We didnt think about it before the show but today we are talking about wood and caulking. Eric G gives us some background before this Saturdays show and Caroline talks about her caulking that should have been odor free that seems to have gone bad or something went wrong along the way. All this and MORE in the mid-week special!
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[00:00:23] Intro: this is around the
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[00:00:26] Intro: Welcome to around the house with Eric G and Caroline B. This is a midweek special. Hey Caroline, how are you? I'm
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[00:00:35] Caroline Blazovsky: My voice, a little,
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[00:00:38] Eric Goranson: I was gonna say, wow,
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[00:00:42] Eric Goranson: going over. Yeah. Was that your grandpa Simpson? Um, impersonation.
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[00:01:07] Caroline Blazovsky: so much going on. Well, I was telling Eric that I got obsessed with a little bit of television.
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[00:01:18] Eric Goranson: No, I, I just, you were telling me about it. And as we were just getting ready to hit the, the star button on the show, I reached over to this TV and hit the record button on my DVR. Cuz I gotta check this out.
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[00:01:30] Caroline Blazovsky: not keep my eyes off the TV. It was like mood two carjackings, like five minutes of live carjackings. And I guess, I don't know if this is really live, but I was watching an old episode. New episodes come out the 26th of August. So 9:00 PM. Get your popcorn guys, like check this show out.
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[00:02:03] Eric Goranson: nice, exciting. I, I do have a guilty pleasure on social media.
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[00:02:20] Caroline Blazovsky: the only one. Like it was like Glu to TV. No,
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[00:02:28] Eric Goranson: See, everybody's got it. I got something
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[00:02:33] Eric Goranson: Reels. That is cool. Now I'm hooked on my friend show right now. Oh, And we're gonna have Sarah listy on. Because Sarah is a good friend of mine and she rocks. You might have seen her out there. She'll comment on our stuff. She is, uh, two girls' garage out there, but she has a new show out on Roku channel called murder house flip.
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[00:03:00] Eric Goranson: And this is like, oh my gosh. So I've only seen, um, I'm gonna watch more of it this week, cuz they released like six episodes. But episode one, a season two that just came out here last week is the Jody Arias house. I have goose. So if everybody remembers Jody Arias house.
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[00:03:20] Eric Goranson: than a haunted house.
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[00:03:43] Eric Goranson: They just cleaned it up. It's there. Don't. The vanity sink, you know, you know how they do those poured vanity sinks, like the marble esque looking ones that you get at the home centers, you could see the scrapes in the vanity sink. From where she washed the knife and [00:04:00] it dropped it God. So I put a big, huge knife and they're still living in the house.
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[00:04:09] Caroline Blazovsky: I have gooses everywhere, like buying a house where there was a murder in your home is just so
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[00:04:31] Eric Goranson: and this is the spot where she had like slid his throat and shot him in the head or whatever. Yes. And long story short, gross. They brought in a crime scene guy and sprayed around the luminol kind of stuff and dim the lights. And you could use that as a job site light in there. It was bright, which meant there was still active.
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[00:04:54] Caroline Blazovsky: much, too much. I can't.
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[00:05:05] Caroline Blazovsky: So what channel is this on? And when, what time
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[00:05:11] Eric Goranson: So, uh, we, we don't have Roku in the entire house. I got Roku out at the outdoor. So we've been watching it outside on the, on the, outside, on the outdoor bar out there when we were watching it so creepy, I could bring it in and plug into a TV, but it's just already hooked up out
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[00:05:27] Caroline Blazovsky: That's great. You guys have a lot to do right now. Yeah, there we go. Audience is great
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[00:05:37] Caroline Blazovsky: it's homework for all of our listeners. Give 'em a little homework. Oh yeah,
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[00:05:45] Eric Goranson: One of the hours we're talking about, you know, all the myths out there of lumber, you know, from, you know, what's Goodwood, what's not, and I want, there's something we didn't talk about. And Caroline and I, we were sitting there [00:06:00] after we kinda recorded that episode went, you know, we did not touch on wood species at all.
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[00:06:29] Intro: Take the
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[00:06:30] Eric Goranson: now. Why? Yeah. So that's good. I mean, here's the thing. When, when you have commodity numbers like this. The cool thing with that is, is those numbers are out like next month. You're basically buying lumber for delivery in September. Let's say September mm-hmm or October. So that's out.
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[00:07:16] Eric Goranson: So that's good. That means we're gonna be down for a little bit. And, uh, that also means that they're banking that, uh, new home building's gonna be down to, but for all of us out there doing projects and actually building stuff, that means that we're gonna. And a better.
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[00:07:38] Caroline Blazovsky: So the markets are down. Um, so we'll
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[00:07:41] Eric Goranson: takes us. Yeah. Yes. So, and the government's still spending money, which means. Our value becomes less and less and less of the dollars. So that's just how economics 1 0 1 works. Speaking
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[00:08:09] Intro: construction.
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[00:08:21] Eric Goranson: Nobody wants smelly cough by the
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[00:08:29] Caroline Blazovsky: so anyway, see if anyone's listening. Um, so yeah, we don't know if the product was skunk.
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[00:08:56] Caroline Blazovsky: And unfortunately I did not have the experience with that. My whole house freaked . [00:09:00]
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[00:09:08] Intro: Clear
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[00:09:12] Intro: dread loosen stump.
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[00:09:18] Caroline Blazovsky: so even the best of us when we try very hard can have something go awry.
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[00:09:28] Eric Goranson: Yeah. Smells like bad caulk. . Can't have that. Can't have that
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[00:09:46] Eric Goranson: Here we go. I about. Yeah, exactly. I wanted to talk about the top five lumber species out there so people can understand when they're going to the home center, lumber yard, wherever they're going. And we're gonna dive into this really deep this weekend, but I just kind of wanted to talk [00:10:00] on this to give some context before you listen to the show on Saturday.
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[00:10:24] Eric Goranson: You'll pay a little more for that. If you go out and buy studs in it versus like a hem fur or something like that, mm-hmm , so it's kind of the best and most common, just because it's a good, soft wood, really good dimensionally and stable. And it does hold up pretty well. To a little bit to rot and really holds up to storm winds, earthquakes, that kind of stuff.
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[00:11:16] Eric Goranson: And we're not gonna get into wood species and stuff, cuz that gets super geeky from that point. But it's really versatile. Uh, you can use it for framing. You can use it for trim. Um, it's lighter in the color and weight. Um, but it's very strong. So it's really good for that. You can do a lot with it from TM moldings to, to framing to everything else.
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[00:11:59] Eric Goranson: The lighter [00:12:00] stuff. That's the spruce pine fur. So that's a whole group of lumber species there it's really light, you know, they build old airplane frames outta spruce, right. That's like the spruce goose and that kind of stuff, cuz it's strong but light. Um, so it's really good for that. And you will see it in house walls and stuff.
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[00:12:38] Caroline Blazovsky: my, why would you even wanna use it? So like, why would somebody use it? Is it cheap?
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[00:12:44] Eric Goranson: That's the thing. So it's lightweight too. So, you know, it's, it's, it's less expensive to ship. It's easier to handle. You're still seeing, seeing, you know, homes framed with it. So that's one there. And then another one that I don't see as much here, but it's, [00:13:00] it's out there, sugar, pine, uh, which is a Western pine.
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[00:13:23] Eric Goranson: And the last one we see, not in my market, but a lot of places in the us Southern yellow pine. So that'll be S Y P do you see that out in your lumberyards out there?
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[00:13:50] Caroline Blazovsky: Drywall anything that you're gonna use. So those denser harder woods, like a maple and Oak effer tend to be less aromatic. So it's better from a construction [00:14:00] standpoint for people who have asthma and
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[00:14:11] Eric Goranson: Uh, you know, it's also used in bridges, you know, mm-hmm poles, railroad, you know, applications. A lot of the railroad ties start out with that in the country as a would. So before they put all the crazy chemicals in it, so it's good. But yeah, and, but here, Caroline is the, the issue and inside is not a big deal, but the aromatics, as far as lumbers, those are the ones that do the best.
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[00:14:48] Caroline Blazovsky: sensitive. Like Cedar Cedar's fantastic. If you wanna use it for, you know, repelling bugs, the problem is a lot of people have Cedar allergies.
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[00:15:04] Eric Goranson: aromatic. There you go. I used to, of course, Cedar is everywhere here. We use a lot of it, you know, exterior trim, that kind of stuff. I don't really take it inside much.
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[00:15:23] Caroline Blazovsky: for that's really good for that repellent. You know, people don't want moths in their clothing, so they will use it and build a lot of closets. It's very common here.
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[00:15:41] Eric Goranson: We just don't have a moth wool problem here like that. So it's just not a quiet. What do you mean? You've got that
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[00:15:47] Caroline Blazovsky: What do you mean that Washington state moth? Yeah. It'll did anybody see this in, in radio podcast land? Oh yeah. It'll take
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[00:15:57] Intro: this
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[00:16:02] Eric Goranson: yeah. It's what is that thing called?
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[00:16:07] Caroline Blazovsky: are crazy. You have the biggest insects. I cannot move there. like it's
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[00:16:18] Eric Goranson: Moss? Oh my gosh, this moth and I saw it on the news. This moth is. Bigger than both of my hands together.
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[00:16:35] Intro: You can keep all that out there.
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[00:16:40] Intro: if I came out there, I'd have to start using pesticide I think it's like scary and you know, that's bad if I'm saying that,
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[00:16:50] Eric Goranson: Yeah. It's one of the largest moth species in the world. I have not seen that. I probably would think that was a bad flying around or something that was colorful. I don't know.
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[00:17:02] Eric Goranson: no, I have not. Murder horns are only in the very top Northwest corner of Washington state.
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[00:17:28] Eric Goranson: What a container ship or something like that. And now they're trying to grow here. So we're trying to, the Washington state department of agriculture is trying to take 'em down. So they've been doing a pretty good job of, of getting those and beating 'em down. So that's,
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[00:17:51] Caroline Blazovsky: Like if you try to, they literally jump 12 feet away. These things are the. They're like acrobats, you tr I challenge anyone to [00:18:00] try to take one out because they are extremely nimble. Wow. You go to SWAT and it has eyes coming out, all sides of its body. It can like see you from multi angle.
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[00:18:14] Eric Goranson: Maybe we'll do a, a future episode on that. Let's find somebody that wants to bug out with us bug.
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[00:18:43] Eric Goranson: All right, Caroline, I think I hear in the music could creep it up in the background. Shall we roll? Yeah. Everybody
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[00:18:54] Eric Goranson: Oh man. Don't remind me. I gotta get back after. All right. I'm Eric G and I'm Caroline B.[00:19:00]
