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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, welcome now re number two at home with Gerry Salton.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's okay outside, not exactly gorgeous, but rain the mar too,
so anyway we can.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Talk a little home improvement.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Happy to take your calls at five one three seventy
nine fifty five hundred and we'll take your calls about
your home projects.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Until one o'clock the day. All right here on fifty
five KR see Zecok station. Well, it's the weekend. Welcome aboard.
You are at home with Jerry Salivan. Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're talking about home projects, maintenance, repair and as you know,
depending on whether it's been a little challenging. I know
the south and southeast has been pretty wet, Midwest has
been pretty wet, Northwest is pretty wet.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know, it's been kind.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Of a damp and dreary year. I'm not sure about
the folks out west. They've probably they got their swing
and upturns and downturns and weather too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Every year is a little challenging. This one a little
bit more than usual.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And I've been preaching if you want outdoor work done
by a service provider, better get on the phone because
if and when weather really breaks, there's gonna be a
big backup demand, whether it's a chimney repair, brick repair,
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new concrete. I mean they're getting it done. I'm just
giving you just a heads up. It might be a
little slower than you and anticipated, so get that project
moving again. Our phone number is eight hundred and eight
two three A two five five. As we talk about
your home projects, and let's go to Jim.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Welcome, Hey Gary, how you doing? Love your show?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I have a question about it. Helping a friend out
at our house and over the years in her garage
where she parks the car, the man has kind of
popped from you know, the salt and stuff and getting wet.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Fall.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I put a rints on it, you know, salt to
get rid of the salt. That was one thing. I'll
do it again, get ready to do it again. Is
there a type of steeler you can put on and
also something that would fill those little holes in and
make it even And I'm thinking about chair. She wants
to have maybe the gratch for done like a pox here.
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I've been looking at that rock solid so scared advice.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, so a very common problem, especially in colder climates
and that I preached probably the last three weeks of
just looking at that. Condition is called spawling, and a
lot of times it's just the growth of nature of
rock salt that we drag in our cars.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It creates us salty brain solution.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
When it melts in our garage, and in a lot
of cases it sits there, sits there till it dries out,
and then it's raining and we pull a car in,
it kind of re intensifies and then we have more
salty brine solution. It's corrosive and that's what creates the
the spawling. So yeah, you there is definitely a seiler
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for garage floors, and there are a lot of specific
driveway ceilers. A driveway ceiler and we can talk about
exactly what you want to look like and how it's
going to be created. But the patching, we get a
good and clean we you know, rinse it out and
get all the dust off. And depending on how much
you have, you can use something as small as a
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maybe a three pound bucket of vinyl concrete patcher. It
is a powder that's mixed with water and you can
you can and feel those little you know, they're about
the size.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of a quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's little divots and stuff, and you can use like
a taping knife or a putty knife, anything along nose lines.
Just fill it and get it nice and smooth. Now
after you do that, it's it's gonna look patched.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And that's when you start getting into.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do I want to make a repair or a resurface
or uh you like the roller rock or if you're
gonna do the epoxy, Jim, I'd really recommend uh more
of an industrial epoxy. A lot of this stuff you're
gonna find in stores. I mean, they're not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
A bad job.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's just that you're gonna do them again in probably
four to six years, is my opinion. Not so much
because they're gonna peel off. It just wear out. They're
just not heavy duty enough. And there's a you know,
the the people that make roller rock, they also make
an industrial ap floor finish.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I would recommend.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That the roller rock will add color and it'll be
a ceiling and then you seal the roller rock. It
can add some uh little curb appeal to it can
dress that uh you know that that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Garage floor up a lot. So there's a lot you
can do once you patch it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
All right, but if I didn't, she decides not to
go with you know, like the roller rock or something epoxy.
They're just a steeler put on it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Would like a yes.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So because of what the are you gonna patch it
first and then put a sealer on?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So there's a website it's called Masonry Defender. They make
seilers that are projects specific. A lot of like driveway
and sidewalk seilers really aren't tough enough for a garage floor,
so a lot of the ones I recommend they're really
driveways and sidewalks. The Masonry Defender website they have a
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garage floor seiler. It's a heavy solid semigloss garage sealer
that that really is excellent. It's you know, resistant to
hot tire pickup and you'd probably do that about every
five years.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
All right, thank you very much. I really appreciate your
help today.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And those project specific seilers, they are really important, and
you read a little bit about them if you do
nothing else and you're thinking about chimney sealer, paverer, patio seiler,
driveway seiler, garage floor ceiler, exposed aggregate Seialer. Go on
that website and read about the different seilers.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Dice Coatings makes one called track Safe.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's for a garage seiler and it's unique because it's
got a high sheen and it's slip resistant. So you know,
there's read about the different projects and align it with
the product.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
That you need to use. That's the key. All right,
let's go to Larry.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Larry, welcome, good morning, Gary for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Hey, good morning. I know you talked about this a
couple of weeks ago. I have a rot iron reality
to paint and you mentioned a product, was it Hammeerhage,
Gamma right, Camra?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Because I can I mention another brand? Ning's okay because
I checked with you know, Rustorium uh is a good product.
There again, you got a primate then you know, obviously
get the rust off primate and then put the final
code on same thing. And sure when Williams has a
product too, a little more expensive, let's put it that way. Well,
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the hammer, right, is that a United States? Does that
mean the United States?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Or is that?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I think it is, But it's been a while since
I looked. I mean I think it is okay, So
master cam headed for a while. The company's been sold
a couple of times. It's it's very unique and and
it's tough to apply. I think I've said that a
couple of times. It's a very thick and it gives
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you like a hammered finish. It's not a smoothie enamel
finish like a Rustolium or that Sherwin Williams product.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
But you don't have to do the prep work.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This can go over asult as the rust isn't like
scaling or peeling off. If it's rusted metal, there's no
primer needed. You want to knock off any loose rust.
But that hammer white can be directly applied. But boy,
if you do it on a hot sunny day and
do it unlike a a I don't know, flashing on
a roof, it's like spreading chewing gum. I mean it's tough,
(09:03):
so cloudy and cool is best application?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Better?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Okay, So that's called h A M M E R
I T E.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I think it's h A M M E R I
T Yes it okay, Okay, alrighty check it out, very good,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
By the way, that Hmorrhine actually has glass fibers in it,
and it takes it drives in like a day or two,
but it takes like thirty days to cure.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm just telling you about the product is a.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Very unique and a very heavy duty product and not
for everybody. But I'll tell you what if you put
it on a rusted piece of metal, that baby is
protected and a prep work is minimal.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But everybody, as I said that, products are ying and yang.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For every good points on one product, there's a couple
not so great points and you can go right down
the list. All right, we'll take a break, come back.
We got Lynn Teresa, Donna, be sure you grab a line.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Coming up. We'll also talk about saving a.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Little money on energy. We're going to talk a lot
about that over the next couple of months. As we continue,
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Of course, it's our home.
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Speaker 5 (11:25):
Morning, Gary, beautiful day in northeast Ohio.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Enjoy Oh well, nobody that calls you is enjoying the day.
They're looking for work to do.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, Yeah, but a lot of them just like to
talk about it. Like me, I like to talk about it.
I don't necessarily do it all the time.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well, I don't want to talk. I want to talk
about this, but I have a problem that I need
to resolve.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I own a property that has steps to go up
to the front door. It's a beauty up and about
five years ago we replaced the steps cement steps and uh,
for whatever reason, maybe salt overuse or whatever. The top
layer of that cement is flaking off. And I can
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tell you I've walked up and down those steps and
the pieces of the cement are like flaking away. And
I'll tell you what, it's almost close to being dangerous.
So what what what I mean? I I sweep them
quite often, clean them all up, but it just keeps
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flaking away. So what do you suggest?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And this is just five years old, right.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah, pretty much five six years old.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, put the concrete in at this point.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, I have and and the and they said, you know,
they used to write, Yeah, they said tough mixture or whatever.
The concrete company the right mixture. But man, I'm kind
of thinking it's it's overuse of salt.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, it certainly could be. There's there's the big tug
of war whenever you have that. You know the concrete
company a lot and will say, you know, like the
mix was right, and you know that salt what they're
telling you is very true, very corrosive.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I've gone through that story a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But then on the other hand, you're putting steps in,
you're moving concrete around once it's really hot and it's
hard work, and you start adding water that can also
cause it. It creates a cream on the top. And you
know it too has the same you know, mo of deteriorating.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So be that as it may. I'm just giving you
a little background on what it says.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, I I you know, I'm kind of beyond the
blame game, Okay, I just need that. Yeah, I mean
it's a commercial property. You got you got a lot
of older people, sure, not all, but older people, older ladies.
They're walking up those steps. And I got good railings
on both sides. I mean compliance there, but boy, these
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steps just scare me.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So to repair those, of course, we've got to get
all the loose impediments off the surface. We have to
make sure it's not dusty. We we have to have
a good bondable surface. There's no sense in trying to
resurface those things if that. You know, concrete is going
to continue to deteriorate. And there's a couple of things
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we can put a concrete also does not like to
stick to concrete, so capping it or resurfacing it, you
got to You just can't use concrete, I mean you
got to use You can use different specialty products. One
of them is called vinyl concrete patcher made by quick Crete.
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It's a powder you can you can make an application
of three as of an inch thick, has a bonding
agent in it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It'll stick to concrete. Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's also a brand new product out there that I'd
be really intrigued about using for your particular project. I
have a can, but I have to admit I haven't
used it yet. But it's from that DICEE Codings that
I talk about their products often and they're always good.
And it's called rock Patch. It's on their website. Yeah,
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and the website it's dice D A I C H
Coatings dot com, DICEH Coatings dot com and and Rockpatch
is a non cementatious product.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And it's almost like, I don't know, like.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
A real soft butter would be in a tub and
you literally take a trial and you trial it over
the surface and it has wonderful what egion. It has
a good look and it's maneuverable. And I'm not saying
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the other one isn't, but the other one is sementatious.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Compromised by rock, salt and other things that concrete is
compromised by.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But you can use that rock patch. And at that point, and.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm not trying to sell you a bunch of products,
but even with that other vinyl concrete patcher, even though
you resurfaced, it's not gonna have that brush concrete look
and it's gonna look resurfaced. It's gonna look patched and
it's you know, so on the dice coatings. When you
look at the rock patch, look at a product called
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roller rock and that could be the patch.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That could be the coating over the patch.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And if you want to just leave it look like concrete,
you can use the rock patch and then use their
slip resistance seiler.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Called track safe. All right, Conserving Energy.
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Station all right back at it we go at home
with Gary Sullivan, and as I spoke for the last
couple of weeks, there's been different energy providers that have
come out with well forecast and reality of electric rates
going up and up. And you know, I've heard fifteen,
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I've heard twenty, I've heard thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So I thought i'd reach out my expert.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
He is with TVA and Scott Harold. Welcome that home
with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
How you doing.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
I'm doing great this morning. Gary. It's beautiful, the sun
is shining, and I'm happy to be here to speak
with you.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, very good.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I think every homeowner is going like, what, nothing's inexpensive
right now?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I get all that. Tell me a little bit the TVA.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We all read and learned all about the TVA.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Just give me a little background of what that is.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
And you know, while you're chatting with me, I guess
this is a good place to start.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Yeah, I'd be glad to talk to you. TVA, of course,
is the Tennessee Valley Authority, and we provide electricity to
one hundred and fifty three local power companies and we
serve around ten million people across seven states. We also
serve you know, large industrial customers and some federal installations
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as well. We are a federal agency, but we don't
get taxpayer funding, and all of our revenue comes from
the cell of electricity, and so at TVA, we really
focus on three major things, and that's the environment, energy,
and economic development. So yes, we manage the flood control
(20:55):
and navigation and land management for the Tennessee River system.
And we assist our local power companies and regional governments
with economic development efforts. And as I said, with energy,
we're making sure that we can supply enough energy for
all of the residents and businesses as well as providing
them with energy efficiency and energy saving tips.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Bengo. And that's where we're at.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And I read some of the data if folks sent
me and you know old appliances and.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know some energy hogs.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So I'm going to kind of just turn it over
to you and say, help us out. We're kind of
all in it together. You are into conserving energy even
though you're selling energy.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You know, I mean we have you know, we have a.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
High demand and limited supplies, and you know, how do
we save energy in our homes? We all hear insulation
and all that. Give me some tips for this summer
and what we need to focus on.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Be glad to Gary. Yeah, there's several things that anybody
in your listening area can do to help save some
energy and hopefully lower from their utility costs by doing so.
And there are some things you can do that are
what I like to call low cost or no cost tips, like,
for example, turn your ceiling fans on and since it's summertime,
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let's make sure they rotate counterclockwise and moving air in
the room helps that air to feel cooler. In some cases,
it could feel as much as four degrees cooler. So
what that means is is you could actually turn your
thermostat on your heating and air system down or I'm sorry, summer,
let's go up with that so you don't have to
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cool it as low as you think you need to.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
You've got air circulating, absolutely things can Other things you
can do is your lines or your curtains on your
south facing windows, close them when you get around mid
day towards the end of the day, and that helps
block some of that solar energy coming in to your house,
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warming it up.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Another thing that you could do as well as just
make sure that all of your doors are closed. And
when your door's closed, if you can look around it
and see daylight, that means the seal around that door
isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and so replacing
that weather stripping seal can help keep that cool air
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in during the summer and that hot air out.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Even controlling the humidity inside your home makes a big
difference in comfort.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Correct it does? Yes, Okay, so we one day ad
that around what fifty five percent in the summertime.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Ideal that's fifty five anywhere really from fifty five up
to seventy and I guess that sort of also depends
on where you are in the country. Well, it's true, yeah,
but that range is typically a good safe range for humidity.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay, all right, you I talked briefly about older appliances.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I think there's a lot of people listening that.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Have a thirty year old refrigerator sitting in the garage.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I assume that's an energy hog.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Yes, it very much can be an energy hog. What
we recommend is that if you are needing to replace
your main refrigerator in your house, the best thing to
do is to recycle that refrigerator, or if whomever you're
buying that new refrigerator from, can they haul away your
old one. Because it's very easy to say, hey, I'll
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take my old one, move it to the garage or
some other area in my house and use it for
a backup. But it's very inefficient and it's not going
to save you the money you think you're going to save.
Once you get that new one, it's.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Sold goodn't agree with you more. How about our air
conditioning systems.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Talk about this often. Everybody's offering will give you a
tune up. It's eighty nine dollars and then we'll be
your best friend. And so there's a business angle of that,
but there's also an efficiency angle. Tell us about the
importance of having that air conditioner air handler cleaned up,
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tuned up going into the season.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
I'd be glad to gary you your heating an air
system is your largest consumer of electricity in your home,
and so it's very important to keep that air filter
changed regularly. It's best to change it once a month.
Some places you can purchase filters where you can go
as long as about two months without replacing it. But
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that's the number one thing that people need to do
is keep that air filter changed regularly. Second thing I
always recommend is getting it tuned up at minimum once
a year. Down here here in the southeast with the TVA,
we recommend having your system tuned up twice a year,
and that way it's an optimal operation for the summer
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season and it's an it's in its best operating conditions
for the winter as well.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Scott a little bit here too.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I want to just tell people, you know, those folks
that are looking to tune it up, they're looking to
be a partner when you need it in their conditioning.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
They're not offering that to scam you.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And I always tell people if you got bad news
they find something that's wrong with the unit, go have
another inspection if you'd like, and you know, keep it
above board. But they're offering you a good price to
come in and look at the unit and tune it up.
In a lot of cases, will give you discounts on
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parts down the.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Road, move you to like a VIP list in the
middle winter if the thing would break down.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So there's many benefits in having that air handler and
air conditioner tuned up. It's very advantageous to do that.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
I couldn't agree with you more. And yes, it is
as recommended. By getting it regularly serviced, you catch those
problems early before it becomes an emergency changeout system. And
in our area, we offer rebates through our quality contractor network,
so when they come out to do a tune up,
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you potentially qualify for a rebate on the cost of
that tune up. What I would recommend to your listeners
is is go check with their local utility providers and
see just exactly if a rebate is offered in their area.
Sure and that helps go along the way to help,
you know, minimize the impact of your pocketbook as well
as maximize the lifespan efficiency of your heating and air system.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Sure is you know, if it comes to the point
where it needs to be replaced, whether you know, the compressor,
of the AC whatever, are.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
There generally rebates on that. Now, do you know or
does it very you know?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Different areas of the country.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Different areas of the country are going to offer different things, okay,
but generally there should be in most areas something that
the utility company or the HVAC contractor could offer in
terms of assistance, whether that may be like an our area,
for example, we offer rebates for the installations of new
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heating and air systems, and there's also potential financing assistance available,
and so all I would say is to all of
your listeners, go out check it out, go to their
website or give them a call, see what your options are.
And you're exactly right. Go out and do a little
bit of research and make sure you're getting the best
(28:58):
deal for what you need.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Sure you know.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
One of the things too, is we look at a
house and it's more than just the inside of the house.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Planning a tree blocks radiant energy.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And I know that seems real simple, but it too
comes into play, and so I encourage people to even
do that. Now, one last question, I just read this
with the AI and everything that's going on is driving
up the demand dramatically for electricity, and how's the TVA.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Planning their growth? And what I read is that true.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
We are always planning for load growth, and so whether
it be the latest technology like AI, or it be
like in the past it was data centers. So we
are constantly monitoring the movement into the valley, which whether
it be businesses or residential homes, and reevaluating our generation
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flee to make sure we can stay up and meet
that demand.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Do you have a website with some of these tips
on Scott that we can send my listeners to.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Absolutely if they would go to energyright dot com, that's
all one work, energy R I, G H T right
dot com. Then clicking for the home and they'll be
just a lot of information there in terms of what
they could potentially do in terms of next steps for
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energy saving tips, okay, energy rebates and any other things
in between.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That very good because as they said earlier, we are
all in this together. And conservation certainly the key insulation
certainly helps a lot. I always say, insulation and ventilation.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
The ventilation, making sure that everything's cleaned out so that
the air can flow through as easily as possible, keeping
your systems tuned up. Insolation, making sure you have enough
because over time that blown in insulation can settle. That's
just the way that it's designed to be. And so
nothing wrong with having somebody come in and take a
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look and just see do you have enough?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Right, and if not, add a little.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Extra top it off also, yes, top.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It off, go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Does I say you are absolutely right as well about
planting trees outside my recommendation on this, when you go
to plant a tree, do your research on what side
of the house north, southeast or west would best fit
the type of tree you want to plant, and make
sure you plant it far enough away that it doesn't
grow its roots under your foundation, and that you know,
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potentially work against blowing all the leaves into the gutter system.
So in the fall and winter you don't have an
ice down.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Right, but a big tree far enough away from the
home sure can block some sun. And it's like you
don't I said last week, you don't pitch your tent.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
In the middle of a ball field or a field.
You pitch it in the woods.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Hey, Scott, thanks so much for joining us today. I
certainly appreciate your time. And I'm sure you're all working
hard at the TVA.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
Always working hard to make sure we can provide power
to our customers in the valley.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Thank you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You do the same. Thank you, all right, So a
couple of tips there.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
For you, and we are all working together. We all
are working hard. We're all trying to save some money.
I guess if I looked at my home based on
what he just said, do you have a little refrigerator
in the garage? Which does not need to be there,
and especially now, there's very little in it and we
don't need it. If it's not there, we're not going
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to use it. That would be a big consumer. The
other thing is I've added in so of the house,
but probably need to have that inspected too. Think about
what your needs are. Well, continue, We got Donna, Kathy, Teresa.
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Speaker 1 (33:56):
Donna welcome, Oh, good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 12 (33:59):
I have a metal clad door that opens onto a balcony,
and just beyond that is a storm door. Okay, well,
this metal clad door has developed several places, about as
big as a quarter. It looks like the paint has
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kind of blistered up a little bit, but just under
that I can see rust. So how do I stop
the rust and approach repainting that? I'm not sure how
to do.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
The first This is the first question you got to
ask yourself, and that is that metal door isn't going
to rust unless it's in contact with the moisture, with moisture,
any moisture. And so then your answer would be, well,
it's painted, it's you know, I don't know how. We've
got to find out why though. So is that paint
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that's blistered cracked? Is that where the moisture is getting
into it? Or is the bottom of that door it's
metal on the you know vertical places the door where
the handle whiz and all that. Or is there wood
underneath that bottom and it's wicking moisture up into that
wood and then it's permeating through the wood and it's
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getting on the metal, and it's rusting, and it's pushing
the paint off.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Because we get before we fix it, we want to fix.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
It, we want to be done with it right now,
and we don't want to just come back and refix it.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
But go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
No, I was just going to say, we just got
to find that source if there is wood exposed on
the bottom, I would certainly paint that, which will create
a sealant.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Which will minimize its ability to drink water. So well, I.
Speaker 12 (35:55):
Don't see any way that any moisture could get to
it because on the exterior it's a covered balcony, so
there's water. I mean, even when it rains a blowing rain,
it never blows in to get on the storm door.
It doesn't blow in that far. So I'm really puzzled as.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
To well, it's getting there somewhere. So maybe I mean
it could be humidity. It could be that paint filmscorrecked
and that humidity is getting that. That's moisture, right, I
mean that can cause rust. But having said that, what
is your plan? Your plan is to sand that bubble off,
make a patch, eliminate the moisture, and then repaint.
Speaker 12 (36:43):
Yes, my plan is to sand that off and stop
the rust. And I don't know how to go about
putting something on there to stop the rust before I repaint.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Well, again, painting it and sealing it with a paint
and primer, we'll stop the rust because it's sealed. So
let me go through the whole thing here. So the
first thing we want to do is we want to
sand that bubble off or scrape any loose paint off.
We want to expose the affected area, and then you
have one or two choices. We can put a primer
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on it and then paint the door. So we'll scrape
the bubble off, We'll sand real good, We'll get rid
of all the rust prime and put a top coat
on there. Or we can knock that bubble off, get
all the loose paint off as.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
We can just with a scraper.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And when we expose that rusty metal, we can get
a product called rust neutralizer. It's not a paint. It
is a chemical that reacts with iron oxide and seals
the rust into the metal.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And we'll function as a primer.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So if we did it that way, we just scrape
it and we spray the rust neutralizer on it. The
next step would be to lightly sand the door and
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And paint it.
Speaker 12 (38:06):
Okay, so the rust neutralizer would that be something I
brush on or spray on.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You could do it either way. It's sold both ways
and you can pick it up at hardware stores. And
that rust neutralizer, it's not a paint, but it creates
a chemical reaction to seal the rust in and functions
as a primer, so you know you can go either
way with it. Just get as much and get any
loose paint off. That's the key. And if you're going
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to repaint that whole door, including that area, just get
like a four hundred grit sanding sponge doll that surface,
wipe it clean and put on a good enamel.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
And you'll be good to go. All right, thank you
much for the call. Your call's next. As we continue,
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We're talking about home projects, maintenance, repair and as you know,
depending on whether it's been a little challenging. I know
the south and southeast has been pretty wet, Midwest has
been pretty wet, Northwest is pretty wet.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know, it's been kind.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Of a damp and dreary year. I'm not sure about
the folks out west. They've probably they got their swing
and upturns and downturns and weather too.
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Every year is a little challenging. This one a little
bit more than usual.
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if and when weather really breaks, there's gonna be a
big backup demand, whether it's a chimney repair, brick repair,
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Speaker 1 (01:50):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Welcome, Hey Gary, how you doing? Love your show?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I have a question about it. Helping a friend out
at our house and over the years in her garage
where she parks the car, the man has kind of
popped from you know, the salt and stuff and getting wet.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Fall.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I put a rints on it, you know, salt to
get rid of the salt. That was one thing. I'll
do it again, get ready to do it again. Is
there a type of steeler you can put on and
also something that would fill those little holes in and
make it even And I'm thinking about chair. She wants
to have maybe the gratch for done like a pox here.
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I've been looking at that rock solid so scared advice.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, so a very common problem, especially in colder climates
and that I preached probably the last three weeks of
just looking at that. Condition is called spawling, and a
lot of times it's just the growth of nature of
rock salt that we drag in our cars.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It creates us salty brain solution.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
When it melts in our garage, and in a lot
of cases it sits there, sits there till it dries out,
and then it's raining and we pull a car in,
it kind of re intensifies and then we have more
salty brine solution. It's corrosive and that's what creates the
the spawling. So yeah, you there is definitely a seiler
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for garage floors, and there are a lot of specific
driveway ceilers. A driveway ceiler and we can talk about
exactly what you want to look like and how it's
going to be created. But the patching, we get a
good and clean we you know, rinse it out and
get all the dust off. And depending on how much
you have, you can use something as small as a
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maybe a three pound bucket of vinyl concrete patcher. It
is a powder that's mixed with water and you can
you can and feel those little you know, they're about
the size.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of a quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's little divots and stuff, and you can use like
a taping knife or a putty knife, anything along nose lines.
Just fill it and get it nice and smooth. Now
after you do that, it's it's gonna look patched.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And that's when you start getting into.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do I want to make a repair or a resurface
or uh you like the roller rock or if you're
gonna do the epoxy, Jim, I'd really recommend uh more
of an industrial epoxy. A lot of this stuff you're
gonna find in stores. I mean, they're not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
A bad job.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's just that you're gonna do them again in probably
four to six years, is my opinion. Not so much
because they're gonna peel off. It just wear out. They're
just not heavy duty enough. And there's a you know,
the the people that make roller rock, they also make
an industrial ap floor finish.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I would recommend.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That the roller rock will add color and it'll be
a ceiling and then you seal the roller rock. It
can add some uh little curb appeal to it can
dress that uh you know that that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Garage floor up a lot. So there's a lot you
can do once you patch it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
All right, but if I didn't, she decides not to
go with you know, like the roller rock or something epoxy.
They're just a steeler put on it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Would like a yes.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So because of what the are you gonna patch it
first and then put a sealer on?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So there's a website it's called Masonry Defender. They make
seilers that are projects specific. A lot of like driveway
and sidewalk seilers really aren't tough enough for a garage floor,
so a lot of the ones I recommend they're really
driveways and sidewalks. The Masonry Defender website they have a
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garage floor seiler. It's a heavy solid semigloss garage sealer
that that really is excellent. It's you know, resistant to
hot tire pickup and you'd probably do that about every
five years.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
All right, thank you very much. I really appreciate your
help today.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And those project specific seilers, they are really important, and
you read a little bit about them if you do
nothing else and you're thinking about chimney sealer, paverer, patio seiler,
driveway seiler, garage floor ceiler, exposed aggregate Seialer. Go on
that website and read about the different seilers.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Dice Coatings makes one called track Safe.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's for a garage seiler and it's unique because it's
got a high sheen and it's slip resistant. So you know,
there's read about the different projects and align it with
the product.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
That you need to use. That's the key. All right,
let's go to Larry.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Larry, welcome, good morning, Gary for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Hey, good morning. I know you talked about this a
couple of weeks ago. I have a rot iron reality
to paint and you mentioned a product, was it Hammeerhage,
Gamma right, Camra?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Because I can I mention another brand? Ning's okay because
I checked with you know, Rustorium uh is a good product.
There again, you got a primate then you know, obviously
get the rust off primate and then put the final
code on same thing. And sure when Williams has a
product too, a little more expensive, let's put it that way. Well,
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the hammer, right, is that a United States? Does that
mean the United States?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Or is that?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I think it is, But it's been a while since
I looked. I mean I think it is okay, So
master cam headed for a while. The company's been sold
a couple of times. It's it's very unique and and
it's tough to apply. I think I've said that a
couple of times. It's a very thick and it gives
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you like a hammered finish. It's not a smoothie enamel
finish like a Rustolium or that Sherwin Williams product.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
But you don't have to do the prep work.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This can go over asult as the rust isn't like
scaling or peeling off. If it's rusted metal, there's no
primer needed. You want to knock off any loose rust.
But that hammer white can be directly applied. But boy,
if you do it on a hot sunny day and
do it unlike a a I don't know, flashing on
a roof, it's like spreading chewing gum. I mean it's tough,
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so cloudy and cool is best application?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Better?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Okay, So that's called h A M M E R
I T E.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I think it's h A M M E R I
T Yes it okay, Okay, alrighty check it out, very good,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
By the way, that Hmorrhine actually has glass fibers in it,
and it takes it drives in like a day or two,
but it takes like thirty days to cure.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm just telling you about the product is a.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Very unique and a very heavy duty product and not
for everybody. But I'll tell you what if you put
it on a rusted piece of metal, that baby is
protected and a prep work is minimal.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But everybody, as I said that, products are ying and yang.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For every good points on one product, there's a couple
not so great points and you can go right down
the list. All right, we'll take a break, come back.
We got Lynn Teresa, Donna, be sure you grab a line.
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Morning, Gary, beautiful day in northeast Ohio.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Enjoy Oh well, nobody that calls you is enjoying the day.
They're looking for work to do.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, Yeah, but a lot of them just like to
talk about it. Like me, I like to talk about it.
I don't necessarily do it all the time.
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Well, I don't want to talk. I want to talk
about this, but I have a problem that I need
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Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I own a property that has steps to go up
to the front door. It's a beauty up and about
five years ago we replaced the steps cement steps and uh,
for whatever reason, maybe salt overuse or whatever. The top
layer of that cement is flaking off. And I can
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tell you I've walked up and down those steps and
the pieces of the cement are like flaking away. And
I'll tell you what, it's almost close to being dangerous.
So what what what I mean? I I sweep them
quite often, clean them all up, but it just keeps
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flaking away. So what do you suggest?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And this is just five years old, right.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah, pretty much five six years old.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, put the concrete in at this point.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, I have and and the and they said, you know,
they used to write, Yeah, they said tough mixture or whatever.
The concrete company the right mixture. But man, I'm kind
of thinking it's it's overuse of salt.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, it certainly could be. There's there's the big tug
of war whenever you have that. You know the concrete
company a lot and will say, you know, like the
mix was right, and you know that salt what they're
telling you is very true, very corrosive.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I've gone through that story a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But then on the other hand, you're putting steps in,
you're moving concrete around once it's really hot and it's
hard work, and you start adding water that can also
cause it. It creates a cream on the top. And you
know it too has the same you know, mo of deteriorating.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So be that as it may. I'm just giving you
a little background on what it says.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, I I you know, I'm kind of beyond the
blame game, Okay, I just need that. Yeah, I mean
it's a commercial property. You got you got a lot
of older people, sure, not all, but older people, older ladies.
They're walking up those steps. And I got good railings
on both sides. I mean compliance there, but boy, these
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steps just scare me.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So to repair those, of course, we've got to get
all the loose impediments off the surface. We have to
make sure it's not dusty. We we have to have
a good bondable surface. There's no sense in trying to
resurface those things if that. You know, concrete is going
to continue to deteriorate. And there's a couple of things
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we can put a concrete also does not like to
stick to concrete, so capping it or resurfacing it, you
got to You just can't use concrete, I mean you
got to use You can use different specialty products. One
of them is called vinyl concrete patcher made by quick Crete.
(15:00):
It's a powder you can you can make an application
of three as of an inch thick, has a bonding
agent in it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It'll stick to concrete. Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's also a brand new product out there that I'd
be really intrigued about using for your particular project. I
have a can, but I have to admit I haven't
used it yet. But it's from that DICEE Codings that
I talk about their products often and they're always good.
And it's called rock Patch. It's on their website. Yeah,
(15:38):
and the website it's dice D A I C H
Coatings dot com, DICEH Coatings dot com and and Rockpatch
is a non cementatious product.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And it's almost like, I don't know, like.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
A real soft butter would be in a tub and
you literally take a trial and you trial it over
the surface and it has wonderful what egion. It has
a good look and it's maneuverable. And I'm not saying
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the other one isn't, but the other one is sementatious.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Compromised by rock, salt and other things that concrete is
compromised by.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But you can use that rock patch. And at that point, and.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm not trying to sell you a bunch of products,
but even with that other vinyl concrete patcher, even though
you resurfaced, it's not gonna have that brush concrete look
and it's gonna look resurfaced. It's gonna look patched and
it's you know, so on the dice coatings. When you
look at the rock patch, look at a product called
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roller rock and that could be the patch.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That could be the coating over the patch.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And if you want to just leave it look like concrete,
you can use the rock patch and then use their
slip resistance seiler.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Called track safe. All right, Conserving Energy.
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Your opinions are welcome to you. Fifty five KRC, the talk.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Station all right back at it we go at home
with Gary Sullivan, and as I spoke for the last
couple of weeks, there's been different energy providers that have
come out with well forecast and reality of electric rates
going up and up. And you know, I've heard fifteen,
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I've heard twenty, I've heard thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So I thought i'd reach out my expert.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
He is with TVA and Scott Harold. Welcome that home
with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
How you doing.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
I'm doing great this morning. Gary. It's beautiful, the sun
is shining, and I'm happy to be here to speak
with you.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, very good.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I think every homeowner is going like, what, nothing's inexpensive
right now?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I get all that. Tell me a little bit the TVA.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We all read and learned all about the TVA.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Just give me a little background of what that is.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
And you know, while you're chatting with me, I guess
this is a good place to start.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Yeah, I'd be glad to talk to you. TVA, of course,
is the Tennessee Valley Authority, and we provide electricity to
one hundred and fifty three local power companies and we
serve around ten million people across seven states. We also
serve you know, large industrial customers and some federal installations
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as well. We are a federal agency, but we don't
get taxpayer funding, and all of our revenue comes from
the cell of electricity, and so at TVA, we really
focus on three major things, and that's the environment, energy,
and economic development. So yes, we manage the flood control
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and navigation and land management for the Tennessee River system.
And we assist our local power companies and regional governments
with economic development efforts. And as I said, with energy,
we're making sure that we can supply enough energy for
all of the residents and businesses as well as providing
them with energy efficiency and energy saving tips.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Bengo. And that's where we're at.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And I read some of the data if folks sent
me and you know old appliances and.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know some energy hogs.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So I'm going to kind of just turn it over
to you and say, help us out. We're kind of
all in it together. You are into conserving energy even
though you're selling energy.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You know, I mean we have you know, we have a.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
High demand and limited supplies, and you know, how do
we save energy in our homes? We all hear insulation
and all that. Give me some tips for this summer
and what we need to focus on.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Be glad to Gary. Yeah, there's several things that anybody
in your listening area can do to help save some
energy and hopefully lower from their utility costs by doing so.
And there are some things you can do that are
what I like to call low cost or no cost tips, like,
for example, turn your ceiling fans on and since it's summertime,
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let's make sure they rotate counterclockwise and moving air in
the room helps that air to feel cooler. In some cases,
it could feel as much as four degrees cooler. So
what that means is is you could actually turn your
thermostat on your heating and air system down or I'm sorry, summer,
let's go up with that so you don't have to
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cool it as low as you think you need to.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
You've got air circulating, absolutely things can Other things you
can do is your lines or your curtains on your
south facing windows, close them when you get around mid
day towards the end of the day, and that helps
block some of that solar energy coming in to your house,
(23:11):
warming it up.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Another thing that you could do as well as just
make sure that all of your doors are closed. And
when your door's closed, if you can look around it
and see daylight, that means the seal around that door
isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and so replacing
that weather stripping seal can help keep that cool air
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in during the summer and that hot air out.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Even controlling the humidity inside your home makes a big
difference in comfort.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Correct it does? Yes, Okay, so we one day ad
that around what fifty five percent in the summertime.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Ideal that's fifty five anywhere really from fifty five up
to seventy and I guess that sort of also depends
on where you are in the country. Well, it's true, yeah,
but that range is typically a good safe range for humidity.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay, all right, you I talked briefly about older appliances.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I think there's a lot of people listening that.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Have a thirty year old refrigerator sitting in the garage.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I assume that's an energy hog.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Yes, it very much can be an energy hog. What
we recommend is that if you are needing to replace
your main refrigerator in your house, the best thing to
do is to recycle that refrigerator, or if whomever you're
buying that new refrigerator from, can they haul away your
old one. Because it's very easy to say, hey, I'll
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take my old one, move it to the garage or
some other area in my house and use it for
a backup. But it's very inefficient and it's not going
to save you the money you think you're going to save.
Once you get that new one, it's.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Sold goodn't agree with you more. How about our air
conditioning systems.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Talk about this often. Everybody's offering will give you a
tune up. It's eighty nine dollars and then we'll be
your best friend. And so there's a business angle of that,
but there's also an efficiency angle. Tell us about the
importance of having that air conditioner air handler cleaned up,
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tuned up going into the season.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
I'd be glad to gary you your heating an air
system is your largest consumer of electricity in your home,
and so it's very important to keep that air filter
changed regularly. It's best to change it once a month.
Some places you can purchase filters where you can go
as long as about two months without replacing it. But
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that's the number one thing that people need to do
is keep that air filter changed regularly. Second thing I
always recommend is getting it tuned up at minimum once
a year. Down here here in the southeast with the TVA,
we recommend having your system tuned up twice a year,
and that way it's an optimal operation for the summer
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season and it's an it's in its best operating conditions
for the winter as well.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Scott a little bit here too.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I want to just tell people, you know, those folks
that are looking to tune it up, they're looking to
be a partner when you need it in their conditioning.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
They're not offering that to scam you.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And I always tell people if you got bad news
they find something that's wrong with the unit, go have
another inspection if you'd like, and you know, keep it
above board. But they're offering you a good price to
come in and look at the unit and tune it up.
In a lot of cases, will give you discounts on
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parts down the.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Road, move you to like a VIP list in the
middle winter if the thing would break down.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So there's many benefits in having that air handler and
air conditioner tuned up. It's very advantageous to do that.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
I couldn't agree with you more. And yes, it is
as recommended. By getting it regularly serviced, you catch those
problems early before it becomes an emergency changeout system. And
in our area, we offer rebates through our quality contractor network,
so when they come out to do a tune up,
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you potentially qualify for a rebate on the cost of
that tune up. What I would recommend to your listeners
is is go check with their local utility providers and
see just exactly if a rebate is offered in their area.
Sure and that helps go along the way to help,
you know, minimize the impact of your pocketbook as well
as maximize the lifespan efficiency of your heating and air system.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Sure is you know, if it comes to the point
where it needs to be replaced, whether you know, the compressor,
of the AC whatever, are.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
There generally rebates on that. Now, do you know or
does it very you know?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Different areas of the country.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Different areas of the country are going to offer different things, okay,
but generally there should be in most areas something that
the utility company or the HVAC contractor could offer in
terms of assistance, whether that may be like an our area,
for example, we offer rebates for the installations of new
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heating and air systems, and there's also potential financing assistance available,
and so all I would say is to all of
your listeners, go out check it out, go to their
website or give them a call, see what your options are.
And you're exactly right. Go out and do a little
bit of research and make sure you're getting the best
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deal for what you need.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Sure you know.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
One of the things too, is we look at a
house and it's more than just the inside of the house.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Planning a tree blocks radiant energy.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And I know that seems real simple, but it too
comes into play, and so I encourage people to even
do that. Now, one last question, I just read this
with the AI and everything that's going on is driving
up the demand dramatically for electricity, and how's the TVA.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Planning their growth? And what I read is that true.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
We are always planning for load growth, and so whether
it be the latest technology like AI, or it be
like in the past it was data centers. So we
are constantly monitoring the movement into the valley, which whether
it be businesses or residential homes, and reevaluating our generation
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flee to make sure we can stay up and meet
that demand.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Do you have a website with some of these tips
on Scott that we can send my listeners to.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Absolutely if they would go to energyright dot com, that's
all one work, energy R I, G H T right
dot com. Then clicking for the home and they'll be
just a lot of information there in terms of what
they could potentially do in terms of next steps for
(30:31):
energy saving tips, okay, energy rebates and any other things
in between.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That very good because as they said earlier, we are
all in this together. And conservation certainly the key insulation
certainly helps a lot. I always say, insulation and ventilation.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
The ventilation, making sure that everything's cleaned out so that
the air can flow through as easily as possible, keeping
your systems tuned up. Insolation, making sure you have enough
because over time that blown in insulation can settle. That's
just the way that it's designed to be. And so
nothing wrong with having somebody come in and take a
(31:18):
look and just see do you have enough?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Right, and if not, add a little.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Extra top it off also, yes, top.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It off, go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Does I say you are absolutely right as well about
planting trees outside my recommendation on this, when you go
to plant a tree, do your research on what side
of the house north, southeast or west would best fit
the type of tree you want to plant, and make
sure you plant it far enough away that it doesn't
grow its roots under your foundation, and that you know,
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potentially work against blowing all the leaves into the gutter system.
So in the fall and winter you don't have an
ice down.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Right, but a big tree far enough away from the
home sure can block some sun. And it's like you
don't I said last week, you don't pitch your tent.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
In the middle of a ball field or a field.
You pitch it in the woods.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Hey, Scott, thanks so much for joining us today. I
certainly appreciate your time. And I'm sure you're all working
hard at the TVA.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
Always working hard to make sure we can provide power
to our customers in the valley.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Thank you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You do the same. Thank you, all right, So a
couple of tips there.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
For you, and we are all working together. We all
are working hard. We're all trying to save some money.
I guess if I looked at my home based on
what he just said, do you have a little refrigerator
in the garage? Which does not need to be there,
and especially now, there's very little in it and we
don't need it. If it's not there, we're not going
(32:55):
to use it. That would be a big consumer. The
other thing is I've added in so of the house,
but probably need to have that inspected too. Think about
what your needs are. Well, continue, We got Donna, Kathy, Teresa.
If you'd like to join us, do so. At Home
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Speaker 2 (33:47):
All right, let's get back to work. You're at Home
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joining me, and let's go to Donna.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Donna welcome, Oh, good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 12 (33:59):
I have a metal clad door that opens onto a balcony,
and just beyond that is a storm door. Okay, well,
this metal clad door has developed several places, about as
big as a quarter. It looks like the paint has
(34:20):
kind of blistered up a little bit, but just under
that I can see rust. So how do I stop
the rust and approach repainting that? I'm not sure how
to do.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
The first This is the first question you got to
ask yourself, and that is that metal door isn't going
to rust unless it's in contact with the moisture, with moisture,
any moisture. And so then your answer would be, well,
it's painted, it's you know, I don't know how. We've
got to find out why though. So is that paint
(34:59):
that's blistered cracked? Is that where the moisture is getting
into it? Or is the bottom of that door it's
metal on the you know vertical places the door where
the handle whiz and all that. Or is there wood
underneath that bottom and it's wicking moisture up into that
wood and then it's permeating through the wood and it's
(35:21):
getting on the metal, and it's rusting, and it's pushing
the paint off.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Because we get before we fix it, we want to fix.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
It, we want to be done with it right now,
and we don't want to just come back and refix it.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
But go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
No, I was just going to say, we just got
to find that source if there is wood exposed on
the bottom, I would certainly paint that, which will create
a sealant.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Which will minimize its ability to drink water. So well, I.
Speaker 12 (35:55):
Don't see any way that any moisture could get to
it because on the exterior it's a covered balcony, so
there's water. I mean, even when it rains a blowing rain,
it never blows in to get on the storm door.
It doesn't blow in that far. So I'm really puzzled as.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
To well, it's getting there somewhere. So maybe I mean
it could be humidity. It could be that paint filmscorrecked
and that humidity is getting that. That's moisture, right, I
mean that can cause rust. But having said that, what
is your plan? Your plan is to sand that bubble off,
make a patch, eliminate the moisture, and then repaint.
Speaker 12 (36:43):
Yes, my plan is to sand that off and stop
the rust. And I don't know how to go about
putting something on there to stop the rust before I repaint.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Well, again, painting it and sealing it with a paint
and primer, we'll stop the rust because it's sealed. So
let me go through the whole thing here. So the
first thing we want to do is we want to
sand that bubble off or scrape any loose paint off.
We want to expose the affected area, and then you
have one or two choices. We can put a primer
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on it and then paint the door. So we'll scrape
the bubble off, We'll sand real good, We'll get rid
of all the rust prime and put a top coat
on there. Or we can knock that bubble off, get
all the loose paint off as.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
We can just with a scraper.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And when we expose that rusty metal, we can get
a product called rust neutralizer. It's not a paint. It
is a chemical that reacts with iron oxide and seals
the rust into the metal.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And we'll function as a primer.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So if we did it that way, we just scrape
it and we spray the rust neutralizer on it. The
next step would be to lightly sand the door and
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And paint it.
Speaker 12 (38:06):
Okay, so the rust neutralizer would that be something I
brush on or spray on.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You could do it either way. It's sold both ways
and you can pick it up at hardware stores. And
that rust neutralizer, it's not a paint, but it creates
a chemical reaction to seal the rust in and functions
as a primer, so you know you can go either
way with it. Just get as much and get any
loose paint off. That's the key. And if you're going
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to repaint that whole door, including that area, just get
like a four hundred grit sanding sponge doll that surface,
wipe it clean and put on a good enamel.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
And you'll be good to go. All right, thank you
much for the call. Your call's next. As we continue,
You're at home with Garry Sullivan.
Speaker 7 (39:12):
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