm down and go,
you know, shrink kind of get back the grain tight.
But it sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and and
it didn't, so you still have raised grain. So that's
going to have to be sanded anyway. And you'll probably well,
(38:57):
let's let me just yeah, I'll get to that in
just a second, because you're whenever you have a water
stain and they do turn black, and whether it's a
mold that's kind of in that wood fiber TiO, or
it's just a reaction with the wood, they turn black
and sometimes you can't sand it out and you actually
(39:21):
have to come in with like a peroxide or a
an oxolic acid like a wood bleach and try and
bleach it out, so you know, it might you know,
and then sometimes you can't get it out. But I
would start with sanding. I'd probably start with how coarse
(39:44):
is it? I mean, would you say it's you know,
raised just a little bit?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's really rough. I feel like I get a splinter
off it.
Speaker 11 (39:53):
No, No, it's raised just a little bit, not too
different for what it was hard to stain just barely Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I'd probably go with like you know, a medium grid
and then to a fine and then to an extra fine.
The medium grid if you're running out, and you probably
use like a little mouse sander or something along those
lines with the grain, and you'll be able to tell
whether you're gonna are you just smoothing the grain or
are we actually taking some of that blackout. And that's
(40:24):
gonna have to be your call. We'll definitely smooth the grain,
going with a medium to a fine to an extra fine.
We'll dress that part up. Whether we get the blackout,
that I don't know. And when we get to that point,
what I would do is you can get a you know,
(40:44):
you can get wood bleach at the hardware store, create
a paste and put that paste over there and see
if you can bleach that out. A lot of people
that do wood floors will use like a twenty percent
solution of peroxide that you can get from like a
beauty slum supplier, because the hydrom peroxide is like three percent,
(41:06):
and you can use that. You can use the twenty
percent peroxide as a bleach and see if you bleach
it out with that. But let's sand it and see
what we got and see if it can be and
maybe you could go to a different color stain. I
don't know. You're just gonna have to see where you're at.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
I'll play with it, Okay, I'll get back to you.
Speaker 9 (41:28):
Let's you know the results.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
All right, sounds great, Thank you much appreciate it. Take care. Yeah,
when the saying in wood floor refinishing business, basically as
you sand and then if it's still not there, well
then you can use either the peroxide or you can
use the exolic acid. And then the third thing is
(41:50):
you call it character or you replace the wood. So
not the game ice hopes up. Just kind of want
to march through the process. Let's go today. Well Dale, welcome,
good morning. How are you doing, sir? Thank you good.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
I heard this business on stainless steel, and I worked
in the stainless steel business for fifty years. One I
heard the one guy say he used brillo.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, I heard that too.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Don't ever use brillo, you know in bed steel, iron
or iron in there will rust.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, it will rust. I heard that too. We had
bigger problems.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Yeah, God. And the other guy with the magnetic business, yeah,
they're they're probably probably now close to one thousand different
kinds of stainless.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Steel, Is that right? Okay?
Speaker 4 (42:50):
Most of the refrigerators and so forth are made of
a four hundred series stainless steel, which is magnetic. Okay,
three hundred series or the old eighteen eight series. It's
not magnetic unless you could work it in other words,
bended a lot that then that area will be magnetic.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Is that right? I had a ge monogram refrigerator for
twenty five years. Just got rid of it, and I
didn't know that, but I knew when I got it
that magnets didn't stick to it, and I just replaced
it with a stainless steel. And I've learned to live
without magnets on my refrigerator. But I'm curious now to
see if that does stick on the newer one.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Well, if it sticks, it's probably a four hundred series,
four ten, four twenty four thirty stainless steel.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
So you can still get them either way.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
Cheaper.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, it's cheaper, okay.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
Because it's got more. It's it's not. These stainless steels
each are made for different applications, right, there's there's.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
You know.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
I'll tell you one thing. I had a guy he
put these magnets on his refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Uh huh, and he had a lot of his He.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Had high humidity in the house, and underneath these magnets,
it would.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Rush, it would rush. Sure, Hey, I appreciate your input
on that, Thank you very much. And uh, I'm gonna
go test. I got something to test. I don't know.
That refriger wasn't cheap, so maybe the magnets still won't
stick to it. All right, Danny boy, thank you very much,
and uh, well we'll sign off. It's been a busy
(44:33):
weekend for sure. And again you can catch the hours
that you missed on podcast at Home with Gary Salvon
and good Lord Willing. We'll be back next weekend for
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