Fixing & Watering Foundation

Jim starts with a few email questions as we wait for some calls to roll in. He talks about an overlifted foundation, options other than a soaker hose for watering, reducing heat in a back patio, a house below elevation, and more. Jim continues in the second hour taking more home improvement questions. Don’t forget thipro.com for more helpful tips and information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Texas Home Improvement is on the air with your host,
Jim Jack.

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I really appreciate your show. Really helped me to know
what to do and what not to do.

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Hey.

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(03:00):
email question? All open lines are available right now. Let's
start though, with like I say an email from Mary
and she says, lo, I will try to call this weekend.
But here's my dilemma. I have a condominium on the
sixth floor of a high rise in Florida. The toilet
is built into the wall, supposedly with a vacuum assist

(03:23):
by American standard. It is so loud, like you are
in an airplane bathroom. Are there any other options that
are quieter yet will work in a high rise. I
prefer toilets that flush well, not the low water ones
sold in Texas, but the good ones sold in Louisiana.

(03:44):
Thank you well. The low flow is a national thing,
it's not just Texas. But I will tell you a
high rise does not require a vacuum system. That may
be something that that high rise put in, or maybe
something that Florida requires. But there's high rises all over

(04:05):
the place and office buildings and such. They use regular toilets,
they're not the vacuum type system, So I'm not sure
exactly what they put in and why. I would assume
if it is a vacuum system, you know you're going
to be stuck with staying with the type of toilet

(04:26):
you have because you really wouldn't be able to switch
that over to a regular flush. If it's a vacuum system,
what would happen on a regular flush is it would
just pull all the fluid through the p trap and out.
If it's a true vacuum system, it'll have a basically

(04:50):
a door in the bottom of the toilet, just like
an RV has. When you step on the lever in
the RV, the door opens up and allows everything to drop,
and that's pretty much what happens in a vacuum type system.
But uh, again, that's it may be something that building

(05:11):
put in, or it may have something to do with
the Florida codes. I'm not sure, but it's not something
that's required in high rise buildings. In general. Got a question,
pick up the phone and give me a call. Seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. That's
seven one three two one two five eight seven four,

(05:32):
and I'll see what I can do to help you
out here on Texas Home Improvement. So Barbara up in
the Woodlands is asking about tree roots. She says, my
patio consists of slabs of slate and crushed granite. Pine
trees are about ten foot away from the house, but
are beginning to uplift the slab of slate about one

(05:56):
foot from the house. What do I need to do
to prevent my post tension slab? Yikes? Okay, it is unusual,
not impossible, but it is unusual for pine tree roots
to go out and cause these kind of problems unless

(06:17):
they have found moisture. A pine tree typically has a
tap root and doesn't send roots out scouring for water
unless we go through a severe drought then they start
finding it. Or if there's a water source out there
that they happen to find, then yes, they will send
their roots that way. I have seen a big ball

(06:40):
of pine tree roots underneath the slab and push it up.
Extremely rare that it pushes it up most of the time,
what you're dealing with tree roots is it's taken the
moisture out of the soil and causing things to drop.
And that's the reason we do root barrier because when

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you have a root barrier, it severs the roots, does
not let them grow back over to where the slab
is and maintains a constant moisture. Now, up in the woodlands,
you've got a lot of pine trees. You've got not
just a black dumbo clay soil, but you got a
lot of sandy loam type soils there. It's more of

(07:25):
a grayish sand still can cause some of the same problems.
So that's where root barriers come in. Now, when you
start looking at root barriers, though there's different things to
look at. You got fabrics that have root barrier beads
in them root inhibitor beads. The problem is moisture can
still travel through those. I use a high density plastic

(07:49):
at due west so that moisture doesn't migrate through it.
Because that way, on the tree side the soils can
be dry. On the house side, the moisture content can
stay consistent and that's what causes the foundation movement. So
you know, if indeed the pine tree is causing those

(08:10):
slabs to heave like that I put, I'd get the
root barrier done and that'll sever those roots and stop
that from happening any further. What I suspect, though, is
there's something else that's causing it, and that probably needs
to be looked at a little bit further. It could

(08:31):
be something as simple as, hey, I'm working at the
house today cleaning out the hot tub, putting new water
in it and stuff, and I noticed my overflow for
my AC pan was dripping, which means my primary drain
must be plugged. I got to get that taken care
of so it's not dripping outside. But you got water

(08:52):
dripping on a hose bib from an AC condensate line
anything like that next to the foundation, you're looking for problems.
It can start stuff heaving, and that patio stones are
gonna heave first because they are lighter, less resistance. So
and since we're on that subject, cities, you are requiring

(09:17):
stupid things on the AC systems again. You know, way
back you had AC's installed where they would drip into
a basically a five gallon bucket with gravel buried in
the ground that went away because it caused a lot
of foundation problems. It put a huge moisture source next

(09:41):
to the foundation, so you couldn't keep the moisture content consistent.
And now in the last yeah, two years, now Houston
is requiring it, Pasadena is starting to require it. Other
cities are adopting this. It's stupid. I do. I have
an ac company, have a foundation company, and a plumbing company,

(10:02):
and I'm telling you you are wrecking foundations with this system.
If you want to require a pit like that, get
that thing at least ten feet away from the foundation,
at least ten feet away. And it really shouldn't be
done that. It should be allowed to just keep going

(10:24):
into the sewer system. I'm not sure why we're having
these issues that we're wanting to change, but uh, you're
going backwards. Somebody forgot why it was pulled out of
the soil to begin with. Anyways, I'll get off my
soapbox on that. Got a question. Seven one three two

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Texas Home Improvement, your total home improvement source. And let's see,

(11:06):
this comes from Carolyn in Laporte and she's asking about AC.
Is a surge protector needed on a personal home? You know,
if you'd ask me that to say, ten years ago,
I'd have said no. Today I tell people yes, it is.
Our power is just getting dirtier all the time, and

(11:27):
the searge, the surges that we get can cause damage.
I had to replace the circuit board on my AC
at home because we had a surge and it shorted
out the board and that could have been avoided had
I had the surge protector on there. And it's not
just the AC system, refrigerators, you know, these new modern TVs, computers,

(11:53):
all this stuff can be damaged by these surges we're having,
not to mention the fact that we get sometimes where
we don't have full strength power. So should a surge
protector be put on a personal home? Absolutely? They are
not that ungodly expensive and you never know how much
it's going to save you. That one circuit board I

(12:14):
had to put on, I could have put three search
protectors on my house. Keep that in mind. Got a
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Let's head over to.

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Fort Worth and Gary.

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Speaker 6 (15:28):
Hundred welcome To texas, summer the only state where you
get condensation on your butt from the hot water in
the toilet. Boil Here's Jim dunton On Texas Home.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Improvement, 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 let's
head to our first call And, danny this is A.
Jim how CAN i help?

Speaker 9 (15:58):
You, Hey, jim how you doing?

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Wonderful how about?

Speaker 9 (16:02):
YOU i got, IT i.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
Got i'm pretty.

Speaker 9 (16:04):
GOOD i got a question for. You in twenty, TWELVE
i had Do west come out and repair a. FOUNDATION
i think they put about eight jacks enter the house
and it seemed to do they send to do a
fairly good. Job and a hurricane the barrel came through last.
YEAR a couple of trees hit the house and it

(16:27):
pushed the foundation and inch from the in the kitchen,
area so it brought two of the jacks that Do west.
Did SO i had an engineer come out and component
that the slab was damaged from the, hurricane and insurance
insurance refused to play for, it SO i had to

(16:47):
do it out of my. Pocket but instead of going
WITH Doue, west well with this engineer. GUY i think
he may have overdid. It but what what he fixed
the other house seems to go down a little, bit
SO i think it over. Corrected so WHAT i want
to do IS i want to get Do west to
come out and fix. That BUT i don't know how

(17:08):
to do. THAT i don't know how to get him
to admit fault to.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
It you're gonna play heck getting him to admit fault to.
It and be honest with, You i've never seen where
a house is picked up and the other side is pushed.
Down people talk about it a, lot But i've never
been never seen it. DONE a framework of a house

(17:36):
is very, flexible and so even if it was, overlifted
it doesn't just automatically transfer the weight over to the
other side of the. House, now if it was a steel,
framework then yes it, can it could do something like.
That but wood frame, structures they just have way too
much flexibility throughout the house to do.

Speaker 9 (17:59):
That but the pot that he over corrected is very, obvious.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
No question he could have. Overlifted, yeah but if you
just call, us we'll come out and take a. Look
and you, know it doesn't cost anything for us to
look at.

Speaker 9 (18:19):
It, OKAY i might just do that.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Quite, frankly be honest with, you this is the best
time of year to be calling, because, uh you, know
the months Of june And july in foundation repair are
traditionally the slowest months siute of the, year so we
can get to people very. Quickly we can look at houses. Quickly.
Uh typically when you wait Till august Or, september everybody

(18:49):
starts getting busy because school's. Back people are calling that
the summer heat has been drying out the soils and moving,
things and so we start working back building backlogs at
that time of. Year But june In, july quite, frankly
in the foundation repair, industry it's it's a very slow
and it's a good time for people to. Call you

(19:10):
get your best deals at that time of.

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Year, okay all, Right, WELL i appreciate your.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Help you bet take. Care you'll need to again seven
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Foundation repair seven to one three four seven three seven
to one five. Six we're going to head To Jersey. Village.

(19:39):
Joe what CAN i do for you, Today?

Speaker 8 (19:42):
ATTIE i want to concur with your earlier conversation about
how stupid city governments, are but that's another day for the.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Specially oh, yes but we could go on with that
one for a.

Speaker 8 (19:53):
While, Well i've got a question on that regard in that.
Regard my house has the, drain the condensate drain into
the sewer line in the, house but it tends to clog,
up and So i've hooked up a little compressor up

(20:14):
there and try to and then blow it.

Speaker 10 (20:16):
Out.

Speaker 8 (20:16):
Right first of, ALL i wanted to see if that's
okay to do. That And i'm not going to blow
out a train. Line and OR i saw something at
the box store the other day about a system that
you that feeds a liquid cleaner into the condensate.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Line, yes and really that's what all of us should be,
doing is putting something into that line periodically to kill
off the bacterius and. Stuff but when they do plug,
up typically the way you unclog them is to pressure it.
Up the only issue you can run into is sometimes

(20:53):
when those lines were initially installed or not glued and
the pressure can blow them. Apart, uh that's that's very.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
Rare oh, okay, Okay well that, yeah, BUILDERS i guess
would take any kind of sharp that they. Could but,
yep on that system that you plug in a bottle
of some cleaning fluid and has an electric, dispenser that's
have you seen those on the.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
MARKET i, have and they work very.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Well, Okay so well that's WHAT i want to do
is get your okay on.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
That oh, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
Theoretically that'll keep the line clear AND i won't have
to blow it.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
Out, there you, go, right, yes?

Speaker 8 (21:33):
Sir all, Right, well let's let's know if you do
a city ordinance day.

Speaker 10 (21:38):
Call in, Show i'll do.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
It thank, you, Sir thank, you, Sir thank you. Much
and seven one three two one two five eight seven.
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pick up the, phone give me a, call And i'll
see WHAT i can do to help you out here
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Co, hey welcome back To Texas Home improvement seven one, three,
two one two five eight seven. Four let's head To
West chase And. Barb this Is. Jim how CAN i help?

Speaker 12 (23:45):
You how are you?

Speaker 13 (23:46):
Today?

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Wonderful how about?

Speaker 14 (23:48):
You i'm?

Speaker 15 (23:50):
Great thank you so much for taking my. Call and
my question IS i don't have a sprinkler system And
i'm trying to find a way to water my. Found
i'm not for sure what an option. Is i've tried
The socer hoses and they're really not that. GREAT i
bought from, like you, know the box. Stores so wondering
if you could have a different.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Option, no they're they're they're so if you're going to
do it, yourself, well you know, WHAT i take that.
Back you can go into a plumbing supply store and
use the systems that THAT i put In At Due.
West we put in a drip irrigation system that uses
a hose that has drip, emitters and you can go
in that's open to the. Public you can go in

(24:34):
and buy them yourself and put them in and, uh
you know that that avoids the socer hose. Issues But
socer hoses traditionally have been pretty dependable for.

Speaker 15 (24:44):
People well you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Me so, now, okay.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Here's the issue with with putting in the drip. Irrigation
you're not going to put that on the. Surface that's
it's got to be, buried, okay and so you can
to end up digging a trench around the perimeter putting
the hose. In you're still going to want to put
it on a vacuum breaker to you, know to make,
sure a backflow, preventer a, timer, everything so it comes

(25:14):
on and off by, itself and that's how we install
it to meet state codes that, Way so you, know
if you don't want to do it, yourself you can
call The Due west office and we can give you
a price on. One.

Speaker 15 (25:25):
Okay so if IF i am going to use A socer,
hose is there a certain brand or something you, know
or does it really even?

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Matter it really doesn't because there's actually only a couple
of manufacturers and Most socer hoses are made of ground
up tires and so the process is pretty pretty. Standardized
the key thing so is you got to put it
on that, timer and you've got to on A socer,

(25:55):
hose you've got to have a pressure regulator because the
city pressure come out fifty five to eighty psi and
you want to drop it down to about fifteen to twenty.
Psi and it makes just a little regulator that you
can screw onto the hose bib just like you would a.
Hose that'll do that for. You and it's available at

(26:16):
the box. Stores when you do, that you, know when
you open up the and look where the hose screws
on to the hose. Bib it'll typically have a little.
CIRCLE a lot of times it's blue or green plug
in there with an eighth inch hole in. It, okay

(26:37):
take that out and when you put that regulator on,
there what it does is it balances where you get
the same amount of water. Everywhere when you run that
high pressure, water you get a lot of water at
the beginning and hardly nothing at the.

Speaker 15 (26:52):
End, well, good, well thank you so. MUCH i appreciate the,
information my.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Pleasure and if you have any questions on, it if
you go our website thchipro dot. Com we do have
a video there for doing it yourself and it shows
you the step by step on how to do.

Speaker 15 (27:08):
It, okay thank you so.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Much you bet take?

Speaker 16 (27:12):
Care oh you? Bet bye bye bye.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Then again seven one three two one two five eight
seven four let's head out To katie And. Jeff what
CAN i do for?

Speaker 14 (27:27):
You what If i've to think about trying to like
do my own roof replacement And i'm basically by. Myself
instead of tearing off the, roof COULD i just do
shingles over the old? Shingles is that going to be
too much weight for the house or will that?

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Work you can do. It it's not the recommended way
to do.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
It.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Uh and it's not that it's too much weight for the,
roof but it shortens the life of the new roof
because it's not a solid flat surface under, it under
the new, shingles and so they tend to not last
near as. LONG i.

Speaker 10 (28:05):
See, okay well then this is.

Speaker 14 (28:07):
It, okay well thank, you then.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
You bet you take care and look You the tear
off usually isn't the the hard part of doing the,
Roof the getting the new shingles and weaving them together
and stuff like. That that's actually the harder part of
it that the tearing. Off you can go up there

(28:31):
with a flat shovel and start from the top and
work your way down and strip a roof off pretty
quick and. Easy and, yes roofers do overlays as, well
but insurance hates. It and again it's just shortens the
life of the. Roof seven one, three, two one two

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five eight seven. Four we're gonna head out to Spring.
Ken this Is. Jim what CAN i do for?

Speaker 16 (28:59):
You, Hey, Jim i'm trying to reduce the heat in
my back little. Patio, okay right, now it's a twenty
one roughly twenty one by twelve feet and it has
that corrugated galvanized steel. ROOF i think those panels are
three foot by seven. Foot, OKAY i thought everything was

(29:23):
four foot by eight but not. These and so it's
just super hot when the sun comes.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Out.

Speaker 16 (29:32):
YEP i have a thermometer one hundred and twenty two
degrees right between the you, know the rafter and the,
roof and then when the cloud comes, over it only
drops down to about one.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Nineteen so, yeah that's because that metal is just take.
It it's it's like a. Stovetop it heats up and
it holds that.

Speaker 16 (29:53):
Heat i'm telling. You it's WHAT i call a cat
on a hot tin. Roof there you. Go that was
a old movie from twenty five years ago, anyway or forty.
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Speaker 4 (34:02):
Improvement, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
three two, one, two, five, eight seven. Four when we,
LEFT i was talking With ken and he's got a
heat problem on his porch And, ken you can use
those other. Panels and quite, FRANKLY i have a deck

(34:24):
on the back of my house THAT i do have
the panels like that. On it works very very. Well
it is rather costly to put them. On but your
other choice, is since you've already got the metal roof up,
there is to take a look at putting a radiant
barrier under the roof that you. Have h take a

(34:47):
look at that ENERGY q radium. Barrier it'd be far
less expensive and basically it's it's a heat shield that
would keep the radiant heat from coming through and instantly
make it cooler under.

Speaker 16 (35:01):
There, YES i thought about that because on my garage,
doors which face West i'm USING i don't know IF
i can say a brand name plus or. Something, yeah,
yeah it's half inch would foil on both. Sides. Yep
SO i was thinking something so energy, cute so similar to,

(35:23):
that right.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yep, yes. Sir it comes in a roll and so
and your bottom side you're gonna have either you, know
wood or metal up there that you can literally use
screws to go through the radiant barrier up into that
to hold it in.

Speaker 16 (35:40):
Place, yes, yes and how rigid is that WHAT i?
Need chicken?

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Wire how far apart are your joy stuff?

Speaker 10 (35:51):
There with the?

Speaker 16 (35:53):
Joys one of them seven feet and the other one
is about five, Feet so set, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve five and six or seven, six.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
And there's nothing going across besides. Those, NO i could.

Speaker 16 (36:10):
Probably put in what carpenters call what are they the little,
one but two's all the way across.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Here oh, yeah furring, Strips, yeah furring.

Speaker 16 (36:20):
Strips, yeah that's what my carpenter called.

Speaker 8 (36:22):
It.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, yeah you could do, that and that gives you
something to just staple this up there to it and
you you would feel instant instantly the benefit of.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
It.

Speaker 16 (36:36):
Yes a few years, BACK i painted THE i painted
the top of the roof with white.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Paint.

Speaker 16 (36:42):
Yep AND i did one side at a, time and
oh my, GOD i could touch the back of it
with the back of my. Hand, yeah and then the
other side was still a boiling temperature.

Speaker 10 (36:52):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (36:53):
Yeah THEN i also thought about just going down to
a good will and getting a whole bunch of old used,
Mirror but THEN i thought THE faa might get mad at.

Speaker 10 (37:03):
Me.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
YEAH i don't know if that one's going to help you.

Speaker 17 (37:07):
Much.

Speaker 16 (37:09):
Yeah. Uh and then solar panels anything to shade, it, right.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Yeah, okay, yeah but the ENERGY q would go on the.
Underside and it's just LIKE i, said a heat shield
that keeps the metal it's heating. Up it just wouldn't
let the heat come through blocks ninety seven percent of.

Speaker 16 (37:25):
It, yeah and then what happens with that gap in?
There there's some, airflow but not a lot of What i'm.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Nothing that you don't have to worry about, It.

Speaker 16 (37:37):
Okay and just leave the corrugated metal up there and
put in the ENERGY que barrier. Below. Yep, okay thank
you so.

Speaker 10 (37:45):
Much you're.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Welcome you take.

Speaker 16 (37:47):
Care oh, oh and the thing with the soaker hose
around the, House, yeah the biggest problem there IS i
had to run around and take up the hose and
turn it on at the, timer run. AROUND i like
your idea with the.

Speaker 8 (38:01):
Timers.

Speaker 10 (38:02):
Yep, okay there you.

Speaker 16 (38:02):
Go have a great.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Day you two right and again seven one three two
one two five eight seven. Four jerry And Logo, vista
how CAN i help?

Speaker 7 (38:16):
You, Hey, Jim we've got some new neighbors coming. In
i've been watching him build a. House it's a regular
slab with a one story you know frame. Construction the
city came in and, said, oh you're two feet below. Elevation,
oh so they shut it. Down and so the Builder
i'm watching all, this, uh comes in and he's you,

(38:39):
know disconnects the bottom flight from the slab and starts
jacking up the whole. House, okay and now he's up
two feet and he's built like another mini, wall so you,
know he just extended. IT i guess it's kind of
like a two story.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
House but, yeah put like a block wall on top
to set the framework back.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
On, exactly and then replaced it all with wood and
you know double you, know double joints and. Everything it
looks really really good and it's solid and, everything and
then they're going to you, know build a floor. Inside.
Yep so so when you walk, in it's going to
be the correct. Height everything can be the. Same but
on the outside they're wrapping it with with whether you,
know pressure treated, plywood and then they're going to backfill

(39:23):
everything with dirt so that you, know it kind of
looks the. Same But i'm, THINKING i don't think you
can backfill dirt up against plywood like. THAT i, mean
even though it's not against.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Plywood.

Speaker 7 (39:35):
No now they're telling the homeowner AND i got this
on the. Homeowner they retired From, oregon came down, here
and all of a, sudden they've they've got this huge,
mess And i'm just trying to help them find some
solutions BECAUSE i don't want anybody to see anybody just like.
This they went down to the city and the city
had signed off on it. Originally, yeah but the builder

(39:58):
should have caught it. Too so it's kind of like he,
said she, said nobody knows what. Dude the meantime they've
jacked it. Up they're building this wooden floor under.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
It jacking up doesn't doesn't bother me that because it
it's very common to have a slab down and then
elevate the wood floors like that and have a crawl
space that's basically a concrete slab works very very. Well,
well that's why.

Speaker 7 (40:21):
Would go behind the waterproofs in, There, YEAH i mean
not just, yeah, well normally you wouldn't put in the
spray it maybe Put french drains all the way around
the house or.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Something, well you normally wouldn't raise the dirt that, way
the dirt would stay down and you would cosmetically cover the.
Blocks so, yeah you can't put blywood behind. That it
will rod even if it's.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
Treated, yeah and the thing is they didn't want to put,
stairs you know they because you lifted up two.

Speaker 10 (40:50):
Feet i'm going to put.

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Speaker 4 (44:07):
Improvement, hey welcome. Back we're talking With jerry right, now
and So, Jerry, yeah the big issue is going to
be that, plywood and you're saying they're going to backfill
behind the plywood up onto those.

Speaker 7 (44:19):
Blocks, yeah so it looks like the house is just normal.
Level they're going to raise the house two feet and
then raise all the landscaping two. Feet, Okay i'm thinking.

Speaker 8 (44:28):
THAT i don't see how you can do.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
That you. Can't that violates the whole purpose of raising
it to begin with is get it up out of.
Floodwaters and in most places if it's in a flood
zone or floodway where they require, that you can't bring
in phil dirt because you're displacing the water then and
so it's just not.

Speaker 8 (44:49):
Allowed that makes.

Speaker 7 (44:52):
Sense so there's really. NOTHING i was, thinking, well maybe
they got the, plywood then they use ready, seal then
they use membrane and they really wrap the heck out of.
It then to put in gravel and, drains you, Know
french drains and, stuff and then maybe they could put
some dirt. On But i'm thinking you don't want dirt
touching any part of the side of the, house even
with all kinds of ceiling over the, plywood, Right that is.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Correct you would just decoratively cover that block with stone
or something like that to make it look like.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
It house is stucco, now so they could just bring
the stucco back.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
Down, probably, absolutely, yes that that would look so much.

Speaker 18 (45:26):
Better.

Speaker 7 (45:27):
YEAH i think they're older couple, though they don't want
to have stairs going into the front door, now but
that might be something they're gonna have to.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
Do, yeah if they don't want, stairs they can build
some kind of.

Speaker 7 (45:38):
Ramp, yeah that's WHY i. Think could there's a, way
there's a way to decoratively have a bridge or. Something, yep, yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Exactly, okay all, right appreciate. It you bet with, That
we got to take a break for, news traffic and
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That all, right let's head back into our. Calls gonna
head to Sugar land and add this Is. Jim how

(49:36):
CAN i help?

Speaker 5 (49:37):
You, Hey, jim thank you for all you. Do got my.
Pleasure he gravel deck around a, pool and it's only
certain areas that have little. BOYS i guess from where
the pebbles kind of left from the, weather right, Weather
And i'm just give me a late human's fix on.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
That, well there are coatings you can put over the
top of them, now but you'd have to do the whole.
Thing and it's not a real good do it yourself projects, yet.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Because it's kind of hard to walk, on you. Know,
YEAH i tried these papers saying that's supposed TO i
guess for the grout in between the. Papers it's supposed
to hard and somewhat AND i just made a.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Mess oh, yeah, yeah that's not. It that wouldn't stick
in there because that goes down between the brick.

Speaker 10 (50:40):
On like.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
You, know stone work and. Stuff but, uh it's not
meant to be the solid walking. Surface now they. Are
they're making a lot of concrete toppers nowadays that you
can read on them very. Easily And i've seen a
couple of them where they're showing them going over the

(51:06):
exposed aggregate like you. HAVE i have personally not used it,
yet but they're very simple to put. On it comes
in five gallon. Buckets you mix it, up you literally
dump it on and use what looks like a big
squeegee type thing to spread it out. Self levels sets,

(51:27):
up and LIKE i, say they look. GOOD i don't
know the durability of them, yet AND i you, know
and especially being outside you have the product. NAME i
don't remember the product names at this. POINT i haven't
had enough interest to seriously look at them. Yet BUT

(51:49):
i can take the time to do.

Speaker 16 (51:50):
That, WELL i appreciate, it.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
And, yeah give me a couple of weeks to look it.
Up AND i CAN i can talk about?

Speaker 8 (52:00):
It then well we'll people.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
Listen thank you.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
All, right take care you bet you bet? Again seven
one three two one two five eight seven four are
gonna head out to friends Wood. Alan how CAN i help?

Speaker 17 (52:17):
You, Hey, Jim i've got a nineteen sixty one brick
and natural stone home And i'm wanted to bet the
brick has never been cleaned, outside and it's got the
algae build up and just you, know looks, bad especially
after adding new. Windows but, Sure i've tried some overcounter
stuff from the big box, stores like the thirty Second
cleaner and stuff like, that and nothing seems to be

(52:38):
removing THE i guess old age stone of, STAINS.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
I, mean.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
And what kind of what are they like rust stains
or what are the? STAINS i really?

Speaker 17 (52:49):
Rust it looks more like algae and just where dirt
is splashed up from the flower. Beds And i've okay
been out there with my pressure washer AND i just
can't seem to get it to knock, off.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
You, know if a pressure washers not taking it, Off
i'm not sure these these other chemicals. Will but What
i've had very good luck using is spray and forget
and another product called wet And. Forget, okay, yeah there
are two separate, products two different, manufacturers but at the
box stores you'll find them. Together they're over near where

(53:22):
the cleaning products. Are and, basically you spray this stuff
on and that's. It you leave it and you'll see
over the next no pressure, wash no, Nothing you just leave,
it and over the next a couple months you'll see
that THE lga and and all that kind of stuff
starts to die and fade, away and you're back to

(53:46):
the natural. Colors and you can put it on painted
surfaces as. Well that's Where i've used, it uh and
it's it's worked very very.

Speaker 17 (53:53):
Well, okay Well i'll give that a. Try that's one
THING i haven't tried.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Yet appreciate, it and it's it's real. Simple you hook
it up to a garden, hose you spray the house,
down and, then LIKE i, say you just walk away and.
Forget they've got a product from from those same manufacturers
now for doing roof as, well where you can spray
it on the roof you forget about. It but those
black streaks that are up, there it'll take all that stuff.

Speaker 17 (54:18):
Off, Okay, Well i'll give that a. Try it's just
been neglected over the. Years ye, show starting the.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
Show all, right take, care all, right thank you, sir
bye again seven one three two one two five eight seven,
Four And i'll see WHAT i can do to help you.
Out we're gonna head up To. Brentam, Hello, Rose, hi
how CAN i help?

Speaker 18 (54:41):
You i'm, Calling i'm. CALLING i have a home that
was built in two thousand and five in The brenham,
area and they had to bring up the, back you,
know the dirt in the back before they poured the, foundation,
uh quite a bit to get a.

Speaker 16 (54:58):
Level and they.

Speaker 18 (55:00):
Poured a second part to our patio that kind of
fingers out from the. House and over the years it
has started. Sinking AND i had one guy come out
and check it and he said it has gone down
almost twelve inches on the outer. Corner oh.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Wow and.

Speaker 18 (55:22):
Yeah he said that it could not be lifted or,
releveled that it would have to be torn out and,
report is there any way that that can be?

Speaker 12 (55:33):
Lifted?

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Uh and that this is the patio that's gone down that.

Speaker 18 (55:38):
Much, right, right it's a pretty big patio and it's pretty,
sick you, know at that end that's gone down up
around the. House it's pulled away from the house about
two inches maybe two and a half, inches and you
can see where the rebarb went into the original. Foundation uh,
huh but it isn't very very big we Bar and he,

(56:04):
said it appears that maybe they, didn't you, know to
drill it in far enough and glue it into the
foundation for it to pull out like. That, yep BUT
i don't, know you, KNOW i wasn't there when they
poured it, all SO i don't.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Know, WELL i can tell you that you you, know
have options to mud pomp and use your thane to
lift concrete up like, that but if you've got to
come up twelve, inches you are typically better off to
take the concrete out and put new because the cost
of mud pumping in your athane is high enough that

(56:42):
if you were lifting at twelve, inches it's cheaper to
put new, concrete is It?

Speaker 18 (56:48):
Okay, well that's WHAT i wanted to. KNOW i Know
dus worked on the house THAT i had once before
WHEN i lived In, houston and they did a great.
Job and, UH i, thought, well MAYBE i called see
if what your opinion was on. It, yeah, WELL i
thank you very. Much you're welcome to make the decision

(57:10):
now to it's a concrete out, yep all, right thank.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
You let me give you a quick tip on. This
if you get a new if you get a new one,
poured make sure they dig a beam around the perimeter
of that down into the original. Soil because otherwise that
that that new soil they put in and, compacted it

(57:35):
will continue to. Settle so you want to get down
into that original soil to avoid this happening.

Speaker 16 (57:40):
Again so they put a.

Speaker 19 (57:43):
Beam underneath the the uh all the uh around the
perimeter and, yeah, yeah they'll just dig a trench that,
is you, know ten inches wide down into the original
soil about six inches and then they'll put rebar in
it and all that just like the surface and that
that'll that'll save you a world to hurt.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
Later.

Speaker 18 (58:06):
Okay, yeah Because I'm i'm seventy, SIX i don't Think
i'll be around for twenty more. Years, Yeah i'd like
for the next.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Year you never know.

Speaker 18 (58:15):
Nowadays oh that's. True, well thank you so. MUCH i
will keep that in mind and get someone to come
out and do that work for all.

Speaker 10 (58:25):
Right you take it so.

Speaker 18 (58:27):
Much bye bye.

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So carol out Of, conroe send an email about leaking
pipe and foundation and.

Speaker 10 (01:02:50):
Here we.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
Go i've had a plumber coming to my house for
the last few weeks trying to find the location of
leaking pipe that is seeping water from my foundation onto the.
DRIVEWAY i paid twenty nine forty for them to finally
at a shutoff. Valve they dug holes looking for the,

(01:03:13):
pipe came back the next day with the leak. Detector
finally stopped the, leak but left the master bedroom and
laundry room without hot. Water gave me an estimate for
twenty nine point fifty to return to repipe the hot
water only in the attic for, laboratory, tub, shower and

(01:03:34):
washing machine in my master. Bedroom my wooden floors are
badly buckled in my kitchen and the living, room And
i'm ready to file acclaim with my insurance when we
finally fix this. Problem my insurance does not pay for,
plumbers so this is all coming out of my. Pocket thank,

(01:03:54):
you and let me know if this makes. Sense my
house is thirty seven years. Old, Well, carol the first
THING i would tell you is you probably need to
go ahead and file that insurance claim, now because they
want to come and see what's going on that's causing the.
Problem and, yes you need to shut the water off
in order to mitigate. That you don't have additional, problems

(01:04:16):
and you're going you're doing it, right but there's not
a reason to wait to notify. Them let them come
out and check things out. Now as far as the
plumbing expenses and builds and, such you, know it really
depends on what the plumbers were having to do in
order to reroute. Everything and that's normally the practice that

(01:04:38):
they're going to have to go. Through is if there's
a leak that's someplace that's not, accessible a lot of
times it is cheaper to reroute the lines to get
water going. Again so it's going to depend on where
they find this other. Leak as far as what the

(01:04:59):
fees should. Be as far as your wooden, floors, uh
that's something again that you'll want to take up with
the insurance sooner than. Later don't wait till everything else is.
Done go ahead and get the claim filed, now so
that you know they can be helping out with as
much stuff as. Possible because if the, leak for, INSTANCE

(01:05:23):
uh can be accessed going through those floors, somewhere it's
good to have them and already involved so that they
can be approving that type of change. Order all, right,
again you got a question seven one, three two one
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Jerry this Is. Chim how CAN i help you?

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Today, Hey, Jim i'm. Calling you're probably gonna answer them
what question the WAY i think it'll be, Answered but
at any, Rate Tower. PAN i have a townhouse that's
in the, heights built about five years a, go AND
i noticed a strange like looked like the sheet rock

(01:06:06):
next to the shower door on the wall was a
little wet at the. Bottom, okay didn't think anything of.
It had a plumber over about a month. AGO i
noticed this about six months, ago AND i figured OUT
i was using one of the shower ads it got outside.
WHATEVER i had to have the cartridge replaced BECAUSE i
wasn't getting hot, water so the plumber was. THERE i asked,

(01:06:26):
him and he's, like, YEAH i don't think that's anything
to be concerned. About it doesn't look. Wet, WELL i
got on my community's website the other day looking at something,
else AND i see seven different people that have had
to have their shower pans replaced because apparently the builder
used quote unquote inferior. Materials is there Any stuart telltale

(01:06:52):
sign THAT i have a shower?

Speaker 16 (01:06:55):
Pan?

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
Lee, WELL i mean you test if a shower pan is.
Leaking you basically plug the, drain you fill the shower,
pan and you see if the water levels dropping. THAT i,
mean it's it's tested all the time that. Way but

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how old did you say these units?

Speaker 10 (01:07:17):
Are? Uh five?

Speaker 8 (01:07:19):
Years?

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Yeah they probably tried to do this with those new
systems that you coat the wall instead of putting in
a true shower. Pan AND i am not convinced that
those are the way to.

Speaker 8 (01:07:35):
Go.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Uh i've just seen too many issues with. Them people
in my neighborhood would.

Speaker 8 (01:07:43):
Agree.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
Yeah And i'll tell you. HOW i just put a
shower in my, townhouse took out the tub put this
past week and put in a walk in, shower AND
i went with the rubber uh shower BECAUSE i didn't
want to have those type of. Issues so, yes WHAT

(01:08:04):
i would do is let's do a test to see
if it is, leaking and if it, is your only
option is going to be to tear that shower pan
out and put another one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
In, well the thing that kind of is the curveball
to me is they all reported having a leak out
of a fixture or a downstairs near the kitchen island
and buy the cook.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
Top, NOW i don't have.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Any signs of any water anywhere, else BUT i MEAN
i guess the water could be being absorbed somewhere else
other than their's all somehow worked its way.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
Down, yeah and they might have used, it you, know
if there's multiple people in their units and using it
a lot. More things like that can can cause those
type of.

Speaker 9 (01:08:52):
Issues, okay all, right WELL i, guess, UH i, mean
would you test it?

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
YOUR i, mean is this SOMETHING i can just plug
up the drain myself and.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Test you can go down to you can go down
to The lowser home, depot get a plug that you
can screw and you, know into that there and tighten it,
up fill it with, water and just monitor. It typically
you got to monitor it for a couple hours to
tell if it's going.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Down thank you very much for your.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Time you bet take. Care and of course if you
start seeing water coming, out that obviously tells you it is.
Leaking stop the. Test at that, Point let's talk About
Southern Water, solutions because let's face, it we're just talking
about the. Shower the water's not that great. Anymore it's
getting worse as time goes. On we gotta filter our,

(01:09:42):
water we gotta use water, softeners we got to use
reverse osmosis to have clean drinking, water to have clean
water for our laundry and for washing. Ourselves even, uh
it's it's almost getting. Ridiculous and and they keep adding
more and more chemicals to the water thinking they're gonna
clean it up that. Way we don't want all those.

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Three just listening to the show will make your property
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Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
Approofment, hey welcome. Back seven one three two one two
five eight seven. Four that's seven one three two one
two five eight seven. Four that's head To. Baytown. Joan
how are you.

Speaker 16 (01:10:58):
Today, yes, Sir climes is.

Speaker 12 (01:11:00):
Fine thank you for taking my. Call Pure i'm not
sure you can help, me but let me tell you my.
PROBLEM i have laminate. Floor it was made By DuPont
and will they no longer make? It but what has
happened is where we. Joined we had it done in,
sections so where it was joined at one spot between
The Great room and the front, hall it's. Buckling apparently

(01:11:23):
they did not put, enough they didn't put plastic underneath it.
Properly so and a friend of mine happened to be
here one. Day she, says why don't you get like
a metal plate to put over that instead of replacing
the entire? Floor what do you? Think what's your?

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Thoughts and.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
How big a plate would you have to?

Speaker 12 (01:11:47):
Have it would have to be, okay let me look at.
It i'm, sorry it would probably have to be maybe
about ten ten inches wide and maybe like about twenty
eight inches, long, Okay and then of Course i've got
concrete floor underneath, It so how WOULD i fasten?

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
It, yeah if you're going to look at putting a
metal plate like, that why not you just cut that
section out and put tile.

Speaker 12 (01:12:16):
In now that's a, thought.

Speaker 7 (01:12:21):
That would be a.

Speaker 12 (01:12:21):
THOUGHT i never thought about. That you, Know i've been
looking online at the big box stores to become a
metal PLATE i can. Find, yeah everything is, plain you,
Know I'M i can remember years ago where they had
like a metal plate that looked like it was. Embossed
that's Been i'm.

Speaker 4 (01:12:39):
Old, yeah, well you, know for the for the size
area that you're, describing you, could you, know cut it
out and you actually could make it a little bit.
Bigger and they if you go into like a floor
in decre they make mosaic patterns that would be able
to be dropped into. That it's just makes a nice decorative.

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Spot that's a better.

Speaker 12 (01:13:02):
Thought, yeah because, again LIKE i, say we're talking about
a concrete. Floor, yeah and you know, what what what
WOULD i fasten the plate? TO i would have to
draw a hole and then heaven, forbid you, know it
would cause more problems after. That that's, Great thank, You.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
Jim, well now as far as the reason it's. Buckling
typically what causes them to buckle is to get too
close to the. Edges when they put these floors, in
they're supposed to keep. Leaving some of them it's just
a quarter, inch some of them up to a half
inch of gap around the outside for expansion and, contraction

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and when they don't leave, that they buckle like what
you just.

Speaker 12 (01:13:46):
Described, well this is this is buckling like in the
center of that. Area So i'm sure it's. Water yeah
that you know the heads gotten, underneath, well the buckle.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
When they do buckle from the expansion, contraction it's typically
in the middle of it that it's going to do.

Speaker 12 (01:14:03):
It, okay, Okay well that's his. Answer that's really answer my.
Question thank. YOU i really appreciate your.

Speaker 10 (01:14:09):
Help not a.

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
Problem you take. Care thank, You bye bye bye. Again
seven one three two one two five eight seven Four,
Jerry welcome to seven forty k T.

Speaker 10 (01:14:25):
H Hi.

Speaker 13 (01:14:26):
JIM i just have a little question about technique here.
ON i had a builder who builds houses and remodels and.
Stuff he's not a big company or. Anything he tends
to hire somebody when he starts doing a.

Speaker 10 (01:14:46):
Job, anyway he built.

Speaker 13 (01:14:49):
A periler for, me and, uh the overhead on the perila.

Speaker 10 (01:14:54):
Is like two by twelve.

Speaker 13 (01:14:57):
Wooden beams and kind of reminds me of the way
you would have a roof after or something like, that
or the CEILING i guess they're called ceiling. Joys, anyway they're,
vertical and these were not. Vertical they're they're like luvered
up let sunlight come through in the morning and block

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more sunlight.

Speaker 10 (01:15:19):
From coming through in the.

Speaker 13 (01:15:21):
Afternoon so they're not a forty five deor gre, angle
but they're close to.

Speaker 8 (01:15:24):
It.

Speaker 13 (01:15:25):
Okay so, anyway being that angle like, that they started
drooping in the. Middle if they were straight up and,
down they wouldn't have, drooped but they were on that
angle and they started drooping in the. Middle when they
drooped in the, middle they started pulling on the ends
and started uh ripping out the screws from the, ends

(01:15:46):
because you, know it's a further distance when you take
a curve from POINT a TO. B we take a,
curve it's further than going straight. Right so they they
were starting to warp and uh pull free from the
where they were attached to the horizontal on the endplates
on the. End so, my, my my question for. You

(01:16:07):
really here is the. Builder he used deck screws self
drilling and to attach these uh to the top of
the peril there and.

Speaker 10 (01:16:21):
He he did WHAT i WHAT i could call.

Speaker 13 (01:16:24):
TOENAILING i guess it's still tonally even though you're using drilling.
Screws and he was doing the, tonnailing and the wood split.
EVERYWHERE i mean you could see almost seemed like almost
every screw you could see uh an air gap where
the wood split with the screw went in too close
to the corner of the of the.

Speaker 10 (01:16:46):
Beams and, YEAH i called that poor tech. Technique what
would you.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
Call it poor?

Speaker 13 (01:16:54):
Workmanship, yes, yeah THAT i just wanted to get a
second opinion on. That they actually at this point it's
been ten years, ago and that they Hope perugia is
disintegrated and gone and, so but it only took about
three years before serious problems start.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
Happening and, yeah you, know for its to sag like,
that he had too big a span for the way
he had the.

Speaker 10 (01:17:21):
Angle.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Uh he could have simply put bigger boards and been
able to avoid.

Speaker 13 (01:17:27):
That if they would have been straight up and, down you,
know they wouldn't have done.

Speaker 10 (01:17:30):
That, yeah but they were on that.

Speaker 13 (01:17:32):
Angle, yeah so horizontal would have been the. Worst, yeah
and so they were in between. There, yeah that tonailing
TECHNIQUE i thought was. Terrible split the split the corners
of the wood everywhere where the screws went.

Speaker 8 (01:17:47):
Through.

Speaker 10 (01:17:48):
Yep, YEAH i think that's poor. Technique. Yeah i'm not
going to have him build anything for me. Again.

Speaker 16 (01:17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
Yeah when you build a structure like, that if you
keep the, wood you, know stained and sealed and protected
from the, weather it should last longer than ten.

Speaker 10 (01:18:10):
Years oh, well here's another question for.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
You.

Speaker 13 (01:18:13):
THEN i just thought of there was a cedar what
do you call? It can't take the name of the
moment seiler THAT i met out a cedar that it
was pretty, expensive AND i didn't buy any because it
was so. Expensive BUT i used to Use thompson's water,
stealer AND i one TIME i applied it to some,

(01:18:37):
boards and THEN i didn't apply it to all of,
them and then a couple of weeks later it rained
and you couldn't tell which boards had the cedar and which.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Didn't that was not a big fan of The thompson's
because it's it's it doesn't soak in and with an
oil base like some of the better sealers. Are, yeah
it's it's just not a long term type. Sealer AND

(01:19:09):
i think that the one that you were thinking of
it was that the old cedar side. Seiler uh, yeah,
yep GOT i was out Of Spring.

Speaker 10 (01:19:18):
Texas uh, YEAH i saw the right up on that cedar.

Speaker 13 (01:19:27):
Seiler in that it said that it actually impregnates the
we call it an end of the, wood.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Yeah the grains and the fibers and, stuff and basically
it would petrify the. Wood and oh, well yeah it.
Was it's it's still. Available it's a good.

Speaker 13 (01:19:47):
Product it's really, expensive, though, yes if you bought, it
if you bought a fifty gallon Druma BUT i could
afford it IF i could find somebody that wanted to
share the costs with.

Speaker 10 (01:19:58):
Me BUT i.

Speaker 13 (01:19:59):
Didn't, Final, YEAH i wanted to share the Carse SO
i didn't use. It BUT i SHOULD i should. HAVE
i should have bit the bit the, bullet bought it
in smaller quantities and just paid the. Price WHAT i
should have. Done, well you, learn don't you as you go?

Speaker 10 (01:20:13):
Along use? It all these mistakes you'll, Make you only
get to make them. Once you don't ever do it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
Again life is too short to make too many of.

Speaker 10 (01:20:21):
Them yeah, right, okay, well thank you very.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
MUCH i bet take Care, jerry and again our number
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got got them to measure for some new. Shutters now

(01:20:45):
they're going to be making them and bring them out
and install. Them gonna be gorgeous because sunburn shutters can
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Well so if you're looking for shutters something that's gonna
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(01:22:11):
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spray it, on roll it, on brush it. On you
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(01:23:02):
but are you taking care of? Them you, know they
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fact they're not going to last forever even if you
do take care of. Them but you do want to
extend that life as long as you can, because let's face,
it trees they add a lot of value to our
home and they help save on your energy. Bills And
arborist On demand can help you with all of this

(01:23:24):
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that when you sit down and talk with, him you
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Forty Jim dutton is like a cool drink of water
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Speaker 8 (01:24:10):
Hose you know that was just.

Speaker 6 (01:24:13):
Gross here's more With jim On Texas Home.

Speaker 4 (01:24:17):
Improvement, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one,
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Speaker 18 (01:24:30):
Jim how are? You i'm doing.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
Well how are you? Today i'm doing.

Speaker 18 (01:24:35):
Okay i've tried to call in last.

Speaker 12 (01:24:38):
Week.

Speaker 18 (01:24:38):
MATT i have a house In, wimberley and, uh we're
we want to get a generator okay.

Speaker 8 (01:24:50):
Right.

Speaker 18 (01:24:50):
Now they, have of course, Propane AND i wanted to ask.
YOU i THOUGHT i heard you on here one we
talk about your propane generator that you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Had, yes.

Speaker 18 (01:25:07):
Are you happy with how much propane it? Uses you
know if you have an?

Speaker 4 (01:25:13):
Outage, Yeah the propane ones work very very. Well you,
know the only issue that you run into with propane
on a generator is it doesn't put it out quite
as much power as when you have one that's, say
gas powered or, diesel you, know and that's. All that's

(01:25:37):
only if you've got ones that use multiple. Fuel but
if you get if you have a generator that's just
built for, propane they work.

Speaker 18 (01:25:45):
Great, Okay, so, uh what do you think about the diesel?

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
One the only issue you got to worry about with
diesel is you've you've got to have fuel on hand
you use.

Speaker 18 (01:26:01):
It, okay kind of like you with. Propane.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
Yep and if if if you've got a big propane,
TANK i would go with. Propane if you're gonna have
to be bringing in small, tanks go with the de.

Speaker 18 (01:26:16):
Cel, okay BECAUSE i know with, diesel when it sets
you have to do something additives or.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Something you got to put stabilizers in it and stuff like,
that and you and you're gonna want to run it
enough to use up a, tank you, know at least
every year so that you're keeping fresh diesel in. It but,
uh for all around, maintenance you're gonna be much easier
with the, Propine.

Speaker 18 (01:26:45):
OKAY i like that. Idea just have to get a
bigger profane tanks what we're gonna have to. Do but that's.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Okay how big a tank do you?

Speaker 18 (01:26:53):
HAVE i think it's five Hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
You, know a five hundred gallon probe will typically run
a generator for like three.

Speaker 18 (01:27:03):
Weeks three, weeks, yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:27:10):
All, right or it might be six. Weeks NOW i
can't remember what s ice tank it, was but it
runs it a long.

Speaker 18 (01:27:17):
Time, okay well then you run in everything else, too but, yeah,
anyway that was my main concern BECAUSE i knew you
said you had. One, yep you loved, it SO.

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
I would go with propane every time over the.

Speaker 18 (01:27:37):
Fuels, okay well you just made my, day so that's
probably what we'll end up.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
Doing alrighty you take, Care.

Speaker 18 (01:27:46):
Thank you for your.

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Again let's, See, Rick i'm gonna let you ask your
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know eighteen nineteen years, old And i've got THREE ac
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know further. North, yes BUT i mean we use heats so.
SELDOM i think it'd be a waste of.

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Mind well that's WHAT i was.

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in a heat.

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Com, exactly we want to put our money into the
cooling because we cool for nine months out of the
year plus you know in three days we need. Heat
we just the dual fuel is just too. Expensive that's
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Too, well you answered my, question so all RIGHT i
may talk to.

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Y'all about getting a unit.

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