Du-West HVAC Special & Roofing Questions

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a couple of email questions here real quick. First one
came in from David, and this is a good question
because he's got a roofing permit question Harris County outside
of Houston city limits. I'm very confused about this. My
wife and I will be getting a new roof on

(03:46):
our house very soon due to hail damage. The roofing
contractor says we do not need a permit from Harris County.
When I did a web search Harris County permit said
I would need one. The structure, wood beams, etc. Seems
sound and will most likely only have to replace the shingles,

(04:09):
transition pieces and paper rubber undertlaiment. So in your opinion
and experience, do you need a permit from the county
to replace your roof? Thank you for your time and
attention to this matter, David. Well, David, they may have
it on there that you have to get the permit,

(04:31):
but try to get one. And this is a case
with a lot of counties. You know, the state law
has it where counties are supposed to be requiring permits
for certain things and there's nobody, there's no place to
go get it. Now. Last time I checked, Harris County

(04:53):
was one of those counties that, yes, they're supposed to
have stuff, but there's no place to go to get it.
I haven't looked in several years though on that. Now.
What you may be seeing, and this is what I'm
kind of wondering, is if it wasn't for windstorm, and
that would be through an inspection process by an engineer

(05:17):
who certified to do windstorm, there's not a permit per
se if that's the case, But you do have to
go through the process to get the windstorm and your
insurance company may require that as well. So I would
be more concerned with getting the windstorm certification, truthfully, than
the permit if you're out in the county, even for building.

(05:41):
You know, the code in Texas requires a building permit
from the county when building, but there's a lot of
counties that don't have anything set up to be able
to issue those permits. So honestly, I have not checked
to see if they've got anything set up for roofing,
but they don't that I'm aware of, and it's been

(06:04):
a few years though since I've checked, so uh, unless
they've recently set it up, and with the windstorm certifications,
they may have, But like I said, I'd be more
concerned with the windstorm than I would be the permit itself.
Got a question seven one, three, two, one two, five
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and be this a Jim? How can I help you?

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hi, Jim, Listen, I have a problem with the bathtub.
You know, there's a little lever that lets the water
in and out of bath of and that thing has broken, okay,
And unfortunately the screws are stuck in there. I mean,
they're just rusted in there. I don't know. You know

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this is I bought this a long time ago. So
so anyway, I've tried to get someone to come and
you know, drill them out. They don't have, you know,
behind this plate where the little lever is, this airspace
and the screws, which are about two two and a

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half inches or something, they go through the airspace until
they get to a hole at the back where they
screw in.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Right.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
So I don't know why I can't get somebody to
do this. What is the problem they? At first I
had a handyman was recommended to me, and then I
had a plumber, not from your place, but from a
place I actually have a membership to. And I can't
wait to get out of that. And I can't get

(07:44):
them to do it. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
What did the plumber tell you, kid? The plumber is
the one who's supposed to be doing this.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
He couldn't tell me. He made the guy that came
from this place was saying, oh, well, we can't go
drill through there. I mean we'll have to cut the
plate and then we might ruin you. I mean, just
a whole lot of garbage. So I can't get a
straight answer. And you know, if they they don't have

(08:11):
to drill all the way. I told the guy, I said, look,
you only have to drill about half an inchine there,
because the head of the screw is probably about an
eighth to a quarter of an inch, and then you
would go a little beyond that to get to the
front of the screw, and you know, maybe weaken it
so that we could just knock the plate on it.

(08:33):
I can't get any sense to these people. I don't know,
so maybe.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
You have what you're describing wouldn't be the normal way
to do it, Well, what would you do it? The
normal way would be they would open it up from
the backside and be able to secure because it's screwed
into a typically a brass chunk in the back, and

(09:04):
normally they would have to go from the backside to
hold that in place while they literally just torque the
heck out of it to get it out, and sometimes
they have to replace that. In the back.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
There is a you know, an access panel at the
back and there's about maybe a quarter to three a's
of an inch of a screw showing in there, and
I can't really see, you know, obviously there's no vision
to the front what is there. So it just didn't

(09:37):
seem to me, like, you know, the thing that seemed
to me, the most logical way to do it would
be to weaken the screws and then knock the plate
off and then you know, just hand with the screwdrivers.
You just have to.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeh. Normally, what the plumbers end up doing is literally
twisting on that screw. If it snaps off, it snaps off,
and then the brass plate that's on the backside that
holds everything together, it just gets replaced. It's not that
big a deal. Why the other plumber who came out,
especially since you had access to it, wasn't willing to

(10:19):
do that is beyond me.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
I don't know, you know, So I thought, well, maybe
you know, you have somebody at your place at the
plumbing division who can come out here and evaluate it
and look at both sides, you know, because the other
people didn't look at the panel at all. They didn't
open the panel in the back, So I don't know
what's the problem.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, give give the office a call there. They're there
right now. In fact, you can call in and schedule
for one of the plumbers to come out.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
And the office number is seven to one to three
four seven three seven one five six and you just
tell them, you know that that those screws are stuck,
that they need to be changed out in that way.
They've got the right stuff with them for it.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Okay, Okay, Well, I I will try to schedule the
plumber for well, maybe for Monday. I don't give myself
a break from this stuff.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
And it's not something that they need to rush out,
you know, over the weekend for anyways.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Right, I mean I can't use really can't because there
is so little you know, It's like the water just
seets out, it's a little flow. So I don't really
want to use the tubs, you know, but I can still,
you know, since I have running water and the sinks
and everything. I'm okay, but this is just thriving me

(11:41):
nuts that these people come here and they don't seem
to really know what to do. Yeah, So I will
call your guy. I have him come look at the
panel at the back and the front and then see
what he says.

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water takes a long time to flow on one side
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you do have some options on how to do it.
Its just a matter what's going to fit your house
needs the best. If you go with the small tankless,
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(20:03):
with a small tankless and the reason is once hot
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know it continues. But if your primary water heater goes
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it up for an entire bathroom so that you would
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(20:47):
irregular water heater go out, this gives you a supplement
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(21:10):
I say, the only downside is having to have power
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let's see here we'll jump into another email questions. So
Mark says, I have two spots in two bedrooms with
damp carpets. It's not damp from the outside. It seems

(24:39):
just damp all the time. It's coming from the foundation.
Live in the Premont area. No rain for weeks now, Well,
there's a lot of things that can cause it to
get damped that way. Uh, and a couple of them
are going to be if you got a water line leak.

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You know, not all water lines are in the attic
now in our area here in the Houston area, most
of the time they're in the attic. Other parts of Texas,
they're under the slab. And if you've got a pinhole
leak in a water line, because they're typically under in
the slab going to be copper lines. They get it
just a pinhole, it'll start getting moisture, and if it

(25:23):
hits in a closet, there's typically no air conditioning duck
in the closet to help dry it out or anything,
it becomes a real problem. Now you mentioned that you've
got two spots, and so I'm thinking this is probably
not a leak in a water line, but more so

(25:45):
possibly a leak in something like the condensate line from
the air conditioner, which can cause this problem because the
condon sate line from the air conditioner will run down
in a wall, go and typically tie into the sewer
system like under a sink someplace like that, or in

(26:08):
a vent pipe is where they used to put them.
It depends on when the house was built, and if
that is leaking, and it can be leaking just in
the line that's in the attic and run down in
the wall and get into closets, it can cause this
kind of problem as well. And since there hasn't been
a rain, I'm going to discount ground water coming you know,

(26:31):
down a hill or something and getting into the house.
So I'm thinking it's going to be either condensation line
drain line or possibly a water line that's in the
slab or something. So what do you do to find out? Well,
the first thing I would do would be to shut
everything off, turn the valves off to all the toilets,

(26:53):
turn the water off, going to the ice maker, all
those kind of things. Check the meter and see if
it is spinning it all. If you've still got the
dial type that has a little triangle that spins, uh,
if it moves at all. You got a leak. Now,
the first thing you gotta check is make sure it's
not one of the valves leaking into the toilet or something.

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But you've got a leak where waters dripping by somewhere.
If that passes, then you would want to do a
static test on the sewer system to make sure that
there's not a leak in it, and of course have
the HVAC drain line checked, because any one of those

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could be causing the problem that you're describing here. Got
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Carrying out a new caney has water seepage. I have
a house built on bricks. I had a rubber mat
I laid flat on the floor under a bed for
storage for a couple of months. Recently I needed to
use it, but when I pulled it out from under
the bed, it was wet on the underside of it
carpet as well. After a few days, I went to

(28:26):
check it and the carpet was not dry. Also, I
have a home office with a chair mat that's plastic
under the chair area. I noticed water coming up through
the subfloor and up through my vinyl flooring. What can
I do without tearing the floors out? I will never

(28:47):
have a house on blocks again, Well, it's not because
the house is on blocks. I can tell you this
can happen in a slab house as well. But you've
got a ventilation problem. The humidity levels are getting too
high under that home, in the crawl space, which means
it's not being vented properly. And so what do you

(29:09):
got to do to do that? Well, depends on the openings.
You know, if there's enough openings, maybe some of them
are closed. Maybe there's plants blocking some of them. If
there's nothing in the way, you may have to put
a fan, and they make fans that fit into those
openings for blocking based pur and pen homes. That will

(29:33):
pull the air out from under the home, and by
doing that, it's sucking new air in under and that
will tend to lower the humidity level under that crawl
space home. Now, on really bad cases, you end up
going in and putting a liner, a plastic liner on

(29:55):
the ground under a crawl space home to keep the
moisture that's in the soil from co up into that
crawl space, again lowering that humidity level. But that's really
what it's coming down to, is a humidity level in
the crawl space. I definitely would start by trying to
ventilate it and deal with it that way. Uh, it's

(30:15):
usually not that on the you know, unbelievably expensive to
ventilate something like that, But if you have to encapsulate
the crawl space where you're putting the plastic down and
and sealing it, that does become pretty pricey. So ventilation
when possible is always the answer. The other thing is

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you're going to want to check that crawl space to
make sure that there's not a reason you have standing
water underneath, because the standing water would just again run
that humidity levels way up. We got to take a
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Speaker 4 (35:29):
Hey. Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home
improvement sour seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have, feel
free to pick up the phone, give me a call

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out here on Texas Home Improvement. Okay, Al out in
Bayview says, Hey, Jim, I trimmed to tree. Limb fell today,
totally broke my electric service line from the pole to
the weatherhead. Do you think the electric company will repair it?
Or do I need to pay a contractor? I hate

(36:13):
to break it to you, but that one's on you,
even if if it's underground or overhead, they run it
from the to the pole, but from the pole to
your meter is typically yours to take care of. And
especially if they find out that a limb fell on it,

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they're they're not going to have you know, and you
were cutting the limb. They're not going to have any
give at all on that. So yeah, that one will
fall on your dime. Sorry, sorry to tell you that.
And you know, sometimes we're just better off to hire
somebody to do it, because if you had a contractor

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who did it well, then it would fall on the
contract to pay to have that line replaced rather than
falling on you. So again, seven one three, two, one
two five eight is seven to four. And I'll see
what I can do to help you out here on

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Texas Home Improvement. Let's see Eric out a league city says,
a radiant barrier. If I purchase a home that does
not have cool deck, what is the best way to
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Take a look at the energy Q radiant barrier. And
basically what the energy Q does is it blocks the
heat transfer. It's a multi layer system, so you can
lay it on the attic floor, you can put boxes
on it, you know, if you've got to go over
the storage area in your attic or whatever. And it

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basically keeps the heat that gets in the attic from
going down into your insulation. So it makes your energy
bills better. I've had this in my house for over
twenty years. Love it. It'll it'll definitely help you keep
your home more comfortable. Again, if you got a question
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Tommy and Dayton, how can I help you?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yeah, so, Jim, enjoy your show. I wanted to ask
y'all had that watering system that you put in around
my house? How long can I expect that thing to last?

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Oh? Probably something in the neighborhood of fifteen twenty years.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Fifteen twenty years. Okay, is there any way I can
tell if that thing is still flowing. I mean, yes,
is there a well.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Usually for something I can help Usually when it comes on,
you will hear it if it's flowing. But yes, if
you go to the end, uh, there is going there's going.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
To be a.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
A cap on it that you can unscrew and see
if water is flowing through it still.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
The other way okay, yeah, the other way to tell
is just take a like a large screwdriver or a
piece of rebar m and poke it in the ground
and if the soil is moist around your foundation, you
know it's working.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Oh right, okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
One other thing, uh you need to tell people needs
to know that that that brass thing that you have
coming from the faucet, I forget back whatever they.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Call it, back to the back.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, it needs to be covered in the winter so
that thing will freeze it. And that's four hundred and
some dollars. I just got to doing that last winter.
Yes see nobody saying nobody didn't say anything about that.
And that's everything else is covered. You got everything. They
cover everything else but that. And I don't understand that
while they don't cover that too, maybe they can't or

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for somebody that needs to be covered.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Yeah, normally, what we normally recommend is to shut the
system off and there's valves on that you can open
to drain it. Then it won't be an issue.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
But yeah, I didn't know that. Okay, alrighty, all right,
will I appreciate your time, thank you?

Speaker 4 (40:21):
So you take care, okay. And what he was asking
about is, you know, we tell people how to water
your foundation all the time, but we also do install
a professional irrigation system drip irrigation. You know, when you're
using the the soaker hoses and and all that that

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that doesn't meet the state codes. But a homeowner can
do that themselves. The drip irrigation. Although you could do
it yourself, it gets into a little bit more complicated
to put in and so we offer that as a
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Speaker 6 (42:10):
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here's more Texas Home improvement with Jim Dutton.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
AH welcome back. Seven one three, two one two five
eight seven four. That's seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four. Uh. I got an email from
Billy and Pearland asking about cleaning a tan aluminum pergola.
He says, Hi, Jim, our aluminum pergla is about fifteen
years old. We had it built and the man said

(45:23):
it would never need painting. We have tried wet and
forget water, with bleach and pressure washed it. Nothing gets
the weather stains off. Do you have any suggestions? Thinks, Well,
I'm not sure what the weather stains are, but it's aluminum.

(45:45):
It's got a paint on it that's going to be
very similar to an automotive paint. Take some rubbing compound
and try that and see if it removes it. Now,
if it does, you can clean it that way, but
then you're going to have to apply some wax or
something on it to keep it protected, and you'll end

(46:05):
up doing that from here forward. But it sounds like
the stains have soaked down into the coating itself, so
I'm not one hundred percent sure even that's going to
take it off, but that's what I would try. Let's
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We'll be back with more Texas Home Improvements seven one
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I really appreciate your show. Really helped me to know
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You are a very logical man, you or you are
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Speaker 4 (48:52):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements, your total home
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eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have, pick
up the phone, give me a call. I'll see what
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But there's also a lot of questions and answers with
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As he asked Jim button where you can send in
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And you'll find I don't give most of the sponsors
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that's what she put. Well, give mister Brick a call.
I've used her services multiple times. Uh, they do a
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You know.

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Give him a call and they'll get you taken care of. Oh,
we're gonna head to my hometown of Pasadena, Ken. This
is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 6 (52:24):
Yeah, see advertisements about a spray you can put on
composition shingles to make your roof last longer.

Speaker 7 (52:33):
Just seeing what you know about that.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
Yeah, you're talking about stuff like roof max and things
like that. Correct. Correct, I've looked at the product and
I've actually told people to call it before. But the
issue I'm running into at this time is they are
way over selling what it will do. If you need

(52:58):
it to put on your roof to make another year
or two. I got zero issues with it. It'll help
you with that. But some of their marketing now is saying, oh,
it's it'll help double the life, you know, extend the
life like putting on a new roof and things like that,
that it's just not going to do that, not in
our climate. The whole thing that happens with the roof

(53:23):
is the shingles dry out. When they dry out, they
become very brittle. They'll start curling at the edges and
things like that. So the product that they're putting on
soaks down into the shingle, softens it back up, and
you know, will rejuvenate it for a bit. But it

(53:44):
is nowhere's near like putting on a new roof like
they're they're talking about. So it's really just a matter
of the expectation and the cost.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
Okay, I haven't priced it, what's the what are they charging?

Speaker 4 (53:59):
You know, it used to be you could get it
done fairly reasonable. But I've had some people tell me
that it's it's been as high as half the cost
of putting on a new roof, and to me, it's
it would not be worth that. But if you could
spend a new roof nowadays, let's face it, it gets
pretty pricey. And say, if a new roof's going to

(54:20):
cost you twenty grand and you can put this product
on for three four thousand, and it's going to buy
you a couple of years, so you're ready to spend
the money on a new roof, I would have no
issue with that. But I've heard some numbers as high
as ten twelve thousand, and I got a question, It's

(54:43):
not worth it to me. Okay, okay, I will tell
you my rule of thumb on stuff like this, whether
it's the roof like that, an air conditioner, a vehicle.
If I'm getting fifty percent of the cost of a
new one into fixing it, it's time for me to

(55:04):
be looking at the new one.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Right, Okay, it sounds like good advice.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
Alrighty Ken, did you make it to the rodeo this year?
Passing Rodeo No?

Speaker 6 (55:18):
No, I had to go out of town the pilot
and had to go go to work.

Speaker 8 (55:21):
Fly.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
Well, you know you got to make a live and
I get it. Yep, yep, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Okay, thank you much, Jim.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
You bet bye again. Seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have,
pick up the phone, give me a call, and I'll
see what I can do to help you out here
on Texas Homeprovement. And yes, the Passing Rodeo finished up
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if you got a question seven one three two one
two five eight seven four, and I'll see what I
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by the way, I love. I mean, I'm sitting here
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But this is for first time Do West air Conditioning clients.
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Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
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. For any home
improvement question, feel free to pick up the phone, give
me a call. See what I can do to help
you out here on Texas home improvement. Let's see, We're
gonna head to Richmond and Kimberlee. Welcome to seven forty

(01:01:53):
k t H. How can I help you?

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
Thank you well?

Speaker 9 (01:01:57):
Electricity girls are how they today?

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
I'm timing figure out ways to be able to reduce
that electricity bill.

Speaker 9 (01:02:03):
I thought about changing the windows out, and then one
of the things I thought about is the spree in
attic insulation.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Is there anything you can tell me?

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Is it worth the cost of it?

Speaker 8 (01:02:13):
Do I go to how that would be great?

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
My god?

Speaker 9 (01:02:18):
It was built in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Okay. And the insulation that you have is I'm assuming fiberglass.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
Then.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
Yes it is okay, And do you have is it
still about fifteen sixteen inches in the attic?

Speaker 9 (01:02:40):
Ooh, it might not be that much now, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
If it's not, then yes, adding some insulation would help
get it back up to the fifteen sixteen inches. Something
else you could take a look at that helps tremendously
is the energy Q radiant barrier. In my personal home.
I've got in a lot of area of my house

(01:03:04):
no insulation, just the radiant barrier, And where I do
have insulation in the attic, it's only about four inches
at best. And I'm running a three thousand square foot house.
I did have last year the USA Insulation inject the
foam insulation into my walls. Now my house was built

(01:03:26):
in seventy three and I'm running an electric bill now
less than two hundred dollars. You said energy Q writing
energy Q radiant barrier, And basically it comes in a
roll that's four feet wide, and you can cut it

(01:03:47):
and lay it on the attic floor like a blanket
on top of your insulation, and it keeps the heat
that's in the attic from getting into the insulation, so
it allows it to work better. And where you can
really tail it works like on the pull down staircase.
I have a sheet of it laying across it up
there so I can pull my attic staircase down. I

(01:04:08):
could leave it down. You don't feel any heat coming
into my living but if I go up there and
move that piece over, it's just a gush of hot
air coming in. So it really works well. Some of
the other things that you mentioned, the windows, I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (01:04:25):
Yeah, yes, so they're not a spray. You would go
with the roll, Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Absolutely. The difference is the spray is no longer allowed
to even be called a radiant barrier because if it's
all mixed properly, sprayed properly, it will block sixty five
percent of the heat transfer the foil like the energy
queue will block ninety five to ninety seven percent. I will,

(01:04:51):
so it's a huge difference. Now you mentioned windows, I'm
assuming you've got a luminum frame double pain wind those
in the house right now, but the glass is going
to be very close together, so it's not a huge
energy efficient. Since your house was built, building codes have

(01:05:12):
changed where the glass packs have to be quite a
bit different and it is a lot more energy efficient.
So that would be one of the things I would
look at. But the first one I would do would
be the radiant barrier.

Speaker 9 (01:05:26):
Okay, hushact And you said which company?

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Also those you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Think on the windows.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
At Energy Energy Quell.

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
Energy Q you can give them a call at one
eight hundred, nine hundred sixty two twenty okay. And then
on the windows called Texas Remodel Team and their number
is two eight one three nine nine four zero six to.

Speaker 9 (01:06:02):
Two and the cost of the foil energy about energy queue,
how expensive of that line? You say?

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Very cheap? Uh, Literally it pays for itself in a
few months. Where we do windows and other things, you know,
it takes a couple of years. Uh. The energy Q
is really inexpensive, especially if you do it yourself. If
you do it yourself, you can't literally have it paid

(01:06:30):
for a lot of times within four or five months.

Speaker 9 (01:06:35):
Okay, very helpful, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
You take care YouTube them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Again our number seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. It's head up to Cyprus.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
Hello Joe, Hey, how are you today?

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
Wonderful? How about you?

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
I'm doing great. Got a question on windows I've got
it's a plastic beating where the the the glass meets
the edge of the frame and it's coming apart. Where
can I get that? You know?

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
The place to try is some of the window shops
that replace glass. They the problem is they make so
many different types and styles and sizes. If you can
have a piece of it to take in, Uh, they
usually carry a lot of different ones and you can
try to match it up.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Okay, that sounds good. Also, what's what's the best type
of window? Tint for Texas to keep the heat out.
What brand?

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
Oh, pull that up here because I just had their
thing here. I've got one that I've I've used in
the past that works really well. And Concord window Film
and you can call them at eight eight eight two
zero six one four one three.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Okay Concord. Is that on your website on the website.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
No, they're not a sponsor. It's just something that I've
used in the past.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Concord. Okay, I'll give them a call.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
Thank you very much, you bet you take care bye
and again seven one three two one two five eight
eight seven four. Any home improven question, just feel free
to pick up the phone, give me a call. I'll
see what I can do. And you know, like he

(01:08:44):
asks about our website, t hipro dot com, it is
full of helpful information. One of the things is contractors.
And the contractors that are on there are sponsors, but
I have other people that I've done things with as
well that I refer sometimes, so uh, you know, but
if you're on my website, it's because I've checked you out,

(01:09:06):
and typically it's because I'm doing business with you. On
on a regular basis as well, because I don't refer
somebody that I think is not going to take great
care of you. I mean, it's life is too short
to be referring people who aren't going to get the
job done properly. Got a question seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four. We're going to take

(01:09:27):
a quick break for news, traffic and weather, and we'll
be right back, all right. So we were talking about
energy efficiency a second ago, as far as things you
can do, and one of the things I did to
my house that I mentioned was USA insulation. And my
house was built in seventy three, so I had R
eleven in the walls and you could feel the cold

(01:09:51):
air coming in in the winter months, which meant my
air conditioning was going out. So about a year ago
I had USA Insulation come in and inje the foam
insulation into my walls and encapsulated the existing insulation, sealed
all those air gaps, raised my R value from the
R eleven up to about an R twenty six. Made

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(01:11:21):
Now here's more Texas Home Improvement with Jim dot Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four And just a quick reminder,
because he was saying by four o'clock on that special
it does stop at four o'clock, so you got twenty
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to take advantage of that fifty nine dollars HVAC tune up.
And I really I recommend you take advantage of it.
All right, let's head back into the call. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four going to
sugar Land, Gary. This is a Jim. How can I
help you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Yes, this is a question about radio bear underlayment shingles,
between shingles and through roofs decking. Yes, is there such
a product? How good is it?

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
There is such a product. The Energy Q radium barriers
is one of them that you can put under the
shingles and it works very well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
How how much does it reduce the heat transfer to
the attic?

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
It'll block ninety five percent of it typically. And name
of that product again is energy Q the letter Q.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
All right, appreciate your information.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
You bet, and you can call them at eight hundred
nine hundred sixty two if you want.

Speaker 7 (01:13:00):
To talk to him.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
Great, Thank you, you bet, take care.

Speaker 7 (01:13:09):
Again.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Tina,
This is Jim. Welcome to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 9 (01:13:19):
Hi Jim, I really like your show.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
Thanks listen.

Speaker 9 (01:13:23):
I'm calling you today to get some information about flat Ruth.
Okay and okay, it's a town house with fire walls
and the flat roof portion has it's twenty years old,

(01:13:45):
but it has a product that rolls up kind of
onto the roof and then packed or secured. And I'm
having some problems with the firewalls, like I'm having moisture,

(01:14:05):
but it's like on the floor and I don't know.
I don't know whether it's the roof or whether it
just needs work done with those sides where the work
it's tacked onto the wall. But it's twenty years old,
so I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Thinking and if it's twenty years old, it probably needs
some work. And the way that the material would come up,
it would come up and on the top would be
a cap. Usually it's it's a metal cap up there.

Speaker 9 (01:14:41):
Wow, And.

Speaker 4 (01:14:43):
After twenty years that could be bad and needing to
be replaced and stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:14:51):
Okay, So who do you recommend for that type of work?

Speaker 4 (01:14:56):
Guardian Roof Systems And I've used them to do my
own office that we had this similar problem and you
can reach them at two eight one four zero seven
seven to two eight zero.

Speaker 9 (01:15:17):
Seven two eight zero, yes, ma'am, right, okay, two eight
one four oh seven seventy two eighty yep. Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:15:29):
And then.

Speaker 9 (01:15:32):
What about all this advertisement I see about spraying roofs
with uh, you know, liquid something, and it's supposed to
extend the life of the roof on.

Speaker 4 (01:15:46):
Those that won't work on your on your flat roof.
That's that's made for regular shingles. Okay. There. Does the
product work, yes, yes, but they're over selling how long
it will work. Oh, you know, it does soak into
the shingle. It does revitalize the shingle some. But you know,

(01:16:11):
right now I'm hearing some of the advertisements where it's
going to add fifteen years to your roof and stuff
like that. No, it's not. It's it's going to add
a couple of years so you can get money together
get a new roof. But that that's about the extent
of it.

Speaker 9 (01:16:26):
All right, okay, Guardian.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
Roof, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 9 (01:16:31):
I'll give them a call on. Thank you, enjoy your
your show. You're very good. Thank you, okay, thank you, Jim,
Bye bye bye again.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
That's seven one three two one two five eight seven
four Brenda in row sharing. How can I help you today?

Speaker 6 (01:16:57):
There?

Speaker 8 (01:16:59):
I have a metal root. Sorry, I've been listening about Ruth.

Speaker 4 (01:17:04):
I have a metal door, okay, front door, and it's
so warm when I walk by it, and I was
just wondering, is.

Speaker 8 (01:17:13):
There anything that could be done?

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
I mean, I don't want to put radiant barrier of
course over it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
Or attached to.

Speaker 8 (01:17:20):
It, but is there anything I can paint on, spray
on any ideas?

Speaker 4 (01:17:26):
You know, when you say it's a metal door, is
it one of those big iron doors? Yes, okay, the
iron will heat up and transfer heat inside. That's one
of the downsides of the iron doors. I love the
looks of those doors, though.

Speaker 9 (01:17:45):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
The as far as what can you put on it
when you do paint it, because they do have to
be periodically painted. There is a product called k O
O L coat and you order that and can mix
it in with the paint and it works much like

(01:18:10):
a radiant barrier to reflect the heat off of it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:14):
And it's not.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
Gonna it's not gonna eliminate it, but it will drastically
cut it down.

Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
Oh that would be great, Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:18:23):
And it's you know, it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Faces the setting sun, so if you can imagine it
wasn't wise on my part last minute decisions.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Well is it? Is it a double one or or
a single?

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
It's a double?

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
Okay, Well, you know I'll buy you a wooden one
and I'll take the iron one and put it in
my house and we'll both be happy.

Speaker 7 (01:18:48):
You know, I may take you up on that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
Thank you so much. You're welcome. You take care, bye
bye bye bye again. Seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. I am gonna be looking at
putting a metal one, you know, a big iron door
on my house. I'm gonna go over to Southern Front
Doors to to take a look at some of them.

(01:19:13):
But uh, you know, the advantage I have is my
house is facing east and I've got trees in the front,
so and the and the door is recessed, so it's
never gonna have direct sun beating on it. It'll have light,
but not directly sunlight hitting it, so, uh, it won't

(01:19:33):
have that heat up factor. And that's one of the
things when I talked with the Southern Front Doors about that,
they they had told me. You know that the wood
and the fiberglass when you're in direct sun like that,
energy wise heat wise will do better because the metal
one does transfer the heat more. And that's why illuminum

(01:19:54):
frame windows aren't as efficient as vinyl or wooden windows
as well. So anyway seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four, we were talking about them a
minute ago. Guardian Roof Systems if you are looking for
a roofing contractor to take care of any roof, whether
it's a flat roof, a metal roof, a shingle roof,

(01:20:15):
Guardian Roof Systems is the company to call. And in
our area here, you know, one of the new things
coming out is the fortified roof, and Guardian Roof Systems
is leading the pack on that as far as you
know the technology and what it takes to do a
fortified roof, and what does that mean for you. It
means it's not going to be leaking in your house

(01:20:37):
and ruining your possessions. It means you can probably get
a reduction in your insurance costs as well. So call
Guardian Roof Systems at two eight one four zero seven
seventy two eighty two eight one four zero seven seventy
two eighty. And you know, amongst the questions that you

(01:20:57):
have form, do ask about that fortified roof, because really
what it's You know, when you're getting a new roof
put on, it's the time to do it. They strip
it down all the way to the plywood, They seal
the joints in the plywood, They fasten the new felt
paper on, and they overfasten it more so than what

(01:21:20):
you would do with the normal roof. And the same
with the shingles. When they put the shingles on, they
are attached more. In other words, instead of using four nails,
they're using six, you know, things like that to strengthen
that roof to withstand the winds. And if we ever
get hit by a hurricane, that's what the problem is.

(01:21:41):
The winds peel the roof off and then water starts
coming through the plywood joints, and this fortified roof will
withstand it better. Anyways, I know I got off onto
a tangent there, but call Guardian Roof Systems two eight
one four zero seven seventy two point eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
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(01:22:28):
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Whether you got the lap siding, the stucco look, the

(01:23:21):
wood shake, or a combination thereof and all the trim
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It's just gorgeous and durable. I got the color plus
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(01:23:42):
I'm getting ready to just because I'm doing a bunch
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Speaker 6 (01:24:01):
Thank you, Jim on your head there. Ready Seal. I've
got some garage doors. I put it on about two
years ago. It works great. The Ready Seal looks just
as good as it did today.

Speaker 4 (01:24:10):
I put it on Ready Seal.

Speaker 7 (01:24:12):
You know, spray it on, roll it on, brush it on.

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
You don't have to worry about laps or streaks, runs,
any of that stuff because of the way it soaks
deep down into the wood fibers.

Speaker 7 (01:24:20):
It takes care of all of it.

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And it's available everywhere, but find a store nearest to you.

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Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
Uh Southern Front Doors we were just talking about them. Look,
if you're looking for doors for your home, Southern Front
Doors is who you want to call. Whether it's a
front door, the back door, the side door going into
the garage, it doesn't matter. And let me tell you,
nothing makes a great first impression like a beautiful front door.
And that's what you'll find at Southern Front Doors. Now

(01:24:51):
they got over one hundred and eighty doors in their
showroom and way more than that on their website. But
they'll also come out to your house to show you
the doors and help you pick that perfect door for
your home. Now you already heard my favorite. I love
the iron doors, but fiberglass. Would you name it? They've

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got it. Two eight one eight nine zero fifty eight sixty.

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seven one five six. And again if you got a
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(01:26:56):
color and slow the erosion of the stone? They're actually
is And if you'll go to floor and de core
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I mean you literally just you can use a paint
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if you wanted to, but that would sure waste a
lot of material. But a paint roller puts it on

(01:27:18):
really nice. Let it soak down in uh and and
it'll take care of it. And the nice thing about
a lot of these ceilants, whether it's like you've got
flagstone or some of the other stones that are out
there for floors, it enhances the colors in the in

(01:27:40):
these stones and so it really makes it look gorgeous.
We have some of that in our office in Pasadena,
and you know, every once in a while we'll go
ahead and reseal it with with that and enhance all
the colors and stuff, and it's it's always beautiful. It

(01:28:00):
is work to keep it up. Don not gonna not
gonna sugarcoat it. It's work, but it does look gorgeous
when it's done. Anyways, I do want to remind you
about our website thhipro dot com. It's there's a resource
to help you out twenty four to seven. So anytime
you have a question and I'm not available. You go

(01:28:22):
to thchipro dot com. There's a ton of questions and
answers on the site to help you out. We're gonna
take a quick break. We'll be right back with more
textass home improvement. USA Insulation again. We talked about them

(01:28:53):
earlier in the fact that I had my house done
about a year ago, and what a difference it made.
Blocked off all that heat transfer you know in the
winter time, feeling the cold air coming in means your
air conditioning is going out in the summertime. And not
only does it do that, but it's by sealing the
air gaps, raising the r value. It just makes your

(01:29:16):
house more energy efficient and a top it all off,
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Ah, let's talk about sunburst shutters. Now have those in
my home? I've had them for I don't know, fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen years now, love them. Just had some more added
to the townhouse. We had to do the last one
above the the kitchen sink because we just finished the
tile work and then they were able to get the
right sizes. They just put that one in this week. Beautiful.

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I'm telling you if you're looking for a way to
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Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
And we're down to four minutes now, that's when that
deal goes away, So call now to take advantage of it.
Seven one three four seven three seven one five six.
So I got an email from James at Lake Jackson
and he says, I'm looking to do a kitchen remodel
at my home in Lake Jackson. At the same time,
I would like to do siding as I have the

(01:32:52):
old cedar shakes and I will have to take care
of some plumbing issues. There's another plumbing issue under the
kitchen floor needs to be addressed. It will be easier
and less work going through the floor while the kitchen
is gutted. I listened to Jim Dutton on the weekend.
This is the first time I've reached out I just

(01:33:12):
want it done right the first time without getting screwed.
I'm not rich. I will require some time in planning
to put pull the trigger on it. Please advise, Thank you. Look,
call Victor's Remodeling and Construction. He can take care of
the kitchen and the siding at the same time for you.

(01:33:32):
Two eight one six' one two fifty nine ninety one
is his, number and let's let them come out and
help you with the pricing and. Stuff so you've got
time to put everything together to pull the. Trigger so with,
that that's it for. Today make sure you join us
tomorrow starting at two o'clock right here on seven point

(01:33:54):
forty ktrh for another hour Of Texas Home. Improvement and
we're down to two two and a half. Minutes if
you want to take advantage of that air conditioning tune up.
Special but before we, go since we are down to
two and a half, minutes let me talk to you
about foundation. Repair you, know if you're having a foundation,

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now zero percent for six, months no, payments and after
that it rolls into one hundred and twenty month. Financing

(01:34:39):
and here's the best, part that's when the interest. Starts
the first six months is totally interest. Free you want
to take advantage of that with your foundation, repair with
a new air, conditioner or replacing all the plumbing in your.
House call seven to one three four seven three seven
one five. Six with that being, said have a wonderful,

(01:35:00):
afternoon and we'll visit with you again tomorrow at two
o'clock

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