Pavers or Cement

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improvement question you have, feel free to pick up the phone,
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can do to help you out here on Texas Home Improvements,
your total home improvement source. So today, well earlier this week, Uh,
Joe Dow passed away in Pasadena, Texas. Now, for those

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who don't know him, Joe Dow was the owner of
Dow Fence and he was a businessman in Pasadena for years.
He helped people. I think he was over sixty years
in business there helping people and doing things. And went
to the start of his funeral stuff today and my

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condolences to the family. You know, it's one of those
things that we all know sooner or later we will
move on, but it's never easy to go through, especially
for the family members. So I do want to, you know,
reach out to them and wish my condolences. But Joe
did a lot for the area that a lot of

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stuff that people don't even realize because he always operated
behind the scenes. He knew everybody, knew what they needed
and took care of things and he will be great
greatly missed in Pasadena, more so than people even realize
at this particular moment. But I just wanted to pass

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that on for those who do know and remember Joe
and his son. Right now, Dolandal is on City Council
of Pasadena, so uh, you know the name and recognition
is is still there all right again, if you've got
a question though, seven one three two one two five

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do to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement,
your total home improvement source, and uh, i'll tell you what.
We're gonna start with an email question and this is
a little bit of a long one, but we'll go
ahead and get started here. So this comes from CT

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and uh out of Richmond or I'm sorry rich Wood
and says air loss through the subfloor. I've bought a
rehabbed and rehabbed several pure and Beam rent houses in
the Waco area over the years and simply solved any
under house moisture issues with grating and drainage. However, this

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southern Brazoria County property I'm working on now is flat,
and the great surrounding the house had built up significantly
since nineteen sixty, thus water penetration under house. Since the
plan was to reside it myself, and since it did

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get some title surge from the hurricane Carlin sixty one,
I just moved it off site, rolled in a two
foot sealed fill pad and reset it on twenty by
twenty eighteen inch by eighteen inch pads and three eight
inch solid blocks. Have a nice thirty two inch cross

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space and now two and a half feet above floodplain.
Three inches of closed cell in the walls, glass fire
I guess, fiberglass in the attic. The issue. The subfloor
under the red oak is simple two by six and
not tongue and groove. Quite a bit of it does

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not have felt under the oak. Therefore you can feel
cold air loss through the floors when you're under the house.
And half the house has two in a quarter inch
worth of plywood subfloor with ceramic tiles, so no issue there. Okay,

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The subfloor moisture is a real issue down here, sometimes
even without subfloor insulation. For example, I have a local
friend that's been in the flooring business her entire adult life.
Will no longer install click and lock vinyl on cross
space homes in this area. Only glue down is no

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issue in Central Texas, but I've seen the mold underneath
some of the click lock here myself. That said, I know,
closed cell is the only insulation to use under a
house in Central Texas, But with the extreme humidity here,
I'm very leary. I don't need the insulation properties, especially

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once the skirt is up. I just need to close
up all the air gaps in this floor. I can
obviously have as much under house ventilation as I desire,
but even houses on twelve foot pilings can have humidity,
moisture subfloor issues. Have you ever seen any issues with

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closed cell under a block and beam subfloor down in
the area, or have you ever heard of any No,
if you're going to put insulation, if you're going to
insist on insulation, close cell is the only way to go,
And you don't need a lot. An inch or two
is all you need and it'll stop the problem that
you're having. Now. All these older homes have these same issues, though,

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and where we run into issues with the molds and
where we run into issues with the floors cupping and
all that is when we start sealing them up too tight,
and so I will greatly caution you on that there's
not a reason to seal it up so tight, especially
even these houses that are up twelve foot in the air.

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Where people start running into the problem is they don't
want to look at the floor joists and stuff, so
they'll put hearty siding or plywood or anything over it
to decorate it. Well, then that cavity that's left there
sweats and causes there's a mold issue. Leave it open,
let it ventilate, and you typically don't have the issue.

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It's when we start trying to seal it all up
that you have the issue. But if you're gonna insist
on putting insulation, close cell is the only way to
go because it won't hold moisture and it will minimize
the moisture going through. All right, If you got a
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four any home improvement question you have, feel free to
pick up the phone, give me a call. Let's talk
about it here on Texas Home Improvement Again. It's seven
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so Lynn in Laporte says, my home is approximately twenty

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four hundred square feet. At night, we cool it to
seventy considering buying a single room AC for the master bedroom,
cooling the master to seventy and using the central AC
to cool the rest of the house to seventy three.
We set the thermostat at seventy six in the daytime.
My electric bill last month was two hundred and thirty

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six dollars. I appreciate your thoughts well, a two hundred
and thirty six dollars electric bill is not that bad
when we're running the kind of temperatures we've been running.
So typically you want to be careful how much swing
you put into the temperature. In other words, if you
want it seventy at night, you really don't want to

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go more than two or three degrees higher during the day.
I will tell you in my own house, during the day,
my thermostat set it seventy two, sometimes seventy three. If
I'm a little cool in the house, I turn it up.
If I'm a little warm, I turn it back down.
At night we drop it down to sixty nine or seventy,
but I usually don't do that till about ten o'clock

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and then in the morning we turn it back up.
When you have two larger swings, a lot of people
want to, you know, put their thermostat at seventy five
to seventy eight during the day and turn it back
down to seventy or seventy two when they get home.
You're going to work the heck out of that air
conditioning system. It's running up your electric bill, it's not

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doing what you want to do, and you're uncomfortable the
whole time. Old systems, that was the rule of thumb.
Five six degrees. Newer systems, and when I say newer,
anything that's say twenty years old or newer, a two
to three degree swing, that's it. Anything more than that
is actually going to cost you more than if you

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would just leave the thermostat where it was at. So
hopefully that'll help you out with that. Again, if you
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some calls here and VIC, welcome to Texas Homeprovement. Not
gonna help you.

Speaker 11 (16:03):
Thank you, buddy, Thank you for your call. Thank you
for your advice. Always I want to listen to you.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (16:09):
On pavers on our favors, more perviable than cement.

Speaker 6 (16:17):
As far as we're letting water go through to the ground, yes, sir,
without question, Yes.

Speaker 11 (16:24):
Oh okay, I have I want to put pavers on
this side. And that is the concern to me on
the side what their conditioning is to keep all the
glass and all that stuff out. But so it's better
than than cement.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Well it's gonna it will let water soak through it,
and and so yeah, if you're worried about keeping moisture
around the home, either one concrete or the pavers will
be fine. The difference is going to be when it rains,
the water gets on top of the concrete and it
runs off, it's not going to soak through to the ground.

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Where with the pavers, the the joints between the blocks,
the moisture can still travel down to the ground. But
surely if you're putting either one around the home, they're
going to protect you by maintaining the moisture content under
it to protect the foundation.

Speaker 11 (17:24):
Oh, I see that. That's two advices. Appreciate it because
of the foundation expertise that you have. Also, my driveway,
I think it was done wrong because they had the
street on their first then that's with the driveway right

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through the street. But at that point is breaking up,
so it needs to be where they cut it, and
they they do it right. You see that in driveways
what they cut in?

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I will give them a call.

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are you today?

Speaker 12 (18:50):
I'm good? Thank you?

Speaker 6 (18:51):
How can I help you.

Speaker 12 (18:54):
I live in a two story house and the upstairs
was they took in the ceiling, you know, to build
the upstairs. Huh, And the duct work is dripping in.
Where the where the ducks are you know that come
into the first floor, right they're dripping? And is that
because they need to be cleaned or is it an oh?

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If this is an old house, is it because the
insulation is no longer good around those ducks?

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Well, at the temperatures we've been having outside, I'm getting
tons of calls about the duck works dripping and out
of the vents and and all that stuff. And it's
simply because it's been so hot, so humid that airflow

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is becoming an issue. Now. Some of the other things
that can plague it and cause these problems is some
of the newer air conditioning systems use a different fan
speed and they can be adjusted. And if it's not
adjusted right, the airflow over the coils doesn't dehumidify enough,

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and so as the air is going through the ducts
and the cold air is hitting hot air, it creates
that moisture and allows it to drip as well. So
there are things that can be changed.

Speaker 12 (20:17):
We just got brand new air conditioners. Air conditioners it
is twenty twenty years old or something. One is six
months old, one is a year old. And this is
you know, stripping onto a wood floor. So I don't
want to get my floor destroyed. So yep, is it
a fan So that's what it is. A fan speed thing.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Talk with the contractor about adjusting the fan speed. And
here here's the deal. They'll sometimes have to speed up
the air in order to produce more cold air. Sometimes
they slow it down. Well, when you speed up and
slow it down, it changes how much humidity it'll pull
out of the air because it's not going across the

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coils is long, and that's really where where the issue
comes in. So uh, talk with the ac contractor about
changing the fan speed in order to help with the
humidity control.

Speaker 12 (21:15):
For help with me and okay, okay, I can do that,
Thank you very much, you know control. Okay. We've had
the long had the same people for a long time.
And the man tells me the people who work on
air conditioners today are not the people he hired ten
years ago. Yeah, people change, they do. But that's how

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you that's how it could be adjustice.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, and we all say this, the younger generation just
doesn't know how to work like the older generation. But
you know what, the older generation before all of us
said the same thing about us.

Speaker 12 (21:53):
That's cute. Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1 (23:03):
Dang, it's hot. I just seen a chicken lay an omelet.
You're listening to Texas homet fruit Man with Jim dak.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Hey, welcome back. Seven one three two one two five
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Speaker 6 (23:30):
How can I help you?

Speaker 13 (23:33):
No, no artificial intelligence here.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
I'm not much the truth. I had my reading glasses
on and I couldn't tell what the name was way
over on the computer screen.

Speaker 13 (23:43):
So yeah, maybe I ought to use alan on. I'm
not much on. I'm not an Internet enthusiast. Describe energy,
Q okay. Does it look.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Looks like a big, heavy piece of aluminum foil. It
comes in a four foot wide roll. It is basically
a thousand square feet per roll, and it's a multi layer.
It's got the aluminum on both sides. It's five layers stick.

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The middle layer is a thermal break that keeps the
two layers from touching each other, and because of that,
it can be layered behind building materials. They have a
thick solid version and a perforated version so that it
can breathe. And as far as thickness, I mean, I
don't know. It's like a oh, heavy duty piece of

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rolled plastic. I guess I would say it's it's flexible.
I mean, like I said, like a heavy duty aluminum foil.

Speaker 13 (24:56):
Okay, so when you're crawling on it up in the attic, yep,
because you can't keep yourself from storing things up there,
you have a white No, it didn't her regrettably, it's me.
You're not gonna accept it three times before I discard it.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
I gotcha. Now, you're not going to tear it. You
can pick it up and try to rip it with
your hands and you can't. That thermal break in the
middle makes it extremely durable. It's made where like if
you had to say plywood in the attic for walking
on or storing stuff, you can lay this down on
top of the plywood. You can walk on it, do

(25:38):
whatever you want, and it's it's still gonna be fine.

Speaker 13 (25:41):
Okay, Okay, It's just that whenever you store something on it,
like if you cover a third of your attic with boxes,
that's a third that doesn't have any any thermal break.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Huh, Well, pick it up and put the thermal break
under it.

Speaker 13 (25:56):
Well, I know, but it would it would, Yeah, I guess.
I guess. In other words, the box might get hot,
but the heat wouldn't transfer it through into the house.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Well in the box. Yeah, the box is still going
to have the attic temperature on it right now. If
you want to protect that, you can drape it with
some energy qu.

Speaker 13 (26:16):
U huh, Well, you know, don't don't Some people put
it to the ceiling.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
They do that that Really if you're using if you're
using a single layer, then you put it on the
rafters because that's got to have a dead air space
in order to work. But when you're using the energy
Q that has that thermal break in the middle, it
doesn't need the dead air space.

Speaker 13 (26:40):
Yeah, okay, all right, I think I understand. For instance,
there's a I'm helping somebody that has three windows up
high that face due west in the in the summer sun,
and I was thinking, in the windows are only a
foot square, and I was thinking just cutting the energy

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que and kind of face entered up there and trying
to I'm not sure how I'd hold it in place.
I guess just staple uh oh, yeah, some staples in
the top of it or something sure, into the into
the wood framing or the drywall framing. It's around the window, yep.
But that would that would slow down the heat transfer

(27:21):
a big time, wouldn't it.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
It would? You could put a window film on the
windows as well as the block UV from coming through.

Speaker 13 (27:30):
Uh yeah, okay, Now on the window films. If if
somebody I realized that they come in different amounts of
sunlight through them, and if and if you want two
thirds of the sunlight gone, then you then you lose

(27:52):
a lot of your I guess what I'm saying is
you wouldn't get much You wouldn't get much visibility there
to look at the sun, at the moon or whatever.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
That is correct?

Speaker 13 (28:05):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, got time for another topic.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Sure, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (28:11):
On fences. We built a fence in the eighties and
it did real well on the planks, did decent on
the framing except for the framing pulling away from the post.
And it had a top top cap when almost nobody
else had them. And this was this was in the
eighties when it had the other kind of of of

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a wood protection. The chlorinated something cca A was arsenic.
I don't remember what the seas were, yes, yeah, but
have you but the four fours, you know, in twelve
or fifteen twenty years they were they were shot and
we didn't let us stay what church on Sunday? But

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the four or four posts still rotted.

Speaker 6 (29:03):
I lost you for a second there together, I lost
you for just a second there.

Speaker 13 (29:07):
Uh I was, I was, I was making a joke.
But it's probably better that you didn't hear it. What
what other?

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Oh so maybe you got okay, I'm done? Go ahead?

Speaker 13 (29:18):
Well no, no, no, it was a it was a
clean language. But what other post have you seen that
are effective but but economical other than the four or
four post?

Speaker 6 (29:29):
The metal posts?

Speaker 13 (29:29):
Anything?

Speaker 6 (29:30):
And that's pretty much all fences have gone to use
in the metal post, now, okay?

Speaker 13 (29:35):
And what describe the metal like what you see in
the country? What what ranchers use?

Speaker 6 (29:40):
No, no, they're they're using basically a kind of like
what you used to see on a chain link fence.

Speaker 13 (29:47):
Oh, just an inch and a half pipe in three quarter.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
Pipe galvian ice pipe, uh you know, or or coated pipe.
And uh that's pretty much what all the fencing companies
have gone to.

Speaker 13 (29:59):
Now okay, So when they do that, what size is
it again? In three?

Speaker 6 (30:06):
They've got inch in a quarter and they've got inchine
seven eighths. I think I'm going off memory. But yeah,
it's two different sizes depending on what you're doing.

Speaker 13 (30:16):
Okay. And if you're the kind of guy that wants
a six foot picket or plank and a two or
twelve at the bottom, you know where you end up
with seven feet so that only basketball players can tell
what you're doing in the backyard, that you'd probably want
that larger game.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I would always use the larger the
smaller one. The smaller one is for cross bars, not
and you don't use that on a wooden fence. You
only use that on a chain link.

Speaker 13 (30:48):
So yeah, Vin, you put it in concrete. Yes, you
put the pipe in concrete, yes, sir, okay.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
And with that, I gotta let you go because that
music meant I need to take a break for new
trafficing weather here on Texas Home improvmal So you bet well,
Actually we already did the new traffic and weather. It's
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Speaker 6 (34:26):
That Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. That's seven
one three two one two five eight seven four and al,
you missed the last thing I said.

Speaker 13 (34:44):
Uh, sorta when if a guy uses if a fence
builder uses the inch and seven h galvanized steel pipe
and you get the pipe in the concretes in the ground.
So how does a guy fasten the longitude and know
fence framing to the pipe? Do you use like a
like a bent bolt to fasten the tube.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
They have a bracket that goes around the pipe and
then a screw goes through the The bracket has a
flare that comes out on each side and the screws
go through it and lock into the two by foursts
that you use or whatever size board you're using for

(35:27):
the long end. And then and then your pickets. Yeah,
and then your pickets will just nail into them just
like they did when it was a wooden post.

Speaker 13 (35:36):
Okay, okay, all right, and in the pipe and in
the simple you know most box stores would have the
pipe and the pieces are okay, okay, And then what
do you do at the top of the of the pipe?
Do you put a cap on it?

Speaker 6 (35:50):
I would keep the water out, yes.

Speaker 13 (35:53):
Sir, okay, yeah, because, like I said, the pickets, I'm
talking more than almost thirty years old, and my my
one by six is look good. Yeah, I could use them.
I could use them again. And I'm not sure that
these others could do that. I'm not sure today's uh sure.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
Yeah, the new long you know, nowadays, I recommend to
people all the time, don't go with the treated fence pickets.
Go with the cedar because the treated they warped, they twist,
they crack. You just don't have those problems when you
go with the cedar pickets. But the older ones held
up better.

Speaker 13 (36:34):
Yeah. Maybe it's some of that same stuff that the
guys with the wrinkles talked about with the guys that
didn't shave yet when they couldn't drive nails.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
I don't know. All right, Thank you, Jim, talk to
you later. Seven one three, two one two five eight
seven four Neil and Tom Ball. How can I help
you today?

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Hi?

Speaker 14 (37:02):
Jim. First, I want to say kudos to you in
the service you provide in this program. It's great, Thank you, sir.
I have a covered patio of about a little less
than three hundred square feet concrete slab, and I want
to put a covering over it, and I want some
suggestions on what to use. I'm not real crazy about

(37:25):
using papers, but I like composite decking. But from my understanding,
it's very expensive. So is porcelain tile and option or
is there some type of covering? Just do you have
any suggestions?

Speaker 6 (37:40):
Oh, they make tile for outdoor use like that. That
works out great, So that is one of the options.
The other option, you know, they have the rubberized material
that can be sprayed on or traveled on that holds

(38:01):
up pretty good. Uh. The the epoxy pebblestone stuff does
really nice. Uh. They have the spray ons that that
can be done. There was one other one. Oh and
just really an epoxy paint can be done as well,
you know, like they do in garages. So you got

(38:22):
a number of choices that that you can go with it.
It all depends on what you want to spend.

Speaker 14 (38:30):
I understand. I mean my budget. I don't really want
to spend over three thousand. I have a little less
than three hundred square feet.

Speaker 6 (38:38):
The I don't I don't think. I don't think your
money will be an issue for any of those.

Speaker 14 (38:43):
Then, Okay. On the porcelain tile, yeah, the ground does
okay when it gets wet.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's materials that is the well, I'll
put it this way. What's in your shower?

Speaker 14 (39:02):
Yes, I realized that.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
Okay, but there are there are grouts and stuff that
are made for outdoor use. Uh, and it handles you're
the biggest issue that you run into with tile when
you use it outside is if we get freezing weather
and if it's got moisture under it, you get freezing weather.
That's where you can run into an issue.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
But it's it's it's a relatively minor issue, not something
we normally have to deal with here.

Speaker 14 (39:33):
Okay. And on the porceland tile, since I know the
crowd will absorb water. The is it is it better
to use bigger tile? Like you know, well bigger tile?
Is it better to use bigger tile?

Speaker 6 (39:47):
The bigger the tile, the more likely it is that
it will crack over time?

Speaker 14 (39:52):
Oh oh okay.

Speaker 6 (39:53):
So I know the style right now, bigger is better.
But truthfully, especially if you're going to do it on
a patio that's only four inches thick, I would tend
to go with a slightly smaller if you can.

Speaker 14 (40:11):
Okay, I can, I mean, I can do it twelve
inch by twelve inch. But yes, I do like the
bigger stuff. I think it looks better. But yeah, if
twelve inch by twelve inch is more durable, I guess
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Okay, I can do that. I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (40:58):
Thank you very much.

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Speaker 6 (44:22):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. So seven one three,
two one two five eight seven fourths the number to call,
and we do have another hour of Texas Home Improvement
to go. So seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. So I had a question come in
about water heaters. We have just completed a kitchen renovation

(44:45):
during which the water supply to our two story house
was turned for several hours. UH accessible kitchen water supply
lines were replaced with pecks, but when the water was
turned back on hot water at all, downstairs fossis was
severely compromised. Except for a sink nearest to the hot

(45:06):
water heater upstairs, water pressure is good, it's on a
separate water heater. House built in seventy nine appears to
be only downstairs hot water flow restrictions other than total
repipe any suggestions, Yeah, you've got a kinked pipe somewhere
that's gonna have to be found that can be then replaced.

(45:28):
But you know how you're gonna find it. Look, call
one of the companies who do leak detections with sonar
stuff like American Leak Detector does, and they'll be able
to go through and listen and find where that kink
in line is because it'll make noise as the water's
going through there. Then it can be repaired and that'll

(45:51):
be the best way to get that taken care of.
And you know it can happen, I guess, but it's
something that probably we should have been seen before everything
was closed up. Anyways, got a question. We've got another
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Dune Hey, Welcome back to Texas Home Improvements. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. That's seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. Any
home improvement question you have, feel free to pick up
the phone, give me a call. I'll see what I
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seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
That's seven one three two one two five eight is

(50:13):
seven four And I'll see what I can do to
help you out here on Texas Home improvement. So got
an email from Janice in Houston, full house generator sell
and install generators. She needs a contractor who does does that?
Look at the generak Uh, They've they've got a lot

(50:34):
of dealers, a lot of companies who sell and install them.
Cohler makes some nice ones, Comings has some out there.
The thing is Coler sets the standard has more reps
to get the problems taken care of if there are
any problems. And I know I get people who call
in and say, well, I had a problem with with

(50:54):
my generak. Well, you know people call in and say
they had a problem with their Chevy, they had a
problem with their four, they had a problem with their Dodge.
It's mechanical device. Any mechanical device can have issues. The
thing with the generaate is there's more of them out there.
In fact, they're eighty percent of the market for how

(51:17):
home generators, and so therefore it's going to be the
easiest one to get maintained and worked on when needed. So, uh,
that's what I would take a look at and just
find one of the dealers that's near you again seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. That's

(51:37):
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, let's see, don't do
that one, because I know we've already done that. There

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we go. So Maria in League City, replace rotten wood
on eaves and master bath needs adapting for disability access
and care house is thirty four years old and never updated. Well,

(52:21):
there are companies who specialize in doing that kind of work.
And let me see if if I've got them with
me here, because there's one that I've used several times
that and I just got to look through my here

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we go HealthLink two eight one five seven eight three
seven one two, and they specialize in adapting for disability
and stuff like that or and aging in place. Uh So,
if you'll give health Link a call again at two

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eight one five seven eight thirty seven twelve, uh they
would be able to help you out with that. Or
you can go to HealthLink construction dot com. So again,
if you got a question seven one three two one
two five eight seven four, let's head back into our
calls and Bob, this is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Yes, I've come to understand that there's a difference between
eighteen hundred rpm generators and thirty six hundred RPM generators,
not simply in the rpm, but the the eighteen hundred
have four pole and they cost more to make, and
the thirty six hundred only have two pole. That's why
they're able to run faster. But naturally, since it's running

(53:49):
at a higher rpm, it's actually it's actually it's actually
wearing the the generator. It's not the generator, but the
motor itself out at twice as fast if it was
only going eighteen hundred rpm. Is there any merit to that?

Speaker 6 (54:05):
Haven't got a clue, So you might.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Consider looking into it, because I looked into it.

Speaker 8 (54:11):
Of course.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
I just looked at it online and that's what seems
to be. And all the big generators are eighteen hundred rpm,
not simply because they're diesel, but because it works better.
So I'm just bringing that up. I'm not here to
cosse conflict.

Speaker 6 (54:27):
Yeah, I look at the generators as far as what
they're going to produce, and the manufacturer does the engine
part of it. And that's kind of the way I
look at buying vehicles as well. Now, I will tell
you when I look at portable generators, I like the
Inverter model simply because they are so much quieter. But yeah, yeah,

(54:50):
I've never heard any controversy on eighteen hundred rpm versus
you know, it's kind of.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
An inside story. I'm formerly a took a contractor. I
didn't install a lot of generators and installed a few
healthcare generators and as I thought about home application. I
began to look into it, and that's.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
What I found.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Okay, so I'm not trying to I don't know what
project you're primarily promoting.

Speaker 13 (55:16):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (55:16):
I don't have any generators I promote, so.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Okay, well that would be a good thing. That's the
reason the generator don't work as well is because they're
actually wearing twice as fast. And there's a difference between
standby generators and continuous generators. None of them are going
to be continuous except Eagle, but the stand by generator
is only supposed to run for like ten hours of

(55:40):
a shot. And with the Houston power outages we've had
of late that you can run a generator for a week.
They beats the generator up.

Speaker 6 (55:48):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Okay, I'm just.

Speaker 6 (55:51):
Caught to drop already.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
You take care, yeah, bye bye.

Speaker 6 (55:55):
But yeah, and then there's no questions. Stand by generators
are not meant for continuous use forever. Otherwise we'd all
have our own generators and we wouldn't be on the grid.
And that may be coming down the road someday, but
right now we're not. There. Got a question seven one, three, two, one, two, five, eight, seven,

(56:18):
four and Martin. How can I help you?

Speaker 10 (56:23):
Yes, sir, question, Uh getting a new root, gonna do
a full paint of the home. Do you paint before
or after the roof?

Speaker 6 (56:36):
Well, darn good question. Uh are you gonna spray it?
Are you gonna have it brushed?

Speaker 10 (56:44):
It's gonna be sprayed.

Speaker 6 (56:48):
Then I would normally spray before I replace the roof
and figure I'm gonna have to do a little touch
up after the roof is done.

Speaker 10 (56:56):
Okay, what if you've got uh one but two under
the drip ad needs to be replaced, or some type
of eves needs to be.

Speaker 6 (57:04):
Replaced, that'll be part of the touch up after it's done.
And the reason I say that is when you pray,
you're going.

Speaker 10 (57:14):
To once you put once you put the drip edge on,
you're covering your one, B two.

Speaker 6 (57:20):
Well, you can paint them before you put them up there, though.

Speaker 10 (57:23):
Well you won't see them because because now you got
now it's a little longer, it's a little longer drip edge.

Speaker 6 (57:35):
Right, I'm not following you though.

Speaker 10 (57:38):
Okay, Well, so.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
If you paint them before they go up there, I'm
not following where you won't see them.

Speaker 10 (57:47):
Okay, the drip edge doesn't it go underneath your drip edge.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
The one by two?

Speaker 10 (57:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (57:55):
Yeah, but paint it before you put it in.

Speaker 10 (57:58):
Okay, you paint it before you Okay, that's that's if
you've got to replace some stuff. What if you if
you've got to replace or eve, have the have the
roofers do it when they tear everything off.

Speaker 6 (58:12):
Correct. Yeah, they can as they're tearing stuff off. If
you want to paint it before it goes up, that's
totally fine. But if not, like I said, you're gonna
just have to do some touch up paint. The reason
I'm telling you, if you're gonna spray it to paint first,
you're gonna always have overspray that's gonna get on the roof. Yes,

(58:34):
And you know you don't want to put a new
roof on and end up with overspray immediately that you
got to look at for the next fifteen twenty years.

Speaker 10 (58:43):
That means you got to do your It means you
got to do your prep and your and your replace
prep and repair before they put the roof of. Correct,
and that just that is that the stuff you got
to do. Come clean it, put uh through the prep
and prepare before they put the roof on and then

(59:06):
once once once and then go ahead and paint it.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
Yep, and then touch up when they're done.

Speaker 13 (59:15):
The roof.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
Putting the roof on is not going to cause that
much damage to anything. I mean, granted you you're you're
saying you got some faci aboards that need to be
replaced and all that, but that can be done before
the roof for ever comes out.

Speaker 10 (59:28):
Right, But you're going, but you but you can't if
it's still got drip edge of.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
Yeah, you can take the drip edge off.

Speaker 10 (59:38):
Yeah, so you you would removed the drip edge and
then replace every all the word.

Speaker 6 (59:43):
Sure the drip edge is a lot of times nailed
into that one by two anyways, it sure is. And
so when you remove the one by two, the drip
edge is gonna come out. And quite honestly, uh, it's
not going to cause you a lot of hard a
on a temporary basis, you wouldn't want to leave it
that way for years. But if you know you're putting

(01:00:05):
a roof on, you can do all this work and
then let them come in and do the roof.

Speaker 10 (01:00:10):
So you take the drip edge job. Would you have
the roof or the painter, do the drip edge.

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
Put the new drip edge in, let them let the
roofer do it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:23):
Okay, but who's going to take it the old one off?

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
Let's let the whoever's replacing the wood do it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:29):
Let the painter do it, yep, or I mean so
because you want to paint it before the roofer gets
on the roof, right, correct, You're gonna paint the house
before the roofer gets on the roof. I would, all right,
but you got to You got to pull the drip
udge off in order to talk and take care of

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that one by two.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
Business correct, But just leave it off until you put
the new roof on.

Speaker 10 (01:00:57):
Right, right, go ahead and remove it. Yeah, and I'll
in orders. That's good, all right? Well, hey, appreciate it,
Thank you.

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This election year, you need to listen to someone who
doesn't have bad hair or hot air and it's all
about improvement and repair. That would be Jim Dutton one,
Texas Home Improvements.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. That's seven one
three two one two five eight is seven four. We're
gonna head straight out to Beaumont and Ken. This is Jim.
How can I help you?

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Hey, Jim thinks, Hey, I'm doing a kitchen remodel of
my own building. Cabinets, new floors, So they're gonna be
painted cabinets. They're gonna be a face framed construction with
insect flush doors.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
Okay, So a couple of questions.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Their painted cabinet and it's on the inside. What is
your opinion versus painting that or just putting a salac
on the you know, everything that's inside.

Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
Of the cabinet. If you're going to paint the outside,
I would definitely paint the inside as well.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Okay, I was leaning that way, but I've heard different
opinions on that.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
I know something, you know, the issue people run into
is they paint him and they start putting stuff in
him too quick and it sticks. But yeah, you know,
let let it cure out well before you start stacking
plates and stuff in there, and and and use the
right paint and you're good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Right, gotcha? Okay, So on the hinges being inside flush
mountain doors face frame, I know you know there's hinges
for that purpose, but can you use a hinge, the
hinge that's made for non face frame style cabinets and
just put a block that flushes that as if it
were Have you ever seen that?

Speaker 6 (01:06:02):
I can't say I have, but I can't. I can't
see why you couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
Yeah, those engines are just a little bit easier to
put on, was the reason I was asking that I've
never done that. I haven't done a lot of cabinet
work in a while, and which was just thought. That
thought just a cart to me the other day. Why
don't I just block that face frame out where it's
flush I'm inside vertical and just use that type hinge? Sure,

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and then floor when I have a new tile floor,
would you tie before you install the cabinets? Are install
the cabinets and tile around the cabinets.

Speaker 6 (01:06:42):
Now, that's a great question because here's the controversy that
you're going to run into. One if you tile under
the cabinets. If you ever change out that tile floor,
you got to take the cabinets out to do it right.

Speaker 12 (01:06:56):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
Two, the dishwasher sits uh in a little bit of
a step down if you put the tile in after
the cabinets. And so when the cabinets are in place
and you've got to change out a dishwasher, it can
sometimes be stuck in there where you can't get it out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Yeah, that answer, that answered my question. Looking, I was
leaning to putting my putting my cabinets in. I have
a pantry unit that'll be attached U that the styles
are going to run all the way to them full
on that I probably may just set that on top
of the tower. But my main lower units I was
leaning to, you know, getting those installed and tiling around those. Yeah,

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various reasons.

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
And I was just curious.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
There are several schools have thought on all these things,
and it's like, you know, you listen to this guy,
that guy, and you go, well, what I really wanted to.

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
Yeah, I will tell you. When I did my personal home,
I put the cabinets in and tiled around them.

Speaker 10 (01:07:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:57):
Now the way I just is the way I dealt
with it. Where the dishwasher was is I tiled under
under where the dishwasher goes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Gotcha. And I'm gonna have a built in fridge. I
was gonna twel in where that goes. Yep. Yeah, those
areas would be able to be. So the only thing
that really wouldn't be tiled under is just my main
lower units.

Speaker 6 (01:08:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
So I got the thinking. Well, so I'm going to
do part of it at all, and you're giving me
some insight on that. So I appreciate it. I've enjoyed
listening to your show as I drive.

Speaker 6 (01:08:31):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
All right, take care you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
As well, you know. And and it matters on what
type of floor. I mean, if you're putting in like
a rolled linoleum, you do what you want because it's
easy to cut it and you know, work around it.
But when you start talking with tile, you're talking about

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elevation changes, and you can't just cut the tile out
of the way. When you go to put in new floors.
So that's the reason I elected to put the cabinets
in first. That was twenty years ago. Now I'm getting
ready to remodel the house again, new floors and stuff.
But here I am going to put in new cabinets
again as well because I'm expanding the kitchen. So I

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Double up on the old spice.

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You're listening to Texas Home Improvement with Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (01:10:52):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three
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give me a call, and I'll see what I can
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over to Magnolia and Ricky.

Speaker 10 (01:11:19):
This is Jim.

Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
Welcome to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (01:11:23):
Okay, uh I met I met you one time at
the Ace Hardware over there in Magnolia, and you gave
me your number, and I was having problem planting the
broccoli seeds.

Speaker 6 (01:11:38):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:11:41):
I put some broccoli seeds.

Speaker 10 (01:11:44):
In a seed tray, you know, uh, with some with
some seed.

Speaker 8 (01:11:48):
Starter soil, and they came up. And then they all
terminated and came up. And uh, after I transplanted them
into a bigger cup it they wouldn't grow.

Speaker 6 (01:12:10):
Okay, they all just die.

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
They all just died.

Speaker 6 (01:12:16):
Well, you're outside of my realm a little bit there.
I would probably tell you call garden Line in the morning. Yeah,
and he'd be able to help you with that, because
that green time, I'm not real great.

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Okay, I'll call him in the morning.

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Alrighty, you take care, thank you.

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What time do they start taking call?

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At six am?

Speaker 8 (01:12:43):
Okay, thank you?

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You bet take care.

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Again.

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that question, do we. So Larry is asking about a
patio cover, repair or replace a patio cover. I guess
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give me a call, and I will see what I
can do to help you out here on Texas Home
Improvement your Total home improvement source. So Rod out of Laporte.
I live in a two story condo on Galveston Bay,
Laporte that was built in the eighties. I'm the front

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unit of a four building complex on the water. My
east wall bears the brunt of wind and water for
the entire building at all times. During high east wind
generating storms, water pours in through the sheet rock above
all the windows on this wall and damages the sheet

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rock and flooring. My HOA supposedly declares a wall's out policy,
which I interpret to mean that legally they are responsible
for repairs beyond the studs, as they do assume repairs
on the roofs through though mine has remained unreplaced for
twenty years. However, they claim to have no money have

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been mismanaged with instances of illegal activity that have misdirected
funds to family members that should have been used legitimately
and legally for the homeowners. I am less with no
other option than to try and make these repairs out
of pocket, but the estimates are extremely expensive. Since contractors

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suggest I either rebuilt the entire wall or at least
remove my existing rollac hurricane shutters, tear out the brick
above the windows, install flashing, and then replace and seal
the shutters. These repairs are estimated to be extremely expensive.
Since I have eight windows on a roughly twenty four

(01:16:17):
hundred square foot wall, there is still a question of
where the water is actually coming in. A previous leak
test has shown no leaking water when sprayed with a hose,
though during the test no sheet rock was removed to
aid observation and no wind was present at sufficient levels

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to mimic the damage conditions. Some people suspect that waters
penetrating the old mortar and that possibly the walls should
be repointed with new mortar. Several others in the community
have had similar issues and tried several of the repairs
I have medte mentioned with some potential success. None has

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yet rebuilt their entire wall. Look, it's not going to
be a tuck pointing. I also don't think you got
to rebuild the entire wall. So here's the rest of it.
I'm wondering what they the likely source of water penetration is.
How can I best determine address the problem in an

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affordable way, or if there is a way to get
the HOA to take responsibility and just rebuild the entire
wall to assure proper construction from the studs out, including
proper installation of moisture barrier, windows, flashing, et cetera. Additionally,
since my building consists of more than two units. I

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am forced to pay to reimburse the hoas for a
commercial windstorm policy that has never paid for damages, even
though the wall also shows signs of pulling the stairs
away from the would frame. Look, you're getting into more
than I want to actually read on the air. But look,

(01:18:07):
when you're dealing with an HIA and you're dealing with
these homeowners associations in condominiums, townhomes, things like that, it
does get hairy. The first thing I would probably look
at is if it was coming through the mortar. A
simple waterproofing memo would take care of that, and they

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make liquids that you can put on that doesn't show
it soaks into the brick and keeps it from absorbing.
That's not your problem, because the brick has a space
behind it that the water should run down even if
it is leaking that way, So I don't think that's
the problem. The first thing I'd be looking at is
the calking above the windows to make sure that the

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window at the top is cocked and see well, because
that sometimes gets missed, and when it's missed, you're gonna
have this kind of issue when you get the high
winds and I really think that's what it's gonna be.
It's gonna be when the winds blow, something is giving
a little bit and opening up and letting the moisture in,

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and the fact that it's above that way. It could
also be that even the brick wall gives a little
bit and you're getting wind above where the brick ledge
is and stuff. So that's what I would take a
look for, is what's moving when the wind is blowing
on it, and is everything sealed with calking? And I

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think that's gonna be more or less to take care
of your problem. The weather stripping, you know, above the window.
That helps for water, all right, but it's not gonna
protect the sheet rock above the window. And that's where
you're saying you're getting the leaks. So the leak's got
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Texas heats. I just tried to take a shower, but
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to Texas Homes Improvement with Jim Dutton.

Speaker 6 (01:23:05):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one, three, two, two,
five eight seven four. Let's see is it BJ? Yes?
How can I help you?

Speaker 15 (01:23:18):
I have a quick question. We we need to get
the fence repaired on two sides of our house. And
some companies they offer like without the rod board, some
offer six inch, some offer ten inch, some are offering
three cross support, some are offering with the two cross
the boards. So can you please decipher this whole maze

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that what is of course like when we're doing the
the fence fence repair, fence work done, we want we
want to be comfortable for at least fifteen years ten
minimum ten up to fifteen.

Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
Or twenty years after We'll definitely go with the three crossboards. Uh,
when you too, they always tend to sag. It just
doesn't hold up as well, So always go with three.
It also keeps your pickets, helps keep them from warping
on you. When there's only two boards they're holding them,
you'll find that you know, they'll weave in and out

(01:24:16):
and stuff. It just doesn't look good. So three is
always better. As far as the rock board on the bottom,
a lot of times you need to be checking with
your howay, because they have limits on how high the
fence will go, and that'll determine what size rock boards
you can have on the bottom. I do recommend you
put one because you know, if something's going to deteriorate,

(01:24:39):
you want it to be that board that's easiest to
change out where you don't have to mess with all
the pickets. I personally think that the six or eight
inch look best. A lot of times when you get
like the ten and twelve inch rock boards, they just
look too big to me. So but that's just a
personal preference. A six or eight inch and she does

(01:25:01):
everything that you needed to do, so that would be
the direction I.

Speaker 15 (01:25:06):
Would go, okay, so far that the general rot and
that is just my thinking that if I if we use,
if the contractor uses six inch, and if it rots
and rot happens in the bottom, it made up two
three inches, but still it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Can hold something.

Speaker 6 (01:25:25):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:25:25):
Whereas when we use a ten gives a little bit
more strength.

Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
Well, but you're not really looking for strength in it.
It's not going to really hold anything other than it's
there for weed eating against it and literally it's down
where water hits it and you know, dirt and stuff
like that. And so if it's going to rot, it's
not the bottom of your pick. It's rotting. So they

(01:25:50):
don't have to be replaced.

Speaker 15 (01:25:53):
Okay, So ten or ten, eight, six, whatever, but use
it on board. Yeah, it's not it's not that big
of a deal whether it's no fix or eight or ten.

Speaker 10 (01:26:03):
No, got it.

Speaker 15 (01:26:05):
Okay, that's what that's what one to go confront.

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
Thank you, Oky doak, you take care, bye bye and
again seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
We're coming near the end of the show, though I
know I'm getting ready to when the show's done, I
gotta start putting some stuff together, going out to the
Pasadena Livestock Show on Rodeo Kickoff Dance tonight. That's gonna

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be out of the Pasadena Convention Center, live music and
then it'll be dancing as a group of us going
out there tonight for a good time. So gonna look
forward to that, and of course remind you that we
will have a another hour of Texas Home Improvement tomorrow
starting at two o'clock here on seven forty kt r H.

(01:26:53):
And uh, let's see. I get a lot of calls
and questions about generators and had any email come in
from Barbara about one Now she's in Dallas, and it says, Hello, Jim,
I'm a longtime listener and fan of yours. I now
have a concern about whether I should do anything to
prepare for possible brown or blackouts in August, August and

(01:27:16):
September being the hottest month of a normal year. I
want to be able to survive comfortably. I'm a senior
and live alone in a two story, twenty five hundred
square foot home. Would you recommend getting a home generator?
I did hear you say on your show that I
would need at least a thirty five hundred watt that's

(01:27:36):
not going to run your air conditioner. Let me tell
you that upfront. What brand would you recommend about and
about how much do you feel that I would have
to pay to make the purchase and have it installed.
I appreciate and thank you for your input. Okay, look

(01:27:57):
the thirty five hundred watt is what I use to
run my RV air conditioner, and so that's not gonna
power your house. What that's going to power is refrigerators,
a fan, things like that for you. But really, if
all you're concerned about is some brown outs, I'll be honest,
I don't think I would put a whole house generator

(01:28:18):
in for that because they're short lived and gone again.
If you had concern over storms and you're losing power
all the time due to that, that's when you needed
a generator. And a whole house generator is typically going
to be like a twenty two thousand watch generator or up.
So you just my little two cents there. Let's talk

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about ready seal. You know, we were just talking about
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want to call do West both a 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 to
one three four seven three seven one five six online

(01:30:25):
at dudash West dot com. All right, let me tell
you about a company that you're probably going to be hearing.

Speaker 13 (01:30:31):
A lot about.

Speaker 6 (01:30:32):
It's called lentle Lift. So, first of all, what is
a Lentyl well. In most cases, it's a steel plate
that goes above your garage door that keeps it from sag,
and it's above doors and windows and stuff as well.
But over the years, in many homes, due to the
structural issues, you'll start getting a sag in the middle
because they didn't put us strong enough lental in there

(01:30:53):
or header beams. Well, you'll notice this that the bricks
are cracking and boards are shifting, and it can be
really expensive to fix if you've got to take everything
apart to rebuild it.

Speaker 15 (01:31:05):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
Lentyl Lift has a patented system that'll fix the problem
in just a few hours for just a fraction of
the costs, and it comes with a lifetime transferable warranty.
This is a product I first saw about five years
ago and I've been following it a little bit and
it's been growing, and now I'm very comfortable telling you

(01:31:28):
about it.

Speaker 10 (01:31:28):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:31:29):
If your door, if your garage door has a big
sag above it, talk to the folks at Lental Lift
and let them come out and take a look and
see what it's going to take to fix it and
get it taken care of for you. You don't need
it causing other damage down the road. Go to Lentallift
dot com or easiest yet, go to Thchipro dot com

(01:31:50):
and click on the link for Lental Lift.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
When Jim Dotton recommends a contractor, he won't steer you Rock.

Speaker 16 (01:31:58):
Dylan Jim on in real quick about one of your
trusted contractors, Texas Remodel Teams. We've been working with them
for four or five years now, just project after project.
He's the only guy we call. And they did a
great job on an outdoor kitchen for a huge patio extension,
outdoor fireplace the kitchen as well. Nothing but good things

(01:32:19):
to say about them. We're constantly spreading the good word
regarding their team from our neighbors.

Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
It really is a good time to get things done
around the house with Texas Remodel Team. If you're needing
any type of remodeling, whether it's just a room edition
or an outdoor kitchen, or maybe just a patio cover.

Speaker 16 (01:32:37):
Highly recommended.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
Call Texas Remodel Team now at two eight one six
one two five nine nine one. That's two eight one
six one, two five nine ninety one our click the
link at thhipro dot com. You were listening to Texas
Home Improvement with jim Dotton. You were a source for
all things home improvement. That's as biggest here to Jimmy Dinton.

Speaker 6 (01:33:05):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement, your total home
improvement source. Again. Just a quick reminder. Tomorrow two o'clock
we start with more Texas Home Improvements, so you know,
make sure to join us then and again. Of course,
we'll be back next Saturday, starting at two o'clock here
on seven forty kt H. I'm gonna get ready to

(01:33:27):
leave and get ready to head out to the Passing
Livestock Showing Rodeo kickoff dance. You know, the Passing Livestock
Showing Rodeo will be in the month of September. Cookoff
is September thirteenth through the fourteenth Rodeo itself starts September
twentieth through the twenty eighth. Great carnival. Great fun out
there for the kids, and of course you can go
to Pasadena Rodeo dot com for ticket information. Look, if

(01:33:53):
you need siding for your home, take a look at
James Hardy Siding, the best siding on the planet. This
stuff is cement based, so once it's on, it holds
paint better than whatever thought about. It's not going to rot,
it's not going to deteriorate. Bugs aren't going to eat it.
It's just there to look gorgeous. And by looking gorgeous,

(01:34:14):
I mean you got choices. You can go with the
lap siding. They got different sized laps. You can go
with the stucco, look a wood shake, all the trim pieces,
everything you need to make your home or business gorgeous.
So if you're looking for siding for your home or
like I said, business, take a look at James Hardy

(01:34:35):
Siding and I will tell you. If you're building a
barnuminium you can make a gorgeous entrance using James Hardy
siding on that metal building. It works wonderful. I did
it with one of my offices with that have a
wonderful afternoon. We'll talk with you tomorrow

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