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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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we're talking home improvement as we do each and every weekend.
Thanks for joining me in. What's on your docket? You?
What are you working on today? What are you thinking about?
I say, we get outside and start talking about some
of the things that are certainly going to need to
be done need our attention, or we get into the
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clown cleaning, spring cleaning things and it's about storage cleaning, grout,
ceiling grout. It's it's an endless it's an endless supply
of different things we need to work on. That's for sure.
Looking for erosion around the house with all the rains
and different things. We've had also a good idea to
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you know, take a look and see what needs to
be changed, what soil needs to be protected from erosion
slopes away from the house. We can certainly go in
that direction or molding homes. And we've had a lot
of rain over the last month or so in a
lot of parts of the country, and probably a few
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cross spaces that could use a little attention. Maybe basements too.
So let me give you the phone number and you
can go ahead and join us. Love to talk to
you about your home project. It is eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. Go ahead and grab
a line, and happy to chat with you about maybe
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what you're getting ready to work on or going to
work on. I know we got decks to seems like
always talk about. And I saw some social media advertising
pop up on a twenty five year warranted deck sealer,
and soon I saw it, I went wow, I know
I'm gonna be asked about this, and I'm a little
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bit familiar with it. I mean, it does a really
good job. It has UV protection, but the wood will
still gray out, that's been my experience. But the wood
is protected, it grays out, doesn't splinter quite quite as easily,
but it is a clear ceilant for decks twenty five years.
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I don't know if you're really going to get out
twenty five years out of that. I know this particular product,
not name of product, but type of product shows up
about every three to four years, and on several occasions
over the course of I'm gonna say, the twenty years
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that I've known about this product, there's been different companies
that product to market and went bankrupt or withdrew. But
I know a friend of mine who had it put
on their deck, and without knowing a whole lot about it,
I can tell you she probably got about ten twelve
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years out of out of that deck sealer, and it
was in a shaded area, so there wasn't a lot
of sun damage or anything. But I don't know. It's
not cheap, but I'm going to continue to look into
that a little bit more. I don't know if it's
changed much over the years, but there there has been
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a track record of that particular product, and I don't know,
about twenty five years. I think that might be a
little bit aggressive, and I'm not really sure what that
warranty covers, but it would you know, if that's something
you'd be interested, and probably not a bad idea to
kind of dig into it a little bit. It's a
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application that is applied. It's not a do it yourself product,
so you got that involved also, all right again, it's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Two
weeks ago we also started talking about flooring, talking about
it in a basement floor. Talked about moisture in you know,
one of the things that if that's something you want
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to do in terms of like a carpeting or something,
there is a modular subfloor that can be installed over
a concrete slab. It's called dry core. They are about
sixteen inch panels, tongue and groove with little tiny feet
on them. On those panels, obviously it needs to be
leveled out, but they literally connect in self support and
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you can put carpet over that, so you will have
a little dead air space so you'll have some additional warmth,
and you'll also keep moisture minimized because you'll put down
a vapor barrier and you'll put the dry cord down
and then the carpet. So kind of forgot about that
product too. We've had big time discussions with that over
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the years. It was when it first came out, I
thought it was one of the best things in sliced
bread and I think it still is. But I kind
of had not talked about it lately and somebody brought
it up and I thought, boy, you're right, that's just
a great, great product. It really is so dry cords
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the name of it. When you go to the big
box Storge, you will usually see palettes of it, so
it's not like it's hiding. It's a good product to use,
especially on slabs, and especially if you're doing like carpeting
or something along those lines there. Even if you wanted
to use a you know, a water resistant laminate flooring
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would be a good idea to put that over it.
So that's another thing I wanted to pass on. And
the last thing and then we'll get to Ron Wilson.
Then we'll get to your calls. Is I know, the
walk around the house looking for penetrations, calking, inexpandable foam.
Those are your tools and you're gonna find some crazy
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things and do it all the time. I think last
week I was talking about before all the rains hit us,
I was just kind of checking out the lay of
the land around the house and I saw where my
discharge pipe coming out of the wall, which came out
of the wall from the basement, came out, had an
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elbow and another elbow went straight down to an underground pipe.
The underground connection was cracked and the pipe had in
the ground. It actually moved and caused that vertical pipe
to snap off the top part of the underground pipe
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because it had been moving that much. And repaired that
and it wasn't difficult or anything. It was with PBC pipe.
But it was amazing when I found that because well,
you know, it probably happened during the winter or late
late falls drought that we had, and so all winter
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that water was pumping and it was half going down
the pipe in the other half was going on the foundation.
Didn't cause any damage but dick cause I would say,
you know, quite a bit little of erosion. So kind
of had to address that issue too, and got that
all leveled out, got the pipe new piece of pipe
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back into the underground pipe and keeping all that water
away and moving away from the foundation. That's the key,
all right again. Our numbers eight hundred eighty two three
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You're at home with Gary Sullivan this is the time
every week we're bringing our friend in and gardening expert,
mister Ron Wilson. His website has run Wilson online dot com.
And uh, this is your busy month the next few months.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Is it not, mor Chanlevyn, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's very busy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It's uh yeah, if the weather would cooperate a little
bit more. You know, I have to admit there's folks
that are out there brave in the weather and planting
trees and shrubs and nevergreens and things like that. Good
for them, you know. And it's amazing, mister Sullivan, how
we put the tomatoes and peppers out this week? Who
did to for sale?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And how many people? How many people are already buying
their tomatoes and peppers?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Make you scared?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Not anymore?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
We used to think about that, but you know that
the gardener has changed and they like to buy them
early even hey, just hang on to them, put them
in the window, sell, do whatever. So they got their
specific variety of tomatoes peppers, so they make sure they've
got that one.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But you don't get ahead of the game if you
go out and try and plan them behind right now right,
it takes longer.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right, Yeah, you know, if you would make it through
this through and into the spring season with all these
ups and downs, chances are those those tomatoes and peppers
would be kind of stunted, probably not do too well
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Last night we went over some friend's house for dinner,
and it was like, I don't know when we were
I guess it was dark when we were Yeah, when
we were leaving, of course it was dark. I don't
think it was dark when we got there, but they
had a nice magnoise right by their door, big one,
you know, maybe fifteen feet or something, and so immediately
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set you look at all the flowers are dead on
the magnolia. And the other couple we were with that
did you have one of those? And we said, yeah,
I think I got the full bloom in maybe three
times in fifteen years. It was like every fourth or
fifth year we'd get through the whole blooming cycle.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, but I think lately, and you're talking about the
Selangianas and the ants and jans and the stars that
flower really early, but lately, the last you know, four
or five years, we have had him come through fairly well,
and which is kind of You're right, unusual.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, every year is different. We had our rhododendrons bloom
this past week. Oh my gosh. They were stunning. They
were just absolutely beautiful. And they know how long do
they last? Normally maybe a week or two, probably two weeks, a.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Couple of weeks, depending, yeah, depending on the weather, but
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah. Well this year they lasted about eight or nine
days because of the weather, isn't it all the rain
and then got a real.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Cold, kind of a lavender color, purple. Yeah, it's beautiful,
a little smaller leaves.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was beautiful. It really was. Hey.
One of the things I was going to talk to
be is I talk a lot about and especially with
all the rain we've had. You know, indoor air quality
is such a big issues right now. Pollutants that inside
our homes, the mold spores, and I mean, it's we
make our homes tighter. It's unhealthy air, says the EPA,
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three to five times worse than the air outside. And
you and I, over the probably twenty five thirty years
we worked together, we've talked about indoor plants being air scrubbers.
Is there any particular indoor plant that you know of
that does a better job or they all fairly equal,
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and how do they do that?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Now, they actually did. NASA did all this first initial
studying many many many years ago, and it was they
did the research based on having like the International Space
Station and how they could you know, put house if
they could grow houseplants in there, could they the air
and clearing the air, and how beneficial were they And
so they did rank the top fifty and that's out there.
(15:05):
You can google the top fifty indoor plants NASA research.
But the spider plants are always at the top.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I was just gonna I was just gonna say, probably
the only indoor plant I know. Real well, I was
gonna say.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It's the old spider planet. It's their rubber plants are
up there, ficuses up there. In general, ferns are up
there because of the kind of those little hairs on
top of the leaves, so they collect a lot of
that dust up. So, but they have a top fifty list,
and what's interesting is in that top twenty or so
are typically some of the easier to grow houseplants inside.
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Now there's a there's an astrois by all of this
the research was done in a totally.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Enclosed room totally.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
So there was no air circulation. They couldn't come in
and out, not like in your home where it's moving.
So so it was a little more controlled situation. And
they would pump whatever in there and then read the
plants or whatever. Yeah, and they found out that it
has to be a medium sized house plant. What's medium
sized something in a you know, fifteen eighteen inches high
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or so about one every ten score you know, ten
by ten area to be affect to be somewhat effective
in cleaning out the air. But yeah, absolutely, a lot
of the impurities that like where the fromaldehydes and that
that are in the carpet there used to be I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yea depends where it comes from.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, but would would actually take those out. But yeah,
there's a top fifty list and then NASA did that
many many many years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, so it's so it's still official. May not solve
all your problems, but it would be helpful to a degree.
As we talk about easy breathe and we talk about
you know, air exchanging it. Houseplants is another I start
using this phrase, another tool in the toolbox. Yes, control
and humidity, minimizing moult spores, cross ventilation, and it's these
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are all tools in your toolbox, and indoor plants would
certainly qualify for that. How do you take care of those?
Just keep them water, keep them dusty.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
No, you don't have to water.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You just put them in a pod and let them
sit there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's what we do. They never left though, make it.
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Well, you know, the houseplants are hot right now. I mean,
you know you it's amazing what people are doing today
with houseplants. And of course it's more than just the
air purifications, just the beautification, the mental cleansing that it
gives you, the decorating. I mean, it's it's they have
so many benefits inside. It's crazy. But the world of
houseplants or indoor foliage plants has just simply exploded. And
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now they've gotten into some new varieties that you know,
there's a few of and so all of a sudden
they go to these auctions. In a four inch pot
retails for one hundred and fifty dollars. So these collectors
have now gotten into the some of these very exotic
indoor plants. It's been pretty interesting to watch this so far.
But again, you know, there are many out there that
are fairly easy to take care of. Lighting and watering
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are the two key factors.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, you know, I'm all about easy and.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You're all about easy. So there there's a few them
out there that and of course there's the plastic ones
that would be really take it outside, hose it off,
plastic Bonzeyes, yet absolutely, Hey, I'll tell you what they've done.
And they do boxwood and things for like in containers
at restaurants that they don't want to mess with. The
live plants, they've got some of those today. They're expensive
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as heck, but it's amazing how realistic some of these,
some of these artificial plants are, and you know, the
turfs are the same way, but the plants are crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Some of these artificial grists that they're starting to use
in subdivisions in different areas of the country where drought
is a problem and watering is a problem, I don't,
I don't know. We'll see where that goes.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, there's a lot of cons to that too, I
means and cons, and it's it's they're still on, you know,
out there. But yeah, it's amazing how well they've done.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We're still learning. We're still learning. Oh yeah, yeah, that's
the key. All right. Well, I want to know a
little bit about those indoor plants, and I think the
Sullivans could have a few more than zero.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I think you should bring more in and start propagating
them with the grandkids.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Sounds like a plan. There you go, Ron Wilson, thank
you very much. I appreciate it. All right, very good.
And that's Ron Wilson online dot com. And now it's
your turn, so dial us up, happy to talk about
your home project. It's eight hundred eight two three eight
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with Gary Sullivan. Another weekend and getting a few things
done around the home. And if you'd like to join us,
please do. Looking forward to your questions about your home project. Uh,
you got the number, it's five to one. You know
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All right, you're supposed to have it better than I do.
Let's get back to the phones, We'll go to Steve. Steve, welcome, Hey,
how you doing man? Doing fine? Thanks great?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Hey, my wife and I are. We're seventy one years old.
About four years ago I had my roof on my
house is twenty five thirty years at least old. I
had roof Max do a treatment over four years ago.
They guarantee that for five years. So I got to
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figure out whether I'm going to replace or do another treatment.
But I'm thinking I should just go ahead and replace
my roof. I don't know. I think the Cadillac roofs
are metal now metal shingles or whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well they make metal roofs.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Sure, I don't know, you know, if I should just
go for just some kind of regular shingle on my
house or or not.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, you got some homework to do, Steve. How'd you
think the roof Max did for you for those four years?
I mean, it certainly extended the life of the roof.
I assume.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
It's fantastic. Okay, I would have had to replace it
for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
It was getting real brittle, and the roof Max guy says,
oh this is and they're telling me they can do
this again and take another treatment on it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
They can. I think they can do up to three treatments,
a lot deeper.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
It's a lot cheaper than doing a new roof. You know,
I'm paying a couple thousand dollars for it, right, like
twenty thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Right right, Well, you're kind of renting it, you know,
when you're just doing the treatment. But yeah, I think
they can do up to three treatments on there, Steve.
And I think it from my research and talking to
people like yourself, I believe you know, it does what
it says it's going to do. It literally creates lubrication
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to those shingles. It glues down the protective granular covering
what's left of it from the UV rays of the sun,
which keeps that roof from drying out. And you get
about five years and yeah, it's less expensive than putting
on a new roof. But you know, you still got
an older roof there that's eventually going to have to
be replaced. So that decision is yours, you know, I mean,
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you just got to I think one of the questions
you know, you need to ask yourself is how long
am I going to be in the house and when
do I want to buy that roof, you know, and
if if I want to buy that roof right now,
you know, I'd go ahead and do it. If you
want to kick the can down the road, and you
might be moving in a year or two, uh, maybe
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you put an additional coating on there, and you know,
you'll probably negotiate that when you sell the house, or
depending on where the housing is, you may not have
to negotiate it, and you might just be happy to
get a house, so that that's kind of your decision.
A metal roofing is absolutely the classic and roofing in
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my opinion, And the same question gets asked, how long
do you plan on staying in that house? That metal
roofing's got a lifespan of almost fifty years, and it's
about two and a half times more expensive than a
shingled roof, so you know, yeah, so it's it's the
Cadillac of roofs. It's got a lot to offer. They're
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absolutely gorgeous, they're beautiful, they're you know, more fire resistant,
they're more more insulating qualities to it, but they're not cheap.
So you're kind of looking at both sides of the
Teeter Totter. Metal roofing on one side and spray and
take the older roof out another five years, so I.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Would I probably would have the two roofs actually again
and pay a couple thousand dollars and it's ten years.
I'm going to be in the house ten years and
that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, or at the very least, maybe you
just get a quote on some roofing, you know, new
shingles and see what the cost is.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Good idea, Hey, good advice, Thank you sir.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
All right, Steve, did it? Thank you? Take care. Yeah.
I think I get asked that question a lot, and
it really is the question is a personal question. It's
really what you want to do. The roof, Bax is
not a new roof, so we're not going to you know,
we're not replacing a roof. You're extending the life of it.
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And again, if he was going to say, well, I'm
probably going to sell this house next year, you know,
maybe you go ahead and put another coat on it.
It looks new, it looks great, it does what it says.
But on the other hand, if you're going to be
there for ten years, you know, you got this. You
put one coat on, you put another coat on, you know,
put another coat on. There's your ten years and then
it's like, oh, I wish I just put a new
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roof on. So but that's a that's your decision. All right.
Let's go to uh Marion, Marion, welcome.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Hight there every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I have question about I have an older home that
was the rocks May Street, including the steps up to
the front porch man. Those steps. After fifty seventy years
of better days, the rocks are good. I would like
to put something smooth, like either concrete over the top
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of the coating or something. I think they're pain in
the butt winter because they're not you know, that's set
an even surface to shovel or anything.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Right. Right, Well, when you say rocks, right, are are
you talking about big slabs of rock or what? What
kind of rocks are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
They're like liver rock. It's stayed of the same rocks
they used to build a out. It just set up
by the sights of the highway. I don't doubt over
here I'm in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Also, are those rocks mortared in or what are they
are they? How's the mortar doing.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I've done some dust pointing over the years. You know,
a little here and there when they come. When it
starts to look a little bit, then I get after
it stayed up on it. But they're really an emesis
in the bad weather, and I thought it would be well.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I understand that. I understand that. I'm just what are
those rocks resting on.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Slabs?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
So there is a slab there.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Underneath?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
So my guess is a little disadvantage here, Marion is
I can't see. But I wouldn't say that the answer
is to take a cementatious coating and do an overlay
over the rocks. I don't think that's going to be
a long term solution. If those rocks get a little loose,
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if the mortar starts failing and gets rocking, then the
resurfacing's going to crumble. So I think you gon have
to get somebody come out. First of I have to
inspect it and see, you know exactly where that slab
is in terms of its lifespan. Then I think you're
gonna have to take off that top layer and then
maybe cap the surface of those with a cementatious coating
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and you may be good to go. So I think
somebody's doing concrete work or get a mason out there
to take a look at it, because there's gonna be
some heavy lifting there getting that old rock off. And
then you know, concrete doesn't like to stick to concrete,
so you're gonna if you're using regular concrete, you almost
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like it's gonna have to be an inch and a
half two inches thick. But then there's also some really
good resurfacing products out there. I talk about DICEH Coatings
a lot, and they got a new product. It's called Rockfix.
I always screw that up. It's Rockfix or rock patch,
and it is a nonsementatious surface coating. Once you got
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that relatively smooth, you could trial this right on. It's
pre mixed, and you know that would have a good
lifespan on it as all as that sub base of
the concretes in good shape, I think you'd be good
to go on that. Yeah, if you go to their website,
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it's dis d Ai c H Coatings dot com. All right,
all right, you're quite welcome, Thank you, bye bye. And
just as so, you know, I mean, whenever you're doing
you know, if it's a good non degrading concrete slab,
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you can do all kinds of things. But when you
got rocks and you got mortars and things like that,
I think you're really looking at removing that, getting down
to a good base. And then if you still have
a good solid base, yeah, you're you can do multiple things.
The last couple of days or weeks, we've been talking
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a lot about resurfacing concrete and there's all kinds of
products out there. There's some really inexpensive products that you know,
I'm not a fan of. I mean, you might get
five years of satisfaction out of it, but then you've
got other ones where you could, you know, nonsmentatious, you
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could get fifteen twenty years out of it. Sure it's
more expensive, but I like it. It's easy. That's good.
And then you got the the other way where you're
making your cement, you're adding a bonder and you're putting
a cap on there. It's another option. All right, we'll
take a break, we'll come back. Mary, Michelle and Mary again.
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so they can get outside get some stuff done around
the home. I hope you can do the same. Our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
You need a little advice on what you're working on,
feel free to join us, all right, Mary, welcome. Hello.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Yes, Gary, I have a put a permanent marker spot
on of a a piece of cloth and I'm just
wondering if you could help me to get it out.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Well, there's a lot of different Yeah, well, I think
the first thing I would do is probably use some
rubbing alcohol, so you know, get some paper towels underneath
on the other side of the cloth, all right, you know,
just to protect whatever you're going to clean that off with.
And then again you can use microfibercloth, cloth, cotton cloth,
(37:27):
even paper towels and put rubbing alcohol and just kind
of dab it. Even using a cotton ball might work.
Don't rub it, dab it because you want to have
that rubbing alcohol. Liquefy that and then absorb it. So
you don't want to get in there and start rubbing
it back and forth and just you're gonna have to
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do it more in one time, So you just keep
repeating it until it fades, and then just go ahead
and rinse it, you know, with some cold water and
you know, wash it as usual after that. That's one option.
Another one is even using hairspray. Hairspray is a good
spot remover for inks, So again you would spray it on,
(38:15):
let this sit for you know, ten fifteen seconds, then
dab that again with a cotton cloth. There's alcohol in that,
and so it's kind of doing the same thing as
we had talked about. Even hand sanitizer that contains alcohol,
that's a gel that stays on there longer. That's another option.
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A couple don't is and I already gave one where
you just don't scrub it, you blot it. And another thing,
don't put it in a dryer or you'll set that stain.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
If all else fails, there's a wonderful product that I've used.
You know, it's called mosten Bochers, and they make three
different stain removing products and they make one for pet stains,
food stains, ink stains. I've had very very good luck
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with their products. I can't say that I've used one
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Speaker 1 (40:04):
And you can get that on Amazon.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
Oh okay, all right, well we'll throw that alcohol all right,
they do hear alcohol.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
Good here too.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
There you go, Thank you much, appreciate it. And let's
go to another Mary Mary Welcome. Hello? Yes, is this
Michelle or Mary Mary? All right? That's who I wanted.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (40:32):
I live in a condo, a ranch style condo, and
we moved in about two years ago, and then we
put in a new Anderson storm door. And now every
winter or well since we've put it in, when it
drops blow like forty five degrees, it gets condensation all
over the door. Is there anything you can do about that?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Well? I think what it is is you're getting Well,
there's two things that will create condensation. One is a
clash between warm and cold temperatures. So if you have
a nice entry door and then you have a storm
door on the outside of it, that glass is cold
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and there's maybe some air that's getting, you know, around
the sides of that entry door and getting trapped in
between that pocket of air and it's hitting that cold
glass and it's creating and it's creating water droplets compensation.
So is there anything you could do about it? Yeah?
I would check the weather stripping on the door, on
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the main door, you know, make.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Sure I did try to put something at the bottom
to kind.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
Of keep that was one of the places.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, did it help it all?
Speaker 8 (41:50):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yea. So you could have leaks around the sides, the
tops and the bottom, and when that water gets or
when that air gets it's in there. Warm air carries
more humidity than cold air can. So if you have
warm air inside your home in the wintertime and it's
seeping through the sides of the door and it hits
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that cold, slick surface glass, it can't hold that moisture
and it creates that comdensation. So that's the other equation
how much. And I think in your case it's probably
more of warm air hitting a cold, hard, slick surface
creating the condensation rather than too much humidity. But if
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you wanted to check the humidity level in your home,
you know, when it gets real cold out, when it's
when it's freezing in below your home, humidity should be
around thirty five forty percent if you have a you yeah,
if you have a and that's in the winter time.
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So when it's below free thirty five to forty percent
indoor humidity. If if you have like fifty five percent
sixty percent and it's fine this way, you're definitely gonna
have compensation. So you got to check humidity levels and
check your weather stripping, and if you get them both
(43:19):
in singing, there's a good chance you can rectify the problem.
Speaker 8 (43:24):
Okay, I can try that. We do have an april
ayer system, so maybe turn that down a little lower.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Well, you're going to have to get yourself some humidity gauge.
Put one up on the first floor, put one down
in the basement, and see where you are. You know,
If the first floor is reading thirty five forty percent
in winter, you know you're just gonna have to really
work on tightening that whole door up a little bit.
If you're getting readings of humidity fifty five percent, you
got to work on trying to lower your humidity and
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that would be adjusting that humidifier.
Speaker 8 (43:56):
Okay, I can try that. Third thing I read was
something about like putting some holes in, drilling a hole
in the storm door.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Well, that's just yeah, let's not do that yet. Yeah,
let's not do that yet. Let's see if we can
work out on this. I don't think we want to
do that. We want to keep that good energy efficiency
of that door without drilling holes in if we can
avoid it. All right, taking your calls at eight hundred
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Thanks for joining me in. What's on your docket? You?
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of the things that are certainly going to need to
be done need our attention, or we get into the
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clown cleaning, spring cleaning things and it's about storage cleaning, grout,
ceiling grout. It's it's an endless it's an endless supply
of different things we need to work on. That's for sure.
Looking for erosion around the house with all the rains
and different things. We've had also a good idea to
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you know, take a look and see what needs to
be changed, what soil needs to be protected from erosion
slopes away from the house. We can certainly go in
that direction or molding homes. And we've had a lot
of rain over the last month or so in a
lot of parts of the country, and probably a few
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cross spaces that could use a little attention. Maybe basements too.
So let me give you the phone number and you
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what you're getting ready to work on or going to
work on. I know we got decks to seems like
always talk about. And I saw some social media advertising
pop up on a twenty five year warranted deck sealer,
and soon I saw it, I went wow, I know
I'm gonna be asked about this, and I'm a little
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bit familiar with it. I mean, it does a really
good job. It has UV protection, but the wood will
still gray out, that's been my experience. But the wood
is protected, it grays out, doesn't splinter quite quite as easily,
but it is a clear ceilant for decks twenty five years.
(03:13):
I don't know if you're really going to get out
twenty five years out of that. I know this particular product,
not name of product, but type of product shows up
about every three to four years, and on several occasions
over the course of I'm gonna say, the twenty years
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that I've known about this product, there's been different companies
that product to market and went bankrupt or withdrew. But
I know a friend of mine who had it put
on their deck, and without knowing a whole lot about it,
I can tell you she probably got about ten twelve
(03:55):
years out of out of that deck sealer, and it
was in a shaded area, so there wasn't a lot
of sun damage or anything. But I don't know. It's
not cheap, but I'm going to continue to look into
that a little bit more. I don't know if it's
changed much over the years, but there there has been
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a track record of that particular product, and I don't know,
about twenty five years. I think that might be a
little bit aggressive, and I'm not really sure what that
warranty covers, but it would you know, if that's something
you'd be interested, and probably not a bad idea to
kind of dig into it a little bit. It's a
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application that is applied. It's not a do it yourself product,
so you got that involved also, all right again, it's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Two
weeks ago we also started talking about flooring, talking about
it in a basement floor. Talked about moisture in you know,
one of the things that if that's something you want
(05:04):
to do in terms of like a carpeting or something,
there is a modular subfloor that can be installed over
a concrete slab. It's called dry core. They are about
sixteen inch panels, tongue and groove with little tiny feet
on them. On those panels, obviously it needs to be
leveled out, but they literally connect in self support and
(05:29):
you can put carpet over that, so you will have
a little dead air space so you'll have some additional warmth,
and you'll also keep moisture minimized because you'll put down
a vapor barrier and you'll put the dry cord down
and then the carpet. So kind of forgot about that
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thought it was one of the best things in sliced
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it up and I thought, boy, you're right, that's just
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the name of it. When you go to the big
box Storge, you will usually see palettes of it, so
it's not like it's hiding. It's a good product to use,
especially on slabs, and especially if you're doing like carpeting
or something along those lines there. Even if you wanted
to use a you know, a water resistant laminate flooring
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would be a good idea to put that over it.
So that's another thing I wanted to pass on. And
the last thing and then we'll get to Ron Wilson.
Then we'll get to your calls. Is I know, the
walk around the house looking for penetrations, calking, inexpandable foam.
Those are your tools and you're gonna find some crazy
(07:00):
things and do it all the time. I think last
week I was talking about before all the rains hit us,
I was just kind of checking out the lay of
the land around the house and I saw where my
discharge pipe coming out of the wall, which came out
of the wall from the basement, came out, had an
(07:21):
elbow and another elbow went straight down to an underground pipe.
The underground connection was cracked and the pipe had in
the ground. It actually moved and caused that vertical pipe
to snap off the top part of the underground pipe
(07:42):
because it had been moving that much. And repaired that
and it wasn't difficult or anything. It was with PBC pipe.
But it was amazing when I found that because well,
you know, it probably happened during the winter or late
late falls drought that we had, and so all winter
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that water was pumping and it was half going down
the pipe in the other half was going on the foundation.
Didn't cause any damage but dick cause I would say,
you know, quite a bit little of erosion. So kind
of had to address that issue too, and got that
all leveled out, got the pipe new piece of pipe
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back into the underground pipe and keeping all that water
away and moving away from the foundation. That's the key,
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And uh, this is your busy month the next few months.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Is it not, mor Chanlevyn, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's very busy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It's uh yeah, if the weather would cooperate a little
bit more. You know, I have to admit there's folks
that are out there brave in the weather and planting
trees and shrubs and nevergreens and things like that. Good
for them, you know. And it's amazing, mister Sullivan, how
we put the tomatoes and peppers out this week? Who
did to for sale?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And how many people? How many people are already buying
their tomatoes and peppers?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Make you scared?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Not anymore?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
We used to think about that, but you know that
the gardener has changed and they like to buy them
early even hey, just hang on to them, put them
in the window, sell, do whatever. So they got their
specific variety of tomatoes peppers, so they make sure they've
got that one.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But you don't get ahead of the game if you
go out and try and plan them behind right now right,
it takes longer.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right, Yeah, you know, if you would make it through
this through and into the spring season with all these
ups and downs, chances are those those tomatoes and peppers
would be kind of stunted, probably not do too well
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Last night we went over some friend's house for dinner,
and it was like, I don't know when we were
I guess it was dark when we were Yeah, when
we were leaving, of course it was dark. I don't
think it was dark when we got there, but they
had a nice magnoise right by their door, big one,
you know, maybe fifteen feet or something, and so immediately
(12:59):
set you look at all the flowers are dead on
the magnolia. And the other couple we were with that
did you have one of those? And we said, yeah,
I think I got the full bloom in maybe three
times in fifteen years. It was like every fourth or
fifth year we'd get through the whole blooming cycle.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, but I think lately, and you're talking about the
Selangianas and the ants and jans and the stars that
flower really early, but lately, the last you know, four
or five years, we have had him come through fairly well,
and which is kind of You're right, unusual.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, every year is different. We had our rhododendrons bloom
this past week. Oh my gosh. They were stunning. They
were just absolutely beautiful. And they know how long do
they last? Normally maybe a week or two, probably two weeks, a.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Couple of weeks, depending, yeah, depending on the weather, but
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah. Well this year they lasted about eight or nine
days because of the weather, isn't it all the rain
and then got a real.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Cold, kind of a lavender color, purple. Yeah, it's beautiful,
a little smaller leaves.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was beautiful. It really was. Hey.
One of the things I was going to talk to
be is I talk a lot about and especially with
all the rain we've had. You know, indoor air quality
is such a big issues right now. Pollutants that inside
our homes, the mold spores, and I mean, it's we
make our homes tighter. It's unhealthy air, says the EPA,
(14:23):
three to five times worse than the air outside. And
you and I, over the probably twenty five thirty years
we worked together, we've talked about indoor plants being air scrubbers.
Is there any particular indoor plant that you know of
that does a better job or they all fairly equal,
(14:43):
and how do they do that?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Now, they actually did. NASA did all this first initial
studying many many many years ago, and it was they
did the research based on having like the International Space
Station and how they could you know, put house if
they could grow houseplants in there, could they the air
and clearing the air, and how beneficial were they And
so they did rank the top fifty and that's out there.
(15:05):
You can google the top fifty indoor plants NASA research.
But the spider plants are always at the top.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I was just gonna I was just gonna say, probably
the only indoor plant I know. Real well, I was
gonna say.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It's the old spider planet. It's their rubber plants are
up there, ficuses up there. In general, ferns are up
there because of the kind of those little hairs on
top of the leaves, so they collect a lot of
that dust up. So, but they have a top fifty list,
and what's interesting is in that top twenty or so
are typically some of the easier to grow houseplants inside.
(15:38):
Now there's a there's an astrois by all of this
the research was done in a totally.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Enclosed room totally.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
So there was no air circulation. They couldn't come in
and out, not like in your home where it's moving.
So so it was a little more controlled situation. And
they would pump whatever in there and then read the
plants or whatever. Yeah, and they found out that it
has to be a medium sized house plant. What's medium
sized something in a you know, fifteen eighteen inches high
(16:10):
or so about one every ten score you know, ten
by ten area to be affect to be somewhat effective
in cleaning out the air. But yeah, absolutely, a lot
of the impurities that like where the fromaldehydes and that
that are in the carpet there used to be I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yea depends where it comes from.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, but would would actually take those out. But yeah,
there's a top fifty list and then NASA did that
many many many years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, so it's so it's still official. May not solve
all your problems, but it would be helpful to a degree.
As we talk about easy breathe and we talk about
you know, air exchanging it. Houseplants is another I start
using this phrase, another tool in the toolbox. Yes, control
and humidity, minimizing moult spores, cross ventilation, and it's these
(17:01):
are all tools in your toolbox, and indoor plants would
certainly qualify for that. How do you take care of those?
Just keep them water, keep them dusty.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
No, you don't have to water.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You just put them in a pod and let them
sit there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's what we do. They never left though, make it.
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Well, you know, the houseplants are hot right now. I mean,
you know you it's amazing what people are doing today
with houseplants. And of course it's more than just the
air purifications, just the beautification, the mental cleansing that it
gives you, the decorating. I mean, it's it's they have
so many benefits inside. It's crazy. But the world of
houseplants or indoor foliage plants has just simply exploded. And
(17:41):
now they've gotten into some new varieties that you know,
there's a few of and so all of a sudden
they go to these auctions. In a four inch pot
retails for one hundred and fifty dollars. So these collectors
have now gotten into the some of these very exotic
indoor plants. It's been pretty interesting to watch this so far.
But again, you know, there are many out there that
are fairly easy to take care of. Lighting and watering
(18:04):
are the two key factors.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, you know, I'm all about easy and.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You're all about easy. So there there's a few them
out there that and of course there's the plastic ones
that would be really take it outside, hose it off,
plastic Bonzeyes, yet absolutely, Hey, I'll tell you what they've done.
And they do boxwood and things for like in containers
at restaurants that they don't want to mess with. The
live plants, they've got some of those today. They're expensive
(18:29):
as heck, but it's amazing how realistic some of these,
some of these artificial plants are, and you know, the
turfs are the same way, but the plants are crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Some of these artificial grists that they're starting to use
in subdivisions in different areas of the country where drought
is a problem and watering is a problem, I don't,
I don't know. We'll see where that goes.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, there's a lot of cons to that too, I
means and cons, and it's it's they're still on, you know,
out there. But yeah, it's amazing how well they've done.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We're still learning. We're still learning. Oh yeah, yeah, that's
the key. All right. Well, I want to know a
little bit about those indoor plants, and I think the
Sullivans could have a few more than zero.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I think you should bring more in and start propagating
them with the grandkids.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Sounds like a plan. There you go, Ron Wilson, thank
you very much. I appreciate it. All right, very good.
And that's Ron Wilson online dot com. And now it's
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with Gary Sullivan. Another weekend and getting a few things
done around the home. And if you'd like to join us,
please do. Looking forward to your questions about your home project. Uh,
you got the number, it's five to one. You know
it's not it's eight. I don't have the number. It's
eight eight A two three A two five five. Danny's
got the number. He won't share it with me either.
(22:58):
All right, you're supposed to have it better than I do.
Let's get back to the phones, We'll go to Steve. Steve, welcome, Hey,
how you doing man? Doing fine? Thanks great?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Hey, my wife and I are. We're seventy one years old.
About four years ago I had my roof on my
house is twenty five thirty years at least old. I
had roof Max do a treatment over four years ago.
They guarantee that for five years. So I got to
(23:34):
figure out whether I'm going to replace or do another treatment.
But I'm thinking I should just go ahead and replace
my roof. I don't know. I think the Cadillac roofs
are metal now metal shingles or whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well they make metal roofs.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Sure, I don't know, you know, if I should just
go for just some kind of regular shingle on my
house or or not.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, you got some homework to do, Steve. How'd you
think the roof Max did for you for those four years?
I mean, it certainly extended the life of the roof.
I assume.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
It's fantastic. Okay, I would have had to replace it
for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
It was getting real brittle, and the roof Max guy says,
oh this is and they're telling me they can do
this again and take another treatment on it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
They can. I think they can do up to three treatments,
a lot deeper.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
It's a lot cheaper than doing a new roof. You know,
I'm paying a couple thousand dollars for it, right, like
twenty thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Right right, Well, you're kind of renting it, you know,
when you're just doing the treatment. But yeah, I think
they can do up to three treatments on there, Steve.
And I think it from my research and talking to
people like yourself, I believe you know, it does what
it says it's going to do. It literally creates lubrication
(25:04):
to those shingles. It glues down the protective granular covering
what's left of it from the UV rays of the sun,
which keeps that roof from drying out. And you get
about five years and yeah, it's less expensive than putting
on a new roof. But you know, you still got
an older roof there that's eventually going to have to
be replaced. So that decision is yours, you know, I mean,
(25:29):
you just got to I think one of the questions
you know, you need to ask yourself is how long
am I going to be in the house and when
do I want to buy that roof, you know, and
if if I want to buy that roof right now,
you know, I'd go ahead and do it. If you
want to kick the can down the road, and you
might be moving in a year or two, uh, maybe
(25:51):
you put an additional coating on there, and you know,
you'll probably negotiate that when you sell the house, or
depending on where the housing is, you may not have
to negotiate it, and you might just be happy to
get a house, so that that's kind of your decision.
A metal roofing is absolutely the classic and roofing in
(26:13):
my opinion, And the same question gets asked, how long
do you plan on staying in that house? That metal
roofing's got a lifespan of almost fifty years, and it's
about two and a half times more expensive than a
shingled roof, so you know, yeah, so it's it's the
Cadillac of roofs. It's got a lot to offer. They're
(26:35):
absolutely gorgeous, they're beautiful, they're you know, more fire resistant,
they're more more insulating qualities to it, but they're not cheap.
So you're kind of looking at both sides of the
Teeter Totter. Metal roofing on one side and spray and
take the older roof out another five years, so I.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Would I probably would have the two roofs actually again
and pay a couple thousand dollars and it's ten years.
I'm going to be in the house ten years and
that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, or at the very least, maybe you
just get a quote on some roofing, you know, new
shingles and see what the cost is.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Good idea, Hey, good advice, Thank you sir.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
All right, Steve, did it? Thank you? Take care. Yeah.
I think I get asked that question a lot, and
it really is the question is a personal question. It's
really what you want to do. The roof, Bax is
not a new roof, so we're not going to you know,
we're not replacing a roof. You're extending the life of it.
(27:44):
And again, if he was going to say, well, I'm
probably going to sell this house next year, you know,
maybe you go ahead and put another coat on it.
It looks new, it looks great, it does what it says.
But on the other hand, if you're going to be
there for ten years, you know, you got this. You
put one coat on, you put another coat on, you know,
put another coat on. There's your ten years and then
it's like, oh, I wish I just put a new
(28:05):
roof on. So but that's a that's your decision. All right.
Let's go to uh Marion, Marion, welcome.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Hight there every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I have question about I have an older home that
was the rocks May Street, including the steps up to
the front porch man. Those steps. After fifty seventy years
of better days, the rocks are good. I would like
to put something smooth, like either concrete over the top
(28:42):
of the coating or something. I think they're pain in
the butt winter because they're not you know, that's set
an even surface to shovel or anything.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Right. Right, Well, when you say rocks, right, are are
you talking about big slabs of rock or what? What
kind of rocks are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
They're like liver rock. It's stayed of the same rocks
they used to build a out. It just set up
by the sights of the highway. I don't doubt over
here I'm in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Also, are those rocks mortared in or what are they
are they? How's the mortar doing.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I've done some dust pointing over the years. You know,
a little here and there when they come. When it
starts to look a little bit, then I get after
it stayed up on it. But they're really an emesis
in the bad weather, and I thought it would be well.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I understand that. I understand that. I'm just what are
those rocks resting on.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Slabs?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
So there is a slab there.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Underneath?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
So my guess is a little disadvantage here, Marion is
I can't see. But I wouldn't say that the answer
is to take a cementatious coating and do an overlay
over the rocks. I don't think that's going to be
a long term solution. If those rocks get a little loose,
(30:15):
if the mortar starts failing and gets rocking, then the
resurfacing's going to crumble. So I think you gon have
to get somebody come out. First of I have to
inspect it and see, you know exactly where that slab
is in terms of its lifespan. Then I think you're
gonna have to take off that top layer and then
maybe cap the surface of those with a cementatious coating
(30:40):
and you may be good to go. So I think
somebody's doing concrete work or get a mason out there
to take a look at it, because there's gonna be
some heavy lifting there getting that old rock off. And
then you know, concrete doesn't like to stick to concrete,
so you're gonna if you're using regular concrete, you almost
(31:00):
like it's gonna have to be an inch and a
half two inches thick. But then there's also some really
good resurfacing products out there. I talk about DICEH Coatings
a lot, and they got a new product. It's called Rockfix.
I always screw that up. It's Rockfix or rock patch,
and it is a nonsementatious surface coating. Once you got
(31:24):
that relatively smooth, you could trial this right on. It's
pre mixed, and you know that would have a good
lifespan on it as all as that sub base of
the concretes in good shape, I think you'd be good
to go on that. Yeah, if you go to their website,
(31:47):
it's dis d Ai c H Coatings dot com. All right,
all right, you're quite welcome, Thank you, bye bye. And
just as so, you know, I mean, whenever you're doing
you know, if it's a good non degrading concrete slab,
(32:08):
you can do all kinds of things. But when you
got rocks and you got mortars and things like that,
I think you're really looking at removing that, getting down
to a good base. And then if you still have
a good solid base, yeah, you're you can do multiple things.
The last couple of days or weeks, we've been talking
(32:28):
a lot about resurfacing concrete and there's all kinds of
products out there. There's some really inexpensive products that you know,
I'm not a fan of. I mean, you might get
five years of satisfaction out of it, but then you've
got other ones where you could, you know, nonsmentatious, you
(32:51):
could get fifteen twenty years out of it. Sure it's
more expensive, but I like it. It's easy. That's good.
And then you got the the other way where you're
making your cement, you're adding a bonder and you're putting
a cap on there. It's another option. All right, we'll
take a break, we'll come back. Mary, Michelle and Mary again.
Sit tight, you can join us. We're talking about your
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so they can get outside get some stuff done around
the home. I hope you can do the same. Our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
You need a little advice on what you're working on,
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Speaker 6 (36:42):
Yes, Gary, I have a put a permanent marker spot
on of a a piece of cloth and I'm just
wondering if you could help me to get it out.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Well, there's a lot of different Yeah, well, I think
the first thing I would do is probably use some
rubbing alcohol, so you know, get some paper towels underneath
on the other side of the cloth, all right, you know,
just to protect whatever you're going to clean that off with.
And then again you can use microfibercloth, cloth, cotton cloth,
(37:27):
even paper towels and put rubbing alcohol and just kind
of dab it. Even using a cotton ball might work.
Don't rub it, dab it because you want to have
that rubbing alcohol. Liquefy that and then absorb it. So
you don't want to get in there and start rubbing
it back and forth and just you're gonna have to
(37:50):
do it more in one time, So you just keep
repeating it until it fades, and then just go ahead
and rinse it, you know, with some cold water and
you know, wash it as usual after that. That's one option.
Another one is even using hairspray. Hairspray is a good
spot remover for inks, So again you would spray it on,
(38:15):
let this sit for you know, ten fifteen seconds, then
dab that again with a cotton cloth. There's alcohol in that,
and so it's kind of doing the same thing as
we had talked about. Even hand sanitizer that contains alcohol,
that's a gel that stays on there longer. That's another option.
(38:40):
A couple don't is and I already gave one where
you just don't scrub it, you blot it. And another thing,
don't put it in a dryer or you'll set that stain.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
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Speaker 6 (40:07):
Oh okay, all right, well we'll throw that alcohol all right,
they do hear alcohol.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
Good here too.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
There you go, Thank you much, appreciate it. And let's
go to another Mary Mary Welcome. Hello? Yes, is this
Michelle or Mary Mary? All right? That's who I wanted.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (40:32):
I live in a condo, a ranch style condo, and
we moved in about two years ago, and then we
put in a new Anderson storm door. And now every
winter or well since we've put it in, when it
drops blow like forty five degrees, it gets condensation all
over the door. Is there anything you can do about that?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Well? I think what it is is you're getting Well,
there's two things that will create condensation. One is a
clash between warm and cold temperatures. So if you have
a nice entry door and then you have a storm
door on the outside of it, that glass is cold
(41:16):
and there's maybe some air that's getting, you know, around
the sides of that entry door and getting trapped in
between that pocket of air and it's hitting that cold
glass and it's creating and it's creating water droplets compensation.
So is there anything you could do about it? Yeah?
I would check the weather stripping on the door, on
(41:39):
the main door, you know, make.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Sure I did try to put something at the bottom
to kind.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
Of keep that was one of the places.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, did it help it all?
Speaker 8 (41:50):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yea. So you could have leaks around the sides, the
tops and the bottom, and when that water gets or
when that air gets it's in there. Warm air carries
more humidity than cold air can. So if you have
warm air inside your home in the wintertime and it's
seeping through the sides of the door and it hits
(42:14):
that cold, slick surface glass, it can't hold that moisture
and it creates that comdensation. So that's the other equation
how much. And I think in your case it's probably
more of warm air hitting a cold, hard, slick surface
creating the condensation rather than too much humidity. But if
(42:38):
you wanted to check the humidity level in your home,
you know, when it gets real cold out, when it's
when it's freezing in below your home, humidity should be
around thirty five forty percent if you have a you yeah,
if you have a and that's in the winter time.
(42:58):
So when it's below free thirty five to forty percent
indoor humidity. If if you have like fifty five percent
sixty percent and it's fine this way, you're definitely gonna
have compensation. So you got to check humidity levels and
check your weather stripping, and if you get them both
(43:19):
in singing, there's a good chance you can rectify the problem.
Speaker 8 (43:24):
Okay, I can try that. We do have an april
ayer system, so maybe turn that down a little lower.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Well, you're going to have to get yourself some humidity gauge.
Put one up on the first floor, put one down
in the basement, and see where you are. You know,
If the first floor is reading thirty five forty percent
in winter, you know you're just gonna have to really
work on tightening that whole door up a little bit.
If you're getting readings of humidity fifty five percent, you
got to work on trying to lower your humidity and
(43:51):
that would be adjusting that humidifier.
Speaker 8 (43:56):
Okay, I can try that. Third thing I read was
something about like putting some holes in, drilling a hole
in the storm door.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Well, that's just yeah, let's not do that yet. Yeah,
let's not do that yet. Let's see if we can
work out on this. I don't think we want to
do that. We want to keep that good energy efficiency
of that door without drilling holes in if we can
avoid it. All right, taking your calls at eight hundred
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