Did you see the massive fire in California that burnt down a Home Depot store to the ground? All while the store was open. We talk about how something like this could happen.

Did you know that Lowes actually carries mattresses? We talk about that and bed shopping and there is a company that was selling budget wall beds that have a massive recall.

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[00:00:00] Intro: When it comes to remodeling and renovating your home, there is a lot to know this is around the

[00:00:36] Eric Goranson: Hello, Caroline. Hello

[00:00:42] Eric Goranson: Ah, man it's been a crazy week, Monday morning, wake up here in Portland, Oregon, and it's what the 11th and there's snow on the ground and roads are closed. The freeways were closed in certain areas. We've had leaves on the trees, and the snow hit, and then the leaves fall down across the freeways. And there [00:01:00] were people trapped, what would have taken them? What four or five, 10 minutes to get through this area? It took them two, three hours.

[00:01:12] Eric Goranson: What is the last time that happened?

[00:01:18] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh, my gosh. That's crazy. And here it's 70 in New York and beautiful

[00:01:32] Eric Goranson: We get all different types, but that's crazy. Did you see over the weekend? It was nuts that San Jose fire at the home Depot store that literally burned to the ground. I

[00:01:52] Intro: Man.

[00:02:00] Eric Goranson: And clearly they figured out that the sprinkler system and why is this been happening more and more often that the sprinkler system is not designed to handle the materials under it. Remember, we saw that with the Denver Broncos stadium there mile high stadium, where they had the fire in the suite.

[00:02:36] Caroline Blazovsky: It's so insane. And I can't imagine in a home Depot, there's so much toxic stuff, PVC, all of the different things that are in there that are igniting. That's some heavy duty fire hazard.

[00:02:54] Eric Goranson: lot of times they put two-by-sixes in the metal rocks is the strength when they stack pallets up on them and [00:03:00] stuff. So there's two by sexist, all those shelves, even though they're steel, the decks have like tons of lumber in them. That's dry, right?

[00:03:11] Caroline Blazovsky: imagine like the paint aisle and then all like the aerosol cans.

[00:03:19] Eric Goranson: oh yeah, that's going off, so if you think over there in the lumber department, she got all the lumber burden, right? And so that's going up there all the way up into the ceiling. She got a hot fire over there. Then you've got forklifts that are inside there with big, huge, massive, like 15 gallon.

[00:03:51] Eric Goranson: So you've got all those batteries that are blasting away and there's, there's probably 150 200 batteries, at least in their. On a well [00:04:00] sold out day, probably hundreds of them. And then you work down the store. And all of a sudden you're into the paint department and see, get strippers cleaners, paint, thinners, all that stuff.

[00:04:15] Intro: Yeah. It looked like

[00:04:28] Eric Goranson: Yeah. It's 110 firemen there and it was a five alarm blaze that they could see from the international space station, or from space, from the heat signature on it. So that's like what with a wildfire, but holy smokes, maybe it's me, but maybe they need to start designing sprinkler systems when they put these in to actually handle the materials that are underneath.

[00:05:00] Eric Goranson: Yeah. That's why I think that's why you need to have that, they should have probably over the lumber department, maybe double the sprinklers, or more volume coming out of there because obviously, it was still burning.

[00:05:15] Caroline Blazovsky: don't want to make it, so the situation, I want to know, like how this all start it, I'm dying to know and why couldn't somebody just put it out? Was it something that started in like a corner somewhere and they didn't see it and then it just took off.

[00:05:30] Eric Goranson: fire and here's my gas. And I'm just going to guess. It was either something like a forklift that caught fire that you're going to have a hard time putting out with a fire extinguisher, because really in the stores you have fire extinguisher and that's your first level of defense is an employee sitting there with a fire extinguisher, trying to put something out.

[00:06:08] Eric Goranson: Yeah, that's a heck of a question. How and why, but I heard some reports on the news where they're doing some interviews and stuff where the, the employees were saying, Hey it's too far gone. We can't get it. We can't get it. But it also could be an arson. Literally you could walk up and down the aisles and I don't want to give anybody any hints here, but it's not hard to walk up and down the aisles and find things to, if you're going to be at a nut job and burn the place down.

[00:06:36] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah. I think you're onto something that it was either some kind of mechanical issue or something had some power to get going. So I, it needed an igniter, so I'm thinking you're onto something

[00:06:50] Eric Goranson: It was lumber department. So it wasn't going to be like an air conditioning unit up in the ceiling because that would've just been a ceiling fire. First. I got to gut hunch. It was down low. So it was either a forklift. Or it was [00:07:00] somebody playing around that was maybe not in the mentally Ray place to be where they needed to be.

[00:07:11] Caroline Blazovsky: the home Depot.

[00:07:25] Intro: no,

[00:07:36] Caroline Blazovsky: That's a scary, you could be innocently standing in your home and have a wall bed hit you from behind

[00:07:45] Eric Goranson: or while you're sleeping. So these are, and again I don't want to go bashing companies here, but if you're, I don't want to buy something from like Wayfair or anybody else like that, or the, what I call the [00:08:00] ultra discount places.

[00:08:27] Eric Goranson: These beds were sold from June, 2014 to March of 2022. And so if you bought a off-brand wall bed and it's going to be branded, which you probably don't have the box anyway on, but it's B star wall beds. And you bought them for about 1,650 bucks to 2200 bucks. And just 10 over to the consumer product safety commission.

[00:09:03] Intro: That's not good.

[00:09:26] Eric Goranson: costco.com simax.com and amazon.com. So they are saying not to use it. They want to have somebody come out and inspect those beds. And if the bed requires reinstallation the consumers are advised to use a professional installer. They will reimburse you anywhere from 170 to $414, depending on the wall bed for reinstallation.

[00:10:01] Eric Goranson: So that's what it's out. What's going on with you, Caroline. You still working on the decks and the doors and all that stuff for you, still doing your research on that.

[00:10:19] Caroline Blazovsky: It is 40, about 45 to 47 years old. And it's a chef Alara. So for anybody who's into planting season, cause we know that, this is the time I had to report it. It bit the dust, it had a second branch coming out that died and sat. Now I'm trying to salvage this plants like an old dog or an old person.

[00:10:56] Eric Goranson: Ah, this last weekend I had a rock show on [00:11:00] Friday night.

[00:11:20] Eric Goranson: Day trip that. And then Sunday ended up doing a wallpaper project in the master bedroom and putting stuff together, getting that project closer to being wrapped up.

[00:11:39] Eric Goranson: So I took a really kind of high-end Walnut flooring that is in a Chevron pattern. And mounted that up against the wall and then turned around and made that like the headboard up to the ceiling and then turned around and did wallpaper on the left and right of that. And that area that I sent you, the picture on that used to actually [00:12:00] be closets and a fireplace that I took out.

[00:12:03] Caroline Blazovsky: So he's got this design for. Podcast land it's. So instead of having this cumbersome, ugly looking headboard that people have, I'm not big into headboards and it's these big furniture pieces, but people like it, but so he's got it designed on the wall. So it gives you more space, right?

[00:12:29] Eric Goranson: WhatsApp. Yes, that's coming. So I got the yes, I got part of it. So the first half, which is my my ergo motion, 2.5, got that installed in there.

[00:13:06] Eric Goranson: And I know there's people out there want to, I've had one of those for a decade. I know I'm slow to the game, but. That is a game changer for my body. That's beat up and my back and I was, we've got that thing. It's got like under bed lighting and it's got a remote control and voice control on it.

[00:13:34] Caroline Blazovsky: but you have your us on top of it. You don't have your new mattress yet, but you have a Mac.

[00:13:45] Caroline Blazovsky: actually. And nice. Does it bend so when you look at the ergo motion framing, it looks like it sorta has weaves in it and it does your mattress just bend to this, or how can you use any mattress on.

[00:14:12] Eric Goranson: It's awesome. So you could sit there and watch TV and then, hit the button and it'll go into presets. And then it's got like the magic fingers. Vibration thing on it for a, if you want to really have it like a massage, you're tired. It's cool. I don't know if I'll use that, but it's pretty trick.

[00:14:37] Eric Goranson: Topper? No, I don't know. I'd have to read through the instructions and see what it says on there. I probably wouldn't because. Some of those things are fairly extreme as how they abandoned.

[00:15:00] Eric Goranson: Yeah. You need

[00:15:09] Eric Goranson: Yep. It's got the USB ports on it too, so I can actually plug the phone in it and that, so it's already ready to go. So I was, it's going to be

[00:15:19] Caroline Blazovsky: I'm going to call him and he's gonna be just in the

[00:15:21] Eric Goranson: Yeah. And then I went to then, and I will talk about it later, but I got Lowe's. They actually have mattresses. So I got to assert a mattress coming from Lowe's. So that'll be coming up here later. This.

[00:15:34] Eric Goranson: Do you know that there you go down and pick them up at a low store?

[00:15:54] Eric Goranson: 'cause they're going to be like, oh, I got this one over here. This is the one you want because that's the one I get the [00:16:00] spiff from where I make an extra $200. If I sell you this map. Yeah, but those are those go into a store that doesn't have that those are

[00:16:09] Caroline Blazovsky: It's not a name brand and you go in and you think you're getting Serta, but you're getting some knockoff brand. So I usually say, Hey, try to make sure you're going somewhere where they actually have the sorta brand, or maybe you go to Macy's where you actually can, look at the actual brand.

[00:16:26] Eric Goranson: usually. And they can be that's for sure. That's a nice thing. When you're buying from a big retail like this, they're buying it by the truckload. So they've got, those in the stores across the U S so they're not going to get busted for that.

[00:16:39] Caroline Blazovsky: didn't know. Lowe's had mattresses. Is that a new thing?

[00:16:53] Eric Goranson: I thought that was going to be perfect.

[00:17:09] Eric Goranson: true. Oh man, they're heavy.

[00:17:28] Eric Goranson: My chainsaw cause Julie's niece had this huge flowering cherry in our tree that I like couldn't get my like a 60 year old cherry tree came off, took up the entire like backyard of this thing. It was the biggest flowering cherry. Tree. Yeah, it's no longer there. It's not laying over that side because of the leaves were there and it fell over and collapsed.

[00:17:53] Caroline Blazovsky: snow in April. That's what happens. No one April's detrimental. It just really takes everything out. [00:18:00]

[00:18:12] Eric Goranson: So it's wow, I'm gonna have to get the generator out and run it again just to make sure it's running.

[00:18:24] Eric Goranson: Yeah, I'll go out and take the generator. Every couple months I take mine outside and run it for 20 minutes to a half hour just to get it looped up, cleaned up, because what happens is especially if you've got to sit outside, you'll get water, collecting the gas goes bad really quickly, and then you want to make sure and get that oil moving around so you don't get the moisture collecting inside of it.

[00:18:51] Caroline Blazovsky: Exactly. We have to do that with ours too. What kind of generator do you have? We have a Honda

[00:19:01] Eric Goranson: Nice.

[00:19:03] Caroline Blazovsky: get a bigger cart ones. I'm all into the.

[00:19:13] Caroline Blazovsky: Do it, just put a little propane tank. It's like having a grill.

[00:19:21] Eric Goranson: I don't need propane. I'll go. I'll hard. Plumb that thing and call it a day. Come out, hook it up. I'm good to go. Yep. Set. I'll be set. All right, Carolina. It's that time for the midweek special. We'll see everybody on Saturday. We've got a great show coming up ahead. We're going to be talking about mid century homes and remodeling and some tips with those.

[00:19:53] Caroline Blazovsky: we do UV lights guys. So if you're in a school, if you're in a building, if you're at home and you've got to do [00:20:00] disinfection, got to get rid of the viruses, the colds, all that stuff. We've got the expert on UV, and he's going to talk to you about all the different types of technologies you can use and how to make it work for you.

[00:20:26] Caroline Blazovsky: five years guys.