I had sales rep come into my office the other day and plop down a product called “Quick Clean Disinfectant”. I looked at him and said, “So?” He proceeded to talk to me about disinfectants and did I know that most disinfectants take much longer to kill bacteria that most people allow them. In other words they spray a disinfectant like Lysol on a surface and then immediately wipe it off. I always thought that it killed on contact. I’m not knocking Lysol, but it does take 10 minutes to kill bacteria. Quick Clean Disinfectant will kill bacteria in 5 seconds, but you leave it on a surface wet for 2 minutes. It is safe to use on stainless steel, Formica, glass, plastic, sealed granite, and glazed ceramic tile. It’s one of the few disinfectants you can use on sealed fiberglass, acrylic and vinyl. You know I really like Delete Germ, and it is a disinfectant. But there is no way you can use it on fiberglass and acrylic. Quick Clean Disinfectant can be used in the bathroom, kitchen, kennels, and gyms, any where there is a problem with bacteria. It will kill the bacteria that are the cause of the common cold. With the cold season coming on us, I thought you might want to know that. You can use it in dog kennels to kill canine parvovirus. When you use it on food surfaces be sure and rinse with clean water. I don’t want to list every bacterium it will kill, but it kills some real tough ones. This Quick Clean Disinfectant is made in the United States and retails for $5.99.

Now to the email….

Question: Johnnie, I would like to buy all the other volumes of your book. I have volume 10, but I would like to have 1-9. I want to give a set to my son who just bought his first house!

Answer: You don’t have to have all those other volumes. When we put a book together, we go through all the volumes and pull out the products that are still available and add any new product that we have found. Our first book was under 30 pages, and our current book is over 120. There are some products like Jomax, and Renz EZ, that were in the first book and they are still great products 20 years later. But then there are answers that we gave to remove white rings from furniture (cigar ashes and mayo) that has been replaced by White Ring Remover. So give your son Volume 10 of the Best of Johnnie Chuoke and he will be well informed.

Question: Johnnie, I was in your store in San Antonio last week and I thought I heard you say that you were coming to Humble (my home town). Is that true? Where will you be? Will you speak?

Answer: Yes we have been invited back to the Humble Home and Garden Show. It’s February 21-22, 2015. I plan to speak as many times as they will let me and we will have a booth to sell products. Hope to see you and many more there!

Question: Johnnie can you settle a discussion between me and my better half. I want to install ceiling fans in our family room. I have been told that we won’t need them for another few months, because it is getting cooler. I want to install them now because I thought you said that you could put them on reverse and pull the heat off the ceiling. So would installing the fans right now really help during the cool months?