Jim from Oshkosh Wisconsin for the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)

Jim is in rainy Wisconsin for the show today and starts with a call on foundation work on a house in Waco. He then looks through his email inbox for questions. Tim Fox of Texas Remodel Team joins to talk replacement windows. We talk more on an irrigation system, bathroom remodel, Victor Remodeling & Construction, and more. Jim continues in the second hour with more home improvement calls and questions.

Episode Transcript

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on the air with your host,Jim dot That's what I need to know.
You always give me the way togo, great observation. You got
to be on the radio. Well, this might be the answer to my
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welcome to Texas Home Improvements. Yourtotal home Improvement source seven one three two
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eight seven four. Any home improvementquestion you have, feel free to pick
up the phone, give me acall, and I will see what I
can do to help you out hereon Texas Home Improvement. Now, I'm
not quite at the Dutton Ranch today. I am north. I'm in Wisconsin.
I'm at the Air Venture that's atOshkosh and that's the EAA Experimental Aircraft

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Associations Annual get together. You comeout here with the about five hundred thousand
plus of your closest flying friends.And that's really what it amounts to.
Whether you want to see old WorldWar two military planes, just general aviation
four seaters, maybe the newest andgreatest from Boeing on their planes coming out,

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or current military planes. I mean, everything comes by Oshkosh for the
next week. And so I'm uphere already. The show starts Monday,
but I still gotta do Texas HomeImprovement. So if you have a home
improvement question, please pick up thephone, give me a call, and
let's talk about it here on TexasHome Improvement again the number seven one three

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lot of questions and answers. There'sobviously the ask Jim button where you can

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one two five eight seven four,and I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas HomeImprovement, your total home improvement source.
With that, let's get ready andhead to our first call and Tim and
Will Meadows, how can I helpyou? Yes, Jim, appreciate you
taking my call. Wid my pleasure. Hopefully purchase the house up around the

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way boat area, and we're reviewingit. And the little thing popped up
and had some foundation repair work,okay, had sixteen Steel Country hybrid.
I guess peers put in. It'sunder a lifetime warranty. All the peers

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appear to be in the front ofthe house. And I must tell you
there's a there's a slight slope tothe land, obviously towards the street for
drainings. Should I be overly concerned? Apparently this gentleman is still in douziness
up there the foundation. I knowthere's no regular regulatory agency governing the foundation

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or pair business. They are stillin business since twenty well there's still in
twenty fourteen, so they got nineten years in and apparently the warranty is
transferable. Should we have any extraordinaryconcerns about this at all? You know,
your only concern is a third ofthe foundation repair company squad of business

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every year, and so that's reallygoing to be your only concern is is
if they go out of business.I would tell you I would ask one
particular question, since they how longago did they do the work? He
said nine last year? I believe, oh last year? Okay, you
know, typically a press piling thatway gets stronger with time, and so

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it had it been in the groundfor say four or five years, my
question would be, have they hadto do any adjustments on it, because
typically once you pass that three fouryear mark, it's very rare that you
got to do adjustments after that.But that first year or two that's when
when you really find out how wellit's going to hold. Other than that,

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now, what should we look for, Like like, it's just been
in the ground per se, nopun intended, but for just about a
year, So you're saying about inthree to four years, have them check
it again? Well, I personallywould have another set of readings done now,
because they should have taken a setof elevation readings and you can have

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a second set done now and comparethe two and see if it's had any
movement since the work was done.All excellently, Jim, I appreciate it.
You've answered our question alrighty you takecare, Tim, Thank you sir,
good bye bye and again our numberseven one three, two, one
two, five, eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have,

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whether you're dealing with the foundation allthe way up through the roof, feel
free to pick up the phone,give me a call, and I'll see
what I can do to help youout here on Texas Home Improvement your Total
Home Improvement source seven one three,two one two five eight seven four.
Now, I got an interesting emaila little earlier, and it was asking

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about replacement windows, because that's alwaysa big thing. And it says,
I'm considering replacing all the windows inmy house with double or triple glazed windows.
Do you think that the cost ofeither is worth it? If so,
which would you use? And thiscame from John and Tyler and John

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stick with double pain in Texas.I mean, I know there's people who
will sell triple pain. And youknow, if someone's asking for triple pain,
I understand why they sell them.But for the money, for the
value, for the energy savings,in Texas, all we need is double
pain windows. The rest is overkill. If you if you were up in

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h well, I'm in Wisconsin.If you were up here in Wisconsin,
triple paint is what I would tellyou to use. But for the weather
in Texas, you would never saveenough on the energy to justify the cost
of those windows. So would thatbeing said, you know that that is
the route I would go. Now, if you are looking for somebody four

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replacement windows, you know, andnow this is in Tyler, but if
you're in the Houston area, Iwill tell you to call Texas Remodel Team.
They have a window division. Youcan reach them at two eight one
six one two fifty nine ninety one. That's two eight one six one two

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fifty nine ninety one and they'd beable to help you out with that.
So with that being said, sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four Again, any home improvement questionyou have, feel free to pick up
the phone, give me a call. I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas HomeImprovement Your Total home improvement source. Alvin

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in Huston sent in a message abouta concrete driveway repair. He says,
my sister lives in Laport and hasa problem with her concrete driveway. It
is not cracked yet, but thefront section near the garage door is slightly
tilted. There is also quite agap under one side of the driveway that

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is several feet long. How canwe fix this to keep the driveway from
cracking and shrinking, sinking into thevoid. Would this be a candidate for
pumping in the expanding foam to preventsinking. Does your company handle this kind
of project and if not, canyou recommend someone to help? Well,

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also mudpump it. Either one wouldfill the voids and keep it from sinking
down. And yes, due Westactually does both. So if you want
to call the due West office that'syou're in Laport, I mean the house
is in the Port. Du Westis based out of Pasadena. You can

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reach us at seven one three fourseven three seven one five six and you
can get that handled with no problemat all. And again, if you
got a home improvement question seven onethree two one two five eight seven four
that seven one three two one twofive eight seven four and I'll see what

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I can do to help you outhere on Texas Home Improvement. D in
Houston says she wants a bathroom remodel. I'm living in a condo. I
need to have my bathroom remodeled,particularly removing tub, installing walk in shower,
removing conventional doors, and installing pocketdoors in the place. Additionally,

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since condo is forty five years old, I need to have galvanized pipes removed
and replaced with PVC to protect againstleaks ever occurring. I have a neighbor
who is also interested in remodeling hisbathroom. I know he is interested in
removal of calvinized pipes and the tubthings. Well, here's a couple of

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things real quick. D If you'rein a condo, you need to check
with the condo the homeowners association tomake sure you can change those pipes out
the bathroom. I got no concern. I know you can do that.
But when it comes to changing outthe waterlines and stuff. Two items on

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that one. Sometimes the condo actuallyis the one, the association is actually
the ones who are responsible for it. Now in other cases it's not.
But number two, you know alot of times they're all tied together,
and so when yours are being changedout, it can affect others. So

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you may need to have at thevery least their permission to make that change
out. So I would recommend thatyou, you know, get that checked
out first. Now, as faras somebody who can come in and do
the remodeling for you, well youcan talk to I'm not sure which part

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of town you're in, you cantalk to two contractors that I recommend.
One is a Texas Remodel Team.They can help you help you out with
it. The other would be VictorsRemodeling and Construction. So if you want
to call Texas Remodel Team, youcan reach them at two eight one six
one two fifty nine ninety one.And for them, it'll depend on what

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part of town you're in. Victorseight three two two four three ninety nine
ninety seven, and either one ofthem would do a great job for you.
With that, we gotta take aquick break seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four willbe right back with more Texas home improvement.

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Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovement. Seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. I've gotall open lines and we need to fill
some of these. So seven onethree two one two five eight seven four
Again, any home improvement question youhave, feel free to pick up the
phone, give me a call,and I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas HomeImprovement. With that being said, since

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we don't have any calls right now, let's jump back into some emails here,
and Diana in Houston says, hello, Jim, with ever increasing home
prices, is home building from groundup still a viable option? What's the
cost per square foot to build versuspurchase? Lastly, can you reckon mend

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a few trusted home builders in theHouston area. Thank you well. On
the home building versus purchase, youknow, I'm hearing prices right now ranging
from two fifty to two hundred andseventy five dollars per square foot to build,

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and that doesn't include the land,that's just the building cost. And
right now, traditionally it is morecost effective to buy a built house.
I mean, look at the costper square foot when when you're looking at

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new or looking at buying a home, and a lot of times you're going
to find that buying a house it'salready built, you are in excess of
one hundred dollars two one hundred andfifty dollars less per square foot. Now
that's not to say you can't findsomething that are up in that same price

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range. I'm just saying you shoparound a little bit, you are typically
gonna find cheaper by buying one that'salready pre built, something somebody's already lived
in, and then you can remodelit the way you want. I mean,
look at it this way. Youbuild a new house and you spend

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five hundred thousand dollars on it,you build you buy a used house and
you spend three hundred thousand dollars onit. You got bigger trees, you
got established neighborhood, no construction goingon around you, and you got two
hundred thousand dollars to do remodeling.That just uh, you know, the

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it just financially does make sense alot of times. So hopefully that helps
you out with that. But youknow, that's just the facts of light.
Now. I do think some ofthe building costs have come down a
little bit because some of the materialscosts have come down, but in general

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it's still at two fifty to twoseventy five per square foot range. The
cost of materials came down, butthe problem is the cost of labor has
gone up, and so as thepricing is going down, it's still be
an offset on the other side.Hopefully that helps you out. Anyways,

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If you've got a question seven onethree, two, one, two,
five eight seven four, Mark andconro is asking about a foil back board
in the attic between roof trusses underroof. He says, an eight pitch
gable foil backed foam board in betweenroof trusses on underside of roof to keep

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peat down an attic. Will Ihave to put a firebacker all so with
the phone board, No, youdon't. And is there any value any
an R value by code? Well, the foam insulation has an R value,

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but it's not going to be awhole lot because that's usually not real
thick and you're you're doing it inthe attic, not for the living space.
Okay, next, I have ridgevents, but they don't seem to
be doing the job. Softa fenceare not obstructed. Had electric attic fan
at one time, but Dad tookit out and put ridge vents in because

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another show said to do that.Also thinking of putting the fan back in.
I recommend ridge vents all the time, and that's what I have on
my own house. I would recommendyou stay with the ridge vents. Now,
the rule of thumb is for everyone hundred and fifty square foot of
attic space you have, you needone square foot of ventilation. Divide it

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between the intake in the exit.So you'll have to figure out how many
square feet your home is. Butas an example of you know, if
you've only got say twenty five footof ridge vent up there, that's not
going to be enough if your houseis two thousand square foot you need more

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ridge vent There's no such thing astoo much attic ventilation, though, so
I would highly recommend that before youstart spending money doing a bunch of other
stuff, that you take a lookat adding some ventilation unless you've already got
continuous off at vents, and mostpeople don't. In fact, most people

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are way undersized on the ventilation sideof it. And if you properly ventilate,
you get it where you've got goodairflow coming in and going out.
You should be able to get theattic within ten or fifteen degrees of the
out side temperature. But again,you got to get enough attic ventilation going

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to do that. Anyways, ifyou got a question seven one three two
one two five eight seven four,we're gonna take a quick break for news,
traffic and weather. We'll be backwith more Texas home improvements. Seven
one three two one two five eightseven four, and we'll see what we
can do to help you. Album. We still got all of the mind,

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so pick up the phone, giveme a call. Hey. You
know, the best siding on theplanet is James Hardy Siding, and we
were just talking about attic ventilation.You know, they got a continuous soft
it vent that is perforated. That'swhat I have in my own house and
it works great. But they gotso many other choices as well. I

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mean, when you go to thhiprodot com and click on the link to
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but it's your Batton style stuff wherethe lines go up and down.
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Do you think it's hot? Nowwe're just getting warmed up. We're back

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to Jeff dot on Texas Home Improvement. Hey, welcome back to Texas Home
Improvement. Your total home improvement sourceseven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.
Any home improvement question. I justfeel free to pick up the phone,

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give me a call and I'll seewhat I can do to help you out
here on Texas Home Improvement, yourtotal home improvement source. And I've got
Tim Fox on the phone from TexasRemodel Team and Tim, how are you
doing today? I'm doing well,Jam, how are you well? I'm
doing pretty good. Let's talk aboutreplacement windows, because you know, I've

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talked about Texas Remodel Team for yearsabout remodeling and you know, all that
kind of stuff, but you havea complete division that does nothing but replacement
windows. Yeah. We've been inthe replacement windows business for about as long
as the remodeling business, and wehave separate crews that basically all they do

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is insolve replacement does every single day, and pretty darn good at it.
Of course. Well, the bigadvantage is, obviously, you know,
when you're dealing with a window company, it has a remodeling company. If
there's you get into the window andyou find there's some wood that's got to

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be replaced or some trim work that'sgot to be done or something, you've
got the resources to get it takencare of. Yeah. Absolutely, And
you know it's in a while we'regoing to bump into a situation where there's
maybe even rotted framing that we discoverwhile we do in the windows. And
you know, of course we've gotthe resources to handle that quickly and without

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disruption and without a lot about itexpense to the customer. It's not like
you have to call in a wholeother company to replace a few studs.
You know, we have their professionalsdo it well. And another advantage you
know with your company is with TexasRemodel Team, is you're not married to

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just one brand of replacement windows.You got a stable full of choices.
Absolutely. Yeah. You know,I think a lot of a lot of
companies go out there with with aone size fits all attitude because you know
there might be a dealer in aparticular product and it benefits them. But
you know, we took the approachof, you know, let's fit you

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know, every homeowner is different andevery home is different, so we took
the approach of let's max the productto the customer and their situation and their
goals. Right, and now wewill certainly make recommendations, but we'll do
that in some kind of framework ofum what the customers needs assessment, you
know, comes out to be soand we have products that offer great value.

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Yeah, I mean, I mean, let's be real, there's some
people who want to have a um, you know, two colored window,
a different color outside than the inside. Some want wooden windows and uh,
vinyl windows, fiberglass windows. Andit's easy to make that one call somebody

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who come out and go over allthe options on these windows and help you
choose the best fit for your homebecause it is not always the cheapest window
that's the best fit, but it'salso not always the most expensive that's gonna
do the job right for you.Yeah, and it's nice. It's nice
to be able to offer multiple products. Um. You know, we we

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welcome the idea of customer having otherbids as well, you know or not.
We like competition that we feel likein the clearest of apples to apples
comparison, we like our chances alot. So, you know, if
somebody's curious and maybe they got abid that they felt pretty good about,
but they just wanted, you know, a second opinion just to make sure

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they weren't spending you know, severalthousand more than they needed to, or
they weren't matched up with the rightproduct, fall us. You know,
it's a quick estimate. It's nota it's not a huge commitment on your
part. It's our estimates free andyou know, we'll get in there.
We'll give you information, need toshow you the products, and then and

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then you know, give you thequote. Well, what about lead time
on windows? I mean in thepast, you know, sometimes some of
the windows would get out there prettyfar as far as lead time to get
a replacement window. What are wewhat are we looking at nowadays? And

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is there a difference between the differentstyles of windows on league times? Yeah,
the you know, if you getto a more basic rectangular window.
You know, the current league timesthere have gotten pretty good again, I
mean they're they're down to about threeweeks on a again on a rectangular windows,

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single hung windows, picture windows,things like that. Geometrics of course
could take a little longer. Specialtyglass to take a little bit longer,
and then if you get into youknow, a little bit more um,
you know, odd windows, theymight take a little bit longer. But
generally right now we're running about threeweeks to get the windows from from watertime.

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Okay, we're happy about that.And if somebody's needing windows, you
get some financing options for him.We do. We do. We we
find our bank, we finance throughan interbank USA. It's a quick application
process, good terms, and youknow, we will have multiple officers out

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there to be able to show acustomer. Oh yeah, that that works
out really well. Then well let'stalk about so the windows come in.
What what's our lead time to getthem put in? Is that within that
three weeks as well? Yeah,normally we're gonna advise a customer when when

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we know the windows coming in theschedule to come in, we'll give them
a call and then we'll look toschedule the actual installation. Usually by the
time we get into the warehouse,we're going to install them within a week
to ten days. We'll we'll havethe installation scheduled within a week to ten
days of that. All right,friend, okay, so all in about

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a month you get the windows fromyou know, from the point of order.
Okay, Now if yeah, Ihad an email a little while ago,
and I always recommend double pain herein Texas over the triple pane windows.
But if for some reason somebody wanteda triple pane, do you offer

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it? We do, Yeah,we don't use them often. I think
sometimes it gets a little oversold forthis climate. But you know the low
our standard offering with a low Ethree sixty six class, who's gonna give
you a great value. But wecan't get triple team as well. Okay,
well you might hold on for justa couple of minutes, absolutely sure.

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All right, Well I'm talking rightnow. I'm talking with Tim Fox
with Texas Remodel Team. And youknow, if you've listened to the show
any length of time, you knowit's a big category, replacement windows and
something that I take pretty serious.And when I recommend a company and if
you need windows for your home,I want you to call Tim Fox and

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the folks at the Texas Remodel Team. They've been on the show for ten
years now. They have a windowdivision that does nothing but windows, and
it's not a new division, it'sbeen there for a long time. And
so if you're looking for windows,call Texas Remodel Team, talk with Tim
Fox and or one of his guys. Let them come out show you what

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they can do for you. They'vegot lots of options for you, and
yes they have some great financing aswell. Two eight one six one two
fifty nine ninety one that's two eightone six one two fifty nine ninety one
for Texas Remodeled Team. You know, foundation problems don't go away by themselves.

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They don't start by themselves. It'san imbalance of moisture in the soil
and if you let it go toolong, you're gonna have to have piers.
Now. At Due West Foundation remPair, we do preventative maintenance as
well as full blown foundation repair.That's why they say when you want the
best, you call Due West sevenone three four seven three seven one five

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six at seven one three four,seven three seven one five six. Welcome
to Texas summer, the only statewhere you get condensation on your butt from
the hot water in the toilet bowl. Here's Jim Dot Texas Home Improvement.
Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovement. Seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four. That's sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four Again. Any home improvement questionyou have, feel free to pick up
the phone, give me a call. I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas HomeImprovement. We've been talking with Tim Fox
from Texas Remodel Team. And Tim, you know, we were talking about

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replacement windows, and the fact thatyou've got all the different styles and companies
you can choose from to get exactlywhat somebody wants. But one of the
things we haven't talked about is theenergy efficiency of windows. You know,
when people are looking to do replacementwindows, that's typically the biggest reason they're

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looking at replacement windows is to maketheir house more energy efficient. And is
there a big difference between the differentmanufacturers and the different styles, whether it's
a wood versus vinyl versus fiberglass wind. Yeah, generally the most efficient one

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that you're finding out there is avinyl one does a great job. It's
probably eighty percent of the marketplace forreplacement windows does a great job. It's
very energy efficient. A lot ofit has to do, of course with
the glass, right and the recommendedglass in our area is is a product

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called Lowi three sixty six. Andyou know that the Loie three sixty six
is a double pain product that's gotour Gonzill in it, and it's gonna
block ninety five percent of the UVrace coming in your house. It's also
going to help protect the floors andthe fabrics from dating, and it's gonna

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block sixty four percent of that solarheat gains all that heat coming in your
house on a hot sunny day liketoday, it's gonna make a big difference
in your house. And it alsothis is a sound, you know,
just having that double pain that insulatedglass pack. Okay, So if somebody
was thinking about replacement windows, howthey get in touch with you? Which

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I've given the phone number already,But when when they call and book an
appointment, is there anything special thatthey need to be letting you guys know
when they call in No, Imean, just just call in, talk
with somebody, get to get ourcontact information, and you know, just
give us a ring and and we'llcome out to see it. Like I

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say, quick appointment. It's nota we don't make a big project out
of you. Just getting a priceon windows. I think you'll like the
guys that are coming out, whetherit's near or one of our guys.
And we'll get to taken here.And the number to call is two eight
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team and just book an appointment fortheir window division and they'll get you taken
care of well. Tim appreciated.I truly appreciate you taking time out of
your Saturday to call in and youhave a great rest of the weekend.
Yeah, thank you so much,Jim. You two take care of you,
bet take care and again our numberseven one three two one two five

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eight seven four. That's seven onethree two one two five eight seven four.
And I'll see what I can doto help you out here on Texas
Home Improvement. Let's head up toDayton and Tommy. This is Jim.
How can I help you? Afternoon, Jim. I wanted to talk to
you about this, uh irrigation systemy'all put in for me about seven months

(35:46):
ago. That thing is it's workedout really well for me, But how
do I know who's still working?I've lost my paperwork on it and I
can't I misplaced it and and uh, and I was wondering, how do
I know if the battery is therea battery in there that I was supposed
to change and the filter or somethinglike that. Yeah, the battery needs

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to be changed once a year andthe filter cleaned out about that often as
well. And the way you cantell is, you know the little box
we're in the ground that we putin yes talking, yes, sir.
If you open that up down inthe box, you'll see the bat the

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timer and the top of that thingit goes off. Oh okay, and
when you open it up, you'llsee a display there and it'll show you,
uh, you know, one thatit's working to what the battery,
how the battery is doing. Uh? And yeah, I think it does

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have a power display as well.But if you want a battery of that
in there, uh, that isthe little square okay, yeah, okay,
nine vote battery all right, andyou'll be able to hit a button
uh in there to turn it onand test it to make sure everything is
still functioning properly. Ohill, there'sa button in there. Okay, all

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right, hit the button and seeif it's still working too. Okay,
it's got a display for me.Now if you'll call on vote battery and
it's it's one year on it anduh and the filter change at the same
time. And again, if youneed another set of those instructions, if
you'll call the office, we canget you another set. Oh great,
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all right, Dan, Well,I appreciate you. Thank you. Hello,
you bet take care all right,bye bye, and I tell you
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Home Improvement. Hey, welcome backto Texas Home Improvement. Your Total Home
Improvement source seven one three, twoone two five eight seven four. Hey,

(40:46):
I had a kind of an interestingemail come in. It says,
Hey, Jim, I have ahome in the mountains of New Mexico with
all lapwood siding. I'm wanting toinstall stuckle all over it. The proposed
stucco is synthetic whatever that actually means. The wood siding is not in bad

(41:07):
shape. I'm just wanting to eliminatethe constant upkeep of wood. Obviously,
taking the siding off would be abig pain in the budget. What is
your best advice? Always love theshow, appreciate the advice as always.
Well, Look, Kyle, syntheticstucco is better known as efis. It

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has a reputation of when it cracks, it leaks water and ruins the wood
behind it. So I don't havean issue with you leaving the wood on,
because you got to have some typeof wood for it to go on
to Anyways, but what you cando have to make sure is they put
up a moisture barrier between the stuccoand the wood. That way, if

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a leak does occur, it's notgoing straight into the wood, causing wood
rot, causing mold, causing allkinds of other problems. So if you
want to take that approach, Ithink you'll be just fine with it.
Just keep in mind it's not atrue cement stucco when it's that synthetic stuff.
With that being said, we gotanother hour of Texas Home Improvement to

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I need to know. You alwaysgive me the way to go, great
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You're the smartest guy though, andI mean the tall Jim. Now with
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and again, welcome back to TexasHome Improvement, your total home improvement
source. No, we are notbroadcasting from the Dutton Ranch today. We're
broadcasting from the EAA. That's ExperimentAircraft Association's annual air Venture in Oshkosh,

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Wisconsin, and it is a hugeevent this year. EAA is actually seventy
years old, so they'll have abig celebration going on up here this year.
And you know, if you've neverbeen, I encourage you to go.
If you like airplanes and everything relatedto airplanes, whether it's war birds,
whether it's commercial airlines or just generalaviation. They have it all,

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including modern day military planes. It'sall out here, so it's just a
great place to come and go throughvendors and stuff related to airplanes as well.
Anyways, that's where I'm at thisweekend. Seven one three, two,
one two five eight seven four isa number to call any home improvement

(45:51):
question you have, feel free topick up the phone and give me a
call. Would that being said,let's head into some calls here. We're
going to go to Sugarland first andPtel. This is Chim. How can
I help you? Hello, misterJim. Uh, my potion is about
bathroom remodally. Okay, I needto remove the tub. I don't want

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any more tub. And I sincethere are two ways. One is a
tie system that is normally done andanother day is that I think they use
pennels and they do it in oneday. And which one? What is
your experience or knowledge about these twosystems? They've worked very well. Um.

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I used to use a product calledonyx O n y x and UH
it's it was a one day typesystem like that. UH works very well
and holds up extreme extremely well aswell. So what is can you repeat

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the name of there onyx O noh by x Okay, okay, I'll
check it up with on xcent seewhat the Yeah? Okay, okay,
thank you very much. You betfor tell you take care again. Our
number seven one three, two,one two five eight seven four Carlos in

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Missouri City, Welcome to seven fortyKTRH. How can I help you?
Thank you very much, Jean.My house was built in nineteen seventy five.
I bought it about fifteen years agoand they had done some modifications,
not really well done. I needto do a lot of work, from
fixing the outside fins and deal withstain picks in deciding to remove the kitchen

(47:46):
and basles. So, because there'sso much to do, I would like
to have someone to advise me,like what do I do first, and
what else I need to check andthings like that. Is anyone you can't
recommend? And the home is inMissouri City? Correct? Now? Are
you wanting to have somebody come inand do the work or you just need

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somebody to advise you and you're goingto do the work. No, I
will need someone to I think there'sso much work to do. I need
someone to black the house to dofirst, and then I would need to
find contractors and all that. Butthere's so much work to do that I'd
like to know where to begin.I would tell you to call Victor's Remodeling
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Okay, okay, and they cankind of like guide me with everything.
Yeah, he's a he's also acontractor. He can guide you and
get the work taken care of foryou. Okay, gree, thank you,
Okay, you bet you take careCarlos right right and again. Seven

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one three two one two five eightseven four. That's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.You know I didn't talk about the website
when I started this hour of TexasHome Improvement. And you know that's where
you can go twenty four seven toget questions and answers and look up information

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when I'm not on the air.When I'm on the air, pick up
the phone, give me a calland let's talk about it because we can
walk through and see what all youneed to do better than just sending an
email question. But when you're atthe website tchipro dot com, there is
the ASKTM button where you can sendin an email question. There's also a
place to sign up for our newsletterthat goes out every other week and it's

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free of charge, chalked full ofhelpful information, so you know, check
it out t h I pro dotcom. And you know I also missed
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now I'm gonna brag on my daughtera little bit. She was on the
news in Dallas this week. She'sgot a cat that had been run over
by a car. Her husband pickedit up and they took and had the
cat fixed. They ended up havingone leg and a shoulder removed, so
it's a three legged cat. Andshe goes two different hospitals and stuff,

(50:31):
kind of like they do with dogs, but she takes the cat and the
cat is very, very friendly withpeople that are in the hospital. Well,
they did a segment on the newsin Dallas about it, and she

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got a call last night. Nowthey're going to do that segment on the
national news. So apparently she calledquite a bit of attention with this story
because in the story, she wentin and was one little girl was,
you know, playing with the cat, and there was another girl next to

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her who was going through treatments whowas afraid of cats. And after watching
that little girl who was petting thecat and playing with it, she finally
agreed to touch the cat and shestarted playing with the cat and the next
thing you know, she was askingher mom if she could have a cat
as well. So it was avery touching story. And my daughters had

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calls from other hospitals if she'll bringher cat to visit them as well.
One of the funny things was shehad contacted one of the hospitals and was
turned down before. Now after thenews story, they want to have her
start bringing the cat there. Soit's just an interesting story. It was

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on w FAA channel eight in Dallas, and it is bouncing around online a
little bit. And last time Ilooked, it was still on their website
as well. And imagine since it'sgoing to go to the National News,
it'll be on there for a littlebit still. Anyways, again, if
you got a question seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four,

(52:22):
let's head to Seabrook and Tim.This is Jim. How can I help
you? Yes, I got afoul dis some question. Okay, in
our neighborhood, I see house isincluding my house, the corner of the
house. The piece of concrete justfell off, just clap and fell off,

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and I don't see any visible structurethem like like anything like that,
but it just looks terrible. Whatcan you do? Yeah, it comes
off about six inches in each directionon the corner there, that's why.
Yeah, And what happens is,you know, we have reinforcement in the
concrete to hold it together when itcracks, but an outside corner like that,

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the reinforcement doesn't go that far outbecause it's too close to the surface,
and that concrete dries faster because youknow, it's exposed on two sides,
and it just becomes a weak spotand spalls off. It basically chips
off. Nothing structural, nothing toworry about. But if you have the

(53:30):
corner, you can use some epoxyto put it back on, and you
know, it keeps it from lookinglike you're missing a piece of the foundation.
So that's about all you can do. Yep, Yeah, it's it's
I mean, you can form itup and pour another little piece there,

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but truthfully, it's not going tostick very well, so you're better off
if you've got the piece to justepoxy it back on and be done with
it. It's strictly a cosmetic issue. Yeah, yeah, that's what I
see. So if I had thepiece, it haven't wash it away,
then I get yes, I cando that bood By with your POxy.

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Yeah, but if the piece alreadygone, I guess nothing you can do.
Now you can form it and poursomething back in place. You might
if you're gonna do that carefully,drill some small holes to put some steel
in there to help hold it inplace, and you'll put forms on each

(54:35):
corner, pack it with concrete anduse the forms to get the shape you
want and it'll stay fairly well aswell. But it's going to be a
different color. Buh by. Okay, Well, I really I'll please said
that because it takes the worry outof me because it's just a coustmatic Otherwise

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I say, wow, this thebreak off women's Yeah, yeah, no,
it's nothing to worry about. Ohright, you bet take care and
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little bit. Ah seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.
In the home improvement question you haveseven one three two one two five eight
seven four. And I'll see whatI can do to help you out here
on Texas Home Improvement. We arebroadcasting today from Air Adventure up in Oshkosh,

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Wisconsin for the EAA that's Experimental AircraftAssociation's annual meeting. I mean there'll
be five hundred thousand plus people comethrough here. There's like forty five thousand
campers out here. It's just unbelievable. Tens of thousands of airplanes for this

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one week out of the year.This is the busiest airport in the world.
Just imagine when we got you know, Intercontinental Airport going, we got
Hobby going, and this is thebusiest in the world. You just can't
imagine it. Anyways, seven onethree, two one two five eight seven

(59:05):
four. Any home improvement question youhave, Bob in League City, How
can I help you? Hi?I want to put up a privacy wood
fence, and my neighbor has alike a seven foot chain link fence,
and I wanted to run my woodfence in the same direction as that stain

(59:29):
link. I don't know how tohandle that. I could back off a
foot or a foot and a halfand then put up my wood fence,
but I don't. I don't knowwhat to do. Why do you want
to back off that far? Iguess you want to put the pickets nailed
on from his side. Well,I don't want to touch his fence at

(59:51):
all. Uh, you know,he's his fence is like seven foot tall,
and I mean I do would Icould put my fence right alongside his
fence? Yeah, you could putit in where it's only six inches away
from his Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, And that way, you

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know, you don't have a bunchof dead space, wasted space in between
the two fences. Ok. Iguess my other question would be does he
need a chain link fence? Yeah, he got a good deal on it.
He had a regular, smaller,shorter fence, and the contractor came

(01:00:35):
by and told him he was doinga fence across the back for a neighbor
of his, and so he hadthis extra fence and he gave him a
good deal on it. So abouteight years ago he put that seven foot
tall, stain length fence all alongthis between my house and his house.
So, but now I want moreprivacy because I sort of screamed in back

(01:00:57):
porch on Well, here, here'swhat I would probably do is I would
talk to my neighbor and see,you know, if if he doesn't mind
and doesn't need a chain link fence, take the chain link off of those
poles, put the brackets on themetal poles, and put your wooden fence
up on there to get the height. If you want to keep it,

(01:01:19):
you know, for some reason hewants that seven foot height. You can
put a rock board on the bottomand then your fence pickets on top of
that, and you don't have togo through the hassle of setting all new
fence posts and stuff. Then thatsounds that's a good idea. That's that's
what I'm gonna do. Alrighty,exactly what I'm gonna do. Thank you
so much, Jim, you bet, Bob, you take care? Uh

(01:01:44):
huh about right? And again sevenone three, two, one two five
eight seven four let's head down toLeague City and Lisa, welcome to seven
forty ktrh Yes, Jim, I'dlike to know on the soaker hose that
I'm gonna put on my foundation?Yeah? Long, per I mean,

(01:02:05):
how many hours should I do it? Like late at night before? You
know? I was gonna keep movingit because it's you know, large,
but I don't have the pressure toput out two or three or four,
so I'm just gonna get one andkeep moving it. So, but how
many hours should I let it soapbefore I move it? It's not hours.
The typical instructions and the instructions Iput out is fifteen minutes twice a

(01:02:29):
day. And as far as havinga lot of pressure, if you put
a lot of pressure in the soakerhose, you get a bunch of water
at the beginning and nothing at theend of it. You want to drop
that city pressure down to like fifteento twenty PSI and balance it out and
you can hook a couple hundred feettogether that way. Oh okay, I

(01:02:52):
can do a couple of hundred Ohyes, ma'am. Okay. Well,
I just know you can't use watertwo places in my house at once for
some reason and the pressure just dies. It means like I don't have pressure.
I just don't have it. Yeah, and multiple places, Well that's
it just an indication that your supplylines coming in aren't aren't big enough.
But you know, like I say, if you put a pressure regulator on

(01:03:15):
this and drop that pressure down,it'll go all the way around your house.
Uh, uses very little water fifteenminutes twice a day, and uh
you don't need that full pressure goingout that way. Okay, sounds good.
I'll do that, thank you,all righty, take care. And

(01:03:36):
in fact, if you go toour website tipro dot com, there's instructions
there, how to properly water thefoundation, the pressure regulator, how to
lay the soaker hose, the wholenine yards. Again, it's TI pro
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Join the petition to get Jim Dutton'spicture on cans of bud Light.
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on Texas Home Improvement. Hey,welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your
total home improvement source seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.

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That's seven one three, two,one two five eight seven four. This
portion of Texas Home Improvement is madepossible by Ready Seal. Alrighty, let's
head to Spring Branch and David,this is Jim. How can I help
you? Hey, Jim, longtime listener. I have a handyman that

(01:05:59):
was putting in a double doors pocketdoors, okay, and they they did
it, and they when they finished, the doors actually came out, uh
came out of the wall. Uh, in order to Matt and to meet
In other words, they were thedoors were almost like too short, and

(01:06:25):
there were thirty inches. And hesaid, well, that's the that's the
uh, that's the size of thedoors. And I said, but DELSI,
David, Oh sounds like he's havingas in there. But then they're

(01:06:46):
not going to recess back into thewall. They're gonna be chicking out a
couple inches, So I'm not surewhat he did wrong. Let me ask
you a couple of quick questions then, So, was this a pre hung
sliding door or was this one wherethey had to put everything together and assemble

(01:07:10):
it? Yeah, it was apre hung They put the frame in the
wall first, right and um,and then they seat rocked over it and
they did that put in the doors. Did that frame come already all set
or did he have to put thatframe together? No, frame was already.

(01:07:30):
It was a it was you know, it was it was pre hung.
It was a box, a woodenyou know, with the flats on
the side. It was pre hung, did I And how much too short
is it when you close the doors? How much gap do you have on
each side? Uh? Probably wellenough for the doors to just swing back

(01:07:53):
and forth, but probably about atleast three quarters of an inch on either
side. Okay, I'm always sayingsomething about he could try to put some
trim to fix it, but I'mjust thinking he didn't. He made the
whole too big or something when hewhen he framed it out. Yeah,

(01:08:16):
but if if it's pre hung,it should have Yeah, it should have
had the measurements for the opening inthe wall goes in there, and then
there's a boards that you put onthe face of it, you know,
where the door slides out. There'strim boards that go on each side of
that. Are those on there already? Yeah? Yeah, it's coming out

(01:08:44):
completely out of the you know hehad on the ends that it's got little
bumpers, you know that keep thedoor to its slides kind of smooth.
I mean it's come completely out ofthose. Yeah. He he obviously mismeasured
then, and he put it inon where it had to be set,
and so it's off right now fromwhat it needs. I mean, it's

(01:09:08):
flushed. It's flushed with the opening. I think it looks to me like
you just made the opening too bigor too wide. Well, that's that's
what I'm saying. He mismeasured whenhe when he's set the opening the way
he did. But he's right,Jim, I mean he's well I wouldn't.

(01:09:29):
I would be doing just like hesuggested and probably take the door trim
off, fur it out a littlebit further the facing, and then reinstall
all the trim and stuff, becauseI mean that's really even if you took
everything apart. That's what it's allgoing to come down to, is it's
just gonna be furred out further.Okay, okay, and he he only

(01:09:54):
really has to do that on oneside, right, or does he need
to do that evenly on both sides? I personally would do it evenly on
both sides because the amount of gapthat you're talking about got you, got
you? And is that I mean, is that something that's difficult for him
to do? I mean no,not at all, okay, And he

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won't have to add drywall to it, you know, comes up shouldn't have
to do it that way. Imean, uh, you should be able
to just add wood trim on thereand move your door trim over some you
know, if depending on how thatdoor trim was put in, you may

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have to use a wider piece ofdoor trim in order to cover everything because
it probably has you know, becauseof the cocking, and may not have
the the oh shoot, the patternon the sheet rock behind, depending on
on the steps that he did.But uh, right, texture, texture

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is what I was thinking of.Gosh, I couldn't get it out,
uh so, but he could justmove the trim. He doesn't have to.
I was thinking he had to pullthat that whole pre hung pull to
see where I golf and and andmove that whole pre hung unit in a
little bit more. But you're sayinghe doesn't have to do that. I

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know, I don't think so.I think on the face of it,
you know, the part where thedoor slides out of, Yes, if
he'll just put trim on each side, like use a a one by four
that's ripped to match it, thatthat'll move it out on both sides.
It leaves the opening for the doorstill to come out. Uh. And

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and it won't look odd at all, and it won't hit that and and
and it'll still move just as smoothly. Yep, that's and that's just a
matter of him, you know,cutting the board direct size to match the
opening that's there. Okay. Andand if he does that, we don't
need to then order the thirty twoinch stores, you could stay with the

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thirty correct, Okay, okay,okay, all right, thank you,
Jim. I appreciate you. Youbet you take care all right, But
yeah, man, pocket doors canbe a little bit tricky. And there
now I was asking if it's ifit was a pre hung or not.

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There's some of the pre huh.Some of those pocket doors come with the
framework unassembled, And what I wasthinking is he possibly didn't assemble it to
the right measurements that are on thespecs. But if it came pre hung,
the only thing I can figure ishe used the end of the pocket
door where you know where the doorpulls out and slides, as his trim

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piece, and it was probably designedto have another piece of trim put on.
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can do to help you out hereon Texas home improvement and talking about you
know, energy and temperatures and everything. Johnny and Montgomery sent an email question
whole home eight AC unit brands.He said, is there really a big
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downstairs and smaller for upstairs the pasttwenty years and satisfied, we replaced the
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Well, it's you know, Ijust did a dust spot where I was
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Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, you know,and so on, and they all had
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they got a three sometimes a fourtier system. You got your upper brands.
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