Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: I'm Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 1: I design custom homes, I build a few custom homes,
Speaker 1: and I on the weekends, am your guide to better
Speaker 1: understanding that place where you live. Today on the show, well,
Speaker 1: you know it's springtime and the weather has been good
Speaker 1: enough long enough for most of us that we're finally
Speaker 1: giving up and we're saying, okay, I admit it. Winter's over.
Speaker 1: I need to get out and get some of this
Speaker 1: honeydew list finished up. And so I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of DIY stuff going on. It happens every year
Speaker 1: right about this time. The flowers are blooming, the birds,
Speaker 1: the bees. We've got all sorts of good shows along
Speaker 1: those lines planned for you as well. But today, because
Speaker 1: I know you're dusting off the tools and you're getting
Speaker 1: get ready to knock down some of that list that
Speaker 1: you've been writing down, saying yeah, i'll do it in spring.
Speaker 2: I'll do it in springtime.
Speaker 1: Well, now here we are, so today it's DIY fix
Speaker 1: it tips.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: My focus here is on the little things, because sometimes
Speaker 1: it is the little things. For those of you who
Speaker 1: are good at reading instructions and following directions and doing
Speaker 1: a little research on YouTube or wherever it is that
Speaker 1: you are looking for advice for your project. For those
Speaker 1: of you who do well at that, that's really not
Speaker 1: your problem. Some of you don't read instructions, that's your problem.
Speaker 1: But for everybody these days who hey may or may
Speaker 1: not have been raised with some hands on DIY tool
Speaker 1: instructions and those kinds of things, I find that people
Speaker 1: get frustrated on the little things. Little things, I mean
Speaker 1: little things like how does this How do you really
Speaker 1: screw in a screw with a screwdriver the right way?
Speaker 1: I know that may sound ridiculous, Dean. You just put
Speaker 1: the head in there and you turn it. And yet,
Speaker 1: and yet I find so many people frustrated by this
Speaker 1: thing is slipping. I don't know what's wrong. Is there
Speaker 1: something wrong with the screwdriver? Is it the screw?
Speaker 2: Is it me?
Speaker 1: There is a technique and if you don't understand what
Speaker 1: that is, well you will by the time we are
Speaker 1: done today. That and one hundred other little things, because
Speaker 1: sometimes it's the little things. Successfully handling small problems around
Speaker 1: the house can make a big difference in the quality
Speaker 1: of your daily life, and the right fix comes down
Speaker 1: to understanding those little things. All right, Before we start
Speaker 1: with the little things, let me show you a couple
Speaker 1: of big things. I want to introduce you to our team.
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Speaker 1: you know you know Sunday morning, it's time to just
Speaker 1: hang out with y'all and talk home stuff. It's going good,
Speaker 1: it's going good.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 2: How is what's our tea of choice this morning?
Speaker 4: We're on Green Tea again. I've needed the extra caffeine
Speaker 4: this weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, all right? Does green tea have more caffeine
Speaker 1: than like black tea or just the same?
Speaker 4: I have no idea. I know white tea has a
Speaker 4: lot of caffeine. I found that out the hard way
Speaker 4: by accident.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 4: Why am I shaking? Oh? Has more caffeine?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, good to know. I love tea.
Speaker 1: I'm just not a tea officionado. If somebody hands me tea,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, thank you very much. This is lovely.
Speaker 1: But I don't find myself. I think I'm more. Coffee
Speaker 1: is on my brain most of the time, and there
Speaker 1: is caffeine and coffee. By the way, did you know that?
Speaker 2: Did you know that? Huh? It's working, it's working. Uh.
Speaker 2: Who else is working hard today?
Speaker 1: Oh? Sitting across the table from me. Let's not forget her.
Speaker 1: My better half, my design partner, the co owner, co
Speaker 1: founder of House Whisper, pretty much the person who holds
Speaker 1: my life together and my best friend in all the world.
Speaker 2: Tina is here. Excuse me, Welcome home.
Speaker 1: Welcome home to you. We were in Albuquerque earlier this week, Yes, Albuquerque,
Speaker 1: New Mexico, with some lovely dear clients and working on
Speaker 1: a home design, and we walked into Old Town. We
Speaker 1: stayed near Old Town, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, very friendly place by
Speaker 1: the way, extremely friendly. That was our experience, and we
Speaker 1: walked in. We had a little extra time on our
Speaker 1: hands on Wednesday morning, walked into old Town, found a
Speaker 1: puzzle store in the shops in Old Town and found
Speaker 1: a we love. Tina loves wooden puzzles. Wooden puzzles, and
Speaker 1: because once you make them, first of all, they're very difficult,
Speaker 1: and then once you build them, some of them are
Speaker 1: so beautiful you want to just frame them. You just
Speaker 1: want to mount them and frame them. We found a
Speaker 1: wooden puzzle from a very reputable wooden puzzle manufacture with
Speaker 1: an elephant on it. Sweet adorable lady elephant. She had
Speaker 1: a big ear ring in one of her ears, and
Speaker 1: she was trying to balance on some teacups and then
Speaker 1: you could see there were broken teacups down on the ground.
Speaker 1: But she was successfully balancing on a tea pot, which
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's working either, But the point was
Speaker 1: she was a big old elephant and she was being
Speaker 1: lovely and elegant and gracious. And it's an adorable painting
Speaker 1: and it's in the puzzle and we nabbed it because
Speaker 1: you and elephants.
Speaker 2: I know, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there is a beautiful puzzle company, puzzle Lab there.
Speaker 5: I think they originated in British Columbia, but you can
Speaker 5: look them up and you can probably even see that
Speaker 5: puzzle there. They're so so pretty.
Speaker 2: They are, They're gorgeous. You should check it out. If
Speaker 2: you're a fan of puzzle or just artwork, kind of
Speaker 2: abstracted artwork, you should check out Puzzle Lab. There you go,
Speaker 2: all right. Not a sponsor of the show.
Speaker 1: Not a sponsor today Home sponsored by Puzzle Lab.
Speaker 2: Hmm, that doesn't really follow. All right.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's get into the little things tips and tricks
Speaker 1: for your DIY season that lies ahead of you.
Speaker 2: We will do it all.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: Dean's list of fix it tips for you. Just random things,
Speaker 1: I mean stuff all over the board here, so hopefully
Speaker 1: you'll just glean some things. Here is a thing that most,
Speaker 1: if not all, YouTube instructional videos on plumbing fail to mention.
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: How do you properly tighten a threaded pipe? And how
Speaker 1: many turns is tight enough?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. It's the
Speaker 1: little things that unnerve you or bug you or cause
Speaker 1: you problems. Well, first of all, First of all, first step,
Speaker 1: whenever you are working with pipes, plumbing pipes in your home, okay,
Speaker 1: two wrenches, not one. Two two wrenches to support the pipe,
Speaker 1: the part of the pipe that you are not removing, okay,
Speaker 1: And the second one to actually hook onto and spin
Speaker 1: off the fitting of the pipe that you are working with. Now,
Speaker 1: why is that? Well, if you just grow up, walk
Speaker 1: up to a you know, a piece of plumbing, and
Speaker 1: you slap a pipe wrench onto the fitting that you're
Speaker 1: trying to remove. A couple of things can happen. Number one,
Speaker 1: you can cause damage back in the wall by putting
Speaker 1: too much pressure intention on that pipe that that you're
Speaker 1: weren't intending on touching. Okay, that's why you set a
Speaker 1: pipe wrench in the opposite direction, okay, so that they
Speaker 1: are uh, so that they are spinning against each other,
Speaker 1: the pipe wrenches, and then you hold the one and
Speaker 1: spin the other so that you're supporting the existing pipe.
Speaker 1: The second thing is, let's say a common example would
Speaker 1: be you've got a threaded pipe coming out of your wall,
Speaker 1: maybe on the outside of the house, and there's a
Speaker 1: water spigot valve attached to it. Okay, so you've turned
Speaker 1: the water off, all things are good, and you just
Speaker 1: grab a pipe wrench and you slap it on that
Speaker 1: water spiggot valve and you start to turn it, and
Speaker 1: you realize very quickly that the water spigot itself, that
Speaker 1: valve is much tighter on that pipe than the pipe
Speaker 1: is on the next fitting inside the wall. The whole
Speaker 1: pipe is now spinning, and you're literally removing the pipe
Speaker 1: from its fitting or its elbow inside the stucco wall
Speaker 1: where you can't get to it, and you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. You don't want to do it because
Speaker 1: if you undo it completely, that pipe may shift, it
Speaker 1: might not be lined up anymore, you might not be
Speaker 1: able to get it back in there. And number two,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to take it out of that. You
Speaker 1: only want to take the spigot off. And so again,
Speaker 1: two two wrenches opposing each other in spin direction every
Speaker 1: time you approach plumbing. So if you're building a toolbox
Speaker 1: for yourself, a DIY toolbox, and you're like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, I think it's on every list. I should
Speaker 1: get a pipe wrench. No, you should get two pipe wrenches.
Speaker 1: Two Now, how many turns?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: This is I've asked plumbers this and plumbers apprentices this
Speaker 1: on job sites and they've scratched their head and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. A fitting should cover
Speaker 1: at least the first half inch of the threads of
Speaker 1: the pipe that it's being thread onto. Okay, half inch
Speaker 1: at least. Now you get beyond that and it feels
Speaker 1: snug you can let it go. You do not have
Speaker 1: to crank a fitting all the way onto a pipe
Speaker 1: to cover all the threads. In fact, most of the
Speaker 1: time when you attempt to do that, you may crack
Speaker 1: the fitting or the union or the valve or whatever
Speaker 1: is that you're trying to put on because it's too
Speaker 1: much pressure. Half an inch half an inch okay, hand
Speaker 1: tighten it and then one to two turns more usually
Speaker 1: gets the job done. And here's a hint. If you're
Speaker 1: using pipe tape pipe thread tape as a ceilant, and
Speaker 1: I recommend it for di I wires because it's so
Speaker 1: much more efficient and it usually works, you know, all
Speaker 1: the time, as opposed to pipe dope, which is kind
Speaker 1: of the sticky, goopy stuff that you can also put
Speaker 1: on threads for a ceilant. If you're using pipe tape,
Speaker 1: guess what. Pipe tape is usually half an inch wide.
Speaker 1: So if you put the pipe tape on those outside
Speaker 1: threads and then spin your fitting on so that it
Speaker 1: covers the thread tape, you are good to go.
Speaker 2: How is that? How was that?
Speaker 1: Can I get Can I get a all right?
Speaker 2: That's fine?
Speaker 1: No, I was at We actually have a licensed plumber here,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to get I wanted to get his
Speaker 1: thumbs up, but he's busy doing other things.
Speaker 2: It's fine, it's fine, trust me. It's good advice.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to go a little
Speaker 1: bit deeper into plumbing and then we're gonna move on
Speaker 1: to that squeaky door threshold.
Speaker 2: How does that sound all right?
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer talking to you here live
Speaker 2: this Sunday morning. Is it the thirteenth? Today is the
Speaker 2: thirteenth of April. Technically tonight the second night of Passover.
Speaker 2: It is springtime in all its glory. It was sunnier yesterday.
Speaker 2: Today we're a little overcast where I'm sitting right now,
Speaker 2: and cooler. I was hoping the sun would break out today.
Speaker 2: Maybe it will at some point. But spring is here,
Speaker 2: and man, all of the flowers, all the plants in
Speaker 2: our yards are just screaming out and so thrilled, so thrilled.
Speaker 2: Spring in southern California. It's a beautiful thing. I hope
Speaker 2: wherever you are, the weather is treating you well as
Speaker 2: well well as well. There you go, all right, let's
Speaker 2: get back to our list of the small things fix
Speaker 2: it tips that make a difference. We talked about approaching
Speaker 2: pipes with pipe fittings. How many turns actually of a
Speaker 2: pipe fitting? How far onto a pipe on the threaded
Speaker 2: pipe do you to spin something? And I talked about
Speaker 2: pipe tape right thread tape for sealing it. There are
Speaker 2: different kinds of thread tape, by the way, FYI be
Speaker 2: aware of that. White is for water, yellow is for gas.
Speaker 2: There's some purple out there, which I think I believe
Speaker 2: it is universal, but just white and yellow. Be aware
Speaker 2: of that. How many wraps of pipe thread tape a
Speaker 2: pipe get and in what direction do you put it on?
Speaker 2: I didn't mention that, but I'm going to make sure
Speaker 2: we cover that so that you know everything. And the
Speaker 2: answer is between three and five. Between three and five
Speaker 2: wraps around the thread doesn't take much. You don't have
Speaker 2: to go crazy on it. And if you find yourself
Speaker 2: putting on a fitting and all the pipe tape is
Speaker 2: getting all gummed up and peeling off as you put
Speaker 2: it on, then you got a lot on there, or
Speaker 2: you put it on the wrong direction and the right
Speaker 2: The right direction is clockwise as you stare at the
Speaker 2: end of the pipe. You put the pipe thread tape
Speaker 2: on clockwise. Why because the fitting is going to spin
Speaker 2: on clockwise as well, and it helps the thread tape
Speaker 2: to lay down. So if the thread tape is going
Speaker 2: on the same direction as the fitting, they lay down
Speaker 2: and meld together. If you put it on counterclockwise and
Speaker 2: then you put the fitting on clockwise, it'll be trying
Speaker 2: to unwrap the thread tape as you put the pipe on.
Speaker 2: The fitting not good. So just remember three to five
Speaker 2: wraps clockwise, the same direction that you put the actual
Speaker 2: fitting on when you start to screw it on. Was
Speaker 2: in a home earlier. This was no last week. It
Speaker 2: was in a home last week, and.
Speaker 1: The door threshold every time we went out through the
Speaker 1: front door right at the end, gave it just a
Speaker 1: nasty squeak. It wasn't really a squeak so much as
Speaker 1: it was a chirp from metal on metal contact, and
Speaker 1: the homeowner was concerned, like, what is going on with
Speaker 1: my front door?
Speaker 2: Is it all falling apart? No?
Speaker 1: No, no, I look down now it may be a
Speaker 1: different condition, but I would say the vast majority of
Speaker 1: front doors are set up this way as far as
Speaker 1: weather stripping, there's a threshold, be it wood or metal.
Speaker 1: Quite often a metal threshold on even on top of
Speaker 1: a wood threshold, but a metal threshold and a smooth
Speaker 1: metal threshold. And then what you will find on the
Speaker 1: bottom of the door itself is what we call a
Speaker 1: door shoe. That is the other the second half of
Speaker 1: that weather stripping combo. It is a U shaped channel
Speaker 1: that is placed up underneath the bottom of the door
Speaker 1: protects the bottom of the door from direct contact with moisture.
Speaker 1: There's a little drip edge on the front that takes
Speaker 1: water running off the door and gets it away from
Speaker 1: the threshold. And there is or should be a gasket,
Speaker 1: a rubberized gasket, a little bulb of gasket that sticks down,
Speaker 1: goes into a little channel on that door shoe and
Speaker 1: sticks down and rubs makes contact with just very light
Speaker 1: contact when it's adjusted properly, makes light contact with that
Speaker 1: bottom metal threshold and seals off the door. And what
Speaker 1: do I mean by seals off the door? If you
Speaker 1: can see light underneath your door that's not sealed off.
Speaker 1: And if when you shut the door, that whole bulb
Speaker 1: gets squished down and deformed in shape, then it is
Speaker 1: also out of adjustment and too low. Now, in this situation,
Speaker 1: not only was the bulb gone and there was light
Speaker 1: underneath the door, but at one end. Because sometimes doors
Speaker 1: expand sometimes over time the jam may shift. There's a
Speaker 1: there's ten different reasons why this can happen. But the
Speaker 1: door shoe, the metal of the door shoe is actually
Speaker 1: rubbing at the very end of the swing against the
Speaker 1: metal of the door threshold itself and causing that grinding, annoying,
Speaker 1: high pitched metal on metal sound. So what do you
Speaker 1: do if the door threshold squeaks. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: the easiest thing to do is to just re adjust
Speaker 1: the door shoe. Now, the door shoe, you'll look down
Speaker 1: and you'll notice on the inside or the outside, it's
Speaker 1: actually going to be on the outside. It's going to
Speaker 1: be on most pieces. On the outside, there should be
Speaker 1: a series of screws, tiny little screws running across that
Speaker 1: are holding that shoe on. That's all that's holding that
Speaker 1: door shoe in place. You undo those screws and you'll
Speaker 1: find that you can, maybe with a little bump from
Speaker 1: a rubber mallet, just to knock it loose from the
Speaker 1: paint or whatever. You'll find that it is fully adjustable,
Speaker 1: and what you can do is leave the screws out,
Speaker 1: shut the door again and adjust it. Now, make sure
Speaker 1: you put some new gasket in there if the gasket
Speaker 1: is for any reason worn. And that doorshoe gasket is
Speaker 1: sitting on the shelf at the hardware store. It's sitting
Speaker 1: on the shelf at the big box store. It is
Speaker 1: the most common stuff in the world, and you can
Speaker 1: go get some right now for just pennies. So you've
Speaker 1: got a little section of new doorshoe gasket, slide it in,
Speaker 1: make sure it's all fixed really nice in there, and
Speaker 1: then let the put the doorshoe back on, no screws,
Speaker 1: and let it kind of float as it goes up
Speaker 1: over the lower metal threshold. And you know, you can
Speaker 1: nudge it with a screwdriver or with your hand and
Speaker 1: just get it making nice even contact all around, and
Speaker 1: pop some screws back in. Now the screw holes may
Speaker 1: be in a different location, that's okay. You're readjusting that
Speaker 1: door threshold to its current conditions, and you will find
Speaker 1: when you're all done that you can open and close
Speaker 1: the door. No light underneath, no bugs crawling in, no squeak,
Speaker 1: no sound ah like new.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: talk like di wires. Anything at all that you are
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Speaker 1: Doing that right after the next news breaks. So phone
Speaker 1: lines are open. Producer Richie standing by. He'll tell you
Speaker 1: everything you need to know. Pop you into the queue,
Speaker 1: we'll put our heads together, we'll figure it out all right.
Speaker 1: Back to our list of cool little important DIY fix
Speaker 1: it tips. That's all we're doing today all through the show.
Speaker 1: Just lots of pearls of wisdom, because sometimes it's the
Speaker 1: little things that get in the way of you successfully
Speaker 1: completing that DIY project. Not necessarily the big concepts. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily you not following instructions. It's sometimes the little skill
Speaker 1: sets that the instruction manual or the YouTube video or
Speaker 1: wear it that it just failed to mention that ends
Speaker 1: up becoming the big frustration. So we've talked about some
Speaker 1: plumbing stuff. We've talked about door threshold squeaking. Here's one
Speaker 1: in the world of gluing. Gluing is a thing that
Speaker 1: is a big part a lot of projects. Some of
Speaker 1: you are doing sprinkler work on your irrigation system, some
Speaker 1: of you are putting in drains, some of you are
Speaker 1: gluing together pieces of wood or trying to repair something.
Speaker 1: So let's stick with the wood for the moment. How
Speaker 1: much would glue do you need on a piece of wood?
Speaker 1: So let me just give you this perspective. Almost in
Speaker 1: all cases, less is more, all right. The idea of
Speaker 1: gunking up something with a lot of glue so that
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, we're just gonna smush that glue in.
Speaker 1: It's going to be coming out the sides like too
Speaker 1: much peanut butter and jelly on a sandwich. Right, you know,
Speaker 1: you're just wasting a lot of glue. You're wasting a
Speaker 1: lot because the best bond, almost always, in almost all circumstances,
Speaker 1: the best bond happens with a very very thin layer
Speaker 1: of glue in between the two surfaces that are being
Speaker 1: glued together. That is just a general rule of gluing
Speaker 1: when it comes to wood glue. Thoo, though, there is
Speaker 1: a first step along the way. Wood glue has a
Speaker 1: good amount of water in it, and wood is a
Speaker 1: very absorbent material. So when we're taking two pieces of
Speaker 1: wood and we're going to glue them together and we
Speaker 1: want them to hold forever, what we're gonna do first
Speaker 1: is we're going to put a thin coat of wood
Speaker 1: glue on both surfaces, and we're gonna let it dry.
Speaker 1: And what I mean a thin coat, I mean a
Speaker 1: thin coat. And you're not going to put some glue
Speaker 1: on and rub it off with a rag. But you
Speaker 1: could put some glue on and take a putty knife
Speaker 1: or a blade of a knife, or even just a
Speaker 1: small scrap of wood and just scrape off most of
Speaker 1: the excess there. Just want a thin coat, Now, what's
Speaker 1: that going to do? That thin coat is going to
Speaker 1: absorb into the wood somewhat. Whatever absorption the wood is
Speaker 1: going to do, it's going to grab on. It's not
Speaker 1: going to take it all down, but it's going to
Speaker 1: take a good amount of it down, seal up the
Speaker 1: pores of the wood, and leave an optimal gluing surface
Speaker 1: left over. If we've just put some glue on two
Speaker 1: pieces of in between two pieces of wood and smash
Speaker 1: them together, and I'm not saying that it won't stick,
Speaker 1: but i am saying that the wood both pieces are
Speaker 1: going to absorb a lot of the glue into the
Speaker 1: grain and not leave enough on the surface to bond
Speaker 1: the two surfaces together as well as they could be.
Speaker 1: Maybe you get a twenty percent strength bond instead of
Speaker 1: one hundred percent strength bond. So the key is very
Speaker 1: very simple. You just put a thin coat on both surfaces,
Speaker 1: You let it dry for a couple of minutes, and
Speaker 1: then you can apply a second good bead and push
Speaker 1: those pieces together and clamp them. Clamping them together is
Speaker 1: always key when you're using wood glue for wood, because
Speaker 1: it gives again, puts the pressure on the bind, puts
Speaker 1: the pressure on the seam, makes the thinnest possible layer
Speaker 1: of adhesive between the two and the best possible bond.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna clamp them together, walk away, let it
Speaker 1: do its magic. You will not regret it. And of
Speaker 1: course when you clamp it together, you might get a
Speaker 1: little excess coming out the sides. And take a damp
Speaker 1: not wet damp rag because we don't want to add moisture.
Speaker 1: Do you know the difference between damp and wet. By
Speaker 1: the way, there is a technical difference, especially.
Speaker 2: In the trail. Okay.
Speaker 1: A wet rag is anything that you can pick up
Speaker 1: and when I squeeze it, I can get water out
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, the water still comes out. That's wet. Okay.
Speaker 1: Damp is when let's say we've taken a dish towel
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's been wet and I've wrung
Speaker 1: it out and I can't get any more water to
Speaker 1: come out of it. But when you feel it in
Speaker 1: your hand, you know there's water there.
Speaker 2: It's damp. That is damp.
Speaker 1: A damp rag is what you use to wipe off
Speaker 1: the excess glue that comes out of the seam so
Speaker 1: it doesn't try and get all yucky and mess up
Speaker 1: the wood on the outside of the seam damp damp rag.
Speaker 1: The guarantee of using a damp rag is that you
Speaker 1: know that you're not adding moisture to the seam and
Speaker 1: diluting the glue. Water is not coming out of the rag,
Speaker 1: but there's enough water there to act as a kind
Speaker 1: of a lubricant and to allow the rag to clean
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