SUMMARY KEYWORDS
spiders, asbestos, popcorn ceiling, shower curtain, gas prices, plumbing, house, paint, talking, spray paint
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Before you start your next do it yourself project, listen to this. You Got This! is on the air. You Got This! is hosted by ABT plumbing electric heat and air owner, Andrew Twidwell, and Rosalie Brown with a helping hand. Here are Andrew and Rosalie.
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This is Andrew Twidwell, owner of abt plumbing electric heat and air here. Once again with the show, You Got This!, the show about DIY do’s and don’ts. And sorry about my loud chair. I keep moving around. It’s a Kraken. Kraken, Kraken.
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It’s not your back?
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There’s that as well. My back has ever been the same since my dad had me dig a foundation when I was 18. So yeah. From that point on, for the past three years, five years, whatever. Yeah, it’s not been good. I’ll take a little tweak. Anyway, so we’re here.
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So this show is called you got this show about DIY do’s and don’ts. And it’s every week by ABC plumbing, electric heating air. I just get excited about saying brought to you by I don’t know. That’s my new thing. Andrew, before we go any further I have to tell you this alarming news, we just talked about off air, but I don’t want to get sidetracked. I know you’re going to ask me how things are. You’re going to ask me how things are going or NASA all these great things and I’m gonna forget to bring it up. Okay. I just want you to know that I found out today I was 20 years old when I found out that in invasives, an invasive species of spider, the size of a child’s hand is expected to colonize the entire east coast this spring by parachuting down from the sky. So you know we got this war going on, right? We’ve got gas prices are like keeping us all scratching your head wondering if we can afford to go anywhere. And now, if you live on the east coast, you can expect spiders to drop down from the sky. Okay.
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I pulled it up huge invasive spider native to Asia expected to spread along the US east coast there from Japan DRO spiders will likely survive on the east coast because Japan has a similar climate and is located approximately in the same latitude.
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I mean, this is fun stuff right? I mean dropping might literally literally I think millions of people in this country. A nightmare scenario for them would be spiders dropping down the sky raining spiders. I don’t even know how is this even? What is going on? Like whoever stole that tiki torch from The Brady Bunch episode needs to return that tiki torch. We need to stop now right when to throw the ring into Mordor we need to like this is because I was I’ve dealt with everything so far pandemic germs people getting sick and and all of that’s been heavy and hard. And then we got gas prices. We got people in danger and you know, in across the pond there. And now to find out that here we’re going to have to deal with spiders will not ask per se
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on the East Coast. That’s something 1000 miles,
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we’ll get flaming snow, we’ll get like Yeah, last year, the
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spiders made their way through the yards of North Georgia spinning webs up to three meters deep. Feet.
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Can you even with that, so So for the West Coast, we’re gonna end up with like, snow that catches fire. We’re gonna end up with like, like sharks that can walk on land. I mean, Sharknado Yeah, I just like I don’t even know what’s happening anymore. So that was my morning. Like, that was my morning wake up call. I was like, oh, spiders raining from the sky.
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I mean, you know, spiders are kind of our lives because we you know, as a plumber, you’re opening up deep dark spaces, like water meter boxes, and crawling underneath houses and
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four h back underneath the house, the rat, spiders, the
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spiders to translate and we get tarantulas up here. And I’ve had my fair share of finding them as well. And scorpions. And yeah, yeah, it’s this fun time. So we have them. But yeah, most people don’t see it because they’re hidden underneath. They’re hiding and not raining from the sky. not raining from the sky. So yeah, one of these days. Yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah, it’s an interesting time to be alive. I just keep saying that. I just, you know, interesting and can be taken in any way you want to. Right? Yeah, a bad way.
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Yeah. And then my take on that, as my grandpa used to always say, and you never know what he meant, but he’d say What a time to be alive. Oh, wow. Like that really covers it all. Like that sounds smart. You know, like, that’s the way to say it. So I feel the same way Grandpa, what a time to be alive. So
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one way that gets me through a lot of this stuff too, though, is like you’d look through history. Like I really like reading about history, and I really like living how people lived in history. And so like you go back to like, the medieval times, right? And like the the kings and queens you know, you think of them living these opulent lives. Well, if you look Back, really, I mean, they didn’t have indoor health, they didn’t have indoor plumbing. They didn’t have hot water. They had all these servants but they never bathed. They were always sick. They always stank. They didn’t have indoor heating, they’re always cold. You know, if you’re making $20,000 a year, these days in America, you’re living better than the kings of England did, and their turn in medieval times. So, you know, I like looking at that. So life isn’t that bad. You gotta get a perspective. Right?
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Yeah, I don’t know that I would use the $20,000 a year perfect. Like, like, be grateful for that. But I see where you’re coming from. Like, like, things are there’s always the Yeah, we’ve made progress. Right. But yeah, be careful about $20,000 a year comparison. But yes, I see your point. I see your point.
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We indoor plumbing and you got and you got heat.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you’re lucky, your transportation if you’re lucky, have AC transportation. You can’t really afford
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a home loan to do that. Yeah,
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God yeah, I’m really glad I So speaking of transportation, and we will get into the show, but um, so I had this moment where, you know, I thought what would Andrew do? And I thought just like you just did now, you come up with some creative yarn and you put a positive spin on it right? So believe it or not, I sometimes have those thoughts and so two weekends in a row now. They’ve been paving my street and I live on a fairly you know, it’s a it’s a long street, I guess. So the patch that we were paving. repaving it’s I mean, it was paved. I don’t live in the dirt road. Okay. But they were going after it. So you can only do it in sections. So we had two weekends in a row Saturday and Sunday. Both were the crews were just I mean, starting at 5am. And so that’s something that we have cameras and yeah, yeah, the dog toys. The dog was the dog was so extra this weekend. I can’t even tell you my dog was so extra. But what happened was we couldn’t actually lead couldn’t use the street, right. And so I actually started, like walking everywhere. And I don’t live in the most walk friendly places like like the grocery
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store and walks in LA, right.
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So so I can get to these places, right? But like, it’s not convenient. Like you can’t walk, you can walk to the grocery store. But which it’s like a mile away in either direction. Like there’s a couple of them. But like, what are you going to carry back with you? You know what I mean? So it didn’t force me to like, okay, like, prepare, get stuff ahead of time. And then when I realized like, oh, I want to get out and about I like walked places. And I was like, okay, life is good. weather’s good. I’m walking in assuming I turned it into a positive little story. But I am not sad that they did it. They finished it because the street noise is so much less. I mean, it’s incredible. How, how much less just I didn’t realize how bad the new asphalt made it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it’s still you know, don’t get me wrong still within the city. But yeah, big difference. So
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anyway, how many lanes are out there for?
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It’s for? It’s for but now there’s a big brouhaha because people want to take it down to two lanes so that people can bike ride and, and I’m right by Griffith Park. And we already have enough traffic problems. So it’s kind of like I’m not sure I’m on the side of the extra bicycle lane edge. But it whatever it’s going to do is going to be so I’m not gonna go anywhere. I’m not going anywhere. You know that gas prices. I’m going to keep walking. You know, maybe I am gonna want the bike lane. We have gas up to like $7 a gallon here right now. So yeah, you’re not going to fire you know, no car. So anyway, that’s that’s what’s happening in the world. This is my I feel like I’m doing a reading spiders and gas prices. Right? I feel like we can update poorly. But
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world war three. Yeah, it’s been it’s Yeah, interesting. Again, interesting time to be alive. Anyway. So let’s get started on our show. So we’re going to kind of dive into the list that we had last week talking about some easy DIY projects that you can do around the house to improve your home and make it more comfortable. And this one I really like. Remove your popcorn ceiling. If you have a popcorn ceiling, get rid of it. But speaking of noise, yeah, it does deaden the noise inside your house. So it does. It does. It is kind of nice, but we haven’t installed them for probably, I don’t know, 30 or 40 years. So they’re pretty dated and they’re pretty funky by now. Because they also attract dust and spider webs and stuff like that. They get kind of funky. So remove it. I’ve done it it I don’t know. I probably hired at this point in my life because yeah, even in my 30s That hurt doing it the first time I did it. You know big, big party or big guy took a big four scraper that was like 12 inches wide and just ran through the house and did it. But one thing you do want to do is you want to test and make sure there’s no lead or asbestos in it. Because asbestos was a pretty common thing to add to that stuff because of flamers retard miss. But, but at the same time, too, I’m just gonna say this on the DL, because this is purely entertainment value. So don’t do as I say, you may not want to know that there’s asbestos in it. But you can wet it down and keep it so the fibers aren’t friable. That’s what I did, where I’m asking and sprayed it down with a with a agricultural sprayer kind of thing with just water, and then it kind of keeps everything down. But anyway, can I get rid of your popcorn ceilings? Yeah,
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okay, if anyone in America still has popcorn ceilings, which, you know, it’s hard to imagine there’s still loads. So, I mean, you’re not doing it for aesthetics, right? You’re like, but it’s just there, right in the house you live in. But let me ask you a question. So because the material could be possibly, in theory hazardous or at some point in time. So how do you dispose of that? Like if you let’s say, you clear out your popcorn ceiling is do you have to dispose of that in a certain way can can can just go in your waste your waste on your your bucket out for the the guys to come and pick up on the weekly?
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California I would refer to whatever the guidelines are. There right there. Right.
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I don’t know what they are. So okay, because yeah, yeah. Okay.
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That one’s it’s a asbestos is a tough one. I mean, I, I’m a child of the 70s. Right. And so are you and we grew up around this. So many
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things that are unsafe, explains a lot about my life. Yeah.
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With my dad to make diving belts, yeah. And asbestos ducts and tearing them out and no mas. No, nothing. But anyway. Yeah. But then my, my father, my grandfather did die of lung cancer, potentially from asbestos or smoking. He did smoke, two packs of Campbell straights, so go figure. So there was
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a high risk category. I mean,
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my dad died of lung cancer as well, but he didn’t smoke, but yeah, okay.
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Yeah. Well, Sherry Now, yeah, yeah,
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I’m not sure you know. And then this one is pretty good. I don’t know if I’d actually do this. But there’s, they’re talking about updating the ceramic floor with paint. You could do that. And it looks pretty cool. My concern is ceramic. Ceramic is the glazes glass. It’s just melted beads of glass. So when you paint things, when you paint glass, it doesn’t it’s not a really strong bond.
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That’s what I was thinking. Yeah.
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Why don’t you make sure you gotta get paint that’s specifically for that. So? Yeah, it’s it’s cool looking.
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Would you put something on top of it? Do you think to, because I was just thinking like, so
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do something like, you could put like an epoxy coat. Like I know, you know, we had our we had a couple of showers and one of our houses was this really awful seven tile from the 70s and had like, green splatter on white. So it looked like snot. I don’t know why they thought it was attractive at the time. But we just had epoxy paint. Had somebody coming in epoxy paint the entire tile. It’s a little bit more than 50 bucks, quite a bit more than the 50 bucks a couple of years. Sure.
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Sure. Yeah, I mean, I was looking at this and it’s cool design, I get it. It looks kind of cool. It would be fun for like a small part, like, you know, like they’re recommending here, like if you have a kind of mudroom or laundry room, right, or even a small bathroom. And then I was just thinking to myself, and you’re talking like, Yeah, but as soon as I walk over that a few times, it’s now on the bottom. And so yeah, so just thinking if you could put something on top of it, it does look kind of cool. Putting a
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clear epoxy coat on top of it. But then you’re probably talking a little bit more than 50 bucks, but it’s a neat idea.
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A nice remodel idea. Yeah, countertops would be
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good. Or if you get a backsplash be really good because you’re not going to doesn’t really have any wear and tear on
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it. Right? Right, right.
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This one is weird. Paint your doorknobs.
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Your paint, do you let’s talk about that, though. Okay, so what I’m looking at here is like a data doorknob, right? And yeah, and our friend Ed just kind of did a project and we should talk to her next week actually made the about her bathroom remodel, because she’s got an amazing bathroom remodel. But this is an old style doorknob. And I don’t know that that would be where I would spend my time and money. But it’s kind of the same idea. Give pops of color. Right? And, you know, it’s funny because they’re kind of looking for painting the doorknobs for the cost of a can of spray paint and a week’s worth of work well, to me again, that’s not something that I would do. But maybe if you wanted to have something pop a piece of an accent piece. It’s interesting, but they these are some old doorknobs that they’re showing here in this graphic. These aren’t the ones that are in my house. Yeah,
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I never would actually leave that one unless it’s painted. But anyway, yeah, you got like the old brass ones. Yeah, that are pretty scuffed up. That’s a cheap way of doing it as opposed to replace Seeing the hardware, but you can get the hardware for 20 to 30 bucks. So. And speaking of hardware, however many however, you
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can have hardware though this this segues right into and we talked about all the time, look at your kitchen hardware, your cabinet hardware. And that’s something that you can easily, like, make your cabinets so much more appealing. Yeah, and bring them into like, really accent pieces instead of, you know, kind of hiding them, if you just update the hardware. And that’s not hardware standard. Yeah, you
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can. You can go to the local hardware store and pick them up if you got a couple of but if you need like, you know, 30 or 50 handles, you can look online, and you can find them in bulk for pretty cheap in the wholesale prices. I’ve done that where I’ve done a couple trailers we’ve had and then kitchens, where I needed 30 or 40 of them. And you know, they were like three to five bucks each other hardware store, but I picked them up for less than a buck. When I order granted, this was a while ago, and I don’t prices these days for anything are ridiculous. So you know, do your due diligence when shopping. Because yeah, things are expensive these days. I don’t know if I would do this add bling to a closet door by putting a mirror in it. I’ve always pulled the mirrors out of my closet doors because I don’t like having mirrors on my towards unless it’s a small little one. But like, we’ve had whole walls with mirrors, and it was just too much. Yeah, you can’t walk through the room without seeing yourself. And yeah,
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it’s so so big in the bedroom. Right now. No, I know.
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It’s like, wow, I didn’t want to see that.
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Okay, so I mean, the idea behind the mirrors, right? It’s to make your room appear larger, right? So I would say this, if you actually live in a space where sometimes your house comes with mirrors, and if you’re not, if you don’t own the house, there’s not much you can do with it. Right. So what I thought is interesting about this is that you could make some designs to break it up, right, so you could use some interesting materials to create a look where you’ve got squares or shapes or you know, like it, you could, you could kind of still have the effect of enlarging the size of the room. But if you have like some design across it, or like some geometric shapes or something, you can kind of cried, I actually,
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I actually did that we had that speaking of our wall windows or mirrors, we had it in one of our bedrooms, and I really, really disliked it. So I ended up taking some door skin, the one wood, and I had a bunch of hole size. And I just did gradated holes, biggest one in the center and working smaller, and mounted those two, and then finished it and mounted this to the wall or to the mirror. So you still have the mirror, but it wasn’t the dominant thing. So you only saw little snippets, you know.
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Yeah, you still ended up with the the alert enlarging of the room, right, not making it small, it’s
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not overpowering. And you can also use there’s a lot of stickers these days, a lot of plastic stickers that you can add that you can give some graphic detailing and make it look nice or make it or smoke it, you know make it so it’s opaque.
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So it’d be really nice. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I like that a pass
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that one. I don’t like that one. Oh, this is an easy one. This is something that you should probably do on a regular basis. Anyway, if you have a shower curtain, replace it. Replace it every couple of years. I can’t tell you how many homes I’ve gone into where you just like there’s like stuff going on that shower curtain. They should really replace it. Well, sheep guys.
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Right. Okay. So, okay, so just like, make it look nice. Okay, well, so Okay, so the person in this like, if you didn’t know we’re going off of a article we can see and you cannot so that’s when he’s saying I don’t like that one. And he’s he’s talking about that he doesn’t like the idea. So this, what we have is we looked at DIY home projects that were like the budget so she’s $50 or under so that’s kind of what we’ve been kind of discussing and Andrew I just gotta say, when they’re saying swap out your shower curtain they’re not talking about they’re talking about the gross one liner. The liner should be dead that should be a no brainer. But what they’re saying you’d be surprised. Well, no, I actually wouldn’t because I have a horrible shower curtain story that I won’t get into on the air but I know what they’re talking about for the purpose of this is if you want to give your bathroom a facelift, you know swap out and get a nice shower curtain. It changes the entire dimensions of a bathroom and you know, even the nice ones are gonna cost you less than 50 bucks. Yeah.
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Nice. Simple, huge impact. Very little money for InStyle curtains for boo ha ha look. Boho, Boho, boho look. A moody floral or up for a soft like design mine. Wow. Okay, yeah. So you can find all kinds of cool sharp curtains and really easy, make changes easy. And if you haven’t done it in the last five years to
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update it, update it. I like this next one because I like what it’s called. It’s called fake fancy and you know, anything, I’m pretend fancy. So this is kind of exciting. Okay,
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caveat, caveat your dreams at a beer budget, right?
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So I like this one. So this is kind of cool. I’ve never seen this before in someone’s house. But they basically show that you can kind of up to like it. I don’t know, what would you say enhance the look of your light switches, you can just make it look nicer, a little picture frame, a readily a picture frame, your like three and a
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half by five inch picture frame will stick will fit a single game. Like cover or all a cover. So and you can pick those up for a couple bucks. We’re looking for 10 bucks. I want
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to do it. It looks cool. It looks like it looks like crown molding around the light switch. I’m sorry, but I’m so bougie and ridiculous. I think that’s amazing. I would love
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to be friends a little bit right? Like the frame. Yeah. The frame over the people.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That’s so cool. We
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got time for a couple more. Pull your ports together with designer tips layer an outdoor area rug beneath a standard for extra luxurious look, that’s pretty cool. Yes.
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I wouldn’t call it serious, but whatever.
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But you can make the it is the entrance to your home. So you do want to kind of make it look nice. And now I’m looking at that going. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I got an empty pot in my front door right now. Because it normally has a cycling in it. But we have to pull it out during the winter. I should put something in there that can survive through the winter.
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Yeah, sure. Think it through, think it through. Yeah, I think it’s
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gonna really make you know the entryway, you really want to make it look nice and even just for yourself, because it’s nice to, you know, it’s nice to come home, presumably,
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you’ll be spending plenty of time at home for the foreseeable future with the gas prices. So let’s make sure that you feel good about what your house looks like. So I like this next one a lot. And this Yeah, I would totally do. Give your your fan a makeover the ceiling fan. I love it. They take the blades of the ceiling fan and the metal components and they painted them now they use black these black spray paint, I don’t know that I’m into the black. But I’m very it’s a it’s a very good one, it was
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old brass return ones from like the 80s or 90s. You see a lot of them. This is a lot cheaper way of doing it than having to replace the whole ceiling fan. I actually did this in one of our rentals, because it was kind of funky. And I just did a nice kind of dark brown spray paint. Kind of look like oil rubbed bronze. And yeah, was a can of spray paint and some and I you know, masked off the area, I didn’t even remove the fan and even pull out the ceiling. I just sprayed it and it looks fantastic. So that’s a really nice, easy one. This one has a light fixture. So they probably had to take the globe off. But that one’s easy. And you know, you consider what a new fan will cost you for a nice one, a couple 100 bucks, plus installation, and you can be into it for you know, eight to $1,000. Before you’re done, you’re done. And you could just do a spray paint job on it. You know with that, that’s our show. Oh, awesome. Hope you found this stuff. Interesting. Because yeah, a lot of this stuff is kind of fun. And I’ve actually done a lot of this stuff. So we’ll have a link in our website to find the link for this website that we found that
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yes, we will actually found
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out all these names coming through my hours. Wow.
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Not the first time in my life. So hey, if you have a heating, plumbing or H fac need heating or cooling need you’re gonna call abt plumbing at 530-230-9092. You can find us on the web easy as abc.com go to our Facebook page and check us out because I am brilliantly sharing very funny memes and some other stuff once in a while. So good stuff. They’re like us on Facebook. And I know Andrew, let you close it out.
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That’s it. We’ll catch you guys next week. Thanks for listening. Bye.
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Thanks, Andrew. Thanks, Rose Lee. Now let’s get that project started. You got this. We’ll be back next Friday morning and nine o’clock on TNT on Newstalk 830