Roofs and Ceilings

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five eight seven four, and I'llsee what I can do to help you
out here on Texas Home Improvement,your total home improvement source. Let's see,
we're gonna go to Cindy on theeast side. How can I help
you? Cindy? Hi? Ijust wanted to ask you about roof swhen
you can kind of tell it's timeto get a new one, because I
don't want to wait until it startslaking. So can you give me any

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advice on that? Sure, whenyou start seeing it starting to curl up
on the edges, that's typically tellingyou it's getting time for a new one.
That's when it's wearing out. Andthat's provided there hasn't been any storm
damage that you know, put holesin it or anything. That's just it's

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aging out. How old is yourroof? It's like twenty to twenty two
years, okay, So if youhad a thirty year roof, you're probably
getting close to where it's going tobe time to replace it. Typically,
a thirty year roof is going togive you twenty to twenty five years in

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our climate, even though it's labeledas a thirty year roof. Oh okay,
So it's kind of like each littlerod is gonna start like doing that,
and it's gonna be like the wholeroof or just like sections of it,
or well typically where you're going tosee it. The worst is areas
that are exposed to the sun.More so if you've got an area of

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the roof that's covered with shade treesor you know the way the peaks are
that give shade to one side orthe other, that won't get it as
bad as the sides. They're justtaking a beating from the sun all the
time. Because what happens is ashingle. As it dries out those corners,
whether it's a three tab or anarchitectural type shingle, they start to

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expand and curl up and you'll seeit up there when you take a look
at it. Okay, all right, I'll take it. And if you
don't have that, and if youdon't have that, don't worry about it,
because you know, I say,a thirty year shingles typically give you
twenty twenty five years, but it'snot unusual for him to get thirty five
either. Oh wow, Oh okay, all right, thank you, you

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bet take care of Cindy, andlook, insurance companies aren't gonna lie what
I'm about to say, but ifyou have a roof and it's not showing
major signs of aging yet, there'snot a reason to replace it. We

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have too many insurance events that happenin our climate here in South Texas that
wait, you get a storm thatcomes in, it starts peeling roofs off
and stuff like that, and replaceit at that time, let insurance pay
for it. But you know,truth be known, though, the roofs

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age out and they do need tobe replaced. And if you're at that
point, give Guardian Roof Systems acall and they can help you out with
it. But unless you you know, if you don't have leaks, and
I know she said point blank shedidn't want to wait till it leaks.
But if you don't have leaks,that's what you're looking for is for the
edges to be curling up. That'sthe biggest telltale sign. Some of the

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others, the rocks, the granules, if they're all coming off of it
and all you're seeing is just bigpatches of black up there, it's it's
a pretty much getting time to replacethe shingles. Got a question seven one
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two one two five eight seven four, and I'll see what I can do

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to help you out. Had anemail from Ron that came in a couple
of days ago in Laporte and shesays, I need a contractor who specializes
in wood siding replacement on a craftsmanstyle house. I have some rotten boards
up against where the deck meets thehouse that needs to be replaced. Also

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some bowed out boards on the gablein the front of the house. Okay,
the guy I call all the timeand you hear me talk about him
for James Hardy siding, But Imean he does a lot of other stuff,
but he's great with the exteriors.Is Victor's Remodeling and Construction. Call

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him at eight three two two fourthree ninety nine ninety seven. That's eight
three two two four three ninety nineninety seven. Let him come out,
take a look, see what yougot going on. And I think he
can get your problem taken care ofnow, uh you know, And I
like, I say, he doesJames Hardy siding lot, but no,

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that's not the only thing he cando, and he can just as easily
replace that with wood instead of Jameshardy siding. So that's the direction I
would head again if you got aquestion seven one three two one two five
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And I'll see what I can doto help you out here on Texas
Home Improvement your Total Home Improven source. James and Alvin, Welcome to Texas.
Yes, sir, I have afriend of mine that has an old
slab house, and we know thatthere's roots getting in the cast iron sewer

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system, and uh we you know, there's a pretty good tunneling job if
we were the tunnel underneath, andwe're looking at that getting done, and
also a house leveling after that's done, okay, And and we were we
were kind of at a loss ofwhat to do about the the sewer line
itself. Well, you know,the same tunnels that are used for the

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sewer line can probably be used onthe foundation repair as well. Okay,
a ton of money then, Yes, sir, do you have a particular
company that's you know, good atboth of these? Oh you give me
such a nice soft pitch here.I love it. Of course I am.

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I own the company. Why wouldI tell you somebody else? Yes?
Or No, I mean we justwant somebody that knows when they look
at the sewer system. Do youdon't have a camera that goes up into
the sewer system city? We do? Yeah, I mean du West Foundation
Repair. We have another sister companydue West Total Plumbing and do West Air
Conditioning. And you know they allhave their own teams in the our plumbing

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division. Whether you just need adripping faucet or the sewer pipes replaced,
we have guys for doing that.Uh. And the way we typically would
do it. Look, you alreadyknow you've got leaks in the system,
so there's no reason to spend timeor money on isolating it and finding where

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the leaks are. Because the castiron had a life expectancy is of fifty
years and I'm sure we're way beyondthat on your home. So what we
would do is we would actually firstcome in and take and draw the house
up, and we draw all theinterior walls and bathrooms and everything in it.

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Then we take elevation, see what'shigh, what's low, what needs
to be done foundation wise, andwe look at how where those tunnels would
end up being for the foundation andwhat it would take then to reach where
the plumbing goes, and so wemay not follow the exact same layout of
the plumbing from before. We'll utilizethe tunnels to do both and sometimes have

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to move them. But if allyour plumbing is on exterior walls or a
lot of it is a lot oftimes you can reride around the outside and
not have the tunnel as well.Yeah, but what's bad is she had
a patiole on the back and theyhave a slab back there in the back.
I thought about that. I thoughtabout it'd be easy to get the

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main bathroom from that wall, butyou cement there, we we would end
up probably having cutting that semen out, you know. Yeah, so and
you know sometimes it's cheaper to replacethat concrete than it is to do the
tunneling. So we look at itwith all that stuff in mind and kind
of give you your options on whatyou can do. All right, Well

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we'll give we'll give do West acall and see if you get something set
up. James, I appreciate it, and uh, look if you have
questions on it, you know whereto reach me. If I'm not here,
I'm at due West, so youcan reach me at either spot.
Yes, sir, Okay, Iappreciate it very much. You bet take
care, Okay, all right,bye bye. Look, if you need

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those people over there. So again, if you had a question seven one
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Home improvement. All right, let'stalk about windows. You know, if

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a company that I know is goingto take great care of you. It's
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said down to Leak City. HelloJD, Hey Jim, how you doing
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he was on time, and man, that did it. Kudos to Guardian.
Good job for me. I reallyreally appreciate that. Guardian roof Systems.
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this dammo. Hey, welcome backto text this home Improvements. Your total
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seven one three, two one twofive eight seven four. I got all
open lines. So now's a greattime to call any home improvement question you
have. So I got an emailquestion from Karen and she was asking about
insulation for a vaulted ceiling. Canyou tell me what specific insulation you use
for your son's vaulted ceiling remodel job. I watched your show, but it

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wasn't explained on there. Well whatshe's referring to as our TV show Texas
Home Improvement. And we did aremodel on my son's house. We took
the eight foot ceilings and in theliving room pushed it up and used the
roof rafters to put the sheet rockon and stuff. So what we did

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first is we put energy Q radiantbarrier on the roof deck. Then we
put insulation and fiberglass insulation filled upthe six inch cavity. And I can't
remember now that what is that RLet's see two by fours is R thirteen.

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I think this was our nineteen Ibelieve is what it is in a
two by six. And so wefilled that in and then we put another
layer of energy Q radium barrier,so I actually had two layers. A
lot of people will say, oh, you don't need two layers of radium
barrier. Here's the deal. Theenergy queue that I use is perforated,
so the moisture content I don't wantto I don't have to worry about vapors

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building up in it. But byusing the two layers, in the summer
months, when the sun is beatingdown on that roof, the layer that's
on the roof side keeps the heatfrom coming in through the roof and getting
into the insulation, which heats upthe room in the winter months, when

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we're heating the room, the energyQ that's on the bottom side, just
behind the sheet rock will keep theheat from going up into the insulation and
therefore help minimize our heat loss inthe winter months, So it serves dual
purposes. Radiant barrier is extremely inexpensiveand so there's no reason not to do

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it that way. On my personalhome, I have a radiant barrier on
the roof deck and I have theenergy QUE laying down on the attic floor,
so heat that does get into theattic doesn't get into the insulation.
Works very very well. So justa little side note, but that's how
we put that together. You cantake a look at if you want.

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We've got TV episodes on our websitethhipro dot com. In fact, there'll
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on the home now as well asthe barn outside looks really really good.

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That that really helped clean up theoutside of the home. So there will
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Again. If you got a questionseven one, three, two,
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you have a recommendation on an aftermarketbrand of a whole house water filtration.
Well, look, there's a lotof different uh water filtration stuff out there.
It depends on what you're trying tofilter out. If you're getting sand
in there, just a screen typefilter or will take care of that.

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If you're good wanting to filter outthough the chlorine and the the fluoride that
they put into the water and stufflike that. Well, now you're getting
into putting in a water softener witha filtration and even a reverse osmosis system.

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You don't want to reverse osmosis thewhole house, but the water softeners,
a lot of them nowadays have charcoalfilters and different things like that mixed
into them to filter out a lotof this kind of stuff. And if
you'll take a look at Culligan andBritta, that's two brands that I have
personally used. In fact, Ihad Culligan when I lived in San Antonio.

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I currently have a Brita system inmy home. They work great,
extremely durable. But most of thewater softener systems are pretty good nowadays,
the key thing to decide what toget and what to use is to have
a water test done, and thenthe system is designed around that water test.

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And I'm not saying you need awater softener for a filtration system,
but you do need the water testfirst to make that determination. Again,
if you got a question seven onethree two one two five eight seven four.
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home improvement question you have, feelfree to pick up the phone, give
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hell aren't you here? He ison Texas Home Improvement. Welcome back to
Texas Home Improvement, your total homeimprovement so or seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Let'shead into some calls here. We're going

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to West Houston, TERRESSA. Howcan I help you? Hi? I
have a hopefully a few quick questionsfor you. Thank you for all your
advice over the years. I havea skylight and a condo and it gets
pretty hot. It's in my bedroomslash bathroom area, and so I'm thinking
maybe I could put some solar onthe inside the outside of this responsibility of

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the HL way. I'm wondering ifI could put some solar wrap of some
sort underneath that to help cut downon the heat in the skylight itself.
Yeah, just just right connected toit up in the roof somehow. Okay,
Yeah, you can put I mean, uh apart a little bit.

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It's going to depend on what thematerial is, because some of the skylights
are made of glass and some aremade of a plastic. If it is
a glass, you know, thethe concord window film I was just talking
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I can do. The kind ofgets a lot of Go ahead, Well,
I'll give you a phone number forthem, Okay, eight eight eight
to zero six to zero six onefour three one four one three. You
got time for a couple more questions, yes, ma'am, go ahead,
perfect, thank you. So theplace gets pretty hot in the summer.

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I'm pretty cold in the winter becauseit's an open parking underneath the structure itself.
So the condo is upstairs and thenthe parking is underneath. It's not
a closed garage kind of situation.I don't know. I don't think there's
a way to get underneath the flooringand put any insulation of any kind.
Does that sound like that's something doable? It is? Uh? The ceiling

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in the garage is it concrete?M I don't know. Okay, I'll
have to check on that. Takea look at that and the reading I
ask. In new construction. Becauseof energy efficiency and stuff, they are
now requiring insulation be sprayed on thatconcrete. Okay, this is pretty old.

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It's about thirty years old, that'sright, and that it wouldn't have
been required back then, but nowadaysthey do. But it's a very very
easy retrofit, and that may besomething that you can get with your homeowners
association and be able to do.Okay, perfect, I appreciate that.
All right, let's see a couplemore quick ones. Only you had mentioned

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a recovered windows a moment ago,and I was driving I couldn't write it
down. The recommendation for window company, Oh, for replacement windows. Yes,
yeah, Texas remodel team window divisionmodel and it's two eight one two
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they do solar like on a porchscreen, your sliding glass windows and stuff.
Truth, the windows that they docan can have options on it,
if that's what you're asking me.But yeah, they already have the energy
efficiency in them. Okay. Crazy. If you wanted something additional, though,

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then you're back on that Concord windowfilm. Okay, Concorde, go
back to that, Okay, allright? Then the last question, I
had an air conditioning company paid thema I guess like an extended warranty kind
of thing when I bought the placethree years ago, and then now I
have not able to get a holdof them at all, and I'm wondering.

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I was scared to write the BetterBusiness Bureau and probably probably try to
send them a certified letter to seeif there's any response there. But you
call the number and it goes rightto a voicemail and that voicemail is full.
Okay. So is it an airconditioning company or was it a warranty

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company? It's an air conditioning company. Do you want the name or I
don't know if you wanted to nah, but typically if it was a warranty
of some kind from a sale,it should have been a warranty company.
It sounds more like this was aservice company. Who is a service Yeah?

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And if that was just the serviceagreement, I would just get a
difference company. Oh okay, andjust forget the loss of the money,
yes, ma'am. Well how muchdid you have to pay him? About
seven hundred? Oh that's more thana service agreement? Then? Well,
no, I would not just walkaway. Do you have any paperwork from

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him at all? Yes? Okay. On that paperwork you should see a
license number. Ah okay. Youcan call the state Board of Licensing.
Ah okay and they will track himdown for you. Oh love it?
Okay, Well, thank you somuch for everything, you bet, And

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if you do end up needing anothercompany, you can call my company do
West air Conditioning? Absolutely and youremail again? Would you mind? No,
not at all? For the show, yes, sir? Or in
general, yes, just to goWell for the show. You just go
to th chipro dot com and there'san ask gym button there, okay,

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and you can send it anything tome that way. Okay, wonderful.
Thank you so much, you bet, take care, have a good day.
Thank you, jip by and againour number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. That'sseven one three two one two five eight
seven four. Uh. We'll seewhat we can do to help you out

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here on Texas Home Improvement. Cindy, how are you today? Hello,
mister Dutton. I'm doing sorry,and how about you? I'm doing just
great great. I have a problem. I have a four concrete slab and
I had a terrible infestation of junebugs and they came out from underneath that

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slab. Now now I have holesalong the edge of my slab. What
can I do to fix that withouthaving to for another slab? The holes
are in the dirt, aren't they? Or there are you shing? They're
in the dirt. Okay, they'rein the dirt underneath the slab. Okay.

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I'm gonna put you on hold forjust a minute because that music means
I got to take a break,and when we come back, you'll be
we'll get back to your your questionhere, Cindy. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.We'll be back with more Texas Home Improvement

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When Jim Dutton of Texas Home Improvementrecommends a company, he won't steer
you wrong, and he recommends Guardianroof Systems said down to Leak City,

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Hello JD, how you doing that? Man? I did call you last
week about chimneycaps. You recommended Icall Guardian Roofing. I did call them.
The technician came out, he wason time, and man, that
did it. Kudos to Guardian,good job for me. I really really
appreciate that. Guardian roof Systems.Click the link under trusted contractors at thchipro

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Liked West Services. I had yourphenomenal company out regarding a foundation watering system,

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and so tired of lugging those miserableso co hoses that keep getting destroyed.
It's just a nightmare. So anyway, I had Jacob out from your
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Services. Springtime in Texas, wildflowers, nice temperatures, and Jim Dutton is
in a pretty good mood. Enjoyit while you can. Here's more checking
his home improvement with Jim Duckman.Hey, welcome back to Texas home Improvement

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again. Seven one three, twoone two five eight seven four. When
we left, I was talking withCindy and she's had some June bugs that
dug out from underneath her home.And uh, Cindy, when you say
you got holes coming out, howbig are these holes big enough for me?
Some of them are big enough forme to reach into. And that

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it's that's that sounds like it's morethan just june bugs coming out. Then
oh my gosh. If they're I'vekilled thousands and thousands and thousands of them,
you know how to get rid ofthose, that'd be even better too.
But yeah, they were coming outfrom the underneath the concrete and the

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edge of the concrete right at theI mean at the end of the building
on my on my front porch.Okay, I have a metal building as
a we made it into a barndominium, and I had a poor slab to
bake a porch, and it's acouple it's about two and a half inches
thick, But dumb buggers are rightunderneath there and coming out. Yeah.

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Well, I guess the first thingI would tell you is I probably wouldn't
lose a lot of sleep over it, because even though it looks like they're
taking a lot of space, theconcrete will span it. Now, normally
a patio or sidewalks or anything elseis going to be at least four inches
thick. So if your concrete's twoand a half, it may be a

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little thin, but normal is fourinches. As far as if you want
to do something with it. Theonly thing I would recommend doing would be
one of two choices. One justuse some sand and wash it in with
water to fill those voids, okay. Or you can use foam to inject

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in air. But that gets prettyexpensive and I really don't think you need
that done. But I have arig that I do it with and be
more than happy to do it foryou. But it's not my recommendation.
I would just wash sand underneath thereand be done with this, Okay,
I can do that. That wouldbe easy for me to do. Er

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well, I live in East Texasand it's really sandy out here, so
yeah, and that, but I'lldo that. I'll give it a try,
all right. If I need morehelp, I'll let you know.
Thank you, you bet, Cindy, You take care you too, be
safe again. Her number seven onethree, two, one two, five
eight seven four of y'all. Shementioned she's in East Texas. Understand due

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West goes all all over Texas.I mean, we've got offices in Houston,
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in all those places, but justregular service plumbing. Lake for a dripping
faucet, Yeah, we can't gothat far for that, Henry and Seabrook.
How can I help you? Hey, hello, mister Dutton. I'm
Why is everybody calling me mister Duttontoday? Did I have a birthday and
get older? I don't know.I'm probably old as you. Actually,

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I looking to put the luxury ofvinyl planks, okay over ceramic Kyle,
And I'm worried about the transition tothe adjacent rooms have engineered would okay?
So what do you think about allthat? I wouldn't worry about it a

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bit because they make transition pieces thatyou can put in there, and granted
it's still going to have a littlestep up, but it'll it'll look fine
and really doesn't cause any problems.Oh really, okay? See what about
do you have to level it outfor the grout lines and all that.

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Well, where you're putting in youshouldn't have grout lines if you're putting in
a vinyl plank. Oh no,I mean on the existing Uh ceramic tile.
Oh no, you know, yeah, we're we're where the uh,
the the vinyl planks meet the existingceramic tiles. That's where the transition piece

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would go. And it basically willjust glue down. Or they do make
a strip that you can put intothe concrete attached to the concrete that the
the transition strip attaches to. Butyeah, it's it's just to cover up
the joint spot. There no nogrout needing a carpet transition you know.

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Yeah, they're pretty big transition pieces. But I'm looking. But this is
to go on top of the ceramictile. Oh, you're going to put
it on top of the tile.Now that you will have to put floor
level on and stuff because otherwise allthe joints, all the grout lines and
everything will shine will show through.I normally recommend to take the tile up

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first, but you know, ifthey do make it where you don't have
to, but make sure the tileis attached. Well, if you sound
like you got hollow spots in thetile, don't do it. But as
long as everything sounds like it's niceand solid tight, Yes, you put
a leveler over the top of thetile and then you put your vinyl plank

(39:54):
down on that. Okay, Sothat's yes, that's common. It doesn't
sound you know, kosher to me. It's not they you try to find
it. I think this comes fromfloor installers saying people don't want to spend
the money to take up the oldfloors, and so they're looking for a

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way to do it cheaper. Butit's, in my opinion, it's not
the right way to do it becauseover time, ceramic tile floors will eventually
break loose and start to come up. Usually it happens when they're somewhere twenty
to twenty five years old. Well, once that breaks loose and starts coming

(40:37):
up, your new vinyl plank isshot. Right. Yeah, that's what
I've wanted to hear. Okay,all right, well, I thank you
for your knowledge. There is niceto talk to a smart person, and
I appreciate you being there. Alrighty, Henry, you're making me smiles.
You have a great afternoon. We'llbe back with more Texas on improvement seven

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Improvement your Total Home Improvements or sevenone three two one two five eight seven
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Yeah, hello, Jim, Ineed your input on this. My
son is interested in installing a sunshade over his pool. Okay, so

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I'm wondering how would the gym doesn'tdo it in terms of you know,
we're going to try to put infour posts and string the shade up maybe
seven feet above the pool deck.You know, what kind of posts?
Should we get? Cedar or treatedwood? How deep do we see the

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hole? In terms of get steel? Okay, I would use a steel
pipe. And if I'm going tobe because of what you're putting on it,
because it's going to be a windsailthat way. You know, if
you're going to be eight foot upwith a sail that way, I would
probably going down in the ground sixfeet or better. Oh, do they

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have an how we're thinking of gettinga two man order? Do they have
a drill bit that'll go that thatdeep? Yes, sir, Yeah,
take a look at little beavers andthey have extensions on them that that you
can go down deeper that way.Okay, okay, so you're recommending six

(46:06):
feet yeah, and so what sizeif I well, now the steel pipe
is that two inch two and ahalf stree inch? I'll tell you what,
Paul, I'm gonna put you onhold because yeah, I'd love to
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help you out any home improvement questionyou have. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. That'sseven one three, two one two,
five eight seven four. When weleft, I was talking with Paul and
uh, Paul, you're looking atputting basically those windsail covers over a pool

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area, and you're talking about puttingthe post in the ground. And here's
a concern I have. How bigof sales are you looking at using?
Well, I would say the coverwill be about twelve feet wide and maybe

(49:27):
eighteen feet long. Okay, myguess you know it's going to be one
single sheet. You know, typicallyyou buy that shade, it has four
ropes on each corner, right,and you just suspend it up high above
the surface. Yeah, and seethe issue that you run into is And
this is why I'm saying I woulddig it so deep. When we get

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these strong winds that come through,sometimes sixty and eighty mile an hour winds,
that thing's a big sail up there. Even though it's made for the
wind to go through it, it'sstill going to be putting a lot of
torque on everything. And so Iunderstand. Yeah, so you're gonna need

(50:12):
something that's down in the ground prettysolid. Yeah, and that that's readon.
I'm recommending at least six foot downOkay. Yeah. Now, and
what's what sized pipe would I belooking at. I'd probably be looking at
it like a or probably a fouror five inch steel pipe, Okay,

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probably galvanized. Galvanized pipe you cando galvanized or black either one because it
can be painted okay, okay,right right, yeah, and probably you're
talking about interception that's probably like fifteenfourteen to fifteen feet long, correct,

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Yeah, because if you're going downsix feet and you're going to be eight
feet above the ground, you're afour teen feet already, yep. Okay.
And make sure that the top thatyou have it where you can seal
the top so you're not just fillingit with water, yes, got you?
And what sized auger bit should webe looking at for putting that in

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there? You'd probably looking at atwelve twelve to sixteen okay, okay,
all right, Now where are yougetting the sail from the cover? I
don't know. That's for him tookay determined. And the readon I'm asking
that is typically they should have installationinstructions as far as all this as well,

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So make sure wherever he gets itfrom he asks that question, I'll
make sure he gets set. Okay. Well, all right, I think
that's all I had. I appreciateyour input, you bet, you take
care, Thank you nice and againour number seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four. That's sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four. I'll see what I cando to help you out here on Texas
Home Improvement don and Champions. Howcan I help you? Hi, Jim,
thanks for taking the call. Recentlyhad a plumber come out and doing
mirroad of things. But the problemthat I'm living with now is I had

(52:30):
him reset a toilet, thinking perhapsthe wax ring was bad because I was
getting some leakage around the perimeter ofthe base of the commode. And while
he was there also he rebuilt thetank behind him with a new flow master
and a little flapper valve in that. But ever since he has left,

(52:53):
I'm having a large air bubble comeout. What I think is what's called
the siphon jet. I have beendoing some research trying to find out what
could happen that being plugged or whatever. So I got one of those a
little plastic with jagged edge, littleplastic thing you clean out your drain lines

(53:14):
with for hair and all that sortof thing, probably eighteen inches long or
whatever. Ran that up through thelittle siphon jet hole. Nothing came out,
nothing was restricted. Then I alsoused wires and went around the perimeter
of the edge of the toilet upthere with all the little holes that water

(53:35):
comes out of. Nothing was seento be clogged. There, no resistance
there, went all the way aroundand clean those out, but I still
got the big air bubble that's jettingout of the siphon jet hole. While
he was here, he also wentup on the roof to see if there
was any plugging on the roof vents. You could find nothing there with spiders,

(54:00):
bird nest or debris or whatever.Even set the camera down in there,
couldn't see any restriction or anything asfar as he could go. Uh,
it was not doing that before hecame. And that that is and
I know ku coincidence has happened,but uh, anyway, that's what's going
on. I wonder if you hadany advice. Okay, And so when

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you're saying the water jet, you'retalking about where the water shoots out down
by the exit there to shoot itinto the issue solid the debris down the
hole. Okay, yeah, youmore than likely then all all you more
than like they're going to need todo shut the water off to the toilet

(54:43):
and flush it so it drains thetank and everything. Uh huh, let
it fill up, because I thinkall that's happened is it's gotten an air
bubble. Trapped in it from whenhe had to drain it to move it.
Uh huh. And we just gotto work on getting that air bubble
out. Yeah, okay, we'llwe're with the air bubble b Let's see,

(55:04):
that would come from the tank intothe entry hole on the base of
the toilet back behind the deceit,So we're somewhere perhaps right in there.
Yeah, but I'm thinking if wejust shut the water off and drain it
down again and then fill the wholesystem up again, we'll probably get it
taken care of. Okay, Well, we'll give that a whorl and see

(55:24):
where it goes. And I appreciateyour help and have a nice raight you
as well. Take care, yes, sir, bye bye and again seven
one three, two point two fiveeight seven four, and I'll see what
I can do to help you out. David and Katie, Welcome to seven
forty kt H. I have atwenty bus twenty patio slab that I've had

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a screened in patio on aluminum,uh huh and for thirty years now,
and then about five years ago wehad it all torn down and had a
gabled roof patio screened in attached tothe house really nice. But now down

(56:14):
the middle of the patio slab therewas a like a surface crack, but
now that has opened up to likea quarter inch. I'm just wondering if
this new roof was too much waitfor the slab or what. No,
you probably don't have reinforcing, orthe reinforcing in the concrete is rusting through

(56:38):
and allowing it to separate that way. Was this something that can be taken
care of or it'll depend Well,if it's only a quarter inch, I
probably wouldn't lose a whole lot ofsleep yet. That could be taking care

(57:00):
of, using sand and an epoxyto fill it in. But the indication
is that the steel's not doing itsjob, because all concrete's gonna crack.
You know, what the steel isin there for is to hold it together
when it does crack, and thesituation you're dealing with, it's not holding

(57:20):
it together any longer. So isit a matter that the steel was under
the concrete or the steel has rustedthrough, or it was never there to
begin with. That's what has tobe determined. Yeah, that's what I'm
thinking. I'm not sure if thatwas ever in there, and if it
was never in there. The bestyou can do is a POxy the pieces
together. For now you may getanother you know, you may only get

(57:45):
two years out of it. Youmay get another twenty years out of it.
But here's the steps I would take. I would go ahead and get
an epoxy joint made. Then Iwould make sure to keep it watered around
out that you know, I tellpeople all the time water the foundation of
the home because you want to keepthose soils expanded. Well, in this

(58:07):
situation, you definitely want to keepthe soil expanded so the concrete quits moving
and that'll help extend the life ofthat concrete. Okay, is this a
POxy thing? Is that's something yourcompany does or oh, we have in

(58:28):
the past. It's not something wedo on a regular basis, but yes,
it is something we've done because it'sbasically you'll put a fine sand down
in there, since it's a quarterinch wide, and then use this epoxy
that's got a viscosity that's less thanwater, so it soaks into the concrete

(58:50):
and that's what bonds the two sidestogether. But the sand is just a
gap filler so that you're not usingas much a POxy. So Uh,
so I can call your company andmaybe they can come out and yeah,
I give us a call. Anduh, when when one of the guys
comes out, when they have questionson it, have them call me.

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And the number for that is sevenone three four to seven three seven one
five six. All right, I'lldo that already. You take care,
thank you. And again that's theDue West number. I mean, I've

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Texas Home Improvement. Well, welcomeback to Texas Home Improvements. Your total
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let's see here, Mike yep,Jim, how can I help you?
I lived in Heights and about seventeenyears ago I moved into this town home
and I had blown in insulation,added some more. It's all been working
well from the electrical standpoint, uhcost, but I'm kind of curious about

(01:03:46):
thinking about replacing it, maybe addingit back in. Can you help me
on that and tell me if it'sbest to suck out all the existing and
blow it back in? Well,what kind of insulation do you have in
there right now? Blow in?I have blown in insallation, right,

(01:04:10):
but is it is it fiberglass orcellulose? Gosh? I don't know that
answer yet, Okay, And thatthat's really the only thing that's going to
make the determination, because if it'sfiberglass, you can just go over it
because fiberglass blown in will settle overtime, but it doesn't decay and turn

(01:04:31):
to dust. Cellulose not only doesit settle over time, but it'll start
to degrade after about twenty years andstarts turning to dust, and that can
make a real dusty mess in thehouse over time. And so if they're
a cellulose, I would take itout. I'm sorry, I must have
cellulose, I said, I musthave cellulose because I noticed the dust issue.

(01:04:57):
Yep, and and you very ohcould So if that's the case,
then yes, they would suck out. I would have the the old insulation
sucked out and new insulation put in. Do you at DOS do that type
of work? We do not.Do you have but call USA Insulation okay?

(01:05:20):
And uh they they should be ableto help you out with it.
Let me get you a phone numberhere real quick. It's a three four
six two nine seven three four six. I'm sorry, three three four six
two seven twenty eight hundred, twentyeight hundred, okay. Any general idea

(01:05:43):
of what it costs to do somethinglike that? Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
No, it's really not. It'sit's really not that not all that
expensive. Uh. How big ahouse are we talking about out? Uh?
Sixteen eighties worthy two story condo?Yeah, yeah, you're you're not

(01:06:08):
going to be You're probably talking andI could be way off, but it
wouldn't surprise me if you're around twograndy or or less even you recommend not
going back with cellulose whole version.Do not go back with cellulose if you're

(01:06:29):
gonna put what was that version whatyou called fiberglass fiberglass? Okay, and
you've got a choice on the fiberglass. You can go in with blown in
insulation or you can go in withbats which is like the stuff that comes
in a roll. And here's theadvantage. If you go with a blown
in in about fift ten to fifteenyears, you'll have to blow more in

(01:06:51):
on top of it, when ifyou go with the bat type, it
will never have have to have moreadded because it doesn't settle over time,
it doesn't lose. It's our value. Gotcha? Okay, one thought you
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(01:07:16):
R thirty nine to our forty eightsomething in that range. Fifteen sixteen inches
of insulation. Gotcha, all right, thanks for your help. You bet
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Hey, welcome back to Texas HomeImprovements, your total home improvement source
seven one three two point two fiveeight seven four. Let's head to Missouri
City, Lauren. How are youtoday? Fine? Thank you for taking
my call. Jim, how canI help you? We have off of

(01:11:02):
the master bathroom room that has achakuzzi tub and it's like ten feet by
six feet. It's a huge ovalbathtub and I was thinking about taking it
out putting a big shower, butit's so nice. It's not working anymore.
You know, when you hit thecontrol on the wall, it doesn't

(01:11:25):
light up and it doesn't make theair jets. And I'm just wondering who
could come work on it. Iwant new bossips put in it and I've
tried googling and calling around, andI have had no luck finding someone that
is competent and working on something likethat. Yeah, the unfortunate thing is

(01:11:46):
there's probably not a lot of peoplewho are competent and working on them because
they're just not that common. Youknow. They put them in for a
while they're in the eighties, andkind of phased them out right away because
people didn't want to pay the upcharges for him. The normally that the

(01:12:08):
electronics for it, the motor andeverything are underneath one end of the tub.
Usually it's you know, away fromthe faucets and stuff. Uh,
do you have an access panel toget in there? Yeah, there's an
access panel, but it's in it'soutside of the house. Okay, you

(01:12:28):
know, a piece of party plankthat's cut out. And I didn't realize
this until years after we bought thisexactly how that worked. But yeah,
there is an access panel outdoors.Well here's what how probably how what I
would start with then is have anelectrician check to make sure all the stuff

(01:12:51):
is powering up, because what alot of times happens is there's a circuit
board or something like that that goesout and that just shuts everything off.
And if that's the case, itcould be a simple fix. I'll tell
you who I would start with.Is Right Touch Electrical, right our I

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T E or Yes R I GH T Okay, Right Touch Electrical Okay,
And their number is two eight onesix four five five five two six,
And you know they're probably gonna say, well, we don't work on

(01:13:35):
hot tubs. The first thing youneed to have checked out, though,
is to make sure you're getting goodpower to everything, because the fact that
the board's not lighting up and allthat kind of stuff kind of indicates that
we're not getting electric where it needsto be. So let's trace down electric
first, and then we can seeif the pumps are still good and all
that stuff. Okay, And Ihaven't used it in like a couple of

(01:13:59):
years, and went back and usedit and it came on for a second
and then went off, and thelights on the controller aren't coming on.
But I'm competent enough to check thevoltage there. But where would you get
parked or something like that, Youknow, well, it would probably be
a matter of pulling the stuff outto see what's needed. And when all

(01:14:24):
else fails, when I can't findsomething anywhere else, I go to granger
Okay, gotcha all right? Becausethere is a float in it and the
water has to be so high beforeit will let you kick it on.
You know, there's there's several movingparts. But sure have you checked since
you know, since it did workand then it went out, did you

(01:14:45):
check the breaker to make sure itdidn't get flipped? Yes, sir,
I did. Okay, go outsideand check all the breakers. They're not
marked, but I did go throughall the breakers and just make sure that
one wasn't flipped. Okay. Sothat's a part that tells me there's going
to be some type of board thenthat has gone bad. Uh, you

(01:15:05):
know, the a control board that'sgone bad. Right, And basically it's
just on and off with a timer. So that shouldn't be too tricky.
That should not be too too difficult, okay. And then for the faucets
and all that, just call aplumber up. Yeah, you know for

(01:15:27):
that Due West can definitely help youout. And you know, once you
got the electrical, if the electricalis good and it gets down to where
it's uh, the pumps and allthat kind of stuff, call us.
We can probably help you out withthat as well. Great, I'll do
it. Thank you so much.I was hoping that that's something that you
could help us with. Thank you, Take care. I have a great

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weekend. And again our number sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four. That's seven one three,two one two five eight seven four.
You know, we had somebody callin earlier and ask about solar panels what

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I thought, and he didn't havetime to he didn't want to go on
the air and ask the question.And here's my thoughts. If you can
get some great rebates, some greattax credits, it then makes money sense
to take a look at them.But if you're having to shell out all
the money without tax credits, withoutrebates and all this kind of stuff,

(01:16:33):
it doesn't pay for itself. They'rejust not that goods yet. Now.
I did see a new solar panela couple weeks ago that is actually a
roofing tile, and it looks likethe tiles are about two foot by three

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foot and it goes up on theroof just like a shingle would go on
the roof, but it looks moreit almost looks like black glass up on
the roof. It's not glass,but I mean it kind of gives you
that look of black glass up there. So the whole roof would then be

(01:17:17):
a solar panel. I did talkwith the because this was at a trade
show. I saw it and soI talked with the manufacturer, and yes,
it's going to be about two tothree times the cost of having a
roof done. It would stands hailpretty good. Things like that. It
does not generate as much electricity asa regular solar panel, but money wise,

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it sounded more reasonable to me thana regular solar panel in the fact
that it's serving dual purposes. You'vegot your roof and you've got your solar
panel going at the same time.The issue with the solar panels they go
over the roof. When they're roofmounted. You can get yard mounted as
well, but most people go withthe roof mounted. So as your roof

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ages and has to be replaced,the panels have to come off and go
back up. That costs money.The reason for the money issues with solar
panels. Though they calculate the paybackat twenty years, the life expectancy of
solar panels is twenty five years.Doesn't give you a whole lot of time

(01:18:29):
to recoup. The other issue ishow many of us stay in our homes
that long. I've been in myhouse twenty one years. So if I
had to put them in at thevery beginning, yeah, it would now
be paying for itself. And Iget it, the cost of electricity keeps
going up. I understand that,but the issues with the solar panels have

(01:18:53):
not been solved yet. The otherissue they have with them is in fact,
you know Germany, I go thereperiodically, they had tons of solar
panels. They were pushing the heckout of it. When the panels started
going bad, what they found wasthey had a problem disposing of them because
they're toxic when they put them inthe ground, And so they pulled all

(01:19:17):
the extra funding and stuff. They'vepulled way back on the solar panels.
Yeah. I know everybody's always tryingto find something that's clean for the environment
and all that stuff, but yougot to look at the full life cycle
of everything before you can determine ifit's cleaned for the environment. Don't do
it just because it makes you feelgood. Do it because it's the right

(01:19:39):
thing. And in my personal opinion, and I got nothing against solar.
But unless somebody's given me a lotof money to use it or to help
pay for it, it does notpay for itself yet. And quite frankly
with when you talk with the honestsolar people, they will tell you the

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same thing. Their typical customers,somebody who is trying to be environmentally friendly
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just heard your show. I'm walkingaround building a hating even compartment in my

(01:23:43):
house, probably like an eight byten room, and I'm gonna be growing
plants in there. And I wantedto know what you think I should use
for ventilation or filth trading. They, oh, little too common because I
wouldn't watch the house. Well,yeah, I hope the drums don't mess
up through upholstream. Sean, Igotta ask you a question. Are you're

(01:24:03):
gonna be growing illegal plants in there? Oh? No, no, just
just legal plant, you know.Okay, But because otherwise I'm not gonna
tell you how to fix it up, So, you know, strawberry,
whatever kind of cool plant. Letme take you down. Here's more with

(01:24:27):
Jim Dunton and Texas Home Improvement.Hey, welcome back. Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. I gotta tell you that is
one of the oldest bumpers we haveon the show. It's It's probably a
call I took like eighteen years ago, and I still crack up every time

(01:24:49):
I think back on that car callbecause that guy was just hilarious to talk
to. All Right, Jim,how are you today? Don't find Jim,
I have a question about possibly doingthe real little remodeling of a bathroom
on a house that's sixty six yearsold. I'm not having any particular problems

(01:25:12):
with it, but it's the factthat it's that old and the bathroom is
all those small, all about fourby four white tiles that was in style
back during that era when everything wasgoing. But I've never had any cracks
in the in any of the tilesin that bathroom. I'm not having any
wet carpet around it in all.And uh, I just answered one of

(01:25:38):
these ads there's so many people sittingon to redo your bath rooms. And
the guy came out and had somekind of little measuring device and he got
in there and said, well,you've got you've got problems behind your behind
your wall, and you need totake all of that out and just you
know, let us come in andredo everything, because it is you've got

(01:26:00):
water behind there, and if you'vegot water or moister. You've got no
doubt, have got mold and mildeand all. And I'm wondering is there
a such thing as being able tomeasure if there is actual moisture build up
behind the wall, and that Ireally need to do this, or whether
he was just trying to sell mea bathroom here because everything has worked good,

(01:26:24):
no cracks, no leaks anywhere atall in the years that I've been
in here, and I just wantedto get your wisdom on the is any
testing of any kind that I shoulddo or just wait till something breaks loose,
or wait till you know, havea problem before doing it, or

(01:26:44):
you know, while I have thetime and the money, go ahead and
do something. Well, let meask you a question. When he was
trying to doing the censoring, didit have a probe that it went into
the wall cavity or was he justpointing it at the wall and saying it
had that problem? He was justappointed at the wall, said it was
a moisture gauge back behind, andthen other people said there's no way to

(01:27:08):
measure what's back behind if you don'tdo something else. And it has,
of course the little small maybe lessthan an eighth of an inch bead all
around, and he said, oh, all that is poorous and through the
ears it is soaked in moisture backthere, and says you could have you
know, everything could be rotted outback behind there. And people say,

(01:27:28):
well, where do you have aproblem If you're not having any problems.
The carpet's not wet and so forth. So I just want to do the
right thing. I've got the moneyset aside that I've got other projects around
the house I'd rather put it on. And I'm just wondering if there's a
company that can do a little bettermeasuring to see without actually taking the wall

(01:27:48):
down. Well, I'll bluntly tellyou he didn't measure a thing. He
just point langlide to you. Well, that's what everybody's telling me, that
he's just trying to sell, youknow, another another work, the moisture
sensors. There is nothing and hewasn't in there very long. Yeah,
the moisture sensors. You have toin order to sense the moisture, get

(01:28:11):
into that cavity. You can't justpoint something at the wall and say,
oh, there's moisture behind that wall. Now there are cameras. You know,
that can detect a leak, butit's not going to detect a whole
wall like that. So he wasfeeding you aligne. I would just if
you're not having an issue and yougot other things you want to do with
it, you go ahead and dothe other things and forget about that wall.

(01:28:34):
Well, thank you. I alwaysappreciate your wish. And I haven't
heard anybody ask you a question youcouldn't answer, And I thought, well,
I'm going to the oh you haven'tlistened long enough, because there's times
where I say I just plain don'tknow, But on yours I can tell
he's a scam artist. Yeah,yeah, well I just say it wasn't
very long. And people telling meas well if he didn't, you know,

(01:28:54):
have anything else other than something thathe tells me. That's the numbers
that was lighting up where it istelling he was measuring all the moisture behind
the walls, and that I probablya house to eat up with mildew and
mold all back behind there, andI'd never be able to sell the house
without having all of that work done. But yeah, you know, and

(01:29:15):
all the rain we've had, andbut the whepholes are all open and you
know and that, Yeah, justdon't you and I would not bother dealing
with that guy again either. Yeah. Well, good good advice, Jim
as you all right, Well,thanks a lot. I appreciate your have
Jim, take care and I'm gonnaand I don't know, i gotta take
a break here, but I'm gonnacaution everybody. Look, you may get

(01:29:39):
a salesperson who comes out and pullsa stunt like that. That doesn't mean
the company itself is bad. Youknow, if the company has a good
reputation, you call back to thecompany and you talk with the company.
You get a hold of upper managementand you let him know what somebody like
that did, because they don't knowunless you tell them, and he it's

(01:30:00):
just somebody who works there. Unlessit's a small shop and he's the owner
and all that kind of stuff,then you just plan don't deal with them.
But if it's a larger company,he's a salesperson, the company doesn't
know unless people call in and tellthem. So please. It drives me
nuts when I see news stories thatwant a cashier at a I'm just going

(01:30:24):
to throw this out. At McDonald's, somebody taking an order makes a mistake
and they want the president of McDonald'sfired over it. People. Let's be
real here, that guy didn't tellhim to go out and scam people.
Now I'm not saying that that didn'thappen in this case, but I would
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And you know what, they dohave probes that they can go in
there and see what's in the wallas well, not just something that's pointing
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have loved to get to your question, but you know what, We're on
again tomorrow at two o'clock right hereon seven forty k here h. Otherwise,
visit our website t hpro dot com. It's there's a resource to help
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