In this weeks Weekday update we tackle bad advice from DIY Influencers, an important electric range recall and some tips for Spring pest control. All this and more in this short episode!
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[00:00:36] Eric Goranson: stuff that didn't end up in last weekend show and isn't ending up in this weekend show and happy Memorial Day weekend coming up for everybody here in the U S and remember what we are remembering this weekend. This just isn't a three day holiday for us here. Remember those that gave us so much in this country and thanks for everybody that has.
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[00:01:17] Eric Goranson: And Kenmore electric ranges. Yes. Frigidaire did make a lot of Kenmore ranges during a time there. So that's where you should be concerned due to fire and burn hazards. And this is from consume the consumer product safety commission or CPS go forward slash recalls. If you want to find it for yourself, depending on the model, the surface heating element can either one turn on spontaneously without being switched on or to fail to turn off.
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[00:02:08] Eric Goranson: In the form of a 50 electronic gift card and reimbursement of up to 60 for the hallway fee of their recall range, which still means you got to go buy another one if it's not repairable. So that tells you there might be some of these since this, these were previously recalled in 2009. They're basically going to give you 50 bucks to go buy another one and 60 to help pay to get rid of it.
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[00:02:50] Eric Goranson: Given you 50 bucks. Saying good luck, go buy another 800 range might not be the best plan. So I'm not sure if those guys have the best interest of everybody in mind there, but it is a [00:03:00] towards the end of the life cycle of the range. So I do get that as well. So if you've got one of those, you might want to reach out.
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[00:03:28] Eric Goranson: The people out there that are trying to tackle a DIY project and just, here's what we're seeing now. And this is part of the bad influencer game. And I see influencers as people on social media. They don't have a media show like I do or a television show. So I'm not really an influencer, but for influencers out there that have their own social media channels, and there are a handful.
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[00:04:15] Eric Goranson: Or allegedly that they are going out there to do this just to get people to click and say bad things about it. So they're giving off bad information. They're using that algorithm of people commenting to grow their channel. Cause Oh, the algorithms in social media don't understand if it's a helpful or not helpful tip, good or bad information.
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[00:05:09] Eric Goranson: And it's completely wrong. And I feel it's wrong on purpose because anybody that has done a project like this before. Would know not to do it that way, or that's the worst shortcut in the world. So these are people out there that are preying off of my audience, you guys out there, as well as everybody else are trying to do it.
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[00:06:00] Eric Goranson: Again, I did some here earlier on this year, and I'm going to start doing these again, because again, I am not going to put up with out there. These people that are giving bad advice just to make money off of it. And then everybody goes out and tries to do it. They go, why didn't this work? It's because they purposely, from what I feel gave you bad advice.
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[00:06:40] Eric Goranson: And that could be Sarah Listie, Tool Girls Garage, Brent Gentling from BYOT. And the list goes on and on of people out there that are absolutely amazing for giving off great home improvement advice. So I will continue to keep highlighting the good ones and showing you also the ones [00:07:00] out there that I would not follow because they're either not going to meet building code or it's just the wrong way to do it.
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[00:07:32] Eric Goranson: Making sure that all of the little holes are filled up and there's some great spray foam out there that is a pest blocker. Just look up pest blocker when you're buying your spray foam that makes it so the rodents and bugs won't go through it. They put, I don't know if they put in chemicals or if it's just basically like a hot pepper in there so that doesn't get eaten up.
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[00:08:16] Eric Goranson: Because by the time it's July, August, September, they're already well established and you're behind the game. So now it's the time to get out there, get the flies under control. Take a look out there. And here's one that I run into a lot in my area because I live in a forest, but watch out for those carpenter bees.
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[00:08:49] Eric Goranson: Those could be carpenter bees. And they will make a perfectly round hole in a beam sighting anywhere else. It's wet a side of your shed, wherever. So take a look at those [00:09:00] and they do make traps specifically for those so you can do that. Rescue's got a lot of great stuff there. And I would get after all of those things for your, your spring pest control into the summer, because to tell you what, Last year we had a bad one and they're saying this year could be even worse.
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[00:09:31] Eric Goranson: Heck, I got a three day week and that rarely happens, which I do enjoy. And that lets me actually go out and finish up some of my own projects. So check out for some social media this weekend. I'm sure I'll be doing stuff out there as well. I'm Eric G and thanks for tuning into around the house. We'll see you on Saturday.[00:10:00]
