Foundation Repair & American Standard

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to start with. Today, I've got a guest with me.
I've got Johann Dutton, my son, uh with here on
Texas Home Improvement. And uh, We're going to talk a
little bit about foundation repair because I've been getting a
lot of emails from people having foundation issues and it's
it's not unusual at this time of year because the

(03:07):
found the soils have dried out all summer long, foundations
have moved and school starts up and all that stuff.
People start looking at it and getting concerned.

Speaker 7 (03:18):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
And so we're gonna kind of address some of the
issues that people deal with and how we address foundation problems.
So again, if you if you got a question in particular,
we'll talk foundation repair here to start with, but you
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(03:40):
And Johan Welcome to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Thank you, welcome.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
So that first of all, congratulations on getting married last week.

Speaker 7 (03:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (03:49):
Yeah, it was a good time. We went out on
a cruise out of Galveston, and uh spent a week
traveling around and had some of the extended family there.
So it was a good time.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
And I did enjoy just kicking back and doing absolutely
nothing and couldn't get up and go do anything even
if I wanted to. When we're out on the water.

Speaker 8 (04:13):
Yeah, the internet was a little bit spotty, So I
got a little less work done and a little more
relaxation done than than I was originally planning. But that's okay.
We had a good time.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
So let's let's talk foundation repair, because you know, quite frankly,
this is the time of year. A lot of times
people quit worrying about the foundation. They know they've got
an issue, they put it off. Oh I'm gonna I'm
gonna address that after the holidays. And you know, the
sooner people address a foundation issue, the more likely they

(04:47):
are to not need foundation repair but preventative maintenance. But
because we stick our heads in the ground and don't
want to admit that I've got a problem, or worse,
we want to we know we got a problem and
just don't want to to deal with it right now,
that can cost them thousands of dollars Yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:05):
Here's the thing to keep in mind with foundation movement
and foundation issues. It's not that the concrete itself was
built wrong, or that your foundation itself was built wrong.
It's that the soils underneath the foundation are giving you
a problem. When soils dry out, they shrink, and that's
what causes foundations to settle. When they gain moisture, when

(05:27):
it rains, they expand and they start coming back up.
In that process of shrinking and going down and expanding
and coming back up, there's a little bit of consolidation
each time the foundation goes down. So over the course
of many years, foundations go down and up and down
and up and down and up until they get to
the point that they've settled so much that they are

(05:48):
not with no amount of water is bringing them back
up to where they started. And so generally during that
down cycle, when it's hot and dry, people start to
see a lot of cosmetic damage because the foundation is moving.
And then it starts gaining moisture and coming back up,
and people stop, they forget about it. They say, oh,

(06:11):
everything is better again. Unfortunately, the next year, the next cycle,
things are only gonna be worse, not better than they were.
The time before, and so doing foundation maintenance. What that
means to me is doing things to help mitigate those
drastic changes, whether really dry or really wet, that create

(06:32):
foundation problems for people. And so when you the earlier
you capture that, the earlier you remedy that, the less
foundation problems that you'll have because you'll either do something
to fix the thing that's causing an imbalance in the
moisture and stabilizing it in place. Or if you do

(06:55):
need foundation repair, you're repairing one small portion of a foundation,
us a larger portion of the foundation. And so this
is one of those things, like most things, that procrastination
is not your friend.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
Life in general. Now, one of the things I didn't
do when I introduced you is I failed to let
everybody know you are an engineer. You head up our
sales department, so all the guys call you with their
questions and stuff. You review the estimates and everything. So
everything do West is doing is actually reviewed by an engineer.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
Yeah, and I think that's kind of a important distinction
to make, is that we're not driven by just the
sales process and trying to sell everybody as much as
we can. Right. We take a very methodical approach to
design it to present a solution that is right for
that homeowner. And you know, having a background in engineering

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and doing things that are the correct type of design
principles for each homeowner is one of the things that
we really feel sets us apart from I guess what
the industry norm is out there.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
So let's talk about the process now, when somebody calls
and we have somebody go out to check their homes,
foundation go through the process from the time we get
there all the way through.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
Yeah, so obviously we'll need to meet the homeowners there
at the house so that we can have a good
dialogue with them to figure out what they're seeing, what
their expectations are for the house moving forward, what their
intents are with the house moving forward, and then we

(08:50):
typically will have them show us around the house, show
them whatever concerns they had that had them give us
a call to do an assessment. Sometimes it's no more
complicated than the last tenant moved out and the next
tenant's about to move in and they just wanted to
get it checked out, or the house is going on
the market and they didn't want to be you know,

(09:13):
putting in a tough spot whenever the somebody else came
in and said, oh yeah, you got foundation problems here.
So some of that is just doing a cursory review
for people, but oftentimes you know they're looking at it
as being their biggest investment and they're wanting to protect
it and take care of it. And so after we

(09:34):
do a walk with them to see what type of
cosmetic damages or concerns they may have, then we do
a full diagram of the house and the surrounding lot
to see the things like trees and the flat work
and stuff that may be influencing the foundation. And then
we take a set of elevation measurements on the floor.

(09:56):
The way that's done is you take one spot on
the floor. We'll pick somewhere near the center of the
house because it's farthest away from environmental influences around the outside,
and we measure every other spot elevation wise relative to
that spot in the middle, and that'll tell us approximately

(10:18):
how level the house is.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
Now.

Speaker 8 (10:19):
Something to keep in mind is that no house is
poured zero point zero, and sometimes people get a little
bit too hung up in just the numbers on the
paper and they're just simply a reference point that we
can use as a guide to kind of gauge foundation movement.
We'll really focus on things like door frames, window seals,

(10:41):
countertops to help us guide on if a house was
built a little bit at a level, or if a
house has moved since it was built, and based on
all of that, we can make a determination on this
is kind of a minor amount of foundation movement, and
you should do some thing maintenance wise, whether that be

(11:03):
foundation watering or root shield or a drainage solution to
prevent it from getting worse. Or we sometimes you know,
we can tell people the good news of this foundation
is very stable and you're in good shape here, and
then other times we got to help people with a
repair solution, which would include a number of peers underneath
the house to lift it back up to its original position.

(11:26):
The whole idea with peers is the soils near the
surface are what's moving, and so we offer a wealth
of different peer solutions, but the whole concept is I'm
going to get down to more stable soils, those beneath
the active moving soils near the surface, and use those
more stable soils to lift and stabilize a house long term.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
Okay, so when we come out, I mean we're basically
doing a full review of what that foundation is doing
and what could potentially be causing problems with it. So
and that music's meaning I gotta take a quick break here.

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Speaker 6 (15:52):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
two one two, five eight seven four. We've been sitting
here talking with Johan about foundation repair. We're going to
head down to Galveston and Tony, welcome to Texas ho Improvement.
How can I help you?

Speaker 3 (16:10):
We thanks thanks for having me. I have a home
in Houston and I'm having some foundation movement issue and
a little backstory. In twenty sixteen, I had a multitude
of peers put in by a foundation company that unfortunately
is no longer in business. The movement seems to be

(16:34):
only in the area of where the peers were installed.
So I guess my question is peers be readjusted to
bring the slab up or do new peers have to
be installed?

Speaker 8 (16:50):
Hello, Tony, this is Johan. Yes, most of the time
we can, or you know, many foundation contractors can adjust
existing peers that were installed by others. Generally, that type
of adjustment service does not come with the type of
warranty that, say, installing a new peer would from a contractor,

(17:11):
and so typically if I am working with the homeowner
that's in that type of situation, I will typically give
them both options, whether that is the adjustment of an
existing peer or the installation of a new peer, and
then let them decide whether or not they want to,

(17:32):
you know, run the risk that that peer may continue
to have issues with them over time, or if they
want to go ahead and install a new peer that
would have a warranty from a company that's still in business,
then that would make them feel more comfortable. Do you
know if those existing peers were drilled peers or pressed

(17:53):
concrete piles or some.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Other peers they were pressed concrete.

Speaker 8 (17:59):
Yeah, that's kind of the industry standard today and what
most residential foundation projects have installed, so that would not
surprise me. I will tell you that installing a even
though the press concrete pile is kind of the default
peer solution in the Houston area today. That peer design

(18:21):
itself is it can be installed really well and have
a very very long life of being stable, and it
can also be installed where it doesn't perform as well
over time. Some of the things that create long term
stability in the peer is one get into the proper depths.

(18:43):
So if you drive that peer a little bit too shallow,
you could still be in the active soils underneath the house.
If you don't drive it deep enough to hit the
point of refusal, which is that the peer stops being
pushed down and you start pushing the house up, then
the load of the house above it could cause that

(19:05):
pier to be pushed down over time. Another thing that
could happen to people is that if other areas of
the house start moving next to where those piers were installed,
that could put undue burden on the piers themselves and
have them start pushing down. And so I'll give you
an example. Let's say a issue was isolated on the

(19:30):
corner of a house and somebody put five peers right
on the corner to lift that corner up and put
it back. Now we're dealing with ten years down the
road or fifteen years down the road. The tree in
the front yard that caused that corner to settle initially
has continued to grow and mature, and the root system
underneath the house has continued to develop, and other areas

(19:52):
farther in or farther down that wall has started to move.
That additional movement could cause x burden on those piers
and cause them to push down. So when we're putting
together a comprehensive repair for a homeowner, generally, if we're
dealing with a partial repair, something like the five peers
that we were talking about, will often want to address

(20:15):
what created those the necessity to put those peers in
the first place, so that the problem doesn't continue to
develop to other areas of the house.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
I see, Okay, Yeah, I definitely have some large trees
that the roots are definitely working their way towards the
area that is having the difficulty, and it may be
the tree roots and causing the problems. It would just
seem to coincidence that all the areas where the piers

(20:51):
were installed is where the areas I'm seeing movement in
the house. I guess we need to get y'all out
there and do a comprehensive look and see. Can you
all tell what type of peters were installed?

Speaker 7 (21:09):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (21:09):
Well, if they're a bracketed peer, sometimes we can literally
see the side of the peer connected to the house.
Being that you talked about them being a pressed pile.
Most of the time those press piles are installed in
such a way that I could adjust them, you know,
regardless of who installed them. Well you can. You can
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Speaker 3 (21:45):
Super diom listen. I appreciate your insight and we'll give
you a call see if we can get to the
bottom of it.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Thank you, Tony, thank you.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I appreciate you.

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Take my call, you bet away.

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Speaker 6 (23:53):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements. Seven one three
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three two one two five eight seven four. And as
I said, we're gonna talk with Carl from American Standard.
And Carl, how are you today?

Speaker 3 (24:11):
I am great?

Speaker 11 (24:12):
How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (24:13):
I am doing wonderful?

Speaker 7 (24:15):
Perfect.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
So let's talk air conditioning for a few minutes, because
you know I've been talking now for a couple months
about the changes that are taking effect on January first,
and you know, it's one of those things that nobody
asks for it other than the federal government that's putting

(24:37):
more regulations on everybody. But you know, the big thing
is it's going to cost everybody more money, and it's
it's really not gonna cool us any better or heat
us any better.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Mm hmmm h yeah, Jimma, and totally agree with you
on those points. So, yes, January first, the whole industry
has to change refrigerants. And what they federal government did
is they put a ruling out there that you have

(25:12):
to be under seven hundred GWP and so that means
global warming potential, So everybody the current refrigerant of R
four ten A does not meet those requirements. So left
the industry deciding on which refrigerants they were going to use,

(25:32):
and so a couple of them have shaken out. Most
of the industry is going to be using four point
fifty four B, which is well under seven hundred and
there's another manufacturer out there that's going to go with
R thirty two refrigerant out there, so there's going to
be two of them for the most part. In our industry.
But yes, with this type of refrigerant that is out there,

(25:57):
there does have to be some safety precaution on there,
some added sensors and sensors and circuit boards and a
handful of other things which does drive the price up.
I've listened to your show and you mentioned about the
whole retooling, So yes, the industry had a retool revamp

(26:18):
which has the cost effect to that as well. And
so yes, we are expecting to see when we do
have the new refrigerant coming out with the new equipment
product line. I listened to your show last week and
you pretty much got on with the price increase. The
industry is thinking that it's going to go up about

(26:42):
anywhere between fifteen to twenty percent, and hopefully not more
than twenty percent of what.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
It currently already is right now. So you're absolutely right.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
So you mentioned that that regulation as far as the
energy efficiency of it, or for the global warming stuff.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
For they didn't attack this seer rating, which they normally
do so usually they say hey, no more thirteen sier,
now fourteen sier is the minimum. They did not go
after that. They went after the refrigerant, and so we
are still going to be able to make an American
standard fourteen seer product and all the way up to

(27:23):
twenty plus seer ratings as well. So it's just it's
a refrigerant change of the.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Chearing okay, And are there currently still some of the
old systems available.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, it's a good thing. That's mainly what I've been
focusing on for the most part.

Speaker 7 (27:41):
So just as our.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Good old government, the biggest thing that we were worried
about was how long can we have our FOURTENA. We
found that out the manufacturers cannot manufacture our four ten
A products after January first, and so the original I
can tell you what the American standard was, to stop
production of our four teen A products back in August

(28:07):
September time frame, just so we can start focusing on
the new stuff. Many HBAC contractors out there, people like
myself as well, decided, hey, we want our four TENA
as long as possible, So we revamped everything, got back
with all of our suppliers started bringing in a whole
bunch of more products. So it was a good supply

(28:32):
chain endeavor to revamp that stuff back up. And so
everything I have in that American standard is making I
can sell all the way up through the end of
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(28:52):
made us where that was able as touch and go.
Before they were telling us no, it was a hard
stop off of January first, we can't sell it after that,
but then they change that and everything that I have
currently in the warehouse I can sell. But when it's gone,
it is gone, and we still have quite a few

(29:12):
of it that we can still do. So if you
are on the fence of thinking about changing it out,
I would highly recommend putting that up a little bit
more further in the in the in your mind to
thinking about chasing it if you're getting pretty if your
unit is pretty old out there, because I still have some,

(29:32):
but every single day I get less and less and less,
and so yeah, so there is still some out there.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
How about you know a lot of times people will
keep their existing you know, furnace and have to change
out the outside unit. Are these things going to be
combatible or what are we going to have to do?

Speaker 2 (29:54):
So great, great question. So every manufacturer is going to
be doing something different. So again the government just said
refrigerant change. They didn't say how to get there. They
didn't necessarily say you have.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
To do this and you have to do that.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
So every they don't care what we have to spend
to do it. They just want it done absolutely.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
So what we are doing on the American Standard side
of things is we're doing a.

Speaker 11 (30:20):
Coil.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
So we're putting these extra sensors on our coils and
the circuit boards and everything, so you will be able
to keep your pre existing furnace. You know, we're in Houstons.
Our furnaces do last quite a bit, but you will
be able to change the condenser and coil out and
keep that furnace in there with this, So there is

(30:44):
a positive on that side of things. Now other manufacturers
they're putting those controls on their furnaces.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
Ah okay, well it's another great reason to go with
American Standard, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yes, sir, It is a yes, sir Carl.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
I appreciate you taking time to talk to us today.
Have a great weekend and a very merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Absolutely you too, sir, Thank you.

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Speaker 6 (35:24):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one, three, two,
one two, five, eight seven four. Let's head over to
the heights and Maria, this is Jim. How can I
help you?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Hi?

Speaker 15 (35:36):
Jim. I had a question about root barriers because I
have two there right now. They're small magnolia trees, but
they will grow. They're about eight feet from my foundation.

Speaker 10 (35:47):
So just thinking ahead, you know, about adding maybe root.

Speaker 15 (35:53):
Barriers so it doesn't affect the foundation as they grow.

Speaker 6 (35:57):
Okay, so what what.

Speaker 15 (36:00):
Are your suggestions?

Speaker 10 (36:01):
I've read. You know, there's chemical, there's hard there's a fabric,
there's a plastic. I just don't know.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
Well, a couple of things on the root barriers. We
install physical barriers, not the chemical barriers. I guess it's
just a philosophical thing on you know, we don't want
to put chemicals in the ground around somebody's house and
then figure out twenty years later that that wasn't the
thing to do. It's kind of like an asbestos insulation,

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you know, it's just a precautionary thing rather than a
known issue.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
But it also lets the moisture travel through, so we're
trying to stop that as well.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
Right, So, especially given how close those trees are to
the foundation, you know, you're not going to have a
very large gap in between where the roots are able
to draw their moisture and where the house is able
to be protected, because you can't be right up against
the house. You got to have some distance from the
house in some distance from the tree itself. So it's

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a pretty fine line there on being the sweet spot
to install a root shield. Given the proximity of that
tree to the house, it is better to err on
the caution of putting those roots shields in early rather
than waiting for that tree to be fully grown, because
then you're really reducing the amount of the roots that

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are able to hold that tree up. But if you
do it here on the front end, while the tree
is relatively young in its life, then it'll grow a
nice healthy root system, you know, in the areas that
it has access to. Some people do get concerned about,
you know, cutting the root system, and something that I

(37:54):
helps people kind of feel better about that is that
you can imagine people cut branch off of a tree
all the time, and if they're just cutting a couple
of branches off the tree, nobody really has a major
concern about the health of the tree. But when we
start talking about roots. A lot of people get really concerned,
but cutting a couple of roots in an area around

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the tree where it's close to the foundation is no
more detrimental than cutting a couple branches off.

Speaker 15 (38:25):
Sounds good and any other thing y'all do, then I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (38:29):
Oh yeah, definitely something due West does. But the other
thing to keep in mind on root barriers, there's a
lot of different depths. Some people only go eighteen inches,
some twenty four. We'd go thirty six inches because the
roots are typically in the top eighteen inches and we
don't want the tree roots to grow under the barrier
and keep going, and so by going deeper that way,

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we block that.

Speaker 10 (38:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (38:54):
Wow, okay, but.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
Yeah, we do that stuff all day every day. And
so you can either go on th chi Pro's website
and then click the link for due West and book
online directly, or you can give us a call. Our
office number is seven one three four seven three seven one.

Speaker 15 (39:15):
Wonderful. Thank you so much, gentlemen.

Speaker 10 (39:17):
I will give you a call.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
Thank you. We appreciate it.

Speaker 10 (39:21):
Have a great weekend, bay.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Yeah, and that book online, uh, it actually will book
a time for you. That's that's something that Johann put
in that went that went beyond what I typically will
we'll do that. He's now doing all the tech support stuff.
We'll we'll we'll call it that all right again our
number seven one three, two one two five eight seven

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four heading up to Humble and Michael, This is Jim.
How can I help you?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Yes, sir, I was calling about metal rooking versus shingles
in reference to reliability, cause, insulation, that.

Speaker 7 (40:02):
Sort of thing.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
You know. The metal roofs are great. I love metal roofs.
They do cost more, typically it's going to be something
in the fifty percent more range. They are more durable,
like from storm damage and things like that. The downside,
the only downside that I really see in metal roofs

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is when it gets damaged from say, hail, which we
don't get a whole lot of that in our area.
But if you get hail on it and it's all
dinged up and stuff, a lot of times insurance doesn't
want to pay to replace it because, unlike a shingle roof,
when it gets dinged up, it's lost a lot of
its life. A metal roof will work just fine all

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dinged up, and so insurance typically won't replace it. But
your insurance is cheaper with a metal roof than it
is with a shingle roof.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Yeah yeah, uh yeah, yeah yeah. I mean homeowners insurance
is insane.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Oh yeah, absolutely. The deductible on roofing has just gone
off the chart. And that music means I'm gonna have
to let you go because we are got to take
a quick break here. Let's talk about Texas Remodel Teams
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All the Texas the homely place you can experience four
seasons in two days. Merry Christmas from Texas Home Improvement.
Here's Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
Day Welcome back. Seven one three two, one, two, five,
eight seven four. We do have another hour of Texas
Home Improvement to go.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (44:42):
But while we're finishing up here on this hour, johann Uh.
You know, foundation repair is one of those things that
it's typically not an emergency, but the longer you wait,
the more it's gonna cost you.

Speaker 8 (44:56):
Yeah, I don't you know, nobody's ever really excited I
did about getting their foundation repair fixed. But when you
think about it, your most important asset for most people
is their home, and one of the keys to maintaining
the home is keeping a good roof over it in
a good foundation under it. And so we help people

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a lot with doing matenance solutions like what she talked
about with the root shield or what we had mentioned
in one of the breaks the watering system to help
keep foundation stable and prevent them from meeting costly repair
in the future.

Speaker 6 (45:33):
All right, So we do have another hour of Texas
Home Improvement to go. If you have a home improvement
question seven one three, two one two, five, eight seven four.
If you want to go to our website, go to
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different issues for you. So again it's tchipro dot com
or give us a call like I say, we got
another hour to go seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. With that being said, uh, I
know we're getting this is the end of this hour.
But Austin, Hey, if you want to continue listening, you

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can go to our website thchipro dot com and it
can show you how to listen for the next hour
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garage door opening sagging in the middle and it looks
like it's smiling at you. It's not smiling at you.
It is sad because the lentil has given way. Everything
is dropping. It can affect the roof and it can
affect the framing and it really does need to be addressed.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Now.

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The way Lental Lift addresses it is they come in,
they take off all the trim and they of the
garage door opening. They put in another lentil under the
one that's there. It's got an opposite arch to it.
They start lifting up and get everything back up where
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you a lifetime warranty that it will never happen again,
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From the Dutton Ranch.

Speaker 8 (48:49):
Here's Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Again, any home
improvement question you have seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. And don't forget the website t
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I mean, it's all available at t hipro dot com.
But again, our phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. And why don't we head

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to the first call of this hour. We're going to
League City. Mary. How are you today?

Speaker 14 (49:44):
Fine? How are you?

Speaker 6 (49:45):
I'm doing wonderful? How can we help you?

Speaker 7 (49:49):
So?

Speaker 14 (49:50):
I have a two story house and I need a
new air conditioning unit upstairs. So I head to Macy
people tell me about train. Have two different kinds of units,
a variable speed one and then just a regular old
usual one, I guess is how they described it. So

(50:14):
that was one question, like one is more high end
than the other, do you really need that? And then
my other question is the duct work is duct work
is from nineteen ninety four and they recommended do their
angles and age to change all that. Okay, do you
have a certain recommendation on duck work.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
Two, Well, let's start with the units first. You know,
as far as the difference between a single speed and
a variable speed. With a single speed, it's either on
or it's off, and when it's off, it's not dehumidifying.
When it's on, it is the big difference. With a

(50:58):
variable speed, it brings the speed of everything way down,
so it stays on running longer, but it's not drawing
as much energy, and so it's dehumidifying the whole time,
and it really makes a house a lot more comfortable
with the humidity levels under control that way. But also

(51:19):
because the fan is not blowing as hard, you're more
comfortable in the house just sitting because you don't have
the hard air blowing on it. But both systems will
work just fine. I will tell you in my personal home,
I'm running the variable speed now and I truly do
love that. Yeah, when you add something on.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
That, Yeah, Mary, is you're upstairs part of Are you
an empty nester with just a couple of bedrooms that
aren't used up there? Or is it part of the
normal occupied space that you guys are using every.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Day and kind of a little boat we use some
of the rooms that, like half the room do we
use in halfway don't?

Speaker 8 (52:04):
And what temperature set points do you normally keep it
at in the summer, for an.

Speaker 14 (52:09):
Example, during the day maybe seventy two, seventy three and
at night sixty nine like to get it cold.

Speaker 8 (52:17):
To understood, you would benefit from a variable speed system.
You will see the payback on that happen well within
the life expectancy of that equipment. Now, sometimes I talk
to people. The reason why I ask those specific questions
is sometimes when we talk to people and the upstairs

(52:37):
is very rarely occupied and they're keeping it at like
seventy six to seventy eight degrees all the time during
the summer because nobody's going up there, then it's really
hard to justify the upfront cost versus the payback potential
of the energy savings. But with what you described to me,
you will definitely realize that that payback within the first

(52:58):
decade of the life of that whipment.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I think it'd be.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
Faster than that, because I know I'm running variable speed
in my house. It's three thousand square feet and I'm
even through the summer months, was running an electric bill
of two hundred dollars.

Speaker 14 (53:17):
Wow, that's great.

Speaker 7 (53:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (53:19):
So and the duckwork, do we need to change it?

Speaker 6 (53:26):
Do you know what color the ducks are? Are they
gray or are they the silver?

Speaker 14 (53:33):
I just looked at them and I kind of don't know.
But they do have like areas where I think that
the branching is a little bit. It's from nineteen ninety four,
so sure, the branching is kind of not ideal. I've
been told the angles of the different branches, and there

(53:57):
is some wear and tear obvious on the outside.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
If there's wearing tear on the outside, then it's time
to replace them.

Speaker 14 (54:05):
Okay, no, don't patch just wearing tear forget it?

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Yeah, yeah, just you know, because they are disposable, I mean,
they got a limited life span. If you told me
they and this is for everybody else listening now, if
you had told me that it was the gray color,
we wouldn't even gone any further. That needs to be replaced.
Those have aged out that that plastic is extremely brittle

(54:30):
at this point and just falls apart. The silver ones
that's basically a milar type outing on it does last longer,
but you know the fact that you've got some damage
on it and probably where it's hanging in stuff, it
started to crimp on it a little bit and stuff.
Just make sure that when you're looking at getting it

(54:53):
replaced that they're doing properly sizing it. Don't necessarily let
them just go back with what's there.

Speaker 7 (55:01):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (55:02):
You know, you want to make sure that the airflow
is right to every room, and that means they need
to really check the sizing of everything because builders are
notorious for not doing it right to begin with.

Speaker 14 (55:17):
That's a great point.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (55:21):
You've been helpful. You take care.

Speaker 14 (55:23):
Happy holidays you as well.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
Merry Christmas, and look if you if you need an
AC contractor du West the air Conditioning is more than
happy to help you. Seven one three four seven three
seven one five six, So you know on uh and

(55:46):
I guess we need to tell people this. You know,
you you were answering the ac question as well. You
ran our HVAC department at Due West as well. You
just a little history here your third seven now correct,
and started with Due West when he was fifteen, had

(56:06):
to dig holes and learn the foundation division work his
way up, went to college, became an engineer, worked for
the company, running crews, doing estimates. You know, we did
all that stuff, and with our HVAC division as an engineer,

(56:26):
he ran that division as well. There has to be
somebody to take over when I'm done now. Johann would
like to see me done sooner than later. But that's
a different story that he and I have together. But
he has learned all this stuff from the ground up,
just like I did, and so he has knowledge in

(56:47):
all these different divisions, and HVAC is one of those things.
We kind of run that different than a lot of
companies because a lot of companies like to simply answer,
change it out. A lot of company also don't really
go into the other facets of the home other than

(57:08):
air conditioning. And with us doing foundation repair, doing plumbing,
we deal with with all these other parts of the
home to really understand what makes that AC system operate
properly and how to blend it in for a homeowner's lifestyle,
not just the system that we want to sell for

(57:32):
flavor of the week.

Speaker 8 (57:33):
Yeah, I would say that in terms of our relationship
with our homeowners specifically on the AC system. On the
AC side, we're trying to build long term relationships with
our homeowners. You know, since our company was built back
in nineteen seventy eight and doing foundational repair. You know,
with foundation repair, essentially in an ideal world, a homeowner

(57:58):
would see you once, we would fix everything that needs
to get fixed, and they would never have to see
you again, right, And having expanded into these different industries
decades ago now to both doing the plumbing service and
the HVAC service, we saw it as an opportunity to
build more long term relationships with homeowners and capture some

(58:21):
of that goodwill that we developed in our communities with
doing quality work on the projects that we did do.
And so we really take a long term view on
building a trusting relationship with those homeowners that often involves
maybe just doing a service for them, this time a

(58:45):
maintenance for them this time and at the day they
need us, when the system has finally lived its life
and cannot be repaired cost effectively, or maybe the type
of parts that were used way back then really not
economically available these days, then we can offer them a
replacement solution, but by a large replacement solution is not

(59:08):
the default option that we're giving people. It's one of
many options.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
Okay, I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna
take a quick break seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Any home improvement question you have
seven to one three two one two five eight seven four.
Let's talk about Ready Seal. You know, we talked about
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You know, if you're having a sewer leak under your
homes foundation, that's something that really needs to be addressed,
but it needs to be addressed by somebody who can
take care of the plumbing as well as the homes foundation.
That's why you want to call do West both a

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Uh And like I say, any home improvement question you

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have is fine to call in about, but I am
going to do a foundation repair email here real quick.
It's rather lengthy. When it may not be too quick.
Our home was built in twenty eighteen and is still
under warranty the builder warranty company are one and the same.
We have doors that fluctuate from inability to shut to

(01:04:15):
unable to lock. Also, we have cracks in the sheet rock,
both horizontal and vertical, some other issues as well. They
sent reps from the foundation company that did the initial
foundation to evaluate the situation, and they recommended more peers.
The builder's warranty says that doesn't make sense since peers

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were already placed prior to construction. Neither will provide us
with a copy of the foundation builder's report. The builder
warranty company sent a person to see if there were
any water leaks, which none were found. If YI, this
development is on a hill constructed with fill dirt, not

(01:05:01):
an existing hill, can you suggest my next move? Attorney,
et cetera. The builder warranty says they are still evaluating,
but I'm concerned and would appreciate your input in case
they don't fix our issues. Also, do I have a
right to the foundation company's report? Thank you Andy? Well

(01:05:27):
Andy first, and it is for everybody listening. This house
was built in twenty eighteen. Most foundation warranties in Texas
are for ten years, so I typically have the policy
at due west if we touch a house and it's
ten years old or newer. We're going to do the

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whole house, full perimeter, full interior, or we don't touch it.
And the reason for it is it moved in less
than ten years. And if some other area of the
house moves later, who are you going to come back after?
The foundation company who dealt with you, and the builder

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and builder's insurance company. And I can tell you once
you have work done through the builder or their warranty company,
they're going to have you sign off saying they are done.
They will no longer cover anything. And so it is
in your best interest if they've got to do something
to do the whole thing. Now, let's get down to

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what's going on with your house. And they've had people
come out and look at it. Are you eligible to
get the paperwork? Not necessarily you didn't hire the guy
who came out and looked at it. Now, if you
end up getting attorney and this goes to court, yes,
you can then request the paperwork and you have it,

(01:06:54):
but they're not required to give that to you upfront.
So here's the items I would recomm men.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
You do.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
One, you can have it looked at. I mean we
even come out and look at these all the time.
We even look at them for engineers. But let's get
it looked at and see if you're even having a
foundation problem. Because you mentioned horizontal cracks and vertical cracks. Normally,
if it's foundation movement, you got diagonal cracks coming up

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of doors and windows. Usually, if it's following the sheet
rock joints, the straight up and down or straight going across,
that's an indication, yes, you may have a little bit
of movement, but it's an indication their workmanship on the
sheet rock work wasn't the best. So that's why I say,

(01:07:47):
let's take a look at it. Two, get an engineer
out there, one who specializes in this type of stuff. If,
for instance, if dust came out and told you, yes,
you do have an issue, we would say, let's get
this all documented, take elevation readings, document it, get an
engineer involved. Now you've got ammunition to go back to

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the builder and say, okay, I got a professional engineer
saying this is the problem with this. Now it's not
just them getting Joe Blow to come out and take
a look at it. They've got to have an engineer
to refute what you're saying. If they still won't do
anything for you. That's when you need to have an
attorney involved. But with the age of this house, most

(01:08:32):
homes don't start seeing a foundation problem till a house
is in the eighteen to twenty year old range. And
that's because the soil has expanded, gone up and down,
like Johann was talking about earlier enough times that the
settlement is now visible. Typically when it's new construction like
this less than ten years old, almost always it's a

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heave problem. Trees were taking out or something along that
line that is caused in an area to swell and
pick up more so than a settlement. That That is
why we do have a little bit of flexibility. You know,
if there was say a creek bed that got filled in,
and part of the house is over that creek bed,
and that's what's settled. Okay, you addressed that area. But

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if there was trees on the property that were taken
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Speaker 6 (01:10:53):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home
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here on Texas home improvement. So when we went to

(01:11:14):
the break, I had read an email question and on
a home that was built in twenty eighteen having some
movement issues, and uh, yoh on. I gave them some
general information, but you got some stuff you want to
add to that.

Speaker 8 (01:11:30):
Yeah, In this as he posed his question, he said
that the builder has already sent out somebody to check
for water leaks. Which makes sense because as you were
describing a lot of times new new construction, whether having issues,
it's heaving due to too much moisture, whether that's trees
or removed right before a foundation is poured, or somebody

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has underslab sewer leaks, which homeowners often know when they
have water leaks under a house, but because they have
a high water build the next month, sewer leaks can
go undetected, essentially indefinitely unless the pipes start clogging up.
A home owner would never know that they actually had
a leaking sewer pipe Another typical cause of too much

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moisture is if they have improper drainage around the house,
and that happens quite often with new construction because you're
trying to sometimes grade not just that lot, but an
entire neighborhood worth of lots all at the same time,
and so sometimes somebody ends up just on the downhill
side of that and gets their undue fair share of
the water. That being said, because another part of the

(01:12:39):
question referenced that he was on a hill that was
constructed with some fill dirt and that some builders piers
were installed along with the initial installation. What that leads
me to conclude is that there's a potential there that
they could be having some compaction of the fill over time.
If that fill dirt was not compacted and lifts at

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the time that they were developing that land, then over
time you can get some compaction to that dirt. Now
that can be I guess prevented from being a potential
issue by installing builders peers at the time the house
is built, so that both the not just the soils
near the surface, but the soils much deeper are being

(01:13:23):
used to support the house. But builders peers are generally
installed much differently than foundation repair. Builders peers are not
uncommonly installed twelve to fifteen feet apart, and they're oftentimes
just at the intersection of beams, and they're obviously just

(01:13:43):
drilled straight shaft peers usually and so those are supplemental
in helping stabilize a house. But you could not lift
a house on builders peers alone, generally, and when you're
doing foundation repair, peer design and peer place meant the
way we put those peers in, you could literally lift

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a house completely up out of the soil if you
wanted to, because they're spaced more like six to eight
feet apart, sometimes with two stories brick five feet apart,
and including both the outside and the inside beams, and
so where he says that the builder's warranty company is saying,
I don't understand why you would need more peers because

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there's builders peers on here. Those are very different type
of peer solutions, even though they're both peers. On what
kind of performance you would expect out of those two
different approaches, YEA, on repair peers.

Speaker 6 (01:14:39):
You know, actually with the City of Houston, who had
a bunch of testing done when the piling systems came
out and they started mandating the six foot spacing because
what they found was when you go too far apart,
it'll the grade beams will start sagging between the piers,

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and builders are never that close together.

Speaker 8 (01:15:03):
Yeah, so it's possible that you could be getting some
settlement as a result just between builders piers, and it's
also plausible that you could be getting some global sediment
to the fill in that area which could be contributed
to that. It would obviously take an on site evaluation
to just get all of the details on what's going

(01:15:25):
on there and to provide a more comprehensive repair solution.
But to your point of your question, a lot of
times these projects don't get funded by a builder unless
a homeowner is really leaning on them, either through just
constant diligence or more often the involvement of an attorney
to get them to step up and address the issues.

Speaker 6 (01:15:51):
As it is with a lot of things with the house,
builders typically want to do their like a one year
inspection when it's done and that's it, wash their hands
of it, and that's not always enough. So alrighty again,
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Thank you. Always enjoy it every once in a while.

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and John. This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 7 (01:19:46):
Jim?

Speaker 16 (01:19:47):
I want to put an electric water heater in my
RV because I think the gas lines are I can't
mess with that. I really just take your gas one
out and put me electric. In What kind of dilemma
do you problem you think I might have doing that?

Speaker 6 (01:20:05):
Well, you're going to go back with an RV water
heater or you're gonna go with residential.

Speaker 16 (01:20:12):
I'm going to get one of them, a little poor
down water heaters that loads, I believe.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Okay, you know the biggest thing you have to check
is to make sure you got enough electrical supply. And
I say that as long as you do, you shouldn't
really have any big issues if it'll fit in the
space that the RV water heaters in.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:20:36):
And the reason I was asking you if you're going
back with an RV type is because they do make
electric gas combo units or all electric or RV water
heaters now as well, so it is available if you
want to get the RV type, but it costs substantially
more than going with a residential type. But you'll end

(01:20:59):
up opening up the housing, taking the the existing unit out.
A lot of times you've got cabinet space around it.
So if you need to put a little bit larger
in you can. I would recommend.

Speaker 7 (01:21:11):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
You know, if if you're gonna go with a little
tank type, then you can get away with it. But
if you want to go with the tankless where you've
got a continuous flow of hot water, your your RV
won't have enough power unless you get an RV type tankless.

Speaker 16 (01:21:28):
I don't want this. This is just for my hands
in the winter time. I gotta have one right now.
My wife heard it ain't water here, ain't working. My
buddy got r V. He went to the Low's and
got a little four gown yep and uh he put
he got, I believe it's only a half inch line,
but he said, I got to buy a shark bite

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fittings to hook onto my existing water line.

Speaker 7 (01:21:52):
What is a shark bite?

Speaker 6 (01:21:54):
There are brass fitting that basically you don't have to
do any soldering or anything. You can slide it into
place and it clips in and it's done. They make
them for copper pipes, they make him for PEX pipes,
they make them for all kinds of they make them
for PVC pipes even but you know what, you can
just glue a PVC pipe. But they're very, very easy

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to use, no real tools required. They are a little
pricey as compared to other fittings, you know, but I
mean it's not nothing earth shattering. It's like, I don't know,
six eight bucks of fitting.

Speaker 7 (01:22:33):
That's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 6 (01:22:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:22:37):
Uh, my buddy did this to his camper and then
he said, I got to put an electrical switch on,
you know, for on and on right.

Speaker 7 (01:22:47):
And that's gotta be.

Speaker 16 (01:22:48):
I found my my breakup box underneath my refrigerator. Inside
that's got to be the cleanest breakup box and clean
at wire as I've ever seen in my life. I
wonder what I should have hooked at. Uh, it's a
one ten or one tony switch. What does that summer
gun hook up to? Anything available on the breaker box? Greg, Well,

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it's they're.

Speaker 7 (01:23:16):
Fifteen an fuses and uh yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
They're fifteen ants breakers in your box?

Speaker 7 (01:23:22):
Yes? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:23:24):
Uh does it have any available slots where you can
add a breaker?

Speaker 16 (01:23:29):
I ain't got into it that far yet, just one
I My friend said he got everything you needed at
Low's Hardware.

Speaker 6 (01:23:37):
Yeah, yeah, they get the breaker panels typically are just
a standard breaker, so you can if there's a slot available,
and a lot of times there is, you can just
add another breaker in there and tie into it. If
there's not, you'll have it tied into something else. And

(01:23:58):
the risk you run is if you got something running
on the system that the water heaters on it can trip.

Speaker 16 (01:24:05):
I'm on, I'm moa uh uh limit this, eliminate this
AC unit because I don't use it.

Speaker 7 (01:24:12):
I'm gonna just wired into that.

Speaker 6 (01:24:14):
Oh shoot, if you're going to do that, you got
plenty of power then yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:24:19):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:24:20):
I'm thinking this is a half inch slide because it
ain't small and ain't sure the heck ain't three quarters,
so it's got to be a half inch.

Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
More than likely. I mean, uh yeah, most of the
trailer is going to be a half inch and most
of them are. How old a trailer is.

Speaker 7 (01:24:37):
It twenty years old? But it's in echcelnent shape?

Speaker 6 (01:24:42):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
What color is the water lines that you're seeing?

Speaker 7 (01:24:47):
I'm looking at white ones.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Okay, if it's if it's white, it's more likely a
pex pipe then uh and yeah, you'll be you'll be
able to get the fittings at Lowsen Home Depot for
that even.

Speaker 16 (01:25:00):
Okay, okay, I just wanted your opinion because you you
know r v's and tankless and all this and that.

Speaker 6 (01:25:07):
Oh yeah, but I love the r v's.

Speaker 16 (01:25:10):
In the winter time, my hands get cold, they turn
blue and they go number I got to have hot water.
I don't have hot water now, and washing my poor hands.
I'm seventy and all the triders in cold water. It's
just almost unbearable.

Speaker 7 (01:25:24):
So I'm just.

Speaker 16 (01:25:25):
Getting started on the project. And if I need more help,
I can call you on Saturday, can I? Yes, sir,
oh I thank.

Speaker 7 (01:25:32):
You for your time. You'mber you've been in for me
to gym.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
You take care and have a merry Christmas again our
number seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
And you know, a lot of times people think you
can't cross over residential standard housing stuff into the r vs.

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A lot of r vs use regular fosss, use you know,
regular household materials, and so the the newer ones especially,
you can cross over like uh, typically when I need
faucets for an RV, I don't go to the RV
place and get it. I put regular residential in because

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they tend to last longer than the than the RV
supplies to do so. Anyways, again seven one, three, two
one two five eight seven four, I'm going to jump
into an email question here well, talking about water heaters.
This is from Bruce, and he says I recently moved
into a new house and have a two hundred and

(01:26:40):
fifty gallon aquarium in one room. The house seems so
tightly sealed that ventilation is an issue, causing the entire
house to smell. I think a djumidifier could help, but
since I travel frequently, I can't empty it daily, and
I don't have a to set up a drain hose.

(01:27:03):
Can you recommend a contractor to install a ceiling exhaust
vent in that room. I already have an air filter
in place. When I get home, I plan to use
a hygrometer to check the humidity levels. Any advice or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Things well, Bruce, you know

(01:27:27):
your conditioning system is a big dhumidifier, and typically if
you're turning that up when you leave, you may be
just getting so saturated with humidity in the home that
you're smelling it because a two hundred and fifty gallon
aquarium tank will do that along with the odors of
the water itself and keeping it clean. So yeah, de humidifier,

(01:27:51):
could it help? Yes, the exhaust fan can definitely help
as far as who does that. Typically HVAC contractors are
the ones who put in exhaust fans. But you're gonna
end up needing both an HVAC contractor and an electrician
because you're gonna have to run power to that exhaust
fan and have a switch on it to be able

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to turn it on and off. So but you know,
I guess my first question would be what do you
set in the thermostat app when you leave? Are you
keeping it where the system is turning on and off
to try to control it a little bit that way?
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Sunroom remodel what you have add on?

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Yeah, absolutely, covered port or you're like again, even if
we need to build one.

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We've got some excellent.

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Financing for the remainder of November.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
We're offering a twelve month same as cash that would
take you into twenty twenty six.

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It with a same as cash.

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Program, Oh man, that'd be great.

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Texas Remodel Team, the official remodeling company of Texas Home Improvement.
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nine nine one Our click to Texas Remodel team link
at thchipro dot com. May your best Christmas memories be
made in Texas. Happy holidays from Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 12 (01:32:40):
Very Techxus, Chris Muss, you all, Marry Chris Leus.

Speaker 5 (01:32:48):
You all.

Speaker 6 (01:32:51):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Look, we're pretty
much out of time, but I do want to remind
you that thchi pro is there to help you out.
Twenty four to seven. You can go and find links
to all the different companies you hear me talk about
and they can help you out that way. And I
do it that way because there's too many copycat companies.

(01:33:13):
So when you go to thchipro dot com, it's gonna
be all white. You'll see a picture of me and
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It really is that simple. And another quick reminder, join
us tomorrow for more Texas Home improvements starting at two

(01:33:33):
o'clock right here on seven forty KTRH. Have a great afternoon,
great evening, and we will visit with you tomorrow. Okay,

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call Texas Remodel Teams Window Division. They can do windows, sunrooms,

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anything to do with the enclosing of that room, Texas
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