Preparing for The Freeze w/ Johan & Adam

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Here's Jim Dune.

Speaker 8 (01:17):
Good afternoon, and welcome to Texas Home Improvement.

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Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:20):
Today we're doing a special show. Instead of Jim here, today,
we're gonna have myself, Johan and Adam Dutton both doing well,
both jim sons, and uh, we're gonna be taking your
home improvement questions just as normal today. Uh. We we
do have a guest plan today, but you know we

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look forward to answer and everybody's questions. You can give
us a call at seven one three two one two
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have today. That's seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. I guess I'll start by saying that,

(02:03):
you know, probably in the last twenty five years or so,
there's there's been a lot of personal home improvement projects
that our dad's been involved in and doing remodeling of
his own home or or flipping houses that he's owned,
or working on customers' homes and the family business that

(02:23):
we own. But ultimately, between Adam and I, we've probably
been involved at some level and ninety percent of that work,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 10 (02:31):
Say, Yeah, I'd say were his number one labors for
anything he's doing around the house.

Speaker 8 (02:36):
Yeah, So most of our experience that we're going to
talk to today just comes from personal hands on experience
and work in the family business, but also working on
these home improvement projects that we all get involved in.
Uh So again, you can call us at seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four with any home
improvement questions you have today. But we're going to start

(02:58):
this hour by talking with Matt Latham with Arborist on Demand. Matt,
how's your Saturday going for you so far? I, Hey,
it's going great.

Speaker 7 (03:09):
We've still got what sixty seventy degree weather, so we're
out playing a little bit this morning as a family
and just enjoying it before this whatever ice storm ack
edding is. Yeah, we've been getting prepped and ready, getting
all the pipes covered and all that good jazz.

Speaker 11 (03:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (03:24):
I have a feeling that that's what most of the
homeowners that listen to us pretty routinely are doing the today.
You know, typically people like to tune into the home
improvement radio show as they're going about their day or
working on little projects. But today I think most of
this city probably has a singular focus.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Yes, sir, Yeah, it's exciting times here in Houston, Texas.
Is you know we get like what one or two
freezes a year, and I know some people are a
little curmudgeony about it.

Speaker 12 (03:54):
But I enjoy it.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
You know, one hundred and ten to twenty degree weather
is a night little breaks, So I'm looking.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Forward to it.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
Try to avoid the roads if it gets crazy, but
you know, we'll just enjoy the cold while we get it,
get a little bit of a taste of winter.

Speaker 8 (04:12):
Yes, sir, well, we wanted to bring you on the
air here today to talk a little bit about the
trees and what homeowners can expect and what they can
do with these winter weathers. Company, Can you speak a
little bit to that for us.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
Yes, And you know, being in Houston is really unique
if you happen to be a tree, because the thing
is is they're really not used to these things happening.
And we all remember what was it, Yuri. I think
they called it winter storm Ury back a few years ago,
when all the pipes burst, all the palm trees died

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and all that, and so, you know, I really think
it's important because the part of the reason it takes
such a toll on our landscapes and our trees and
our plants here is our trees just aren't used to it.
They We've got a good solid nine or ten months
of growing season for most plants, and a lot of
people plants like tropicals, palm trees and things like that.

(05:13):
We're pretty close to the coast, and you know, I'm
a little bit further down here in Lake City, but
we love our little tropical plants. And you see that.
I remember back when winter storm you already did hit
driving down the highway and you look and all you
see is these brown sticks sticking up out of the ground,
and it was just so horrible. It's like, man, with
a little bit of preparation, we might have had a

(05:35):
different story to tell.

Speaker 8 (05:37):
Yeah, I do remember that. Well, well, what's what's a
good things that a person could do for their own residents?

Speaker 7 (05:47):
Yeah, great question. So there's a few things that really
will go a long ways, and getting your trees prepped
and ready one of them, believe it or not, is
really simple, and we're all covering our pipes. But before
you do that, one thing you can do that's going
to go a long ways is, believe it or not,
just watering your tree, not the surface level with the

(06:09):
irrigation system. You want to go a little bit deeper.
This is obviously water. You know, if you remember back
to whatever sixth grade or eighth grade science, water has
a less of a conductivity than like air, or then
than the air with grease. So if you water your trees,

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there's a believe it or not, there's in an ideal
slow you want about fifty percent to be airspace, and
that's room for oxygen to get down there, feed the roots,
feed the beneficial microbes, and really keep a nice healthy condition.
So what you can do is you can increase the
watering and the best way to do it. One of
my favorite ways anyways, is to just take a soaker hose,

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drape it out there tonight all across your lawn. Try
to get as much of a coverage as you can.
Turn it on before you go to bed at night,
and then turn it back off when you wake up
in the morning. And that'll do a couple things. First
of all, it'll increase the amount of nutrients the trees
are able to pull up out of the ground, every
single micro and macro element that the tree needs. And

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this is just like taking your multi vitamins. Trees need
resources just like we do. They're living biotic creatures, and
so by watering, you're actually going to give them kind
of a quick boost of a lot of the micro
macro elements that they need. Now, trees produce what are
called we call them glycol like peptides. Another term we

(07:34):
use is like anti freeze proteins or cryoprotective compounds. And
so if you think of the anti freeze in your car,
what that does. That lowers the freezing point of water,
and the same thing is going to happen on a
cellular level with the trees. So it's almost counterintuitive. You
almost don't want to water before it freeze because you think, well,

(07:54):
you know, you put water down, water expands when it freeze, right,
So that's going to increase the problem. But it kind
of just jump starts the tree a little bit and
they're more likely to produce those glycol like peptides. And
what those do I could go I could write a
book about this alone, but essentially that it lowers the

(08:15):
freezing point. So if you think of like, let's imagine
here for a second, your cell and you got water
in you, and all of a sudden you get twenty
three degree weather. I think it's the number I saw,
and so what happens is those ice crystals, those molecules
start to crystallize and they start to expand, and a
lot of times that can actually rupture the cell. And

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so by increasing the glycoal production, by watering, doing a
couple of other things we'll talk about, you less in
the likelihood that the tree is going to take any
sort of permanent damage, any cellular damage, or even macroscopic,
if you will, large scale damage. This is especially important
with your tropical plants, your palm trees, things like that.

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I'm looking out, I get this awesome bottle brush shrub
but right outside my window, and I love it. I
didn't plant it, I inherited it. So but I'm thinking, man,
this is a terrible, terrible plant selection. But also it's
kind of a beautiful little plant. So I enjoy it.
And so I've done the same thing. On top of watering,

(09:23):
another thing you can do is you can add a
layer of mulch, and what the mult will do is
it'll actually create kind of a barrier, like an air barrier.
And if you think of your thermous mugs that you
bring your coffee to work in every morning, is that
air doesn't transfer heat very rapidly, So by increasing maybe

(09:43):
a two to four inch layer of mult that'll just
create a little bit of a buffer. So at least
your roots are protecting me. Even if all the above
ground plant parks take a ton of damage and they
don't make it, at least your roots are protected, because
that's that's really the heart of the tree is most
of the activity happens below ground, Believe it or not.

(10:05):
Another thing you can do, we've all heard about it
is just cover them up. You know, if you can
go to the store, you can go to your landscape
supply company and you can get the specialized freeze cloth.
You can get like burlap and wrap it around. But really,
worst case scenario, go in your cloth in your living closet,

(10:25):
find that old sheet you haven't used in five years,
and just throw it over that. Anything you can do
to protect the tree, maybe not from the freeze, but
from the wind and elements that make it really bad,
that's going to go a long ways. And one thing
I really like to tell people to do is to
just find some sort of heat source. And my understanding,

(10:47):
you know, Winterstorm Uri a lot of people lost power,
so that you know, what are you going to do.
You can't really generate heat if you don't have electricity.
But this one, I think is not going to be
not nearly as bad. And so you can go again.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Go in your attic.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
Find those you know, twenty year old incandescent string light
bulbs or you know, if you've got them like me,
I've got them around my my, my backyard patio up
on the little eaves of the house.

Speaker 13 (11:13):
You know.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
I just took those down and wrapped them around the
plants that were a little more sensitive and adding that
extra heat and then covering up. Well, actually, well it'll
not only insulate it and protect it from the wind
and elements, but now you've got a heat source inside
and it'll trap that heat. And obviously, you know, if
the wind blows like it does around here, you want
to make sure to kind of tie it up. You

(11:34):
can use bungee cords or rope, whatever you've got to
make sure the stuff stays in place. But that'll go
a long long ways. I'll tell you a quick story.
I had a client of mine years and years ago.
They they took you know, we've got your winter store.
This is winter stort Mary, actually Met.

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Speaker 8 (15:38):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. This is Johann Dutton
and Adam Dutton filling in for Jim today. Again, if
you have any home improvement questions, you can give us
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eight seven four and we're here to answer any home
improvement questions you have at seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. But before we went to

(16:02):
the break, we were talking with Matt Latham with Arborist
on Demand, and we were talking a lot about some
things that you can do to prepare your trees for
the coming freezing weather here in Houston, and we started
talking about wrapping trees and Matt, I wanted to keep
you through the break here because I'm assuming some of
this same concept we didn't we didn't clarify, but I'm

(16:25):
assuming some of these same concepts would apply to landscape
vegetation as well. Is that is that correct?

Speaker 12 (16:32):
Absolutely?

Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yeah? And again you know I was talking about my
bottlebrush tree or shrub really is a smaller plant, but
same thing. Most of the trees that you're really going
to want to want to worry about, are your palms,
things like that, a lot of Japanese blueberries and introduced species.
If it's got kind of a tropical look, you may

(16:55):
be looking at a plant that's more sensitive to these
winter freezers that to get Fruit trees, believe it or not,
can can really take a bleat of beating as well.
And I know back in winter Storm Uri we really
lost a lot of citrus trees, grapefruit, oranges, mandarins, things
like that there are believe it or not, Personally, I

(17:18):
believe it's really important to take take a step back
before you plan these landscapes out and start planning for
things that may come up. For example, we do get
hard freezes here at Houston, and I think it's becoming
more and more common too. And so there are some
citrus and some orange trees that are a little more

(17:38):
resistant to cold. But again doing those things like watering,
adding a little bit of mult providing some sort of
heat source, and then of course wrapping them up that
she can those go really long ways. And we saw
kind of two stories being told. One is they prepped properly,
which now is the time. Guys. Today, we've got two

(18:00):
days before all this starts happening, so we've got a
little bit of time. And of course trees don't move
as quickly as we do. If I take a drink
of water, that's going to affect my body very quickly.
Trees that might take a day or two before you
really start seeing any differences on a cellular or on
a large scale factor. So right now, go ahead and

(18:20):
set those drip irrigation out or the soaker hoses out
tonight and go ahead and get them a really good
deep watering. And of course try not to try out
to overwater. That's important too. You want to slow the
dry out before re irrigating, very important. But now the
time to prep. We've got a few days, a couple
of days, and so you want to go in the water.

(18:41):
Start going to home depot, you know, the local landscape
supply nursery or whatever, and get the mulch and go
ahead and put it down. And the better coverage you
can get, the better off it's going to do. Now
one special note on that, make sure you're not putting
that mulch against the trunk of the tree, because I
see that all the time, it just causes probable.

Speaker 8 (19:01):
Well, Matt, why we have you just a couple of
minutes here, would you mind telling us a little bit
about arbor Arborist on Demand and what your normal job
there is.

Speaker 7 (19:13):
Absolutely yeah. We help people solve tree solve tree problems.
And you know, primarily our focus is on consulting, so
we work with a lot of developers and cities, municipalities,
things like that.

Speaker 12 (19:27):
We do a lot of expert witness and litigation work.
But we're right here in Houston.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
We're happy to help our neighbors out and getting their
trees to a really good place because realistically, if you
take care of the tree, they don't require a lot.
You know, you're going to have a very awesome assets
that's not only going to benefit you, but benefit the
whole community as well. So we help people plan and
strategize and just make sure their trees are going in

(19:52):
the right direction long term.

Speaker 8 (19:54):
Well, that's really great, And if people want to get
a hold of Arborist on Demands, they can give you
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Speaker 7 (20:07):
Absolutely yeah, and you know, shameless self plug here, but
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got blogs and videos things like that to really help
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Speaker 8 (20:39):
That sounds great. Well, thank you, Matt. We really appreciate
your time this morning. We'red this afternoon.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yeah, my pleasure. Happy to be here. And again the
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Speaker 8 (20:50):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 7 (20:52):
You have a great day, My pleasure, y'all too, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Great. Well, that was some good information. There was some
of the out there that I had never heard before.

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Speaker 8 (22:31):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement with Jim Dutton. I'm
Johann Dutton and Adam Dutton filling in for today for him.
Jim's out sick today and so like coming back from
the break. Maybe we don't know quite everything he knows,
but well, we're definitely here to answer your home improvement
questions today, and you can give us a call at
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Speaker 10 (22:55):
Yeah, and between the two of us we can probably
come up with something.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
You know what they always say, two heads is better
than one. Yeah, So you can give us a call
it seven one three two one two five eight seven
four to answer your home improvement questions today. And we're
going to go to Ruben in Missouri City here. Ruben's
been rating patiently through the break. Good afternoon, Ruben. How
can we help today?

Speaker 12 (23:18):
Well, I've got a high tech question. Sometime back. I
don't know whether it was watching a documentary or someone
that had a system to spray inside of pipes unicipal
or even home to the outside sewer pipes that would
feel it, that would nascence, protect it, and also left

(23:39):
the water flow a little bit better instead of replacing
the whole system. Is that such an animal or if so,
is it something that's available here in the Houston area.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
Great question, Ruben, I uh, I'm glad we got one.
We uh, we know a lot about here. So part
of our due West that we both work for, we
do a lot of plumbing and especially underslab sewer repairs,
and so this is right up that alley. You know,
in the Texas environment, the vast majority of the pipes

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that we deal with with home needing to fix in
a home is buried in the ground, and so there's
a couple of things that can cause that. Sometimes it's
shifting soils on a PVC pipe, and a lot of
times it's a cast iron pipe that is just aged
out and rusted out. Either it had a belly in

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it or had some debris that was holding water in
it and it's just gotten rusty over time and rusted out.
And so there's definitely some products on the market that
do that type of either spray or they have a
liner that gets blown through with with pressurized air to

(24:52):
seal up that pipe. I could tell you that those
type of systems work a whole lot better when they're
dealing with straight pipes like you would have in a
yard line coming out away from the house.

Speaker 10 (25:05):
Really, it's used very heavily on the commercial side of things,
kind of more municipalities running in between manholes where they
don't have a bunch of teas tying into that pipe,
they're gonna end up blocking putting in that type of
system underneath your home, you still end up having to
do some amount of excavation whenever you do something like that,

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because that liner is just one straight liner, and anywhere
you have a wire or a tea coming into that
main line or some kind of joint happening there, you're
gonna have to dig it up and cut into that liner,
and it just doesn't end up quite as nice as
replacing it with the full PVC system.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
And I can tell you from what I've seen, the
big issue that a lot of times people run into,
especially with the type of soils that we have here
in the Houston, Texas market, is we're on active soils
and they move a lot, and a lot of times
the moving soils is what creates plumbing issues, and a
lot of times plumbing issues start moving the soil, and

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so the unfortunate thing is that the pipes are oftentimes
not in a straight line by the time that somebody's
looking at it to make a repair, and so wherever
that joint is offset or the pipe is crumbled away
and it's no longer in an intact round state, then

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you end up having to dig it up too. So
We've assessed most of the various offerings available in the marketplace,
either the liners or the spray solutions, and time and
time again, we just come back to at the end
of the day, there's so many applications in which just
digging it up and replacing the pipe is the right

(26:57):
solution for that problem that it remains to this day
our default recommendation for the vast majority of situations.

Speaker 12 (27:09):
Okay, because fortunately, well I would say fortunately it's about
a fifty foot straight run. And actually it's for my
cousin in El Paso who there they have Collichi and
the pipe is clay pipe, and they actually it's actually
had a plumber go out there and go in with
a camera and inside the pipe. Yeah, you could see

(27:30):
a few cracks, but it was basically sound, nothing broken,
nothing caved in. So rather than having her going in
and replacing all that line, I thought, maybe a temporary
solution for a couple of years, maybe that might be
the thing to do.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
Yeah, that seems the reality something like that. If you're
fine with a temporary solution, it'd be a great temporary deal,
but don't be expecting it to be the long term
solution for you.

Speaker 12 (27:58):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
And I would also say that, you know, they have
the spray on applications, and they also have the liners
that roll through there. Given that we're dealing with the
clay pipe that typically has pretty large seams in between
pipe sections, I would recommend a liner for that type

(28:19):
of pipe.

Speaker 12 (28:20):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (28:21):
Now, something something else to consider too is for a
repipe situation, you don't always necessarily have to follow exactly
where the old pipe was. So if you're just got
an issue with one bathroom that's near a perimeter wall,
you don't have to tunnel all the way across the
house to get it tied into everything else. You can
follow it in a trench around the house to tie in.

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So sometimes depending on the way out of the home,
it can be still economical to actually do the repipe
as well.

Speaker 12 (28:52):
Right, and I know she wants to repipe it down
the line, But let me answer this, what would be
to ask for in let's say she goes with either
the liner or the spray. What do you call those systems?
So I can let her know just a liner type
system being down in ol Paso, or what would she

(29:13):
actually have to ask for?

Speaker 8 (29:14):
Yeah? Yeah, if you just use that general terminology. Then
any local prumler that has those available systems is going
to know exactly what you're talking about because a lot
of them, just like you know, Kleenex is a name
that gets used interchangeably for a name brand. There's a
lot of that stuff that's really got proprietary name branding
that they use and try to apply as kind of

(29:35):
an industry standard. But there's a lot of different just
like Peers and foundation repair, there's a whole lot of
different names for the exact same thing, right.

Speaker 12 (29:44):
Okay, Well, appreciate it, Thanks for your information.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
Well, Ruben, thank you so much for the call, and
you have a great afternoon. And if you have a
question on your home, any general home improvement question, you
can give Adam and I a call at seven one
three two one two five eight seventy four and we'll
talk to you soon. Well. Our our family business is

(30:07):
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Uh.

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My grandfather started this business in nineteen seventy eight and
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(30:36):
or it's hitting on the top. They'll see diagonal cracks
in the sheet rock, they'll see a window out of alignment,
and even more alarmingly, they may see some cracks on
a brick outside. And all of those are typical signs
of foundation movement and things to keep an eye on.
And when you start seeing it, you should really get
a foundation expert out there to evaluate it and see

(30:56):
if maybe you can do some things to maintain the
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Speaker 8 (32:53):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. I'm here Johann Dutton
with the Adam Dutton filling in for Jim today he's
out sick. If you have any home improvement questions for us,
you can give us a call at seven one three
two one two five eight seven four and we'll we'll
answer your question today again. That's seven one three two

(33:14):
one two five eight seven four and we'll get right
back to the phones here and talk to Clint in
mont Bellevue. Clint, how are you today?

Speaker 7 (33:25):
Doing good?

Speaker 8 (33:25):
And you? Oh, very good day. It's shining here right now,
so we're in good shape, yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
So I'm calling for my mom. I just want to
make sure she has an aerobic system. And I've read
before the freeze is gonna hit, you should turn off
the breakers. I want to know if that is true
or can she just let the aerobic system run.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
So with the kind of temperatures that we're getting to. Truthfully,
I wouldn't worry about it. I personally have an aerobic
system at my own house. My parents have an aerobic system,
and I've just never had freezing issues with mine, and
I even had it through that storm. We had a

(34:13):
couple of years ago whenever it was getting down to
single digits and below zero type temperatures and didn't have
an issue. So getting down to the twenties, I really
wouldn't lose sleepover just letting it run.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Okay, she was worried about it. In October, I would
find out.

Speaker 10 (34:32):
So now, worst case scenario I see a lot of
my neighbors with issues with this, is those sprayers will
still spray in that freezing weather. So if it's positioned
in a bad location where you're having to walk through that,
you're going to have a ice skating rink out there.
But if it's somewhere kind of like I'm assuming it's

(34:53):
kind of an area a little more country, the heads
are out.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Somewhere that it'll spray out in the yard, so not
in way of any kind of a pathway where she
would walk or anything like that.

Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, I personally wouldn't really worry about it. In the
raality is you don't want to start backing up your
aerobic tank because as those tanks fill up, it's a
multi chambered system, so each chamber has a different function
to it. And if you turn it off and don't
let it flow through properly and those chambers start backing

(35:26):
up into one of it another or mixing with each other,
you're just throwing off the operation of that aerobic tank.

Speaker 12 (35:32):
Gotcha.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
Okay, Well you've answered the question and I'll relay this
to her.

Speaker 8 (35:38):
Very good. Thank you, Clint. We appreciate your call today.
Have a great day you too. Bye bye, And if
you have a question on anything for your home improvement,
you can give Adam and I a call at seven
one three two one two five eight seven four to
answer your home improvement questions today. I also wanted to

(36:00):
remind everybody about the Brassos Home and Garden Show coming up.
Come see Jem live at the Brasos Home and Garden
Show next Saturday on the twenty fifth, from noon to
four pm. The show is at the Fort Bend Epicenter
and for more information about home shows we will be
broadcasting live from you can visit the event page on

(36:20):
the website thhipro dot com. Well, Adam, I'm glad you
were here for that one. You did a lot of
work on that aerobic system at your own house. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (36:31):
I was pretty bitter about that because I had the
old conventional septic system and working at due West, we
a lot of times deal with doing grease traps and
things like that. But we're not licensed aerobic specialists and
I could pull the permit to install my own aerobic system.

(36:51):
I'm actually have a degree in civil engineering, which involves
wastewater treatment, so I'm pretty knowledgeable on that subject. But
they just would not. It was the company selling the
tank actually, that didn't want to sell me the tank,
so I had to hire somebody to come in there
and do that for me. And I tell you what,
I watched them like a hawk.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
Well well, with as much labor and research and intensity
that you put into getting that new system installed, I
know that if you were comfortable letting it ride through
the freezy weather, then I would be comfortable with it too.

Speaker 10 (37:27):
Oh yeah, definitely. Like I said, I think the biggest
thing you got to worry about is where those sprinkler
heads are spraying. If it's hitting like your driveway or
sidewalks or things like that, it's going to get those
locations wet. It's going to freeze, and it's going to be.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
Slick right well. I also want to rewind everybody that
do West is offering free air quality and attic efficiency
evaluations for January and February. This is intended to help
our customers breathe better air, increase the comfort of their home,
and save money. Don't be fooled by other companies gimmicks.
Do West shows you everything and all equations needed so

(38:03):
you can make the best decision for you, your home
and your family. You could book your fee evaluation today
and you can call us at seven one three four
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could go to our website du dashwest dot com. You
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(38:25):
virtually book an appointment and have it confirmed for you
today without anybody being there to pick up the phone.
Kind of proud of that system that I was helped
put that part together. So you know, we're really working
hard to make sure that we're taking care of our customers,
especially through these winter conditions that are coming our way here.

(38:47):
And we actually have a two four seven club, which
is our our in house club of customers that do
annual maintenance agreements with us, and it allows them to
get discounts on services and installs. But the biggest benefit
to people right now is that whenever we get in

(39:09):
the type of conditions where we're dealing with emergency call
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our two four to seven club members go to the
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of the line to get you back out of the

(39:30):
freezing temperatures, you can call do West at seven one
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(40:04):
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Speaker 8 (42:56):
Johann Dutton here with Adam Dutton filling in for Jim today.
He's out sick and we're we've been having fun answering
some calls here. Uh. You can give us a call
at seven one three two one two five eight seventy
four with any home improvement questions you have, and we're
going to try to sneak one in real quick before

(43:18):
the break and we're going to go to Uh, Jill
and Cyprus. Here, Jill, how can we help today?

Speaker 21 (43:25):
Hi there?

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Hello, So Mike, My question is who do you call
to have your generator converted so you can use the
gas line in your home?

Speaker 8 (43:39):
Generator converted so you can use the gas line? Are you?
Are you what on the are you saying that your
generator is not a gas power generator right now?

Speaker 4 (43:50):
Well, right now, we have a generator that you know,
you go to the store and you get gasoline for
right right, and my husband he fixed the electric panel
to where you can plug in the generator to.

Speaker 21 (44:07):
The electric panel.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
But I want to know we have gas in our kitchen,
so I want to know who do you call to
be able to have.

Speaker 22 (44:16):
That other conversion done, so instead of getting gasoline from
from you know, the gas station, you use the gas
in your house instead.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
I don't know who to call for that.

Speaker 8 (44:29):
Well, typically those type of engines, so there's there's there's
really two different type of setups for that. You have
the type of generator that does hook onto that, and
oftentimes the type of things that you can convert from
one to the other is potentially a propane to a
natural gas or a natural gas back to a propane.

(44:51):
But those are completely different animals than the type of
engine that you would have that you would get gas
from a gas station. So, uh, to to do something
like what you're talking about, what you're probably gonna need
your best bet is to frankly have some extra cans
of gas on tap. But uh, that would be a

(45:11):
whole different installation for a generator that would that would
run on that.

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Oh rats, I thought it was going to be much
simpler than that.

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Speaker 1 (47:42):
Broadcasting live from the Dutton Ranch Pier's Jim Dutton, Welcome
back to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (47:53):
This is Johann Dutton and Adam Dutton filling in for
Jim today. Were his two sons here and Jim's out
six today, so we said, oh yeah, we can answer
a couple of home improvement questions.

Speaker 10 (48:05):
Huh yeah, I would think. So we've been around with
him a little bit.

Speaker 8 (48:09):
Yeah, I would venture to say maybe ninety percent of
the home improvement projects over the last twenty five years,
at least one or more of us has been a
little bit of a part of here. Huh oh.

Speaker 10 (48:20):
Yeah, we do a lot of the work for him
that he says he's doing.

Speaker 8 (48:26):
Well, we'll get We got a full plate here, so
we'll get right back to the calls here. We'll go
to Annie in spring. Annie, good afternoon, how are you today?

Speaker 9 (48:36):
Is just fun?

Speaker 8 (48:37):
And you very good?

Speaker 9 (48:38):
Thank you, good good, Thank you for your help. I
have a GFC I plug in one of my bathrooms.
The other one upstairs does not have this one that
has a red and a green blinking light. You can
reset it, but I try to reset it and it's
still blinking red. It Does that mean it needs to

(49:01):
be replaced?

Speaker 8 (49:04):
Well, uh, there, there could be one of a couple
of things going on there. It's possible. But so you're
hitting the reset button and it is essentially not resetting for.

Speaker 14 (49:15):
You, right, it's not.

Speaker 9 (49:16):
It's just still continues to blink.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
Right, So here's what's it's like.

Speaker 9 (49:22):
It's not catching you know when you're mesh it in
and it's not catching right, and to touch both of
them makes no difference. It still blinks red.

Speaker 8 (49:32):
So there's two things there. One those it if they've
been tripped enough times. Any type of fuse does get
worn out over time. Uh. There's a couple of different
systems that create a fusing that that gives you that protection,
and they do get weaker over time, and so it's
possible that it's just gotten so weak that it's not

(49:52):
holding it. Uh. The other thing that can happen, and
it's probably not considering that this is still blinking red
on you. But a lot of times they actually wire
gfi's in series so that it protects more than one outlet,
and sometimes they have the reset button on every one

(50:12):
of them. What it's supposed to be is you got
to reset one that's at the head of the line,
and then you have some other ones that are protected
downstream of that with the little sticker on them to
say that this is GFI protected. But what inevitably happens
sometimes is somebody's just not paying real good attention to
the plans. Is you end up with multiples that have

(50:33):
that reset inline, and so one previous up the stream
that's also GFI protected could be tripped that you don't
know about. That's like I've seen them, like in garages,
hooked up to the bathroom on the other side of
the garage wall, or kind of weird things like that.
Sometimes it's hard to track down. But given that your

(50:56):
light is on and blinking, I would say that the
the typical case that I would see is that that
fuse has just lost its power and it's just gotten
too weak.

Speaker 9 (51:10):
Well, I do. It's upstairs in a guest bathroom, and
when I come up and I turned the little tiny
heater on to warm up the room. So maybe the
heat the heater has taken a lot of juice, you know,
made a difference in that plug. Do you think that's possible.

Speaker 8 (51:31):
Well, it's definitely drawn a lot of amps, and so
that that can if it if it's got to the
point that it's tripped it a number of times, then
that will definitely wear that device out.

Speaker 9 (51:44):
Okay, Now, if I have this one replaced, can I
just put a regular plug and not worry about this?

Speaker 8 (51:50):
No, no, you will. You will want to go back
with the GFI plug For a couple of reasons, one.
If any home inspector ever came into because the house
was on the market or whatever, they would make them
change it out regardless, but also just for your own protection,
so that uh, you know, if you put a new
one in that's nice and fresh, that that should be
fine for a long time for that heater. They're designed

(52:11):
to carry that type of amperage through them that a
normal household heater would have in it. Anyways, Well, this is.

Speaker 9 (52:19):
Just a very small one. It's you know, like low,
it's high. But I plugged it in into a bedroom
socket and it works, so I guess this is what
you say. It's worn out, yes, ma'am. Okay, well I'll
take care of it. Thank you so.

Speaker 8 (52:36):
Much, Thank you so much for your call, and you
have a great afternoon. Stay warm out there.

Speaker 9 (52:41):
Thank you, bye boybye.

Speaker 8 (52:44):
And if you have any home improvement questions, you can
give Adam and Ia a call at seven one three
two one two five eight seven four to answer your
home improvement questions today and we'll get right to the
next one. Linda in Cyprus, Good afternoon, Linda. How can
we help today?

Speaker 23 (53:00):
Well, I do how to clean my garbage disposal letter
on you know the blade area, and I put ice
chips in there, ice cubes. I don't know that that's
necessarily the best way, but it doesn't smell, so I
was just looking for another way to clean it.

Speaker 8 (53:20):
I'll tell you I don't put.

Speaker 23 (53:21):
A lot of debris in there anyway.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
But are you are you getting any kind of smell
or are you just trying to do general upkeep of it.

Speaker 23 (53:31):
Just general love keep or clean?

Speaker 8 (53:33):
You know? Well, the best advice that I can give
is that our grandmother swears by putting the ice down
the disposal, and that's the solution she's used for the
last probably, I don't know, fifty plus years here, and
so you know, for me, I always make sure that
to clean the bottom side of that little rubber lip

(53:55):
that goes around to when I'm cleaning the same real
good every once in a while, just to make sure
there's not up there. But I know they make some
type of products that you could find at a home
deep or lows that are designed to go down in there,
but just to get to knock the debris off and
make sure that you're you know, compostables go down that drain.

(54:20):
I've always used that same trick of putting the ice
cubes down there.

Speaker 10 (54:23):
And if you're dealing with smell, one thing I do is, yes,
wiping underneath that rubber seal is actually a big place
that most people miss. But I like to just put
a little bit of white vinegar down in there because
that helps kind of kill off some of that bacteria
that's releasing all that smell.

Speaker 8 (54:39):
For you. Yeah, I try not.

Speaker 23 (54:42):
To put too much down the drain down the garbage
disposal anyway.

Speaker 12 (54:46):
I just wanted to.

Speaker 23 (54:47):
Make sure because I've seen so many different things on
Google that I thought, well, maybe I need to clean
it with something else because I only use ice cubes.

Speaker 8 (54:55):
Right Well, yeah, I think that's a good solution for us.

Speaker 23 (55:01):
Okay, can I ask you one more question right now?

Speaker 15 (55:03):
Absolutely?

Speaker 17 (55:04):
Okay.

Speaker 23 (55:04):
So I have the double sinks, and it seems like
to me that the left side of the sink that
doesn't have the garbage disposal drain slowly.

Speaker 8 (55:15):
And I mean I.

Speaker 23 (55:16):
Had snaked many years ago, like five six years ago,
if not a little bit more. But I don't know
if maybe I'm doing something. And of course i've seen
the bacon, soda and vinegar type thing that I've also
read that you're not supposed to do that, so short
of asking my plumber to come in and snake it,
just because of my piece of mind, is there anything

(55:39):
that's safe to put down there, just in case I
think it's running slow and it's not well.

Speaker 8 (55:45):
Typically that's second on a two compartment kitchen sink. That
second sink that's not got the disposal in it has
a pipe that just turns down and plugs right into
the side of the disposal for draining. So you more
than likely what you're getting is something that's draining slowly

(56:06):
through the disposal part itself, because that's typically just a
straight pipe that comes over and plugs right.

Speaker 23 (56:12):
Into the Yeah, because I looked under by sync just
to see if maybe I was, you know, something else
was going on there and our leaks or whatever, you know.

Speaker 10 (56:22):
But I will say at my house, I don't have
a disposal, but my sink was draining slow the other
day and I look down in there with the flashlight
and in the p trap, I just had a bunch
of stuff just sitting down there. Sometimes you get kind
of heavier items that sit in that peed trap and
could impede the flow. So I just simp. I work

(56:47):
at a plumbing company. So I just went underneath there,
took the pea trap it and cleaned it out real quick.
But sometimes you just gotta clean those type of things
out if you're getting a lot of debris things down
in there.

Speaker 23 (57:00):
And see, that's just it. I don't put a lot
of things in my sink, but I thought, well, every
once in a while it does go slow, so I
just wanted to be sure that maybe I need to
call my plumber and just have them come out.

Speaker 8 (57:12):
Yeah, it's typically a better solution to start taking those
things apart and flushing them out than it is to
put a lot of heavy chemicals down because you know,
just our experience of being part of a plumbing company here,
a lot of people end up putting a lot of
that harsh chemicals that you get from the store for
that purpose down there, and it ends up tearing up
the inside of those pipes because it sits and it

(57:35):
doesn't get flushed out right and things like that, and
so we typically do not recommend people to get those
type of harsh chemicals to to corrode that stuff.

Speaker 23 (57:47):
I appreciate you telling me that, because that's that was
going to be. My next step is to actually get
something or for the vinegar and baking soda, and I
thought that's really corrosive.

Speaker 8 (57:56):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 23 (57:58):
Well, I thank you so much forgetting giving me that information.

Speaker 8 (58:02):
Yes, ma'am well, I appreciate your call today and you
stay warm there this weekend.

Speaker 23 (58:06):
Okay, Oh, yes, thank you so much.

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(01:01:26):
This is Johann Dutton and Adam Dutton filling in for
Jim today. Were his two sons here and wanted to
jump right back in the phones here. I think Chris
and Santa Fe. Chris, I believe you had something on
that lady that called about a generator for us.

Speaker 13 (01:01:46):
Yes, there's a company Northey, Houston called Greens Blue Flame
that does.

Speaker 8 (01:01:51):
Those Is that right? Does that conversion for her?

Speaker 13 (01:01:55):
Yes, but she's also going to have to get her
meter a check.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
To see if it's got enough flow.

Speaker 12 (01:02:00):
If not, you'll have to get the gas company to
come change it.

Speaker 17 (01:02:03):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
That's a good point. And could could you repeat that
name one more time for.

Speaker 13 (01:02:07):
Us Green's Blue Flame in Cyprus. But I can't remember exactly,
but they're they're on Facebook, so you can look them
up and and find that.

Speaker 8 (01:02:18):
So that's very good. Thank you, Chris. We appreciate that input.

Speaker 12 (01:02:22):
Yep, thank you all.

Speaker 7 (01:02:24):
Stay warm, yes, sir, bye bye.

Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
And if you have any questions on home improvement, you
can give us a call seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. And let's jump to Becky
and Katie. Becky, how are you doing this afternoon?

Speaker 17 (01:02:42):
Oh? I'm doing great? Thanks sure, shaking not call just ma'am. H.
We live in an older house in Katie and for
the last oh many many years, whenever it gets really
really cold, we get this terrible sewer gus smell in
one of the rooms right in the middle of our house.

(01:03:05):
And we've had two different Reftable, big name plumbers come
out and that little area had one of those little
bar sinks in there. Well, they tapped that off and
turned the water off to it. It no longer works,

(01:03:25):
but we still get the odor and we don't know
where it is coming from.

Speaker 10 (01:03:34):
Well, is that sink still sitting there in place or
did you cut everything out and cap off the drain
line as well?

Speaker 17 (01:03:42):
Oh, we trapped everything off. Yeah, it still just comes.
I had a guy come from a place and I
suggested it was like maybe from the room, the roof thing,
the roofstack.

Speaker 10 (01:04:02):
Of the vent stack.

Speaker 17 (01:04:04):
Yes, yes, but he didn't seem like he wanted to
go up on the roof because it was really cold
that day. And he suggested we do a smoke chest,
but that was gonna be seven hundred and fifty dollars
and there was no guarantee so that was going to work.
So I know in the next couple of days that

(01:04:27):
terrible odor is going to be back, and it's right
by our bedroom and I don't think that's good.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Well, it's it's not great, but I can tell you
that it is likely something to do with a venting issue.
It would be obviously very difficult to try to diagnose
that precisely over the phone here, but especially considering that
the plumber's had a problem there, you know, with doing
that in person. But to your point, it is a

(01:04:59):
good procedure as a next step to get up there
on the roof and run a camera down that vent
pipe to see what's going on. What is often the case,
and what we run into not infrequently, is that something
has crawled down that vent pipe and clogged that lineup.
And I've seen squirrels clogged climb down there until they

(01:05:21):
got stuck and that clogged it up. I've seen birds
trying to build a nest down that hole for some reason.
So there's a lot of things that that can do that.
But ultimately that's that's the typical case of what we
find is when something is hard to diagnose inside on

(01:05:42):
being infiltration of sewer gas is it's usually a vent clog.
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:05:48):
The other thing that happens a lot is uh. I
can't tell you the number of times I've seen they
don't worry about the ventces heavily as they do the
areas that the water is flowing through. And I've come
across all the time where they just pushed the fittings
together and didn't actually glue them together, and that's just
come loose. And maybe the temperature or the direction of

(01:06:09):
the wind somehow associated whenever it gets cold is pushing
that gas in a different direction, so you're actually getting
it pushed back down into your home.

Speaker 17 (01:06:19):
Yeah, it's terrible. Well, he didn't want to lot run
a camera. He didn't want to go on the roof
that day. He h. He just wanted to sign us
up for a smoke chest. And you know, we're on
Social Security and you know that's a lot of money
for us. Would somebody be able to come out and

(01:06:39):
do a camera and actually get on the roof?

Speaker 8 (01:06:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's a procedure that's done fairly regularly.
You can definitely give our office a call. Uh do
West Total Plumbing at seven one three four seven five
zero zero zero four and uh, you know we have
a lot of we we do sewer cameras every day
of the week, all all the time, because that's a

(01:07:04):
big portion of what happens with underslade plumbing issues. Is
you've got to locate leaks and locate problems, and those
same cameras and that same type of procedure is used
for a situation like this as well.

Speaker 17 (01:07:19):
It's not a very expensive procedure.

Speaker 8 (01:07:23):
Uh well, it's not inexpensive because you're typically dealing with,
you know, a pretty heavy duty piece of or an
expensive piece of equipment that's up there. I don't have
the exact pricing here now, but definitely my dispatch team
could give you some more information on what it would

(01:07:44):
take to do something like that.

Speaker 17 (01:07:47):
Okay, okay, because I know it's gonna get a lot worse.

Speaker 11 (01:07:51):
I mind you, it's gonna be really bad.

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Here's Jim Dutton.

Speaker 8 (01:09:25):
Johann Dutton and Adam Dutton filling in for Jim today.
We're his two oldest sons and Jim's out six so
we're here today answering your home improvement questions. You can
give us a call at seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four to answer your home improvement
questions today and let's jump right back into the phones

(01:09:47):
in Jordan and Huntsville, Jordan. How are you doing today
this afternoon?

Speaker 11 (01:09:53):
Good?

Speaker 8 (01:09:53):
Uh? Hello, yes sir, how can we help?

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Yeah? I had two questions regarding like home improvement as
far as like growing plants indoors. Is there any like
thing that can help with growing indoors, like as far
as humidity, air conditioning, and windows.

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
Well, that's a great question. Are you are you particularly
interested in keeping the environment in the rest of the
home comfortable or are you specifically looking for optimizing the
growth of the plants.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
More of just like the living room area if it
needs to be like kind of like a zone thing,
because I'm going to know of building my home and
was looking at getting windows and like maybe zoning for
the air conditioning system.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
Right, Well, you know a lot of a lot of
indoor growing. You're definitely gonna be dealing with an entirely
unique ecosystem in there because you're gonna be watering, you know,
spreading water in that environment. You're also going to be
typically having UV lights that are specifically for rowing those plants.
So you know what the things that I can speak

(01:11:03):
to h with intelligence is that, uh, you're often not
going to be relying on the light coming through your
windows necessary that your outdoor windows necessarily to provide that
that lighting. You'll have some supplemental lighting there if you
want to do some some real level of growing. And

(01:11:24):
then also in terms of zoning, uh, that's a very
typical procedure. It's it's a lot more energy efficient to
put in a zoned air conditioning system if the system
is built to be able to do that. And so
if you're dealing with a variable speed system that has

(01:11:44):
a variable speed indoor fan and you yeah speed, yeah,
typically you can have a lot of those come with
either proprietary controls that can plug directly into that variable
speed system so that they immediately choke it to the
right fan speed to fit one zone or the other.

(01:12:08):
And then and then sometimes with a little bit of ingenuity,
you can deal with system that that wasn't exactly designed
for that with some bypass things. But if you're already
looking to put in a new AC system, then going
with a multi speed indoor fan is kind of the

(01:12:30):
the best place to start with doing a zoned indoor system. Now, ideally,
ideally it's set up so that if you have as
an example a two zone system. There they are serving
approximately the same load. So what you what you don't

(01:12:53):
want to do is say, Okay, I have this one
room right here that I want to be able to
control on its own zone, and it's only twenty percent
of the house, and then eighty percent of the house
is going to be on a second zone. That's much
much more difficult to actually pull off effectively than if
you were to have much more similar sized zones. And

(01:13:15):
so it may be some adjacent spaces that you need
to bring in to be able to get that even
level of loading.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
On your kidgeting following you, I'm just struggling finding information
online as far as like, if you're building new what
can you do up front to kind of help if
you're going to do a room with plants. Just off
the top of my head, I was thinking, well, it's
definitely going to go with a zoning system, and I
thought that would help with growing. And then the windows.
I know, if there's certain type of windows, like should

(01:13:47):
I get argne filled double pain windows if I'm going
to be growing in that room?

Speaker 8 (01:13:53):
Yeah? Not if you're trying to obviously take advantage of
some of the natural outdoor lighting. But you know, depending
on the type of plants and what type of yield
you're looking at, you know, I would I would say
that in most cases, I've seen people using the artificial
UV lighting to get that supplemental lighting for the for

(01:14:17):
the plants there. Now, if we're talking about obviously, just
like a garden plant that you just keep in the
window or whatever for ornamental purposes, that's a whole different
animal because you're not necessarily concerned about its its speed
of growth, of things of that nature. But when we're
talking about an actual place where you're trying to grow

(01:14:38):
a plant, to to harvest it and turn it over
and everything else, then we got to get much more
focused on how much light it's receiving.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
So I could still go with some insulated windows and
that wouldn't be a bad thing.

Speaker 8 (01:14:53):
No, no, not, not not necessarily.

Speaker 12 (01:14:56):
Okay, well, I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (01:14:58):
Yes, sir, thank you so much, Jordan. We appreciate your
call today, and I hope you stay warm out there
this weekend. Sir, Thank you, bye bye now, And if
you have a question for us, you can give us
a call at seven one three, two one two five
eight seven four and it looks like we have just
a little bit more time. Let's jump to Dwayne and Katie. Dwayne,

(01:15:21):
how are you doing this afternoon?

Speaker 21 (01:15:24):
I'm doing well, guys, how about yourselves?

Speaker 8 (01:15:26):
Very good?

Speaker 21 (01:15:27):
Good. And the reason I was calling y'all had a
lady on a little while ago asking about converting a
generator from gasoline over to natural gas. Yes, sir, it's
actually a very simple thing to do. If you've got
some mechanical ability. You can actually buy the dual fuel
or trifuel carburetors online. Is a simple matter of changing
them out. And like the other guy said that he

(01:15:49):
called in a little while ago, you do have to
have a connection put into your gas meter outside. They
actually make quick disconnects similar to an air hose connection.
You can don't have to keep your generator out there
all the time, but you can will it out and
plug it in.

Speaker 8 (01:16:04):
AH.

Speaker 21 (01:16:04):
So that's another option for people out there. It's a
real simple thing to do. I did it online a
few years ago, and so you can run it on gasoline,
natural gas, or propane, with the understanding that the BTU
capacity is different on all of them, and so if
you're running on natural gas or propane, you're going to
get less output from the generator.

Speaker 8 (01:16:23):
Understand that at all the same. Yeah, well that's very
good information. We really appreciate your call, Dwayne.

Speaker 21 (01:16:30):
Thanks you all and hope your dad feels better.

Speaker 8 (01:16:32):
Yes, sir, good day, Thank you. You have a good afternoon.
Bye bye bye, And we appreciate that. And if you
have a home improvement question, you can give us a
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seven four. We got a good fifteen minutes here to
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We're back for Texas Home Improvement. This is Johann Dunton
and Adam Dunton filling in for Jim today. Well, he's
out sick. Uh, we got a lot of calls to
get to. We'll jump right back into it with Rick.
How are you doing this afternoon.

Speaker 11 (01:20:26):
I'm doing wonderful. I know that mister Jim has got
to be proud of you two guys taking over for
him and know what you're talking about. And uh, people
that believe in it. A lot of us are praying
for him to get well soon and not have any complications.

Speaker 8 (01:20:43):
Yes, sir, thank you so much.

Speaker 11 (01:20:45):
I'm you're welcome our quick question. My house is well insulated,
attic walls, et cetera, et cetera. But I've always.

Speaker 18 (01:20:58):
I have a dropstare to go into my attic, Yes, sir, okay,
but I've always dropped my door down and I would
put an eight inch two by six up there, let
the heat from the house rise and go in that
attic in extreme whether like.

Speaker 8 (01:21:19):
We're going into it, yes, sir, And I.

Speaker 11 (01:21:22):
Got people telling me that I'm crazy for doing that.
Am I crazy or not?

Speaker 8 (01:21:27):
I wouldn't think so. I will tell you that in
the Houston environment, most people have their water pipes run
overhead in the attic, and the whole purpose of an
attic is to help provide some shade and insulation from
the outside. That's you know, what a traditional attic is
designed to do. It's designed to essentially act as like

(01:21:49):
a tree shading your house, and that provides some ventilation
to get some air flowing through there so that you're
not trying to heat or cool the space directly up
against the outside. And so uh, there there's nothing inherently
wrong with having a little bit of air flowing through

(01:22:10):
that way, and it's not like you're going to get
a detriment to your house with the type of temperatures
that are going on now. Obviously, if you were doing
that in the middle of summer and you were trying
to heat and cool the whole attic when it wasn't
built to be able to do that way, you may
be getting a lot of humidity issues in a house,

(01:22:32):
and so those in those type of situations, I would
not recommend it. But for the limited time that we
deal with in you know, the Houston metro area with
these really low temperature freezing I think it's a perfectly
fine solution for you.

Speaker 10 (01:22:49):
No, I think I personally kind of approach it a
little bit of a different way, because every attic is
required to have some kind of lighting system in it.
Now a lot of times that light is just right
there by that attic access point. I simply put an

(01:23:10):
incandescent light bulb into that location and turn it on
during these cold snaps, and a lot of times that's
producing enough heat for me. My water heaters right there
next to it, and I have a tankless water heater,
so it's not always on like the tanked ones kind
of warming themselves. And that light bulb was enough just

(01:23:30):
to you don't need to keep it at seventy degrees.
You just needed a couple degrees above freezing. And that
does enough to kind of help with that type of
situation as well.

Speaker 11 (01:23:43):
In twenty and twenty one, I have an infrared heat
gun and my attic roof. Now this has been the
bottom side of my roof got down to thirty three
and I'm dropped my door about a foot, my attict

(01:24:05):
timing door about a foot just FYI, and I did
have my temple aron heat or my I had my
furnace up going pretty good. This is the twenty twenty
one of the big ice storm thing, and it was

(01:24:28):
kind of an experiment. I dropped that temperature up their
twelve degrees in about twelve hours. Yeah, I got my
plumber and my AC guy going, ah, you don't need
to drop that door. You're gonna be fine. And I'm like,
I don't know, man, I've never broke a pipe in there,
and I hate hate stuff a good thing. But I

(01:24:50):
was just asking your opinion.

Speaker 8 (01:24:53):
Well, I could tell you, Rick. In twenty twenty one,
we were so busy. We had every plumber and every
every ac guy that we had out on the road
just providing temporary repairs to people because everybody's pipes were
busting in their attic and we at least needed to
get people's water turned back. It was.

Speaker 10 (01:25:12):
It was bad enough that I haven't worked in plumbing
and probably over a decade, and my dad obviously hasn't
been out in the field as a guy turning a
wrench and years and years, and both me and him
were out running around just cutting people's houses off and
putting in temporary repairs for people, just to get people

(01:25:33):
by until somebody.

Speaker 11 (01:25:36):
Well, getting in my driveway right now looking at seven houses,
neighbors and during twenty twenty one. I helped them all
warorize their house. Some were really sucked. Okay, did the
best I could as a neighbor, but every one of
them had multiple busted bikes except me, and I think

(01:26:00):
the biggest difference was I dropped that door. Now my
electric bill was higher.

Speaker 8 (01:26:06):
Oh yeah, no doubt you. You are heating the outdoors
at that point, no doubt.

Speaker 11 (01:26:12):
Well I am, I mean, but I mean it kept
a little warmer. But I think probably the biggest thing
that I did was every cabinet and causet in my
house was open, so the heat could get underneath the
cabinets and the bath room in the kitchen.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
And I.

Speaker 11 (01:26:36):
The other thing I did, I didn't let nothing drip.
And I was without power for fourteen days.

Speaker 8 (01:26:43):
Okay, yeah, well that's a very good point.

Speaker 11 (01:26:46):
I just I just uh plush my toilets. I got
up every two or three hours. It's a real pain
in the bed. And I just turned on the water
for about five or ten seconds at the cost jar
the kitchen. Everywhere, I didn't have no problem. Everybody else
was busted. I was out trying to find pipe. I

(01:27:07):
was driving one hundred miles buying pipe for them.

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Yeah, for sure, many times you're going to.

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Have some rotten wood leaks in the window with deciding.

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Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement on Johann Dutton and
here with Adam Dutton filling in for Jim today. He's
out sick and we're his sons here and we're gonna
hit one last color here before the top of the era. Jobi,
how can we help this afternoon?

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I got a toilet that it flush is really good
about one out of every three flushes. You know, you know,
I just can't understand why I won't do it.

Speaker 12 (01:30:55):
You know every time.

Speaker 26 (01:30:57):
That's a good point, thank you about y'all are talking
about the vents. I maybe suspect maybe something with that,
but go ahead, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:31:07):
That would be my first inclination is that you're getting
a venting issue that's creating uh some siphoning. But just
to rule it out as being a simple problem. Uh,
have you taken that lid off of the Oh yes,
I looked at that so many times, and it looks
like it feels it fills up completely every time. Yeah. Yeah.

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And and then when.

Speaker 26 (01:31:30):
It well, I mean it doesn't always it doesn't always
flush all the way. I mean it feels all the
way back up and stops.

Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
Uh huh, right, it is. It is the flapper potentially
stopping prematurely before it's allowing the bowl to empty each time.

Speaker 26 (01:31:48):
I don't I don't think so. I don't think it's
anything internal like.

Speaker 8 (01:31:50):
You're talking earlier.

Speaker 26 (01:31:52):
Yeah, it seems like there's something else going on somewhere.

Speaker 8 (01:31:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:31:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:31:56):
My my first inclination when you ask the question is
probably the right solution, which is that you have a
venting issue and it's doing some siphoning there to to
prevent uh the water from flowing out of that pipe.

Speaker 26 (01:32:10):
And so can I can I ride that thing out
with a you know, a wire or something.

Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
Well, you can't do it from underneath, but if you
can get up on the top, Yeah, from on top, yes, sir.

Speaker 26 (01:32:23):
Yes, sir, I'm gonna try that. Can I put a
little screen on the top of the little screen to
keep critters and stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:32:32):
That won't hurt at all?

Speaker 12 (01:32:34):
Really?

Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
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