A Septic System Gas Odor

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I think I will start with an email question that
was sent in this week and it comes from Wayne
and he says, house is thirty years old, and so
is the blown in insulation. Should I have it all
removed and replace it with bat or blown in insulation?
And should it be R thirty? So look, typically I

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don't tell you to remove all the insulation unless you
have cellulose type insulation. And if you have the cellulose insulation,
then yes, a lot of times I'll tell you I
would take it out. And the main reason the cellulose
tends to degrade over time, starts turning to dust, and
it will produce a lot more dust in your home.

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Fiberglass insulation does not tend to do that. Now, most
blown in insulations over time will settle and compact. That
loses those air gaps and loses it's our value. And
so that's why you've got to add more insulation. If
you go with a fiberglass bat that's not going to
settle with time, you don't have to worry about adding again.

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If you just go in and blow in more insulation
over the top, Hey, that's going to again will settle
over time, but you're going to get typically fifteen twenty
twenty five years before you have to add and redo it.
So like it's it's an extremely short thing. As far

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as the R thirty, well, that always depends on what
our value you want. H R thirty to R forty
nine is typically where you want your addict to be.
Fifteen sixteen inches of insulation is what you're typically looking for.
So hopefully that'll help you out with that. Wayne. Again,

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I can do to help you out. Linda is asking
about soft it lighting. Do you do you do or
do you know of someone who will do soft it lighting?

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Thank you? I do not. Uh, that doesn't mean they're
not out there. My company we definitely don't do it.
I'm not sure if Right Touch a Lot Electrical does
that or not, but you might want to reach out
to them, uh and see if they do, and if not,
they probably know somebody that does. And Right Touch Electricals

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and see if they can help you out with that.
And I know that's becoming very very popular. Uh. And
then you know people with especially with the LED, you

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can change the colors on them, so people will make
it an orangeish color and stuff for Halloween and then
go with the red and the whites and the blues
and stuff for Christmas. And so yeah, it is one
of those things that is coming up a lot more
than it used to. But again, if you have a

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home improvement question, pick up the phone and give me
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He says, Uh, hey, Jim, Ever since my neighbor installed
a pool, I have a terrible spot in my lawn

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that collects a lot of water and I have ponding
for days after a small rainstorm. I assume that it
happened when the pool contractor repaired the damaged lawn and
they inadvertently raised an area that now traps water down
our shared fence line instead of allowing it to run

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onto the street. I'm wondering if you can recommend a
company to correct this for me. Most everyone I look
up only handles acreage types land grading, and as such,
this is a smaller job. I also need to replace
the whole side of fence, so if they could do

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both at the same time, that would be much appreciated. Well,
I don't know anybody who does both because typically doing
the fencing and the grading are two different things. Uh,
But actually, due West, we can take care of that
grading for you. We do that a lot because we
have the people to do the handwork that way, and

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that's a lot of times what it's gonna entail. So yeah,
just gived West to call it seven one three four,
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than happy to take a look and see what we
can do to get that taken care of for you.

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And again seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one three, two one two five
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and I'll see what I can do. So I found
this one rather humorous. Jesse calls in and he says,

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shower line liner replacement. I want a good smart contractor
that can replace the liner and redo the tile. I
guess he wants you want a smart contractor as opposed
to as a dumb contractor. But really, to replace the

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shower liner is a lot of times in the plumber's
realm and then the tile guys come in behind. So
if you need the liner replace, you can call my
office at Dust Total Plumbing. We'd more than happy to
come out and see what it would take. And as
far as a tile guy, I honestly don't have somebody

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that I would say here's the guy to call and
get that taken care of. So I wish I did,
but I don't want to refer someone who I don't
know is going to take great care of you. So again,
if you got a question, seven one three two one
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Seven one, three, two, one two five eight seven four.
Let's go to the heights and larry first call of
the afternoon. How can I help you?

Speaker 12 (09:53):
Yes, sir, I have I'm moving my grandma's house on
cinder blogs and we have a bungalow. It's bungo. We
have a floor furnace recently put in. You have to
go into the house to work on it. I want
to make sure no water gets under there and damages
my new furnace, so I had gutters put up. I
want to make sure the downspout on the front corner
of the house that the water will go out to

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the street and not back up under the house. What
can you recommend I put there? But just tell me
about a thirty foot stretch we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Here right, uh? And is the street quite a bit
lower than the house? It is.

Speaker 12 (10:27):
It's then there's curbs. Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, So you got a choice. I mean, one is
to just put a short pipe to get the water
away and let it naturally drain out. The other would
be to put a pipe that runs all the way
out to the street, so that all the water that
comes down that gutter is going through that piping. Out.
That's going to be the more fool proof way to
keep the water from going under the house. I would

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use a solid PVC pipe, though, don't use that black
corrugated stuff. The black corrugated will tell to to move
too much with the soils up and down, and then
sand and dirt will settle in that corrugated part and
it tends to plug up. It's not a long term solution.

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So just use a regular solid white PBC pipe, run
it out and uh, that's going to handle it the best.

Speaker 12 (11:22):
We're going underground, Jim, but a top of the ground
or underground of course.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's why I was asking if you had good fall
out there, because you just bury it underground and that's
a permanent solution.

Speaker 12 (11:34):
Then who would I get to do that for?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh well, I plucked my company several times already. But
that's something we can do for you.

Speaker 12 (11:44):
Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, West can do it. Just call us at seven
to one three four seven three seven to one five six.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
Thank you, Thank you, bet, take.

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Speaker 1 (15:27):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
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out to northwest Houston. Myron. This is Jim. How can
I help you?

Speaker 13 (15:43):
Well, good afternoon, Jim. I have a large windows, large
single pane windows on the north side of my house
and they are I got three different sizes, six foot
by seven foot, a ten foot by seven foot and
a seven foot by seven foot window.

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Wow.

Speaker 13 (16:02):
And are they they It covers the whole wall. They're
single pane, and of course you know what that meant
here this past week and before. Are double pains available
for windows that size?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
They are, but they're totally custom made, okay, and so yes,
if you'll talk to the folks even over at Texas
Remodel Teams Window Division, they would be able to help
you with that, Okay.

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I'll give them a call, all right.

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The number is two eight one three nine nine four
zero six two. And you know, are those windows ones
that I'm making the assumption that they don't open? I
mean those are nice picture windows, correct.

Speaker 13 (16:57):
No, they're big old picture windows.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, yep, So yeah, give them a call and they
I think they can handle that size windows for.

Speaker 13 (17:07):
You and they would install them as.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, right, yes, sir, yep?

Speaker 13 (17:12):
Make them all right, I'll give them a call. They're
not open today.

Speaker 14 (17:15):
Are they?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I doubt it, but their machine would answer and they
can call you Monday.

Speaker 14 (17:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (17:22):
No, I'll give them a call on Monday.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Thank you, Okay, thank you, bye and again seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. Let's head
out to Magnolia. James, Welcome to Texas Home Improvement. Thank you, Jim.

Speaker 15 (17:41):
I wanted to go back to your first call about insulation.
I built a five thousand foot house thirty two years ago,
and you use all ce you loosh, it would it
be worth to go back with foam at this point
in time?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes. I had my house foamed about four months ago
and my house was built in nineteen seventy three. And
what a huge difference it made on the comfort levels
and the amount of energy we're using. But you know,
when you're cold or you're hot, the amount of energy

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doesn't matter as much as getting comfortable. And it really
USA Installation just did an amazing job at making the
house more comfortable.

Speaker 15 (18:33):
What would you've estimate the cost of a five thousand
foot house to do foam throughout?

Speaker 1 (18:40):
I honestly wouldn't have a clue because it'll depend on
what they have to go through in order to install
the material. Like if it's a brick home, they're going
to draw holes through the mortar lines to get into
the wall cavity to fill it.

Speaker 15 (18:57):
That's the problem missus stone real stone stone.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, they have a problem, not because it'll still have
mortar lines, doesn't it.

Speaker 15 (19:06):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, so they can still go through the mortar lines.

Speaker 15 (19:11):
Okay, so you wouldn't have a clue on the cost.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
What is yours cost? Well, my house is about three
thousand square feet and I have a two story, so
they had to do some extra stuff for me, and
I want to say I had about seven thousand into it.

Speaker 15 (19:33):
Okay, can look at probably ten grand on my house probably,
so yeah, Well, I really appreciate you. Now, it was
you recommend up in the Magnolia mcgo.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Area USA insulation without question, all right, and their number
is eight three to two three seven six six eight
six ' five.

Speaker 15 (19:58):
Great. Well, I really appreciate your information.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Hey, my pleasure. And look when you have it done,
the first thing you're going to notice is you can
literally be sitting in a room as they're doing the
walls on the outside and the temperature will change in
that room, but the noise level changes because it blocks
about eighty percent of the noise from outside. It's just

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amazing the difference it makes as they're.

Speaker 15 (20:25):
Doing it great well, I really appreciate.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
The information you bet take care, Thank you sir, about
and you know the USA. I've recommended USA Insulation for
years because I do like that non expansive foam in
the walls. Now, I tell you all the time, if
you're building new construction, phone the walls use a breathable

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insulation in the attic, and retrofitting on the same way,
Phone the walls use a breathable insulation in the attic.
But they can do it without having to tear the
walls out. And that's a beautiful part about what they
do at USA Installation. So anyways, you got a question.
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.

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Speaker 1 (23:10):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
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one two, five, eight seven four. Any home improvement question
you have, We're gonna head out to Dan, Barry and Ronnie.
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 16 (23:29):
Ye?

Speaker 14 (23:29):
Then appreciate you taking the call. You may not be
able to help, but I thought i'd bounce it off
you and see what you've got to say. I've got
an old fashioned septic system, not the aer ration system, huh,
and much older house, and it works fine. I have
no complaints. See, but occasionally we get for no reason
that I can tell anything is changed. We'll get septic

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gas back up that we can smell.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (23:55):
I've crawled up on top of the roof, of course,
look down in the pipe. It's fine, it's clear. I
was wondering if you had any suggestions or anything that
you could think of, or if that's your area of expertise.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, let me ask you a couple questions. Does it
happen when the wind is blowing from a certain direction?
Have you noticed that yet?

Speaker 14 (24:18):
No? I pretty well have I tracked everything to make
because when it started happened, it started happening about probably
about three years ago. Just it would just occasionally come up,
and so that was my first thing, Okay, which way
is the wind blowing? Did we change detergent? Did we
change anything? And I've not been able to track it down,

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But like I said, it's not there all the time.
That's what happens.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, And temperatures and stuff haven't made a difference either, Huh. No, sir, okay,
because the two that I would normally look at would
be the temperatures and then how the wind is reacting
and stuff. What happens to a lot times is is
trees grow and things. It changes the way the wind blows,

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and it'll when it's blowing just right, it'll suck that
stinky air out and drop it into the house. Uh.
And that's whether you got a septic or city sewer system.
Even so, if it's not going to be related, go ahead.

Speaker 17 (25:23):
I was gonna say.

Speaker 14 (25:23):
The only thing I could come up with, it's just
a straight pipe. And I thought about putting one of
the hoods or vents covers on top yep uh, But
I just looking at it, I don't see where that
would make.

Speaker 12 (25:35):
A big difference.

Speaker 14 (25:36):
But if if it is could possibly be wind, then
I could see where that would. You know, it wouldn't
matter what unless the wind was blowing up underneath it, right,
it would be constant, and uh I I may try that,
just I ain't got no. I don't have anything to lose.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Nothing to lose doing it exactly now. The only other
thing that I can think of that would possibly do
some of this would be if there is a section
of pipe that is starting to have an issue where
it's possibly collapsing a little bit or something, and periodically
it gets a minor blockage. When you flushed enough times,

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it builds enough back pressure to flush on through and
that eliminates the odor. Again. But I'm I'm really gonna
be leaning towards a tree grew or something that's changed
that wind draw a little bit on that stack, and
you may solve it by just putting that cover.

Speaker 14 (26:38):
That's what I almost try to Jim. I appreciate you
time and your advice. Thanks to really like your show.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Thank you, Thank you, sir. You take care, yes, sir,
bye bye bye and again seven one three, two, one two,
five eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have,
feel free to pick up the phone, give me a call,
and I'll see what I can do to help you
out here on tech home Improvement and you know, even
though we don't see the changes, you're in a house

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for a long period time, twenty five thirty years. You know,
think about what the trees were twenty five thirty years
ago and what they look like now. That's the kind
of stuff that can make the difference for you. Anyways, again,
if you got a question seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four, and I'll see what I

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can do to help you out here on Texas home improvement.
Let's see, there was one that I was going to
talk about on the irrigation stuff. I'm not seeing it
right now, so we'll talk this one.

Speaker 18 (27:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Danny from Montgomery says, Sir, I had a rotting patio
lintel replaced seven to eight years ago. The stucco shows
signs of sagging again. So would a metal lentl be
the answer any recommendations on a company. Look, the lentil
is typically above doors and windows and things like that,

(28:12):
and it's for brick to sit on. What you're describing
sounds more like a header beam above an opening. And
you know, especially if it's on the patio that way, Yes,
you could change it out for metal, or you could
be looking at using just treated lumber instead. Either way,

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I think you would probably solve your problem. Metal might
be a little bit overkill. And so if you've been
using regular lumber and it rotted out that fast, take
a look at treated instead again, if you've got a
question seven one three, two one two five eight seven four,
we're gonna head out to Brenham. Jeff, you doing all

(28:57):
right today?

Speaker 6 (28:59):
Hey, I'm good. How are you?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm doing wonderful? How can I help you?

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Just listening to that last caller with the the sewer oder, Yeah,
And I wanted to point out that we've got we've
got a bathroom sink and a tub that we don't use,
and I periodically run water there just to fill the
pea traps yep, because you know, if those dry out,

(29:28):
then then you've got you know, an open vent to
the drain pipes.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yep. And you are so right. And I forgot to
bring that up, didn't I?

Speaker 6 (29:38):
Well you did, But that's what I.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Called, yeah, because you're right, and that happens to a
lot of people. As the kids leave and stuff like that,
bathrooms aren't used all the time, so those pea traps
aren't kept filled and that becomes the issue.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Yeah, I'm surprised actually, how I mean, we know it
right away when one's gone.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh yeah, and you know you would think it takes
a lot longer than it does. It goes pretty quick,
it can.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
Yeah, So okay, So I just wanted to give you
my two cents on that.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
You take care, you too, Go bye bye.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Again it's seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. We got to take a quick break. When
we come back, Jimmy and clear Lake you'll be next
here on Texas Home Improvement. You know, when it comes

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So often you don't need a new one. You just
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Helping you save money without being as cheap as a
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Here's Jim Dot and Texas Improvement.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. We're gonna head
down to Clear Lake and Jimmy. This is Jim Welcome
to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 17 (34:17):
Hey, good afternoon, Jim. I guess I'm asking a I
don't know, a general information question here. My uh alife
in Oklahoma and the heater gave her an alarm. He
got on them fancy thermostats that send the signal to
her phone and it says that the pilot didn't light.
You know, urgent repair needed call the you know, the

(34:39):
installation company to have it fixed. Are those it's a
linux And do those have a lot of nuisance alarms?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Well that come out. Ain't nothing wrong with that particular alarm.
It has to do with if the pilot didn't light,
you're gonna start getting gasped. Possibly, But yeah, is is
it putting out heat?

Speaker 17 (35:03):
Well, it won't run.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
If it's not running, then she needs she needs she
needs to go ahead and make that call, because yeah,
it could be putting out gas. Now it should if
it's smart enough to tell you it's got a problem,
it should be smart enough to shut the gas off
to it.

Speaker 17 (35:18):
But well usually they won't. They won't turn the fans
onto the pilot of lights anyway, right.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Correct, yep, yeah, yeah, Normally all the flames are gonna
be up first and then the then the fan comes on.

Speaker 17 (35:33):
Yeah. Well, I see I'm here in Houston, and I
you know, I don't know. I just worry, you know,
I guess I'm a conspiracy there. It's like a self
business uh thing, you know where they drum up business
for themselves. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
No, that that one there, you need to go ahead
and get somebody out. Besides that, if she doesn't have
heat tonight, she's gonna get pretty darn cold in Oklahoma.

Speaker 19 (35:56):
Ye.

Speaker 17 (35:57):
Well yeah, well that the fireplace is this gas so
I know we got I know she paid the bill anyway,
So that's first thing I asked. Or did you you
forget to put it on auto pay?

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (36:10):
But anyway, all right, well I got them. She's already
called them, knowing the way, and I was just wondering
if you know, are they gonna blow smoke or you
know what.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
They I would what I would expect for them to
find is one or two things. Either the sensor came
out of alignment and so it wasn't picking it up right,
or the sensor itself is bad. Either way, it shouldn't
be a major repair.

Speaker 17 (36:36):
And that should have an electronic pilot, right, that is correct.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, if it's a newer Linux system, it doesn't even
have a pilot. It has electronic ignition, and so the
ignition could could be uh acting up.

Speaker 17 (36:51):
Yeah, all right, Well that eases my mind. You know,
I always worry about them taking advantage of my wife. Yeah,
repair calls, you know, so all right, Well I still
appreciate your knowledge.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
You bet take it easy.

Speaker 17 (37:05):
Last year all right?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Oh no, go ahead. You were saying something about the rodeo.

Speaker 17 (37:12):
Yeah, I saw you there last year at the rodeo.
We went there with the friends there in one of
the boxes.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Oh, at which rodeo at the Pasadena.

Speaker 17 (37:21):
Yeah, the Pasadena one. Okay, yeah, alrighty, sir, thank you
so much.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
You take it easy and again seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. And yes, the Pasadena
Rodeo takes place in September. I know Houston Rodeo. You
know it's getting ready to kick off right now. But
up close and personally, you want to see a real
rodeo and what's going on? You want to hit that

(37:49):
Pasadena Rodeo. That's that outter round rock Joe. This is Jim. Hey, Jim,
thanks for taking my call, my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
I have a question about furnaces. After twenty two years,
I had my both of my furnaces replaced. Over the
last two years, whenever the furnaces come on, I have,
you know, two rooms that are ten degrees hotter than
the rest of the house. I have asked the technicians
to check it for two years in a row. One

(38:21):
technician says the plenum box was not replaced when they
put in the furnace and it's blowing too much air.
And another one said, I just need dampers.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
So I'm kind of confused.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Do I need to have them replace the planum box
or can.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
I just use dampers. Dampers because your system just needs
balancing as all, and that's what the dampers.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Do, okay, because you know the bedroom is like eighty
degrees and the rest of the house is like sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah. No, it's just getting too much air going into
the one room. So in the duct there should be
a damper installed. They can show get down some and
that'll redivert some of the other air into the colder
rooms and that's how it gets balanced out.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (39:10):
Well, I just wanted to check.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Thank you sir, you bet you take care all right?
Bye and again seven one three two one two five
eight seven four Tom and Cyprus, how are you?

Speaker 15 (39:27):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (39:27):
I'm good. I've I've listened to you most weekends and
almost always learned something good. But I've got a question
that I haven't heard. I am in the same place
here for over forty years, and all that time, a
couple of trees have grown up seven to eighty feet
tall that are maybe thirty feet from the side of

(39:47):
the house, and uh, I worry about those every hurricane
season that if I comes buying the wrong place where
one of those trees is gonna fall in the house
and crush it with me in it.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (40:00):
So my idea for a solution is something I haven't
really seen, but I just thought i'd see if you've
seen it. The idea is to put a dead man
out in the yard, pour a couple of yards of
concrete if your feet underground, and then run a cable
to it like you see on a utility pole, possibly
a little bit bigger, and then that way if the

(40:22):
tree can fall west, south or north, but it can't
fall east, that's the idea, which is the way it
would crush the house. So is this a valid idea
or does anybody do this or is there something I'm
not thinking about that keeps that from being a solution.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Well, I guess it could be done, but that's probably
going to swing it over onto your neighbor's house, so
they probably wouldn't be too happy with you. Well, I
keep in mind, Oh, if you're out in the country,
then yeah, you could do it. But keep in mind
what I normally would tell people to do is thin
out that tree canopy a little bit so the wind
can't take it down.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
Yeah, and I hate.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
To do this, but that music that we that we
talked through meant I was supposed to take a break,
So I'm gonna put you on hold. If we need
to come back, I'd be more than happy to. Let's
talk up about lentil lifts real quick, because if you
are having an issue with the overhead garage door sagging
in the opening, that's what you need lental lift for. Now.

(41:24):
This really affects brick homes because as it SAgs on
that mental mental on that metal lentil, uh, you're going
to see the cracks forming in the brick veneer at
the corners of the garage.

Speaker 9 (41:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
And that's what is happening when that lentil SAgs. So
what Lenttle lift does is they come in with a
new lentil, push the old one up, secure it into place,
trim it out, and give you a warranty that this
isn't going to happen again. And it looks gorgeous. That's
Lentil lift at eight three three nine zero three two
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a minute ago, Arborist on Demand can come out, take
a look and tell you what you can do with
your trees to keep them healthy and keep them from
becoming a dangerous issue to fall on your home. Because realistically,
in general, if trees are taken care of, you won't
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Speaker 1 (44:21):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements your total home
improvement source. And let's see here we're gonna tim this
is a Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 19 (44:34):
Let's see, we've got a property we inherited inside.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
The loop off of forty five.

Speaker 17 (44:41):
Uh, it's right.

Speaker 19 (44:42):
Next to the North Line metrol line.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
The question we've.

Speaker 19 (44:48):
Got is it's a small house, doesn't have central heating
and central hair.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
It's brick.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
We've put a.

Speaker 19 (44:56):
New roof on it after one of the hurricanes. What
we don't though, is it even worth trying to fix up?
Or are we better off trying to build some of
those speculative three story townhouse things, et cetera. Do you

(45:16):
have anybody that from an investment project standpoint can give
us an idea of dollar wise what we're looking at
on rehabing it versus turn it down and trying to
put up four or six townhouses selling them.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Well, let me ask you a quick question. How much
property do you have there?

Speaker 19 (45:39):
It's a lot and a half.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Okay, you won't have enough to put up much of
those three story buildings then, so you would probably be
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That's Victor's Remodeling and Construction. And with that, I'm gonna
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That's what I need to know.

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Great observation.

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Well, this might be the answer to my pros and
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Speaker 1 (48:25):
Hey Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. That's seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. Any home improvement
question you have, feel free to pick up the phone
give me a call. I'll see what I can do
to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement. Don't
forget about our website tchipro dot com. It's there is

(48:49):
a resource to help you out twenty four to seven.
So anytime you're thinking about a project or got a
question on something, you start at t HI pro. But
we're here to take calls and answer questions. You guys
picked the subjects by calling in. So seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Let's head out

(49:11):
to Wes Houston and Wanda. Welcome to seven forty k
t H. How can I help you?

Speaker 9 (49:17):
Hi?

Speaker 7 (49:18):
I enjoy your show so much, but I've been thinking
about replacing of one story townhouse with brick firewalls on
either side, and about half of the townhouse has excuse me,

(49:42):
a flat roof, okay, and here lately, with a lot
of rain, I'm getting some moisture underneath the flooring, and
so I think it's the roof and I'm calling to

(50:02):
see what your recommendations about flat roofs companies products and
how to install it so that the material goes up
onto those firewalls, because it seems that the water rain

(50:25):
comes down the wall and then on you know, leaks
all the way down to the floor rather than drain
onto the roof. And so.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
What do you think, Well, it sounds like you need
to call Guardian roof Systems, okay, and there they can
come out and take a look at it and see
what it needs. But you can reach them at two
week one four zero seven seven eight zero.

Speaker 7 (51:04):
I'm sorry four oh seven.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Seven two eight zero okay, thank you. Uh, And they
they would definitely be able to look at it and
tell you what it's going to take to fix it.
I had them do the flat roof at my office
and we have the pair of pet balls around it
with the you know penetrations for the uh water to

(51:28):
go off the roof and stuff like that. And so yes,
you got to know what you're doing when you're dealing
with that stuff, otherwise the water will get in the
wall and and like you said, run all the way down.

Speaker 7 (51:38):
So yeah, I think that's what's happening. Because it's only
after a heavy rain that I seem to notice more moisture.
And it's not like water, but it's the flooring and
the you know, I like the rugs I have, they

(51:59):
get sticky.

Speaker 17 (52:00):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Now it can be if you don't have good drainage
around the house when we have a heavy rain, that
the water is getting high enough that it's seeping in,
you know, from the ground as well. But from from
all the description you gave, it does sound like it's
from the roof.

Speaker 7 (52:19):
Okay, well I'll try that first.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Okay, okay, thank you.

Speaker 14 (52:24):
You appreciate it very much.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Again. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Let's head to the west side. Hello, Bill, this is Jim.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
Yes, sir, mister Jim Duddon, I thank you for your
help and these problems by original expansion joint in my driveway.
The one by two material is is long gone and
run it out. As you know, that little slot fills
up with junk, including some weeds. Yeah, a good modern

(53:00):
would sure love to slip another piece of wood in
there if I can find it. But what's your solution.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Well, there's a you got two solutions. One and both
of these are going to require you to scrape out
the dirt and mud that's built up. But one would
be to use a rubberized joint material that you can
put in place that works just fine. There's another one
that is uh basically comes in a rope like form

(53:31):
that slips down into that gap.

Speaker 17 (53:35):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
It's called trima slab, Turma flap, trim.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
A slab oh, trim aflap okay.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
And basically what that does It comes in different with
for the different size openings and it's made specifically for
replacing that wood strip in there, so you pop it
in and you're done.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
Trima flap is that carried by the home depot in
the lows?

Speaker 1 (54:02):
It is not, but uh, they actually make it down
in League City and a lot of the Ace Hardwares
have it.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
Ace Hardware, okay, Trima flab trim a slab, sir oh
trim a slab Yeah? Oh okay, sir. I appreciate your help.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
You bet you take care of Thank you, bye bye yeah.
And if you don't find it at Ace Hardware, you
can go to their website trim dash a dash slab
dot com and they can ship it directly to you
as well. Again seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Let's head to pair Land and Brian.

(54:39):
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 21 (54:42):
Hey, Jim, I had a question about the retrofitting the
the foam installation in the walls. Yeah, our house was
built in the early eighties and instead of using what
they used as a quote unquote moisture barrier, was basically
masonite material. Uh huh and so and it's it's it's

(55:06):
all bricks, so behind the when you get any kind
of water, uh, it just goes right through that masonite, right,
and and we've had some damage on the the the
sheet rock on the inside. Would this uh that foam material,
is it a closed cell phone?

Speaker 6 (55:25):
And does is it?

Speaker 21 (55:26):
Does it have a water act as a moisture barrier?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
No, it will not, Okay, so you can have to
dress where that moisture is coming from and allowing it
to come through that way.

Speaker 8 (55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (55:43):
I think it's the house is set real low to
the ground.

Speaker 12 (55:47):
Yeah, it's coming up through the wheapholes.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Well, it has to get well above the wheat poles
because uh, a brick home, the brick ledge is typically
an inch and a half lower than a finished floor level. Yeah,
and so yeah, and if that's where it's coming in,
that's usually just a drainage issue that can be easily addressed.

Speaker 21 (56:12):
Okay, what what's your opinion about French strains up against
the foundation.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Well, a French train is to capture subsurface water, and
it sounds like what you're dealing with is surface water,
so you would probably need more catch basins than than
a French drain system.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Okay, very good, Well I appreciate.

Speaker 6 (56:38):
Your the information.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Alrighty, you take care, thank you, bye bye. And you know,
a French drain system can be used for surface water,
but it's usually not going to take it as fast
because you leave your gravel underneath the grass and finished
uh dirt above it, usually anywhere from two to six

(57:05):
inches thick, so the moisture has to travel through that
to get into the rock down to the French drain
pipe and then taken out. A surface strain is where
you've got catch basins that capture the water and you
take it out with the pipe that way. And so uh,
usually if you're dealing with surface water, you're you're better
off with surface drains seven one three, two, one two,

(57:28):
five eight seven four. Let's head down to League City. Greg.
Welcome to Texas Home improvement.

Speaker 22 (57:36):
Oh, hi, Jim, have to do it today?

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Wonderful? How about you?

Speaker 17 (57:40):
Good?

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (57:41):
We've got a second floor exterior balcony and it's about
five years old. The builder put in twelve by twelve
tile and there's some movement. So we've got some tile
that's cracked and some tile that's I guess it's I
call it spalling or whatever.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
Huh.

Speaker 22 (58:00):
I was hoping that there was some kind of a
product that I could go over that with instead of
demoing all that and going back down with something else.
Do you have any suggestions?

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Nope, you're gonna end up demoing.

Speaker 22 (58:13):
It, Okay, because you're going to say that.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Yeah, because if they're popping loose like that and stuff,
no matter what you put over the top, when the
underlayment like that pops loose, whatever you put on top
is destroyed.

Speaker 17 (58:28):
Okay.

Speaker 22 (58:30):
Yeah that sounds about right. It's it's just a big job.
I didn't want to have to do it.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
You know, you got elbow grease. You're young, you can
work through this.

Speaker 14 (58:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (58:42):
I'm not as young as I once was, though, but yeah,
I could do it all right.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Chim alrighty, take care.

Speaker 22 (58:49):
Yeah, thanks for help, buy you bet.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
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And people cranes and hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements.
Your total home improvement sour seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. That's seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four. Let's head over to
Magnolia and Robert. This is Jim. Welcome to seven forty
k tr H.

Speaker 9 (01:02:56):
How you doing, sir, wonderful?

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
How about you?

Speaker 9 (01:02:59):
I'm you know, it actually pretty good for the day.
But about three weeks back i'd called you and I
had the floor redone by the Woodland's water restoration floor.
They didn't do a very good job at first, but
then they came back and redeemed themselves, which was great,

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and because they didn't fill the cracks with the float.
But now that I have everything sealed and done, I
don't want to go back with the flooring on top
of it. I want to put some sort of a
paint over the flooring over they treated plywood.

Speaker 8 (01:03:48):
Fast situation for that.

Speaker 9 (01:03:50):
That's what I'm asking. What would I want? I want
to put a rubberized over the top, but I don't
have that much money. Kind of like a garage floor
where you put the rubber eyes over it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 9 (01:04:04):
What would it be? Any type of flooring decking ink
would be okay to cover that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah. They make deck paints for like front porches, and
stuff that you can put on it. I will tell
you it will wear with time. Uh and you'll you know,
you have to reapply it. But they definitely make it.
And I've seen quite a few people try this, and
to be honest with you, it never does look real

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good very long.

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
Well, I'm not really caring about looking that good.

Speaker 6 (01:04:43):
I'm old enough.

Speaker 9 (01:04:44):
In about ten years I might be gone, so it
don't really matter. But you know, just a pea's my
wife that it's you can mix it and but it's
it's it says deck flooring.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
No deck paint. Excuse me, Uh, what you're going to
be looking for is a deck paint?

Speaker 9 (01:05:04):
A date a deck paint?

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Okay, yes, if you go to Sherwan Williams, they'll have it.

Speaker 9 (01:05:13):
Okay. All right, Well that's what I was looking for,
and I do appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
You bet you have a great afternoon you as well,
by bye. Fight And yes, it can be done. Like
I said, it typically does not look that good to me,
but it absolutely can be done. Get a question seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. That's

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You know I had an email come in from Scott
and Montgomery. He says, Jim, I have some twelve by
twelve wooden rough cut gable support beams on my front
and back porch that I want to clean or remove
all of the old organic matter and make the natural

(01:06:08):
finish look new again. How do I clean these beams? Well,
I'm gonna make the assumption or not painted based on
the way you wrote this, because a lot of times
those things are painted and you'd have to hit it
pretty hard with a blaster, you know, whether it's water

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or sand blasting to take the paint off before you
did anything with it. But let's go with the assumption
that these are just rough cut lumber. So clean them
up first with the pressure washer. Then you can use
some bleach on their bleaching water to bleach off all

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the grayness that the wood has. You do a fence
the same way. You pressure washer it again to get
all the bleach and stuff off, and then let it
dry thoroughly and apply ready seal. And by doing that,
the ready seal soaks in and keeps that wood from
taking on any moisture and keeps it looking good for

(01:07:12):
years to come. Now, I'll give you a secondary thing
if that wood has been deteriorated, rot at any or
anything like that. Keep in mind that is typically just
a veneer up there. In other words, it's not a
beam that runs through the house, and so a lot
of times you can literally remove that and just stick
a new board in place as well. So it kind

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of gives you some options to deal with on that.
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.
Your total home improvement source and Andy out of Houston

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is asking about plumbing and mechanical mostly maybe a renovator
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guy at doing that kind of work. Seven one three,
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Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Hey. Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. That's seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. As said,
we're gonna head to Rosenbergen. Tom, you're up. How can
I help you?

Speaker 8 (01:10:54):
I have?

Speaker 9 (01:10:55):
Well, first of all, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 23 (01:10:57):
I have a twelve x twenty aluminum patio cover that
I haven't closed, and I'm.

Speaker 17 (01:11:05):
Looking for something to.

Speaker 23 (01:11:07):
Either put on the inside or on top to defray
the heat coming in. Okay, is there a paint or
a material that I can put on the inside?

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
There there is both. On the top side. The paint
you can use. They make a white roof paint for
just that that reflects the heat and such, and it
can be rolled on or sprayed on. Uh and it's
readily available at a lot of different places as far

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as on the underside. What is the material that you're
looking at from the room looking up.

Speaker 23 (01:11:49):
It's the corrugated the corrugated metal metal.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Yeah, okay, So I mean you actually could paint it
or put a radiant barrier like that energy q I
talk about a lot, uh that that would stop the
heat right there, because basically what the radiant barrier does
is blocks the heat. And I put it on like
my attic, in my attic where the staircase is, I

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have a sheet across there. I can't pull the staircase down.
I don't feel anything reach up there and move that
over and the heat just gush is in. That would
make a huge difference.

Speaker 23 (01:12:29):
Okay, And it just glues to the to the ceiling basically.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Or you could put just some wire holders or something,
all right, And.

Speaker 23 (01:12:40):
And the other other than that is painting it with
a with the radiant barrier paint.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Yep, that's gonna that's gonna be it like And it
doesn't have to be a radiant barrier paint. In fact
that they don't even call them radiant barrier paints anymore
because they just didn't reflect enough of the radio and heat. Uh.
But there is a product that you can mix into
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L coat c O A T. And you know that
way you can pick whatever color you would want. You
mix this in there and it's got ceramic beads and
it reflects the heat as well. Okay, and that was
k could you spell that again? Cool coat is k
O O L co O A T.

Speaker 6 (01:13:31):
All righty.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
And you can get that at Sherman Williams. I guess
now that that is actually something you have to order.
They may have it at Sherwan Williams. I don't know,
but I've only seen it as an order type product. Alrighty, great,
I appreciate it. You bet. You have a great weekend,
you too, Bye bye bye. And there's a lot of

(01:13:55):
stuff nowadays that we can do that we didn't used
to have the ability to do with some of these
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that I like it. It does a great job. Let's
see here seven one three, two, one two five eight
seven four will jump into another email question here. So

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this comes from Jim here in Houston. He says, my
wife and I have a second home outside of Crockett
on Houston County Lake built on stilts in the sixties
early seventies. The silts on a slope. It sits on

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a slope, been expanded on at least two times and
now has a split level concrete floor underneath. The lower
end is about three feet high blow and I suspect
a seep underneath the house. I get water in a
low end. During extensive rainy periods, water leaks around the

(01:15:05):
lower end of the original piers, which I've been able
to slow. There is an also spall in the concrete
lower level that water slowly comes out when the ground
is super moist. Can you recommend someone to help with
corrections to this slab. You got a drainage issue that's

(01:15:29):
got to be dealt with, I think, and typically what's
going to have to happen is, first you got to
make sure surface waters are not coming down and going underneath. Second,
you got to capture the subsurface waters from going under
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surface drains. Whether it's to redirect the water or capture
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d West can do. For you. We've done a lot
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(01:16:10):
people think either. But if you let it go, it
will tend to deteriorate the concrete, those poles, everything, and
it can get to the point where then it becomes
extremely expensive to deal with. So yeah, let's take a
look at that one sooner than later. Again, if you've
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Speaker 24 (01:16:43):
Yes, sir, I'll have a drain problem in one of
my kitchens. Thinks for water drains out real slow and
I've been pouring draino in it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:51):
For the last two weeks.

Speaker 12 (01:16:53):
Okay, I just can't get that thing cleared up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
And if you tried snake in the line or anything yet, sir,
have you tried running a snake in the line or
anything yet?

Speaker 14 (01:17:05):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (01:17:06):
Indeed, I uh I even taken the little trap off
the bottom of the underneath sink nothing in it. There's
nothing in it, And so I kind of took something
and ran up in the pipe.

Speaker 17 (01:17:17):
Going through the wall, not hitting anything. I just don't
know what.

Speaker 14 (01:17:21):
To do next.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Well, if if you've done all that stuff on your own,
you're probably getting time or you're gonna have to call
a plumber.

Speaker 24 (01:17:31):
Okay, Yeah, I've called a plumber and i've been he's
been putting it with. I've got one that I've been
called him for two days and I hadn't gotten it yet.
You know, he keeps saying, gonna come by and.

Speaker 12 (01:17:42):
Check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
You may not realize this, but there's probably a thousand
plumbers out there.

Speaker 24 (01:17:49):
Yeah, I understand saying okay, y, you thought it might
be a quick fix or something.

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No, unfortunately, you've already done all the stuff that would
be a quick fix, and so if that didn't work,
then it's time to bring in the professionals that got
the longer snakes and the better equipment to get it
all cleaned out and going again.

Speaker 12 (01:18:08):
All right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
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How I'm great? How are you all right?

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Speaker 18 (01:24:18):
Uh? This isn't anything personal about me, but I wondered
when I saw the fires in southern California. I mean,
I thought that place was great when I was at
high school, with the special cars and the beach and
all that. But do you do you think that a
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Wildlife built the concrete block their buildings in their parks
with the cement mas re units that some that are
filled with reinforcing steel and concrete. And then and then
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you think that would resist a fire? Do you have
any experience in that? Have you ever fired a been
around when there was a fire and a concrete block
wall stayed and the wood framing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
Went to pot. Well, the concrete wall can definitely stay
and the wood frame go away. I mean you see
it on brick homes all the time as well. In
the brick home, the brick is just a veneer. It's
not even part of the structure. But on the type
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the roof and the wood framing up there and stuff, no,
that can still catch fire and burn off.

Speaker 18 (01:25:44):
That's what I was wondering.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Do you figure that if.

Speaker 18 (01:25:49):
Burning embers fell on an asphalt roof that it would
transmit enough heat underneath just catch the wood on fire.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
It can, because that's what happens, that the ambers actually
melt through the asphalt shingle okay, and that's then it
gets down into the wood and that's that's where the
fire gets going.

Speaker 18 (01:26:17):
Okay, So you'd probably have to have a metal roof
to resist the ambers incorrect ambers.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
Yeah, concrete, clay, tiled, you know, there's there's several different
materials that you could use.

Speaker 18 (01:26:31):
Yeah. So so like when you when you saw on
television some of the news coverage, Yeah, I just didn't
see any houses that that withstood the the fires, did you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Well, by the time those fires were getting into those
neighborhoods like that, they were so intense and so hot
that it was just destroying everything. Because keep in mind,
even a concrete block, if it gets over heated, that
concrete will pop and break. Okay, it's not made to

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withstand all that heat.

Speaker 18 (01:27:09):
Yeah, so you'd have to have a big space around
your house.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
Yep. And of course, of.

Speaker 18 (01:27:14):
Course nobody can afford enough land to do that. It
gets back to where they have to do the forest
management that they seem to not have been doing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Well.

Speaker 18 (01:27:29):
In other words, in other words, that way, you wouldn't
have the intense fires right, or you would you would
have them pretty rarely.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
Yeah. I think this just got out of hand on them.

Speaker 18 (01:27:40):
Yeah yeah, Okay, Well that's another good thing about Houston.
You know, we got too much heat in the summer,
but we don't have raging wildfires.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Well, but we do in Texas in some areas. I mean,
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of Weatherford. They Grayson County, they had massive fires out
there that did the same thing a couple of years ago.

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on the link to James Hardy Siding.

Speaker 10 (01:29:00):
We know how dirty the water can be in the
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Let them come out test your water and recommend the
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Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Dot Hey, welcome back. Let's jump into our last call
of the day, calling this at Jim. How can I
help you?

Speaker 26 (01:30:56):
Hey, Jim, My wife and I are looking to buy
our first home in Houston, somewhere as far in town
as we can stay. But that means probably buying something
that's thirty forty fifty years old. And I was wondering
if you have a recommended sort of cutoff year for
I wouldn't necessarily consider anything older than some year just
because the codes changed or maybe the building quality changed

(01:31:16):
significantly around them.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
Well, it's not that I would recommend something as far
as a cutoff year, because I loved I used to
live in a house that was built in the nineteen twenties,
loved it. But things had been upgraded, and so it's
going to depend on what's been upgraded. So here's what
you got to look for. Anything built in the sixties

(01:31:39):
or earlier is going to have cast iron sewer pipes
under it unless they've already been upgraded to PVC. If
they haven't, just figured that you're going to end up
doing that upgrade. The same with your electrical system. I
mean typically once that system is thirty forty years old,
a lot of times people have been doing upgrades to

(01:32:01):
them already, but definitely anything from the thirties and forties
should have been upgraded by now. Your water pipes, if
it's still got the old galvanized water pipes, you can
figure you need to replace that with PEX plumbing. So
those are the big items your framework. If the framework

(01:32:24):
is good, the rest of that stuff can actually be
replaced and bring it up to current codes.

Speaker 22 (01:32:30):
Okay, that's very helpful.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
Okay, well, good luck on your house search.

Speaker 26 (01:32:37):
All right, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
You bet take care And as I said, none of
that stuff would keep me from buying the house if
you get the right price. You know. But the thing is,
the land inside the loop is so expensive that a
lot of times you're buying land in the house is
considered a tear down. So you've got to make a decision.

(01:33:00):
Do you rebuild it or do you tear it down
and just put up a new house the way you
want it? And if you take that route, well, now
you're dealing with all kinds of other city bureaucracies as
far as permitting and stuff. So it's darned if you
do and darned if you don't. But one of the
big ones is anything built prior to nineteen seventy. Make

(01:33:22):
sure you have a static test and check that underslab
sewer system for leaks. With that being said, that's it
for today. Look forward to visiting with you again tomorrow
starting at two o'clock right here on seven point kerh. All, Right,
before we go, let's talk about foundation repair because you know,

(01:33:43):
we're going we're in a season now where we're wet. Well,
what happens is when these soils dry out, they shrink,
they get wet, they expand again, but not quite as
much as they were the time before. And so that's
where we start getting settlement over the years, and typically
a house that's around eighteen to twenty years old start
showing signs a foundation movement. Do Wes Foundation Repair can

(01:34:06):
help you with that because if you catch it early enough,
you just need preventative maintenance. You really don't need foundation
repair you let it go. You need full blown foundation repair.
Either way, Do West Foundation Repair is the best and
can help you with it. So call my company at
seven one three four seven three seven one five six.

(01:34:28):
Schedule will come out. We'll take a look, tell you
what's going on, sit down and go over whether it's
repair or preventative maintenance that you can get your house
taken care of. Remember, when you want the best, you
call due West

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