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The next Stefan Good Day download with
Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in

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part by Keltren, which is the
safe way for you to lose weight and

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keep it off, and also by
previagent keeping your brain healthy. Time for

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Tom Kreidler is the co host of
the Money Pit home improvement radio program.

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Tommy appears with us here as we
prepare for weekend things. A lot of

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people are preparing for snow, so
maybe I'll ask him a few questions about

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some of the best shovels and some
of the best blowers and that sort of

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thing. But first, let's start
off with a question from one of our

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listeners. Guy's name is Jeff,
and he wants to know how to smooth

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out a You call him a popcorn
ceiling. I would call him just a

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rough whatever the what's the other texture? Texture? Yes, the texture.

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I think they're kind of ugly to
be in with, But don't they use

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that stuff to cover up oftentimes messes
that are Yeah, you're you're right,

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Doug. You know the reason that
so many builders use popcorn ceilings, especially

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back in the eighties and nineties,
was because they're trying to avoid having to

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put up drywall ceilings that when people
would complain about because if the seam wasn't

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perfect and you had lighting, which
you often do in a ceiling, it

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would show. And so it would
take a lot of time, a lot

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of callbacks to get it right.
And it's like, well, we're just

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gonna texture it. Nobody will notice, and that's kind of what happened.

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But now you know, we've got
so many houses that still have popcorn ceiling

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and people really really don't like it
for a lot of reasons. I mean,

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first of all, it holds dirt, and you know you can paint

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popcorn ceiling. There's a special roller
for it's very thick and has slits in

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it and basically it's designed to go
over the popcorn, and so you can

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do that. That helps, But
frankly, if you really want to steal

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it in, you got a prime
at first, so it's a lot of

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work. Almost as much work has
taken it down. But James, if

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you want to take it down you
can. Generally, the procedure is obviously

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cover everything you don't want popcorn droppings
on, but you wet the ceiling down

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and what I like to use for
that is a garden sprayer where I can

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pump it up and just cann't control
how much moisture I'm putting on it.

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We that ceiling down, work a
spot at a time, an area of

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time, and then you want to
use a wide scraper to basically scrape the

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popcorn off the ceiling. And once
you get it all done, then you

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definitely have to prime that ceiling.
I would use a solvent based primer and

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oil based primer to get it in
and sealed in real nice, and then

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you could put a flat paint over
top of it. You're still going to

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see some of the remains of the
of the texture of the popcorn, but

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it will not look as bad as
it did before. So is the assumption

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here that this stuff was put up
with latex painting so it's easier to scrape

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off. Because yeah, I'm listening
to the formula that that wouldn't work necessarily

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for oil based paint. Yeah,
no, I don't. I've never seen

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anything that was like a solvent based
popcorn material. It's always yeah, it's

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always water based. Okay, got
it all right. Now. One of

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the money Pit podcast is something that
is from the dream scope. Yeah,

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we call it pipe dreams. Pipe
your pipes from freezing? Yeah right,

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exactly what It's pretty cold and snowing
across much. Have you got snow in

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New Jersey? Not yet the second
year now? Yeah, really a bran

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new snowblower, but bought a BRANDW
snowblower last year being the season still brand

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new, haven't used yet. So
then under the circumstances, what do you

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recommend just out of curiosity because there
is a snowstorm that shovels. What's the

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best shovel? Is it a little? Is it plastic? Is it?

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What's the well? The first we'll
talk about the pipestug So a couple of

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things you can do right away is
if your pipes are prone to freezing,

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and those homes that that our people
know this right, open up your kitchen

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cabinets, your bathroom cabinets so more
heat gets into those spaces, especially those

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areas that are prone to freezing.
Insulate areas have exposed pipes that the rubber

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insulation has a slit down the side, very easy to put to put those

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on. Also, with respect to
the freezing pipes, you're gonna run a

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little water, very slow drip through
the farthest faucet from where the main is

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and that will move a little water
through the pipes. That makes it less

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likely that the pipes can freeze.
All those things can help. And finally,

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if you do get a frozen pipe, you know this stuff called heat

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tape, like an appliance, and
you attach it to the pipe and plug

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it in. It's okay to use
it just a thought of pipe, but

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sometimes as a home inspector, I'd
find people make it a permanent appliance,

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which is a mistake. And I've
pulled the stuff off and found burnt wood

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underneath it, burnt framing material and
things like that. So don't do that.

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And you put the heat tape on, don't wrap it over itself,

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just land like a strip over top
of the pipe, and you tape it

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off with electrical tape. The gas
company turned off or blew up the pipe

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the gas pipe going into one of
the barns that I have, and so

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we've had to go buy a bunch
of electric heaters to keep the pipes in

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the barn from freezing. And man, that would you know, we're having

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to peel the walls away to make
sure that the stuff doesn't freeze. It's

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just a it was a yeah,
yeah, and that's going to cost you

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a bundle in your utility building.
Yeah, of course it is. I

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would tell you how we used to
do it when uh, when I was

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a kid. We were worried about
the pipes freezing on the edge of the

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bar of the barn in the house, so we'd pile manure up against the

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wall to keep it. I think
most people would prefer a cleaner system.

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Yes, Tommy the Cave from the
Money Pit. Money Pit Podcast the next

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Stefan Good Day download with Doug and
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by Keltron, which is the safe
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