A Recommended Engineer & Tim Fox w/ Texas Remodel Team

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Texas Home Improvement is on the air with your host,
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I really appreciate you show.

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So thank you very much.

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Speaker 9 (01:28):
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Seven one three two one two five eight seven four
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five eight seven four. With that, why don't we jump
into an email question. This comes from Dwayne in Baytown
rear exterior door. Need to replace the rear exterior door. Well,
you've been hearing me talk about them, so why not
give them a call over at Southern Front Doors. You

(04:01):
can reach them at two eight one eight nine zero
fifty eight sixty and they can come out see what
you what you got and show you how to get
a nice beautiful door. I know in their name it
says Southern Front Doors, but they can do side doors,
back doors, whatever kind of doors you know you're looking
for through the house there to to get from the

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inside to the outside. They carry all the different brands. Now,
I know people don't normally put iron doors in the back,
but hey, in some cases they do. Obviously, fiberglass is
always an option, and of course wooden doors. So again
it's Southern Front Doors. Give them a call to eight
one eight nine zero fifty eight sixty and hopefully they'll

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get you taken care of. Duwayne Again, if you got
a question seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's 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, I
know the air show is going today and uh a

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lot of great action going on that you know, always
missed that one. U. But I go up to the
big air show in Oshkosh uh and have a good
time there. But when uh I lived on a on
a street in pasading a south Meadow drive, we used
to be able to watch the air show from the

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backyard as it was taking place, and that was always
fun to watch.

Speaker 10 (05:40):
Ah.

Speaker 9 (05:40):
Let's see here. This one comes from Ron and he says, uh, hi, Jim,
hope you're doing well. A neighbor of mine, who is
a widow, is trying to get her garage floor replaced
due to extensive cracking. A concrete crew has suggested pouring
four inches of new concrete over the old floor instead

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of removing the old concrete. They are concerned with damaging
her house and have said they have done this for
others with good success. This does not sound like a
good idea. Please let me know so I can help
her with the best possible solutions. Thanks. Well, Actually I
would need a little bit more information. And I say

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that because if this house was from like the fifties,
a lot of those have a concrete ring that goes
around the garage and then it's just four inch flatwork
inside the garage. And if that's the case, you absolutely
do not want to just cap it. Jackhammer that concrete out,
it's not going to cause you any issues, and pour

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new concrete in because a lot some of those even
had keyways, which is where the concrete perimeter beam would
have a notch into it, so the new concrete you
poured would lock into it to keep it from going
up and down with the moisture changes in the soil.
Separate from the perimeter beam. But if it's something that's

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from like the sixties, seventies or whatever and it's just
got hairline cracks through it, leave it alone. You don't
need to worry about capping it. If you do cap it,
because you just plane don't like looking at it. You've
got to have a minimum of two inches. Four inches

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is fine, but make sure you put a FDA fiber
reinforcing in it. You don't need steel in it. But
the fortifiber is like these fiberglass hairs that are all
through the concrete, and what it'll do is lock all
that concrete together, so those cracks that are in the

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concrete below will eventually come through your new concrete. But
the Forti fiber will hold all the concrete together so
it's not old opening up and causing unsightly issues. So, uh,
you know this, this is one of those where a
call in would have probably given a better answer because
then I would have been able to find out, you know,

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what year we're talking about, what kind of shape the
concretes in and things like that. So if you do
have a question seven one three, two, one two, five
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and is it Carlen, Yes, sir, hi, can I help you?

Speaker 10 (08:32):
I have a question. I have a house out on
Stelts in Galveston and I'm going to have to hire
some structural engineers as a support system is not good
and the deck will be rebuilt. I'm wondering if you
know of some people that I could contact because I'll
have to hire structural engineers out in that area for

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my you know, my inspections and stuff that would be
reptible that could rebuild a deck, and they're used to
they're in the business of the home building, only they're
going to be rebuilding a deck.

Speaker 9 (09:07):
Well, yeah, you're your big thing is going to be
getting the windstorm certification on it, and so it's not
as much a structural engineer you need as much as
it is one who's windstorm certified.

Speaker 11 (09:20):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
There is an organization in the Houston area called the
Foundation Performance Association, and if you'll go to their website,
it has a list of engineers and it'll show you
some of them that are windstorm certified and they would
they would be able to help you with this.

Speaker 10 (09:42):
Okay, but as far as you know, I can do that.
But well, they know builders, they are reptables that can
rebuild the deck too, was ma'am.

Speaker 9 (09:52):
Yeah, they yeah, they'll they'll know contractors because they have
to go out and do the storm certification for the
different contractors doing the work.

Speaker 10 (10:03):
So I can look up Foundation Performance Association and I
should see a list of people and call them. And
you know, some of the structural engineers are hard to get.

Speaker 9 (10:14):
Yeah, some of them are. But this is a list
of guys that This is all they do is you know,
foundation inspections and design work and things like that, and
the engineers are listed by categories, and so you'd be
able to look for windstorm certification on there.

Speaker 10 (10:34):
Oh great, and I want to put a plug in
from one of your vendors to Guardian Rooting. Oh yeah,
they did outstanding job. I've worked a coustly with Mike
Atkinson and I have a rooftop that's dural ass sixty
mil on top of the house and we slanted it
and everything and raised some parafect walls and did an

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or I mean he does other things beside that he
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an outstanding job that you can't just trust to anybody
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Speaker 9 (11:09):
I will tell you I used him to do my
office roof that was a flat roof and had the
parapet walls as well, and you know that's one of
those animals that a lot of roofing contractors have trouble with,
and they did a great job for me as well.

Speaker 10 (11:23):
And plus also down the spouts and scuppers.

Speaker 9 (11:26):
Oh yeah, it's not everybody that.

Speaker 10 (11:30):
Can do that well and that you trust. So I'll
want to put a big plug out to him. Okay,
I appreciate that, Thank you so much, and I'll be
looking these Foundation Performance Associations people up and that's probably
a good plug for them other people who might need
some engineers, you know, sometime or another.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's a great pot.

Speaker 11 (11:49):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (11:50):
You're welcome to take care. Bye and again our number
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Any home improof question, have pick up the phone, give
me a call, and I'll see what I can do
to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement your
Total Home Improvement sour seven one three two point two
five eight seven four. I'm uh, I'm here with Jason

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Miller and we're taking calls and answering questions today. So
pick up the phone, give us a call, and we'll
see what we can do to help you out. Hey,
let's talk real quick about Southern Front Doors. You know
I mentioned in a minute ago from that call, and
if you're looking for a front door for your home,

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Southern front Doors is the company call. I mean, these
guys do great work and if you go to their showroom,
oh man, well you see a huge selection. But look,
if you don't want to go to the showroom, that's
all right. They can come out and see you at
your place as well. And they carry all the major brands,
whether it's wood, iron, doors, fiberglass, you name it, they've

(12:59):
got it. Call Southern front Doors at two eight one
eight nine zero fifty eight sixty. That's two eight one
eight nine zero fifty eight sixty. Let them come out,
show you some doors and look their install crewise. They
only work for Southern front Doors. So they're putting indoors
day in, day out, doing it the right way, keeping

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people happy and safe with their new doors. That Southern
front Doors. Give them a call.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Let's head over to fort Worth and Garry.

Speaker 12 (13:30):
Thank you, Jim on your head there, Ready Seal. I've
got some garage doors. I've put it on about two
years ago. It works great.

Speaker 13 (13:38):
The Ready Seal looks just as good as it did today.

Speaker 12 (13:40):
I put it on.

Speaker 9 (13:41):
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any of that stuff because of the way it soaks
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Speaker 8 (13:49):
It takes care of all of it.

Speaker 9 (13:51):
And it's available everywhere. But find a store nearest to you.
Go to readyseeal dot com. Oh, let me tell you
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for you called due West Foundation Repair. You know, we've
been in business since nineteen seventy eight. We developed the
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Speaker 9 (15:50):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement your Total Home
Improvement sour seven one three two one two five eight
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to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement your
Total home Improvement source. Let's see, we're gonna jump back

(16:14):
into a call here. So this is actually a follow
up from last week. Uh. And James here sends in
a note on Saturday ten eleven twenty five, you were
talking to a couple who had some exhaust smelling gas
in their home that was making them six or sick. Rather,

(16:38):
they bought new heaters, ac insulation, and obviously spent a
ton of money. It helped, but the problem was still there.
As an engineer in the upstream oil and gas industry,
I can tell you they went about the problem all wrong.
They should have hired an air quality lab to come

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out and sample the air first, then analyze it and
found the gas that should be there or should not
be there. Rather then based on that, track down the
source of the gas and eliminate it. These labs are
not cheap to hire, but they could have hired them
for a lot less than they spent on new heaters
and AC equipment and replacing insulation. I'm sure whatever is

(17:23):
bothering them would be easily identifiable on a gas chromotok
graph run. I'm not going to try to repeat that one.
They could have gone straight to all possible sources and
check them out rather quickly. I easily found a lab
online EMSL Analytical out of Houston in Houston area. There

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are several companies that could do this for them. Next time,
Advise people with these sort of problems to identify the problem,
track down the source of the problem, fix the problem
as efficiently as possible. Well, darn, I thought that's what
we talked about last week. You know, you gotta find

(18:08):
the problem. Don't be buying these AC systems and all
that stuff. Let's find what the problem is, fix it
and then move on. Now I will tell you I
have called some of these type of labs before, and
a lot of times they won't do residential, and sometimes
people get that confused. I'm going to be a little

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more blunt here because he was very specific. He's an engineer,
and I deal with a lot of engineers, and sometimes
they don't realize that. Other companies they look at residential,
they look at commercial, and they won't deal with residential.
And just keep in mind, insurance companies for different companies

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will not sometimes allow them to deal with residential because
you are dealing with a whole different realm residential and commercial.
In my company, I carry insurance to do both residential
and commercial work because of that. But a lot of
companies don't do that, and so it can make a
huge difference. But I would definitely call that company EMSL

(19:18):
Analytical out of Houston and see if they will come
out and identify it, because I do not have a
good solution because what the smell was, they were getting
the smell like exhaust fuel, and so that could be
any number of things giving that off. And you know

(19:41):
about I guess, oh, I don't know, five to eight
years ago, maybe more, I don't know. Time seems to
pass me by nowadays. We had an issue with imports
from China. In particular, it was with the sheet rock
and with some of the wood floors, the laminate wood
floors that we're giving off gas smells like that, and uh,

(20:07):
you know, the only solution was to tear the stuff
out and replace it. And you know I made the
comment about that then that you know there's a chance
you could be dealing with something like that as well. Uh,
So I get it. You gotta find what's causing it.
Replacing the AC system was definitely not necessarily the right

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way to go. Got a question seven one three two
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Speaker 8 (20:47):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (20:47):
This comes in from John out of Temple, Texas and
he's looking for a wood stain and sealers standing a
picnic table for outside. I in fact, I get we
had a spot here just a second ago for ready seal,
and ready seal is absolutely what you want to use.
Now when you put it on, it's going to soak

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down into the wood fibers and you can walk on
like decks and stuff right away. But truthfully, if you're
going to sit on a picnic table bench that's had
ready seal put on it, you may want to put
something down because you will get on your pants when
you sit there and move around a little bit, some
residue that may show up. So but it's a great

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product for staining picnic tables and sealing them. We used
to use it up at the Deer Lease on the UH.
It's kind of like a gazebo area that we have
and we have like four picnic tables under it. UH
works out really well. We'll be back in a moment
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do to help you out here. We're gonna head to
the east side and marry. This is Jim. How can

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I help you?

Speaker 16 (23:49):
Yeah. Sure, we're buying a home that had someone that
smoked in it for twenty years.

Speaker 14 (23:55):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (23:56):
It's been repainted with kills and regular paint. The work's
been removed, but when you walk in that front door,
right by the return you still smell the cigarette smoke.

Speaker 17 (24:06):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
The best way, yeah, the best way to get rid
of that is hav an ozone machine come in and.

Speaker 16 (24:16):
Well you have read about that, Okay.

Speaker 9 (24:19):
Yeah, the ozone Uh, that's what they use in houses
that catch fire.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (24:24):
And like if you've got furniture in there that had
smoke in uh damage to it, they'll put it into
a room and have an ozone machine running. It takes
all that out of it. And they have machines that
you could put in the house to take care of
that cigarette smoke smell as well.

Speaker 16 (24:46):
And that's what we'll do. I've read about it, so
you know, the second one that told us about it.
So that's what we'll do it.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
You bet you take care you too. Now, I will
say sometimes an ozone machine can be a little difficult
to find, especially one big enough to do the whole house.
But they typically restoration companies will have access to them,
people who do insurance claims and things like the restoration

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and stuff from fires. But there are some newer small
units that are available that I've seen online that you
can order. Now, how long it would take to do
a whole house? I got no idea. And if you've
never been around where an ozone machine is used, it

(25:39):
basically takes all the odor out of the air. And
so when you actually smell an area that's been done
by an ozone machine, it is quite different because there
is absolutely nothing there to smell. So yeah, but it

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will take care of that smoke.

Speaker 17 (26:01):
Order.

Speaker 9 (26:02):
Got a question seven one three two one two five
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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. Huh So Robert sends in

(26:28):
an email about plumbing, says lit Jim, I've been having
a lot of plumbing issues going to my septic system.
A plumber came out, put a camera down and found
roots in the line. Now I can't remember if I've
used this one or not, but we will. Anyways, they
had to tunnel under the house to make repairs and
found the spare bathroom pipes separated by five inches and

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a toilet line busted apart. They made the repairs and
looked at the rest of the line and found the
lines busted by the kitchen sink, so they have to
dig more. Now. The plumber stated that the plumbing when
it was built in twenty fifteen was put very deep
and that has more than likely caused all my problems.

(27:14):
You need a different plumber because you don't know what
the heck he's talking about. Anyways. Is there a limit
on when you can hold a building a builder accountable
for the repairs or how can I fight this to
get help with these repairs? Okay, you will not get

(27:35):
anywhere trying to state that the pipes are too deep.
The house was built in twenty fifteen, and my question
is what caused the pipes to break. Now, if it
a joint pulled apart, then it wasn't glued properly. That
can be an issue. But we're ten years later. Your

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foundation has a ten year warranty on it. Typically the
plumbing has about a two year warranty, and so I
don't think you're going to have any recourse after the
builder or more importantly, the plumber for this. Now you
do go further on here and say I had one
corner of my house leveled, but not very much. When

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the spare bathroom is. Where the spare bathroom is, the
plumbing looks to be about five feet below the slab.
The plumber states it has no room to flex due
to it being so deep. Okay, I don't understand that.
If you're stating five that it's too deep, why not

(28:41):
pull it up some then you got room to do
whatever you need to do. The other thing I got
a question on here a little bit is is this
house on a little bit of a hill Because you
mentioned you got a septic system, yet the pipes are
five feet deep. A septic system is typically not that deep,

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and so the pipes in the house, I'm guessing, are
higher than where the septic tank is, and that means
the lot's got to be on a slope. In the
septic tank is downhill from the house, because most septic
tanks are only under the ground a foot or two

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and then the waistline comes in typically two maybe two
and a half three feet. I've never seen one more
than three feet really into the tank. So if your
lines were five feet and it was a flat lot,
your lines are lower than the septic tank and your

(29:43):
lines should be full of sewage all the time. So
I think you got some bad advice coming from this
plumber that needs to be looked at and reevaluated. Even
but you know, if the if the joints are breaking,
why joints and teas and stuff like that. Tease don't

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break too much, but the whys they do tend to break,
which is the soil movement. So if that's what broke,
I don't think you'll get anywhere with going after the plumber.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
If joints pulled apart, well, then it could be that
they were improperly glued. And then it's they start talking
about stuff like, you know, when was this problem discovered
and you got so long to file? But I don't
know if you're outside the scope on that already or not.
What I would advise if you do want to check it,

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look for a construction attorney and talk with them about
it and see if you've got a case. My experience
says you probably do not. All right, we're gonna take
a quick break. Seven one three, two, one, two, five,
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Speaker 9 (34:20):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
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two one two five eight seven four, and I'll see
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from Doug about new home construction. This is kind of
a lengthy one, but uh, he says, I have a

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lot in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas on a lake. We've
been looking at existing homes for a couple of years
over there and haven't seen one we want to buy.
So we were starting to talk to contractors about building.
We would probably do a thirty six hundred square foot
home with a walkout basement, so about nineteen hundred square

(35:46):
foot on the top and seventeen hundred square foot on
the ground floor. The drainage is a big issue up there.
Many of the homes we see have cross space underneath
part of it, and some here encapsulated, so some have
sump pumps. And above all, we don't n dehumidifiers. We

(36:09):
don't want to get into a house with any mold
or potential mold issues. Many of the existing homes we
passed on had that problem, so that is in addition
to a long list of what we would be looking
to do on a new home. Sort of questions come up,
but above all, we don't want to run into any

(36:31):
mold problems. For new built costs, the cost has gone
up over there since twenty twenty. It's gone up everywhere
since twenty twenty. By the way general conversation, I'm hearing
two twenty eight to two fifty per square foot. Most
of the speck homes over there are single story and
a fairly flat lot. The best comp I've seen recently

(36:54):
was a thirty one hundred square foot home. There were
five listed at six hundred and ninety nine thousand, The
lot on those were thirty thousand, and the builder was
absorbing the thirty thousand of homeowners fees over three years,
so his net was six hundred and thirty nine. Oh
shame on you for trying to figure out the builder's money,

(37:17):
because you don't know all the expenses that go into
running a business like that. But we'll keep going. That
pencils out around two hundred and six dollars per square foot.
I assume that would include the finance costs during construction,
realtor fee, and the profit for the general contractor. No,

(37:38):
the profit is the six thirty nine to the I'm sorry,
the two six to the two twenty to two fifty.
That's his profit. And that's what people always fail to
realize is that's where the profit margin is. Is how
much he gets above all his other expenses. Anyways, and look,

(38:01):
when i'm talking other expenses, I'm talking you've got to
have office help, you got to have an office, you
got to have all these things that's got to be
built into the cost as well. So you know a
lot of times in construction they call it profit and overhead. Anyways,
we'll keep going, huh, let's see you want to build

(38:23):
in a two twenty aptick. I was just going to
point this out to the potential builders we want to
work with and say, here's a rough drawing of what
we want to build. We need to stay in the
two hundred to two hundred and ten per square foot range,
with us providing the lot and paying progressive payments. If

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someone is willing to commit to that range, i'd move
to detailed drawings needed. Any thoughts in this approach or
if there is a better way to go about it, Well,
I didn't want to do or what I don't want
to do, I think is what he's trying to say
is spend a couple thousand on drawings and just ask

(39:08):
folks to bid the package unless I know our budget
is achievable. In an idea, would I get to look
at the speck homes and say, build me one of
those on our lot, But unfortunately there are not a
lot of spec homes that are two story. Also, do
you have material ones not to use? Okay, look, you

(39:35):
can take that approach, but here's the things that cost
money on building a home like that, and this is
where the savings have to be made up. Your foundation
should not be cut. You got to put in a foundation.
If you're building in the side of a hill, that way,
it better have drainage all the way around the foundation.

(39:58):
Around that basement area that comes out and since this
is a slope lot daylighted out in other words, you
run pipes out far enough that you don't have to
have pumps to pump water out. You're able to just
run it out into the lot to where the water
will drain down the hill that way. On that waterproofing

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of the basement, I typically would clean that wall and
have it coated with a sealant. Then I would put
a material on there that has drain lines that run
to the bottom where you're going to have a French drain.
The whole pit around the house should be filled in
with gravel that's wrapped in fabric that also drains down

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into that drain line to take the water away. After that,
we're going to get into the other materials here when
we come back with more Texas Home Improvement.

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I want to stick something into that electrical outlet.

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Speaker 9 (44:18):
Hey, welcome back. Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. We were talking about new construction and
this is really relating up in Arkansas in the hills
on a on a slope walk in basement. So I
talked about the drainage around the house, and make sure
that gravel around that basement, like I said, encased in

(44:39):
fabrics so that you're keeping the silt from getting into
the rock. Now, where your money comes in, your walls
are going to be the same, whether you're putting in
granite countertops or you're putting in for mica. Your sheet
rock is going to be the same. But where you
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to understand. It's going to be in what flooring do
you want, What material do you want on the countertops,
what lighting, what faucets? Things like that make a huge difference.
And that's why there is such a spread in the prices,
because if you go into a house that's got granite countertops,

(45:22):
high dollar lighting fixtures, and marble floors instead of carpet
or instead of a laminate, well that's a major price
change and that's where it comes in. That's where you
can save your money. So are you going to be
able to walk in just tell a builder, hey, build
me something for between two hundred and two ten per

(45:43):
square foot. Absolutely, but you're also going to have to
tell them where do you want to cut corners on
your taste in order to get it there. Keep in
mind flooring can be replaced, countertops can be replaced, and
plumbing fixtures can be replaced. So if you want to
build it cheap and add those things in later, there's
absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. All right, we got

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to take a break for news, traffic and weather when
we come back. We'll jump back into the calls at
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Speaker 13 (48:43):
Hey.

Speaker 9 (48:44):
Welcome back to another hour of 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. Of course, don't forget about
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to help you out twenty four to seven. But there's
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There's questions and answers and just all kinds of links
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it's just a wealth of information when you go to
tipro dot com. Now, with that being said, I want
to jump back into the calls here. We're going to
head to South Houston and Joyce. This is Jim. How
can I help you?

Speaker 11 (49:46):
Yes, sir, sometime back I was listening to your program
and you had talked to someone our company that prevented
your house from flooding by putting some type of barrier
around your foundation that rolls up as the water rises.

Speaker 13 (50:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:06):
It has a float that basically comes up with the
uh with the water level and extends out this barrier.
Yeah right.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Right.

Speaker 11 (50:18):
A friend of mine, they've had their house flooded twice, okay,
and I was telling them about it, and I said,
this would be a solution health problem.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (50:31):
But I couldn't remember who the who the company was.

Speaker 9 (50:35):
Yeah, and tell you the truth, I don't remember the
name of it right now either. Flood Frame.

Speaker 11 (50:45):
It's called flood Frame. Yeah, okay, all right, do you
happen to know their number or do I need to
look that up?

Speaker 9 (51:00):
The number that I have is two eight one seven
six eight two five one, okay.

Speaker 11 (51:11):
Thank you very much. You think that that would be
a good idea for from my friends?

Speaker 10 (51:18):
Yep?

Speaker 9 (51:18):
And you know the other option is to raise the
whole structure, but that does get expensive.

Speaker 11 (51:24):
Yeah yeah. And you know, well it gets pretty expensive
to replace all your walls and you, oh, yeah, everything
when it floods.

Speaker 9 (51:35):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (51:36):
And unfortunately it's they live in Crosby, so okay, they're
out there where all those grass farms are, so there's
nothing to stop water from I mean, yeah, up to
your house.

Speaker 9 (51:48):
Well, if they decide to look at raising it. Have
them give my office at d West to call, because
that's something that we do on a regular basis.

Speaker 11 (51:57):
Okay, I will let them know. Okay, I thank you bye.

Speaker 9 (52:04):
And again our number seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four. I'm gonna welcome Tim Fox from
Texas Remodel Team to the show. Now, and Tim, how
are you today?

Speaker 17 (52:17):
Doing well? Jim? How are you?

Speaker 9 (52:19):
I am doing wonderful. I'm sitting here doing the show
with my nephew Jason here in the.

Speaker 8 (52:24):
Room with me.

Speaker 9 (52:25):
Jason doing all right?

Speaker 8 (52:26):
Still?

Speaker 9 (52:27):
Yes, okay, well Tim, yep, Hey, let's let's let's talk
about replacement windows and some of the things that you
guys do, because you know, so often people start thinking
about replacement windows and the first thing that goes through

(52:48):
their mind is, oh my god, I don't want a
window salesman in my house.

Speaker 8 (52:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (52:55):
Unfortunately, Yeah, and.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
Also because they're they're high pressure. But you guys aren't
that way.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
No, not not at all. I mean we're trying to
build relationships with customers, you know, over a long, long
period of time. I think unfortunately, the in the industry
has kind of got getting a bad reputation for that
a guy just coming in and camping out in your
house for three hours and leaning on the customer to
try to get a you know, a deal on the spot. Yeah, yes,

(53:30):
not the way we were all. You know, we're basically
to come in, take some measurements, answer questions and uh
and give a quote and you know, and we'll be
there as long as you need us to get the
information to you.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
That's all.

Speaker 9 (53:47):
So do you help people pick the right window for
their house because most window companies they carry one window
and they'll make that one fit for you and make
convince you that that's the right window for you, but
you give them options.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
Yeah. I think that is one of the key differences
with us, as we are a remodeling company and and
we do have you know, lots of different products to offer,
and we're going to tailor that offer offer, you know,
to the customer and their situation, right. You know, we
have every we have like kind of a good, better
best approach that we would basically analyze what they have

(54:27):
in their home now and then tell some of the
windows to fit them. And we offer all major brands
we can.

Speaker 17 (54:33):
We can get.

Speaker 5 (54:33):
Anderson or Pella, but we're also direct dealers for Anti
in Burras and they offer tremendous values with good quality
windows that have lifetime warranties. So you know, we'll we'll
give lots of options there for the client.

Speaker 9 (54:52):
Yeah. Well, and you mentioned you're you're a remodeling company
as well. In most window companies because they're not remodeling
companies if if they hit rotten, would say when they
pull a window out or some trim needs be moved,
when when the windows installed, they don't mess with.

Speaker 18 (55:09):
It, right, Yeah, And we don't want to leave a
half done looking projector or something dangerous where you know,
there's some rotted structural issue that we discovered when we
took the window out.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
And didn't handle. You know, one of the things we
could also do, Jim, that maybe makes us a little
different is sometimes a client might want a window where
there isn't one now, and we can you know, we
can cut that window, we can cut the hole in
the house, we can put in a header, we can
repair the siding and the drywall and install that window

(55:45):
in a new opening, or modify the size of openings,
or put in one of those multi panel doors. In
a situation where you might have, you know, a door
in a couple of windows facing your backyard.

Speaker 12 (56:00):
This.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
We offer lots of options there and we're pretty flexible
the worklace well.

Speaker 9 (56:05):
And talk about flexibility, I mean I talked about it
in the last hour. You can even take there. If
they got a nice patio cover that they like and
and all that, you can turn that into a nice
sunroom form.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
Yeah, we do quite quite a few sunrooms and screen
rooms off of existing patio covers. We also do I
don't know if you've ever heard of the gym, but
they call them catios and it's kind of a patio
for your cat, and it's becoming a kind of a
popular thing to do right now.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
It's kind of funny a CaTiO.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
You're right, I have not heard that one. Yeah, so
what what's That's that? What makes it different?

Speaker 5 (56:49):
It's just either a sunroom or a screen room that
somebody's you know, setting up for their cat basically, okay, right,
and we probably would use on something like that, we
would use like a pet screen, so it's a tougher
screen so the cat has less of a chance of
tearing it up.

Speaker 9 (57:07):
Yeah, okay, So let's talk about the remodeling side. Of
it because I mean, we got the holidays coming up,
a lot of people are expecting company and they maybe
want to address some issues like I don't know, a
backyard kitchen to make cooking easier or you know, different

(57:30):
things like that. You can help them with all that
as well.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
For sure. You know, we do a lot of outdoor
living areas, and you know it's super popular now. People
want to go out and watch football or just you know,
the family gatherings and whatnot as well, be able to
cook outside or hang a TV. And it's nice to
have a nice outdoor living area. And you know, a

(57:57):
lot of our customers will repeat customers. They may we
may have done a project like that several years ago,
and maybe today we're doing windows, so that same client.
And one of the things that I hear more often
than not is that that client that we did an
outdoor living area for will tell me they spend a
lot of time outside now that they have that area,

(58:20):
and yeah, it's one of the things they're really glad they.

Speaker 9 (58:22):
Did, especially at this time of year.

Speaker 5 (58:26):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (58:29):
Well, Tim, if if somebody's wanting to get windows or
have some remodeling done, how they get in touch with you.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
Sure they could give my office a call. It's two
eight one three nine four oh six two and uh
And if I could throw this out there, Jim, we
are just backfilling our schedule through the holidays. Now, okay,
just we're going to put out an offer and it

(58:57):
will be ten percent up to five hundred dollars off
on any window or patio cover project.

Speaker 9 (59:05):
Oh okay, that's a that's a pretty good discount.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
That's a pretty good discount. We don't have these huge margins, right,
we keep it tight to begin with. So yep, you
know five hundred bucks is five hundred.

Speaker 9 (59:17):
Bucks absolutely well, sounds good. I appreciate it and look
forward to talking to you again.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
Well, thanks for having me on, Jim. I appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (59:28):
Have a good bet. Take care, let's see it.

Speaker 18 (59:31):
Take care.

Speaker 9 (59:33):
And again that's Tim Fox with Texas Remodel Team two
eight one forty sixty two. If you need windows, you
need a patio room, or just some remodeling outdoor kitchen,
call Texas Remodel Team two eight one three forty sixty two.

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Oh, it ain't a good weekend to your tears. This
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Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two one two five. Oh excuse me, five eight seven
four that's seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. As promised, I'm gonna head to the west side. John.
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 19 (01:03:35):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Jim, just want to say starting off, we just really
appreciate what you bring to all of us. So thank
you for that.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
Oh my pleasure. I have a lot of fun doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Well, you're good at it.

Speaker 17 (01:03:47):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Wanted to ask, uh, maybe a little thing. But when
you recently purchased the condo and the electrical plugs are
like upside down where the you know, the three plots,
it's it's referred from.

Speaker 9 (01:04:07):
What you would Yeah, the little round hole is up.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Yes, sir, And wanted to get your thoughts, Hey, why
did they do it that way? If you have any idea?
And two does it take much to upright and put
it way more standard?

Speaker 9 (01:04:24):
Okay? Typically, what I have found is for some reason,
commercial electricians will put them in that way, no rhyme
or reason, they just they put it with the round
hole up. I don't know why, but every time I've
checked into it, it's been a commercial electrician doing it. Now,

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as far as can you change it, there's absolutely nothing
to do to change it. You simply take the plate
off the cover with that screw that's right in the
middle there, and there's a When you take that off,
you can see that there's a screw in the top
and the bottom of the outlet itself that holds it
into the plug. Now, you you take those two screws out,

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you can literally pull the plug it out, turn it over,
put it back in the wall and screw everything back together.
Please make sure you shut the power off before you
do all day.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
That's a great idea, so interesting. You don't even have
to unhook the black and the white ground wires and
all that sort. It should be able to just flip
it around and and go from there. That's awesome. And
and to your point, this is a high rise, I
a man, a really nice high rise. You wouldn't think

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it would they slipped that around. But I guess to
your point, I guess it was a commercial.

Speaker 9 (01:05:50):
If it was a high rise, it would have been
commercial electrical company working on it, because that's too big
for the for the residential guys. And so that's what
it ended up with.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Okay, well, very good. Well I might just put it
in the other direction just to make me feel at peace.
But do you You figured out the puzzle, and I
really appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:06:12):
It's a leak, not a problem. You take care you too, Jim,
take care.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Again.

Speaker 9 (01:06:20):
Our number seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. We're gonna head the friends would Charlie,
how are you today?

Speaker 17 (01:06:34):
Well?

Speaker 13 (01:06:34):
Thank you, and I hope you and all the family
and seniors or as well.

Speaker 9 (01:06:38):
We are all doing great.

Speaker 13 (01:06:41):
Great. My recental problem is a few about two or
three days ago, you know, in a hall where we
have a kid one carbon monoxide and smoke alarm. It
begins chirping at us and then telling me to press
the button. Yeah, and it will just continue to chirping.
Eventually we climbed up there and opened the front door

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or my say, and replace the battery, and it would
continue to do that, but then it would also be
saying alert alert, you know, yeah, fault detection and so forth.
Finally I removed it from the wall or removed the
front face of it, and discovered three wires, one of

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them which I wasn't familiar with red and it was capped.
And I'm kind of at a point where i don't
want to go any further and I'm not familiar with
wiring very well.

Speaker 9 (01:07:37):
So is this hard wired into the house or are
these real small wires because you said it had a
battery house.

Speaker 13 (01:07:46):
No, it's hard watered in the house with a battery
front loading. I assume it's a backup and it's about
ten years old.

Speaker 9 (01:07:56):
Okay, you're not gonna like my answer, Okay, it's got
to be replaced.

Speaker 13 (01:08:06):
You're right, I didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:08:09):
Here's the deal. When you have the carbon monoxide and
all this stuff that's combined that way, they have a
lifespan of between five and ten years. And once they
start going off that way, what's gone bad is the
stuff that's inside of it that detects the smoke or

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the carbon monoxide and all that stuff. And so once
that material goes bad, it's it starts making the beeping noise,
it starts sounding alarm alarm. All that indicates is it's
time to put in a new one.

Speaker 13 (01:08:51):
Okay, so it's hardwired. Is that a job to talk?
It's got, you know, a red wire, which I wasn't
familiar with.

Speaker 9 (01:08:59):
Yeah, Mike, if you're not familiar with wiring, you know,
doing electrical I would tell you just have somebody come
in and do it.

Speaker 8 (01:09:10):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:09:10):
But if you get a new one and look at it,
they're very simple too. Hard wire back in. The problem
is not all of them are set up exactly the same,
and so you may not be plugging wires into the
same places, and so a lot of times you're better
off just calling your alarm company and letting them do it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:09:34):
You see the alarm company, yep, now the alarm okay,
and you think they would come out and do it.
We have an alarm company, but yeah, how we more
a few years ago. It is definitely ten years old.
We saw a better replacement done in twenty fifteen.

Speaker 7 (01:09:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:09:53):
Yeah, you give your alarm company a call and they
should be able to help you out with it because
you don't necessarily get those off the shelf.

Speaker 13 (01:10:02):
Okay, alrighty well, I thank you so earry much.

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Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
Yes, sir, nick I was calling regards to the prior
collar about the the outlets being quote upside down.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
So, speaking to an electric from once before I asked
the same question, his notation that it seemed to make sense.
I don't know if it's actually true or not, but
if you have something plugged in and that cord is
just you know, not completely seeded into the outlet, if
you ever drop a paper clip or you know, any
kind of wire aspects down the wall, it hits the
ground on top, and it bounces one way or the

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other instead of landing across the two prongs and causing
an arc.

Speaker 9 (01:12:25):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 17 (01:12:27):
So that was.

Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
And yeah, that was kind of interesting.

Speaker 9 (01:12:31):
Yeah, and I guess I and you know that probably
does tie back to the commercial stuff more so because uh,
industrial and commercial places worry about things like that a
lot more than residential does. Yes, sir, Yeah, so okay

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makes sense, Thanks sir, you bet, thank you. And I
can see that's some some safety guy probably came through
at one point and said no, no, no, no'll flip
those upside down again. If you got a question seven
one three, two one two five eight seven four heading

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out to sugar Land, and is it a Nile Neil?

Speaker 17 (01:13:20):
Yes, I help you, yes, sir. So you know I
heard your advertisement on the radio just a few minutes ago,
and uh so you know we are here in Sugarland, Texas,
and we have ordered from Amazon these Uh it's a
tankless comode company called a Horror and another one is

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a bidet Toto, he named Toto. So you know we
want those to be but they will need like an
electrical connection. You know, along with the plumbing skill, so
that you know, we want to get that installed, take
out the commode the and then replace it with this

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tankless right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:14:06):
Typically what they have to do is run an outlet
to that area I see. In order to do that,
and for the electrical portion, I would tell you to
call right Touch Electrical.

Speaker 17 (01:14:23):
Right Touch Electrical. I see.

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
Ye.

Speaker 17 (01:14:25):
So yeah, so I think you know when I was
hearing on the radio just a few minutes ago, was
it you on the radio? I think your voice sounds
very similar. Yeah, I thought, you know, the voice sounds
very similar to the voice I heard on the radio. Yeah,
so you know they were given Oh that was you.

Speaker 9 (01:14:48):
Yeah, you're on the radio right now.

Speaker 17 (01:14:51):
Oh oh I am okay, okay, I didn't know that.
So okay I called that number, you know. And so now,
so you're saying that I should call for electrical.

Speaker 9 (01:15:04):
Yeah, because plumbers and electrical companies don't don't typically do
you know, they're not gonna cross over.

Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:15:15):
It would be an electrician come out to do the
electrical and the plumber to do the plumbing portion. Now,
the so give right Touch a call and they can
look at the specs for the Electrical and have that installed,
and then the plumber can come out and install the
actual toilet and plug it into that outlet.

Speaker 17 (01:15:40):
Oh okay. And so so the name of that company
is the Right.

Speaker 9 (01:15:46):
Right Electrical and their number is two eight one okay
six four five five five two six.

Speaker 17 (01:16:02):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:16:03):
And then and then for the plumbing portion, you can
call my company.

Speaker 10 (01:16:07):
Do West.

Speaker 20 (01:16:10):
Oh okay, and you can reach.

Speaker 9 (01:16:12):
Us at seven to one three four seven three seven one.
And if you call us, you know, we can take
care of call and write, touch and and coordinate everything
at once. I gave you their number separate in case

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you wanted to call a different plumber.

Speaker 17 (01:16:36):
Oh I see, okay, I know that's fine. You know,
so you guys can come and give like a free
estimate like yeah you know, or okay, okay. So the
West is your company and uh.

Speaker 9 (01:16:50):
And the and the and we have people in the
office today, so you can call today and set up
an appointment.

Speaker 17 (01:16:58):
Oh great. So so they will coordinate between the electrical
and the plumbing work.

Speaker 13 (01:17:04):
Yes, sir, okay.

Speaker 17 (01:17:07):
And what is your name, sir, I'm Jim Jim, Yes,
mister Jim. Yeah, so okay, So your company is due
West and The phone number is seven one three, four, seven,
two seven one five six.

Speaker 9 (01:17:22):
Now four seven three seven one five six.

Speaker 17 (01:17:27):
Okay okay, four seven three okay, okay, all right, uh
four seventh okay. So I so I can call them
right now?

Speaker 13 (01:17:40):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 17 (01:17:43):
All right? And also, uh, mister Jim, like you know,
we have like these the switch plays, the three of them.
We we got them done to somebody. They replaced like
ten or twelve switch plates, but three of them are
not working properly. So you know those the guys you

(01:18:07):
sent can be You know, I have the brand new
switch fleets. Do they fix that? Also? They can you?

Speaker 9 (01:18:15):
Yeah, you would have to touch talk with the electrician
about it, but yes, that sounds like something they could do.

Speaker 17 (01:18:22):
Okay, sir. And so your company does electrical work, plumbing work?

Speaker 9 (01:18:26):
No, we do plumbing, air conditioning and foundation repair. But
when I need an electrician, I call right touch electrical
and team up with them.

Speaker 17 (01:18:37):
Oh great, all right and all right suck. So thank
you mister Jim for the information.

Speaker 9 (01:18:45):
You bet you take care.

Speaker 17 (01:18:47):
Yeah, thank you, have a good weekend.

Speaker 9 (01:18:49):
Thank you too, bye bye and again our number seven
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If Jim Dunton did it your way, you'd both be wrong.
Here's more Texas Home Improvement with Jim Dutton.

Speaker 9 (01:23:31):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements. Your total home
improvements or seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. Ah, let's see and right now I got
all open lines, so there's space available for you. Seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. I'm
gonna jump into an email question though, since we were

(01:23:54):
talking about electrical This is a question from Wanda, a
ceiling light box replacement. She says, a light in the
hallway drop down. The box holding the electrical was cracked
and broken. I think it must have been damaged when
the house was built in twenty sixteen and they used
it anyway. I'm trying to jerry rig a box back in,

(01:24:19):
but don't know exactly how to attach it to the
metal bar the way. All the boxes I found at
Lows are pre construction. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Well, No,
they do make after construction boxes as well, and that

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would go into the opening in the sheet rock, and
then it has these little tabs that rotate so it
sits on the sheet rock and locks into place that way.
Don't typically need them too often, but they are available.
You just have to find the right of boxes there

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at the store. Now, I will tell you I doubt
this goes back to when the house was built in
twenty sixteen. You know, so often we try to go
back and think the builders did something wrong, when it
could be something that when someone was working in an

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attic they hit it, a wire got pulled and jerked
on it the wrong way. There's any number of things
that could cause these type of problems. So I'm not
sure you're gonna be able to trace it back to
what the original problem was. But like I said, they

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do make boxes that you can put in there. Now
A lot of times, what I find is I can
use a regular box. Now you're going to have to
take the wires out of the existing box, so that
means undoing the light fixtion. Make sure you shut the
power off before you do this, and you pull the
old box off, put a new box on, and then

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you can literally screw through the box to attach it
to either wood or a metal rod up there. I
typically use wood because metal conducts electricity wood doesn't, and
so typically I'll put a wooden board across, nail it
into the ceiling joist, and it gives me something solid

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to screw through the box into the wood and hold
it in place. Run your wires back through it, and
you hook your fixture back up. Then you can turn
the power back on again. Make sure the powers off
for doing all this. But I mean that's what I
would do with it. All right, let's see here, we're
gonna head to pair Land and Richard, Welcome to seven

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forty ktr H.

Speaker 17 (01:26:53):
Hello Jim.

Speaker 19 (01:26:54):
Hey, I bought a house a couple of years ago
and my wife and I call it are Happily ever
After home. But it had some uh it's a use home,
and it has some cabinets that look like they're coated
and plastic, and the plastic is starting to chip off.
I was wondering if is there a cure or do
I have to.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
Replace my cabinets.

Speaker 9 (01:27:15):
There is not a cure.

Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
They're not a cure.

Speaker 8 (01:27:19):
No.

Speaker 9 (01:27:22):
Yes, it is a laminate that's coming off. You can
touch it up with some some matching paint or something,
but that's about all you can do with it. You
kild have them resurfaced, h or like you said, new
doors put on, and that's typically far less expensive than

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than just replacing the whole cabinets.

Speaker 8 (01:27:46):
You know.

Speaker 19 (01:27:48):
Well, yes, sir, well you answered my question.

Speaker 17 (01:27:51):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (01:27:52):
You're welcome, Take care and let's see. Huh there we go, Steven,
This is Jim. How can I help you?

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Hi?

Speaker 13 (01:28:04):
Yes, Jim, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 20 (01:28:07):
So basically what happened is I had termite to attack
one of my wooden guard railings that are along the
side of the stairs going up to my porch. Yeah,
but it only attacks the front part of the railing,
not the entire railing. What's the best way to go

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about replacing that two by four that holds up the railing?

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Do I have to replace the entire thing?

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Jim, how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
I just heard your show.

Speaker 21 (01:31:07):
I'm walking around building. I hate even compartments in my house,
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 tracing?

Speaker 10 (01:31:20):
Hey?

Speaker 21 (01:31:21):
Little, because I wouldn't want the house so straight in Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:31:27):
Hey, I hope the drums don't mess up if you're upholstream, John, I.

Speaker 8 (01:31:30):
Gotta ask you a question.

Speaker 9 (01:31:31):
Are you gonna be growing illegal plants in there?

Speaker 8 (01:31:33):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:31:35):
No, No, just just legal plants, you know, Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:31:39):
But because otherwise I'm not going to tell you how
to fix it up.

Speaker 21 (01:31:42):
So you know, strawberry whatever kind of cool plants. Let
me take you down because.

Speaker 14 (01:31:53):
Here's more with Jim Dunton and Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 9 (01:31:59):
Okay, welcome back to Texas Ow Improvement. Steven. We were
talking about that board that needs replacing. So is that
two by four exposed or is it something that's hidden
behind other building materials.

Speaker 17 (01:32:12):
No, so it's exposed.

Speaker 20 (01:32:13):
So basically it's one of those wooden railings that goes
from the porch's column, It slopes downwards and then attaches
to the two by four that it sticks up out
of the ground.

Speaker 9 (01:32:24):
Okay, then yes, you can just replace that. I'm not
going to say it's going to be easy. Your hardest
part is going to be matching all the colors back.

Speaker 20 (01:32:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, most definitely, especially since I'm in a
wooded area, you get a lot of that tree staff
that just colors it over time.

Speaker 9 (01:32:44):
Yeah, so you may end up cleaning everything up, refinishing
everything in order for it to match.

Speaker 20 (01:32:51):
Okay, Now, as for the railing itself, do I would
you suggest that I try to dick patch that from
the column or do you think the column will will
support that while I take off the two by four.

Speaker 9 (01:33:08):
I really can't answer that because I'm not there to
look at exactly how it's put together and what all
is supporting what? Okay? Typically, you know, if it's just
there at the end and there's not something above it
that's weighing down on it, you shouldn't have anything to
worry about.

Speaker 20 (01:33:28):
Okay, okay? And is there any is there is there
a specific type of wood that you could recommend that's
maybe less uh less attractive.

Speaker 9 (01:33:41):
For termite treated lumber is less attractive to them, but
that may not look good.

Speaker 17 (01:33:48):
Oh okay.

Speaker 9 (01:33:50):
And I hate to do it to you, but that
music means I am out of time on this hour.

Speaker 20 (01:33:55):
I appreciate your time.

Speaker 13 (01:33:56):
Thank you, all.

Speaker 9 (01:33:57):
Right, thank you, And I'm going to take this opportunity
to thank Jason for sitting in here with me for
the show today. Thank you, Jason.

Speaker 8 (01:34:07):
Oh well, come all right.

Speaker 9 (01:34:09):
And one last time, if you need foundation repair, plumbing
or air conditioning, you want the best, you call my
company Due West. We'd be more than happy to take
care of you. We do have people available to answer
the phones on Saturday. So seven to one, three four
seven three seven one five six is the number to

(01:34:31):
call again at seven one three four seven three seven
to one five six. And with that being said, don't
forget we got another hour to go tomorrow, starting at
two o'clock right here on seven forty k t H.
Enjoy your afternoon, have a great weekend, and we'll visit
with you again tomorrow. Take care,

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