Al Carrell: You know, if you don't properly store your woolen clothes when summer time rolls around, some moth is going to make breakfast out of your cashmeres. It's easy to make a cedar closet out of one you already have by just using cedar planks. They come in kits and these are tongue and grooved so they're easy to use and we'll show you how easy, and incidentally, they're real inexpensive. The first thing you want to do is to measure the closet and be sure you get all the dimensions. Once you get the planks measured, you need to cut them and they're real easy to cut. You want to cover as much of the area inside the closet as you can. And that even includes the inside of the door. The planks go on pretty quickly and you can either put them horizontally or vertically, depending on which you think is going to look the best. I have seen these planks that were peel and stick, but most of them you just nail in with finishing nails. An alternate way to line the closet is with a cedar wafer board. It comes in four feet by eight foot sheets. It goes on quicker, but I don't think it looks as good. These cedar planks cost about $20 for 14 square feet, and we needed about 30 square feet for the lower portion of this closet here so far. So you can see it's relatively inexpensive and a great way for you to protect your favorite woolens. Actually, the cedar smell itself doesn't kill the moths, it just helps to repel them. Now you see how easily this bottom part went in. We're going to cover as many surfaces as we can but for now that's all we're going to do. One thing that might happen after a few years, you may notice the cedar odor is gone. There's a real easy way to take care of that, and that's just to go in with some fine grit sandpaper and lightly sand the surface. That opens up pores and lets that new stuff get out. You want to contain it inside the closet, so it's even a good idea to weather-strip the door, and that way you won't have to worry about losing that cashmere.
Episode 30 1996 - 97 Season
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