Jim from Double Oak & Woodlands Water Restoration

Jim starts the show by talking about the storm damage and everything we’re dealing with. He also takes questions on the best way to cover windows, weather or not to buy a dehumidifier, paint on a metal roof, whole house batteries, different insulation options, and more. In the second hour Jim takes more calls and has Robert from Woodland Water Restoration join to talk to talk about all they can help with after all the storm damage.  

Episode Transcript

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the Dutton Ranch. Here it's JimHey, Welcome to Texas Home Improvements.
Your total home improvement source. Sevenone three, two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one threetwo one two, five, eight seven
four. Any home improven question,feel free to pick up the phone,

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give me a call, and let'stalk about it here on Texas Home Improvement.
Now you're gonna hear probably a littlenoise here today. I'm not actually
at home or in the studio oranything, you know. I split my
time between Houston and Dallas. Andin Dallas, I'm in a little community
called Double Oak and they are celebratingtheir fifty fiftieth year anniversary today of the

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city of Double Oak, and sothat's where I'm at. I'm sitting out
in front of city Hall outside doingthe show today. Gorgeous data to be
outside up here, but uh,getting a little bit warm. We're gonna
be pushing. Uh we're pushing ninetydegrees right now. But still it's just
a gorgeous day to be outside.But I'm still here to take your calls

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and answer questions. So seven onethree, two one two five eight seven
four. Uh, don't forget aboutour website thipro dot com. It's there
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well. Again, that's all availableat tchipro dot com. Our number seven
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one two five eight seven four.Look the storms that went through Thursday evening
and just tore everything up. Uh. I know a lot of people are
still gonna be dealing with this forseveral weeks to come, because it's not
just a matter of getting all thepower back up and things like that.

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Uh, We're gonna have fences down, We've got windows to replace. Downtown
is gonna continue to look like adisaster area for quite some time because all
like that, that glass on thosebuildings, it's got to be replaced.
All that stuff's got to be customordered. It's it's not like it's sitting
on a shelf somewhere waiting to beput into these buildings, because not only

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do the sizes have to be right, the tents have to be right,
things like that. So we're gonnabe seeing the aftermath of this storm for
quite some time. And uh,if you've had damage from the storm and
and you've got questions on what youneed to be doing, uh, feel

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free to pick up the phone,give me a call, and I'll see
what I can do to help youout. Uh. In in our second
hour today, I am going tohave a Woodland's Water Restoration Company on.
They are a company who deals withrestoration of structures from stuff like this.
Not only do they do the buildback, but they deal with your insurance

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companies and things like that. Becausethere's gonna be a lot of people who
are going to be dealing with insuranceclaims on this. I mean uh that
again, the damage is comparable towell when we've had hurricanes and stuff come
in, so uh it's gonna there'sgonna be long term effects of this.
Anyways, Again, if you've gota question seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four, we're goingto head out to Jersey Village, SC.
This is Jim. How can Ihelp you? Hey, I had
a question about covering my windows doinga hurricane. We're going out of town
for a couple of weeks this summer, and my wife's like, oh,
we got to cut some plywood,you know, in case, in case

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there's a hurricane, and so yourdad can come over and cover the windows.
My question is this, what iswhat do you think about cutting masonite
exactly the size of the windows.These are solid, big, solid pane
windows and attaching that masonite quarter inchmasonite with like cock or silicon. It's

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gonna be a heck of a messto clean up later. Well, I've
thought about that and I can dealwith that. You know this, we're
having a car kid watch our house, and you know my dad can come
over and put it on. Butif that if I put something on that
glass, well and I go totake it off, will it affect the

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glass at all? There's no kindof make sure you're covering on it.
Well, the glass will typically takeit better than other parts of the structure,
like if you put, for instance, cocking onto the brick or something
like that, it's gonna get downinto doors and you're gonna see it no
matter, no matter how good,this is, gonna be just on the

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glass, just on the glass.If it's just on the glass, I
mean a razor blade scraper will prettymuch clean it up. Okay, but
now what you're thinking about, I'mgonna give you this. This the second
side of it though, because ifif it's on the glass, something hits
that board that you have on there, the glass will break still. Okay,

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that makes sense. Okay, allright, well we may do pilocks
and just go from there. Yeah, the plylocks actually work very well.
The other thing that people tend todo is, you know, if you're
gonna go ahead and cut plywood andhave it ready anyways, you actually can

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mount studs into the brick and haveyou know, have your boards numbered for
what windows they go on, andliterally those studs are sticking out. The
boards slide straight on to the thestuds that are sticking out like a bolt
sticking out, and you use awing nut to tighten up the plywood and

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you're done. I had something similarwhen I lived on a lakes there's a
big open area and huge windows.I had something like that and that worked
great. Okay, yeah, allright, and especially if you know,
like have your dad come over anddo it or something, that'd probably be
the easiest and quickest way to coverthem up. Okay, all right,

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all right, I appreciate it.You bet you take care all right,
by bye, but again our numberseven one three, two one two five
eight seven four. And look,it doesn't have to be plywood anymore.
I mean they've got polyproducts. Thereis fabrics that you that they do it

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that way where they they have thestuds in there. You just have it's
it's almost like a heavy tart typefabric that you just roll it and hang
it onto those studs. It stretchesout and it takes a two by four
uh slamming into it and doesn't doesn'tdamage it. You can take a look

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at like rollax shutters where you virtuallydon't have to do anything other than roll
the shutters down to protect your home. So you definitely have options nowadays,
more so than just put putting plywoodup. Uh. You know the uh,
the the plastic boards that are availablenow. Uh they're lightweight, easy

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to handle, easy to put up. So you know, I would take
a look at some of the otheroptions other than plywood. The issue with
the plywood boards as you storm,they tend to warp and twist and stuff,
and they become a bigger and biggerproblem to put on all the time.
So anyways, if you've got aquestion, seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. That'sseven one three two one two five eight

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seven four. And I'll see whatI can do to help you out here
on Texas Home Improvement and uh as. As I mentioned on our second hour
of the show, we will haveWoodland's Water Restoration on to talk about filing
claims, the things you need todo, what you need to go through
to to be ready. But hereI'm gonna give you some tips because I

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know a lot of people are cleaningup today. Document document document. I
said this a few weeks ago whenwe had a storm. Take pictures of
everything before you start pulling it out. Pull it out, pile it up,
save it for the insurance company.UH. If you add a tree,
come down and go through your house. Pictures, pictures, pictures,

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but have the tree removed and thensecure the house as best as possible.
So often people think, well,I'm just gonna leave it for the insurance
company to deal with. They don'tdeal with it. They come in and
they tell you this is the moneyyou have to hire somebody to fix the
stuff. But when when damage likethis occurs, you have the responsibility of

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securing the property. So further damagedoes not happen, or they may limit
what you collect, they won't beresponsible for that further damage. So again,
you've got to make sure that you'reprotecting the property when something does happen.
Like this, again, if yougot a question seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four,that's seven three two one two five eight
seven four, and I'll see whatI can do to help you out here
on Texas Home Improvement and for foreverybody who's without power right now, obviously
uh seven forty you can listen toon the radio. All of us should

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have emergency radios available for when stormsdo come in and such. But you
know what if if you don't.This is the time of year to start
prepping for hurricane season. I mean, it's just around the corner. And
let's face it, a lot ofpeople right now wish they had generators.

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You don't have to do a wholehouse generator if you don't want to.
One of the guys that works atDue West, my manager there in the
Houston office, he's without power andhe already had a pigged ail out for
hooking up a generator and everything.It has certain outlets that it runs like

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the ones for the refrigerators, freezersand all that kind of stuff. He
had the bedroom hooked up where hecan has a window unit in the garage
he can put it in and thatoutlet is hot. So now they've got
a room that they can keep cool. So you have options, and it
doesn't mean you got to do theentire house. Got a question seven one

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Often irritated never duplicated. Here's morewith Jim Dunton on Texas Home Improvement.
Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovement. Seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. That's sevenone three, two one two five eight
seven four Again. Any home improvementquestion you have, feel free to pick

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up the phone, give me acall, and I'll see what I can
do to help you out here onTexas Home Improvement. So Francis sent from
Katie sent in an email that mynew house runs humid around sixty five percent
or higher, but almost never belowsixty percent. Typically when the air isn't
running, sometimes there is a mustysmell. We have two outdoor AC units

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in a larger home, and oneis twice as big as the other physical
size, and I suspect it maybe oversized. Should I consider a whole
house dehumidifier or maybe replace the wholeAC unit? Both options are expensive,
so I'd like to get it rightthe first time. Any other options?

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Thank you, Francis. Francis.Absolutely, the first thing you need to
do is let's get somebody out tocheck the size of the units versus the
size that you need. I'm guessingthat you may be a two story house
or have a split where you gotone section of the house that's bigger from
one unit than the other. Andthat's why one outside unit is bigger.

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But keep in mind, newer unitsare bigger than they used to be.
And so even if it's a fourton unit that used to be there and
now there's another new four ton,it's going to be a bigger unit outside
than it used to be. Butbefore you start worrying about it, a
dehumidifier and stuff, because your airconditioning system is a dhumidifier, but it's

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only dehumidifying when it's running. Sowhat you do is you have somebody come
in and your HVAC contractor should beable to do this. You do what
it's called a load calculation. Theytake the square footage, the insulation,
the windows, which way the houseis facing. All this stuff goes into
a computer program that then tells themwhat size air conditioning systems. Let's get

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the right size first. Uh.And yes, if it is oversized,
you're better off to downsize it orsee if that oversized one can have some
adjustments made to it to where itdownsizes. Uh. And by that I
mean runs longer in order to dehumidifylike it should. So realistically, what

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you're looking for in humidity is fortyfive to fifty five you know, getting
up to sixty, yes, itcan happen, but you do start feeling
it then. Uh, Like Isaid, usually you're looking for that forty
five to fifty five percent humidity andthat that's where most people are going to

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be fairly comfortable. Uh. Ifyou need somebody to come out and take
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seven one three four seven three sevenone five six and uh, you know,
we can size it up for youand let you and check the units
that you have there and let youknow what you need. Again, if

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you got a question, seven onethree two one two five eight seven four,
that's seven one three two one twofive eight seven four. This one
comes from Donna, and she says, I sent you a message a few
months ago regarding painting a metal roofon a house I recently purchased in Virginia

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Beach. I do remember that.Uh. My husband said he heard the
end of your reply on THCHI butmissed your advice regarding what prep is necessary
and what kind of paint should beused by the painter we hire. Would
you be able to reply by email? Yeah, we can send it to
you and typically what we do iswe clip the recording of it and send

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that to you. So, uh, look, just for anybody if you've
got a metal roof, there thereactually are metal roof coatings that you can
put on that are white in color. I don't think they got them in
any other color option, but whitein color because that helps reflect the heat
and UV and all that kind ofstuff, and it seals the gaps between

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the panels and different things like that, and absolutely that will help you with
not only changing the color and allthat stuff, but also with the longevity
of the roof. Now, ifyou want to go with other colors,

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yes, you can paint a metalroof. You'd have to do it with
metal type paint, whether it's automotiveor something else in order to do it,
but it absolutely can be done.The first thing you'd have to do
is just clean the heck out ofit, you know, get all the
debris and all the build up that'son it off. It's got to be

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clean all the way down to anice smooth, clean finish. And then
it could be spray painted, butuh, typically that's not what you want
to do. You typically want tojust use a regular metal roof coating on
it. It'll look good, it'llbe more durable, and probably lasts longer

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as well. With that, we'regonna take a quick break news trafficing weather
here on seven forty k h sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four. Hey, you know,talking about keeping our homes more comfortable and

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complete opposite of Texas Weather. Here'sJim Dunton on Texas Home Improvement. Hey,
welcome back to Texas Home Improvements.Your Total Home Improvement source seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour. That's seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. We'regonna head to a task Asda and Nicholas

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is a gym. How can Ihelp you? Hi, mister Dutton.
I live in a test Asda andwe're still in the middle of a blackout.
And as of right now, I'mresearching whole house batteries. What do
you think of those? Are youlooking at the Tesla system or what ones
are you looking at? Well?I was looking at the other brands such
as Blue Eddy or Eco Flow inGenerak uh. I didn't know Generak had

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a whole house UH batteries. Iknew they had the generators, but I
will tell you I've the the theBlue Eddy that you were talking about.
I have looked into those systems becauseI've looked at them for my r V
and they have them for whole houseuse as well. But look, they

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tout them as as doing the wholehouse, but they don't really do the
whole house. If you try todo the air conditioner or anything that's drawing,
like the air conditioner, it runsit down rapidly. It'll get you
a couple hours and that's about itif you keep yeah, if you yeah,

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because if you're just trying to keeprefrigerators going and things like that,
then they work fine. But whenyou when you're trying to really do the
whole house. At least that brand. I have not looked at the Tesla's
and some of the other brands,because some of those do say that they
can handle it, but I havenot looked any further than that one brand.

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Uh. In today's economy, tobe honest with you, your better
buck is going towards a generator itself. Okay, sounds good, sir,
Thank you very much. You betyou take care you too. And I
said this last weekend before we hadall these storms, if I was looking
at a whole house system, UH, GENERAK right now still sets the standards

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there are some other good ones outthere, and I've been looking at some
of them. Uh, but rightnow I'm still saying Generak is the one
to look at, because you know, they they set the standard. They
they have it down to an arton making it work in they are made
here in the United States. Gota question seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four Lewis and EastHouston. How can I help you?
Yes, I'm calling. I'm atrees not down the power lines in the
backyard at my mother's house. Mythings. It's called the weather head and
the conduit. And I was wondering, do you recommend a good electrical company

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that we could call? Yes,give Right Touch Electrical a call. Okay,
well, uh, then they candefinitely help you out with all that
stuff. All right, thank you, you bet you take care. I
can fine. And for anybody elsewho if you want to give Right Touch

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Electrical a call, it's two eightone six four five five five two six.
That's two eight one six four fivefive five two six. I've used
their services many times. They doa great job for you, so again
it's Right Touch Electrical. Got aquestion seven one three two one two five

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eight seven four that's seven one three, two one two five eight seven four,
And I'll see what I can doto help you out here on Texas
ow Improvement. And again, ifyou're going to be looking at generators and
stuff, look, you maybe don'twant to spend all the money to do
a whole house system. Maybe youjust want to do portions of the house.

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You can have a line a systemput in so that you can plug
your portable generator into it when thepower is out and you need it when
it's going to be an extended timelike this. For most of us,
if we lose our power for anhour or something, we don't need to
worry about getting the power back upimmediately. But for some people for health

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reasons, they do. But youknow, in general most of us don't.
But if we're going to be outfor days, it would be nice
to keep the refrigerator going, fansgoing, lights, and different things like
that, and so a portable generatorcan definitely do that. You can have
an electrician come out, install awhip that basically is a converter box so

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that when your generator is on,it won't send power down the line and
electrocute somebody who's trying to fix thelines further down. And so this is
not as simple do it yourself project. You really do need to have somebody
who knows what they're doing to installthose things. But it can be really

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worth having it on a situation likewe've got going right now. Got a
question seven one three, two,one two, five eight seven four.
Let's head to pair Land and Mary, how are you today? I'm good?
Can you hear me? Okay,yes, ma'am, okay, I'm

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so. I you had recommended thatUSA Insulations, Yes, ma'am, but
some are you know cause I've kindof looked at some stuff that said that
it could promote mold. And youknow, I've had my house flooded before
and I don't know that I thinksI'd rather have a real Is there some

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other company that does something other thanthe phone? Well, any type of
insulation that gets wet has the abilityto create mold. And it doesn't matter
if it's the foam, if it'suh, fiberglass, cellulos, all of

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them, if they get wet andhold the water or are going to start
promoting foam growth or mold growth,right, But I I just want to
I mean, I know that youknow, when a house flood would pull
all the insults out. So ifit floods, how do you get that
phone stuff out? Oh, theexact same way you would if it was

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fiberglass or cellulase. You just literallyreach in, pull it and it comes
right out. Oh okay, okay, because that's kind of concerned me.
And then but it's recommended. Ithink you had said I can't of your
show it on my way home.Uh huh, so safe can stuck falls

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and olds out correct and then applythe news. Well, if it's in
the attic, uh, they cantake all the old out and put in
new, but uh in the walls. And that's where I was talking about.
I'm gonna put you on hold becauseyeah, we need to go further
into this. We'll be back withmore Texas home improvement. Let's talk about
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It you will too. In fact, people who come over and see it,
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weirdos. Here's Jim Dutton. Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement.
Seven one three two one two fiveeight seven four. That's seven one three
two one two five. I've eightseven four. When we were going to
break I was talking with Mary aboutinsulations and so, Mary, are you

(34:08):
were looking for insulation for the atticor for the walls? Well, possibly
both. I live in a housethat was built in the seventies and so
I'm sure it has old stuck inthe side of the walls. But several

(34:30):
years ago I had somebody put downsome rolled out insulate and then had floorings
put on top of my attic.Okay, so you know, wood,
a deck or whatever you call it. And my concerns is, you know,
do they need to remove all thestuff that might be left inside the

(34:51):
walls over lots of years. Andwhen it did flood, we did pull
out anything that was like, uh, so many feet above the foundas,
But who knows what's inside the wallsand how long that's been there. Well,

(35:13):
when the USA insulation is who Irecommend for the walls, and when
they look at it, you knowthey can they can, Like when they're
getting ready to install insulation, forinstance, they'll drill a hole through the
mortar line in order to inject thefoam in there. But before they do
that, they can go in witha camera and take a look and see

(35:34):
what's in there, what kind ofcondition uh, and then make the determination
of what needs to be done.But understand, if if the insulation in
the wall has to come out,you're at the mercy of having to tear
the wall up to do that.Where to just add the foam insulation,
you're not now in the attic.I don't reco I don't recommend the foam

(35:58):
in the attic unless you leave fiberglassin the walls. I don't want the
house totally encapsulated in foam because thenit seals up too tight, and and
that's where you start getting the sickhouse syndrome. So use foam in the
walls because you're limited on your spacethere, and use like fiberglass or something

(36:20):
breathable like that in the attic andyou get your R value that you need,
but you don't have to worry aboutit being sealed up to where you
start having humidity issues and things likethat. Right, So there's not anyone
that does the blown insulate in anymore. That oh blone is done all the

(36:42):
time in the attic still, andso who you recommend for that? Well,
if you'll call USA Insulation, they'llhelp you out with it. Okay,
Well they do both these, Yeah, they can do both. Yeah.
Now one thing I you mentioned though, that you had bat insulations.
You know they rolled out up there. Those typically don't need replacing. Once

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that's in there, you're done.Blown in will settle over time where that
bat insulation doesn't uh and it doesn'tdegrade or anything. So I really,
you know, based on what you'resaying, you maybe don't need to do
anything in the attic. Yeah,I think you're right. After you're talking
to you, I'm so glad pleasingsent me an email. Well, if

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I get fits ands and it's today. I just thought I'm going to try
to call on my way home work. So I appreciate this info greatly and
I love listening to your show.Thank you so much. Thank you very
much, Mary. You take carebye and again our number seven one three

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two one two five eight seven four. That's seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Anna.This is Jim. How can I help
you? Hey, Jim, Annacalling from Garden Oaks, just to have
a quock question for you. So, we don't have power due to the

(38:13):
storm, seeming like we might nothave power for a while. So we've
done our best job to secure thehouse, shut the blind kind of get
everything ready. But I want toknow should I shut the door into the
bedrooms that have windows to kind ofkeep the heat in there, or should
I allow the house to breathe andcirculate circulate, circulate, So keep the

(38:34):
door, all the doors open andlet the air circulate, because you're you're
closing it up for an unknown periodof time at this point. Uh,
you know you you really you stillneed to have air circulating in there if
possible, got it? Well,I really appreciate it things so much.
You bet you take care all right, bye bye. H Now, if

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obviously, if you've got a roomwhere you're going to be running an air
conditioner or something like that, thenyou want to close that room down.
But other otherwise, uh, keepit open and let things circulate in order
to just not build up too muchhumidity in any one given area again seven
one three, two one two fiveeight seven four. And look, if

(39:23):
you're without power, and you're gonnabe without power for an extended period of
time, keep in mind, onceyour air conditioning system comes back on,
it's going to take a while tocool a house back down, but it's
also going to take a while todehummidify everything in there, because the moisture
levels are going up, not justin the air within the house, but

(39:46):
it goes up in the insulation inthe walls and the attics and and uh
in the furniture and things like that, and so it takes it a good
while. And by that, Imean you're probably looking at twenty four hours
to get it back to normal onceyou do turn the HVAC system back on,

(40:08):
once you get power again, Souh, you know, don't don't
expect to instantly be comfortable. It'sgonna take a while because once the AC
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well. Seven one three, twoone two five eight seventy four. Will

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be back in a moment with moreTexas Home Improvement. All right, we
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one three, two, one twofive eight seven for JD in Woodlands.
How can I help you? Yes, thank you for taking my call.
Uh. The reason my call isthat after all this rained my neighbor's water
is coming through my fence. Thereis some erasia erosion there, and I

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wonder, Oh, another scenario thatI have is that serial utilities go go
through my land, so I havepower, I have a whole bunch of
wires under that gap between the fansand the wires. What are my options
to prevent this word to come throughmy property? Is any more than likely

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they have an easement through there?And if they do have an easement there,
there's nothing you can do. Wow, Okay, that was easy.
Yeah. I'm assuming this is aregular residential neighborhood or is this out and
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so it's yeah, is it developed? Yeah? Okay, yeah. And
what you'll find is typically on likeeither the backsides or along a side,
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With all that being said, againour number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. That's ahead back into the call and John this

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and Jim, how can I helpyou? Yeah, I've got a question
for you. What do you thinkabout the Roofmax system. I have a
fifty year shingle roof and I've heardor seen videos of the Roofmax system.
What is your thought on that?As far as doing what well? This
Roofmax system supposedly is to go backover and renew the roof without having to

(49:39):
I guess it's something they spray onthe roof. Yeah, I mean,
basically, if it's a product I'mthinking of, they spray it on.
It soaks back down into the asphaltshingles and helps to extend the life of
the shingle U And usually what they'relooking at is, you know, you

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got a roof that's to say,thirty years old and getting it at the
end of its lifespan. You canput this product on and maybe get another
three to five years out of it, Okay. So in other words,
is I've got twenty years on afifty year I usually cut the license half

(50:24):
off of a roof because in ourclimate, that's about right. Yeah.
And I was just debating on whetherthe roofmax system would be worth going with
or just going ahead and having anew roof put on. It's all going
to depend on how much they wantto put it on, because I can
tell you right now, roofs havegotten really expensive as the cost of oil

(50:50):
has gone up. Roofs are becomingastronomically expensive, right, So have you
got a price on that roof Baxyet No, I haven't. Okay,
what I have seen in the pastis something in the neighborhood of you know,
four or five thousand to do that. And you know, if you

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got to, say a two thousandsquare foot house, you're probably looking at
something in the neighborhood of twenty thousandto replace it. So you got to
decide if that's if that four thousandis worth it to gain another three to
five years, right, Okay,let it That answered my question on that.

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I appreciate it. Thank you,you bet take care again. Our
number seven one, three, two, two, five, eight seven four
and fred in Northwest Houston. Howcan I help you? Oh? Good,
I'm happy. I just got myfire back. Oh that's great,

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yeah, yeah, thanks. Thequestion I have is my siding on this
house. I've been at forty twoyears and the original sighting was this Mason
Night siding used to be good forabout thirty years, so obviously I got
to do something. How do Iget a handle on the pricing for putting

(52:24):
in harding bank exciting? Give victorsremodeling in construction a call and have them
give you a price on it,because it's more than just the cost of
getting the siding done. You gotto make sure you got somebody who knows

(52:44):
what they're doing when they do it. And I've v as Victor for years.
I've known him for at least thirtyfive years now, and yeah,
I got piling under this house andit's still moving, so you know,
I got to eat problems and allkinds of weird stuff. Yep. Yeah,

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but yeah, I give Victors acall it eight three two two four
to three ninety nine ninety seven eightthree two two four three ninety nine ninety
seven. Yes, sir, allright, I'll give them a call and
let's see what they can come upwith. I'm probably gonna have to do

(53:28):
it two sides at a time becauseI know it's expensive and I'm long since
retired, so yeah, we'll stay. Not a problem. Well, And
honestly, unless you're citing is isuh, you know, expanding on the
corners and on the edges and stufflike that. If it's still in good
shape, there's not a reason toreplace it. Well, it's got two

(53:50):
big problems. Part is, there'ssome parts that are delaminating, then it's
time to replace. And there's otherparts that the siding is swelled and it
makes you busy looking at it becauseit's wavy. Ah. Yeah, so
I'm done. Yeah, yeah,it's over. I just got to fix
it, I think. Yeah,alrighty well, sir, I appreciate it,

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and I'm glad you got your powerback. Well, same for everybody.
I hope they can fix this.I'm not real optimistic because of all
the large towers that went down,but yep, ankles crossed for everybody there
you go, thank you, andlook, just a quick note on that,

(54:39):
even when you get your power back, don't be surprised if it goes
down again. As they're working onthe stuff. They may get sections up
and it'll be up for a fewhours and then they got to take it
down while they re route another line. Because we do have so many towers
down, it's going to take somework to get everything done. So I
mentioned in the last hour I wasgonna have Woodland's water Restoration on. I've

(55:04):
got Robert on the line from Woodland'sWater Restoration and Robert, how are you
today? Doing well? Jim,how are you today? Thanks? I'm
doing great. So with the stormsthat came through, you know, there's
a lot of people who have majordamage to their homes. And you know,
it's not necessarily just a home.Fences are gone and trees are gone,

(55:27):
and it's just there's gonna be alot of work that has to be
done to get everything back to normalagain, and a lot of stuff,
especially when like trees fell on housesor winds broke through windows and different things.
A lot of times people are gonnabe dealing with insurance claims that won't

(55:49):
necessarily be all that simple to doafter a storm like this. Yeah.
Correct, Depending on what type ofinsurance policy you have, you really have
to look at into that see whatyour insurance covers. If you're unsure about
that, I would reach out toyour agent or the claims department to find
it exactly what's covered and what's notbefore leaping into filing the claim. And

(56:16):
what your deductibles are. Oh good, good point. Yeah, yeah,
has goodhead. Well, I wasgoing to say, sometimes you know,
people got you know, two orthree thousand dollars worth of damage. They
want to turn it in, butthey got a six thousand dollars deductible.
Right, don't follow a claim.Don't follow claim because if you file,

(56:37):
go ahead and follow a claim andthey're only they're not going to give you
any money because it doesn't reach yourdeductible. Well, they're not going to
give you any money for one.And then secondly you just file a claim.
And then if you fileow too manyclaims, your insurance eventually could drop
you. Yes, and when theylook I know they tell us all the

(56:57):
time, well it doesn't count againstyou renewal. Uh, yeah it does.
Regardless of what they tell you.It is looked at. Sure it
does. Yeah, I want to. I was gonna say, with with
all this stuff going on, whatcan you help people out with? Well,
we can. Going back to theinsurance, the number one thing we

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do is when we go out therefor a free evaluation, we can determine
whether they can need to follow aclaim or not. That's really the the
the most important part of having uscome out and letting people know whether to
file a claim or not and whenwhat's saw damage and what's not damaged.
And I'm talking about internally like thethe interior. We can with what we

(57:46):
do is we we deal with waterdamage and mold damage. But with water
damage, we have the technology tosee if there was any hidden what areas
and can can can we can identifywith sweat and what's not. We can
also assist if you did have anyroof damage, if there's any areas from

(58:07):
the roof where the water is comingin, and kind of let you know
the whole scope of what you're dealingwith and guide you through the whole insurance
process. And that can be adaunting task. Oh tell me about it.
It's really not just filing a claim, Jim, But it's really that

(58:29):
whole process of getting a hold ofthe adjuster, making sure the adjuster has
all the information to get to keepthe ball rolling to get you back to
pre lost conditions. So it's don'tthink about the struggles and challenges of just
filing the claim, but it's reallythe day to day of interacting with your

(58:50):
adjuster and making sure that it's gettingdone in a timely manner so you're not
displaced and you're back in your home, in your pre lost home, as
quickly as possible. Well, andI want to caution people on something when
they're dealing with adjusters, because weall assume that the adjuster knows what they're
doing. And I'm not saying mostof the adjusters don't. I mean most

(59:15):
adjusters. They've got training, theyknow what they're doing. But we do
have a lot of adjusters who allthey did is go through a course.
They don't know anything about construction,home building, or anything else. And
they're instantly out there looking at structuresand making financial determinations on what the insurance

(59:36):
company can do to help you.And we're taking them at their word and
may it's not always an educated word. That's an excellent point. You know
a lot of people of Jim,they think whatever the insurance company says is
the law. And you're right.Maybe some of these adjusters just this is

(01:00:00):
their first day on the job andthey don't know every every aspect of building
material and what's covered and what's notcovered. They they need time to get
some some some reps in if youwill, to know the industry, and
if you have whomever you choose togo out there, if you're dealing with

(01:00:23):
a roof or restoration, make sureyou have a representative from one of those
companies to to be your advocate,because most often than not, they may
just know more than the adjuster.And when we go out there and we
talk to adjusters, Jim, wewe don't try to we try to help

(01:00:45):
as much as possible. If ifwe if we kind of feel that they
they're they're just starting off, we'lljust say, well, what do you
think about this? What do youthink about that? Do you think this
is covered? You don't think thisis covered? And why don't you think
that's covered? So that's kind ofwhat we do. Yeah, and it
doesn't have to be an adversarial thing. It's just good to have somebody there

(01:01:07):
who knows what they're doing exactly.Yes, sir, Well, Robert,
how do people get in touch withWoodland's water Restoration? Well, thank you
for asking. It's two eight one, you can call it two eight one
seven five seven three six again twoeight one seven five fifty seven thirty six.

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And I just you know, sopeople are aware my company at due
West, we refer Woodland's water Restorationto homeowners on a regular basis, and
they have taken great care of people. So I'm very familiar with their work,
what they do, and that wasthe reason I called to have them
come on the show today because Iknow there's a lot of people who are

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going to need their services, andand you know we're coming into hurricanes season.
This isn't the only time we're goingto have storms come in that could
do damage. So whether you needthem now or need them later, take
the name and number down so youhave it when you need it. One
more time, Robert on that phonenumber absolutely two eight one seven nine five

(01:02:20):
five seven three six. All right, that's Robert with Woodland's water Restoration.
And Robert, I appreciate you takingtime out of your Saturday to talk with
us today. Hey, likewise,Jim, have a terrific day. Thank
you. You as well go backand with that we're going to take a
quick break. When we come back, Joe, you'll be up first.
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we head straight back into the callshere at seven one three, two,
one two, five eight seven four. Joe in Jersey Village, Welcome to
seven forty ktr h Gotti, Jim. I am blessed to have a whole

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house home generator at our house.So we've got survivors guilt here. Well,
we've got electricity and the neighbors don't. But it comes at the cost
of the loud noise of the generator. Is there any advice you would have
on Yeah, outdoor sound insulation orany way to dampen the noise down.

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You just wanting to make it wherethe neighbors aren't trying to come over for
dinner, aren't you. Well,I don't want to keep them up awake
at night either. It is anoise is pretty loud. It is in
my house in their house too,I'm sure. Yeah, And you know

(01:07:28):
no question about it. Generators arenoisy. The only thing you can do
is try to put baffles to redirectthe noise. And you got to be
careful when you're doing that because thesystem needs air circulation to keep the motor
cool. But if you can comeback off of it a couple of feet

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and put like a plywood wall aroundit, that will redirect the sound up
instead of out into the neighbor's yardsand stuff. You know, it's kind
of like when you're driving down thefreeway, you see those concrete barrier walls
that that that really is nothing morethan sound abatement. Oh well, that's

(01:08:14):
right, Yeah, you're right,and thought about that exactly well, and
so, uh, that's what Iwas kind of thinking about doing. But
then is there some material that Iwould put on that plywood to help?
Is there a are there panels orrolls of noise insulation or sound insulation,
like there are really anything soft thatyou would put on there would absorb the

(01:08:38):
noise? Oh okay, okay,And they make they make regular sound blankets
and things like that that you coulduse. And I know, I got
to take a quick break here,but sure, yeah, there's there's there
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Call Concord Window Film at eight eighteight two zero six one four one
three. Here's more Texas Home Improvementwith Jim Dutton. Hey, welcome back

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to Texas Home Improvement. Your totalhome improvement source seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. That'sseven one three two one two five eight
seven four V in Southwest Houston.How can I help you? Hi,
Jim, Listen, my fence blewdown during the big storm. We had,

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and I need to find somebody tobuild a new fence. Yeah.
Uh. The unfortunate thing is Idon't have a fence contractor who covers every
place because a lot of those guysonly want to work in a localized area,
and especially right now. Uh,they're just not willing to travel because

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they got so much stuff from thestorms. Right because this is in the
first one that was causing the issue. Wow, well, I guess there
must be thousands of fences down rightnow. There are Yeah, yeah,
yeah, Well anyway, thanks fortrying. Anyway, Yeah, I'm sorry
I couldn't help you with that one. Yeah. Well, have a good

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afternoon. And I can't wait forthe Astros. There you go. I
am following them. Ever since Istarted following them, they've been winning,
and I'm like, I have tolook now, I have to you know,
I have to listen to them,because if I don't listen to them,
maybe they'll go back to their oldways. Well, and I see
you told everybody, and when itstarts stuffing off, everybody's gonna be calling

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and blaming you. I guess theywill. But anyway, I'm very excited
about tonight because see, they havetheir ace pitching. So yep, yeah,
all right, thank you, takecare. Yeah, and again our
number seven one three two one twofive eight seven four. That's seven one

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three two one two five eight sevenfour Again. Any home improvement question you
have, feel free to pick upthe phone, give me a call.
I'll see what I can do tohelp you out here on Texas Home Improvement,
your total home improvement source, andyou know, you know on the
on the storm damage. Look,don't get in too big a rush looking

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for the contractors because the good ones, yes, they're gonna be busy for
a while. Uh, the badones, they're gonna be out scrounging looking
for stuff, and they will takeadvantage of you. So if you get
a hold of somebody and they're saying, oh yeah, I can jump right
on it. Honestly, right now, you need to be questioning why are

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they able to jump right on it? Now? I get it. This
storm just happened on Thursday, Soyou may be getting first in line or
early in line on it. ButI can tell you every day that goes
by the contractor is going to bestacked out a little bit further. And
if if you want a good jobdone, you're going to have to make

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sure that you don't get too impatientand hire somebody simply because they say they
can jump on it. That's howyou get a poor job done instead of
a great job done. With thatbeing said, seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four again, any home improvement question you have,
feel free to pick up the phone, give me a call. I'll see

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what I can do to help youout here on Texas home improvement, let's
see here. So kenon Spring sentin an email question asking what kind of
shingles do you recommend in the Houstonarea. I have heard you advertise them
in the past on your radio show. Look, it all depends on what

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you're going to do with your house. But if you're planning on staying in
your home for the next who knowshow long period of time, un it's
worth putting it a good shingle onwhat I put on my own house was
Reva Shingles by f Wave. Itis a Class four shingle and it withstands

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hailstorms, It withstands high winds.I mean it's it's had wind measurements over
one hundred and seventy two miles anhour on its test and withstood it.
And let's say this Thursday gave usa really good example of why we need
these type of shingles. Yeah,the hail stuff is great, but when

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you're getting winds like we had blownthrough in excess of one hundred and twenty
miles an hour, you got tohave a shingle. It's going to withstand
that. And take a look atReva shingles by f Wave. That is
a shingle that will handle it again. Our number seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four Mikein Texas City, How can I help

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you? Hey, Jim, gota question about a roof. We have
a metal roof, and you know, about two weeks ago we had a
really hard seat and noticed a leakand started dripping in the in the master
bathroom. And after the storm onThursday, I went up into the attic

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and it was starting to leak againwhere the uh, the exhaust pipe or
flute pipe from the furnace goes upthrough the roof. Okay, I noticed
it was dripping. Water was drippingdown there, and I'm I'm concerned about
the insulation being wet and where itwas dripping in the master bathroom. You

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know, it's right at the doorand it's really soft wood. You can
stick your fingernail into it. Soit's been going on for a while.
I think, yeah, well,yeah, what you just described. As
far as we're the penetration through theroof for the heating system, that's probably

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going to be the boot that's upthere, that's around that pipe. And
so a roofing contractor obviously is goingto have to take a look and take
care of that for you. Iwould give Guardian roof Systems a call and
you can reach them at two eightone four zero seven seven to two eight

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zero, okay. And that's calleda boot that goes around that exhaust pipe,
Yes, yes, sir, okay. And as far as the well
call it, some people call ita boot, some people call it a
roofjack okay. In the industry,it's more of a roofjack. Okay,

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a roofjack. Yeah. As faras dripping down the insulation in the attic,
what do you think about that?Is that a real major concern or
will it ultimately dry out or well, if it was running on it,
you if it was running on itand it's still wet, you would want
to take it out and get ridof it. If it just dripped on

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it and it has dried out,then I truthfully wouldn't worry too much about
taking it out. The molds andmildews are only a problem as long as
there's a moisture source. And youknow, if your moisture source has been
eliminated and it dries out, it'sokay. That doesn't mean you may not
have to add some insulation in thatarea. And like I said, if

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it got wet enough to where it'sstill wet, get it gone. Yeah.
Well, since it was dripping throughthe ceiling into the molding around the
doorframe and that area, you needto get it taken out. Yep.
Yeah, because you're also going tohave to prove me some sheet rock damage

(01:17:57):
there to deal with as well.Yeah, freak. So I got a
moisture meter and it uh, youknow, it's it's it was higher.
It wasn't zero, it was up. There were thirteen as far as the
well supposed to be. You know, And if you got enough areas that

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are that this is happening to,you may want to give you know,
I just had Robert On from Woodland'sWater Restoration. You may want to give
them a call at two eight one, five seven, six, eight four,
five nine, because they can takecare of getting it all dried out,

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and and the mold checking and andall the stuff that needs to happen
so that you get comfortable with itagain. Okay, these guys are on
your website. I take it.I'm driving down. I'm driving up Go
Freeway at sixty miles an hour,dodging heavy traffic. So but I can
get those numbers from you. Yeah. Yes, If you don't see it,

(01:19:01):
if you don't see it on thewebsite, shoot me an email and
I'll send it to you. Okay, Thank you, Jim. I really
appreciate your show and listen as oftenas I can. I appreciate that you
take care. Thank you. ByeBright again our number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.We're gonna have to take a quick break

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Thank god, I've still goud.Welcome back to Texas Home Improvements your total

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Home Improvement source seven one three twoone two five eight seven four. We're
gonna head to Northwest Houston. Kerry, Welcome to Texas Home Improvement. Thank
you, sir. I'm we hada question about a Generac generator I purchased
at March of last year of twentythree, and I've had nothing but problems

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with it, the throttle body nowthe roads and the supercenter and Comebaugh said
they don't carry that part, thatthey have to order it from Wisconsin.
I'm guessing, or I'm asking,is there a lemon law on such a
thing, like like an old car. They used to have limit law cars.

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I just wonder I've asked to justbring another unit instead of keep having
this one replace for replace for placeson it. It has less than ten
hours, okay, and it's onlybeen in for a year, yes,
sir, right, has it beenbeing started every month and stuff? Yes,

(01:23:56):
sir, I had every Saturday atten am. Okay, until we
need it, and then all ofa sudden it quits and then there's there's
some problem. And yeah, theSupercenter and Tomball keeps giving us different answers.
Well we have the part, Nowe have to order the part.
Yes, we have to order thepart. No we don't. The technician

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comes out, Uh said they comeout. My wife's not, she doesn't
work at home. Nobody has evencome out. They said they came out
yesterday. They didn't didn even show. But my question, is there a
Lemon law where I can or amI going to have to take it to

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civil court or what? There isnot a lemon law that I'm aware of,
other than on automobiles. However,what I would do before I went
to court bypassed the Supercenter and callGenerac Direct in Wisconsin. The corporate all

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yep, they they will have adepartment up there for talking to to you
like this. My wife did callthe corporate office and they said, well
they have to put it into Uh. She would have to pass it up
to the uppers and and they wouldhave to make the decision of just changing

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out the unit. But it isbut that, but that is that is
the direction to go because the localguy is just an installer for a product
that he purchased, so he willHe doesn't have to say so whether to
change it out or not. Butwe have the warranty through the super center
in Tamlaw. We have the maintenanceagreement warranty, bump the bumper warranty.

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You do. But but the warrantyitself on the generator is coming from Generat.
They're just a facilitator. Yes,sure, okay, So what's your
suggestion. I would go ahead andcall back up to Generate in Wisconsin and

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start pushing it up the ladder becausetheir product is typically a really good product
and they don't want to have someonewith a bad one either, Nor do
we. I mean, of alltimes to need it, we need it
now. Oh absolutely. You knowwe're having to bunk up at the daughter's
house, you know, but herewe've got up fifteen thousand dollars generators sitting

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idle. Yep. And then thesecondary thing I would probably do is try
calling is if you know what partsneeds to be replaced, try calling some
of the other service centers if theyhave it. It's the rotary in the

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fan. Yeah yeah, one ofthe other service centers may have one.
Well, I guess the worst thingabout this, I'm gonna have to eat
crow at work because I bragged aboutI've got the generator. I've got the
genera generator. Call my coworkers andI don't know if you're familiar with railroad

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people, but they'll let you knowabout eating crow. Yeah. Yeah,
I've had a few work for meover the years after they retire from the
railroad. Oh yeah, well,I hope you run them off with a
big stick and a short sharp word. Yeah. I am sorry you're having

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that problem. But I will tellyou that is it is extremely unusual on
the generak to have that type ofproblem. So that's why I would push
it, and I think they'll getyou taking care of And with that,
I gotta let you go. Weare out of time. Let's talk real
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literally having it drip onto the boardsdown below, thinking Okay, I'm gonna
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warmed up. I mean we're onlyhitting around ninety today and those triple digits
they're coming. Dan in Baytown,you're gonna be last call of the day.
How can I help you? Okay, I have a tash garage.
UH, and I'm considering, well, I'm on deck it. I'm considering
insulating it before. Uh. Isthere any concerns with more shure or bowl
or anything like that, because Iknow this. Nobody ever insulates garages and

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I'm just wondering why not because theinsulation will actually hold heat if you're not
air conditioning and the garage you onlyin late spaces that are heated and cooled.
Otherwise the insulation just holds whatever temperatureand releases it later, and so

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it does more harm than good.I have a pretty good sized vent that
runs twenty four to seven. It'sdesigned to run twenty four to seven,
and bending the garage right into theattic. Would that would that offset that
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conditioned space. Now, if youwant to make the garage more comfortable,
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that would be on the roof itself, the barrier, I know,
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radium barrier. Lay it on theattic floor and it keeps the heat that's
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with that, that's it today forTexas Home Improvement. But don't forget.
You can join me again tomorrow startingat two o'clock right here on seven forty
KTRH. And for everybody who isout there are still fighting with the power

(01:34:01):
and storm damage and stuff. Look, don't fret it. We've been through
it before. We will get throughit this time and through the future storms
as well. Talk to you tomorrow