August 9, 2025 • 94 mins
Jim starts with an email question as we wait for some calls to roll in. He gets all kinds of questions about front doors, a static radio, rusted pipes in the bathroom, and other plumbing problems. Jim mixes in more email questions as we go. We continue in the second hour with more calls on all your home improvement questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Texas Home Improvement is on the air with your host,
Jim Jacky.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I really appreciate your show.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Really helps me to know what to do and what
not to do.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
You are a very logical man.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
You or you are so correct, So thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (00:16):
I'm getting on my back forward and drinking a beer
in your honor.
Speaker 7 (00:19):
Thank you so much, Paul.
Speaker 8 (00:20):
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and now.
Speaker 11 (01:20):
Broadcasting live from the Dutton Ranch. Here's Jim Doty.
Speaker 12 (01:28):
Hey, welcome to Texas Home Improvement, your total home improvement source.
Seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
Any home improvement question you have, just pick up the phone,
give me a call. I'll see what I can do
to help you out here on Texas ow Improvement. And
you guys pick the subjects. I mean, I don't come
in with a preset slate of subjects we're going to
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talk about. Your call dictates what we're going to talk about,
so every single call can change the subject that we're
talking about for that next few minutes. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Now, don't forget
about our website thhipro dot com. It's there is a
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resource to help you out twenty four to seven. I
mean there's all kinds of videos and questions, and the
questions and videos go together to help you with different
projects you got going. But there's links to all the
people you hear me talk about. I don't typically give
out their web addresses because Google has just screwed the
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whole system up. They're selling everybody's name to competitors and stuff.
So you go in, you're looking for Joe Smith, and
you know, Harry Butler comes up because he bade to
pick up Joe Smith's name. It's just it's just wrong
what Google's doing right now. But that's set aside. If
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you go to thchipro dot com, you are getting all
the people that I'm recommending, the ones I know I've
checked out are going to do a great job for you.
So that's thipro dot com. While you're there, make sure
you sign up for our newsletter. It goes out every
other week. It's free of charge. And if you do
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have a question, there's the ask Jim button there. You
can send in email questions that way. Again, it's t
hipro dot com. Now, if you have a home improven
question seven one three two one two five eight seven four,
that's seven one three two one two five eight seven four,
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and I'll see what I can do to help you
out here on Texas Home Improvement, your total home improvement source.
So I had a question come in not too long ago, uh,
less than an hour ago, and it is from station,
and she says, I'm about to get some substantial home
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remodeling that will cost twenty five to thirty thousand. The
two companies that I've interviewed are both balking at the
notion of providing a notarized affidavit of bills paid for materials, labor,
et cetera, et cetera, and release of lean upon completion.
I've been burned thirty years ago by paying for work
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and then receiving a bill for materials that were not
paid for later. My specific question is does the Texas
Property Code require an affidavit of all bills paid provided
by the contractor. It is my understanding that it does
well to be honest with you, Stacy, I don't know
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if it does or doesn't. I've you know, du Wes.
We've been in business since nineteen seventy eight, and although
we do this a lot on commercial jobs, it's extremely
rare that somebody asks for something like this on a
residential job. I got no problem doing a notarized Affidavid
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that we've paid the bills and materials and labor and
all that stuff. Release a lien that's done all the time.
I don't think i'd want to be able to get
into showing you all the bills though that are paid
simply because we're ordering our materials in bulk. I'm getting
eighteen wheeler loads brought in several times a week, and
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so to say this specific bill went to your property
wouldn't be possible on commercial work. The way you're able
to do it is the material gets delivered straight to
the commercial project because it's usually substantially larger than on
a residential But you should be able to ask for
the release of lien and affidavids that all the bills
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have been paid. I got zero issue, and if they
don't want to do that, get you another contractor. Some
of the other things you'll want to check is make
sure they're carrying general liability insurance so if something does happen,
they've got insurance to cover it. I always recommend workers
comp and this one surprises most people when I tell them,
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but make sure they they're carrying vehicle insurance. You would
be shocked how many contractors don't bother carrying vehicle insurance
or allow unlicensed drivers to drive. It just floors me.
But it is happening out there, So yeah, I mean,
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does the law require it. I got no idea. Does
it make sense? Absolutely? Request it? Got a question? Seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. Let's
head out to Missouri City.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Pat.
Speaker 12 (06:50):
This is a Jim. How can I help you?
Speaker 14 (06:53):
Hi?
Speaker 15 (06:53):
How are you?
Speaker 16 (06:53):
Sir?
Speaker 12 (06:54):
I'm wonderful, Thank you.
Speaker 15 (06:58):
I need your advice on someone that conduces tim work,
namely to replace.
Speaker 17 (07:03):
My two front doors.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Okay, you want to replace your front doors?
Speaker 15 (07:08):
Yes, because I made a mistake when I had my
doors put in when I did the plans on my
house's facing this the weather. It's not protected from the weather,
so it's always beat.
Speaker 17 (07:21):
Up from the weather.
Speaker 12 (07:22):
Gotcha. Okay.
Speaker 15 (07:24):
And also too, I need to repipe my my house
because my house is old now and I need to
repipe the pipes.
Speaker 12 (07:37):
Okay, let's let's start with the doors. Give Southern Front
Doors a call.
Speaker 17 (07:42):
That's what I was thinking. Okay, good, Okay, I will
call them.
Speaker 12 (07:45):
Okay, and their number is two eight one eight nine zero.
Speaker 17 (07:51):
Wait a minute, sure, I have to write real slow
because I had a stroke.
Speaker 12 (07:55):
Oh, no problem.
Speaker 17 (07:56):
The tim guys want to eight.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
One eight nine zero five eight six zero wow eight.
Speaker 17 (08:06):
Six shell Okay, I got it, and very much.
Speaker 12 (08:10):
And you said you needed to reduce your pipes.
Speaker 17 (08:15):
Yes, I have to repipe my house because my house
is so old. Back then they use the uh, the
the lead piping, the lead piping, uh huh, copper piping,
copper piping, and so now the rust is coming in
the house on.
Speaker 16 (08:32):
The water bus.
Speaker 12 (08:34):
And how old is your house?
Speaker 15 (08:39):
It was built in seventy seven.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
Okay, so in seventy seven you you either had copper
pipes or you had galvanized pipes that I had. Yeah,
and yeah, you're probably getting close to where they're they're
going to be aging out. If you want to call
my office at Due West, oh, y'all do it? Oh yeah, yeah,
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our plumbing company does it all the time.
Speaker 17 (09:07):
Okay, okay, I will call y'all. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 15 (09:12):
Do y'all do y'all do roofing?
Speaker 12 (09:15):
No, ma'am. Guardian Roof Systems can take care of your
roof for you.
Speaker 15 (09:20):
Can you jimme your number please, sir?
Speaker 12 (09:22):
I got it for you. The Due West number is
seven one three four seven.
Speaker 15 (09:29):
Three four seven three.
Speaker 12 (09:33):
Seven one five six.
Speaker 17 (09:38):
And y'all don't work on saturdays, do you.
Speaker 13 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (09:41):
You can call in the phone get get answered and
they will take care of.
Speaker 17 (09:46):
You, okay, okay, very good and then.
Speaker 12 (09:49):
Guardian Guardian roof Systems. Their number is two eight one
okay four zero seven seven to eight zero, and I
thank you very very much. And you know I did you.
Speaker 17 (10:08):
Say did you say seven to a two or eight
oh eight oh two? Eight oh okay eight oh okay.
Speaker 12 (10:15):
Yeah, seven to eight oh and at to west You
know I don't ever say this, but uh, you can
actually go online to our website and you can book
your appointment that way as well, where you don't even
have to call in.
Speaker 17 (10:32):
Well, since I had a stroke, I hadn't gotten my
computer set up yet, so I need to call in.
Speaker 12 (10:37):
Okay, more than happy to have you call in.
Speaker 17 (10:40):
You've helped me a lot. Thank you very much.
Speaker 12 (10:43):
You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Take care okay, bye hie.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean we've got our phone set up though.
Now that with where you can go in, you you
show us or give us the address and stuff where
you want to set it up and it'll give you
time slots. They're available for you to go ahead and
book your appointment, so you can do it online twenty
four hours a day. Again, if you got a question
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seven one three two one two five eight seven four,
Mary Anne, how are you today?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
I'm just finding you.
Speaker 12 (11:20):
I'm wonderful. How can I help you?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
I have a problem with getting a lot of static
electricity and all the speakers in the house, and I
cannot even listen to your program on the radio because
I don't get any good reception.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
It's all static.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Okay, I don't know what to call. I've had an
electrician come out. They did some minor work, and I
didn't do a darn thing. Whatever it is.
Speaker 16 (11:46):
They did.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Well.
Speaker 12 (11:51):
Typically when you're getting a lot of static electricity sound
that way on the radios in that it's because there's
something mechanical that is running that's feeding it back into
the lines. So what I would recommend to try to
trace it down is the first thing is unplug everything
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and refrigerators, freezers, VCRs, you know, the whole nine yards, TVs,
everything and see if it does it. And if it's
not doing it, then you start plugging one thing in
at a time until you find which thing was doing it. Okay,
and with it, I'm gonna put you on hold and
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I gotta come back to you. That music meants I
gotta take a break. Let's talk about James Hardy Siding
real quick. You know, if you're looking for siding for
your home, you take a look at James Hardy siding.
It is the best siding on the planet. And you know,
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ever thought about. And beyond that, if you are thinking
about the trim, maybe you got a brick home and
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so you don't have a lot of sighting your faci aboards,
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James Hardy siding so that you don't have to worry
about it. It is the best siding on the planet.
Let's head over to Fort Worth and Gary.
Speaker 18 (13:41):
Thank you, Jim on your head there Ready Seal. I've
got some garage doors. I put it on about two
years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It works great. The Ready Seal looks just as good
as it did today.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
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roll it on, brush it on. You don't have to
worry about laps or streaks, runs any of that stuff
because of the way it soaks deep down into the
so with fibers. It takes care of all of it.
And it's available everywhere. But to find a store nearest
to you, go to readyseeal dot com. You know, if
you're having a problem with your air conditioning system, I
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want you to call the best called Due West air Conditioning,
and we'll come out will service the unit if that's
what you need, or if your AC is out, call
us will come out and get the system running again again.
If you want the best, you call due West seven
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Speaker 11 (15:44):
It's so hot the people in Austin are taking the
day off from being weird.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Welcome to Texas summer.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Here's Jim Dunton on Texas Home Improvement.
Speaker 12 (15:57):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home
proven source seven one three, two one two five eight
seven four. We were talking with mary Anne and Marianne.
You're getting that static on the radio and are you
getting it everywhere or have you tried plugging into different places.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I've tried plugging it in. I even bought a new
clock radio.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
And it did the same thing.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Okay, and the TV works flying in the living room.
It's all seems to be in the back of the house.
And we did none of the lights were on at all.
They were plugged in, but they were not turned on
when the electrician was here. But nothing has changed.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I know he did some work with the breakers, but
he didn't do anything other than relabel some of the
connections out there. Yeah, and so we had the pull
the entire breaker box off for a while.
Speaker 12 (16:53):
Okay. Well, like I said that, that's where I would start,
is unplugging everything and plugging and see if it does it.
If it doesn't, then you start plugging stuff into figure
out which appliance is doing it, because the other thing
it can be. And I'm making the assumption that he
checked this on the breaker but box is if something
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isn't tight in the breaker box, it can actually feedback
that way. But hopefully he would have looked for that.
And then my last question for you, I guess will
be it is rare, but do you have radiant barrier
on the house?
Speaker 16 (17:35):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I do, energy que up in the attic.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Okay, if it's only in the attic, it shouldn't be
an issue. But in some cases where you encapsulate a
whole house with energy with a radiant barrier, that can
actually do it. Metal buildings can do it, but it's
usually not a static. It's usually going to be just
a blocked signal. How does your cell phone work?
Speaker 16 (18:03):
Cell phone works?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Is fine, I'm talking to you on it right now.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
See that my computer works. That works fine, it's no
problem there.
Speaker 12 (18:11):
Okay. So that's telling me then it's not going to
be the radiant barrier. It's going to be something electrical
in your system.
Speaker 16 (18:18):
Okay, send me.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
I can isolate it and if i'll do what you suggested.
What electrical company would you recommend her?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Would you?
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Yeah, you can give Right Touch Electrical a call. Okay,
that's who I always use.
Speaker 16 (18:35):
Okay, you have a number.
Speaker 12 (18:40):
I actually do not have it with me right now.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Okay. I check them out on the internet.
Speaker 16 (18:47):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
But she seemed to think that's what it is, because
I will. What happened is I always had a plug
in in the master bedroom with a lamp on each
side bedstand, and I had a.
Speaker 16 (18:58):
Radio clock radio. One day, the lights.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Would come on and off, but the radio itself just
quit and I reset it and whatever plugged it in,
and all it does is flash. So I went around,
I plugged it in different places and kept resetting the
time and the alarm and whatever. And right now it's
plugged across the room in the master bedroom into a
separate outlet, and it seems to work fine. And the
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lights now are working. There was two switches on the
wall to flip them on, so that both lights came
on at the time when you entered the room. But
for years I always had the clock radio on the
same plug with the lights in this bedroom that would
turn on, and if I turned the radio on, no problem.
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I could listen to you in there. But I cannot
do it now. I can't listen to anything on the
radio at all. In this house. I can watch the
OCA and the refrigerator works.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
That's fine.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
Yeah, you just answered the question for me. Then it
is a circuit that is loose, and that electrician should
have been able to catch that.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Okay, So give a breaker box. There's a circuit loose.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Well, it doesn't. It's not necessarily in the breaker box.
It could be even just one of the outlets or
a switch is loose. The wiring okay, but that's what
they got to trace down, is to find where that
loose connection is.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Okay, So they have some kind of equipment that they
could plug into the any of the outlets around here
and find out if it's getting the proper juice to it, yes, ma'am, Okay,
all right, Well I'll give them a call because this
is getting very frustrating. I can't put the alarm in
the bedroom all the time on the clock. So yep,
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it's very frustrating when you can't isolate it. Because this
is the first time this has ever come up in
this house, and it's was built in about seventy two.
I've never had any problem with the house at all.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
Okay, in seventy two, do you buy chance have aluminum wiring? Yep,
you got a loose connection? Okay, yeah, on houses with
allumin and my house was built in seventy three, I
have aluminum wiring as well. So a lot of people say, oh,
you think of it, but it needs to be the
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screws on every plug, in every light switch, every connection
periodically have to be retightened because that is the thing
that happened.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
I told you that it was aluminum. If this house
was built by an architect and he put in copper
wiring in the house.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Okay, difference, No, the copper doesn't come loose like the
aluminum does. But you still have a loose connection somewhere.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Okay, okay, So it's not just the fact that it's
copper or either one. It's a loose connection. Yes, someplace
in the inside of this house. I can if I
figure that out. If it's something is I'll plug everything
in or one thing in that as I go around
and if it's loose or is it stiff when I
prior and pull it out.
Speaker 12 (22:01):
Yeah, I think it's going to be a wiring that's loose.
And with that, I'm going to have to let you
go because we're up against the news break. Thank you
so much, Marion, Bye bye.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
Hey.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
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Speaker 11 (23:13):
And the best thing to happen to home improvement since
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Speaker 9 (23:17):
All this is Texas Home Improvement with Jim Duttons.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
two one two, five eight seven four. Let's head out
to Navasota. Rodney, welcome to Texas Home Improvement.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
Well, thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Appreciate you taking
my call. Yes, sir, I had heard a lady earlier
from Missouri City talking about rusted pipes. Yeah, anyway, have
a house in Avasota's built in fifty six. From the
sink in the laundry room, near the garage and in
the kitchen, all of that's fine, But in the bathroom.
It's a small house, thousand square foot. In the bathroom
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only the sink, the toilet, and the tub is rusted bad.
And I was thinking maybe it's a horizontal pipe in
there's somewhere water sitting in it, and it's getting bad,
real bad. Do you think that's what that probably is
built in fifty six.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
It can be that, but it can also be two
dissimilar metals touching each other. Okay, it'll tend to rush
re bad. Now when you say you're getting the rust, though,
you turn the water on and after a second or
two does it dissipate.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
Yes, as soon as you turn it on, it's bad.
And there's one of the faucets I know I need
to fix. It's dripping. The whole thing is just dark
rust color in there in the bottom of that sink. Yeah,
batht up too, and then you can see it in
the toilet. But every time I go up there, I
clean it and I flush them and I clean it.
But no, we don't live there. It's like a week
in house. I'm going there more now than I used to.
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But as soon as I turn the water on, it's brown,
and then it stops within a couple of seconds.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Okay, that that is more likely than where the faucets
tie on to the galvanized pipes. That's two different metals,
and so it builds up right there. It dissipates in seconds.
You know, if it if it was a longer piece
of pipe, like you were talking about the horizontal pipe, yes,
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it would tend to flow for a few seconds before dissipating.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it goes out in a couple of seconds.
It's like like it's right there at the end of it.
You turn it on, it's all rust and it goes
away in a couple of seconds.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (25:41):
And the house, yes, in the house that does not
have a stitch of insulation in it. Oh yeah, yeah,
but that's the way. Hey, can I ask you one
other question real quick? Absolutely fence post had them up
ten years now they're warping. And I had I drawn
a string line, perfectly straight fence around my my other house,
not this house, and then all of a sudden they're
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going every which direction. My whole fence is crooked. You know,
thirty five years ago we done fence that they didn't
do that, yeph Is that just bad wood? Or and
there's it is. I have another house in East Texas,
and I was assuming maybe it was. I know, there's
a lot of moisture in the ground there, and yeah,
it is mess the whole fence up.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
It's the it's the moisture getting into those treated posts
and it will tend to as it dries and stuff,
allow them to warp and twist and everything. We used
to treat treated lumber with a different product that kind
of took that out of it. Uh, you know, the
government stepped in said no, we can't use that product anymore.
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So now we get what we get. That's one of
the reasons I tell people put products like ready Seal
on it, because that'll seal the wood from taking on
the moisture and minimize that.
Speaker 13 (26:59):
Okay, so just do the whole board all the way around. Yep,
the post, I mean, yes, sir, it just seemed to
be the post. Yeah you know, so so what was
that called ready.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Seal Ready seal?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yep?
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Okay, just do the whole post then. Okay, all right,
but you're right, I can tell the wood back in
the day.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
It was a whole lot better.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
The tree.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Oh yeah, heavy man, it was heavy. Yeah, he dug
one up was in the ground at fifteen eighteen years
and we cut in two to see it. It was
eighth of an inch of it outside of it deteriorated.
Inside was like brand new by the old stuff.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Yep, and you know, I get it. It had arsenic
in it. It was supposedly killing all of us. But
right right, but the post was going to be there
after we were gone.
Speaker 13 (27:47):
Right right, exactly, that's right. So I'll try the different
connections or something on those pips. You think that would
be the fix.
Speaker 12 (27:55):
Yeah, Typically, all you got to do is change it
from well, now that the rust is in there, it'll
probably continue to do this. But uh, you can't have
like the brass fittings from a faucet touching the galvanized.
You got to have something that a plastic fitting that.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
That yeah right, okay, a plastic in other words would
be better.
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Yeah right.
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But hey, I appreciate the information, and thanks so much
for taking my call.
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You bet take care.
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Yes, sir, you too, by block Man and.
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Again our number seven one three, two, one two, five
eight seven four let's go to Conroe. Mark, how are
you today?
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Greetings and wolfers and tweeters. I like to do that
and lands this whole planet saying it. I do have
a suggestion another suggestion to being a ham radio upgrader.
I've learned over the years. There's I've found ways to
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determine issues with electrical interference.
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Uh huh.
Speaker 19 (29:05):
Sometimes it can be the insulators and the cutouts up
on the power poles that can the insulators will be arcing.
They'll put out a lot of trash and ads all
that hand radio. So have they let the power company
go ahead and check all the poles, or even take
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a transistor radio and walk out even around the house,
see if you find anything that's arcing. Yeah, and even
the up and down the street. Or because even arcing
insulators are spark gap transmitters and they yes, they will
put out a lot of garbage. Have uh, because I've
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seen that, We've seen that over the ears and that
something else I wanted to mention. I remember a number
of years ago, my lights was going crazy in my house.
I went through everything, and then my neighbor called me
cross street sat it seems saying the same thing. Their
lights was dim and on some and brightening on others.
And now that the transformer was bad on the neutral side. Nah,
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So they put in the transformer up, so it can
be insulators that's going bad.
Speaker 16 (30:16):
Yeap.
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And it might even be a flaky transformer.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
Yeah, now on hers. The only the only reason I'm
thinking it's a circuit in the house is because she
was talking about that the lamps quit working and the
other stuff, and that's going to be something shorting. But
you're right, I mean electrical. It can be anywhere because
it's traveling up that wire.
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Yes, it is, because especially when you're going to there's
like the primary you got seventy two hundred vols or
thirteen eight or whatever. Yeah, insulators can get all kinds
of carbage on there. The old it's bark and spark
and turn into a big spark cat transmitter.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
But I agree with you.
Speaker 19 (30:56):
Check those wiring in the house, yep.
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Four So kenny out Of georgetown sent me an EMAIL
a few minutes, ago he says house is thirteen hundred
and eighty eight square. Feet IF i replace a two
ton compressor and a two ton of vaperator with a
two ton compressor and a two and a half ton of,
vaperator DO i need to? Upside i'm assuming he's upsize
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is what he's. Writing the copper. Pipe the existing problem
is the house cooks at seventy three at night and will.
Cycle but IF i set to seventy two target at,
night it runs. Constantly, daytime we have seventy five target and.
Cycles the unit outside is on the west side and
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gets hot afternoon sun from one thirty till. Seven maybe
go to two and a half ton in and. Outside
resize the Copper, OKAY i don't know what you have
for line sets right now the copper, pipes SO i
can't tell you to re size or. Not and it
really is going to depend on the manufacture of THE ac,
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unit what size they're. Specifying but as far as the
sizing of these, units the absolute first thing you got
to do is have a load calculation done on the.
House and what they do is they look at the
size of the, house which way it's, facing what you
have for, windows what you have for, insulation and all
this stuff that goes into a calculation and it tells
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you what size air conditioning system you, need Because i'm
telling you a two ton if you've got just REGULAR
r thirteen insulation in the walls and, such and you,
know fifteen sixteen inches of insulation in the, attic two
ton is probably going to be a little bit light
(36:54):
for a thirteen and eighty eight square foot. House so
let's not let's not take and guess at. This let's
get it. Right and you, know anybody who is putting
IN hvac systems is supposed to be licensed unless you're
doing it yourself on your own, home and they should
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be doing this. CALCULATION i mean The State board OF
ac which is THE, tdc NOT tdc, Anyways department Of
licensing And REGULATIONS. Tdlr it's part of the. Regulations they're
supposed to do. This unfortunately a lot of them, don't
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but they it should be. Done if somebody puts in
a new system and they don't do this, calculation get
a DIFFERENT ac. Guy but in the case that you're
trying to make the house work, better you absolutely want
to do it. Done get it done prior to changing
out THAT ac system to make sure that you're getting
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the right. Size what's going to happen if you undersize
it like, This it'll be running constantly trying to keep.
Up and, AGAIN i don't know that it's undersized or.
Not as far as matching a two ton and two
and a half ton evaporator coils with the compressor and all,
that you're going to want to make sure that it's
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a matched. Set that's how you get the energy. Efficiency
and THE ac companies they put charts together that you
can put this compressor with this evaporator, coil and they
have different charts available for THE ac companies to go,
by and you want to stick to. That don't try
(38:45):
to reinvent the wheel. Here let's get the right. STUFF
i hope that helps you. OUT i know it was
kind of rambling a little bit, there BUT i guess
the first thing i'most say is this is not a
do it yourself. Project the second THING i want to
say is your issue with those lines is, more, uh
(39:07):
what's been running through them than it is the size
of the. Lines because when you're talking a two to
three ton, system there's not a whole lot of size.
Difference but if you're running OLD r twenty two through
them and now you're going to be running the new
coolants through, them that's an issue if it doesn't get
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properly cleaned. Out so those are the things that you've
got to be looking at more so than this two
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have a, Suggestion, Yeah my biggest suggestion is going to
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NOW i don't know if the water heater is in the,
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You, Hello, Jim i've been listening to you for many.
Years NOW.
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I appreciate and the next time is.
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Ninety six degrees out here are. Wonderful, listen AND i
just put my boat in the. Water so you miss that.
Part ha. HA i have an air. Conditioner it's this
two story. HOUSE i think it's the split unit of their.
CONDITIONING i don't. Know the drip pen or the drain
(51:09):
line goes down into the sink. Upstairs you see it
come into the, sink and about every six, months that
thing fills up with something in. There, now the stuff
in there kind of looks you would Think i've poorn
grease down that sink in the, bathroom but it don't
(51:30):
have that. Consistency but it has that look to, it
like a white calk look to. It And i'm having
to clean that drain out about every six months because
it completely fills it. Up i'm. Stomped maybe you can.
Speaker 12 (51:43):
Help, Well normally it's not a white color that grows in.
There it's either going to be a blackish sludge or.
Green this is.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
White this almost looks like, grief like the pouring, grief
you know how is in a grease. Trap but it
doesn't have that. Consistency it's kind of more material like
And i've never seen this, before AND i do want to,
SAY i think we trained checked the drip pan. Upstairs
it's been a while and it was, clear AND i
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think she had poured bleach in it.
Speaker 12 (52:20):
Before, Okay and how are you cleaning it? Out when
you clean, it.
Speaker 6 (52:26):
You just take, in uh the the. Uie.
Speaker 13 (52:31):
Uh you just.
Speaker 6 (52:33):
Can can kind of like hit it on the pan
and it comes out and THEN i run a close
hangar we're up and the wall and it generally pushes
it on. Through it's not very substance like it breaks
down pretty, easy but it completely fills that whole.
Speaker 12 (52:49):
Pipe, okay so it's fel it's not feeling the sinks drain.
Pipe it's filling the pipe from THE ac unit.
Speaker 6 (52:56):
Down, No, no the sinks drain pipe before THE. U,
yeah it comes in before THE u and then it goes.
Back it makes a ninety down and all that just
from THAT u on just gets clogged up about every six.
Months M and it's got me. Stumped i've never heard
(53:17):
of that. Before AND i don't know. What maybe it
was the condensation coming off THE ac reacting with, something
because it's like it makes a chemical it's like it's
making some kind of. Reaction, yeah you, Know And i've
just wondered if you've ever heard of that or something.
Speaker 12 (53:36):
White like. That have you taken the pipes apart under the? Sink, yes, yes.
Speaker 6 (53:47):
Every six MONTHS i clean them. Out it's about a
six month. PROCESS i just did it here here, recently
and it completely clogs up that sinx in about six.
Months and it's definitely that return line because everything in
front of the return line is.
Speaker 16 (54:03):
Clear you.
Speaker 6 (54:06):
Know now it's a ladies, bathroom so they get hair in,
there but.
Speaker 12 (54:14):
Lame on the way AND i see how you.
Speaker 13 (54:16):
Are.
Speaker 6 (54:17):
Now, No i've seen it where it didn't have, Hair
so it's just SOMETHING i have never seen.
Speaker 12 (54:24):
Before, YEAH i haven't, either not not in. White but
here's WHAT i would. Try, okay since it is happening so.
Often they do make an apparatus and you can get
it At low's And Home. Depot so you got The
low's right up there on fifty nine and one ninety
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and basically it hooks in up at THE ac unit
and it gives an injection of chemical to keep the line. Clean,
OKAY i would try putting one of those on and
see if it lasts, longer, okay, autumn and it automatically
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applies it periodically to keep the line. Clean the bottle
that comes on, it you, know it does empty out
and have to be refilled if you can make it,
automatic and that bottle only gets filled when you go
up and change the filters in the in the or
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service the unit in the, attic so about every six
months it would get.
Speaker 6 (55:36):
Filled all, Right i'll give it a, try AND i
would just, yeah because one day you're.
Speaker 12 (55:45):
Not going to be there and the thorn thing's going
to clog up and start overflowing your.
Speaker 6 (55:49):
Sink, yeah and that's a. Yeah and that's that air
conditioning returns that does. Happen, yeah, Yeah So i'll give
it a. Try if, not IF i get aut of
a couple of, years we'll try.
Speaker 12 (56:02):
You sounds, Good thank?
Speaker 6 (56:04):
You all, right thank, you Mister dunton.
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Boy and again our number seven one three two one
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mary how are you?
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Today i'm doing, fine thank. YOU i have a very
simple question for. YOU i HOPE i have an exterior
door going out to my patio that has a gasket
that's black rubber on the.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Bottom, uh.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
Huh AND i don't know whether the door was installed
incorrectly and down too, low but the gasket is being
pulled off of the bottom of the. Door SHOULD i
just take the gasket off and forget about? It if
it is too, low it may not need. It but SHOULD,
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i rather than doing, that have a new gasket put on?
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It or what are?
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You did you say this is a sliding?
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Door?
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No, no it's just a regular. Door and it's one
of those single doors that has the built in window.
Speaker 12 (57:14):
Blind, yes, okay so it's just the weather stripping on
the bottom for sealing.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
Up it's going to.
Speaker 12 (57:25):
DEPEND i, mean if the the door sill has a
rubber on there to seal up the, door you may
not need.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
It got a brass plate under?
Speaker 7 (57:43):
It?
Speaker 12 (57:43):
Okay then you then you're gonna want that on, there
because otherwise you're going to have a gap that's gonna
allow not only, air but are things coming? In?
Speaker 3 (57:56):
Okay but what if the door was installed To, oh
it'll just pull right off? Again want?
Speaker 12 (58:03):
It how long has the door been?
Speaker 7 (58:05):
THERE i had it.
Speaker 3 (58:08):
Put on about ten years, ago but there's pieces that
have come off completely and there's still more on.
Speaker 12 (58:15):
There and has it done this the whole ten years
or did it start a couple.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
Of, probably but Probably i'm not really, sure to be
honest with. You it could have started a few years
ago if maybe the door started. Sagging, yeah the fiberglass door, Sag, no.
Speaker 12 (58:35):
Ma'am they're pretty. Rigid so, no wood isn't. It, Yeah
but but the fiberglass itself is a single, piece and
they're they're very stout and stayed in shape more than.
Likely if there's been, movement it's not the door itsself,
(58:56):
moving but the screws into the door frame letting, loose
or some movement in the structure where it moves up and.
Down but, yeah the door itself is not going to
go out of. Square.
Speaker 16 (59:10):
Okay so and.
Speaker 12 (59:15):
Then there's one other thing that can. Happen and because
you mentioned this as a ten year old, door, uh you,
know plastics and rubbers and stuff de deteriorate with, age
and so it may be nothing more than, that and
so it may need to be. Replaced but here's what
you're gonna have to. Do you're gonna have to look
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under the door and see if you can see. Outside
AND i don't know which side the rubbers on it
on the inside of the. Outside, well it's kind of, underneath,
Okay so it's it's a swipe that it's a white
blade that's just straight down in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (59:56):
There it's it's a rubber gask.
Speaker 12 (01:00:01):
Yep, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Yeah and then it's just a plane door with the
windows all the way down what fifteen panel windows or
whatever it.
Speaker 12 (01:00:11):
IS i will guarantee if you take that, off you're
going to have air come an air gap there where
you're getting all kinds of air blowing in and. Out
you're going to have obviously bugs can come in and
out that. Way but the weather strip itself doesn't hold
out bugs that, much but it does, help so it
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does need.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
It, yes, Okay, well Then i'll have to get somebody
to take the door off and put a new one
on there with some kind of.
Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
GLUE i.
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Improvement, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
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ahead To paarland And. Helen welcome To Texas Home. Improvement
how CAN i help?
Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
You thank you and thanks for taking my. Call so
the expansion joints in the driveway and the sidewalk have,
Rotted so CAN i replace them with? Wood or is
there something better.
Speaker 12 (01:04:56):
You can replace them with wood if you'd. Like but
there are better and easier things to replace it.
Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
With, okay like, like for, instance trim a slab, Okay
and does it last as long or?
Speaker 12 (01:05:11):
Longer, yes.
Speaker 7 (01:05:15):
It will last.
Speaker 12 (01:05:16):
Longer, Yeah and it's made to go in. There it
comes in a roll much like a, rope and basically
it slips down into that, joint locks into place and
gives it a nice finish gets a rubber ice, material
so it gives it a nice finished. Look and it
lasts a very long.
Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
Time.
Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Okay so if there's no trick to putting it, in.
Speaker 12 (01:05:41):
The only trick is you got to clean out the
the line? There did the joint deep enough for the
product to pop?
Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
In?
Speaker 12 (01:05:51):
Uh and the depth of it is usually about an
inch and a?
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Quarter?
Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Okay so what? Happens DO i need the benefits more
than any in the quarter BECAUSE i pressure washed and
all left some, Gougets SO i need to fill that
in BEFORE i put it?
Speaker 13 (01:06:05):
In?
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Right, No, no you don't have to worry about that at.
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All, OH i thought it would go ahead and compromise
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Speaker 13 (01:06:16):
Okay all?
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Right?
Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Okay, well and IF i do, CHOOSE i probably won't
choose to go with. Wood but IF i do choose
to go with, WOOD i just go.
Speaker 12 (01:06:25):
Ahead and you got to clean it out further and
be able to set the wood, in and you may
hit some rebar or wire mesh down in. There so
sometimes you have to cut the board in order to
slip it. In but the problem with putting boards in
is there's nothing there to lock them in, place and
so the board is able to bounce and come. Out,
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helen are you In? Pairland?
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Yes?
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Okay do you know where the ace hardware story is
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Part never never heard of?
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It, okay YEAH i.
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Have i'm, Sorry i'm being. Sarcastic, Yeah i'm.
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Sorry, Okay, uh if you go in, THERE i have
seen trim a slab in there.
Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
Before, Okay, okay.
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Well i'll check them out. Then thank you very.
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You, Hey, JIM i have a new home bluident Will.
Speaker 16 (01:07:38):
No eighteen months. Ago we have excuse. Me three train
air conditioning. Units they have the accordion style april layer
filters that go up in the. Attic uh. Huh how
often SHOULD i be changing those?
Speaker 12 (01:07:54):
Filters rule of thomb is for every inch the filter
is thick is A so if you got a four
inch media, filter it'd be four. Months if it's six,
inch it'd be six.
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Months answers my, Question, okay thank.
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Improvement, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
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how CAN i help?
Speaker 16 (01:10:32):
You, Hey, Jim, LOOK i live in the Tonne ball
area and, uh my home is about thirty years, old
as well as my. Driveway my driveway uh is thinking in,
places and you know the driveway is really not, bad but,
uh you KNOW i have trip hazards coming. Up, Yeah
i'd like to do something with. It what do you
feel about this foam injection leveling? SYSTEMS i like it well.
Speaker 12 (01:10:57):
ENOUGH i have two.
Speaker 16 (01:10:58):
Rigs, okay your company does, it, yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:11:03):
Yeah De west does, it and we do a lot of,
driveways we do a lot of commercial. BUILDINGS i don't
do the house itself with. It and the REASON i
don't is you're putting the concrete right back on the active,
soils and so you, know your soil is still subject
(01:11:24):
to going up and down and moving, things just like
it always has. Been WHEN i do foundation, Repair i'm
leaving a void under the foundation so the soils can
move without lifting the. Foundation but you can't do that
on a driveway because it's only four. Inches so, yeah
we can definitely take care of that for.
Speaker 16 (01:11:43):
You that sounds. Good, look if you do that and
it's still, moves say in a few, years can it be.
Redone can you reinject? It, yes, okay all, right AND
i HAVE i have pretty sandy. Soil actually is it?
(01:12:03):
Those it probably shifts a little bit more than some. Soils.
Speaker 12 (01:12:08):
No, actually the sandy soils are usually pretty. Good it's
the black gumbo clay soils that are usually. Bad they
will tend to you, know swell and contract with moisture.
Changes sand doesn't do. That but what moves sand is
if there's any flowing water and it gets like under the,
concrete it'll wash some of the sand out and that's
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usually what causes the settlement of the concrete. There.
Speaker 16 (01:12:34):
Yep, yeah molds are what my problem. Is they tend
to make voids in different spots around the. Yard oh,
yeah probably get around the edge of the concrete. Too, yep, Okay,
Hey i'll give you all the.
Speaker 12 (01:12:46):
Call all, right thank you. Bye R and, look the,
foam the mud, pumping all of that is just putting
everything back on the active. Soil but for certain structures
it's the right way to do. It it's one of
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the reasons that do. Wes we do so many different
types of. THINGS i, mean, yes we have the, pham
we have mud, pumping. Equipment we do drilled, piers we
do the helical, piles we do the pre cast concrete,
piles which we develop the installation. For you, know we
do virtually any type of repair because we do foundation
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work all over the state Of, texas and the different
soils require different. Techniques we don't try to do everything
with one. Technique we're trying to do what's right for the.
Structure and so, yeah the eurethane works great on, driveway, sidewalks,
patios things like. THAT i just do not recommend it
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under the foundation of your home just because of the
movement that will still be. There all. Right if you
got a question seven one three two one two five
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five eight seven, four And i'll see WHAT i can
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do to help you out here On Texas Home, improvement
got an email about a tree roots and residential drain.
Line this comes From denise and we had a sluggish
drain so a plumber was. Called tree roots are the.
Culprit we have one mature tree that is approximately sixteen
(01:14:36):
foot away from the, line but evidently the roots have
worked their way into the. Line what recommendations for fixing this.
Problem we tried root killer in the. Drain that didn't.
Work we really don't want to cut the tree. Down
with cutting a trench through the roots between the tree
(01:15:00):
and the line be an. Option, well that's typically not
the way you want to take care of a line like.
THIS i, mean, truthfully you have the issue because the
line was leaking and so the tree route was able
to find its way. IN i don't know if this
is a cast iron sewer line or A pv seed,
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line but here's the. Difference the cast, iron the joints
aren't sealed well to begin, with and as the cast
iron has, age it deteriorates and it's been allowing tree
roots to get into it and. Stuff ON pv seed,
lines typically the issue is when a contractor who built
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the house didn't glue. Joints that allows the tree roots
to get. In and there was contractors and there still
are contractors out. There oh that's just a drain. Line
it doesn't have to be glued and they just stick
the pipes. Together it does have to be. Glued you
want it so the tree roots don't find the moisture
(01:16:04):
once they have gotten in. There now you've got to
address how they got in and get that taken care,
of so rather than spending money on doing a trench
or root shield is basically what you asked. About WHAT
i would tell you is dig up the pipe and
let's replace the. Pipe if IT'S, pvc all we got
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to do is cut out the roots and glue the
one joint. Together if it's cast, iron replace it and
be done with the. Problem that's going to be money
much better spent than trying to address roots going to.
It and JUST fyi for, everybody this is a mature.
Tree you, said the tree roots will go one half
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to one third further than the drip line of the.
Tree so if you got a big oak tree and
the canopy of the drip line of the tree is
say twenty feet from the trunk of the, tree you
can easily have the tree roots going thirty feet out.
(01:17:12):
Easily so and if it finds, moisture they'll go a lot.
Further so hopefully that'll help you out with that tree.
There but, yeah and as far as the root, killers
the issue is with the tree root killers down in,
pipes the water is typically only in the bottom of
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the pipe and that's what's carrying the root killer, through
so it's usually not getting onto the roots where it
can do what you're wanting, done which is killed the tree.
Roots all right, again if you got a, question seven
one three two one two five eight seven. Four that's
seven one, three two one two five eight seven Four
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kay In. Parland how CAN i help?
Speaker 14 (01:18:02):
You, Hi. JIM i don't know if you have anybody
that does this or, not BUT i am calling for
a friend of mine to see if you know of
anyone who would do insulation on a mobile, home.
Speaker 12 (01:18:23):
To insulate the walls or the top.
Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
Or what the?
Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
Walls the?
Speaker 14 (01:18:28):
Wall, yes her, bill IT'S i mean her electric bill
is five or six.
Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
Hundred dollars a.
Speaker 16 (01:18:36):
Month, oh.
Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
And it's AND.
Speaker 14 (01:18:40):
I think probably most of the people in her complex
are experiencing the same. Thing AND i don't know she
called someone and they don't work on mobile. Homes, well
maybe you would have any.
Speaker 12 (01:18:58):
Talk to the folks that you say insulation, okay and
their number is four zero nine, okay three one six
okay seven. Okay now the other THING i would ask, You,
(01:19:20):
YEAH usa insulation and they retro fit with with, insulation
so uh they can get a non expansive foam into
that wall cavity to seal under and increase THE r.
Value but how old is the air? Conditioner, OKAY i don't.
(01:19:43):
Know that's going to be the other one you're going
to want to look, at because to have a bill that,
high that air conditioner's got to be running. Constantly, now
older air older mobile, homes the walls and in stead
of two by four were two by, three and so they,
(01:20:04):
okay the fiberglass that they used to put in those.
WALLS i don't know how old this mobile home, is
but if it's a two by, three it's not going
to have a huge amount of insulation in, there and
SO usa installation can greatly increase THE r value for
you on.
Speaker 14 (01:20:22):
That, Okay, Well i'm sure they can find all that
out if they come.
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Speaker 14 (01:20:28):
Yep, Okay well that's WHAT i called, for AND i
thank you so very. Much AND i was SURPRISED i
got in so.
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the late fifties that's got problems at the. Corners it
was supposedly repaired as the foundation was repaired back in
the late, nineties middle, nineties about thirty years. Ago and
so my question is, this is there any methods that
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they would have used thirty years ago that would the
gate being able to repair it? Now and how extensive
would that?
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Corners, Okay, NO i mean if it's been done, before
it can still be worked. On and usually you got
a choice of what you, do whether you just adjust
what's there or you have to put new system.
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You can only Get you've only got three tries, though
AND i say that because once you've had three different
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peers or whatever you use put, in there's no space
left for. Anything but if if it was done in the,
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and save yourself a ton of.
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when we stand in one of the, bedrooms that it's
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poard i was wondering if i'd be able to use
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a vehicle.
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address it well if you catch, it early enough you
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So I had a question come in not too long ago, uh,
less than an hour ago, and it is from station,
and she says, I'm about to get some substantial home
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remodeling that will cost twenty five to thirty thousand. The
two companies that I've interviewed are both balking at the
notion of providing a notarized affidavit of bills paid for materials, labor,
et cetera, et cetera, and release of lean upon completion.
I've been burned thirty years ago by paying for work
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and then receiving a bill for materials that were not
paid for later. My specific question is does the Texas
Property Code require an affidavit of all bills paid provided
by the contractor. It is my understanding that it does
well to be honest with you, Stacy, I don't know
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if it does or doesn't. I've you know, du Wes.
We've been in business since nineteen seventy eight, and although
we do this a lot on commercial jobs, it's extremely
rare that somebody asks for something like this on a
residential job. I got no problem doing a notarized Affidavid
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that we've paid the bills and materials and labor and
all that stuff. Release a lien that's done all the time.
I don't think i'd want to be able to get
into showing you all the bills though that are paid
simply because we're ordering our materials in bulk. I'm getting
eighteen wheeler loads brought in several times a week, and
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so to say this specific bill went to your property
wouldn't be possible on commercial work. The way you're able
to do it is the material gets delivered straight to
the commercial project because it's usually substantially larger than on
a residential But you should be able to ask for
the release of lien and affidavids that all the bills
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have been paid. I got zero issue, and if they
don't want to do that, get you another contractor. Some
of the other things you'll want to check is make
sure they're carrying general liability insurance so if something does happen,
they've got insurance to cover it. I always recommend workers
comp and this one surprises most people when I tell them,
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but make sure they they're carrying vehicle insurance. You would
be shocked how many contractors don't bother carrying vehicle insurance
or allow unlicensed drivers to drive. It just floors me.
But it is happening out there, So yeah, I mean,
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does the law require it. I got no idea. Does
it make sense? Absolutely? Request it? Got a question? Seven
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Hi?
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How are you?
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Sir?
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I need your advice on someone that conduces tim work,
namely to replace.
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My two front doors.
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Okay, you want to replace your front doors?
Speaker 15 (07:08):
Yes, because I made a mistake when I had my
doors put in when I did the plans on my
house's facing this the weather. It's not protected from the weather,
so it's always beat.
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Up from the weather.
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Gotcha. Okay.
Speaker 15 (07:24):
And also too, I need to repipe my my house
because my house is old now and I need to
repipe the pipes.
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Okay, let's let's start with the doors. Give Southern Front
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Wait a minute, sure, I have to write real slow
because I had a stroke.
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The tim guys want to eight.
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Six shell Okay, I got it, and very much.
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And you said you needed to reduce your pipes.
Speaker 17 (08:15):
Yes, I have to repipe my house because my house
is so old. Back then they use the uh, the
the lead piping, the lead piping, uh huh, copper piping,
copper piping, and so now the rust is coming in
the house on.
Speaker 16 (08:32):
The water bus.
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And how old is your house?
Speaker 15 (08:39):
It was built in seventy seven.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
Okay, so in seventy seven you you either had copper
pipes or you had galvanized pipes that I had. Yeah,
and yeah, you're probably getting close to where they're they're
going to be aging out. If you want to call
my office at Due West, oh, y'all do it? Oh yeah, yeah,
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our plumbing company does it all the time.
Speaker 17 (09:07):
Okay, okay, I will call y'all. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 15 (09:12):
Do y'all do y'all do roofing?
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Three four seven three.
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Yeah, seven to eight oh and at to west You
know I don't ever say this, but uh, you can
actually go online to our website and you can book
your appointment that way as well, where you don't even
have to call in.
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Well, since I had a stroke, I hadn't gotten my
computer set up yet, so I need to call in.
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Okay, more than happy to have you call in.
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You've helped me a lot. Thank you very much.
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You're welcome.
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Now that with where you can go in, you you
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Mary Anne, how are you today?
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I'm just finding you.
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I'm wonderful. How can I help you?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
I have a problem with getting a lot of static
electricity and all the speakers in the house, and I
cannot even listen to your program on the radio because
I don't get any good reception.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
It's all static.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Okay, I don't know what to call. I've had an
electrician come out. They did some minor work, and I
didn't do a darn thing. Whatever it is.
Speaker 16 (11:46):
They did.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Well.
Speaker 12 (11:51):
Typically when you're getting a lot of static electricity sound
that way on the radios in that it's because there's
something mechanical that is running that's feeding it back into
the lines. So what I would recommend to try to
trace it down is the first thing is unplug everything
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and refrigerators, freezers, VCRs, you know, the whole nine yards, TVs,
everything and see if it does it. And if it's
not doing it, then you start plugging one thing in
at a time until you find which thing was doing it. Okay,
and with it, I'm gonna put you on hold and
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I gotta come back to you. That music meants I
gotta take a break. Let's talk about James Hardy Siding
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Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home
proven source seven one three, two one two five eight
seven four. We were talking with mary Anne and Marianne.
You're getting that static on the radio and are you
getting it everywhere or have you tried plugging into different places.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I've tried plugging it in. I even bought a new
clock radio.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
And it did the same thing.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Okay, and the TV works flying in the living room.
It's all seems to be in the back of the house.
And we did none of the lights were on at all.
They were plugged in, but they were not turned on
when the electrician was here. But nothing has changed.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I know he did some work with the breakers, but
he didn't do anything other than relabel some of the
connections out there. Yeah, and so we had the pull
the entire breaker box off for a while.
Speaker 12 (16:53):
Okay. Well, like I said that, that's where I would start,
is unplugging everything and plugging and see if it does it.
If it doesn't, then you start plugging stuff into figure
out which appliance is doing it, because the other thing
it can be. And I'm making the assumption that he
checked this on the breaker but box is if something
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isn't tight in the breaker box, it can actually feedback
that way. But hopefully he would have looked for that.
And then my last question for you, I guess will
be it is rare, but do you have radiant barrier
on the house?
Speaker 16 (17:35):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I do, energy que up in the attic.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Okay, if it's only in the attic, it shouldn't be
an issue. But in some cases where you encapsulate a
whole house with energy with a radiant barrier, that can
actually do it. Metal buildings can do it, but it's
usually not a static. It's usually going to be just
a blocked signal. How does your cell phone work?
Speaker 16 (18:03):
Cell phone works?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Is fine, I'm talking to you on it right now.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
See that my computer works. That works fine, it's no
problem there.
Speaker 12 (18:11):
Okay. So that's telling me then it's not going to
be the radiant barrier. It's going to be something electrical
in your system.
Speaker 16 (18:18):
Okay, send me.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
I can isolate it and if i'll do what you suggested.
What electrical company would you recommend her?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Would you?
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Yeah, you can give Right Touch Electrical a call. Okay,
that's who I always use.
Speaker 16 (18:35):
Okay, you have a number.
Speaker 12 (18:40):
I actually do not have it with me right now.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Okay. I check them out on the internet.
Speaker 16 (18:47):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
But she seemed to think that's what it is, because
I will. What happened is I always had a plug
in in the master bedroom with a lamp on each
side bedstand, and I had a.
Speaker 16 (18:58):
Radio clock radio. One day, the lights.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Would come on and off, but the radio itself just
quit and I reset it and whatever plugged it in,
and all it does is flash. So I went around,
I plugged it in different places and kept resetting the
time and the alarm and whatever. And right now it's
plugged across the room in the master bedroom into a
separate outlet, and it seems to work fine. And the
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lights now are working. There was two switches on the
wall to flip them on, so that both lights came
on at the time when you entered the room. But
for years I always had the clock radio on the
same plug with the lights in this bedroom that would
turn on, and if I turned the radio on, no problem.
(19:44):
I could listen to you in there. But I cannot
do it now. I can't listen to anything on the
radio at all. In this house. I can watch the
OCA and the refrigerator works.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
That's fine.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
Yeah, you just answered the question for me. Then it
is a circuit that is loose, and that electrician should
have been able to catch that.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Okay, So give a breaker box. There's a circuit loose.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Well, it doesn't. It's not necessarily in the breaker box.
It could be even just one of the outlets or
a switch is loose. The wiring okay, but that's what
they got to trace down, is to find where that
loose connection is.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Okay, So they have some kind of equipment that they
could plug into the any of the outlets around here
and find out if it's getting the proper juice to it, yes, ma'am, Okay,
all right, Well I'll give them a call because this
is getting very frustrating. I can't put the alarm in
the bedroom all the time on the clock. So yep,
(20:42):
it's very frustrating when you can't isolate it. Because this
is the first time this has ever come up in
this house, and it's was built in about seventy two.
I've never had any problem with the house at all.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
Okay, in seventy two, do you buy chance have aluminum wiring? Yep,
you got a loose connection? Okay, yeah, on houses with
allumin and my house was built in seventy three, I
have aluminum wiring as well. So a lot of people say, oh,
you think of it, but it needs to be the
(21:13):
screws on every plug, in every light switch, every connection
periodically have to be retightened because that is the thing
that happened.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
I told you that it was aluminum. If this house
was built by an architect and he put in copper
wiring in the house.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Okay, difference, No, the copper doesn't come loose like the
aluminum does. But you still have a loose connection somewhere.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Okay, okay, So it's not just the fact that it's
copper or either one. It's a loose connection. Yes, someplace
in the inside of this house. I can if I
figure that out. If it's something is I'll plug everything
in or one thing in that as I go around
and if it's loose or is it stiff when I
prior and pull it out.
Speaker 12 (22:01):
Yeah, I think it's going to be a wiring that's loose.
And with that, I'm going to have to let you
go because we're up against the news break. Thank you
so much, Marion, Bye bye.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
Hey.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
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All this is Texas Home Improvement with Jim Duttons.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three,
two one two, five eight seven four. Let's head out
to Navasota. Rodney, welcome to Texas Home Improvement.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
Well, thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Appreciate you taking
my call. Yes, sir, I had heard a lady earlier
from Missouri City talking about rusted pipes. Yeah, anyway, have
a house in Avasota's built in fifty six. From the
sink in the laundry room, near the garage and in
the kitchen, all of that's fine, But in the bathroom.
It's a small house, thousand square foot. In the bathroom
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only the sink, the toilet, and the tub is rusted bad.
And I was thinking maybe it's a horizontal pipe in
there's somewhere water sitting in it, and it's getting bad,
real bad. Do you think that's what that probably is
built in fifty six.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
It can be that, but it can also be two
dissimilar metals touching each other. Okay, it'll tend to rush
re bad. Now when you say you're getting the rust, though,
you turn the water on and after a second or
two does it dissipate.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
Yes, as soon as you turn it on, it's bad.
And there's one of the faucets I know I need
to fix. It's dripping. The whole thing is just dark
rust color in there in the bottom of that sink. Yeah,
batht up too, and then you can see it in
the toilet. But every time I go up there, I
clean it and I flush them and I clean it.
But no, we don't live there. It's like a week
in house. I'm going there more now than I used to.
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But as soon as I turn the water on, it's brown,
and then it stops within a couple of seconds.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Okay, that that is more likely than where the faucets
tie on to the galvanized pipes. That's two different metals,
and so it builds up right there. It dissipates in seconds.
You know, if it if it was a longer piece
of pipe, like you were talking about the horizontal pipe, yes,
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it would tend to flow for a few seconds before dissipating.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it goes out in a couple of seconds.
It's like like it's right there at the end of it.
You turn it on, it's all rust and it goes
away in a couple of seconds.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (25:41):
And the house, yes, in the house that does not
have a stitch of insulation in it. Oh yeah, yeah,
but that's the way. Hey, can I ask you one
other question real quick? Absolutely fence post had them up
ten years now they're warping. And I had I drawn
a string line, perfectly straight fence around my my other house,
not this house, and then all of a sudden they're
(26:03):
going every which direction. My whole fence is crooked. You know,
thirty five years ago we done fence that they didn't
do that, yeph Is that just bad wood? Or and
there's it is. I have another house in East Texas,
and I was assuming maybe it was. I know, there's
a lot of moisture in the ground there, and yeah,
it is mess the whole fence up.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
It's the it's the moisture getting into those treated posts
and it will tend to as it dries and stuff,
allow them to warp and twist and everything. We used
to treat treated lumber with a different product that kind
of took that out of it. Uh, you know, the
government stepped in said no, we can't use that product anymore.
(26:46):
So now we get what we get. That's one of
the reasons I tell people put products like ready Seal
on it, because that'll seal the wood from taking on
the moisture and minimize that.
Speaker 13 (26:59):
Okay, so just do the whole board all the way around. Yep,
the post, I mean, yes, sir, it just seemed to
be the post. Yeah you know, so so what was
that called ready.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Seal Ready seal?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yep?
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Okay, just do the whole post then. Okay, all right,
but you're right, I can tell the wood back in
the day.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
It was a whole lot better.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
The tree.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Oh yeah, heavy man, it was heavy. Yeah, he dug
one up was in the ground at fifteen eighteen years
and we cut in two to see it. It was
eighth of an inch of it outside of it deteriorated.
Inside was like brand new by the old stuff.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Yep, and you know, I get it. It had arsenic
in it. It was supposedly killing all of us. But
right right, but the post was going to be there
after we were gone.
Speaker 13 (27:47):
Right right, exactly, that's right. So I'll try the different
connections or something on those pips. You think that would
be the fix.
Speaker 12 (27:55):
Yeah, Typically, all you got to do is change it
from well, now that the rust is in there, it'll
probably continue to do this. But uh, you can't have
like the brass fittings from a faucet touching the galvanized.
You got to have something that a plastic fitting that.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
That yeah right, okay, a plastic in other words would
be better.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
Yeah right.
Speaker 13 (28:19):
But hey, I appreciate the information, and thanks so much
for taking my call.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
You bet take care.
Speaker 13 (28:25):
Yes, sir, you too, by block Man and.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
Again our number seven one three, two, one two, five
eight seven four let's go to Conroe. Mark, how are
you today?
Speaker 19 (28:39):
Greetings and wolfers and tweeters. I like to do that
and lands this whole planet saying it. I do have
a suggestion another suggestion to being a ham radio upgrader.
I've learned over the years. There's I've found ways to
(29:01):
determine issues with electrical interference.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Uh huh.
Speaker 19 (29:05):
Sometimes it can be the insulators and the cutouts up
on the power poles that can the insulators will be arcing.
They'll put out a lot of trash and ads all
that hand radio. So have they let the power company
go ahead and check all the poles, or even take
(29:25):
a transistor radio and walk out even around the house,
see if you find anything that's arcing. Yeah, and even
the up and down the street. Or because even arcing
insulators are spark gap transmitters and they yes, they will
put out a lot of garbage. Have uh, because I've
(29:47):
seen that, We've seen that over the ears and that
something else I wanted to mention. I remember a number
of years ago, my lights was going crazy in my house.
I went through everything, and then my neighbor called me
cross street sat it seems saying the same thing. Their
lights was dim and on some and brightening on others.
And now that the transformer was bad on the neutral side. Nah,
(30:10):
So they put in the transformer up, so it can
be insulators that's going bad.
Speaker 16 (30:16):
Yeap.
Speaker 19 (30:16):
And it might even be a flaky transformer.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
Yeah, now on hers. The only the only reason I'm
thinking it's a circuit in the house is because she
was talking about that the lamps quit working and the
other stuff, and that's going to be something shorting. But
you're right, I mean electrical. It can be anywhere because
it's traveling up that wire.
Speaker 19 (30:37):
Yes, it is, because especially when you're going to there's
like the primary you got seventy two hundred vols or
thirteen eight or whatever. Yeah, insulators can get all kinds
of carbage on there. The old it's bark and spark
and turn into a big spark cat transmitter.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
But I agree with you.
Speaker 19 (30:56):
Check those wiring in the house, yep.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
And Mark, I might have to let you go. That
music meant I got to take a quick break. We'll
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Four So kenny out Of georgetown sent me an EMAIL
a few minutes, ago he says house is thirteen hundred
and eighty eight square. Feet IF i replace a two
ton compressor and a two ton of vaperator with a
two ton compressor and a two and a half ton of,
vaperator DO i need to? Upside i'm assuming he's upsize
(35:24):
is what he's. Writing the copper. Pipe the existing problem
is the house cooks at seventy three at night and will.
Cycle but IF i set to seventy two target at,
night it runs. Constantly, daytime we have seventy five target and.
Cycles the unit outside is on the west side and
(35:46):
gets hot afternoon sun from one thirty till. Seven maybe
go to two and a half ton in and. Outside
resize the Copper, OKAY i don't know what you have
for line sets right now the copper, pipes SO i
can't tell you to re size or. Not and it
really is going to depend on the manufacture of THE ac,
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unit what size they're. Specifying but as far as the
sizing of these, units the absolute first thing you got
to do is have a load calculation done on the.
House and what they do is they look at the
size of the, house which way it's, facing what you
have for, windows what you have for, insulation and all
this stuff that goes into a calculation and it tells
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you what size air conditioning system you, need Because i'm
telling you a two ton if you've got just REGULAR
r thirteen insulation in the walls and, such and you,
know fifteen sixteen inches of insulation in the, attic two
ton is probably going to be a little bit light
(36:54):
for a thirteen and eighty eight square foot. House so
let's not let's not take and guess at. This let's
get it. Right and you, know anybody who is putting
IN hvac systems is supposed to be licensed unless you're
doing it yourself on your own, home and they should
(37:16):
be doing this. CALCULATION i mean The State board OF
ac which is THE, tdc NOT tdc, Anyways department Of
licensing And REGULATIONS. Tdlr it's part of the. Regulations they're
supposed to do. This unfortunately a lot of them, don't
(37:38):
but they it should be. Done if somebody puts in
a new system and they don't do this, calculation get
a DIFFERENT ac. Guy but in the case that you're
trying to make the house work, better you absolutely want
to do it. Done get it done prior to changing
out THAT ac system to make sure that you're getting
(37:59):
the right. Size what's going to happen if you undersize
it like, This it'll be running constantly trying to keep.
Up and, AGAIN i don't know that it's undersized or.
Not as far as matching a two ton and two
and a half ton evaporator coils with the compressor and all,
that you're going to want to make sure that it's
(38:22):
a matched. Set that's how you get the energy. Efficiency
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(38:45):
to reinvent the wheel. Here let's get the right. STUFF
i hope that helps you. OUT i know it was
kind of rambling a little bit, there BUT i guess
the first thing i'most say is this is not a
do it yourself. Project the second THING i want to
say is your issue with those lines is, more, uh
(39:07):
what's been running through them than it is the size
of the. Lines because when you're talking a two to
three ton, system there's not a whole lot of size.
Difference but if you're running OLD r twenty two through
them and now you're going to be running the new
coolants through, them that's an issue if it doesn't get
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properly cleaned. Out so those are the things that you've
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they have changed the thermostat made no. DIFFERENCE Ao smith
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have a, Suggestion, Yeah my biggest suggestion is going to
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Speaker 12 (50:08):
Hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one three
two one two five eight seven. Four that's seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four and of
course don't forget about our website t hi pro dot.
Com there's all kinds of helpful things there as. Well
but seven one three two one two five eight seven.
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Four we're gonna head straight back into the. Call So Kennon,
LIVINGSTON i canna help.
Speaker 6 (50:37):
You, Hello, Jim i've been listening to you for many.
Years NOW.
Speaker 20 (50:46):
I appreciate and the next time is.
Speaker 6 (50:48):
Ninety six degrees out here are. Wonderful, listen AND i
just put my boat in the. Water so you miss that.
Part ha. HA i have an air. Conditioner it's this
two story. HOUSE i think it's the split unit of their.
CONDITIONING i don't. Know the drip pen or the drain
(51:09):
line goes down into the sink. Upstairs you see it
come into the, sink and about every six, months that
thing fills up with something in. There, now the stuff
in there kind of looks you would Think i've poorn
grease down that sink in the, bathroom but it don't
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have that. Consistency but it has that look to, it
like a white calk look to. It And i'm having
to clean that drain out about every six months because
it completely fills it. Up i'm. Stomped maybe you can.
Speaker 12 (51:43):
Help, Well normally it's not a white color that grows in.
There it's either going to be a blackish sludge or.
Green this is.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
White this almost looks like, grief like the pouring, grief
you know how is in a grease. Trap but it
doesn't have that. Consistency it's kind of more material like
And i've never seen this, before AND i do want to,
SAY i think we trained checked the drip pan. Upstairs
it's been a while and it was, clear AND i
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think she had poured bleach in it.
Speaker 12 (52:20):
Before, Okay and how are you cleaning it? Out when
you clean, it.
Speaker 6 (52:26):
You just take, in uh the the. Uie.
Speaker 13 (52:31):
Uh you just.
Speaker 6 (52:33):
Can can kind of like hit it on the pan
and it comes out and THEN i run a close
hangar we're up and the wall and it generally pushes
it on. Through it's not very substance like it breaks
down pretty, easy but it completely fills that whole.
Speaker 12 (52:49):
Pipe, okay so it's fel it's not feeling the sinks drain.
Pipe it's filling the pipe from THE ac unit.
Speaker 6 (52:56):
Down, No, no the sinks drain pipe before THE. U,
yeah it comes in before THE u and then it goes.
Back it makes a ninety down and all that just
from THAT u on just gets clogged up about every six.
Months M and it's got me. Stumped i've never heard
(53:17):
of that. Before AND i don't know. What maybe it
was the condensation coming off THE ac reacting with, something
because it's like it makes a chemical it's like it's
making some kind of. Reaction, yeah you, Know And i've
just wondered if you've ever heard of that or something.
Speaker 12 (53:36):
White like. That have you taken the pipes apart under the? Sink, yes, yes.
Speaker 6 (53:47):
Every six MONTHS i clean them. Out it's about a
six month. PROCESS i just did it here here, recently
and it completely clogs up that sinx in about six.
Months and it's definitely that return line because everything in
front of the return line is.
Speaker 16 (54:03):
Clear you.
Speaker 6 (54:06):
Know now it's a ladies, bathroom so they get hair in,
there but.
Speaker 12 (54:14):
Lame on the way AND i see how you.
Speaker 13 (54:16):
Are.
Speaker 6 (54:17):
Now, No i've seen it where it didn't have, Hair
so it's just SOMETHING i have never seen.
Speaker 12 (54:24):
Before, YEAH i haven't, either not not in. White but
here's WHAT i would. Try, okay since it is happening so.
Often they do make an apparatus and you can get
it At low's And Home. Depot so you got The
low's right up there on fifty nine and one ninety
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and basically it hooks in up at THE ac unit
and it gives an injection of chemical to keep the line. Clean,
OKAY i would try putting one of those on and
see if it lasts, longer, okay, autumn and it automatically
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applies it periodically to keep the line. Clean the bottle
that comes on, it you, know it does empty out
and have to be refilled if you can make it,
automatic and that bottle only gets filled when you go
up and change the filters in the in the or
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service the unit in the, attic so about every six
months it would get.
Speaker 6 (55:36):
Filled all, Right i'll give it a, try AND i
would just, yeah because one day you're.
Speaker 12 (55:45):
Not going to be there and the thorn thing's going
to clog up and start overflowing your.
Speaker 6 (55:49):
Sink, yeah and that's a. Yeah and that's that air
conditioning returns that does. Happen, yeah, Yeah So i'll give
it a. Try if, not IF i get aut of
a couple of, years we'll try.
Speaker 12 (56:02):
You sounds, Good thank?
Speaker 6 (56:04):
You all, right thank, you Mister dunton.
Speaker 12 (56:06):
Boy and again our number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four heading up to spring And,
mary how are you?
Speaker 3 (56:17):
Today i'm doing, fine thank. YOU i have a very
simple question for. YOU i HOPE i have an exterior
door going out to my patio that has a gasket
that's black rubber on the.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Bottom, uh.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
Huh AND i don't know whether the door was installed
incorrectly and down too, low but the gasket is being
pulled off of the bottom of the. Door SHOULD i
just take the gasket off and forget about? It if
it is too, low it may not need. It but SHOULD,
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i rather than doing, that have a new gasket put on?
Speaker 6 (56:59):
It or what are?
Speaker 12 (56:59):
You did you say this is a sliding?
Speaker 6 (57:02):
Door?
Speaker 3 (57:04):
No, no it's just a regular. Door and it's one
of those single doors that has the built in window.
Speaker 12 (57:14):
Blind, yes, okay so it's just the weather stripping on
the bottom for sealing.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
Up it's going to.
Speaker 12 (57:25):
DEPEND i, mean if the the door sill has a
rubber on there to seal up the, door you may
not need.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
It got a brass plate under?
Speaker 7 (57:43):
It?
Speaker 12 (57:43):
Okay then you then you're gonna want that on, there
because otherwise you're going to have a gap that's gonna
allow not only, air but are things coming? In?
Speaker 3 (57:56):
Okay but what if the door was installed To, oh
it'll just pull right off? Again want?
Speaker 12 (58:03):
It how long has the door been?
Speaker 7 (58:05):
THERE i had it.
Speaker 3 (58:08):
Put on about ten years, ago but there's pieces that
have come off completely and there's still more on.
Speaker 12 (58:15):
There and has it done this the whole ten years
or did it start a couple.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
Of, probably but Probably i'm not really, sure to be
honest with. You it could have started a few years
ago if maybe the door started. Sagging, yeah the fiberglass door, Sag, no.
Speaker 12 (58:35):
Ma'am they're pretty. Rigid so, no wood isn't. It, Yeah
but but the fiberglass itself is a single, piece and
they're they're very stout and stayed in shape more than.
Likely if there's been, movement it's not the door itsself,
(58:56):
moving but the screws into the door frame letting, loose
or some movement in the structure where it moves up and.
Down but, yeah the door itself is not going to
go out of. Square.
Speaker 16 (59:10):
Okay so and.
Speaker 12 (59:15):
Then there's one other thing that can. Happen and because
you mentioned this as a ten year old, door, uh you,
know plastics and rubbers and stuff de deteriorate with, age
and so it may be nothing more than, that and
so it may need to be. Replaced but here's what
you're gonna have to. Do you're gonna have to look
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under the door and see if you can see. Outside
AND i don't know which side the rubbers on it
on the inside of the. Outside, well it's kind of, underneath,
Okay so it's it's a swipe that it's a white
blade that's just straight down in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (59:56):
There it's it's a rubber gask.
Speaker 12 (01:00:01):
Yep, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Yeah and then it's just a plane door with the
windows all the way down what fifteen panel windows or
whatever it.
Speaker 12 (01:00:11):
IS i will guarantee if you take that, off you're
going to have air come an air gap there where
you're getting all kinds of air blowing in and. Out
you're going to have obviously bugs can come in and
out that. Way but the weather strip itself doesn't hold
out bugs that, much but it does, help so it
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does need.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
It, yes, Okay, well Then i'll have to get somebody
to take the door off and put a new one
on there with some kind of.
Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
GLUE i.
Speaker 12 (01:00:44):
Guess give the folks At Southern Front doors a call
and talk to them and they can maybe help you
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Okay, great, Okay, well thank you very very. Much you're.
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Welcome if you take.
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Care thank you you.
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Improvement, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
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how CAN i help?
Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
You thank you and thanks for taking my. Call so
the expansion joints in the driveway and the sidewalk have,
Rotted so CAN i replace them with? Wood or is
there something better.
Speaker 12 (01:04:56):
You can replace them with wood if you'd. Like but
there are better and easier things to replace it.
Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
With, okay like, like for, instance trim a slab, Okay
and does it last as long or?
Speaker 12 (01:05:11):
Longer, yes.
Speaker 7 (01:05:15):
It will last.
Speaker 12 (01:05:16):
Longer, Yeah and it's made to go in. There it
comes in a roll much like a, rope and basically
it slips down into that, joint locks into place and
gives it a nice finish gets a rubber ice, material
so it gives it a nice finished. Look and it
lasts a very long.
Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
Time.
Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Okay so if there's no trick to putting it, in.
Speaker 12 (01:05:41):
The only trick is you got to clean out the
the line? There did the joint deep enough for the
product to pop?
Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
In?
Speaker 12 (01:05:51):
Uh and the depth of it is usually about an
inch and a?
Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Quarter?
Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Okay so what? Happens DO i need the benefits more
than any in the quarter BECAUSE i pressure washed and
all left some, Gougets SO i need to fill that
in BEFORE i put it?
Speaker 13 (01:06:05):
In?
Speaker 12 (01:06:05):
Right, No, no you don't have to worry about that at.
Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
All, OH i thought it would go ahead and compromise
the Clab no?
Speaker 13 (01:06:16):
Okay all?
Speaker 8 (01:06:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Okay, well and IF i do, CHOOSE i probably won't
choose to go with. Wood but IF i do choose
to go with, WOOD i just go.
Speaker 12 (01:06:25):
Ahead and you got to clean it out further and
be able to set the wood, in and you may
hit some rebar or wire mesh down in. There so
sometimes you have to cut the board in order to
slip it. In but the problem with putting boards in
is there's nothing there to lock them in, place and
so the board is able to bounce and come. Out,
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helen are you In? Pairland?
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Yes?
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Okay do you know where the ace hardware story is
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Part never never heard of?
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It, okay YEAH i.
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Have i'm, Sorry i'm being. Sarcastic, Yeah i'm.
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Sorry, Okay, uh if you go in, THERE i have
seen trim a slab in there.
Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
Before, Okay, okay.
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Well i'll check them out. Then thank you very.
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You, Hey, JIM i have a new home bluident Will.
Speaker 16 (01:07:38):
No eighteen months. Ago we have excuse. Me three train
air conditioning. Units they have the accordion style april layer
filters that go up in the. Attic uh. Huh how
often SHOULD i be changing those?
Speaker 12 (01:07:54):
Filters rule of thomb is for every inch the filter
is thick is A so if you got a four
inch media, filter it'd be four. Months if it's six,
inch it'd be six.
Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
Months answers my, Question, okay thank.
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how CAN i help?
Speaker 16 (01:10:32):
You, Hey, Jim, LOOK i live in the Tonne ball
area and, uh my home is about thirty years, old
as well as my. Driveway my driveway uh is thinking in,
places and you know the driveway is really not, bad but,
uh you KNOW i have trip hazards coming. Up, Yeah
i'd like to do something with. It what do you
feel about this foam injection leveling? SYSTEMS i like it well.
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ENOUGH i have two.
Speaker 16 (01:10:58):
Rigs, okay your company does, it, yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:11:03):
Yeah De west does, it and we do a lot of,
driveways we do a lot of commercial. BUILDINGS i don't
do the house itself with. It and the REASON i
don't is you're putting the concrete right back on the active,
soils and so you, know your soil is still subject
(01:11:24):
to going up and down and moving, things just like
it always has. Been WHEN i do foundation, Repair i'm
leaving a void under the foundation so the soils can
move without lifting the. Foundation but you can't do that
on a driveway because it's only four. Inches so, yeah
we can definitely take care of that for.
Speaker 16 (01:11:43):
You that sounds. Good, look if you do that and
it's still, moves say in a few, years can it be.
Redone can you reinject? It, yes, okay all, right AND
i HAVE i have pretty sandy. Soil actually is it?
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Those it probably shifts a little bit more than some. Soils.
Speaker 12 (01:12:08):
No, actually the sandy soils are usually pretty. Good it's
the black gumbo clay soils that are usually. Bad they
will tend to you, know swell and contract with moisture.
Changes sand doesn't do. That but what moves sand is
if there's any flowing water and it gets like under the,
concrete it'll wash some of the sand out and that's
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usually what causes the settlement of the concrete. There.
Speaker 16 (01:12:34):
Yep, yeah molds are what my problem. Is they tend
to make voids in different spots around the. Yard oh,
yeah probably get around the edge of the concrete. Too, yep, Okay,
Hey i'll give you all the.
Speaker 12 (01:12:46):
Call all, right thank you. Bye R and, look the,
foam the mud, pumping all of that is just putting
everything back on the active. Soil but for certain structures
it's the right way to do. It it's one of
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the reasons that do. Wes we do so many different
types of. THINGS i, mean, yes we have the, pham
we have mud, pumping. Equipment we do drilled, piers we
do the helical, piles we do the pre cast concrete,
piles which we develop the installation. For you, know we
do virtually any type of repair because we do foundation
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work all over the state Of, texas and the different
soils require different. Techniques we don't try to do everything
with one. Technique we're trying to do what's right for the.
Structure and so, yeah the eurethane works great on, driveway, sidewalks,
patios things like. THAT i just do not recommend it
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under the foundation of your home just because of the
movement that will still be. There all. Right if you
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do to help you out here On Texas Home, improvement
got an email about a tree roots and residential drain.
Line this comes From denise and we had a sluggish
drain so a plumber was. Called tree roots are the.
Culprit we have one mature tree that is approximately sixteen
(01:14:36):
foot away from the, line but evidently the roots have
worked their way into the. Line what recommendations for fixing this.
Problem we tried root killer in the. Drain that didn't.
Work we really don't want to cut the tree. Down
with cutting a trench through the roots between the tree
(01:15:00):
and the line be an. Option, well that's typically not
the way you want to take care of a line like.
THIS i, mean, truthfully you have the issue because the
line was leaking and so the tree route was able
to find its way. IN i don't know if this
is a cast iron sewer line or A pv seed,
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line but here's the. Difference the cast, iron the joints
aren't sealed well to begin, with and as the cast
iron has, age it deteriorates and it's been allowing tree
roots to get into it and. Stuff ON pv seed,
lines typically the issue is when a contractor who built
(01:15:42):
the house didn't glue. Joints that allows the tree roots
to get. In and there was contractors and there still
are contractors out. There oh that's just a drain. Line
it doesn't have to be glued and they just stick
the pipes. Together it does have to be. Glued you
want it so the tree roots don't find the moisture
(01:16:04):
once they have gotten in. There now you've got to
address how they got in and get that taken care,
of so rather than spending money on doing a trench
or root shield is basically what you asked. About WHAT
i would tell you is dig up the pipe and
let's replace the. Pipe if IT'S, pvc all we got
(01:16:25):
to do is cut out the roots and glue the
one joint. Together if it's cast, iron replace it and
be done with the. Problem that's going to be money
much better spent than trying to address roots going to.
It and JUST fyi for, everybody this is a mature.
Tree you, said the tree roots will go one half
(01:16:48):
to one third further than the drip line of the.
Tree so if you got a big oak tree and
the canopy of the drip line of the tree is
say twenty feet from the trunk of the, tree you
can easily have the tree roots going thirty feet out.
(01:17:12):
Easily so and if it finds, moisture they'll go a lot.
Further so hopefully that'll help you out with that tree.
There but, yeah and as far as the root, killers
the issue is with the tree root killers down in,
pipes the water is typically only in the bottom of
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the pipe and that's what's carrying the root killer, through
so it's usually not getting onto the roots where it
can do what you're wanting, done which is killed the tree.
Roots all right, again if you got a, question seven
one three two one two five eight seven. Four that's
seven one, three two one two five eight seven Four
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kay In. Parland how CAN i help?
Speaker 14 (01:18:02):
You, Hi. JIM i don't know if you have anybody
that does this or, not BUT i am calling for
a friend of mine to see if you know of
anyone who would do insulation on a mobile, home.
Speaker 12 (01:18:23):
To insulate the walls or the top.
Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
Or what the?
Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
Walls the?
Speaker 14 (01:18:28):
Wall, yes her, bill IT'S i mean her electric bill
is five or six.
Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
Hundred dollars a.
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Month, oh.
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And it's AND.
Speaker 14 (01:18:40):
I think probably most of the people in her complex
are experiencing the same. Thing AND i don't know she
called someone and they don't work on mobile. Homes, well
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older air older mobile, homes the walls and in stead
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would that?
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it can still be worked. On and usually you got
a choice of what you, do whether you just adjust
what's there or you have to put new system.
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AND i say that because once you've had three different
repairs methods, done or different sets of pilings or drill
peers or whatever you use put, in there's no space
left for. Anything but if if it was done in the,
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Speaker 6 (01:31:54):
You yes sir how?
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You.
Speaker 21 (01:31:56):
DOING today wonderful i have a standard two CAR driveway
that i want to have extended, out WITH twise but
i don't want to, have actual, concrete you. KNOW slab
poard i was wondering if i'd be able to use
like some concrete papers with and just pack the, dirt
beneath it or would that be able to withstand the load. Of,
a vehicle.
Speaker 12 (01:32:16):
Yeah you can put, paper STONES down and i mean
they run eighteen wheelers over them, even so.
Speaker 21 (01:32:21):
Yeah, No problem OKAY and what I need to U
is like i'm not sure what it's called a ground or,
something like THAT or would i just be able to
just keep packing the dirt TO where it's?
Speaker 16 (01:32:31):
I guess.
Speaker 7 (01:32:33):
Really what you.
Speaker 12 (01:32:35):
What you have to do is you have to dig
out the dirt and put some like crushed limestone or
something along that lines down and pack that so you've got.
A good base then you can put your paperstones on. Top,
of that.
Speaker 21 (01:32:49):
Okay so limestone and then pack that down and be
able to put the papers on. Top, To supplice okay
well that's that's PRETTY much all, i NEED them and. I,
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Alrighty take care and with that That's It For texas.
Home improvement. Today don't forget you can join me again
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krh have. A great Afternoon Let's do due. West foundation,
repair you know if you're, having foundation problems they don't go.
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Away by themselves you have to do something. To change
it and what causes most foundation problems is the moisture content.
Of the soil when the, soils try. Out they shrink when,
they get wet, they'll expand again but not as much
as they were. The time before so how do. You,
address it well if you catch, it early enough you
just put an irrigation system or a drainage system to
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control the moisture. In the soil you let it, go
too long you're going. To, require peers Well at do
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