Foundation Issues & A Surprise Caller

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Speaker 8 (01:16):
Live from the Dutton Ranch. Here's Jim Dutton.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Afternoon. This is Johann Dutton here with Adam Dutton. Where
Jim's two sons filling in for Jim today. He's on vacation.
And right at the top, I want to let you
know if you have any questions for us, you can
give us a call. We're here to help answer your
home improvement questions today. And I wanted to introduce ourselves

(01:48):
and tell the audience that hasn't heard from us before
a little bit about ourselves. Uh, if you do have
a question for us, you can call us at seven
point three two one two five eight seven four. That's
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
And you know, Adam and I have been working with

(02:12):
our father doing home improvement projects for I don't know
thirty years at this point.

Speaker 9 (02:18):
Adam, Yeah, yeah, I shoot, he would he would start
us young. I think I remember being ten years old,
mixing sand and mortar to do a lightweight mortar bed
to set a hot tub on fir him in the backyard, right.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah. And so you know, he gets on the air
and a lot of times he he talks to homeowners,
and they talk about like, I don't I don't know
how you know all the things. You know, you're just
answering these questions off of the top of your head.
And a lot of it is just real world application experience.
You know. You do a little of this, and you
do a little of this on your own home, you

(02:54):
do a little of those things on other projects that
you've renovated or fixed up for other people, things of
that nature, and it's just the decades of experience that
brings that knowledge. And the good news for us is
that for all these years and decades we've been working
alongside them getting these projects done and frankly a lot

(03:18):
of times doing a lot of the heavy lifting on
some of this stuff, right, And so it's one of
those things where I know how to do it, and
I'm going to teach you how to do it, and
then I'll let you do it, you know. And so
a lot of our personal knowledge and feeling confident to
come on here and talk to the audience today is

(03:39):
just built on those decades worth of experience on doing
those projects. And then where we sit today, Adam owns'
personal residence and I have properties, and so we've just
done some of these things in our own home and
then also worked together as a team for a long time.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
Let's make it clear when our dad sit on the
radio show and he's talking about all these projects he's
going to be doing on these weekends, the reality is
most of his weekend is spent talking on these radio
shows helping people, and the people that are actually building
those projects are you and me.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
That's right. So if you have any home improvement questions
for us today, you can give us a call seven
one three two one two five eight seven four and
we can help you out today. I guess, beyond just
the personal experience, we also both work in the family
business as well. I work with the sales team mainly

(04:38):
on the residential side and a little bit on the
commercial side as well as a sales manager, helping helping
the team, uh with my kind of construction background, doing
a lot of the diagnostics, doing a lot of the evaluations,
and then coming up with repair solutions to make sure

(05:00):
we're offering homeowners good, solid repair solutions, you know, and
then Adam talk a little bit about yourself there.

Speaker 9 (05:07):
So nowadays I actually work almost exclusively on our commercial end,
but that being said, I spent about seventeen years on
our residential end helping people. Now a lot of the
type of projects I'm doing. I'm doing large drainage projects,
retaining walls, foundation repair, plumbing, reed pipes, all of those type.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Of things is my day to day business.

Speaker 9 (05:32):
But at the end of the day, within due West,
we're we have people out looking at homes and things
all the time, and we have a list of kind
of our more experienced guys, which is you, me, our dad,
our uncle, and that's basically it. And if they have
a problemer question, they call one of us and I
get those phone calls every day during the week.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
That's right. And then you combine that with just the
real world app location experience, combined with running helping manage
the family business and do our part within the family business.
You also got a little bit of educational background for
both of us as well. I have a degree in

(06:15):
mechanical engineering and a degree in business and Adam here
has a degree in civil engineering. And so we've hit
We've hit the industry from a couple different angles, looking
at both plumbing issues, HVAC issues, drainage issues, foundation issues,

(06:35):
retaining wall issues, all across the board, just both in
in an educational experience but also an actual real world application.
So we'd definitely be excited to help answer some of
your questions today. Again, you can give us a call
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
and I'd like to run over to Robert in Meadow's place. Robert,

(06:58):
how are you doing this afternoon?

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I'm doing okay. Thanks for taking a call. I've got
some serious.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Problems, Yes, sir, I'm calling.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
I'm actually living in my lady friend lives in Fulser
and that's where the problem is. She moved into a
new house and she'd been in about six seven months
and she's seeing these cracks showing up on the exterior bricks,
like on one corner of the house, and they were
pretty big gaps, and so she's a I don't know
where she got there. She thinks it's the foundation thing

(07:29):
of the builder, of course, is talking about the settling
right now?

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Is this? Uh? Is this? Is she the first homeowner there?
Is it literally only six months old the house? Or
is she the second owner?

Speaker 4 (07:42):
She's the first owner. She she moved in in July
thirteenth last year, and that house was built while she
was overseeing the project. I mean she bought the house
before it was built, and she she bought and paid
for it and it was ready for move into July thirteen.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Well, Robert, I got I got an amazing little secret
for you too. I had literally brought your email up
as being the very first question that I was going
to address today. So I'm really glad you called because
we can ask some more detailed questions from you and
really dive into this. Because you know. The reason why
I say that is because a situation like what you're

(08:24):
describing here can be absolutely nothing and can be one
of the most costly types of issues that a homeowner
can experience on a new home. So I want to
make sure that we do a good job of getting
a solid answer to you here. Oh, so answer all.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
The things that's been done the best I can without
her here. Yes, sir, he may not be too receptive
to some of my answers.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
So my understanding is that you have had a couple
of people look at it, and you had one foundation
contractor that looked at it and said, we don't work
on new new construction. And he had another guy come
out and he said, you're going to need fifty one
peers and fifty thousand dollars to get this thing fixed.
Does that repeate?

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Actually, that was yes, and that the one I called
the six months ago they did work for me is
old shan. You know they uh huh. And they're the
ones that said, hey, if it's less than a year old,
we don't we don't come out.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
And got it.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
I guess. I guess they don't want to deal with
the builders because the warranty is still in effect, or
they just don't suspect it's going to be a worthy project.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, and in most well so, just to back up
and give some educational understanding to the wider audience. Typically
a builder will need to provide a ten year warranty
on the structure, and they consider the foundation a component

(09:49):
of the structure, and so there are some modern contracts
that are written that are a little bit different, but
by and large, what we see across the industry is
that a builder is responsible for the performance of the
foundation for the first ten years of that foundation's life.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I didn't know that, and I don't know how we
can get in the greed that well.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
That can sometimes be tricky, but I think the first
step is understanding what's happening to the house and making
a full understanding on whether or not this is actually
a structural issue or if this is just some growing
pains right, because to the builder's credit, it is it
is normal to experience some degree a settlement in a

(10:37):
young structure, especially when you had, you know, we had
land developed here to put houses down in a neighborhood.
A lot of times that's either farmland that gets all
graded out and streets are dug in and the houses
are built up, or if it's in a different type
of situation, trees get cleared out of the way to
put slabs down and stuff like that. So very often

(11:02):
the case that you're doing one or the other when
you're developing land to build a house, and so there
is a little bit of tolerance for soil movement inherent
in that process, and so builders recognizing that as being
the case, build foundations a lot stiffer today than historically

(11:25):
they did, and say the sixties or the seventies or
even the eighties. You know, they build houses with thicker
grade beams, generally more grade beams. Usually a lot of
times they're dealing with post tension cables and modern foundation design.
Sometimes they still use the old rebar style, which frankly
is my preference, but most track home builders today use.

Speaker 9 (11:50):
Like the fast and yeah cheaper post tension cables.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah, post post tension cables is a typically a lesser option.
But ultimately, what they're trying to do is build a
foundation that if the soil shifts to some degree, the
foundation remains intact and doesn't have the type of settlement
damage that you see on an older style home. So

(12:15):
that's something to keep in mind. And when we get
back from this first commercial break here, I'd like to
really dive into the details on what you're seeing there
and how we can address it.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
And I'll tell you and I can tell you what
they've done so far.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Sure, think about this.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
This forty nine thousand dollars rest, but that seems absurd
to me.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
Sure, I'll put you on hold them. When we get
back from this break, we will get right to you there.

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(15:56):
is Johann Dutton, and Adam dutton where jim's two sons
Filling in. For jim today he's on Vacation out across
europe today and for the next. Couple OF weeks so
i really hope.

Speaker 9 (16:09):
He's, enjoying himself, YEAH no doubt i know, Our mom,
IS oh.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
YEAH i can i can almost guarantee you that he's
over there just spending his time listening to us talk
for him. This afternoon anyways but the good news is
when he gets when we get off the air and
he goes, back to it Then he's enjoying. Budapest. This,
afternoon yep well before we went, to the break we
Were talking with Robert About A new home foundation issue

(16:38):
that he was experiencing on one. Of his people he
knows the house and the house is six years old
and it is already starting to, see some cracks and, so, the,
occult yes sir and so he was wanting to call

(16:59):
and see if that was really an issue that needed
address today or what to. Do about that and so
before we hit, The, brake there robert we were talking
about how stiff, modern foundations are and that's a way
that the new home builders generally address the activity in
the soils that we know that we all know is

(17:21):
going to. Happen over time and so a couple of
things to also talk about is that whenever we're dealing
with foundation issues and a foundation repair contractor comes out
and is evaluating something is, potentially fixing something very rarely

(17:44):
is the issue actually, the foundation itself the concrete and
the beams and the rebar and. The cables themselves it's
very oftentimes an issue with. The soil underneath the foundation
is moving and that's what's causing. Foundation to move and
so in a house that is of the age that,

(18:07):
that house is it is extremely rare to see that
actually be, a settlement issue meaning that the soil is
settling and the foundation. Is going down what is much
more common that we see in experiences that a new
home like that moving is because the soil is swelling
and the, house is heaving meaning it's going up in

(18:30):
an area higher than where the rest of the. House
should be a LOT of times i kind of explain.
It to people.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
Johann mentioned before a lot of times it was farmland
or a forest that got bulldozed before there was, nothing
out there water. In the ground before, that house existed
there was no. Drainage or anything and now you. HAVE
a house i don't know if it's in a, neighborhood
or not but even if it's not, In a neighborhood
i'm sure.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
You probably have some kind.

Speaker 9 (18:56):
Of sprinkler system you've got, drainage systems going you've got
gutters that are moving water, more isolated locations and it's
just changing the way the soil is actually receiving the
moisture compared to what it was just a couple.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Of ways ago so sometimes it's, soil moving that, not a.
Foundation big. Shelf, it's issue.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yeah it's, the soil issue and it's and it's generally
nine times, out of ten or maybe even nineteen times
out of twenty gonna be because something is going up
on that house rather than something going down. On that
house and so here's the good and the bad of

(19:39):
your particular question is that generally builders in a situation
that a foundation has moved significantly enough are end up
being held responsible for making the corrections and to the
point that you got a rather costly proposal to make
those kind of care directions. To the foundation that's generally

(20:01):
something that ends up in. A builder's lab but that's
not typically. Something they do it's not an easy feat
to get them to actually yehallow. Through on it it
is not, an easy feat and so you end up
going through a lot of processes of forensic engineers looking
at it and maybe potentially having conversations with lawyers before
it even gets to that stage where a builder would cover.

(20:24):
Something like that the the other thing to keep in
mind is that the amount of movement that actually has
to occur to a foundation to get to the point
where something like that needs to be done and peers
need to be installed is a relatively large amount. Of
foundation movement and SO and so i don't typically see

(20:49):
that happen in a six, month old house not saying it,
hasn't Been done because i've seen situations where a house
is moved pretty aggressively before the house was even, finished
being built and there was parts of the house that
where like the brick was leveled at one level and
by the time they put the countertops in it was
a different level because the house, was still moving uh
while it. Was being, built but uh but, by and

(21:10):
large that's that's a pretty that's pretty. Much. An outlier
uh the best you can, Do right now let's take
a set of elevations to see where it sits today
and then we can use that as a gauge. For
future performance you can get my, office a call uh
seven to one three four seven three seven. One five six.

(21:30):
We'll get out we'll take a. Set of elevations we'll
at least know where the house is moving from here
and at that wall.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
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Speaker 5 (21:38):
Get the number we come out and. Get, you, That
yes sir so, You.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Come out okay SO who do i at seven one
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Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yes sir and ask for? You just asked my office
will all be able to get you set up AND
at that i gotta go to this. Commercial break here
you have. A Good afternoon. There, robert, done yes. Sir
thank you have. A good.

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Speaker 5 (23:20):
Welcome Back To. Texas home Improvement This is johann Dutton
Here with Adam dutton where jim's two sons filling in
for him today here to answer any home improvement. Question
you have that's seven one three two one two five.
Eight seven four that's, seven one three two one two five.
Eight seven Four, And adam illa i'll tell you there's

(23:40):
a little bit of added pressure answering these questions on
foundation repair because our Family Business Do. WEST foundation repair
i know that, Every, Single week, uh jim's father my
our grandfather tunes in who and listens to this radio
show fully, listening right. Now no doubt add, and our
uncle who's one of the Owners of du west along,

(24:03):
with our father likes listening to this show on. The
weekend too and if we don't answer these kind, of
questions correctly we'll know we're going to get the call
and tell us how it how it. Should. Have been
right but before we went, to the break we were
trying to finish Up there with robert and make sure
we hit all of all of his concern on that.

(24:24):
New construction house and and ultimately it's hard to diagnose
a house situation like that. OVER the, phone i mean
it could be especially with it, being, so young right
it could be an innumerable, number of things and it
could frankly be. Nothing at, all you know seeing seeing
facade brick cracks doesn't always imply that it's. A foundation

(24:46):
issue it can be something as simple as a lintels
settling over a, overhead garage door or maybe it's one
of those type of uh brick seams where the bricks
are not interlat and they're just butted up against each
other and you're just starting to see the expansion contraction
starting to happen along that point and and it's starting

(25:07):
to open. Up that way so it's very plausible that
it could be not an, issue at all but we
don't really know until we get. Eyes on it AND
that's why i advise them to give our office A
Called Do west foundation repair to get one of our
team members, out and frankly in any of our team
members is qualified to be able to draw, that house up,

(25:29):
take elevation, measurements you know get with our review staff
and make sure that we are providing a good assessment to.
That HOME owner and.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
I kind of want to point out one thing with
those elevations in this, homes particular case it's very good
to get, that early on because.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
No house is poured perfectly flat.

Speaker 9 (25:50):
TO begin with i know a lot of people that
have their foundation contractors come out and they take all
those elevations and they pointed at, number and say look
how far. Down it is they don't know how far.
Down that was whenever that, house was built they could
afoored the concrete with a little bit of. Slope to
it by getting, those elevations, early right now you can
compare it over time and actually know where that home

(26:12):
is moving and what direction.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
It's moving, in that's right and you know from what
we're seeing with the weather cycle that we're going through
right now being more. Rainy than, dry you know when
we do see foundations moving at this, time of year
it's not uncommon to see it be a heave issue
rather than, a settlement issue even. On existing houses and

(26:36):
so a lot of times when we come out and
assess somebody's foundation performance because they're seeing something that's, causing
a concern we're just as likely in this time of
year to recommend drainage solutions as we are foundation watering
or root shield or some other type of maintenance solution to,

(26:56):
keep it, moist you know and that's important for new
homes and older. Homes. As well yep and if you
have a home improvement, question for us you can give
us a call at seven one three two one two five.
Eight Seven, FOUR, AND adam i i wanted to make
sure people knew that we knew about a little bit
more than. Just foundation repair, so you mind if we

(27:19):
ask a question about something other, than foundation repair. Go.
For it okay we got an Email in from buck,
AND he Said i have milo insulation. In the attic
is it worth adding insulation? In The walls and milo
insulation is a high performing insulation that you can put
down on the attic floor to keep. Keep that, insulated

(27:41):
and yeah adding a lot of insulation in the attic
is a very easy first step to creating more energy
efficiency in your home because it's easily accessible and you
can install that with very little disturbance to the house.
Of The occupants right as, a next step he's looking

(28:03):
at putting insulation. In the walls, and you KNOW we
use usa Insulation in, our houston market Just like. Our
dallas market can you speak a little bit to the?

Speaker 9 (28:13):
What, THEY do well i can probably speak a little
bit more to what THEY do because i actually had
them do my HOUSE and now i will say this
question is actually lacking a little bit of an information for, me,
to say yes go get it, done or no you,
can hold off because there's a couple OF factors that
i would. Contribute into that one is a bit of,

(28:34):
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(28:59):
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Speaker 5 (29:07):
Before i had.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
Them come out, THE day before i have, a LASER
thermometer and i lasered one of my. Walls five pm
sun was. Beaten on it on the other side. Of
the wall it was eighty six degrees. At that time
the day after they did, their foam, injection same, laser
same time same sun, beaten on, it lasered it it

(29:30):
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Speaker 5 (29:39):
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Speaker 9 (29:49):
Bill and things now, that being said if it's a
newer home that it still has the full fiberglass insulation
in it and it's not really having issues, with that
yet at one point does it become cost effective to
actually go through the process of doing that injection that

(30:10):
fiberglass insulation is still providing.

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In a two by, four PERIMETER wall an.

Speaker 9 (30:15):
R Eleven insulation usa insulation is going to give you,
A twenty plus so there is some, energy efficiency, gain.

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But well well we get back. FROM the break i
wanted to add something. To that too but if you
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(30:46):
that you really never get. Away from, it you know
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the efficiency of your system but also make sure that
it can last as. Long as possible you know A

(31:08):
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tell you oh your system is, ten years old you're
going to need a. New system today and the reality
Is is that i've seen well maintained systems that are
twenty years old and. Still going strong and so you
may want to upgrade from an, energy efficiency perspective and.

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That's totally valid but if that's not in the budget
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Speaker 5 (34:17):
To texas Home Improvement this Is Johann, Dutton and adam,
dutton jim's two sons filling. In for him today if
you have, any home improvement questions you can give us
a call at seven one three two one two five
eight Seven four and uh jim's out on vacation today and, going,
BY that call honestly i bet he is in a,

(34:37):
pretty good mood today being that he's. Traveling around The
world he's in Europe. Right, now, At budapest yeah yeah
i'd say. He's, doing all right yeah that's pretty. Probably pretty,
good bumper you know before we, hit the brake here
you were talking, about the WALL insulation and something i
did want to add to address the customers are the

(34:59):
callers there was they said they had upgraded their attic
insulation and they basically wanted to know if it was
worth it. Upgrading the wall insulation, and as you described for,
the right existing, conditions absolutely right now from a mechanical

(35:20):
engineer's perspective that does energy takeoffs to, SIZE air conditioning
equipment i can tell you that attics have their own
load that gets added to the energy. Requirements of a
house walls. Have their own load windows, are another big

(35:42):
contributor doorways, are another big contributor and each of those
has a completely independent load that they are. Introducing on
the house and so this is not one of those
situations where it's laws of diminishing return, where, YOU can
say well, i did THE attic so that i probably

(36:04):
got as MUCH most of what i would expect in,
terms of ENERGY savings and so i don't need to,
worry ABOUT the walls or i don't need to. Worry
about the, windows each of those, independent of each other
have their own potential to be improved with either insulation
or just a better type of window or so forth to.

(36:25):
Lower your energy bills and each of them have the
same potential to improve or reduce your, Energy consumption that
way and so just something to keep in mind when
you're considering your, options on you know usually attic insulation
is a low hanging fruit because it's a low entry
barrier to get in there and replace that compared to

(36:48):
some of the more costly things. That you can do
so it is, a good starting place but there's always places,
to go. From there no doubt if you have a home,
question for us today you can give us a call
at seven one three two one two. Five EIGHT seven
four and i wanted to answer a question that We.

(37:08):
Got emailed, from jennifer she said we have A twelve
year old ac unit that USES. Our four ten a
we keep it maintained. And It's running well in december,
of TWENTY twenty four the ac company we do business
with said the new units that require OUR four fifty
four b are expensive to repair and urge us to
install a new system that. Still uses four ten he

(37:32):
said he had someone stock so we could stay with
that type of system. As long as possible we told
him it wasn't in, our budget right now but he
kept pushing us until my husband. Got firm with. Him
what's the story we feel like we should have at
least a few more good years. With, our current system?
Well what's the story we first want to address THIS

(37:55):
is that new epa regulations, and guidelines and stuff THE
four to ten a systems are being phased out of
production and are should be out of. Production all right
now and those new systems are the systems that are
being built today. To go in now and just like
we HAD a transition from r twenty TWO to four

(38:17):
ten a a, decade or more ago we have that.
Same transitioning happening now and THERE'S approximately three that i
know of that are by major equipment manufacturers of different
type of refrigerants that are going in on. The new
systems now some of THE to address, this ac repairman's

(38:42):
perspective you, would, typically expect that yes those new systems
are going to cost more because they have to conform.
To modern energy standards and so the only way that
most of these equipment manufacturers have figured out how to
do that is to build something that's a little bit

(39:02):
more complex than, it used to be and so there's
a little bit, more sensors in there there's a few,
more chips in there and so on and so forth
to make the system perform at peak energy efficiency to meet.
The standards of today and some of those old systems
that Are still sitting on guy's SHELVES that HAVE, the

(39:23):
r four a they may not be performing, to that
same efficiency but they're also less, complex and less costly and,
so from that perspective he's trying to kind of future
proof what you got there by. Sending you that direction
the obvious downside to that is that you told us
in your email here that you didn't have, the budget

(39:45):
right now and so we, have the reverse, side the,
consumer's perspective which is my system is twelve years old and.
It's working just fine if you don't have the budget
right now, for a new system you're not in the market.
For a new system you don't have major comp, and
failure right now then keeping a twelve year old SYSTEM
well maintained and uh is a perfectly. Valid way to

(40:10):
go there's there's nothing that says you have to go
with a brand new. System every twelve. Years i'm not
replacing mind that it's. About the. Same age that's right
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got brick cracks, above it and stuff that's typically. Not
a foundation problem that's a. Problem with the lentil and,
when the lentl SAgs so does the. Framework of the
house it. Starts pulling on things it's just. Not, a
good thing well lentallyft can come In with a new

(40:58):
lentil that goes. Under the old one they take the
trim off from around the opening, of the garage door
push everything, back up into place, secure this new lentil.

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And give you a.

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Here. He is, With more Good Afternoon we're Back Johann
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him this afternoon if, you have any questions you can.
Give us a, call seven one three two one two,
Five eight seven four and before we run, OUT of

(43:40):
time here i want to Run right Over. To bill, In.
Spring good afternoon bill how can?

Speaker 14 (43:45):
We, help, YOU today hey guys. I have you questions
i had a foundation question on the north. Elevation of,
the house there's uh looks like where you can tie.

Speaker 15 (43:55):
Into some some rebar they were sealed with concrete at
one time and it's all. Kind, of rotted OUT yeah how?
Do i address that and then the second thing was
you guys have you know all kinds of? Window companies,
out there and uh my windows are about twenty two
to twenty three years. Old and they're drafty whenever the storms,

(44:16):
come through, THE coldfronts you know i get moisture and
condensate and then it freezes and then it's destroying.

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Of exchange, GOING on so uh i all addressing. You,
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Quote from those guys you can give them a call.
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what you're describing there kind of sounds like the pockets

(45:03):
that we see on a post tension house where it's
like a circular pocket that the mortar falls out and
it's exposing. The end of that anchor is that more
or less what you? Think? YOU see in.

Speaker 15 (45:15):
There YEAH i believe so when, i had the home
inspected the inspector had recommended maybe covering that mortar or
that concrete mixture whatever they used up with some epoxy
to kind of seal it. Off to keep TERMITES out
but of course i, didn't follow through with that and
now it's all just disintegrated material and it's exposing.

Speaker 5 (45:37):
The CIRCULAR areas.

Speaker 15 (45:40):
In there so i didn't know if that was just,
a mortar like you suggested or maybe a concrete and what,
KIND of concrete.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
You know i don't know is that the? Foundation, Issue
for you know yeah i'll be able to address that
in complete detail after we get back from this commercial
break here at. The, bottom of The hour.

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Speaker 5 (48:22):
Good Afternoon This, Is johann dutton and adam dutton jim's
two sons. Filling in for him this Afternoon, jim's on
vacation over, in europe having. Fun this afternoon enjoining himself
today so we. Got a chance to fill in we,
did so a couple months ago and getting a chance
again to do it now and actually for. The next
couple of weeks here so really looking forward to answering

(48:44):
your home improvement, questions, today at seven one, three two,
one two five eight seven four and as we were going,
Into the bottom of the hour bill was asking us
some questions and we got his Uh Got to refer
over the texas remodel team for doing an assessment on his.
Windows and a potential window replacement and then he also

(49:08):
HAD a question and see if i can. Recap it
real quick for you you had a builder or the when,
you were moving into the house the inspector had identified
that you had some areas where the foundation was had
holes in it where you could, see that the mortar
was degrading and it looks. Like it's continued degrade over

(49:30):
time and you have those circular holes in it which
we oftentimes see on a post tension, slab where you
have your anchor, your steel anchors in the wall in the.
In the side of, the foundation it's the tension side
the tension side. Of the foundation? Holding? It, TOGETHER is

(49:50):
that accurate bill yeah i. Never knew what, to call.
Them so.

Speaker 15 (49:54):
That, Yeah attension slab that's interesting yes, so so, my
concern was that you know doing need to clean up
the metal that was, exposed if it's rusting AND painted
and then what do i. Seal those holes back up
with is it a mortar or is it like a
bag of sac creed and. You mix it up a's concrete.
SEEMS like it Would be overkilled i guess that.

Speaker 11 (50:14):
I'm, not sure, what to.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
Do, yeah great question great question well here's the here's
the relief news. Is that this happens, quite often it
on its, Own it's not a structural concern so we
we get called out to, these type of situations quite often,
and from a foundation repairman's perspective it's not a major

(50:35):
constructural concern unless those anchors get rusted to, the point
that they start snapping and then you do have a
set of. Concerns that you got to address but just
getting in there and brushing those clean as best, you
can on, the exposed steel and then yeah putting a

(50:56):
rust inhibiting paint on its helpful to preserving the, structure
of that steel anchor there and then it is simple mortar.
That you can go back with it doesn't need, to
be anything that's you know any sort of. Compressive strength
or high strength concrete it's just a simple mortar that

(51:19):
you're using.

Speaker 9 (51:20):
To mortar or non Shrink grout you don't want to
they don't put the concrete back in there because they
actually want to be able to access it if there's
Ever a need to retention those so that's why they
put kind of those.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
Lower impact. Type, cements. In place m hm.

Speaker 15 (51:43):
Okay okay so the recommendation of epoxy to cover it
was just to kind of keep that stuff from deteriorating
prematurely AND also to keep the, termat i think, his
concern is are you know the, ground termites, Ingress into,
the slab.

Speaker 5 (51:59):
You know and yeah it's a it's not a bad procedure.
To put a POxy in there it's not something that.
Is typically one of the stuff.

Speaker 9 (52:07):
Typically epoxies used to actually feel like. The cracks and
concrete and things so at that time it probably was
a better solution because it was probably more just cracked up,
and put the, epoxy in there fill those cracks, get
it all adhere. Together again and good to go at this. Point,
where you're fully, replacing it yeah just. Long drink growd or,

(52:29):
a mortar, you'll you'll be good.

Speaker 15 (52:31):
All, right it sounds, good man well thanks for fellows
and thanks? For naming what those. Holes, are you never
knew it, Well.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
We, Appreciate, the call today. Thank you bill.

Speaker 15 (52:41):
Appreciate the show it's always fun to listen to other
people's problems.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
And, thank god it's.

Speaker 15 (52:45):
Not mine yes, enjoy your afternoon all right later.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
And if you have, any home improvement questions for us
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Speaker 11 (53:04):
Help you guys hi guys i. Have two questions, YOU
don't mind first of ALL i needs a house and i.
Need to get a new roof my. Insurance carry need
a new roof otherwise they, charged me eight grand a
year SO you Get a roof and i. Got esthmens
for twenty one gets is that unusual to pay? That
much for a new roof or is he?

Speaker 5 (53:22):
Ripped me off in today's pricing that is well within
THE kind of average. NUMBERS that i see these days
i got one during the. Old storm insurance paid for it.
But he's, about forty six, thousand, OH wow oh.

Speaker 11 (53:37):
My gosh yeah. I, THOUGHT twenty one was bad also
i have people who rent this house that the shrubs in.
THE front die. They DIDN'T water i removed them do
i have to REPLACE those other shrubs or do i keep?
The soil there where they were or what do? You recommend,
SINCE you're in foundation oh well i.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
DON'T have a foundation man's perspective i don't mind having shrubs.
That aren't overgrown near a house usually those are not
nearly as water hungry. As like a fully grown tree
now we sometimes people do is they put a crape
myrtle two feet from the house and then. Let it
grow thirty, feet, tall that is a problem okay so,

(54:22):
Is probably that is. A problem, so don't. DO that
but normal that's.

Speaker 11 (54:29):
Okay i don't replace. Him AND have him die AGAIN
so i was wondering if i have to get something
there to put in place. Or just the, way, it is.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
But oh no no you. Can you can leave. IT
barren there's. THERE'S no foundation.

Speaker 11 (54:41):
I don't care i. Don't care the way, IT looks
but but you know i just don't want to have
the same situation. Happen, again, THE new crubs again okay
okay i thought twenty one thousand sound, too MUCH for
a new roof but, i Guess that's and he said
he toltdally's going to, go up next if there's terrors
because a lot Of. Material HE uses comes from canada

(55:02):
so i don't know if that was a sales tactic or.
JUST if it, might be true i don't know but
twenty one g, seemed TO be kind of.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Highest.

Speaker 11 (55:09):
So i guess it wasn't line it's.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Probably a fifty to fifty. Chance THAT that's A sales
tactic now i don't i'm, not IN the roofing industry
myself so, i CAN'T speak specifically to that but i
CAN tell you that on, the ac side of the
world we, did get notifications from our, manufacturers whether it's
true or not that they were increasing their equipment pricing
due to tariffs on just getting simple stuff like screw

(55:33):
nuts and, bolts that. Go in the, equipment you, know and,
so yeah.

Speaker 11 (55:37):
He said he, said THE plywooden things like that and
i think it's called playwood. And ridgement, AND things LIKE
that she was i think. I still think they're made
mistakes but Other, stuff HE uses comes from canada so i,
DON'T know if.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
He Was gotcha i don't Know now Jim, does speak
for guardian roof systems so if you do want to,
get a competitive Bid from Them you can give guardian
roof systems a call at two eight one four, zero
seven seven two eight zero and or you could just
look them Up And their their. Website is guardian roofsystems
dot com just to give you a competitive bid and

(56:13):
make sure that everybody's. Playing, in, the same ballpark there.

Speaker 11 (56:17):
YEAH okay thank. You very, Much, i, appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
Thank you yes sir thank, you you, Have a great.
Afternoon you too bye bye bye and if you have,
any home improvement questions for us you can give us
a call at seven one three two. One two five
eight seven four we have, a FEW calls coming in
HERE so i don't want to i don't. Want to
delay this too much let's see if we Can. Get,

(56:41):
daniel in here in cyprus? Danielle how are, You, doing?
Today i'm doing good? Yes? SIR how can we help yes.

Speaker 16 (56:52):
I have a fence that. Blew over back in the
hurricane my homeowners? Is, ON my case about it. Now,
i need a fence company.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Well. THAT IS a very good question i i don't
personally know that we, have a fence company. That Uh
that sponsors the show And i'm gonna. TELL You. What,
i'm gonna do i uh, brian our producer of this
show prepped. Me for, questions just LIKE this he said, what, What,

(57:26):
i can do is uh well what you can do
is go to th hi pro and submit your question
on The on the website and that brian's been working
that on the back end for us this weekend and
he'll be able to if you just submit that and
said that you talked to us on the air and we,

(57:47):
didn't have that contractor for you he would be able.
To get that, name to you and so uh if
you just, go to th hipro dot com you can
submit a question to us there And, and we'll be
able to yeah and to give.

Speaker 9 (57:59):
You all further explanation of it they gave us a
two page document with probably eighty different companies, that do
different types of work and all it has is the
company name and not. What market they actually work in
so we don't want to give you a fencing contractor. That, doesn't, work,
In your market yes sir well i'm sure we'll be.

Speaker 5 (58:20):
Able to help you out there and if you just
submit it and say that, you tucked us on the
air we'll we'll definitely give you. Some, sort of response.
On that okay that, Sounds. Good thank you so much.
Daniel you have, a good afternoon and at that if
you have, any home improvement questions for us you can
give us a call at seven one three two One.

(58:41):
Two five eight seven four kent we're getting close, to
OUR first commercial break here so i don't want to
let you ask your question and. Then have to cut
you off so if you wouldn't, mind holding through this
commercial break then you were going to be the first
call her. Up when we get back here and so

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Here i would, say so yeah and having fun enjoy
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our grandfather started the company in nineteen seventy eight and
Our uncle and are my. Father jim owned the company
today we do a lot on the foundation side for
both doing, major structural repairs when it's required but a
lot of times we could come out to a homeowner's
house and do an assessment, and just make some rec

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Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
Welcome back To Texas home improvement This Is johann dutton
here with adam dutton filling and then for our Father
today he's on vacation in europe and so we are
here to answer any home improvement questions you have. And
have fun doing it today you can give us a
call at seven one three two one two five eight
seven to four and we'll run straight to The phones

(01:02:24):
Here And, Talk. To kent to missouri city kent? How are? You?
DOING this afternoon.

Speaker 18 (01:02:28):
Doing great hey, i got to tell you first My Great.
My grandfather's, Name, was johann johansen oh Wow yeah you,
don't get.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
More.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Johan than that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
No doubt Wow that. Is funny it's.

Speaker 18 (01:02:41):
From norway anyway my question to. You HAS to do
with roofs and i heard the guy a couple of
calls ago was. LAMENTING his cost of his roof i
have negotiated with a bunch of roofers and gotten people
to what seems. Like reasonable thirty seven thousand. Dollars, SO
there's a lot more. Yes i wanted to ask you

(01:03:02):
i'm looking AT. A class, four, roof From Gaf it's,
Called Yeah the, armor shield two, and I'm wondering first.
Of all and i've, asked THEM they're checking into it
but i didn't know whether they have any. Knowledge about
that level four roof i'll get a little bit of

(01:03:24):
a break from my insurance company. By having level four
versus three but. It's about three thousand dollars?

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
More are you looking at it because of, your proximity to.
The coast there.

Speaker 18 (01:03:36):
Not so much. But we do get. Hailstones here. We
periodically get hale that's true.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
I've had that exact roof on my, house for about
four months now so, OH really in terms of performance
i can't REALLY attest to it yet because i just haven't. Had,
Anything happen to it yet right my annual insurance cost did. Drop,
about four thousand a Year wow switching, To A class

(01:04:05):
OH my goodness now i can't I couldn't even tell
you what. I had on my roof before I know,
it was not a class four but it made a huge.

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Difference on the cost. Of, my insurance for.

Speaker 18 (01:04:18):
My home well good for you mine will just go down,
A couple of hundred. Per months i mean. Per YEAR
that's kind of disappointing but i wanted to ask you
ALSO about so it's that's a i consider that. An, endorsement,
if you.

Speaker 8 (01:04:33):
Bought it yeah yeah COUNCIL.

Speaker 18 (01:04:36):
There so it's not ABOUT.

Speaker 9 (01:04:37):
I at the time, THAT i was needing A roof
i was REQUESTING a class four because where i live
we do, get A lot of hell storms and i
lived a couple. Of houses down for my parents they've
been in their house for about twenty five years. And
THEY'RE on roof, NUMBER six So i was like i
think i'm gonna TRY to at least do what i

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can do to keep from.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Having. TO do that multiple times.

Speaker 18 (01:05:04):
Yep a related, question has to do with color and.
This is, probably a dumb question you know we're looking
at whether it wood color, versus pewter gray. OR even
charcoal which is darker i, know that, a darker you
know asphalt shingle will be more heat and that strains.
The AIR conditioning and all, that but i wanted your. Thoughts,

(01:05:28):
if any, how about.

Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
That well you know from the perspective of a ac,
MAN that does energy load calculations i can tell you
that when we change from a medium to a light
dark to a deep, dark on our energy load calculator
it makes a very very minor change in. The load calculation,

(01:05:53):
on the house so, it does it does change it
but in terms of different things that have an effect
that is that is not high up at the up the. List,
on the load CALCULATOR chart.

Speaker 18 (01:06:05):
Wow that's interesting because i love the dark look just.
With the color of my house it kind of. Pops
better with a dark, look, but my, wife is going
oh you know we'll have to get, a new air
conditioner and, all which.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
May have ye anyway but there's no chance it's even
going to change, half A ton worth of energy. So
i wouldn't, worry about it from that PERSPECTIVE have, You,
heard us about.

Speaker 9 (01:06:33):
Usa, insulation, well THAT'S another thing yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
Okay well i.

Speaker 18 (01:06:42):
Appreciate, that, Input it's very helpful.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Yes sir, Well, you have a great afternoon kent and
we appreciate your call and. Enjoy the rest of your
day and at that we. Have a couple of minutes
Left we're Going to Run. To geary and montgomery and? Gary?
How Are. You doing today good? I'M dan how can

(01:07:05):
we help.

Speaker 19 (01:07:07):
I want to know if there's any real value in
using the ultra or getting the ultraviolet. LIGHTS into your
air conditioning system i don't have them in the company
that does the service work is trying to get me.

Speaker 20 (01:07:25):
To purchase an ULTRA violet.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
LIGHT system for it i. HAVE i have three separate.

Speaker 19 (01:07:33):
Units i have two to five ton units and a
three ton unit and they're wanting.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Me.

Speaker 11 (01:07:38):
To put ultraviolet lights.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
In yeah, and from an ac men's perspective that's one
of the easiest upsales. That you can make to somebody
because you talk about protecting the health and the safety,
of the occupants of the home and it's and it's
an easy thing, To, get somebody's mind thinking that yeah
let's let's spend. The money and do this right there

(01:08:01):
are a bunch of different components and pieces of equipment
on the market that, are designed to do similar stuff.
Which IS to address airborne, Contaminants before i answer your
question i'll ask do you have any people in the
house that are unhealthy that? Are? Dealing, with airborne contaminant

(01:08:22):
issues no okay, well.

Speaker 6 (01:08:27):
We're both we're both elderly but we.

Speaker 19 (01:08:30):
Don't, We have no respiratory illness well.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
I'm bumping up on a break if you wouldn't mind, Holding,
With me through the break gary i'll answer your, question
in detail after this BREAK Let.

Speaker 9 (01:08:42):
Me tell you about usa insulation So this is a
company that i've actually had out to.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
MY own home for my home i.

Speaker 9 (01:08:51):
Actually had them through the foam wall injections and it
has worked wonders for being able to. Maintain the temperature
in my home drop my owner bill and just make.
IT more comfortable to live there i know they offer
a lot of other products, besides just a foam wall.
Injection but give them a call at eight three two three.

(01:09:13):
Seven six six eight six.

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Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Dut You Welcome back to Texas Home is johann dutton
here with Adam dutton filling in for our Father jim
today he's on vacation in europe and uh, if you
have any home improvement questions you can give us a
call at seven one. Three two one two five eight seven,

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and before we went To. The break we were talking
with GARY he had been advised BY a ac company
to install a uv. In his system for killing, Airborne? Contaminants,
is that is that right, gary.

Speaker 11 (01:10:17):
Yeah that's what, they're, you.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Know they're PAVISING to do yes sir AND now i
will tell you that i have a background as a
design engineer, doing mechanical designs for large, commercial CONSTRUCTION including
a NUMBER of hospitals and i have seen uv installation
installed in a hospital. Environment, absolutely for doing. Killing airborne

(01:10:44):
contaminants now in that setting they have a, plantum that's
something like twenty feet. Long fifteen twenty, feet long or
something it's VERY long with a whole series of uv lights,
on all four walls, of that thing all the way
down basically a tunnel to make sure THAT that particles

(01:11:05):
have enough exposure to uv to actually kill them before they.
Go throughout the rest of THE system and part OF
the reason i don't love a uv light for a
residential application is, typically it's just at a single point,
and while it can kill some particles it's it's not

(01:11:27):
nearly got the effectiveness as multiple points of exposure, for
long durations of time would. Do like a in a
hospital application so you're taking that and you're shrinking, it
down to a much smaller scale and that THAT particle
is only exposed to that uv, light for a fraction
of a second which is not always enough time to

(01:11:49):
kill it in the way that it would. Be in
a much larger commercial application so, you got to keep
that in mind is, that the technology itself is absolutely
validated but it's being a it's taking it and it's
applying it to, a residential and a much smaller scale,
and so its effectiveness. Is not identical it's nowhere narrative,

(01:12:09):
equivalent so as an alternative to that they do make
some ionic systems where the way those work is they
use negative charged ions to attach to contaminants in the
air and build bigger particles that are larger size so
that they can get. Effectively trapped by a media filtration.

(01:12:32):
System so that is a good alternative it does in
order for, that type of approach to work effectively you
do have to have a media filter installed, to be
able to trap those contaminants because, even if even at
a larger size they will get through a standard five dollars,
filter one inch pleated filter quite readily it takes that.

(01:12:56):
Higher level of filtration to, STOP them so all that
being said i like a. Media filter for, a number
of reasons for dust, control if somebody has, pets or
whatever it helps with that and it also helps. On
the PERSPECTIVE of trapping airborne contaminants but a uv light is.
Specifically designed to address the airborne contaminants and if you're

(01:13:20):
not a household, that's dealing with those, TYPE of issues
LIKE my own household i would not i would. NOT necessarily,
INVEST in one of those i mean i don't. Have,
one installed in my, own house okay well.

Speaker 20 (01:13:36):
WHAT YOU'RE saying uh makes makes sense i i we Have,
media filters on, ALL three units oda and so uh
i would agree that the amount of time that IT
would take for a.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
Youth.

Speaker 20 (01:13:56):
A uv like to, be effective uh it's it's fairly
big one story house and killing it at one spot at.
One time as it passes would be it makes sense
that that'd, be.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
You might get some of it. But, You, NEVER get
it off, Exactly, okay well i appreciate. The call, gary
and very interesting topic it's uh, everybody's got. A, Different
approach to it you know, Yeah, well you have a
good afternoon gary, and if you think of anything else feel,
free to give us a call. Back whether, that's this

(01:14:36):
week or, Next.

Speaker 11 (01:14:38):
All, right Thank, YOU very much bye bye.

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
And jay i. Appreciate you, hanging on with us there
but uh we're Gonna. Make a really quick stop in
uh we got a we got, a special guest caller
for us today so we want. To make. A quick
STOP over here it's hungry. I think. I know who
that is very good you know you do vacation from

(01:15:07):
a radio show about as, well as you do, vacation
from work, which, IS to say here you are.

Speaker 10 (01:15:15):
Well i got to call in, and see, how you guys.
ARE doing.

Speaker 5 (01:15:19):
Doing good having fun today i really this show is
very enjoyable when we get, people calling. In. And asking
us questions no DOUBT.

Speaker 10 (01:15:28):
Yep well now you know why i always have. A.
Good time, with it on weekends.

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
Yep, you know if you think about it that's pretty
much what we, do all day during, the week anyways
is just get calls whether that be from potential clients
or our. Own our own team asking us questions so,
that's at this stage in our career that's kind of,
what WE. Do all. Day, every day right a.

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and we will board The Boat tomorrow to go down.

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The DANUBE river And, make frequent stops, And i think
saturday when you're.

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On i'll be?

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Where is that i couldn't even. Put that on a map,
in hand.

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go to munich Get a car, and then drive Around
munich visiting. Relatives, that, drive, around GERMANY visiting, RELATIVES yeah
yeah so but i know i just wanted to take
a minute to call in see how you guys were
doing and. Give, you an update. How it's going.

Speaker 5 (01:16:39):
Yeah that's very good i'm sure. The listeners like to
hear that too, whenever the last time you were, out
you were out due to sickness, And, we Had everybody calling?
IN asking oh it's jim. Doing okay i hope he's
doing okay so.

Speaker 12 (01:16:50):
We.

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Got SOME better news this.

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Time yeah and I don't, Know, if your listeners. Even, oh,
Yeah jim you take. VACATIONS yeah well jim's doing real good,
a Couple of beers and.

Speaker 10 (01:17:04):
Several Wines and jim's feeling pretty good.

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So.

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I'm, not gonna stay on.

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Long good well glad to hear it i'll.

Speaker 10 (01:17:11):
Let YOU go back to.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
The calls and i appreciate. You guys.

Speaker 10 (01:17:15):
Thank filling in for me you're.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
Welcome thanks, for, checking, in with everybody all. Right.

Speaker 11 (01:17:20):
Bye bye talk to you later bye.

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And we're Back With texas Home Improvement this is johann
dutton and Adam dutton filling in for our. Father jim,
today while he's on vacation and uh we had have.
Had a good time filling in here. And let's get
back to the calls and we, Really. Appreciate you holding
through that break? Jay how can we. Help, today there you.

Speaker 6 (01:21:55):
Good afternoon. Fellus YEAH your last call baby's up BECAUSE
i used to do IN the. Uv systems that go
into hvac systems.

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
Oh for a residential or commercial applications.

Speaker 6 (01:22:08):
It was a commercial. And a whole lot of cookie
stuff THEY were TRYING to make money, during covid and i, Paid, the, bills.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
So yes they won yes.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
Sir so sort of summarized my question i've had a
home that's flooded a. Couple of times from, multiple different
ways one hurricane flood waters the hot water. Heater exploded
and flooded at one time the air. Conditioning drain pain
flooded for recurtine repairs the boneheads that were doing work

(01:22:39):
at my house did not reconnect my drain to my
bathroom sink and they got plugged up and that. Caused
the whole closet roof to collapse on everything from the,
way to the water and the ceiling. And IT'S just doing,
a big, MESS so i was saying you know i
got to put a little bleach in there here and

(01:22:59):
there a stupid putting the. Hot water heater, in the
attic one but? Number two why is it drain pan
not just funneling straight outside where, it could not cause
an internal. Flood but go forward to the outside.

Speaker 5 (01:23:17):
Is it a is it a condensing tankless water heater
that we're? Talking about that, has the drainpan there the drain.

Speaker 6 (01:23:26):
Pan it's it's a hot water heater my.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Question was? In?

Speaker 6 (01:23:30):
Reference, to the drainpan.

Speaker 5 (01:23:34):
Got. It, okay yeah uh you can so actually some
some city municipalities require that you run it outside and
they don't even LET you RUN it down. Into the
uh city's uh septic system and then other others prefer it.

(01:23:56):
To go down through the septic. System, but it's definitely
done both ways now there is a little bit of
a downside to just having it, go and discharge to
your own yard which is that if you're doing that,
right up against next to the foundation that'll you will
have an area that is consistently moist there and then

(01:24:17):
the type of Soils That we have through much of
south texas that can cause us those soils there to swell,
and cause the foundation to heave up and so. You,
Talk about a costly repair there yeah, so if you
were going to do if you were going to, try
to create a solution like that you would want to

(01:24:40):
have that discharge pipe discharge at least five feet away
from the foundation And hit a little basically like what
i've seen do is like a collection box of gravel
and stuff that allows it to soak into. The water
a little. Bit over time. AND that's that's normal we

(01:25:01):
see that i just don't like it whenever people, put
that immediately adjacent to the. FOUNDATION because it does have
an issue i found THE word of caution on.

Speaker 9 (01:25:11):
THAT that i see all the time i. Don't care
how dry it, is outside when your ac is running,
it's going to be, wet out there and those spots
there it can get wet enough that it kills the grass.
Even and you start growing mold instead so just make
sure it's being done correctly, if, you're routing it to the.

Speaker 5 (01:25:28):
Outside. Yeah, NOT just dumping it right.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
YEAH yeah i appreciate the inside already i can just
do my JURY rate plumbing contraction and make sure i
run a gun brush or something to, you there, to
get that mold out you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
Know.

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
Religiously every, Two months at least yeah next down i'm
the plumbing to a little elbow and, then a triangle
and two more elbows and it's easy.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
FOR that. MOLD to get in there i have i
have a VERY similar, setup up with my upstairs ac
unit and. It drains down into my daughter's sink and
you know how daughter sinks are with. Hair AND everything else,
down The drains it's i just preemptively because i've dealt.
WITH very similar situations in the past i go up
there about every six months and just make sure that

(01:26:17):
that thing is flowing correctly and make sure that the
sink is cleaned. Out JUST for that exact same reason
and i just, add it. To my, normal maintenance list
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:26:28):
All right good news. And appreciate the, Insight, on, the
foundation thank you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
Yes sir you have a. Good, afternoon thank.

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
You for the call, jay happy, shooting i'm at the
range bye.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
Bye and you know we have we have, enough time
for one more caller here but there's not a, ton
of Time on the air left so read i'm going
to see if i can get your question in real
quick and then It's probably after the next break that
i'll be able to answer it real quick for us?
And read how, are you doing today i'm.

Speaker 12 (01:27:01):
Doing, fine, made it through the brains yes sir we have,
an issue where the past three. Months the water bill
has been, astronomical we've checked all of the toilets we've checked.

Speaker 5 (01:27:18):
All of the water.

Speaker 12 (01:27:20):
In the house we don't see anything.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
There.

Speaker 12 (01:27:24):
Have been water issues in the neighborhood the city. Has breaks, here,
or there and yonder, They say oh it's not their,
problem i'll come. Out and check it but they haven't.
The water bill is just keep going.

Speaker 5 (01:27:37):
What can we do. In that scenario that's a great
question and if, YOU hold through the break with me.
I have a series of diagnostic questions i'd like to
ask you to see if We can't help narrow it
down some so let me put you on hold here
and when, we get back from this commercial. Break WE.
Can Address that with you to hvac du west is.

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Speaker 7 (01:29:03):
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Speaker 8 (01:30:05):
WRONG and he recommends Guardian Roof, Systems I.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
Said, Down, to leak city hello?

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
Jd?

Speaker 22 (01:30:11):
HEY jim how you doing that man i did call
you Last week about a timneycat leek and i've had
somebody come. Out and BASICALLY they Ripped Me. OFF you
recommended i.

Speaker 10 (01:30:20):
Called guardian roofing i, did call him the, technician came.

Speaker 22 (01:30:23):
Out he, was, on time he's courteous he said yep.
They've used the wrong type of sealment so he cleaned
it and. Resealed it and then that Did, it kudos
to You for recommending guardian and, kudos, to guardian for doing.
A polite pleasant good job, for me i really really.

Speaker 7 (01:30:40):
Appreciate that and thank you so Much you've Got, to
take care of guardian Roof Systems The. Official roofing company
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Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
It your Way You'd Both be Wrong Here's.

Speaker 8 (01:31:06):
More texas. Home improvement With jim Dutton.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
Cocome back this Is johann. And adam filling. In for
jim today where's two sons and, before we hit this
Last commercial Break we were speaking with reid and reid
has a high water bill and we're just trying to,
get figured out where where that, Leak where that, Water?
May be going, is that right, reid that's correct now

(01:31:34):
just philosophically speaking a lot of our listeners that listen,
to us or do it yourself people and, so, rather
than me just tell you yeah we got, to call
a different plumber out here let's let's see. If we
can't do some diagnostics together do you? Have? An, Irrigation
system in your yard no no do?

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
You?

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Have a, Pool at your house no oh wow so
we're pretty limited. On where that water could be going
then you do you know for sure that you don't
have any wet spots out in the front yard in
between where the water meter is and. Where the line
goes into the house, it seems like it's. All pretty

(01:32:16):
dry not that.

Speaker 12 (01:32:18):
We've identified we've looked all around trying, to find wet
spots in the, yard looked at ceilings and you know,
trying to find what might be there and even checking
the water. Faucets on the, outside of the, house. They're
Not on they're not dripping okay and.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
I'm assuming that you have the type of pipes. That, are.
Up in the attic there yes okay.

Speaker 12 (01:32:46):
We actually had a problem with, that about ten years
ago and, well WE'RE hitting a.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
Hard break here but i could tell you all of.
The simple solutions have been ruled out we're going to.
Need to get a plumber out there, So You Can
Call our our business do west total plumbing at seven
one three four seven five zero zero zero four and,
we can try to help diagnose THAT because that's, GOING to.
Be beyond uh, a homeowner i believe and at that thank.

(01:33:16):
You all For A Wonderful, weekend TOGETHER and do, west
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(01:33:40):
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them know. That they're dealing with potential foundation issues, and
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office a call at seven one three four seven three

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seven one five six and we'd love to help you
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