August 16, 2025 • 96 mins
Jim talks to special guest Jesse Salinas from Southern Front Doors. He also answers caller questions about air conditioning, humid houses, ductwork, and much more.
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Texas Home Improvement is on the air with your host, Jim.
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I really appreciate your show. Really helped me to know
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You or you are so correct, So thank you very much.
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I'm tetting on my back forward and drinking a beer
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Here's Jim dot.
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Hey. Welcome the Texas Home Improvement Your Total Home Improvement Source.
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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.
Let's head to our first call of the day. We're
going out to Laporte and.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Tommy.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
This is Jim. How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Hey, Jim, how you doing today?
Speaker 9 (03:35):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm doing wonderful. How about you?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Fantastic? Thank you, Sarah. I'm calling about that win at
tenth that you were talking about that loss to the
UV raise. I looked on your homepage and your newsletter
and I didn't see that company listed, which they're not contractors.
I guess they're vendor, right, Damn.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
That is correct. Yeah, that would be something that you
would order and then they would ship it out to you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, sir, how would I contact them?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Let me get Yeah, I should have their stuff here
with me. I happened to bring all my stack of
papers today, so that's a good deal. Well, it depends
on if you're the one carrying all this stuff or not.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, sir, I'm the guy who's been building that at
Barnomnium out here in La Port for a while. I've
been talking to people a couple of years about it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh yeah, how are you coming on it now?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, I'm down to the part where I need to
tend the windows on the west side, so we're getting
real close to hopefully brinting it out.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, what's the name of that place? Starts with the sea,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It does? And I'm looking it up because the pronunciation
does not match.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
That's right. Yeah, man, let's see here. Anyway, while you're
looking at it up, if you could listen to me.
I put in your your irrigation system around my slab
uh huh in May the end of May, and I
haven't had any issues like door sticking or anything like
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that this year like I normally have when it gets
real dry. So thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It makes a huge difference.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It made a major difference. I mean, I don't know
why it ended before. You just just didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Here it is. It's Concord Window Film. They say conquered,
but it's co N co r D Window Film.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Their phone number is eight eight eight two zero six
one four one three.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Okay, and their.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Uh web address is windowfilm dot com.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm gonna sit down one damn dot com. Yeah, okay,
I'll get in a host of them and get that
older and I certainly appreciate it, Jim.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Not a problem.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know, I'm gonna use this opportunity since you're in
Deer Park, to promote the Passing Livestock Showing Rodeo, because
you know that's coming up in September. Right.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, actually I'm in laport but yeah, I do know it,
and I definitely get down there.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Laporte is actually part of the Passing the livestock showing,
rodeo that your kids show animals and stuff. We actually
have the kickoff dance tonight. I'll be going to that
doors open at Campbell Hall there at six point thirty.
But uh yeah, it's coming up, so put it on
your calendar.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I'll put it on the calendar and have fun tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
All right, Thank you, sir, Take care, fighte the h
And by the way, the cook off itself September thirteenth
and fourteenth, and then the rodeo kicks off September nineteenth
and runs through September twenty seventh. Uh and you can
go to Passingarodeo dot com to get tickets.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So got a question seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four. Let's head out to clear Lake Daniel.
This is a Jim. How can I help you?
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Hey, Jim, thanks for taking taking your time. I was
just curious what your thoughts are on air conditioning system
duct cleaning.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I think it's way over sold. I'm not saying it
doesn't need to be done sometimes, but you know there
are companies out there now that say, oh, you need
to get it done every two or three years. No,
you don't. The air that's going through the duct is
filtered air, and so unless something has happened to cause
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the need to get it clean, there's usually not a
reason to clean it. Most people can go twenty years
and not have to even think twice about.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
It, Okay, And that makes total sense. And I'm curious
if you were to try to find a reputable professional
company to do that, where would you go.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You know, you can check with some of the HVAC contractors,
but I will tell you I believe in it's so
little I don't even do it at my company do
us stair conditioning. But a company that you can call
that if you do need it done, that can get
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it done for you. The Stanley Steamers. They have a
division that Stanley Steamers you do the floor cleaning. They
have a division that does nothing but the duck cleaning.
But you got to know what kind of ducks you
have first. And I say that because if you've got
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the ducks that have the you know that are flex stucks,
which most of us have flex stucks nowadays. But if
it's got the plastic inside of it, a lot of
times when you go to clean it, you tear the
plastic up and ruin your ducks. If it's got the
aluminum inside, well, then they can clean it without tearing
it up.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Right, And then I would expect that that contractor would
know the difference and know how not to tear them up.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You sure as heck would hope, so, wouldn't you?
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Right?
Speaker 9 (09:44):
My only concern about going with a with a Stanley
is they're not They're a four cleaning company. A carpet
cleaning company is tile grout whatever I mean? Well, I
guess I could call around and find out if there's
any mechanical contractors that do it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There are some that do it, but here's the difference.
Mechanical contractors are typically there to put stuff in and
maintain it. Stanley is a cleaning company. Gotcha now to
tell if you need it done, take one of your
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return vents off, or more if you want, But take
a return vent off. You can see up in there
if it's plastic ductwork or what it is. But you
can also reach in and see if it's full of
dust and stuff if it's not. If it's not, there's
no reason to clean it.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
When you say return vent, are you talking about where
you put your filter?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, I'm talking about the one that goes back into
your room.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Okay where the hair comes out.
Speaker 12 (10:58):
Yep, got you.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Okay, Well listen, I appreciate your time, friend. Thank you've
been about.
Speaker 11 (11:05):
To good work.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
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Speaker 5 (11:31):
Hey, Jim, how are you doing?
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Wonderful? How are you?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I'm good? Thank you. So I've got a problem in
my house. We built our house twenty years ago, and
it's an elevator, it's elevated. It's two story, so it's elevating.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And how the crawl space okay, on the.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Second floor, and so so we have a washer drawer
on the second floor and there's a connection, you know,
for the washer train hods to go into in the wall.
And in the last couple and then so now we've
been here twenty years, but in the last couple of
years we've noticed some smell coming from it. Uh huh,
I know, I'm actually hm the washing machine.
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
Hey. Welcome back to Texas Own Improvements seven one three
two one, two, five, eight, seven four. When we left,
I was talking with Jim and we were talking about
washer and dryer, and he's getting an odor and I
had to cut him off and sorry about that, Jim, go.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Ahead, that's good, okay. So you know, so we've been
in the house twenty years and in the last couple
of years we started getting an odor. I finally figured
out we thought it was from the washer, but because
you see, we hadn't had the odor before, and I
thought it was from the washing machine. Well, anyway, I
finally put my nose on the drain line, you know,
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I went right there where it goes through the wall,
and sure enough, that's where it's come coming from. I figured, well,
the pea trap inside is I've got some crap in it.
So I went and put a snake in there, and
it snake dropped all the way down to the bottom
of the house, right, and I said, my god, there's
no sea trap.
Speaker 13 (16:49):
Is that normal?
Speaker 12 (16:50):
No, there should be a pea trap, right.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yes, sir, Yeah, there's there's got to be a pea
trap somewhere otherwise you're getting sewer gas coming in.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah. Okay, So I need to rip the wall out
and put a pea trap in.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You're on sure there's not one in there.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Look, I dropped a long snake in it, and it
went all the way down. Like I said, the house
is elevated and there's a you know, if there's a
crawl space, and I went all the way down to
the bottom of the crawl space, right and there can't
be a pea trap.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
It was just well, you know, make a turn.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The pea trap that would be in for the washing
machine would be a two inch line and a snake
typically will will drop, will pass right through it. So
there it could be there, and you just didn't get
the resistance you were expecting because the pea traps underneath
a sink are a lot tighter than what they typically
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put in the walls that way. Really yeah, okay, So
here's here's what I would do before are ripping out
the sheet rock. Uh, I would try a couple of things.
The first one, take the hose out of that drain
pipe and just dump some water down in there with
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a with a cup. If you're hearing it splash, that
means there's a pea trap down there.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Oh okay, I searched me.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Beyond that. Yeah, I mean the pea trap is the bath,
is the washing machine on the second floor of the
first floor.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
No, it's on the second yes.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Okay, yeah, then then you you would end up having
to go into the sheet rock to put one in.
Then I was gonna say, if it's on the first floor,
you could go underneath the floor and put it there.
But uh, I wouldn't want to put it that far
down on a two story.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I mean, now, let me say this, Jim, that that
snake I put in there is it was a big one,
maybe half inch you know, it's a it's a big snake.
I would expect to go through it. He would that
would that have sort of gone through this smaller pea
track you're talking about?
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yes, and with all me noticing it really.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
On a on a two inch line, it very well could.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Okay, all right, well, let me do what you said, and.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You know, you bet?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
You know?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Do you do you suppose that there's cases, Jim, where
they just forgot to put it in?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, truthfully, I don't think it's so much they forgot
as somebody got lazy and didn't put it in. And
you know, here, what I'm really wondering is why the
heck didn't the inspect or catch that?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Oh, I am too, You I wonder too. Yeah, I
don't know, Yeah, because you know, they did put a
They did put it one of those screw you know,
it's got it's the type of fitting, the fitting that
you see has a screw cap on it, you know it,
it's got a screw cap that came with it. And
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I don't know if that's typical of when they do
this or it looks like almost a cleanout, you know. Yeah,
I mean, did they put it into the plumbers think
it was supposed to be a cleanout and not a
pea trap? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And if that's the case, then I could understand why
it doesn't have a pea trap. Yeah, because if it's
got the screwcap, is it in a box in the
inside the wall in the water and the hot and
cold water come up inside that box as well?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Though hot and cold water or in a box? Okay, saying,
but this is just a sticking right out of the
sticking right it's flush with the wall basically.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, see that that does sound more like a cleanout
than it does. The the drain for it I'm wondering
if they forgot to put the darn drain in.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, you know, that's what I'm thinking to Jim. All right,
well I'll do what you said. That's a good idea.
Let's see if it's splashes.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, yep, all right, Jim, you take care, Thank you
so much. You bet okay?
Speaker 9 (21:31):
By blah.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You know understand, Uh, Typically when contractors are building a house,
they're they're hiring and trying to get it done for
as little as possible because they look at it as
though it's coming out of their pocket. Inspectors when they
come out for city inspections, they are looking for it
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to meet minimum building codes. They're not looking for the
extra stuff, just minimum building codes. And if that was
avent and then they ran water lines up there to
use it as for the washing machine, I could see
how that could get missed then by the inspectors because
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it wasn't what they were inspecting for anyways. Yeah, that's
gonna have to be checked out. Look, we're going to
take a quick break for news, traffic, and weather. Then
we'll be back with more Texas Home improvement. Uh seven
one three, two one two five eight seven four. When
we come back. We're going to talk to the folks
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Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home improvement
sour seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
That's seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Again,
as I said, we're gonna go and talk with Jesse
from Southern front Door. How are you today?
Speaker 11 (24:49):
I'm doing good, Jim? How are you?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Man? I'm doing wonderful. It's just a you know, it's
it's one of those days that you get, you get
some scattered showers, they're gone on. It kind of cools
things off, makes it a little bit steamy, but you're
still good to go. You know, I'll take the top cover, yep.
So let's talk. Let's talk about some up front doors
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because you know, so often people think they can just
leave a front door goal forever, and you know, if
it starts looking just at least a little shabby. They'll
throw a little bit of paint on it, but they
don't do anything else to it. And this can really
be a focal point of a person's house.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Yeah, so a lot of times on front doors, you know,
people just do a refinishing job and they forget that,
you know, you've got a lot of things going on here,
whether it's you know, it's a door line, ride, does
it does it have the proper weather stripping around it
to prevent air infiltration and so forth. So what we
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do is we typically when we replace the front door,
we do a what's called the pre hung door, So
it's a door with a frame, comes with weather stripping
and hinges and and uh, it's it's you know, we
square it up properly. We make sure it's insulating all
around the unit, you know, before we turn it out,
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so we do a total you know, transformation of entries.
But we also make sure that you get a proper seal.
So that's that's important one. Especially with our climate.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Oh yeah, you don't want to be looking at daylight through.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
The door, absolutely, you know, and especially on double doors.
We have a lot of double doors in our city
with with the with the some of the nicer homes.
And that's the biggest thing we see is when we
go look at a double doors, right right at the
center where those double doors meet at the bottom, you know,
there's there's typically you know, nine times out of ten
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we see daylight because it's not sealed properly. So, oh yeah,
that's a big issue.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So if the door is good, you know that somebody
has do you guys do resealing of them?
Speaker 11 (27:01):
Yeah, we provide weather stripping service so we can go
out there and replace weather stripping, replace the bottom door
sweeps that are going to the door, and if it
is and if it is a double door, we make
sure that under that tiastrical in the center that there's
the proper weather stripping for it. So there's two ways
of doing that. One is either with a with a
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extra long door sweep or provide a what's called a
theatrical boot that goes underneath that to seal it properly.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Okay, so let's talk about the different doors for a minute,
because you know, people really think typically of a wooden door,
a fiberglass door, or a steel door, and I mean,
all of them in my mind have a great benefit
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and a place to use them. I mean on my
front door. I would I love stealed the iron doors.
I think just they look stout, they're strong, they they
just set off a tone, you know. But what doors
really are gorgeous and the fiber glass doors are as well.
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So how do you help people choose the right one
for their home?
Speaker 11 (28:17):
So from a design standpoint, uh, you know, we look
at the esthetics of the home. So when we get
people in our should room, we tell them, hey, bring
us bring us a picture of your front of the
front of your entire home, not just your entry, so
that we can say, okay, what you know, from a
design standpoint, what is going to look good for your home?
You know, what are you trying to achieve from a
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design standpoint? So you know that's number one, And then
number two is you know some some folks are looking
for security, right They're saying, hey, I want to make
sure that my door is secure, and I haven't. You know,
that's a priority in a way. So iron doors provide
the highest level of security because not only are you
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getting an iron door, you're getting an iron frame. So
when somebody is trying to get through your door, and
if you're worried about security. It's not the door that
breaks when somebody tries to kick it in, it's the frame, right,
And if you have a pine you know, southern yellow
pine jam that's been on there for twenty years and
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the wood is brittle, it's going to be easy to
kick in. So when you go to an iron door,
now you've got an iron frame with a nice lock
on it, they're not going to kick it in. Fiberglass
doors provide a different thing and that you not only
get a fiberglass door, but you get a fiberglass frame.
So in some cases you have some people that maybe
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don't have a lot of overhang in the front of
their house and they're getting so you get a lot
of wind driven rain, or when it rains real hard,
maybe they don't have a good gutter system and their
frame is rotting. So when when we do a fiberglass door,
we also provide a fiberglass frame so there is nothing
to rock.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So yeah, that's really good for like a backdoor where
you got a patio and water splashing up and stuff.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Absolutely, So you know, we we try to assess the
not only the look, but the situation of the home
and provide the customer with options, you know, what is
your highest priority? Do you you may have a rotting issue,
or you may have a security issue. You know, how
do we address them all so that we you know,
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not only do you get a beautiful front door, but
you you know it's it's going to be there for
years and years to come, so you don't you know, basically,
we try to offer the last door you'll ever buy, yeah,
if you.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Get, and that really kind of sets you apart from
the box stores then because when they sell like a
fiberglass door, it's on a wood frame still, it's they're
not using the fiberglass wood frame, yes sir.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
So they still provide you know, pine jam with a
fiberglass door. So you're getting a nice door, but you're
not getting you know, the adequate frame and trend for
that matter. You know, we offer a trend package on
the Xchier that can be all fiberglass, so not only
is the door fiberglass, but the frame is fiberglass and
your exterior trend will be PBC fiberglass, so that again
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no no rotting whatsoever. So on that side door or
that back door that you have, that you're getting that
rotting down there at the bottom on your tram or
your jam. You know you won't have that issue anymore, okay.
And from a security standpoint, if you if you if
you don't want to go with an iron door and
you want to go with a with a fiberglass or
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a wood door, we offer some security features to buke
up the door unit. So, for example, we offer a
security plate that goes behind the door frame to beef
up that that area where the lock is so when
somebody tries to kick it in, they're not going to
see it. But there's a there's going to be a
sick engaged steel plate behind it that's going to be
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reinforcing that door so that they can't kick it in.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, you mind holding onto this quick break, Yes, sir.
And one big question I will have when we come
back for you is you got a door that's facing
the sun. What's going to be the best way to
keep a nice finish on it? And I'm gonna put
you on hold. We'll be right back with you. Let's
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Speaker 3 (35:49):
Hey, welcome back. Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Any home improving question, you have to
pick up the phone and give me a call. Seven
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and we're talking with Jesse from Southern front Doors. And Jesse,
you know, I kind of threw out a quick question
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there as far as you got a door you're facing
the sun, what's the door you're gonna recommend.
Speaker 11 (36:19):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna recommend the iron door for
the most part in that situation. It's gonna be more
durable and lasting. You know, it comes with a high
quality finish.
Speaker 15 (36:32):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (36:33):
It's not to say that it's gonna last forever. Sure
door will last forever, but the finish, you know, it
has a it's gonna have a lifespan, uh, and that
that lifespan is gonna be anywhere from you know, it
has a five year warranty, so it'll be at least
five years depending on the exposure that it has. But
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when you go to if you go to fiberglass or
wood and you have a stained fiberglass door or a
wood stained door and you're getting that exposure, it's gonna
that that finish is going to break down much faster
than on an iron door.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right.
Speaker 11 (37:09):
So, regardless of what you have, what you want to
do is you want to get out there and do
a little bit of maintenance on it. And the number
one thing is, you know, getting out there every every
couple of months and keeping it clean. If you keep
it clean, you get palling on there in the spring
and then in the fall you may get you know,
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some some dirt on it from the winds and stuff.
You want to keep it clean because that that that
with with along with the sun with the UV raised,
it's going to break down that finish. So you want
to keep it clean.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
And you don't want to use anything abraces to clean it.
All you want is some some basically some dish shop
a little bit of dish soap and soak the water
soft rag and get out there and clean it.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
UH.
Speaker 11 (37:56):
On a wood door, we recommend using a product after
you clean it is You can also wipe your wood
door down with a Murphy's oil, which people use it
like for wood floors. It helps put a little bit
of a protective barrier on there on a wood door
to help it make it last a little longer. Some
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people do it. We don't highly recommend it, but I've
seen it done where some people will wax their door
like a car and that helps. That helps with with
if it's getting wet. It will help get the rain
beat off of the door so it doesn't stay wet,
so that helps as well. So those are some of
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the things that you can do. Obviously, what you want
to do after a few years and you start seeing
it starting to break down, you want to have a
professional come and refinish it before it gets really bad,
because once it gets really bad into the wood, then
you're going to have to do a total refinish, which
is going to cost you more money. So we don't
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do that service. We focus on new doors, but there's
some outfits out there that offer that. But if you
maintain your door and put a you know, refinish it
before it breaks down totally, you're going to have a
better outcome.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
And you mentioned, you know, you guys focus on new doors.
How do we see all your new doors?
Speaker 11 (39:23):
So we have a showrooms. We're in northwest Houston. The
closest major intersection is FM nineteen sixty and Jones Road.
We're kind of in between Cyprus and Jersey Village. We
have a showroom with about one hundred and eighty doors
on display, wood doors, fiberglass doors, iron doors. We stop
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a lot of what we sell. There's a few items
that we do not stop that we order on demand
as needed from our suppliers. But we do carry a
good amount of inventory. And having said that, we you know,
we all we we we take the doors and personalize
them so let's talk about wood doors for a second.
(40:07):
We have the door in stock, we have the glass
and stock the frame material, but we don't know if
it's a left hand it's a right.
Speaker 10 (40:15):
Hand, you know.
Speaker 11 (40:16):
Do they want red oak, do they want red mahogany?
Do they want black? So we we add those things
to the door. So you get to pick the door style,
the door glass, the stained finish, the color, you know,
and we personalize it too, so it's not like, okay,
you buy the door and you get it tomorrow. So
you buy the door and we put it in our
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system and we we pre hang it, we install glass,
we do the finish so and you know, we also
do pre measure, so we'll go out to your home
pre measure your not only your door, but your door frame,
your threshold, your your interior and EXTRAI your trem need
so that when we show up to install, we have
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everything we need for the installed and you know, there's
no surprises.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Okay. And if somebody wanted to call you.
Speaker 11 (41:07):
Yeah, our number is two eight one eight nine zero
fifty eight sixty. We're opening Monday through Saturday from nine
to five. We can work with you on an appointment
basis or you could just come and walk into the
showroom and we'll be glad to help you.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
All right. And for somebody who maybe lives outside your
service area, do you sell the doors where they can
put them in?
Speaker 11 (41:32):
Yeah, so we we actually not only replace doors, but
you know, we also sell a lot of doors for
new construction people who are building homes, contractors, remodelers, new builds.
So we have people that come in our showroom with
their plans, so we help them choose, you know, what
they want. So we have we have customers basically all over.
(41:58):
So we have customers in Florida, North Carolina, North Texas, Illinois, Ohio,
et cetera. Okay, we can package, we can package, ship,
you know, freight and crank.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
We have a system for that perfect Well, Jesse, I
appreciate you taking time out of your Saturday and talking
with us today.
Speaker 11 (42:19):
Well appreciate you. Thanks for taking the time and having
me on your show, and we look forward to serving
your customers.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Alrighty, well, sure you have a wonderful afternoon and we'll
talk again later. Thank you, Jim, you bet, And that's
Jesse with Southern Front Doors. We'll talk about them again
here in just a second, hey, look, if you're looking
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for doors, as you just heard, Southern Front Doors that's
the people to call. And let me tell you, I
mean the door that's your first impressed when somebody comes
up to your home. And this is a family owned business,
they can, you know, come to your home, they can
check out your showroom.
Speaker 11 (43:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
However you want to deal with Southern Front Doors, they
are there to serve you. They carry all the major brands,
whether it's wood, iron doors which I actually love iron doors,
but fiberglass, you name it. They have a huge selection
of designs and a front door to fit almost any budget.
And let's be real here, it doesn't have to be
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the front door. It can be any door that you
have in your home. You want to get more information,
you can go to Southern front dot com or call
them at two eight one eight nine zero fifty eight sixty.
That's two eight one eight nine zero fifty eight sixty
Southern Front Doors.
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Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
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see what I can do to help you out here
on Texas Home Improvement. So I had an email come
in from Mike in Proland. He says, Uh, Jim, I
heard you talking about energy Q insulation a few weeks ago.
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I cannot find it anywhere to buy this product. I've
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out here on Texas Home Improvement your total home improvement source.
So I'm going to jump into an email question. This
came from Bud and he says, sealing the edge of
a house concrete. Is it advisable to have the perimeter
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edge of the concrete foundation slab of a brick house
seal to help prevent moisture inside of the house. You know,
it shouldn't even be necessary. The moisture, yes, can travel
through the concrete, don't get me wrong, But if everything
(52:14):
is done right when the house is built, this should
not be necessary, especially if your drainage and stuff is right.
I'm just I'm trying to figure out a scenario where
you would actually need to do this, and I haven't
been able to come up with one. Not to say
there's not one, but no, it's not the norm to do.
(52:35):
And so I would not be recommending doing this just
for the heck of it, you know, if there was,
if there was a reason to do it, Hey, I've
got no problem. And they make concrete and masonry, sealers
and stuff you can put on it. But and this
is the reason I like when you call in, because
then we can dialogue and I can maybe help you
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out with a better solution. But typically if you're in
moisture inside coming through the concrete foundation that way, it's
because you usually have a drainage issue that needs to
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can I help you?
Speaker 17 (53:25):
Yes, sir, I have a built on patio and it
has a tin roof, but it's connected to the house and.
Speaker 6 (53:36):
It's closed in.
Speaker 10 (53:37):
It's well built, but I have screen around it, and
I'm thinking about closing it in.
Speaker 17 (53:47):
But I was worried about the insulation.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
Okay, And I lost you on part of that. You're
thinking about closing in and what.
Speaker 17 (53:56):
I'm thinking about closing in the.
Speaker 10 (54:00):
Taking the screen off and putting windows back there to
close it in, okay. And I was thinking about like
big pieces of glass or windows.
Speaker 17 (54:12):
And then I was worried about the insulation.
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Well you if you go with replacement when like call
uh you know Texas Freemodel Teams Window Division because they
actually do this for people. And the advantage of using
their windows is it's insulated, you know, the double pane
glass in the whole nine yards, and so you can
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make a patio room like that or a glassroom but
still be able to open the windows when you want
air from outside, rather than having solid piece of glass
out there that's not insulated or anything.
Speaker 10 (54:52):
My concern was the patio is covered with tin, okay,
so it goes out over you know, the covered patio part.
I mean you can see through there. So I'm like,
how do they get that insulated?
Speaker 3 (55:11):
Get the tin insulated out? Sure, and you're seeing air gaps.
Speaker 10 (55:17):
You're saying, yeah, I mean I can see like where
the tin, you know, it's kind of rippled, but I
can see through the top at.
Speaker 3 (55:25):
Sure the well obviously, then they're going to have to
do some work on it, you know, and not being
able to see it myself right now, I can't say
whether they're just going to have to add some screws
to tighten things down, put a coating on the top
of it, or if they got to replace the tin
itself with something that's in better condition. I mean, I'm
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not seeing it, so I don't know all of this
for sure, but it's going to come down to one
of those, and then insulation can be added to it,
whether a spray foam insulation is used or something else,
as well as a radium barrier to minimize the heat
that comes through there.
Speaker 10 (56:10):
Because I want to keep my ten roof sure, and
my ten roof is in good shape, so okay.
Speaker 9 (56:18):
That's why I was wondering.
Speaker 10 (56:20):
But they can they can install the windows and insulate
it even though I have that ten roof and they.
Speaker 3 (56:26):
Be closed in the gap done all the time.
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Okay, it's okay.
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And what's the name of the company.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
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through the, seams it tells me it's probably not overlapped. Enough.
Uh but Again i'm not seeing, it SO i don't
know that for. Sure but, yes things can be sealed
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solar fans in the attic will lower the temp a,
lot and THAT i needed one at the top end
on one side as an exhaust and one on the
bottom on the other side of the house blowing. IN
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i have a two thousand square foot with ridge vince
and two. Turbins does that sound correct to? You that's
not even remotely. Correct when you're dealing with a, roof
you have to choose what type of ventilation system you're
going to go with in that. Attic, now you typically
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have soft its and so you have soft it. Vents
the best on the soft it fence is a continuous
soft it. Vent hardy makes. One but they also the
old ones had just a strip of screen material with
boards on each, side so you had a gap of
three four inches for the air to go up into the.
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Attic then they got into using the little, squares but
they you, know with the little, grills but they got
them too far. Apart if you're going to use the
little grills you got to have them like four feet,
apart not this fifteen twenty foot stuff that they're doing
that doesn't give you enough. Air LIKE i, said continuous
softits is the. Best. Uh but you've got ridge vents
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and you've got two turbines up, there and your addict's
not going to vent properly with. That because for a
ridge vent to, work hot air rises and it goes
out the ridge vent and it pulls new air, in
but it's going to pull air from the path of least.
Resistance so as air is going up and out the,
vent where do you think the path of least resistance.
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Is it's those turbines that are right next to. It
for a ridge vent to work right on ventilating your,
attic the ridge vent is the only. Exit but that's
the same for a solar panel or a solar vent as.
Well it's gonna pull air from path of least. Resistance
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and just because you've got one on the other end
blowing in and this one sucking the air, out if
you've got ridge vents and these other vents up, there
you're gonna have an. Issue so my advice keep the
ridge vents close, up the turbines and forget about the
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other stuff and make sure you've got plenty of soft.
Events we're gonna take a quick break seven one, three
two one two five eight seven. Four we'll be right
back with more Textas Own, Improvement, Charleston you'll be up
next here On Texas Own. Improvement if you're looking for
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the best siding on the, planet you are looking For
James Hardy. Siding, now you can Find James hardy siding
all over the, place but WHAT i would recommend is
you start looking at it first and you come up
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so go to thchipro dot, com click on the link
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you're having a sewer leak under your homes, foundation that's
something that really needs to be. Addressed but it needs
to be addressed by somebody who can take care of
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the plumbing as well as the homes. Foundation that's why
you want to call. It Do, west both the plumbing
company and the foundation repair company to make sure if
your homes foundation stays intact years after the plumbing work is.
Done when you want the, best call Do west seven
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at Dudash west dot. Com let's head over To Fort
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COM i Saw Jim dunton with the big old hammer
in his head.
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Walk in the, streets so def. Done he was looking
for a wall that he could knock. Down here Comes
Jim dutton. Again, oh here Comes Jim.
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Dutton here Comes Jim.
Speaker 7 (01:04:22):
Dutton here's more With jim On Texas Home.
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Improvements, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four let's head
straight back into our calls again seven one three two
one two five eight seven. Four we're going out To
katie And. Charleston this Is. Jim how CAN i help, You, Hi.
Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
Jim i'm trying to find somebody to do uh repairs
on expansion joints on the driveway.
Speaker 9 (01:04:59):
Our so wood is pretty well rotted, out.
Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
And SO i need a company that can do a
good job and knows how to get done thoroughly from
the ground up.
Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
And has done what from the ground up.
Speaker 9 (01:05:16):
Juling the expansion joint.
Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Okay and then, Okay, HONESTLY i don't know somebody who
that's all they do is come out and do expansion,
joints not not replacing the. Wood there are some companies
who come out and they'll do the rubber iceed material in.
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There but you're out In, katie RIGHT.
Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
I. Am, Yeah i'm not necessarily looking for wood as
an expansion, joint you.
Speaker 9 (01:05:50):
Know i'm looking for the newer materials that they use To.
Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Yeah one of them THAT i always like to recommend
to people is a trim a. Slab it comes in
in a roll and you just dig out some of
the wood and this pops down in basically seals up
for the water. Penetration. Everything very easy product to. Install
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but as far as somebody who can do it for,
You i'll tell you if you'll reach out To Victor's
remodeling And construction at eight three two two four three
ninety nine ninety. SEVEN i think he can help you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Out victori is, Okay i'll do.
Speaker 9 (01:06:37):
That thank you so.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Much, jim you bet you take. Care you have a
great day you two and seven one three two one
two five eight seven. Four and, Yeah i'm going to
have a great. DAY i mean right now out of
The Passing fairgrounds, there The Passing Livestock Showing rodeo is
doing barrel racing for qualifying to be in our open
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barrel race on the Opening friday night Of september nineteenth
and Then saturday the. Twentieth SO i, mean after that's,
done we got the kickoff dance and uh it's it's
gonna be a good time out. There and the kickoff
dance is open to the. Public it's In Campbell hall
(01:07:24):
if you know where that's at out at The Pasadena.
Fairgrounds so you can come on out 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 And i'll see WHAT i can
do to help you out here On Texas Home. Improvement
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So jerry sent in an email gas water heater storage
tank to, tankless immediate? Needs what kind of contractor change
the water heater to a Tankless but on his subject
where he says immediate. Needs you, know SO i thought
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i'd talk for a second here about tankless versus tank water.
HEATERS a lot of people have the impression that when
they put a tankless water heater, in they're going to
have instant hot. Water that's not what a tankless. Does
what a tankless water heater does is give you continuous hot.
Water and you, know if the water heater, is say
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over in the garage and your bedroom shower is across
the other side of the, house the time it takes
to get hot water from the tank water heater to
your bedroom is going to be the same as it
will be for a. Tankless now you can do things
to have instant hot, Water like you can put a
recirculating system that would give you hot water every, place
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or you can put on demand water heaters like near a,
bathroom or a small tank water heater near a, bathroom
and then have a tank list to provide the. House
so you got water hot water usually as soon as
you got a faucet going then after the water from
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the tankless reaches, there it just continues to keep it.
Hot so you do have choices. There but as far
as somebody who can take a look and do this for,
you give Du West Total plumbing a call seven to
one three four seven three seven one five. Six that's
my company and we change out from tank to tankless
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water heaters all the time and can get you taken
care of on that. Again if you've got a question
seven one three two one two five eight seven. Four,
cindy this Is. Jim how CAN i help? You, Hi,
JIM i.
Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
Have that was built in twenty.
Speaker 19 (01:10:03):
And, sixteen and the first couple of years was.
Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
Good but since Then i've run high humidity in the, house,
okay and nobody can tell me. Why i've had like
four different air conditioning companies come out and apparently that's all.
RIGHT i was running to the, humidifiers BUT i finally
just put them away because the house is small and
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they're loud and in the Way.
Speaker 9 (01:10:31):
I'm run.
Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Anywhere i'm always in the sixties and it doesn't go
below the sixties and.
Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Congestion when you say the house is, small what size is?
Speaker 11 (01:10:45):
It thirteen hundred square foot.
Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
You have any idea how much air conditioning you have in?
Speaker 11 (01:10:50):
It?
Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Uh how?
Speaker 6 (01:10:54):
TONS i want to, say un or?
Speaker 11 (01:11:00):
TWO i can't.
Speaker 6 (01:11:00):
Remember AND i will say THAT i have been told
that the unit was probably too big for the. House,
yep they that one of the men did tell. ME
i would have gone gone down one and just had
it run more.
Speaker 12 (01:11:18):
Often But i've had it just.
Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
That i've had everything that anybody can think of to,
do and my humility have gotten, worse not.
Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
Better, Okay i'm going to put you on holds while
we take this news traffic and weather break here and
let me come back to, you because, yeah we'll hold
a discussion about. This let's talk About Southern Water solutions
real quick, though because you, know the water coming into
our homes isn't getting any. Better they keep adding more
and more, chemicals the pipes are getting, worse and quite,
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frankly it's up to us to take care of ourselves
when it comes to a. Water and that's why you
Call Southern Water. Solutions they'll come, out they'll test the
water and then they can design a filtration set, system
a water, softener reverse, osmosis all the things to make
the water the way you want it in your home.
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Now just because you get the water, test it doesn't
mean you need all these. Things these are just the
different things that are in their tool belt to help
clean up that water you got coming into your. Home
so Call Southern Water solutions at eight three two five
nine three thirty nine ninety. Three that's eight three two
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Solutions give them a.
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Call there are two food groups In Jim Dutton's, Diet
steak and Dishonest.
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Contractors here's more of a gem On Texas.
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Homage, hey welcome back To Texas Own. Improvement seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four that's seven one,
three two one two five eight seven. Four when we,
LEFT i was talking With, cindy And cindy's having a humidity.
Issue the house was built and let me. Recap, cindy
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make SURE i got it. All house was built in twenty,
sixteen thirteen hundred square feet and you're running high. Humidity
but you weren't running high humidity when you first got the,
house she, said.
Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Correct the first couple of years was, fine and then
it started and it has just gradually gotten.
Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Worse, okay has anything changed on the. House was there
any remodeling done? Something.
Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
No Now i've added things trying to help, It like
we put in more insulation over the. Garage i've added
two turbines on the.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
Roof but that's about, it.
Speaker 6 (01:13:52):
Okay and it hasn't really changed.
Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Anything, no and that's not going to make any difference
on the humidity. Levels what do you know what brand
of air conditioning you?
Speaker 6 (01:14:04):
HAVE i want to say it's a Train.
Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
OKAY i was.
Speaker 6 (01:14:09):
SORRY i was in the, car not prepared to discuss
this AND i heard you on the.
Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Radio that's, okay, totally totally. OKAY i am betting that
you have a two and a half or a three ton,
unit and being a newer home like it, is it's
probably sealed up very, well has good, insulation and it's,
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oversized so it's not running long enough in order to
take the humidity out like it. Should so you got
a couple of options. Here, obviously the first one is
you put in a smaller system that runs, more but
that's pretty darn, expensive, Right but a couple of the
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other options, is because we're not sure about the, brand
if you have AN ac guy that you trust and
use have him check if he can change the fan,
speed because if you slow down the fan, speed the
air going over the coils has more time to take
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the humidity out and so it keeps the system running
longer as. Well that will dehumidify it better.
Speaker 9 (01:15:25):
The supposedly that's been.
Speaker 12 (01:15:26):
Done.
Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Okay the secondary, thing, okay that can be done is
and you mentioned that you had dehumidifiers. Standalone did they
help them bring it? Down?
Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
No but they did fell up with. Water we were
dumping water all the. Time THEY i, mean they may
have helped a little.
Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Bit.
Speaker 10 (01:15:48):
But not.
Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
Tremendously and that's why somebody, said maybe put those away
because maybe they're making the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
Worse, yeah they're not going to make it, worse but
they do make a dehumidifier that can be added into
the air conditioning system to help lower this, humidity and
that that may be what you need to take a
look at.
Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Doing do you have an ac company that you RECOMMEND.
Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
I happen to own, one is that? TRUTH i know
the answers to this. Company it's Due west Air conditioning
and you can reach us at seven one three four
seven three seven. One, OKAY i will give you a
call AND i tell, you in, particular tell them you
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AND i talked AND i need Either jeb to go
out there Or jay to go out. There jay Or.
Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
Jeb, yep.
Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
You got it already so. Much you take, care bye,
boss bye and again seven two five eight. Seven for
any home improvement question you, have pick up the, phone
give me a call and let's talk some home. Improvement, Here,
peggy this Is. Jim how CAN i help? You?
Speaker 20 (01:17:17):
Oh, Hi, JIM i hope you can or getting in
the right. Direction. Uh i'm live in a townhouse twenty
five units and UH i am the president of the
HO a and y'all have done work for me. Before
john And tony came out and removed my water heater
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so that my handyman could replace all the sheet, rocks,
okay because of water that was coming in my.
Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
House so this is my.
Speaker 20 (01:17:51):
Issue oh and by the, WAY i love your show
and try to watch it On saturday and On sunday
WHEN i, can Because i've learned a. Lot, Okay and
that's HOW i got the guys that did some other
work for. Me i'll go ahead and tell you what that.
Was we used to have water water that stood in
(01:18:12):
our you know it was like a little lake, there you,
know on our sidewalk when it, rained and it took
a few days to. Claric, well they dug all that
up where The french trains were in that, area and
it completely cleared up the. Problem the pipe that was put,
IN i Think john Or tony said what it was too.
(01:18:36):
Small and the two workers that came out, here as
an older man and a younger, man they were just. Fabulous,
okay Now i'll get. Down Now i'll get to my. Problem,
okay my problem is.
Speaker 10 (01:18:50):
This.
Speaker 20 (01:18:51):
OKAY i had all this sheet rock, replaced spent almost
four thousand, dollars and here's what happened when it rained really.
Hard like when you come in my front. Door, okay
to the, left there's in my flower, bed there's like
a little lake that's, arms just a small. Lake, okay,
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okay that's farms that goes that frickles down to my
little front entryway which is just a little a brick,
entryway and it crickles down and it goes in my
front door to the left, side and THEN i have
right there when you come in the, DOOR i have
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an entry closet. There it goes on one side of
that entry. Closet then it trickles down to my garage utility,
room just on one side of, it and then it
trickles partly in my garage. Floor it is crazy the
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way it does it because BUT i think it was
one of your guys that, said water just travels the
path that can, escape.
Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Right, oh the path of least.
Speaker 20 (01:20:07):
Resistance, yes, Right so the grooper thought it. WAS i,
thought you know the one That, hoa our manager uses
to repair our roofs that we've had. Forever it didn't
fix the, problem. Okay so then someone, said, oh maybe
it's the foundation. Problem BUT i don't have any cracks
(01:20:29):
in my, house not one. Crack and then someone, said,
oh maybe you need A french drain. There you, know
we've got Them french strains in different places on the.
Property and then my board member that's on the board with,
me he said he looked at it and he, SAID
i think it might be somehow coming Through you, KNOW
i have an upstairs. Balcony he, SAID i think it
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may be coming through there and going downstairs to the.
Speaker 11 (01:20:55):
Little entry area THAT I. Oh.
Speaker 20 (01:20:59):
No so what my question is to you is do
you RECOMMEND i THINK i need to start from scratch
again and get someone out here that nobody needed.
Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
To know where the problem.
Speaker 20 (01:21:14):
Is, okay And i'm going to be starting over.
Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Again is this over by the?
Speaker 20 (01:21:18):
Galleria, Yeah i'm On, augusta, okay.
Speaker 11 (01:21:25):
Queen Between San felipe and Wood.
Speaker 6 (01:21:29):
Way, yeah, Okay so, yeah call the, office, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
And book for one of my guys to come out
and tell. Them it doesn't for, Me it doesn't matter
which one of the guys comes. Out, okay tell THEM
i SAID i need to go as.
Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Well oh you're.
Speaker 20 (01:21:52):
Going to go as? Well oh, Good, oh thank you so.
Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Much, yeah BECAUSE i want to take a look and,
see let's figure out where this water coming. From and
now the office is gonna say they're they're gonna balk
a little. Bit just tell them you AND i talked
on the radio and they'll call them verify with. Me
but but, yeah let's book a time WHERE i can
come out and take a look at.
Speaker 20 (01:22:15):
This oh that sounds.
Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Great so now one of the guys has to. Come
BECAUSE i don't go on appointments by myself. Anymore If
i'm not teaching one of the guys THAT i don't go.
Out SO i always make sure one of the guys
comes with so they can.
Speaker 20 (01:22:28):
Learn, WELL i appreciate that for. SURE i think that's
that's great that you do. That, yeah, Okay So, jim
WHAT i need to do now is just call your.
Office is that it's the same NUMBER i called you
on OR i.
Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
Can't the office number for Due west is seven to
one to three, okay four seven three seven one five Six.
Speaker 20 (01:22:54):
OKAY i THINK i do have that number Because i've called. It, yeah,
Okay SO i will call first Thing, monday and as
then as they have an available, appointment Then i'll tell
them THAT i talk to you On saturday And i'll
be listening to you, tomorrow all, right that you're going
(01:23:14):
to come. Out AND i really appreciate it Because i've
got all these different suggestions and, YEAH i still have a.
Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Problem, yeah let's let's let's get it narrowed down and
figure out what's going.
Speaker 20 (01:23:26):
On, yeah AND i have a. PICTURE i took a
picture of my little lake to show you. Too, okay
when you come, out that sounds, Good thanks so. Much
weekend you.
Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Too and, AGAIN i don't go out a, lot but
when one piques my interest AND i make the trip.
Out AND i know this is going to be more
than most guys are going to be able to look
at and, say this is where this problem, Is So
i'll go take a look at. It got a question
seven one, three, two one, two, five eight seven. Four
(01:23:58):
let's talk about US a. Insulation you, know they can
reinsulate your existing, home and a lot of times people, say,
well my house was built three years, ago it doesn't
need new. Insulation you're, right the insulation you have is
probably just. Fine but if it's, fiberglass it's only AN r.
THIRTEEN Usa insulation can inject their foam insulation into the.
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Wall they don't have to take the sheet rock or
the brick or anything. Off they just drill small holes
in the, mortar put a tube in their inject. It
it'll seal all the air, gaps it'll compress the, fiberglass
but it'll raise THE r. Value instead of having THAT r,
thirteen you now got AN r twenty FIVE r twenty.
(01:24:41):
Six if you got an older, home something built in
the sixties or, earlier you have no. Insulation can you
imagine the difference on your energy bills having insulation put
in the? WALLS i USED Usa. INSULATION i highly recommend
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Your phenomenal company out regarding a foundation watering system and
so tired of lugging those miserable so corrosive that keeps getting.
Speaker 17 (01:25:23):
Destroyed it's just a.
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Nightmare so, ANYWAY i Had jacob out to your, company Due,
west and he was phenomenal and you run a tip top.
Organization he was dressed. Beautifully the truck he drove up
and was. PERFECT i, mean you just have made yourself
a wonderful. COMPANY i can't thank you. ENOUGH i really appreciate.
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Marvin this Is. Jim how CAN i help?
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guess you'd call. It, okay where they rolled it, out
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TRUTHFULLY i would go over the top of that with
more of the batting than because if you if you
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type like that it always, stays it doesn't settle over.
Time you don't have to worry about adding a. Lot
but if you want something that's quick and, inexpensive just
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Got oh, Okay so fiberglass as opposed to like they
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Best, yeah it is because cellulose as it, ages will
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That, okay all, right that's the INFO i. Needed all,
Right CAN i hit you with one other question real?
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Bit, okay all, Right, yeah that's just a consideration on my.
PART i was researching.
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Let's head to our first call of the day. We're
going out to Laporte and.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Tommy.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
This is Jim. How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Hey, Jim, how you doing today?
Speaker 9 (03:35):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm doing wonderful. How about you?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Fantastic? Thank you, Sarah. I'm calling about that win at
tenth that you were talking about that loss to the
UV raise. I looked on your homepage and your newsletter
and I didn't see that company listed, which they're not contractors.
I guess they're vendor, right, Damn.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
That is correct. Yeah, that would be something that you
would order and then they would ship it out to you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, sir, how would I contact them?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Let me get Yeah, I should have their stuff here
with me. I happened to bring all my stack of
papers today, so that's a good deal. Well, it depends
on if you're the one carrying all this stuff or not.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, sir, I'm the guy who's been building that at
Barnomnium out here in La Port for a while. I've
been talking to people a couple of years about it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh yeah, how are you coming on it now?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, I'm down to the part where I need to
tend the windows on the west side, so we're getting
real close to hopefully brinting it out.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, what's the name of that place? Starts with the sea,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It does? And I'm looking it up because the pronunciation
does not match.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
That's right. Yeah, man, let's see here. Anyway, while you're
looking at it up, if you could listen to me.
I put in your your irrigation system around my slab
uh huh in May the end of May, and I
haven't had any issues like door sticking or anything like
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that this year like I normally have when it gets
real dry. So thank you very much.
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It makes a huge difference.
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It made a major difference. I mean, I don't know
why it ended before. You just just didn't.
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but it's co N co r D Window Film.
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Okay.
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Their phone number is eight eight eight two zero six
one four one three.
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Okay, and their.
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Uh web address is windowfilm dot com.
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I'm gonna sit down one damn dot com. Yeah, okay,
I'll get in a host of them and get that
older and I certainly appreciate it, Jim.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Not a problem.
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Now.
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You know, I'm gonna use this opportunity since you're in
Deer Park, to promote the Passing Livestock Showing Rodeo, because
you know that's coming up in September. Right.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, actually I'm in laport but yeah, I do know it,
and I definitely get down there.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Laporte is actually part of the Passing the livestock showing,
rodeo that your kids show animals and stuff. We actually
have the kickoff dance tonight. I'll be going to that
doors open at Campbell Hall there at six point thirty.
But uh yeah, it's coming up, so put it on
your calendar.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I'll put it on the calendar and have fun tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
All right, Thank you, sir, Take care, fighte the h
And by the way, the cook off itself September thirteenth
and fourteenth, and then the rodeo kicks off September nineteenth
and runs through September twenty seventh. Uh and you can
go to Passingarodeo dot com to get tickets.
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Now.
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So got a question seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four. Let's head out to clear Lake Daniel.
This is a Jim. How can I help you?
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Hey, Jim, thanks for taking taking your time. I was
just curious what your thoughts are on air conditioning system
duct cleaning.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I think it's way over sold. I'm not saying it
doesn't need to be done sometimes, but you know there
are companies out there now that say, oh, you need
to get it done every two or three years. No,
you don't. The air that's going through the duct is
filtered air, and so unless something has happened to cause
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the need to get it clean, there's usually not a
reason to clean it. Most people can go twenty years
and not have to even think twice about.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
It, Okay, And that makes total sense. And I'm curious
if you were to try to find a reputable professional
company to do that, where would you go.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You know, you can check with some of the HVAC contractors,
but I will tell you I believe in it's so
little I don't even do it at my company do
us stair conditioning. But a company that you can call
that if you do need it done, that can get
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it done for you. The Stanley Steamers. They have a
division that Stanley Steamers you do the floor cleaning. They
have a division that does nothing but the duck cleaning.
But you got to know what kind of ducks you
have first. And I say that because if you've got
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the ducks that have the you know that are flex stucks,
which most of us have flex stucks nowadays. But if
it's got the plastic inside of it, a lot of
times when you go to clean it, you tear the
plastic up and ruin your ducks. If it's got the
aluminum inside, well, then they can clean it without tearing
it up.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Right, And then I would expect that that contractor would
know the difference and know how not to tear them up.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You sure as heck would hope, so, wouldn't you?
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Right?
Speaker 9 (09:44):
My only concern about going with a with a Stanley
is they're not They're a four cleaning company. A carpet
cleaning company is tile grout whatever I mean? Well, I
guess I could call around and find out if there's
any mechanical contractors that do it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There are some that do it, but here's the difference.
Mechanical contractors are typically there to put stuff in and
maintain it. Stanley is a cleaning company. Gotcha now to
tell if you need it done, take one of your
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return vents off, or more if you want, But take
a return vent off. You can see up in there
if it's plastic ductwork or what it is. But you
can also reach in and see if it's full of
dust and stuff if it's not. If it's not, there's
no reason to clean it.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
When you say return vent, are you talking about where
you put your filter?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, I'm talking about the one that goes back into
your room.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Okay where the hair comes out.
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Yep, got you.
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Okay, Well listen, I appreciate your time, friend. Thank you've
been about.
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To good work.
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this is Jim. How can I help you?
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Hey, Jim, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Wonderful? How are you?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I'm good? Thank you. So I've got a problem in
my house. We built our house twenty years ago, and
it's an elevator, it's elevated. It's two story, so it's elevating.
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And how the crawl space okay, on the.
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Second floor, and so so we have a washer drawer
on the second floor and there's a connection, you know,
for the washer train hods to go into in the wall.
And in the last couple and then so now we've
been here twenty years, but in the last couple of
years we've noticed some smell coming from it. Uh huh,
I know, I'm actually hm the washing machine.
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if you are looking to get a new air conditioner,
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Hey. Welcome back to Texas Own Improvements seven one three
two one, two, five, eight, seven four. When we left,
I was talking with Jim and we were talking about
washer and dryer, and he's getting an odor and I
had to cut him off and sorry about that, Jim, go.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Ahead, that's good, okay. So you know, so we've been
in the house twenty years and in the last couple
of years we started getting an odor. I finally figured
out we thought it was from the washer, but because
you see, we hadn't had the odor before, and I
thought it was from the washing machine. Well, anyway, I
finally put my nose on the drain line, you know,
(16:31):
I went right there where it goes through the wall,
and sure enough, that's where it's come coming from. I figured, well,
the pea trap inside is I've got some crap in it.
So I went and put a snake in there, and
it snake dropped all the way down to the bottom
of the house, right, and I said, my god, there's
no sea trap.
Speaker 13 (16:49):
Is that normal?
Speaker 12 (16:50):
No, there should be a pea trap, right.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yes, sir, Yeah, there's there's got to be a pea
trap somewhere otherwise you're getting sewer gas coming in.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah. Okay, So I need to rip the wall out
and put a pea trap in.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You're on sure there's not one in there.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Look, I dropped a long snake in it, and it
went all the way down. Like I said, the house
is elevated and there's a you know, if there's a
crawl space, and I went all the way down to
the bottom of the crawl space, right and there can't
be a pea trap.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
It was just well, you know, make a turn.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The pea trap that would be in for the washing
machine would be a two inch line and a snake
typically will will drop, will pass right through it. So
there it could be there, and you just didn't get
the resistance you were expecting because the pea traps underneath
a sink are a lot tighter than what they typically
(17:51):
put in the walls that way. Really yeah, okay, So
here's here's what I would do before are ripping out
the sheet rock. Uh, I would try a couple of things.
The first one, take the hose out of that drain
pipe and just dump some water down in there with
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a with a cup. If you're hearing it splash, that
means there's a pea trap down there.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Oh okay, I searched me.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Beyond that. Yeah, I mean the pea trap is the bath,
is the washing machine on the second floor of the
first floor.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
No, it's on the second yes.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Okay, yeah, then then you you would end up having
to go into the sheet rock to put one in.
Then I was gonna say, if it's on the first floor,
you could go underneath the floor and put it there.
But uh, I wouldn't want to put it that far
down on a two story.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I mean, now, let me say this, Jim, that that
snake I put in there is it was a big one,
maybe half inch you know, it's a it's a big snake.
I would expect to go through it. He would that
would that have sort of gone through this smaller pea
track you're talking about?
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yes, and with all me noticing it really.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
On a on a two inch line, it very well could.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Okay, all right, well, let me do what you said, and.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You know, you bet?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
You know?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Do you do you suppose that there's cases, Jim, where
they just forgot to put it in?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, truthfully, I don't think it's so much they forgot
as somebody got lazy and didn't put it in. And
you know, here, what I'm really wondering is why the
heck didn't the inspect or catch that?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Oh, I am too, You I wonder too. Yeah, I
don't know, Yeah, because you know, they did put a
They did put it one of those screw you know,
it's got it's the type of fitting, the fitting that
you see has a screw cap on it, you know it,
it's got a screw cap that came with it. And
(20:15):
I don't know if that's typical of when they do
this or it looks like almost a cleanout, you know. Yeah,
I mean, did they put it into the plumbers think
it was supposed to be a cleanout and not a
pea trap? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And if that's the case, then I could understand why
it doesn't have a pea trap. Yeah, because if it's
got the screwcap, is it in a box in the
inside the wall in the water and the hot and
cold water come up inside that box as well?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Though hot and cold water or in a box? Okay, saying,
but this is just a sticking right out of the
sticking right it's flush with the wall basically.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, see that that does sound more like a cleanout
than it does. The the drain for it I'm wondering
if they forgot to put the darn drain in.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, you know, that's what I'm thinking to Jim. All right,
well I'll do what you said. That's a good idea.
Let's see if it's splashes.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, yep, all right, Jim, you take care, Thank you
so much. You bet okay?
Speaker 9 (21:31):
By blah.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You know understand, Uh, Typically when contractors are building a house,
they're they're hiring and trying to get it done for
as little as possible because they look at it as
though it's coming out of their pocket. Inspectors when they
come out for city inspections, they are looking for it
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to meet minimum building codes. They're not looking for the
extra stuff, just minimum building codes. And if that was
avent and then they ran water lines up there to
use it as for the washing machine, I could see
how that could get missed then by the inspectors because
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it wasn't what they were inspecting for anyways. Yeah, that's
gonna have to be checked out. Look, we're going to
take a quick break for news, traffic, and weather. Then
we'll be back with more Texas Home improvement. Uh seven
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Speaker 3 (24:27):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home improvement
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That's seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Again,
as I said, we're gonna go and talk with Jesse
from Southern front Door. How are you today?
Speaker 11 (24:49):
I'm doing good, Jim? How are you?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Man? I'm doing wonderful. It's just a you know, it's
it's one of those days that you get, you get
some scattered showers, they're gone on. It kind of cools
things off, makes it a little bit steamy, but you're
still good to go. You know, I'll take the top cover, yep.
So let's talk. Let's talk about some up front doors
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because you know, so often people think they can just
leave a front door goal forever, and you know, if
it starts looking just at least a little shabby. They'll
throw a little bit of paint on it, but they
don't do anything else to it. And this can really
be a focal point of a person's house.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Yeah, so a lot of times on front doors, you know,
people just do a refinishing job and they forget that,
you know, you've got a lot of things going on here,
whether it's you know, it's a door line, ride, does
it does it have the proper weather stripping around it
to prevent air infiltration and so forth. So what we
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do is we typically when we replace the front door,
we do a what's called the pre hung door, So
it's a door with a frame, comes with weather stripping
and hinges and and uh, it's it's you know, we
square it up properly. We make sure it's insulating all
around the unit, you know, before we turn it out,
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so we do a total you know, transformation of entries.
But we also make sure that you get a proper seal.
So that's that's important one. Especially with our climate.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Oh yeah, you don't want to be looking at daylight through.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
The door, absolutely, you know, and especially on double doors.
We have a lot of double doors in our city
with with the with the some of the nicer homes.
And that's the biggest thing we see is when we
go look at a double doors, right right at the
center where those double doors meet at the bottom, you know,
there's there's typically you know, nine times out of ten
(26:49):
we see daylight because it's not sealed properly. So, oh yeah,
that's a big issue.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So if the door is good, you know that somebody
has do you guys do resealing of them?
Speaker 11 (27:01):
Yeah, we provide weather stripping service so we can go
out there and replace weather stripping, replace the bottom door
sweeps that are going to the door, and if it
is and if it is a double door, we make
sure that under that tiastrical in the center that there's
the proper weather stripping for it. So there's two ways
of doing that. One is either with a with a
(27:22):
extra long door sweep or provide a what's called a
theatrical boot that goes underneath that to seal it properly.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Okay, so let's talk about the different doors for a minute,
because you know, people really think typically of a wooden door,
a fiberglass door, or a steel door, and I mean,
all of them in my mind have a great benefit
(27:50):
and a place to use them. I mean on my
front door. I would I love stealed the iron doors.
I think just they look stout, they're strong, they they
just set off a tone, you know. But what doors
really are gorgeous and the fiber glass doors are as well.
(28:12):
So how do you help people choose the right one
for their home?
Speaker 11 (28:17):
So from a design standpoint, uh, you know, we look
at the esthetics of the home. So when we get
people in our should room, we tell them, hey, bring
us bring us a picture of your front of the
front of your entire home, not just your entry, so
that we can say, okay, what you know, from a
design standpoint, what is going to look good for your home?
You know, what are you trying to achieve from a
(28:39):
design standpoint? So you know that's number one, And then
number two is you know some some folks are looking
for security, right They're saying, hey, I want to make
sure that my door is secure, and I haven't. You know,
that's a priority in a way. So iron doors provide
the highest level of security because not only are you
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getting an iron door, you're getting an iron frame. So
when somebody is trying to get through your door, and
if you're worried about security. It's not the door that
breaks when somebody tries to kick it in, it's the frame, right,
And if you have a pine you know, southern yellow
pine jam that's been on there for twenty years and
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the wood is brittle, it's going to be easy to
kick in. So when you go to an iron door,
now you've got an iron frame with a nice lock
on it, they're not going to kick it in. Fiberglass
doors provide a different thing and that you not only
get a fiberglass door, but you get a fiberglass frame.
So in some cases you have some people that maybe
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don't have a lot of overhang in the front of
their house and they're getting so you get a lot
of wind driven rain, or when it rains real hard,
maybe they don't have a good gutter system and their
frame is rotting. So when when we do a fiberglass door,
we also provide a fiberglass frame so there is nothing
to rock.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So yeah, that's really good for like a backdoor where
you got a patio and water splashing up and stuff.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Absolutely, So you know, we we try to assess the
not only the look, but the situation of the home
and provide the customer with options, you know, what is
your highest priority? Do you you may have a rotting issue,
or you may have a security issue. You know, how
do we address them all so that we you know,
(30:32):
not only do you get a beautiful front door, but
you you know it's it's going to be there for
years and years to come, so you don't you know, basically,
we try to offer the last door you'll ever buy, yeah,
if you.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Get, and that really kind of sets you apart from
the box stores then because when they sell like a
fiberglass door, it's on a wood frame still, it's they're
not using the fiberglass wood frame, yes sir.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
So they still provide you know, pine jam with a
fiberglass door. So you're getting a nice door, but you're
not getting you know, the adequate frame and trend for
that matter. You know, we offer a trend package on
the Xchier that can be all fiberglass, so not only
is the door fiberglass, but the frame is fiberglass and
your exterior trend will be PBC fiberglass, so that again
(31:19):
no no rotting whatsoever. So on that side door or
that back door that you have, that you're getting that
rotting down there at the bottom on your tram or
your jam. You know you won't have that issue anymore, okay.
And from a security standpoint, if you if you if
you don't want to go with an iron door and
you want to go with a with a fiberglass or
(31:40):
a wood door, we offer some security features to buke
up the door unit. So, for example, we offer a
security plate that goes behind the door frame to beef
up that that area where the lock is so when
somebody tries to kick it in, they're not going to
see it. But there's a there's going to be a
sick engaged steel plate behind it that's going to be
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reinforcing that door so that they can't kick it in.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, you mind holding onto this quick break, Yes, sir.
And one big question I will have when we come
back for you is you got a door that's facing
the sun. What's going to be the best way to
keep a nice finish on it? And I'm gonna put
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Speaker 3 (35:49):
Hey, welcome back. Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Any home improving question, you have to
pick up the phone and give me a call. Seven
one three two one two five. I hate seven four
and we're talking with Jesse from Southern front Doors. And Jesse,
you know, I kind of threw out a quick question
(36:09):
there as far as you got a door you're facing
the sun, what's the door you're gonna recommend.
Speaker 11 (36:19):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna recommend the iron door for
the most part in that situation. It's gonna be more
durable and lasting. You know, it comes with a high
quality finish.
Speaker 15 (36:32):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (36:33):
It's not to say that it's gonna last forever. Sure
door will last forever, but the finish, you know, it
has a it's gonna have a lifespan, uh, and that
that lifespan is gonna be anywhere from you know, it
has a five year warranty, so it'll be at least
five years depending on the exposure that it has. But
(36:53):
when you go to if you go to fiberglass or
wood and you have a stained fiberglass door or a
wood stained door and you're getting that exposure, it's gonna
that that finish is going to break down much faster
than on an iron door.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right.
Speaker 11 (37:09):
So, regardless of what you have, what you want to
do is you want to get out there and do
a little bit of maintenance on it. And the number
one thing is, you know, getting out there every every
couple of months and keeping it clean. If you keep
it clean, you get palling on there in the spring
and then in the fall you may get you know,
(37:30):
some some dirt on it from the winds and stuff.
You want to keep it clean because that that that
with with along with the sun with the UV raised,
it's going to break down that finish. So you want
to keep it clean.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
And you don't want to use anything abraces to clean it.
All you want is some some basically some dish shop
a little bit of dish soap and soak the water
soft rag and get out there and clean it.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
UH.
Speaker 11 (37:56):
On a wood door, we recommend using a product after
you clean it is You can also wipe your wood
door down with a Murphy's oil, which people use it
like for wood floors. It helps put a little bit
of a protective barrier on there on a wood door
to help it make it last a little longer. Some
(38:17):
people do it. We don't highly recommend it, but I've
seen it done where some people will wax their door
like a car and that helps. That helps with with
if it's getting wet. It will help get the rain
beat off of the door so it doesn't stay wet,
so that helps as well. So those are some of
(38:39):
the things that you can do. Obviously, what you want
to do after a few years and you start seeing
it starting to break down, you want to have a
professional come and refinish it before it gets really bad,
because once it gets really bad into the wood, then
you're going to have to do a total refinish, which
is going to cost you more money. So we don't
(39:01):
do that service. We focus on new doors, but there's
some outfits out there that offer that. But if you
maintain your door and put a you know, refinish it
before it breaks down totally, you're going to have a
better outcome.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
And you mentioned, you know, you guys focus on new doors.
How do we see all your new doors?
Speaker 11 (39:23):
So we have a showrooms. We're in northwest Houston. The
closest major intersection is FM nineteen sixty and Jones Road.
We're kind of in between Cyprus and Jersey Village. We
have a showroom with about one hundred and eighty doors
on display, wood doors, fiberglass doors, iron doors. We stop
(39:45):
a lot of what we sell. There's a few items
that we do not stop that we order on demand
as needed from our suppliers. But we do carry a
good amount of inventory. And having said that, we you know,
we all we we we take the doors and personalize
them so let's talk about wood doors for a second.
(40:07):
We have the door in stock, we have the glass
and stock the frame material, but we don't know if
it's a left hand it's a right.
Speaker 10 (40:15):
Hand, you know.
Speaker 11 (40:16):
Do they want red oak, do they want red mahogany?
Do they want black? So we we add those things
to the door. So you get to pick the door style,
the door glass, the stained finish, the color, you know,
and we personalize it too, so it's not like, okay,
you buy the door and you get it tomorrow. So
you buy the door and we put it in our
(40:37):
system and we we pre hang it, we install glass,
we do the finish so and you know, we also
do pre measure, so we'll go out to your home
pre measure your not only your door, but your door frame,
your threshold, your your interior and EXTRAI your trem need
so that when we show up to install, we have
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everything we need for the installed and you know, there's
no surprises.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Okay. And if somebody wanted to call you.
Speaker 11 (41:07):
Yeah, our number is two eight one eight nine zero
fifty eight sixty. We're opening Monday through Saturday from nine
to five. We can work with you on an appointment
basis or you could just come and walk into the
showroom and we'll be glad to help you.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
All right. And for somebody who maybe lives outside your
service area, do you sell the doors where they can
put them in?
Speaker 11 (41:32):
Yeah, so we we actually not only replace doors, but
you know, we also sell a lot of doors for
new construction people who are building homes, contractors, remodelers, new builds.
So we have people that come in our showroom with
their plans, so we help them choose, you know, what
they want. So we have we have customers basically all over.
(41:58):
So we have customers in Florida, North Carolina, North Texas, Illinois, Ohio,
et cetera. Okay, we can package, we can package, ship,
you know, freight and crank.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
We have a system for that perfect Well, Jesse, I
appreciate you taking time out of your Saturday and talking
with us today.
Speaker 11 (42:19):
Well appreciate you. Thanks for taking the time and having
me on your show, and we look forward to serving
your customers.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Alrighty, well, sure you have a wonderful afternoon and we'll
talk again later. Thank you, Jim, you bet, And that's
Jesse with Southern Front Doors. We'll talk about them again
here in just a second, hey, look, if you're looking
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for doors, as you just heard, Southern Front Doors that's
the people to call. And let me tell you, I
mean the door that's your first impressed when somebody comes
up to your home. And this is a family owned business,
they can, you know, come to your home, they can
check out your showroom.
Speaker 11 (43:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
However you want to deal with Southern Front Doors, they
are there to serve you. They carry all the major brands,
whether it's wood, iron doors which I actually love iron doors,
but fiberglass, you name it. They have a huge selection
of designs and a front door to fit almost any budget.
And let's be real here, it doesn't have to be
(43:30):
the front door. It can be any door that you
have in your home. You want to get more information,
you can go to Southern front dot com or call
them at two eight one eight nine zero fifty eight sixty.
That's two eight one eight nine zero fifty eight sixty
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Speaker 11 (44:00):
Hey, hey Jim, how you doing there.
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It works great. The ready seal looks just as good
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I saw Jim Dunton with the big old hammer, is here.
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Speaker 3 (46:35):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
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three two one two five eight seven four. And I'll
see what I can do to help you out here
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two five eight seven four let's talk about James Hardy
siding before we go to news, traffic and weather. Though,
If you're looking for a siding for your home. Something
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that's gonna last, something that looks gorgeous, something you can
mix and match to give a unique look for your home.
James Hardy Siding. It is the best siding on the planet.
It holds paint better than wood ever thought about. It's
cement based, so it doesn't burn. Bugs don't need it,
it doesn't rot. It's there to stay when you put
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it on. And you can go to their website by
going to thchipro dot com and clicking on the link
for James Hardy Siding. And what you're gonna find is
you can scroll through and see all the different styles
like the color plus or the primed and different ones
like that. Plus you can see how it mixes and
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matches and the trim and everything to make your home gorgeous. Again,
it's James Hardy Siding, the best siding on the planet.
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Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home
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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'm going to jump into an email question. This
came from Bud and he says, sealing the edge of
a house concrete. Is it advisable to have the perimeter
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edge of the concrete foundation slab of a brick house
seal to help prevent moisture inside of the house. You know,
it shouldn't even be necessary. The moisture, yes, can travel
through the concrete, don't get me wrong, But if everything
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is done right when the house is built, this should
not be necessary, especially if your drainage and stuff is right.
I'm just I'm trying to figure out a scenario where
you would actually need to do this, and I haven't
been able to come up with one. Not to say
there's not one, but no, it's not the norm to do.
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And so I would not be recommending doing this just
for the heck of it, you know, if there was,
if there was a reason to do it, Hey, I've
got no problem. And they make concrete and masonry, sealers
and stuff you can put on it. But and this
is the reason I like when you call in, because
then we can dialogue and I can maybe help you
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out with a better solution. But typically if you're in
moisture inside coming through the concrete foundation that way, it's
because you usually have a drainage issue that needs to
be addressed. So seven one three, two, one two five
eight seven four, let's guess, Tanya, this is Jim. How
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can I help you?
Speaker 17 (53:25):
Yes, sir, I have a built on patio and it
has a tin roof, but it's connected to the house and.
Speaker 6 (53:36):
It's closed in.
Speaker 10 (53:37):
It's well built, but I have screen around it, and
I'm thinking about closing it in.
Speaker 17 (53:47):
But I was worried about the insulation.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
Okay, And I lost you on part of that. You're
thinking about closing in and what.
Speaker 17 (53:56):
I'm thinking about closing in the.
Speaker 10 (54:00):
Taking the screen off and putting windows back there to
close it in, okay. And I was thinking about like
big pieces of glass or windows.
Speaker 17 (54:12):
And then I was worried about the insulation.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
Well you if you go with replacement when like call
uh you know Texas Freemodel Teams Window Division because they
actually do this for people. And the advantage of using
their windows is it's insulated, you know, the double pane
glass in the whole nine yards, and so you can
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make a patio room like that or a glassroom but
still be able to open the windows when you want
air from outside, rather than having solid piece of glass
out there that's not insulated or anything.
Speaker 10 (54:52):
My concern was the patio is covered with tin, okay,
so it goes out over you know, the covered patio part.
I mean you can see through there. So I'm like,
how do they get that insulated?
Speaker 3 (55:11):
Get the tin insulated out? Sure, and you're seeing air gaps.
Speaker 10 (55:17):
You're saying, yeah, I mean I can see like where
the tin, you know, it's kind of rippled, but I
can see through the top at.
Speaker 3 (55:25):
Sure the well obviously, then they're going to have to
do some work on it, you know, and not being
able to see it myself right now, I can't say
whether they're just going to have to add some screws
to tighten things down, put a coating on the top
of it, or if they got to replace the tin
itself with something that's in better condition. I mean, I'm
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not seeing it, so I don't know all of this
for sure, but it's going to come down to one
of those, and then insulation can be added to it,
whether a spray foam insulation is used or something else,
as well as a radium barrier to minimize the heat
that comes through there.
Speaker 10 (56:10):
Because I want to keep my ten roof sure, and
my ten roof is in good shape, so okay.
Speaker 9 (56:18):
That's why I was wondering.
Speaker 10 (56:20):
But they can they can install the windows and insulate
it even though I have that ten roof and they.
Speaker 3 (56:26):
Be closed in the gap done all the time.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 11 (56:32):
And what's the name of the company.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
It's Texas Reemodel Teams Window Division. And I'll get your
phone number here for them. You can reach them at
two eight one three nine nine four zero six'.
Speaker 18 (56:51):
Two, okay you so, much you bet you take care alrighty,
okay bye bye.
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Again if you got a home proven question seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four and, look
when you're dealing with something like, THAT i, mean there's
a lot of different things that can be done to
seal stuff. Up i'm kind of if you're seeing it
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through the, seams it tells me it's probably not overlapped. Enough.
Uh but Again i'm not seeing, it SO i don't
know that for. Sure but, yes things can be sealed
up and. Used so you can give them a. Call
and LIKE i, Say Texas Street Model Teams Window division
does these type of windows, rooms, glassrooms whatever you want
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to call, it all the. Time and they they come out,
gorgeous they really. Do, okay you get a question seven one,
three two one two five eight seven. Four that's seven one,
three two one, two five eight seven four And i'll
see WHAT i can do to help you out here
On Texas Remodel, team your total home improvement. Source and
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let's see this came From. JEFFREY i was informed that
solar fans in the attic will lower the temp a,
lot and THAT i needed one at the top end
on one side as an exhaust and one on the
bottom on the other side of the house blowing. IN
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i have a two thousand square foot with ridge vince
and two. Turbins does that sound correct to? You that's
not even remotely. Correct when you're dealing with a, roof
you have to choose what type of ventilation system you're
going to go with in that. Attic, now you typically
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have soft its and so you have soft it. Vents
the best on the soft it fence is a continuous
soft it. Vent hardy makes. One but they also the
old ones had just a strip of screen material with
boards on each, side so you had a gap of
three four inches for the air to go up into the.
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Attic then they got into using the little, squares but
they you, know with the little, grills but they got
them too far. Apart if you're going to use the
little grills you got to have them like four feet,
apart not this fifteen twenty foot stuff that they're doing
that doesn't give you enough. Air LIKE i, said continuous
softits is the. Best. Uh but you've got ridge vents
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and you've got two turbines up, there and your addict's
not going to vent properly with. That because for a
ridge vent to, work hot air rises and it goes
out the ridge vent and it pulls new air, in
but it's going to pull air from the path of least.
Resistance so as air is going up and out the,
vent where do you think the path of least resistance.
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Is it's those turbines that are right next to. It
for a ridge vent to work right on ventilating your,
attic the ridge vent is the only. Exit but that's
the same for a solar panel or a solar vent as.
Well it's gonna pull air from path of least. Resistance
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and just because you've got one on the other end
blowing in and this one sucking the air, out if
you've got ridge vents and these other vents up, there
you're gonna have an. Issue so my advice keep the
ridge vents close, up the turbines and forget about the
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other stuff and make sure you've got plenty of soft.
Events we're gonna take a quick break seven one, three
two one two five eight seven. Four we'll be right
back with more Textas Own, Improvement, Charleston you'll be up
next here On Texas Own. Improvement if you're looking for
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the best siding on the, planet you are looking For
James Hardy. Siding, now you can Find James hardy siding
all over the, place but WHAT i would recommend is
you start looking at it first and you come up
with how you want it to look on your. Home
so go to thchipro dot, com click on the link
For James hardysiding and you can start scrolling through their.
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Website you're going to see they've got the color plus
that's got the paint on it from the. Factory the
sighting itself is made of, cement so bugs aren't gonna eat.
It it's not gonna, rot it's not going to. Deteriorate
it holds paint better than any other Product i've ever,
seen other than my blue. Jeans so why not take
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a look at Some james hardysiding. Again go to thchi
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home could be With James Hardy. Siding you, know if
you're having a sewer leak under your homes, foundation that's
something that really needs to be. Addressed but it needs
to be addressed by somebody who can take care of
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the plumbing as well as the homes. Foundation that's why
you want to call. It Do, west both the plumbing
company and the foundation repair company to make sure if
your homes foundation stays intact years after the plumbing work is.
Done when you want the, best call Do west seven
one three four seven three seven one five six online
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COM i Saw Jim dunton with the big old hammer
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Walk in the, streets so def. Done he was looking
for a wall that he could knock. Down here Comes
Jim dutton. Again, oh here Comes Jim.
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Dutton here Comes Jim.
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Dutton here's more With jim On Texas Home.
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Improvements, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four let's head
straight back into our calls again seven one three two
one two five eight seven. Four we're going out To
katie And. Charleston this Is. Jim how CAN i help, You, Hi.
Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
Jim i'm trying to find somebody to do uh repairs
on expansion joints on the driveway.
Speaker 9 (01:04:59):
Our so wood is pretty well rotted, out.
Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
And SO i need a company that can do a
good job and knows how to get done thoroughly from
the ground up.
Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
And has done what from the ground up.
Speaker 9 (01:05:16):
Juling the expansion joint.
Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Okay and then, Okay, HONESTLY i don't know somebody who
that's all they do is come out and do expansion,
joints not not replacing the. Wood there are some companies
who come out and they'll do the rubber iceed material in.
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There but you're out In, katie RIGHT.
Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
I. Am, Yeah i'm not necessarily looking for wood as
an expansion, joint you.
Speaker 9 (01:05:50):
Know i'm looking for the newer materials that they use To.
Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Yeah one of them THAT i always like to recommend
to people is a trim a. Slab it comes in
in a roll and you just dig out some of
the wood and this pops down in basically seals up
for the water. Penetration. Everything very easy product to. Install
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but as far as somebody who can do it for,
You i'll tell you if you'll reach out To Victor's
remodeling And construction at eight three two two four three
ninety nine ninety. SEVEN i think he can help you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Out victori is, Okay i'll do.
Speaker 9 (01:06:37):
That thank you so.
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Much, jim you bet you take. Care you have a
great day you two and seven one three two one
two five eight seven. Four and, Yeah i'm going to
have a great. DAY i mean right now out of
The Passing fairgrounds, there The Passing Livestock Showing rodeo is
doing barrel racing for qualifying to be in our open
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barrel race on the Opening friday night Of september nineteenth
and Then saturday the. Twentieth SO i, mean after that's,
done we got the kickoff dance and uh it's it's
gonna be a good time out. There and the kickoff
dance is open to the. Public it's In Campbell hall
(01:07:24):
if you know where that's at out at The Pasadena.
Fairgrounds so you can come on out 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 And i'll see WHAT i can
do to help you out here On Texas Home. Improvement
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So jerry sent in an email gas water heater storage
tank to, tankless immediate? Needs what kind of contractor change
the water heater to a Tankless but on his subject
where he says immediate. Needs you, know SO i thought
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i'd talk for a second here about tankless versus tank water.
HEATERS a lot of people have the impression that when
they put a tankless water heater, in they're going to
have instant hot. Water that's not what a tankless. Does
what a tankless water heater does is give you continuous hot.
Water and you, know if the water heater, is say
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over in the garage and your bedroom shower is across
the other side of the, house the time it takes
to get hot water from the tank water heater to
your bedroom is going to be the same as it
will be for a. Tankless now you can do things
to have instant hot, Water like you can put a
recirculating system that would give you hot water every, place
(01:08:58):
or you can put on demand water heaters like near a,
bathroom or a small tank water heater near a, bathroom
and then have a tank list to provide the. House
so you got water hot water usually as soon as
you got a faucet going then after the water from
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the tankless reaches, there it just continues to keep it.
Hot so you do have choices. There but as far
as somebody who can take a look and do this for,
you give Du West Total plumbing a call seven to
one three four seven three seven one five. Six that's
my company and we change out from tank to tankless
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water heaters all the time and can get you taken
care of on that. Again if you've got a question
seven one three two one two five eight seven. Four,
cindy this Is. Jim how CAN i help? You, Hi,
JIM i.
Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
Have that was built in twenty.
Speaker 19 (01:10:03):
And, sixteen and the first couple of years was.
Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
Good but since Then i've run high humidity in the, house,
okay and nobody can tell me. Why i've had like
four different air conditioning companies come out and apparently that's all.
RIGHT i was running to the, humidifiers BUT i finally
just put them away because the house is small and
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they're loud and in the Way.
Speaker 9 (01:10:31):
I'm run.
Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Anywhere i'm always in the sixties and it doesn't go
below the sixties and.
Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Congestion when you say the house is, small what size is?
Speaker 11 (01:10:45):
It thirteen hundred square foot.
Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
You have any idea how much air conditioning you have in?
Speaker 11 (01:10:50):
It?
Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Uh how?
Speaker 6 (01:10:54):
TONS i want to, say un or?
Speaker 11 (01:11:00):
TWO i can't.
Speaker 6 (01:11:00):
Remember AND i will say THAT i have been told
that the unit was probably too big for the. House,
yep they that one of the men did tell. ME
i would have gone gone down one and just had
it run more.
Speaker 12 (01:11:18):
Often But i've had it just.
Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
That i've had everything that anybody can think of to,
do and my humility have gotten, worse not.
Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
Better, Okay i'm going to put you on holds while
we take this news traffic and weather break here and
let me come back to, you because, yeah we'll hold
a discussion about. This let's talk About Southern Water solutions
real quick, though because you, know the water coming into
our homes isn't getting any. Better they keep adding more
and more, chemicals the pipes are getting, worse and quite,
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frankly it's up to us to take care of ourselves
when it comes to a. Water and that's why you
Call Southern Water. Solutions they'll come, out they'll test the
water and then they can design a filtration set, system
a water, softener reverse, osmosis all the things to make
the water the way you want it in your home.
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Now just because you get the water, test it doesn't
mean you need all these. Things these are just the
different things that are in their tool belt to help
clean up that water you got coming into your. Home
so Call Southern Water solutions at eight three two five
nine three thirty nine ninety. Three that's eight three two
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Homage, hey welcome back To Texas Own. Improvement seven one
three two one two five eight seven. Four that's seven one,
three two one two five eight seven. Four when we,
LEFT i was talking With, cindy And cindy's having a humidity.
Issue the house was built and let me. Recap, cindy
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make SURE i got it. All house was built in twenty,
sixteen thirteen hundred square feet and you're running high. Humidity
but you weren't running high humidity when you first got the,
house she, said.
Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Correct the first couple of years was, fine and then
it started and it has just gradually gotten.
Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Worse, okay has anything changed on the. House was there
any remodeling done? Something.
Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
No Now i've added things trying to help, It like
we put in more insulation over the. Garage i've added
two turbines on the.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
Roof but that's about, it.
Speaker 6 (01:13:52):
Okay and it hasn't really changed.
Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Anything, no and that's not going to make any difference
on the humidity. Levels what do you know what brand
of air conditioning you?
Speaker 6 (01:14:04):
HAVE i want to say it's a Train.
Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
OKAY i was.
Speaker 6 (01:14:09):
SORRY i was in the, car not prepared to discuss
this AND i heard you on the.
Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Radio that's, okay, totally totally. OKAY i am betting that
you have a two and a half or a three ton,
unit and being a newer home like it, is it's
probably sealed up very, well has good, insulation and it's,
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oversized so it's not running long enough in order to
take the humidity out like it. Should so you got
a couple of options. Here, obviously the first one is
you put in a smaller system that runs, more but
that's pretty darn, expensive, Right but a couple of the
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other options, is because we're not sure about the, brand
if you have AN ac guy that you trust and
use have him check if he can change the fan,
speed because if you slow down the fan, speed the
air going over the coils has more time to take
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the humidity out and so it keeps the system running
longer as. Well that will dehumidify it better.
Speaker 9 (01:15:25):
The supposedly that's been.
Speaker 12 (01:15:26):
Done.
Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Okay the secondary, thing, okay that can be done is
and you mentioned that you had dehumidifiers. Standalone did they
help them bring it? Down?
Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
No but they did fell up with. Water we were
dumping water all the. Time THEY i, mean they may
have helped a little.
Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Bit.
Speaker 10 (01:15:48):
But not.
Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
Tremendously and that's why somebody, said maybe put those away
because maybe they're making the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
Worse, yeah they're not going to make it, worse but
they do make a dehumidifier that can be added into
the air conditioning system to help lower this, humidity and
that that may be what you need to take a
look at.
Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Doing do you have an ac company that you RECOMMEND.
Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
I happen to own, one is that? TRUTH i know
the answers to this. Company it's Due west Air conditioning
and you can reach us at seven one three four
seven three seven. One, OKAY i will give you a
call AND i tell, you in, particular tell them you
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AND i talked AND i need Either jeb to go
out there Or jay to go out. There jay Or.
Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
Jeb, yep.
Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
You got it already so. Much you take, care bye,
boss bye and again seven two five eight. Seven for
any home improvement question you, have pick up the, phone
give me a call and let's talk some home. Improvement, Here,
peggy this Is. Jim how CAN i help? You?
Speaker 20 (01:17:17):
Oh, Hi, JIM i hope you can or getting in
the right. Direction. Uh i'm live in a townhouse twenty
five units and UH i am the president of the
HO a and y'all have done work for me. Before
john And tony came out and removed my water heater
(01:17:41):
so that my handyman could replace all the sheet, rocks,
okay because of water that was coming in my.
Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
House so this is my.
Speaker 20 (01:17:51):
Issue oh and by the, WAY i love your show
and try to watch it On saturday and On sunday
WHEN i, can Because i've learned a. Lot, Okay and
that's HOW i got the guys that did some other
work for. Me i'll go ahead and tell you what that.
Was we used to have water water that stood in
(01:18:12):
our you know it was like a little lake, there you,
know on our sidewalk when it, rained and it took
a few days to. Claric, well they dug all that
up where The french trains were in that, area and
it completely cleared up the. Problem the pipe that was put,
IN i Think john Or tony said what it was too.
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Small and the two workers that came out, here as
an older man and a younger, man they were just. Fabulous,
okay Now i'll get. Down Now i'll get to my. Problem,
okay my problem is.
Speaker 10 (01:18:50):
This.
Speaker 20 (01:18:51):
OKAY i had all this sheet rock, replaced spent almost
four thousand, dollars and here's what happened when it rained really.
Hard like when you come in my front. Door, okay
to the, left there's in my flower, bed there's like
a little lake that's, arms just a small. Lake, okay,
(01:19:14):
okay that's farms that goes that frickles down to my
little front entryway which is just a little a brick,
entryway and it crickles down and it goes in my
front door to the left, side and THEN i have
right there when you come in the, DOOR i have
(01:19:35):
an entry closet. There it goes on one side of
that entry. Closet then it trickles down to my garage utility,
room just on one side of, it and then it
trickles partly in my garage. Floor it is crazy the
(01:19:57):
way it does it because BUT i think it was
one of your guys that, said water just travels the
path that can, escape.
Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Right, oh the path of least.
Speaker 20 (01:20:07):
Resistance, yes, Right so the grooper thought it. WAS i,
thought you know the one That, hoa our manager uses
to repair our roofs that we've had. Forever it didn't
fix the, problem. Okay so then someone, said, oh maybe
it's the foundation. Problem BUT i don't have any cracks
(01:20:29):
in my, house not one. Crack and then someone, said,
oh maybe you need A french drain. There you, know
we've got Them french strains in different places on the.
Property and then my board member that's on the board with,
me he said he looked at it and he, SAID
i think it might be somehow coming Through you, KNOW
i have an upstairs. Balcony he, SAID i think it
(01:20:52):
may be coming through there and going downstairs to the.
Speaker 11 (01:20:55):
Little entry area THAT I. Oh.
Speaker 20 (01:20:59):
No so what my question is to you is do
you RECOMMEND i THINK i need to start from scratch
again and get someone out here that nobody needed.
Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
To know where the problem.
Speaker 20 (01:21:14):
Is, okay And i'm going to be starting over.
Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Again is this over by the?
Speaker 20 (01:21:18):
Galleria, Yeah i'm On, augusta, okay.
Speaker 11 (01:21:25):
Queen Between San felipe and Wood.
Speaker 6 (01:21:29):
Way, yeah, Okay so, yeah call the, office, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
And book for one of my guys to come out
and tell. Them it doesn't for, Me it doesn't matter
which one of the guys comes. Out, okay tell THEM
i SAID i need to go as.
Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Well oh you're.
Speaker 20 (01:21:52):
Going to go as? Well oh, Good, oh thank you so.
Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Much, yeah BECAUSE i want to take a look and,
see let's figure out where this water coming. From and
now the office is gonna say they're they're gonna balk
a little. Bit just tell them you AND i talked
on the radio and they'll call them verify with. Me
but but, yeah let's book a time WHERE i can
come out and take a look at.
Speaker 20 (01:22:15):
This oh that sounds.
Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Great so now one of the guys has to. Come
BECAUSE i don't go on appointments by myself. Anymore If
i'm not teaching one of the guys THAT i don't go.
Out SO i always make sure one of the guys
comes with so they can.
Speaker 20 (01:22:28):
Learn, WELL i appreciate that for. SURE i think that's
that's great that you do. That, yeah, Okay So, jim
WHAT i need to do now is just call your.
Office is that it's the same NUMBER i called you
on OR i.
Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
Can't the office number for Due west is seven to
one to three, okay four seven three seven one five Six.
Speaker 20 (01:22:54):
OKAY i THINK i do have that number Because i've called. It, yeah,
Okay SO i will call first Thing, monday and as
then as they have an available, appointment Then i'll tell
them THAT i talk to you On saturday And i'll
be listening to you, tomorrow all, right that you're going
(01:23:14):
to come. Out AND i really appreciate it Because i've
got all these different suggestions and, YEAH i still have a.
Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Problem, yeah let's let's let's get it narrowed down and
figure out what's going.
Speaker 20 (01:23:26):
On, yeah AND i have a. PICTURE i took a
picture of my little lake to show you. Too, okay
when you come, out that sounds, Good thanks so. Much
weekend you.
Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Too and, AGAIN i don't go out a, lot but
when one piques my interest AND i make the trip.
Out AND i know this is going to be more
than most guys are going to be able to look
at and, say this is where this problem, Is So
i'll go take a look at. It got a question
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but it'll raise THE r. Value instead of having THAT r,
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BUILDINGS i hate.
Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
YOU a compartment in my, house probably like.
Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
A eight by can, room And i'm gonna be growing
plants in there AND i wanted to know what you
THINK i should use for ventilation or?
Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
Filtration, hey oh lot omer.
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That would want the house so?
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Stream, JOHN i got to ask you a.
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Question are you going to be growing illegal plants in?
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Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Know, okay but because Otherwise i'm not going to tell
you how to fix it.
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Down here's more With Jim dutton And Texas Home.
Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Improvement, hey welcome back To Texas Home. Improvement let's head
straight to our. Calls we're going to Sure land And.
Marvin this Is. Jim how CAN i help?
Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
You, Hey, jim thanks for taking my.
Speaker 12 (01:29:34):
Call, hey a question about my.
Speaker 5 (01:29:39):
Attic it was.
Speaker 12 (01:29:41):
Probably insulated back in the. SEVENTIES i need to.
Speaker 5 (01:29:45):
Get insulation up in my.
Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
Attic?
Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
Okay SHOULD?
Speaker 12 (01:29:48):
I SHOULD i just blow in insulation on top of
what's already? There or does that what's there need to
be cleaned?
Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
Out it depends on what kind it. Is do you
know what you got up?
Speaker 12 (01:29:57):
There, yeah it's it's uh like single sided. BATTING i
guess you'd call. It, okay where they rolled it, out
it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Loose, okay so it's probably fiberglass, then, yeah, Yeah. Okay,
TRUTHFULLY i would go over the top of that with
more of the batting than because if you if you
go with the blown in, insulation it settles over time
and you got to add more, insulation where a bat
(01:30:27):
type like that it always, stays it doesn't settle over.
Time you don't have to worry about adding a. Lot
but if you want something that's quick and, inexpensive just
blow in fiberglass on top of what you.
Speaker 12 (01:30:40):
Got oh, Okay so fiberglass as opposed to like they
have all this new stuff cellulose and stuff like. That,
yeah that's the.
Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Best, yeah it is because cellulose as it, ages will
start to break down and turn to dust and so
getting dust in your, home whereas fiberglass doesn't do.
Speaker 12 (01:31:03):
That, okay all, right that's the INFO i. Needed all,
Right CAN i hit you with one other question real?
Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Quick?
Speaker 12 (01:31:13):
Yep, yeah what's your opinion of THE zip system for
sealing a? House?
Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Uh you, KNOW i think we've gotten to the point
where we're over sealing our houses on, things and that's
where we get some of the sick home. Syndrome but
THE zip system does work, well it does help with
the energy. EFFICIENCY i just think that we're starting to
overdo it a little.
Speaker 12 (01:31:39):
Bit, okay all, Right, yeah that's just a consideration on my.
PART i was researching.
Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
It, now if you've got an existing, house it's not
going to work for you. Anyways it's only if you're
going to build a new.
Speaker 12 (01:31:53):
House oh, okay, okay, yeah Because i'm, yeah Because i'm
looking at place in my siding in the out near
future AND i want to put something under it to mount.
Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
It, well, now, if, yeah if you're going to replace,
society then you would have the option to go back with.
Speaker 12 (01:32:10):
That oh, okay, okay all, RIGHT i just.
Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
Blew through a Break i'm gonna have to. Take So
i'm gonna have to let you go with.
Speaker 7 (01:32:18):
That, Morvin thank you very much for You.
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Bend take. Care all. Right, hey let's talk ABOUT Usa.
Insulation you, know if you're looking at reinsulating the walls
of your, HOME Usa insulation can do. That all you
got to do is call them at four zero nine
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