April 19, 2025 • 42 mins
Your calls and Gary's expert advice. We also speak to our friends at Rolling Suds.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the best time of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon, welcome to our number four and you're at
home with Gary Salvan as we uh well putting our
house together on the outside. It's been a crazy spring,
I think crazy winds. Rain had a I guess the
last big batch of rain is past Liberty Township and
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went a little north.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Same for hair and Kinwood.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It looks like the west side northwest side, I guess
got the most of the rain that time. And talking
home improvement, at twelve thirty, we're going to have Dan o'haraon.
He is with rolling SuDS and they clean exteriors of homes,
not pressure washing. But we'll get the whole picture on
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that and at the bottom of the hour. So in
the meantime we'll get back to the phone calls. By
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Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hello, Hello Gary, thank you sir for taking my call
on the first time caller.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You're welcome. And by the way, if I don't forget
happy Easter, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
My wife and I've lived here nine years and the
cabinets need to be refinished in some fashion or form.
I don't know whether to use paint remover or my
brother in law yesterday said, how about sand blasted them
or paint over the top of them. I don't know
what to do with them. Gary. They're solid wood, they're
nice cabinets, but I don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Are they painted or staying? Now?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They are painted?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, I'd paint right over there.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Do you paint right over them? That's what my wife said.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, I'd paint right over them. Is it that you're
changing the color? Are they peeling or no?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'll tell you it's Let me just tell you what
it is about them. You know where you cook in
the kitchen, right, there's there's some oil and grease build
up on them, right, and you know you can kind
of feel it's kind of hard to kind of hard
to get off. Actually, and that's the reason why I
wanted to to change, you know, the color or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
All Right, I'm going to give you two options here,
don and I really want you to consider cleaning them
before you paint them, if you'd like. Okay, there's a
product that's it's probably one hundred and ten years old.
It's called MILLSIICM I L.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
S e K.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It is a wood cleaner and a grease remover and
I have used it multiple times. Does it and it
also removes wax. Wax gets very sticky and gummy, and
you mix that with a little kitchen oils and grease
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and you'll have a real mess. And it cuts through that.
It does a good job of removing that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He lower f like Frank.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mills It's m I L S E K. Yeah, got it, Okay,
And it's Millsick dot com. You can go over there
and take a look at it. But that's an option.
I've recommended that in the past before, and I've had
people say, oh, after we cleaned it, we decided not
to paint it. So I throw that out there as
an option. As far as painting it. Is it a
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smooth front or is it got some moldings and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
There are some moldings, yes, sir, I've got my fingers
learning to call them right now, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So we don't need to do you know, we got
to do some cleaning, some soap and water scrubbing. We
got to do some light standing. Probably i'd say a
four hundred grit. We are fine or extra fine. All
we're trying to do is just lightly scratch up the
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surface a little bit, okay, okay, And that's just so
that the paint we use will bond properly. And even
though we have moldings, I'm sure we have some four
five six inch wide flat surfaces too, Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes? Oh yes, the middle of it is eighteen inches
wide inches wide, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So you can get a and I'll talk about the
paint a minute. You can get a little four inch
wide roller, okay, four inch white, four inch four yeah,
four inches wide. It's not like a roller for a wall.
So they're four inches. I wouldn't get the foam they
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have them where they're mowhair. They're about the width of
a quarter. So you have real good maneuverability. Get that
in a good polyester brush. You'll have all the tools
you'll need, and then I want you to get uh,
this is incredible and I mean incredible paint. It's called
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Emerald U a thane trim.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Enamel, Emerald ethane enamel and the paint.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's the paint you're gonna use. And you can go
directly over that existing finish.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, and where would you get that any like Sherman Williams.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It's a Sherman Williams. And you know, don't choke on
the pricey seriously. I don't know if you'll need a
gallon of it, but like a gallon of it, it's
like a hundred bucks, but it is. It's so it's
like the old old oil bases. I mean, there's no
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texture to it. It's very self leveling. It's very smooth,
and you'll get a good finish out of it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's what we need.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I think so. I think you'll be absolutely fine
on that. If you want to try to clean them, fine,
if you don't, you just want to kind of change
and give it a fresh look, nothing wrong with that.
Between those tools and that pain, I think you'll be
very successful.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I appreciate it very much, Gary, And uh, you know
I listened to you all the time, and you really
give a lot of really great advice. Where are you located,
by the way, there.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We're out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm down river from you. I'm in Louisville.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
There you go. I think Louisville on has was one
of our very first affiliates, probably twenty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh no kidding, yeah, yeah, clear clear channels, clear channel
wj S for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Very good. Thank you much, have a great easter. Appreciate
it all right, and again you got the phone number, Beth. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
How are you hi there, Gary. I'm doing okay. I
had just one little tidbit for the gentleman with the
problem with the birds, and I couldn't quite understand everything.
I understand he can't reach all of it, but I
had really good luck with quarter inch hardware cloths put
over in the places they wanted to nest around my
air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I think that's the problem. Yeah, because I'd even
mentioned like bird cloth and stuff like that. But he's
like forty feet up in the air and yeah, he's
on a driveway that slope, so the only way he's
going to do it. It sounds like if he's going to,
you know, use your idea or my idea is almost
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going to need like a bucket truck or something to
get up there.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, somebody with a really tall ladder to maybe hire
them to. Yeah, but anyway, that was just something that
worked for me. Yeah, we're working on our eighteen forties home.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
In Ashland County, Ohio and the chimney was leaking and
they didn't realize it and some of the ceiling fell
in around it in one of the bedrooms. It's not
a great deal, but it's enough to be a pretty
big mess. And we are concerned about asbestos and lead
in the like I said, the homes eighteen forties. So
before we tackle you know, replastering up there and everything,
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how do we get it tested? We call it Ashland
County Health Department. They put us through to somebody who
says we don't have anything to do with that. So,
you know, we're like, well, where do we go?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Even go on Amazon. They'll be different test kits so
you don't.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Have to have to look at those.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, you don't have to have somebody come in and
do it. And you know there's some of the test
kits that are in these stores that I you know,
like testing for mold for twenty dollars, you're not going
to get what you want. But when you're really looking
for asbestos or lead, there's some good test kits and
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it's like, ok, basically what you're doing is you're buying
this uh Petrie dish that you're going to send away
to the lab and it's going to come back with
an analysis. That's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Okay, that sounds that sounded like a good idea. We
did look at those. We thought, well, before we do that,
let's call Gary because he has lots of experience with
things that, you know, a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, there's also some environmental companies that do do testing
if you want to do that, Yeah they do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
They closed to Ashley County.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But yeah, that's that's why I thought, maybe that home
tester for asbestos and stuff can be the ticket. For sure.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That sounds like a good idea, and I think that's
what we'll do because we want to get this cleaned
up and replastered and you know, finished and stuff. And
now that the leak in the chimney is taken care of,
now that the other task begins. So before we touch
something or you know, got things going through the air
or anything we wanted to test. So that's all we'll do. Okay,
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very good man, Thank you Gary, and thanks so much same,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
All right, listen to that story. And I think as
this time of year, I always go on a little
discussion about chimneys, and I'll always get some emails from
people like, what are you talking about chimneys? And you
know the springtime, you know, chimney repair and staying ta
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on top. And I know her house was very old,
but and I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying, this
is the time to get chimneys inspected, to get chimneys cleaned,
to get chimneys repaired. Because the rush is kind of over.
Most people have kind of shut down the fireplace, and
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the chimney companies like Chimney Care Company, they're not quite
as busy right now as they would be in November,
and they can come out and do an inspection. And
inspections are so important, not only from a safety standpoint,
but also from a water intrusion standpoint, missing mortar, crack, bricks, bad, flashing,
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chimney crown wash, it's bad. And then an inspection of
the liner. So if if it's been a while since
you've had a chimney clean or inspected, and even if
you're not a wood burner, if it's never been done,
because oh I don't even use that chimney, just get
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it inspected anyway, because they can really look for potential
issues that could you know, get worse and introduce water
to the inside the home and start causing problems. As
I say, even with small repairs. You know that five
dollars repair you make today will be fifty dollars the
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next day, five hundred dollars you know the month after that,
and continue up the sliding scale. So get in front
of it, all right. We will continue with your calls
as we work our way to the twelve thirty mark,
and then we're going to have a company on called
Rolling SuDS. Yeah, they'll clean your house and they'll do
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it safely, and they'll do all kinds of cleaning. We'll
learn all about that. That'll be coming up at the
bottom of the hour. In the meantime at you and me.
You're at home with Gary Salvan right here on fifty
five K see detalk station. All right, twelve twenty two,
as we talk a little home improvement. And one of
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the things we talk a lot about, of course, is
water intrusion and basements and cross spaces that smell. I'm
going to keep you down in the basement area, but
I want to talk about something different. And you may
have seen this and just ignored it. You may have
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seen it and said, why is it like that? And
that is the Joye pockets, you know. So you got
the foundation walls, you got the joyce running in there,
and you got the subfloor above that, and those pockets
in between the joys that are sitting on that foundation wall,
that ledge, if you will. They usually and in most homes,
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they have some fiberglasses that's rolled up and it's just
kind of stuffed back there. And that's fine, that's fine.
It's not that the fiberglass insulation the way it's installed
is super efficient because it's stuffed back there, right, it's
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not laying on the surface, and they usually have a
vapor barrier on there, so it's going almost right out
to whatever the outside framing of the house is. And
so without insulation, you'd have a really big draft. But
rolling up the insulation, stuffing it in there, you've got
a draft. Anyway, and here's here's how you can prove it.
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And maybe as we're tackling spring cleaning or just tidying
up or getting organized in garages and addicts and basements,
maybe you've been down in the basement you've noticed this,
but in those joice pockets where that insulation is, and
just notice mine the other day and periodic I see this.
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I haven't done anything about it yet, but I'm going
to give you the opportunity that maybe you want to
do something about it. There'll be cobwebs all over there.
It'll be there'll be lots of cobwebs because spiders, in
most cases we all have a few. They build their
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webs where there's moving air. That's how you can always
kind of tell. That's how they kick. They're looking for food,
they're looking for their prey. They set up a web,
and the spiders trap their prey. They got their food source,
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and so they find a drafty area in your home
or on the outside where there's a good breeze coming down,
and that's where they focus on their webs. So you know,
go ahead and dust the webs down. That that helps,
But if you want to take it, the next step
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it's kind of yucky. But what you might do is
take out some of the roles of that insulation and
what you may find is some damp insulation. And you
also because it's all kind of stuck back in that pocket,
it's it's it's got air transferring, but it's not really
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breathing through that insulation. So you're stopping that heavy especially
in the summertime, you're stopping that heavy, high humidity air
back in that pocket with with that vapor bearer on it,
there's nowhere for it to go, and that insulation gets
really moldy. And just be prepared that when you tackle
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that problem, you see all the cobwebs, you knock the
cobwebs down. Yeah, let's see. If Gary's right, I'm gonna
pull this insulation out, and you pull it out, be
prepared to do something about it. Because if that insulation
is all, you know, heavily encrusted in mold, you're gonna
have to pitch that plastic, big plastic trash bag and
then you're gonna have to clean that mold up, and
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then you're gonna have to put something in there. And
then the question is what are you gonna put in there,
you'd be quite honestly, you'd be better off putting in
a non paper faced vapor barrier and let that humidity
come in and control that with a do umidifire. But
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the best thing to put in there would be something
that's just not rolled up and stuffed in there. It
would be something that would be put into that joy's
pocket that would expand and seal it yet allow the
water in the air to read through that insulation. Okay,
it's called open cell foam. So if you knock the
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cobwebs down, you take out the insulation. Yeah, there was
mold back there. We get that cleaned up. We don't
want to make the same problem again by rolling up
the insulation stuff and in there get like a USA
insulation They do foam joist pockets, and there will be
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a savings on energy, but it will be you know,
keeping with that whole April's Happy Home Awareness month. It
will make it a healthier home. So I wanted to
kind of toss that in for you, all right, As
I said, at the bottom of the hour, we would
have Dana Harron, he is the owner of Rolling SuDS
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since a Northeast, and we'll talk to him about what
that company does and what they can do for you.
As we continue, You're at Home with Gary Salvan right
here fifty five care see the talk station and back
ahead it we go twelve thirty two on your Saturday
it is and I ask you all the time during
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the course of the week to kind of take a
walk around the house, see what you can find that
doesn't look quite right, and then execute a plan to
make it right. Peeling pain, yeah, probably some moisture damage.
When you're taking that walk around the house, do you
ever just look around and go like that black streaking
on the house just doesn't look good. I wonder if
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that's doing any damage. Or that patio that I'm gonna
put together this afternoon, in fact, gosh, that concrete patio
is just so dirty. It's got moss on it, the
gutters they've got streaks on it. In other words, does
your house need cleaning? Well, there's a company called Rolling SuDS.
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Rolling SuDS since Nay Northeast, and Dan O'Hara is the owner.
We have him as a guest. I think it's his
first time on the At Home with Gary Sullivan show.
So welcome Dan. How are you?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I'm great, Gary. Yes, there it is, and it's great
to be with you today.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Very good. So let's talk about number one. Let's talk
about what Rolling SuDS is. There's a lot of people
out there that I guess have a pressure washer in
their house. They're going to clean their house or they're
going to get somebody down the street who's got a
pressure washer. And I always have a little elementary class
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on how you can screw up your house with a
pressure washer. I did it a couple of weeks ago.
This guys especially get a little aggressive, But tell me
a little bit about Rolling SuDS and what you do.
And it's not all about the pressure washer. I understand.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yep, no, no, So Rolling SuDS the largest power washing
franchise in the nation. We specialize in only pressure wash sheet.
We offer free estimate and show up at the site
in a fourteen foot wrap box truck with nine hundred
gallons of water and a thousand feet of hose. Also
there we have three power washing machines, two cold water
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and one hot water, so we have equipment for any
size job that there is out there. We're reliable, effishent
and fully insured and we do the job to the
customers one hundred percent satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Gary. So why the hot water. Is there special instances
that you would use hot water pressure washer?
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Yeah, if they were gum or For example, yesterday we
were cleaning a dumpster pad and de grease there to
remove that, we use the hot water to get it
cleaned up real nicely.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, for sure. You know, as I drive through a
lot of older neighborhoods and maybe you know homes that
were built in the thirties, forties, fifties, and they got
you know, it's a nice house, and they got the
nice red brick, and then they got a big old
white stain underneath that. I guess that's from oxidation of
the of the aluminum sighting. Would a pressure washer clean
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that up?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
A pressure washer could, depending upon what it is. It
could be either oxidation or efflorescence of the brick. True,
and we can certainly have certain chemicals to make sure
that that gets cleaned up as well.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Nice nice, I guess one of the biggest things. But
you're the expert here, you tell me over one of
the I guess most unsightly things that I see on homes.
It's kind of what I was talking about, that black
streaking on roofs. And that's a fungus, I believe, or
an algae that's airborne and just goes right down the
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street in different neighborhoods and very very unsightly, especially if
you're trying to sell your home. But it can do
damage on roofs too. And I know if the do
it yourself is going to try and do that himself
and reaches for a pressure washer, he's going to have
a big, big problem. Do you clean.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Roofs, Yeah, we soft wash roofs. And what you're talking
about is liking and that is an algae or a
mold that affects the roofs. And the interesting thing about
roofs these days is your insurance companies are using a
little technology out there to check people's roots. When it
comes time to renewals, they use Google work their drones
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to check them out. If there's any growth or liking
on there, they won't renew you until you get the
new roof or get the roof treated. And Gary, let
me tell you, a treatment from rolling SuDS for your
roof is much less expensive than a whole new roof
out there.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, no, I've heard about that. It's become pretty popular
quite honestly, of insurance companies doing that, probably in like
the last eighteen months, and you're seeing that too. That's
becoming probably more and more popular and will continue.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
To grow absolutely, And like I said, we do a
very effective job cleaning that up.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Is that one of your I guess most common jobs
that people get rolling SuDS to do it?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's definitely up there, and like you said, over the
last year or so has is a lot more prevalent.
But yeah, it goes with the when we go out
and look at the site, we try and look at
the entire house because like you said, somebody may recognize
some dirt on the on the shingles or on the sighting,
and we try and take a look and try and
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warn the customer. Hey, just so you know, here's something
to watch out for while we're here. We can give
you an estimate for that, sure, but if you're just
interested in getting the sighting or the gutters clean, we
can get that taken care of for you as well.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So I guess that's also probably one of your bigger ones.
I know, I see some Vinyl sighting and I can
tell I mean, it looks like it's one hundred years old.
There's so much you know, me'll do on it. I
mean in the house, isn't that old?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And where we see this a lot of time, on
the north side of the house if they it specifically
doesn't get a lot of sun, but we you know,
you clean the siding there. And again as part of
our service there is cleaning the siding in the gutters
because as you know, those can get real dirty as well.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah. Somebody asked me one time, says, like, Gary, it's vinyl,
how in the world does that get mil dewy? And
I said, you know, I remember when vinyl sighting was
flat and smooth, and then we started putting a texture
on it, so it looked like somebody painted it. It's
got like a little brush marks. And all of a sudden,
mildew became an issue because you know, all the organic
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dust and you know, everything that's out in the atmosphere,
it collects in those little grooves and that little texture,
and then you get morning dews and well it grows
right on the surface. Is that kind of what you're
seeing happening? Also?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, that textured siding certainly catches the mold and the
algae and like you said, anything that may be airborne,
and specifically if it's not in a area that gets
any type of sunlight, you'll see that grow quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
M So, what are some of the other things you
clean around the house, Dan that that you get calls on?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I mean again, house, the gutters, sightings, roofs. As we've
already mentioned, some of the more easy things are driveways,
sidewalks and walkways or deck patios. One of the latest
things we've been kind of cleaning we've even't cleaned some
putting greens out there is people have those greens in
their backyard. They catch a lot of dirt and we've
cleaned those things up too.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah. Wow, that's interesting. You have to use any vacuums
on those?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Nope, nope, we just uh pressure wash it with a
specific tip that we have and it cleans it right up.
There's a lot of dirt that catches up in those
in those putting greens, which is interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
The things we never think about, sure exactly. Yeah. Do
you guys do commercial work also, we've talked a lot
about our homes. Do you do commercial work?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah, well, commercially, we love to partner with whether it
be hoas or property management companies, so in order to
clean you know, apartments or bigger town homes, things like that.
But we also clean hotels, certainly this time of year
getting ready for Easter. A lot of churches out there
being clean, but hospitals, schools, stadiums, parking garages, anything like that.
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So we can handle, like I said, when we roll
up with that truck, we can handle the smallest job
from a driveway sidewalk to a larger job as needed.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
If somebody listening right now lives in a brick home
and you went there to clean a brick home, would
they be amazed at how dirty it was, Yes.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
They would, especially again if there's any growth on it
at all, which there can be growth on it. People
don't think you can clean brick or concrete, specifically in
an office building, but if you look at it, there
is dirt on there, and we can use our proprietary
chemicals and get those cleaned up really well. It will
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refresh the brick or concrete building like you would not believe.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, and here's the good news. Folks, you know rolling
SuDS of since they know what they're doing. I've seen
people do damage to chimneys when they're quote trying to
clean it with a pressure washer, they'll blast that mortar
right out. And again you're using different cleaners in doing
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soft scrub. That's the magic sauce, I would think.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yeah, absolutely, you have to know when you can power
a pressure wash and when and how to soft wash
so that you don't harm the surface at all. You want,
obviously want to clean, but you don't want to harm
at all.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Sure, absolutely so. Do you at Rolling SuDS specialize in
any type of specific cleaning.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Which we clean anything that's dirty? I mean, yeah, I
mean but you know, obviously we talked about dirt or
mold or moths, oil stains, we can do that. We've
had people call where, you know, maybe they got their
oil changed and the the the bolt didn't get put
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back on and they've got a spot in their driveway.
We help them clean that up. A lot of calls
this after this winter with salt residue and getting that
cleaned up. And as we said, gum and graffiti, we
you know, use the hot water machines for those particular.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
For uses.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
And you know, tire marks are liking often roofs any
of that stuff. So if it's dirty, we'll clean it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, that's good to those because I don't have an
answer for getting tire marks off a concrete dry but
you got the answer for that.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Well, again, we partner with a chemical company, and we've
got part of Rolling Thuds being a franchise is we've
got thirty years of experience backing us up. We can
go into the annals and work with other franchisees, see
what they've used in certain circumstances, and make sure we
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get the job done properly to one hundred percent satisfaction
of our customers.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, here's a good question, and I already know the answer.
Obviously we haven't talked about this, but I already know
what the answer is going to be. But I might
ask it anyway. When somebody says to you and Rolling
SuDS pulls up and you're going to get those black
streaks off my roof, and you guys do it, and
how many people then say, hey can you look at
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this patio? Or hey can you look at this driveway?
In other words, is it like spreading mulch? You get
five bags, but you really need fifteen.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
It's quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Like I said, we get called in and that people
have a specific reason they're calling us, right, whether it's
the room for their gutters or what have you. And
then once they see the type of work that we do,
invariably they may tell us that day, hey could you
look at this, or they call back a week or
three later and they say, hey, this looks so good.
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Would you mind taking a look at my pool patio
or would you mind taking a look at my deck
or chimney? As you say, you know, so, yeah, it
does kind of domino effects, shall we say?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, do you guys get into any using drones or
anything when cleaning commercial buildings or a real steep route.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
We do have the capability to use drones, mainly from
larger and more complex jobs. Think about the water tower
or a building that couldn't be accessed by any aerial
or scissor lift.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You know what, I've never thought about cleaning a water
tower so.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Well, again, when you talk about the cities, some of
the water towers are very dirty and rather than just
getting it painted, yeah maybe you painted every ten or
twenty years, but you could do a power wash on
it and get it cleaned up very economically, you know,
save a lot of money and keep that paint job
for a while.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And I'll tell you the paints nowadays, they're just they're
all stars. They really do last that long. So I
hear you loud and clear. So I'm sure a lot
of people right now are going to like, I'm sure
you guys are busy. It's spring cleaning. That's all we've
talked about today. How do folks reach out to Rolling SuDS?
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How do they book an appointment? And what do you
think the lead time is? I know you can't give
me a specifics, but you know, let's start playing ahead.
Let's get this done. How do we do that?
Speaker 5 (32:51):
No, absolutely no. You can find us at Rolling sudspowerwashing
dot com and again that we're a franchise. So you
just fill out the little form on there and put
in your zip code and it'll go to the appropriate person.
Or you could call call our office directly five to one,
three four four zero seven, six zero nine and we
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get out to see the customer within a day or
three to get them their free estimate, depending on the
on their schedule. Obviously, if that we want them to
be there and show them exactly, have them show up
exactly what they're looking to get done, and then our
lead time right now is about a week to ten
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days out actually getting the work done. Unless you know
their special circumstances. Sometimes people say, hey, can you book
me the third week of May. We've got a graduation
party coming up in June. We want to make sure
we're taking care of things like that.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I was just going to tell you, Dan, you're going
to have a lot of special circumstances the next month
for all the people that didn't pay attention to us,
they're going to say, oh my gosh, my kids graduate.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
We're having a ft people over. I got to get
this roof clean. I gotta get the driveway clean. So again,
they can go to rollingsudspowerwashing dot com just put in
your zip code, or you can give them a call
five one three four four zero seventy six nine, and
uh you'll chat with him, give him an estimate, and
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get that whole house cleaned.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I agree. Once you start cleaning it, you realize how
dirty it was and how good it looks, and uh'll
you'll keep marching on. So hey, thanks for joining us
at DAN. I appreciate your time, and good luck to
spring and summer.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Gary.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I really appreciate your time. I do want to just
mention my team real quick, Kevin, Matt Sidney, Wayne Jack
and rumored to be your number one thing. Gary is
a guy who helps us around the shop quite a bit,
Bill Widskin. So we can't do the work without those guys,
so we really appreciate their efforts.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
All right, Well you tell Bill I'm a fan too, Okay,
all right, thank you, all right, Dan, thank you very much.
Appreciate all right. Again, that's Dan O'Hara, and he is
the man behind Cincinnati the Northeast quadrant Rolling SuDS Cincinnati Northeast.
He's the owner there and again. To get a hold
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of him, you can call him at five one three
four four zero seventy six o nine, or simply go
to rollingsudspowerwashing dot com, put in your zip code. They'll
put you in touch with somebody and away you go.
Get that house clean. All right. We'll take a break
coming back and I'll give you a couple more things
to check out around your home and a reminder we'll
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be back at it tomorrow morning once again. And you're
at home with Gary Salvyn right here on fifty five. Yeah,
it's fifty five krc DE talk station all right to
twelve fifty two and the Donovan will help you with
all your car the Donovan And you know that's something
(36:03):
I just don't work on anymore. It's kind of well,
you know, it's complicated, and that's why you need a
good car servicing companies and certainly the Donovans.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Do you just let the Donovans work on your car?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And if you trust them, they got to be good.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah. So if you're one of the lucky ones that
can still work on your car, you got to pay
attention to the show that's coming up next. They'll be
with you from one to two. In the meantime, we've
been covering different things that you might want to just
check around your home. I had, I got a long list,
as I do every weekend of putting some things down,
and I talked a little bit about the garage and
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get that thing organized. But I chatted about this not
long ago, and that was, you know, taking a walk
around the house. It's just amazes me, quite honestly, of
the stuff I find. And it's like, you know, it's
not like I'm doing it every day. It's not like
I'm even doing it every week, but I'll bet I'll
do it at least once every two three weeks where
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I kind of walk around and pay more attention than
I normally would. And it wasn't long. It was right
before all the heavy rains we had, maybe through four
weeks ago. I saw the discharge pipe coming out of
the house right at the base of the foundation from
the sump pump, from the some pump. And you know,
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my some pump doesn't run all the time, but you know,
during a heavy rain, and you can hear it working.
And as I'm walking around the house, I saw this.
It was corner right by a little bay window and
another short wall in that area, and the ground was wet.
And I know, is before all the heavy rain started,
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and then it had been maybe just dry for a
couple of days. It shouldn't have been wet, is what
I'm trying to say. And this little patch was wet.
So my eye went to that little patch and said,
why is that wet? Is that gutter leaking? Is that
gutter clogged? Is that gutter overflowing? It's got to be something.
And I go in there and I start really taking
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a look and at the ground and looking around, and
all of a sudden, I see the discharge pipe coming
out of the wall and it's going into a fitting
which is then reduced down to fit that pipe that's
coming out of the wall, and the four inch side
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of the bottom of that fitting is for the pipe
that goes underground takes the water away from the house.
The only problem is that fitting at the top is
cracked and that pipe didn't go into the pipe that
went underground. Now nobody hit it, nobody kicked it. It
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obviously has moved because of last year's drought. I always
thought talk about when that clay soil dries out, there
gets to be a lot of shift and the soils.
And that pipe had literally moved. The one in the
ground had literally moved because of the ground drying out,
and it had put enough pressure on the little thin
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fitting that connected to the discharge pipe of the some
pump that it cracked and it didn't it didn't align anymore.
It literally just didn't align anymore. And it wasn't off much,
but so it was probably discharging thirty percent of the
water out of that sump well was not being taken
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away from the ground. It was spilling right on the ground,
which again just makes that some pump work harder and
runs the risk of a potential leak in the basement.
So we had to get it fixed. I mean we
and it was easy to fix it. You could. The
more I looked at it, It's like, really, I think,
what I'm going to do is I'm just going to
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remove or not remove. But that little adapter where it
went down to I don't know what it is, maybe
an inch piece of pipe. I'll just it was very brittle.
I just cracked off that collar, is what I did.
And then I went up on the discharge pipe, which
I cut right past the elbow, so it came out
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of the wall, came straight, and then there was an elbow,
and so I cut that and got a little coupling,
got a little longer piece of PVC pipe, and a
little bit of glue, primer and glue. Put that thing together.
Problem solved. And actually when I and now that water
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that's being collected from all the drains that are going
to the sump well, it's now being pumped into the
pipe and taken away gosh, I don't know, forty feet
in away from the foundation and down the slope. So
I've taken all that water that was spilling around the
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foundation and removed it. And it was such a simple fix.
And these things happen all the time in a lot
of cases. I'll bet you if you just walk around
your house, I'm not saying you're gonna find one that's broken,
but you may find a discharge pipe coming out of
that wall and it's discharging the water not far at
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all from the foundation. It's discharging it literally a foot
away from the foundation, and it's not moving that water.
And you just you just got you've got a recirculating
swimming pool around your foundation. It's it's silly, and so
you know you've got to figure out a way to
you know, tap into a line or put a drain
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line in get that water away from your house. And
so I wanted to share that. That's why I'm always
speaking on behalf of taking that walk around the house
and seeing what just doesn't look great. This didn't look great.
There's not supposed to be wet ground when it's dry
right on my foundation. So Danny boy, a busy day
it was. Thank you very much for taking care of
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things on your end. And good Lord Willing we'll both
be back tomorrow for more at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Well, the best time of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon, welcome to our number four and you're at
home with Gary Salvan as we uh well putting our
house together on the outside. It's been a crazy spring,
I think crazy winds. Rain had a I guess the
last big batch of rain is past Liberty Township and
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went a little north.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Same for hair and Kinwood.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It looks like the west side northwest side, I guess
got the most of the rain that time. And talking
home improvement, at twelve thirty, we're going to have Dan o'haraon.
He is with rolling SuDS and they clean exteriors of homes,
not pressure washing. But we'll get the whole picture on
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that and at the bottom of the hour. So in
the meantime we'll get back to the phone calls. By
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Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hello, Hello Gary, thank you sir for taking my call
on the first time caller.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You're welcome. And by the way, if I don't forget
happy Easter, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
My wife and I've lived here nine years and the
cabinets need to be refinished in some fashion or form.
I don't know whether to use paint remover or my
brother in law yesterday said, how about sand blasted them
or paint over the top of them. I don't know
what to do with them. Gary. They're solid wood, they're
nice cabinets, but I don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Are they painted or staying? Now?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They are painted?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, I'd paint right over there.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Do you paint right over them? That's what my wife said.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, I'd paint right over them. Is it that you're
changing the color? Are they peeling or no?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'll tell you it's Let me just tell you what
it is about them. You know where you cook in
the kitchen, right, there's there's some oil and grease build
up on them, right, and you know you can kind
of feel it's kind of hard to kind of hard
to get off. Actually, and that's the reason why I
wanted to to change, you know, the color or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
All Right, I'm going to give you two options here,
don and I really want you to consider cleaning them
before you paint them, if you'd like. Okay, there's a
product that's it's probably one hundred and ten years old.
It's called MILLSIICM I L.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
S e K.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It is a wood cleaner and a grease remover and
I have used it multiple times. Does it and it
also removes wax. Wax gets very sticky and gummy, and
you mix that with a little kitchen oils and grease
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and you'll have a real mess. And it cuts through that.
It does a good job of removing that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He lower f like Frank.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mills It's m I L S E K. Yeah, got it, Okay,
And it's Millsick dot com. You can go over there
and take a look at it. But that's an option.
I've recommended that in the past before, and I've had
people say, oh, after we cleaned it, we decided not
to paint it. So I throw that out there as
an option. As far as painting it. Is it a
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smooth front or is it got some moldings and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
There are some moldings, yes, sir, I've got my fingers
learning to call them right now, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So we don't need to do you know, we got
to do some cleaning, some soap and water scrubbing. We
got to do some light standing. Probably i'd say a
four hundred grit. We are fine or extra fine. All
we're trying to do is just lightly scratch up the
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surface a little bit, okay, okay, And that's just so
that the paint we use will bond properly. And even
though we have moldings, I'm sure we have some four
five six inch wide flat surfaces too, Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes? Oh yes, the middle of it is eighteen inches
wide inches wide, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So you can get a and I'll talk about the
paint a minute. You can get a little four inch
wide roller, okay, four inch white, four inch four yeah,
four inches wide. It's not like a roller for a wall.
So they're four inches. I wouldn't get the foam they
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have them where they're mowhair. They're about the width of
a quarter. So you have real good maneuverability. Get that
in a good polyester brush. You'll have all the tools
you'll need, and then I want you to get uh,
this is incredible and I mean incredible paint. It's called
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Emerald U a thane trim.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Enamel, Emerald ethane enamel and the paint.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's the paint you're gonna use. And you can go
directly over that existing finish.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, and where would you get that any like Sherman Williams.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It's a Sherman Williams. And you know, don't choke on
the pricey seriously. I don't know if you'll need a
gallon of it, but like a gallon of it, it's
like a hundred bucks, but it is. It's so it's
like the old old oil bases. I mean, there's no
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texture to it. It's very self leveling. It's very smooth,
and you'll get a good finish out of it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's what we need.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I think so. I think you'll be absolutely fine
on that. If you want to try to clean them, fine,
if you don't, you just want to kind of change
and give it a fresh look, nothing wrong with that.
Between those tools and that pain, I think you'll be
very successful.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I appreciate it very much, Gary, And uh, you know
I listened to you all the time, and you really
give a lot of really great advice. Where are you located,
by the way, there.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We're out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm down river from you. I'm in Louisville.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
There you go. I think Louisville on has was one
of our very first affiliates, probably twenty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh no kidding, yeah, yeah, clear clear channels, clear channel
wj S for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Very good. Thank you much, have a great easter. Appreciate
it all right, and again you got the phone number, Beth. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
How are you hi there, Gary. I'm doing okay. I
had just one little tidbit for the gentleman with the
problem with the birds, and I couldn't quite understand everything.
I understand he can't reach all of it, but I
had really good luck with quarter inch hardware cloths put
over in the places they wanted to nest around my
air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I think that's the problem. Yeah, because I'd even
mentioned like bird cloth and stuff like that. But he's
like forty feet up in the air and yeah, he's
on a driveway that slope, so the only way he's
going to do it. It sounds like if he's going to,
you know, use your idea or my idea is almost
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going to need like a bucket truck or something to
get up there.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, somebody with a really tall ladder to maybe hire
them to. Yeah, but anyway, that was just something that
worked for me. Yeah, we're working on our eighteen forties home.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
In Ashland County, Ohio and the chimney was leaking and
they didn't realize it and some of the ceiling fell
in around it in one of the bedrooms. It's not
a great deal, but it's enough to be a pretty
big mess. And we are concerned about asbestos and lead
in the like I said, the homes eighteen forties. So
before we tackle you know, replastering up there and everything,
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how do we get it tested? We call it Ashland
County Health Department. They put us through to somebody who
says we don't have anything to do with that. So,
you know, we're like, well, where do we go?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Even go on Amazon. They'll be different test kits so
you don't.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Have to have to look at those.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, you don't have to have somebody come in and
do it. And you know there's some of the test
kits that are in these stores that I you know,
like testing for mold for twenty dollars, you're not going
to get what you want. But when you're really looking
for asbestos or lead, there's some good test kits and
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it's like, ok, basically what you're doing is you're buying
this uh Petrie dish that you're going to send away
to the lab and it's going to come back with
an analysis. That's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Okay, that sounds that sounded like a good idea. We
did look at those. We thought, well, before we do that,
let's call Gary because he has lots of experience with
things that, you know, a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, there's also some environmental companies that do do testing
if you want to do that, Yeah they do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
They closed to Ashley County.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But yeah, that's that's why I thought, maybe that home
tester for asbestos and stuff can be the ticket. For sure.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That sounds like a good idea, and I think that's
what we'll do because we want to get this cleaned
up and replastered and you know, finished and stuff. And
now that the leak in the chimney is taken care of,
now that the other task begins. So before we touch
something or you know, got things going through the air
or anything we wanted to test. So that's all we'll do. Okay,
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very good man, Thank you Gary, and thanks so much same,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
All right, listen to that story. And I think as
this time of year, I always go on a little
discussion about chimneys, and I'll always get some emails from
people like, what are you talking about chimneys? And you
know the springtime, you know, chimney repair and staying ta
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on top. And I know her house was very old,
but and I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying, this
is the time to get chimneys inspected, to get chimneys cleaned,
to get chimneys repaired. Because the rush is kind of over.
Most people have kind of shut down the fireplace, and
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the chimney companies like Chimney Care Company, they're not quite
as busy right now as they would be in November,
and they can come out and do an inspection. And
inspections are so important, not only from a safety standpoint,
but also from a water intrusion standpoint, missing mortar, crack, bricks, bad, flashing,
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chimney crown wash, it's bad. And then an inspection of
the liner. So if if it's been a while since
you've had a chimney clean or inspected, and even if
you're not a wood burner, if it's never been done,
because oh I don't even use that chimney, just get
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it inspected anyway, because they can really look for potential
issues that could you know, get worse and introduce water
to the inside the home and start causing problems. As
I say, even with small repairs. You know that five
dollars repair you make today will be fifty dollars the
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next day, five hundred dollars you know the month after that,
and continue up the sliding scale. So get in front
of it, all right. We will continue with your calls
as we work our way to the twelve thirty mark,
and then we're going to have a company on called
Rolling SuDS. Yeah, they'll clean your house and they'll do
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it safely, and they'll do all kinds of cleaning. We'll
learn all about that. That'll be coming up at the
bottom of the hour. In the meantime at you and me.
You're at home with Gary Salvan right here on fifty
five K see detalk station. All right, twelve twenty two,
as we talk a little home improvement. And one of
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the things we talk a lot about, of course, is
water intrusion and basements and cross spaces that smell. I'm
going to keep you down in the basement area, but
I want to talk about something different. And you may
have seen this and just ignored it. You may have
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seen it and said, why is it like that? And
that is the Joye pockets, you know. So you got
the foundation walls, you got the joyce running in there,
and you got the subfloor above that, and those pockets
in between the joys that are sitting on that foundation wall,
that ledge, if you will. They usually and in most homes,
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they have some fiberglasses that's rolled up and it's just
kind of stuffed back there. And that's fine, that's fine.
It's not that the fiberglass insulation the way it's installed
is super efficient because it's stuffed back there, right, it's
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not laying on the surface, and they usually have a
vapor barrier on there, so it's going almost right out
to whatever the outside framing of the house is. And
so without insulation, you'd have a really big draft. But
rolling up the insulation, stuffing it in there, you've got
a draft. Anyway, and here's here's how you can prove it.
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And maybe as we're tackling spring cleaning or just tidying
up or getting organized in garages and addicts and basements,
maybe you've been down in the basement you've noticed this,
but in those joice pockets where that insulation is, and
just notice mine the other day and periodic I see this.
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I haven't done anything about it yet, but I'm going
to give you the opportunity that maybe you want to
do something about it. There'll be cobwebs all over there.
It'll be there'll be lots of cobwebs because spiders, in
most cases we all have a few. They build their
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webs where there's moving air. That's how you can always
kind of tell. That's how they kick. They're looking for food,
they're looking for their prey. They set up a web,
and the spiders trap their prey. They got their food source,
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and so they find a drafty area in your home
or on the outside where there's a good breeze coming down,
and that's where they focus on their webs. So you know,
go ahead and dust the webs down. That that helps,
But if you want to take it, the next step
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it's kind of yucky. But what you might do is
take out some of the roles of that insulation and
what you may find is some damp insulation. And you
also because it's all kind of stuck back in that pocket,
it's it's it's got air transferring, but it's not really
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breathing through that insulation. So you're stopping that heavy especially
in the summertime, you're stopping that heavy, high humidity air
back in that pocket with with that vapor bearer on it,
there's nowhere for it to go, and that insulation gets
really moldy. And just be prepared that when you tackle
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that problem, you see all the cobwebs, you knock the
cobwebs down. Yeah, let's see. If Gary's right, I'm gonna
pull this insulation out, and you pull it out, be
prepared to do something about it. Because if that insulation
is all, you know, heavily encrusted in mold, you're gonna
have to pitch that plastic, big plastic trash bag and
then you're gonna have to clean that mold up, and
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then you're gonna have to put something in there. And
then the question is what are you gonna put in there,
you'd be quite honestly, you'd be better off putting in
a non paper faced vapor barrier and let that humidity
come in and control that with a do umidifire. But
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the best thing to put in there would be something
that's just not rolled up and stuffed in there. It
would be something that would be put into that joy's
pocket that would expand and seal it yet allow the
water in the air to read through that insulation. Okay,
it's called open cell foam. So if you knock the
(18:05):
cobwebs down, you take out the insulation. Yeah, there was
mold back there. We get that cleaned up. We don't
want to make the same problem again by rolling up
the insulation stuff and in there get like a USA
insulation They do foam joist pockets, and there will be
(18:29):
a savings on energy, but it will be you know,
keeping with that whole April's Happy Home Awareness month. It
will make it a healthier home. So I wanted to
kind of toss that in for you, all right, As
I said, at the bottom of the hour, we would
have Dana Harron, he is the owner of Rolling SuDS
(18:53):
since a Northeast, and we'll talk to him about what
that company does and what they can do for you.
As we continue, You're at Home with Gary Salvan right
here fifty five care see the talk station and back
ahead it we go twelve thirty two on your Saturday
it is and I ask you all the time during
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the course of the week to kind of take a
walk around the house, see what you can find that
doesn't look quite right, and then execute a plan to
make it right. Peeling pain, yeah, probably some moisture damage.
When you're taking that walk around the house, do you
ever just look around and go like that black streaking
on the house just doesn't look good. I wonder if
(19:36):
that's doing any damage. Or that patio that I'm gonna
put together this afternoon, in fact, gosh, that concrete patio
is just so dirty. It's got moss on it, the
gutters they've got streaks on it. In other words, does
your house need cleaning? Well, there's a company called Rolling SuDS.
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Rolling SuDS since Nay Northeast, and Dan O'Hara is the owner.
We have him as a guest. I think it's his
first time on the At Home with Gary Sullivan show.
So welcome Dan. How are you?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I'm great, Gary. Yes, there it is, and it's great
to be with you today.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Very good. So let's talk about number one. Let's talk
about what Rolling SuDS is. There's a lot of people
out there that I guess have a pressure washer in
their house. They're going to clean their house or they're
going to get somebody down the street who's got a
pressure washer. And I always have a little elementary class
(20:35):
on how you can screw up your house with a
pressure washer. I did it a couple of weeks ago.
This guys especially get a little aggressive, But tell me
a little bit about Rolling SuDS and what you do.
And it's not all about the pressure washer. I understand.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yep, no, no, So Rolling SuDS the largest power washing
franchise in the nation. We specialize in only pressure wash sheet.
We offer free estimate and show up at the site
in a fourteen foot wrap box truck with nine hundred
gallons of water and a thousand feet of hose. Also
there we have three power washing machines, two cold water
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and one hot water, so we have equipment for any
size job that there is out there. We're reliable, effishent
and fully insured and we do the job to the
customers one hundred percent satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Gary. So why the hot water. Is there special instances
that you would use hot water pressure washer?
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Yeah, if they were gum or For example, yesterday we
were cleaning a dumpster pad and de grease there to
remove that, we use the hot water to get it
cleaned up real nicely.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, for sure. You know, as I drive through a
lot of older neighborhoods and maybe you know homes that
were built in the thirties, forties, fifties, and they got
you know, it's a nice house, and they got the
nice red brick, and then they got a big old
white stain underneath that. I guess that's from oxidation of
the of the aluminum sighting. Would a pressure washer clean
(22:08):
that up?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
A pressure washer could, depending upon what it is. It
could be either oxidation or efflorescence of the brick. True,
and we can certainly have certain chemicals to make sure
that that gets cleaned up as well.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Nice nice, I guess one of the biggest things. But
you're the expert here, you tell me over one of
the I guess most unsightly things that I see on homes.
It's kind of what I was talking about, that black
streaking on roofs. And that's a fungus, I believe, or
an algae that's airborne and just goes right down the
(22:43):
street in different neighborhoods and very very unsightly, especially if
you're trying to sell your home. But it can do
damage on roofs too. And I know if the do
it yourself is going to try and do that himself
and reaches for a pressure washer, he's going to have
a big, big problem. Do you clean.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Roofs, Yeah, we soft wash roofs. And what you're talking
about is liking and that is an algae or a
mold that affects the roofs. And the interesting thing about
roofs these days is your insurance companies are using a
little technology out there to check people's roots. When it
comes time to renewals, they use Google work their drones
(23:22):
to check them out. If there's any growth or liking
on there, they won't renew you until you get the
new roof or get the roof treated. And Gary, let
me tell you, a treatment from rolling SuDS for your
roof is much less expensive than a whole new roof
out there.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, no, I've heard about that. It's become pretty popular
quite honestly, of insurance companies doing that, probably in like
the last eighteen months, and you're seeing that too. That's
becoming probably more and more popular and will continue.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
To grow absolutely, And like I said, we do a
very effective job cleaning that up.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Is that one of your I guess most common jobs
that people get rolling SuDS to do it?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's definitely up there, and like you said, over the
last year or so has is a lot more prevalent.
But yeah, it goes with the when we go out
and look at the site, we try and look at
the entire house because like you said, somebody may recognize
some dirt on the on the shingles or on the sighting,
and we try and take a look and try and
(24:28):
warn the customer. Hey, just so you know, here's something
to watch out for while we're here. We can give
you an estimate for that, sure, but if you're just
interested in getting the sighting or the gutters clean, we
can get that taken care of for you as well.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So I guess that's also probably one of your bigger ones.
I know, I see some Vinyl sighting and I can
tell I mean, it looks like it's one hundred years old.
There's so much you know, me'll do on it. I
mean in the house, isn't that old?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And where we see this a lot of time, on
the north side of the house if they it specifically
doesn't get a lot of sun, but we you know,
you clean the siding there. And again as part of
our service there is cleaning the siding in the gutters
because as you know, those can get real dirty as well.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah. Somebody asked me one time, says, like, Gary, it's vinyl,
how in the world does that get mil dewy? And
I said, you know, I remember when vinyl sighting was
flat and smooth, and then we started putting a texture
on it, so it looked like somebody painted it. It's
got like a little brush marks. And all of a sudden,
mildew became an issue because you know, all the organic
(25:39):
dust and you know, everything that's out in the atmosphere,
it collects in those little grooves and that little texture,
and then you get morning dews and well it grows
right on the surface. Is that kind of what you're
seeing happening? Also?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, that textured siding certainly catches the mold and the
algae and like you said, anything that may be airborne,
and specifically if it's not in a area that gets
any type of sunlight, you'll see that grow quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
M So, what are some of the other things you
clean around the house, Dan that that you get calls on?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I mean again, house, the gutters, sightings, roofs. As we've
already mentioned, some of the more easy things are driveways,
sidewalks and walkways or deck patios. One of the latest
things we've been kind of cleaning we've even't cleaned some
putting greens out there is people have those greens in
their backyard. They catch a lot of dirt and we've
cleaned those things up too.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah. Wow, that's interesting. You have to use any vacuums
on those?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Nope, nope, we just uh pressure wash it with a
specific tip that we have and it cleans it right up.
There's a lot of dirt that catches up in those
in those putting greens, which is interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
The things we never think about, sure exactly. Yeah. Do
you guys do commercial work also, we've talked a lot
about our homes. Do you do commercial work?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah, well, commercially, we love to partner with whether it
be hoas or property management companies, so in order to
clean you know, apartments or bigger town homes, things like that.
But we also clean hotels, certainly this time of year
getting ready for Easter. A lot of churches out there
being clean, but hospitals, schools, stadiums, parking garages, anything like that.
(27:32):
So we can handle, like I said, when we roll
up with that truck, we can handle the smallest job
from a driveway sidewalk to a larger job as needed.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
If somebody listening right now lives in a brick home
and you went there to clean a brick home, would
they be amazed at how dirty it was, Yes.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
They would, especially again if there's any growth on it
at all, which there can be growth on it. People
don't think you can clean brick or concrete, specifically in
an office building, but if you look at it, there
is dirt on there, and we can use our proprietary
chemicals and get those cleaned up really well. It will
(28:18):
refresh the brick or concrete building like you would not believe.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, and here's the good news. Folks, you know rolling
SuDS of since they know what they're doing. I've seen
people do damage to chimneys when they're quote trying to
clean it with a pressure washer, they'll blast that mortar
right out. And again you're using different cleaners in doing
(28:43):
soft scrub. That's the magic sauce, I would think.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yeah, absolutely, you have to know when you can power
a pressure wash and when and how to soft wash
so that you don't harm the surface at all. You want,
obviously want to clean, but you don't want to harm
at all.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Sure, absolutely so. Do you at Rolling SuDS specialize in
any type of specific cleaning.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Which we clean anything that's dirty? I mean, yeah, I
mean but you know, obviously we talked about dirt or
mold or moths, oil stains, we can do that. We've
had people call where, you know, maybe they got their
oil changed and the the the bolt didn't get put
(29:32):
back on and they've got a spot in their driveway.
We help them clean that up. A lot of calls
this after this winter with salt residue and getting that
cleaned up. And as we said, gum and graffiti, we
you know, use the hot water machines for those particular.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
For uses.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
And you know, tire marks are liking often roofs any
of that stuff. So if it's dirty, we'll clean it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, that's good to those because I don't have an
answer for getting tire marks off a concrete dry but
you got the answer for that.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Well, again, we partner with a chemical company, and we've
got part of Rolling Thuds being a franchise is we've
got thirty years of experience backing us up. We can
go into the annals and work with other franchisees, see
what they've used in certain circumstances, and make sure we
(30:23):
get the job done properly to one hundred percent satisfaction
of our customers.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, here's a good question, and I already know the answer.
Obviously we haven't talked about this, but I already know
what the answer is going to be. But I might
ask it anyway. When somebody says to you and Rolling
SuDS pulls up and you're going to get those black
streaks off my roof, and you guys do it, and
how many people then say, hey can you look at
(30:50):
this patio? Or hey can you look at this driveway?
In other words, is it like spreading mulch? You get
five bags, but you really need fifteen.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
It's quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Like I said, we get called in and that people
have a specific reason they're calling us, right, whether it's
the room for their gutters or what have you. And
then once they see the type of work that we do,
invariably they may tell us that day, hey could you
look at this, or they call back a week or
three later and they say, hey, this looks so good.
(31:21):
Would you mind taking a look at my pool patio
or would you mind taking a look at my deck
or chimney? As you say, you know, so, yeah, it
does kind of domino effects, shall we say?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, do you guys get into any using drones or
anything when cleaning commercial buildings or a real steep route.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
We do have the capability to use drones, mainly from
larger and more complex jobs. Think about the water tower
or a building that couldn't be accessed by any aerial
or scissor lift.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You know what, I've never thought about cleaning a water
tower so.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Well, again, when you talk about the cities, some of
the water towers are very dirty and rather than just
getting it painted, yeah maybe you painted every ten or
twenty years, but you could do a power wash on
it and get it cleaned up very economically, you know,
save a lot of money and keep that paint job
for a while.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And I'll tell you the paints nowadays, they're just they're
all stars. They really do last that long. So I
hear you loud and clear. So I'm sure a lot
of people right now are going to like, I'm sure
you guys are busy. It's spring cleaning. That's all we've
talked about today. How do folks reach out to Rolling SuDS?
(32:40):
How do they book an appointment? And what do you
think the lead time is? I know you can't give
me a specifics, but you know, let's start playing ahead.
Let's get this done. How do we do that?
Speaker 5 (32:51):
No, absolutely no. You can find us at Rolling sudspowerwashing
dot com and again that we're a franchise. So you
just fill out the little form on there and put
in your zip code and it'll go to the appropriate person.
Or you could call call our office directly five to one,
three four four zero seven, six zero nine and we
(33:14):
get out to see the customer within a day or
three to get them their free estimate, depending on the
on their schedule. Obviously, if that we want them to
be there and show them exactly, have them show up
exactly what they're looking to get done, and then our
lead time right now is about a week to ten
(33:35):
days out actually getting the work done. Unless you know
their special circumstances. Sometimes people say, hey, can you book
me the third week of May. We've got a graduation
party coming up in June. We want to make sure
we're taking care of things like that.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I was just going to tell you, Dan, you're going
to have a lot of special circumstances the next month
for all the people that didn't pay attention to us,
they're going to say, oh my gosh, my kids graduate.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
We're having a ft people over. I got to get
this roof clean. I gotta get the driveway clean. So again,
they can go to rollingsudspowerwashing dot com just put in
your zip code, or you can give them a call
five one three four four zero seventy six nine, and
uh you'll chat with him, give him an estimate, and
(34:20):
get that whole house cleaned.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I agree. Once you start cleaning it, you realize how
dirty it was and how good it looks, and uh'll
you'll keep marching on. So hey, thanks for joining us
at DAN. I appreciate your time, and good luck to
spring and summer.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Gary.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I really appreciate your time. I do want to just
mention my team real quick, Kevin, Matt Sidney, Wayne Jack
and rumored to be your number one thing. Gary is
a guy who helps us around the shop quite a bit,
Bill Widskin. So we can't do the work without those guys,
so we really appreciate their efforts.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
All right, Well you tell Bill I'm a fan too, Okay,
all right, thank you, all right, Dan, thank you very much.
Appreciate all right. Again, that's Dan O'Hara, and he is
the man behind Cincinnati the Northeast quadrant Rolling SuDS Cincinnati Northeast.
He's the owner there and again. To get a hold
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of him, you can call him at five one three
four four zero seventy six o nine, or simply go
to rollingsudspowerwashing dot com, put in your zip code. They'll
put you in touch with somebody and away you go.
Get that house clean. All right. We'll take a break
coming back and I'll give you a couple more things
to check out around your home and a reminder we'll
(35:41):
be back at it tomorrow morning once again. And you're
at home with Gary Salvyn right here on fifty five. Yeah,
it's fifty five krc DE talk station all right to
twelve fifty two and the Donovan will help you with
all your car the Donovan And you know that's something
(36:03):
I just don't work on anymore. It's kind of well,
you know, it's complicated, and that's why you need a
good car servicing companies and certainly the Donovans.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Do you just let the Donovans work on your car?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And if you trust them, they got to be good.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah. So if you're one of the lucky ones that
can still work on your car, you got to pay
attention to the show that's coming up next. They'll be
with you from one to two. In the meantime, we've
been covering different things that you might want to just
check around your home. I had, I got a long list,
as I do every weekend of putting some things down,
and I talked a little bit about the garage and
(36:41):
get that thing organized. But I chatted about this not
long ago, and that was, you know, taking a walk
around the house. It's just amazes me, quite honestly, of
the stuff I find. And it's like, you know, it's
not like I'm doing it every day. It's not like
I'm even doing it every week, but I'll bet I'll
do it at least once every two three weeks where
(37:03):
I kind of walk around and pay more attention than
I normally would. And it wasn't long. It was right
before all the heavy rains we had, maybe through four
weeks ago. I saw the discharge pipe coming out of
the house right at the base of the foundation from
the sump pump, from the some pump. And you know,
(37:24):
my some pump doesn't run all the time, but you know,
during a heavy rain, and you can hear it working.
And as I'm walking around the house, I saw this.
It was corner right by a little bay window and
another short wall in that area, and the ground was wet.
And I know, is before all the heavy rain started,
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and then it had been maybe just dry for a
couple of days. It shouldn't have been wet, is what
I'm trying to say. And this little patch was wet.
So my eye went to that little patch and said,
why is that wet? Is that gutter leaking? Is that
gutter clogged? Is that gutter overflowing? It's got to be something.
And I go in there and I start really taking
(38:08):
a look and at the ground and looking around, and
all of a sudden, I see the discharge pipe coming
out of the wall and it's going into a fitting
which is then reduced down to fit that pipe that's
coming out of the wall, and the four inch side
(38:31):
of the bottom of that fitting is for the pipe
that goes underground takes the water away from the house.
The only problem is that fitting at the top is
cracked and that pipe didn't go into the pipe that
went underground. Now nobody hit it, nobody kicked it. It
(38:55):
obviously has moved because of last year's drought. I always
thought talk about when that clay soil dries out, there
gets to be a lot of shift and the soils.
And that pipe had literally moved. The one in the
ground had literally moved because of the ground drying out,
and it had put enough pressure on the little thin
(39:18):
fitting that connected to the discharge pipe of the some
pump that it cracked and it didn't it didn't align anymore.
It literally just didn't align anymore. And it wasn't off much,
but so it was probably discharging thirty percent of the
water out of that sump well was not being taken
(39:42):
away from the ground. It was spilling right on the ground,
which again just makes that some pump work harder and
runs the risk of a potential leak in the basement.
So we had to get it fixed. I mean we
and it was easy to fix it. You could. The
more I looked at it, It's like, really, I think,
what I'm going to do is I'm just going to
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remove or not remove. But that little adapter where it
went down to I don't know what it is, maybe
an inch piece of pipe. I'll just it was very brittle.
I just cracked off that collar, is what I did.
And then I went up on the discharge pipe, which
I cut right past the elbow, so it came out
(40:27):
of the wall, came straight, and then there was an elbow,
and so I cut that and got a little coupling,
got a little longer piece of PVC pipe, and a
little bit of glue, primer and glue. Put that thing together.
Problem solved. And actually when I and now that water
(40:49):
that's being collected from all the drains that are going
to the sump well, it's now being pumped into the
pipe and taken away gosh, I don't know, forty feet
in away from the foundation and down the slope. So
I've taken all that water that was spilling around the
(41:10):
foundation and removed it. And it was such a simple fix.
And these things happen all the time in a lot
of cases. I'll bet you if you just walk around
your house, I'm not saying you're gonna find one that's broken,
but you may find a discharge pipe coming out of
that wall and it's discharging the water not far at
(41:33):
all from the foundation. It's discharging it literally a foot
away from the foundation, and it's not moving that water.
And you just you just got you've got a recirculating
swimming pool around your foundation. It's it's silly, and so
you know you've got to figure out a way to
you know, tap into a line or put a drain
(41:53):
line in get that water away from your house. And
so I wanted to share that. That's why I'm always
speaking on behalf of taking that walk around the house
and seeing what just doesn't look great. This didn't look great.
There's not supposed to be wet ground when it's dry
right on my foundation. So Danny boy, a busy day
it was. Thank you very much for taking care of
(42:15):
things on your end. And good Lord Willing we'll both
be back tomorrow for more at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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