Rotting Beams

Jim starts the show with an email question on quotes for rotting beams and joists. He also takes calls about replacing an A/C unit, a clogged drain, adding concrete to a driveway, a broken toilet flange, and more. Jim mixes in more email questions after that. He continues in the second hour on the phone lines with more home improvement advice. Happy Thanksgiving!

Episode Transcript

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Hey, Welcome to Texas Home Improvements, your total home improvement source.
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I can do to help you out here on Texas

(02:45):
Home Improvement, your total home improvement source. Let's see. We're
gonna start with an email from Greg and Gregg says
I have quotes from du West, another foundation repair company,
and to repair rotted beams and Joyce in a peer

(03:07):
and beam house. One of them will replace everything with
the flooring intact. The other prefers to tear out the
flooring and sub floor before repairing the foundation. And the
sub floor may very well be rotten, so I need
to get a quote to do that before the house
caves in. I'm not looking for the cheapest, but looking

(03:28):
for a good workmanship that is not above market. Well,
you know, the sub floor typically, unless it's rotted, does
not need to be taken out. Some companies, when they're
doing floor Joyce will insist on taking out the sub
floor as well because it's just easier to do all

(03:49):
the wood replacement from the top. And I'm going to
tell you up front, you know you got one quote
from du West that is my company. I have not
looked up the your name as far as who came
out and gave you the bid and all that stuff,
but trust me, when I go to the office, I
will be looking it up. But look, you can get

(04:13):
into a lot of money replacing the sub floor when
it's not necessary. The other thing is the walls themselves
may be sitting on top of the sub floor, depending
on when the house was built and how it was
put together. So there's a lot that needs to be
looked at before you make the decision. And it does
costs play into it absolutely, but you do need to

(04:35):
look at what all each side is doing for the
cost as well, So that would be the first thing
I would tell you. And look, if you want to
get with me, you can call me at the office
and I can help you out or get you in
touch with the right person at my office who can
help you with it as well. But when you're repairing beams,

(04:56):
replacing the wood is extremely expensive, but it's got to
be looked at how are you replacing it. Sometimes companies
will try to just sister beams onto existing beams, even
though they're rotted, and what that means is that you
just sandwich the old rotted beam between two new ones.
That's not a good plan. You typically want to put

(05:19):
new treated lumber underneath so you don't have to deal
with this problem again. So anyways, just just a little
two cents on replacing the sub floors in UH floor
choice in a blocking based or peer and beam home

(05:39):
again our number seven one three two one two five
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do to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement
your Total Home Improvement source seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Let's see. So Mike sends

(06:07):
in an email drainage for soft water system. I've had
a soft water system on the house for twenty plus years.
We have just noticed when it's cycles, it is filling
up the bathroom sink in the hall. I have a
company that comes out once a year to service the machine.
Should I call them out to address this or should

(06:30):
I call a plumber? You need to call a plumber
because it's not their system that's failing. It's the drain
line that's failing. And more likely it's just got stuff
build up in it that is needing to be snaked
out and cleaned out in order for the drain to
be working properly again. So it's nothing to get overly

(06:52):
concerned about other than it is backing up in the sink,
and at any given time, shortly it'll plug completely where
it will overflow in the sink. So yeah, get somebody
out plumber to clean out that line and get it
flowing like it should again and you can avoid future
problems again. Seven one three, two one two five eight

(07:17):
seven four. That's seven one three, two, one two five
eight seven four. We're gonna head out to Baytown and Edwin.
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
What are you doing?

Speaker 6 (07:31):
I'm doing all right? How are you today?

Speaker 8 (07:33):
Just fine?

Speaker 9 (07:33):
I got a question I have a have before telling
in Central I seeun that that's twelve years old.

Speaker 10 (07:41):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (07:42):
The Cadetza fan was replaced four or five years ago,
and I got a new coil maybe three years ago. Hey,
when I considering, and I already got a quote from
a pretty reliable contractor through a friend to install a
new system before the price increased after the first of

(08:03):
the year. And the system I'm considering is a it's
a carrier comfort, it's not a it's a single speed
system like I've got now. Okay, So, like I said,
my unit's working, okay that I have now, but I

(08:24):
know it's gonna it needed to be replaced here in
a couple of years.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
So how old did you see? The components were of
twelve years? Okay? Yeah, you know, honestly, on a twelve
year old system, I would have somebody look at it
first and see what kind of condition it's in, because

(08:49):
you're right, you could have to replace it in this
you know, next year even, but it could last another
eight years with no problem. Systems are typically designed to
last fifteen to twenty years, right, and so it really
is going to just depend on what kind of shape
everything is in on your system as to whether you

(09:11):
should look at replacing it yet or not. But what
is your question on it.

Speaker 9 (09:17):
Well, I'm just wondering, if you know, if it would
be a good idea to go ahead and replace it
with the same type of system. How much advantage does
the variable speed or the dual speed systems have.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
The biggest advantage that the variable speed and dual speed
to a degree have is one. The big advantage is
going to be humidity control. They definitely have better humidity control.
The variable speed. The truly nice thing about those is
you really don't hear them running because it ramps down

(09:59):
so slow and stays going to maintain the temperature that
you just plane don't hear it, and so that that
is really nice. Other than that, a single speed system
has worked forever in a day, and it will continue
to work forever in a day. So if you haven't
had issues with the sound of it, you don't have
problems with it, you know, blowing on you and all

(10:20):
that kind of stuff, there's no reason that you can't
just go back with the same Yeah.

Speaker 9 (10:26):
And it's I kind of got a ulterior motive also
for replacing this because I have I have an insulated
shop at my house.

Speaker 7 (10:34):
It's thirty bout forty.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
And so my four ten unit that's getting taken out
still works, can be repurposed, going to be repurposed probably
at the beginning of the summer. So I'm just getting
I'm just getting an opinion, but maybe feel feel good
about what I'm doing. I mean, I'm sure I pretty
much pulled the trigger on it, and I'm going from

(10:58):
a comfort maker, which I think was made by Carrier
for used to be sears ken will brand. Also yeah,
yeah to a carrier unit.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
So and there is nothing wrong with going with a
carrier unit. It'll it'll do just fine for you.

Speaker 9 (11:18):
Okay, Well, listen to your show a lot. I have
a weekly ritual where I drive down to Keema every
Saturday about this time. So you're on an ridino and
I appreciate your input, and have a great day and
happy holidays.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
You as well. Edwin. I appreciate it, and you have
a happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 11 (11:39):
You too, byebye, right.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
And again our number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four, and I'll see what I can
do to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement. Uh,
we are getting ready to take a break, so I'm
not going to jump into the next call, but I
will tell you up front we are coming into the
holiday seasons. I am not a politically correct show, so

(12:04):
we're doing Happy Thanksgiving right now, but after Thanksgiving we
roll straight into Merry Christmas. I don't I don't typically
do the happy holidays thing. Not feel free to say
it if you'd like. It doesn't bother me a bit,
but I do like saying Merry Christmas as well. So
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When I was a kid, I was in charge of
the cranberry sauce. Cranberry sauce in the can. You're shaking
it and you're waiting for it to come out, and
that sound it makes before it lands smack on the plate.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
I love that.

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From our family to yours. Have a great thanksgiving from
your total home improvement source and Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. That's number to
call any improvement question you have. I'll see what I
can do to help you out. We're gonna head to
Conro and Mark. This is a chip, I'm how can
I help you?

Speaker 16 (16:10):
We have our kitchen sink stopped draining and behind it
is a cleanout. So I ran a snake through the
cleanout and it seemed that the snake went into the
drain for the.

Speaker 17 (16:22):
Wash and the dryer.

Speaker 16 (16:24):
So I called a plumber and they did that, and
they ran a snake from both the cleanout and from
the roof, and both times the snake came out to
drain for the Washington dryer. Okay, they said that there's
nothing they could do, and they basically want a couple
thousand to dig up the plumbing under the house. Do
I have other options?

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Did they bother running a camera to see what kind
of fitting is there that's causing this?

Speaker 16 (16:51):
They said that they couldn't run the camera because it
was so backed up that it would just be black.
The camera would just show black. Okay, they won't be
able to see anything.

Speaker 18 (17:08):
You know.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
I agree with that on that side, But I'm wondering
why they're not trying to come up from the other
end to it.

Speaker 10 (17:19):
Now.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
I get it. The cameras don't go through the two
inch lines very well, but more likely it's going to
be a connection there to a three inch somewhere. Yeah.
The only thing that can be done is to keep
trying to see if you can get it to head
down the right way, because what happens sometimes is they

(17:40):
put like a te in instead of a sweep in,
and the snakes will try to turn and go path
of least resistance, and you just keep trying until it
actually hits the other direction. Is the washing machine backing
up as well as the kitchen sink? Yes, have they

(18:02):
did they try going through that? No, I would try
that with my handsnake and see if you can get
it to go. Okay, the plumber's big snake, you know
that that would be difficult to get it in there
and and going right. But those little hand crank ones

(18:24):
definitely could go that direction and possibly get it going
that way. But other than that, no, I don't know
any tricks.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
Okay.

Speaker 16 (18:37):
If it doesn't work out, I'll call it you less plumbing.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Okay. If you do, tell to ask for Chris to
come out and take a look, Okay, and tell him
you and I talked and and it just needs his
eyes on it to figure out what to do with it.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
You bet take care again seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. And that you know that
type of problem happens a lot during the holidays because
we start putting stuff down our lines that we don't
normally have going in them. Chris and Texas City, How

(19:22):
can I help you?

Speaker 19 (19:23):
Yeah, sir, I'm in the middle of turning my single
car garage into a playroom for my grandkids, and I
was just curious, cost efficient wise, can I run just
like one little air duck from one of my upstairs
and the attic to it, or like put a window
unit in a mini split like cost effective wise?

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Like, I don't know really which way to go. Well,
it'll depend on the size of your air conditioning system
that you have in the house now, if it can
handle the added square footage or not. A mini split
definitely would handle it. I mean a window unit would
handle it as well. Are you going to keep this
as a permanent room or you think something will change?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes?

Speaker 20 (20:02):
Sure, No, No, it's getting sheet rocked and installation and
the garage horse coming down, or we're gonna put a
wall up with a window and you know, only be
accessible from inside the house.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Okay, So you said it's a single car, so it's
what about ten twelve feet wide?

Speaker 19 (20:19):
Oh maybe not even that.

Speaker 20 (20:21):
It was built in the late seventies early eighties, so
I would say, yeah, yeah, roughly, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 21 (20:26):
Like that deep e They're probably about twenty twenty five
feet deep.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
Right, so we're talking about two hundred square feet probably
or so. Uh So basically you're looking at about a
half ton of air conditioning for it. Truthfully, if the
house air conditioning system can't handle it, I would probably
look at a window unit until I put in a
new air conditioning system in the home. Then you can

(20:50):
upsize it and have a duck run in to be
able to handle it and do away with that window unit.
Many split typically starts at a one ton size a
ton and a half and goes up from there, and
that would just be overkill.

Speaker 19 (21:05):
Yeah, they're only air conditioning too, right.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
No, they got heat as well.

Speaker 21 (21:10):
Oh okay, okay, okay, yeah, that was another thing I
was like, you know, I didn't know if I would
have to put like a little space eater in here,
or you know, just leave the door open to the
house or you know how that worked.

Speaker 6 (21:19):
If yeah, no, no, many splits both cool and heat.
But you can also get windows type air conditioners that
do that as well. You're typically having to have two
twenty electric for that, but they're definitely available. But the
first thing to do would be have an HVAC company
do what's called a heat load calculation and see if

(21:41):
your existing system could handle that extra two hundred square feet,
and if it can, I would put the duckwork in.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
All righty, sir, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Thank you, you bet take care with that. We got
to take a quick break news, trafficing, weather. We'll be
back with more Texas home improvement. Let's talk Since we're
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Speaker 5 (23:04):
Have a happy Thanksgiving from your Total Home Improvement Source
and Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement, your Total Home
Improvement Source. Seven one, three, two point two five eight,
seven four. We're going to head up to Austin and Doug.
You're doing all right.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
Today, doing great, doing great.

Speaker 16 (23:29):
I have a question for you.

Speaker 17 (23:30):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
I love your show.

Speaker 11 (23:32):
Thanks Adding about four feet of width.

Speaker 17 (23:36):
To a driveway now, is that the poor whole section
of concrete.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And it's mainly going to be walked on. It's mainly
for uh, once you get out of the car access,
but imagine cars can get on it.

Speaker 17 (23:48):
Do you have to tie it into the existing concrete.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Driveway if your existing concrete is thick enough. I would,
because the soils are going to move and you don't
want it to start getting a lip there, you.

Speaker 10 (24:04):
Know, right?

Speaker 8 (24:07):
And how do they do that?

Speaker 17 (24:08):
Do they drill into the to the other slab and
then a tie in the steel?

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah? You just drill a hole that you can epoxy
a piece of rebar that sticks out into the area
that the new concrete's going. I got you, And you
put one every like sixteen inches and you'll be.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Fine, fantastic, Thank you again.

Speaker 7 (24:30):
You been.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Now, hey, let me give you one quick thing. It
should be four inches of concrete. If there's only you know,
two and a half three inches of concrete there, they're
not going to be able to drill it. If that's
the case, have them notch underneath the concrete so that
the newpoor wraps the old concrete in like a little

(24:55):
glove there and so that way they'll still pretty much
stay together.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, fantastic, Well, thank you again.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
You bet take care.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
That's a good accidoon.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
I'll back and again seven one three, two two five
eight seven four, and I'll see what I can do
to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement Mark.
How can I help you today?

Speaker 10 (25:20):
Hey Jim, Good afternoon, first time call it.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Thank you, sir, Hey Jim.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
So I called about a deck building questioning, but I
got let's pull this at you. I live, obviously, in
an elevated home on piers and my stove event, I
got a metal roof, and when heavy rains come, it
always leaks inside, and you know there's water on top

(25:48):
of the of the gas rain stove area. And I've
had several companies come on out look at it. Unfortunately
barrel hit and then of course no one was going
to come take care of a quote unquote small job, right,
But I had one company want to rip off two
panels of my metal roof. Another company come on out
and he was a little bit more honest about it. Basically,

(26:09):
the end cap is leaking, so we all heavy range.
When it's kind of horizontal, it's it's it's getting in
between and running down the outside of the vent pipe
and then dropping in in the in the hood event
area and then coming on down the screen part. So
my question is I had one guy telling me, hey man,

(26:32):
I'm just going to go up there and extend it
just a little bit and turn it like a candy
cane and put an end cap on it like that.
I mean, is that is that like against code or anything?
Or is that and it's just it's just a range
of vent hoods, not like it's venting thumb and gas
or anything like that. So is that something you've ever
seen where someone's actually turned, you know, maybe put like

(26:53):
a you up there sort of steak where it looks
like a.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
You can do it. But they do make cap apps
that should be able to cover it and take care
of this problem as well.

Speaker 10 (27:05):
I've had a thirty year roofer come out and look
at this thing, and I've had two or three different
end caps put on him from him. And now there's
a like a cone looking thing up there, almost looks
like the cone Heads from Saturday Night Live up there.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah it's just yourself now, you know that?

Speaker 7 (27:24):
Right?

Speaker 6 (27:24):
Yeah, Well there you go.

Speaker 10 (27:26):
But so yeah, it's it's still up there. You know,
it's not the most attractive looking. Yeah, you know, so anyway,
I was just curious you can.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Do that, and yes it is done at times when
when you you get something that's just at the right angle.
That like when the wind is blowing up the roof
from the other side, it it sprays up underneath it.
You know, there's weird things that happen. And yes, you
can definitely put the U shape on there and be
just fine.

Speaker 10 (27:57):
Okay, outstanding.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (27:59):
I'm I've never looked at your vendor list. I'm sure
you've got roofing companies on there. I didn't know there
were two shows in town.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
No offense, Guardian roof Systems. Guardian roof Systems is one
of the roofing companies you can give a holler two
and actually he's uh, you know, not real far from Hitchcock,
so uh excellent, he'd be able to help you out.

(28:28):
And uh, yeah, there's there's the two shows Tom Tyne
and I say.

Speaker 10 (28:34):
Yeah, Tom's been around a long time.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
Yeah he has been so Honestly, my company do wes
we still sponsor his show outstanding.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
But I'm gonna forget to ask if I don't get
right back on it. Jim so the deck building questions.
So I'm obviously in a fun flood phone area where
Famous says you you got to build up so high. No,
no big deal. We we've already done all that. But
obviously I've already dated myself. So I'm kind of looking
into like therapeutic type aquatic like exercises. So I'm looking

(29:06):
into this thirteen by seven little pool spawn spaw like
combo thing. It's thirteen feet long, seven feet wide. Now
the issue is is I just can't put it in
my back jar because you know, I have coastal issues,
so I don't want to put a pool a costs
way too much. And I've seen these things out of

(29:28):
Florida for about ten grand I know they go all
to any long story short, I want to elevate a deck, Okay,
I mean, do you got to build the deck post
like you would your your house in these twelve by
twelve beams or I mean, I think it's about twelve
thousand gallons, So I mean.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
You got to build a pretty husky deck your post.
You'll be able to you know, sync those into the ground.
I would definitely make them where if the thing moved,
it could be adjusted gotchau and your cross beams, you know,
depending on how close you put them will depend on
what size you need. But you're not looking at having

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to use like a twelve x twelve cross beam. You
might be looking at like a a two by twelve
or two by ten, two by eight. Uh, depending on
again whether you go with twelve inch spacing or sixteen
inch spacing. But you can definitely build it to handle
that load.

Speaker 10 (30:27):
Gotcha. Yep, that's I mean, it's not ordin not not unusual.
I have a hot tub on on on a deck,
so to speak, not at all. Okay, Now that's a
little bit bigger than your standard four to sixty more
hot tub, so you just got to build it to accommodate. Yep, Okay,
well that's what I need to know. Jam. I appreciate
your time.

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Speaker 6 (34:13):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your Total Home
Improvement source seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's head up to the Woodlands, Bob. This
is Jim. Welcome to Texas holl Irovement.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Thank you. How are you doing today?

Speaker 6 (34:30):
Wonderful? How about you?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
I'm doing great, Thanks for asking and joining your show
as usual. I enjoyed the conehead comment from the previous call.
That was pretty entertaining. But I'm I'm of the same vintage,
so I know exactly what by dating himself.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
I have a question.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I'm plumbing again today. My one of my toilet flangers
broke the work where the Johnny bolt comes up through
the flange. Yeah, and so I'm planning to repair that
with Odie makes a stainless steel ring that you can
kind of screw over the top of the flange back
down into the floor, and that's how I'm planning to
fix it. But the question is the flange is a

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little bit below finished floor level. Maybe I don't know,
eighth to a quarter of an inch. Okay, I've seen
things on YouTube and some say you need to put
a spacer in there, and others say you can use
an extra thick wax ring. Yeah, what do you think
about either one of those two solutions?

Speaker 6 (35:27):
You actually can do either one. Traditionally I just go
with a thicker wax ring, or they make a neoprem
wax ring. And the advantage those neoprem ones is if
you got a toilet that, as soils move, tends to
rock once in a while, those neoprem have give to

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them and stay sealed where the wax ring once it's
smashed indented, if something moves, it just creates a gap.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (35:57):
The neoprem ones cost a lot more than the wax ring,
but you know, wax rings what three bucks, So the
neopreme costs you like twelve or fifteen. So it's it's
not like it's the end of the world. But for
the situation you're talking about, they work great.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Okay, So there's no downside with not putting a space
or just using a thicker wax or the neopream.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
Not at all.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Okay, I think I'll do that. Then it's because I
have to silicone the spacers in and that looks like
more work that it seems unnecessary. So yeah, okay, great,
Thanks thanks for the info, and enjoy the show and
talk to you later.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
You bet you take care and have a happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Oh you too, Thank you very much, bye Bubbe.

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say thirty years ago, it was built for linoleum floors.
Then somebody decides, oh, let's upgrade and put tile in.
It raises the floor level, but plans is still down. Uh,
And so that that's where you start running into these
kind of issues. No big deal though, Like we said,

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a thicker wax ring will take care of it, or
the neoprene. The neoprene is really good, Like I said,
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inch step ledges due to how the form boards were placed.
Will this cause problems? If so, what should be done
to correct this? Second, our foundation has thirty four rust
spots where the nails rebar was not covered with cement.
Is this a problem? Okay? I'm assuming these are both

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on the outside edge of the foundation, so where the
two one inch step ledges. No, that's not going to
cause any problem. I wouldn't worry about it. A bit.
Probably doesn't look the best, but as far as it
being an issue, no. The second though, with the thirty

(38:55):
four rouugh spots, that sounds like we're the post tension
cables and the nails that held the plates for the
cables are at and can it cause problems, Well, it
gets unsightly when you see the rust stains and it
starts running down and quite frankly, over decades of time

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the concrete. The concrete can be damaged because the steel
as it corrodes, will expand and it can start spaulding
a little bit. So typically in that situation, I do
like to see it cleaned up, put a rust inhibitor
on it, and that normally is going to take care
of it where you don't have to worry about it

(39:37):
any further. It's usually not that big a deal, you know,
and it's really not the builder's fault. You know, a
lot of times people say, oh, well the builder should
have done this, that or the other thing. Keep in
mind that thing was nailed to the form. Rebar typically
is supposed to have two inches of concrete over it

(39:58):
to keep the rust from acum mulating the way those
post engine cables go in. Everything is nailed straight to
the form itself, so it's right on the edge. It's
impossible for there to be two inches of concrete over it.
So it just requires some very light maintenance, like every ten, fifteen,

(40:19):
twenty years nothing major, just to slow the rust process.
And even if you didn't do it, it wouldn't cause
you any issues in our lifetime. It wouldn't cause any
issues in my son's or probably my grandson's lifetime. It
is that slower process. So again her number seven one three,

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Speaker 6 (44:32):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two point two five eight seven four. Gonna head straight
down to Texas City. Robert. You having a good day today,
doing good, doing good?

Speaker 19 (44:45):
Well?

Speaker 6 (44:45):
How can I help you?

Speaker 7 (44:47):
I had two questions.

Speaker 22 (44:48):
I sold the house recently that had solar panels on
it and had quite a difficulty uh making the sale
because it had solar panels on it and transfer of
warranties and all that type stuff. And then I also
had foam throughout the house, and I didn't have a
problem at that time, but on hearing that there's a

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lot of problems with insurance companies now covering those homes
and getting to be able to sell a house with foam.

Speaker 6 (45:17):
It is becoming a bigger problem. It's not so much
the foam as the way it's installed in the attics,
on the roof deck foam in the walls, nobody has
any issues with a lot of times they don't even
have issues if it's up in the attic. But what
is happening is there's braining the roof decking. It comes

(45:37):
down and they're sealing it over the two by joist
up there the roof rafters and everything, and so when
there's a leak, nobody can see it. That has caused
massive amounts of wood rot. And the next thing you know,
the insurance company has this huge claim that even when
they did the inspection didn't show. And so that's the

(46:01):
reason insurance companies and mortgage companies are starting to bock
at it. Okay, all right, I first edit, Okay, you
take care, and I tell you during the next hour
I can actually expand on that a little bit. But
with that, Austin, you have a great Thanksgiving Houston. We

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one three, two, one two, five eight seven fours the
number to call UH. I had a couple of emails
that came in during the first hour of the show.
Let me address one of these real quick. Here Margaret
in Sugarland has a dryer line clean out problem. The
exhaust line going from the dryer up to the roof

(50:22):
is clogged. Is a particular professional I should call a plumber.
Are the professionals who do only this kind of thing,
thank you? Well, Yeah, people who do duck cleaning clean
out the dryer vents as well, and so you just
need to reach out to someone who does duck cleaning

(50:43):
to do it. Stanley Steamer, uh, I know, has a
division that does that and can help you with it.
You know, you'll hear me a lot of times. I
don't recommend doing a lot of duck cleaning, and that's
because ducks inside and most situations, especially when you got
the flex stuck, it's either plastic or a very thin

(51:05):
wall aluminum, and with the way that they clean the ducks,
it tears it up. But your dryer vents are typically
a solid metal pipe going up that they can clean
out very well. In fact, they should be cleaned on
a regular basis, and by that it depends on how

(51:25):
often you're using the dryer, but you definitely don't want
to let them get caked up because it does become
a fire hazard. So yeah, if you've got one that's
getting caked up with dust, any duck cleaner should be
able to take care of it. You can also get
a kit at the box stores to do it yourself.
And it really isn't difficult. I mean you literally just

(51:50):
pass this thing through that sweeps it and pulls the
dust out while you got a shop fact hooked up
to it to vacuum everything out at the same time.
It's relatively simple and easy to do, all right. With
that being said, seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. That's seven one three, two, one two

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five eight seven For any home improvement question, pick up
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can do to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement.
Let's see, Well, yeah, why that thing is popping up?

Speaker 18 (52:29):
Sam?

Speaker 6 (52:30):
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 17 (52:32):
Hey, Jim, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 6 (52:34):
My pleasure I got.

Speaker 17 (52:36):
I got a question about my residential ac just a background.
I do have my contractor's license, but I do a
refrigeration and package units. Okay, but with this a two
L coming out next year, I want to get ahead
of it. And my evaporator in furnace they're working fine.
But there are twenty two. So my thought was to

(53:00):
get the condensing unit and do a plus on my
whole line set and change out the expansion valve to
go to four ten A. Do you see a problem
with that? And I know, if it's a capacity thing,
I've had to get on the engineering side and it

(53:21):
might be too much trouble to work with. And hopefully
I've got an expansion valve and it's not a fixed orifice.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Is it a R twenty two that you've got dinner what?

Speaker 17 (53:32):
Yeah, Yeah, it's R twenty two. It's a two thousand eight.
It's probably one of the last ones.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
Yeah, well, yes, you can make the switch over with
that to the four to ten A. They actually have
kits for doing that now, whether they're still available. It's
been a while since I've even looked and dealt with it,
but it was very common in the past to be
able to do that.

Speaker 17 (53:57):
Yeah, okay, that's what I was thinking. You know, same
with the expense, because I think my like I said,
I think my furnace is fine and the calls should
be fine. And I know from experience, you know, during
the pandemic, we were just getting anything we could for
the commercial side. Yeah, and some of those some of
those calls just turned out to be pretty much junk

(54:22):
with leaks and other things. But this is all the units,
so I think if I if I get my expensive
battle change out, I should be okay.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
Yeah, and like you said, you do have to vacuum,
flush it and all that stuff. But it was, it
was done and still is all the time. So yeah,
you shouldn't have a problem.

Speaker 7 (54:42):
Now.

Speaker 6 (54:43):
Keep in mind though, after the first year, you won't
be able to get that four to ten unit, right right.

Speaker 17 (54:49):
That's why I'm doing it right now.

Speaker 7 (54:52):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (54:53):
I've got access to it.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Oh yeah, they're still available, but even some of the
supply houses are already running out of the four ten you.

Speaker 17 (55:01):
Take, getting a little bit limited. They're getting a little
bit limited, so I need to jump on it.

Speaker 6 (55:06):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (55:07):
So you're right, all right, Well that's my question for you.

Speaker 6 (55:11):
Alrighty well, take care and you have a happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 17 (55:15):
You too, sir, Thank you faith.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
And again seven one three two one two five eight
seven four, And I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas Home Improvement your Total
Home Improvement source ED. Welcome to Texas Home improvement.

Speaker 7 (55:36):
Yes, sir, how are you doing?

Speaker 6 (55:38):
Doing great? How about you?

Speaker 7 (55:40):
I'm doing good, doing good. I got a question for you.

Speaker 25 (55:43):
I bet you've never had you Oh well yeah, yeah,
So I'm rebuilding it. Well, I'm actually what I've done
is I've taken a pontoon boat and I've scraped the
top off of it, and I took the wood deck
off of it, and I've put all back aluminum.

Speaker 7 (56:01):
And I want.

Speaker 25 (56:02):
To do some sort of coating on top of that
aluminum that would be good on your feet and would last,
you know, many many years. And I was wondering, do
you think that maybe the garage for that coating that
they put on these garage for might be something that
would work?

Speaker 6 (56:22):
No? No, no, And here's why. That aluminum is going
to have a little bit of flexibility to it in
between its supports. Yes, and that that stuff will will
crack right off of it.

Speaker 7 (56:41):
Then, okay, I thought it was maybe a flexible coating.

Speaker 6 (56:46):
Well it's it's flexible, but the bond will break off
of the aluminum.

Speaker 7 (56:51):
I got you, I got you.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
It's it's it's designed to be down on concrete. So actually,
what I you know, for what you're describing now you
don't want to go back with a carpet or something
like that. Correct.

Speaker 25 (57:08):
I don't have carpet in my house. I don't carpet
in my vehicles.

Speaker 7 (57:12):
I hate carpet.

Speaker 6 (57:14):
Okay. Are you concerned with it getting hot when you
walk on it?

Speaker 22 (57:22):
Uh?

Speaker 25 (57:23):
Not necessarily because typically I'll have flip flops or crocs or.

Speaker 7 (57:27):
Something like that on you know. I mean, you're very,
very very seldom would be bare puoted on the deck.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
Okay, So look at an automotive paint.

Speaker 7 (57:39):
Yeah, we're looking at that. I mean I've done.

Speaker 25 (57:42):
Decks on boats before with like a polyurethane and then
put a non skit in it and stuff like that.
I was just even thinking about like truck bedliner if
you will.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
That works great. I've got a jeep that's got that
on it. It's been on there for probably eight ten years,
right right? Hold up?

Speaker 7 (58:04):
Really well?

Speaker 25 (58:06):
Yeah, just aluminum is such a hard substrate to get
anything to.

Speaker 7 (58:09):
Stick to it.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
Yep.

Speaker 25 (58:12):
I mean I can do the zinc crow made over
the top of it, which is pretty nasty stuff. I mean,
I've got a I've got a good respirator, you know.
But yeah, I just I was I was thinking that
garage floe coating because of the way that flakes and
stuff that you put in it would look really really
neat on that deck.

Speaker 7 (58:31):
You know.

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Well, if you take a look at an Amron paint,
it's extremely durable and you can put the flex in it.

Speaker 7 (58:40):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, you sure can.

Speaker 25 (58:42):
And you can also do that like you take like
a popsicle stick and stick it in a different colors
and string it out yep.

Speaker 6 (58:50):
Yeah, and you can put clearcoats over it so that
as you wear the clearcoat, you can just respray the
clearcoat and keep it looking good for basically forever.

Speaker 25 (59:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, yeah, because we're we're not
putting pontoon boat furniture back on this as Yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:07):
If you say I'm right three more times, it'll make
it into the uh the bumpers on the show.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
Right right, right, yeah, Jim is always right.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 7 (59:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (59:25):
Yeah, We're just this is going to be a dance
floor basically, We're we're putting the center console on it
and t top on it. No no rails, It's just
going to be a wide open eight put six by
twenty four you know, party barge if you will.

Speaker 7 (59:39):
Yep, I just wanted something nice.

Speaker 25 (59:43):
I've even looked at this Eva foam flooring, but I'm
kind of scared of that because when you stick it down,
if you get a nick or a scratch or a
tear in some of it, then you got to pull
a lot of that up and get that sticky stuff
off of that illumin.

Speaker 7 (59:57):
That ain't gonna be easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So okay, Well.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
You know, you just gave me an idea when you
mentioned that, mm hm, can you put a little lip
around it?

Speaker 25 (01:00:14):
Yeah, it's actually going to have there's a cap that
goes on top of it that's about an eighth of
an inch perfect, and I can raise that cap up
by putting, you know, something underneath it if I need to,
you know, to make the gap like a quarter inch,
if you will, like a rim.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Okay, So go over to go over to floor in
the Core, Okay and take a look at some of
their synthetic wood floors they have. They Oh yeah, you
could put that on there. They got some that are waterproof,
and you know someday when you got to change it out,
you don't you just use a floating one. But if

(01:00:54):
you got the lip on there. Man, that would make
a great floor if it's not going to heat up,
easy maintenance and you can change it out easily when
you need to.

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
Man, Am I glad I called you? Man? Am I glad?
I called you? Yes?

Speaker 25 (01:01:08):
Because that would look good too, Because now I could
get like a wood grain light would look on there
and it'd be unique. You'd you'd never see another boat
like it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Yeah, And I will tell you I when when those
uh water resistant and waterproof floors were first coming out,
they gave me some of the samples of them, and
the first thing I did is throw them in the
back of my pick up, And then when I needed
some pickup space, I just took them out and I
leaned them up with the against my garage outside and stuff.
I left those things out for two years in the weather.

(01:01:41):
Didn't harm them a bit. So I don't know how
long they'll hold up, but I can guarantee you two years.
I had pieces out there that I never could tell
that they were even outside.

Speaker 7 (01:01:53):
So you say, do it floating or do the stick on?

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
I would I would leave it floating.

Speaker 25 (01:02:00):
I'm kind of how would I do that and keep it?
I mean, I do have the edges around there.

Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
That's it, that the edges will hold it.

Speaker 25 (01:02:10):
In place, Okay, and no, no need to glue it
down then, Nope, I am going.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
To look into that. And yeah, I'm.

Speaker 25 (01:02:21):
Glad you said that because shooting the truck bedliner on
there was my first choice.

Speaker 7 (01:02:26):
But you're talking.

Speaker 25 (01:02:27):
About three or four grand yeah, for just a little
small eight and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
Yeah, and you know you're you're probably gonna be looking
at less than a couple hundred bucks to do it
with the wood.

Speaker 25 (01:02:37):
Floor Yes, when you said the wood flooring, I was like, oh,
why didn't I think of that?

Speaker 7 (01:02:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
Absolutely, And I hate to do this to you, but
I'm way past the break time, so let me take
this break real quick.

Speaker 7 (01:02:51):
All right, thank you sir, take care.

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Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
No no, have a happy Thanksgiving from your Total Home
Improvement Source and Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (01:06:29):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. To your Total
Home Improvement Source. Seven one three, two one two five
eight seven four. We're gonna head to Sharpstown. Lee, Welcome
to seven forty k tr H. How can I help you?

Speaker 24 (01:06:43):
Hey, So you got two weird ones in a row
with this one.

Speaker 6 (01:06:48):
I like it.

Speaker 17 (01:06:49):
I want to.

Speaker 24 (01:06:50):
Hey, I don't, but maybe I will.

Speaker 17 (01:06:53):
At the end.

Speaker 24 (01:06:55):
I want to put down a concrete slab for a
carport in my backyard, and I know it's actually where
I want to put it, behind the master bathroom where
there's no windows, so there's nothing looking out at Ugly,
it's all the perfect spot except along that wall is
the meter for the gas line, and the gas line
goes straight out. So how far away from a meter

(01:07:18):
can I poort concrete? And what's the consequences of putting
that slab directly on top of the gas line that
is outside the meter.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
Well, the gas line itself should be a minimum of
eighteen inches deep, so you got no problem at all
putting the concrete there. And there are gas meters out
there where the concrete is actually poured right around the pipe.
I don't recommend doing that. What I would tell you
to do is kind of like a bathtub. Do a
twelve inch by twelve inch knockout for the pipe to

(01:07:50):
go down underground, and just let the pipe run out
underneath the meter and you're done. You're good to go.

Speaker 24 (01:07:58):
But there's no code problems or anything where I can't
put it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Hey, that was easy, yep, all.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
Right, Now here's going to be your biggest issue. You're
gonna have to watch first time you're back in the
boat or the RV in there or something like that.
You hit the meter, you got a problem.

Speaker 24 (01:08:18):
I was going to put in two like four inch
pipes with concrete in them. There you go, like they
do with those liquor stores in bad neighborhoods.

Speaker 6 (01:08:27):
Yep, there you go. That's yeah, But no, you shouldn't.
You shouldn't have any issues with it.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Awesome.

Speaker 24 (01:08:36):
Well, thanks thanks for that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
That was quick.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
You bet you have a happy Thanksgiving you too.

Speaker 24 (01:08:41):
Take care bye.

Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
And again our number seven one three two one two
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for news, traffic and weather here on seven forty khr h.
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Speaker 15 (01:10:20):
When I was a kid, I was in charge of
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it and you're waiting for it to come out, and
that sound it makes before it lands smack on the plate.

Speaker 26 (01:10:32):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
From our family to yours. Have a great thanksgiving from
your Total Home Improvement source and Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (01:10:42):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Let's head out
to Cyprus. Jade. This is a gym. How can I help.

Speaker 19 (01:10:53):
You, hey, Jim?

Speaker 18 (01:10:55):
Yes, just recently we had our two heaters checked and
buy A technicians and they said that it was when
the operating manufacturer specifications, but they showed us an area
that we had some bacteria that could be causing some
eventual problems for our unit. It was all within the unit,

(01:11:15):
not outside of the unit, and they tried to encourage
us to purchase a UV light that could be installed
in the unit that would kill the bacteria that is
either in the unit or outside of the unit within
seventy two hours. What I'd like to know is do you,

(01:11:35):
and the unit is about five to six years old,
do you recommend that UV light for killing that bacteria?
And how concerned should we be as homeowners and what
is usually the cost of one UV.

Speaker 6 (01:11:49):
Like Well, UV lights do great for killing bacterias and
different things like that that are airborne. If it's something
that it's attached to the unit, if the light can
hit it, it'll kill it. But if the light itself
doesn't hit it, it's not going to do anything. So

(01:12:12):
if he's telling you it's going to do stuff outside
the unit, he's lying to you. I'm only going to
do where the light hits it. Now, the air that
passes through, yes, goes through the lighted chambers, So airborne
bacterias do get killed. And in fact, they did a
lot of testing because these things became very very popular

(01:12:34):
during COVID and they were killing the COVID disease as well.
So do they work absolutely? Are they being over sold
to people? You bet? Like, if they are actually seeing
an area in your unit that's growing mold and bacteria

(01:12:56):
and stuff like that, it needs to be cleaned up,
not just throw a.

Speaker 10 (01:13:00):
Light on it.

Speaker 6 (01:13:02):
Typically, the people who should be getting the lights if
if you've got somebody in your house who is susceptible
to getting sick all the time and and things like that.
The UV lights do great, okay, but a lot of
the technicians are just not being really truthful with what
their capabilities are of the lights.

Speaker 18 (01:13:24):
But they will not kill anything outside of the unit
if it's growing on it. And also, when you said
cleaning out, do you recommend that and there's a technician
that checks your units, could they do that? And would
that be something better than buying the UV light?

Speaker 6 (01:13:46):
Yes? And typically where you're where you're getting this stuff
growing is right where the coils are because there's a
lot of moisture there and so a good thorough cleaning
of the coils and the housing around the coils typically
takes care of it.

Speaker 18 (01:14:04):
Okay, cleaning of the calls and the housing around it. Okay, okay,
What on the average, what does the UV like like
that cost?

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
Oh? Boy, it really ranges a lot depending on what
they have to do to put them in. And there
are different lights available as well. I have seen prices
anywhere from like eighteen hundred to basically three thirty six
hundred that it's a pretty wide range.

Speaker 18 (01:14:37):
I got what was that second item you said? The
cleaning of the coils and what was the other thing?

Speaker 6 (01:14:43):
In the housing of the coils.

Speaker 18 (01:14:45):
And the housing of the coils, So you think that
would be a better step than actually getting the UV like.

Speaker 6 (01:14:53):
If all it is is the build up of that stuff.

Speaker 18 (01:14:55):
Yes, okay, got you covered.

Speaker 6 (01:14:58):
My my asking how much they quote it? Thank you
for the UV light?

Speaker 18 (01:15:02):
Yes, sir. They had a two year UV light that
was Ony twenty nine.

Speaker 6 (01:15:09):
Okay, And that's a two.

Speaker 18 (01:15:11):
Year UV light and then after two years we'd have
to get you another light. They said, even though it
may run over that two year period, it's not really effective.
And then they said that probably within two years we'll
not be able to buy a two year light. It's
going to all be the three year UV light that

(01:15:32):
the manufacturers have available for us. Okay, but I think
I'll go with the cleaning of the calls and the
housing of the calls, which you've recommended for.

Speaker 6 (01:15:41):
Even if you go to UV light in there, you
need to clean all that stuff up. Anyways, I got
you and.

Speaker 18 (01:15:47):
They could clean that bacteria outside of the unit, if
there's any bacteria there. Correct two, Okay, great, Well, I
really appreciate your help. You've answered my questions and I
hope you and your family have a wonderful say thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 (01:16:01):
You as well. Thank you, sir, Thank you, bye bye,
And look, I have Due West air Conditioning. We do
sell UV lights and I'm very specific with my guys
on criteria in order to put one in. So, uh,
if you're thinking about getting one and you need a

(01:16:21):
second opinion, call Due West. We'd be more than happy
to come out and take a look and you know,
see if it's going to solve your problem. All right
again seven one three, two one two five eight seven four,
let's head down to friends Wood Gordon. Welcome to Texas
Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (01:16:40):
Thank you, welcome back. Hey, if we could, I want
to reiterate that Jim Dutton is always right. Number two. Uh,
if we could circle back around to that dryer event
cleaning out, Yes, I had a dryer. I cleaned mine
out with the homemade zy eye and my dryer burn up.

(01:17:05):
And so upon further inspection, I found that there was
a flapper valve about eighteen inches from the roof. It
went out the roof, yep. And when I pushed that
brush up through there, it pushed the flappers the wrong way.
And when I pulled it back down, I'm sorry, when
I pull it back down, it pulled them the wrong way,
and it wouldn't allow the flappers to let their air out,

(01:17:27):
and they just locked the dryer and burn it up.

Speaker 6 (01:17:29):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (01:17:30):
So is that common practice to put one of those
flappers there to keep things from drawing and stuff? No,
that's just an added benefit.

Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
Or yeah, it was just something somebody put in. Where
those flappers really help is it lets the air only
go one way, and so it keeps you from having
cold air blow down. But honestly, most dryer vents don't
have it.

Speaker 8 (01:17:59):
Okay, all right, that's what I was wanting to know. Oh,
you know, the other house I had didn't have that,
and so this one didn't. I didn't know to look
for it when I put that brush up in there
to clean it out.

Speaker 6 (01:18:12):
Yep. But and it's it's really easy to clean out,
isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:18):
Oh it is, yes.

Speaker 10 (01:18:20):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:18:20):
I did it a little homemade. I got the brush
and everything with the head on extensions, put it on
my drill and was pushing up in there, and I
got my blower for my yard and put there and
I blew everything out the top instead of trying to
suck it down the bottom. Yep, And it looked like
snow coming out the top of the roof.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:18:44):
Well, Jim, you have a happy.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
Thanksgiving you as well.

Speaker 8 (01:18:47):
Thank you, and remember Jim Dutton is always right.

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
Take care and again our number seven one, three, two, two, five,
eight seven four ron. Welcome to seven forty k H.
How can I help you?

Speaker 18 (01:19:05):
Yeah, I got a question about the new air conditioning rigs,
the new units. So I keep hearing that they're going
to cost more. How much more is that like in
a percentage?

Speaker 6 (01:19:16):
About thirty to forty?

Speaker 18 (01:19:19):
Oh and loie, okay, another question. I've got a small
house that has the unit in the closet.

Speaker 26 (01:19:30):
Are those going to be.

Speaker 18 (01:19:33):
Under that same regulation?

Speaker 6 (01:19:35):
Yes? Yeah, because it's actually in the coolant that is
what's being changed. And by changing the coolant, it's changing
what pressures everything's operating under. And so all the systems
had to be retooled and redesigned.

Speaker 27 (01:19:52):
So is this a law or is this just some
regulation that that some bureaucrats great idea.

Speaker 6 (01:20:02):
Yes, the bureaucrat EPA is who put it out, So
it's a regulation.

Speaker 18 (01:20:10):
Okay, all right, thanks Jim.

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
You bet take care and be honest again. Most manufacturers,
in fact, I think at this point all manufacturers have
stopped making the old units, so come January first, they're
not allowed to sell them even and the supply houses
aren't either. If an air conditioning contractor has some in

(01:20:34):
their warehouse, they can still sell them, but that's going
to be it. And when that inventory is gone, it's done.
So hey, and look, if you need somebody to come
out and take a look at your system and see
if you should be looking at changing it out, because
just because you've got a ten year old system does
not mean you should be worried about changing it out.

(01:20:55):
You could get another ten years out of a unit
if it's serviced properly. Uh. You know, if you need
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sure that all the capacitors and everything are working right,
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Speaker 7 (01:23:42):
Here's Jim Dottore.

Speaker 6 (01:23:47):
Hey, welcome back. Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. We're gonna head straight back into the calls. Beatriz,
How can I help you today?

Speaker 28 (01:23:58):
Hello Jim? And when I thank you for sending that
plumber and I put that little thing on the front
of my my faucet, stop that stream of water that
was coming.

Speaker 6 (01:24:11):
Did did he come out and get you taken care of?

Speaker 28 (01:24:15):
Yeah? Well yeah, until we get the fosst through the
you know, he back ordered it, you know, but it's
only dripping a tiny bit.

Speaker 6 (01:24:23):
Now, that's I didn't recognize it when it said Beatrice instead.

Speaker 28 (01:24:27):
Of b oh, okay, Well now I have a little
bit of a catastrophe here.

Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
Okay, my.

Speaker 28 (01:24:36):
Air conditioning unit backed up. The water got backed up
the pipe somehow got clogged up or something. So anyway,
it backed up into the plumum and then it started dripping.
And then I go to the closet where it was dripping.
It's a little tiny closet and uh, you know, it's

(01:24:59):
just a mes it's all messed up. So I'm trying
to find someone who can do, you know, clean up
all that mold and all that other stuff. Because we
fix the air condition the air conditioning. They got a
new plant and it's gotten you know. They blew out
the lines and put some little pieces in there that

(01:25:21):
keep it flowing. Not that we're using it now, we're
not using it so at any rate, do you know
anyone who does that sort of work?

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 28 (01:25:32):
Oh, treat the mold and get rid of it.

Speaker 6 (01:25:35):
Yep, Woodland's Water Restoration and you can reach them at
two eight one two eight one five seven six eight
four five.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
Nine eight four.

Speaker 28 (01:25:52):
Now if only you could get the insurance company to
send me an adjust right, and they're so slow.

Speaker 6 (01:25:58):
Well, Woodlands water Restoration can take care of that part
for you as well.

Speaker 28 (01:26:02):
Okay, thank you so much. I hope we can get
this done when next week. Yeah, anyway, happy.

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
You have a very happy Thanksgiving all right, bye bye
and let's see here, let's head down to Jersey Village, WC.
How can I help you?

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Yes, yeah, so I have a train air conditioner installed
in nineteen ninety one and the furnace was in nineteen
ninety nine. The unit has run very well. The only
issue I had was this summer I was getting some
conversation through the plantum plantum, have you pronounced it? So

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they did a chemical clean of the evaporate coil and
it took care of the issue. Okay, So my question is,
given the age and it still runs well, should I
go ahead and just let it keep working or should
I look at replacement the whole system before January.

Speaker 6 (01:27:13):
I'll be honest, with a system that's that old, I
would be looking at replacing before January, regardless of how
well it's running, because you are definitely on borrowed time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Okay, any systems you'd recommend.

Speaker 6 (01:27:31):
Or I love American Standard. That's what I have in
my own house and in my town home both. There's
a lot of other good systems out there as well.
You can take a look at.

Speaker 7 (01:27:47):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:27:47):
My company, we do American Standard and we do Dyking.
We do other brands as well. But you know, you
can give us a call, we can look at it.
But some of the other brands that are good Carrier,
Lenox Train, those are those. They're all good systems.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
Okay. And do you charge to come out do nessim
at dinner? No, sir, okay, I will give you call
these guys a call on Monday.

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you, and you just fy.
We do have online booking where you can actually book
your appointment online without us having the office open as well.
Let's talk about James Hardy siding. You know this is
the best siding on the planet. It holds paint better

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than wood ever thought about. You can mix and match
all the different designs to just have a gorgeous home.
I was up in the Bronzeville a couple weeks ago
and saw them with the wood shake and the lap
siding and the vertical all mixed on these town homes. God,
it really was nice it made and it gave such

(01:28:56):
a beautiful beach type feeling with the colors, the blue
and the light grays that they had it painted. And
you know, again you can mix and match and make
it as gorgeous as you want your home to be.
Now you want to learn more about James Hardysiding, go
to Thchipro dot com and click on the link for
James Hardy Siding. You know, if you're having a sewer

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leak under your homes foundation, that's something that really needs
to be addressed, but it needs to be addressed by
somebody who can take care of the plumbing as well
as the homes foundation. That's why you want to call
do West both a plumbing company and the foundation repair
company to make sure if your homes foundation stays intact
years after the plumbing work is done. When you want

(01:29:41):
the best, call do West seven one three four seven
three seven one five six online at dudash weest dot com.
Lental Lift of the company you can call to take
care of that sagging overhead garage door opening, you know
the one I'm talking about. It's creating cracks in your
brick veneer at the corner of the garage. It's creating

(01:30:01):
sheet rock cracks on the second floor, maybe a roof
dip as well. Lental Lift call them and let them
come out fix that, lentil and give you a lifetime
warranty eight three three nine zero three two two two six.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
When Jim Dutton of Texas Home Improvement recommends our company
or our contractor, he won't steer you wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:30:22):
I've got Tim Fox here from Texas Remodel Team. You
guys have a great window division.

Speaker 26 (01:30:28):
Yes, we're not locked into one brand only. We've got
some great vendors that we've had long term relationships with.

Speaker 6 (01:30:34):
The installation is what truly makes a difference, because you
guys have the remodeling division as well as the window division.
When you go in to do a window job and
there's other wood that ends up showing up, that's got
to be dealt with, you've got people on staff to
do it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:30:47):
For sure, many times you're going to have some rotten
wood leaks in the window. Were deciding it might even
have rotten framing.

Speaker 26 (01:30:53):
We want to make sure that if there's a problem,
you won't have to call another company have them come
in in the middle of all this, And then I
said separately, I can pull in one of my crews
that's an expert in framing, for example, and we can
keep the project rolling.

Speaker 5 (01:31:05):
Texas Remodel Team the official remodeling company of Texas Home Improvement.
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Here's more of a gym on Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Let's head straight
to the last call of the day, Troy. This is Jim.
How can I help you?

Speaker 11 (01:31:41):
H right, honey, to replace my our shyot tub enclosures
of the one piece and I was just born with
half arms, so it's hard for me to reach to
the handle on the far side. I've seen these single
handle deals in motels, et cetera. But I've been told
that you can adjust the temperature on those, but you
can't adjust the pressure if you just want to trickle

(01:32:04):
hot or cold water. Sometime I was thinking about moving
my handles over closer to the edge of the tub
where I can reach them. The contractor said, well, I
want to put the single handling there, but can you
adjust the pressure with that?

Speaker 6 (01:32:16):
Well, there are certain ones that you can if it's
just where you turn it. No, you can't. But they
make them also where you have to pull it out
to turn the water on, and that one the pressure
is adjustable and you still turn it for the temperature control.
But how far out you pull it depends on how

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much pressure you get.

Speaker 11 (01:32:40):
Okay. Is there a preferable brand in your opinion? Delta,
Delta okay.

Speaker 6 (01:32:48):
And Delta typically offers a lifetime warranty on their faucets
and stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:32:53):
Oh okay, So if it starts leaking or dripping whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:32:56):
Yep, you can.

Speaker 11 (01:32:57):
You can fix it easily. Yeah, okay, very good to
sound like that. I could do that for a solution.

Speaker 7 (01:33:05):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:33:05):
Absolutely, thank you for your help. You bet you take
care too. And with that, we are out of time
for Texas Home Improvement today. Don't forget you and join
us again tomorrow starting at two o'clock. And you make
sure you have a happy Thanksgiving and uh, you know,

(01:33:26):
take time to sit down with family and friends and
just enjoy the weekend. Have a good one. We'll talk
to you later. Well, I guess before we go, I
should talk about ready seal because ready seal is a
stained and sealer in one to where you can protect

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any outdoor wood that you have. Now, you can't put
it over paint. It's not going to work that way.
You put it on raw wood. It soaks deep down
into the wood fibers, protecting the wood from taking on moisture,
and the moisture is what ruins wood. But while it's
doing that, it brings out the wood grain and looks gorgeous.
Now they do have it in a lot of different

(01:34:07):
tints from the natural cedar. They got a dark walnut, so,
however dark you want to make the wood, Ready Seal
has the product to help you with that. I think
they got like twelve different shades that you can take
a look at. My favorite is the cedar, but that's
just me. You want to take a look at some
Ready Seal, you can go to the box stores they

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typically have displays, or just go online to ready seal
dot com. That's ready seal dot com.