February 9, 2025 • 47 mins
Jim is live for Super Bowl Sunday today. He gets going with a few email questions about high humidity and a concrete crack. Jim also takes some calls on a bathroom sink odor, a dehumidifier tray filling up in the closet, closing a patio opening, and more.
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So seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
With that being said, I'm going to jump into an
email question here. This comes from Matt out of Victoria.
He says, I have found that my nineteen seventy seven
and slab on grade, single story house has high humidity.
The homes or the rooms rather and kitchen see about
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sixty humidity, and the bathrooms at mid seventies humidity even
with the bath fans that vent to the attic on
the bathrooms stay that high. Can I use a large
seven thousand square foot de humidifier located in the same
closet as the air handler, or do I need to
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install an inline whole house D humidifier. Well, believe it
or not, you got an in line dehumidifier. It's called
your air conditioning system. And that's really what an air
conditioning system is is a large D humidifier. So typically
the reason humidity levels are that high is something's not
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working properly with the system, and usually it's because it's
oversized and not running long enough to humidify properly. Now
the bathrooms, that can be a different story. You know,
it depends on do you have vents going into the bathrooms,
do you keep the doors open when no one's in there,
that kind of stuff. But in general, for the humidity
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levels you're talking about, something's going on with the existing system.
You should not have to put a whole host you
humidifier in. Now your secondary question, can you put one in?
You absolutely can. I don't know how many square foot
your house is, but a seven thousand square foot dehumidifier
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you better have a pretty big house. I mean, you
don't want to put one in that's way oversized, because
I think that's what you already got going on with
the air conditioning system is that it's oversized. It cycles
off too often, doesn't stay on long enough to dehumidify properly.
And quite frankly, if you put a really large dehumidifier in,
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you're gonna have the same problem because it won't stay
on long enough to take the proper amount of moisture
out of the air. So my recommendation would be, first,
let's get this system check, make sure it's properly sized,
properly ducted in all the stuff. Then let's look at
whether we need to use a dehumidi fire or not. Again,
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pick up the phone and give me a call. Seven
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That's seven one three two one two five eight seven four. H.
Christopher out of Stafford sent in a garage floor crack
line from entrance of garage to end of sheet rock wall.
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What can I do to repair the eighth inch crack
line that separates where we park our cars inside the garage.
It runs from the tip of the entrance where the
garage door closes and runs straight back to the all
opposite the garage door. Well, I guess my first question
is why do you want to do anything. All concrete
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cracks by nature. Now an eighth inch gap, and that's
getting a little wider than normal, but it's not out
of the realm of normal. It is a garage. Is
it hurting anything? That's gonna be my first question. Now,
if you do have to close it up seal it up,
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then you're looking at an epoxy. They make regular epoxies
for doing this. But here's why I don't typically recommend
closing them up unless there's really a reason to seal
them up. That's typically an expansion crack. Concrete expands and
contracts with temperature and moisture changes. If you seal that
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crack when everything is shrunk, well, now when the concrete
expands again, you got a wedge in there, it'll pop
another crack somewhere else, and so it's not solving the problem.
What I truly would just recommend is leave it alone
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unless it becomes a problem, then you can seal it
up at that time. But epoxy injection into the crack,
if you do need to seal it up, is absolutely fine.
They make special products for doing that, no big deal.
If you want to try to do it yourself. Granger
actually carries the product, so does Whitecap. If you want
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to have somebody do it, you're just looking for somebody
who does epoxy injection on concrete, and there are companies
out there who specialize in doing that. So hopefully that'll
help you out with that question. There seven one three
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three two one two five eight seven four, And I'll
see what I can do to help you out here
on this Super Bowl Sunday, before the game gets started,
let's see Phil Green sends in an email about engineered
wood flooring system for home with uninsulated wood subfloor. This
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happens a lot, so he says, Hi, Jim love the show.
I'm looking for a trusted resource to discuss options to
replace the carpet in my peer and beam home with
a hardwood look engineered hardwood or something similar. Ideally this
will be done in the entire house. I've learned that
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non permeable surfaces placed over uninsulated wood deck exposed to
atmosphere invites moisturemulation between the layers and will cause subfloor failure.
So question one, assuming this can be done economically, is
there a particular underlayment that would alleviate the moisture accumulation. Well,
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the underlayment is typically what's causing the moisture accumulation because
it actually doesn't allow your air conditioning system to dry
things out the carpet. It's allowing the moisture that's coming
through from the underneath the crawl space there to evaporate
into the HVAC system. So typically the underlayments are going
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to be something that is not going to help you
with this situation at all. However, there are some floors
that go down that do not require anything, so that
may be something you want to take a look at.
Is there a particular brand model of flooring system you
recommend for this situation. There's not. There's a lot of
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different floors you can you can take a look at.
And then third, is there a resource you recommend to
learn more? I see you work with Florida Coore. Do
you have a contact there that I can discuss this with?
Thank you so much, Phil. Well, look, Floridacre carries a
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lot of different types of flooring for this type of situation. Now,
typically what you're going to have to do is deal
with the moisture underneath and not worry about what you're
putting up on the top. That way, so it may
mean just putting better ventilation in the crawl space. It
may mean encapsulating the crawl space, which is putting that
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plastic sheeting down to keep the soils moisture from coming
into the crawl space area which goes up into the
living space. So that's the kind of really the type
of solution you're going to be looking for your issue
is going to be you're looking for something cost effective
and both of those are going to cost some money
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to do. As far as the flooring, absolutely go to
Florida Core go back and talk to the people at
the pro desk and they will have the knowledge to
work with you to get you know the right flooring
for you. And yes, there are some breathable underlayments and
some breathable floors that don't require underlayments that you could
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take a look at. Ah, Margaret, this is Jim. How
can I help you today?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Yes, Jim, I'm so glad to talk to you. I
would like to talk to you about my hall bathroom.
I would like to explain it to you so you
understand the layout. The main part of the room when
you first walk in is eight by five, and then
there's another door that goes on into a room where
the tub and the toilet is. In the first room
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is you go in the door, there's a linen closet
on the left, and then there's a six foot vanity
with two sinks in it. In the first sink is
the HPAK drain. That Astak drains into that drain pipe
below the sink. Okay, I am getting sewer gas from
that sink. I ran a garden hose from the roof
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down the standpipe put water in there. That was Thursday morning,
about eleven o'clock. I had no smell until three o'clock
Friday morning, and then the smell returned. I had a
pummer come out and look at it. He doesn't know
what the problem is. I talked to the AHPACK system
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and this has been set up this way since nineteen
eighty five. He doesn't know why I'm having a problem.
You're so versed in so many different systems. What is
your recommendation.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
The sink that has the HVAC draining to it, is
that used, you know, like for everyday use for washing hands,
brushing teeth, things like that.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
No, it's really not. But I go in I really
don't use the statuom, but I go in there periodically
and I run water and all the drains and plush
the toilet to make sure that there is water in
all the traps.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Okay, because what I'm really thinking is happening isn't really
a sewer gas, but stuff that's down in the p
trap in that that is building up and the cane
and producing that odor like sewer gas. Uh, it actually
happens in the drain lines of the HVAC system, sometimes
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to the point where they plug up. So yes, I'm
guessing that's what it's going to be. Is is down
in that pa trap just needing a good thorough cleaning, okay?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
And how would you recommend that we clean that pea trap?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Well, normally it's easy enough to just shut the water off,
unhooked the pea trap, take it outside, pose it out,
clean it out real good, and be done with it.
What creates even a little bit more of a problem
for cleaning, though, is the sink's overflow. Does that sink
have one, you know, the little where if it overfits
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gets filled too full, it starts going into the hole
in the top of the sink.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Okay, that can get a build up in it that
can cause odor as well. So I would first I
would first check down into my pea trap, and I
will tell you I've cleaned it out sometimes without taking
it apart, by just pulling the stop or out sprain,
scrubbing bubbles down in there and using an old toothbrush
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to clean everything, and that a lot of times gets
rid of it.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Okay. And then do you recommend that I pour some
blazer something down that overflow.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Well, you can do that periodically because that'll help to
keep it from building back up.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Okay, so you think all I need to do is
start out by spraying some foaming bubbles down there and
cleaning that area, and then if it's more than that,
then take the piece type apart and clean es.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Ma'am yep, okay.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Okay, that sounds good. Thank you so much for you.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
You're welcome. You take care, okay, bye bye, bye bye.
We're going to take a quick break here, Charlie. When
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Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
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him A head to friends with and Charlie, this is Jim.
How can I help you today?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Did Jim good to talk to you? Thank you? Shot
one in the bathroom. We have two closets that open
into the bathroom part of it, and in my wife's
closet we keep a dehumidifier in there, and the tray
fills up about every twenty four hours. Okay, and oh
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all right. We got a fire checker and we found
that the wall and the wall just behind it, to
the corner of it, which is to the outside and
the north side, and there's a window there. That's that's
what's there. And so we called the plumber route and
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he does some inspection, and he said he thought it
was coming in from an improperly sealed window on the outside,
which would be open to you know, to her closet. Incidentally,
if you put the dehumidifire somewhere else, it does not
fill up at all rapidly. Uh. That was his primary
thrust of what he told us. And as I say,
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anyplace else who put it?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So by for what I did, we quit showering in
that bathroom and use the other bathroom for three days
and it's still filling up. And we've hadn't of course,
neither rain or anything else. And so I guess my
next question is where do we go from here. We're
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having foundation people come out next week this coming week,
and the foundational is gun in that area in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Okay, I don't think the foundation repair is going to
have anything to do with it. If it is related
to the window, you know, the moisture would get into
the building materials that are within the wall, including the insulation.
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So even though we didn't have any rain during those
three days, it would continue to be getting large amounts
of humidity out of the air typically for like a
couple of weeks in order to dry everything out. Now,
is it brick siding, wood siding? What's back there around
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that window? Okay, it's brick.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, of course he's got coughing, but uh, he could
see that thing. He said, where you're coking is going
bad and need to seal that of course.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Right, And and that can be critical because you know,
when the cocking isn't good around the window, moisture does
get in. It runs down the backside of the brick.
But there should be a brick ledge and there should
be wheepholes to let that moisture out. Typically, the only
way this starts happening if it's related to that window
is if the weather's uh stripping from when the window
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was put in, the ceilings that go on the flanges
of the window before the brick and everything is installed.
If that was done wrong or skipped, you could get
this kind of problem. But you can also get this
problem from a leak or other things letting moisture in
as well. So I'll tell you what, I gotta take
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a break. I'm gonna put you on hold for a
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In Texas, we do it our way. This is Texas
Home Improvement with Jim Hey.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three, two,
one two, five, eight seven four And we left. I
was talking with Charlie and Friendswood and Charlie, you know
your biggest issue is really not the humidity. It's the
possibility of mold from that moisture, and so it really
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does need to be addressed. Where this is coming from.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well, let me throw one more thing at the jim igot.
Dimension did that close? Is there the wall ninety degrees
not the outside, well one ninety degrees from it backs
up to my shower and of course you got a
shower head on that wall.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We did not cut into the wall or anything. That
was my first thought and then we've also considered that
could it be from a bad little tile over the
shower pan and at the edge of this house. I
know of houses in other areas that didn't have anything underneath,
you know, problems with a shower pan.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I'm saying, yeah, well, it could be from those. But
typically if it was one of those leaking, you would
see the moisture somewhere and typically it like a shower
pan for instance, if it's leaking, it's either going to
come into the closet where you're going to see it
on the floor, or you're going to see it running
outside on the side of the foundation. So here's what
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I would do. There's a company called Woodland's Water Restoration
and they specialize in reconstruction when there's been issues, you know,
whether it's mold, water, fire, smoke, whatever. I would have
them come out and first do it just an air
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check to see if there's mold, and they can also
check the humidity levels and let's see how high the
humidity levels are. Because truly, it could be as simple
as putting an AC duct into that closet to take
care of it, but it could be as complicated as
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opening up where that window is and resealing around it,
or it could be in the riser for that shower head.
I have seen in the past where you can't find
what the issue is. But every time somebody takes a
shower they pull the pin, the water goes up to
the shower head. Well, that riser has a leak in it,
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and so it's intermittent what you're getting regardless of what
it is. These guys should be able to help track
it down and then get it fixed.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Okay, anything you excuse me? Jim? Yes, oh, Woodlands. What's
the name of that company?
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Give me Woodlands Water Restoration and their phone number is
two eight one seven nine five five seven three six.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Got it? Okay, Jim, Well I believe, but we'll go
from there.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And I thank you very much, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You take care YouTube Jim, thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Bye and again seven one three two one two five
eight seven four Bury in Spring. How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Hey? Hello, Jim? Uh yeah. I have a two story
house and on the first floor we have a patio
that's you know, part of the house and it's probably
I don't know, Tennessee by thirty something like that, and
my wife wants to close it up, and we were
thinking maybe I don't. I don't know what material people
use to close those up. I've even seen people companies
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that actually put in shades to close it. I don't
know how how permanent that is.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
But what do you recommend?
Speaker 8 (27:16):
You use glass or plexiglass or shades or kind of
how wo do you recommend?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
And what is the opening?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
It's just a patio in the back. You know it's opened.
It's it's a cement floor and we have flowers there.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
And you want to enclose it in Okay, I tell
you if you'll call a Texas remodel team. Okay, they
carry all the stuff for turning that into like a
patio room for you.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Oh okay, okay, and.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You can reach them. You know their windows division at
two eight one, three, nine, nine four zero six two.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
And you don't want to go with PLEXI And the
reason you don't when the plex is out in the sun,
it will begin to degrade and get these cracks in
it and stuff that. It doesn't affect it as far
as being protected from moisture in that, but it makes
it where you can't see through it very well.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Oh I see.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Okay, if you put a glass you have to putes
for added protection so people don't break it easily. I
guess you could put a ceiling on it.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
I guess uh it's well, it's no more than the
windows that you have in your home.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Yeah, okay, all righty Is it good to have it
tinted or just regular glasses? Okay? I guess it don't
make any difference.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I guess no. Nowadays, with the UV protection and stuff
that's in all the windows systems and stuff, you're pretty
much able to do what you want. The tinting will
help you make keep it a little more comfortable though.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Okay, well, this company also understand it by put the
shades in. I see company that actually can come just
put in shades and.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Oh yeah, they they can turn key the whole thing
for you.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Actually, it's called Texas Remodeling.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
What was the name of it again, Texas Remodel Team
and their number is two eight one three nine nine
four zero six to two.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Okay, all right, great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
You bet my pleasure, sure right again seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. Let's head over
to West University. Charlie. How are you today?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Very good? Thanks? I have some guest life in the
front of the house, either side of the front door,
and they seem to be working. Find they're burning away.
And but every once in a while I catch a whiff
of natural gas. Yeah, I go enter out to the
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front door. Is it? I wonder if I got a
problem there.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Or Well, you could have a leak in a line
somewhere that's very small. I guess is you probably only
smell it when there's no breeze, correct, that's yeah. Yeah,
So when there's no breeze, as there's a little leak,
it'll start to literally just accumulate there. The breeze blows
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it away enough where you don't have to worry about it.
But if you truly are getting that odor, yes, it's
an indication you could have a leak. I would recommend
you call a plumber who can work on gas lines
and have them start doing a detection. They make what's
called a sniffer that is able to basically follow the
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line and sniff out when it gets that odor to
help find the leak it. Obviously, you can also put
soap on the fittings and stuff, but if it's in
a wall or something, then you know that doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Okay, deserve some you could recommend to.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
You can call my company, due West Total Plumbing.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Okay, okay, and we'd.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Be more than happy to help you with that. You
can reach us at seven one three four, seven three
seven one five.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Six got it, seven one five six okay, Thank you, Charlie,
Thank you, Jim, bye.
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And talking about due Wes, look, if you're having a
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But those trees have to be taken care of. That's
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Speaker 6 (35:03):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement, your total home
improvement source. Let's see here seven one three two one
two five eight seven four Let's head to the east side. Cindy,
welcome to seven forty k t H. How can I
help you?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Hike Jim, thank you. This is a little bit complicated.
So I went out of town right before the snowstorm
and my neighbor had turned my water off. And then
now last night when I got back in town, he
turned it back on. And they're no leaks or anything,
and some falsets are working and some are not. And
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I had the city come out and check everything, and
they said that from the city side and the meter
and all that, everything seems to be okay. So and
then one person had told me that maybe it got
clogged up while it was turned off. So I was
just wondering what your thoughts are and how do I
fix that, and is that a big problem and expensive
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or just what?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
No, So let me ask you a couple quick questions.
When you say some faucets aren't working, they're getting no
water through them at all, cot or cold correct? No, okay,
have you tried taking the aeriators off and cleaning those off?
That's the where the water comes out of the spickett head?
(36:27):
Uhuh uh. There's a device at the end there that
you can unscrew and typically in there you're going to
see where it's gotten sediment chunks and stuff like that,
and it will block it to the point where no
water comes out. But once you take that off, you
can turn the water on, flush that pipe out, get
all that gunk out, clean off the piece, put it
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back on, and you're back in business.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Oh okay, So it's actually on the faucet, like the end.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Of it, Yes, ma'am, right, where the water comes out.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Uh huh okay, all right. So then if that doesn't work,
then do you think there's like a clog in the
pipe somewhere.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
No, I'm thinking ninety nine percent that's gonna be it.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Oh okay, all right, I'll try that.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Okay, Okay, thank you, you bet you take care and
again our number seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. And and it happens because when you
shut the water off, you know, water drains down and uh,
things move around, and it's just it's just sitting there.
And this one's been sitting for a couple of weeks.
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You turn the water back on, it jars chunks loose.
If you ever looked inside your pipes, you probably wouldn't
ever drink the water. But uh, there's all kinds of
crud that builds up and it breaks loose and it'll
plug those aerators. And uh, when especially when you have
multiple areas like that, that happens. That's ninety nine percent.
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That's what it's going to be, all right. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. Let's head
up to well, it's near Conroe, Patty. How can I
help you?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Hi, I'm remodeling a refreshing a bathroom, a padder room,
and I took down the cabinet that was above the toilet.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
And of course when they were doing the house, they
didn't texture texture the wall back there, so it now
stands out like a sore thrum. Do I need a
retexture how do I retexture that little square there?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
What do you have for texture on the wall? Is
it like a splatter type thing or yeah, it's just
kind of little little bumps.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, yeah, not too much. Yeah, kind of flattened flattened
little bumps.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Okay. Normally that's just a spray on texture and you know,
you're able to have some somebody come in and just
match it back. They'll spray it on there. Then it
needs to be primed and sealed and painted. You can
do it yourself if you want to practice a little bit,
but they do make a little kit that you can
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do it yourself with, but it does take practice.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah, I mean it's it's too small of an area.
No one's going to come in and do that, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Oh, they'll charge you out the those to do it,
they'll be more and happy to come.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Yeah, they don't have the time to do it, you know,
just they won't write. So don't just go to the
hardware store and get.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
If you go to the box stores, go over and
look at the in the sheet rock department. They were
and I'm I haven't looked at them in over a year,
but they were selling these guns that had a bag
that looked like the oh the daisy bags for sour cream. Yes,
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that would attach on the bottom of the guns. And
it's pre mixed with the sheet rock mud that you
could just spray it on there, let it dry and
go ahead and texture or a painting everything. I would
recommend you get a piece of sheet rock or cardboard
to spray it on and practice a little bit. You'll
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probably have to get a couple of the packets to
do that. But you know, the nice thing about this
is even if you spray it on the wall and
you mess up, it's sheet rock mud, especially while it's
still wet, take a wet sponge. You can wipe it
right off and try again.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Okay, that sounds great.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Alrighty, you take care.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
All right, thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
And with that, we got to take a quick break.
When we come back, Vicky, you will be our last
call of the date. Then we all got to get
ready for a football game, don't we. We'll be back
in a moment with more Texas home improvement. You know,
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Speaker 6 (44:14):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your whole home improvement
source Vicky as I said, last call of the day,
How can I help you?
Speaker 10 (44:24):
Right? Okay, I've got a fairly new house and it's
boem insulated, okay, and I haven't attached garage and they
did not insulate the outside wall. We insulated that with
whatever our you know, batting or whatever ourselves.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But okay, would it be.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
Beneficial to put any uh insulation on the floor of
our attic in our garage to maybe help our hot
water heater or help with the garage that's attached, or
would that actually build mold and sweat to the U
because my house is like a wall, so when it
starts going, it's.
Speaker 6 (45:03):
Right, it wouldn't build mold and sweat. But insulation in
areas where it is unair conditioned really doesn't do us
any good because during the day it actually takes on
heat and it slowly releases it through the night, so
it actually can keep with the garage hotter longer than
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if you had no insulation. That's the reason. Normally unair
conditioned space is not insulated. Now, if you were going
to tell me that, well, my husband works in the garage.
We put an air conditioner out there sometimes and or
a heater out there, you know, different times a year,
Well then I would say, yes, go ahead and insulate.
But otherwise it really won't do you any good. If
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you wanted something that would help, take a look at
a radiant barrier. The energy Q radiant barrier can lay
on the attic floor and it would keep the heat
that gets in the attic from coming down into the garage,
and that would cost less and do a better job
for you.
Speaker 10 (46:05):
Okay, well we don't really do anything but park our cars.
Speaker 6 (46:08):
In there, then you absolutely you don't need to worry
about installation and Vicky, I hate to do this to you,
but that music means I'm out of time. I'm gonna
have to let you go.
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Uh.
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Hey, welcome to Texas Home Improvements. Your total home improvement
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That's number to call any home improvement question you have.
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I know everybody's thinking about the football game this afternoon. Uh,
(01:38):
but look, you still got home improvement projects going. You're
still thinking about projects, why not take the time to
pick up the phone, give me a call and let's
talk about it here on Texas Home Improvement. So seven
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So seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
With that being said, I'm going to jump into an
email question here. This comes from Matt out of Victoria.
He says, I have found that my nineteen seventy seven
and slab on grade, single story house has high humidity.
The homes or the rooms rather and kitchen see about
(03:09):
sixty humidity, and the bathrooms at mid seventies humidity even
with the bath fans that vent to the attic on
the bathrooms stay that high. Can I use a large
seven thousand square foot de humidifier located in the same
closet as the air handler, or do I need to
(03:30):
install an inline whole house D humidifier. Well, believe it
or not, you got an in line dehumidifier. It's called
your air conditioning system. And that's really what an air
conditioning system is is a large D humidifier. So typically
the reason humidity levels are that high is something's not
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working properly with the system, and usually it's because it's
oversized and not running long enough to humidify properly. Now
the bathrooms, that can be a different story. You know,
it depends on do you have vents going into the bathrooms,
do you keep the doors open when no one's in there,
that kind of stuff. But in general, for the humidity
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levels you're talking about, something's going on with the existing system.
You should not have to put a whole host you
humidifier in. Now your secondary question, can you put one in?
You absolutely can. I don't know how many square foot
your house is, but a seven thousand square foot dehumidifier
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you better have a pretty big house. I mean, you
don't want to put one in that's way oversized, because
I think that's what you already got going on with
the air conditioning system is that it's oversized. It cycles
off too often, doesn't stay on long enough to dehumidify properly.
And quite frankly, if you put a really large dehumidifier in,
(05:00):
you're gonna have the same problem because it won't stay
on long enough to take the proper amount of moisture
out of the air. So my recommendation would be, first,
let's get this system check, make sure it's properly sized,
properly ducted in all the stuff. Then let's look at
whether we need to use a dehumidi fire or not. Again,
(05:24):
pick up the phone and give me a call. Seven
to one three two one two five eight seven four.
That's seven one three two one two five eight seven four. H.
Christopher out of Stafford sent in a garage floor crack
line from entrance of garage to end of sheet rock wall.
(05:47):
What can I do to repair the eighth inch crack
line that separates where we park our cars inside the garage.
It runs from the tip of the entrance where the
garage door closes and runs straight back to the all
opposite the garage door. Well, I guess my first question
is why do you want to do anything. All concrete
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cracks by nature. Now an eighth inch gap, and that's
getting a little wider than normal, but it's not out
of the realm of normal. It is a garage. Is
it hurting anything? That's gonna be my first question. Now,
if you do have to close it up seal it up,
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then you're looking at an epoxy. They make regular epoxies
for doing this. But here's why I don't typically recommend
closing them up unless there's really a reason to seal
them up. That's typically an expansion crack. Concrete expands and
contracts with temperature and moisture changes. If you seal that
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crack when everything is shrunk, well, now when the concrete
expands again, you got a wedge in there, it'll pop
another crack somewhere else, and so it's not solving the problem.
What I truly would just recommend is leave it alone
(07:19):
unless it becomes a problem, then you can seal it
up at that time. But epoxy injection into the crack,
if you do need to seal it up, is absolutely fine.
They make special products for doing that, no big deal.
If you want to try to do it yourself. Granger
actually carries the product, so does Whitecap. If you want
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to have somebody do it, you're just looking for somebody
who does epoxy injection on concrete, and there are companies
out there who specialize in doing that. So hopefully that'll
help you out with that question. There seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. That's seven one
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three two one two five eight seven four, And I'll
see what I can do to help you out here
on this Super Bowl Sunday, before the game gets started,
let's see Phil Green sends in an email about engineered
wood flooring system for home with uninsulated wood subfloor. This
(08:27):
happens a lot, so he says, Hi, Jim love the show.
I'm looking for a trusted resource to discuss options to
replace the carpet in my peer and beam home with
a hardwood look engineered hardwood or something similar. Ideally this
will be done in the entire house. I've learned that
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non permeable surfaces placed over uninsulated wood deck exposed to
atmosphere invites moisturemulation between the layers and will cause subfloor failure.
So question one, assuming this can be done economically, is
there a particular underlayment that would alleviate the moisture accumulation. Well,
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the underlayment is typically what's causing the moisture accumulation because
it actually doesn't allow your air conditioning system to dry
things out the carpet. It's allowing the moisture that's coming
through from the underneath the crawl space there to evaporate
into the HVAC system. So typically the underlayments are going
(09:43):
to be something that is not going to help you
with this situation at all. However, there are some floors
that go down that do not require anything, so that
may be something you want to take a look at.
Is there a particular brand model of flooring system you
recommend for this situation. There's not. There's a lot of
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different floors you can you can take a look at.
And then third, is there a resource you recommend to
learn more? I see you work with Florida Coore. Do
you have a contact there that I can discuss this with?
Thank you so much, Phil. Well, look, Floridacre carries a
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lot of different types of flooring for this type of situation. Now,
typically what you're going to have to do is deal
with the moisture underneath and not worry about what you're
putting up on the top. That way, so it may
mean just putting better ventilation in the crawl space. It
may mean encapsulating the crawl space, which is putting that
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plastic sheeting down to keep the soils moisture from coming
into the crawl space area which goes up into the
living space. So that's the kind of really the type
of solution you're going to be looking for your issue
is going to be you're looking for something cost effective
and both of those are going to cost some money
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to do. As far as the flooring, absolutely go to
Florida Core go back and talk to the people at
the pro desk and they will have the knowledge to
work with you to get you know the right flooring
for you. And yes, there are some breathable underlayments and
some breathable floors that don't require underlayments that you could
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take a look at. Ah, Margaret, this is Jim. How
can I help you today?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Yes, Jim, I'm so glad to talk to you. I
would like to talk to you about my hall bathroom.
I would like to explain it to you so you
understand the layout. The main part of the room when
you first walk in is eight by five, and then
there's another door that goes on into a room where
the tub and the toilet is. In the first room
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is you go in the door, there's a linen closet
on the left, and then there's a six foot vanity
with two sinks in it. In the first sink is
the HPAK drain. That Astak drains into that drain pipe
below the sink. Okay, I am getting sewer gas from
that sink. I ran a garden hose from the roof
(12:26):
down the standpipe put water in there. That was Thursday morning,
about eleven o'clock. I had no smell until three o'clock
Friday morning, and then the smell returned. I had a
pummer come out and look at it. He doesn't know
what the problem is. I talked to the AHPACK system
(12:46):
and this has been set up this way since nineteen
eighty five. He doesn't know why I'm having a problem.
You're so versed in so many different systems. What is
your recommendation.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
The sink that has the HVAC draining to it, is
that used, you know, like for everyday use for washing hands,
brushing teeth, things like that.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
No, it's really not. But I go in I really
don't use the statuom, but I go in there periodically
and I run water and all the drains and plush
the toilet to make sure that there is water in
all the traps.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Okay, because what I'm really thinking is happening isn't really
a sewer gas, but stuff that's down in the p
trap in that that is building up and the cane
and producing that odor like sewer gas. Uh, it actually
happens in the drain lines of the HVAC system, sometimes
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to the point where they plug up. So yes, I'm
guessing that's what it's going to be. Is is down
in that pa trap just needing a good thorough cleaning, okay?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
And how would you recommend that we clean that pea trap?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Well, normally it's easy enough to just shut the water off,
unhooked the pea trap, take it outside, pose it out,
clean it out real good, and be done with it.
What creates even a little bit more of a problem
for cleaning, though, is the sink's overflow. Does that sink
have one, you know, the little where if it overfits
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gets filled too full, it starts going into the hole
in the top of the sink.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Okay, that can get a build up in it that
can cause odor as well. So I would first I
would first check down into my pea trap, and I
will tell you I've cleaned it out sometimes without taking
it apart, by just pulling the stop or out sprain,
scrubbing bubbles down in there and using an old toothbrush
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to clean everything, and that a lot of times gets
rid of it.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Okay. And then do you recommend that I pour some
blazer something down that overflow.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Well, you can do that periodically because that'll help to
keep it from building back up.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Okay, so you think all I need to do is
start out by spraying some foaming bubbles down there and
cleaning that area, and then if it's more than that,
then take the piece type apart and clean es.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Ma'am yep, okay.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Okay, that sounds good. Thank you so much for you.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
You're welcome. You take care, okay, bye bye, bye bye.
We're going to take a quick break here, Charlie. When
we come back, you'll be first here on Texas Home
Improvement seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
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When it comes to home improvement, Jim Dutton will have
you ride in the gravy train with biscuit wheels. Here
he is Son Texas Home Improvement.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four as promised for
him A head to friends with and Charlie, this is Jim.
How can I help you today?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Did Jim good to talk to you? Thank you? Shot
one in the bathroom. We have two closets that open
into the bathroom part of it, and in my wife's
closet we keep a dehumidifier in there, and the tray
fills up about every twenty four hours. Okay, and oh
(18:56):
all right. We got a fire checker and we found
that the wall and the wall just behind it, to
the corner of it, which is to the outside and
the north side, and there's a window there. That's that's
what's there. And so we called the plumber route and
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he does some inspection, and he said he thought it
was coming in from an improperly sealed window on the outside,
which would be open to you know, to her closet. Incidentally,
if you put the dehumidifire somewhere else, it does not
fill up at all rapidly. Uh. That was his primary
thrust of what he told us. And as I say,
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anyplace else who put it?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So by for what I did, we quit showering in
that bathroom and use the other bathroom for three days
and it's still filling up. And we've hadn't of course,
neither rain or anything else. And so I guess my
next question is where do we go from here. We're
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having foundation people come out next week this coming week,
and the foundational is gun in that area in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Okay, I don't think the foundation repair is going to
have anything to do with it. If it is related
to the window, you know, the moisture would get into
the building materials that are within the wall, including the insulation.
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So even though we didn't have any rain during those
three days, it would continue to be getting large amounts
of humidity out of the air typically for like a
couple of weeks in order to dry everything out. Now,
is it brick siding, wood siding? What's back there around
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that window? Okay, it's brick.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, of course he's got coughing, but uh, he could
see that thing. He said, where you're coking is going
bad and need to seal that of course.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Right, And and that can be critical because you know,
when the cocking isn't good around the window, moisture does
get in. It runs down the backside of the brick.
But there should be a brick ledge and there should
be wheepholes to let that moisture out. Typically, the only
way this starts happening if it's related to that window
is if the weather's uh stripping from when the window
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was put in, the ceilings that go on the flanges
of the window before the brick and everything is installed.
If that was done wrong or skipped, you could get
this kind of problem. But you can also get this
problem from a leak or other things letting moisture in
as well. So I'll tell you what, I gotta take
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a break. I'm gonna put you on hold for a
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think can help you. But I got to take this
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Speaker 1 (23:08):
In Texas, we do it our way. This is Texas
Home Improvement with Jim Hey.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three, two,
one two, five, eight seven four And we left. I
was talking with Charlie and Friendswood and Charlie, you know
your biggest issue is really not the humidity. It's the
possibility of mold from that moisture, and so it really
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does need to be addressed. Where this is coming from.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well, let me throw one more thing at the jim igot.
Dimension did that close? Is there the wall ninety degrees
not the outside, well one ninety degrees from it backs
up to my shower and of course you got a
shower head on that wall.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We did not cut into the wall or anything. That
was my first thought and then we've also considered that
could it be from a bad little tile over the
shower pan and at the edge of this house. I
know of houses in other areas that didn't have anything underneath,
you know, problems with a shower pan.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I'm saying, yeah, well, it could be from those. But
typically if it was one of those leaking, you would
see the moisture somewhere and typically it like a shower
pan for instance, if it's leaking, it's either going to
come into the closet where you're going to see it
on the floor, or you're going to see it running
outside on the side of the foundation. So here's what
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I would do. There's a company called Woodland's Water Restoration
and they specialize in reconstruction when there's been issues, you know,
whether it's mold, water, fire, smoke, whatever. I would have
them come out and first do it just an air
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check to see if there's mold, and they can also
check the humidity levels and let's see how high the
humidity levels are. Because truly, it could be as simple
as putting an AC duct into that closet to take
care of it, but it could be as complicated as
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opening up where that window is and resealing around it,
or it could be in the riser for that shower head.
I have seen in the past where you can't find
what the issue is. But every time somebody takes a
shower they pull the pin, the water goes up to
the shower head. Well, that riser has a leak in it,
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and so it's intermittent what you're getting regardless of what
it is. These guys should be able to help track
it down and then get it fixed.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Okay, anything you excuse me? Jim? Yes, oh, Woodlands. What's
the name of that company?
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Give me Woodlands Water Restoration and their phone number is
two eight one seven nine five five seven three six.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Got it? Okay, Jim, Well I believe, but we'll go
from there.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And I thank you very much, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You take care YouTube Jim, thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Bye and again seven one three two one two five
eight seven four Bury in Spring. How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Hey? Hello, Jim? Uh yeah. I have a two story
house and on the first floor we have a patio
that's you know, part of the house and it's probably
I don't know, Tennessee by thirty something like that, and
my wife wants to close it up, and we were
thinking maybe I don't. I don't know what material people
use to close those up. I've even seen people companies
(27:08):
that actually put in shades to close it. I don't
know how how permanent that is.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
But what do you recommend?
Speaker 8 (27:16):
You use glass or plexiglass or shades or kind of
how wo do you recommend?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
And what is the opening?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
It's just a patio in the back. You know it's opened.
It's it's a cement floor and we have flowers there.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
And you want to enclose it in Okay, I tell
you if you'll call a Texas remodel team. Okay, they
carry all the stuff for turning that into like a
patio room for you.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Oh okay, okay, and.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You can reach them. You know their windows division at
two eight one, three, nine, nine four zero six two.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
And you don't want to go with PLEXI And the
reason you don't when the plex is out in the sun,
it will begin to degrade and get these cracks in
it and stuff that. It doesn't affect it as far
as being protected from moisture in that, but it makes
it where you can't see through it very well.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Oh I see.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Okay, if you put a glass you have to putes
for added protection so people don't break it easily. I
guess you could put a ceiling on it.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
I guess uh it's well, it's no more than the
windows that you have in your home.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Yeah, okay, all righty Is it good to have it
tinted or just regular glasses? Okay? I guess it don't
make any difference.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I guess no. Nowadays, with the UV protection and stuff
that's in all the windows systems and stuff, you're pretty
much able to do what you want. The tinting will
help you make keep it a little more comfortable though.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Okay, well, this company also understand it by put the
shades in. I see company that actually can come just
put in shades and.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Oh yeah, they they can turn key the whole thing
for you.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Actually, it's called Texas Remodeling.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
What was the name of it again, Texas Remodel Team
and their number is two eight one three nine nine
four zero six to two.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Okay, all right, great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
You bet my pleasure, sure right again seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. Let's head over
to West University. Charlie. How are you today?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Very good? Thanks? I have some guest life in the
front of the house, either side of the front door,
and they seem to be working. Find they're burning away.
And but every once in a while I catch a whiff
of natural gas. Yeah, I go enter out to the
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front door. Is it? I wonder if I got a
problem there.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Or Well, you could have a leak in a line
somewhere that's very small. I guess is you probably only
smell it when there's no breeze, correct, that's yeah. Yeah,
So when there's no breeze, as there's a little leak,
it'll start to literally just accumulate there. The breeze blows
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it away enough where you don't have to worry about it.
But if you truly are getting that odor, yes, it's
an indication you could have a leak. I would recommend
you call a plumber who can work on gas lines
and have them start doing a detection. They make what's
called a sniffer that is able to basically follow the
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line and sniff out when it gets that odor to
help find the leak it. Obviously, you can also put
soap on the fittings and stuff, but if it's in
a wall or something, then you know that doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Okay, deserve some you could recommend to.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
You can call my company, due West Total Plumbing.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Okay, okay, and we'd.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Be more than happy to help you with that. You
can reach us at seven one three four, seven three
seven one five.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Six got it, seven one five six okay, Thank you, Charlie,
Thank you, Jim, bye.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Again. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
And talking about due Wes, look, if you're having a
foundation problem, call us. If you're having underslab plumbing leaks
that need to be replaced, you know, like the old
cast iron system, call us because if the if the
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tunneling is done to replace those lines and it's not
underpinned properly, you will have a foundation problem down the road. Now,
Due West can fix that foundation problem and the plumbing
problem both for you with our foundation division and our
plumbing division. And hey, if you're getting a little hot
while we're doing all this, we can take care of
that air conditioning as well. But look, we have separate
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Speaker 1 (32:23):
Don't wait until it's one hundred degrees outside and the
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To get new windows, call the Texas Remodel Team Window
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You know, trees are extremely valuable in our yards. Not
only do they add price, you know, add dollars to
the value of our house, but they help reduce our
energy bills by keeping our house shaded and things like that.
But those trees have to be taken care of. That's
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If it ain't broken, fix it anyway. You're with Jim
Do in Texas Home Improvement.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement, your total home
improvement source. Let's see here seven one three two one
two five eight seven four Let's head to the east side. Cindy,
welcome to seven forty k t H. How can I
help you?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Hike Jim, thank you. This is a little bit complicated.
So I went out of town right before the snowstorm
and my neighbor had turned my water off. And then
now last night when I got back in town, he
turned it back on. And they're no leaks or anything,
and some falsets are working and some are not. And
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I had the city come out and check everything, and
they said that from the city side and the meter
and all that, everything seems to be okay. So and
then one person had told me that maybe it got
clogged up while it was turned off. So I was
just wondering what your thoughts are and how do I
fix that, and is that a big problem and expensive
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or just what?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
No, So let me ask you a couple quick questions.
When you say some faucets aren't working, they're getting no
water through them at all, cot or cold correct? No, okay,
have you tried taking the aeriators off and cleaning those off?
That's the where the water comes out of the spickett head?
(36:27):
Uhuh uh. There's a device at the end there that
you can unscrew and typically in there you're going to
see where it's gotten sediment chunks and stuff like that,
and it will block it to the point where no
water comes out. But once you take that off, you
can turn the water on, flush that pipe out, get
all that gunk out, clean off the piece, put it
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back on, and you're back in business.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Oh okay, So it's actually on the faucet, like the end.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Of it, Yes, ma'am, right, where the water comes out.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Uh huh okay, all right. So then if that doesn't work,
then do you think there's like a clog in the
pipe somewhere.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
No, I'm thinking ninety nine percent that's gonna be it.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Oh okay, all right, I'll try that.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Okay, Okay, thank you, you bet you take care and
again our number seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. And and it happens because when you
shut the water off, you know, water drains down and uh,
things move around, and it's just it's just sitting there.
And this one's been sitting for a couple of weeks.
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You turn the water back on, it jars chunks loose.
If you ever looked inside your pipes, you probably wouldn't
ever drink the water. But uh, there's all kinds of
crud that builds up and it breaks loose and it'll
plug those aerators. And uh, when especially when you have
multiple areas like that, that happens. That's ninety nine percent.
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That's what it's going to be, all right. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. Let's head
up to well, it's near Conroe, Patty. How can I
help you?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Hi, I'm remodeling a refreshing a bathroom, a padder room,
and I took down the cabinet that was above the toilet.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
And of course when they were doing the house, they
didn't texture texture the wall back there, so it now
stands out like a sore thrum. Do I need a
retexture how do I retexture that little square there?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
What do you have for texture on the wall? Is
it like a splatter type thing or yeah, it's just
kind of little little bumps.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, yeah, not too much. Yeah, kind of flattened flattened
little bumps.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Okay. Normally that's just a spray on texture and you know,
you're able to have some somebody come in and just
match it back. They'll spray it on there. Then it
needs to be primed and sealed and painted. You can
do it yourself if you want to practice a little bit,
but they do make a little kit that you can
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do it yourself with, but it does take practice.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah, I mean it's it's too small of an area.
No one's going to come in and do that, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Oh, they'll charge you out the those to do it,
they'll be more and happy to come.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Yeah, they don't have the time to do it, you know,
just they won't write. So don't just go to the
hardware store and get.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
If you go to the box stores, go over and
look at the in the sheet rock department. They were
and I'm I haven't looked at them in over a year,
but they were selling these guns that had a bag
that looked like the oh the daisy bags for sour cream. Yes,
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that would attach on the bottom of the guns. And
it's pre mixed with the sheet rock mud that you
could just spray it on there, let it dry and
go ahead and texture or a painting everything. I would
recommend you get a piece of sheet rock or cardboard
to spray it on and practice a little bit. You'll
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probably have to get a couple of the packets to
do that. But you know, the nice thing about this
is even if you spray it on the wall and
you mess up, it's sheet rock mud, especially while it's
still wet, take a wet sponge. You can wipe it
right off and try again.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Okay, that sounds great.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Alrighty, you take care.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
All right, thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
And with that, we got to take a quick break.
When we come back, Vicky, you will be our last
call of the date. Then we all got to get
ready for a football game, don't we. We'll be back
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I said down to Leak City, Hello JD, Hey Jim.
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How you doing that?
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Man?
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I did call you last week about a chimneycat fleek
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Speaker 6 (44:14):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your whole home improvement
source Vicky as I said, last call of the day,
How can I help you?
Speaker 10 (44:24):
Right? Okay, I've got a fairly new house and it's
boem insulated, okay, and I haven't attached garage and they
did not insulate the outside wall. We insulated that with
whatever our you know, batting or whatever ourselves.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But okay, would it be.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
Beneficial to put any uh insulation on the floor of
our attic in our garage to maybe help our hot
water heater or help with the garage that's attached, or
would that actually build mold and sweat to the U
because my house is like a wall, so when it
starts going, it's.
Speaker 6 (45:03):
Right, it wouldn't build mold and sweat. But insulation in
areas where it is unair conditioned really doesn't do us
any good because during the day it actually takes on
heat and it slowly releases it through the night, so
it actually can keep with the garage hotter longer than
(45:24):
if you had no insulation. That's the reason. Normally unair
conditioned space is not insulated. Now, if you were going
to tell me that, well, my husband works in the garage.
We put an air conditioner out there sometimes and or
a heater out there, you know, different times a year,
Well then I would say, yes, go ahead and insulate.
But otherwise it really won't do you any good. If
(45:47):
you wanted something that would help, take a look at
a radiant barrier. The energy Q radiant barrier can lay
on the attic floor and it would keep the heat
that gets in the attic from coming down into the garage,
and that would cost less and do a better job
for you.
Speaker 10 (46:05):
Okay, well we don't really do anything but park our cars.
Speaker 6 (46:08):
In there, then you absolutely you don't need to worry
about installation and Vicky, I hate to do this to you,
but that music means I'm out of time. I'm gonna
have to let you go.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (46:17):
I hope everybody enjoys the game this evening. Before we go, though,
let's talk about Texas Remodel Teams windows real quick again.
You know, if you are looking for replacement windows and
you know you need them, if you definitely if you
got the old single pain aluminum frame windows, but even
if you got the builder's aluminum windows with double pain,
(46:38):
you know at some point in time you're gonna have
to look at replacing those because they are not energy efficient.
And Texas Remodel Teams Window Division has some great options
for you, whether it's a vinyl window, a wood window,
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Texas Remodel Teams Window Division is also backed up by
(47:01):
remodelers who if some wood is discovered that's bad, or
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