Trusting those DIY sources, the wrong door, and so much more

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[00:00:23] Eric Goranson: this is around the house. Welcome to around the house with Eric G and Caroline B. This is the midweek special. Thanks for joining us. This is the podcast only middle of the week update that we give you guys about what's going on out there in the world of construction, design, home improvement, healthy homes at everything else.

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[00:00:49] Caroline Blazovsky: it. I know. And I think this midweek let's talk about like everything else. I've got a lot of like gripes. I know you do. I saw your post about [00:01:00] social media. Yeah,

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[00:01:05] Caroline Blazovsky: talk about that for a little

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[00:01:06] Eric Goranson: I'm fine. Yeah. Let's talk about influencers out there cuz you know, it's interesting. And, and what I feel bad about is many times homeowners and businesses go on and look for an expert. And they're like, okay, we need an expert to go represent our brand. Or I need an expert to tell me how to fix something in my house.

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[00:01:47] Eric Goranson: That's wrong. That's gonna get somebody heard. They have no idea what they shouldn't have made this video. And, you know, looking at the stats on the views that people are out there following this advice and doing it wrong and it's dangerous.

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[00:02:10] Caroline Blazovsky: Legitimate. So there's a lot of people who have followers on Instagram, for example. That they're paid followers. And if you, and, and how you kind of can look at this and tell is, if you go through say somebody posts something, you'll see like four legitimate posts on like a celebrity post. Like let's just take, there's some famous celebrities out there and you'll see four legit posts of other people.

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[00:02:53] Caroline Blazovsky: And I think she's got so much money. One, I would be like, all right, why don't you just share the wealth a little bit and allow an expert to kind of [00:03:00] really come in and, and be that that go to person for whatever it. But, I mean, does she really need more money? I mean, you know, it's just, I, I don't know. No,

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[00:03:19] Eric Goranson: I don't how many followers she's got. Yeah, yeah. Audience, which could be 10 million people. And that's one thing I'm, I'm grabbing a celebrity, right? What I don't like is when the celebrity goes out and this is where it really rubs me the celebrity, or even a YouTube star. Maybe they're a tool YouTube star for instance.

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[00:03:43] Caroline Blazovsky: yeah.

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[00:03:54] Eric Goranson: YouTube or any of these other things that are people out there talking about stuff. They have no [00:04:00] idea what they're talking about and it's dangerous and it doesn't hurt. It doesn't help the brand either. Cuz the brand is sitting there thinking that they're gonna reach, they're paying a quote unquote influencer to reach their hundred thousand likes followers fans.

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[00:04:24] Caroline Blazovsky: back to like Tom Selleck with reverse mortgages. Like he's selling all these old people that they should like do reverse mortgage. And I'm like, what is Tom Selleck have to do with that?

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[00:04:36] Eric Goranson: those are different though. Those are celebrity endorsements, and I think that's different sitting there. Is it for celebrity to be sitting there? It is. It is because they're on. On a commercial and they're the spokesperson. So they're being paid as a spokesperson.

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[00:05:07] Caroline Blazovsky: different things. So smeared, I think that you get to a point where you're a celebrity and you think you can endorse every product.

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[00:05:31] Caroline Blazovsky: I, I like to see people saying, yeah, that

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[00:05:55] Eric Goranson: And I think that's two different things in my mind. Well,

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[00:06:13] Eric Goranson: so yeah.

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[00:06:18] Caroline Blazovsky: that though. You know, I mean, I think he's, I think he's Ingo, you know, that's like a believable

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[00:06:23] Eric Goranson: Yeah. But, you know what I mean? And I don't, I guess I don't put it as believable and not for a celebrity endorsement. I just look at it and go, all right.

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[00:06:54] Eric Goranson: Some of these other people are pretending to be experts. No, I get it. I,

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[00:07:14] Caroline Blazovsky: You know, um, gravitate towards it, purchase something because of it. It's,

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[00:07:42] Eric Goranson: That was. Wow. There's five people that liked and commented it

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[00:07:54] Eric Goranson: Yeah, you'll see. And we, we patrol ours. We get that too, because we do have followers in other [00:08:00] countries to the show. I mean, you know, 3% of our listening audience comes from, you know, India for instance.

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[00:08:14] Caroline Blazovsky: There's spam. I mean, like everybody has some percentage of spam. I mean, I do. I mean, there's people that. You know, all of a sudden you're seeing something about, Hey, do you wanna date somebody and blah, blah, blah.

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[00:08:26] Eric Goranson: ton of that. They sneak in there, you know, there's, there's a ton of that. And, you know, while I'm out here, uh, complaining about some of this, the other thing I don't like is, and it really bugs me on LinkedIn sometimes how many people that are trying to pitch to us podcast promoting, I get probably five.

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[00:09:10] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah. So, you know, these are issues that we all face. I had, um, a door that was ordered properly through documentation of an email, went to the lumberyard, lumberyard, ordered it wrong, someone ordered it wrong and we got a door going the wrong way. So. Now the door's installed and, you know, we weren't there when it was being installed.

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[00:09:48] Caroline Blazovsky: Just apology. And I found that there was no accountability. No, I'm sorry. And said, they tried to throw it back on us and blame us. And you know, I mean, legitimately the, it was correct. It was in the email and said exactly what we

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[00:10:07] Eric Goranson: Now you're walking over the H V a C event. That's now in the middle of the, the floor that was put in front of it. And we've had to tear those doors right out again and redo it stinks. You know, I can, I can tell. Four or five times that I can think of just off the top of my head, where we've had to go back in and reinstall the entire door, pull the trim off, pull the other stuff off, you know, cut the caulking loose, you know, reflash it.

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[00:10:37] Caroline Blazovsky: It's lousy. So, so yeah, those are the joys of like, no matter who you are, where you are, joys are remodeling. Yeah. I mean, it's the stuff we legitimately face as, you know, professionals, or even just a person doing a project

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[00:10:49] Eric Goranson: Yep. Absolutely. How about you? Absolutely. What do you have going on? You know, um, it's, I it's back to school day to day for us here in my local area. So it's, [00:11:00] uh, that cool time of fall where, you know, we're all hanging out. We're all doing our stuff here. It's kind of getting the late summer and the ki school buses are driving by today.

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[00:11:29] Caroline Blazovsky: 90 in the Northeast and, and high humidity.

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[00:11:51] Caroline Blazovsky: And so, you know, if the season for football has started before school's even in session. So the first game was last week. That's a

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[00:12:09] Eric Goranson: Maybe they're just trying to, to split it out. So the sports don't overlap because I remember when I was in high school, if you played in one sport, the winter sport was tough, cuz you would get overlapped.

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[00:12:25] Caroline Blazovsky: I dunno.

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[00:12:45] Eric Goranson: 35. You know what I mean? I did

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[00:12:47] Eric Goranson: that. so that's how I look at it, but you know, hard to say it, it could be, you know, there's so many things that go into this stuff now with that. And, you know, I know that like, uh, for instance, you know, the marching bands and those kind of [00:13:00] things, they start in the middle of summer.

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[00:13:08] Caroline Blazovsky: love this time of year. I love fall. I like all the activities going on and things to do. I love pumpkins and I'm looking forward to all the cider and you know, it, it's just good.

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[00:13:39] Eric Goranson: They're going, how about equipment? How are we gonna control

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[00:13:54] Eric Goranson: A lot of ways you can do that with, with cubbies, you know, and storage and furniture and things like that.

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[00:14:17] Eric Goranson: So that's pretty amazing that all of a sudden they're going back. And I think with all of our, you know, schooling from home too, I think the kids now are gonna lose their for all of us in the Northern hemisphere here of, you know, the Northern part of the United States. I think those snow days now are gonna be long gone.

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[00:14:40] Caroline Blazovsky: starts at eight. Yeah. It's so true.

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[00:14:56] Eric Goranson: Caroline? You got a bunch of clients and stuff for what's happening clients.

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[00:15:16] Caroline Blazovsky: Xa. Am I in.com? Get yourself a home mold test, check out your allergens and mold. This is the perfect time of year to do it with the humidity high, um, and also water testing. Make sure you don't have E coli. Yeah. Coliform bacteria. Get that all

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[00:15:40] Eric Goranson: So our humidity has been low for two and a half months. Ugh. So we're hoping for some humidity, I need some humidity here cuz we have this layer of dust. Now that's been coming. It just gets tracked in from everywhere. Cuz it's outside, you're driving around and you could see the little bit of dust on the road and [00:16:00] it's, it's kicking up from the cars going by and it's very not what we have here.

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[00:16:27] Eric Goranson: I have a 20 foot high dust cloud cloud of dust. Just from blowing the driveway

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[00:16:46] Caroline Blazovsky: Cuz those little needles are like everywhere.

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[00:17:01] Eric Goranson: You have to literally pop the hood, get in there. That's in all those. Cresses scoop it

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[00:17:11] Eric Goranson: And the trunk and the worst part for us is the SAP. Oh. A SAP coming from those trees.

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[00:17:17] Caroline Blazovsky: drops to get those off, to get that SAP off without being toxic. Is that something you can use? That's not like,

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[00:17:34] Eric Goranson: So it's so sticky, nasty, there is SAP remover for cars that you can get that's specifically made for that, but that's tough. It's tough to get that off. You have a garage, you have

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[00:17:49] Eric Goranson: covered. Uh, just for the, just for the convertible, everything else, my truck and Julie's SUV is sitting out in the driveway.

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[00:18:14] Eric Goranson: And then on my truck, you know, it's an old truck I've been working on it. And, uh, one of the issues it had was sometime in its life, when it was a farm on a farm, it was, you know, I think it was a ranchers truck. It's a really good shape. But I think that they had hard water getting sprayed from sprinklers on it really from, from all over the top of it, because all the glass has water spots on it.

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[00:18:57] Eric Goranson: One of these days, it's the 1995. It's [00:19:00] got its, it's got it. Gotta have a

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[00:19:09] Eric Goranson: DIY project. Yeah. I have to be able to haul stuff. Yeah. I, and, and even when having a truck and I'll do this before we go here, because I'll give some advice based on some of my bad decisions that I've made over the years, there are times even when you have a truck that you should have it delivered, I've made some mistakes picking up siding for my garage that I built 20 years ago.

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[00:20:00] Eric Goranson: The lift was so much, I couldn't steer the truck. So I had to just. Few 20 miles an hour and I should have turned around and went back and had it delivered, but stupid stuff you do in your twenties that I'll never do again. What do you

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[00:20:16] Caroline Blazovsky: I saw Infiniti has a, I think it's called the QX ad. I was just looking up when you were talking about trucks, but they have these big SUVs that sort of fold down. And, you know, you could put things back there. You could put an eight foot of, you know, if you wanted to pick up lumber or something, but I just feel like there, you know, if you get a mess in there, it just creates like more things where you have to clean up.

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[00:20:39] Eric Goranson: it out. Yeah. I mean, I even had a Chevy avalanche at one point where the backseat folds down and you could have it with an eight foot bed and it literally was designed to do that. The problem is, is even getting lumber. You're scratching up the inside of the truck.

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[00:21:15] Caroline Blazovsky: but that's it, that's a, I, I tried to wrap myself around this.

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[00:21:30] Eric Goranson: Right? Yeah. Not a fan, not a fan. And I've tried it. I've tried it. Oh, I can do both. No, no. I say you're better off getting that old truck out there.

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[00:21:40] Caroline Blazovsky: like having some kind of truck, like, even if it's really old and it's got a lot of mileage on it, like pick it up now you can't pick up a car for anything, but I.

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[00:21:57] Eric Goranson: That's great. And I get offers for [00:22:00] 12,000 all day long for it with people wanting to buy it. Oh, insane. And I'm like, Nope, cuz I'm not gonna replace it for that. So not gonna. But that's how that goes. Oh everyone. All right, Caroline, we got a great show ahead. This weekend. This is gonna be a lot of fun. We got, uh, an hour or two.

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[00:22:27] Caroline Blazovsky: Walt is our building building side guy. He's like bill I, the science guy, but he's a building side guy.

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[00:22:39] Eric Goranson: And then our number one, we're gonna dive into a hot subject that we really haven't done before the top 10 things you should consider before becoming a landlord.

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[00:22:58] Eric Goranson: out.

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