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Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right, two weekends here, Welcome at home with Gary Salvan.
Another hour getting a few things done around the home.
Glad you could join me, and if you've got a
question regarding your home project, feel free to join us.
Got a couple open lines. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. All right, let's get back
(00:58):
to the phone calls. We'll start with Arles. Charles, welcome, Hi.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I have a basketball court and it is it has
a few chips in it, and I want to find
some kind of a self leveling coating I could put
over top of it to make it nice and smooth,
but something would hold up to snow and rain and
ice stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, there's a there's a couple of choices that we
can do here. It's not necessarily self leveling. I mean
you're going to have to distribute it. Okay, So let
me ask you a couple of questions here, Charles, you
mentioned that there's a couple dings and chips, and it's
(01:43):
it's normally referred to as spawling, and I call it
driveway acne. Is that what you're looking at, patching to
level it out? Or are you looking for a universal
over every square inch t for resurfacing.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh exactly, that something that would go over every every
square edge. Okay, but I wasn't sure what would work
against snow and ice.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, well, yeah, they've got they've they've gotten better and
better and better with this. So firstly, and there's even
some products out there now, Charles, that are non cementatious,
so they're they're a little tighter bond than an overlay.
(02:37):
So I'm going to tell you what the two things are,
and I'm gonna let you do a little investigation on
how you're gonna do. Are you going to do this
work yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Or yes? I am all right and actually huge this
is great because when I do a search on the internet,
there's a hundred Some of them are not very specific
on how the weather would Both of.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Them will do pretty well, okay, but a cementatious surface
is not going to be as good as a non
cementatious and the price will reflect that. What you know,
concrete absorbed stuff. Some of these man made urea products
(03:19):
don't absorb moisture, so the bond is tighter. And then
some resurfacers, depending on the quality, they don't have a
bonding agent which is critical to have it at last. Okay, So, okay,
that's really what you're looking for. So let's take for instance,
(03:42):
Quick Creek. They make and it's, you know, probably the
biggest concrete company out there for patching and resurfacing. They
make one called a concrete resurfacer. They're probably in about
the sixth generation of this. It is a cementatious product,
so it is cement baste. It has a bonding agent
(04:05):
in it. It would be a several step process. The
first thing you would do is you would take the
resurfacer and there is a ratio of mixture where you
mix a what I'll call a stiff mix. And what
you'll do is you will mix this in. It's almost
like a spackling compound for concrete. Okay, you mix this
(04:26):
stiff mix, and you'll take a putty knife and you'll
go around and you'll fill all the bigger dings. Right.
The resurface will cover cracks, small thin cracks and stuff,
but you definitely want to fill the divots, all right,
And is there any cracks that you're going to be
addressing in this.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
There are a few small cracks, but just a very few.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Are they thin like you could get a pencil lead
in and nuts about it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's probably about it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, all right, so those will get covered. We're not
going to worry about those. The divots. Yes, we're going
to go ahead and patch those. After you got those patched,
then you'll go back to the bag of resurfacer and
there will be a mix for the resurfacer. Now again,
remember when I mentioned bonding agent. This has a bonding
(05:19):
agent in the powder which will allow the resurfacer to
bite on the existing concrete. Critical, very critical.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Um.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You get a bag of sand mix and you brush on,
there's no bonding agent. It's not going to work. So
you take this resurfacer. You get a five gallon pail.
That's what you're gonna need xyz amount of water with
forty pounds of powdered resurfacer. If you don't have an
industrial drill with an industrial mixer, go rent one and
(05:52):
it will create a solution that is like an asphalt
driveway seiler. So it's thick, you know, and you're gonna
pour onto the surface and you're gonna distribute it with
the same thing you would do with an asphalt driveway.
It's a combination of a brush and squeegee and you're
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gonna surface. Yeah, you're gonna put a skim coat over that,
and it's you know, it's thick as a credit card,
and you'll resurface that it'll be a new finish. So
that's that's one. Then there's the one i'd step you
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up to is a product that you're gonna have to
get off the internet or from this company. It's called
Dish d A I C. H. Coatings dot com. They
have one called rock Patch comes in one gollon and
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three gallon pails. It's pre mixed, it's non cementatious, and
it is a coding So you would in both cases
you would powerwash the concrete. You clean it, you know,
I mean preps always the key, you know, get rid
of all the dirt, get rid of named mildew and everything.
(07:24):
You want to get it clean, and you will take
this and you don't. You can squeegee it on also,
or you can trial it on, so you got your choice.
They have a wonderful video on their website and it's
gonna be about I don't know, I haven't really done
(07:47):
the square footage thing, but I'm gonna wing it and
say the resurfacer will probably be about sixty cents of
square square foot and this one might be around maybe
a couple bucks of square foot, so it's going to
be a little better science behind it. I would say
(08:11):
that would be the more durable one to use. It's
it's relatively slip resistant also, so that's well, and so
is the other one. So you know, the only reason
I bring that up is there's some people that will
just want to coat it with a There is another
(08:33):
thing called spreadstone, but that would have to have a
when you get to that dish coatings, look at the
you know, the rock patch, but then look at this
spreadstone too. If you've patched the divots, I'm kind of
getting myself not lost, but I'm going to get you lost.
So if you go with the spread.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Stone, I see, I've got several options.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, you could, you know, and for the divot,
the spreadstone in the rock patch. The rock patch can
patch the divots also, and then you can trial that
rock patch over the whole surface. Or if you use
the rock patch, you could repair the divots and then
use a product called spread stone that you can actually
(09:18):
I'm pretty sure that's distributed by Squeegee.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Also, okay, so it's kind of a liquid.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah yeah, a heavy syrup. I always compared to away
asphalt driveway seiler, you know, where you pour it down
the bucket and it's kind of thick, and that's kind
of the consistency of it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But I have heard you talk about spreadstone a lot,
but I didn't realize it could handle cold and oh.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
In fact, it's actually made in Canada.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Oh okay, in Ontario, So okay, that's great.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, so take a look at those videos and then uh,
you know, the the other resurfacer you can pick up
at Lowe's Home Depot or your local hardware store either.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Way, Okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All right, good enough, thank you, take care all right. Yeah,
Coatings on Concrete has went oh my gosh in the
list ten years, like record breaking different products out there,
does a great, great job. All right. Uh, you can
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All right, back at it we go, talking a little
home improvement spot for you at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. And having said that, let's
get the mike Mike Welcome, Hello, Garny, Thank you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
So, my question is I just replaced the old stair
stairs that were carpeted with new red oak stair treads
and did the staining.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
And well, prior to that, I didn't what did they go?
Didn't use the conditioner because it was OK, it was
a hardwood.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
But I sanded them down and finished it with a
three twenty grit based on the instructions.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
So I've stained it.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
I put three coats of stain on it and then
I put the satin polyurethane on it.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But there's out of.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
The sixteen steps, there's like two spots that didn't soak in.
The stain is as well as I would have liked.
So all my research says on internet says they addressed
like stripping the whole stair our whole tread, excuse me,
and not just addressing like sanding. I got a spot
(14:37):
about the size of a quarter and one about the
size of the nickel, like in your experience, is there
anybody that's just sanded around that spot and then restained
and varnished it, or are I going to have to
do the.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Whole dark cred?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well, I hear you. I hear your frustration too. So
so why is that spot there? Do you have an idea?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
E whither?
Speaker 6 (15:01):
I didn't stand that spot well well enough?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right, So that's what I was asking.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I guess we are just.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
The the tread itself.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The yeah, the perosity of the wood, or the prep
or the application of the stain. I guess that's that's
what I'm asking too. So what do you think it is?
You think it's just if it's perosity, I think that's
a little different game, because no matter what you do there,
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we're not going to really change that.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Right.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
If I soak up the yeah, it's not going to
soak up the stain.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Over it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Is it right in the middle too?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Yeah, but it's high enough up that from the from
the first floor that you can't see it. You have
to be over the top of the step looking down
to see it. So most visitors aren't going to see
the stain, So just the family members coming.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Up and down in the fact that I know it's
there now.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, well it's going to drive you crazy more
than it's gonna drive that crazy. Probably, it's like me,
but a lot of things maybe is ther So the
your thing's on there already, right, so we got to get.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
That it is.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Okay, So.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Like all the internet and YouTube things, they all they
only address redoing the whole treat Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well it's funny.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well let let me answer it this way, because I
know what you want to do, and you want to
just do that spot, and my answer to you is
why not do that one spot? If it doesn't work out,
you're going to stand it down anyway, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're right.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
If if it doesn't work then I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Going to then you're gonna have to sit it down.
So you're standing for that area because i'd like to
know and I think you'd like to know too, And
it's something neither one of us know. Is is it
a porosity issue? Because you could you know, if you
stand down that whole thing and you restain it and
(17:12):
the same thing shows up, well, what are you gaining there?
So we might as well try and sand a little
bit of that, and then what you're gonna have to
do is, so let's just kind of talk this thing through.
So if you go to that area and you say, okay,
I'm gonna sand that, I got to get the euthane
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off or nothing's gonna happen in the stain, right, So
we'd take a you know, I don't care two inch
by two inch or three inch by three inch or whatever.
We're gonna stay in that area right to see where
it's natural wood, and then we're gonna stain it and
we're gonna see it's gonna be hard to tell if
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it's matching without having the euthane on it, but you'd
be able to see if it's.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Uniform, and that if.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's uniform, it should give you an indication that you're
on the right path, right, So okay, So then when
we get to that point, what I would do with
the whole tread then is I would take a four
hundred or six hundred grit wet dry sandpaper and go
(18:28):
over the entire tread, which is going to ubraid or
scratch up the existing your thane, which will allow it
to take another coat all right, and there should be
no difference in film, it'll be too thin. And so
what I do is then I would put on a
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coat of your thane over the whole tread, including the
pot that we got rid of the stain. Let that
dry and rinse and repeat, put about a couple of
codes on there.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
All right, Well that's what I was probably gonna do,
but but none of my research showed spot repair.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
They are well yeah, yeah, and even a professional would guy.
I mean, he's gonna have to play with it. The
bottom line knows just if it's not gonna take that
stain down, you're gonna end up doing the whole tread
or even replacing a tread anyway. So I would try that.
You have a real good idea without a whole lot
of work, and I think that's what we'd both be
(19:34):
looking for. All right, Thank you much for the call.
Let me know how you make out, and Paul Raymond Kirk,
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let's get back to the phone calls. It's eight hundred
eighty two three eight two five five.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Paul welcomes good money.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I was, well you, Pa starts saying you said Paul
and Raymond. Then how do they know my name? Raymond? I
got one hundred steps and I'll refine in to my steps.
And I'd like to know if you've got a stripper
that I put on those railings. I got about thirty
hour of to do, and.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Uh, I like you easy.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I like this to be easy. You got a striper
to put on air and just wipe it off?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
For well, what are we trying to strip.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The railly that the stair treads?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Well, we stripping paint or do what are we stripping
paint or varnish? Or what are we stripping?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Do your old varnish?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah? How about is it a natural color the wood
itself or what?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
No, kind of natural yes, but they've been painted on
a couple of places over one hundred years. Okay, I'm
trying to some kind of shape.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So yeah, there's you know, and we're indoors. And the
reason I'm asking these questions not trying to be uh
you know, evasive on it is a lot of times
people will see uh, golden oak banister with varnish on
it and they want to strip it off. And you'll
strip the varnish off, but you're not going to strip
(24:54):
stain off. You can strip varnish, you can strip your things,
you can strip paint, but you can't strip stain. So
there there's a there, there's a product called peel Away
and they make they actually make several different types of
(25:17):
strippers to handle several different types of coatings, and so
it gets a little it gets a little tricky. They're
they're they're one strippers called smart strip, okay, and smart
strip will do a lot of your more modern coatings
(25:39):
and then when you get into you know, other type
maybe like lead based paints. There's a product called peel Away.
Then there's one called smart strip Pro and they actually
have a little ten dollars test kit where you try
these different strippers to see which one's going to be
the most effective. And I'd recommend getting that ten dollars
(26:05):
test kit and make sure we get the right stripper
if you want to take a flyer. Like I said,
the more modern the strippers are is that Smart strip Pro,
which is an outstanding stripper, it really is, but you
got to make sure that we got the right type
of codings for that type of stripper. Okay, so here's
(26:30):
here's your assignment. Okay, you can you can get the
strippers that like do it best hardware stores. You can
get it at Sherwin Williams. I believe as Sherwin Williams
they now have the ten dollars test kits in there.
Go in and talk to them and get one of
these test kits. Paul, It'll be it'll be well worth
(26:53):
your while. One of them, I guarantee is going to
strip that off because you got a combination of varnishes,
you got some pain let's do this thing right, especially
if you got as much as you have.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Well, if I got away, and I think I can
answer my question, but I'll ask you to anyhow can
I put a stain in that mornings when I put
it back to do the one step there?
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Or what?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I would not? Can you? Yes? But I would not.
And here's why. If you go over that with a
varnish stain, So there there's oil stains and then there's
combination of varnish and stain. It kind of functions as
a paint so it doesn't penetrate down into the wood
(27:38):
to get that nice wood grain look. It kind of
looks like stained paint. It covers up the covers up
a lot of the grain, and it also is a
surface coating. It doesn't penetrate into the woods, so it
can be prone to chipping down the road.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Fats Okay, all right, you got me, Thank.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You all good luck, send pictures. Thank you very much.
All right, let's go to Raymond Rayvend Welcome.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Hi Gary, thank you for taking my call. My question.
My question has to do with my asphalt driveway ceiling.
The past August, I had the driveway sealed with the
asphalt seiler by a professional person who does driveways, and
(28:36):
they looked beautiful. And come February we had our first snowstorm,
and when my cloud person arrived to plow the driveway,
I noticed when he pushed the snow, the snow had
all the coloration of dirty snow, which is black, almost
looked like foot And unbeknownst to me, uh, what happened
(29:01):
is that he apparently had peeled off the entire ceilant
off the driveway like it came off like Walter. So
I guess my question is whether or not I used
wrong seal it if you had ever heard of such
a thing before, and what can I do differently so
that happened.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Again, that's good, that's a good question. I haven't really
run into that, but I can see how it happens
because there's been a you know, universal change in a
way driveway seilers are made. Now you can get how
old is the driveway to begin with, and has there
been multiple seilers on there?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
Twenty five years old? This is the first time it's
ever been sealed.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Okay, all right? And do you know what type of
sealant they used? It was a commercial company.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
Right, yes it was. But I do know that he
you a product from one of the big orange box stores.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Do you know what it was?
Speaker 10 (30:09):
I don't know the manufacturer of the product. All I
know is that we come. They sell in three different grades.
He took the highest of the three grades.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, Okay, my suspicions are probably correct. So there are
different seilers. And remember when I said there's been a
big change in the type of seilers that are being
used on driveways. It used to be we had that
you know, old coal tar that you put on there.
It almost literally baked into the asphalt. It became there.
(30:43):
There was a coating on there, but it kind of
became one, all right, and then we you know, the
coal tars kind of out and then we get into
different water base and acrylic seilers, which are fantastic. I mean,
that top the line seiler, I'll give you the good
news first, is probably going to last you ten years,
(31:08):
seven to ten years, depending on which quality it was.
It is an acrylic seialer. Acrylics don't penetrate like coal
tars do. But that's kind of what we're using now, okay,
for residential applications, and people want it to last long
(31:30):
and be fade resistant. So there are different manufacturers that
make varying degrees of driveway seiler. There's some that go
two years that's the lifespan, a two year, five year,
seven year, and a ten year lifespan. And that ten
(31:54):
year top of this particular line that I'm familiar with,
it's the last you ten years against the sun. It
is a gel, so it's kind of like paint, so
there's not a lot of penetration. So if you did
(32:15):
that to your driveway and you had a little snowblower
or a shovel, yeah, it's not gonna hurt anything. You
get somebody that's got a plow. I could see where
that could happen. Yes, So the only way you're going
to confirm that is to get with the company with
(32:38):
the seiler. But that would be my guess. How long
had it been down? Just out of curiosity. I don't
think it makes any difference.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
I'm just curious, Well August it was applied and for
most that we just have for this year was in February.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, yeah, and it's ever been yeah. So so I
would say, you know, penetration of these higher quality seilers
are challenged. I'm not saying I just don't. I do
not know the answer that if it could stand up
to a mechanical plow, And that's basically the question, right right,
(33:22):
And the only way you're going to do that is
get that brand. And if it came from the Orange
box store, it's probably Henry Henry brand, and and call
their technical services.
Speaker 10 (33:37):
All right, And you think the brand from that box
store is an acrylic I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I'm guessing it's one of the higher end acrylic driveway seilers.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Okay, and then what are your thoughts on the water
based seilers that you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Well, well, Cryllic would be a water based seiler. Oh okay,
So so I think they're awesome. I mean, to be
honest with you, I think they really really are good.
This is the first issue I've heard about it. I mean,
they stay, they don't fade. You know, Whenever you can
get eight to ten years out of an asphalt driveway sealer,
(34:17):
I'm I'm all game. But again, you know, I don't
I don't know if that's used commercially where there's people
with you know, plows that are going to plow a
parking lot. I don't know, And I suspect that's the issue.
But I don't but I but I don't know that
(34:38):
for sure. That's why I said i'd get to their
technical services. And you know, maybe that shouldn't have been
used if you were going to use a plot. And
I know we're second guessing and we're looking back, but
I'd be curious on the answer myself.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Yes, I just don't want to repeat the same stake.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Twice, right, right, and I and again and I I
I don't know if I'm right. It's logical to me
that I am.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Yeah, I agree with you, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
All right, let me know.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
You.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Thank you, you bet, bye bye. It's a tough question.
It's a good question. I'd like to know myself. All right.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
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kind of adding on it because I've been thinking thinking
about the whole asphaltse seiler, and I don't want to
give the new asphalt sealers a bad name because they
are truly they're awesome. And if it was old sealer anyway,
I got to thinking about the whole you know, we're
focusing on the seiler and if you're a person that
(38:40):
makes a living plowing driveways, maybe you can help me
out here. But I had a concrete driveway plowed one time,
and it was probably ten twelve years ago. I was
out of town at a convention and I called somebody
(39:01):
to you know, plow the driveway. And when I got
home there was some dings, dens and scratches in concrete
and it wasn't that bad. But so if there's that
much force, and I don't know if there's you know,
whether what precautions are taking, Is there a rubber guard
(39:23):
on the plow, et cetera, et cetera, or is that common?
But it seems to me if you were plowing a
driveway that was asphalt and had, you know, a thick
coating of sealer on the top that doesn't penetrate like
concrete on the top, it could be subject to peeling.
(39:47):
Almost makes sense. But it'll be interesting to see what
he finds out. And I'll do some more research also,
But if you got an answer on that, we could
chat about that also. All right, let's go to Kurt Kirk. Welcome, Hey, Gary, Yes.
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Hey, I really learned a lot from your show man.
I appreciate that, but hey, listen, I've been there twenty
seven years. I got a bare basement floor. I screwed
a couple of eye ups in my sump pump so
I can lit the cover up easy. I got to
wipe the schmuss off of it. Do I need to
replace the ball mat?
Speaker 6 (40:25):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So tell me what's going on. You pulled the lid off,
you say, you.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Know I can.
Speaker 11 (40:34):
I pull the lid up on my sump pump and
I wiped the schmus off the ball. Maybe I need
to replace the ball so it just does it automatic?
Speaker 8 (40:45):
You know it works good?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well, you need to have that float, that ball to
activate the switch in the pump. So maybe that is
the case. Is there a crack in it or anything?
We're getting water in it?
Speaker 11 (41:02):
You know, I haven't pulled it out.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I don't know, but it works good.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
The switch works then right? Oh yeah, So if the
switch works, what's not working is the pump not activating?
Speaker 11 (41:16):
Then well, my guess would be the the ball's not
working right to turn it on and I can shake it.
I can shake the upper out pipe and they could
come on that a way.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, when you're testing it. Are you lifting the ball,
Are you lifting the switch or what are you lifting
up to engage it?
Speaker 11 (41:43):
I'm just slipping the ball.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Ever, so you have a float, it floats and you're
lifting that.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Ball up, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Okay, Well, I can tell you that probably the most
vulnerable spot on a sump pump is the switch. So
that the float that I'm thinking about is called a
float switch. So it's tethered to the pipe, to the
(42:15):
stanchion pipe, and it's floating. And if you take that
ball and you pull it out of the sump pump
and it stands straight up and it works, it seems
to me that that would be activating the switch. But
to answer your question, probably the ball, isn't it, Gary, Yeah,
it probably is that whole mechanism, or there's a loose
(42:37):
connection because it sounds weird. I don't know why when
you shake that pipe the sump pump activates. So is
there just a loose wire? I don't know.
Speaker 11 (42:48):
Okay, all right, anyway, I can get got another question
for you. All Right, we had a little rainy last week,
you know up here, and I've got water come up
through my floor gently like all of nowhere, Mike, it's
thinking from the top. It just like there's a wet
(43:11):
spot over there's a wet spot.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, we had a whole bunch
of rain, and what's going on there when you have
a whole bunch of rain and the you know, the
drain pipes around your home probably aren't really functioning. Their clog,
they're crushed, they're broken, and the water table beneath your house,
kurt is rising and we all have a water table
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and it begins to just kind of soak through the
lowest areas of the concrete and it starts getting wet.
And you know what we got to do is we
got a water control, which is perimeter drains, all right,
or even drains underneath that slab there's nothing. There's certainly
a product like dry lock Clear, which is a waterproofing
(43:59):
paint that can be put on floors, but you know,
there's a bigger issue. You've got too much water that's
not being controlled around that foundation and underneath that floor.
And again the killer g's that we talk about. Make
sure those gutters aren't clogged, okay, g gutters. Make sure
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there's no ground water puddling around the foundation. Okay, groundwater
that's a G. And the last thing is degrating, making
sure that the soil slopes away from the house a
good six feet, not towards the house. I hope that
all helps. We covered a lot right there. Jerry Bald
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to the phone calls. We'll start with Arles. Charles, welcome, Hi.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I have a basketball court and it is it has
a few chips in it, and I want to find
some kind of a self leveling coating I could put
over top of it to make it nice and smooth,
but something would hold up to snow and rain and
ice stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, there's a there's a couple of choices that we
can do here. It's not necessarily self leveling. I mean
you're going to have to distribute it. Okay, So let
me ask you a couple of questions here, Charles, you
mentioned that there's a couple dings and chips, and it's
(01:43):
it's normally referred to as spawling, and I call it
driveway acne. Is that what you're looking at, patching to
level it out? Or are you looking for a universal
over every square inch t for resurfacing.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh exactly, that something that would go over every every
square edge. Okay, but I wasn't sure what would work
against snow and ice.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, well, yeah, they've got they've they've gotten better and
better and better with this. So firstly, and there's even
some products out there now, Charles, that are non cementatious,
so they're they're a little tighter bond than an overlay.
(02:37):
So I'm going to tell you what the two things are,
and I'm gonna let you do a little investigation on
how you're gonna do. Are you going to do this
work yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Or yes? I am all right and actually huge this
is great because when I do a search on the internet,
there's a hundred Some of them are not very specific
on how the weather would Both of.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Them will do pretty well, okay, but a cementatious surface
is not going to be as good as a non
cementatious and the price will reflect that. What you know,
concrete absorbed stuff. Some of these man made urea products
(03:19):
don't absorb moisture, so the bond is tighter. And then
some resurfacers, depending on the quality, they don't have a
bonding agent which is critical to have it at last. Okay, So, okay,
that's really what you're looking for. So let's take for instance,
(03:42):
Quick Creek. They make and it's, you know, probably the
biggest concrete company out there for patching and resurfacing. They
make one called a concrete resurfacer. They're probably in about
the sixth generation of this. It is a cementatious product,
so it is cement baste. It has a bonding agent
(04:05):
in it. It would be a several step process. The
first thing you would do is you would take the
resurfacer and there is a ratio of mixture where you
mix a what I'll call a stiff mix. And what
you'll do is you will mix this in. It's almost
like a spackling compound for concrete. Okay, you mix this
(04:26):
stiff mix, and you'll take a putty knife and you'll
go around and you'll fill all the bigger dings. Right.
The resurface will cover cracks, small thin cracks and stuff,
but you definitely want to fill the divots, all right,
And is there any cracks that you're going to be
addressing in this.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
There are a few small cracks, but just a very few.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Are they thin like you could get a pencil lead
in and nuts about it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's probably about it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, all right, so those will get covered. We're not
going to worry about those. The divots. Yes, we're going
to go ahead and patch those. After you got those patched,
then you'll go back to the bag of resurfacer and
there will be a mix for the resurfacer. Now again,
remember when I mentioned bonding agent. This has a bonding
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agent in the powder which will allow the resurfacer to
bite on the existing concrete. Critical, very critical.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Um.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You get a bag of sand mix and you brush on,
there's no bonding agent. It's not going to work. So
you take this resurfacer. You get a five gallon pail.
That's what you're gonna need xyz amount of water with
forty pounds of powdered resurfacer. If you don't have an
industrial drill with an industrial mixer, go rent one and
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it will create a solution that is like an asphalt
driveway seiler. So it's thick, you know, and you're gonna
pour onto the surface and you're gonna distribute it with
the same thing you would do with an asphalt driveway.
It's a combination of a brush and squeegee and you're
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gonna surface. Yeah, you're gonna put a skim coat over that,
and it's you know, it's thick as a credit card,
and you'll resurface that it'll be a new finish. So
that's that's one. Then there's the one i'd step you
(06:36):
up to is a product that you're gonna have to
get off the internet or from this company. It's called
Dish d A I C. H. Coatings dot com. They
have one called rock Patch comes in one gollon and
(07:01):
three gallon pails. It's pre mixed, it's non cementatious, and
it is a coding So you would in both cases
you would powerwash the concrete. You clean it, you know,
I mean preps always the key, you know, get rid
of all the dirt, get rid of named mildew and everything.
(07:24):
You want to get it clean, and you will take
this and you don't. You can squeegee it on also,
or you can trial it on, so you got your choice.
They have a wonderful video on their website and it's
gonna be about I don't know, I haven't really done
(07:47):
the square footage thing, but I'm gonna wing it and
say the resurfacer will probably be about sixty cents of
square square foot and this one might be around maybe
a couple bucks of square foot, so it's going to
be a little better science behind it. I would say
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that would be the more durable one to use. It's
it's relatively slip resistant also, so that's well, and so
is the other one. So you know, the only reason
I bring that up is there's some people that will
just want to coat it with a There is another
(08:33):
thing called spreadstone, but that would have to have a
when you get to that dish coatings, look at the
you know, the rock patch, but then look at this
spreadstone too. If you've patched the divots, I'm kind of
getting myself not lost, but I'm going to get you lost.
So if you go with the spread.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Stone, I see, I've got several options.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, you could, you know, and for the divot,
the spreadstone in the rock patch. The rock patch can
patch the divots also, and then you can trial that
rock patch over the whole surface. Or if you use
the rock patch, you could repair the divots and then
use a product called spread stone that you can actually
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I'm pretty sure that's distributed by Squeegee.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Also, okay, so it's kind of a liquid.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah yeah, a heavy syrup. I always compared to away
asphalt driveway seiler, you know, where you pour it down
the bucket and it's kind of thick, and that's kind
of the consistency of it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But I have heard you talk about spreadstone a lot,
but I didn't realize it could handle cold and oh.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
In fact, it's actually made in Canada.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Oh okay, in Ontario, So okay, that's great.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, so take a look at those videos and then uh,
you know, the the other resurfacer you can pick up
at Lowe's Home Depot or your local hardware store either.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Way, Okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All right, good enough, thank you, take care all right. Yeah,
Coatings on Concrete has went oh my gosh in the
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All right, back at it we go, talking a little
home improvement spot for you at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. And having said that, let's
get the mike Mike Welcome, Hello, Garny, Thank you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
So, my question is I just replaced the old stair
stairs that were carpeted with new red oak stair treads
and did the staining.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
And well, prior to that, I didn't what did they go?
Didn't use the conditioner because it was OK, it was
a hardwood.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
But I sanded them down and finished it with a
three twenty grit based on the instructions.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
So I've stained it.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
I put three coats of stain on it and then
I put the satin polyurethane on it.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But there's out of.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
The sixteen steps, there's like two spots that didn't soak in.
The stain is as well as I would have liked.
So all my research says on internet says they addressed
like stripping the whole stair our whole tread, excuse me,
and not just addressing like sanding. I got a spot
(14:37):
about the size of a quarter and one about the
size of the nickel, like in your experience, is there
anybody that's just sanded around that spot and then restained
and varnished it, or are I going to have to
do the.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Whole dark cred?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well, I hear you. I hear your frustration too. So
so why is that spot there? Do you have an idea?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
E whither?
Speaker 6 (15:01):
I didn't stand that spot well well enough?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right, So that's what I was asking.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I guess we are just.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
The the tread itself.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The yeah, the perosity of the wood, or the prep
or the application of the stain. I guess that's that's
what I'm asking too. So what do you think it is?
You think it's just if it's perosity, I think that's
a little different game, because no matter what you do there,
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we're not going to really change that.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Right.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
If I soak up the yeah, it's not going to
soak up the stain.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Over it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Is it right in the middle too?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Yeah, but it's high enough up that from the from
the first floor that you can't see it. You have
to be over the top of the step looking down
to see it. So most visitors aren't going to see
the stain, So just the family members coming.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Up and down in the fact that I know it's
there now.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, well it's going to drive you crazy more
than it's gonna drive that crazy. Probably, it's like me,
but a lot of things maybe is ther So the
your thing's on there already, right, so we got to get.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
That it is.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Okay, So.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Like all the internet and YouTube things, they all they
only address redoing the whole treat Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well it's funny.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well let let me answer it this way, because I
know what you want to do, and you want to
just do that spot, and my answer to you is
why not do that one spot? If it doesn't work out,
you're going to stand it down anyway, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're right.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
If if it doesn't work then I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Going to then you're gonna have to sit it down.
So you're standing for that area because i'd like to
know and I think you'd like to know too, And
it's something neither one of us know. Is is it
a porosity issue? Because you could you know, if you
stand down that whole thing and you restain it and
(17:12):
the same thing shows up, well, what are you gaining there?
So we might as well try and sand a little
bit of that, and then what you're gonna have to
do is, so let's just kind of talk this thing through.
So if you go to that area and you say, okay,
I'm gonna sand that, I got to get the euthane
(17:34):
off or nothing's gonna happen in the stain, right, So
we'd take a you know, I don't care two inch
by two inch or three inch by three inch or whatever.
We're gonna stay in that area right to see where
it's natural wood, and then we're gonna stain it and
we're gonna see it's gonna be hard to tell if
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it's matching without having the euthane on it, but you'd
be able to see if it's.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Uniform, and that if.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's uniform, it should give you an indication that you're
on the right path, right, So okay, So then when
we get to that point, what I would do with
the whole tread then is I would take a four
hundred or six hundred grit wet dry sandpaper and go
(18:28):
over the entire tread, which is going to ubraid or
scratch up the existing your thane, which will allow it
to take another coat all right, and there should be
no difference in film, it'll be too thin. And so
what I do is then I would put on a
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coat of your thane over the whole tread, including the
pot that we got rid of the stain. Let that
dry and rinse and repeat, put about a couple of
codes on there.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
All right, Well that's what I was probably gonna do,
but but none of my research showed spot repair.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
They are well yeah, yeah, and even a professional would guy.
I mean, he's gonna have to play with it. The
bottom line knows just if it's not gonna take that
stain down, you're gonna end up doing the whole tread
or even replacing a tread anyway. So I would try that.
You have a real good idea without a whole lot
of work, and I think that's what we'd both be
(19:34):
looking for. All right, Thank you much for the call.
Let me know how you make out, and Paul Raymond Kirk,
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Gary Sulivan. By the way, if you happen to miss
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take take a listen to good little two three point
bullet points and things to check around your home. All right,
let's get back to the phone calls. It's eight hundred
eighty two three eight two five five.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Paul welcomes good money.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I was, well you, Pa starts saying you said Paul
and Raymond. Then how do they know my name? Raymond? I
got one hundred steps and I'll refine in to my steps.
And I'd like to know if you've got a stripper
that I put on those railings. I got about thirty
hour of to do, and.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Uh, I like you easy.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I like this to be easy. You got a striper
to put on air and just wipe it off?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
For well, what are we trying to strip.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The railly that the stair treads?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Well, we stripping paint or do what are we stripping
paint or varnish? Or what are we stripping?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Do your old varnish?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah? How about is it a natural color the wood
itself or what?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
No, kind of natural yes, but they've been painted on
a couple of places over one hundred years. Okay, I'm
trying to some kind of shape.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So yeah, there's you know, and we're indoors. And the
reason I'm asking these questions not trying to be uh
you know, evasive on it is a lot of times
people will see uh, golden oak banister with varnish on
it and they want to strip it off. And you'll
strip the varnish off, but you're not going to strip
(24:54):
stain off. You can strip varnish, you can strip your things,
you can strip paint, but you can't strip stain. So
there there's a there, there's a product called peel Away
and they make they actually make several different types of
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strippers to handle several different types of coatings, and so
it gets a little it gets a little tricky. They're
they're they're one strippers called smart strip, okay, and smart
strip will do a lot of your more modern coatings
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and then when you get into you know, other type
maybe like lead based paints. There's a product called peel Away.
Then there's one called smart strip Pro and they actually
have a little ten dollars test kit where you try
these different strippers to see which one's going to be
the most effective. And I'd recommend getting that ten dollars
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test kit and make sure we get the right stripper
if you want to take a flyer. Like I said,
the more modern the strippers are is that Smart strip Pro,
which is an outstanding stripper, it really is, but you
got to make sure that we got the right type
of codings for that type of stripper. Okay, so here's
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here's your assignment. Okay, you can you can get the
strippers that like do it best hardware stores. You can
get it at Sherwin Williams. I believe as Sherwin Williams
they now have the ten dollars test kits in there.
Go in and talk to them and get one of
these test kits. Paul, It'll be it'll be well worth
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your while. One of them, I guarantee is going to
strip that off because you got a combination of varnishes,
you got some pain let's do this thing right, especially
if you got as much as you have.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Well, if I got away, and I think I can
answer my question, but I'll ask you to anyhow can
I put a stain in that mornings when I put
it back to do the one step there?
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Or what?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I would not? Can you? Yes? But I would not.
And here's why. If you go over that with a
varnish stain, So there there's oil stains and then there's
combination of varnish and stain. It kind of functions as
a paint so it doesn't penetrate down into the wood
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to get that nice wood grain look. It kind of
looks like stained paint. It covers up the covers up
a lot of the grain, and it also is a
surface coating. It doesn't penetrate into the woods, so it
can be prone to chipping down the road.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Fats Okay, all right, you got me, Thank.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You all good luck, send pictures. Thank you very much.
All right, let's go to Raymond Rayvend Welcome.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Hi Gary, thank you for taking my call. My question.
My question has to do with my asphalt driveway ceiling.
The past August, I had the driveway sealed with the
asphalt seiler by a professional person who does driveways, and
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they looked beautiful. And come February we had our first snowstorm,
and when my cloud person arrived to plow the driveway,
I noticed when he pushed the snow, the snow had
all the coloration of dirty snow, which is black, almost
looked like foot And unbeknownst to me, uh, what happened
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is that he apparently had peeled off the entire ceilant
off the driveway like it came off like Walter. So
I guess my question is whether or not I used
wrong seal it if you had ever heard of such
a thing before, and what can I do differently so
that happened.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Again, that's good, that's a good question. I haven't really
run into that, but I can see how it happens
because there's been a you know, universal change in a
way driveway seilers are made. Now you can get how
old is the driveway to begin with, and has there
been multiple seilers on there?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
Twenty five years old? This is the first time it's
ever been sealed.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Okay, all right? And do you know what type of
sealant they used? It was a commercial company.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
Right, yes it was. But I do know that he
you a product from one of the big orange box stores.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Do you know what it was?
Speaker 10 (30:09):
I don't know the manufacturer of the product. All I
know is that we come. They sell in three different grades.
He took the highest of the three grades.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, Okay, my suspicions are probably correct. So there are
different seilers. And remember when I said there's been a
big change in the type of seilers that are being
used on driveways. It used to be we had that
you know, old coal tar that you put on there.
It almost literally baked into the asphalt. It became there.
(30:43):
There was a coating on there, but it kind of
became one, all right, and then we you know, the
coal tars kind of out and then we get into
different water base and acrylic seilers, which are fantastic. I mean,
that top the line seiler, I'll give you the good
news first, is probably going to last you ten years,
(31:08):
seven to ten years, depending on which quality it was.
It is an acrylic seialer. Acrylics don't penetrate like coal
tars do. But that's kind of what we're using now, okay,
for residential applications, and people want it to last long
(31:30):
and be fade resistant. So there are different manufacturers that
make varying degrees of driveway seiler. There's some that go
two years that's the lifespan, a two year, five year,
seven year, and a ten year lifespan. And that ten
(31:54):
year top of this particular line that I'm familiar with,
it's the last you ten years against the sun. It
is a gel, so it's kind of like paint, so
there's not a lot of penetration. So if you did
(32:15):
that to your driveway and you had a little snowblower
or a shovel, yeah, it's not gonna hurt anything. You
get somebody that's got a plow. I could see where
that could happen. Yes, So the only way you're going
to confirm that is to get with the company with
(32:38):
the seiler. But that would be my guess. How long
had it been down? Just out of curiosity. I don't
think it makes any difference.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
I'm just curious, Well August it was applied and for
most that we just have for this year was in February.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, yeah, and it's ever been yeah. So so I
would say, you know, penetration of these higher quality seilers
are challenged. I'm not saying I just don't. I do
not know the answer that if it could stand up
to a mechanical plow, And that's basically the question, right right,
(33:22):
And the only way you're going to do that is
get that brand. And if it came from the Orange
box store, it's probably Henry Henry brand, and and call
their technical services.
Speaker 10 (33:37):
All right, And you think the brand from that box
store is an acrylic I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I'm guessing it's one of the higher end acrylic driveway seilers.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Okay, and then what are your thoughts on the water
based seilers that you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Well, well, Cryllic would be a water based seiler. Oh okay,
So so I think they're awesome. I mean, to be
honest with you, I think they really really are good.
This is the first issue I've heard about it. I mean,
they stay, they don't fade. You know, Whenever you can
get eight to ten years out of an asphalt driveway sealer,
(34:17):
I'm I'm all game. But again, you know, I don't
I don't know if that's used commercially where there's people
with you know, plows that are going to plow a
parking lot. I don't know, And I suspect that's the issue.
But I don't but I but I don't know that
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for sure. That's why I said i'd get to their
technical services. And you know, maybe that shouldn't have been
used if you were going to use a plot. And
I know we're second guessing and we're looking back, but
I'd be curious on the answer myself.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Yes, I just don't want to repeat the same stake.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Twice, right, right, and I and again and I I
I don't know if I'm right. It's logical to me
that I am.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Yeah, I agree with you, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
All right, let me know.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
You.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Thank you, you bet, bye bye. It's a tough question.
It's a good question. I'd like to know myself. All right.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
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we go at home with Gary Salivan. You know, just
kind of adding on it because I've been thinking thinking
about the whole asphaltse seiler, and I don't want to
give the new asphalt sealers a bad name because they
are truly they're awesome. And if it was old sealer anyway,
I got to thinking about the whole you know, we're
focusing on the seiler and if you're a person that
(38:40):
makes a living plowing driveways, maybe you can help me
out here. But I had a concrete driveway plowed one time,
and it was probably ten twelve years ago. I was
out of town at a convention and I called somebody
(39:01):
to you know, plow the driveway. And when I got
home there was some dings, dens and scratches in concrete
and it wasn't that bad. But so if there's that
much force, and I don't know if there's you know,
whether what precautions are taking, Is there a rubber guard
(39:23):
on the plow, et cetera, et cetera, or is that common?
But it seems to me if you were plowing a
driveway that was asphalt and had, you know, a thick
coating of sealer on the top that doesn't penetrate like
concrete on the top, it could be subject to peeling.
(39:47):
Almost makes sense. But it'll be interesting to see what
he finds out. And I'll do some more research also,
But if you got an answer on that, we could
chat about that also. All right, let's go to Kurt Kirk. Welcome, Hey, Gary, Yes.
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Hey, I really learned a lot from your show man.
I appreciate that, but hey, listen, I've been there twenty
seven years. I got a bare basement floor. I screwed
a couple of eye ups in my sump pump so
I can lit the cover up easy. I got to
wipe the schmuss off of it. Do I need to
replace the ball mat?
Speaker 6 (40:25):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So tell me what's going on. You pulled the lid off,
you say, you.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Know I can.
Speaker 11 (40:34):
I pull the lid up on my sump pump and
I wiped the schmus off the ball. Maybe I need
to replace the ball so it just does it automatic?
Speaker 8 (40:45):
You know it works good?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well, you need to have that float, that ball to
activate the switch in the pump. So maybe that is
the case. Is there a crack in it or anything?
We're getting water in it?
Speaker 11 (41:02):
You know, I haven't pulled it out.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I don't know, but it works good.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
The switch works then right? Oh yeah, So if the
switch works, what's not working is the pump not activating?
Speaker 11 (41:16):
Then well, my guess would be the the ball's not
working right to turn it on and I can shake it.
I can shake the upper out pipe and they could
come on that a way.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, when you're testing it. Are you lifting the ball,
Are you lifting the switch or what are you lifting
up to engage it?
Speaker 11 (41:43):
I'm just slipping the ball.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Ever, so you have a float, it floats and you're
lifting that.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Ball up, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Okay, Well, I can tell you that probably the most
vulnerable spot on a sump pump is the switch. So
that the float that I'm thinking about is called a
float switch. So it's tethered to the pipe, to the
(42:15):
stanchion pipe, and it's floating. And if you take that
ball and you pull it out of the sump pump
and it stands straight up and it works, it seems
to me that that would be activating the switch. But
to answer your question, probably the ball, isn't it, Gary, Yeah,
it probably is that whole mechanism, or there's a loose
(42:37):
connection because it sounds weird. I don't know why when
you shake that pipe the sump pump activates. So is
there just a loose wire? I don't know.
Speaker 11 (42:48):
Okay, all right, anyway, I can get got another question
for you. All Right, we had a little rainy last week,
you know up here, and I've got water come up
through my floor gently like all of nowhere, Mike, it's
thinking from the top. It just like there's a wet
(43:11):
spot over there's a wet spot.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, we had a whole bunch
of rain, and what's going on there when you have
a whole bunch of rain and the you know, the
drain pipes around your home probably aren't really functioning. Their clog,
they're crushed, they're broken, and the water table beneath your house,
kurt is rising and we all have a water table
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and it begins to just kind of soak through the
lowest areas of the concrete and it starts getting wet.
And you know what we got to do is we
got a water control, which is perimeter drains, all right,
or even drains underneath that slab there's nothing. There's certainly
a product like dry lock Clear, which is a waterproofing
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paint that can be put on floors, but you know,
there's a bigger issue. You've got too much water that's
not being controlled around that foundation and underneath that floor.
And again the killer g's that we talk about. Make
sure those gutters aren't clogged, okay, g gutters. Make sure
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there's no ground water puddling around the foundation. Okay, groundwater
that's a G. And the last thing is degrating, making
sure that the soil slopes away from the house a
good six feet, not towards the house. I hope that
all helps. We covered a lot right there. Jerry Bald
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