One of the easiest places to have mold growing is in your bathroom. We talk with Rebecca Jones from Airmada Dry system and what they have created to automatically dry your shower. Are you using a squeegee to dry the shower door? This will dry it for you! Plus, it keeps that shower so much cleaner.

We dive into the subject of keeping that bathroom clean and what you can do to keep it so much healthier and how to protect that investment inside your home. A new bathroom can be a budget buster so we have those things that will protect it for years to come.

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[00:00:31] Rebecca Jones: I've never heard of it. What does that even mean? So basically what it is, it's, uh, it's nozzles that are placed throughout the shower space and forced air flows through those nozzles with the push of the timer. So what the air does is it dries out all the shower surfaces after use, and that helps to prevent mold

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[00:01:22] Caroline Blazovsky: gross subject, but we've got to talk.

[00:01:35] Eric Goranson: Yep.

[00:01:36] Caroline Blazovsky: That's a hot mess. How does that happen? How do you become a specialist in mold? Like how does that exactly.

[00:01:47] so weird.

[00:01:56] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm like, mold can make you sick. And they're like, no, it doesn't.

[00:02:01] Eric Goranson: See I'm the, I'm the mold Canary in the coal mine. I can walk into a house because my mold allergies are so severe. I can walk into a house. I'm not breathing well, you have mold in here. Do you know that? And they're like, really?

[00:02:26] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm on cats. I don't mean to insult our cat audiences, but I can't get into. I like the hairless

[00:02:42] Eric Goranson: It just, you know, the creepy. Yeah. Anyway, but here's the thing with mold I can walk in and my chest tightens up. I, I'm not breathing as well with, uh, with cats. My eyes start watering. So I have like today. Visceral reactions with that it's radar. You got it. [00:03:00] Well, let's talk about mold inside the house because it is such a huge deal.

[00:03:21] Caroline Blazovsky: sort of current. So. Because we're in this winter time of year and Florida, like a place that you typically think that it's warm, they've been having these increased spells of cold.

[00:03:49] Caroline Blazovsky: So no matter wherever you live in the country, whether you live in the Northeast, you live in Florida. The south with humidity changes in temperature out in California. And even in the [00:04:00] drier areas like the desert, you know, whether you're in Palm Springs, maybe you're in Scottsdale, Phoenix, those areas.

[00:04:20] Eric Goranson: moisture. It's funny, you know, with us, for instance right now is our wet season.

[00:04:48] Eric Goranson: You know, we have low humidity in the summertime and the wintertime, it's always humid. You know, we've got Moss and mold growing on it and everything. If you're not careful with it,

[00:05:10] Eric Goranson: yeah.

[00:05:30] Eric Goranson: You know? And so humidity wise, what are the numbers, Caroline? That really start to say, okay. You're going to start growing mold. Where should people be paying attention to? Because everybody out there should be measuring what the humidity is inside their home.

[00:05:56] Caroline Blazovsky: This is like a DIY. So go and get yourself a hygrometer [00:06:00] and accurate is a good brand. It's the size of your Palm. It's going to tell you temperature and relative humidity. So that temperature number, you know, we know which will be 72, 68 95, and then you'll have a percentage number for people who don't know.

[00:06:28] Caroline Blazovsky: You could be 70. And have that 20% relative humidity and you'll feel cold, but if you have 70 and 80% relative humidity, you'll feel sticky.

[00:06:49] Eric Goranson: Yeah, it's good. And it was always funny because, you know, Julie be like, man, it's so hot in here. And I'm like, it's 70 degrees that looked down. I'm like, wow, it's 50. Percent or [00:07:00] 20%, you know, it was all around the board. So you could really see when she's cold and, and 70 I'm like, wow, it's 22 cents.

[00:07:08] Eric Goranson: It's dry.

[00:07:26] Caroline Blazovsky: I mean, you will, in the wintertime, my house is sometimes it's 17. It's not the greatest thing to be that dry because you know, you can

[00:07:37] Caroline Blazovsky: Exactly. And also it just SAP, all your wood products, things contract and expand. And, but, um, but 30 to 55% is that range where it's a really helpful.

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[00:08:02] Eric Goranson: Ah, chocolate cake. Yum. You lost me on chocolate cake, but you're right. I mean, even my house here, there are probably only six or 10, six to 10 days a year. Where I look at the humidity and go, wow, I'm 57, 60%. You know what I mean? And I can manually work that with my air conditioner to drop that down. But I know that if I was living in the south and Florida, Georgia, north and South Carolina, all of those kind of Gulf states.

[00:08:42] Caroline Blazovsky: so funny that you live in such a wet climate and typically it must be drier even though you get a lot of water, because I mean, you'd think you'd be up like 80%, but you're

[00:08:57] Eric Goranson: You know, HPAC system in here. So [00:09:00] it's already monitoring that. It's looking at it. It's trying to cycle the AC. If it notices humidity, it'll turn the AC on and start to drop, drop it out of there. So it's one of those things that you gotta be really careful with,

[00:09:22] Caroline Blazovsky: And so what happens is when that, like, No need or no call for heat or air conditioning that fan kicks on and runs the DEU in between the cycle. So there's like a dampering system that basically says, oh wait, okay, I've got no heat. I've got no air conditioning. The damper opens and the dehumidifier goes on.

[00:09:43] Eric Goranson: talk about that. Just as soon as around the house returns,

[00:09:58] Eric Goranson: around the house with Eric [00:10:00] G. Yeah. We love Eric G and you shouldn't.

[00:10:31] Eric Goranson: Hmm, that nasty stuff that makes us all not breathe well. And we were just jumping into, you know, Carolyn and I were talking about HPAC systems and control in that humidity. And that dehumidifier can save you a ton of money because it's kind of a cheap way to run compared to running your AC all the time.

[00:10:52] Caroline Blazovsky: And then also, you know, when you're in that in-between temperature, when you're not going to be calling for heat or air conditioning, It can be [00:11:00] running and taking out that humidity. Cause that's when the humidity really forms when your air conditioning is on it's it's a catch. All right. It basically takes it out of the air.

[00:11:34] Eric Goranson: You got it. You got it. You know, one of the things is a, is a kitchen and bath designer and a bathroom. You know, it is one of those battles that I have run into. And I've, you know, I love using VIN fans that have humidity centers, but I've had homes that didn't have very see, you know, cause we don't have a lot of AC and homes over here still that's changing quickly because of our heat temps that we've had over the.

[00:12:23] Eric Goranson: And that's not good. It's not good when you've got that, that higher humidity in there. And so we we've really had to deal with homes that, you know, had humidity out of control just because they had no tools to do it. But for instance of my bathroom, which we'll talk about later in the show here, I really had an issue.

[00:12:48] Rebecca Jones: luxury.

[00:13:03] Caroline Blazovsky: but people he's put a steam shower and imagine the amount of humidity and moisture that's coming into the air.

[00:13:21] Eric Goranson: Well, great example. So let's, I'm going to, you know, you think about you have that stock pot on the stove and you've got that boiling pot.

[00:13:48] Eric Goranson: It's going, shh. It's it's like having 15 of those pots on your stuff. So it's a lot to have to control. And I really had to take that into account [00:14:00] because the last thing I wanted was a moldy shower and a moldy bathroom, and that to get to the rest of that.

[00:14:14] Eric Goranson: and next, we're not going to talk about it right now because the next two segments, we're going to talk with, uh, Airmont dry, which is my secret.

[00:14:39] Eric Goranson: It's that musty smell. They move some boxes. Cause maybe they're getting rid of some stuff or moved around and they see that, uh, you know, that black carpet on the.

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[00:15:25] Caroline Blazovsky: He starts to wheeze. He doesn't feel good. Maybe he gets a headache, stuffy, whatever, but then mold also produce VOC. So when they breathe out, I say, it's like, they're smoking cigarettes in your house. They're hanging out and having a little. Party in your basement. And so they put off altar organics, VOC is, and when they party it up, like they smoke cigarettes.

[00:16:10] Caroline Blazovsky: You don't want mold in your house and you don't like does every house have a little bit? Yes, I can find it anywhere in an inspection, but when you start to get large quantity of it or you start to get an abundance, you need to take care.

[00:16:25] Eric Goranson: It always starts taking off. And it's interesting, you know, this time of year is where I see it a lot is, uh, people will. We'll go, you know, in this, these are bad habits sometimes like, you know, with snow and rain and that kind of stuff. People come in, they've got their, their jacket on their overcoat, their parka, whatever, and they throw it on the hanger and they throw it right smack dab in the middle of that closet.

[00:16:48] Caroline Blazovsky: have basements, like I was just talking to clients today and they have all these hidden basement closet. In their basement and they don't, they just throw like all this stuff in there and then they shut the door and it has no [00:17:00] breathability whatsoever. And the mold just like loves to form there.

[00:17:10] Eric Goranson: Yeah, cut the door. So you've got an inch and a half, two inches below it and the bottom make it. So you got a big space under there, so at least you get some kind of airflow through there.

[00:17:39] Eric Goranson: You never see it. I know. I

[00:17:56] Caroline Blazovsky: You can like open up the slots, you know, like it's slotted, [00:18:00] but it's solid. And then it opens when you want to ventilate,

[00:18:13] Eric Goranson: You can

[00:18:20] Eric Goranson: there we go. I like it. I like it. All right. When we come back, we've got a great interview here with Airmont dry. This is my secret to not having a moldy shower and I know. I don't have a squeegee in my shower and I got a ton of glass door on it.

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[00:18:58] Eric Goranson: to around the house with Eric [00:19:00] G and Caroline B a new kind of home improvement show every single week. Thanks for joining us. Hey Caroline,

[00:19:10] Caroline Blazovsky: And I like all the women power. So I'm, uh, I'm biased. I like when we have women on the show. Cause I get like man overload.

[00:19:35] Eric Goranson: Welcome Rebecca Jo. From Armada.

[00:19:42] Eric Goranson: This is great. And, and in full disclosure, I am 100% a user and believer of this in my steam shower, because when I put my shower in, during the COVID times here, and Caroline is going to go, uh, Eric's shower, we're going to hear the shower story again, but she's tired of me.[00:20:00]

[00:20:25] Eric Goranson: So tell us about. And I love that.

[00:20:45] Rebecca Jones: I always say it slow because people are like, what the heck is that? I've never heard of that. What does that even mean? So basically what it is, it's. It's nozzles that are placed throughout the shower space and forced air flows through those nozzles with [00:21:00] the push of a timer. So what the air does is it dries out all the shower surfaces after use, and that helps to prevent mold mildew, slippery floor.

[00:21:15] Caroline Blazovsky: happen. I mean, you'll put me on a business. I have no I'll have no bathroom remodels. I'll have no testing for mold in the bathroom. That's awesome.

[00:21:39] Intro: Yeah.

[00:21:47] Rebecca Jones: I mean, I think it's a must have for every shower, but especially a steam shower because those stay so wet for so long and the ceiling stays wet and everything. Um, when we design a system, we try to aim the air at every single point of that room. So [00:22:00] for the instance, you know, in your shower, Eric, we have.

[00:22:31] Eric Goranson: and that's, what's cool.

[00:22:59] Eric Goranson: I [00:23:00] had the steam generator at all these different things, but I tell you what it works so well. And I dunno, I don't have a squeegee in the shower and I'll tell you what I hate it. That was the worst part of taking a shower to me is having to go out and squeegee that glass. I'm ready to get out. I'm done with my shower.

[00:23:22] Intro: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:23:46] Rebecca Jones: Sometimes I'll come across a random husband. That's. Well, I don't squeegee my shower. That's not an issue. And I'll look at the wife and she's like, yeah, we need one. So, um, I will mention our other [00:24:00] product really quickly. It's called air pocket door. So it's basically similar to any other pocket door in your.

[00:24:29] Rebecca Jones: Even if you don't have a steam shower that cause it's completely enclosed. That's

[00:24:35] Rebecca Jones: really pretty way to do a shower door. Both of these products have been out. We, we fine tuned. We got our patents. Um, so both of these, we rolled out nationally and actually we're in Canada now as well.

[00:24:49] Caroline Blazovsky: 20, 20, oh, I'm missing out. This has got to go in my pool. It's got to go in my new bathroom that I'm remodeling because I am so about drying the bathroom and you know, I've always put on I, one of the. [00:25:00] A heat fan and my bathroom. Right. So I'm always yelling, put on the heat fan, dry it up, make sure it's dry in there.

[00:25:10] Intro: Thank you. Yeah.

[00:25:14] Eric Goranson: so much for, but here's the thing about it. It's relatively easy to install. I mean, it wasn't that hard. And for me, I'd found out about you guys late in the game. I mean, I already had my shower system fairly.

[00:25:43] Rebecca Jones: Yes. And I'm so glad we caught you in time for that.

[00:26:07] Eric Goranson: I mean, you've got the nozzles of course, which are super cool.

[00:26:26] Eric Goranson: That hooks into just your typical clear tubing. Cause you're just moving air. And that goes up into a distribution block that you have. You know, in the space that you're going to have the, uh, you know, you're gonna have the dryer unit and it goes up and then you've got, uh, a timer that is really trick how that works.

[00:27:04] Eric Goranson: You know, an hour later when that's done, boom, I have a shower that is a hundred percent dry and it works out really well.

[00:27:19] Eric Goranson: The other thing that's super cool with that too, is that you got to take into account with this because always plan your vent hood with this too, because you are taking.

[00:27:42] Rebecca Jones: That's it? We always say, you know, we're giving your bathroom fan something to do.

[00:27:56] Eric Goranson: Don't go anywhere around the house. We'll be right back after these [00:28:00] important messages. Hey, make sure you head over to our Facebook page around the house show or a closed group on Facebook, around the house nation.

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[00:29:05] Eric Goranson: So I had this kind of angled, soften, fitted space. That's like three feet high above it. Um, because I've got vaulted ceilings and they had put a flat ceiling where the bathroom is. So I had this natural. Conditioned space up there to put it. So it was great. I put an air vent into the hallway that's right next to it.

[00:29:27] Caroline Blazovsky: How big is the, I guess the box, right? That you have to fit in? How large is that?

[00:29:39] Eric Goranson: garbage disposal, even, you know what I mean? Think about the size of the garbage disposal under your sink.

[00:29:46] Caroline Blazovsky: Is there any maintenance that you have to do, Rebecca?

[00:30:03] Rebecca Jones: Um, it, it can be placed up to a hundred feet away. So obviously in a new bill, There's more flexibility, flexibility on where to put that. So conditioned space in the garage, mechanical room, um, renovations and retrofits. Usually it needs to be closer, obviously. Um, but neighboring closet, laundry room, anywhere where you can just access the blower.

[00:30:40] Intro: well.

[00:30:42] Rebecca Jones: Yep, absolutely. And if you have to put it in near the shower, Oh, there are some things you can do to kind of mitigate that sound. If you have to place it closely. So you could do a little installation.

[00:31:00] Caroline Blazovsky: It's just something you get used to, is that sorta how it is, you know, what's going to run for an hour or two and that's, it's just part of bathroom maintenance. Right. So I don't feel like. Terrible thing.

[00:31:20] Rebecca Jones: So we have a new whisper blower that we've transitioned to. So, um, we don't have any feedback as far

[00:31:40] Eric Goranson: It's just not that loud, but you will hear a little bit of a woo. You know, it's just, it's white noise. So, you know, but it's, it's, it works so well. And when you're a bathroom, I can still be in there getting ready if I want to hit it, even while I'm getting ready in there. It's not something that's been noxious.

[00:32:17] Eric Goranson: That damp in there. So it's it's, for me, it's been the easiest shower I've ever had to clean because it's the dry shower when I'm done with it.

[00:32:33] Rebecca Jones: You know what I mean? You're, you're preventing, helping to prevent that mold and mildew in the first place. So you don't have to get in there with bleach. And, you know, even though that's not. Printing mold, um, you know, all those harsh chemicals and scrub and all that stuff. So whether you clean your shower or you have, you know, someone that comes in and clean.

[00:32:52] Caroline Blazovsky: So just a mold lesson too, for our listeners. When, you know, when you have these condensation sources, right? So [00:33:00] toilets and bathrooms, you get a lot of this cold and hot that condensates back behind the wall. And technically you're not supposed to have mold getting back there at your tile is supposed to prevent it.

[00:33:24] Caroline Blazovsky: There's mold back there, whether it's under the tub or whatever. So what I see is this, providing this like extra layer protection so that you're not getting this extra condensation that just sits against the wall, which is common sense, but showers are like the number one place that people get into and they shower every day and you take this deep breath and you breathe in the steam and all the, the luxury that comes with your bath.

[00:34:08] Caroline Blazovsky: Like it's the showers, the bathrooms, so amen to you.

[00:34:15] Rebecca Jones: Yep. Yeah. It's, it's a pretty fun company to be a part of. I will tell you that it's

[00:34:36] Eric Goranson: I put a transom over the top of the door. And what a transom is, it's that little piece of glass over the top of the door. I didn't want a full height door in there. Cause it goes all the way to the ceiling, but that transom will pivot. So all I do is when I walk out, I shut the door, shuts automatically.

[00:35:14] Eric Goranson: That way I've got an inter so of air to go through there and manage this works really well. And you've created a path. And when I designed. My vent fan is probably eight inches away from that. So it's just pulling right there. So I've got a direct that Panasonic fan grabs it right there and sends it right up and we're good to go.

[00:35:37] Rebecca Jones: You can go to our website, Armada, dry.com. Um, we also have an Instagram where we do a lot of videos and things, um, Armada underscore dry. Um, and then we do have a YouTube as well that we're trying to constantly upload installation videos on.

[00:36:03] Caroline Blazovsky: Can you re retrofit this in or is it better in a new, well, you

[00:36:22] Rebecca Jones: Um, sometimes with that, we do need to kind of open that up down to the studs just for easier. Um, and then placing the motor, you know, somewhere nearby. The second option would be to drill through the walls and place the nozzles that

[00:36:47] Eric Goranson: So I went in because the bathroom had walls through a closet, into hallways of where the shower was. I just went through the drywall drywall. Put it through the drywall, opened it up, [00:37:00] ran it, got it done correctly. And then it was not that big a deal. And then I had a drywall repair, so it wouldn't have been any different if I would've had a, a tiled shower and I was drilling through it wouldn't have been much different from that point of view.

[00:37:30] Rebecca Jones: Um, and then we're also, um, in color showrooms,

[00:37:42] Rebecca Jones: So we actually have reps in New York. Um, they were some of the first reps we signed on with creative bath sales. Um, and so we are currently being installed in several showrooms.

[00:38:02] Eric Goranson: This is something that everybody should have in their shower. It has made my life so much easier. And especially if you've got that nice shower door, why not protect it with one of these systems and you just protects the whole room while you're at it.

[00:38:22] Eric Goranson: Rebecca. Thanks for coming on today. We really appreciate it. Thank

[00:38:27] Eric Goranson: guys. Well, you know what that song is. It's time to go. And I'm Caroline B and you've been listening to around the

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