Jim from the Pasadena Rodeo Cook-Off

Jim starts with a couple email question on foundation repair and A/C duct cleaning. He then moves to a call about cutting concrete for drainage. Jim talks to Tim Fox of Texas Remodel Team to talk about replacement windows. In the second hour we have Brian Clinger from USA Insulation join the show to talk about insulation in your walls. Jim continues with callers taking all your home improvement questions.

Episode Transcript

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This is probably gonna sound a littlestrange to you. Texas Home Improvement is
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Welcome to Texas Home Improvements, yourtotal home improvement source. Seven one

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two five eight seven four. Anyhome improvement question you have, feel free
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at. Also, so thhipro dotcom. By the way, that's where
you find the ask Jim button whereyou can send in email questions. Also
with that being said, though,seven one three two one two five eight
seven four is the number to callwith any home improvement question you have,

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and that's what I'm here to helpyou with is whatever home improvements you've got
going on. So seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
Now, this portion of Texas homeimprovement is made possible by Pasadena Livestock
Show and Rodeo. In fact,that's where I'm broadcasting from today, is
the cookoff at the Pasadena Livestock Showand Rodeo that's taking place at the Pasadena

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Fairgrounds. That's at the corner ofRed Bluff and Fairmont. And you know,
it's it's always fun out here.It's it's a great, great place
to come and help the youth ofthe area as well as have a good
time. I'm gonna be out heretill well, probably till they close tonight

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at the sps D West Cooking Booth. Uh. In fact, I'm sitting
here watching them prepare some of thefood right now. Uh. Just it's
again, it's just a wonderful placeto uh to come and have a good
time. Next weekend, the rodeoitself starts. It'll kick off on Friday

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night the twenty second. You canget information by going to Pasadena Rodeo dot
com. That's Pasadena Rodeo dot com. You hear me talk about this all
the time. Pasadena's my hometown.That's that's where I grew up and I'm
I'm still heavily involved in a lotof things due West Office. Our main
office is here at the in Pasadena. In fact, we'll be selling celebrating

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forty five years in business next weekendout here at the fairgrounds there. We're
gonna do a little event in oneof the rooms out here. So just
uh, you know, you gotto support your your hometown. But right
now I'm here to help you withyour home improvement questions. So seven one
three, two one two five eightseven fours the number to call again.

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Any home improvement question you have,feel free to pick up the phone,
give me a call, and I'llsee what I can do to help you.
Out here on Texas Home Improvement.We're gonna start with a question from
Joe in San Antonio. I've Ihave three different companies come to my home.

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Let's see to assess my foundation withthree three different prices ranges from ten
thousand to forty five thousand. Whyis there such a big difference? Also,
should I wait for summer to beover because of the extreme drought to
have any repair done well. First, the drought is absolutely contributing to it,

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but waiting isn't going to make itany better, and it's not going
to make it go away. Whydo you have three massively different bids Because
there's no regulation in foundation repair.Anybody can go into business and say they're
a foundation repair contractor and there's notraining, there's no certifications, there's no

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licensing, no nothing, and itis a structural change to your home,
So you really need to depend onthe person who's coming out and looking at
it. Now. In most case, like when dust does a job,
for instance, the estimators that wehave, we train the heck out of

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those guys. They go out andlook at it and the way dust is
set up. After they've looked atit, while they're still there, one
of the management team will review whatthey came up with. In other words,
we're going to look at the drawingthey did, We're going to look
at the elevation readings, how theyare doing a repair plan. We're going

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to ask them questions as far asdrainage and roots and trees and all this
stuff. Then it'll get presented toyou. Now we're able to do all
this while they're on site, justbecause of the capabilities of the equipment we
use. But you know a lotof companies that just don't go through that,
and so you can't rely on necessarilythe information, and if you have

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a lot of questions on it,get an engineer to come out. Most
cities are going to require an engineerstamp at the very least to pull a
permit. Houston's that's the way itis. San Antonio is actually different.
San Antonio requires a full blown engineer'sreport, and I'm gonna tell you that

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the main difference on that is afew hundred dollars that the engineer charges to
do that versus a just a stampof the drawing that the contractor did.
But it is a little bit morethorough in San Antonio than it is in
the rest of the country. Souh, you know, get an independent

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engineer to come out take a lookat it, and that'll give you a
better idea of what you need todo. Probably, and especially in San
Antonio, because the soils are sodifferent. In some areas you can use
the precast concrete piles. In otherareas you need to use a steel driven
pile or a drilled pier and itdepends on the different soils of the different

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areas of San Antonio. I usedto live there, and that is actually
one of the hardest markets to workon as far as doing foundation repair and
such. So yeah, get youan independent engineer to take a look at
it, and then go from thereagain at number seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. That'sseven 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, your totalhome improvement source, let's see. Cindy
and Brookshire sent in a question aboutac duck cleaning neat air ducks cleaned and

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or replaced repaired. Living a manufacturedhome with duck work in the ceilings,
well, you do need to becareful, you know, because I like
the way you worded that either replacedor cleaned and repaired and such. You
know a lot of times duck cleaningcan destroy your duck works as well.

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If you've got flexible ducks in yourhouse, chances are good it's got plastic
on the inside and if brushes gothrough, and this is an older ducts,
it's going to destroy the ducks becauseit'll tear that plastic and at that
point the duck is shot. Andone of the other things to keep in

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mind, cleaning the ducks can costalmost as much as putting in new duck
work, So a lot of timesyou're better off just to go ahead and
do the duck work. But look, cleaning ducks is just something that's way
overdone. Your air that goes throughthose ducks should be filtered air. So
unless something has happened, you know, some construct auction has happened or something

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like that to dirty up those duckworks, there's typically not a reason to
have them cleaned. Now, ifyou're questioning whether you need to get yours
cleaned or not, take off oneof the ducks, you know, the
the not the ducks, take offone of the vent covers and reach into
the duck and see if it's cleanin there. That's going to be your

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best way to tell do you actuallyneed to do a duck cleaning job or
not. You know, like Isaid, ninety plus percent of the time
you don't need to be doing duckcleaning, and in fact, it can
be detrimental to the duck work.Anyways, Again, our number seven one

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three two one two, five,eight seven four. That's seven one three
two one two, five eight sevenfour. Chad in rocheron Hello, asking
a question for co work or herhouse is about I have to six years
old this summer in a lower level, two story home. The bathroom exhausts
fans are producing condensation is pretty badas it will pull water on the floor.

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Looking for who she should call totake a look, I e.
Air conditioning company or other. Ithink maybe she just needs to insulate the
pipe that exhausts the air to theoutside. But I'm not familiar with the
exhaust fans of today. If theyhave a drip line or other that may

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be plugged, any help may begreat, and thanks for what you do
to help others. Chad, Well, Chad. The duckwork or the vent
pipe four vents is normally done byAC people when they're installing an AC system,
and such condensation in there, youare correct, is an indication that

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there could be an insulation problem ora leaking pipe somewhere. To be honest
with you, because it would takeit an awful big problem for an exhaust
fan to have condensation in it,and it wouldn't be a normal thing.
So I would definitely start though withan ac company. Let them take a

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look at it and then go fromthere with it. Gotta take a quick
break seven one three, two,one two five eight seven four. We'll
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because you know, if you're havingan air conditioning problem, d West can
help you out. And no,we're not going to try to sell your
duck cleaning services. We're not goingto come out and tell you, hey,
your air conditioning system is ten yearsold, you need to replace it.
Don't don't bother fixing this one.We're gonna go over what it will
take to fix your existing system,and if it's going to be an expensive

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bill, hey, yeah, wemay tell you, hey, here's an
option for a new system, butwe're not going to tell you we can't
repair the old one without going throughit and seeing what's wrong with it.
Because so often you can get twelvefifteen, some people get twenty years out
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West air Conditioning at seven one threefour seven five zero zero zero four.
That seven one three four seven fivezero zero zero four. And again,
remember, when you want the best, you're called due West. I've still
got a pain. I'm still browseight buck. There's a gun in my

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truck. Old thing gun still guy, Hey, welcome back to Texas Home
Improvement. Seven one three two onetwo five, eight seven four. And
this portion of Texas home improvement ismade possible by Pasadena Livestock Showing Rodeo.

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It is cook Off weekend this weekend. Come on out to the Fairgrounds at
Pasadena that's at the corner of RedBluff and Fairmount. You want to learn
about the rodeo lineup that starts nextFriday night on the twenty second to just
go to Pasadena Rodeo dot com.And just a quick update for you,

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we do have a Sunday matten Aerodeo as well. Let's see seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour. George, how can I help
you today? Hey Jim, thanksfor getting my call. I have a
little complicated situation in my backyard.I've got a landscape that just all kind

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of comes down at an angle.I've got a pool in the backyard.
They built that pool foundation or thecement top, about two and a half
inches higher than my flat foundation,so when the water comes down, it
all angles down to the back ofthe house. I've got that cheap adobe
brick, so it just like asponge and it just goes right straight into

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the house. So I've kind ofmitigated that with gutters from the roof.
But the backyard in the pool,the pool has no I guess it's a
over drainage pump or drain where whenthe pool gets sis that level it drains
out. It doesn't have that,so the pool fills up, all the

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water in the backyard comes down andit just comes at an angle. So
what I need is some concrete.Guys. It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of digging in thatclay. And I've had about four or
five contractors come out. They lookat it, and then once they say
yeah, I'll get back to giveyou a quote, crickets never hear from

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them again. I have had yourguys come out a while ago from DUS
Foundation that guys do drainage. Butbut I don't know if we never really
talked about how do you tie thatinto the pool because the pool is a
little higher. I mean, it'sjust a little complicated. What would you
Yeah, And honestly, you're notgoing to be able to tie that into

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the pool itself, just because theway a pool is built, you'd have
to do so much destruction to thepool to have an overflow like that put
in at this point, it'd bepretty tough. So normally what you do
on something like that is capture thewater that's coming out of the pool over

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the pool side as it comes towardsthe house. You have a channel drain
to capture the water and take itaway. And for what that's going to
require is doing some cutting of theexisting concrete there to install it. Yeah,
so what I was thinking is,so when they cut and they are

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going to have to cut that concrete, I'm gonna have to cut that concrete
all the way to the back ofthe house that butts right up against the
foundation, cut all that out,and then pour new concrete but a little
lower than the foundation it's to thehouse. So then you're gonna have a
difference in about a three inch slopeand then somehow make it to where it's

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even to the coping of the pool. And so I don't know if I
need two different concrete guys to dothat, because one guy's gonna numb about
coping in pool and then your guysthat can do the drainage. I'm just
not sure you probably will because yeah, my guys wouldn't be able to do
the coping and most of the guyswho do the coping on the pool won't

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know how to do the drainage.Yeah, okay, so it's gonna be
it in I'm in uh over offof black Hawk and forty five in the
South. Okay, yep, okay, yeah, give us, give us
a call. Uh And this thisone is going to be a little bit

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more complicated. So I'm let methink of who we need to send out
there real quick. Let's let's setup to get uh Jeremy out there.
Jeremy, Yeah, okay, allright, that sounds like a plan.

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I'll give you a call Monday,tell him when he sees and tell them
to put a note on that sothat when he sees he's going out there,
he gives me a call. Okay, took call, Jim. Okay,
okay, sounds great. Yeah.It's gonna be a little complicated,
and I know it's gonna be alittle pricey, but I gotta get it

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done because I had to stop thatwater from going into the house, and
then when it's going to ruin thewood on the house and everything else.
It already has. It's been doingit for twenty years. It already has.
Currently, I just have some justmakeup sheet rock that I just slapped
in there and has no I haveno insulation the whole back of wall of

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my house up to four feet andI'm not going to fix any of it
inside because the water just keeps comingin and I've already replaced the base plate
of the two by fours that we'reall lootted out. I mean, it's
it's just a map, you know, down in that area. Your house
isn't in jeopardy of flooding or anything. Correct, No, No, it's
it's just so I can fix that. I'm just tie enough this. Okay,

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my mind doesn't flood. Yeah,no problem, Okay, Yeah,
we can get that taken care foryou. And that music means I gotta
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is about that little love it?I love it? How awesome? More
love it? They Welcome back toTexas Home Improvements. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.That's seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four. Let's headout to see Bruce and Terry. This

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is Chim. How can I helpyou? Hi? My mom has a
house that is two stories is builtin the early seventies with the original installation.
I'm assuming she has one a scenethat the thermocyte is upstairs. My
question is Is it better to tapeup all the vents upstairs and just downstairs

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is really cold but it shows it'seighty something upstairs, or to untape the
events in the letters the upstairs.No, you need to you need to
let it. Let it cool upstairsas well. Uh, when you when
you try to seal up vents andblock off rooms and stuff, the system
was designed for the square footage ofthe house and it won't properly cool to

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humidify do all the stuff that anAC system is supposed to do when you
start blocking rooms off. Thank youvery much. I won this argument with
my brother. Tell him he needsto tune in more often. Okay,
well he lives in't's not like butokay? And last question, should we

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insulate the attic again? It's notbeen touched. And how old is the
house? How he's in the earlyseventies. Oh, I'm sure it's time
for added insulation because in the insulationwill settle over time. The easiest way
to tell is have somebody go inthe attic. You should have fifteen sixteen

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inches of insulation. Okay, allright, well, thanks so much,
you're welcome. You take care.Yeah, you gotta have that that insulation,
and that's probably why that second flooris so hot. It just doesn't
have enough insulation up there. Sevenone three, two one two five eight

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seven four. Let's talk with TimFox from Texas Remodel Team, and Tim,
how are you today? Great?How you doing, Jim? I'm
doing wonderful. I'm sitting out hereat the passing in fair Grounds in my
broadcast trailer and I hate to saythis, but I'm kind of watching clouds
roll in that I don't like thelooks of them. But beyond that,

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I'm doing great. I think weneed to ring, so yeah, why
not? Well, it could waittill we're not doing the cook off out
here, but that's that's a differentstory. But you know, talking about
weather stuff, you know a lotof people don't realize they need replacement windows

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until it gets either really hot orreally cold, and then they forget about
it. The next time the weatherstarts going a little bit milder. But
that can make a huge difference ontheir energy bills. Oh yeah, yeah,
I mean our customers. You know, I talked to past customers and

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they are seeing really nice savings,you know, good prior years. And
also the house is just a lotmore comfortable, just less drafty, you
know, getting all that solar heatgain in the afternoons, especially if you
have west Sastingish windows. Yeah,they do make a tremendous difference. So

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people are always questioning, you know, what type of window should I get?
Should I get the vinyl window,the fiberglass window, the wood windows.
I know, there's a lot ofchoices out there. The glass on
most of the windows is fairly similar, so it really, in my opinion,
comes down to what do you wantto look at? Yeah, I

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mean, you know, the predominantproduct in the market is vinyl, though
we offer we offer vinyl, wood, aluminum, and composite and from multiple
brands. You know, we'll offerTypically we like NT windows. They do

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a really nice a nice product ata reasonable price point. Maiden Texas family
owned operation up there, great warranties, so we really like them. But
you know, sometimes customer has apreference they like Anderson, we'll install Anderson,
or if they like Ella or anotherbrand that's their preference, or that
if they're adding on to an existingproject, sure we'll jump in with those

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products. Those products as well,or whatever fits, you know, like
I say, whatever fit's that customersneeds and the situation in their home.
But we do like Vinyl. Vinyllasts really you have very very few service
issues that relate to the actual framewith Vinyl. It's super strong colors throughout

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and they perform really well. Don'tconduct eaten cold, right. You know,
vinyls what I put in my ownhouse because because it is a it
is a good product, it's andand it's cost effective, and they're cost
effective absolutely, and I buy haveVinyl in my house, and you know,

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and like I said, we bothhave choices, right, but that's
yea, yeah, that's the marketand they've been around the market for a
long time and they perform very well. Now, Texas Remodel team, you
know, you've got a complete windowsdivision and that's what those guys do day
in and day out, is isinstall windows. And you know, having

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an experienced team like that can reallymake a difference on the install absolutely regardless
of what window you buy. Youknow, if it's not installed correctly,
you can get drafts and leaks andand you know, moisture issues in your
home and all sorts of issues ifit's if it's not done correctly. So,

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yeah, our guys are experts.All they're doing every day is installing
windows. They do it extremely well. We get great feedback from our customers
and how professional our guys are.You know. Periodically I get complaints on
the show on window companies in thefact that they have they have a window

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company come out, they're gonna putwindows in, and they find a little
bad wood or something, and thenext thing, you know, the window
company saying, that's not my problem. I'm here to just put the windows
in. You'll have to deal withsomebody else for that. Well, and
that's one of the real benefits anddealing with us. We are a true
home improvement company, not just ayou know, not just a window marketing

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company. And if we want wewander into we're working on a house and
then we run into some rotten woodor something like that, they don't need
to bring a whole another company andto pick the we have framers. We'll
bring a framing crew in, getit taken care of the right way.
Yep, you know, minimal costativecustomer and get the keeps you go going

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and keep things wrong. Can Iask you to hold onto you this break
here? Absolutely all right. I'llbe back with you here in just a
minute, let's talk about Texas RemodelTeam for a second. You know,
if you've been listening to the show, you're listening to the owner of Texas
Remodel Team. And if you're lookingfor windows for your home, call the
Texas Remodel Teams Window Division. Nowyou've heard them on the show here for

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the last ten years doing remodeling andstuff. But they do have this complete
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they have a great rating, theyhave an A plus rating with the
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And that's really what it comes downto. This is a family owned,
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Two eight one six one two fiftynine ninety one. All right,

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If you're having a foundation problem,I know a lot of people are right
now because of the drought we've beenhaving, call the best. Call my
company du West Foundation Repair. Youcan reach just at seven one three four
seven three seven one five six willcome out draw the house, take elevation
readings and then go over preventative maintenanceas well as repair. If you need

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it. Half the time you don't. You want the best. You're called
due West. Jim Dutton is notperfect, but he's always right. Here's
more with Jim on Texas Home Improvements. Hey, welcome back to Texas Home
Improvements. Seven one three two onetwo five eight seven four. That's seven

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one three two one two five eightseven four again, any home improvement question
you have. Let's see here wewere talking with Tim Fox over at Texas
Remodel Team about replacement windows. AndTim, we were just talking about the
fact that you guys are a completeremodeling company, so you can come in

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and take care of problems if thereis something on the install of the window
that needs additional work, and itreally does set you apart from everybody else.
Yeah, I think so. Ithink. You know, it ensures
that you don't need to worry aboutsomething getting covered by a crew that wants
it because wants to complete the job. At least they're part of the job.

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You know, my crews know thatif if there's something that's outside of
their capabilities, you know, thewindow crews, then they have somebody that
is an expert at framing or whatever'snecessary in that next step, so we
get it taken care of that way. And the other thing that I think
helps set us apart a bit iswe can also create new openings. So

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if somebody wants to move a window, or you know, maybe they want
to instead of it being a largewindow, they want to trans some window
because they want to put something underneathit, or they want to combine some
windows, we can modify the openings. Even if it's in a brickhouse,
we can you know, make thoserepairs, make those changes the sixty inside
in the exterior. So it's kindof, you know, we're a full

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service and sort of this guy's alimit to what the customer wants. Yep.
Okay, So if somebody is andI just did a spot for you
during that last stop set, Butif somebody's thinking about replacement windows, what
would you tell them would be thefirst thing you'd look at? I tell

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him to give me a call.Jim, No, Well, I knew
that much. If you do thatmuch, right, What would I tell
them to look at I would sayto take a look around and look at
the condition of the current windows.You know, especially if they have the
old aluminum windows. Chances are thoselittle plastic glazing beads are all beat up

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and cracked and and you know theglass has practically fallen out, and you
could be assured that you know,there's a lot of draft and leakids there.
So if you if your windows areyou know, twenty or thirty years
or even older, and it's time, it's time to get them replaced,
and to try to do it attoday's pricing, not you know, at

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some point in the future when youknow, as you know how inflation is
going to get them in to getthem taken care of now, start saving
some energy and get them in today'sprices. It always seems to make sense.
And what kind of timeframe are wetalking to get windows nowadays? So
fortunately, yeah, things are gettingcaught up right and and right now we

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are from about from measure to orderto install. We're about three weeks three
to four weeks, so you know, once we get those windows measured,
we're gonna get them back in thewarehouse in about two or two and a
half weeks. Schedule them to beinstalled within about a week or so,

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maybe ten days, and usually inmost installs happen in you know, between
one and three days. If youhave if you know you've got forty windows
in your house, it's probably athree day project for us. If you've
got ten, we're probably gonna getthat taken care of in the day.
Sounds good. So you're not justgonna come and slap them all in in
one afternoon, now, Nope.Yeah, they're gonna take some time and

(35:24):
some care. But again, youknow the guys that are very good at
doing them and if that's all youdo, you know, you make good
time getting them done. You justif they do it with care and you
know, and also on the frontend, getting the accurate measurements when we
do our pre measure before ordering,you know, ensures that they go in

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right, they fit well, youmaximizing the glass in that opening. You
know, there's a lot of keythings in that whole measure process that will
set apart a professional instay. Okay, what you want to give us your
phone number one more time? Sure, Sure, it's it's two eight one

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seven one nine one four nine sixand Jim, we are through the end
of the month. From today throughthe end of the month, we are
having a special well we're offering afive hundred dollars off minimum eight window install

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and we don't do a lot ofsales. I try to keep my pricing
as close as I can to whatit needs to be and or testament to
they had that five hundred dollars off, or we'll do a one year same
as cash and that's now through stepsthrough appointments that are scheduled by September thirty.

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Ye sounds good. Yeah, okay, well, Tim, I appreciate
you taking time out your Saturday totalk with us. Yeah, I appreciate
the opportunity. All right, youbet. We'll talk to you later.
Take care, okay again our numberseven one three two one two five eight

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Any home improvement question you have,feel free to pick up the phone,
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I can't remember the name of thecompany. Did a good job. I
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is having a fit. Who couldI get to paint the outside of those

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Hey, Welcome to Texas Home Improvements, your total home improvement source. I
am Jim Dutton here to help youout any home improvement question you have seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. We are broadcasting live today
from the Passing in the Livestock Showon Rodeo Barbecue cook Off. So if
you need something to do tonight,come on out and say hi. I'll

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be at the sps D West cookingbut most of the evening, so feel
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that being said, let's get readyand head back into some calls.
Here, I've got Brian from USAInsulation and Brian, how are you today,

(45:43):
Jim, I'm doing great. Thanksfor having me on the show.
Hey, I appreciate you taking timeout of your Saturday to talk with us,
because you know, it's been hotand a lot of times people think
about insulation when it's either really hotor really cold, and when we start
getting into what we call milder temperatures, which are still in the nineties and

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hot, they kind of forget aboutit. But this is really a great
time to be dealing with the insulation, especially in your walls. Oh yes,
definitely. Right now it's a littlebit cooler and we can we can.
We've been able to catch up fromour backlog and doing wall insulation is

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what we do, and we doit from the outside of the house,
and it's our premium injection phone thatwe insulate the exterior walls of the house.
Most of our customers are getting betweena thirty two to forty seven percent
drop in their energy consumption once theydo that, and you know, that's
really one of the big things peoplecan do to their home that it's not

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going to change. Really the looksof it, but it's sure going to
change the comfort of it definitely.So we do the process is done from
outside, depending if your home isbrick, stucco shape, shingle, or
vinyl aluminum or hardy board. Wedo the injection process from outside, so
we're not in doing any damage toyour sheet rock and inside, allowing you

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to maintain the house as is,but giving you that extra our protection in
your exterior walls. And really themain part is to reduce your energy consumption.
And so when you set your temperatureat seventy eight during the winter,
it stays seventy eight and you yourheaters not running constantly or your air conditions

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not running all the time, andactually saves the unit. So you know,
you mentioned the word in there.What kind of our value can we
expect when you use this non expansivefoam insulation. Our value is about five
point three per inch depending off yourstays or two by six or two by

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fours, you're looking at between twentyone to maybe a thirty R value in
your exterior walls. Okay, youknow again back on money going out the
door, that's a huge amounts that'sgoing out. So that kind of R
value can make a big difference becauseif you got say fiberglass in the walls,

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which is the standard that builders use, you got R eleven, R
thirteen at the very best, andyou still have air infiltration. Yes,
well, when we go in,it actually fills up the cracks and crevices
the phone. It goes around pipesand wires, actually insulating them. When
the first freeze comes, our phonejust rings off the hook because people's pipes

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are freezing. So this actually stopsthat. It also helps the outside air
from coming into the house and thatis a big barrier to steal up your
house completely. And on the otherside, just as a bonus, it
does create a sound barrier from outside. Yeah, so if you don't want
to listen to the neighbor working onhis car, it's gone, yeah exactly.

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We do all different types of homes. We've done some garage conversions where
people are turning that into almost aliving space once we convert a garage.
And then of course we do alot of north facing walls during the wearing
months because of the influx of theblue Northern blowing down from the north.

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So if somebody was wanting to gettheir home looked at to get insulation done.
How would they get in touch withyou? Well, the best way
is to give us a call ournumbers three four six two nine seven twenty
eight hundred. We'll send out oneof our injury consultants and they'll usually walk

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the house turt with you and lookat what you have as far as insulation
and work up a proposal for youand show you where your cost savings are
going to come through. Right now, the federal government's offering twelve hundred dollars
tax credit for those that are insulatingtheir house because it's reducing your energy consumption
and helping actually save you some money. Okay, Well, Brian, I

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appreciate you taking time to talk withus today and look forward to talking to
you again. And Jim, Iappreciate it and look forward to talking to
you than their future. All right, well, sir, you take care
and have a great weekend. Youtwo, thank you, bye, and
again that was Brian with USA Insulation. If you're looking to make your home

(50:40):
more energy efficient, I do recommendyou call USA Insulation three four six two
nine seven twenty eight hundred. Let'shead to Missouri City and Steve. This
is Jim, How can I helpyou? Hi, Jim, It's great
to talk to you. I'm like, I'm writing down the information from the

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USA his phone number because it's youknow, you started mentioning our value with
him, and I'm like, oh, that's one of my questions. Yeah.
So here's my challenge being a novice. I had my duck work,
my AC duck work in my atticwas just old. It was probably original,

(51:22):
maybe it was old. So Ihad it redone and the guys came
in and they were going to putit to quote code and it is all
nice and hung up and everything.But I've noticed that my house doesn't drop.
It doesn't get any cooler than seventyfour is as low as I can
go now, and it used tobe cooler than that, even with my

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old ducks. So I had myAC guy came out, he put some
free on in it. He dida check across the coils and it's like
a twenty one degree difference. Sothe coils are put putting out like fifty
nine degrees. And he stuck histemperature at the events coming out and it
was like almost fifty nine degrees comingout the event. But this just feels

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like there's very little air coming out. So even though I'm getting cold air,
it's just not reaching the room,I guess. And I have a
meeting with the people that did thisinstall this week, and when he when
the AC guy was up there,he said that it was our six that
they put up there. And Icalled Missouri City and confirmed that the code

(52:27):
for Missouri City is eight. Thewhat the state code requires eight? Now,
okay, So they put in thewrong code and I paid for them
to put it to code. Andas a layman, I don't know that
I you just trust these people todo that. Sure. So I'm having
a conversation with the gentleman this weeksometime. He's coming out to the house

(52:47):
and and I basically need to askhim what's up. But I don't want
to come at it. You know, I'm kind of an objective person,
right, So I turned down.In fairness, I turned down. They
were going to do the vents aswell in the rooms, and I turned
that part of it down. SoI don't know if that's all tied together.
Like I have this really nice newducks and my vents are too small.

(53:12):
Now, I honestly don't know whatangles I'm thinking it's just the opposite.
I'm questioning when they put the newduck work in because how old is
your home? I was built inthe seventies, sometimes in the seventy seventy
seven, seventy six. Maybe youprobably had our six installation in on the
duck work to begin with, right, And what I'm really questioning is if

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they changed the size of the ducksand downsized it and shouldn't have well,
they kept they actually kept the ducksthe same they were or not the ducks.
Uh, the vents. They that'spart of what they wanted to do.
Hey, we can replace the ventsand stuff too, And I said,
no, no, I just wantedthe duct work off my rafts.
But that's that's that's what I'm thinking. That they changed the size of the

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duct and when they go with asmaller duct, it's not getting as much
airflow and therefore you're not getting ascool cool of rooms as you were getting
before. So the so the diameterof this duck work might be like smaller
or something. Not the r valuenecessarily, but the actually yeah, where

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because duck work is in different sizes. You know, you may have a
main trunk line it's twelve inches andthen there's eight inch lines coming off of
it to feed different rooms. Andyou know they put in a I don't
know that they did this. I'musing as an example. They put in
a ten inch main trunk line withsix inch lines coming off of it.
Well, that's not going to operatethe same. That's restricting. So they

(54:45):
need to do basically, if they'regoing to come out and say their work
is good, they probably need likean airflow test or something like that and
actually test the air flow. Yeah. Yeah, what normally should be done,
Like if you're changing out an ACsystem, for instance, you do
what's called a manual J to calculatethe proper size of the AC system.

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But then you also have to calculatethe size of the duck. Work that's
required. And you know, ifthese guys just went in and started changing
ducks and didn't have the right sizeducks or match what was there, you're
gonna get different airflow. I'll bedarne So even though it looks all pretty,
they just might have used the wrongduck. Yep, I'll be darned.

(55:30):
Well. That kind of makes senseto me. I was just trying
to get all my ducks in arow. No pun intended before I have
the conversation with them, so Ican at least sound semi intelligent. But
thank you, Jim, I appreciateyour time. You bet you take care.
Thank you bye, And just beforeI jump into the next call here

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there is a couple other things Iguess you know he mentioned picked it up
off the bottom, you know,if they don't have nice straight runs,
or if they use straps that waskinking the pipe a little bit. That
can restrict the airflow as well.So there's several things that could be causing

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issues for you. And most ofit comes down to not necessarily the replacement
of the of new duck, butjust how the installation went. Anyways,
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Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovement. Seven one three, two,
one two, five eight seven four. Let's head to John on the west

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side. How can I help you? Hey, Jim, remember always appreciate
your thoughts and your time. SoI want to start out with a compliment.
There, get your thoughts on packsof the plumbing that's replaced. We've
replaced one of our rental properties somepecks with this license plumber. And the

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question I had two questions that Icould with you. Is one when the
pecks comes out of the wall,for like whether it be kitchen Saints,
bathroom saints or whatever, is itokay for the I'll say the red and
the blue. The plumbing coming outthe pecks, plumbing coming out to be

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not firm, if you will thatthey're kind of I'll call it lucy goosey
is so in other words, there'sjust a movement. It's not stable.
Is that an issue? Typically?Is that like not a good thing?
Or what's your thoughts about? Yeah, normally out of the wall. Normally,
when it comes out of the wall, you would have actually a brass
fitting that comes out of the wall. Inside the wall, the stub would

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actually would normally be screwed to astud or plate that goes across the back,
and the PEX is attached to itbehind the wall, and so coming
out would be copper, just likeit's always been, and so your fittings
would tie onto that and it's niceand stiff. Okay, okay, because

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these are. But maybe he's stillin the process and hasn't gone to that
next step yet. But it's justwell, does it have valves on it
already? I'm sorry, does ithave valves on it? No? No,
no, no, nothing, nothing'shooked up to it yet. I'm
just coming out of the wall andI'm going yeah, and and that would

(01:00:27):
be normal for you to see thatcoming out the wall that way. The
last step is to go in andinstall those and hook them up and and
then put the valves on it.Okay, gotcha? Okay, So that
sounds like no, no concerns yet, But was they just didn't think when
you're hooking up the valves to it, didn't want to kind of be wabbly
we're at play in it, andthen and the other regarding the pecks on

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the within the walls and in theceiling, where do you recommend putting the
insulation around the pecks? Is itlike any certain particular areas or walls,
bathrooms, whether it or ceiling closeto the exterior walls, or what are
your thoughts about putting the insulation aroundthe pecks? If at all, any

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place that is subject to freezing,you would put the insulation on it,
okay, okay, So if it'swithin a i'll call it a bathroom wall,
interior wall, that would not beinsulated, that would not be insulated,
okay. I didn't know if forsound purposes or anything like that that

(01:01:38):
would at any value or whatever.So it's it's only in the and so
in the ceiling is typically I guess, or an exterior wall maybe coming down,
Those would be the kind of placesyou would normally insulate. Yeah,
gotcham okay, all right, Wellyou took care of me again, Thanks
so much. Already you take careokay, you too, and again our

(01:02:01):
number seven one three, two,one two five eight seven four Alan and
Laporte, how are you today?Just fine? How you doing wonderful about
red mulch for decorative purposes cosmetic Okay, is there is there some way to

(01:02:22):
a rain do something with the moatso that doesn't float in case of heavy
rain? No? Okay, thatwas a short answer, wasn't it.
Well it was a short, avery short answer. Right. If it's
a floating mulch, it's gonna float. There's nothing you're gonna apply to it

(01:02:42):
that's gonna change that. Now thereare Yeah, I was just say a
non floating mulch. Is that real? Yes? And that's what I was
just getting ready to say. Youcan buy them that are non floaters,
that are more stable in that typeof environment. But if you up buying
a mulch, there's not something thatyou're gonna add to it that's gonna change
it, unless it's a non floatingmulch. I mean, well it's already

(01:03:08):
bought that way. Yes, Well, but I'm saying, can you buy
non floating red mulch as far asyou know? Yes? Okay, you
don't even know who's carrying that.Actually, I've seen it even at the
box stores in the bags. Okay, all right, thank you very much.

(01:03:28):
I appreciate your help. Sir.You bet now, Alan, You're
just down the street and the PassingLivestock Showing Rodeo serves the Luport area as
well as all the way down toClear Creek and over in Deer Park and
everything. You're gonna make it outthis year, right, Well, I'm
gonna try no, no, no, no, no, I I gotta
hear. Yeah, we're gonna bethere. Well, I'm trying to.

(01:03:52):
I don't want to mislead you.Right, all right, but you sleep
at nights. Hey, we gota Mattenee show on Sunday. All right,
thank you. I'll talk to youlater, Alan, Thank you,
sir. Seven one three two onetwo five eight seven four. We're gonna
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eight seven four. Let's head tospring and Robert. You having a good
day today, I think so?Are you doing? I'm doing more little
I am. I'm a long timelistener, first time caller, and I'm
just gonna see if you could possiblyhelp me. We've lived in we bought

(01:06:06):
this house and lived in it's aboutforty forty two years old. We've lived
in it for thirty two years maybe, uh, and it came with a
pool in the back. It's avinyl in ground pool. It's a standard
type, but it's got and welike it, love it. However,
the concrete around it is ugly,and I thought maybe if you could help

(01:06:28):
me out, if you knew acompany or companies I could possibly call to
come look at it and see ifthey could do something different to the concrete
around the pool to make it looknigh it. So it's just a plain
concrete but level wise and everything's it'sin good shape. So you're looking at
just putting a coating on it somewell, either a coating or something that

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will make it look nicer. It'sjust regular concrete around it. GYM.
So, like I said, Ididn't know. I'm driving from point A
to point B, and I said, I'm gonna give this guy man a
call and see if he can helpme. Yeah, I mean, they
actually make several things you can puton it. The first one that comes

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to mind is the good old fashionedcool deck, because you know that goes
on around pools over regular concrete.So if the concrete is level like it
should be and everything, just havea pool company come in and put that
cool deck on there. It'll bemuch cooler to walk on, and you

(01:07:32):
know, it holds up really welland it looks nice. Yo. Yeah,
okay, So I mean as faras a fool company, just any
pool company and let them come outgive me an estimate, yep, and
any of them that do pools shouldbe able to do that for you.
Okay, all right, Well,then I can just look at several different

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pool companies and call them up andsay, hey, can you come out
here and I'm thinking about a cooldeck down or if you how much would
it cost if y'all were to puta cool deck down, and then they
can go from there right correct?And uh, it's it's they're not putting
it down, They're just putting iton the existing concrete. It's it's basically
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a quarter inch thick. Okay,Okay, Like I said, my concrete
is fine. It's all okay,except like I told you during the middle
of summer. You mentioned something ifwe walk on it when we go outside
to get in it in the middleof summer and it's one hundred degrees outside,
it's hot on the concrete. Imean you have to tippy toe or

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run real fast and get the coolYeah, and you won't have that problem
with a cool deck then okay,all right, Jim, thank you so
much. I will continue to listento you. You don't know how we
the people out here appreciate you somuch. Robert. I truly appreciate that
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pipes installed. The question I hadwas the outlets where the walls fit in.
The folks that put the pipes injust left it out sticking to the
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Or I mean it seems solid.It's just that I wanted some advice on
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is that something that I should havechecked before the installed or is it
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Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovement again. Seven one three two on
two five eight seven four. We'regonna head out to West Houston, Cheryl.
This is Gim. How can Ihelp you? Hi? When we

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retire, we probably want to moveup to the Hill Country because our daughter
and send them law live up there, you know. And up there it's
like nobody has a gas stove.Everything's all electric, and you know,
if they do, it's like propane, which is spine. But every house
we've looked at it's like all electric. Is it. Is it a big

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problem to try to retrofit for propane? No? No, I'm I retrofitted
my house. My house was allall electric, and uh, you know,
I just I like electric heat.I'm Out'm sorry, I like gas

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heat better. And so I hada propane tank installed. I have run
line run to my house and yep, it really wasn't that big a deal
to do it. And so foreverything like like here we're I mean where
we are now, you know wehave everything that can be gas is you

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know, my gas stove and waterheater and uh my dryer and our heat
and so forth. So anyway,yep, what what do they do?
What what's kind of the reader's digestversion of the process you go through when
that's the case, Well, thefirst thing they do is come in and
find out exactly what you're gonna wantto run on it, to decide what's

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the tank you need, because they'llstart it like two hundred and fifty gallon
tanks. Uh. In my house, I have a five hundred gallon tank,
and that will last me if I'mrunning the heater and the uh water
heater and stovetop and everything. I'llget four months or so out of a

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tank before I have to worry abouthaving it refilled. And uh so that's
the first thing. Then you haveto have the gas lines run. A
plumber has to do that. Theygot to be inspected and checked for leaks
and everything. Then the propane companywill come in and put the proper pressure

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regulators and and things on and hookit up, fill the tank and you're
done. Really so you uh soeverything happens kind of from say one place,
once you know the tanks, it'sgot, the propane runs to the
house. I mean, does itall go? You know, you're you're

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here at least here is ours isin the attic, and you know my
stove is in the kitchen. Youknow, they're not really close to each
other. So that's just the linerun in the attic. Though, they'll
run a line up the wall intothe attic, and just like with your
natural gas systems, they'll they'll havepipes that go off to the different areas

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that need it. You know,right now you got electric lines that are
running for those same things. It'sjust a gas line instead. Okay,
so it's not that big of adeal. Nope, I can tell you
I had mine. When I hadmind done, I purchased my tank instead
of renting it, and I thinkI spent to purchase the tank and have

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it filled. I want to sayit was like thirty four hundred dollars for
the for the purchase of the tankand filling it the first time. And
then I as far as getting thegas lines done, obviously I had my
own plumbers do it, since Iown a plumbing company. But when I

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look looked at it, what itwould take you for my house? It
probably would have run something again inthe three thousand range. Okay, all
right, well that's not as badas I thought. But when I look
at houses up there and go,oh no, not cooking on on the
electric stove? What part of whatpart of the hill country are you looking

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at? Like the Marble Falls area? Okay, that area yep. Not
gorgeous area up there? Yep itis. Okay, well, thank you.
That makes me feel better about likingsome of these houses. And I
go, well, and I'm gonnathrow one other thing in for you on

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this. You know, the bigthing nowadays is people are putting in uh
backup generators. Oh yeah, okay, And if you put all the gas
appliances in like that, the backupgenerator size you need is substantially smaller because
you're not you're not using things thatare using huge amounts of electricity the heating

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system for instance, it's just afan then that's running, it's not okay,
so it can make a huge difference. All right, well thanks,
that gives me some hope. ThenI thought, oh my god, it's
you know, do they have torip off sheet rock and all that to
do this or there may be someareas. There may be some areas that

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they have to just to because ofaccess, but it'll be pretty minimal.
Okay, well great, thank youso much for your help. Have you
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Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovement, your total home improvement source.
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information. Chris and Northwest Houston.How can I help you, Hi,
Jim? I think I might havea slab leak where when I run my
dishwasher, I've noticed that the exteriorfoundation looks wet out there, Okay?
And if that is a slab leak? Do I call a plumber? Do
I call a foundation company? Whodo I call for something like that.

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This would be plumbing, and youcan actually call my plumbing company, due
West Total Plumbing, Okay, sevenone three four seven five zero zero zero
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because it's either gonna be where thewater's going into the dishwasher or the dishwasher
has a leak in it when it'srunning. So you know, I'm thinking
the worst case scenario would be anew dishwasher. Okay, yeah, because
there's no water inside the house atall, I only see it on the
exterior foundation. Okay, yep,okay, I will give them a call.

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