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

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Tom Kreitler, who is the chairman
of the board and co host with Leslie

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Sigretti of The money Pit home improvement
radio program, podcast newsletter. This is

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a whole industry. The money Pit
is because it's aimed at helping you understand

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the industry of home repair, home
care, the whole. It's a big,

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big business, like what sixty billion
or more? What's spoke of the

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sides of the market. Yeah,
it's like three hundred and fifty to four

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hundred billion dollar a year. Yeah, I was a little low there,

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not my show. Oh come on, y'all should go to your show anyway.

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Before we always get a question or
two from listeners that we try to

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address and talk about what's in the
podcast and what's in the newsletter. Because

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it is the weekend before Thanksgiving,
a lot of people are trying to eat.

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I noticed I saw in one trade
publication that more stoves and ovens and

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stuff or so this time of year
and any of the time, is that

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true. It is. It's a
big season for kitchen remodels. Like everybody

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wants giving done before the holidays.
But you know, Doug, one of

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the things that pretty much a lot
of people do is they you know,

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they clean, they scrub, they
do all that kind of stuff. What's

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the last thing they do before the
holiday is that they run the self cleaning

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cycle on their oven because they want
to start clean with that turkey. Right.

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That can be a really big mistake
when you do it, especially too

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close to Thanksgiving, because running the
self cleaning cycle on an oven puts it

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through more stress than just about anything
else you can do with it. I

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mean, it'll go up to sometimes
a thousand degrees depending on your oven.

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And if something's gonna break, it's
gonna break then. So I don't recommend

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you making that a last minute Hey, what else can I clean? You

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know they've scruoked it all down,
you know, don't clean up, clean

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your up. You've got time for
a repair. All right, there you

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go, Where do the wives from
the man who knows? Okay, here's

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a lady listening at Chicago named Julie
who's removed some disgusting sliding glass doors on

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her bathtub, and now she's doing
it to what she's trying to replace them,

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and she's wondering whether she can do
it herself or she hires somebody to

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do it. Yeah, Jo,
I don't know if you've priced out,

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you know the price of shower enclosures
and such lately and tub enclosures, but

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man, are they expensive when they're
made custom, really really crazy money,

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thousands of dollars. So I said, Julie, Absolutely, you can do

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it yourself, especially if you're working
with a tub. There's going to be

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standard sizes. There's a lot of
variety out there, not terribly difficult to

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install if you're reasonably handy. You
may have to trim the metal track or

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to size, so you may have
to cut some mental there. But I

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think it's definitely a DIY project that
will save you a whole bunch of money.

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All right, So there's a word
to the wise. Now on the

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podcast this week, you address what
we were just talking about at a self

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cleaning ovens. What else is there
there for? I know you always try

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to highlight things that are different than
on the radio show. The podcast has

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a different message because there's so much
material. Yeah. So another thing now

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is a good time to do is
a roof inspection. And you think,

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well, am I going up on
my roof? Well, you don't have

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to. So how can you inspect
your roof? And what are you looking

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for? This time? You're looking
for cracked broken shingles. You're looking for

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loose flashing around chimneys and where pipes
come through the roof, things like that.

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This is what causes the leaks.
You don't want to have to go

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up there when it's snowy and icy, or frankly, even a tradesman doesn't

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want to have to go up there
when it's snowy and icy. So how

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can you do that? Well,
if you have binoculars, you could do

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a little scam. If you have
a zoom camera, you can do a

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scan. And if you got to
thrown these days, you can find your

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roof and take a good close look. I did that myself on a roof

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not too long ago. And you
know, I don't have a super great

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drone, but it was good enough
for me to make sure everything was was

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in place. See you where a
joystick running the drone around and crashing into

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the side of the house or something
like that. So all right, that

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seems a good thing to do.
Now here we have the newsletter and the

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problems. It's interesting you're writing about
mold. I just said to one of

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the guys on the farm, we've
got a gazebo and it's under a tree,

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and the mold this year, because
of all the rain, has become

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a problem. So what do we
do. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned

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that, Doug, because you know
what everybody does call that green stuff that

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gets onto the roofs and into the
wood mold. It's not. It's rarely

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mold. It's usually moss or algae
or lichen. So these are plant growths,

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not mold in the sense of the
the climate comes from a gold by

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from Ghostbuster. Yeah, it's not
mold. But there's two things that you

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can do. Number one is that
you can spray everything down with the mill

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to side. That's the commercial way. Number Two, you can you'll probably

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notice that there's shade covering that gazebo
if you let more sunlight get to it,

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trimming back trees. And then thirdly, I'll give you a trick of

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the trade. If you already able
to get up towards the peak of the

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gazebo or the peak of a roof. It's dirty like that. And if

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you're to slide in some copper flashing
like in between the top layer of shingles,

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so it sticks out a little bit. As the rain hits that it

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runs down the roof, it releases
some of that copper. Where you can

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do it with zinc flashing two and
axes a Milda side and it cleans the

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roof as it goes there. It
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