Jim From the Suites at the Pasadena Rodeo

Jim starts the show with guest Thomas Schoenbein of the Pasadena City Council to talk about the upcoming Livestock Show and Rodeo. He also takes a call about an A/C unit dimming the lights when turned on. Jim continues in the second hour with questions about broken roof shingles, a chimney cap from Guardian Roof Systems, attic ventilation, moisture behind the wall, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hi, Jim, how you doing. I just heard your show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm walking around building. I hate even compartment in my house.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Probably like a eight by ten room, and I'm gonna
be growing plants in there. And I wanted to know
what you think I should use for ventilation or filth
trace he.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Little, because I wouldn't want the house so straight in. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey, I hope the drums don't mess up you up Pollstreet, sewn.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
I gotta ask you a question. Are you going to
be growing legal plants in there? Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, No, just just legal plants, you know.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Okay, But because otherwise I'm not going to tell you
how to fix it up, so, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Strawberry, whatever kind of cool plants.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Let me take you.

Speaker 6 (00:51):
Here's more with Jim Dunton and Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements, your total home
improven source. I'm Jim Dutton here to help you out.
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
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Any home improvement question you have, feel free to pick
up the phone, give me a call, and let's talk

(01:17):
about some home improvement. Now. I am broadcasting today from
the Pasadena Livestock Show and Rodeo. Uh, we're out at
the Actually I'm upstairs in the sweets overlooking the arena
right now, and uh, they're setting up the band for tonight.
See tonight. I think it's Aaron Watson, and uh, you

(01:37):
know it's good. You know, I was here last night.
It was a great show. But I've got a guest
on that we're gonna talk with before we get started
on on other calls. So if you're calling in, just
stay on the line. I'll be with you in a
few minutes. Seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. But I want to welcome Thomas Shanebind Did
I pronounce that right? You said it very well, okay,

(02:00):
And he's a city council member here in Pasadena. And
you know, I sit up here and I'm watching nice
seats up here in the suites. I like. I like this,
But I'm looking at all the stuff that Rodeo does
and the city does, and the city and the passing

(02:22):
Livestock Show and Rodeo work together extensively on these grounds
out here to make all this stuff happen. And it's
a win win for both sides, you know.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
Jim thank you for having me today. It's a pleasure
to be out here. We're sitting in an air conditioned.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Suite, freezing my butt off, by the way, and.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
It's a beautiful site. We have magnificent facilities out here.
We have a true partnership. We work together, we maintain
the facilities, all maintain part of the facilities as well,
and it gives back to our community and surrounding communities.
And that's what rodeo and that's what Pasadena is all about.

(03:06):
It's about people, it's about family. We started off back
in the early to mid forties.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Forty nine was our first show. This is seventy five years.

Speaker 7 (03:19):
Seventy five years. It's been a wonderful experience and a
wonderful journey together. We were a farming community and agricultural community,
and then industry came in and four to five business
owners got together. They had a vision for our city.
We had a whopping population at the time of about

(03:40):
five thousand people.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
And you think it was that big, it grew.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
To about ten thousand when the Rodeo started. So over
the years, the partnership has just grown and businesses have
jumped in and supported through sponsorships, and y'all have given
back to the businesses in our community because of the
sales that they generate with the vendors coming out here,

(04:06):
and uh it quite literally over the course of the
duration of the rodeo and throughout the year. You know,
you are a million dollar plus benefactor to the residents
here in Pasadena and local businesses. So well you out
here last night, I was it was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
You didn't with witness the little episode down here on
the on the dirt that I got involved in, did you?

Speaker 7 (04:32):
I was walking away, but I heard about it.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Okay, that's good. Uh?

Speaker 7 (04:38):
Was that the one where it says who wears the
pants and the fan?

Speaker 4 (04:42):
That was the one that was it? Okay, yep, yep.
And just for the audience, if you weren't out here,
what you missed was I got roped into being out
on the floor. I just happened to be walking by.
I got pulled out onto the dirt with three other
guys that to to Two of them were uh other
executive teams out here, and one was one of the directors.

(05:06):
And Robbie Hodges, the clown, gives us each a pair
of underwear and he says, okay, put it around your ankles.
You put it around your ankles, now pull it all
the way up without using your hands. And that was
a chore. And beyond that, they'll have to find the

(05:28):
video somewhere.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
It happens at the Rodeo ground stage.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Now that one didn't stay because I already saw it
hitting Facebook and I was not happy. But that's a
different story. You know, this is our seventy fifth year
and you were talking to how businessmen started this association,
and there's a lot of things that a lot of
people don't realize it's happened over the years. The businessmen
who started it, they saw it as more than just

(05:54):
going to college. You know, we still team up as
a partnership with our and all that. But when I
was looking back at some of the history, were you
aware that the Rodeo used to help start businesses? Yes,
I was not. I was amazed at that that when

(06:16):
kids were finishing high school or beyond, the Rodeo would
help with scholarship money, or if they wanted to start
a business, would give them a loan, not a not
a grant, not free money, but a loan that they
would pay back with the with their businesses.

Speaker 7 (06:34):
It was like a small business small business loan, but
it was more of a an encouragement to invest back
in your community. At one time, we had one high school.
It was Pasadena High.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
School, which I graduated from.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
I did as well, and from that, the Rodeo has
helped so many kids through scholarships with all of our
our school districts around here, be at Pasadena, Deer Park, Laport,
Clare Creek, isd UH, you have a true partnership with them,
and also to UH with Sanjack College, Big one with them,

(07:14):
it's a fantastic program. I was reading in the fiftieth
anniversary of the Rodeo and it said it was for
scientific agricultural education, so they were looking back then at
growing the future.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
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Speaker 4 (11:11):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements, your total home
improvement source. We are sitting here with Thomas sane By,
one of the c council members of the City of Pasadena,
and we're talking passing the livestock showing rodeo real quick
before we get going back on our calls and stuff.
But you know, we talked last weekend out here about

(11:32):
all the construction taking place, a new building being built
and all that stuff. And that's one of the really
nice things on Pasadena. It's always been being built up
the last several years. We went through a downturn period
where Pasaden wasn't growing a lot and really got a

(11:52):
bad reputation when the paper mill was here and it
wasn't even in Pasadena, where nowadays we don't have that issue.
It's really this is kind of a hidden gem in
the city of Houston.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
You know, I agree with you. We have a very
rich history here in Pasadena. Industry has been a big part.
You know. We have a couple of traditions that really
carry us forward. And one of those traditions is the
Pasadena Livestock and Show in Rodeo for the last seventy

(12:27):
five years. It's hard to find an organization that's been
around now long.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
And the other is our Strawberry Festival.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Another great organization out here, yep.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
And what we've done out here with the convention Center
and the Rodeo grounds, it's an investment in the future,
and the future is bright in Pasadena. We've added to
our infrastructure over the last eight years. We've made progress
with our businesses. We're excited about the partnerships and the

(12:57):
networking that's going to take place going Even though we've
made great strides now, and I would encourage anybody that's
looking to invest in a community, I would challenge you
to find a better community than the city of Pasadena.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Oh I would as well. I mean, and for investors
in real estate, I think Pasadena is now a sleeping
gold mine simply because it's just been overlooked for so long.
There's a lot of properties that are coming available that

(13:35):
you can either rehab or take them down and put
up new homes.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
And you hit something that's near and dear to my
heart is that these are not distressed properties. No, these
are properties that are eager for development and eager for
investments to come in and building those networks with the
organizations like the Rodeo, also to the Strawberry Festival. There's

(14:03):
industry all through our city and I look at Pasadena
as the mecca of opportunity. With our new convention center,
it's going to even attract more eyes and more opportunities
to have conferences and bring industry together. It's going to
highlight the Rodeo. Our fairgrounds are phenomenal for cookoffs. We

(14:29):
have some tremendous cookoffs out here. And the future is
very very bright.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
And people, especially if you don't live in the Pasaden area.
Don't realize how close this is to everything. You know,
people live in Sugarland, in the Woodlands and Kingwood and
all these places that take them an hour plus to
get into downtown when they want to go to something.
If we want to go downtown, I leave my office.

(14:57):
I go downtown to eat lunch sometime. If you want
to go to NRG for a football game, it's a
twenty five minute drive. It's not an hour to get anywhere.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
You know, we're a hidden pocket. I mean you can
hop on two twenty five, you can hop on one
forty six, you can hop on Red Bluff, you can
go forty five. Think about this. For folks considering coming
out here for the rodeo, you could spend half your
day in Chema. Drive ten to fifteen minutes, yep and boom,
you're right here at the rodeo. So you've got a

(15:30):
complete package right.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
There, all right, Miss Shanebyin, I want to thank you
for stopping by and talking with us today.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
Mister Dunton, it was a pleasure and I look forward
to you serving as the next president of the Passer.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Now I'm stuck sewn. I'm working on that you just
announced something to my audience. They didn't we're not aware of.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
Well, you know, we have fine leaders in our community
and people are always stepping up. People in the pasta
stepped up, and we need people in the future.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Well, the Passing lifetoction on Rodeo is near and dear
to my heart. And uh, it's an organization I've been
part of for a long time. And and quite frankly,
I get asked to be part of a lot of
different organizations. But I don't know any other organization that
has only two paid employees that generates two point two

(16:19):
million dollars a year right out. A million dollars goes
back into the community between the students and and you know,
facilities and different things like that. It's it's just not
out there. And I'll just I love the way they're
fiscally physical, fiscally responsible with their money. Uh, and I

(16:41):
love the challenge of making it grow even more.

Speaker 7 (16:43):
I do too. I look forward to the future. Uh,
it's all about the kids.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
And the community.

Speaker 7 (16:49):
That's what city is. It's community and families and people
and we're out here to do the very best that
we can do.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
It's a good old old hometown rodeo. Yes, sir, all right,
thank you sure. And with that we're gonna get ready
and jump back into our calls now at seven one
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one three, two one two five eight seven four. Paul.
I know I'm gonna end up going to a break
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Okay? I have the air conditioners, uh five ton and
huh three ton? I think no, it's a two ton,
two story house, and when either one of them kicks on,
the lights just dim a little bit and then brighten
back up.

Speaker 9 (17:37):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
The cause of that.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
As a age, you end up putting like a hard
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Speaker 2 (17:52):
It wouldn't be a soft start.

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A soft start, yeah, you know they they always used
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Speaker 4 (21:33):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three,
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I was talking with Paul, and Uh, Paul, were you
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No, huh, but that's what I was thinking. They're originally
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Well, that they don't come with the hard start kits
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(22:35):
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It evens out to draw better so you don't have
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What are the downsides of a soft sluck start.

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There haven't been any that we have seen.

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Okay, the longevity is the same, yep. Okay. How about capacitors,
would the capastor be doing that?

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Typically not. When the capacitor goes out, uh, it typically
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Speaker 4 (25:36):
And welcome back to Texas Home Improvements. Your total home
improvement source seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one three, two, one two five
eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have, I'm
going straight into the calls. We'll deal with the other
stuff here in a little bit. Maria, this is Jim.

(25:57):
How can I help you?

Speaker 5 (25:59):
Hi, Jeff, can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Yes, during the last two storms, I have some roof
shingles that were broken off and missing, and I'm in
the process of I'm going to go ahead and reroof
the house just because it's old. But how bad is
it to just leave that as it is until I
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Speaker 4 (26:23):
Well, as long as it's not leaking, it's not going
to hurt anything. If it leaks, then you need to
get up there, and not you, but somebody needs to
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Speaker 5 (26:43):
Okay, Okay, Yeah, I haven't really gone up there to
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concern until we can finally get all this stuff done
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Speaker 4 (26:56):
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Okay, oh, the almost it kind.

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What do you think?

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Speaker 5 (28:03):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
You're welcome and I appreciate you holding so long.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
No worries.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Have a good day you as well. And again seven
one three, two, one two five eight seven four show
in Jersey Village. Thank you for holding. How can I
help you? Well?

Speaker 11 (28:24):
Kudos to you first on the work at the rodeo
and we could use your NX here in Jersey Village
as a Pasadena INEX rodeo. But any rate, I need
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conventional cap that comes with the builder grade cap. I've
got a chimney that's leaking, and.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
I don't know if they would make one echo. I
don't know if they'd make one acho was over the
existing chimney cap, but because usually what happens is you
take the existing off and put the new one on.
But yes, they do manufact most what they do is
have a sheet metal shop that makes them to put on.

Speaker 11 (29:17):
Well, okay, yeah, that's what I'm looking for. And obviously
they can come out of these measurements and do it
custom Yeah, change out the old one and put the
new okay, perfect, did your pump truck for the concrete
level and get out of the shop.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yet we finally got it back out of the.

Speaker 11 (29:36):
Shop, okay. And so all the other appointments are just
lined up. And I know it's been horrible for other
conditions for everybody.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
So yes, as soon as yeah, the vehicle is in line.
In fact, if you'll talk with Nick at the office,
he'll be able to probably tell you where you're at
in the line.

Speaker 11 (30:01):
Oh excellent, I appreciate it. Thanks so much for everything
you're doing for everybody everywhere. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I appreciate that. Thank you, sir.

Speaker 11 (30:09):
Okay, Bye, bye.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
And again seven one three, two one two five eight
seven four and uh Brian N. Rosenberg, Welcome to Texas
Home Improvement.

Speaker 9 (30:24):
Hello, mister Dunton, can you hear me? Yes, sir, okay. Well,
I've got a forty year old house. It's my dad's house,
and it's had a foundation work done before. They have
pilings on most of the exterior walls, and there were
some new problems. The walls were noticed to be boeing,

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or the exterior walls were noticed to be boeing by
a contractor that was trying to put in a new door,
and then right after that the porch actually cracked fish
for the first time, and so I call the old
contractor and had them come in, and their estimate was
six pilings put in in the interior, and what they

(31:09):
were thinking was that there was some subsidence inside the house,
so basically the interior was lower than the exterior, and
they were thinking maybe that could be a sewer leak
of some kind. So, on the advice of a realtor friend,
I got a second opinion and had another company come out,
and they wanted to do twenty two something pilings and

(31:32):
it would take like twenty one days, and they were
going to have to jackhammer up all the entire floor,
so you know, measure twice, cut once. But that's a
pretty big difference between six and twenty one. Any suggestions
on how to resolve this and figure out the best solution.
I don't think I can be out of the house
for twenty one days, but at the same time, I

(31:54):
don't want to just kind of, you know, half asset
and have to come back and do it again ten
years from now.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well, the problem is foundation repair is pretty much unregulated. Yeah,
you got to pull a permit, but there's not a
real standard as far as what has to be done
when a foundation job is being done, and so that's
where you end up with these difference of opinions, and

(32:21):
a lot of the foundation repair contractors they don't spend
a whole lot of time teaching their estimators what to
look at, and I can tell you it takes a
couple of years before somebody even realizes what they're looking
at when they're doing estimates for foundation repair. It's quite
a hard training curve. So normally what can end up

(32:44):
doing is having an engineer look at it as well,
but some of them aren't that good either, but you
do end up having it looked at it. Buying an
engineer if your contractor is not pulling permits and stuff,
don't even waste your time with them gets you a
different place contractor, because if they're going to shortcut that,
they're going to shortcut everything.

Speaker 9 (33:04):
I noticed the second opinion didn't even mention permits, whereas
the original contractor, even though they're less known, they put
the permit costs right there in their estimates. So yeah,
I guess that's a point for the original contractor. In
addition to warranties and stuff.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, now, will I will give you a caution. A
lot of foundation repair contractors do not want to do
interior repairs and they have a hard time with it
because it is very labor intensive doing interior repairs. But

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you said it's twenty one interior, right.

Speaker 9 (33:43):
Yes, the first one was just thinking that they could
do they could get away with six pilings just around
where the sinking is the worst and that's kind of
where the sewer would be running. But the other one
wanted to basically basically wanted to rent to cole across
the entire interior of the house, back to front and

(34:03):
side to side.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Well, I would tell you at Due West, if we
were doing twenty one interior peers and going through the slab,
which normally we recommend tunneling, but we do go through
the slab, sometimes you're really looking at more like a
three day job, maybe four hmmmmm.

Speaker 9 (34:25):
Okay, Yeah, See, the original contractor for the six was saying,
you know, we probably haven't done in a week and
that's with tunneling, and so okay, that makes me, that
makes me a little bit suspicious of the second contractor.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Yeah, his timeline doesn't make sense unless he's tunneling all that. No, No,
this was for me even then it should take that long.

Speaker 9 (34:49):
Yeah, And the guy from the first company was like, well, okay, yeah,
the tunneling costs more, but in your situation, this might
be better. Because I've got an eighty nine year old
father with dimension, there's not a whole lot of places
I can put him where he can be safe while
I deal with all this, So that's also kind of
an issue.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
So the contractor who wants to put in the six
is the guy who did the original piers correct, Yes, sir, Okay,
who is.

Speaker 9 (35:18):
It, Keystone?

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Let him do it.

Speaker 9 (35:22):
Okay, you are the experts, sir.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
If I would love to come out, and I would
love to come out and do the job for you,
don't get me wrong. But they've already got warranty on
the rest of the house. You don't need a mix
and match warrant. He's just let them come out.

Speaker 9 (35:40):
And do it, Okay. Yeah. I knew about you guys
and stuff, but that wasn't who was recommended to me,
and I totally forgot about it, and I was like, damn,
you know, I should have called him in the first place. Yeah,
but I appreciate your time and your advice, and I'll
probably be asking in the future as well.

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Speaker 4 (39:10):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
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five eight seven four. Tim in the Woodlands, how can

(39:31):
I help you.

Speaker 12 (39:33):
Hi, Jim, thanks for taking my call. I've got a
couple of questions about attic venting. So I am noticed
that my air conditioner in the upstairs unit is having
a hard time keeping up on the hot summer days
and the temperature keeps going up, and so I think

(39:56):
I maybe have a few problems. But so I'm I'm
seeling the attic, you know, against the against the rest
of the house, and I plan on adding some more insulation,
but I also feel like it's too hot in the attic,
so I feel like I need more ventilation. So it's

(40:17):
getting up around one hundred and thirty degrees. So my
specifically is I've got a I've got soft events, and
I've got ridge vents, two different ridge vents, one that
kind of runs the length of the house, one that's
on the garage. But I've got another section of the

(40:37):
house that has a hip roof that is just a
little higher than the rest of the roof, probably I
don't know, five feet higher, and it does not have
a ridge event in it. So my question is can
I put a ridge vent on that? Because because it

(40:59):
acts happens to be right above the room that I'm
having hard time cooling.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
And how long of a ridge does it have up there?

Speaker 12 (41:10):
It's very short, it's maybe six feet, and yeah, the
other ridge is long. It's kind of the length of.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
The house, right, But yeah, there should be room on
a six foot there should be room to go ahead
and put some up there, and that would definitely help
with it. On your soft events? Is that a continuous
soft invent or do you have the covers periodically?

Speaker 12 (41:36):
It's just the periodic covers, and I don't think they
are nearly enough of them. I haven't done the calculation.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Yet, Okay, I think typically yeah, I could and just
f y I typically when you use when it's just
those periodic covers, you know a lot of times they
put them fifteen twenty feet apart, and they really need
to be more like four feet apart. So it's very
easy to add those, you know, I mean, take a

(42:02):
whole saw, drill two holes and put a vent cover
over it, and you got a soft event going. So
that's something that you'll want to take a look at.
But yeah, if there's six foot of ridge up there,
you know, the the sections for a ridge vent typically
come in four or five foot long pieces, so you'd

(42:26):
have enough room to have a piece up there. You
want to avoid putting like a fan, a air hawk
or a fan or any other type of ventilation up there,
because it would just draw air through the ridge vents
instead of through the soffits, because the air is going

(42:47):
to move in path of least resistance, So putting up
a ridge vent up there would be the right way
to go.

Speaker 12 (42:54):
And that actually gets to the heart of my question
because I've read that if you have ridge vents at
two different levels, then the higher one will pull air
from the lower one and the lower one will become
an intake. So I'm wondering if I need to worry
about that because the lower one is the one that
is already has the vents, and the higher one is

(43:15):
just a small section. But so I'm wondering if I
need to worry about pulling in and how.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Close How close together are they?

Speaker 12 (43:24):
Oh, they're not that far away, probably fifteen feet or so,
maybe twenty.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Yeah, that definitely could become a problem. So when you
get into those situations where you got them higher and
lower and they're drawing on each other, that is where
you would close up the ridge vents, put in a
power vent and let it draw air from everywhere.

Speaker 12 (43:50):
So do you think that would be preferable?

Speaker 4 (43:55):
It kind of sounds like it would be, because when
you're finished with this, you would actually have ridge vents
on three different levels, wouldn't you?

Speaker 12 (44:02):
Just two different levels? Two two different levels. Yeah, okay,
and the third one is kind of separate from the
from the rest anyway, I don't think it would be
much of an issue. But yeah, it's just the two
two different levels, probably five feet vertically apart and probably
fifteen twenty feet horizontally apart.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Sure, yeah, I think in the situation you're in, I
would that that is actually what I would look at
is going ahead and putting in either a solar fan
or a power fan in the highest part, and they
I typically will start with a solar fan whenever possible.

Speaker 7 (44:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
The other thing is they make attic ventilation fans now,
not not not for drawn air outside, but to move
the air from the dead air pockets, And because of
the different elevations in your attic, you may have to
look at using something like that as well. It's really

(45:08):
just an air movement system so you don't have dead
air spots, so.

Speaker 12 (45:14):
Put it in the higher spot where it is dead air,
so that it pushes the air down to where it
can get to the ridge vent. Is that what you mean?

Speaker 4 (45:21):
More or less? It also would help where when houses
have a corner that can't properly be vented and stuff.

Speaker 12 (45:30):
Okay, okay, well those are two interesting ideas. I'm gonna
have to look more into those. I do have a
second question, which is I've got an exhausts a bathroom
exhaust span. Well, I've got two of them going into
the add it and one of them is just completely
closed off. So I need to get that out to

(45:51):
a stoppit. And I was planning on putting it through
the soppit, but then I just found the second bathroom exspan.
It is vented to a safe but it didn't go
through the sofet. It's just vented into the soft night
above a soffitt vent. So, I mean it's been that
way for what twenty five thirty years, and I didn't

(46:15):
notice any discoloration or mold or anything. I'm wondering if I.

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Speaker 4 (47:31):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. That's seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four oh, the call
I was talking to. He ended up dropping off, So
we're gonna head out to Missouri City, Sonia. This is Jim.

(47:52):
How can I help you?

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Hi, thanks for taking my call. I have a pleasure questions.
One has to do with I've been told that around
one of my windows, I've got moisture behind the wall.
He used some kind of reading device and it showed
it was just right next to like the window frame,

(48:15):
like I guess maybe the two by four something, really
not extending out much into the wall. He wanted to,
you know, rip out the sheet rock and everything at
the time. But is that the only remedy or can
it just take care of itself or.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
It will not take care of itself. I mean, if
you're getting moisture in the wall, it does need to
be addressed, but it's typically addressed from the outside, not
the inside, because the moisture comes from outside.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
All right, But I mean, I have brick. How would
they get to it?

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Well, the first question is where's the moisture coming from,
because normally it's going to be either like the calking
around the windows isn't tight and it's getting water leaking
in there, or over the years, the brick started absorbing

(49:12):
moisture and letting water run down through it. And if
that's the case, just a simple masonry sealer sprayed on.
We'll fix that problem. Usually if it's the windows doing it,
then it's just some calking. You don't normally tear into
the sheet rock to try to find the problem.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Okay, I had windows put in I think last October.
You know, the single hung double pain uh huh. So
I don't think it's that. But if I wanted to,
I guess I called the people out and have them
come look. Would they be able to tell?

Speaker 4 (49:49):
I would definitely make that call, because if you just
had them put in last spring, when did your leak
problem start?

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Well, I don't see any moisture. He just deta acted
it with the reader the meter.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Okay, but you're not seeing any signs of moisture anywhere.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
No, the sheet rock's not, you know, doing anything. The
baseboards at the bottom don't show any deterioration or water
damage or anything.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Why was he checking?

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Then we had some water that was under the tile
a little further into the room, like in the middle
of the room, and then we pulled that up and
we waited two months and the water never came back.
They never figured out where it came from.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
But okay, I would almost bet that the issue that's
on this window is nothing more than a cavity next
to the between the window and the two by four
window frames. Since you just had replacement windows put in,
there's probably a dead air space there and that's reading

(50:56):
higher humidity than the rest of it. If you're not
seeing any moisture anywhere, you know, it's not showing on
the sheet rock, down the baseboards and all that stuff,
I wouldn't do a darn thing yet.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Oh okay, all right, yeah, because I mean I don't
see anything. The paint looks good and the sheet rocks
stable and all that.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
So yeah, okay, So I hear nothing to justify tearing
the wall apart to look for it.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Then, Okay, that's good. I'm glad to hear that.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
All right.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
My second question is I have fifty year old pipes,
probably whatever it was with the metal back then, because
I've got a lot of rust coming through my pipe. Okay,
is there anything I can do about that besides replacing
the whole system.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
No, You're gonna either have to do a pipe replacement
or a pipeliner like epipe aster or flow epipe system.
Either one costs roughly the same. But if it's building
up from the old galvanized pipes, and that's probably what's happening. Uh,

(52:16):
that's about all you're going to be able to do
to stop it.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Okay, And I know the Pecks is popular, but I'm
not really sold on Pecks. What's your opinion on that?

Speaker 4 (52:27):
I put it in my house. Okay, what part aren't
you sold on?

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Well, I guess you know you read this stuff on
the internet. Maybe there's going to be coming down the
road later it's going to turn out to be cancerous
and you'll contribute. Of course, everybody says everything contributes to cancer,
our air or food. And how long has it been around.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
As long as that galvian ized pipe? Is that that
you're having issues with?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Oh? Okay, because I know that's an easy way to
the place.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
It was used in a different form before and they
had problems with the with the joints. Uh, But all that,
you know, with the new materials and stuff has been
worked out. So no, I've got zero problem using peckspipe.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Okay, All right, do you want to recommend a company
that would do that.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Or oh you can call do West. We do it
all the time.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Oh okay, that's right, you do plumbing. Okay, I will
give you all a call on Monday.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
All right, Well, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
You welcome. You have a wonderful weekend. Again our number
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
We're gonna head up to the Woodlands. Hello Tim.

Speaker 12 (54:00):
All right, thanks Jim for taking my call again. So
when we dropped off, we were talking about bathroom exhaust spans.
But yeah, one that is vented into the soffit right
near a softa vent. It doesn't actually exit the sofit.
So it's been that way since the house was built.

(54:21):
I just looked at it today and it doesn't seem
like there's any mold or discoloration. So I'm wondering if
I have a problem, if I need to put that
through the sofit, or if I should just leave it.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
I would leave it, Okay. It's a very common practice
to put them at a vent that way. Is it
better to have it go outside? Absolutely? But the realistic
side is how often is an exhaust svan like that
used and so typically having it exit right there at

(54:56):
a vent opening, soft e vent opening. It is really
enough to do what you need to do.

Speaker 12 (55:04):
Okay, Well, that that definitely answers that question. That's perfect.
Do I have time for one more question?

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Sure?

Speaker 12 (55:12):
Okay. So I mentioned that I am trying to air
steal between the house and the attic, and so I've
I've been ceiling around the top plates of the walls
and the you know, any any of the around the
pipes and the wires and things. And now I've come
to the outside walls where the soffits are, and I've

(55:37):
noticed that the walls have top plates, but the back
side of the wall, on the sofa side is open
to the soffit. So I don't know that there's any
air ceiling I can do on the outside walls. So
I'm wondering would it be wise to try to air
steal from the inside around the anything going into the wall,

(56:02):
the outlets, the switches. Do I need to do I
need to ceil against the floor or I'm just not
sure how to do that kind of ceiling.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
When was the house built?

Speaker 12 (56:14):
It was mid nineties, I think.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Okay, somewhere around that time is when they actually started
sealing that the hole. It wasn't too long after that.
But as far as trying to seal off everything, you
really don't need to.

Speaker 12 (56:37):
Is that just because not enough air goes from the
house to the attic to worry about it? Is that
what you mean?

Speaker 4 (56:44):
Correct? And you want eric actually to go into the
attic anyways, But if I'm listening to you, correct, the
sheet rock on the inside would keep the air from
being going into the attic that way, So it's not

(57:07):
something that's going to save you anything, Okay.

Speaker 12 (57:11):
Would you say that that's true of feeling like against
the top plates and the wires and things like that
as well, or just you're just talking about the outside walls.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
I'm pretty much that way on most things now. I
know on the new energy efficient homes that when the
wire goes through the top plate and all that, it's
all sealed now with foam, and to try to retrofit
everything would be cost prohibitive, especially for what it's going
to save. And we have gotten to the point where

(57:44):
we're sealing our houses up so tight that it's becoming
a problem, and that's why we've got to bring fresh
air in through our HVAC systems. So I really don't
think you need to get that into that much detail
on it. Okay, we built we built them, I guess
I'll put it this way. We built them without that

(58:08):
right up until about fifteen years ago.

Speaker 12 (58:11):
Okay, okay, great, Well that's all my questions. Thank you
so much for taking the time.

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Smile you look up in Texas this morning. This is
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Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Hey, welcome to Texas Home or welcome back to Texas
Home Improvement. Let's head straight back into our calls, uh
Daniel and Cyprus. How can I help you?

Speaker 11 (01:01:51):
Yes, sir, I was about a week ago. I was
listening to your program. Yeah it was sad.

Speaker 15 (01:02:00):
There's a paint that you can use it on your brick.

Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
Yes, you want to paint the brick.

Speaker 15 (01:02:11):
That is what I wanted, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Okay, there's a product. It's a Rhino shield and uh,
it is something that you would have them come out
and put on because you want that twenty five year
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like paint that puts a slick finish over it then
seals it. And that's the reason paint blisters off bricks
so often is it doesn't breathe, so when any moisture
gets into the brick, it just blisters the paint off,
where this product, being breathable, won't do that.

Speaker 15 (01:02:54):
Yeah, I got my brick is kind of like you know,
we have like card water I guess out here in Cyprus,
and when I run the sprink Wheler's you got like
a white film on the brick.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
Yeah it looks terrible. Well, I'm gonna tell you up
front that that any type of coating you put on
is still going to do that because that's mineral deposits
and stuff, and no matter what's on there, the coat
that's gonna stick on it. So over time you would
have that.

Speaker 15 (01:03:26):
Again, So as far as just mill doing everything that
that would work right off.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Oh, absolutely, Well, and if you wash the yeah, because
this gout a mold inhibitor in it and stuff, But
if you washed it on a regular basis, you would
keep the mineral deposits off as well.

Speaker 15 (01:03:47):
Yeah, it's pretty hard once it gets in the brick, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Yeah, it gets down in those pores and you're not
getting it off.

Speaker 15 (01:03:57):
Yeah. So my next question is how hard is it
to get homeowners to prove doing that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
What do you mean.

Speaker 15 (01:04:12):
To paint the brick?

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
Homeowners associations? Yes, yes, sir, Oh depends on your homeowners
association how hard core they are. But it is a
very common practice nowadays to paint the brick.

Speaker 15 (01:04:30):
Yeah, I know, I've seen some of them that really
looks good. And also I know, I don't want to
take up a whole lot of your time. I wished
I would have known about that shingle that you talked
about today.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
Oh, the hail resistant that.

Speaker 15 (01:04:50):
Yeah, it's something like one hundred and seventy mile an hour.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
When yeah, Reva shingles by f Wave, do you all
do it? Or no? But Rufe contractors do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:05:02):
I just had mine done like last year, So that's
gonna be a while.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
Yep, hopefully. All right, we'll talk to you later. We
gotta take a quick break. We'll be right back with
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Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. George, You're going
to be last all of the day. How can I
help you?

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
All? Right?

Speaker 13 (01:09:04):
So I got a forty eight year old house and
had a brand new SPAC system installed. There's air airflow
issues going on. And do you recommend they did not
put dampers when they put this brand new system in.
They redesigned all the duckwork. There's no dampers in there.
I recently had your company come out and looked at

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my AC and they're like, it had condensation on the
doug work, had condensation on the unit.

Speaker 6 (01:09:31):
Is it fun?

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Is that normal?

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:09:35):
On a new unit?

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Okay, Now, not having dampers in there, yes, that is normal. Uh.
Dam they don't. Actually they did not. They did not
put it right and that and that's normal that you
don't have them. Uh. Those typically get added later if
you're having to balance the system. But as far as
having moisture and stuff, no, that is not normal.

Speaker 11 (01:10:01):
Okay, that's uh.

Speaker 13 (01:10:02):
I'm gonna have the owner of this company come out.
I have eating with him, the superintendent, the one that
actually did the install, and I'm gonna have him fix that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:10:12):
Well, and then we're gonna have to add dampers because
it's a forty eight year old own and it's just
a lot of issues going on.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
Yeah, yep, yeah, in order to balance out and get
rid of the hot and cold spots, that's what the
dampers will. We'll do for you. And with that, I
gotta let you go because we are out of time.
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