Du-West A/C Deal & Driveway Problems

Jim gets started by having Wade from Du-West Air Conditioning join the show to talk about the special they're offering for spring cleaning. He also takes calls about wooden strips breaking in between the driveway cracks, a dehumidifier for mildew inside the house, a sweating driveway concrete slab, a sheetrock crack, and a lot more. Jim continues in the second hour on the phone lines answering more home improvement questions.

Episode Transcript

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today's a special day. We are offering as special something
we don't normally do on Texas Home Improvement. We do
this once a year with our air conditioning contractors and

(02:57):
US air Conditioning here in the Houston area is offering
a special and I'm going to have weide on with
us here, Wade, how are you today?

Speaker 8 (03:06):
Doing very well?

Speaker 9 (03:07):
Sir so Wade.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
We're running a special at dew West. This is my
family business and this is not something we do every
day of the week. We offer this special once a year.
The services we do every day of the week, but
at this price, we do this once a year. Today's
the only day you can call in and take advantage
of this fifty nine dollars deal. But let's talk a

(03:33):
little bit about what's involved in this deal. What do
you guys do when you go out to do this
tune up on homeowners air conditioning systems?

Speaker 8 (03:47):
Well, we do majority of what every other company does.
We check the system multi components, but we do a
lot extra more. We do about twelve hund dollars more
in actual tune up that other company's charge. We pull
every blower motor, We clean every blower motor. We take
a part the condenser, clean the coils, get all the

(04:11):
leaves out from underneath it. We also, in turn do
a vaporator coil is accessible, we'll do a clean on that,
and we vacuum out all the sledge that's in the
drain lines if it's not flogged. We also then do
an air quality assessment for every customer's complimentary We also

(04:33):
take apart one grill so they can see inside the
ducks to see if the homeowner has anything in there concern.
And on the last thing we do that nobody else
does is an efficiency and attic efficiency report, so they
can see if there's any way that homeowner can save
money or anything of that nature.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, so let's go through this again a little bit slower.
On a couple of these items. You take apart to
condenser and for everybody listening, that's the outside unit.

Speaker 8 (05:08):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Now when you say take it apart, what are you talking.

Speaker 8 (05:14):
Well, we take that top off where the motor is,
where the standing at everybody sees, well, make sure we
take that off and we can thoroughly get the cleaning
solution and everything in through the coils and clean their
actual coils as well as possible with actual a non
corrosive cleaning agent, so you have the best airflow. Also,

(05:37):
with that top off of it, we can get all
the leaves and everything out of the bottom part of
the air condition itself, so those drain holds can drain
the water. You won't have stand water and eat whatever
it does.

Speaker 10 (05:49):
Ring.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, the other thing that you mentioned is we take
a grill off inside to examine the duck work. And
I want to explain to everybody why we do this
because people hear me say this all the time. Ducks
are people try to sell duck cleaning way too often.
It's filtered air going through the duck work. This gives

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people the opportunity to be able to see what's in
there before somebody's trying to sell them duck cleaning. And
we're going to tell you up front West does not
do duck cleaning. We're doing this so that you can
be rest assured you don't need this service. And again,
let's go in and talk about what you were saying

(06:35):
on the inside the unit. You're going to take it
apart and pull a blower motor. Why are we doing
all that?

Speaker 8 (06:41):
Well, when you have up to a tenth of dirt
on that blower wheel, it can reduce the airflow. When
you have to reduced airflow, that brings more strain on
the unit and also less efficiency. So for the best performance,
especially if that's what you're paying for for tune up,
we make sure you have the best airflow possible. We

(07:02):
take all the build up and crutter, dirt, whatever may
be on that blow wheel, clean it so you have
the best airflow itself. Also, when that dirt, dust, everything
gets into the motor, that's what helps there's holes in
the motors that helps it cool and keep it cool down. Well,
we get all the dirt and blockages from there so

(07:23):
your motor could breathe and run their longest that it
possibly can.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
That helps extend the life of that HVAC system.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Then that's correct.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, So Wade fifty nine dollars for this special today.
They call the office seven one three four seven three
seven one five six. We got people there to take
calls today and this is today only, so they need
to go ahead and pick up the phone, give us
a call today and get scheduled for this. You got

(07:55):
anything you want to add on that.

Speaker 8 (07:58):
We're having everybody here at the office waiting for the calls.
I'm here as well too, so if anybody has any
other questions that they don't have right now or whenever
they can do, call in. I will be available to
talk to them as well.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
All right, Wait, I appreciate it, and I will talk
to you.

Speaker 9 (08:15):
A little bit later.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
Sounds good, Thanks sir.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Thank you again. Call the office seven one three four
seven three. Take advantage of that fifty nine dollars special.

Speaker 11 (08:26):
This is not.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just coming out and checking to see if your AC
system is working, you know, like most companies do. This
is a tune up to clean everything, to check everything
and go through and make sure that you are up
and running for another year. All right, you got a
question seven one three, two one two five eight seven

(08:48):
four any home improvement question you have? Maryland, Welcome to
Texas Home Improvement. How can I help you?

Speaker 12 (08:55):
Yes, Jim, thank you. My driveway has those sex which
are divided with sand strips of wood, and the wood
is now breaking and wearing out after a number of years.
I don't I forgot what do you put to fill
in those where those wooden strips.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Were well, you got several choices. One would be to
dig all that wood out and put new wood in
if you wanted. It does require notching the wood where
the rebars go through and everything. It's kind of a pain,
so most people elect not to do it that way,
and I will tell you up front, I would not
do it that way. Another way is they make a

(09:40):
rubberized joint sealer that you can, you know, again, clean
off some of the wood off the top and this
pours down in there. It comes in a calking tube
that you can just squeeze it in there. It self
levels seals it up. It's it's a little labor intensive,

(10:01):
but it does a very nice job of feeling it
and sealing it and everything. And then the easiest one
that I have found is a product called trim a
slab and it's a a coil basically a rope of
this rubberized material that you can push down into the

(10:24):
slab or into those joints. Rather, it's it's designed to
fit in there. It comes in a couple of different
withs so that you can match what you've got with
wise and it's made right down here in Texas City,
so you know it's a local company. I've seen it
at some of the Ace Hardware stores. I don't know

(10:44):
if all of them are carrying it or not, but
the product is called trim a slab.

Speaker 12 (10:50):
Got it. Fantastic, Tim Don You're so good. Thank you
for your help, and I will be calling Ace Hardware.

Speaker 9 (10:59):
Thank you, ma'am.

Speaker 13 (11:00):
Care oh blessed.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thanks by again our number seven one three two one
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We're gonna head the sugar Land. Jim.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
This is Jim.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Feel like I'm talking to myself.

Speaker 14 (11:26):
No, good afternoon, Jim. I have a question about uh
you meid afire? For I have a uh property, our
house in Galveston, Okay, and I was wondering I've had
trouble with uh with mildew inside the house.

Speaker 9 (11:44):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (11:45):
Is it better to or what? What do you suggest?
Are you med afire or or just leave the air
conditioner running? Or are both?

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Or well?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Uh, you would need a dehumidifier, not a humidifier because
they do make both. Yeah, so you would want a
dehumidifier if that's the route you're gonna take. Where a
lot of people run into trouble with like places on
Galveston is where they set their thermostats.

Speaker 9 (12:16):
And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Jim, I need to put you on hold for just
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we come back, I'll make sure we finish this discussion
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Speaker 1 (14:04):
You know, do West air Conditioning again. We're running a
special today today only fifty nine dollars. Get a complete
tune up on your HVAC system fifty nine dollars per system.
Call us at the office now, have us come out
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Speaker 6 (15:28):
David thinks there's no way do we s Services can
clean and services AC unit for just fifty nine dollars,
So he's calling the owner out, Hey, Jim, Yeah, just
so happens to be Jim Dutte.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
I want to get my air conditioning service this morning,
and I'm hearing fifty nine dollars specials. I know they
can't provide a worker for fifty nine dollars. They're going
to do service and not try to upsell me on everything.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
In other words, they're going to screw me royally.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Well, you will find that almost every company offers some
type of space at this time of year, and I
offer it as well. And here's why, we got nothing
for our guys to do it this time of year.
So the guys are sitting around anyway, kind.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Of like millennials playing video games all day instead of
getting a job.

Speaker 9 (16:11):
So what we do is.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
We offer these specials to come out and service the
AC units with the hopes of signing you up as
a customer so that if you have an issue in
the future, you call back because we're gonna have to
pay these guys, and we can't lose them because you
need them when the busy season hits.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
So now you know, do West Services will check out
and thoroughly clean your AC unit and get it ready
for the Texas heat and they won't try to upsell
you all for just fifty nine dollars called due West
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Home Improvement with Jim Dunton.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. When we left,
I was talking with Jim down about a place down
in Galveston and Jim, I'm assuming this is like a
weekend home or something.

Speaker 14 (17:09):
Yes, Yes, that's great.

Speaker 9 (17:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
So where do you normally set the thermostat on the
air conditioning system when you leave?

Speaker 15 (17:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Pretty high?

Speaker 14 (17:20):
Sometimes turn it off all.

Speaker 9 (17:21):
Together, okay.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, And see your air conditioning system is a big
d humidifier, so when you turn it off all together,
it's not dehumidifying. You're just getting all that humidity that's
in Galveston, you know, soaking into your home and you're
gonna start getting that mildew growing. Normally, I would tell
you if you'll probably set it like eighty Now, if

(17:46):
you don't want to leave it running, then I would
tell you get a d humidifier.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
Set it up in there.

Speaker 8 (17:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
When you do that, you're gonna have to have a
place for it to drain to, but it will do
the same thing. But the reason I tell you to
leave the air conditioner on is when you let the
home heat up that way, it not only are you
adding humidity to the air, but it's damaging other things

(18:15):
in the house like plastic parts and different things like that.
So there's other advantages to using the air conditioner and
just not letting the house overheat. And not to mention
the fact that when you do turn the air back on,
you use a lot of energy to cool it back
down again.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Okay, so.

Speaker 14 (18:39):
I guess I should just forget about a daumidifier and
just leave the AC on.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I would do that first. I mean when I used
to have a place at Lake Livingston, and yes, I
always left the AC system on. Now, like I said,
I would turn it up to like seventy eight or eighty.
But I would leave it on just for the dehumidification
and uh, you know, keeping everything in good shape in

(19:08):
the home.

Speaker 14 (19:10):
Okay, Uh Jim, what about during the other seasons besides
the summer? What uh what like winter and so forth,
spring and as far as humidity control.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, if it is an issue still at those times
of year, then that's when you would be running a dehumidifier.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
And dehumidifiers are not very expensive to buy. I mean, uh,
you know, to get one, you're you're typically talking a
couple hundred dollars to get a good one, and uh,
it's going to remove a lot of water out of
the air. Now, most of them will come with a
tray that captures the water and you have an option
to hook a hose.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
Up to it.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Always, if you're not going to be there, always used
the hose because uh that that bucket that it gets uh,
it will typically fill it up in less than a
day and then it shuts off.

Speaker 14 (20:12):
Well, there's no convenient place to drain unless you drill
a hole somewhere.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, h the places that you have to drain them
typically is going to be to have it like near
a bathroom where it can drain into a shower or
something along that line.

Speaker 14 (20:33):
Yeah, okay, Well, is there more humidity in the in
the winter or spring or fall.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Or then.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
No, In fact, I would I would venture to say
that a lot of times there's more humidity in the
summer than there is in those other times. But I
mean when when you when you watch the news, they
typically give you the humidity levels, and in the summer months,
it's not unusual for us to be ninety percent humidity.
In the winter months, a lot of times we're at

(21:05):
as low as forty, being up to seventy. Typically your
ideal humidity levels in the house are typically forty five
to sixty five. So summer is when it's really the
bad time.

Speaker 14 (21:20):
Okay, all right, well maybe I'll do one have a
U meidifier? Do you meidifier? Just for backup? I guess yep,
there you go their condition, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (21:34):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Thank you for the help.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
You bet take care okay again our number seven one three, two,
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Speaker 6 (22:57):
We're back to Texas Home Improvement with Jim Dott and
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Speaker 1 (23:42):
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. We're gonna
head out to sugar Land, Greg.

Speaker 9 (23:57):
This is Jim, Welcome to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Good afternoon, Jim. How are you doing wonderful?

Speaker 9 (24:04):
How about you?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, I'm doing good. I appreciate your show. I don't
get a chance to listen to it super often, but
when I do, I always get some good tips and
hints some things, so I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
So I have two questions today on two issues I
wanted to get your insight on. The first one is
my garage concrete slab all that garage free car garage.
But I have a handful of times a year I
get this sweating going on on my slab and it

(24:39):
makes the entire garage just really damp and wet. Yeah,
so I'm trying to figure out. I'm thinking there's probably
something underneath the slab. This is an a home that's
fifty years old, so it's not something recently built. So
I don't know what to do about that or what

(24:59):
that is it's for how to solve it.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's typically caused by the weather change. Uh. You know
when when we have a quick weather change, Uh, the
concrete and the air are at different temperatures and it
basically produces sweating. And that's that's what you got going
on with it.

Speaker 8 (25:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Short of heating and cooling the garage, there's not a
whole lot you can do about it.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Well, typically it's I usually lead one of the We
leave one of the garage doors open a little bit
so our dogs can go in and out a freedom
go in and out from the house to the garage
and all that for the backyard, so I've always had
one door gamped about a foot or so so they
can get in. Uh, would an epoxy cover flooring. Uh

(25:52):
help bat Any.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
No, No, In fact, it sometimes can make make you
a new problem because as the floor trice is sweat
like that, the apoxy can blister off.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay, uh any suggestions of how to eliminate that?

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Really the only thing you can do, Like I said,
you heat or cool it or put a dehumidifier in there,
and that can minimize it. But if you're leaving the
door ajar, the dehumidifier is never gonna stop. I mean, uh, Bret,
you're adding to the temperature differential. And quite frankly, having

(26:44):
the door a jar probably is what's causing some of
the issue.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Okay, well, we thought about closing the garage door and
just putting a dog door in the in the garage
so the dogs get in out that way, an and
you know, I'll just keep the roge door closed. So
I guess maybe that could probably help eliminate hopefully maybe
that issue.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, because basically what's happening is it's hitting due point.
When it hits due point, it sweats, and so by
having the door a jar, you're you're allowing it to
hit the due point easier.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Okay, all right, well I work on that all right.
Second question, sure, So we had a very very large
oak tree that we it was next to our circular
drive in the back of our house, that we had
to have cut down because it was creating foundation problems.
So we cut the tree down, but our back driveway

(27:45):
we had some sinking going on because of that tree.
So I'm wondering if there's something that I can you know,
there's I've seen the various companies out there where they
drill the holes and they POxy fill, you know, underneath
it the concrete.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're a thing with the foam, right.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'm not as much a fan of that because I
don't want to have, you know, all these olds all
over my driveway. Is there's something that I can do
other than that, other than that and then and other
than just ripping the whole driveway out and repouring it
all refilling.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
How long ago did you cut the tree down?

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Oh? Probably about five years ago, Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
And the reason I asked that is once you cut
a tree down, the soil starts taking on moisture and expanding, right,
But after four or five years, it's done all it's
gonna do. So, yeah, your choices are gonna be go ahead,
and use the eure thing, which will drill a five
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(28:54):
requires a two inch hole, or you tear it out
and pour in new that. That really is the only
three options there are right now. But I can tell
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(29:15):
year that goes by, it will become less and less
noticeable because it'll start getting the dirt and grime on
it like the driveway has, and they blend in so
usually after just a couple of years, you don't even
see them anymore.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Okay, Well, like I said, I'm not being a fan
of that because I hate having the look of all
the holes being drilled everywhere. So but yeah, I didn't
know if there was some other product or solution out
there to do it that would not have to drill
all those holes everywhere.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
So yeah, nope, not at this time.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Okay, all right, Well I appreciate very much.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
You bet you take care, all right?

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Thank you?

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Speaker 1 (34:49):
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. David in
the Woodlands. I gonna help you today.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Yeah, Jim, I got a sheet rock question.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
My house is built in the mid eighties, and I've
got an area in the house it's like fourteen foot
ceilings right big large common area, and then our kitchen
comes out with the walls that fourteen foot high. And
then right there with that corner of the where the
kitchen is up on that fourteen foot ceiling, there's a
crack in the sheet rock of about eighteen inches and

(35:28):
it's just wide enough that you can see it up there.
And I was just wondering if there's any foundation issues.
There's no other cracks in the house, doors don't stick,
no mortar breaking in the bricks or something.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
And somebody had.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Mentioned, you know, if the hurricanes coming through eighty miles
an hour, wind house might have flexed and cracked that
sheet rock.

Speaker 7 (35:45):
But I don't want to get your opinion.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
And I'm all verified that what I'm picturing my mind
is what you got So you got a peak room
and the wall goes all the way up to the
peak in the middle there, and there's a crack that's
coming straight down from the peak.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
No, it's coming out. It's going out across. So the
ceiling's fourteen feet high.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
But it's flat.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Okay, Oh, it's flat. Okay, gotcha.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
It's flat.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
And so so it's coming So the word it's flexing
is not down the wall. It's so at that point
where kind of the kitchen's kind of up if you
imagine a box inside that.

Speaker 7 (36:21):
Room, yep, where the kitchen is.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
So at that point where those walls come together, that
crack is running along the ceiling and it's about eighteen
inches and like I said, it's just wide enough that
you can see.

Speaker 16 (36:32):
It up there.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, that ninety nine point nine percent of the time
is not a foundation movement crack. Okay, okay, h normally, yeah,
that that is. I typically attribute it to just a
bad sheet rock job to begin with, because it's it's
in a corner that flexed a little bit somehow and

(36:56):
it went ahead and broke. But yeah, nothing to worry about.
Just have it retaped and floated.

Speaker 7 (37:03):
Got it, Okay, that's how you that's how you fix it.
You you'd float.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
It, yep, yeah, yeah, just uh And typically painters will
do this, they'll come in and and retape and float it.
Now if since it is inside the uh the corner
like that, in some cases people will just use calking
to cover it up, and that works just fine as well.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Okay, I'm gonna try that before I do the float work.
Kind of scratch a scratch a spot in there where
I can put that a good what a good like
vinyl vinyl cock or vinyls.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Just a regular silicon ized cock, so it's got a
little flexibility to it it.

Speaker 7 (37:45):
Okay, all right, Hey, appreciate your time.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Hey, my pleasure. You take care by and and again
that's a very common thing. But usually if a crack
is following a sheet rock joint in a wall or
where the ceiling in walls meet in corners and things

(38:08):
like that, that's usually not gonna be from foundation movement.
That's usually gonna be just something that needs to be
repaired and move on. Foundation cracks are normally gonna be
diagonal cracks going across from the corner of like a
doorway going diagonal from a window that's usually an indication

(38:30):
of foundation movement. But when it's in the joints themselves,
even when it's in the walls or ceilings and it's
following the sheet rock joints, that's usually not an indication
of foundation movements. So you can be uh, you know,
rest a little easier with that information. Again, if you
got a question seven one three two one two five

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to jump into an email question here. Well, Brett is

(39:15):
asking about new concrete driveway replace old one. What kind
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(39:36):
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Speaker 17 (40:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Look, with this time of year, you know we've got
the ac special going. I do want to remind you
if you haven't been watering your foundation, you're behind the
curve already. It's time to get those soaker hoses out
and be watering the foundation. We haven't been getting the
rain that we normally get, soils are a little drier
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(40:30):
the ground to keep from having a foundation issue this
summer because in the summer months you can't keep up.
You got to get started early on it. We'll be
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this was not a structural issue.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yes it looks bad, and yes it can become a
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Dutton, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
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Steve how CAN i help?

Speaker 18 (44:59):
You, Hey, jim we have a beach house on The
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we've got a it's a seventeen hundred square foot is
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(45:19):
when you walk into the front, door it's the only
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know six hundred square feet of living, room kitchen, combination
okay with with ten foot ceilings and then everything goes
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(45:45):
that open room to the hallway has got a crack directly.
Across And i've had two guys retape it and float
it and it cracks, again and the last guy said
you need to block. It BUT i don't even understand
what he's talking.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
About, well what he's telling you is you're going to
have to redo these supports that the sheet rock is
attached to the framing to strengthen, it because it's just
a natural weak spot, there and that will get it
taken care. Of and then when they tape and float,
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(46:23):
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Hey welcome, back To Texas Home, improvements your total home improvement. Source,
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Hanson this Is. Jim welcome to seven forty k T O.

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Speaker 9 (51:31):
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Speaker 1 (51:32):
HI? U, yeah someone backed into the divider between our
double garage doors AND i don't know who to call.

Speaker 13 (51:43):
To get that.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Mixed and what was it made?

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Of was?

Speaker 1 (51:47):
It it's? Brick? Venier, Okay so so you got brick
and then you got the wood columns behind, it and,
yeah right right, Now i'm gonna get personal here when
you say someone is someone? Related? Yes uh. Huh mom

(52:12):
likes to tell tell the story that WHEN i came
home from kindergarten one, time a friend of mine got
in trouble and he got a spank in that day at,
school and after a little while she got it out
of me that it was.

Speaker 9 (52:25):
Me but, nonetheless.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Uh, yeah we're just gonna have to did It did
it move the column? Itself or is it just a
brick that's.

Speaker 7 (52:37):
DAMAGED i believe it it moved it.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Out, Okay so the overhead doors aren't working?

Speaker 13 (52:46):
Out?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yeah the overhead doors working?

Speaker 15 (52:49):
THERE i think they're?

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Off, yes, yeah, okay.

Speaker 7 (52:53):
Particularly on one. Side all, right when you shut, it
it doesn't work quite?

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it's quite frankly going to be a small, job but
he'll he'll get.

Speaker 9 (53:47):
You taken care.

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Of thank you so.

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See i'm going to jump into an email question. Here

(54:31):
So charles says he's up in fullsher mold under shower.
Liner third time it's a shower pan. Failure and this
is this is more common than people. Realize, now if

(54:53):
you're getting mold under there it's got to be getting
moisture from, somewhere so there's a few places it Can
one is if the shower pan itself has a. Leak,
unlikely but especially since this is the third, time very.
Unlikely the, other which is a very likely place but

(55:17):
should have been caught, already would be the where the
drain line comes through into the shower. Itself typically the
shower pan has a big nut that's underneath you don't
see it from the. Top that tightens up and a
rubber ring will clamp onto the pipe and that's how it.

(55:40):
Seals if that's not tight, enough it can. Leak that
could be the. Source but again this is the third.
Time you would have thought if that was, it that
would have been caught. Already the last, one which is
a kind of a, WELL i shouldn't say last. One
other one that is kind of missed a lot of

(56:04):
times is if the pipe going from the shower valve
up to the shower head has a. Leak and this
is very common and missed all the. Time it's a minor,
leak so it's not putting out tons of, water but

(56:27):
it puts out enough that it grows, mold and typically
it's going to be down low because water drops down you,
know it gets down to the floor level there and
that's where the mold would start to. Grow and that
is something that's very common to. Happen and the problem
is the only time it's leaking is when the shower
itself is. Running even if it's in a. Bathtub you,

(56:52):
know you can run the bathtub and it's not a.
Problem but the minute you pull the lever and it
goes up to the shower, head you got this leak.
Going this is a common problem that's missed all the
time because it's extremely hard to check for and quite,
frankly because this is the third time that they're having
to come out and do, This i'm betting that's probably

(57:13):
where it's.

Speaker 9 (57:13):
At so.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
If you want to try to steer them in that,
DIRECTION i think that would get you taken care. Of,
now there is one other. Thing you know a lot
of times people like to put their thermostats at not
a WHAT i would say a normal, temperature whether it's

(57:40):
real cold or real. Warm, well those shower pans are
typically thin, material and let's just say you've got you
keep your house extremely. Cold to, me you're setting it
down at sixty eight. Degrees it's. Cold you run a hot,
shower the water gets, down it hits that shower, pan.

Speaker 9 (58:02):
You, know and it's.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Hot it can cause it to sweat because it hits
that due point where it produces moisture and. Sweats that
can be a cause of it on, light but it
is a slight. Possibility so there there's where you can.
Check I'm i'm betting it's going to be in the
in the going up to the shower head seven one

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three two one two five eight seven Four Stephen Conro
how CAN i help?

Speaker 10 (58:30):
You, yes, SIR I i have a fifteen year old
home and uh and when we bought the, HOUSE i
noticed it had a little fan on the. Dryer ducked
For linton for the exhaust on the. Dryer and now
that's fifteen years old and it's it's. Broken it's. DONE

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i bought another one to replace. It but it's a
little more of a job than. That i'm willing To conker.
Tackle would you know Of is this AN ac type
person to repair this or, YES i just need somebody
to come in and swap them.

Speaker 16 (59:06):
Out.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Yep it is normally AN hvac contractor that would deal with.

Speaker 10 (59:12):
That, well THEN i guess that's WHO i need to.
CONTACT i appreciate.

Speaker 9 (59:18):
It you.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Bet you take Care, yeah all your, venting whether it's
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fan or the dryer, vent the vent above the, stove
all of those are typically maintained by YOUR hvac. Contractor

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Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
Com david thinks there's no way do services can clean
and services ac unit for just fifty nine. Dollars so
he's calling the owner, Out, Hey, Jim, yeah just so
happens to Be Jim. DUTTE i want to.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
Get my air conditioning service this, morning And i'm hearing
fifty nine dollars. SPECIALS i know they can't provide a
worker for fifty nine. Dollars they're going to do service
and not try to upsell me on.

Speaker 6 (01:03:21):
Everything in other, words they're going to screw me. Royally,
well you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Will find that almost every company offers some type of
special at this time of, year AND i offer it as.
Well and here's, why we got nothing for our guys
to do it this time of. Year so the guys
are sitting around, anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:03:38):
Kind of like millennials playing video games all day instead
of getting a. Job so what we do is.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
We offer these specials to come out and service THE
ac units with the hopes of signing you up as
a customer so that if you have an issue in the,
future you call back because we're gonna have to pay
these guys and we can't lose them because you need
them when the busy season.

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More Texas Home improvement With Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Dunton, hey welcome back To Texas Home improvement seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four AND i
do want to encourage you to take advantage of that.
SPECIAL i MEAN i got to pay the, guys WHETHER
i got them washing a truck or coming out to
service YOUR hvac. Units so why not take advantage of

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the special we're running and it will end. Today this
is a one day thing that we run on on the,
show uh every, year so take advantage of. It all.
Right you can call seven one three four seven three
seven one five six and, uh you, know go ahead
and get on the on the schedule. There if the

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answering machine picks, up that means everybody's. Busy but go
ahead and leave a. Message we will return your call
and get you take taken care.

Speaker 9 (01:05:13):
Of so.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Got a QUESTION i want to call the show seven
one three two one two five eight seven. Four that's
seven one, three two one two five eight seven. Four,
mark this Is. Jim how CAN i help?

Speaker 11 (01:05:27):
You, Well, UH i got a question about the crawl.
SPACE i constructed the home about twenty five years, ago
AND i had, it uh on piers three feet off the.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Ground. OKAY i was worried about flooding In.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
HOUSTON i can't imagine you worry about flooding In. Houston,
YEAH i.

Speaker 11 (01:05:48):
Know so what happened WAS i subbed out the insulation
of the whole house and they put it. In they
put the actually when they put it, in they put in.
Backwards they put the paper facing the. Round, Okay so
so they had to come back out and reinstall it
with the paper in the up. Position and then to secure,

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it they put these wires in about every and a
half or two, feet just pushed them up right to
keep it secure up against in the. Cavity well over the,
years what's happened is they fall. Out pieces are missing
here and. There so my question is would it be
better to go ahead and try to get it back
to the way it, was or maybe look at some

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different type of insulation for that call Face.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
So is it dirt underneath or do you got a
classic vapor barrier or. Anything, no it's just a. Something
but down on the ground is just open, dirt, right.

Speaker 19 (01:06:50):
Sad, yeah Sand, okay we put sand.

Speaker 16 (01:06:52):
Down.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
OKAY i typically would tell you to take all that insulation.
Out the only INSULATION i ever recommend under a cross
space house is a closed cell spray foam. Insulation and
the reason for, it and the reason for that question
as far as what's down there for dirt is the

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humidity levels that come up out of the. Soil it
gets into that. Insulation it holds that moisture against the
dirt and causes just tremendous amounts of wood. Roped, now
when you use the spray foam that is a closed,
cell it don't take on, moisture keeps you from having

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the wood rot. Issue now you're being saved right, now
probably BECAUSE i don't know how much sand you have,
there but the sand is being a buffer for. You
and are the sides all open where the air can freely?

Speaker 11 (01:07:50):
Move, yeah there's plenty of, ventilations so that's. Good, Yeah
AND i put two truck loads.

Speaker 19 (01:07:56):
Of sand down, okay plenty of sand, barrier.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Yep and and and that's that's what's uh probably saved
you from having a lot of wood rotted under. There but,
UH i mean if you got to go through a
bunch of labor to fix what's. There, anyways why continue
to have the risk? Factor take it, out put the
spray phone and be.

Speaker 11 (01:08:16):
Done that's close, cell close cell.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Only if you use an open, cell it'll it'll do
just like that fiberglass does and hold moisture on the.

Speaker 19 (01:08:27):
Wood all, right, okay, OKAY i appreciate your. Help thank.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
You, now if if you don't change it, out and
you want to go ahead and keep the, fiberglass please
keep my number handy because we would love to replace
the wood for you down the.

Speaker 19 (01:08:44):
Road there you, go all, right you take, care thank,
you bye.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Bye seven one three two one two five eight seven.
Four any home improvement question you, have pick up the,
phone give me a. Call we'll see what we can
do to help you. Out we're gonna take a quick
break for news trafficking weather here on seven forty KTRH Usa.

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Insulation you, know if your home had cold drafts when
we had the cold, weather you need to reinsulate it.
NOW i RECOMMEND Usa. Insulation that's WHAT i did to my.
HOUSE i had them come. In they drilled holes through
the mortar lines on my brick home injected this non
expansive foam. Insulation it's kind of like the consistency of

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shaving cream sets up in a matter of, minutes but
it seals all the air, gaps increases the r. Value in,
fact it pretty much doubles it and makes your house
more energy efficient as well as quieter because it blocks
up to eighty percent of the noise from outside as.
Well love this, stuff you will too if you put

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it in your, home because your energy bills are going
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in in the winter, months you got your cold air
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Five let's get back To texas home improvement With Jim,
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Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
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 pick up the, phone give me a,
call see WHAT i can.

Speaker 9 (01:11:27):
Do to help you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Out michael And. Woodville how CAN i help?

Speaker 9 (01:11:31):
You, hm.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
LiOD michael are you? There i'm gonna Put michael on
hold BECAUSE i think he's having a problem hearing us
there right now again our number seven one three two
one two five eight seven. Four. Uh any home improvement
question you, have feel free to pick up the, phone

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give me a, call And i'll see WHAT i can
do to help you. Out. Michael you?

Speaker 16 (01:12:02):
There, yeah they?

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Went how are you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Today i'm doing just.

Speaker 16 (01:12:09):
RIGHT i live In, Hillister, okay that's south of south Of. Woodville.
Yep so you said you're camp or whatever is In.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
Woodville, Man i'm ten miles east Of. Woodville. Yeah, well
if you're coming headed Towards, shasper, yeah you come out
Of woodville on one nine, right and you, know just
outside of town, there you've got That shell gas station

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seventeen forty six ers off to the.

Speaker 16 (01:12:48):
Right my sister is on seventeen forty. Six oh, yeah,
yeah how about it was? You he Said. WOODVILLE i
was just fabergases that BECAUSE i listened to you on
The dallas station AND i listened to you on The houston.
Station uh huh and. Uh and so when you said

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that this camp was In, WOODVILLE i, said she was
kind Of you, know.

Speaker 9 (01:13:15):
We've been out.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
Here we've had this place for thirty three years out,
here and, uh, Basically i'm out here with a group of.
GUYS i donate hog hunts to different, charities and this
is a group of guys who bought a hog. Hunt
so we're out here taking them hunting this.

Speaker 16 (01:13:34):
WEEKEND i got a buddy that's a big hole. Runner but,
ANYWAY i was JUST i just wanted to know exact you,
know kind of where you. Were, yeah and, uh, anyway
good luck to you on the.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Hall huh oh they got one this morning, already so
everything's going.

Speaker 16 (01:13:55):
Good, well they cleared them all out down WHERE i.
Live THEY i don't know what they, did BUT i
was kind of. Disappeared, yeah, they'll, they'll they'll cycle back.
Again those parallelhols were pretty bad down. Here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Yep you take. Care, yeah all, right thanks for the,
Call michael again our number seven one three two one
two five eight seven. Four let's head down to Pair. Land, Hello,
danny CAN i, Hey, danny.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Can you hear?

Speaker 13 (01:14:42):
Me?

Speaker 9 (01:14:43):
Hello, yes, sir go, Ahead.

Speaker 15 (01:14:46):
Good, afternoon great show as. Usual SO i have a
driveway the house built in two thousand and, six and
we've got some undermining from the gutters that the driveways
kind of gave him wonkey and had a couple of.
Cracks i've had four or five cup these come out
and given me, estimates And i'm kind of perplextional which
way to go versus slurry versus new driveway versus, Foam

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And i'm just kind of asking you the pro which.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Is a good the best way probably the best.

Speaker 15 (01:15:16):
WAY i know it probably a new driveway that's three
times as much as just jacking it.

Speaker 16 (01:15:21):
Up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
Yep AND i will tell You i've got you, KNOW
i do new. Driveways i've got the mud, Pump i've
got a eurothane. System and typically it depends on how
much you got to raise. It has anybody told you
how much you got to bring it?

Speaker 15 (01:15:39):
Up in one, area it's about two and a half
to three inches is the lowest.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Spot, okay when you get into that much, space the
phone is too expensive because the phone is by the,
pound and they'll start you with a minimum pro and
then you, know as as they have to use more and,
more then they're gonna, say oh, well, uh we're gonna

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have to charge you. More, typically if it's over two,
Inches i'm gonna recommend either mud pumping or replacing the.

Speaker 15 (01:16:14):
Concrete so each person that comes out and gives me
one thing gives me the negatives of the other when
you do, both which is kind of, unique AND i
understand now why the differences. Are does one lasts longer
than the?

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
Other?

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Typically, nope, nope, okay because when when you mud pump
or you're a, thing all you're doing is putting a
wedge between the soil and the bottom of the, concrete
so when the soil, moves the concrete is gonna move, again.

Speaker 15 (01:16:49):
Right and we've taken we've taken measures to correct the
the the the downspouts from washing out where they were
washing out going unneath the slay underneath the dry. Way
so we've eliminated the water. Issue and so now it's
just about making all that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Work, Yeah, now did you say the concrete's cracked up some.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
There's there's a there's a crack.

Speaker 15 (01:17:17):
GOING i let's say one one crack all the way
in each section going, north south and one and there's
almost depth center and there's will crack almost death. Center
get going east and. West but there there's there's it's
just cracked though there's not there's nothing wobbling or anything like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
That and there's and not one side higher than the.
Other and how how wide to? Crack, well the.

Speaker 15 (01:17:42):
Crack is maybe a pin it's not it's not a
white crack at. All it's just they just started cracking
this this, year so it's not a it hasn't gone
just on one side kind of tilted. Down now everything
is cracked.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
WELL i will tell you WHAT i. Know, YEAH i
wouldn't worry about new. Concrete then WHAT i normally recommend
when we get into, something you, know especially when we're
doing five or six, inches we will come in and
mud pump it, first get it very, close and then
finish off with the eu thane because you do have
better control as far as you, know stopping where you

(01:18:17):
want it to stop with the your thinge. Uh but
LIKE i, said you start picking it up three inches
that way with, euthane it gets kind of.

Speaker 9 (01:18:27):
Pricey, yeah it.

Speaker 15 (01:18:29):
Does and do you do you recommend coming back in
and saw cutting all the expansion joints out and go
back in with with The becker rod and chelling that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
No only if only if the expansion joints are bad and. Stuff,
otherwise leave it.

Speaker 15 (01:18:46):
Alone they're all deteriorated and not there.

Speaker 7 (01:18:49):
Anymore that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Okay if that's the, case then, yes get rid of the.
WOOD i typically recommend two ways of doing. It there's
a product out there'll trim a slab and it comes
in a. Role it's got different with it just basically
pushes down into their locks in. Place it's just a rubberized.

(01:19:11):
Material looks, great very easy to, install or the liquid
joint compound which can be put in with a cocking
gun to fill the the gap that seals up so
you're not getting water going underneath either one of those

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who work very.

Speaker 9 (01:19:34):
Well.

Speaker 15 (01:19:36):
Marvelous i'll give you cous call next week to get that.
SCHEDULE i appreciate your Healthy thank.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
You, bet take, care take care and again our number
seven one three two one two five eight seven, four
And i'll see WHAT i can do to help you
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know if you're having a sewer leak under your homes,
foundation that's something that really needs to be, addressed but
it needs to be addressed by somebody who can take
care of the plumbing as well as the homes. Foundation

(01:21:11):
that's why you want to call Do west both a
plumbing company and the foundation repair company to make sure
if your homes foundation stays intact years.

Speaker 9 (01:21:21):
After the plumbing work is.

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Done when you want the, best call Do west seven
one three four seven three seven one five six online
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Speaker 16 (01:22:30):
Garry thank, You jim on your head.

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There Ready. Seal i've got some garage. DOORS i put
it on about two years. Ago it works.

Speaker 16 (01:22:37):
Great the ready seal looks just as good as it did.

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on roll it, on brush it. On you don't have
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On demand is one of those. Companies, well you're just
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how to take care of them and save those, trees
arbust On demand is who you want to. Call Matt
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me all that. Time and you, know one of the
things you got to realize is trees are. Valuable they
add a lot of value to your. Property and sometimes
cities want to tell you what you can do with your.
Trees sometimes they want to remove.

Speaker 9 (01:23:40):
Them sometimes they don't want them.

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Demand we're back To Texas Home improvement With Jim, dutton
and we know you like those little specials we throw at,
you so here's one four. Today get YOUR ac fully
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Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
Dutton, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one,
three two one two five eight seven Four dawn And, Hale.
Howlettsville how CAN i help?

Speaker 17 (01:25:05):
You, Hey, jim thank you for taking my. Call they've
got a question about e R v. System i've got
a new construction going on out there where the fairly
large house has got seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms in.
It AND i and it's a closed. Cell, uh it's
gonna be a closed cell home all the, way completely conditioned.

(01:25:26):
Home and it's three, stories And i'm trying TO i
would like to incorporate an e R e r v's
probably a couple uh in combination with hum. Dehumidifiers and
for a few, reasons AND i number, ONE i can't
seem to find anybody out byre who who even understands

(01:25:49):
e R v s and at tight tight. Homes AND
i just wanted to pick.

Speaker 7 (01:25:53):
Your brain about.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
It, yeah and the problem you're going to run into there,
is in, fact you sent me an. EMAIL i read
it this.

Speaker 9 (01:26:03):
Morning.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
Uh the problem you're going to run into out there
is even if you get one put, in they won't
know how to service. It and unfortunately that's the problem
with the you, know being way out that far out
from any types of. Cities But i'm not a huge.

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Fan in, FACT i dislike totally encapsulating the house that
way because you've become so dependent on THE hvac.

Speaker 9 (01:26:42):
System it's got.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
To bring in fresh air or or you will start
having issues in the. Home as far as finding somebody
who's out, THERE i, mean.

Speaker 9 (01:26:53):
You're you're.

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You're dead in the middle of nowhere from From, Houston
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a big city and has moved out.

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There, Literally, yeah that's that's there's nobody like that out.

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There they they don't understand how To they don't understand,
balancing you, know balancing a house and and in the
whole world designed BECAUSE i even Have i've got one
room that's the living room that's got a thirty foot
ceiling in, it and, uh you, know they they just
they don't even understand just the basic design of you,

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know return airs.

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And and it sounding and that that sort of.

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Thing it's sure they're more of the main they're more
of a.

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Maintenance. Uh they can serve.

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Ace somebody can fix replace existing type of, System but
from designing a new, system.

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IT'S i just.

Speaker 17 (01:27:59):
CAN'T i can't can't find.

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Anybody now for for DESIGNING U uh there are actually
uh engineers who can design it for you and then
give you the specs for a contractor to build. It in,
fact if you want to call my office and tell

(01:28:21):
them that you want to talk To. Johan he's my.
Son he is a mechanical. Engineer It's johan J O
H A N. N and we have some people that
we do deal with on that kind of stuff and
regardless of where the house, is they'd be able to
design it with the. Blueprints, yeah so if you'll call

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and talk with, Him, Okay i'll do.

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That he'll get you hooked.

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Speaker 21 (01:32:31):
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last and then we thought we were going to lose
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