Jim From the Home & Garden Show in Frisco

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Johan on. Johan's done, andwe're gonna talk a little bit about air

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conditioning and especially we've got going thisweekend. Johann, welcome back to Texas
Home Improvement. Whoops, I thinkI might might have got maybe Charlie turned
on there, let's try that again. Thank you. They got the right
one. We got Charlie sitting herewith a headset on and I accidentally turned
your mic on, Charlie, butI shut it back off now okay,

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okay, y know. And wegot to at Due West. We have
foundation repair, we have plumbing,and we have an air conditioning division,
and we're going to run a specialtoday today only for new clients. Absolutely,
so tell us about this special.Well, you know, air conditioning

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systems are a little bit different thansome people think. You do have to
maintain them to keep peak performance.They're not like an appliance like a refrigerator
or an oven that you just plugin the wall and wait twenty years till
it breaks again on you and putin a new one. Yeah. So
if you do that for an airconditioning system, the problem is is that

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when it breaks is going to bein the middle of summer when it's one
hundred and five degrees outside, andduring the time it's running, it's going
to be less efficient. And sothe way that you solve those two problems
is you get it checked up regularly. We do twice a year and so
in the spirit of you know,offering that to our local community and making

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sure that everybody has a well performingsystem, then we were offering a special
this weekend of fifty nine dollars tookay, get a tune up done.
And what is the tune up goingto include? Well, standard checklist is
checking the all the voltages of theoperation of the electronics of the system,

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checking the refrigerant level, which isa very key component to a system performing
at its peak capacity. But alsowe're doing a tune up portion of it,
which is actually cleaning the outside condensercoil and more critically cleaning the inside
blower will assembly to make sure thatall the airflow going through your house is

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nice and clean and flowing as efficientas possible as well. Okay, and
it keeps everything in balance and workingmore efficiently, Yeah, no doubt.
So what happens is over time,obviously, everything from the duct work that
down through the furnace through the coilsinside starts getting caked up with dust,

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and so keeping filters changed is somethinghomeowners can do, but cleaning those coils
is not something a normal homeowner isequipped to handle. And so we're going
in and making sure that those coilsinside the unit inside your house are clean,
the fan that's blowing the air insidethe house is clean, because just
like you dust a fan in yourceiling inside your house, the fan and

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the and the AC just gets itjust as dirty and okay, and so
what are we doing on the outsideunit. Then we are taking that assembly
apart if needed, to make surethat we're getting all the leaves out,
get those coils rinsed off with ayou know, a biodegradable product that we

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like to use that as actually likecleaning those not just water, and making
sure that that coil is able totransfer the heat between the outdoor temperature and
the refrigerant as efficiently as possible.Okay, on average, how long's it
take? Well, I would saythat for a lot of companies, when

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they come out and do a simplecheck up on your system, where they're
just doing the type of measurements thatwe've talked about, that can oftentimes be
a thirty minute in and out thing. A full comprehensive tune up like what
we do is typically a two hourprocess, and depending on how dirty the

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outdoor unit is and that indoor unitis, that could potentially take three hours.
Okay. The good news is onceyou get all of that checked over
the first time, we'll provide acomprehensive list of all of the things that
are good, all of the thingsthat are recommended to be addressed, and
all the things that are critical tobe addressed at this time. And so

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we we present that in three stagesso that you know, Okay, well,
this is something I need to haveon my radar, or if I
want this running tip top shape,this is something that I can get fixed
today, versus these are the thingsthat need to get for sure addressed or
they're going to cause me an issue. Now. Yeah, So if somebody

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wants to sign up and get thistaken care of. What's the phone number?
Oh, you can call our officetoday. Uh seven one three four
seven five zero zero zero four isdirectly to our office and they are answering
the phones this afternoon. Okay,so they can call in now. This
is only good for today, that'sright. So they need to call.

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The show runs till four o'clock.They need a call by four. Yeah,
because we are the first time thatthe temperature really gets ninety degrees.
Then our phones are off the hookfor the rest of the season, and
don't say off the hook. They'restill on the hook for taking calls.
But they're busy. They aren't busy, And so what we're really trying to

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do is give people an opportunity toget these things checked out before it's one
hundred degrees outside. Because when wehit those hundred degrees and we're trying to
serve our community well, the peoplethat are actually broken down, that have
no air conditioning, they hit thefront of our line, right, and
when they're a maintenance customer of ours, that gets them towards the front of

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the line. And if it's justa normal service check, it's going to
have to wait because we have customerswithout air right, And that happens every
single year, and it will happenthis year, and it happens to everybody.
It happens across the board in theentire industry. Right. So beat
the RU call now. It isfor new clients only fifty nine dollars and

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you can call seven one three fourseven five zero zero zero four. We've
got people in the office taking callsnow to help you out with this.
Uh. And you know what's ournormal price for this service. It's one
hundred and twenty nine dollars for aone time two now, okay, so
you're you're giving a great discount onit, no doubt. Yeah, So

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again call now seven one three fourseven five zero zero zero four and uh,
the office will take care of gettingyou scheduled to get this taken care
of. Now, joh, whensomebody's going through and getting this taken care
of, I mean, obviously thatlist that you just mentioned, the stuff

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that needs to be addressed, thestuff that is questionable, and the stuff
that's good. That's what gets themthrough the summer. Yeah. So I'll
give you a good example. Sometimeswe'll go out to a house and you
have a drain pan that's act thatis physically holding water in it. Right
now, that is just a recipefor disaster because by the time that system

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is on for thirty days in arow, running constantly because it's eighty five
degrees at night, that will overflowand has the potential to flood you.
Ratic, right, And so thatwould be in a red category. Painting
not a nice picture. Right now, these things happen, I know that
that would be in a red category, and that's something that has to be
addressed. Today, and then obviouslywe could come up with good solutions.

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A secondary thing, maybe that thepan is not holding water, but it's
showing signs of rust and so inthat it's clearly had an issue, and
so we don't obviously want to justignore that. We want to bring that
to a homeowner's attention so that theycan make a decision for themselves whether or
not they'd like to get it addressedtoday or they need to wait until next

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time. Okay, if somebody hasan air conditioning system that needs to have
work done to it, you know, say it's they ended last summer knowing
it wasn't working, right, theyknow they have a major repair bill and
it doesn't even have to be amajor repair bill. You got financing available

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for him? Oh? Absolutely,yeah, we have a multitude of finance
options available for them. But youknow, we could realistically offer people solutions
that is either repairing or keeping thesystem alive that's twenty five years old,
if that's what they need to getdone today, versus just repairing or replacing

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an outdoor section of the system versusan indoor section section versus supplying a whole
new system for them, and thebenefits of a whole new system is now
you can build something that works togetherand promotes efficiency. So you can look
at the payoffs of even if youneed to use financing, you can look
at the payoffs of your energy savingsversus your monthly expenses, and a lot

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of times you'll still come out ahead. Yeah. Well, I got to
take a break. If you gota question seven one three two one two
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you just heard Johan talking about it. We're running a special at due
West air Conditioning to get your ACsystem ready for the summer. You don't
want to face breakdowns with your airconditioning system. It'll get hot in your
house and that's just not what youwant to do. So call due West
air Conditioning now at seven one threefour seven five zero zero zero four.

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Take advantage of this fifty nine dollarstune up on your system. Outside gets
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I didn't say this earlier, butyou may hear some background noise today.
I am at a home show inFrisco, Texas today, so uh,

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but ignore the sound. Go aheadand pick up the phone, give me
a call. Hey. One otherthing I'm gonna throw out to you as
well. The Passing Livestock Showing.Rodeo is having their golf tournament on Thursday.
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dear to my heart. Go toPasadena Rodeo dot com and you'll find a
place to sign up there for thegolf tournament. William in Laporte, how
can I help you today? Damn? I need your help. Are your
advice? Okay, Okay, Isee guy just left the house. Actually
it's the third one to get thisthing diagnosed. I have got the unit

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is it's twelve to thirteen years old. It's a three and a half ton
unit. Okay, this is whathe found. And I mean I've seen
okay downstairs and I'm just gonna usethe simple terminology. The comfreessor condensed the
box downstairs. Okay, It's likeit's leaky. There is oil down there.
Now he neither one of them,all three could not sniff out a

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leak. But it is leaking downstairs, Okay, okay, upstairs. No
one could find a leak, youknow, just could not detect it,
all three of them. Okay.This is the diagnosis between the three of
them, is was it a tx V the valve upstairs? The valve,
you know what I'm talking about,right, Okay. The diagnosis is

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that it's bad. Okay, Thediagnosis is a no brainer. We have
got a leak downstairs, we justain't detected. Okay, long story short.
The price he gave me, andthis is what I'm and I you
know, I'm gonna check on anotherprices is ninety five hundred dollars and that
will replace the box downstairs. Itwill replace the coiled upstairs and that valve.

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The only thing I keep is myelectric heat strips and my blower fan,
which you know, as he putit as is saving quite a bit
of money than buying a whole newsunit. And they're warning about fourteen grand
to replace the big box upstairs withthe eating strips, you know, and
a new blower fan, right isall that makes sense what I'm saying,

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Yes, sir, does I meanthat kind of I mean, does that
sound about right? Would someone replacedall that and still leave eating strips and
a blower? Money's really really tight. Yeah, and it's done all the
time. But I guess my firstquestion is how often are you having to

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add coolant with that leak that's downin the outside unit? Well, that's
just it. Uh, We've neverdone that or if I know, Actually
I get it serviced once a year. Okay, it seems like six seven
or so years ago. It hasbeen quite a while. It was just

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a little low, and typically ifit's low, it has to have a
leak, right, But I meanthe answer was no. I mean,
you know, given enough years,some well let's go. And it wasn't
much. But I've never had anyproblems. And it was basically last weekend.
I know, it's just not makingcold air, okay, And of

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course we just okay, so herewe go. I got one out Monday,
got a diagnosis from him, andsome stuff was off. Supervisor showed
up Tuesday, he half diagnosed it. Then this guy showed up from a
different company, an affiliate with thosefolks, and that's where he come up
with. He showed me the oil. So you know, I talked to

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him, well, I mean wehave according to him, we need to
replace that valve upstairs. Uh hesaid, you're probably looking at possibly fifteen
hundred bucks for the valve upstairs andlabor and we can just knowing that it's
definitely leaking downstairs. Uh, youknow, possibly if it needs a little
free on fill it up, itmay leak out in a month, it

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may those six months. No oneknows. Right, he's trying. He's
trying to definitely be on the safeside. You'll get a warranty and let
me upsell you, you know,to a new unit. But he's trying
to upsell you from fifteen ninety fivehundred right, Oh, definitely, but
we do know there is a leakdownstairs. You can see the oil,

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but yeah, how long it's beendoing this? How much oil? Can
you see? There is some thathas run out on the concrete ad and
I mean there's not a puddle ofit, but you can see the residue
in the bottom. He lifted thetop off that box and you could you
could see the residue. Okay,And because of all this with it,

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not wanting to throw flow. It'sfree on et cetera. That compressor down
downstairs, it got really really hot. Yeah when it rains. Okay,
Well then would you mind holding onfor just a minute. We're gonna take
it. I need to take aquick break for news trafficing, weather,
and I got Johan standing here.We're gonna address your question when we come
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I'll see what I can do tohelp you out here on Texas Own Improvement.
When we left, I was talkingwith William and William I've got Johan
here, you know, we weretalking AC's before you called. And so

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the valve is bad, I meanthe unit down below is leaking in.
I'm assuming William that your system hasfour ten A coolant in it. Yes,
that's what he said. Yeah,yeah, okay, So price wise,
what do you think in Johan?Well, to start, it doesn't

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surprise me that it took multiple techniciansto diagnose about a faulty t XV valve.
Those are oftentimes fairly tricky diagnostics topin down, and so I wouldn't
I wouldn't blame anybody for needing toget a second set of eyes on that
to get the details. And itdoes sound like as a consumer, you're

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a well informed consumer at this point. You know you've understood the why you
understood what your options are. Soundlike the contractor a good job of giving
you different options at different price pointsto find a solution that best fits your
you know, future usage in thehome. If somebody's moving out of a

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house now versus having this as theirforever home. Those sometimes influence people's decisions.
So that being said, the costdidn't seem unreasonably high. I'm not
saying that it's not something that maybecould get improved upon. I do think
that there may be room for improvementon those numbers. But it didn't sound

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like you were dealing with one ofthese guys who goes out and just tries
to get every dollar they can outof out of every customer they see.
So what do you think about justreplacing the valve and and see what the
leak does? I mean, Uh, it's only a small amount of oil.

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Yeah, A small amount of oilto me is uh, you know
when you open the whole casing onthe unit and you see basically a few
droplets hit in the bottom of thatpan, that's a small amount of oil.
If we're seeing it on the onthe concrete outside there, it's it's
had a fairly in my world,a pretty good leak going on it.

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But it's it's not unexpected that thesethings, you know, happen suddenly either
because uh, it's essentially like ablowout on a tire or a balloon.
One day it's fine and the nextday it's not fine. Okay, let
me ask you the fact that threetexts could not discover the leak. Obviously

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it is because I say the concretewas stained, there was no wet water
there but they're on the steel,you know, in that box. You
could see the droplets, right andthen the staining on the outside, But
three techs could not sniff out theleak, right. Does that tell you
that it's so small that it Imean, what would that tell you?

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Yeah? Sometimes, well, okay, usually they're in very susceptible places,
like the connections to the compressor insidethat unit is a is a susceptible spot,
the connections to the coil that runsall the way around the system,
where they have those hard connections orsusceptible spots. But sometimes if it's like

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in the middle of a coil,is very hard to find it because it's
kind of getting diffused through all ofthose different the fins. The fins are
hiding it. Yeah, and soit's really the sniffers, you know,
it's not as scientifically definitive as atech may lead you to believe when they

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pull it out and say we're gonnafind this bad boy, and then they
start looking and uh, well,I don't know. You know, we
like to use the bubble test,honestly, not the little sniffers, because
when you when you spray that down, uh, and you see the bubbles
coming, that's exactly where it is. That's right, But again those are
way better to find when they're actuallyat hard connection points and not in the

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fens themselves. Yeah right, allright, Well then in y'all's opinion,
and first of all, you know, I need to go with a second
opinion on price of fixing this.But I mean, would you just I
mean need to do it right rightand not waste money by just filling up
something that could leak out in amonth or may go a year, you

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know, for one a year,I think it'd be worth putting free on
in there or you know, coolingin there. What I mean, what
do you think without coming out?And you know, I don'tm not gonna
pay you to come out and diagnosebecause I've already had it done by three
people. Do you think I shouldgo with what he's recommending and and get
a second price quote on it.Would that be the best route? I

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would say so just given the ageof the system. If this was under
a ten year old system and youwere still in a warranty phase of manufacturer
equipment, then I would be suggestingsomething different. But because we are past
that point, the manufacturer himself iscommunicating to you that we're we're starting in

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the time of do we do serviceversus do we do replacements? Sure,
William, if you'll call our office, it'd be no charge to come out
and give you a second opinion andpricing on it. Okay, A are
they there today? Yes, sir, they're there till Yeah, they're they're

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there today and you can reach themat seven one three four seven five zero
zero zero four. Okay. ActuallyI just pulled up at a into Baytown.
I don't have anything right with Isit due West? Jeez? Do
yeah? Do we s services?I can google it up and then call
Yes, sir, Okay, wellthat's probably best. And to be honest

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with you, I mean I respectyou from all the years of listening,
so I think your company probably isprobably a better route to go. So
anyway, not that it matters,but come to find out this ac company,
I've used them for twenty five years, ride they're not them anymore of
their own boy just figured it out, their own bike conglomerate. Yep.
And that's happening a lot in theindustry. Yeah, okay, man,

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I do appreciate it. I wantyou McAll it the office. Thanks,
thank you sir, Bye Bay Andwith that, I know we're getting ready
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your company, Due West, andhe was phenomenal, and you run a

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tip top organization. He was dressedbeautifully. The truck he drove up and
was perfect. I mean, youjust have made it yourself a wonderful company.
I can't thank you enough. Ireally appreciate it. Do West Services
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that is for new customers only.If you're already a customer of du West

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air Conditioning, that one's not goingto be available to you because we're already
servicing you. But if you werea customer of our plumbing division or our
foundation division, hey you're still eligiblefor this deal. With that being said,
you got a home improvement questions Evanone three, two, two,
five eight seven four Norma, howcan I help you today? Hi?

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I my name. My air conditioningis only one year old. Do you
still recommend the service that you aretalking about? The maintenance? Oh?
Yes, ma'am. Y'all want togo into that well? Yeah, because
there's uh, there's some components inthere that uh compressor, the capacitors and

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and things of that nature that arewhere items there are where items just like
tires on a car are, Andunfortunately, the ones from a lot of
manufacturers are not super high quality andso they actually wear out pretty fast.
Not going to name names, butAmerican Standard is not one of those companies,
but there are some out there thatare uh, kind of cheap versions

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of that. And you just replacedthat one item and all of a sudden,
the thing is gonna work just fine. So that being said, making
sure that the drain lines are flushedout. Even if a system is one
year old, you can have abelly in that PVC drain line that can
cause issues. So make it surethe drain lines are flushed out, making
sure that there's not dust in thesystem, that it's cleaned out properly.

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Those things should happen annually, regardlessof whether it's one year or nineteen years
old. And the manufacturers recommend that. That's right. A lot of manufacturer,
if you read their warranty paperwork,if you read their installation manuals,
it will recommend maintenance. It's it'sa normal industry function, okay, well,

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thank you so much. I neededthat, so I will call thank
you. I appreciate it, wonderful, have a good afternoon you too.
Go by, and if you wantto take advantage of that du West special
fifty nine dollars to come out anddo a complete tune up on your system.
Seven one three four seven five zerozero zero four wol. I just

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thought of something just to kind ofreiterate the point. Yeah, we install
a new system. We included thefirst year of maintenance at no charge as
part of our installation. Yeah,because it needs to be done. Yes,
yeah, all right, let's seehere seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Any homeimproven question you have Emily in Victoria?

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How can I help you? Yes, sir, I have a at my
daughter's house. She has a threeprong electric UH stove and I bought a
stove and it is a four prong. So what do I need to do?

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The UH outlet in the back thatthe stove plugs into is going to
have to be changed out? Ohokay, and it's nothing major. I
mean the the the biggest expense isgoing to be just buying the new outlet
UH now on you know, andany electrician can change that out for you.

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It's not something I would typically recommenda homeowner do themselves. Oh okay,
okay, so I just need tobuy a four prong plug. Yeah.
Now in some cases, if you'llit was just a new stove you
bought, yes, check, Uh, it's my old one. It's a

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it's about nine years old, thestove that I gave her, and okay,
four prong and she had an olderone that was three prongs. Got
you, Well, if you havethe paperwork for it, check the paperwork,
because on some of them, youcan change out the cord on the
stove itself. But you got tocheck the the the uh paperwork and see

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if it gives you that option.Okay, I still do. I have
the manual okay, and you mayfind that to be less expensive because a
lot of times if if you're ableto do that, it'll show you a
diagram exactly how to change it out. Uh. The cords come where it's
just basically loosen up a nut,slide this piece in, tighten the nut

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down again. I mean it's reallysimple to do, and a homeowner can
do that themselves. Oh good,okay, well we'll we'll do that already,
and well, thank you so much. You're welcome to your program.
Thank you, ma'am. Bye bayokay again, if you got a home

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improvement question seven one three, two, one, two, five, eight
seven four, you on on thisspecially that we're running. I mean they
can call you office till four o'clock. I mean we're the office will be
answered till five, So we'll givethem a little extra time there. But
fifty nine dollars go over again realquick? What all it covers doing?

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Uh, well, the basic ofdoing a full comprehensive checklist on both the
heating system and the cooling system,checking refrigerant levels, checking voltages. But
the real you know, value ina tune up is doing cleaning of the
outside condenser coil. That's the boxthat's sitting outside, so that it is

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able to move air through it efficientlyand so the fan doesn't run any more
than it needs to run outside,and so that it the refrigerant doesn't need
to run any more than it needsto run inside. And then on the
unit inside the house, we're cleaningthe fan, We're making sure those coils
are clean that are transferring the refrigerantinside, so that everything is running as

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efficiently as possible. All right,and again the number to call on that
is seven one, three four sevenfive zero zero zero four. We're gonna
take a quick break. You gota home prowming question seven one three two
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back to Texas Home Improvements. Yourtotal Home Improvements. Uh, look,
you got a home proven question.We got another hour to go, so
seven one three two one two fiveeight seven four. In the meantime,
since we only got a little bitof time here, let me jump into
an email question. So this camefrom uh Lisa a couple hours ago in

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Paarland. Longtime listener, first timeinquire. There's a need to put recess
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Any home improvement question you have,feel free to pick up the phone,
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to Texas home improvements, your totalhome improvement source. I am Jim Dutton
here to help you out. Anyhome improvement question you have, feel free
to pick up the phone, giveme a call and I'll see what I
can do to help you out hereon Texas Home Improvement number to call seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. That's seven one three,

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two one two five eight seven four. Again, any home improvement question you
have, feel free to pick upthe phone give me a call. Also,
don't forget about our website thipro dotcom. There's all kinds of helpful
information there. I mean, yougot links to the people you hear me
talk about. There's questions and answersand video clips. There's copies of our

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TV show as well as you askJim button where you can send in email
questions. So uh again, anytimeyou're thinking about a project, or even
if you're stuck in the middle ofa project, thchipro dot com is there
as a resource to help you out. But we're live. I am actually
at the frist Go Home and Gardenshow but up in the Dallas area.

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But we're still live here to takecalls and answer questions. So seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour. And if you've been calling the
Due West office to take advantage ofthat air conditioning tune up. Please if
if you do ring through to theanswering system, leave a message and we

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will call you back. They aretaking calls. I've got people there answering
the phones and taking calls. Butyou know they can only handle so many
calls. And if if you doring through to the answering system, leave
a message and we will definitely callyou back. We'll be there taking calls
till five o'clock. And if again, if you want to take advantage of

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that deal, fifty nine dollars forfirst time customers for our HVAC company seven
one three four seven five zero zerozero four. All right, with all
that being said, I also wantto remind you on Thursday, Pasadena Livestock

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Showing Rodeo is having their golf tournament. This is an annual golf tournament.
It's open for anybody to play.I'll be out there go on the course.
Uh, I don't play golf.I got a bad back, can't
play golf, can't twist like that. But I'll be on a golf car
going around and checking on stuff.So, uh hey, I'd like to

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encourage you to come on out ifyou want to talk a little bit while
we're out there, I'll be thereto talk with you as well. If
you want to sign up, goto Pasadena Rodeo dot com and you can
sign up for the golf tournament there. Well, with that being said,
why don't we head back into somecalls and I do have lines available still
if you want to call. Soseven one three four I'm seven one three

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two one two five eight seven four, Hank. This is Jim. How
can I help you? Yeah,Jim, We've got two questions. One
that deals with insulation from the standpointof attic and law, okay, and
the second is AC related and coolingfrom the standpoint of replacing the evaporation typing

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issues. Okay. The first onefrom the insulation aspect, Yeah, I
know, I've heard a lot aboutthe you know, foam insulation goes.
You know, my house is,you know, fifty two years old,
you know, was in the earlyseventies, was built. It's got batting

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insulation. I don't know what theR value is, uh, you know
that would that would have been anR eleven at that time. Okay.
So, uh so the question is, from the standpoint of the option of
foam insulation, UH option, whatdo you do when you've got existing batting

(52:40):
the normal I guess R eleven whichyou mentioned r iteen Uh do they have
to remove the insulation that's there orbasically you take whatever beyond that insulation uh
to the uh exterior one portion ofthe well BOYD. When USA Insulation comes

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in and does that, when theyinject that foam in there, it'll encapsulate
that existing insulation and actually compress itso that it gets more foam around it
and so and then it seals allthe air gaps obviously, but yeah,
it's compressing that that fiberglass insulation andit'll raise that our value, get you

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up into the the mid twenties,up to our thirty somewhere in that range.
Okay, so there's no yea.What I would be concerned with is
you know, that existing batting,sailing or whatever and bending over for the
you know boyd that you're looking tofill and it basically preventing the force.

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Yeah. Yeah, No, youdon't have to worry about that because when
they put that tube in there,it'll drop down and help with that.
In fact, you know what Imight hear at the home show, and
Brian just walked up from USA Insulation, and I'll get him on and he
can explain that to you real quickhere and make sure I gots Brian you

(54:17):
walked up at the right time.I'm talking with a guy down in Houston,
okay, and he's asking about theexisting insulations. Home was built in
the seventies, so it's got oureleven in it, okay, and how
it encapsulates that and make sure itdoesn't just bend over and plug it to
where the phone doesn't get to thebottom. Well, when we're doing a

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house where we have different points ofentry into that cavity, if it's a
brick, we actually go through fourdifferent holes. So we're pushing that entire
insulation towards the sheet rock and itfills up that cavity behind the sheet rock
and compresses it. Then at that'sokay, it compresses it down to about
an eighteenth of a inch, andthen that the back part of the cavity

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is filled with our phoam and that'swhere you're getting that R thirty two in
the wall. Between that and thenthe insulation right, do have. But
you're not just dropping from the top. It's going in four different spots and
that's how you're getting it everywhere.Yeah, if we dropping from the top,
it'd be shoving everything down. Wewant to move it to one side
of the house. Did that helpyou out on the answer? Yes,

(55:24):
sir, it does, thanks alot. You know it makes sense.
The second portion is from the standpointof attic insulation, you know, being
that you know, I got ahouse that's fifty years old and lo and
behold you know they put the rockWoll mineral insulation in it and it's not
been changed and it's gone to potI mean, yeah, it's very Yeah,

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that would be market just from whatyou're saying at the standpoint from the
standpoint of taking that out, Uh, yep, to go rent a vacuum
munich that basically will you know I'veseen the big bag ones you know with
Yeah, yeah, that it runsthat stuff out and you know, uh,

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I guess that's got to be donebefore you do any replacement. Yeah.
Usually if it's it all depends onceI come and look at it.
If it if it does seem tobe removed, it's a machine. It's
called extractor, and we extract allthe insulation that's in the attic and then
we placed like a film down aprotective layer, and then we we usually
just add additional fiberglass or add fiberglassback into your attic, uh, because

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we've got the room to put differentinches in there and get you a good
level of protection across it. Andit keeps the house breathable. Yes,
you got to keep that house breathingthrough the soft events, through the turbine
vents. Uh. The bottom lineis getting Yeah, the bottom line is
getting an extractor. Uh. Beingthat it's you know, rock wall and
fIF years old and it has disintegrated. I mean the first is you've got

(57:00):
to you know, take that out. Yeah, And a lot of companies
do that. We we extract becauseit's not it's it's a lot of material
coming out. It's about how wehave to get rid of it. As
far as hauling it off and havingit approved to be dumped. It's always
Yeah, I haven't looked at that. You know, I don't know if

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I need to get a you know, a asbestos type treatment of it.
But normally I understood that rock willbe just nomny asbestos in it. But
do you have to get that testedbefore you can? Really? No,
you don't. You don't have todo anything with that that there's there's nothing
in there that you need to worryabout other than it's turning to dust and

(57:44):
creates a mess for you. Okay, So the second question, and thanks
a lot for the installation. Youyou put me to school for it.
Uh. Second question is I've gota fintach AC system from you know,
when the house was built. Ohwow, I haven't used the AC for

(58:04):
five years. Uh, but I'mfixing to see what's involved with it as
far as trying to remediate it orbasically get rid of it and put a
new unit in. But one ofthe problems that I've got and I've seen
is the disintegration of the evaporation pipesgoing out, you know, to where

(58:29):
the ground unit is. It's aboutno, I'm talking about the plastic lines
that basically are the at least inmy situation, about a half inch you
know. Yeah, those are justdrain lines, uh that go out.

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Yeah, So to replace those,you know, well, do you really
need to do it? Do youpick it out and make sure it's open
and just don't worry about it.No, you just blow those out and
make sure that they're open. Youdon't have to replace those when and when
you're putting in a new system.Okay, you answer all my calls,

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and now you're gonna call due Westand get a price on that new system.
Right. Yeah, I wouldn't bedoing my job if I didn't ask
that question. You know. Hey, American standard all the way there you
go, all right, thank you, sir. You take care again our

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number seven one three two one twofive eight seven four Brian. That'll teach
you to just randomly walk by,won't yet? I just walking by it
and you're like, come on over? Is alrighty? Then? So,
uh, I'm gonna take a quickbreak and sir, actually, uh,
if you don't mind, I wouldlike to talk to you a little bit
again. Hey, that'd be great. Yeah, I'm here for a little

(59:57):
bit. Okay, we're gonna takea quick break. We'll be back with
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the plumbing as well as the homesfoundation. That's why you want to call
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Jim, how you doing that?Man? I did call you last week
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about air conditioning and he said AmericanStandard all the way. Well, let

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me tell you about American Standard.I've been using it in my personal homes
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I've got it at my home inDallas. I moved from San Antonio
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We're back to Texas Home Improvement withJim Dutton, and we know you
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Hurry up before they change their mind. Here's more Texas Home Improvements with
Jim Duty. Hey, and again, if you call and you get any
type of place where you got toleave a message, please do so.
I mean, they're answering the callsas quick as they're coming in, but
the overflow is going to hit therecording and they'll be they'll be more than

(01:04:32):
happy to call you back. Takeadvantage of it. Now. We will
be at the office answering the callsuntil five o'clock, so you do have
a little time left to do that. I'm gonna jump down into a call
here from Vicky in South Padre.How can I help you? Hey?
Good every name, great show anduh questions from customers are calling in and

(01:04:57):
you know, giving some good information. I live down here in Padre and
I was one to know if youcould recommend a good AC company that's close
by with a good reputable reputation.We're at close Harlingen. There's Brownsville,
that's the closest. I gotta behonest, I don't know any contractors down

(01:05:20):
there. Okay, yeah, asfar down as I go is like Corpus
CHRISTI, and uh even on that, I don't have an AC person there
that I that I recommend. Okay, well, I'll just have to do
my research and go from there.Then, all right, macall and have

(01:05:43):
a great day. Thank you aswell. Thank you, Vicky, bye
bye bye, and again our numberseven one three two one two five eight
seven four. So Brian, yepelet me turn your mic back on here.
I appreciate you're just stepping over whenI caught you walking by, No
problem, no problem. But let'stalk about USA insulation because you know,

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in Houston, let's face it,you're dealing with a little bit different animal
with the humidity levels down there andstuff, and so totally encapsuley in the
house can become an issue. That'sthe reason I love it to still be
breathable. And like you were talkingabout, you use fiberglass in the attic,
but the foam and the walls andthat truly when it seals up all

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the air gaps in the walls.That's what makes it so energy efficient for
people, along with the foam exactlybecause those walls they're exposed to the outside
elements, and so when we putour injection foam in the walls, it
air seals it up tight, soyou're not getting any air gaps and leakage
coming through and you're getting that Rthirty two in your exterior walls. Now

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in the attic, you still wantthose soft events opened. And if you've
got a turbine bent or a ridgevent, you want that air to circulate
above the insulation. So we likeputting in fiberglass. There's cellulos that you
could put in there. Yeah,I don't recommend. So, yeah,
it degrades so quickly. Yes,it turns to dust. But you still

(01:07:12):
want to add to open up.And so we do injection foaming walls,
and then we go in look atthe attic, make sure it's up to
speed. If not, we addadditional fiberglass up there. If it has
been degraded, we can remove itdepending on how bad it is. But
fiberglass has about a forty five tofifty year shelf life degrades slowly. It
doesn't just end in right day,So you know, depending on what you

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have, we just might need totop it off a little bit and get
those walls foamed. So when you'recoming out to phone people's walls in their
home. This is not a stayhome from work a week type project.
No. We can usually do anaverage size home in about a day,
sometimes two, depending on the sizeof the house. We're going from the

(01:07:57):
outside. We're not doing it fromthe inside. So when we're doing like
brick, we actually go through themortar joint and actually into that cavity.
There'll be four different little holes aboutthe size of your pinky, and we
put our our instrument in there fillingup that cavity, and then once we're
undone, we actually red mortar upthose holes, and then the foam once

(01:08:21):
it's in there, how long beforeit sets up. It sets up within
about seven minutes. It's going toharden and cure within twenty four hours,
And for lack of a better word, it's like putting a big thick styrofoam
block and those cavities all around theexterior walls of your house, and that's
what keeps that heat from the brickpushing through. And when we do a

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house, you usually have it betweena forty to drop in electricity, and
that's the main thing you get yourbills down. Well, if somebody wants
to call USA Insallation, it's threefour six two nine seven twenty eight hundred.
That's three four six two nine seventwenty eight hundred and Brian, I
appreciate you stopping by. Thanks somuch. Jim, you have a great
day, you too by fight heyagain our number seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. Let'stalk real quick about concord window film.
You know, you do things tomake your house more energy efficient, so
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windows they still let out. Itis let in a lot of heat just
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great glass, it can still letin harmful rays that are tearing up the
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five eight seven four Sonny in Cleveland, how are you today? Pretty good?
Sir? Are like today? I'mdoing wonderful. I got a question
for you. So, I wantedto replace some text piping in the attic.

(01:12:10):
Okay, and I have having upthe attic. I saw a lot
of gallanite piping is a water pipeswater line type and ulso air tradition pipe
are they also galvanizes or only thewater pipe or galenite pipeline. Only the
water pipes are gonna be galvanized.The the ac lines, uh, for
the coolant is copper, and thenfor the drain lines was typically PVC.

(01:12:35):
Okay, what about the gas typeline? Are they galanites too? Or no?
That would be black steel. I'msorry, what do you what do
you call that? It would beblack steel? Uh? So it's a
black it's a it's still a metalpipe like the galvanized, but it's black

(01:12:56):
instead of galvanized. Oh, copyof that, Copy that okay, all
right, there was a piple question. Appreciate it, Thank you, you
bet you take care Bay and againour number seven one three two one two
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I've got some open lines available ifyou want to pick up the phone and
give me a call. Seven onethree two one two five eight seven four.
Jim in Porter, Welcome to sevenforty kk H. How can I
help you? I'm curious about whywe can't have a traditional foundation in Texas
without a crawl space. What areyou calling a traditional foundation? Oh,

(01:14:11):
an outside foundation with not a slabslab foundation, but a foundation without you
know, where you just have anoutside foundation and the four foot crawl space
underneath. Oh, we have themall over the place. They're called peer

(01:14:35):
and beam foundations. Is it aconcrete foundation, It's got a concrete perimeter
beam, and then it's a crawlspace underneath, just like a block and
base house. Is you can crawlunderneath it, right, And that's I'd

(01:15:00):
like to put my air conditioning andall that. But I don't see any
place in Texas where they do that. Oh, it's it's done all over
the place. In fact, mostof the newer homes being built when they're
custom are typically done that way.The slabs on grade, you know,

(01:15:25):
is an inexpensive, comparably way tobuild. But the cross space is elevating
the houses up above floodwaters and stufflike that. But it's done all the
time. Okay, that's what Iwas scared it's about, because I just

(01:15:45):
everything I see around here is ona slab. Yeah. Well, if
you go down to like, oh, go through University and go through bel
Air in all those areas, allthe new homes are elevated with that cross
space under them. I'm building anew house in Shepherd, Okay, you

(01:16:11):
know it's or I'm building it.It's fairly high ground, and I don't.
I don't. I'm not a fanof the slab foundation because there are
just too many mistakes that can bemade into plumbing and everything when that slab.
Yep. Yeah, but no,you can definitely build them up that
way. Uh, if you haven'tan engineer or anybody working with you yet,

(01:16:41):
now, yeah, actually I needa general contactor, so okay,
uh maybe there. Well, whatI would tell you is, first get
your plans together, get a foundationdesign, and then your general contractors can
take a look at it and bidbid on building it. From there,
there's a website, the Foundation PerformanceAssociation, and that's engineers who could design

(01:17:06):
the foundation and all that stuff foryou. And some of those guys actually
do design work for homes and stuffalso. Uh so I would recommend you
start there. But uh, definitely. Uh. You know, what you're
looking for is a peer and beingfoundation, and it's it's done all the

(01:17:26):
time. In fact, it's otherthan track homes. It's becoming the most
popular way to do them here inthe Houston area now reasoning for Idaho,
and that's the only way it's goingup there. It's all right, we
won't hold that against you at allhere in Texas. That's okay. My
mom is a section. Yeah,I'm just giving you a hard time.

(01:17:47):
But uh yeah, you know alot of times up there we have basements
as well. Uh we don't doa lot of basements here because it costs
too much money to do the diggingthat's needed as compared to just going up.
And that's the reason we don't havebasements. But the crawl space done
all the time. Well, no, wet proofing is too much down here.

(01:18:10):
Yes, yep, you know mymy waterlevel was you know, when
I dug my pond, I hitwater twenty foot it filled up my pond.
So I want to be safe aboutyep, uh, perimeter foundation.

(01:18:31):
But you know I want that crawlspace, you know, where it's graveled
and then wet proofed underneath, andthen that's sort of the furnace and everything
is going to be under there,and then yeah, it makes more sense
to me. I don't want crappin the attic with where it's gonna leak.

(01:18:54):
Yep, Okay, you know whatI mean? Absolutely? Oh,
heright you gotta do you have arecommendation on a good general contractor that I
get a hold of. Get theball rolling. You're gonna build it in
Shepherd? You said, yeah,I don't have anybody that I'm aware of

(01:19:19):
that builds in Shepherd. I woulddo it myself that the finance company won't
let me. Uh. Actually,if you want to check there it with
uh you build it. Uh.That is an organization that is built around

(01:19:42):
people building their own homes. Theyhave lenders who will work with you on
doing that. Oh really yep.And you can do as much of it
as or as little of it asyou want when you when you go through
that resource, but uh, youbuild it helps you with subcon tractors that
you may need for doing certain partsof it, and then you can do

(01:20:03):
other parts of it. And yeahthey they have the financing companies available for
that, and then it can rollinto a permanent mortgage after the construction.
The only thing I can't do isthe plumbing and electrical yep, because I
don't know the codes. Yeah,okay, are digging the foundation and form

(01:20:27):
the concrete and all that goes.I can do all that on my own.
Yep. Yeah, there you go. We'll reach out to that you
build it, and that that'll getyou get you done doing what you need
to do. All right. Iappreciate your help, sir, you bet
you take care all right? Byway again our number seven one three two
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Insulation, radium barrier, looking toget new insallation and or spray insulation installed.
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and let's see here again seven onethree, two one two five eight seven

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four and I'll see what I cando to help you out here on Texas
home Improvement. So this came fromMyron in Houston. I have a leaking
crack in my concrete fountain bowl.I tried taping along the edges of the
crack and then tried to squeeze epoxyinto the crack with my thumb, then

(01:27:09):
removing the large tape, wrapping itand wiping it with alcohol across the crack.
But I still have two cracks thatleak. The alcohol did a good
job of cleaning up the epoxy,but maybe too good of a job cleaning
the epoxy in the crack. Look, they actually make some paints for doing

(01:27:32):
this, and they have them evenat the box stores. If you go
in there, it's typically blue orwhite. It's heavy and you would paint
it on the inside and it'll sealup and cover up all those cracks for
you. So I think that wouldbe a better now if you're gonna use
the epoxy, though, you don'twant to use the stuff that you got

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to rub in with your thumb,because you are right, it's not gonna
get deep enough. You need touse the almost liquid like viscosity that penetrates
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You basically put it on any outdoorwood and it soaks deep down into the
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I had a fence for over sixteenyears. I just sold the property that
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welcome, come back to Texas HomeImprovement. It's head to Alvin and Rick.
This is a gym. How canI help you? Yes? On
my house, I have a twolarge all in one units. One's a

(01:32:13):
I guess it's a heat heat somethingheat pump, and the other ones are
regular. But I was wondering ifI if I switch it out. My
builds are kind of high, soI was wondering about switching to a mini
split, if there'd be more costyou know more, I guess cost less
money to run. Typically they do. They are more energy efficient than a

(01:32:34):
traditional The heat pump is definitely moreefficient than the system without the heat pump
because that's running strip heat and thatthat's what's really expensive. I will tell
you the mini splits do not heatas well as a central HVAC system does,

(01:32:57):
not saying they don't put out heat, because they do, but it's
it's just not as hot and uha little harder to control the heat.
The air conditioning. Though they youcan't beat them. They're great. Is
there any way to, I don'tknow, make it so that they run
better or or require less energy theones that I do have. Before I

(01:33:19):
do this, probably so you gotto take a look at at the uh
tune ups on them and the capacitorsand all that stuff, because when people
let the maintenance go, it becomesan issue with them. And that's and
that would be the first thing Iwould tell you. And I hate to

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