The Home Improvement Show 9-20-25

Tune in here for this 9-20-25 episode of the Home Depot Home Improvement show on WBT with John Gordon and David Dovell.

On this edition of the program, John and Dave talk about window design trends, specifically focusing on grilles between the glass and the different options available for homeowners. They explain how grilles, once a common decorative element in windows, are now becoming less popular or more subtle, with modern trends leaning toward thinner or perimeter-only designs. The duo discusses how replacing fogged or outdated window panes that contain grilles between the glass is as simple as changing out the sash or glass unit. They also touch on the challenges faced in historic districts, where simulated divided lights or traditional glazing methods are often required to meet preservation codes. Sharing personal experiences and listener interactions, John and Dave highlight the importance of understanding local building codes and balancing aesthetics with functionality. Whether it's maintaining vintage charm or upgrading for easy maintenance, the guys provide helpful insights to make informed decisions about your home’s windows.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Home Devol Home Improvement Show with John and Dave
pre sent up. I tried pro answering your home improvement
questions every Saturday on News Talk eleven and ninety nine
three WBT.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, everybody, Welcome to the Whole Default Improvement Show
with John and Dave.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm John Gordon, I'm Dave Doval.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, David Dovle. Good. How's it going.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Everything's lovely, Everything's lovely. Any reb today, No reve We're
good any reverbday.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing good today, today, today, today, today.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I know that's so hard. I was proud of you
last we was proud of you for for working through
it because I've had it before, and it is it
is painful. It is painful. I don't like. I don't
know how you can think, well, never mind, I know threshold.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, let's let's talk home improvement because we've never done
that before. Seven four, five, seven eleven, ten is the
way to do it and talk about your home improvement questions.
You can do it by phone, you can do it
on the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC.

(01:21):
I'm loving that thing, I because I don't know. Thank
God for Lonnie because he keeps all the protocols correct.
I just like seeing the questions and giving us a
chance to ask answer them. And people sending texts in
for whatever reason that is like preferred to phone calls
a lot of times.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know, well it is I and I noticed
it text.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Their family members in other rooms. Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah? I get them sometimes at home if I'm out
in the yard working, it's nice, dinner's ready, that's cool,
except I don't see it till later. It's usually something
loud is going on. I don't hear the buzz or
that does it. It doesn't vibrate. So anyway, Yeah, well
tell you all email. We're happy to have it all.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yep, send it sent and send it. We'll do it.
I have. There's a lot of stuff to talk about
this week. One of them that I had to stop
and think about and then I'm like, well, no, no,
that's super super easy was grills between the glass. Yeah,
And the question was what if I want to take

(02:30):
them out?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well you can't.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
You can't. Well yeah, change the glass, right.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
You change the sash, Yeah, just change the glass out,
So you could just just like if a window gets
fogged up because the seal breaks. You take you know,
call somebody out and they take that you know, glass
out and replace it with you know, seal and soulated glass.
Only you just get a version that doesn't have grills

(02:56):
between the glass and whila complete.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, you notice, and I see it a lot. I
don't know if you notice it much, but I'm starting
to see less less grills. Now that doesn't mean that
there's no grills, but I'm starting to see more thinner
or just perimeter grills or perimeter like we did perimeter Prairie,

(03:23):
which it doesn't have the extra line at the bottom
in the top right, the bottom of the top sash
and the top of the bottom sash.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
That's hugely popular right now.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, it's very popular. We did that back in twenty nineteen.
And then I think the other thing is you see
people will not put anything in the lower sash and
they'll just do some type of decoration. And that's what
we're talking about, or the bars or the lines in
the glass that you see. And then of course you
have between grills between the glass. Now, if you get

(03:57):
into an area where it's older homes and and uh,
they're protected by the city. You have to do simulated
divided lights like you know, it used to be one
pane of glass was put in and you had all
those frames, you know, which makes it really hard to
work on them, to wash them. And you've glazed windows before, John,

(04:21):
so you know what that's about. But I was, yeah,
so they.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Actually so that we broke replace, right, I got pretty
good at it.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
So, and they were usually smaller panes of glass. And
I wonder if that's what that was about. Then was
the shipping, you know, or that design, because think about that,
all those windows. It wasn't a big plate window like
you see now. You know most of the time, you know,
there were picture windows, but you know, I can't imagine
what they cost then. So but now you can stick

(04:53):
the you could stick the grill right on the glass.
Have you seen that simulated?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I know you have, yeah, but I I don't know.
I haven't. I haven't given it a lot of thought.
But my initial thoughts were like, I don't know if
I like that.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, I know, but but if you have because I
don't like it, don't mean anything. Right, Well, if you
have to do it, you have to do it. If
you're forced to do it for some design reason in
the neighborhood or whatever. But you know, you can you
can have that. But you know, I like it between
the glass because it's a whole lot easier to take
care of the glass that way. And I'm a and

(05:28):
I'm a window washer, so I like my windows clean
because when I look out, I won't be able to
see how So.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, weird bar the window washer at our house, like
all things clean. She's on it. So but but I
get it, and we did. I did. I have had
the individual pains and and the small pains are a
big pain.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
And maybe that's where it got the dane. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Anyway. So so yeah, there's there's You have a lot
of options as far as glazing and windows and stuff
are concerned, if you just get a good counselor right,
just get a good advisor, a remodeling person. The historic
you know, the historic protected things are are are are
different story, but that's your choice when you buy a house.

(06:25):
Right Usually, like when I drive Wilmington has this you know,
the whole you know, downtown old Wilmington area along the
river front and stuff like that, and there's some really
beautiful old homes and people have bought them and are
renovating them, and they bought them. I don't know their minds,
but I presume they bought them because they're beautiful homes.
You know that There's headaches and maintenance and and and

(06:47):
doing the different things. But it's worth it to be
in a beautiful home like that.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Oh yeah, And if that's what you choose, if that's
what you choose.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
So yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Now I have some friends that have a duplex in
a in a in a pretty detected area here in Charlotte,
and they're being forced to rebuild eighty year old windows.
They won't let them replace them, they have to rebuild them.
And there they are rotten beyond imagination. And it has
lead weight, you know the lead weights.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh remember those we had?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
And they have to maintain that. So I can't even
imagine how you're getting meeting the energy code with that.
But I was like, okay, never mind, we'll get off
that side.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Of your mouth. Right side of your mouth. Yeah, it's like, yes,
I don't know. Well, there's just what what do you value? Like,
what do you value in that scenario? So all right,
let's see we're probably about who we're less than thirty
seconds away from a break, more like twenty seconds away
from a break. So we'll go ahead and take that.
Give us a call, but we want to talk to
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(08:21):
Welcome back. It's good, harden me. It's the Home People,
Home Improvement Show with John and David.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
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Speaker 2 (08:39):
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(09:26):
We were talking home improvement. We talked about removing girls
from the glass. Can't do it, but you can change
glass out. That's great. What is the best way to
paint gutters? Get someone else to do it with a
paint brush. I've always been leery of painting gutters. When

(09:49):
I grew up, we had galvanized gutters and we painted
them and that was that. You just had to do it.
Aluminum baked on finish, you can paint them right.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh yeah, it's done it all the time.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
We did it when we repainted our house in Atlanta.
But what's the best paint to use for that?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, I mean, I think a high end paint that
that wears well for one. But I'm as much as
I'm not a real high gloss fan, I think that's
one place that you need high gloss. I just think
that it does a better job of not allowing as
much stuff to stick to it, and it makes it

(10:35):
a little bit easier to clean off. Two coats is
preferable because you're going to clean it and and in
the future you'll still have to clean it, but you'll
you know, depending on what you use to clean it'll
it'll hold up better with two coats of high gloss paint.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
So, yeah, exterior latex, it doesn't they make a paint
for metal, yes, but it does not have to be
that to hold up well. In fact, it's kind of
we've sort of brainsed our way through it over the years, saying.
The beautiful thing about the latex based paints is they

(11:21):
tend to be more flexible, right, They don't get really
really hard, and so as a gutter expands and contracts
with the hot and the cold, it's likely to perform
better than something that gets super hard. So, but I
also agree that especially in our climate where we have,

(11:43):
you know, the annual pollening where I'm dreaming of a
yellow Easter, Chris, you know, carols are sung, and that
high gloss makes it easier just to shoot a hose
up there and kind of knock everything off for us
has happened to aggressively after it.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
So and of course, you know, I think the so
the type of gutters that you had in in Atlanta.
You had a hood over them too, did right?

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (12:11):
So how did they perform after after it was painted?
Just as well?

Speaker 2 (12:16):
No, see, and it was I had it after we
got a painted and chame on you know, me for
not paying attention. But we had like a semigloss paint.
Barb is not a big fan of the high gloss.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Stuff, right, but that's the place I will use it.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, Well, we had that done on the house, and
so they used the same color on the gutters, and
I think it was exactly the same paint. So I
found myself every couple of years having to get out
you know, the brush hose extension with a brush on
it and and get the pollen off the edge. It
would just collect on the lip of the cover that

(12:57):
stayed damp a lot, right, and so there would be
crud pollen that would build.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Up on it, right, and of course that interferes with
the flow. And that's I see lots of hooded gutters
out there as I'm driving around or I pull up
to someone's house and they don't. But works off of
surface tension, right, so the water clings to it, but
it won't cling to it when there's debris or and

(13:23):
and debris could just be a coating of what you're
talking about, John, pollen and and maybe some little bit
of algae or mildew. Those gutters won't perform as well
if you don't keep them clean. So and I don't
know if they tell you that, you know, I've never
bottom myself for my own property, but I would I
would think that would be part of the sales part,

(13:43):
as you do have to keep them clean on the top.
I mean supposedly they don't get anything in them, which
we know is not totally true, but they shed most
everything and they won't let it get into gutters.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, if you've got a scenarios as we did, were
you just like leaves, leaves, leaves, leaves, leaves, it's whatever
little bit gets in there over a period of years.
In the in the twenty one years that we were there,
I never had a problem with those gutters. There was
one little section that was about two feet long where

(14:16):
a couple like a valley met sure and that in
a pouring rain that would get overrun right. I would
see stuff spilling over it because it just couldn't keep up.
But everywhere else I never had an issue with.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
It, which is a great it's kind of a great
lead into that we're coming up on leaf season, so
you know, pay attention to that. I was at a
house earlier or in August, and it was a rental
house and I had to do a little bit of
work and the gutters were basically a garden. They had trees,
I mean, they were packed full of top soil and

(14:51):
it was all there was a whole there was a
whole other life cycle in those gutters, every kind of
bug you can think of. But the valleys on that house,
the stuff had been there, there was top soil in
the valleys, and it was a fairly new roof on it.
So it's it's worth it to pay attention because you know,
we I'm sure our listeners have heard us talk before

(15:11):
about ice dams and things of that nature. Up north.
We don't usually have to deal with that here, but
you can have the same kind of problems if you
let debris build up in the valleys of the roof
and then decay, and it will create a dam and
it'll cause the water to back up and you you
potentially could have a leak from that. Plus it deteriorates
the shingles, right.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
It gets yeah, and get under the shingles at a
certain point. Fortunately, you have a lot more latitude with
I can't believe we're saying top soil on the roof, but.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
I know it's what it is. It breaks down and.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, now you have a lot more latitude with that.
Then you do the ice dammage.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well, of course if if it's been.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Flashed correctly, but it's it's eating away at your shingles,
yeah it is. Now now you're creating additional challenges, right,
So anyway, so gutters back to gutters can be painted,
but we'll spend some time. I just made a note
maybe next week we'll dig in a little bit deeper,
just out some gutter things, some gutter stuff, because there

(16:18):
there is there's there's a little bit of attention that
needs to be paid to that. It's just really easy
because we want to. I mean, there's a handful of
people I think who just do relish, you know. And
I am, by the way, working on my geek list
all the things that only a geek home improvement geek
would do.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, but that geek has a nice house, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
He does, and he doesn't. He doesn't have to spend
a lot of money on big, big repairs. I had
to reset my screen here and I see that we
have William William, good morning. You're on the Whole Deep
Home improvement show with John to day.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
How are you a good morning?

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Well, I just won't have mentioned some them about some
paint about gutters. Sure, yeah, we're talking about it a
little earlier, and I thought Rustolian paint may be something.
Wondering about your thought about that.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, but it's it's a high gloss. So there'll usually
be a high gloss in their their oil based paints.
And you know, you can brush it or you could
spray it. That was the other thing I was going
to mention to John. It was about make making sure
because if you use a high quality paint, and rustolium
is a high quality paint, believe it or not. People
think it's not, but it is, but it it. The

(17:35):
brush marks tend to disappear, which is what you want
because you don't you don't want to leave a bunch
of ridges on it. And then of course you could
always spray either one of those as well.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Go ahead, excuse me.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
The insulation I'm having a problem. I had some put
some insulation around the door. Uh well, someone did it
for me actually, and didn't do a good job. One
of the better products are something easier for the homeowner
to do to alleviate uh cracks and cravices, you know,
leakage from coming and from next year, from next toier door.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
What would all suggest so.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
You talk about when it's closed, like, okay, okay, what
kind of weather stripping is on the door?

Speaker 6 (18:20):
He just got to tack up screwed in and there's
still you can see a cracket in the door the
bottom of the bottom of the side of the door.
Uh still, I think primarily it's down towards the bottom
of the door.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, that's pretty typical.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
I was just wonder if I saw something like the
sticky type of insulation you could put them and heat
into it. We're going to you have to cut all
these screws and and uh nails in there.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, let me let's put you on hold for a second.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah. Let we're sticking out hold for a second one
because we've got to jump away from that's okay, Thank
you so much for that, because there's a lot of
good answers that we can share with you and and
other listeners are gonna want to hear it as well. Folks.
This is the Home DEEPO Home Improvement Show with John
and Dave. We're happy to have your calls at seven
O four five seven eleven ten or texts at seven
O four five seven eleven ten. We'll talk about William's

(19:13):
questions within door weather stripping and your questions when we
return to the Home Deep of Home Improvement Show with
John and Dave. Welcome back. It's the Home Deep of

(19:34):
Home of Provement Show with John and Dave.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
I'm John Gordon, I'm Dave Doval.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Give us a call. We're at seven O four five
seven eleven ten. We're going to talk to William and
then we'll do our Home deeople product of the week. William,
thank you for waiting through the break.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Yeah, we're talking about alluded to y'all about the door stripping.
He may I have a suggestion to put around there.
You can still see daylight coming in after you shut
the door around some area of the door, primarily down
towards the bottom of the door.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, so tell me how old is the How old
is the door?

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Do you know I'd say it promptably, probably about thirty years.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, so it's still it doesn't and it doesn't have
an integral weather strip. That's that there's a little a
little curf, a saw curf about an eighth of an inch,
and it's it's where the door stop. It's where the
door meets the doorstop, and that's normally where that weather
strip would be fastened. It actually just slides in there.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Well, if it's don towards the bottom of the door too, well,
I think most of the daylight is coming in, so right,
But no, there's something you go ahead.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
I was just gonna say the type of weather strip
because you you had mentioned somebody use something with adhesive
on it, and I was just wondering if that's so.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
No, No, I said, they they use the a door
weather stripping that had screws and it's screw it in.
Oh okay not And I was I was asked, I
was inquiring y'all about if if I'm ay, I know
there's a door weather stripping, you know, the phones type
of stuff that it doesn't look too to U sustainable.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Well, that's the door stripping that probably came to John
asked that question, right, John. Is it a metal door?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is it a steel door, a wooden door?

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh, it's a it's best some and all.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
It's wood door, Okay, the wooden door.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
So I'm I'm kind of surprised at thirty years old
that it's not a Does it have a curved weather strip?
So when you close the door, it hits against the
door stop? And when you open that door and look
at that doorstop, is there a weather strip there?

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (21:51):
No, I don't.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
I don't think there is.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Is there a line like a groove that's cut into it?

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Uh? On the door itself?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Now on the between the door stop and the door jam.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Uh, there's like a one by three around the door?

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes, yeah, board and then and then yes.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Usually between that one by three and the jam, William
is a tiny.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
One by three around the door frame.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Is where.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
He's got the the insulation up there?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, he's he's got a metal strip with a piece
of rubber bab that pushes against the door and then
you tack it. I'm not a fan. They make one
of those with wood that has a curf type weather
strip that goes on it. I looked it up and
they sell it at home Deepot. It's twenty seven dollars
for that particular but it does a much better job

(22:48):
of ceiling because the curf type weather strip is thicker,
it's larger, and so it gives you more area to
press against the door. So that that's the thing I
can I don't know, if you have something to write with,
I can give you the model number.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, that's okay, I can go and I can look
that up. Uh.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
And last, not least, there's like a little strip you
can buy on the bottom of the door. Uh you
can uh where at the very bottom of the door,
if you can get that door off uh put or
you can actually don't have take door down. You can
put the door uh sweep on that door. And if
there's some cracks down there that would alleviate that.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, they get war out. So a lot of times
those it's called a door bottom, okay. And and there
they have grooves cut in the bottom of the door,
and normally you can pop those off and buy a
new one and and put it back on there.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
I had one, though, David, an older door, old and
older wooden door, and and it didn't have either didn't
have or it broke. I just I just bought on
one door, a U shaped door. Bottom. It was adjustable, right,
so you could drop it and raise it. So it
may not be perfectly level, but you could adjust it

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so that it hit the threshold and created a seal
without causing drag on the door. Then the other one
is just a L. It's like an angle. It doesn't
cap the entire bottom of the door. It just is
an L. But it fastens on the inside with little
screws and it does the same thing. So you may
want to check those things out. Very easy fixes and

(24:30):
you don't have to take the door off. In fact,
it's preferred not to take the door offs in case
you have to pull it down or lift it up
a little bit before you make it fastened permanently.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
All right, well I'll try that and laugh and not
least for those amateur painters out there, which I am
by four and not no pro painter. Invest in a
good brush, yeah they.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
The cheap get you a good brush.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Like any other trade, get with better. You have better
work for sure.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, Hey, send us if you will, if you run
trouble or you think, send a picture of your door.
And those areas and the where the door meets the
one by three in the bottom of the door. If
you take some pictures and send us to our website,
ask John at Dave dot com hit the questions button.
I'll be able to see them and then I can respond.
Put your phone number in there and I can call

(25:24):
you and if there's anything I can add to that.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
That's awesome. I'll do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
All right, man, thank you, thanks, will appreciate you. Waiting
for the break. All right, let's do our Home People
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(26:50):
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you to just keep clicking and check out the entire
collection because what I think is pretty and attractive may
or may not be you know, your cup of tea.
But there's so much awesome, high quality product out there
that I just never thought about, even as somebody that

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you know worked there for a long time. So so
do check it out. The price point on that that
solid oak with marble top is five to ninety nine,
so more than I got in my left pocket right now,
but probably not going to cause it to have to
get a second mortgage to finance it. So it's it's
five hundred ninety nine dollars. It's less than a role
of romex Just kidding, No, it is well, depends on

(27:35):
the size of the roll. I guess yea, the spool
spools earned the thousands. Okay, all right, so that' said.
That's our whole deeper product of the week. Check it out.
We're like, oh my gosh, we're like ready for another break.
So I guess let's do that seven oh four five
seven eleven ten. Or go as damage suggestion for William,

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go to the website. As to Dave dot com, pick
on the questions button. You can send us a note.
That way you text maniacs. Get out there, start texting
seven oh four five seven eleven ten, and we want
to chat. We'll talk when we return from these important messages.

(28:27):
Welcome back. It's the Whole People Home Improvement Show with
John and Dave. I'm John Gordon, I'm Dave Dovaluh seven
O four five, seven eleven ten is the number. We're
taking your calls, we're taking your tests. Here's we just
installed a collect sixty inch double vanity. The one I

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just talked about was a single thirty inch. It's very
good quality amplified. The I can't see it because I
got a screen trunk on here. The feel of our
space immensely so made. It gave him a sense of
just like bigger area, so good deal. Thank you for
the feedback. Always glad to know the things that we're

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recommending and like folks are also pleased with some good deal.
Thank you for that feedback from the folks at the
Tongue House. Right. Let's see, David, were we Okay? Here's
one you know, I actually had a personal interest in this,
and I don't I don't know if I have an
opinion this. I was a person chattering about outdoor furniture

(29:37):
and asking our wooden chairs, I presume, like an Adirondack chair,
Maybe is it better to do it with wood, to
buy one made of wood or made one one made
of composite product like a trex or fiber on those
those kinds of things. I here's just a couple of thoughts,

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will be interesting. What you think. I think that the
that the fiber, the composite product probably over a period
of time holds up better but with less maintenance. But
it's going to be hot if it's sitting in the sun.

(30:18):
Composite one of the downfalls that I've found with the
composite decking or docks or whatever it is. They are hot.
The sun hits them and they get hot, they get
very hot. So I don't know, rump roast might be
on the menu, but not at our house. So in

(30:38):
the wood, if you seal it, maintain it, take care
of it, keep it clean, will last a long long time,
and you don't have the temperature issues with that. What
are your thoughts, David Well?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
I agree? And of course you know if you have
something that's stained or painted and it sits outside, I mean,
and I hear people we talk about decks that get hot.
If it's plastic, it's it's probably going to be a
little bit hotter than wood. I think they've done some
temperature tests on that John between concrete wood and synthetic

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synthetic decking, and as you would expect, I think the
temperature is a little bit higher with the plastic. So yeah,
I mean in a wood chair will get it'll get
warm too, but it's probably not going to get as hot.
And of course the lighter the color, it's not going
to heat up as fast.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Right, I think this is I have to stop for
a second and think about this. But we've always kind
of joked a little bit about how much colder is
the floor in your baths. A ceramic tile on the
floor in your bathroom, how much colder is it than
the carpet two feet away? And the answer is not

(31:52):
colder at all. They're exactly the same temperature. It's just
that the carpet is a good insulator and doesn't conduct
heat away from your feet, giving the cold sensation. Ceramic
tile conducts the heat away faster and gives a sense
of cold. As I stop and think about it, wood
is the best natural insulator. So I'm wondering does that

(32:16):
same principle apply, right, So they're both the same temperature,
but the plastic conducts heat to you faster.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I don't know, Probably I would think. I mean, I
just I just know that I've seen people walk onto
a hot onto a plastic deck before and.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Do the kabuki.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah, it's pretty pretty. Watch it's fun. I don't want
to get a seat. Why you get hurt, I'll get
me wrong, But it's fun to watch them, watch them
make their moves, especially if they're carrying drinks or food.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Or just a move.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah yeah, like, man, that was good. Spill a drop
all right? I like the blisters though, Oh yeah, not good?
And rush more of that one.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, here comes let's see Tom. Tom says the
best paint in his opinion for gutters is Bear paint
and Primer Semigloss. So we did not specify a brand.
I would never buy anything else other than Bear products,
so he's me too. As a general rule, I've had

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nothing but awesome success. So even before I worked for
the Home Depot, which seems like before paint was invented,
I was kind of a Bear fan. So good to
know that that product. He's saying, the Bear semi gloss
paint and Primer in one so good feedback, appreciate.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
And that's and that's their one of their their that's
a better quality paint, and that's really our point. So
and you can go with semi gloss too. I just
think I think gloss holds up a little better. We
I did a little experiment at the house with satin
and semi gloss paints, and the the semigloss is held

(34:02):
up better than the satin in the sun, so it
degraded it more. So I think gloss would probably do
better than it's been my experience anyway, that it'll hold
up longer. And I only say gloss on the gutters
because it's high and you won't you don't have to
do it very often.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
IFO, yeah, you know it might be monking around up there. Yes, okay,
So to that Aderondick chairs, here's one from Mike. About
fifteen years ago, I made two Aerondick chairs, one out
of deck boards and one out of Cyprus. At the
same time, I bought one of those lifetime plastic Aerondick chairs.
The plastic chair broke a couple of years ago. My

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two other chairs have been sitting outside for fifteen years
and they're still great. I would say the chair made
out of the deck boards has actually held up better. Boom,
there you go. So not only do we have an
opinion in a thought process, we have a data point,
right and god we trust all others.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
And that would be makes sense. Uh you know that
the that the wood and even Cyprus you know, does
really well outside. I would just say this if I'm
if I have anything, yeah, anything would if you treat
it with cedar shield first, I think you'll you'll have
better results for longevity, for checking splitting, taking on water

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and if and and I don't know if you John,
but I've seen at around jack chairs at people's homes,
and it's usually the bottom where they sit on the
ground that seems to go first. And then sometimes the
handles where the wherever the water can cling to the
bottom of it and will absorb. And of course that's
why the cedar shield is is such a good idea
because it keeps it from absorbing.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
There you go, all right, And then here's one from Gig.
We talked to Gg a couple of times or maybe more. Oh,
good morning John, to day going to work driving, but
always love your show, Love you too, Gg. Thank you
make you feel good on a Saturday morning. All right.

(36:04):
So here's one. I think we've dealt with this before.
I have leaves in the attic that apparently came through
my ridge vent. What up, it's not a problem. It's
gonna happen. We've talked about putting, and there might even

(36:24):
be some scenarios where there's actually so you can get
a ridge event that has like a fiberglass kind of
like you know, like the medium in an HVAC the
inexpensive HVAC filters. Some of the ridge vent products come
with a medium like that already put in place, so

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it tends not to let that debree it into.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
The attic filter I think called filter event.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Filter event. Okay, thank you. I'm supposed to be the
guy that knows products. Go figure. Then there's also we've
talked about just tacking a screen up underneath it to
catch it. That that also could solve it. I think
whatever we do, we're trying to stay away from big

(37:13):
maintenance issues. I know that we're past our break time
here and it's the bottom of the hour, so so
we'll are a top of the hour. We'll go ahead
and slide away for our break. We can talk more
about this and take whatever calls come during the break.
It's seven oh four or five, seven eleven ten or
texts at the same number.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
We'll talk about gerer homopreument questions when we return to
the Home Deep Home Improvement Show with John and Day.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
The Home Depot Home Improvement Show with John and Dave
pre cent up. I try pro answering your home improvement
questions every Saturday on News Talk eleven ten and ninety
nine to three WBT.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Welcome back, everybody. It's our number two with a Home
Depot Home Improvement Show with John and Dave.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
I'm John Gordon, I'm Dave Doval, it's a beautiful day
in the Carolinas.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Let's take call seven O four five seven eleven ten.
Text us at seven oh four five seven eleven tow.
I'm gonna take this call first, but then we got
a pretty cool text coming up. But let's talk. Charles.
Good morning. You're on the Home Deep of Home Improvement
show with John and Dave. How are you?

Speaker 8 (38:52):
Good morning? I have a garage door theb gods the
weather strip on it. Day eight up by Chip monk
uh any hints on or tips on to get done
by professional?

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Is it a metal door, wood door?

Speaker 8 (39:13):
It's a metal door. It's over overhead door, okay?

Speaker 3 (39:17):
And is it on the sides or is it the
door bottom door bobs okay?

Speaker 9 (39:24):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Usually those that are put on John with a with
a metal strip and and they're fastened, they're riveted. I think, yeah,
it could be riveted or it could be it could
be text crews. You're gonna have to you'll have to see, Uh, Charles,
what that how it's fastened. I'm not sure you can
buy that with locally. I think it you'll either have

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to order it or get it from a garage door company.
And probably overhead door because it's there. If it's their model,
they probably are going to have that and they will
sell to you. I think they're out by the airport.

Speaker 8 (40:03):
You they do have the it's got the metal strip
and it's got some tech screws. You have to take
that tech screw strip off to put the rubber strip
into it.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
I think it may be made together integral, yes, So
you take that off and you'll dispose of the old one.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
New one and put a new one in place.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Right. So the best thing maybe is to get a
couple of pictures of it and take it with you
if you want to replace it yourself, and go over
and get one. Hopefully it's not a sixteen foot door
and you drive a Volkswagen.

Speaker 8 (40:39):
The well I did, I did get it. I got
the strip. I didn't get the strip, but the metal
the kip munk keep eating through it and the uh
I got a heavier duty strip that was recommended to me.
But how do you put that thing? You have to
pull the screw, the text screw, yes, in order to

(41:02):
insert that. For it's got to like spline wrenchlins splines
that you slide in there. So you'd have to take
that off and then slide that in there and.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Put it back off.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
That is correct, and then you just need to find
something bitter to spray on the bottom of the door
to probably keep them off of it.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
The deer repellent. There's a there's a deer repellent spray.
I get it at the home depot and I had
problems with squirrels chewing up some wires and things that
I had around the fence, and I sprayed that on
there and it was very effective.

Speaker 8 (41:45):
Okay, well, I'm certainly appreciate that information.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Welcome, good as Thank you for your call.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
All right, Uh seven o four five seven eleven ten,
that's the number. Give us a call. We'll talk about
your question. Here's a text from David from our beloved
Robert Boyd. I haven't seen him since the hundredth anniversary event,
but Hi John and Dave. Miss you, Kate and I
moved to Louisville, God bless you love it there in

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Charlotte visiting this weekend. Welcome home, Robert Boyd. Thank you
for everything you've done to make things happen the way
they happened.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
He was he's I just remember the first time that
I came in here, and he was outside the window
watching outside the studio, and he told me after the show,
he said, he said, Dave, he said, it's it's a
radio show. You have to talk. You can't just nod
your head. Good advice, Robert, thank you.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
That's good advice. The advantage I have is there's things
loose in my brain, so people can actually hear me
nod in my head. So I have an advantage.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
I thought you were there. They thought you were looking
around at your tool bag for something.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah, they thought I'd like playing the moroccas. All right,
let's see. Let's see. Let's see, here's Charles, or for Charles,
maybe sprinkle some cayenne pepper near the door seal. That
also works, and then the chipmunks never mind, all right, Uh,

(43:16):
this is this is right along the line. The next
thing I had on my list here is like how
do you keep mice out as the weather gets cool?
So there's a lot of solutions to this, but I
think you start, David with like the simplest stuff, right,
which is plug up the holes. So check around hose bibs,

(43:40):
any protrusions through the foundation wall or through well wherever,
make sure that they're plugged up using like a great stuff.
There's a pest pesticide version of great stuff. Silicone would
do it. Some folks have used steel wool and then

(44:04):
sealed around that. So just that's the way mice and
most vermin can get into ridiculously small spots, right, So
you just want to make sure that you're kind of
think of it in terms, I want to make this
air tight or water tight, and now it'll be mouse tight.

(44:24):
But there's some other things that over the years, and
I'm meant to go online and look at this, and
I didn't do it, because there are actually ultrasonic devices
that can be used to keep pests out, and as
I recall looking at those things several times, there's versions

(44:48):
of that that are basically well, I shouldn't say. We
got a letter from somebody this is a while ago,
that they had purchased one of these ultrasonic devices. It
wasn't working, so they took it apart to see, you know,
what what might be or not be, and it was
a scam, right, So somebody sold them a box with

(45:09):
a little red light inside of it and that was
all it was. So you want to be careful. But
I do remember seeing some of the product demonstration and
I'll look them up. There there's a black box and
you can actually have different settings on it. There's different
frequencies and the feedback that we've gotten on those is
that they are effective. So that's something to considers as

(45:32):
a preventative thing or if you've got them to drive
them out. So I don't know what I miss.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
I don't not much, not less the mice like that
infra red light.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Tanning mouse. My mouse has a tan get.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Comfortable and then it swats them.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Daven's always thinking about inventions. This particular device was to
see the swater mouse swatting. That could be a new sport.
The kinder gentler pest aside, I have a hose bib

(46:15):
and I'm afraid it might be leaking water behind the
brickh So I don't know whether they think they have
a leak behind the brick, and if they do, what
makes them think that maybe the brick is wet lower,
maybe there's something on the inside. I mean, if that's

(46:35):
the case, you got to open up the dry We'll
have a look. Yeah, because if I'm not taking bricks.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Out unless it's a crawl space.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Correct, good point.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Yeah. So if you're in a basement or a crawl space,
then you're you're cutting the water off and you're going
under the house, either in the basement or the crawl space,
you find that pipe and you you have to cut
it and you have to pull it out, and then
you will at that point in time, I'm replacing and
the faucete and uh, and then you just go back

(47:05):
with the shark bite, you know. Or if it's packs,
you can of course crimp it. If it's copper, you
can sweat it. But I think the shark bite is
the easiest thing for the novice. And you know, I
like them too, so and I'm a novice. So they work.
That's that's how we've generally dealt with that through the years.

(47:25):
When just changing him. So if you just have a spickett,
or maybe someone doesn't like turning it the rotating the
handle multiple times to turn the water on off, they
make those in quarter turn, so it's on or it's off.
There's no washers, there's nothing to replace. They don't drip,
they don't leak.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
It's it's a really great way to do it, and
the plumber can do it and no time at all
if you if you call him out as well.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Yeah, there you go. Good good advice. We slip past
our break here, so we'll go ahead and take it. Folks.
This is the Home Deeput Home Improvement Show with JHN.
Today are going to take a break and be back
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(48:30):
It's the Home Deep Pale Momprovement Show with John and Dave.
If I'm John.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Gordon, I'm Dave Doval seven four five seven eleven ten.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
That's the secret combination. Give us a call, give us
a text, and want to remind you it's the It's
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This Thursday, September twenty fifth, WBT and the One Blood
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(49:24):
know if I can say this on the air, but
we did get a text regarding mice and vermin and
I'll see if I can sanitize this a little bit.
It suggests this person suggests kind of something like a
telescopic device that could have some crosshairs in it on

(49:47):
the device that would deliver a projectile at a rapid
at a high velocity.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
I'm surprised he didn't add putting a future ops of
lemon juice on the pellet. That's bitter.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
It's all about the delivery. That don't mean to be
mean spirited. It's somebody's probably gonna be offended.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
By spread it down with cayenne pepper, lemon juice or
lime juice. That's the thing. You just have to keep
doing it.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
So, yeah, it takes it takes a minute, but.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Well, it gets to light unless you've had weather like
we've had for how long has it been? Now? When
is the last time it rained?

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah? I know we went through I don't know what
we're in Charlotte, but at the coast, we went through
a period of time where it was like nothing but rain.
And I don't mean rain I mean like four inches at.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
A time, right, right, right, tropical stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Yeah, now we're like kind of nothing. But October is
typically a pretty dry month. I think, I don't know anyway, Yeah,
so let's get some rain. We need it.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
September was pretty dry or was it?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Okay, here's here, this is very broad. What's your opinion
on storm doors? They're good? All right, what's the next question? Uh, Actually,
there's a lot to consider in a storm door, and
I'm not even sure what's opinion. So number one, we
would recommend having storm doors. But I suspect what's behind

(51:20):
the question is like if you have a steel door
or a fiberglass door that's really well insulated, and you
put up a storm door that's glass and is sealed
like really really well, you're going to get the greenhouse
effect even in the wintertime between the door. Between the
two doors. We've we've had scenarios David right where people

(51:42):
have called and said and a steel door situation, it
melted the plastic you know, implants for the like for
the grills that melted them. We've had people say that
they got like burned when they touched the handle of
their door because it was so hot. So those are
extreme scenarios. But as a general rule, a storm door

(52:03):
is a good idea. It does create a kind of
a thermal barrier, a break. There's all kinds of options.
What am I trying to say, like self storing full view,
there's just a lot of options out there. As a
general rule, we're saying it's a good idea. It lets
you put a screen in.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
And some of them have a pull down screen.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Exactly, yes, exactly, So, so yeah, it's a good idea.
Do think about it. My friend Paul called me. He
was listening and he said we were talking about this
at some point and he said, John, you know, if
you're worried about if you don't have a full view
door with a vent option on it, he said, there's
a piece of weather stripping on the bottom that you
can just take off and it allows it allows the

(52:50):
air to flow also, right, So good advice. So okay,
Gail has a question, Gayle, good morning on the Whole
Deep Home Improvement Show with John and Day. How are you?

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Good morning morning?

Speaker 10 (53:04):
Okay, So I got a couple of usual problems we Well,
first of all, I'll start with I think when it
might be easier we've got. We remodeled our bathroom.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
We have a good day.

Speaker 10 (53:15):
It's a smart whale and the seat is skewed to
one side and I don't know how to open it
up to tighten this group to get it permitted lined
up with the bowl.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Normally, most of the bidet toilet seats that I've I've
seen and been around, they they fasten onto a track.
So there's there must You're going to have to look
it up through the model number online and it'll probably
show you how to pop it off, because I think
I think the base of the seat and what the

(53:50):
seat clips to is fastened to the toilet and it's
all hidden and then I think the seat snaps into
that somehow. Okay, So look that up. Yeah, you probably
find a video on it, I would imagine through the
manufacturer or the or the directions. You can just download them.

Speaker 10 (54:07):
Okay. So because we didn't put it when we had
the bathroom model.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Sure understand all right.

Speaker 10 (54:12):
So the more the more the more, the bigger problem
is in the last month, it's gotten so that any
solids in the toilet, any little bit, don't go. They
aren't fleshed out, they stay in the in the very
front of the lowest parts of the toilet, and I
mean I brush it, you know, I clean it out.

(54:34):
You brush it, and then it always.

Speaker 6 (54:37):
Comes there, So take it rid of us.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
So it's settling down, and so it sounds like it's
not it's not clear in the ball. You're not getting
a full flush. So possible you need to adjust the
the fill portion in the tank and I'll get more water.
So open up the take the tank lit off and
see if if if you can, if you can see

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a water line and make sure that the water line
is adjusted to that point.

Speaker 10 (55:07):
Okay, I can do that right now.

Speaker 9 (55:10):
It's up to the water.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Line, okay, okay. And so then the next thing is
is to when you flush. Sometimes on toilet you have
to hold the handle down in order to get a
full flush. So if you just if you just reach
back and flush it and you just give it a push,
you're not going to get you're not going to get
as much water volume to go through the bowl and

(55:32):
down the trap. So so try that and hold it
and see if you get a longer flush.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
So she's testing that, David, here's a question. I I
don't know. I don't know how the bidets are fastened
and so on and so forth. But I'm wondering if
the attachment of the permanent bidet seat and its track
is somehow blocking one of the holes that allow water

(56:00):
to come in and flush the ball.

Speaker 10 (56:02):
No, no, no, I'm wondering if if the toilet might
be tipped forward.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
It's possible, and you could check that and see if
the gap is if there's a bigger gap, but it's
it's usually if if if the vortex, if the flush
is working properly, it's it's gonna it's gonna flush everything down.
And that's what it sounds like. It sounds like you're
not getting a full flush. There is a possibility that

(56:28):
you have a bad, bad toilet, and it does happen
from time to time that maybe there's uh some some
of the china or some of the mold or something
is in blocking. It could be glazing, it could be whatever. However,
the toilet's made, this happened.

Speaker 10 (56:46):
Had it for eight years and we didn't have this.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Ah Okay, So yeah, that's scary. I thought when you
said it was remodel, thought it was recent.

Speaker 10 (56:56):
No, we we just we kept the toilet. I mean
they took it out when they put the new in,
but they put the bidet on the top.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Okay. So you had the floors done and then they
put a new Are they tile floors? Yes, okay, so
it is possible, I guess maybe lay a level on
the on the floor by the toilet.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 10 (57:19):
And so if the floor, if it is lower in
the front, what can I do to fix that?

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Well, if it's if it's tile, I mean, you could
jack the toilet up in the front. But it's not that.
It's not the ideal situation. But they can shim it,
and they can They could put plaster underneath it, calck it.
There's lots of things they can do to hold it
in place. But you have to have a little bit
thicker wax ring underneath it. You need you need to
enlist the services of a plumber. Do you have a

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Do you have a plumber?

Speaker 10 (57:49):
Maybe I should call the guy who did the work.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
That's where I would start.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Yeah, okay, because the other thing that could have happened
they may have had to put me if they put
tie on that was there a tile on the floor originally, Gail,
and they just put new.

Speaker 10 (58:03):
Time on concrete.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Okay. So David. They may have put a floor flange,
like a extension ring or something on there and gotten
that a little bit on a level.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Also, it's possible that's what I would get them. I
would get them back out and if you can't get
satisfaction from there, get a plumber if you don't. If
you don't have if you don't have one, give us
a call or send us an email. We can direct
you to someone.

Speaker 10 (58:26):
Remodeled last November. Okay, so this is a problem that
just recently happened.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Yeah, I can.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Something's happened with the flush. Something's going you're not getting
the water that you're supposed to be getting.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna be close to a break here, Gail,
but we'll talk there. If you have a fluid I
don't know what the flush mechanism inside, but it might be, David,
as simple as just doing the cleaning out the clean
out process of the fluid master in the event that
something's not filling properly. I don't know, Folks, We are
going to take a break here, we'll get make we'll
make sure that Gail gets squared away off the and

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(59:34):
Improvement Show with John and Dave.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
I'm John Gordon, I'm Dave Doval.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Did we get Gail squared away?

Speaker 3 (59:40):
We did, and we'll talk after you do the Product
of the Week. We'll talk about, okay, about what I
told her?

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Perfect? All right, then let's do our quickly do our
Home Deeople Product the Week. This week, we're talking about
the Home Decorator's collection, the collect thirty inch single. This
it's a thirty inch vanity. Without just blathering on about it.
It comes in different sizes. We actually had a text
a listener text that they installed a sixty inch version

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of the Collette also, and we're very pleased with how
it came out. I like it because it's just quality.
It's like furniture for your bathroom. Sometimes you can get
a vanity, it goes in, it fits well, but it
just looks like, I don't know, it just doesn't look
like fine furniture, and this one really does. It has
soft closed drawers, it's one hundred percent solid wood frame.

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It actually includes two sets of hardware, gold and brush nickel,
so you can put either one on. It includes for
the price, a Correra white marble top with a backsplash.
It's got an eight inch on center boring in the
in the countertop or the for the for the faucet,
and it has adjustable level. This particular model has like

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almost like furniture legs, and so there's a their adjustable
so that you can get it to stand level on
a tile floor. It's got additional brush nickel hardware, and
it can be mounted either freestanding or to the wall.
The price point on that jewel is five hundred and

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ninety nine dollars. I would encourage you just to go
out and look at the home the Home Decorators collection
just in general on the home Deepot website. There's some
pretty amazing stuff out there, quality and like really really
attractive at very reasonable price points. Okay, I like, David,

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we had a go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
I'm sorry, I was gonna say what I like the
adjustable feed idea, because that's That's something that we always
try to do is raise our cabinets and vanities up
off of the floor just a little tiny bit so
in case it ever gets wet, they don't absorb moisture.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
It's a great it's a great point. Let's see a couple.
So I'm looking at some texts out here. I've recently
had a toilet rebuilt for seven hundred and forty nine dollars.
Did I get ripped off? I don't know what rebuilt
means if they sounds like a lot of money. If

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all they did was replace the flushing mechanism, don't know
what that, don't know what all was it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
That's about all you can do flat rebuild, flapper, phill valve. Yeah,
you know, if they took the take off, you know,
new bolts, new spud washer. Yeah, it seems a little
a little high to me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
It seems pricey.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
I don't want to say he got ripped off because
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Know, right, don't know facts.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Another question, toilets were in the toilet this morning? This
This is about twenty years detached garage that actually has
a toilet in it. That is man, that's the dream shop. Right.
Problem is it's never flushed correctly, so both fills up
and then it slowly goes back down. There could be

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any of a number of reasons. H David. I'm thinking
that the remote location makes me wonder how that toilet
is tied in to the main drain line. And I'm
betting that it's probably got an issue either with clogs.
Like I said, but my first bet is that the

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pipe connecting that toilet to the main line isn't pitched correctly.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Probably chance of that and and and maybe no vent oh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Possible exactly, Yeah, no, that would be In fact, that
would be even more likely. You're right, So what's the
solution for that? There's no. You don't put a stud
event or an air emit.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Well, you have to you have to have a pipe
that comes off of the drain pipe in the wall.
So uh, probably not a whole lot you could do
about it. Maybe you could get his air compressor and
hook up to the toilet to assist.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Get asists. Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Day because it could be a bidet and a flush
assist all at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Man, we're going places.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
We're all right there, We're not We're not stopping. Hey,
let's go back to Gail real quick with the toilet.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Okay, yeah, I'm sorry forgot.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
So, so no no worries. So with with with the
with the the lackluster flush that she was getting after
all those years and it was working. The only thing
what came to mind for me was the the places
where the water come out to us to make the flush.
So if it comes underneath the rim and that creates
the swirl to wash the bowl, and then you have

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a jet down at the bottom that pushes the the
waste out of the toilet through the trap. Those can
become clogged, so they can get and just a partial
clog is enough to cause it not to flush properly.
So what we talked about was turning off the water,
holding the flapper open, and pouring a gallon of vinegar

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with a funnel down where the flapper covers the hole
that goes into the bowl, and you could pour also,
you could pour it just in the bowl, but if
you want it to go through the holes under the rim,
you're gonna have to push it through there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
So you're thinking like calcium her hard.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
One yes, and then yeah, okay, let it, let it,
let it soak for for a while, and then use
a stiff plastic brush or a brass brush and go
around the rim with that brush. Just put a pair
of disposable gloves on. And then if you have a
small enough brush, go in the hole at the at

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the trap as well and spin that around, or a
bottle brush or something and clean that out after it
soaked for a while. And I think she'll she'll notice
the difference because this changed over time. And I believe
that's that's probably what happened. And and then here's here's
the other thing that could have happened. And I didn't
say this to her, but sometimes when people and if

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they if they grouted after the toilet was reset, they
may have been dumping their grout water down the toilet
and then refilling in the tub. And if they were,
some of that sat in there and it can build
up and cause a problem down at the at the
at the uh the hole at the jet at the
at the troll trap.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Okay, so good points, So there you go. Thank you.
I'm glad thanks for recapping that good stuff. All right,
Let's see we have a door with leaded glass side panel.
Something fell like as it pushed out some of the
lead but didn't break any of the glass. Any suggestions
of where I mind find someone to come and repair

(01:06:44):
the lead. It's in Charlotte David. A couple of weeks
ago we had someone talk about and I have replacing
right here, but go ahead, I tell you that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
And I got a note this week from Janet, and
I've met jan and I went to her house and
looked at some issues she was having with a few things,
and she said that she had talked or worked with
a company called shed Brand Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
There you go, and they.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Came to the house, replaced the pains and did a
fabulous job. She said, So shed Brand, shid Brand Studios,
and I think they deal in all kinds of glass.

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Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
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shit only come out and remove the whole panel. It's expensive. Yeah,

(01:11:09):
I think I think the challenge is the nature. I mean,
I don't know, I shouldn't that Letty glass is a
totally different animal.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Oh yeah, but it's a specialized, specialized and there's not
a lot of people that do it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
So yeah, yeah, okay, let's see looking at someone calked
the wheepholes on my windows. Am I in trouble with disaster?
What I mean? The wheepholes are there for a reason.
They allow, you know, water that gets in the tracks

(01:11:46):
of the windows to go to the bottom and come out.
As long as you deal with that, it's probably not
the end of the world. David. I'm thinking like a
razor knife and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Some of those little picks that you could buy with
they got a little handle, and they're different. They have
some have a bend, some have a complete uh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Hook right right, okay, and think about that, and.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
You could just reach in there and clean it out.
I have a set of those and I use those
things all the time. And they don't cost I mean,
it's five dollars for a set of them. They're they're
handy for a lot of things, and they're sharp. There
you go, all right, then.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
There you have it. And the those the wheepholes and
stuff like that. I think it's probably just it's probably
somebody just moving too fast, right, they didn't stop and
think they just.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Or they possibly didn't know what they were for.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
What they're why they're there, what there for? We actually
had people it feels like we've talked about just the
weep poles and brick right where folks wanted to cock
those up and and we we advised against it. Here's
one My dryer hood parenthetically on a brick veneer keeps

(01:13:05):
falling off. Yeah, it feels like, you know, I don't
think you want to attach that to the brick veneer.
It feels like you got to get into the crawl space. Well,
I'm guessing crawl space, and to get the hood that

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has the duct attached to it integral and then connect
it and seal it inside the crawl space like Rivetz
ro screws.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
We normally will seal the top of the of the
vent to the wall. So we'll silicone it to the
to the wall, but only on the top.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
I think you should keep water from getting in there.
And that could also be a place where we talked
about rodents earlier, right, correct, But yeah, I think you
need more than that silicone seal. Well, that's it in place.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
It sounds like it's come apart. So if it's plastic,
the tabs may have broken off that hold it on there,
because sometimes they're made to pop off so that you
can open the damper and hold it open and reach
in and clean out or use a brush after if
it's been out in the weather and the sun, the
petroleum gets dried out, the plastic gets brittle, the tabs

(01:14:23):
snap off, it will no longer hold in place. Now
you could potentially glue it back on there, but you're
really better off, as you said, John, to buy you
a new damper and replace it so that you do
have the opportunity to pull the hood off if you
need to. And so what it is is the base

(01:14:43):
of the hood. The back of it is what gets
silicon that keeps the water out, and then you still
can pop the plastic piece off the front in case
you need to clean it. I normally don't ever pop
them off because they break hard to get back on.
It's hard to get them back on they snap off,
So I usually will just reach up in there and

(01:15:04):
hold the damper open and clean it out. Take a
peek before you go. Stick in your hand in there though,
to make sure there's not a wasp nest or something
in there. So hold your camera down there if your phone,
take a picture and just make sure. And sometimes it's
a good idea if the dryer is not being used,
to just stand there and observe it for a few
minutes and make sure you don't see insects flying in

(01:15:26):
and out or a bird might be chasing you. Who knows.
I've seen that too.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
So that's a funny story. This is true. When we
lived in Charlotte, a bird got in our dryer vent
and the vent crossed the garage and then came down
a wall. Oh yeah, somehow the bird crossed the whole
thing and fell down into the wall.

Speaker 11 (01:15:47):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
And I heard it. I thought it was a mouse,
and Chris was home. He was like two or three
years old, and I'm like, you want to go find
a mouse? He's like yeah. So we took the thing
off and as I opened it up, it was a bird.
And I had old paint can and so I just
kind of got the bird into it and it was
in the can and I said, all right, Chris, we're
going to turn this mouse into a bird. You say abracadabra,

(01:16:12):
and he did and I opened it and the bird
flew out, and he was like, this could explain a
lot of things about Chris. I'm not sure, but but yeah,
the bird will get in there for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Ye see lots of times with the big nests and uh,
if your clothes are taking a long time to dry.
There's something wrong with your dryer pit. You really should
be cleaning it out every every every at least every
two years. It really does need to be cleaned out.
I've I've I'm kind of amazed at what I've seen
come out of dryers, you know, like a small like
a small kitchen trash bag fall, yeah, completely fall of lint.

(01:16:49):
So and you know it's how fires start to But.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Then and there and the other thing that we've spoken about, right,
so you have you have a limit switch on the
dryer that keeps it from getting too hot, right, So
if that's not venting correctly, your clothes might not be
drying because the limit switch is kicking off because it's
too hot. Right, So let's turning off the heat.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
And then after it does that of too many times,
then it breaks the switch because it's not really what
it's intended. I mean, it's doing what it's intended, but
it's not supposed to be doing it all the time.
Because they tell you in the directions to have your
dryer vent cleaned. So oh, it's a control circle, right,
full circle.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
Read the instructions all right, that's here's this I think
this is our last one. I just bought a new home.
Clearly it's not a brand new home, hasn't just constructed,
but a new home to them. There is a huge
antenna in my attic, like a TV antenna. Take it

(01:17:53):
out or leave it alone. It's it's no big deal.
That was not uncommon in the eighties seventies. That was
that's how you got local stations right when you had
cable and stuff. Or maybe depending on how well the
home is, that might be how you got TV reception altogether,
and you just didn't want to have it on your

(01:18:14):
roof for something. It's probably as long as your cable
and stuff is working, you're getting everything you want you can.
I would say just leave it alone. But if you
don't like it, if you're trying to do some storage
up there, you can just take it out, all right.
I think we got a skid attle. Folks. We really
appreciate your listening. We want to remind you, as we

(01:18:37):
do every week, that we think the most important kind
of home improvement you can make is the one that
makes your home a happier place to live in. Don't
forget to work on that project this week and We'll
see you next week when we return to the Home
Deeper home improvement show with John and David

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