April 20, 2025 • 45 mins
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you about maybe not what you're going to work on today,
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but maybe what your some of your future projects are.
And here's a project for you, maybe you haven't messed
with it. I have my home maintenance checklist sitting right
in front of me, and every now and then I'll
pull that out and just double check and kind of
jogs my memory of things you should pay attention to.
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One of them is certainly the clothes dryer and when
was the last time you paid attention to the vent
pipe whether it's cleared. And as I'm talking about this,
I'm thinking the other day when I was pulling in
to my garage, I noticed the vent pipe coming out
the else and there's a little cage around it, and
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I did see some lint that had accumulated. Not that
that is horrible, horrible at this point, but it might
be I got to pop that off, clean that little
cage out, but then also maybe even hit you know,
get a flashlight and take a look or disconnect that
hose and see if that has accumulated a lot of lint.
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Trust me, I had a neighbor that hits probably many
years ago, actually had a fire. His electric dryer caught
fire because of it was overheating because that vent pipe
was clocked full of lint. So how often you need
to do it, I don't know. I guess it depends
on how much wash and clothes drying you use. But
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the recommendation is usually a couple times a year or two,
take it off and kind of examine it. There's some
really neat tool attached just to a drill that's a
brush that can fit right up through that four inch
pipe and give it a good cleaning again twice a year.
All right, you got the phone number, grab a line.
We're gonna get back to the phones. And we got
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Bill Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Welcome, Hey Bill, Hello, Yeah, go ahead, Hey, it's Dale,
but Dale.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Sorry we're close.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Hey ah yeah, close is good enough. I got an issue. Uh,
I've got about a sixties like a ranch style house.
It's got I don't know if you call it a
pocket grain on the back side of the house. Uh,
gutter spouts and uh, the the footer drained all empty
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into this, all empty into this, and it goes about
one hundred yards down towards the road. Okay, last here
it got. It got plugged up with some tree roots
clear down at the terminus of the of the drain,
and everything backed up, and the water came up through
my grains in the basement, which which was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Do they make a I don't know, I guess the
technical turn that they make a scupper or something you
can put in the basement drains to to let water
go down and not come back up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They do, if they do, they do. So what kind
of pipe do you have that's going out one hundred yards.
That's long.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It's a it's a tile pipe. It's okay, yeah, ran
the camera through it. Everything was fine until until we
got to the tree roots.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And so did you dig it up and replace that
part or what? What did you do?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No? Uh? I ran a ran a cutter through there
and pulled out all the roots. And the guy said,
I got two years and it's going to happen again,
and I can't really get rid of the tree or
the wife will get rid of me.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
There you go, just the heads up on it. There
are you know when so is it a clay pipe?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, those separate and those roots love the water. M
I don't know if anybody talk to you about that,
but you can line.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Those now one hundred yards that's a that's a that's
a tall order. But it's better.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I just have to line about the twenty five feet
on the terminus because that's where the problem was.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But well, I don't know if they can do just
part of it. I mean, it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I've been I've been in job sites where they literally
line pipes that were six hundred feet long. So and
it's certainly, you know, a lot cheaper and less destructive.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To the lawn.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I'm just giving you that as a heads up.
I didn't know if you know about it or not.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So, uh no, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, so they've been probably in your area. They've been
doing it for about twenty years. They've been doing it
in Europe for years. I mean, you get in these
older cities with big even sewer lines. They can do
them up to like sixty inches.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's just like a fire hose or a sock, and
it's got an epoxy. It's activated with heat, so they
blow real hot air into it, pushes the liner up,
activates the epoxy, and seals this pipe, you know, all
the way around in the circumference. It's very cool. So
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if you get to that point, keep that in mind.
Might save you a little money. As far as a stopper, yes,
I don't know if there's a special name for him,
I'm sure there is. But if you can picture a donut, okay,
and in that donate is where the hole is. There's
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a little crossbar and a little pin that is attached
almost like a little rubber stopper that you would find
in a toilet, and the water comes up and it
pushes that little float which then works like a plug.
And that's what it is. That's what it is. And
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there's also one that is a little more heavy duty.
It has a tea handle, which is metal. It has
a metal plate at the top, a metal plate at
the bottom, and some pretty solid rubber in between that.
And as you crank down that tea handle, it expands
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that rubber tile to create tire, to create that seal
along the pipe. And it's a stopper which can be
you know, removed relatively easily.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, I'm I'm worried about plugging the drains in case
I have a water issue from inside the house. You
know what plumbing is all in the basement, and I
got hot water heat right right. I don't want to
I want to keep from coming in and then need
the water to go back out.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, And then there's there's also the issue also of
the amount of pressure. You know, is there going to
be too much pressure it's going to crack the pipe?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You know that wouldn't think so, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But the problem it could exist, right, But anyway, it
sounds like it would be more advantageous for you to
get the one that's like the donut, the t bar.
It's got a couple of screws where it still compresses
a little that it compresses the outer part of the
donut again, but there's that float in the center. As
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the water comes up, it just pushes that in and
becomes part of the plug.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Okay, Well, I was curious if that stuff existed, and
if I flood the basement again, then I'm probably in
big trouble. So well, something to look at.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
There, you go.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, check those out and decide if that's the answer
for you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Hey, appreciate your time. You've got a great show.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Thanks Dale. Take care.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
All right, let's take a little break. We come back.
We got Reese and Linda. If you'd like to join us,
do so.
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All right, let's go back to the phones, and we
have Linda. Linda welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Hey, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
All right, are we?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I have a question and it came up where I
was just thinking about it after listening to that woman
about the ticks. And I live in a condo association,
and we have always kept our grass cut really short,
you know, and manicured every week. So and last summer
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and I've never seen the tick here up till last summer.
And I must have carried one in the house because
it ended up on my dining room table. However, we
do have an awful lot of deer that take up
residence in our common areas. Now, one of our common
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areas we are considering to do zero zero landscaping because
it's not a very attractive area, and so that comes
with tall grasses and native grasses and rocks and dark
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and that kind of stuff. Are we setting ourselves up
for more ticks in our association with native grasses and
latting the grass grow.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, when I was talking with Heather, one of the
first things we were speaking of is I use the
term suburbia and well manicured landscaping. Is that a de
tarret And her answer quickly was yes, you know they
you know, ticks love areas that are I'm going to
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use the word uncapped, but I think you know what
I'm talking about, you know, the tall grasses and things
that aren't just quite as manicured.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And especially if it's near a wooded area. I think
you're taking a woodsy environment and extending that into.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
A living area. So not to say you would, but
the chances are that they would be enhanced because.
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Of that, Okay, and of course with the d around.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, and they're going to transport that for sure.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well, I was just it just occurred
to me that because water is kind of getting short,
and we were trying to say.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, yeah, things are always changing, and but yeah, as
long as we can keep it as manicured, and even
folks that have really nice, well manicured mons, if you'll
butt into a woods and you're doing some work out, there.
You need to just be aware. Be aware is probably
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about and with the deer could certainly pose the problem
for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Steve welcome.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Yes, okay. The cold water line coming under my house
to my hot water heater started vibrating about a month ago.
Then I've gone under the house and braced the water
line up because it was only hanging by wires. So
it's all braced up under the house now. But when
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it comes up to the floor to my hot water
heater at vibration, when I shut the water off to
the hot water heater, as stops and I don't know
why after forty years to start doing well.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Do you have an expansion tank on top of the
water here?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay? Have you checked to see what your water pressure is?
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Yeah, I'm on a well and my water pressure is
It turns on at thirty pounds and shuts off at
fifty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Okay, so it's not that.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It Well, there's a couple of things, I guess, a
couple of things I would try expansion tanks can sometimes
resolve that problem. But if your water pressure is where
it is, I don't think it's really going to help
you that much. To be honest with you, what I
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would do is I would shut off the water. I
would open up the drains and then I would close
them and you know, recharge the line and see if
that makes any difference. In a lot of cases it will,
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So that is one thing I would do. The other
thing you can do there is what they call a
shock absorber for a pipe. So if you can get
to that line, it sounds like you can. You can
get this device called a shock absorber for a pipe,
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or you can make your own. So you could cut
the line, put in a tee and you could solder it,
or you could use one of the shark connectors if
you wanted to, and you would run about a six
to eight inch piece of pipe off that tee with
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a cap on it. And it's kind of just like
and kind of a just takes that surge of water
where it won't. It'll take that pressure out at that point,
and that very well could be helpful. And another thing,
but I don't think it's this is you're sure it
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was the cold water line that was vibrating. It wasn't
the the sound of the water heater, because as they
get older, they have a tendency to rumble, which will
sometimes sound like a vibrating pipe. So I'd ask you
to check those things that I talked about. Shut it off,
drain it, maybe think about putting a shock absorber on
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there and see if that doesn't rectify the problem. We'll
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I do want to take this time to wish everyone
a very happy Easter and hopefully it's a fun, relaxing,
good day for you.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So thanks for joining me.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
It's been fun around here so far.
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Yeah, yeah, it hasn't been bad at all. It's been
very nice.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
All right, let's get back to the phone calls.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
If you'd like to join us, do so. We have
rece rees.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Welcome, Good morning Gary, just doing just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Thank you, Well, happy Easter.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I have eastern to you.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And I got a question for you. All right, So
I'd like to epoxy.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
My entire driveway and I know how to do it.
I've done it. I was a foreign guy for years.
However I've got oil stains in my concrete driveway.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Okay, so.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Now my brain.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Says, just use maradic acid and eat that whole stuff
out of there, and just do a scratch code on
it and then do the epoxy. You got any other solutions.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, because the meriticus is going to have difficulty even
with oil, it'll definitely eat the concrete. How how old
do you think that oil is in that concrete? Because
you know, concrete for people that don't know, it's hard,
but it's also parse. It's got capillaries in there. And
when you put oil on concrete, it just keeps going
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deeper and deeper and deeper into that concrete.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That's why them ready, I probably.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Five or six years old because I changed my own oil.
But I got big diesel trucks and you know, to
hold twelve to sixteen quartz oil. And I don't know
what are your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Well, I think I would not use meritic acid. I
think there are some products that are out there that
are really designed to remove oils, And I'll tell you
what they go from, you know, like don soap into
some literally microbes that actually eat oil that they use
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in oil fields. In fact, even during the BP oil spill.
They used microbes that eat oil to help get that
under control. A lot of people don't realize that, So
I could give you some I can give you some
names of some strong oil degreasers that I would use
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way before I do. The radic acid like Purple Power
and Crudcutter. Those you can get at big box stores
and hardware stores. But going back to that microbe, which
sounds like, you know, it sounds like it's been there
a while and it's probably pretty deep. There's a volume
that we're dealing with. There's gosh, there's a couple of
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them out there. The one I'm most familiar with is
one called the letter A. C is in cat tea
is in tom Act Cleaner, and they have a website
it's act Cleaners dot com. And this is a.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
This is a powder and you literally sprinkle it onto
the oil stain. That's all you do.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You just sprinkle it on and it might take a
day or it might take ten days.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
But that powder A huge hurry is is I wanted
to epoxy the whole driveway, and I've done a POxy
on floors and when it comes in contact with oil,
all it does is feeling crack.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And will That's why it is absolutely necessary that we
get that out of there. So this powder has a
microbe that is alive, but it just looks like talcum powder,
all right, And it eats the oil and when it's finished,
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I know this sounds weird.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
When it's finished, the oil's gone and so is the powder.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So we're not rinsing it into our watersheds or anything
like that. It just literally eats the oil. And for
people listening, it also works on pressure treated wood. If you,
you know, cooked a steak and you didn't have the
container underneath the grill and you stain that, that act
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cleaner will also eat that right.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Out of the pressure treated wood.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But to me, with what you have, that seems ideal.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, now I want to talk to.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You about that epoxy. The the epoxy. There's different kinds
of epoxies. Please make sure that that epoxy is designed
for what they call hot tire pickup. There are epoxies
that if you pulled that truck in and you've been
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driving on the expressway and those tires are hot, and
you park it on an epoxy coating, it'll pull the
epoxy off.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So make sure that it is designed for, you know,
parking on it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Cars can park on it if you could get it
in industrial strength epoxy.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
And that's what I was gonna do.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
I was.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
I probably I got a big driveway. I was probably
gonna get a fifty five gallon drum of it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay, but just do make sure that that is compatible
with you know, tires that could be hot, so it
doesn't pull it up.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Everything's hot in Florida, my man.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, I hear you, and even more hot on red,
nice black hot tires. So be careful.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But actcleaners dot Com give that a try.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
All right. Well, thank you, Gary, I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
I've been listening to you for a couple of years
and you always got some good tips and I've used
a few of them.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Very good. Thank you, my friend. Take care all right,
and let's go to Michael. Michael.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Welcome, Hi Gary, How are you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I am doing fine? Thank you.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I've listened to your show for years and years and
years on road trip after road trip and picked up
great tips and never thought I would actually call until now.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
All right, what do you got going on?
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Well, it's an interesting situation. So I live in a
community in which we have private sewer lines to a manhole,
and I had a manhole that's about three hundred and
forty three hundred and fifty feet from my home and
back in February, my grinder pump malfunctioned. It fixed it
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a couple of days later, it goes crazy again. Get
the plumbers here, thinking that the plug is somewhere on
my property, and instead they find it more than three
hundred feet from my property, about three or four neighbors
down the road. The problem we've run into is the
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pipe is smashed. They used one of those camera argers
or whatever you call it. It went three hundred feet in.
The pipe basically is smashed, so there's I don't know
that there's a way to fix it. And when we've
had the utility line people come in, they've striped up
the lines and it's literally on top of the pipe,
and it's also running just about two feet away from
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the road, so that I don't know that they can
hand dig it obviously, you know. They basically it's right
underneath power lines and you can't put an excavator in there.
I've seen stories, i mean, I'm sorry, videos of people
who've been able to connect lines by putting like another
pipe inside has never run into somebody who's had a
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line damage. That's three hundred some of I mean, like
eight miles away from my home.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah somebody, yeah, yeah, In fact, we were talking to
someone about that today in fact.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Okay, and.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So there's limitations. Okay. So there's a lot of different
pipes all over the United States. You know, some clay,
some you know cast iron.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
You know, there's some that are separated, there's some that
are cracked. There's some with a one in two inch gap,
and there's some that are cracked. There's some that are crushed.
And you can do what they call kind of very
similar to what you're talking about with a pipe inside
a pipe, and in this case it's a liner. It's
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a liner that is inserted inside that pipe and when
they're that's where the limitations are going to be. You
can in fact accomplish that task, but it depends on
how bad and how big that crush part is, which
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they would be able to determine whether that's going to
work or not work. The length of the pipe. I've
been to a job site and watched them do this.
One time, it was six hundred feet away and it
was downhill. And what they do is they do the
first part kind of what you do. They run a
camera in there, they analyze exactly what's going on and
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if they you know, this particular one had it was
an old clay thing and it had literally cracked and
wasn't even aligned. There was gaps, it was offset, and
they could do it and they have I described as this,
it's like a big reel that looks like a fire
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hose and they feed that down through that line. Okay,
after they flush it out the best they can. And
there's a solution on this sock or fire hose.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Which is.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's like a thermal epoxy and when they get it
all the way down and positioned where they want it,
they inflate it and heat it. And it's been And
I knew a company in my city where they had
done like twenty five thousand of these things, and in
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small ones and big ones that are you know, twenty
four and thirty inches, you know, in diameter, like in
a real urban area that's underneath a street and there's
all these utility lines and you know, I mean a mess,
like you've got a line these things you're not going
to dig them up and using them in Europe also,
(34:07):
so it's it's well known. It's just simply called If
you google pipelining, I think you'll find all kinds of information.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But the real.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Bottom line is is you're going to have to, you know,
get a company that does that and see if that's
going to be possible to.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Do that, right. I think that's why we're running into trouble.
There's two local plumbing companies. This has been going on
since Super Bowl Sunday. By the way, We're here in
April and still don't have sewage support to this home,
and they're basically both scratching their heads. In fact, the
city has not been responsive with this at all. I've
had to get in touch with the state attorney general
(34:46):
to get them to at least respond to this. What's
also they're what also they're telling me too, is that
if they can't fix this, then it might be time
to consider a spectic thing. And I don't know, I've
heard good things about them now when I was growing up,
I'm not sure that I heard things about them.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well, you know, ideally they'll be able to fix it,
but I you know, let's see, where are you located?
Speaker 6 (35:13):
I'm located in eastern to Tuck you about two hours
south of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'll tell you what, why don't you contact Yeah, why
don't you contact this company in Cincinnati? They were literally
they've been doing this for twenty five years. Sure, I
really consider them one of the experts. And you know
they're not a plumber. That's all they do is line pipes.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's that's it. Okay, and it's called C letter letter.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
I talked over topic.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
So it's Sam Michael Electric.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
And you gotcha.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Ce me, Charlie, Charlie Michael all right, and Charlie Michael a.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
D that we can figure out.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Okay, Yeah, cme sewer lighting, sewer lining, google that and
give them a call. I get it. It's a it's
a it's a touchy problem. But somebody that's doing it
all the time, been doing it for twenty five years,
might might have a little more insight. If not, yeah,
(36:26):
I guess the septic tank might be the only other option.
But give them a call, check it out. Good luck, Michael.
I appreciate the call. I hope you have a great day.
All Right, we will continue. We've got Mary coming up.
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All right, nine minutes before the top of the hour. Again,
if you missed our conversation with Heather from Summit and
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one that hikes a lot, camps, or you live in
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Some these ticks, you know, they carry diseases. We've all
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We have Mary and Mary Welcome.
Speaker 10 (40:20):
Good morning, Barney. We're listening to your program last night,
and I don't think we can call on because it's
a rebroadcast. And I heard a gentleman had trouble with
his AC that the prayers are making unsting.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
I remember that call.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Well, okay, I.
Speaker 10 (40:36):
Was thinking could he use hardware cloths or screening to
block the entry where they're trying to get in to
make a nest.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Mary, You're exactly right, he could. The problem was at
the beginning of that call because I had suggested burd netting,
you know, kind of along the same premises. It has
a little larger holes. But the problem was is the
ability to install that. He was out of I think Massachusetts,
and he was on a four story condo building or
(41:11):
apartment building that he could reach out the window, but
he couldn't get around the unit to cover it. And
you know, you think about a ladder, but a ladder
posed a problem also because the driveway was on a
hill and it was at least forty feet in the air,
(41:32):
and he probably needed a bucket truck. But yeah, covering
that up wasn't going to be an option. That's why
he kept talking about using a different spray and different
things along those lines. So, yeah, in a normal situation,
hardware cloth would be a great idea. In fact, during
that conversation, what did he use He used some laughing,
(41:55):
some metal laughing. Now, you don't want to really restrict
the air flow to an air conditioner or a compressor
or anything like that to a degree where you could
actually hurt it. But hardware, cloth, burdenetting, those would have worked,
but he just wasn't in a position to install it.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Buck truck probably would be the only option if that's available.
So thank you much for the call. I certainly appreciate it.
We did all kind of chime in on that. And
as to answer your question when she talks about rebroadcasting,
if you're listening now, you know, but if you're listening
to a online or the podcast, remember we do this
(42:40):
show from nine am till noon Eastern time Saturday and Sunday,
and that's really where Danny's here and he can take
your call and I'm here and we can chat about
the particular project that you're looking at. That's when you
and I I can communicate during the hours of nine
(43:02):
to noon Eastern times Saturday and Sunday. After that is
after those times. If your an affiliate is running at
four o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday or Saturday, yeah,
that's rebroadcast and that's fine. You can listen, you just
can't call, So just make a note of that if
you don't have to be listening to call. So that's
(43:23):
when I'm in the chair to take the calls nine
to noon Eastern times, Saturday and Sunday. Well, whenever I
have a short period of time, I can always throw
a tip at you. And if it's been a while, hey,
think about it. Change the filter in your air handler,
the air conditioner, heater, or whatever you want to call it.
If it's been over thirty days, get it done today. Well,
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you're just going to make that air conditioner work harder.
If it's got a dirty filter in there, it takes
longer to satisfy that thermostatic kind of keeps the back
bedrooms a little warmer. So if it's a Plea filter
every ninety days, it is a flat filter every thirty days.
And I'm kind of changing my tune during the time
(44:07):
of a lot of pollen or a lot of traffic
in your house. Those Plea did filters had change them
every seventy five days. All right, Well, Danny boy, thank
you very much for working today.
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One of them is certainly the clothes dryer and when
was the last time you paid attention to the vent
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the else and there's a little cage around it, and
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Trust me, I had a neighbor that hits probably many
years ago, actually had a fire. His electric dryer caught
fire because of it was overheating because that vent pipe
was clocked full of lint. So how often you need
to do it, I don't know. I guess it depends
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the recommendation is usually a couple times a year or two,
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All right, you got the phone number, grab a line.
We're gonna get back to the phones. And we got
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Bill Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Welcome, Hey Bill, Hello, Yeah, go ahead, Hey, it's Dale,
but Dale.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Sorry we're close.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Hey ah yeah, close is good enough. I got an issue. Uh,
I've got about a sixties like a ranch style house.
It's got I don't know if you call it a
pocket grain on the back side of the house. Uh,
gutter spouts and uh, the the footer drained all empty
(03:51):
into this, all empty into this, and it goes about
one hundred yards down towards the road. Okay, last here
it got. It got plugged up with some tree roots
clear down at the terminus of the of the drain,
and everything backed up, and the water came up through
my grains in the basement, which which was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Do they make a I don't know, I guess the
technical turn that they make a scupper or something you
can put in the basement drains to to let water
go down and not come back up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They do, if they do, they do. So what kind
of pipe do you have that's going out one hundred yards.
That's long.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It's a it's a tile pipe. It's okay, yeah, ran
the camera through it. Everything was fine until until we
got to the tree roots.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And so did you dig it up and replace that
part or what? What did you do?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No? Uh? I ran a ran a cutter through there
and pulled out all the roots. And the guy said,
I got two years and it's going to happen again,
and I can't really get rid of the tree or
the wife will get rid of me.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
There you go, just the heads up on it. There
are you know when so is it a clay pipe?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, those separate and those roots love the water. M
I don't know if anybody talk to you about that,
but you can line.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Those now one hundred yards that's a that's a that's
a tall order. But it's better.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I just have to line about the twenty five feet
on the terminus because that's where the problem was.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But well, I don't know if they can do just
part of it. I mean, it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I've been I've been in job sites where they literally
line pipes that were six hundred feet long. So and
it's certainly, you know, a lot cheaper and less destructive.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To the lawn.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I'm just giving you that as a heads up.
I didn't know if you know about it or not.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So, uh no, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, so they've been probably in your area. They've been
doing it for about twenty years. They've been doing it
in Europe for years. I mean, you get in these
older cities with big even sewer lines. They can do
them up to like sixty inches.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's just like a fire hose or a sock, and
it's got an epoxy. It's activated with heat, so they
blow real hot air into it, pushes the liner up,
activates the epoxy, and seals this pipe, you know, all
the way around in the circumference. It's very cool. So
(06:41):
if you get to that point, keep that in mind.
Might save you a little money. As far as a stopper, yes,
I don't know if there's a special name for him,
I'm sure there is. But if you can picture a donut, okay,
and in that donate is where the hole is. There's
(07:02):
a little crossbar and a little pin that is attached
almost like a little rubber stopper that you would find
in a toilet, and the water comes up and it
pushes that little float which then works like a plug.
And that's what it is. That's what it is. And
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there's also one that is a little more heavy duty.
It has a tea handle, which is metal. It has
a metal plate at the top, a metal plate at
the bottom, and some pretty solid rubber in between that.
And as you crank down that tea handle, it expands
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that rubber tile to create tire, to create that seal
along the pipe. And it's a stopper which can be
you know, removed relatively easily.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, I'm I'm worried about plugging the drains in case
I have a water issue from inside the house. You
know what plumbing is all in the basement, and I
got hot water heat right right. I don't want to
I want to keep from coming in and then need
the water to go back out.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, And then there's there's also the issue also of
the amount of pressure. You know, is there going to
be too much pressure it's going to crack the pipe?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You know that wouldn't think so, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But the problem it could exist, right, But anyway, it
sounds like it would be more advantageous for you to
get the one that's like the donut, the t bar.
It's got a couple of screws where it still compresses
a little that it compresses the outer part of the
donut again, but there's that float in the center. As
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the water comes up, it just pushes that in and
becomes part of the plug.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Okay, Well, I was curious if that stuff existed, and
if I flood the basement again, then I'm probably in
big trouble. So well, something to look at.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
There, you go.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, check those out and decide if that's the answer
for you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Hey, appreciate your time. You've got a great show.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Thanks Dale. Take care.
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All right, let's take a little break. We come back.
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All right, let's go back to the phones, and we
have Linda. Linda welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Hey, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
All right, are we?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I have a question and it came up where I
was just thinking about it after listening to that woman
about the ticks. And I live in a condo association,
and we have always kept our grass cut really short,
you know, and manicured every week. So and last summer
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and I've never seen the tick here up till last summer.
And I must have carried one in the house because
it ended up on my dining room table. However, we
do have an awful lot of deer that take up
residence in our common areas. Now, one of our common
(14:01):
areas we are considering to do zero zero landscaping because
it's not a very attractive area, and so that comes
with tall grasses and native grasses and rocks and dark
(14:27):
and that kind of stuff. Are we setting ourselves up
for more ticks in our association with native grasses and
latting the grass grow.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, when I was talking with Heather, one of the
first things we were speaking of is I use the
term suburbia and well manicured landscaping. Is that a de
tarret And her answer quickly was yes, you know they
you know, ticks love areas that are I'm going to
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use the word uncapped, but I think you know what
I'm talking about, you know, the tall grasses and things
that aren't just quite as manicured.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And especially if it's near a wooded area. I think
you're taking a woodsy environment and extending that into.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
A living area. So not to say you would, but
the chances are that they would be enhanced because.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Of that, Okay, and of course with the d around.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, and they're going to transport that for sure.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well, I was just it just occurred
to me that because water is kind of getting short,
and we were trying to say.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, yeah, things are always changing, and but yeah, as
long as we can keep it as manicured, and even
folks that have really nice, well manicured mons, if you'll
butt into a woods and you're doing some work out, there.
You need to just be aware. Be aware is probably
the best thing. And she was talking about product called
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great job. So yeah, yeah, certainly what you were talking
about and with the deer could certainly pose the problem
for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Steve welcome.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Yes, okay. The cold water line coming under my house
to my hot water heater started vibrating about a month ago.
Then I've gone under the house and braced the water
line up because it was only hanging by wires. So
it's all braced up under the house now. But when
(16:48):
it comes up to the floor to my hot water
heater at vibration, when I shut the water off to
the hot water heater, as stops and I don't know
why after forty years to start doing well.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Do you have an expansion tank on top of the
water here?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay? Have you checked to see what your water pressure is?
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Yeah, I'm on a well and my water pressure is
It turns on at thirty pounds and shuts off at
fifty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Okay, so it's not that.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It Well, there's a couple of things, I guess, a
couple of things I would try expansion tanks can sometimes
resolve that problem. But if your water pressure is where
it is, I don't think it's really going to help
you that much. To be honest with you, what I
(17:42):
would do is I would shut off the water. I
would open up the drains and then I would close
them and you know, recharge the line and see if
that makes any difference. In a lot of cases it will,
(18:02):
So that is one thing I would do. The other
thing you can do there is what they call a
shock absorber for a pipe. So if you can get
to that line, it sounds like you can. You can
get this device called a shock absorber for a pipe,
(18:23):
or you can make your own. So you could cut
the line, put in a tee and you could solder it,
or you could use one of the shark connectors if
you wanted to, and you would run about a six
to eight inch piece of pipe off that tee with
(18:44):
a cap on it. And it's kind of just like
and kind of a just takes that surge of water
where it won't. It'll take that pressure out at that point,
and that very well could be helpful. And another thing,
but I don't think it's this is you're sure it
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was the cold water line that was vibrating. It wasn't
the the sound of the water heater, because as they
get older, they have a tendency to rumble, which will
sometimes sound like a vibrating pipe. So I'd ask you
to check those things that I talked about. Shut it off,
drain it, maybe think about putting a shock absorber on
(19:29):
there and see if that doesn't rectify the problem. We'll
continue with your calls, reche you'll be up first. You're
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Speaker 1 (22:44):
I do want to take this time to wish everyone
a very happy Easter and hopefully it's a fun, relaxing,
good day for you.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So thanks for joining me.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
It's been fun around here so far.
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Yeah, yeah, it hasn't been bad at all. It's been
very nice.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
All right, let's get back to the phone calls.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
If you'd like to join us, do so. We have
rece rees.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Welcome, Good morning Gary, just doing just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Thank you, Well, happy Easter.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I have eastern to you.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And I got a question for you. All right, So
I'd like to epoxy.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
My entire driveway and I know how to do it.
I've done it. I was a foreign guy for years.
However I've got oil stains in my concrete driveway.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Okay, so.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Now my brain.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Says, just use maradic acid and eat that whole stuff
out of there, and just do a scratch code on
it and then do the epoxy. You got any other solutions.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, because the meriticus is going to have difficulty even
with oil, it'll definitely eat the concrete. How how old
do you think that oil is in that concrete? Because
you know, concrete for people that don't know, it's hard,
but it's also parse. It's got capillaries in there. And
when you put oil on concrete, it just keeps going
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deeper and deeper and deeper into that concrete.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That's why them ready, I probably.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Five or six years old because I changed my own oil.
But I got big diesel trucks and you know, to
hold twelve to sixteen quartz oil. And I don't know
what are your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Well, I think I would not use meritic acid. I
think there are some products that are out there that
are really designed to remove oils, And I'll tell you
what they go from, you know, like don soap into
some literally microbes that actually eat oil that they use
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in oil fields. In fact, even during the BP oil spill.
They used microbes that eat oil to help get that
under control. A lot of people don't realize that, So
I could give you some I can give you some
names of some strong oil degreasers that I would use
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way before I do. The radic acid like Purple Power
and Crudcutter. Those you can get at big box stores
and hardware stores. But going back to that microbe, which
sounds like, you know, it sounds like it's been there
a while and it's probably pretty deep. There's a volume
that we're dealing with. There's gosh, there's a couple of
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them out there. The one I'm most familiar with is
one called the letter A. C is in cat tea
is in tom Act Cleaner, and they have a website
it's act Cleaners dot com. And this is a.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
This is a powder and you literally sprinkle it onto
the oil stain. That's all you do.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You just sprinkle it on and it might take a
day or it might take ten days.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
But that powder A huge hurry is is I wanted
to epoxy the whole driveway, and I've done a POxy
on floors and when it comes in contact with oil,
all it does is feeling crack.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And will That's why it is absolutely necessary that we
get that out of there. So this powder has a
microbe that is alive, but it just looks like talcum powder,
all right, And it eats the oil and when it's finished,
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I know this sounds weird.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
When it's finished, the oil's gone and so is the powder.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So we're not rinsing it into our watersheds or anything
like that. It just literally eats the oil. And for
people listening, it also works on pressure treated wood. If you,
you know, cooked a steak and you didn't have the
container underneath the grill and you stain that, that act
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cleaner will also eat that right.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Out of the pressure treated wood.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But to me, with what you have, that seems ideal.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, now I want to talk to.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You about that epoxy. The the epoxy. There's different kinds
of epoxies. Please make sure that that epoxy is designed
for what they call hot tire pickup. There are epoxies
that if you pulled that truck in and you've been
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driving on the expressway and those tires are hot, and
you park it on an epoxy coating, it'll pull the
epoxy off.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So make sure that it is designed for, you know,
parking on it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Cars can park on it if you could get it
in industrial strength epoxy.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
And that's what I was gonna do.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
I was.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
I probably I got a big driveway. I was probably
gonna get a fifty five gallon drum of it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay, but just do make sure that that is compatible
with you know, tires that could be hot, so it
doesn't pull it up.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Everything's hot in Florida, my man.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, I hear you, and even more hot on red,
nice black hot tires. So be careful.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But actcleaners dot Com give that a try.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
All right. Well, thank you, Gary, I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
I've been listening to you for a couple of years
and you always got some good tips and I've used
a few of them.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Very good. Thank you, my friend. Take care all right,
and let's go to Michael. Michael.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Welcome, Hi Gary, How are you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I am doing fine? Thank you.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I've listened to your show for years and years and
years on road trip after road trip and picked up
great tips and never thought I would actually call until now.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
All right, what do you got going on?
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Well, it's an interesting situation. So I live in a
community in which we have private sewer lines to a manhole,
and I had a manhole that's about three hundred and
forty three hundred and fifty feet from my home and
back in February, my grinder pump malfunctioned. It fixed it
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a couple of days later, it goes crazy again. Get
the plumbers here, thinking that the plug is somewhere on
my property, and instead they find it more than three
hundred feet from my property, about three or four neighbors
down the road. The problem we've run into is the
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pipe is smashed. They used one of those camera argers
or whatever you call it. It went three hundred feet in.
The pipe basically is smashed, so there's I don't know
that there's a way to fix it. And when we've
had the utility line people come in, they've striped up
the lines and it's literally on top of the pipe,
and it's also running just about two feet away from
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the road, so that I don't know that they can
hand dig it obviously, you know. They basically it's right
underneath power lines and you can't put an excavator in there.
I've seen stories, i mean, I'm sorry, videos of people
who've been able to connect lines by putting like another
pipe inside has never run into somebody who's had a
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line damage. That's three hundred some of I mean, like
eight miles away from my home.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah somebody, yeah, yeah, In fact, we were talking to
someone about that today in fact.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Okay, and.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So there's limitations. Okay. So there's a lot of different
pipes all over the United States. You know, some clay,
some you know cast iron.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
You know, there's some that are separated, there's some that
are cracked. There's some with a one in two inch gap,
and there's some that are cracked. There's some that are crushed.
And you can do what they call kind of very
similar to what you're talking about with a pipe inside
a pipe, and in this case it's a liner. It's
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a liner that is inserted inside that pipe and when
they're that's where the limitations are going to be. You
can in fact accomplish that task, but it depends on
how bad and how big that crush part is, which
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they would be able to determine whether that's going to
work or not work. The length of the pipe. I've
been to a job site and watched them do this.
One time, it was six hundred feet away and it
was downhill. And what they do is they do the
first part kind of what you do. They run a
camera in there, they analyze exactly what's going on and
(32:40):
if they you know, this particular one had it was
an old clay thing and it had literally cracked and
wasn't even aligned. There was gaps, it was offset, and
they could do it and they have I described as this,
it's like a big reel that looks like a fire
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hose and they feed that down through that line. Okay,
after they flush it out the best they can. And
there's a solution on this sock or fire hose.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Which is.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's like a thermal epoxy and when they get it
all the way down and positioned where they want it,
they inflate it and heat it. And it's been And
I knew a company in my city where they had
done like twenty five thousand of these things, and in
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small ones and big ones that are you know, twenty
four and thirty inches, you know, in diameter, like in
a real urban area that's underneath a street and there's
all these utility lines and you know, I mean a mess,
like you've got a line these things you're not going
to dig them up and using them in Europe also,
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so it's it's well known. It's just simply called If
you google pipelining, I think you'll find all kinds of information.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But the real.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Bottom line is is you're going to have to, you know,
get a company that does that and see if that's
going to be possible to.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Do that, right. I think that's why we're running into trouble.
There's two local plumbing companies. This has been going on
since Super Bowl Sunday. By the way, We're here in
April and still don't have sewage support to this home,
and they're basically both scratching their heads. In fact, the
city has not been responsive with this at all. I've
had to get in touch with the state attorney general
(34:46):
to get them to at least respond to this. What's
also they're what also they're telling me too, is that
if they can't fix this, then it might be time
to consider a spectic thing. And I don't know, I've
heard good things about them now when I was growing up,
I'm not sure that I heard things about them.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well, you know, ideally they'll be able to fix it,
but I you know, let's see, where are you located?
Speaker 6 (35:13):
I'm located in eastern to Tuck you about two hours
south of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'll tell you what, why don't you contact Yeah, why
don't you contact this company in Cincinnati? They were literally
they've been doing this for twenty five years. Sure, I
really consider them one of the experts. And you know
they're not a plumber. That's all they do is line pipes.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's that's it. Okay, and it's called C letter letter.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
I talked over topic.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
So it's Sam Michael Electric.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
And you gotcha.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Ce me, Charlie, Charlie Michael all right, and Charlie Michael a.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
D that we can figure out.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Okay, Yeah, cme sewer lighting, sewer lining, google that and
give them a call. I get it. It's a it's
a it's a touchy problem. But somebody that's doing it
all the time, been doing it for twenty five years,
might might have a little more insight. If not, yeah,
(36:26):
I guess the septic tank might be the only other option.
But give them a call, check it out. Good luck, Michael.
I appreciate the call. I hope you have a great day.
All Right, we will continue. We've got Mary coming up.
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Speaker 2 (40:16):
We have Mary and Mary Welcome.
Speaker 10 (40:20):
Good morning, Barney. We're listening to your program last night,
and I don't think we can call on because it's
a rebroadcast. And I heard a gentleman had trouble with
his AC that the prayers are making unsting.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
I remember that call.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Well, okay, I.
Speaker 10 (40:36):
Was thinking could he use hardware cloths or screening to
block the entry where they're trying to get in to
make a nest.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Mary, You're exactly right, he could. The problem was at
the beginning of that call because I had suggested burd netting,
you know, kind of along the same premises. It has
a little larger holes. But the problem was is the
ability to install that. He was out of I think Massachusetts,
and he was on a four story condo building or
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apartment building that he could reach out the window, but
he couldn't get around the unit to cover it. And
you know, you think about a ladder, but a ladder
posed a problem also because the driveway was on a
hill and it was at least forty feet in the air,
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and he probably needed a bucket truck. But yeah, covering
that up wasn't going to be an option. That's why
he kept talking about using a different spray and different
things along those lines. So, yeah, in a normal situation,
hardware cloth would be a great idea. In fact, during
that conversation, what did he use He used some laughing,
(41:55):
some metal laughing. Now, you don't want to really restrict
the air flow to an air conditioner or a compressor
or anything like that to a degree where you could
actually hurt it. But hardware, cloth, burdenetting, those would have worked,
but he just wasn't in a position to install it.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Buck truck probably would be the only option if that's available.
So thank you much for the call. I certainly appreciate it.
We did all kind of chime in on that. And
as to answer your question when she talks about rebroadcasting,
if you're listening now, you know, but if you're listening
to a online or the podcast, remember we do this
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show from nine am till noon Eastern time Saturday and Sunday,
and that's really where Danny's here and he can take
your call and I'm here and we can chat about
the particular project that you're looking at. That's when you
and I I can communicate during the hours of nine
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to noon Eastern times Saturday and Sunday. After that is
after those times. If your an affiliate is running at
four o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday or Saturday, yeah,
that's rebroadcast and that's fine. You can listen, you just
can't call, So just make a note of that if
you don't have to be listening to call. So that's
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when I'm in the chair to take the calls nine
to noon Eastern times, Saturday and Sunday. Well, whenever I
have a short period of time, I can always throw
a tip at you. And if it's been a while, hey,
think about it. Change the filter in your air handler,
the air conditioner, heater, or whatever you want to call it.
If it's been over thirty days, get it done today. Well,
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you're just going to make that air conditioner work harder.
If it's got a dirty filter in there, it takes
longer to satisfy that thermostatic kind of keeps the back
bedrooms a little warmer. So if it's a Plea filter
every ninety days, it is a flat filter every thirty days.
And I'm kind of changing my tune during the time
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of a lot of pollen or a lot of traffic
in your house. Those Plea did filters had change them
every seventy five days. All right, Well, Danny boy, thank
you very much for working today.
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For hope you have a happy Easter.
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