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Join us for an informative episode of Fix It Radio, where we dive into essential winter preparations for your garage. Discover the convenience and functionality of winter garage mats that not only keep your space clean but also save you time and effort. Our host shares insights on how to make the most of these mats, ensuring your garage remains dry and clutter-free even in the harshest weather conditions.
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Welcome, Saturday morning. A little windy outside today. No snow unless you’re traveling up into the mountains. We’ve got several things to talk about. Larry Unger with me today. Good morning, Larry. Good morning, John. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Text line 307. 200-8222, 307-282-22. You can always text a question in. We can answer it on air. You can call in directly as well, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. Call us, and I’ve got several things to talk about today. And last time we were on, right before Thanksgiving, we talked about different Christmas gifts and what to buy and some things like that. And if time today, we’ll get back to doing some of that as well. But Charlie sent me an article yesterday that I thought would be very good to talk about today because we’re at that time of the year. We’re now getting started. you know, much colder. It was one morning this past week, eight degrees. So, you know, it’s going to be a little bit warmer here as we head into the next week or so. But hey, we get, you know, cold snaps and it can definitely get chilly this time of the year. So Charlie sent me an article that said, seven things you should never store in the garage during winter. Now, I think there’s probably more than seven even, but we’ll highlight the seven that are here. And then if there’s some of you listening where you feel like, listen, this is something that Either I’ve learned over the years or I had a particular experience along these lines or whatever the case, then you can add to the list as well. Now, before doing that, this is something that I neglected to do and actually got a text message on this earlier in the week. I don’t know why I forgot. I guess just because we haven’t had any weather until this past week, no snow until this past week, although I dug mine out and actually put mine down a few weeks ago, and that is the garage mats. So let me talk about that for a moment. I’ll probably hit this on drive radio as well. But for those of you that don’t know or don’t use, if you park in the garage and you don’t use the garage mats, and what I mean by that is not the mat that you rub your feet off of before you walk into your house. I’m talking about the mats that you actually park on. And I’ve talked about these in the past, and I will tell you, they are the… Nicest thing to have in the winter months if you park in the garage because what they’re designed to do and how they work is you park on the mat and all of the snow and ice and goop and junk and dirt and so on, instead of just falling onto the garage floor and then you having to, you know, muck yourself through all of that and then sweep that out or in some cases you know use a shop vac and vacuum it up and so on when you park on the mat the mat is designed with a lip around it that you can still drive on and off of it’s it’s a it’s kind of a foam lip that’s made into the vinyl that the mat is actually made out of it’s all you know it’s all uh heat sewn together is probably the best way for me to say that bottom line it’s enough of a lip that it stores all of the water onto the mat think of this big tray that you know you’re you know like your your dish strainer for example you know you put your dishes in the the dishes you know drip off they go into the strainer that rolls down into the sink well this is similar to that other than it contains all of the water in the mat and then once you know like for me yesterday after the week was was fairly over it was fairly nice day outside yesterday you know warm enough to where things wouldn’t freeze you know you take a broom or a squeegee and you you basically just push all of that water back out the garage and The mat will then dry off and you’re ready to go again. They store a lot of water. it’s surprising how much water actually melts and comes off of your vehicle, but on top of that, it’s surprising how much these things actually hold because you can drive a couple of days in the snow like happened this last week and park on them, and it’s enough to where it’ll contain all that water until you can get it to a point where you can push that back out the garage. And I always get questions on those every year. They’ve gotten much cheaper like anything else. In the beginning, they were fairly expensive because hardly anybody was making them. Well… Once it kind of caught on that these things are really great, there’s now several different companies making these. And you can buy them on Amazon. That’s the cheapest place to get them, depending upon what size of a mat you need. They’re $125 to $150 roughly, and typically this time of the year they’re on sale. And they are a huge time saver. And on top of that, this is the thing that I like about them most, is people say, well, gosh, that’s $150. That’s expensive. Well… Think about the amount of junk that you would normally be, you know, taking into your house from the garage because you’re not able to keep it as clean as what you normally would without these. If you think about, you know, just the whole process of, you know, everything and time and cleaning and so on, believe me. And I’ve had some of my mats now for, oh gosh, let me think about this. I’ve had some of my mats for probably 12, 13 years now. So if you think about that and take that $150 and amortize that out over even a decade, you know, what is that, $15 a year? I mean, you get a lot of life out of them is my point. And what you save in time and energy and the dirt and just all of that combined, trust me, they’re well worth it. now a lot of guys will say well just you know epoxy the floor that makes it really easy to get all that stuff off you actually do both if you want to have a nice epoxied floor and make that easier to clean up great knock your socks off i would still put a mat on top of the epoxy floor because again it’s unless you’ve got a floor drain right underneath each vehicle and some garages are built that way and if that’s the case fine you don’t need a garage mat but if you don’t have a drain in your garage you know underneath each vehicle and or the ability for all that water to slope off into a drain Typically, that water just runs all over the garage and gets everywhere, depending upon… Very few garages are built perfectly to where you don’t have some low spots someplace in a corner or something along those lines. And bottom line, this eliminates all of that water stacking up in some of those spots and just making it slippery and… And just having to walk through the water to get in and out of your car to the house and so on, these mats are a lifesaver. I always get questions on them. I apologize. Normally I talk about those things in kind of that October time frame just to tell everybody to get them out and get them ready. And keep this in mind, the reason why I get such a long life out of them, I only use them in the winter months. So I’ll, I put mine down roughly end of October, first of November, and I’ll pull them up probably early April-ish, you know, end of March, early April. Once the snow is kind of done, I only use it for the snow rain. You know, you don’t have enough water coming off for the rain where that’s that big of a deal. but the snow is working as everything gets piled up underneath the vehicle and then as everything melts off it just falls right on the floor and this contains everything including the dirt and the junk and in my case i don’t use a squeegee i take a nice uh wide broom and i just i sweep the whole thing off because in doing so you get all of the dirt and the crud and everything off the top of the mat as well so A little bit of advice there for your garage and how to keep things a little bit nicer. And I always encourage people, yes, park in the garage if you can. If you can make enough room to where you can get your vehicle in the garage, then do so. It works.
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That leads to two questions I have. Number one, you’re talking about the mat having foam edges and so on.
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Yes, yes.
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So does that absorb water?
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Nope. It’s basically a foam edge that just is a lip that keeps the water from running off of the mat. So it just gives you like a one-inch lip that is still… uh pliable so you can you know drive over it and not have it you know you’ve got to have some sort of a lip around the mat to hold all the water and so they just basically put like a foam lip that’s sewn in or it’s welted in as the way is what they actually call that they welt that into the edges and it just makes a nice tray when it’s all said and done it’s real so it’s completely covered in rubber whatever whatever texture they use whatever the mat is made of which is it’s kind of a vinyl-ish you know think of like um trying to think of a material that most people would be you know common i mean there’s a lot of different like even patio furniture covering and things like that but it’s a real heavy vinyl type mat that again i’ve had mine for well over a decade and i’ve never worn through a spot yet
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And you say you store them. How easy is it to store? Where do you store them?
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I just fold them up, and I stick them back out in my barn. But they’re small enough you could put them in an attic, a crawl space, down in the basement, whatever. They come in a box that literally they never will go back in the same box they come from if you get my drift because they vacuum pack these things. but yeah but if you had the ability you know they even make some of these bags that you could even suck all the air and stuff out of you could make them really small if you really wanted to but i just fold mine up and go throw them up in the in the loft in my barn and then i get them back down you know each year and off you go so and here’s the thing once you have one you’ll want one under every car that’s how handy these things are and how well they work so when you have one you’ll want to keep having One under every car because you’ll try one out because that’s what I did. I tried one out and I thought, let me see how this thing works. And it’s like, oh, wow. Okay. Every car that gets parked that has any chance at all of something dripping off of it, I’m putting that underneath it.
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Well, if you think about how many times we’ve talked about garages being so full of junk that you can’t get your second car in it. And that might not be a bad idea just to keep all that stuff from getting wet.
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Yeah, if you’ve got – thank you, Larry. Yeah, if you’ve got anything where you’re trying to keep your garage just a little bit nicer, keep it a little bit drier, whatever the case might be, yeah, it works really well. So those – Those are some tips. We’ll come back. I’m going to talk about some other things you’d be careful of storing in the winter months in the garage. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back. Feel free to text us. There’s a text message that just came in. I’ll read that in a moment. Again, 307-282-22. But Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. And somebody texted in on the mats asking an additional question, which was, are the mats impervious to oil, gas, leaks of any kind, for example? Yes, they are. It’s made of a material where, kind of nice, where if you’ve even, I never thought about that, if you’ve got a car that even has a little bit of an oil drip, some of you guys that are driving diesel trucks and so on, and maybe you put a piece of cardboard or something under that particular area, you actually could use one of these mats for the exact same thing, and you just take a paper towel and wipe it off periodically, and it’s that easy to take the oil off of that mat. So, yes, they are impervious to those things, so that makes that part of it very easy. And the other thing I was telling Larry during the break – is that you can also, so some of you where you’re thinking, you know, I park snowblowers or other things inside and they’re always dripping water off and making a mess and so on. They make smaller mats. I mean, you could size the mat down to their smallest size for like a really small car because they make them in all sorts of different configurations. And you could actually get a really small mat and just use it for some of your cars. snow removal equipment things along those lines basically anything that would melt or in the case of the of the person that asked you know are they impervious to oil gas things like that if you get anything that’s got any kind of a leak in it you could also utilize it for that as well so again these things work great sorry to take so much time on that but And it’s kind of a – I guess in a way I’m advertising for them. But it is one of the slickest things that helps make your life easier when it’s all said and done. So that’s the reason why I’m mentioning it because that’s what we try to do on the show is try to help you guys out as much as we can, make life easier, give you more time for other things. So seven things you should never store. in the garage during winter and again for some of you if there’s other things that you would like to make note of please you know please let us know we can add to the list you can either text us or you can call in directly 303-477-5600 you can also text us of course 307-282-22 again 307-282-22 so here’s the first item that’s on this list this is not my list this is their list and This one is talking about lithium-ion battery-powered tools. While your garage might feel like a convenient extra storage space, freezing winter temperatures usually make it one of the riskier places for many everyday items. Unfortunately, this space often becomes… cluttered cold zone where valuable things eventually break and so it’s talking about how storing power tools and so on you really need to have those in a little bit more of a climate control than having them be super super cold so stuart and loveland has a question though go ahead stuart hey john good morning good morning um i got a question on these maps i know um is there a specific company that’s better than the other Somebody asked me that the other day, and the mats I’ve been buying, I only have one of this brand. Let me look it up here for you really quick. I only have one of this brand of mat, but the one I’ve got works really well, and it’s very comparable to the ones that I’ve bought years ago that are much older. So on Amazon, there’s a mat company called Welkin, W-E-L-K-I-N, and they make all sorts of different shapes and sizes of these. And I have one of their mats, and it works great.
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Okay, how about AFG, Auto Floor Guard?
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You heard of them? I’ve never heard of them, but let me look here. See what the difference is, by the way, because I don’t know. It’s AFG?
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Yep.
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Let me look it up here.
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It says for a SUV, Matt, they run around $210, free shipping.
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And see, the Welkins will be cheaper than that. uh yeah the auto floor guard yep they’re just more money i’m looking at the same mat and honestly um and i don’t i shouldn’t say they’re well they are they are quite a bit more money because they for example they’re this is on amazon they’re they’re seven nine so seven foot nine inch by 18 is 176 dollars you can do a welkin eight and a half by 20 for 170 so the welkins are cheaper
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Okay.
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And from looking at them, Stuart, I can’t see that there’s any difference. Now, I’ve bought both because I can see my history as to what I’ve bought. I have bought both, and there’s no problems with the Welkins, and they’re less money.
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Okay, W-E-L-K-I-N.
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Yeah, and they’re on Amazon as well. And there’s other brands that are there, and quite frankly, they’re all relatively close. The biggest thing is just look at the mill thickness of the mat itself and make sure that you’re comparing apples to apples on that end of things. But the Welkin is nice and thick, and I actually bought one of those for my plow truck because it gets all nasty and loaded up with stuff and so on. So I bought an extra plow. I guess you could call it matte for my plow truck where everything but the plow fits on top of it.
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Yeah, because with the dirty salt that they use, that black stuff just drips off your car and it’s a mess.
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It sure does. And it’s hard on, you know, if you’ve got your epoxy floor coating and stuff, well, you know, it’s not going to be as hard on the floor if you’ve done that. But if you’ve not done that, all of that stuff dripping on top of the concrete is hard on the concrete, as you know.
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Well, I’m an old concrete guy, and salt will destroy concrete. Absolutely. That’s why you see all the salt spalling and flaking.
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That’s right.
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That’s right. That’s all from salt, and that’s not because the concrete was bad.
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You’re 100% correct, Stuart. You have salt on it. That’s right. You’re 100%.
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I’ve heard you say that the only way you can get that out of there is you guys use blowers. Well, I’m 76. I’m not going to get down on my knees. I can’t anyway. I don’t blame you. I don’t blame you. What my friend used to do, and this is not as practical as it sounds, but he would take a lawn sprinkler and put it on the end of the hose, and then he would pull it from the front to the rear, whatever, And just let it sit there, and it would wash underneath that car.
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Yep, great idea.
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And it was like driving through a drive-through car wash. Great idea. It was a bottom blaster.
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Yep, great idea.
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Anyway, all right, you guys have a great one. Hey, no, Stuart, great questions. Maybe I’ll call you on drive radio.
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Well, all right, I appreciate it very much, Stuart, and I had a couple more questions on the mats, and I usually do, and I apologize again. Normally talk about this subject much earlier in the year than now to get people ready, but you can still put them down, and we haven’t had that much weather yet, but yeah, they work, and Again, just do a little research as I’m rolling through Amazon here even. I mean, there’s probably, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating, seven, eight, ten maybe even different companies that make these mats because they’ve become more and more popular. I think what happened is once people realized, oh, wow, this is really convenient, well, then, of course, you know, one – and one borns another one versus another one versus another one, and pretty soon there’s some good competition, and the prices start to come down, and it works really well. Now, one thing, too, also that I’ve not used and I don’t think I would is they make some of these mats, and don’t be deceived, that are kind of a felty material, and you’ll see them advertised that, oh, yeah, it’ll suck up the water and do this and do that, but there’s no lip around the outside edge, and I’m not sure how it would be – not impossible, but I think it would be very difficult to keep that mat as clean as a regular, you know, vinyl-type mat would be because the vinyl mat’s not absorbing anything. It’s containing it, not absorbing it. So I wouldn’t use one of the ones where it absorbs the water. I want that water just retained, and I’ll push it off when it’s a little bit warmer outside and handle it that way. And then I’ve had this question, too. It’s like, okay, when you step out of the car, aren’t you stepping in a big puddle? If you buy the right size and kind of measure your car or, you know, even the average car that you have – Typically, it’s just a little bit wider than the tires. So when you step out, you literally step out onto the bare surface of the garage floor, not down onto the mat. It’s not that much of a wider, you know, you’re not stepping that much further out of the car to step onto the concrete. And if you’re really worried about it as a driver… well, then just pull a little bit closer to that driver’s side if you want to versus the other side. You can see that with your mirror or your backup camera or whatever, and off you go. So they work extremely, extremely well, and I can’t talk highly enough about them. Jeff, go ahead.
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Hey, good morning, guys.
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Good morning, Jeff.
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A real quick comment on floor mats. I’m of a similar age as the previous caller, and so, yeah, getting underneath and doing things like that is difficult, but… I actually never take mine up. I will slide them out of the garage in the spring and wash them off and, uh, let them dry out in the sun and being black, they dry real quick. And then I just, then I just put them right back in there and they will hold gallons.
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Oh yes.
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Uh, of water. I mean, I’m just, I’m just amazed at how much water, if I need to mop it up off of them, which is what I do. I just have an old mop out there, a spinner bucket. And I just mop it up and, uh, It’s amazing, and I didn’t have them in Colorado Springs, but it was always kind of dismaying for me that my house was constructed there with wood on the concrete in the garage area. It was really weird. I mean, there was no raised concrete area. It was just, for some reason, the builder, and I guess code allowed it, allowed just regular timber to be put down on the floor. So that was… Always a concern to me that water was getting into it and rotting it out. So with these mats, you never have that problem.
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That’s right.
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If somebody’s trying to envision what it looks like, I think the best example I could give is a stuffed crust pizza.
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Yeah, great. Yeah, exactly, Jeff. The outer edges, the welting, the outer edge that they’ve welted together, that’s exactly what it looks like. Great, great description. Absolutely.
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Yep, so got another comment, but I’ll call in later when the other show’s done. Okay, all right, Jeff, I appreciate it. I think they’re all the same, by the way. I think they’re all made out of the same factory in China, no matter where you buy them from.
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You’re probably not wrong in your statement. There’s some that are different colors. You know, the first ones I bought, most of them now are black. The first ones I bought that I’ve had for well over a decade are gray. I don’t see too many gray ones anymore. So they’ve kind of switched to go. I think they do the black now because to your point, they just, if you put them out in the sun, they dry off super fast. yeah and i had never seen the gray ones i probably would have preferred those as well but um yeah can’t recommend them highly enough and thank you for putting me on to them you’re very welcome jeff appreciate you very much thanks for calling and yeah if you have not used these and again i know they sound a little bit expensive on the front side but when you think about how many years of life you actually get out of them they’re very inexpensive And here’s the other thing. A lot of them come, in some cases you can actually buy them and they’ll give you this little floor squeegee thing to squeegee the water off of the mat. Just throw that thing away when you get it because it’s garbage. They don’t work for beans. I don’t even know why they include it because they’re just a piece of junk. So don’t worry about buying one that’s got the squeegee and stuff. Either do what I do like I explained or what Jeff just talked about doing. multiple ways to actually clean them out. Jeff’s correct, though. I’ll bet you when I pushed the water off of mine yesterday, granted I parked my truck on it, but I’ll bet you I pushed off an easy five gallons of water or more when I pushed everything off. I’m not exaggerating. By the time you push it all out to the end, there’s a significant amount of water that you’re pushing out the the back of the garage. Okay, back to our seven things never destroyed. Now this, again, the number one thing was lithium ion battery tools. Now, to me, this depends on how cold your garage actually gets. And I probably should have prefaced this. Some of you have, you know, insulated garages, drywalled and so on, and they don’t get near as cold as a uninsulated, you know, shed or garage or something like that. So you know kind of what your temperatures are in your own garage. So, you know, bear that in mind when you’re talking about storing some of these things. But the next one is, Paints, stains, and sealants. Yeah, because they can freeze.
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Right.
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So, yeah, that one’s common knowledge, I think, for most people. By the way, keep in mind, this includes for some of you where you may have crawl spaces that you put some stuff down in that, again, may not be heated because crawl spaces typically aren’t. Yes, they’re getting some warmth from the house and stuff up above it, but heat rises. It doesn’t go down.
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Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
So typically crawl spaces aren’t going to be, you know, unless you’ve got a floor heat system or something like that, where then the crawl space would stay nice and warm. You typically are going to have a crawl space that’s cold. And this also, you know, keep in mind this includes outdoor, which this article should have mentioned, outdoor sheds and things like that. A lot of people will have an outdoor shed. They store paints and thinners and things like that out there. Now, here’s the thing. This even talks about stains. Stains and sealants, they typically don’t freeze like paint does. And you can look at the can and it’ll tell you what the freeze point is. You know, things like, for example, lacquer thinner and things like that. You know, you’re not going to have any issues with those things freezing. That stuff will not freeze up at all. So, again, but regular paint and things like that, yeah, you want to keep that in a more climate control environment. area so depending upon your house setup and what you actually have you may want to find an interior closet to store some of your paint and stuff in versus having that stuff out in the garage you know some of you have a you know climate controlled type garage where it’s heated and so on and if that’s the case well you know feel free to store whatever you want to in it none of what we’re talking about is going to apply to you because you’ve got a more climate controlled area now here’s one that i found was interesting propane cylinders And as I read through this, it’s not because the propane itself and the tanks can not withstand huge temperature swings. They can. We all know that. I mean, they storm outside even. People that are on propane have a propane tank that’s outside. So they can withstand the extreme temperatures the tank itself can. That’s not an issue. They’re built for that. This is talking more about how having something that’s that flammable inside of that space is probably not in your best interest. Now, I store propane cylinders in containers. Multiple places inside, and I never really thought about it. This is telling you basically to find a place, a shed, something like that, and store them outdoors. I don’t, but after reading this, it’s like, okay, I guess I can understand where if something happened, a valve had a little bit of a leak or something along those lines, would you really want that? you know, inside of that space, you’d smell it most likely. But in this particular case, they’re not wrong in what they’re saying because to be really ultimately safe, yeah, you probably should be storing those outside of an enclosed area that you’re working in, sleeping in, you know, at the house and things like that. So this is probably not wrong in what it’s saying. Next one. This one’s interesting. Don’t use your garage as the pantry overflow. So canned food, things like that. Again, this is talking about if you’ve got a garage where you have big temperature swings, which in some cases, some garages will barely be above freezing. In fact, I’ve been in some garages where you go out and if there was a little bit of water on the floor, it’s darn near close to being slush and freezing, meaning that garage is not getting that warm. Well, you really don’t want your food and things like that having those big temperature swings as well. So uh it’s correct in saying that now a lot of people and this is not again not criticizing but a lot of people will use the garage as that pantry you know overflow i’ve seen it many many times and again not criticizing if that’s your setup what you might think about wanting to do though is potentially maybe try to larry and i were talking about this before coming on air today So maybe you want to heat the garage just a little bit if you’re going to do something along those lines where you can keep that temperature a little bit more even keel. Now, that doesn’t keep things from being cold or cooler, I should say, in the summer months. So keep in mind, if you’re storing food and things out there, you’ve not only got the big swing in the winter being super cold, but you’ve got the big swing, you know. On the other end, being super hot as well, which isn’t good for some of the food that you’re probably trying to store. So just food for thought. And pardon the pun there, but be careful of the food that you’re actually storing along those lines because, yeah, I can understand where they’re coming from. Somebody also just sent me a nice little note on have I seen these, and it’s a garage door sensor wire cover kit making that garage door sensor where they’re just nasty looking. I like this. It really cleans things up. Thank you for sending that. No, I had not seen these, and that’s actually really slick. Thank you for sending that. I will do a little more investigation onto that, and I had not seen that. Joe, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, a couple of things. One in terms of things you shouldn’t store in your garage. If you’ve got a pressure washer that you’ve used and your garage goes below freezing, you don’t want to store that in your garage unless you can really drain the pump housing or put some antifreeze in the pump housing because it will freeze and crack and ruin your pressure washer.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. Good point.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s one. Second, I got by accident, somebody gave me a DeWalt. I don’t want to call it an electric cordless drill. It’s more of a driver. It’s got a spring-loaded chuck that takes quarter-inch bits.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s a driver. That’s what they call an impact driver. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
And what’s really slick about it, and I actually had all sorts of different driver bits, and even I had a drill set that all had quarter-inch shanks on them. And in terms of spinning the chuck and adjusting it to the next drill side, man, you just pull that collar back, spring-loaded collar, And boom, boom, you’re not spinning a chuck to tighten up on the thing. So I’m kind of getting addicted to that. Other little gifts, if you’re a guy that uses a little handheld propane torch, you know, for sweating pipe, a little six-foot extension hose for your little handheld tank. You know, particularly if you can’t really use a handheld torch upside down, it won’t work. So a six-foot rubber hose with a torch on the end of the hose is a great little addition. And last but not least, did you see the little thing I sent you about for $10? It’s a PVC pipe threader, internal pipe threader.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yes, I did see that. Yep, yep, I’ve seen those. Yep, I sure did.
SPEAKER 04 :
And if you have any PVC or ABS pipe in your house, what’s slick about it is it’s a half inch and three quarter. You get two of them in a set. And they’ll either put threads on the outside of that PVC pipe or on the inside. So if you want to put a, like screw a faucet onto the outside or put a fitting like a coupling onto the inside, if you want to go from PVC to brass or something, it’s just so slick. You just put on the end of a drill and you either add threads to the outside of the PVC or the inside. And John, you get, you get a set of two half inch and three quarter for 10 bucks.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s a good deal.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can’t, you can’t beat it. So, uh, But what’s your thought on using a driver versus using a cordless drill?
SPEAKER 12 :
I have both, and I only use the drill to drill and I use the driver to drive. So if I’m putting in a screw or taking a nut off or something along those lines, I always get the impact driver out for that. And I’ve even got, I think I told you the other day, the nice thing, too, that they make is I’ve got this, like the old, how do I want to explain this? So they’re quick couplers like you used to use for air fittings and things like that. They make a quick coupler now, Joder, where you can take all of your bits that you would normally be using. So if you’ve got, you know, like a nut driver bit and a regular Phillips bit and so on, they make this thing on a key chain where you can just hook that even to the tool itself or hook it on your belt or whatever. And the reality is you’ve got all the bits with you at all times with that quick coupler, just like what’s on the end of the driver. So you can actually keep all the different bits stored really simply and easily that way.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the other thing that I found really slick about this driver, it’s a high-end DeWalt. It’s got three very bright lights right around the truck.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, you know, if you’re working in the dark, it just, you know, you’re not using a flashlight. You don’t have a flashlight in one hand and a drill in the other because it’s got, and I don’t recall, I’m sure you could buy a high-end DeWalt.
SPEAKER 12 :
cordless drill that has lights around the around the chuck but uh i haven’t seen too many that do i mean i’ve seen some drills where they’ll put a light like maybe down in the handle area something along those lines to try to illuminate up uh you know to the surface that you’re trying to drill into or whatever but no most of the of the lights are on the impact drivers joe yeah and that’s what i found really sick because i was working in a dark spot and normally would have to have a flashlight and the fact that this
SPEAKER 04 :
It has three bright LED lights. I call it a chuck, but it’s just a spring-loaded coupler. that surround the coupler so the light is exactly where you want it. That’s right. So anyway, so if you want to spend… No, they work great.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, and for a lot of you listening, gift ideas and so on, you know, a lot of the companies, DeWalt, Milwaukee, Ryobi, I’m going to go down the list, Joe. Most of them, you can buy a combo kit relatively inexpensively. You can get one or two batteries depending upon how much money you want to spend. But you can buy the drill and the driver separately. all in one and probably have a bag and everything that it comes with to Joe to where in my case I just pick up the bag it’s got everything in it my screwdriver or sorry my drill and the driver both I should say and then I usually keep a pack of bits and things in there as well so when I need to go do something I just grab that and everything’s in one place yeah so right now now I’ve got this driver John I’ve got a I had a set of drill bits and drivers including socket drivers by the way right
SPEAKER 04 :
that now i just i just grabbed the driver and the one little i think they’re like uh black and decker you know it’s a complete set it’s like you know 12 different uh you know phillips flathead torques and then and then a bunch of drill bits that all have a quarter inch shank on them regardless of the drill size that’s right drill that’s right still has a quarter inch shank that’s right and then it’s got four four or five different nut drivers socket nut drivers in the box And John, that one driver and that one pack of bits and accessories is all I need to do anything.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. You just carry that around with you and you’re good to go. That’s exactly what I do. Works really well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, and one more, a magnetic laser level that you can, if you’re working on anything, you know, if you’re working on anything metal to have this magnetic laser level, just, you know, stick it on and adjust it. And of course, if you’re trying to hang pictures or anything, if you’re trying to hang three or four pictures, uh on a wall all the same height now obviously it’s not going to help you on a wood wood wall but just a magnetic level uh if you want to hang stuff you know straight on a wall is is just great to have a and again that’s kind of a stocking stuffer if you if you’ve got a a father or something or or or a son who doesn’t have a lot of tools uh having a uh you know a laser laser level It’s just a great little tool for a son or a father.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And all these are great gift ideas, Joe. So those of you who are out there listening trying to figure out who do I get so-and-so, there you go. There’s a ton of things like this, Joe, and every one of these little things. And there’s so many – how should I say this? The tool world is so much better today than it was even a decade ago, Joe. It’s amazing the things you can buy now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and I think I mentioned three or four weeks ago that you can get for $10 – You can get a set of magnetic collars that go around long shank screwdriver bits to hold the screw. Again, you can’t use them on a standard length. Your standard length screw bit is only like half an inch long, so you need to have these two-inch long drivers. But once you have them, you just slip these magnetic collars in. And they come three different sizes over the long shank driver bits. And it’ll hold the screw upwards, sideways, backwards, down in a hole, up in the ceiling. You don’t have to worry about holding the screw on the end of the drill. And then that right angle attachment for the end of the drill So if you’re trying to put something in a tight scrape, that was another, I think that was $7, John, for the right angle attachment on the end of the drill.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nice. So that’s great stuff. Great gift ideas. All right. Joe, appreciate you, man. Have a great rest of your day. Nope, thank you. We’ll take a quick break, come back, finish some things up. I’ve got a few more things to list. Somebody also asked a moment ago, then when it comes to like a snowblower that’s an electric blower, Battery-powered snowblower, for example, we were talking about batteries and things like that. Should those batteries be stored inside versus out in the garage? And my question back on the text line was, how cold does your garage get? If you’re getting down into that lower, you know, 30-degree range or so and your garage gets super, super cold, Yeah, you might want to think the efficiency of the battery will work much better if you store them inside versus leaving them outside with the snowblower itself. So, yes, that would be something to think about depending upon how cold your garage actually gets. All right, we’ll be right back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 12 :
And we are back, Fix It Radio. Don’t forget the website, fixitradio.com. You can go there, check out all the things we talk about, past episodes, and so on. Steve in Colorado Springs, you’re next. Go ahead. Good morning, Sir John. Good morning, Steve. Quick question.
SPEAKER 07 :
We’re in Kona, and I love those little geckos. I think they’re really cute, but I got a person, Princess Baby Mama, who has a phobia. She just starts yelling and screaming like you’re cutting her arm off with a machete. Yeah. And… Yeah, I think they’re great little creatures. Everybody loves them. They eat so many insects. Right. But is there any way to keep them out of the living area? Because I don’t think there is.
SPEAKER 12 :
It beats the heck out of me. To your point, I’ve been to a lot of different areas like that and have watched them, and I haven’t the foggiest idea, Steve. That is literally, since not living in a permanent location like that, for me personally, I have no idea. I would have to ask somebody that lives in that area that’s more astute to what’s going on, because I don’t know. That’s a great question.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, my sister lives here. But you just know either, I mean, you just got to live with them because there’s so many millions of them. You could get 10 of them out and commit.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and as you know, they can crawl through the littlest of, you know, places and even sometimes opening a door, closing a door, window, whatever. I mean, they’re fast little boogers, as you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Maybe instead of therapy, a guy that owns the Reptile Center in Springs, said, well, just get one for a pet. Once you have one as a pet, the phobia will be gone. So maybe that’s the procedure.
SPEAKER 12 :
Maybe that’s what she’s, maybe. I guess even for me, they’ve never really, I’ve never looked at them as a threat. They’ve never really bothered me. I mean, I hate mice far more than I do those things.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, absolutely. All right, well, just thought I’d get you talking.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, that’s a great, that’s a great, I have no, you just stumped me. I have no idea, Steve.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I was just hanging out and going, and the thought occurred to me. All right, man. No, you would.
SPEAKER 12 :
I appreciate you calling, man. Have fun. Bye-bye. All right. And I wish I was in his spot. By the way, he’s up early because it’s a three-hour difference, so Steve’s up bright and early this morning. So good job, Steve. And thanks for calling, by the way. I appreciate that. And, yeah, I wish I had an answer. I do not know what to do to keep geckos out of here. And, you know what, I need to remind myself that we have listeners from all over. In Steve’s case, he’s in Hawaii calling in, and we’ve got people that listen all the way down in Florida, some of our southern states, and so on. So, you know what, some of this stuff I will do a little bit of research on and look up because we do have people that listen in areas that – We’re not used to some of that stuff. We don’t have a lot of reptiles here in Colorado. Snakes is really about the biggest thing we have, mainly because what you see outside right now, they don’t like and don’t live with very well. Jody in Colorado Springs, you’re next.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, good morning.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 06 :
I got a question. I heard you talking about those different multi-tool packs, the battery, 18-volt, 40-volt, things like that. I’ve got Ryobi. I seem to like the Ryobis for whatever reason. That’s fine. I’ve got one of those. It’s a six-battery charger. It’s got a handle on top. You can plug in six different batteries, and they all sit there. Obviously, it’s out in my garage. I have no heat or nothing in my garage, and I heard your comment about it that the batteries may not last as long or perform as well in the cold when they’re stored in the cold. Correct. If they’re constantly plugged in, do you know if they’re constantly plugged into that charger? Is that like a tender?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it’s a tender, but the temperature of the battery is still, you know, it’s performance just like an EV. Its performance is not going to be as good when they’re cold as when it’s warm. So, you know, personally, you know, are you going to notice a huge degradation in like an impact driver or a drill or something like that? Probably not, Jody. But the person that… texted in and asked about their snowblower well you know that’s one where yeah you need all the performance you can get because when you you know when you go out there and try to do whatever you’re doing with blowing snow and you’ve got your electric snowblower i’d want in most cases this is going to be a couple of batteries that run those yeah i’d probably keep those someplace where it’s warmer because you’re going to get better performance if you do that right
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I’ve got one of the lawnmowers as well, and it takes one of the two of the big rags. It can take up to four, actually, but it came with two, and it performs pretty well with two. Right. But they’re much thicker, bigger batteries, you know, I guess maybe more amperage or whatever it is, but.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, no, you’re exactly right on all of that. In that one, again, since it’s in the summertime, probably don’t notice much difference because it performs well doing what you’re doing then. It’s the cold on the batteries especially that really, you know, anybody who’s got an EV knows that. You’re going to lose in the wintertime a solid at least 10% of performance or in range in the case of an EV performance. And in some cases, as much as 20%, depending upon how they handle the battery itself, Jody. Now, in the case of a power tool, it is what it is. The temperature is going to have a huge bearing upon how well that battery performs. And I don’t care what brand we’re talking, they’re all going to be the same that way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, right, right. I wonder if there’s a kind of fixed idea to where I could… Do you have any suggestions? I really don’t have the option of moving all my batteries into the house.
SPEAKER 12 :
Truthfully, and this is what I would look at, and I’ve done this pretty much in, I think, the last three or four homes I’ve owned. What does it take to heat the garage a little bit? Right. I mean, there’s enough. By the way, that’s another area that they’ve made huge advancements in. Back in the day, you had to go find an old hang-from-the-ceiling, gas-driven heater and so on. But nowadays, Jody, they make so many different types of heaters, ceramic that work off of electricity. You can do propane. If you’ve got a hot water heat in your house, you can plumb that out to a heater. I mean, so many different ways now to actually heat things from what we used to have that i would look at doing something along those lines yeah yeah that’s probably not a bad idea and making it more comfortable even go out there and do things by the way as well yeah well yeah if i can clean up my garage it’s amazing if worse comes to worse you could always get a heating blanket you could yeah you could do something to where even that one little area gets a little bit more heat jody if you know again nobody wants to be dragging batteries in and out of the house and all of that so there are other ways you could do that but And, you know, and you guys all know my story on the garage and clean up and shop and so on. I mean, I have thrown so much stuff away in the last couple of years, but I am on a mission that I am going to keep things cleaner and not have the junk collecting around. And I’m I’m on a mission and I’m going to probably go home today and work on that even more because I’m not keeping junk like I used to.
SPEAKER 06 :
I need to be on that same mission. Yep. I’m so far down that rabbit hole. So one last thing, I guess. I used to be in the RC world, and I used to know quite a few guys that kept those lithium ion batteries in like a secure metal box because of their volatility and different things that could happen. I wonder if something like that insulated would help.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sure. I see no reason why it wouldn’t. Yeah. Yeah. No reason at all. It kind of goes along the lines of what Larry said a moment ago. Yeah, I see no reason why you couldn’t do something like that. It would work fine.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, that would probably be cheaper, constructing one of those. It would be. Make a nice little box and safer. It’s one of my major concerns nowadays. Everything is these lithium-ion batteries, your phones, your chargers, all these little power tools, your everything, rechargeable batteries, cameras. They all have these lithium-ion batteries in them and your horror stories and stuff. I don’t know. I have nightmares about it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think you’re on the right track. So, no, you’re doing exactly what I would do.
SPEAKER 06 :
And keep cleaning.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, I’ll tell you the same thing I tell everybody else. Keep cleaning, Jody. Merry Christmas to you, too, man. Appreciate you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. All right, guys.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, have a good one. Yeah, and I will kind of close out the show with that. There’s a couple more items that were on this list really quick. I think I’ve got time to throw these in. Electronics. Yeah, you know, there’s certain electronics that don’t do very well in the cold. And, again, this is another area where, going back to what I just talked to Jody about – For a lot of people, and it’s not as expensive to do as it once was. In other words, you know, bringing the temperature in the garage up to where it’s not, you know, you’re not going to go out there and, you know, sunbathe by any means. But, you know, can you keep it halfway comfortable in a lot of the things that we’re talking about, keep a more even keel temperature there? In the garage, just by heating a little bit, absolutely you can. There are so many devices now that are out that have made that far easier than it’s ever been before. Back in the day, it was super expensive to try to find something to actually put in the garage that would work, that would keep things heated. Anymore, they have made so many advancements now that it’s just not that hard to heat the garage. I’ve done it for years and years now, depending upon the circumstances and so on in the home and how it’s structured and so on. Linen and clothes. Now, this is a weird one when it talks about, you know, cold garages are especially rough on fabrics that can trap moisture. I don’t recommend storing any linens or clothes in the garage during the winter because cold temperatures can cause mildew or even pests such as silverfish, which we don’t have that here because we don’t have the humidity. But for some of you, again, reminding people of where they live versus here in Colorado, yeah, that would be something to really think about. And, of course, the other thing that happens in those spaces is in This is the case here in Colorado, especially rodents, mice, things like that. They love getting into things like that. They will look, smell, dig in, chew, make nests. You can ruin a bunch of clothes in a heartbeat by having things in an area where mice and things can get into it. If you’re going to even store things like that in that type of an area, make sure it’s in some sort of a plastic tub, free from rodents. Don’t put it in cardboard because they can chew through that cardboard in a heartbeat. So if you’re going to do things along those lines, absolutely. But back to the whole cleaning and storing and organizing and so on, which I’ll end up doing some more of this weekend, even at my place, because you all know my story. And I have vowed that I am not leaving the next generation. So my kids, what I had to deal with when it came to my own father and his stuff and so on. I love my dad dearly, but man alive, he had stuff after stuff after stuff. And I have vowed I am not doing that. So I continue to go through and get rid of things and pitch things. And I’m not done yet. I’ve made a lot of progress in the last year and a half, but I still have a lot more to go. And it’s hard. And we’ve talked about this on some of my other programs. I understand the emotional pressure. and ties to certain things and so on. And I know at times it’s hard to get rid of this because, oh, I might need that someday. Well, you really need to take a hard look at that and also say, okay, well, this has some value. Okay, to whom? Because if it’s just sitting in your place and you’ve had it for quite some time now, It doesn’t really have any value to you now. In fact, it’s costing you money because every square inch of what you own costs you money. So you storing those things is actually now costing money versus the other way around. So at some point, you’ve got to look at it and say, okay, maybe somebody else could utilize this item more so than I can. And if that’s the case, then you know what? Give that item to somebody else. Sell that item. Donate it, you know. If it’s an item that you know has got some value and you don’t want to just throw it in the trash, well, then figure out other alternatives that you can actually do with that device. But my point is, especially in the winter months, continue down that path of cleaning, organizing, throwing away, getting things done. Christmas time is a great time of the year to do that. A lot of you will have time off between Christmas and New Year’s. So take that time, use it effectively, and get yourself more organized. All right. Myself, Larry, Charlie, of course, we’re going to get out of here. Fix It Radio, you can always go to the website fixitradio.com right here on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 02 :
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