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On this episode of around the house, we have Tony and Corey from the weekend warriors podcast.

Hold on tight.

This is going to be one wild ride.

Looks good, but it's tough.

And then.

And then I used contrasting grout instead of matching grout.

And all three of those when I.

There goes my barstool.

That's awesome.

For anyone listening, that was Tony's chair going apart.

Literally relaxing.

I'm gonna do this.

I'm gonna hand you my other one over here.

These are my 70s bar stools.

I'll put that over there.

Okay.

We'll cook that over into the call pile and put that one together.

Usually that stuff happens when there's a drink in the hand of my house.

So this is what's crazy, that story.

I was like, what is.

What is happening?

He's going.

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Welcome to around the house, guys.

It's been a while since we've been talking about this.

Glad to be here.

I cannot believe we are on around the house with Eric G.

I feel like Corey and I have been talking about this for a long time and it sounds like you've been thinking about it for a long time.

But we finally put it together.

We got together, did a little bit of video.

Absolutely.

Talking about a product or a door or something.

And you said, you know, I really would love to have you guys on the show.

And we were thinking we wanted you on our show.

Yeah.

It's a pairing that's made in heaven.

Yeah.

It's awesome.

And if you were to go back five years ago, it's probably a Coke versus Pepsi thing or a Ford versus Chevy thing, right?

Absolutely.

Now we're in the same room doing this.

So it's always been fun.

Many times I would see you guys on the other side of the convention center in Portland doing your show.

And Handyman Bob and I were over doing ours or vice versa and having a good time.

I ran into Handyman Bob like a month ago.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah, at an event right around the corner from here, actually.

Nice.

How's he doing?

How do you look?

Yeah, I look great.

He looks like Bob.

He looks the same as he did 10 years ago.

Exactly, exactly.

I love that guy.

He's.

It was so funny when I got the around the house show from him.

I was an advertiser.

That's how it started out is I moved to Portland.

I had my kitchen and bath company that I started, and I went, hey, I'm gonna advertise in the local improvement show because it worked in Seattle so well.

Came down.

And Bob goes, hey, you're really good in the radio.

And I go, yeah, I used to work on the radio in high school and I used to fill in up in Seattle all the time.

And he goes, you want to meet my co host?

Then a couple weeks later, I meet him at a.

I don't know if it was the National Kitchen of Bath association or a nary event or whatever it was in our area.

Wife.

He introduces me to his wife, and his wife looks over and goes, oh, Eric, I'm so happy you're taking the show on because Bob's gonna retire next week.

And it wasn't next week, but it was like six months later.

And I was like.

I'm like, oh, cool.

We didn't have that conversation.

But okay.

And then here we are.

And it was 10.

10 years ago that he brought me on as the co host.

And then we hung around for a bit and.

And here we are.

But around the House in Portland has been coming on in April here 37 years.

Wow.

And the fourth host.

So it's been a bit.

Yeah, that's a fourth host.

It was a guy.

Oh, there was other people.

Well, before Bob.

So Bob was a decade and or so and on round numbers and two guys before that.

And how Bob basically got it is the guy before, I think I heard, just had him come in and fill in and he never showed up again.

There's a weird pattern with it.

There is a weird pattern.

That's how we got our show.

Yeah, our show was the exact same way.

And the guy that we got the show from had got it from another guy.

And I think they, you know.

But the show that we had changed names a few times.

We of course were sponsored and so we changed the name again.

But yeah, it is interesting.

We, Corey and I used to worry that the information that we were bringing to the radio every day was.

We would worry that it would be too much of the same, or we talked about this last year, or I feel like we keep bringing the same thing up over and over.

But the reality of it is that the audience is changing all the time.

We have to keep telling the same truths over and over.

It is really us repeating, feeding a lot of the same stuff, introducing new products and new techniques.

But we have to go back to the well over and over.

Because a lot of things about our industry don't change.

Exactly.

And there's some things that we hope change and they finally change and we get excited about it too.

Like self cleaning gutters.

Exactly.

Where is that from?

Right.

It's funny, we talk about spring.

Every year we do spring cleaning show.

Every year we do fall cleanup show.

Like all of these things that you're supposed to do, maintain.

Yeah, every year.

And it is true because Tony said it's the same.

It's different audience.

Sometimes it's the same audience, but it's having the reminder that what you own is a half a million dollar investment and if you don't maintain it, you're losing money.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's so crazy because you.

I'll do a show and you guys, I know, probably do the same thing.

And then you get 10 emails in over the next week or so, and you're like, they're like, hey, can you do on this?

And I'm like, two weeks ago.

You did it two weeks ago.

Here's the link.

Here's the link.

Got it.

But then I get stuff like I had one.

One great listener come in and go, when was the last time you did something on radon?

And I'm like, oh, it's been a bit.

And then.

Yeah.

And it's a good topic.

And you dive in and do it.

And I love those because that ball is always changing.

And when you're out of it for a year or two, they come back and you're like, oh, yeah, it's fun to learn that stuff too.

When.

Yeah.

You're like, okay, the new things that are out and the things that matter.

Yeah.

A specific thing like radon.

Yeah.

I actually saw.

Speaking of radon, I saw this crazy map of cancer.

It was like a kid's cancer map.

And they like these hot spots and they overlaid a radon map.

And it's shocking.

Yeah.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You can't specifically say this is what Caused cancer.

But when you overlay the maps on top of each other, kind of.

It was incredible.

Yeah.

You're going, wow.

Okay.

Those red spots are right where the layers of that is.

I think I saw the same one and I was like, whoa.

I think that demands some extra attention.

Yeah.

You know, I don't think you could say causality and say, this is what's causing it, but worth looking into it is.

Another cool thing is you can jump on Amazon and buy one of the portable radon Things for 150 bucks.

Yeah.

And throw it around your house.

And if it starts going off like a smoke detector, hey, we might have a problem.

I.

When I bought my house 10 years ago, the one I'm in now.

Yeah.

And my real estate agent thought I was crazy because I demanded a radon test.

Sure.

Because being in this industry, we know all about radon.

Yeah.

And he was like, nobody does that.

I'm like, I am.

Yeah.

What are we talking about here?

$50 or whatever it was.

You want to sell this house, you're going to get it done.

Exactly.

What is the big deal?

I'd rather know ahead of time knowing that I have to put in some sort of mitigation system or.

It's not that hard.

You put a fan down there in a vent.

Vet of a deal.

No.

You must be up in Washington then.

No, I'm actually in Southwest Beaverton.

Are you cool now they.

Now they do it as part of the real estate.

When you do a real estate transaction now.

So if you go to buy another house in Portland, they force you to do it now.

Good.

So it's good.

It's.

I like that.

And I'm not much for saying, hey, we should have all these little hoops to jump through and we do this.

But I'm like, okay, that one I'll get.

Yeah, sure.

I'll give you that one.

You know.

Yeah.

You should be able to know what it's like.

Anything.

Air quality, black mold.

If there's black mold growing in your roof, in your attic, you would want to know that.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

My brother and I have been working on a project.

We just got it done about Halloween this year, but we went out and bought a house out at the coast, Cannon Beach.

Oh, nice.

And this house, it.

When I did the walkthrough, I was like, we might have just bitten off a little more.

We can chew.

This house in the neighborhood was known as the Blue Tarp House.

Oh.

Oh.

I have never taken off a single story house.

10 layers of blue, brown and gray tarps.

Wow.

20 years.

As far as I could go back on Google Maps.

And there were tarps on the roof for 20 years.

Unbelievable.

And you just could put another one on.

Is it an rv?

That's how I store my rv.

But this was.

And we walked into the house and I've never seen oak hardwood floors so buckled that the two and a quarter hardwood was back to back because it had pushed them up and they were three inches up in the middle of the floor and they had sprung out so much from the water and there was like a hose running in the living room.

Oh my goodness.

Like, all right, here we go.

And we had to mask up and tyvek suit up to go in there.

Yeah.

And the neighbors loved us, though.

They were like, what can we do?

Can we make you lunch?

Because this had been just the eyesore for 20 years in the neighborhood.

And when the wind blew, which I around the house.

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Always does out there.

Right?

All they could hear is tarps moving.

Yeah.

24 7.

And I'm like in the wind.

Oh, yeah.

So sometimes the shows that Corey and I decide that we're going to cover are inspired by things that we see when we're just driving around.

Yeah.

Corey had a house not too far from his house that he would see daily as he drove by.

And there was a tree growing out of the gutter.

Right.

And so, Corey, we need to talk about cleaning your gutters and the importance of keeping organic material trimmed back so that it's not making contact with your house.

I think at the point you have saplings out of your gutters.

Yeah.

A good time to say, should clean my gutters.

Yeah.

Or at least pay someone to do it for you.

Yeah.

When the county comes by and goes, you know, you might have a Christmas tree farm going, it's time to clean the gutters.

That reminds me of another one of our favorite shows that we did.

We did a show a long time ago, and we actually tried to repeat it.

You know how sometimes you try to repeat a show, but you can't get the magic back?

Oh, no, totally.

This show that we did this one time was called outdated design trends.

Outdated design.

I think I actually heard that one, and it was solid.

We had this list of all these things.

If you've got more popcorn on your ceiling than the local theater has on the floor, it might be time for a design change.

So anyways, really good time with that show.

Who's the guy.

Who's the comedian that does the.

Might be a redneck.

Oh, Jeff Fox.

It was based around that.

Yeah.

That is awesome.

The Foxworthy.

I had one that I did when I was on KXL over there, and I had Clyde Lewis come in, the paranormal guy, on Halloween.

Oh, really?

And we were live.

And I was like, this is either about halfway through the show, about hour one, I was like, this is either going to be the best show, or this is my last time on the air.

Or you find out you're possessed.

Oh, by aliens.

Oh, it was worse.

Clyde's wife Janine, wonderful lady, calls in and goes, eric, do you realize from your stories that you can speak to the dead?

And I'm like, this is getting a little bit over the top.

Get a little weird in here, you know?

And it was just ghost stories.

And.

Yeah, it was ghost stories and paranormal.

And I was like.

And I replayed it a couple times for great.

Just when showing it up on Halloween, There was no way to recreate that again because it was just.

We had his.

He was doing a live show on the same station.

So his people during the day were like, oh, we got quiet on the air.

And so they were all calling in.

He's still doing it.

Oh, yeah, he's still.

Is.

He's actually a cap.

Yeah, he's a kpm?

Yeah, I got him that gig over there actually, because during COVID something happened with KXL and he got escorted out of the building.

You know how that stuff goes.

He got possessed.

Yeah.

I don't know what they were doing.

And KPAM over there.

Awesome.

People love those guys.

They're great over there.

I think they told him, as long as you don't do seances in here in the Christian Owned Broadcasting building, that we're going to be good.

And they've put up with him and he's done a great job over there.

And he's got some great.

He's got some crazy topics.

I subscribed to him last year.

He's got like a whole thing and a subscription where you pay and get like all of his shows.

Really.

I drive a lot, so that's perfect for that.

Last year I was like, I'm gonna do it.

It was.

Whatever it was for the year.

And I subscribed and I got.

I downloaded all of his episodes and they're.

Some of them are three, four hours.

Really?

They all are.

I think they all are.

Show is on the radio for.

Pretty riveting, huh?

It must be pretty interesting to keep your watch.

It's like going to the fair and watching people.

Sometimes you're like, this is gonna get deep.

Wow.

They go into some crazy topics.

Yeah.

Like, it's crazy.

Yeah.

I've always wanted to do on tv, do a haunted house episode with him and for my TV show and go over and do that and just go, let's see what happens.

Like Ghost Adventures reimagined with clay.

Ghost Adventures was one of our.

One of me and my wife's favorite shows for years.

Oh yeah, we loved that show.

I don't know why we.

Totally ridiculous.

It's totally ridiculous.

But I went to.

So I work with Baldwin Hardware a lot and those guys are cool guys.

And I like.

I did my show that you guys will be hearing up here in another week or so.

We recorded at the building show down there in Vegas.

Okay.

So I've worked with these guys for years and they had, they were messing with us.

We had this design council that where we were designing hardware with them.

They brought all these designers in and afterwards I went to them and I went, Aaron, why did you pick haunted places?

For all the houses?

We were doing stuff in and we were at the house that the Black Dahlia murder supposedly happened, which was Frank Lloyd Wright's kids designed house in the Hollywood Hills and with the Greystone Mansion where they filmed like the Big Lebowski mansion scenes and Batman and all those things up there.

And I'm like, every house we went to was haunted.

And they just smiled and they go, you caught that?

I'm like, yeah.

And.

And I'm not a big paranormal guy, but I walked into the.

I walked into the media room there at the Greystone Mansion, and I got three steps in, and I was like, this room's never restored.

This is wild.

I walked in three steps.

I was like, oh, I'm out of here.

It was like I was getting tased.

It was just like, ah, I'm out of here.

Wow.

And it hit from nothing to that.

And I just come around, and the guide goes, wow, three steps.

That's the farthest I've seen anybody go in years.

And I was like, my wife went to Zach Baggins.

Yes.

He's the host of Ghost Adventures.

Yes.

And that guy, he's got some crazy stories.

He claims to.

That he has gone blind because of some paranormal stuff.

Yeah.

From some thing that he did.

I actually haven't seen it.

I never really got into that show.

But he runs a museum in Las Vegas.

Yep.

I might go hit that in a couple weeks.

And it's got, like, the crazy stuff, like, you know, like, what's the doll?

Yeah, that's.

There's.

They have this whole movie based off the doll.

Yeah.

Just crazy doll.

Anyway, they have the doll.

Yeah, they have.

You're not talking about Chucky.

Yeah.

We're talking like, he's fake.

Yeah.

We're talking like, what is this doll?

My wife was here.

She would.

She's.

Yep.

But they have a whole thing in the basement, this whole thing where you walk through.

They have you pay for the vip.

And it's a little better because my buddy from Blaze Reynolds was telling me about it.

Yeah.

But anyway, they've.

They've got serial killer stuff there.

John Wayne Gacy's this.

And they have the van of.

Oh, who is the suicide guy.

Oh, yeah.

They got Kevorkian's van, Death van in there.

Oh, yeah.

It's crazy, crazy stuff.

And there was a couple room where my wife was, like, not going in that room, period.

And there was several people.

They would get to the edge and then say, turn around and walk around.

They were like, you guys, go ahead.

I've never had that feeling before until that.

And I was like, oh, no, I'm out of here.

This is.

It was just like, almost like somebody was taken when they put, like, those.

Go to physical therapy.

They put those, like, shock things on Your TENS machines.

Oh, yeah.

It was like somebody took the TENS to your body and just went, turned it right up.

And you're like, I'm out of here.

240 volts running.

Exactly.

Yeah, whatever.

It was wild.

And I just walked out of there going, whoa.

And here's what's funny is another designer who comes on the show all the time.

Her and I were talking.

Right.

I wish I would have had record on this because sometimes the best stuff happens when the mic turns off.

But yeah, she's oh, I've only worked on one house, been in one house that was just haunted as hell down in California.

Said don't walk in the media room in the Greystone mansion.

And she screamed.

She goes, that's the one.

And I'm like, oh, man, no way.

Really?

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Hold on tight.

It's a wild ride.

And as soon as you step on it, you feel it go.

Yeah.

And you're immediately thinking, I don't want to be on this Deck 1 and 2.

It should not still be here.

We made our way down and around underneath the deck and up to the house where the ledger was attached to the house.

Are you ready for this?

Yep.

With 12 penny nails.

Oh, my favorite.

And there were about.

Each nail was about four feet apart.

Oh yeah.

And we ultimately helped with that deck.

And when we pulled it down, we just each stood at a 4 by 4 and just gave it a push.

And that whole thing just came right off the house.

I was one piece.

I was on one that was up in kind of Salmon Creek area north of Vancouver, Washington.

Up there for any you locals around here.

I stepped on and this thing had.

It was second story, but it was this weird daylight basement thing on the back that was.

And it dropped off.

So these were like 24 foot four by fours coming up to the bottom of the deck.

Four by fours?

Yeah.

Stepped out on the deck and the whole thing did the jello move.

And I reached up and grabbed the gutter because I'm like, I gotta have something to slow me down because I'm going for a ride.

And then I just slowly walked back in.

I'm like, I'm never going out that door again.

Yeah.

And crazy.

It was just jello.

And then I had one in Seattle.

I was at.

This was a house that was water damage.

It was the worst water damage I've ever seen.

Beautiful mid century house that literally got no maintenance for 40 years.

Empty.

And I went down on the daylight basement down below.

And they're like, hey, can we put up like a.

Is there any way we could put.

Take a couple rooms of this and make it into a person to stay here so they could guard the property because it was beautiful view property.

And they're having people breaking in.

They didn't want to get all the stuff stolen out of it.

Which I was like, doesn't matter.

But all the two by fours and everything on that exterior wall, including the one holding the beams up above, were like gray.

I'd call it a gray porridge.

But just standing there and there were four of them.

It was oatmeal.

I was just literally putting four.

There's four two by fours.

I kicked it with my boot and it just went splat.

Oh no.

And I'm like, okay, that's load bearing.

All right guys, we're out of here.

Yeah.

And it was.

I'm like, no, it was gonna fall in on itself.

And it couldn't have made it more than six months if they would have Got any kind of snow load up there.

It was just gonna all come down.

And it would have been a very easy cleanup because you could have just hauled it off.

But it was just brutal.

But that's another one of those.

What about.

Tell me a story of the worst DIY project that you've ever seen.

That need.

It was absolutely.

Shouldn't be standing.

Oh, wow, that's a big one.

And this was actually.

I saw one couple years ago.

Actually was a year and a half ago.

There was a unlicensed contractor that took 275,000 bucks from somebody on the way back to your showroom from here.

And I'm not going to give too much information, but there is no way this person should have been doing any work.

And I think they might have been a former drywaller or painter because that kind of looked halfway decent.

But in the double oven, they wired in with 14,2 wire for the big double oven.

Oh, man.

I mean, it was.

They had drywall in the showers that they had started a tile over, but they didn't get the, the, the drain in the right spot.

So you look down under the tub and the drain was in the middle, like it was a shower at some point, but they never moved it.

They put the tub in anyway.

And I'm like, no, how are you.

Going to get in there?

And it's just.

And the outside, they had taken the siding down to that felt almost that homasote board that was underneath it.

Yeah.

And then they tried to put Hardy Plank over the top of that.

And it was just wavy like the ocean.

Nothing was caulked, nothing was flashed.

They had a fifth.

They built it.

Started to build a deck out the back off the second story.

And it had a 50 cantilever on it.

Oh, my goodness.

And I'm like.

And I had to look at the guy and go, dude, this all has to go in the dumpster.

There's no saving it because I got $250,000 into it.

I'm like, oh my.

And I just looked at him, I go, hey, brother, that's on you.

Yeah, because.

And then I started.

Let me try to help you.

I started to help him out and sure enough, he goes.

I said, okay, talk to this contractor.

This guy will do it.

He goes, that's a four hundred thousand dollar project.

I'm like, yeah.

And so what's he do?

He goes and finds another unlicensed contractor for $200,000.

And I just went, all right, brother, I'm out.

Yeah, I, I can't help You.

You can lead them to water.

You can't make them drink.

Yeah.

And.

And I'm sure if I went and drove by that house, it's going to look the same or worse.

Yeah.

I mean they were using.

Trying to use the stucco waterproofing sealant in the shower.

Oh.

Over drywall.

It's just.

Oh, it was so bad.

And did you guys see.

I don't know if you guys saw this.

Did you guys ever see on the news the sledgehammer contractor?

He was.

The guy in.

He was a bathroom remodeler in Colorado and he decided that he wasn't getting paid fast enough and he repoed the shower with a sledgehammer.

Seen that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Around the house.

Was involved in that on the cleanup.

So we.

We.

I had friends.

Friends of the show that went.

Flew back there and helped Amber on that.

And so I got to see the whole story.

Got to see the demo stuff where we were sitting there on video and actually looking at it.

Wow.

It looked like a blind 8 year old tried to do their first tile job.

It was.

They made the bench out of drywall and just laid the tile over the top of it.

Oh my.

And it was just.

It was the most janky tile job I had ever seen.

So the guy actually did himself a favor.

Yeah.

By coming in there with that because he just helped with demo.

But I felt bad for her because.

Yeah.

Again.

Hired the wrong contractor again.

And that guy did some time for that.

So.

Oh yeah.

Which he should have because he was already told not to go in there.

And this wasn't the first time he'd gone and demoed his own project to repossess it.

This time he got caught.

So I had.

We.

I'm not gonna say who did this but we hired a reputable company.

Sure.

To come in and do redo our bathroom.

And it's the worst tile job I've ever seen.

It's bad.

I have to tear it all out.

Yeah.

We ended.

They ended up giving half our money back.

And it wasn't enough because now I have to go back and tear everything out and have somebody else come out and retail.

At least the floor.

I don't know about the walls.

It is in tile is one of those things.

It's such an art.

And we have.

You guys are going to laugh at me because we talked about this in last week's episode listening out there.

But I've got my buddy William White who here in town is.

He was the Art X Rap.

But this is the kind of guy and now he's back working for Artex at corporate back in.

In Pennsylvania.

But he's the guy that can take a tile and with a grinder, cut a 45 degr on the end freehand to make it look beautiful.

Yeah.

And it's just like you said, artists.

And every time if I want to feel bad about my tiling skills, he comes over and helps me, and then I just go, okay, I'm disabled here.

I cannot do what this guy can do.

I always say the same thing about sheetrock.

Oh, God.

There's a few things that I will not do.

I will do tile.

You did a really good job on the tile in your kitchen remodel.

I think it's all about patience.

It's absolutely beautiful.

Prepping patience.

Prepping patience.

Corey totally showed me up.

I did a kitchen remodel at my house.

Yep.

And then I know more than got it done.

I was super proud of it.

He came over and looked at it, said it looked really good.

And then he had to do a kitchen remodel, of course.

And by the time he got done with his tile, I was so jealous because of some of the fundamental decisions that I made that were wrong.

Sure.

I chose a quarter inch spacer instead of an 8th or 16th or whatever.

I chose glass tiles, which is never fun.

Yep.

Looks good, but it's tough.

And then.

And then I use contrasting grout instead of matching grout.

And all three of those when I.

There goes my bar stool.

That's awesome.

For anyone listening, that was Tony's chair going apart, literally collapsing.

I'm gonna do this.

I'm gonna hand you my other one over here.

These are my 70s bar stools.

I'll put that over there.

Okay.

We'll cook that over into the coal pile and put that one together.

Usually that stuff happens when there's a drink in the hand at my house.

So this is what's crazy.

Halfway through that story, I was like, what is happening?

What is happening?

He's going down around the house.

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Now let's get back to Tony and Corey and wrap this thing up.

Yeah, they bought out Structure.

That's right, they did.

Yeah.

Structure with it.

With an X.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, Structure.

I've got one on my back patio.

I love it.

Yeah, that's cool.

I've got another company I'm working with right now that.

That I met at the show that's got some stuff.

They do a whole carport version of that.

Oh, very.

I'm like, that would be fun out front.

So we'll see.

So we've been chatting that one up, but again, another one of those things you go, all right, cool.

Now another one that you guys might not have heard about.

They've been on my show once before.

There's a product I saw there called System 3E.

And you know what Perlite is?

It's got little glass beads.

Like, use it for building pizza brick ovens and stuff like that.

Yeah.

So they take Perlite, compress it into it with heat into blocks.

And these are like Lego houses.

Interesting.

And they snap together with no mortar, no nothing.

And they made it through the European Union testing, and they couldn't make it fail with heat and then dropping like a 200 kilogram wrecking ball up against it.

They couldn't get it to fail in their testing, but.

And what's cool is when you want to run plumbing and stuff on the inside, there's no drywall.

You can literally go over the top of it with mud because it's textured like almost a rice cake would be.

Oh, wow.

And so you can literally go through there, route out your power, your plumbing in the wall, and then basically take those scraps and plaster back up on there.

And so the outside you could stucco inside.

You can just plaster over.

And you've got a wall that's.

I think it's R28.

Wow.

And mold doesn't grow and it sheds water off.

So it beads up like wax on it, and it's impervious.

It's hydro hydrophobic.

Exactly.

And so cool stuff.

I'm like, okay, I want to build A project.

Did you see it assembled?

Maybe at the show?

It was at the show, so it was cool.

He was a guy I did an interview with on the TV show, and him and I were messaging on LinkedIn.

He's up at the show and he's from Poland.

And so I was like, oh, I get to see this guy face to face.

Which was cool, but it was super trick.

And it's inexpensive to build with, so I'm like, all right, that's going to really change some building out there.

Yeah.

Especially in fire zones.

They had a.

Like a blowtorch that you would be cutting, like steel with.

And it was just sitting there, just wow.

They could run it for 12 hours and it didn't hurt it.

Wow.

And I'm like, okay.

I wonder some of the things that I always wonder about, because being on the production building side, that's what I do.

Seismic.

That's.

That would be my biggest question here in the Pacific Northwest.

Absolutely.

And they say a subduction.

Exactly.

And I guess it works because it's all snapped together.

So you don't have those mortar joints that move it.

And then when you stucco it and finish the inside, they're just locked in.

Interesting.

And then in the corners, in certain spots, when you have high load corners, you just pour a.

Like a literally concrete rebar pillar in that.

And if you've got beams or stuff coming on there where you don't have to worry, where you're worried about load.

But they calculate all that stuff out.

But I was like, man, for building in California, if it meets the seismic down there, you wouldn't have to worry about those things burning down.

And.

Absolutely.

You can build basically two days.

A couple guys can put up a 15, 1700 square foot house, can snap it all together.

You're just grabbing them, they're like £30 or so, and you're just snap, snap.

Just slab on grade.

Yeah, slab on grade.

There's a connection point at the bottom where it connects in and they.

They adhere it down to the concrete there and off they go.

And it was like, all right, cool.

It's all these Lego kids growing up, coming up with new products.

Yeah, Yeah.

I remember seeing a video of that, of the concrete truck pouring out.

Right.

A house like a.

Oh, yeah, the 3D printed house.

Yeah.

They say 3D print, but it's not really a 3D printer.

It's just a spray nozzle.

Yeah.

Giant concrete truck.

Yeah.

That's like a mortar that they're just running around and squirting out.

Yeah.

I Remember watching, watching that for the first time and thinking, boy, oh boy, that seems like that could revolutionize home building.

But it sure wasn't pretty.

No, it's not pretty.

Which is probably why I think it was.

I think that.

Yeah.

I think when you think about things like that, they're.

They might be good in situations where you need to put up a lot of housing very quickly.

Very labor shortage.

Like barracks for a baby.

Barracks.

Or military or emergency housing or something like that.

Because.

Yeah.

Like, once you get it up, how do you remodel?

One of the best things about wood, Douglas fir.

You can cut it out, you can.

Move it, you can do whatever you want with it.

Do whatever you need with it.

When you go from.

Yeah.

What are we at now?

We're doing the living concept.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

You know, when's that going away?

Yeah, I don't know.

I think, I think one more.

All it takes is one more Covid for people to go, okay, I want small rooms so we can go to.

Their own Covid already changed that.

That exactly.

We're seeing.

I'm seeing that more and more in new construction.

Yeah.

Where there's more rooms, more separation between the living room and the kitchen.

It's funny, we went to a friend's house for some party and they have a newer home probably built within the last couple years.

And the entire main living area is open concept.

The kitchen, dining room, living room, you name it.

And with 30 people in this house.

Loud as hell, wasn't it?

Oh, my God.

It sounded like gymnasium.

Right.

It was crazy.

Yeah.

And you couldn't carry on a conversation because people were watching a football game over here and then joking and laughing.

It was a cacophony.

Yeah.

Literally a cacophony of sound.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

Couldn't deal with it.

Another thing I saw too, though, down there before you wrap up, guys, was that was really cool, is I saw champion homes down there.

They own like Skyline.

That's down pretty close to where you're at down there.

But they had duplexes that were manufactured, factory built homes that they could pull in.

So it was like a, say double wide was a manufactured home with a duplex with a house on each end.

And I'm like, wow.

If that's not wow.

Yeah.

And then the other thing they had there too, it's one of their other brands that they have Genesis and that's for home builders now.

So they can literally come in there with two halves, put it together.

It's pre built for the garage so it's ready for the attached garage.

So it's already framed up.

They just have to put out the rest of that.

It shows up with the roofing that matches.

Oh, wow.

And in a couple days, you got the garage framed up.

And within a week, you got a house sitting there.

Yeah.

That's ready to rock.

And I gotta say to our builders here in the Pacific Northwest, they do sheetrock better than you.

Be careful.

Those some of the best sheetrock work I've seen.

Smooth wall.

Yeah.

Everything level 5, smooth wall kind of stuff.

And even just you walk in and go, okay, you guys just set this up three days ago in the parking lot.

I know you did.

And I'm walking around going, I can't blue tape this.

There's no place to blue tape.

Yeah.

And I can walk around here for a very famous builder in my neighborhood, and I can go through half a roll in his $4 million house.

Yeah.

Or the street of dreams.

Exactly.

We say that quietly, but.

Yeah.

But it's true.

And it's got to be careful.

Got to be careful.

Don't get too.

Don't get too complacent out there.

These guys are coming up on you.

I know.

We're running out of time.

Yeah.

I'll tell you some of the trending things in my world.

Yeah.

Optiframe.

That's what Par Par calls it.

We have a system where we pre cut everything in a house.

That's awesome.

It comes out in bundles.

It's like a LEGO map.

Like I said, these LEGO kids growing up.

Yep.

You get a little map.

Tells you what to build, how to build it, where to put it, nail it down, and you move on.

That is awesome.

These guys are putting houses up, then slamming open webs or systems in second floor roof trusses.

They're building an entire house in a week.

Incredible.

That's cool.

So so much more waste.

Oh, yeah.

Not all.

A dumpster and a half out of there of building material paid for.

Absolutely.

These guys were throwing away literal tons of cutoffs.

Yep.

No longer.

Yeah.

It shows up on the site.

And their waste pile typically will fit in a four foot by four foot box.

Yeah.

Done.

Very small.

Very small.

I love that.

And that's one of the things I noticed with the factory build stuff.

I'm like, they're building like eight homes in there.

And I'm like, you got a little mini dumpster.

It looks like it's out from outside of 7 11.

Because there's just.

Yeah.

Nothing.

Other materials.

They're using it.

They're using it and they're buying 13 inch.

Two 13 foot.

2 inch lumber that's showing up by the unit.

Whatever size they need.

They're going through enough of it.

They're buying that custom COD Right.

Which is what you guys are doing at that same concept, which to me, oh my gosh.

If you're not paying for that extra lumber and then you got to pay the high rates to get it out.

Of there, dump fees are tremendously expensive.

Yeah, yeah.

It's no question.

You're throw.

Literally throwing money away.

Oh, yeah.

You're not wrong.

You're not right.

Especially with tariffs.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Guys, how do people track you down and track your showdown, your.

All your stuff?

Because you guys got YouTube.

You got everything going on out there.

Yeah.

If you search WW home show, you can usually find us that way.

Or search par lumber.

Yep.

Tony and I have our own email address.

It's weekend warriorsar.com if you're interested in talking to me or Tony about anything.

Tony's a manager of the yard.

So if you got a problem, you.

Can all complaints go to Tony.

Yeah, we can, we can Definitely.

Anything sales related goes to me.

Yeah.

But let's be honest.

I reply to all the emails.

Exactly.

There you go.

Yeah, we got a great podcast.

Yeah.

Lots of.

Lots of really good shows on there that we've been doing for years and years.

Yep.

And.

And you can get those podcasts wherever you listen to your podcast.

Same.

And if you're listening on the home improvement streaming network out there.

Yeah.

You guys might be following this show right now.

We don't even know it, so who knows?

Let us email us.

Let us know exactly.

Yeah.

I'll tell you what, this has been a hoot.

I am so glad we got to come and be on the show with you.

This.

This has really been a great time.

Yeah, man.

This is a lot of fun.

Guys.

This is more than even what I expected.

I knew we'd get in here and blast through an hour super quick, so.

All right, guys, that's how you get a hold of those guys.

And check out the weekend Warrior show.

I'm Eric G.

Thanks for tuning in to around the House.