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[00:00:04] Caroline Blazovsky: and I did go old Anderson to newer Anderson. So I was consistent with that. Okay. The other thing was I had to order, um, you know, you, pre-order the side where your lock is gonna go. So in your handle, right? So I went with the left. What was interesting. Now I've never had this happen before the lock of my door was sticking out too far.

[00:00:22] Caroline Blazovsky: Mm-hmm so it was hitting now most of the time, this doesn't happen, but in this case I'm like right there knocking the handle of the storm door. To the door. So now I've gotta go change the lock on the, uh, little, can I tell

[00:00:33] Eric Goranson: you my trick on that little piece of felt, what I've done yeah. Is I've gone through I've uninstalled the storm door and I've gone in and made the brick mold around the outside a little bit thicker by adding some wood to it.

[00:00:46] Eric Goranson: When it comes to remodeling and renovating your home, there

[00:00:49] Intro: is a lot to know the, we got you covered. This is around the house.

[00:00:55] Eric Goranson: Welcome to around the house with Eric G and Caroline. [00:01:00] This is where we help you as that homeowner our soon to be homeowner. Get right through that house project. Take Caroline.

[00:01:08] Caroline Blazovsky: Hello everybody. Hey, how's

[00:01:10] Eric Goranson: everybody doing? Good? I am so happy to be home. I have been like, I feel like I've been a band on tour, you know, that turn the page song, you know, long and lonesome highway east Omaha had a great time over the last few weeks traveling, but I am. I'm good to be home. It's nice to be home.

[00:01:30] Caroline Blazovsky: Home in our studio and I've been working like a dog and he's been on vacation. No, he had to put on vacation. He's working and doing a little bit of vacationing. Yeah. I'm just working

[00:01:42] Eric Goranson: fun work. So this last week, and we'll talk about what we've been doing this last week was amazing. I was out at, uh, Delta Brizo and Peerless faucets.

[00:01:54] Eric Goranson: I tell you what they're. I've been to probably 20 or 30 different times where, you [00:02:00] know, manufacturers have flown me out or I've done some consulting work. They're they're, that is the top shelf. As far as them taking care of you and getting to learn some new stuff. It was really fun to see a lot of the stuff out there had a great time and

[00:02:15] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm hearing it for the first time, which is always nice.

[00:02:17] Caroline Blazovsky: So tell us, what did you see out there and what did you.

[00:02:21] Eric Goranson: So we, you know, we jumped on a flight, you know, flew to from, you know, I flew from Portland with our group. There were seven of us with the rep included, uh, all interior design or architectural kind of professionals. You know what I mean? And flew out there.

[00:02:35] Eric Goranson: And of course I'll tell some of my Folies on the way out there. I got stuck at O'Hare airport for six and a half hours because of a huge scheduling slash mechanical issue with a. On, uh, it's always that

[00:02:50] Intro: United,

[00:02:51] Caroline Blazovsky: now everybody gets stuck. I mean, I don't, I don't know anybody who hasn't been on a flight.

[00:02:55] Caroline Blazovsky: That's not delayed.

[00:02:57] Eric Goranson: This is my first time. And so it was kind of funny. So we're sitting [00:03:00] there, we land and we could see that there was a, a delay. So the plane shows up, you know, hours later. And then when it shows up, this is where I got frustrated as I showed up. And I'm like, really? They're like, oh, sorry, the pilot's out of hours.

[00:03:12] Eric Goranson: So we need to find a new flight. He's where he was out of hours. Yeah. So he had flown his hours or so many hours. He or she had flown their hours for the day and they couldn't fly anywhere. They'd run outta time. And I was like, all couldn't you known those couple hours ago? You know, it seems like, need to know that kinda kind of think they could have, but they figured it out.

[00:03:31] Eric Goranson: And so we finally got in. And, uh, that was cool. And, uh, had a great time that night we, uh, walked in and they had us up at this, uh, hotel car, Michael, which is a really, really nice hotel. And they had a piano bar, uh, down in the basement and we were down there. They were, everybody was having dinner in karaoke.

[00:03:50] Eric Goranson: Yep. Indianapolis is correct. We were actually in Carmel, uh, Indiana, which is just outside of it. It's kind of their high end. Neighborhood. We were in their [00:04:00] arts district. So really fancy. I mean, you'd get in that area. That's all new. And, uh, looks like you're in a, like a, uh, a village in Italy, someplace, or a village in Europe someplace.

[00:04:10] Eric Goranson: It's cool. Nice. Lots of stone work. It was awesome. But uh, spent a great amount of time there and, uh, really got to figure out kind of what those guys are doing. Julie gave me a hard time cause I actually got up and sing karaoke, which I never. I think she's ever seen me sing karaoke before, so I actually got up and did it, but good times.

[00:04:32] Caroline Blazovsky: So, um, everybody out there probably either has a Delta in their house. I mean, I think, I think almost every house in America's got something Delta. Yeah. So what did they have going on? Or what's the latest there?

[00:04:43] Eric Goranson: Well, it's funny, you know, you look back at the, the origination of Delta and they're the ones that actually started Masco, the big Masco corporation that owns, you know, lots of different companies out there in the home improvement space.

[00:04:54] Eric Goranson: But, uh, when they invented Delta years ago, you know, they went through [00:05:00] and, you know, it's just a, a, an immigrant that came in and, uh, designed Delta faucets. He had worked in machining jobs and decided he would build a better faucet. And now they've got Delta, they've got Brizo, you know, they've got Peerless, which is kind of your entry level stuff, but, um, it's impressive how they actually build faucets, which is really cool because they've got some great technology in there and they're doing some neat stuff.

[00:05:27] Eric Goranson: Now that is really cool from the home improvement or construction side of things. You know, when you put in a shower valve, for instance, You know, you're gonna maybe have a shower or a tub shower that valve you put in there they've simplified it. So you can put the rough in, in, and then you can figure out what type of cartridge you want in there.

[00:05:48] Eric Goranson: Or if you're gonna go with a Delta or a Brizo, you can figure out once you have it roughed in, you can literally rough the project in and then decide what trim and cartridge you want in there to go within that. So they've [00:06:00] got this really universal base, which makes nice, that so much.

[00:06:05] Caroline Blazovsky: Do they have a giant showroom?

[00:06:06] Caroline Blazovsky: I mean, I can imagine the showroom. There is just incredible.

[00:06:09] Eric Goranson: It is massive. And, uh, they are just bringing on a steam shower line. So they were doing some remodeling to, to include that in there. And if you saw on, uh, the, around the house Facebook page, I did a little quick little video of the, uh, Frank Lloyd Wright FAU.

[00:06:28] Eric Goranson: Running you did.

[00:06:28] Caroline Blazovsky: And they had like, they had a demonstration where they were running the faucet and there's real water going through it. It's not like you're going to a kitchen. Bathy and you just look at a model. They actually had a working faucet. It was cool.

[00:06:38] Eric Goranson: Most of the faucets in there in this place were working.

[00:06:41] Eric Goranson: So you could actually turn it on. They had the shower system you could turn on and you know, people go, oh, okay. It runs water. It's pretty. It's cool. But when it comes down to it, and this is where it makes a difference, we've all had shower heads. You go, oh, that's pretty. Like in a hotel, for instance, how many times Caroline, you've been in a hotel room.

[00:06:58] Eric Goranson: Right. And you're like, you [00:07:00] turn the shower head on. You're like, really? How am I gonna wash my hair? There's no way that soap's coming outta there. Cause it's given you like just, you know, a teaspoon or teaspoon of pressure. Yeah. Teaspoon of pressure or vice versa. It feels like you're at the car wash and somebody's got a pressure washer cuz it's this little tiny spray, but it's almost like.

[00:07:20] Eric Goranson: Liquid knife. Cutting you. You know what I mean? You're like, it's

[00:07:23] Caroline Blazovsky: so hard coming out. It's like pelting you in the skin. You're like, oh

[00:07:25] Eric Goranson: yeah. Hey, this isn't good. So they have done a great job of going through with their H two O connect technology to use less water, but give you the feeling of having more water.

[00:07:41] Eric Goranson: Right. That's wonderful. Mm-hmm . And so what they've done is they've created all the little, you know, it's it's coverage really like when you stand in a shower it's coverage of that spray. But what some companies will do is that they'll just put out a lot of wide spray heads, but you've got a lot of little spots in between them that hit your body that are MIS

[00:07:59] Caroline Blazovsky: yeah.

[00:07:59] Caroline Blazovsky: [00:08:00] That

[00:08:00] Eric Goranson: that's missing. Yeah. It's missing, but it's cold, right? It still feels cold. Some of those shower heads, the warm water comes out and like the droplets are so small. When they come out and missed like two inches out, they're already cold, so you're wet, but you're getting cold.

[00:08:15] Caroline Blazovsky: I feel like I don't get clean.

[00:08:16] Caroline Blazovsky: Like a lot of the shower heads. I always complain that they're not giving me full coverage. Like it's just getting my hair in my head and my body standing there getting cold. And that's the key, like to getting your whole body feeling like it's getting showered at once? I think, yeah, that's a

[00:08:29] good

[00:08:29] Eric Goranson: shower to me.

[00:08:30] Eric Goranson: So the trick is if you hold and they did this on the display there, they held a strobe light up. Right. And it would freeze. What it was, and they have these middle heads that actually put out a wave of water. That's almost like a, like when a fireman sitting there spraying a hose and they're going from side to side, it's doing that side to side.

[00:08:51] Eric Goranson: So it's giving you the feeling of a lot of water, huh? But your body can't, it just feels like you're getting twice the water than what you. [00:09:00] So that's kind of the key right there. So that was really making us out, faking us out. But, uh, and you know, something, our hotel had that shower head in it, it was, it was a gorgeous hotel.

[00:09:12] Eric Goranson: We had the whole Brizo shower system in there, you know, with the diverters and all the stuff in there. And you could actually use it, which yeah, it was comfortable. And, you know, I'm a, I'm very picky when it comes to showers and it was a nice shower. That's awesome. That's awesome. So we had a great time and great time.

[00:09:28] Eric Goranson: Other thing I learned about faucets and stuff and, and a great story too, how they've dealt with kind of a situation that went sideways while we were there. And I was just really impressed. So I have to give 'em some props, Caroline, we come back. We'll do that. And then I wanna hear about your, uh, Storm door story.

[00:09:44] Eric Goranson: Right? Stop. You're learning. Oh yeah. We'll talk about that. Just as soon as around the house returns be

[00:09:50] Intro: so hot.

[00:09:55] Intro: So.

[00:09:59] Intro: Hey,

[00:09:59] Eric Goranson: I'm Rudy [00:10:00] Wade. And you're listening to around the house with Eric G and Caroline B, listen to my music to improve your

[00:10:04] Intro: home. I hid your line. You got me thinking about the day we move along. You have me singing in your

[00:10:12] Eric Goranson: head, like welcome back to the round, the house show. Caroline and I have been sitting here talking about, uh, well, What we've been up to and we're traveling, given some remodeling tips too.

[00:10:21] Eric Goranson: You've been

[00:10:21] Caroline Blazovsky: traveling though. I have been nice hotel. He stayed at this beautiful hotel.

[00:10:26] Eric Goranson: Yeah. Wow. They took care of us. And I, I wanted to give a shout out here. You know, we spent a lot of time at, at, uh, at Delta breeze over three days and they did a great job taking care of us and got to play with the research and development people.

[00:10:40] Eric Goranson: Got to talk to the design people and gave our tips and tricks and stuff that we wanna see outta the brands and, uh, the testing. I mean, they test, so you think about a faucet before it comes out. They literally test it like a million times, so they will put a machine on it, hook, water up to it [00:11:00] and have the robot move it the handle and adjust it a million times.

[00:11:05] Eric Goranson: And they have a whole team of people in a certified lab in their own building. The tests. Incredible. Yeah. And as long as it map passes, the half a million uses mark.

[00:11:17] Intro: You're good. But see,

[00:11:20] Caroline Blazovsky: fascinating to our audience. Look at that. Look at the care that people think about that goes into your kitchen or your bathroom.

[00:11:27] Caroline Blazovsky: It's

[00:11:27] Eric Goranson: incredible designed to be solid. And I can promise you that stuff that you buy online, that's the no name brand or the, the stuff you get on Amazon or whatever that you've never heard of it. Ain't got that. And it, I can tell you that right now, I can tell you that right now. So we had a great time with that, you know, and then they had like big 3d printers that they use for, um, for testing and design.

[00:11:48] Eric Goranson: So they'll design something out and there's some stuff I really can't talk about cuz I signed an NDA nondisclosure, but they. Print out stuff [00:12:00] like let's say you're gonna build a new faucet, right. And you're the designer and you want it to look like X, however you want it to look. They can print that out with a 3d printer and make it a functional faucet, send it off and have it plated.

[00:12:14] Eric Goranson: So it looks like a Chrome or a brass or whatever, and they can make a plastic replica of it at a 3d printing and see if it works. And tweak it before they even use a piece of metal shrimpy. It's kind of cool, you know, kind of cool that they can do that. So that makes it really, really easy from that. But here's one thing that went sideways on this trip and, you know, that's where you really see when companies can react or not.

[00:12:41] Eric Goranson: We were heading for our last day to the, uh, to the trip, you know, on that last day. And I'm, I'm like, wow, we're running late and nobody's. Moving us along. These guys were really efficient in their time. We had rest time. We had work time. We had dinner time and [00:13:00] I'm like, ah, we're running a little late.

[00:13:01] Eric Goranson: Something's sums up. Well, unfortunately one of the people, and I don't know who it was on. The team of 30 had caught COVID and tested positive that morning. And I, I have to shout out to Delta Brizo as a company in Masco, because I've never seen how a company has dealt with this. So lovingly and graciously.

[00:13:25] Eric Goranson: So they came on the bus and said, Hey, look, here's all the information we have. This is what we have as somebody. So they protect their privacy, which was cool. Mm-hmm and they said, so you have options right now. We have, this is our last day. You were heading to the airport in five hours. If you want to go to the airport now and go home, we're going to send you off and we'll make the changes to your flights.

[00:13:49] Eric Goranson: You can go. If you're worried about you, like you might have symptoms and you want to sit here in this gorgeous hotel and sit here for five days and make sure that [00:14:00] you quarantine for five days, we'll pick up the cost and your airfare on the way back. Nice. Very nice. Or if you want to continue on, you know, let's put masks on, let's wash our hands.

[00:14:11] Eric Goranson: Let's stay socially distant. We can do that too. We're here to make sure you're comfortable. Nice. It was a class act total class act. And, uh, they could not have done that better or could not have been more respectful to. Every single person there Rodney's situ

[00:14:30] Caroline Blazovsky: yeah, exactly. Everybody's got different situations.

[00:14:33] Caroline Blazovsky: They can't go home. They can't bring it to their kids, their

[00:14:35] Eric Goranson: family. Yeah. So it was, it was absolutely awesome. And hats off to them, you know, it's, it's one thing to throw a really cool event and, you know, ask us questions and give input and all that stuff. But when something goes sideways like that, that's out of everyone's control.

[00:14:53] Eric Goranson: That's where you really start to see a culture now. Yeah. But you really see a culture and what, how they deal. Very [00:15:00] nice. So very cool. Go Delta. Yeah, that was cool. Hey, one thing I wanna, before we talk about your project, Caroline, I, we talked about this in the midweek special podcast, and we have a lot of listeners here on the radio that don't catch that, but, uh, DeWalt has a huge recall out there right now.

[00:15:16] Eric Goranson: That's very important that I wanted to bring up here in the show real quick, DeWalt recalls nearly 1.4 million Mir saws due to injury and laceration hazard. Mm, go over to the consumer product safety commission. If you've got one of those chop saws, the Dewal ones, um, there's about 1.4 million of them out there where the guard guard can come apart.

[00:15:38] Eric Goranson: You know, they have that rear safety guard on 'em, uh, mm-hmm it can break or detach, and then when it breaks or detaches, it fires itself into the blade. And now you have a regardless saw hitting. That guard, hitting the blade and coming apart. So you could, um, you know, you could get yourself in trouble, so [00:16:00] cover something.

[00:16:00] Eric Goranson: Yeah. Mm-hmm they said, uh, make sure you stop using the saw contact Dewal for details and they will get you a free repair kit, or you can take the saw to DeWalt service center for a free repair. And, uh, if you registered it, they are contacting all the purchasers to make sure that's it. So there's your tip right there.

[00:16:18] Eric Goranson: Make sure you fill out those crazy. You know, warranty cards when you get them. So if there is a recall, you can actually know about it and I to hear it from us. Nice. So, Caroline, what have you been doing around your house? I mean, we only got a minute or two left here before we go out to break, but I saw on social media, we haven't talked about this.

[00:16:41] Eric Goranson: This is great. You were, you were doing the storm door battle. I did.

[00:16:46] Caroline Blazovsky: Um, well, we're going out to break, but we'll talk about a little bit about it. I went with the Anderson storm door. Mm-hmm my storm door was antiquated. Right? Okay. So it needed an uptick, but I also don't like those pistons and the ugly.[00:17:00]

[00:17:00] Caroline Blazovsky: Push to open or push to hold button that, you know, everybody sees it takes up space. Right. So if you're trying to move in a, an item into the house, maybe you're moving a, a sofa, you've got these things, you gotta take the door off, it's a pain. So they've got this awesome technology now, which I really like.

[00:17:15] Caroline Blazovsky: So it's the smooth control technology. It eliminates all of this nonsense with the storm door. So you can actually have your storm door like completely open and move stuff in and hold it out without having to have the piston. Nice. It's nice.

[00:17:28] Intro: Yeah.

[00:17:28] Eric Goranson: That piston always gets in the way. And then you have to sit there.

[00:17:30] Eric Goranson: If you wanna hold it open, you have to slide that little piece of metal out and that kind of jams it open. You gotta chain sitting there that you're in case of wind gets it. You know,

[00:17:40] Intro: none of that gone. Oh,

[00:17:41] Caroline Blazovsky: clean, clean, gone, nice door jam. Like, I mean, I'm telling you, I, I'm going to say. Because we're honest on the show.

[00:17:49] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah. Okay. And people get mad at us, but this says, oops, easy DIY. This was not an oops, easy DIY project to install at all. Okay. And there's a [00:18:00] couple reasons, and we can talk about it coming back out of the break because it's a long winded thing, but you know, this was worth it to do. Definitely the technology's awesome.

[00:18:09] Caroline Blazovsky: Put it in. It's gonna help you tremendously. However, there's some caveats that we gotta

[00:18:13] Eric Goranson: discuss. All right, Carolyn, we come back. Let's run out to break real quick. When we come back, let's uh, learn a little bit about this storm door mishap. That you had there, and it's not really a mishap, but just the challenges you had.

[00:18:24] Eric Goranson: We'll do that just as soon as around the house returns.

[00:18:56] Intro: Hey guys,

[00:18:56] Eric Goranson: you're listening to around the house with Eric G and Caroline B [00:19:00] Zeke sky. And I'm gonna show you how to shred it out while you're

[00:19:02] Intro: building it up.

[00:19:20] Eric Goranson: Welcome back to around the house show. This is where Caroline and I talk about to help you be better caretakers of that house you're living in are gonna be living in. And well, Caroline and I, when we were just going out to break here, we were talking about your storm door install. Yeah. And, uh, sounds like you had a couple hiccups along the way, or at least challenges.

[00:19:41] Eric Goranson: And let me

[00:19:41] Caroline Blazovsky: preface this, this door is well worth it. Like I was out there in 98 degree. Sweating. My took us off doing this and it's, and I'm still telling you, I have like this pride feeling when I look at this door. It's awesome. However, there's some things that you need to be prepared if you're gonna do this install because it took me all day [00:20:00] yeah.

[00:20:01] Caroline Blazovsky: So the first thing was quality control is still an issue. This is the second door I had to order from Anderson because the first door had a problem. So it had to go back. This door still had problems, the glass piece, the. Does not fit in. So right now I'm using the screen door, cuz I went with the full glass.

[00:20:19] Caroline Blazovsky: Um, okay. So I'm using the screen insert instead, but it did not fit and it looked like the caulking within the window. Piece was sort of over cocked and, and ah, messed up. So maybe that it, so that was noticeable. It, it was banged up on the outside the scratches. I wasn't so happy with that. They're supposed to be in the directions.

[00:20:39] Caroline Blazovsky: It says there's, you know, your plastic film that you pull off when you're, you know, before you install it, that wasn't there. So, so the metal had some scratches, which I wasn't happy about. And then the other interesting thing is if you put in, um, there's a lot of different door companies you can put in, but typically you don't have to do this.

[00:20:58] Caroline Blazovsky: The trim pieces that go around you're [00:21:00] framing have to be, as Eric said, minored. Yep. Is the word or cut? Yep. Where in the directions, it tells you that they want you to do it, let it just, you know, come down onto your threshold. So imagine the pieces will kind of hang over your threshold and that doesn't look good to me.

[00:21:13] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm a perfectionist, so I want it to fit. Look that look great. So yeah, I was doing like some metal trimming, which was not my, I wasn't expecting that. Yeah. Um, and that's not my expertise, so. Luckily, I had someone that could help me with that. So those are types types of things that you gotta kind of just be aware of if you're gonna go with this new type of door, but the technology

[00:21:34] Eric Goranson: is awesome.

[00:21:34] Eric Goranson: Yeah. That's, you know, with remodeling and this is a tip for everybody out there and, and the people that have done these things before shaking their head and probably agreeing. But when you're diving into these things like that, sometimes to really make it look and fit, right. You've gotta modify it because you know, to, to Anderson.

[00:21:52] Eric Goranson: Credit, they're trying to build a storm door. That's gonna fit every store out there. Right. Mm-hmm and so they have to kind of make it a universal fit. It's not like they [00:22:00] go, oh, you've got an Anderson door. You've got a Simpson door. You've got, you know, any, one of the different brands out there. They just go out.

[00:22:08] Eric Goranson: This that'll maybe fit. You know, we'll make it

[00:22:11] Caroline Blazovsky: universal. And I did go old Anderson to newer Anderson. So I was consistent with that. Okay. The other thing was I had to order, um, you know, you, pre-order the side where your lock is gonna go. So in your handle, right? So I went with the left, but was interesting.

[00:22:25] Caroline Blazovsky: Now I've never had this happen before the lock of my door. Was sticking out too far. Mm-hmm so it was hitting now most of the time, this doesn't happen, but in this case I'm like right there knocking the handle of the storm door into the door. So now I've gotta go change the lock on the, on the main door.

[00:22:41] Caroline Blazovsky: Cause I can do it, but I've got a piece of, uh, little, can I tell you

[00:22:44] Eric Goranson: my trick on that piece of felt, what I've done? Yeah. Is I've gone through, I have uninstalled the storm door. And I've gone in and made the brick mold around the outside a little bit thicker by adding some wood to it and then putting the door on it and [00:23:00] then painting everything else on the inside to match.

[00:23:02] Eric Goranson: So it brings the door out that ha you know, three quarters of an inch. So the lock handle and stuff don't hit. Mmm. So like you've got an old house, right. That's made out of a two by four construction. Yeah. Yeah. You know, most new houses due to energy code are made two by six or even two by eight, depending on where you're at.

[00:23:20] Eric Goranson: So you have less of a chance because you've got another inch and a half there. On a new home for that designer lock and the, and the door lock off the storm door not to hit. So if you add a little bit to that and you can, you know, make that look kind of cool. If you, if you spend a little time on it, you could actually put the wood up there, Mount the storm door or door on it, and that'll bring you out, you know, three quarters of an inch.

[00:23:43] Caroline Blazovsky: Well, you'll be happy about what I did. So instead I went with the electronic door door. You go, went for the lock. The, I went with the Yale. I haven't installed it so we can talk about that next week, but that's coming up.

[00:23:55] Eric Goranson: That works too. I would, if I put a storm door on mine, I would have that because I've got the, [00:24:00] the two by four house construction and I've got the, the beefy, you know, Baldwin hardware.

[00:24:06] Eric Goranson: Yeah, that's what it was. And it's, it's solid, but yeah, it's almost probably flush with my door. So I know that if I put a storm door in the front, I'm gonna have a C. No

[00:24:16] Caroline Blazovsky: question. Yeah. So it, actually, I can close it. I, I was shocked cuz it was like, oh, I'm not gonna be able to close it, but I can, but I have a little piece of felt there right now.

[00:24:24] Caroline Blazovsky: So I don't mess up my door handles if they accidentally bump into each other. But yeah, smart. I'm going to uh, yeah, so that's getting changed out and I'm gonna go with the new interior door as well. So I think the whole thing I'm going with

[00:24:35] Eric Goranson: Simpson doors. Okay. You got a lot going on with that. Yeah. And

[00:24:37] Caroline Blazovsky: then, uh, oh my God, we have projects coming out the

[00:24:41] Eric Goranson: Y yeah.

[00:24:41] Eric Goranson: Yeah, exactly. And then, uh, you're diving into, uh, getting ready to do some, uh, door removal. Aren't you, you putting a new door in and stuff like that?

[00:24:49] Caroline Blazovsky: Well, yeah, we're taking out kitchen windows, so that's gonna happen on Monday. So we'll a lot of exciting probably stories for you, but yeah. Gonna remove a kitchen bay window and go with an Anderson [00:25:00] slider.

[00:25:00] Caroline Blazovsky: So the kitchen's gonna go out to a nice deck. Nice. Make

[00:25:02] Eric Goranson: sure your contractor knows how to flash that. We talk about that all the time. Like when we had Walton,

[00:25:07] Intro: oh, it's

[00:25:07] Caroline Blazovsky: flash. I picked

[00:25:08] Intro: up my flashing

[00:25:10] Eric Goranson: last week. Cool, cool. There's some great flashings out there now with the, with the flexible flashing and, and uh, one thing I've been doing when I have to reframe stuff and, and Walton, and I talked about this in a seminar a few weeks ago, which, you know, we had him on recently and.

[00:25:26] Eric Goranson: One of the things I like to do when I'm reframing is put a couple degrees of pitch to the outside on that bottom sill. So the top of the framing of the window. Yeah. That way, if any water does get around it and intrude, you know, like when you get your hurricanes rolling in or anything else, it still helps to kinda kick that out to the outside.

[00:25:45] Caroline Blazovsky: Push it out. Yes, sir. Exactly.

[00:25:47] Intro: Eye. I.

[00:25:49] Eric Goranson: Speaking of a podcast. Let me jump back to what we were talking about last segment a little bit, you know, it was fun because when we had Delta Brizo on here last month, month or two ago, we had Ellen [00:26:00] Scott on. Right. It was so fun. I I'd met El before, but it was so fun to hang out with her and Scott together there.

[00:26:10] Eric Goranson: So next time it's gonna be even crazier, cuz we'll have more stories and stuff. But, uh, it was fun getting to know some of these people that, uh, you know, we've, we've seen in, you know, we've all seen people in zoom meetings, right? We all have that. Or we have the, this kind of stuff. It was really cool to be face to face with him and, and having fun and actually get to know him a little bit better.

[00:26:29] Eric Goranson: That's the fun part there as well. So what do you okay. On the back of your door here, we're gonna have to go out to break in a couple minutes, but what else are you doing back there? Are you gonna start the deck then after those doors? Is that kind of what your process is?

[00:26:42] Intro: I think

[00:26:42] Caroline Blazovsky: so. So doors going first.

[00:26:44] Caroline Blazovsky: Okay. Exterior. Siding's gonna have to get fixed. Cause you gotta do all these things before the deck goes on. Cause once the deck's on,

[00:26:49] Eric Goranson: you're done, here's one thing and make sure that make sure that when your siding goes on, make sure your decking guys have come in and framed that first because otherwise they'll probably [00:27:00] have to tear that siding off to do the flashing with the deck.

[00:27:05] Eric Goranson: Oh, good point. You see what I mean? So what I would want to do is probably have the citing guys. I say guys that could easily be girls, have them come in after the deck. Yeah. Girls, you

[00:27:17] Caroline Blazovsky: forgot about us girl. No, I the SI the flashings already done. I forgot the con. We did the other one and the, the flashing and everything is done now.

[00:27:24] Caroline Blazovsky: Okay. So they just have to go up the

[00:27:25] Eric Goranson: deck on, so, okay. So they've already got the ledger board is already up there and set, so that way here. Okay, good. Yes. Good.

[00:27:31] Caroline Blazovsky: Yep. I forgot. So this is just we're extending. So we have one. Slider mm-hmm and then this is the second one going in, so it'll stay extended out.

[00:27:40] Caroline Blazovsky: So that's all done. Oh, okay. And then the flashings all done. So everything will be done before the deck people come, which is good because if anybody needs decking or deck individuals, they're very hard to come by right now. Yeah. I had to drive up to Parsippany New Jersey, which is up north quite a ways.

[00:27:54] Caroline Blazovsky: And, um, I found someone who actually, he started the national deck association. Oh, cool. So we'll talk a [00:28:00] little bit more about them once I get to meet with them out of the house, but they, uh, Very neat stuff. All outdoor.

[00:28:07] Nice

[00:28:08] Intro: hardscape.

[00:28:08] Eric Goranson: Nice. I love it. I love it. And uh, that way you can get going on that. Hey Caroline, we gotta go out to break here, so let's do this and we come back.

[00:28:16] Eric Goranson: I've got some projects I'm gonna talk about here and, uh, that I've got coming up as well. And we'll kind of wrap up and talk about your deck stuff here as well. We'll do that just as soon, this around the returns.[00:29:00]

[00:29:06] Intro: Hi everybody.

[00:29:07] Eric Goranson: I'm a man from Apolis band and you are listening to around the house with Eric G and the

[00:29:14] Intro: beautiful Caroline.

[00:29:21] Eric Goranson: Welcome back to the, around the house show. This is where Caroline and I sit here and help you. Be that great caretaker to that house, or soon to be house or even your apartment. If you wanna be a homeowner, we've got all that information for you. Now, Caroline and I were talking about some of these projects we've been working on and, uh, I've got one coming up that I gotta do.

[00:29:40] Eric Goranson: I gotta finish staying in that fence. That's going around my house, which I'm about halfway through, but I just literally to be honest, ran out of stain and I did this about a year ago, so I wanted. The Cedar to dry out really well. And I guess the problem is it's straight out so well that it's just like [00:30:00] soaking up every day, sucking it in.

[00:30:01] Eric Goranson: I'll never be able to change it cuz it's this color's going in. What,

[00:30:04] Caroline Blazovsky: um, so what kind of stain are you using? Are you using oil based water based like.

[00:30:09] Eric Goranson: I'm using oil based. Uh, I'm using oil based seeing kids it's outside. Yeah, it works well for me, it's, you know, it's works well and, uh, just going around and getting it.

[00:30:19] Eric Goranson: Uh, I was doing it one, I was applying it one way with the directions and I'm gonna change it up cuz it's just, it, it I'm wasting a lot of stains. So they had said, oh, use a pump sprayer with it. Hmm. You know, and spray it on that way. And it just it's wasting too much stain. So I'm gonna go back to.

[00:30:35] Eric Goranson: Applying it a little bit differently. I'm gonna try spraying it on there. And if that's not it I'm just gonna roll it on. I call it a dime. Yeah. But it's going pretty quick, but I just don't like wasting stain or getting it on, you know, on the, uh, on the tarps and stuff. I put down on the ground to keep me from getting stain all over the landscaping.

[00:30:52] Eric Goranson: What

[00:30:52] Caroline Blazovsky: a, what color is it? Are you, what color? Stain are you just doing a clear coat? Oh no, I'm going

[00:30:57] Eric Goranson: charcoal.

[00:30:58] Intro: Oh, to match your

[00:30:58] Eric Goranson: house. [00:31:00] Yeah, so it's kind of that way. And then I'm gonna build, after I get it stained, I'm gonna put a, a brown, Cedar top rail on it. That's gonna be like six inches. So it'll really cap it.

[00:31:10] Eric Goranson: Mm it's gonna be a Cedar top cap. That'll look cool that

[00:31:12] way.

[00:31:13] Caroline Blazovsky: See out, buy you. Like I was kind of interested cuz out by Eric there's so much fencing like people use, it's just part of the, everybody's got fencing out

[00:31:22] Intro: there. .

[00:31:23] Eric Goranson: Yeah. Yeah. And it's depending where you're at. I mean, it's, you know, in Portland, you're trying to keep people from like camping on your yard.

[00:31:30] Eric Goranson: You know, you're trying to keep people outta your yard from camping there, but you know, my front's not fenced at all. Um, it's going to cause I'm gonna use it as a sound barrier. Cause I do have a two lane road out in front of my house and there is, you know, there's buses and, you know, transit buses and stuff from time to time that go by.

[00:31:46] Eric Goranson: So, um, I'm gonna actually build. A four foot high, or I guess three foot high fence out there I'm gonna do just to, uh, you know, kind of a little bit of a sand wall sound wall with landscaping and stuff. And then, uh, I'm gonna do [00:32:00] a hedge behind it. So that way we've just got some privacy. You have to tell

[00:32:03] Caroline Blazovsky: me what kinda hedge.

[00:32:04] Caroline Blazovsky: So I need around I'm putting in a spa. So I wanna be able to do some type of privacy fencing, but I don't think I wanna do like a wood. So I kind of wanna do something with, you know, Some kind of agriculture, I don't know trees, but you know,

[00:32:19] Eric Goranson: something, what I've done, and this is one thing that can be look kind of cool.

[00:32:22] Eric Goranson: And it maybe won't fit with your house and your climate as well, but I've gotten some of the big, like metal feed troughs. Okay. You know what I mean? Like you, yeah. I know them feed Catalan, filled those up with great soil and then do a bamboo hedge in that. And there's enough weight there that it won't really blow over.

[00:32:45] Eric Goranson: Yeah. But it's also, doesn't let bamboo get out and be an invasive species to everything else cannot play. So you don't have bamboo going across the whole thing? No. So, you know, for trying to screen off a little area, that's a really cool way to do it without [00:33:00] having to take over your, your residence. I always say though, get, when you do it, put in some holes and stuff in the bottom of it.

[00:33:07] Eric Goranson: That way, and then make sure you kind of wherever you drill those holes through that, make sure that you spray some of the, of the, um, they make a kind of a, a spray, zinc stuff that you could put on there. So you don't rust it through right there, but you want to. You cuz it's meant to hold water. You need to have that drain.

[00:33:25] Eric Goranson: Right? So that way, if you know, if you get a storm or you get one of your, yeah. It's hurricanes that come through and drop eight inches of rain, you're not gonna be floating the bamboo out of the thing. Well, and also you

[00:33:34] Caroline Blazovsky: need to do it just for drainage for the plant. You know, like anytime I do, like, you know, I plant something, right?

[00:33:40] Caroline Blazovsky: You always have holes in the bottom. I put rocks in the bottom and you could, and you could do that too. Like gravel to create like earth and then it's allow the drainage. So it doesn't get moldy and nasty. That's not a bad, but if

[00:33:49] Eric Goranson: you're laying that in the ground with bamboo though, here's one little secret.

[00:33:52] Eric Goranson: I would put down a landscape fabric down below, cuz those bamboo can grow through those holes with the [00:34:00] roots. It's evil. That way it's evil that way. And then you're like I trying to keep it from growing out of the thing. And now it's, now it's trying to suck down into the ground. Something to be careful with.

[00:34:11] Eric Goranson: So, Caroline, I know you're getting drywall and you're on a drywall hunt right now. Are you? Yeah,

[00:34:16] Caroline Blazovsky: so I, I'm very particular about products that I use in my home. And I'm not saying that anybody else has to be this way, but I am a healthy home expert and I really. Choose products that are gonna out gas, less, have less fillers, additives, all that kind of stuff that we don't need.

[00:34:31] Caroline Blazovsky: So, um, I like gold bond, which is, you know, drywall

[00:34:34] Eric Goranson: standard. Oh, you the powder stuff? No, like I'm gonna put the gold bond bond

[00:34:38] Intro: that powder ah, izer

[00:34:41] Eric Goranson: for your arms. Like, man, you're put that in. That's brave using drywall as gold bond. That's I was gonna say Carolyn that's gangster.

[00:34:50] Intro: No

[00:34:52] Caroline Blazovsky: so there's, you know, obvious.

[00:34:54] Caroline Blazovsky: Um, you have USG, what do you usually do you use certainty? What do you have a brand that you usually like for Gypson? [00:35:00]

[00:35:00] Eric Goranson: No, I just go get drywall. I'll be honest. I just look at it and go, Hey, what do I got out there?

[00:35:04] Caroline Blazovsky: And they're not all the same guys, just so you know, they, they do have different products. And so when you research, 'em like I do.

[00:35:11] Caroline Blazovsky: Um, and I, and I like a light because I wanna be able to carry it cuz I'm not super strong. I'm tiny. So I, I always go with like the lighter. The lighter gypsum

[00:35:21] Intro: board.

[00:35:21] Eric Goranson: Cause it's oh yeah. Well, they make the, like the gold bond, medicated body powder. They make the gold bond. Uh, it's national dip, like the original body powder, you know, it comes in the yellow, the orange or the green

[00:35:31] Eric Goranson: Oh, sorry.

[00:35:33] Caroline Blazovsky: it's national Gypson guys, but they have their gold bond building products and use FRA

[00:35:38] Intro: on me. Yep. I

[00:35:40] Caroline Blazovsky: am. Do you have, I mean, out there, like different places. So I particularly like the drywall and I've gotta go outta state to get it because they just don't have it. Um, they have it at Lowe's, but I usually like to go to lumberyards.

[00:35:51] Caroline Blazovsky: I have my reasons for wanting to do that, but, um, yep. I just couldn't find it. So I'm going out to Allentown, PA friends in

[00:35:57] Eric Goranson: Allentown. Wow. So that's a couple what's that hour and a [00:36:00] half from your place.

[00:36:00] Caroline Blazovsky: Eh, it's about an hour. Give or take. Okay. So, I mean, it's not too far, but you know, it's an hour out. Yeah.

[00:36:06] Caroline Blazovsky: I gotta get 20 pieces and bring them back. And

[00:36:09] Eric Goranson: so that's a lot of trial. Yeah. That's a project. If you're getting 20 sheets, that's like solid, you're ripping stuff. Apart when you're getting 20 sheets of dry off, I'm doing an Eric G . You are, you are. That's awesome. Yeah. I'm gonna work on that. And you know, we've got some decent weather here this last few weeks.

[00:36:27] Eric Goranson: I'm starting to. We, we still had a lot of heat waves, but they haven't been that 117 degree heat waves. So, uh, I've been bouncing between doing inside projects and outside projects. And quite frankly, I'm not trying to do a ton of big projects right now because I little inside secret guys. I want to keep that for my.

[00:36:48] Eric Goranson: TV show next year. So I'm trying not to like dive into my big ones right now, so I can save those for

[00:36:54] Intro: content on TV,

[00:36:56] Eric Goranson: around the house show, coming to television next year. But [00:37:00] I kind of wanna use those projects there, right? Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, it's, I don't want to. Use up content that we can do. So it's gonna be a lot of fun and then we gotta figure out, uh, maybe we'll figure out how to come out and work on your shower.

[00:37:14] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah, that's a, that's a whole other ordeal. I've gotta do a whole bathroom, but I want Carl to flash. Get the kitchen done first. You gotta meet Carl to flash. He's

[00:37:22] Eric Goranson: awesome. Oh yeah. Get him, get him out there. There you go. Mm-hmm that would be good. Or tile check, but tiles or, or tile check tile checks. Good too.

[00:37:31] Eric Goranson: We've had

[00:37:31] Caroline Blazovsky: her on she's you gotta fly her in cuz she's in Texas.

[00:37:35] Eric Goranson: Yeah. And he's in your neighborhood. Mm-hmm so that would work, but yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And you, so yeah. Get the kitchen done. Then you can turn around and get the. Get that one done, but you've got a deck to do. You've got a patio.

[00:37:47] Eric Goranson: We've talked about both of those things. You've

[00:37:49] Caroline Blazovsky: got to, we have other, other, oh yeah.

[00:37:51] Eric Goranson: Walkout and Hey, that's one thing too. Just, uh, talking projects out and you know, I love to plan projects out, start to finish. I would get your [00:38:00] electrician out there to run the power for your spa. Before you do siding work.

[00:38:04] Eric Goranson: So, you know where that's gonna go, cuz if they have to get in and do stuff. Oh yeah. I would have the conversation with your citing people and your electrician, because if they have to go into the wall and do any stuff, you'd like to have them working around that and make sure that they're no,

[00:38:17] Caroline Blazovsky: that's a good point.

[00:38:18] Caroline Blazovsky: We, um, I'm lucky cuz I've got an outside outlet. That's next to the air conditioning on this side of the house. So I don't have to come off that. Okay.

[00:38:25] Eric Goranson: I checked it out, but yeah, but if you're getting that swim spa, sometimes those need like a 30 amp circuit or 40 amp circuit. So you might need, that's not a regular outlet.

[00:38:35] Eric Goranson: You gotta have like a spa outlet.

[00:38:37] Intro: It's a serious

[00:38:38] Eric Goranson: outlet. yeah. Make sure you've got the right one out there cuz uh, you know, that's one of those discussions you want to have. I mean, yeah, there are spas out there that take the, the regular standard, you know, one 10 plugin. But if you gotta put in a, you know, A two 40 plug in there, like 40 amps or something.

[00:38:56] Eric Goranson: You gotta plan for

[00:38:56] Caroline Blazovsky: that. And also just so people realize if you can find [00:39:00] someone who can hard do the hardscape in general, so they can do your deck and patio, it makes it much easier. And there are companies like decorators made us oh, very well aware of that. So there are people that can do it all, but just be prepared cuz these people are like not taking jobs until after 2023.

[00:39:15] Caroline Blazovsky: So they're all booked

[00:39:16] Eric Goranson: up. All

[00:39:17] Intro: right. I'm Eric G and I'm Caroline B. You've been

[00:39:20] Eric Goranson: listening to around

[00:39:22] Intro: the house.