Radiant Barriers & Lintel Lift

Jim gets right to some early calls to kick off 2025. He gets questions about siding underneath a new door threshold, a radiant barrier for a metal building, replacement windows, colored stone fading away, and more. He also looks at some email questions as we go. Jim talks to Derek of Lintel Lift to talk about a sagging overhead garage door. Jim continues in the second hour on the phone lines answering more of your home improvement questions.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 8 (01:17):
Welcome to Texas Home Improvements, your total home improvement source.
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This is our first show of twenty twenty five and
beginning of our twenty second a year of doing Texas

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home improvement. Uh so, uh, you know, it's it's been
a lot of fun. I like going out to different
places to broadcast. Today I am out at the Pasadena
Lifestyle Showing Rodeo out at the Passing of Fairgrounds. We're
doing what's called a prospect show out here, and that's
where the kids can bring their animals to show them.

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They're prepping for going to either the Passing the Rodeo
to show or going to Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo to
show their animals. Well, this gives them a place to
come and show their animal and practice with it. And
I know you hear me talk about Passing Rodeo a
lot on the show. You will probably hear it a

(03:30):
lot more in the next year or so, especially here
coming up in the next month or so. But I
just took over as president of the Passing Livestock Showing
Rodeo on January first, and so there are some things
I've been working on that you will hear me talking
about on the show. But I'm still here to take

(03:52):
calls and answer questions. I actually have a nice place
out here at the Rodeo Grounds now that I can
set up and do the show, so uh won't won't
be hurting that part of it. If you got a
question again? Seven two five eight seven four, We're gonna
head to southwest Houston and Steve, you get to be

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my first call here in Houston for the year of
twenty twenty five. So how can I help you?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Okay, thank you appreciate it. I'll face to have a
new patio door put into my backyard and or my
back of my house. And underneath the threshold was a
piece of wood that has roughted out badly and is
completely destroyed. So we're going to put in a new door.
But I'm looking for something that I could put underneath

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the threshold instead of wood. Is there something else that
I could put in that would not rot, mold, protection
from weather, and so forth. I understand we've got to
steal it. Still, sure, I'm looking for something that would
be a great product to put under an instead of
just some uh treated wood?

Speaker 8 (05:04):
And what size? What board do you need? A one
by or a two by?

Speaker 6 (05:09):
I'm sure I'll probably think about a one by four.

Speaker 8 (05:12):
Okay, then use some James Hardy siding. It's cement based
and it won't rot on you.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
So would that handle the pressure of the weight walking
on the thresholder so far?

Speaker 8 (05:22):
Yeah, because although James Hardy siding is not going to
have a huge tensil strength, but a compression strength. Oh
it'll handle that all day long.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
Okay, that sounds good to me. I was just looking
for something that won't ride or be destroyed real soon.

Speaker 8 (05:43):
Yep, yep. That that that product right there will do
it just fine.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
Okay, thank you very much, you bet Steve.

Speaker 8 (05:50):
You take care again our number seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four And you know James
Hardy siding. It can be used for a lot of
different things. And yes, if you try to stretch on
it or twist it, you can break it, no two
ways about it. But in a compressive strength it is

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cement based, it will hold that compressive strength amazingly. Sou
zero problem with you using it for something like that.
In fact, it's used all the time. And yes, when
even though you put treated lumber, be aware there are
different grades of treated lumber. Some are graded for ground contact,

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some are just treated so that if it's you know,
up high gets wet and stuff, it doesn't deteriorate right away.
And if that was used as that threshold, and if
it's really rotted bad, it probably wasn't treated because traditionally
treated lumber will handle doing that threshold with no big issue.

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But I would make sure it's a ground contact type
treated seven one three, two one two five eight seven four. James,
how can I help you today, Jim?

Speaker 9 (07:12):
I'm thinking about well drawn plans up to build a shop.
It's gonna be all approximately forty foot long and maybe
twenty to twenty five foot wide.

Speaker 8 (07:23):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (07:23):
My question is I wanna, uh, it'll be a metal
medal with a cement slab, Okay, but I wanna I
want them to put that insulation over it. Before you know,
they put the ten on it and it looks like
it's got chicken water hanging up there? Can I put
that radiant que barrier on there also that you're talking.

Speaker 8 (07:43):
About, you know, in in my metal buildings, I have
a radiant barrier on all of them because yes, it
makes a huge difference, and it goes on before the
sheet metal goes on. But they they make a special
one for doing that. If you look at the box
stores you'll see some of it for garage doors. It's

(08:04):
like the bubble wrap type.

Speaker 10 (08:06):
Uh huh.

Speaker 8 (08:07):
And that's what you would use on a metal building.
If you'll call energy Q huh, he will hook you
up with the right product for it.

Speaker 11 (08:16):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (08:17):
Well, next question, if I do that, would I also
need to have it insulated I'm in the.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Air condition and then absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (08:27):
No, okay, So just the radio Q barrier and the
ten okay.

Speaker 8 (08:32):
And I will tell you my shop buildings that I
have it on, It typically makes about a fifteen degree
difference in them.

Speaker 9 (08:39):
Okay, Well that's what I was thinking about. And then
I was also thinking about the big ceiling fans that
you see. You know, it looks like they got six
foot blades on them. Maybe putting one of them in there?
What walks your thought on that?

Speaker 8 (08:53):
If you want a lot of air movement, they work great.

Speaker 9 (08:57):
Okay, yeah, just for the summertime.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
Yeah. Now it can get it to be careful though,
because you know, make sure that's into the design before
the electricians do all the lighting and stuff, because it
can affect what you want to do with lighting and
where it really affects it. And people sometimes don't think
about this, but if you put it the fan below

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the lights and that blade is turning, it can drive
you nuts with the flashing.

Speaker 9 (09:26):
Oh well, I never thought about that, but yeah, you'd
be right about that.

Speaker 8 (09:29):
Yeah, okay, we're good.

Speaker 9 (09:31):
Good, okay, And who do I need to call?

Speaker 11 (09:33):
You, said.

Speaker 8 (09:35):
Carl. Call Energy Q Energy Q okay, and their number
is one eight hundred okay, nine hundred sixty two twenty.

Speaker 9 (09:47):
Sixty two twenty okay. Well good, Well that answers my
questions and I appreciate it and enjoy your show man.
Good job.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
Thank you very much, sir. And again 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 can do
to help you out here on Texas Home Improvement. That's
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.

(10:17):
I got all open lines right now, so it is
a good time to call. And with that, I'm gonna
jump into an email question. Uh, let's see here. Okay,
this this comes from Tony and he's asking about roof
vents and calking. So we'll start with the roof vnce.
Is it okay to use vented covers on plumbing vents

(10:40):
on roof. My house has a large tree, and I
think over time the vents clogged and prevent proper drain function. Absolutely.
In fact, they're readily available at box stores or you know,
uh any obviously any roofing supply company will have them,
you know, in they'd leave vent pipes open because it's

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draining down into the sewer system anyways, if you get
a little water into the vent top itself, and so
traditionally the cover is associated with trying to keep water
out of it, but it can do a lot more,
and like you were talking about, it can keep leaves
and stuff from getting down in there as well. One

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of the big things vent covers like that are used
for is to keep the wind from going down, because
the wind will follow a roof and go up and
sometimes drop down or hit trees down and stuff like that,
and so you can keep the wind from pushing down
into a vent pipe by putting a cover on it.
So absolutely put a cover on. They're easy to do,

(11:46):
readily available and quite frankly, if you don't mind getting
on the roof, you can do it easily yourself. Even
your second question, I have a problem using cock and
making the job look professional. Any hawking tips appreciated. Well,
you know, it's kind of like this. When you hire
a professional, you're hiring their experience and to make it

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look good, it just takes experience. So practice, practice, practice,
and you'll get better at it. They do make some
handheld products that you can use to drag it the
calking and make it nice and smooth, or use your
fingers and that. But quite frankly, just practice with it.
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Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Your total home
improvement source seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. That's seven to one three two, one two,
five eight seven For any home improvement question you have,
pick up the phone, give me a call and let's
talk about it here on Texas Home Improvement. So Gary

(16:12):
sent me in an email about foam insulation. Do you
have a recommendation for where to use open versus close
cell phone insulation as well as blown and bat insulation
for new construction? And look, use foam in the walls
because inch for inch you cannot beat it. And when

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it's in the walls, it doesn't matter if it's open
or close cell Use blown in insulation in the attic
so it's breathable and you can still see the roof
rafters and all that kind of stuff. And the reason
that's so critical is some of the insurance and some
of the mortgage companies are now starting to bok at

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insuring and putting mortgages on homes that have the foam
over the room, roof deck and over the roof rafters
and things like that, because when moisture gets in to
the insulation, it holds it against the wood and causes
rapid wood rot and they can't see it even on

(17:15):
an inspection and so they're left holding the bag and
they're trying to avoid that. So it has not become
a huge issue yet, but it is one that is
growing and I think will increase as time goes on.
So put the foam in the walls, but put a
breathable insulation in the attic. And again it doesn't matter

(17:37):
as far as closed cell because you did that specifically,
Ask any place where there is a potential moisture source
cross space underneath the home, for instance, you would want
to use closed cell there so it does not take
on moisture and you don't have to worry about holding

(17:58):
moisture against wood that way. The open cell is kind
of like a sponge and it will take on moisture,
causing problems. So again, if you got a question 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 your Total home improvement source

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again seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four.
And this came in UH a couple of days ago
from Gene and he's asking about tile installation. He says,
tile installer who can carefully remove stone tile pieces without
destroying and then reinstalling the same stone tile pieces. Honestly,

(18:50):
I'm not sure you can do that. You're gonna find somebody. Uh.
There are some people who will try to take out
a piece or two of tile and save it, but
you're being very specific here saying a stone tile, and
you know, to be honest with you, most of the
stone tiles, if it is true, stone aren't extremely durable,

(19:15):
and when you try to take it out and clean
the mortar off the backside, you end up breaking it.
So I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do.
But I'm also not sure you're going to find somebody
who can do what you're trying to do because I
just don't have enough information. I will tell you, if
you're looking for someone who can possibly do it, stop

(19:36):
at a floor and decor and talk to the people
back at the pro desk. They're the ones who deal
with the different contractors on the floor installation, and they
would be able to probably give you a referral of
someone in your area who can possibly do that because one,
I don't know what side of town you're on. Two,

(19:59):
like I said, I don't have enough details here to
even know if it can be done. So that would
be the direction I would send you to go Again,
if you got a question seven one three two one
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I can do to help you out here on Texas
Home Improvement. Uh, this one comes from George and he's
asking about attic insallation. Jim, could you please provide me
with a contractor that will install energy Q attic insulation. Well,
energy Q is a radiant barrier, and so it's it's

(20:45):
not actually an insulation. Insulation has an R factor. Radiant
barriers have an E factor. With all that being said,
what it does is it blocks the heat from getting
in to the living space. And you know, well, this
is a product that I'd literally have talked about for
the last twenty two years. I have it my home,

(21:08):
have it in any place that I build or remodel
or anything. And because we've worked with this product so extensively,
I've used it so long, our air conditioning department now
uses and installs Energy Q radiant barriers. So if you
want to call do West air Conditioning, you can call

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due West at seven one three four seven three seven
one five six. Uh, we'd be more than happy to
set an appointment with you and do the installation. Whoop,
sorry about that, do the installation for you. Uh So, Yeah,
the Energy Q is a great product. Uh, and we

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we were happy that we I've looked at it before
and until you had to write people who can put
it in, I didn't want to go into it. But
the AC guys do have the right people and can
help you out with that. Seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. We're going to take a
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Speaker 8 (23:31):
Leans up. Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement, your total
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eight seven four, and I'll see what I can do
to help you out. We're gonna head up to Livingston
and Jim. This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 11 (23:52):
Hi?

Speaker 16 (23:52):
Good afternoon, afternoon.

Speaker 13 (23:54):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (23:55):
I've got a house. It's about a year and a
half old. I was up putting some Christmas deck or
away and noticed that my insulation, which is a loose
fill blown in stuff. Yeph was complete everywhere except right
over the washer and dryer room. Is there a reason

(24:15):
for that? Is there some reason you wouldn't want to
insulate that ceiling?

Speaker 8 (24:21):
Nope, Only if it's non air conditioned space.

Speaker 11 (24:27):
In the attic.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
Yeah. If the washer and dryer room wasn't air conditioned
like a garage, yeah, then you don't insulate it. But
if it's air conditioned space, it should be insulated.

Speaker 16 (24:42):
Okay, that's that's what I was wondering. I tell you
the truth. I'll have to go look and see if
there's a e vent in there. Then I don't think
there is, so maybe that's why. Maybe that's why it's
not insulated.

Speaker 8 (24:56):
Yep, that that that would more likely be the reason.

Speaker 16 (25:00):
Okay, well that's what I needed to know. Thank you
very much.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Now, if there's no reason you shouldn't be able to
run a vent to it and throw some insulation in
it and be just fine, then.

Speaker 11 (25:12):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 8 (25:14):
All right, you take care bye, and again our number
seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
I'm going to invite Derek on from Lental Lift and
you know, Derek, how are you today?

Speaker 17 (25:31):
I'm doing well, how are you.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
I'm doing wonderful. So let's talk about lentl lyft because
you know, so often people don't really understand what number
one a lentil is and what lental lift can do
for him. And we're talking about the overhead garage door.
When it's sagging in the middle, that's a lental failure

(25:54):
and that's what you can help them with.

Speaker 17 (25:57):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So it's basically a piece of angle iron,
and it's the piece of angle iron that goes over
a garage opening and the bricks beside the brick veneer
rests on top of that. Problem is that over the
years there's really not been adequate building code addressing that.

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So what happens is homeowners will get in a brick house,
they'll be thrilled, they'll move in, and a couple of
years down the road, let's start to notice maybe some
hairline cracking going on around that garage. They might think
it's a foundation issue, they might just let it ride.
But over time, what's going on is there's just too
much weight on that steel angle iron or lentsil, and

(26:40):
it's just physics. It's you know, it's gonna come down
at some point it turns into a massive headache. They'll
call out a foundation repair company who will come out
and tell them, no, that's not your foundation. And traditionally
what they would have to do is go in and
to do a true repair, it's a waltz hair out
and replace, which can just be timely and messy and

(27:05):
very costly. So we're thrilled to be in Texas because
what we do is right up you guys. Ally there's
so much brick, so many brick homes out here. We
have a six hour system that's engineered to go in
very quickly, it's more cost efficient, and it's over engineered.
Permanent solution, first patented permanent solution on the market for.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
This, okay, And so exactly how does it go in?

Speaker 17 (27:35):
So it's very simple. It's basically what we're doing is
we're not removing anything from that structure. We're coming in
up under the current lenel that's there, and we're shoring
it up with our system. So our system, the way
it works is some commns go on the side and
a new new lennel comes in place under the original.

(27:56):
It's a little larger, it's a little wider, it's a
stronger great steal. But the key to it, where the
design and engineering comes into place, is there's a leaf
spring in the center. So you can imagine, you know,
you're driving down the interstate. You see a flatbed truck.
If it's not loaded, a lot of times you'll notice
that arc in the center. That's basically the same concept

(28:18):
of what's going on on our beam or our lenel
is we're putting a canber in that thing. So from
end to center there's about a one inch bend that
lifts upwards, and when it goes into our columns that
are installed on the side, we raised that thing up
and it starts pushing upward on the wall that's in
place and redistributes all that weight back down to the foundation.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
And then you trim it out and it's all mice
and done.

Speaker 17 (28:44):
Yeah, trim it out. We've got a great looking trim
that goes in. Custom trim jobs are also available, but yeah,
it goes in.

Speaker 18 (28:53):
Not in.

Speaker 17 (28:54):
Any space is lost at the top. You lose about
an inch of space on each side of the garage opening.
It's not true usable space. But what you're not going
to lose is a lot of time and money into
that traditional repair that, like I said, can just be
a give me a massive ordeal, especially if you start
talking about one or two stories over that garage opening.

(29:16):
If it's you know, more than just a couple row
of brick, it's just a massive task.

Speaker 8 (29:21):
Now, this is a product I suffer saw several years
ago at a Foundation Repair National Foundation Repair Annual meeting,
and it really makes sense because, like you said, so
often people think it's a foundation problem and it's not.
I mean, we can't put anything in the middle of

(29:43):
that overhead door to push up. So this takes care
of that problem. But what about it coming back again?

Speaker 17 (29:53):
Yeah, So that's the beauty of it is our system
is just so over engineered that that it's a true
permanent fix. But on top of that, it comes with
a twenty five year warranty that's transferable, so it's attached
to the property, so you get the peace of mind
that it's permanent. But it goes into place if you're
going to be selling that property in the next couple

(30:14):
of years, you're going to have a transferable warranty in
hand to where what's not going to happen is you
get a buyer interest in your house and a home
inspector comes out, makes note of it on their report.
Well that your buyer is going to use that as
leverage every single time to low ball you on their offer. Well,
we've got a permanent solution where that's been put in
place in addition to that, you know, traditional repair unless

(30:37):
you are out there with that brick mason crew or
whoever that comes out for all you know, they're going
to put in another lenel that's the exact same size,
and if all the specs are the same when the
brick goes in, you're going to turn around and have
the same problem.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
With five years exactly. Well, Derek, how do we get
in touch.

Speaker 17 (30:53):
With Lental Lift so you guys can find us online?

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It's lintellift dot com.

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Look us up there. Our phone number is also posted there.
It is eight three three nine three two two two
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We'd be happy to come out and to do a
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give us a call and we'll come check things.

Speaker 10 (31:19):
Out for you.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
All righty, I appreciate it. You have a great day.

Speaker 17 (31:24):
Thanks, Jim.

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Speaker 8 (34:18):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements, your hotal home
Improvement source seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. We're going to head up to Kingwood and Brad.
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 10 (34:34):
Hey, Jim, glad to hear that you guys are installing
the Radiant barrier. I couldn't find anybody in Houston to
install it. But my question is if you for your
bang for your buck the insulate, the Radiant bearer and
the attic versions the the foam in the walls, which

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would you go with?

Speaker 8 (35:00):
Well, you're gonna find there's quite a bit of price
difference between the two. The Radiant barrier in the attic
is going to be quite a bit less expensive and
typically has a return in a matter of months, not years.
But I've had the Energy Q in my own attic

(35:21):
for twenty two years. I just did the foam in
the walls three months ago, and quite frankly, I didn't
know about it twenty two years ago. But I am
glad I did it because it really does seal everything
up and make it a lot more comfortable. So what
year is your house built?

Speaker 10 (35:44):
I was built in ninety two and it's brick, part brick,
and then the rest of it is this I don't
even know what you call. It is for the Hardy
Hardy plank.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
So well, Hardy's been around for over one hundred years,
but which you probably have tonight stuff.

Speaker 10 (36:02):
Yeah, it's amazing ight stuff. Yeah. Over years I've been
replacing it with Hardy. So yeah, yeah, So well.

Speaker 8 (36:11):
Be honest with you. It'll depend on where the house
is located. And I'll put it to you this way.
If you're located where you're hearing a lot of road
noise or neighbors and things like that, go with the
phone because it's gonna that That noise reduction is just unbelievable.
And the other thing you got to look at is

(36:32):
how much are you wanting to spend on it? Right now?
To do the attic is probably going to be half
the cost of doing the walls.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
Okay, Well, I will give your company a call and
get a quote on the attic, and same time I'll
get a quote on the on the phone and the
walls too. So I'm retired and just trying to watch
my money.

Speaker 8 (36:55):
Well, you know, I don't know if you get in
your attic at all, but that the energy Q is
something that's very easy for people to put in themselves
as well, if you want to do that.

Speaker 10 (37:06):
M But you guys are doing that now, you're yep, yep, yep.
Now I'm I'm too old to get up and crawl
around in that attic.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
Okay, yep, give us a holiday. We'll be moren't happy
to take a look at it for.

Speaker 7 (37:22):
You will do it.

Speaker 10 (37:24):
Appreciate your time, take care, Thank you, and.

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Speaker 5 (37:50):
Hey Jim, thank you so much for your show. I
really learned a lot listening to whatever chance I get.
Have a question on replacement window Back in the day
when I was building houses, way back in the day,
we were using the loom of the windows that had
nailing flanges on them. Yep, and then uh, single pane

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and as I understand, the technique for replacing those would
be to cut through the those nailing flanges and then
you replace put the new window in double plane usually,
but I was wondering, is there a way to replicate
r value you get by having a nailing flange with

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foam between the window and the cripple in what you
do with the new window.

Speaker 8 (38:41):
Well, your your new window is going to be way
more energy efficient than the old window.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Uh what about the gap between were they installed up
against the cripple and the window opening?

Speaker 8 (38:53):
Okay, so when yeah, they what they do is they
come in and they collapse. They take the glass out
and then collapse the window frame into the opening, ripping
those fins out and pulling them in. The new windows
are measured and each one is custom made for the opening,
so when it goes in, you try to minimize how
much gap there is and then fill the gap. In

(39:15):
some cases they fill it with foam. Other cases it's
just calked on the inside and outside to seal it
up and use the dead air space. So it really
depends on the installation on that particular project. And Texas
Remodel team's window division is the ones who would take
a look and see what they can do with that one.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Okay, so but anyway that our value is not going
to be decreased anybody. Oh no, okay, Well I knew
the windows would be half better or value, but I
just wasn't sure about that gap between the windows and
the frame. Regarding replacement windows. What's the latest and greatest
in terms of technology as far as the window replacement frame.

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Remember they weren't to talk about composite a wild bite.

Speaker 8 (40:07):
Well, well, your choices are wood windows, composite windows, or
vinyl windows, and it really depends on the look that
you're going for. Uh all of them, energy efficient wise,
are going to be very similar. Uh So again it's
really the look. The vinyl is going to be your
least expensive. The composite they will try to sell you that,

(40:29):
oh it's the strongest window out there. The strength of
the window frame doesn't matter because it's the framework of
the house that makes the difference. And then the wood windows,
I mean, it's wood, it's gorgeous, what can we say?
But it is the most expensive as well.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
Okay, all righty, well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
You bet. You take care and happy New Year.

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Happy New Year, dear.

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Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three two
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Jerry.

Speaker 8 (44:43):
This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 13 (44:45):
Hey, Jim, I've got about six or maybe seven hundred
square fleet of carstone on my under my patio cover
and around the food. Uh huh oh. It is completely
faded out. All the colors are gone. And now this
was wondering if there's a need what I could do

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to kind of revive it or put something else on
cop ont of it.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
And when you say it's carved stone, is it a
true stone or man made?

Speaker 13 (45:22):
It's the I think it's about a quarter of an
inch stit. They crowded on top Okay, I had tea
growl lord, and they crowed it on top of.

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The tea gravel.

Speaker 8 (45:32):
Now I know what you're yeah.

Speaker 13 (45:35):
And then they put curves in it.

Speaker 8 (45:39):
Yeah. Uh there the truth for there is nothing I
know of to add color back into it. Once the
sun has faded that stuff out. Right now, it should
be kind of a cream color, correct, correct? Yeah, And
that's pretty much what you're going to be stuck with

(46:00):
on it. Now. There is a possibility that some of
the stone, oh some of the dies for stones might
soak into it. But I have never played with it
to find out.

Speaker 13 (46:19):
Uh, Decora wouldn't be No.

Speaker 8 (46:25):
Where I would try would be a concrete supply store
or a masonry supply and and look at some of
their dies.

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Okay, all right, well it just it looks so nice
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Hey Jim, Hey do wonderful.

Speaker 11 (50:10):
Good me too. I've got a kind of a general question. Uh.
I've got a typical four bedroom, two bad single story
home with a detached garage. I've been in about fifty
one years and uh, it's indeed significant foundation repairs. And

(50:37):
because I had it looked at it a couple of
three years ago and got an estimate it looks like
inside outside. In addition to that, Yeah, I think him
at the point of where I'm going to need to
replace the foundation on detached garage and I'm connected with
a breezeway okay. Uh, just kind of a big picture

(51:04):
look at this issue and getting it all fixed probably
is going to include my driveway as well. Yeah, I know.
A couple of things concerned me. Is my neighbor behind
me actually uh due west report his garage foundation.

Speaker 8 (51:31):
Okay, And it looked looked like quite.

Speaker 11 (51:33):
An ordeal, uh because I was watching over the back fence,
and uh. One of the things that concerned me was
if I did, mine would be the electrical issue because
my service runs right up to the back of the
garage and the panels right there on the inside the garage,

(51:55):
and kind of what I need to consider in regard that,
for instance, do I need additional electrician specifically to come
look at that. I'm also concerned about what the raising

(52:15):
of the garage, which she needs with the new would
need would need with the new foundation poured. The breezeway
issue on my roof it's about twenty maybe twenty feet
okay the garage to the house, and the breeze weighs

(52:38):
about that long, and if it would be affecting my
house roof and then turn that around once I get
the roof the house raised, and they's going to affect
the connection to the garage. And it looks like something
that needs I'll be done at one time. But I
don't know. I'm just not sure how to picture what's

(53:02):
gonna what needs to happen over here, probably a new
patio in the back, but I'm not sure We're to
start looking for answers and something like that. There's so much,
you know, it's a it's a it's a huge job
and a huge for me. So I've got kind of

(53:22):
wonder iful I need to do. Look at individual contractors
or look at one general to do everything.

Speaker 8 (53:32):
Well, virtually everything you just mentioned West would do with
the exception of electrical. Uh And quite frankly, when we
when we do the electrical stuff, it's not that we
don't do it, but I bring in uh right, touch
electrical to take care of any electrical stuff that we
need to do on something like that. So, but let's

(53:54):
start with that. Does the electricity come in underground or overhead?
I'm sorry I broke up a little under Okay, So
if it's if it's underground, more than likely, yes, it
would probably have to be unless there's some slack in it.

(54:15):
It would have to be disconnected and reconnected or an
extension put on you know, if that's controlling the whole
house as well. So yeah, so it really isn't that
big a deal to do it, but to keep you
from being without power, you would we would want to
do that. But you mentioned the raising of the garage.

(54:40):
You know, if it's totally detached, we can lift the
garage literally up in the air, take all the concrete out,
put a new slab, and set the garage back down.
When it's attached. With that breezeway, we're just we'd limit
how much we try to lift it, and we have
to work within the parameter we have of that lift.

(55:02):
The work is basically the same, though you'd lift it
to where you're not sitting on the concrete any longer,
take the old concrete out, put the new end, and
set everything back down on the on the new concrete.

Speaker 11 (55:17):
So is that something that could be done before the
house is?

Speaker 8 (55:20):
It depends on how far the house is down where
that breezeway ties in. Uh. And And that's why I
was just gonna get to you because if if let's
say the garage is not down, but the where the
house ties into the breezeway there is down four inches, well,

(55:42):
that's a lot of differential that if we pick that
garage up many we're gonna make that difference even more.
Where if the garage or if the house was raised
leveled that four inches, that makes it where you can
move the garage a little bit more and be able
to do the work that needs to be done. So

(56:02):
depending on how the elevations are and how much stuff
has moved will determine how we can do it. And
for that we just have to be on site and
take a look at it, which is something we can do,
you know, ahead of time. But honestly, the work that

(56:24):
you just described almost sounds like, yes, you would want
to do the house and the garage in conjunction with
each other. Then the patio work can be done separate,
you know, at a later date if you want or separate,
but those probably need to go together.

Speaker 11 (56:44):
You know, you're going to go through the patio to
deal with house, Yeah, and possibly the even the fireplace.
I don't know if it's just so all it's sorting
to separate a little bit, or but I have a
feeling it's tides going down not so yeah, I'm gonna
deal with that.

Speaker 8 (57:05):
But even even if even if you have to go
through it, it doesn't mean it has to be replaced
right then, because where you go through it can be
patched back and then replaced later if that's something you
want to do. But again, that's all stuff that can
be looked at and addressed at the time.

Speaker 11 (57:22):
Well, I have a feeling that garage is gonna be
especially in the front in the back is going to
be uh more than four inches yeah, in my estimation,
because I've I've patched holes around the door and everything
else and readjusted, you know, hardware on the door. I

(57:43):
don't know how many times I can do that anymore.
Now now it's affecting the house in the back door,
so definitely some inside uh huh, you guys, only tunnel
is that right now.

Speaker 8 (57:58):
We can go through a slab, but are recommended is
always tunneling because you've got a foundation that's got a problem,
and when you fix it by jackhammering through it one
you can create a little bit more of a problem.
But as far as when I walk through a house,
I can feel a little dimple at each one of

(58:20):
those spots. It's kind of like the skin of a drum,
you know, it's it's stretched across nice and tight. When
you punch a hole, you got this little dip that
goes down each place where the drum was punctured. And
that's more or less what you do to a slab.

Speaker 11 (58:35):
Hmm. Okay, So you're combinated with just about everything, actually
doing the electrical correct with one general and one.

Speaker 8 (58:50):
Sub correct and and and again we can even take
care of the the electrical. We would just sub it
out to right touch.

Speaker 11 (59:00):
Yes, that's what I mean. Yeah, when I say so
that he would you would get them. Okay. Another thing,
and I'm sure you probably do this too. Once that
garage she gets lifted up. I think any movements is
going on. Give me some problem. On the siding. It's

(59:23):
original sighting that old us. Is it Cypress? Oh? No, no, Israel?
Would I think it's not Cyprus? It's uh, I can't remember. Uh,
but it's the old kind of a ten inch she
uh uh with on there? Those I want to put

(59:48):
all those? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (59:49):
Whatever is it lap siding? Yeah, okay, so it's probably
t one uh stuff that tongue and groove and uh
it's pine.

Speaker 11 (01:00:03):
No, it's not pine, it's the other.

Speaker 8 (01:00:06):
Oh, then it's all it's cedar.

Speaker 11 (01:00:10):
Then cedar, I'm sorry. Maybe it is. Yeah, hard to
find these days anyway, that's what's on it. And uh,
actually some of it is in good shape. Just the
lower half is a little rough. And uh okay.

Speaker 8 (01:00:26):
I do have a shop up just f y I,
and I'm sure there's one here somewhere, but I know
of a shop up in Dallas that specializes in cedar
and they still have that old lap siding.

Speaker 11 (01:00:38):
M hmm. Okay, I was thinking that mcaulay still had it.
I don't know where.

Speaker 8 (01:00:44):
I would assume that I've never punted it here in Houston,
but I'm assuming there's still some shops that carry it
here too.

Speaker 11 (01:00:53):
All right, all right, so you basically answer my question,
I need to go with a general remodeler or or
someone like your company that does a little more than remodeling.

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
M Well, you're if you go with a general contractor.
If you go with a general contractor, they're going to
hire somebody like me.

Speaker 11 (01:01:21):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
But yeah, because they're not going to do the foundation repair.
And as far as foundation repair contractors, I don't know
of anyone else who does all the different things that
we do. So it does you'll end up either going
with do West or going with multiple contractors who are
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Uh is Do you think that we would have to
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Speaker 8 (01:01:58):
No, you could work.

Speaker 11 (01:02:00):
We can. We can live around you guys.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
Oh absolutely. I I have done jobs where I've lifted
houses five feet in the air with people living in them.

Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
Okay, well, I hope, my not that dad.

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See, well, only if you need to get out of
flood waters.

Speaker 11 (01:02:17):
Yeah, there you go. No, I'm so far so good.
It came close, but I'll live close to the bio
over here and with send it. He got up in
the yard, but not not up to the house.

Speaker 8 (01:02:28):
Yep. Well, lamar, if you'll give us a call, we'll
be more happy to come out and take a look
at it for you. I'm gonna have to go ahead
and take a break here because I've kind of went
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gaps in my driveway are wider than ever for my
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is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 18 (01:08:14):
Hi, Jim, I have foundation issues and cracks and or yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:08:21):
Cracks in my brick.

Speaker 8 (01:08:22):
Uh huh.

Speaker 19 (01:08:23):
There are two places. One is at the corner, so.

Speaker 18 (01:08:28):
It's foundation and brick at that location, and then the
other location is brick only. Okay, no foundation, so it
is under warranty or it's you know, under the it
was built in twenty.

Speaker 8 (01:08:44):
Fifteen, okay, so you're under your ten years warranty, yes.

Speaker 11 (01:08:49):
Or so.

Speaker 18 (01:08:49):
I had the builder come out a year and a
half ago, and when he left I was a little disappointed.
I wasn't a fog. I didn't he left without me
really knowing what he was going to do, which was nothing.

Speaker 11 (01:09:08):
Right.

Speaker 18 (01:09:10):
So now now this second crack has come up, the
one that was only that is only in the brick,
and I have approached him and he said he was
coming out next week when he returned from you know, holiday.

Speaker 19 (01:09:24):
So I don't know what to do.

Speaker 18 (01:09:26):
If he doesn't do anything, I don't know.

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You know what I do, well, Nita, if you will
hold on through this news break, I will come back
and I can give you some detailed instructions on how
to handle this, because this is going to be a
kind of a more common problem for a lot of
houses that were built during the dry time and now
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We're back to Texas Home Improvements, keeping you moving forward.

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Because sometimes that's getting started on home improvement projects is
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And motivated for your projects.

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Break your butt out. Here's Jim dunn't.

Speaker 8 (01:11:10):
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. And when I left,
I was talking with Wanita about a foundation problem on
a house that is under ten years old. Still, so well, Needa,

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you've already notified them once and had them come out,
and yes, I'm going to hope that they have that
in their records. Now, sometimes those records tend to disappear,
so you're going to want to start making sure that
you have documentation showing that you put them on notice
that you're having these issues.

Speaker 19 (01:11:54):
And okay.

Speaker 8 (01:11:55):
That can be as simple as sending somebody an email
or a certified letter. Either one will show that this
is the date that you notified then that you're having
these problems.

Speaker 19 (01:12:09):
Okay. Is a text all right? Is a text?

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
Okay, as long as you still have the copy of it, Yes, ma'am,
the text, okay. And basically what's going to happen it
typically is the builder's going to come out and look
at it, and he's going to say, well, I don't
see this as a big problem, and they a lot
of times will make arrangements to either have an engineer

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or someone else come out and take a look at it.

Speaker 19 (01:12:42):
A qualified inspector perhaps.

Speaker 8 (01:12:45):
Possibly, but typically the only ones who are qualified are
going to be either a foundation repair contractor or an engineer.
And the foundation repair contractor is not a licensed inspector
because they can't. If you're an inspector, you can't give
the bid and do the work and stuff, and so

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the foundation contractors in Texas do not get licensed for
that reason. So, but do West would be fine to
come out and take a look at it and tell
you if you've got a problem or not, and whether
to pursue it. And if you do have a problem,
what we would recommend is to get an engineer who

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is on your nickel, not the builders, and he will
come in then and take and do basically what du
West did. You know, take elevation readings, look at it
and see what's going on, because just because you have
some brick cracks and things doesn't mean you have a
foundation movement issue. There are other things that can cause

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these cracks, and so you would want to get all
that documented. Now, I will tell you that builders a
lot of times are very hard to get repair work
done because they want to push it off until it
gets past the ten years and then say it's not
my problem. So you're kind of up against the wall

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now on needing to move forward with getting your inspections
and stuff again, if you want to call D West,
we're happy to help you with it. If you want
to hunt down an engineer, there is an association here
in Houston called the Foundation Performance Association and that has

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it's an engineering group that has a lot of different
engineers who can come out and take a look and
see if you have a problem and help you with that.
Or I can give you the name of one that
I actually do stuff with sometimes. His name is Gary Boyd,
and he could help you with it as well on
new construction, because that's what he specializes in, is these

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type of situation.

Speaker 19 (01:15:00):
So, okay, is Gary Boyd?

Speaker 18 (01:15:03):
Is Gary Boyd affiliated with Foundation Performance Association.

Speaker 8 (01:15:08):
He's one of the engineers on the list.

Speaker 19 (01:15:09):
Yes, ma'am, good okay, And it's by D.

Speaker 8 (01:15:13):
B O wh D yep.

Speaker 19 (01:15:15):
Okay, okay, all right, good deal.

Speaker 8 (01:15:18):
Now in full disclosure. His son, his son is one
of my estimators. But I knew Gary, I mean his son.
I knew when he was like knee high because we
did work for Gary Boyd way back then, and so
we've known Gary all these years when his son grew up,
he was looking for something and we hired him at

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Due West and he's he's a great guy to do
business with. Uh So, just full disclosure on that. But nonetheless,
that would be the track that you're going to go down.
And again I haven't looked at the house, so I
can't say you have an issue or not. Just because
you have cracks doesn't mean you do. But if you

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do have an issue, you're going to need that engineer's
report in order to combat the builder.

Speaker 19 (01:16:09):
Okay, well, thank you, thank you very much. This is helpful.
All right.

Speaker 18 (01:16:14):
So I will be meeting with the builder in a
week or so. Okay, he has come here once, and
like I said, you know when he left, I don't
think I you know, nothing was solved.

Speaker 19 (01:16:30):
You didn't come back.

Speaker 8 (01:16:31):
Now is this a small independent builder or is this
a track home type builder.

Speaker 19 (01:16:37):
It's an independent builder.

Speaker 8 (01:16:39):
Okay, Just they a lot of times are easier to
deal with than the track builders. Okay, good, And now
the whole thing that you've got to remember on this
is if this turns in that you do have a
foundation problem, you want his insurance information because it's more

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likely going to have to run through his insurance. His
general liability uh airs are completion insurance.

Speaker 18 (01:17:11):
Okay, his insurance, and Gary Boyd would note that I needed.

Speaker 8 (01:17:17):
That, Yes, ma'am. This is all he specializes in doing,
is these type of problems.

Speaker 19 (01:17:24):
Okay, all right, good Jill. Well you're very helpful.

Speaker 8 (01:17:28):
I'm glad. And and look, if you built your house
during a dry period and now we're getting, you know,
the moisture back in the soils, with the rains we've
been having over the last several months, you're subject to

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having these type of issues. The rule of thumb in Texas,
and again I'm not an attorney, but this is just
rule of thumb that that I've seen over the years.
Your foundation is covered the first ten years, regardless of
what your warranty paper says, because some of the builders

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have tried to go down to a five year but
the going through the court systems, what's typically coming out is, look,
you just spent you know, two three, seven hundred thousand
on a house. That foundation should last longer than five years,
and so somehow they came up magically with this ten

(01:18:33):
year mark. That is what most of the time it
falls back to. If you have foundation movement. In a
house that's ten years old or newer, it is almost
always a heath problem. Most foundation repair is dealt with

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as a settlement problem. And the difference is typically when
it teev if you just lift up the lower areas
to match the high area and it hasn't finished going up,
it's going to happen again. And so what normally has
to happen is you're going to do soils reports or
you know, test bores, and the soils reports will tell

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you how much swell is left in the soil, and
if that's the case, you underpin the entire house inside
and out, level it, and then pick it up enough
so that if the soil does continue to swell, it
doesn't lift the house any further. Anything short of that,
you are subject to have a foundation issue again. And

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I will tell you upfront at due West, our typical
approach is if we're going to touch it, we're going
to do the whole thing that way, because if you
have a problem two years from now, the builder will
no longer be responsible. You will sign off that you
know the builder's not responsible any longer, even though all

(01:20:03):
they did is one corner, and who you're going to
call back and say, uh, you should have known is
going to be the foundation contractor and stuff. So that's
typically the reason I won't touch it unless I'm doing
the whole thing in this new build problem type stuff. Now,
are there some exceptions to it, absolutely, because nothing is

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cut and dry like that. But uh, just to to
give your heads up that, uh, you know, if it's
not done right now, you've got a new foundation with
a problem and a band aid's not going to fix it.
It's got to be done right or you will have
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We're gonna talk with Connie. How can I help you today?

Speaker 19 (01:24:31):
Hi, mister Dutton.

Speaker 20 (01:24:33):
I live in the Grange, Texas, and I live in
a very old house and we have a shower problem
that's kind of perplexing. We uh uh there we cannot
see a leak under the shower and in the cross space,
but the floor, the floor is getting wet from underneath

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the house. So I'm wondering if it's been structed wrong
where the water's leaking out of the shower pan.

Speaker 8 (01:25:06):
Oh, it could be that it's leaking from the shower
pan or even from the drain. You know the way
that goes together. The pipe comes up through the shower. There,
there's a big nut with a rubber ring that clamps
down to make it nice and tight. And if that's
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it can get on top of the wood floor that
you're seeing from underneath, and the water spread out that way,
But it's not.

Speaker 20 (01:25:36):
On top of the floor. The floor is getting wet
underneath because it's a wood floor in this old house,
and we can see the disccoloration in the wood floor
it's up here.

Speaker 8 (01:25:50):
And being hung right. But that just because you're seeing
the discoloration underneath, doesn't mean that water's not hitting it
on top of it and soaking through. Uh. That that's normal.
And it happens very commonly around the toilet area as well,
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the top, but it shows underneath that way after years
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the shower itself has a leak. Is this a tile
shower or fiberglass? What we're dealing it's a tile top? Okay,
more than likely, then your shower pan is leaking.

Speaker 19 (01:26:32):
The shower pan is leaking.

Speaker 20 (01:26:34):
But even though we don't see any water in the yep.

Speaker 8 (01:26:38):
Oh, so how do we fix it?

Speaker 20 (01:26:42):
Do we have to tear up the floor.

Speaker 8 (01:26:43):
Well, let's let's find where the leak is. And normally
how they find it is you put a test ball
down into the drain and fill. It's called a test ball. Yeah,
it's you drop it down in and use a tire
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compresses rubber to seal up the drain pipe and then
you fill the shower with water and you see if
you start getting water coming out that way, because traditionally,
if a shower pan is leaking, it's a it's very
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wood wet where it looks like it's you know, wet
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but by testing the shower pan, one that'll tell you
if that's it. If the shower pan holds and the
water doesn't drop, well, then we got to look for
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to be, especially if it's in the shower area that
you're seeing it. But I will tell you years ago,
I was underneath the house that they couldn't figure out
why it was getting wet all the time, and the
floors were in this bedroom area and there was no
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was coming from was unknown. Ended up, there was a
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everything soaked underneath, and that's what was causing the problem.
So sometimes you do have to look outside the box.
But norm traditionally you're going to be talking about a

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leaking shower pan.

Speaker 20 (01:28:33):
So how do you fix that? Do you have to
rip up the floor.

Speaker 19 (01:28:37):
All the child?

Speaker 8 (01:28:39):
Well, if it is the shower pan, you would have
to rip up typically the bottom portion of it. Anyway, Yes,
And in a home like this, is that.

Speaker 20 (01:28:50):
The proper construction of the shower the floor of the shower?

Speaker 8 (01:28:55):
Well, I'm not I haven't seen it, so I don't know.

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To do it.

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Speaker 8 (01:32:36):
All right, let's head to our last call of day, Christine.
How can I help you?

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Hi?

Speaker 22 (01:32:41):
Yes, I'd like some advice on whether you would for
for homeowner like myself, would replace an h back or
ac and ducking due to the fact that there was
no contact in the home. Would you advise replacement or

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a thorough cleaning there was what in the home mold
there's all detected inside the home. And back to Connie's situation,
it was Sprinkler's too close its foundation. It was a
leak behind a bathroom wall that was tile that went
on for a long period of time before it was detected,
and then the mold had settled inside of the walls.

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So now what I was just told is that it
has gotten into the AC system. And my question is
should one consider replacement or just do a thorough cleaning?

Speaker 8 (01:33:40):
In that situation, I would normally say a thorough cleaning
of everything. And this is a situation where I would
probably recommend the UV lights, which kills bacterias and things
like that, so they are definitely ways to handle this.
Now the duck work, I would have to check the
duck work to see if it got into the duckwork,

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I would probably replace it.

Speaker 22 (01:34:06):
Okay, Okay, Well, thank you for that advice.

Speaker 8 (01:34:10):
All righty, Christine, good luck with that. Thank you so much, boy.
And with that, don't forget tomorrow two o'clock we'll have
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