[00:00:00] Eric Goranson: It's around the house when it comes to remodeling and renovating your home. There is a lot to know though. We've got you covered. This is around the house. Welcome to the Round the House Show. This is where we help you get the most outta your home through information and education. Happy Meal Week.

[00:00:33] Eric Goranson: Special everybody. Today we're gonna talk about a term in your house that has been all of a sudden, kind of manufactured as controversial over the last couple of years. I talked about this on the show two or three years ago, but after seeing social media this last week, it appears that we need to bring it up again.

[00:00:53] Eric Goranson: We're talking about a room that 1926. Sears and [00:01:00] Roebuck in their catalog first called the master bedroom. Yes, the owner's primaries, whatever else. Some of these people are trying to rema rename this as being, it is the master bedroom and they were trying to sell a kit house, so they were trying to pick out a.

[00:01:19] Eric Goranson: Clearly that had something to do with the owners or the head of household's bedroom, because before that you just had bedrooms, you didn't have extra rooms. Homes were pretty small until we got into the turn of the century for most people. There was not a larger bedroom with an attached bathroom that people called like the master bedroom suite or any of that.

[00:01:44] Eric Goranson: It just really didn't exist unless you were talking larger mansions and many of those had bathrooms attached to every one of the rooms. So those are things that you would see back then around this time. Now some people have tried to twist this around and say it has something to do with [00:02:00] slavery, and clearly there is absolutely no evidence that that has ever happened.

[00:02:06] Eric Goranson: If you think about it, when it came back to slavery. Even when it comes to rarely, if never, I'm sure there's an exception, so I'll say rarely. Slaves didn't even live in the house, so you wouldn't be trying to in the same house say which one. Had this bedroom, which one didn't. So it absolutely makes zero sense to try to tie that into it.

[00:02:28] Eric Goranson: But really they were trying to linguistically say that this was the owner's suite. Now, if I wanted to be petty here, I could say, well, owners, geez, that's controversial because owners could mean if you had an owner's suite that if you are a renter, that you might have your feelings hurt living in the.

[00:02:48] Eric Goranson: Owner's suite when you're a renter. So you see kind of where I'm going with this and the level of ridiculousness. So this is something that I really kind of want to talk about today. So even up [00:03:00] till now, of course there are people out there trying to claim what this is and, and quite frankly, you think about master bedroom, master carpenter, master electrician, a masterful use of the word.

[00:03:16] Eric Goranson: You see where I'm going? This is something that we always have to be careful with. So I am not one of those that subscribe to, well, I would say this overreaction via ignorance. I am not one of the people out there that says we need to rename this room, cuz it is clearly taking things too far. And this is where I get on my soapbox a little.

[00:03:42] Eric Goranson: Can you imagine if we took this somewhat ridiculous energy and actually tried to use it for good instead of trying to change this word in real estate? Why don't we try to change. how people are getting into homes. Why aren't we trying to help gain [00:04:00] resources for people that are living in inner cities where they can't barely get their house fixed up?

[00:04:06] Eric Goranson: So it's livable. How about trying to help people that are minorities or underserved communities get into home ownership? How about trying to keep it where homes are more affordable for? My take is we are spending the energy in the wrong spot, trying to change a term from something that it never had anything to do with.

[00:04:31] Eric Goranson: We should be trying to help people instead work on getting into homes, getting out of houses that they can't live in, that need to be repaired. Getting them into that and really helping people out. So that is my soapbox of the day. Let's spend that energy wisely cuz there are plenty of things we need to change out there, including getting people into homes of whatever [00:05:00] race, religion.

[00:05:01] Eric Goranson: Let's go down the list. We need to really help people get into homes, not be sitting here, spending days reimagining the English language so we don't hurt somebody. Especially when it wasn't designed that way to begin with. So let's see if we can help people just a little bit more. All right, I think we have covered that topic, and if you wanna debate me, feel free to head over and, uh, send a comment over to around the house.

[00:05:31] Eric Goranson: online.com. You can contact me over there. We've got a bunch of different recalls to touch on today. Um, our friends over at MI, windows and Doors is recalling vinyl single hung impact windows due to fall and serious injury hazards. The tilt latch can cause the window opening control devices to malfunction, posing a fall or serious injury hazards.

[00:05:54] Eric Goranson: So consumers should immediately close and lock the recalled windows and contact MI windows and doors for a free [00:06:00] repair mi, or will arrange for a free in-home repair to replace the window opening control devices. So we have about 25,000 units out there, and that's from mi, windows and doors. Now here's another one.

[00:06:16] Eric Goranson: Uh, LG Electronics recalls free standing 86 inch. That's a good size tv, smart televisions and stands due to serious tip over and entrapment hazards. So I guess that little stand is unstable and can tip over. So, uh, they do not want you to use those stands. There's about 52,000 of those and, um, 1800 in Canada, 2,900 in Mexico.

[00:06:41] Eric Goranson: So if you've got that, you can head over to cpsc.gov recalls or get ahold of LG for that one. And now there is another one here. We're going down the list today. There's a lot of these thistle recalls. Cordless, multi-surface wet drive vacuums due to a fire hazard. Uh, the circuit board inside the [00:07:00] vacuums battery packing over heat and smoke pos, posing a fire hazard.

[00:07:04] Eric Goranson: 61,000 of these. So if you see this bis. Cordless, multi-surface, wet, dry vacuum, one of those uprights. Make sure about 61,000 out there. Make sure that you, uh, get ahold of the Bissell service technician to replace that battery pack. Uh, those are some of the big ones today out there. And of course we did cover earlier, but I want to cover one more time.

[00:07:26] Eric Goranson: Z line recalling they're all gas ranges, uh, due to the gas oven having a issue with carbon monoxide. So make sure that. If you have a gas on gas Z line range, there's about 28,000 of those. You should stop using the oven and make sure you get that free repair available. And that's an important one cuz we don't wanna see that happen to anyone.

[00:07:51] Eric Goranson: All right, that's it on the recall list of the day. All right everybody. I'm gonna keep this pretty quick today on our midweek special cuz I have got to [00:08:00] get out, I have got some shooting to do for the TV show. So, uh, these will be probably a little bit quicker from time to time and, uh, especially when I've got other things to do.

[00:08:09] Eric Goranson: So stay tuned. Coming up on February 18th will be the. Reveal of the first episode of the show. Looking forward to that. And, uh, stay tuned to social media here coming up in the next week here. Probably by the end of this week hopefully we'll have it where you can submit questions via video. You can take a video and you'll be able to submit questions for me to answer for you in the show.

[00:08:31] Eric Goranson: So stay tuned for that. Alright buddy, have a great rest of the week. Happy midweek special. We got a great show ahead this weekend where we're gonna talk about the 10 things. Those mistakes you wanna avoid when you're designing a kitchen. And then we're gonna talk about the 10 mistakes for 2023 to avoid when designing and remodeling a bathroom.

[00:08:51] Eric Goranson: So we're gonna talk about those some different issues to resolve all that and more coming up on Saturday and around the house. Have a great rest of the week. Stay safe out there. [00:09:00] And as always, thanks again for listening to Around the House