Eric G sits down with Dane Patton from Grabo tools to discuss the innovative vacuum lifting tool that has become a game changer for material handling. Dane explains how the Grabo makes lifting and moving heavy or awkward items easier and safer, particularly for tradespeople and DIY enthusiasts alike. The conversation dives into the unique features of the Grabo, including its ability to work on semi-porous and textured surfaces, setting it apart from traditional suction cups. Following the tool discussion, Eric shifts gears to focus on fire safety, emphasizing the importance of smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in your home. We explore new safety technologies, like the Flame Detective, which can detect flames and alert you in real-time, showcasing how essential it is to keep your home safe from potential fire hazards.

Eric G. and Dane Patton from Grabo tools delve into the innovative design and practical applications of Grabo, a vacuum lifting tool that has revolutionized how materials are handled in construction and home improvement projects. The discussion highlights the unique features of the Grabo, which sets it apart from traditional suction cups by effectively lifting semi-porous and textured materials. Dane shares anecdotes from users who have transformed their workflow with the tool, particularly in installations involving large tiles or heavy materials that require careful handling. The conversation also touches on the recent partnership with DeWalt, which showcases Grabo's reliability by placing their brand alongside a trusted name in the industry. Dane emphasizes the importance of ergonomics and efficiency in trades, explaining how the Grabo not only enhances productivity but also reduces physical strain on users. As the episode unfolds, listeners gain insights into how Grabo fits into the lives of both professionals and DIYers, making it a must-have tool for anyone engaged in home improvement or construction work.

Takeaways:

• The Grabo vacuum lifting tool revolutionizes material handling by working on semi-porous surfaces.
• Dane Patton highlights the importance of ergonomic tools for safety and efficiency in trades.
• Grabo tools are now co-branded with DeWalt, enhancing brand visibility and credibility.
• Having multiple fire extinguishers in key locations can save lives and property during a fire.
• Fire safety measures, such as smoke detectors and fire extinguishers, need regular maintenance to be effective.
• Innovative tools like Flame Detective and Ting Fire can provide advanced safety measures for homes.

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• Stanley
• Black and Decker
• DeWalt
• Grabo
• Monument Grills
• Pyramid Heating and Cooling
• Lowe's

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Yeah, you guys have been on a wild ride and now I noticed all over my social media some branding from.

Your typical black to some yellow on that thing.

Yeah.

So we were approached by Stanley, Black and Decker, I want to say a couple years ago right after, probably a year after I started the company.

So I know we've been in talks for a while with them, but yeah, we just.

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My good good friend Dane Patton from Grabo, welcome finally to around the House brother.

Yeah, thanks for having us man.

Ah, this has been great.

I have been a fan of you guys and your tools for a number of.

Talk about one tool that somehow nobody else made that changed how you handle materials and you guys have been knocking it out of the park.

Appreciate that.

Well, let's talk about, for the people.

That are going what is Grabo?

Let's, let's answer that one right off the bat for them so they understand what we're talking about.

Well, Grabo is simply a vacuum lifting tool.

It's portable lithium ion battery so you don't have a corded line with you.

What sets us apart from your traditional suction cups would be that it works on semi porous and textured materials.

Very cool.

And we had windows that were single pane non safety glass that were about 36 inches wide and about 84 inches tall.

And we were so worried about breaking these things.

They were going in the dumpster, but I didn't want to wear it yeah, exactly.

And oh man, that, that was a life changer.

As well as grabbing just a sheet of OSB and throwing it up someplace over my head, it makes it so much easier to do something that simple and it really changes how you handle materials.

And I think what's cool about it is what you brought up there is semi rough materials.

It has no problem with it.

Yeah, the, the pain point, a lot of installers that we find or, or people just working around their house is that it's always going to be awkward.

Right.

You gotta carry a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood or drywall or, or something like heavy.

So you're doing some demolition.

You got these chunks of concrete.

It's always by hand because the traditional suction cups were always just pump cups and they worked on very, very, very smooth, very flat surfaces only.

And even those had a pretty large margin for error, right?

Yeah, they did.

So our founder, Anemo, was rock climbing one day and thought, why can't there be something that holds onto textured materials and that spawned Grabo.

Yeah, and we've just been going from there.

So the ups and downs and the wild nature, it's been.

Yeah, you guys have been on a wild ride.

And now I noticed all over my social media some branding from your typical black to some yellow on that thing.

Yeah.

So we were approached by Stanley, Black and Decker, I want to say, a couple years ago, right after.

Probably about a year after I started with the company.

So I know we've been in talks for a while with them, but yeah, we just launched, or they launched a co brand Grabo, the DeWalt branded.

So yeah, it was a long time in the making.

It's really good for visibility.

It's really good for just brand awareness and reliability.

Right.

So if DeWalt has one, then, okay, this company that manufactures for them must be reliable as well.

No kidding.

And here's the cool thing that I noticed, and this is something rare in the tool industry, is they actually put your name on it.

They're not shy of saying, hey, this is a grabo that just works with our battery platform, which I think is pretty badass.

Yeah, exactly right.

And we, we've only tipped like touched the tip of the iceberg as far as brand awareness for Grabo itself.

Even though we're in Lowe's with our original Grabo classic model, we're about to launch in Q1, with Lowe's, with our AutoVac, which is a glass cup that's also electric.

But yeah, just having a partner like DeWalt that trusts in us enough to put our name on their brand with their platforms and distribution channels is just, it's a big, it's a big step and it's a big trust value.

Oh, yeah.

Nothing against DeWalt at all.

But you have to trust putting your name on their brand too, because you guys do some great work.

And it's been so fun watching people in the trades out there, that material handle every day, get it in their hands, use it.

I'm watching tile and stuff worldwide pick this stuff up and go, oh my gosh, this is a game changer.

Especially like with the larger format tiles, people putting on floors and all of that, where all of a sudden you're having to set down on a job site.

Maybe a 30 by 48 or a.

48 by 48 inch, like a half sheet of plywood, that's a panel of tile to set these things in.

And you're not grabbing that with your fingers and dropping it down without taking a finger off.

Yeah, exactly.

So again, there's a lot of pain points in all these, all these different trade installation, end user jobs.

And one of them is just efficiency and ease of use.

Right.

So you have.

At least, in, at least America we've seen tiles are especially residential tile.

They're only getting bigger.

We're not getting down to 8 inch tiles anymore.

They're going to be 2 by 4.

2 by 4 foot is now the.

Kind of the standard where.

The industry standard.

Yeah, yeah.

So just to make it, to make it a lot easier, to give you peace of mind that you're not gonna have that suction cup slip off and break that tile.

It's just a, it's a good peace of mind.

This is amazing.

It's going to make our jobs go faster, go safer and just be more efficient.

So.

Exactly.

And that's, and that's what's really fun with that, is watching the trades get it.

I'm sure the framers now are figuring out, wait a minute, I can, I can put stuff over my head now.

So much easier.

The older I get, the less I like grabbing out 48 inches with a piece of plywood over me and trying to guide that.

And I tell you what, anytime that I'm working on a roof or even putting up any kind of a panel or drywall over my head, that is the easy way to do it.

And it's a heck of a lot easier on your body, too.

And that's.

I think that's one thing for the.

Homeowner and even the DIYer where this makes so much sense is taking care of your body, making sure that you've got the right ergonomics to tackle a project so you're not hurting later or getting hurt yourself.

And this is such a convenient tool to be able to place your hands where it's comfortable for you to do a project.

And it doesn't matter if you're lifting a piece of concrete paver up or if you're hanging a big sheet of drywall over your head.

Being able to place your hands where it's comfortable for you and where you're safest.

It's a huge safety tool outside of a material handler.

Right?

Yeah.

So the three value propositions that I pull out of this tool and then I talk to people at trade shows or, you know, on social media about is those three things.

Right.

So we want to help installers work faster, safer, and more efficiently.

Right.

So for a myriad of reasons for each one of those, just like you said, the trades now are becoming almost a lifestyle for a lot of people.

Right.

There's influencers, where we know a lot of them.

You're technically one of them.

But it's just becoming this thing where you want to be proud of what you do and you don't want to burn out and you don't want to resent the 9 to 5.

Right.

So if we could help an installer say, okay, it's not as hard now.

My body doesn't hurt as much.

I don't have to spend my days off recuperating from my work week just to get right back to my work week.

Then I think that's a win for everybody.

They're gonna.

It just builds an ecosystem of everybody starts winning.

Yeah.

And the other thing is, you can work so much more efficiently.

I've seen guys with a grabo in each hand grabbing, like, concrete paver blocks and carrying them like a suitcase, walking across the job site where before they were holding one with two hands like this, tearing gloves up, doing all the stuff, trying to grip it with the side of their hands, and it is just so much more efficient.

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These guys make an amazing tool that should be part of your toolbox.

And they're not just saying that.

I tell you what, I've got two of them.

It makes life so much easier.

It's a must have.

Now let's get back to Dane and.

Then the one thing I love about you guys too is you are not afraid to innovate.

Every single trade show I have, you guys have some one off thing there that you're trying to test out to see what people think.

And it's super cool to watch that because every time I walk into the booth, I know what Gravo is.

I've got a couple of them.

I love them.

But every time I walk in going, oh, what do you guys got now?

What are you guys testing out?

Because you're always thinking, yeah, so our, our founder and our owners, they're all engineers and inventors.

So when we get something, when we get something out into the market, they're immediately thinking, okay, what else can I do?

What else?

What other market needs are there?

What other trade needs are there?

How else can we implement portable vacuum to help people?

Do those three things work faster, safer and more efficiently?

Yeah.

Question for you and I don't know this answer.

How long does that battery last?

Because I've never ran it out before, so I've never gotten to that point in a day's worth of work where I've went, okay, I need to plug this thing in and charge it.

Yeah.

So the full runtime on the Gravo Pro and Grabo Classic battery is two hours.

But obviously with a Pro it has the auto shut off.

So you're going to be saving your battery time a lot there.

Yeah.

Most of our installers even installing quite heavy every day they get three, four days, usually over a week out of one battery.

So that's what I thought.

I just I never touch it.

Right.

It's like one of those things.

I always have to remember to plug it in because so many other tools you use it and you're like, okay, impact gun.

I used it for an hour.

Better throw that battery on the charger, because I know I'm down to one bar that thing.

I end up charging it just because I'm like, oh, I'm going to forget one of these times.

And I'll have it down after using it three or four times or for three or four days.

It just seems to go and go and go.

Which I think is handy, too, because so many people out there are busting their chops every day out there working.

And as long as you can make it last a long workday of heavy use, the rest is just bonus.

Yeah, it's cool.

At least one heavy work day.

Exactly.

Exactly.

The rest is bonus.

So what else do you see going on out there?

You guys are always trying new stuff.

You guys have the pro and the classic models out there.

Anything you can share as far as new stuff coming out, Because I always see you guys testing new toys.

Well, we were just at the hardscape equip show in louisville last week, and, yeah, we.

We showed this tool off before the gravel high flow.

So the classic and the pro won't work on extremely porous pavers like your dry cast stuff.

And it's.

It's science.

Right?

Those.

Those materials are meant to either aerate or seep water or something like that.

They're supposed to be very porous.

So our regular grabo doesn't work on it.

So we came out with a whole new tool pretty much just for this one use case.

And it's the grabo.

The grabo high flow.

Yeah.

And it'll be out in a couple months here.

But the hardscape guys were going nuts over it, so.

Well, it's so funny.

There are so many people out there that still try to use what I call the old school glass hand pump tools that if you want to get a good thumb workout, you use on a job site.

But they don't work that well, and I've had them fail so many times.

And that's the cool thing about what makes the grabo so different to me on the job site is that once you hit start and you're going.

It's adjusting itself.

You don't have to sit there and go, oh, I think it's going to slip.

Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump.

It's doing the thinking for you, correct?

Yeah.

So your Traditional pump cup, they've been around for a very long time.

Innovation was on the edge of anyone's head, you know what I mean?

Everyone was thinking about it.

So yeah.

So we came out with something that will self regulate the suction and the hold on to whatever materials you have.

Because if you're moving with those pump cups, you have to watch for those who don't know there's a little red line.

Right.

It'll come out and once you see that red line, you got to stop or you got to re pump it up.

Our tool will, if it has any air slippage or loss, it'll just kick right back on to maintain your suction on your materials.

So yeah, again, just going back to safety and going back to efficiency.

Exactly.

It works so well.

And where can people find all the tools at?

I know you guys now are co branded with DeWalt, which means you're in so many different retailers, the ability to get there.

But I heard you say you're going to be in Lowe's here with some of those products as well.

Coming up.

So we've been in Lowe's with our classic, with our Grabo classic for about almost two years now.

And we're about to launch the autovac, which is our glass cup that our electric glass cup.

So that'll be in Lowe's, I think in Q1, all throughout North America, I believe.

Yeah.

And it's so fun.

I bet you just have an absolute blast going to all these trade shows and talking to users.

Have you had any crazy stories that you could share of people saying what they've been using them for?

And you go, really?

Is there anything wild out there that you.

I didn't even think of that.

Every show I should start writing them down.

Do like a grabo, grab a journal of all the stories.

We had one guy that does home remodels in the south somewhere, I think Florida.

And he said there was like this 200 year old gravestone inside a wall and they're like, how do we get this out?

And they called like this preservation society and they're like, yeah, we need that intact.

So he's like, oh, I have this vacuum thing I just got.

So he went and grabbed his grabo and he put it on the face of this really old, really textured gravestone and he just pulled it out of this wall.

Yeah, it was probably about 200 pounds, he said, and I should have the weirdest one.

I should have put that on last week's show because I last week and you'll laugh about this because of your brother.

But last week on our episode I ran for Halloween, I ran the time that I had Clyde Lewis come on my radio show back on KXL days and talked about finding stuff in walls and, and all of Clyde's fans called into around the house when him and I were on the same station, what, seven or eight years ago.

And that was one of those wild rides.

And we were talking about it in the, in the show last week, but I remixed it and reared it because it was just such a classic episode that sometimes aired as a Halloween episode.

And that would have been a good one for that because we had a guy call in that said that he was living in Vietnam and was having rodent problems and didn't realize that he had a severed hand in his wall.

And you know, you're on the radio.

And you're laughing going, what is happening here?

This is the craziest thing ever.

And I got out of the studio going, this was either the best episode as far as the listeners or the worst one.

And come to find out, it was one of our best listened to episodes of all time.

But it was one of those that was, I walked out sweating beads going.

I hope that went over well because.

I really couldn't tell.

That's funny.

Yeah.

I don't think Bravo could help you with body parts.

No, let's, let's, let's keep that away.

That, let that for science.

Right.

So we don't want to see you guys on the, on a, on a murder mystery.

That's for sure.

True, True crime.

True crime podcast instead of.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So what are the trade shows you're.

Gonna for the pros out there that are going to be out traveling?

Because we have a fair amount of them in the show.

What are the trade shows do you have coming up here in the next few weeks or months or year?

We have staffed in Nashville in about two weeks.

And that's.

Yeah, it's like a fasteners and tools trade show.

Right.

So it's mainly for buyers and things like that.

But it's a, it's a pretty good show.

And then we do the ones that we do every year be tice select the surfaces event coverings, which is a tile and stone, like a global tile and stone show.

World of concrete here in Vegas.

Here in Vegas.

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Welcome back to the around the House.

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Thanks for joining me today.

We've been talking with my buddy Dean from Grabo, a great power tool that you should have in your toolbox.

Now, we're going to wrap this up here in a second and then get into some fire prevention stuff.

There's some new stuff out there.

And of course, we're changing the clock, so we need to make sure and check those smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.

So after that, we're going to dive into this.

Let's get back things up and wrap it up with my buddy Dan.

Doing a lot of overseas ones now, too.

Oh, cool.

So, yeah, so, yeah, Boma, one of the world's largest trade shows for all construction trades.

And then marble Mac in Italy and we just finished glass build in Dallas a couple, like a month ago.

Just like I said, we just finished Hardscape last week.

So, yeah, we're doing a lot of shows.

Personally, I want to get Gravo into some spaces that just haven't been exposed to the tool yet that I think are really, really valuable.

Like automotive.

Right.

So not just auto glass, but panel handling and all that kind of stuff in the automotive world.

And then metal, the metal working world, it's perfect for sheets of metal.

There's no density and pretty much no texture to most of those.

So it's an ideal.

It's an ideal tool for a lot of things.

So, yeah, there's a lot of industries we're in and a lot of industries we could be in.

Well, yeah, you think about that.

Even auto wrecking, guys taking hoods and doors off of cars and stuff and doing that kind of stuff, there's just so many absolutely insane uses that people haven't even thought of yet.

And this should be in just about everybody's toolbox.

Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, we have a partner, Izzy Swan, and that was one of the first things he said when he partnered with us probably about three, four years ago.

And he said this should be on every job site and in every toolbox.

And that's been one of the.

One of the mottos we're working towards.

Yeah, and I agree because there are so many times that I'm working around the house and I'm like, I gotta carry.

I got the right tool for this.

And it's exciting because, you know, even, even moving crazy stuff around when you're trying to scoot something around and get, you know, even like a Full water heater.

You're trying to move around.

If you can get a flat spot on the side of that for it to grab because it is radiused.

If you can do that, you're trying to just scoot things around without trying to bump things around too much.

I've used it for that.

It's so crazy for moving stuff around when you really need to give it not a hip check, but just a good little bump and move things around.

Precisely.

It's great for that because you can really control it.

Yeah.

That's funny you mentioned a water heater because we were thinking like, oh, man, we need some kind of radius cup.

But then we have our slender seal, which works perfect on water heaters.

Exactly.

And sometimes those things get put into such crazy places, into little tight closets, things like that.

And the last thing you wanted to be doing is giving it the full on bear hug.

Trying to do it.

It's always so awkward.

Right.

So very cool.

So, Dana, is there anything we missed today in this conversation about Grabo?

Because like we said, there's a million uses for this tool and I think it's the must have.

It's definitely on my top 10 tools.

You should have in your toolbox at.

Home as a homeowner for just moving stuff around because, man, it makes life so much easier.

Yeah, no, I think we pretty much hit everything.

Like I said, we always have new stuff we're working on, so I would highly encourage to follow us on socials, join our mailing list.

It's not that.

Not that invasive as some companies.

But yeah, just follow along.

We have a lot of stuff coming out for a lot of different trades and for just people in general.

And we're moving.

And that's the cool thing we didn't mention.

It's a favorable price point too.

This is not something that you're going.

It's the cost of a chop saw.

This is something that's affordable, that you can put in.

And that's why you see it on the shelf at Lowe's, because it's something that you can put in your toolbox.

Or if you're a DeWalt user, you can get something that fits on your battery platform there as well.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

So that's.

That's another big point that I like to stress too, is if you're saving 10 to 20% labor time, that tool just paid for itself in one job.

So what's the best website for people to find you at?

Grabo.com we have all of our.

We have A list of all of our retailers, all of our dealers.

Yeah, worldwide.

So grab a dot com.

All right, guys, if you get that special person in your life, we got Christmas coming up, the holiday season.

This would be a great stocking stuffer for them.

Dane Patton, my friend, thanks for coming on the show today, man.

I always appreciate it.

I appreciate it, Eric, Thanks.

I tell you what, Dana is also a great guy.

I always like working with him on these kind of things.

And I have such a great time visiting with him at trade shows, as you can tell.

And if you're looking for something for the holidays, for somebody that has all the basic tools but needs something for tackling those bigger projects, there is absolutely nothing like Grabo.

And if they're a DeWalt person, go grab the DeWalt one.

If they're not, grab the Grabo branded one.

They both are going to work well and they're solid tools, so make sure you find out more about them.

It is something that you get and it becomes your favorite tool in your toolbox because there are so many different uses for it.

Well, the last half of this show, I really wanted to talk about fire safety since it's in fire prevention month here this last month.

But really right now, we change the clocks and it's always that time to talk about smoke detectors and of course, checking out the carbon monoxide and making sure that those things are dialed in and looking really good.

Now, what do I mean by that?

If you're looking at your smoke detectors when you're up there checking the batteries, if they're over 10 years old, that's like milk.

They are done.

You need to change those things out because they lose the effectiveness.

And that's.

That's one thing you want to work well for you.

So grab an A brand one.

There's a lot of great stuff out there.

If you're into smart home tech, the Google home protect one is really good.

That is one that I have near my kitchen because if I'm grilling inside, it can make a little bit of a smoke in there.

And so I can shut it off with my phone.

I'm traveling around.

It really tells me if there's something going on in the kitchen.

And then I've got some new ones I'm installing here this weekend, actually at my house that I ordered in to upgrade to smart ones.

And I'll let you know more about that later on.

I think it'll work okay.

But I want to make sure that they're working great after I test them.

And I'm just going everything around the house with smoke and carbon monoxide detectors just to make sure that we're looking good.

That's the key right there.

So it's always good if you have any kind of a gas appliance in the house, whether it's a heating and cooling system or anything like that.

I actually think it's smart if you even have cars parked in the garage to make sure you don't have anything sneaking in if somebody's warming the car up or something like that.

Just always good to have at least one in there, even if you've got all electric.

I think it's just really smart for that aspect.

All it takes is a generator or something to be running outside to be drafted in the house someplace.

I think it's good either way when you're dealing with stuff like that, with combustion.

And that makes it really smart.

So that's one way to do it.

And just check the batteries on everything.

Guys, I know we preach about this every year, but this is your life.

Your safety on.

Another trick here, too, and it's tough.

But keep those doors closed at night.

That is a big one.

When we're talking fire safety, keeping those doors closed at night buys you a lot of time in a fire when you're keeping the smoke outside.

So close the door at night.

It's even tougher.

If you're dog lovers and you have dogs in there, that can be an issue.

But I'll be honest, I think you'd be better off putting a dog door in the wall going out to the hallway to let the dogs come in and out.

Just for safety.

Keep your door closed just in case.

It's not a bad deal, especially if you were to have some kind of a house fire.

Now, when we come back here in the next hour, we're going to talk about some fire safety devices that really make a difference out there to make sure that you can really protect your home outside of just a smoke detector or fired, anything like that.

Any one of these smoke alarm, smoke detectors, depending on what kind of system you have.

And those are two different things.

There's some added stuff that you can put in that's super inexpensive.

Some of them, your insurance company even pick up the cost and send it to you for free.

So there's some tricks and tips here that I want to really make sure that you've got it set up correctly because that's really going to make things easier for you and safer for your family.

And I got a couple stories for you too that some prevention for me saved a house fire when I was hanging out at a friend's house.

And I'll tell you the story when we come back.

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Welcome back to the Round the House show, the next generation of Home Improvement.

Thanks for joining me today.

I'm Eric G.

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We're just going to keep growing at that.

And we've got some great stuff coming up here for the show.

We've been just.

I was out this last week doing some amazing stuff with these houses.

There was one that looked like I was in a superhero mansion that we toured.

That is the top of the hill in Portland.

You got the entire view of the city of Portland.

It was stunning.

120 foot backyard, lap pool at the edge of the cliff.

And while you're swimming, you can watch the big TV outside and look out over the hills into the city of Portland.

It was so cool, such a cool place.

Let's get back to what we were talking about, which was fire prevention.

And one thing that we always forget about, we change the smoke detectors and we, we check the batteries on everything.

If we remember, we, we checked the carbon monoxide detectors.

But really there's some things that you should think about as well.

Where do you put the fire extinguishers in your home?

Now?

I was dating this girl, sheesh, long time ago, what, 14, 15 years ago.

And I was in another state and her parents, her dad had Alzheimer's, late stage.

And I went in and we took the knobs off the cooktop and did stuff like that.

And I said, this is going to be a problem.

We are going to have some issues.

And this is some of the stuff you deal with with families, right?

You deal with this stuff.

And I said, guys, here's what we need to do.

Something is going to go bad in here.

So let's put three of the big five pound extinguishers.

Let's put, it was a galley kitchen.

I go, let's, with two entries into it.

Because it was a kind of a, a cool two story daylight basement house up floor where you come in the top and then there's a daylight basement down below.

I go, let's put two or three fire extinguishers here.

There were three ways out, the back patio coming in, one by the other way in and then the kind of the opposite side of the kitchen.

Let's do this.

Well, I'm down visiting the house.

I'm downstairs watching TV while girlfriend at the time was sitting there doing the baths for her kids.

I'm just hanging out.

We just finished up dinner and I hear upstairs where her parents were living.

I hear the smoke detectors going off and I'm like, I hear one, then I hear the second one that I put on and I'm like, we Got a problem.

But hold my beer, this gets worse.

During the time for that was happening, he wasn't in the cognitive side of things to sit there and go, I better turn this off.

He didn't turn the burner off.

He had it all the way on High, on 10 on this coil burner.

So we had flames going everywhere.

And he had taken a kitchen towel and was trying to knock the fire out with the kitchen towel, but all he was doing is throwing plastic around the entire kitchen.

So I had eight spot fires in the kitchen.

So I come in there and this thing is on fire and I have fire in eight locations, all on the cabinets.

It wasn't so much on the cabinets, but countertops which were tiled.

I had fire running up the front of the microwave.

It was melting that and it was out of control.

So I got him to put the towel down, whisked him out of the way, came over there, turned that off.

But we had plastic burning everywhere.

I went through two of the full fire extinguishers trying to get that out.

And I know how to use a fire extinguisher.

I was trained with the fire department to do it and I was fighting that thing to get that put out.

And that plastic was burning.

It was almost like a tire fire.

It just did not want to go out and I had it everywhere in there.

So I get it all out of there, get it all taken care of and got it out and I went through two of the three, emptied the second one as I got it, and I was grabbing the third one and it popped out and it was a heck of a mess.

But that fire extinguisher purchase, save that house.

Because if I'd have had just a little tiny one that you have under the kitchen sink, that would have been a total loss.

The time the fire department got there, there was just too much going on that would have taken off and it would have been a full on kitchen fire.

And that could have really hurt or killed people since we had elderly people in that.

So my lesson learned there is to have plenty of fire extinguishers around the house, near openings.

I don't like putting them like next to the range because if you got a fire there, that's harder to get at.

If it's big I would much rather have it in the openings coming into the room so you can get it and go into it.

If it's hanging on the wall or it's in a cabinet right by there, it's not a bad place to put it.

Train everybody where it's at.

Show everybody in the household how to run it.

It's not a bad way to go.

So think about that.

Put them in the right spots.

Barbecue areas is smart.

Kitchens, smart.

Utility rooms.

Laundry, where you could have a dryer fire or something like that.

Smart.

So think about where you put those.

Have an extra one's not a bad thing.

And maintain them, shake them around, follow the directions, get them recharged or replaced as you need to.

And it's really something that you can learn from the mistakes that I witnessed.

And I saved a house that day.

So that was.

That was pretty crazy.

Now, other products that you can get to save.

If you've got one of my favorite new ones right now is called Flame Detective.

And this thing is crazy.

And I'm going to show you here in the studio because I have one out here in my garage, and I have right here a lighter here.

And it's like, there it is right there.

This thing's right behind me here.

I'm going to block it with.

With my body.

This flame detect unit is going to see the flame from the lighter, and it's going to set off the alarm.

Let me see if I can do it here in the studio.

This is crazy.

Let's try this out.

Will it do it?

There we go.

Let me reset that.

I detect a flame, see?

And I got a push notification to take immediate action on my phone just popped up here and said, ATH garage flame detector sees a dangerous flame.

Take immediate action, and boom, there it is on my phone.

So that is that cool.

Now if you have.

I have it on my garage.

You know where to have it?

Over where my battery chargers are.

If I see a flame coming out of there, out of one of my dozen battery chargers, I want to be able to catch that.

My battery storage is right there.

So that is what that's for.

And it's called flame detector.

It's 130 bucks.

You can put these.

If you've got kids, little tiny kids that want to play with matches, maybe put in their bedroom, put it in the kitchen.

If you've got a gas range, you need to be careful.

They're coming out with one that's going to be working with that here in the future where if you've got that, but really it is one of those things you could put in a living room and it will actually read like a reflection off the wall.

If a kid's back behind the.

The couch playing a little bit, they're hiding away many times it'll catch the reflection off the wall of the flame.

And that'll do it as well.

So these are things that can save the lives in your house.

And a little tiny flame.

That was a lighter.

That was a little tiny cheap plastic Bic lighter that I use for fixing rope out in the garage out here when I want to cut a piece of plastic rope.

And that set that off really quick.

So it's a great thing to have in the shop anywhere else.

Perfect for a wood shop and very cost effective.

The last one is ting fire.

And many insurance companies are paying for that.

That monitors your electrical system.

So if you have an electrical short, like a stab outlet in the back, somebody that's plugged that into the back of the old 70s, 80s, 90s outlets, and you got a short back there, that is a great deal.

Talk to your insurance company first.

That basically monitors your whole entire house electrical system.

And then what it does is it just goes through.

And if it senses any kind of a electrical fault, like a short something like that, it will send you notifications on that.

And then they give you a thousand dollar insurance policy so that an electrician can come out and find it, so they can try to figure out to make sure that they know what caused that.

So they can use that algorithm so see if they can help identify that.

So it's a really good system.

You just plug it into your wall, hook into your wifi.

It's not recording any information for you, but you can jump on your phone.

It'll tell you when the power's out.

It's a smart way to go.

These are all things that can really protect your house.

And sometimes they're even free if your insurance company pays for it.

So free protection is always a great deal.

All right, guys, I got to run.

Thanks for tuning into this hour around the house.

Enjoy November.

Check those batteries out there for your carbon monoxide and smoke detectors.

Make sure you're safe.

Thanks for tuning in around the house.

We'll see you for the next hour or we'll see you during the week.

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