Remodeling A House

Jim starts this Memorial Day weekend by jumping right into the calls. He talks foundation repair and remodeling other parts of the house. Jim also answers questions on remediating mold in the closet, beaver board walls, putting in a firehouse, and more. We continue in the second hour with a full board of calls taking all your home improvement questions. Don’t forget his website thipro.com and have a Happy Memorial Day!

Episode Transcript

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and now broadcasting live from the DuttonRanch. Here's Jim dot Hey.
Welcome to Texas Home Improvements, yourtotal home improvement source. I am Jim
Dutt't here to help you out anyhome improvement question you have. Seven one
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our number seven one three two onetwo five eight seven four. That's seven
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I'm going to head to our firstcall of the hour and Uh, Jim,
this is Jim. How can Ihelp you? Yeah, Jim,
I have some questions on foundation repairsand I've actually gotten two bids on pilings
and stuff, okay, and I'ma little confused on how you people do

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business. Uh, And what I'mwhat I mean is that when I've got
the bids, the the things thatthey don't cover in the foundation, notards,
when they put the piles in there. Everything they tell you they're gonna,
you know, do this and dothat. But if there's a sheet

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rock cracked in the house or someother stuff or crack bricks and stuff like
that that they don't cover that,right, So what is your what what
are your options? I mean whatI had to go out and find under
contractors or to do that work oryou know, I'm trying to figure out

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how do I even figure out abudget and how much this is going to
cost me? Well? Uh,the first thing I would tell you is
you typically don't do the sheet rockrepairs and stuff for sixty to ninety days
after leveling a foundation. And thereason for that the structure goes down over

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a period of years. When youlevel one, you're literally gonna level it
in minutes, and so you don'twant to do repairs immediately because the crack,
although it may not close one hundredpercent when and it's when the work
is being done over the next fewweeks, it'll tend to still close up
some So you got to give thatsome time. And the reason no foundation

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contractor will include those prices. Nobodycan tell you exactly what's going to need
to be done ahead of time.We have no way typically of knowing if
somebody repaired cracks, if somebody redidsheet rock, you know, put new
sheet rock in the house after itwas down. And so if the contractor

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was going to put a price onthe repair, it'd be an astronomical number
where you know they can come inand just basically redo all this stuff,
because that's the the liability that youwould be asking them to take. And
so that's the reason nobody includes it. And typically, honestly, that sheet

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rock repair is typically pretty cheap afterfoundation work. Normally it's painters who do
it, and you know, theyrepair the cracks and stuff and then go
ahead and match the texture and dothe painting and it's done. As far
as the brick work, yes,we have the same thing. We typically

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tell you wait sixty to ninety days, but we do have contractors that we
can refer you. And it's thesame thing. Where do we stop the
liability because we don't know if somebody'sdone some work to it ahead of time
or not. And if you havesomebody who's good at the brickwork, you

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can't tell when they're done. Yeah, yeah, I understand that. Okay,
Yeah, I was just trying tounderstand how do you come up with
a askmate, do I really wantto go ahead and do this? I'm
seventy I'm seventy five years old,and I've been in this house now for
twenty years, and this house wasbuilt in nineteen seven, in nineteen seventy,

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okay, and so I just says, okay, well, do I
go ahead and you do all thisto fix it? In my longevity at
age seventy five? Isn't that great? I mean, maybe ten fifteen years
most. But I don't even thinkI'll make that. My wife might make

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it, but based on family historyand all that. So let me ask
you a couple of questions on it. Then, sure, what do you
have for cracks? Now? Rightnow? I have heroine heroine cracks around
the bricks and no Greek big cracksof your stuff falling out? I do.

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I actually put I made with pairswith pairs on the house and garage
and replaced all the trim with ahardy board because the wood that was here
was rotten and I replaced all thatand that's that's not going to give you
any trouble. Well, no,I was going to say, what's happened

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now is that those were done intwenty eleven and one one one of the
fellows are out that were estimating thebid. He noticed and I hadn't he
noticed it. But then the crowdthe top of the roof where the two
roofs come together front the back right, well, the the two boards that

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join in with in the eve that'son that side of the house, and
this is a gable inn and theuh has come apart the freeze board.
Yeah, yes, okay, yeah, where it comes at. But you
know that's that piece of board thatjust hangs down and it's come apart and

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it's and it's cracked. And Ihaven't even noticed it until he noticed when
he said, well, yeah Idid. Here's you know, so he
didn't find I mean when he wasdoing his work, he know he noticed
that. Sure, and uh uhand the other thing with the brick on
this house is Mexican Mexican brick,so we know, you know, yeah,

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and you know I did say,I did say, pieces of everything
that I could find when I movedinto this house, just in case something
on south. Yeah, and thenthe fellow I did, uh, and
I and made some changes inside thehouse and that and uh and I did

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the same thing with the material onfloors and stuff. Well the people who
looked at did they tell you howfar at the level it is? Oh
yeah, I mean it's uh,I got too big one the one I
liked the best. I mean it'snot the price, but the man that
did it and the way he didit. And uh, yeah, I'm

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let me see here and here itis, uh because in a reason I'm
asking Yeah, yeah, I understand, Uh, I've got uh that's an

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inch, you know, uh souh and and that's why I was wondering,
if you're only an inch or twoon a level, Well, I
just want to I'm going to uhsee that. I'm just looking like the
garage is. He's got minus onepoint one one point the garage is detached,

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and then he's got a half inchand then he got six tenths at
the other end. Okay, there'sfull corners on the garage. Sure,
look you've got minimal movement. Soright now things are as good as they're
going to get with all the rainswe've been having, So you know,
when it starts trying out, yourproblem could probably get worse. But the

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thing is, as far as budgetingfor sheet rock and brick cracks, you're
not going to have a lot ofdamage because you're not need to be moved
a lot. So sheet rock repairsI'd probably budget like fifteen hundred to two
thousand dollars as all, and aboutthe same on the brick work because neither

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one of those are are super expensive, and that that amount of money goes
a long ways towards fixing sheet rockcracks and brick work. But you ask,
you know, as far as notdoing anything, isn't going to fall
down on you. Will the problemget worse over time? Yes, But

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is it gonna, you know,start falling down on you. Not with
the kind of numbers that you're talkingabout. So if you didn't want to
do anything, you would be fine. If you do want to do something,
did you have d west out tolook at it? No, No,
I'm going to I'm already planning tocall them. Okay, Well you
know that's that is my company.So uh yeah, I know that I've

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watched your videos and everything and Igot as much information out of that,
and I've got to replace the driveway. And the other thing that you're doing
is handle driveways or not? Yes, sir, yep, we can handle
that as well. And Jim,I hate to do this to you,
but I'm thirty seconds over on thatbreak when I heard that music, I

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was supposed to go to break.I'll put you on hold. If you
got additional questions, be more thanhappy to come back to you. But
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But you know we have a airconditioning company as well. And if
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need a brand new system. Sevenone three four seven three seven one five
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I did call them. The techniciancame out, he was on time,
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Kudos to you for recommending Guardian,and kudos to Guardian for doing a polite,
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eighty, or click the link undertrusted contractors at thhipro dot com. I
remind there from the Texas Home Improvementteam this Memorial Day weekend. Freedom is
not a spectator sport. Here's JimDutton. Hey, welcome back to Texas

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Home Improvement. Seven two five eightseven four. Jim, are you there
still Yeah? I'm still there?Okay, sorry about that. Oh that's
okay. So my the other questionis that, uh, one of the

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guys I got to through the bid, he's remodeling the house, and I
used the guy that drove the peersover there to get another bid, and
so that's where I got the information. But I noticed now you've mentioned that
how with the problems with the pipingand this house has duck arm No,

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it's cast iron pipe underneath it,okay, okay, but once it leaves
the back of the house, itgoes to PVC. Okay. So this
was built in nineteen seventy Yep,that's right when they were changing from PVC
to i mean, from cast ironto PVC. Yeah. So yeah,

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and yeah, because all the plumbingin the house that would have been PVC,
that would have tied into the sewersystem and stuff. I mean,
all that's cast iron okay in thehouse too. So what's the issues with
the cast iron? I know frommy personal experience that cast iron can't take

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shearing forces, but he can takecompression courses. Well, the big issue
we run into on the cast ironis it has plane lived its life,
It deteriorates, it cracks its Yeah, it's corroded all the way through.

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Uh. I'll be honest with you. If your house has cast iron pipes
under it, you are probably lookingat having to replace the sewer system under
the home. Yeah, then you'regoing to you're you know, unless you're
If your bathrooms and kitchen, sinkand stuff are on outside walls, it

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can be rerouted around the house andsave quite a bit of money. But
if you've got bathrooms in the middleof the house or something, then you
typically have to tunnel to them.Uh, and you're gonna want to make
sure that any tunnels that are donehave peers in them as well, because
otherwise that area is gonna settle onyou rapidly. Yeah. Okay, And

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Jim, I'm gonna tell you onemore thing as you're as you're hunting around
and uh, you know, lookingfor companies who can do this, like
t Wes. We we have ourown plumbers because we have our plumbing company
we take care of we can takecare of putting all that ticket there for
you. But the big thing youneed to look at on foundation repair is
the warranties nowadays. Because everybody willtell you we're using a press pile and

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it's a lifetime warranty. Make sureyou look at that warranty because and it's
it should be in everybody's contract andif it's not, get somebody else.
But a lot of them are doingwhat is a service contract, not a
warranty anymore. Yeah, and soevery time they come out there, they're

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charging you instead of the warranty coveringit. So just just make sure you
check everything out. I understand thatall right, does sees or anything else?
Yeah, So with the garage inthe driveway. So if I do
the garage and before I do thedriveway, how long should I wait for

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that? You don't need to waitbecause now that that that's just uh,
it's just when when a structure isleveled, everything's trying to shift back into
place on the framework itself. That'sthe reason you need to wait on that
stuff. But uh, doing somethinglike the driveway or if you needed to

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do flooring in the house, thingslike that can be done right away.
Okay, understing it right. Well, I'll give your people a call on
Monday. All right, Well we'regonna we're gonna be closed Monday for Memorial
Day, Monday, Tuesday, Yes, sir, sorry about that. That's
okay. I appreciate I appreciate thetime and effort. Jim, thank you

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so much, and you have ahappy Memorial Day, yes sir again.
Seven one three two one two fiveeight seven four. That's seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. And look, I know there's
a lot of foundation companies out there, and that you really have got to

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look. One, how long havethey been in business? Two? What's
their warranty gonna cover three. Someof them also have clauses now in there
that after the work is done,you have to have a static test done
on the sewer system and if there'sany leaks, your warranty is voided.

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And if you've got the old castiron systems, I can guarantee you you're
gonna have leaks. So make sureyou're checking all that stuff out before you
hire a contractor. I will tellyou at due Wes we don't have those
clauses in our contract because if thefoundation work is done right to begin with
that leaks shouldn't change the problem otherthan it'll cause an area to heat.

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Vevon you with that. We gotto take a quick break. We'll be
back with more Texas Home improvement.Let's talk about Concord window film. You
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are too hot. I'm talking aboutthe room is too hot. Maybe you're
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free. A reminder from this Texason the Trooper seen this one weever we
can. Here's Jim dot Hey,welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. That's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.We're going to head the pair land.

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And is it April? Hi?It's Avril Avril? How can I help
you? I have so many questions, but I'm trying to conceal it,
condense it into a couple. Sorecently I found a mold on articles of
clothing in my in the master closetand I had a mold inspector come out

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and do the work and tested gaveme results that showed that there was mold
in the HVAC system and in themaster closet. I had some mold remediation
done and one of the recommendations wasfor the HVAC system to be remediated as
far as cleaning the coils, planon cleaning the ducts, et cetera.

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Well. In trying to be costeffective, I asked for a couple of
different estimates for the work, andI've gotten estimates from one thousand dollars to
four thousand dollars with recommendations of usinga UV light in the end process.
And really what I want to knowwhat's my true north when it comes to

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choosing someone to do the work.The inspector gave kind of like the recommendation
for the remediation of it, kindof the master plan. But I want
to make sure that I'm getting whatis recommended, but not having to break
the bank to do it. Sureis the recommendation? Is there some place

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that I can look. I've gottenso much information my mind is whirling,
and so I'm just calling in tosee can you give me the true north
and the guide and guidance as towhat to do next. Honest typically,
what you're better off doing is dealingwith a company, a restoration company who

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specializes in that kind of work becausethey will have the people to bring in
and do this all at once anddeal with Since it is an insurance job,
they'll deal directly with the insurance companyfor you as well. So it's
not the insurance because I'm doing thisout of pocket. Mynd deductible is eighty
three hundred, so okay, yeah, even so, are you going to

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still have it retested and everything,because honestly, you need to and I
hate to tell you this, butonce you've had it tested and shown that
it has mold, if you evergo to sell the house, you now
have to disclose it. Yes,it had mold, because that's going to
be on the disclosure papers. Soyou're going to have to have that test
showing now that the mold has beenremediated and no longer is an issue.

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Okay. For the h fact thatthe cleaning of the system is no big
deal, that part can be easilydone. The duck work. It's going
to depend on the duck work.If it's the flex duck that has plastic
inside, just take the duck workout, throw it away and get new

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duck work. If it has metalinside, then they can clean it,
but it's very limited on what theyactually can do to the duck work.
The planum box is the same thing. If it's if it's a planum box
that has the fiberglass insulation inside ofit, if that gets the mold and

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stuff on it, just throw itaway. They're just not expensive enough to
justify going through an expensive repair onit and then still having to replace it
because they couldn't get it all out. You asked about UV lights. UV
lights kill germs and different things likethat, and for most people I tell

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them, you know, unless you'vegot a reason for a UV lights,
you don't need it. This maybe a reason for it because it'll help
kill the spores from the mold andmildew that's going through there, and so
it can definitely help with that.But what started the mold, do you
know? So that's the mystery.They came did the remediation of the master

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closet. They tested it and itfailed. They came back and did the
HEPA vacuuming and put down plastic overthe carpet and the air scribers and all
of that, and it passed.So the mold inspector gave me a path
for that. But now we're transitionedfrom that space to do the HVAC.

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But I'm thinking maybe the HVAC mighthave been the source because on the remediation
part, they cut to the drywall, they didn't see anything. They
only saw exterior, not on theinterior walls. And so let me ask
you a question on this closet.Do you have an AC duct into the
closet? I have a vent overit, So my guess is, yes,

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there is a duck that least okay, from the vent to the duck,
right, Okay, yeah, thenyeah that then yes, I would
guess then that it is something withthe HVAC system. So truthfully, I
probably wouldn't look at doing a wholebunch of duck cleaning as much as duck
replacement. How old a house isit? It's four years built in right,

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December twenty nineteen. I moved inJanuary of twenty twenty. Okay,
insulation on the house is it thespray foam or is it regular fiberglass?
I think it's the spray pe isthe spray form is like the loose the
loose pieces, right, No spraypham would be UH sprayed and it's a

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It forms a solid and it's inthe attic up on the roof deck uh
and and the roof the attic stayscool because it's basically air conditioned. Now,
Okay, so I see like theloose pieces of uh of insulation.
Okay. If if that's case,then you have uh fiberglass type insulation.

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The house is breathable, So that'sthat's good. I don't like encapsulating the
whole house with foam for this veryreason. I would traditionally on a four
year old house be going back tothe builder. A four year old house

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should not have this problem. Nowthey're gonna balk at you at first,
you're gonna have to put some pressureon them. But a four year old
house there are there are certain itemson a house when it's built that have
longer warranties than others, like afoundation. Typically the builder's gonna lose if

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it's ten year old, ten yearsold or newer and mold. In the
house that's only four years old,he's gonna lose if he goes to court.
They're not gonna let you go tocork on that. So you may
have to push and threaten with attorneysand stuff like that, but there's no
way they're gonna let that go tocourt. So that's where I'd be headed.

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And I'm gonna talk through this breakhere real quick. I would ask
for new duck work. I wantthat HVAC system cleaned out, a new
plenum box, and then have thehouse tested again. Okay, So new
duckwork, have h the plenum change, yep, and then have the house

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tested again. Okay, Okay,all right, good luck with that,
and if you have other questions,just give me a holler. Okay,
thank you so much. You betbye bye, okay. And that's a
tough one. And folks, ifyou're buying, and I know I'm talking

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to where I should be doing abreak here, but look, if you're
in a situation we're looking looking atbuying a new home and they encapsulate the
whole house with foam insulation, thisis something you deal with on a pretty
regular basis in those houses. Avoidit. Avoid it, like the plague.
Buy houses where it's breathable. Foamis great in the walls, but

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For love of country, they accepteddeath. Here's Jim Dutton. Hey,

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welcome back to Texas Home Improvement sevenone three two one two five eight
seven four David and Katie, Howcan I help you? Yeah, it's
calling. We just recently bought ahome and the walls are made of beaver
board and not dry wall, andI'm calling to see if it's something that

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needs to be replaced. Where itreally made itself noticeable. There was a
trim in the corner of each wallor where it makes the L shape.
And as we pulled the trim off, some of the beaver board came apart.
And we've tested it to see ifit was had any asbestos infestation,

(35:43):
which it did not. But nowwe're trying to decide if it needs to
be replaced or covered over or justbecause it's not damaged anywhere else, you
can't really tell. And I justwonder what your recommendation is if she was
replaced or forgive me, but whatis beaver board? Okay? Beaver board
apparently is it's a fibrous material madeof wood chips, and apparently there's even

(36:07):
a paper substance in it. Itwas Okay, we're back in the forties
and fifties, gotcha. Okay,now I know what we're talking about.
You you have no reason to replaceit. If it looks good, you
can leave it. You'll have nobenefit in replacing it other than other than

(36:29):
aesthetics. Well that's good to know, because I mean, the texture is
held up and everything looks fine.Just somewhere we'd read that it doesn't have
any kind of fire retardant like drywall. But you know, hecking house is
going to catual on fire, everything'sgoing to go, I guess exactly.
And you know that the only reasondrywall has any type of fire rating to

(36:52):
it is the the outside of partsof drywall is paper. In the middle
of the paper is the drywall materialitself, which doesn't burn, and so
that's why it has some retard.But I mean, it's no different than
if you had paneling in the house. Okay, all right, So you

(37:15):
don't think there's any need to replaceit in that's good here. If it
was mine, I wouldn't. Allright, Well, then you answered my
question. Alrighty David, you takecare and have a happy Memorial Day.
Thanking you the same too, Thanksso much, but again seven one three,
two one two five eight seven fourAnother David in Northwest Houston. Hi,

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Jim, how are you today?Good? Good? Have a question
about Ruth ruthy planning to redo theruth. I was thinking about getting some
radium barrier, maybe laid maybe likeunderneath, uh huh possible. You know
any company that might like that.Take a look at the energy Q radiant

(38:08):
barrier and you can find them whenyou go to thhipro dot com. But
their phone number is one eight hundred, nine hundred sixty two twenty And it's
a radiant barrier. That's a multilayer system with a thermal break in the

(38:30):
middle. And yes, it canbe laid under shingles. Oh okay,
nice. So would that go likebetween the shingle and the black paper or
would that go on top of theplywood and then the black paper on top
of that. You can, youcan put it in either place. It
can actually replace the felt paper evenyes, felt paper is really there to

(38:57):
temporarily water, you know, toseal up the place in the case of
rain comes, and if the shinglesever start leaking, it gets onto the
felt paper and can still run out. The radiant barrier actually can do the
same thing. So now a lotof times people still go with a radium
barrier or with the felt paper orsynthetic papers nowadays. But quite frankly,

(39:22):
when you use the radiant barrier,it's it's not needed, right Oh okay,
I see. And that really helpswith the heat. Oh yes,
yep. It basically stops the heatI mean, and that's what a radium

(39:45):
barrier does. A lot of peopleget confused thinking it's going to push the
heat back, but all it does, is it it's just a block.
The heat just doesn't go any further. I see, Okay, sounds good.
I appreciate your information. All right, well you take care and have
a great Memorial Day weekend. Likewise, you too, Thank you, Thank

(40:08):
you, sir, and again ournumber seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. That's seven onethree two one two five eight seven four.
And I know some people may callin and say it's not happy Memorial
Day because it's in memory of theuh, you know, soldiers who have

(40:28):
given their lives. I get it, but it is still what people say.
So with that, I hope everybodydoes have a happy Memorial Day,
a great weekend. But we gotanother hour of Texas Home Improvement to go.
We're not even going to news breakyet. We got another segment still
to go for this hour of TexasHome Improvement, So don't go anywhere.

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Seven one three two one two fiveeight seven four Reuben and Missouri City
Welcome to Texas Home Improvement. Goodafternoon, Jim. I'll have a friend
that's having a modular home built justwest of San Antonio where it's almost all
rock. But anyway, they saidthey can't put in a fireplace. She

(44:34):
has to use a standalone fireplace.Can one be incorporated in a real fireplace
or or or is there any solutionhere? Why are they saying they can't
put one in they said, Well, I guess because of their plans.
I don't know. They'll be findingthe final details this coming week. But

(44:57):
I don't know. I know thatthe foundation, since it's almost fall rock
out there, they're just going tobuild almost very similar to a post pure
being construction. Now hold the structureup. Yeah, but uh, I
said, heckm did give a rockout. Yeah, if his home has
not been built yet, there's absolutelyno reason a fireplace can't be built,

(45:20):
then Okay that that is strictly somethingthe builder doesn't want to do, and
so he's just balking at it.Yeah, that's what I figured. Okay,
Well, good, she sees himthis weekend. I'll let her know.
Yep O. Thanks, thank you, Jim, you beat Take care
and keep in mind, folks,there's other builders out there. Find a
different one who's going to build whatyou want. When you're building new construction,

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the only limit is your checkbook.We'll be back with another hour of
Texas Home Improvement. Seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.
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homes and now broadcasting live from theDutton Ranch. Here it's Jim dot Hey.
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvements,your total home improvement source. I'm
Jim Dutton here to help you out, same as always, any home improvement

(49:21):
question you have just pick up thephone and give me a call at seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. That's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.Don't forget about our website tchipro dot com.
It's there is a resource to helpyou out twenty four to seven.
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use it as a resource. It'salways available to you. But it's time
to take calls and answer questions onthis Memorial Day weekend. So seven one

(50:07):
three two one two five eight sevenfour heading the lake Conrod Doug, how
are you today? Hey Jim?How are you wonderful? Happy Memorial Day?
You as well. I'm I'm sureyou've heard it before. I'm asking
a question for a friend. SureI got it, no problem, go

(50:32):
ahead. It's in two thousand squarefoot home and it's fairly new, you
know, ten years something like that, Okay, And he's wanting to put
an addic fan, one of thesolar fans in his attic okay, because
he thinks that he thinks that's afix all of all, fix all,

(50:57):
and because his bill's kind of high. And I asked him how much insulation
he had, and he said hehas twelve inches. I said, well,
what do they recommend twenty four?I said, then, why would
you put a fan up there whenyou're not doing any good with the insulation.
Now. I know there's radio barrier, I know there's a spray on,

(51:22):
but I would think one of thelast pictures I would do on that
is put a solar fan in theaddic. What do you think depends on
what he has for ventilation now,But on a ten year old house,
I beting he has a ridge ventalready and I'm sure you that, yeah,
And if that's the case, thesolar fan is going to be useless.

(51:44):
That's what I thought, Thank youvery much. I use solar fans,
I like him, but I onlyuse them where I can't put a
ridge vent. Well, I'm goingto say, as an addition, yes,
sign exactly, you're not really stoppingthe problem. No, you're one

(52:06):
hundred percent right. He needs tobe looking at in our area, fifteen
sixteen inches of insulation is what's recommended. He's at twelve. But really,
if he wants the biggest bang forhis buck on a ten year old house,
tell him to look at that energyQ radiant barrier. It'll lay on
the app on top of that existinginsulation, so it keeps the heat that

(52:29):
gets in the attic from getting intothat insulation. That will be his biggest
bang for his buck. Okay.So that's energy energy and then the letter
q Q Okay, yep. AndI can give you their phone number as

(52:50):
well. It's one eight hundred,nine hundred sixty two twenty all right.
So I so I'm not an idiot. No, yeah, I told him.
I said, I said, youcould add those things all over your
house, but it's not gonna doany good if you don't have the barrier.

(53:14):
Yep. So all right, Jim, thank you very much. You
bet you take care you too againour number seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. Andfolks, let me tell you that I
said biggest bang for the buck.You recoup your investment on that radiant barrier

(53:37):
on that energy queue because of itlaying on the attic floor typically in months,
not years. Let's head out toLaporte Lynn. Welcome to seven forty
ktr H. How can I helpyou. I'll just have a question in
regards to my windows. My housewas built in two thousand and four and

(53:59):
when it was structed, it wasadvertised to be an energy store rated home,
and I'm just wondering if the windowsor something I should have looked at
it again, I should have lookedat now. Okay, even though no
doubt the technology is improved, youdon't really want to spend a ton of

(54:22):
money if it's unnecessary. Internet youstore are rated at home built in two
thousand and four, or what's youropinion, you know, if it was
built in two thousand and four.If you're not having issues with the windows
yet, then there's not a reasonto do it. And by issues,
I would say, if you're gettingany windows that are fogging up, if

(54:43):
you're getting air infiltration so that youknow, like when we have cold fronts
and stuff, you're getting very wetwindows things like that, then you look
at replacing them. But if you'renot having any of that, don't replace
them. Well, thank you verymuch. No, I'm having no problem

(55:04):
at all. It's just we wellexperiencing high electricity bills. No matter what
you have, and yep, tryingto find it down if I can.
What do you call them high?Well, it's about the twenty four square
foot home with a variable speed unitand it's somewhere around one hundred and eighty

(55:30):
dollars. Do not replace the windows. You will never recoup the money from
that. Your electric bill is nothigh, well, it doubled. Yeah,
I'm hearing that long back. Yeah, but I'm using your company to
come out and services and keep everythingrunning good. And they're doing a great
job. By the way, thanksyou, sir, So I don't have

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anything more. Well, since Isaved you so much, listen, since
I saved you so much on thosewin In the next week or two,
you're going to start hearing ads forthe passing Livestock Show and rodeo. I'm
doing a brick campaign to build anew ag barn there on the on the
rodeo grounds, and you can buya brick to help build that new building.

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Okay, just just keep in mindyou're here it here on the show
in a in another week or two. Now, I'm a business owner and
they've also your air aditioning company isalso maintaining the air condition coming there,
so there would be something I cando and consider a business expense. I
appreciate that, so thank you forthe information. I wasn't aware of that.

(56:44):
All right, well, sir,I will let you go and have
a great Memorial Day weekend. Youdo the same, Shore. I appreciate
your information and I certainly enjoy yourshow. Thank you, sir, Thank
you again. Our number seven onethree two one two five eight seven four.
James and sci Fair. How areyou today? Hey? Pretty good.

(57:08):
Good to talk to you, Jim, first time caller. Uh,
I've got a question for you.I live in a house that was built
in nineteen seventy six. It wasat this two story colonial house built by
Superior Homes. And the other dayI was cleaning out the filters and downstairs

(57:30):
on the return air there's a twentyby twenty five by one filter, and
upstairs they on the same return air, they have a twelve by twelve by
one. So I stuck my headin there to look down at the return
air to make sure everything was nottoo dusty or whatever. And I noticed

(57:52):
that in between the floors it wasopen. There was no sheet rock or
anything there. Yep, should thatbe? Should should that be closed up.
Probably not really. Yeah. Whenwhen you say no sheet rock anywhere,
uh, that's leading back to theair conditioning unit. Correct. Yeah,

(58:19):
yeah, it's going up into theattic. Okay, So I mean
I mean downstairs and sheet rock allthe way up to the second floor,
and then in between the floors it'sopen, and then above the the the
second floor it's all sheet rock.It's just open in between. I mean
I can see the raptors and andand in between the return air there you

(58:44):
know. No, typically where itpasses through and goes up, it should
be sealed off where you're not ableto be pulling air from between the floors.
That's so. Yeah, that thefrom what from? I thought we
were talking two separate things and andbut no, it should not be opened

(59:04):
that way. And I'm gonna tellyou I looked at a house a few
years ago that was having a majorhumidity problem. Uh, And what we
found was it was drawing air betweenthose h floor levels from outside. Wow.
And that was drawing humidity then inbetween the floors that way and causing

(59:29):
just all kinds of massive problems.So yes, that should not be okay,
Okay, what why should I uhshould I get some sheet rock or
some hard plastic and just table itaround there or what do you recommend,
really any anything to seal it fromtaking air between the floors. Okay,
all right, Uh, I've gottwo more quick questions. Sure. The

(59:52):
other question is on uh uh onthe on the uh. In my kitchen,
I have a microwave and I removedit because I bought a new one
and I noticed that on top ofthe old microwave was just round aluminum uh

(01:00:12):
uh you know, a piece oflike a pipe and uh. And it
just went up in the up intothe second floor. It didn't go out
to the side or anything. Isthat okay to have it like that?
No, it needs to vent outside. Oh my god, I can't believe
they built that house like this.Okay. Yeah. The other thing is,

(01:00:36):
uh, it has the same aluminumwindows. And should I plan on
replacing those? Yours from that agegroup? Would be a single pain glass,
isn't it right? Right? Yes? Yes, you should fear that
you're gonna end up replacing those.Your energy loss is pretty substantial with single

(01:00:58):
pain glass that way. Okay,all right, I'll start getting some quotes,
starting with your company that you advertisedand I'll go from there. Sounds
good. Well, Thank you,Jim. You are welcome and you have
a happy Memorial Day weekend. Heyyou too, boy and again seven one

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back to Texas Home Improvements. Sevenone three, two one two five eight

(01:04:25):
seven four. Let's see we're gonnahead to Huntsville. Charles, Welcome to
Texas Home Improvement. Yes, sir, you got to call it film?
Is it clear? Yes, sir, excellent. I wasn't making sure I
was on bluetooth. You have aquestion. Probably help everybody out here in
the you scenario myself as well.Recent storms that cause roofing damage, whether

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it be just driven rain coming througha torn off roof or you lost some
of your roof there seems to bea lot of people that they tend to
let their carpets get soaked and theybelieve that they need to wait until the
adjester comes to start taking all ofthe subject. So whenever that order is

(01:05:13):
sitting there and going through the secondstory I by wood, it causes a
lot of damage. Ye, Sowhat is your advice to handle the subject
matter? Go on and do ityourself. You just get things done.
You're you're required to. And wehad that conversation actually last weekend on the
show. You have a responsibility tosecure the property once the initial storm has

(01:05:39):
passed by, you secure the propertyto make sure it doesn't get further damaged.
And that includes pulling out stuff that'swet, like that carpet, so
it doesn't start to mold and mildewand things like that. Now, obviously
you want to document everything first,you know, pictures, pictures, pictures,
but then get it out and saveit outside for the adjusters. But

(01:06:03):
if you got leaks in the roof, get that roof tarped. If you've
got windows that are broke, getthem covered up. If a tree fell
on the house, you've got toget the tree off and cover it up.
And that is your responsibility because theinsurance company will limit what they cover
based on what happens after the storm. Yes, sir, you know,

(01:06:29):
I lived on a golf coast ofmy entire life and follow a lot of
these hurricanes and different things that comeup, and so that was always my
thought process. And some of myfamily members they decided that that was not
the right thing to do, andthey just sit there and Nicole, I
won't mention any names of a localwater protection company, and they just bought

(01:06:51):
it all these big old humidifiers andpans and generators, and was really the
make a lot of money. Yeh. Fortunately, you know, they did
decide to take the old timers thedecision, and they were able to handle
the situation with another contractor and savedthe contract the insurance company a lot of

(01:07:13):
money. I just think that somepeople they don't have that knowledge and they
just get scared and don't want towork, and there you go, you
in big trouble. Well, andit's not just saving the insurance company money,
it's it saves you money as well, because you know, the insurance
company they recoup that money off ofthe the policies we buy. You know

(01:07:34):
that that's why the rates keep goingup. Yes, sir, that's the
true statement. Well, I appreciateyou very much, and uh, I'll
let's get on to your next allright, take care of Charles with me.
Thank you later again her number sevenone three two one two five eight

(01:07:56):
seven four. That's seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.
And look, I know I'm gonnatake the news break here before i can
jump back into another call. Butuh, if you had storm damage,
they don't expect you to get outduring the storm in order to recover everything.
But what they do expect is afterthe storm has gone through, you

(01:08:19):
have to secure the property so itdoesn't get further damage when a next rain
comes in or something like that.And that can be as simple as just
getting tarps on it. But theother thing for your best on taking care
of your stuff is to get anythingwet out of there, because you got

(01:08:40):
personal possessions in there that you don'tneed ruined because you let the carpet turn
into a mold infested house. Andyou know, again it's just common sense.
We've got to take care of ourstuff as well. We're gonna take
a quick break. We'll be backwith more Texas Home Improvements seven one three,
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Eight eight eight two zero six onefour one three. A reminder from the
Texas Home Improvement Team this Memorial Dayweekend, the silence of a soldier's grave

(01:10:13):
sings our national anthem. Here's JimDutton. Hey, welcome back. Seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. That's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four Georgein East Houston. This is Jim.
How can I help you? Yes, sir, I got a tiny home

(01:10:38):
up on the Trinity River in LibertyCounty and uh it got flooded. The
tiny home didn't, but I goteighteen inches in the garage and eighteen inches
underneath it. Its sitting on blocks, okay, and uh, now I
don't have any two twenty power.The oven doesn't the stove doesn't work,
the the central air doesn't work.Do you know what might be doing that?

(01:11:00):
And none of the breakers flipped either? Well, uh, the main
might have or half of the mainor the breaker box, but it and
it went over the bottom two breakers, which one of them was the A
C. But it never flipped anybreakers though. Yeah. Did you shut
the breakers off though and turn themback on? Yes, including the main?

(01:11:20):
Yes, Because here's what it soundslike. Uh, yeah, you
got two legs of power that comein to make the two twenty, and
it sounds like one side is off, yes, sir. Yeah, And
so typically that's either going to bethe main has uh one side of the
main has tripped or uh there mighthave been a nick or something in the

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line and now it's shorted out.Yeah. What What was weird too,
is the the stove worked a daylonger than the AC went out right away
and the stove kept working another day, but water water stood for three or
four days like that. So wow, I don't know, but yeah,
I got one more question. Thatduck work got wet underneath for the AC,

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right, can I can Does thathave to be replaced or can you
dry it out? Okay, okay, just unless it's just a plain metal
duck that then that it could be. But if it's got fiberglass in it
and stuff, you know, insulation, it's got to be replaced. Okay.
I was thinking that. I thoughtmaybe if you turned the air and
got the air on it would justdry it out. No, it's it's

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fiberglass insulation. Once it's wet,it's lost all it's our value. It's
never going to be any good again. Okay, Well that was it.
That's my two main questions. Allright. Well, as far as that
electrical you're more likely going to needto get an electrician out there to check
the legs coming in. Yeah,yesterday was the first day you could get

(01:12:57):
in with vehicles though, yeah withouta boat. Yeah, I'll have to
do that for it Tuesday. Okay, okay, thank you very much,
good luck, George. All rightright again? Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four Cypress Area. Jeff, Welcome to seven forty k

(01:13:18):
t RH. How can I helpyou? How are you doing, mister
Daddan, Oh, so formal,We've been so onformal today. I'm doing
great. How are you today?Good? Good? Good? Good?
Roof My current situation the house builtlate seventies. Uh, just a regular

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owned by US Homes. Anyway,my roof, I've got two sets of
shingles on it. The last timewas about twenty five years ago. I
put another set of shingles, Okay, left the old shingles on there,
and everything's been fine since I currentlyhave no roof leaks. Uh. Of
course, you know, the shingleslook weathered, and there are some streaking

(01:14:03):
and some let's to be some minorsagging in some of the boards. However,
Uh, that being said, howdo I know that my roof needs
to be replaced again? I've gottena couple of cars left at my door,
you know, from roofing companies,apparently looking at my roof and saying

(01:14:28):
that it looks old. Give usa call. But how do I know
that I need a new roof?When the edges of the shingles start curling
up, you're getting near the endof the life of the roof, okay,
And that's a good way to tell, because that's a way to tell
I got you. So if they'renot lying flat, it's it's about that

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time. Yep. Yeah, BecauseI mean, you got no leaks,
you got none of the other problems, just the plain weathered age of the
roof. When they start curling up, that means the sun has beat on
it enough, it's dried all theasphalts out, and they're just shrinking away.
And that's when you're getting near theend of the life. Got you

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so at paragraph in a discussion,yep, Okay, Well that's what I
needed to know, Mike Goodness,I'm gonna have to spend some money down,
yes, sir, because you're gonnahave to take both layers off this
time, right right. I understandthat, and maybe with some of that
sagging replace some of the decking too. Not the sagging won't actually be the

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decking. It's just going to bethe the rafters underneath. Oh okay,
given some sag and you know,depending on how bad it is, we'll
determine if you want to go aheadand do anything. But uh, that
would be a matter of just goingup in the attic and you could put
a board cross across the roof raftersin the middle there, jack it up

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and then you have to put bracesgoing down to where walls are to hold
it that way, if it's badenough that you want to do it,
I got you the bottom line.If the shingles aren't laying flat, it's
time to Yes, they're time tomake a move. Yep. Okay,
Well that's what I needed to findout. You've been very helpful. All

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right, you take care. Thankyou and again seven one three two one
two five eight seven four James inLeak City. What can I do for
you? Yeah, good afternoon,sir. I was just wondering about home

(01:16:41):
warranty. What do you think aboutI know there's a lot of advertising on
TV home warranty? What what areyou what judge it on that? You
know a lot of times you'll geta home warranty when you originally buy a
house, even if you're buying ayou know, a fifty years, sixty
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(01:17:04):
big of using that as a salesthing. And what you find is every
year they tend to go up inprice and start pricing themselves out. If
you get it cheap enough, it'sworth having, but in general, when
the prices start going up too high, it's not. The issue is people

(01:17:28):
always think, well, if mydishwasher goes out or my air conditioner goes
out, I'll just get a newone, and that's not what they're in
business to do. They will fixthat old one as far as they can
fix, even when it doesn't makemoney sense to you, it does to
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(01:17:56):
and it's going to take fifty eighthundred dollars to fix it. For you
and me, that fifteen hundred dollarsgoes a long ways towards a new system,
and it would be money better spentfor them. They got no bit,
no benefits of putting in a newsystem. They're going to doctor the
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(01:18:18):
going to have to wait for theac company to come out, You're going
to have to wait for them toget approval for the parts. It kind
of drags things out. But moneywise, like I said, typically early
on it makes sense. As theygo up in price, it just doesn't.

(01:18:40):
Yeah, because I've been I've beenin this house for about sixteen year
or so, I was wondering,I've looked around and give me a price
of like forty three dollars a month. So and I'll tell them, I
say, well, I just don'twant to get something. And when I
need something, you guys going,oh, it's not covered. It's not
covered. They're saying, well,we'll come out and look and repair it.
But if we can not repairable,replace it with something similar to what

(01:19:01):
you have. Right, So whatwhat what company? Was that Choice Home
Warranty? Okay, I'm not familiarwith them, haven't heard that one.
Take a look at American Home Shield. Okay, that is good. That

(01:19:23):
is that is one I'm familiar with. But you know, like I said,
I even them, I know thatif they can fix it, they're
going to fix it. It's it'swhatever they can get away with for the
least amount. And I will tellyou that they all lean on their contractors
as well. My my air conditioningcompany, for instance, we do some

(01:19:44):
of that warranty work for American HomeShield and they have dollar targets that we
have to hit per call. Uhyou know, so if it needs a
lot of repairs and it's going overthat dollar thing, it counts against you
for uh future business with the company. So they're looking for people who will

(01:20:08):
shortcut, and so I suspect I'mgoing to be short lived with them.
But uh that that that is justthe way they all operate. Okay,
all right, Well I'll give theAmerican Home Kill the calling to where are
frightened and stuff, and I'll gofrom there. I appreciate your time and
I enjoy yourself. Thank you sir. You take care all right, how

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Is there a root killer that workseffectively because we've been kind of using road
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can I haven't heard any of anygood ones because the problem is, you
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I thought you might know. Yeah, well, none of them are.
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finish up with gay here and humbleand sorry about that, but I had
to take those breaks when they can. Thank you, sir, I've been
very kind quickly on the AC myair conditioning guys said that it's very hard

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difficult to access the evaporator coil onthe floor unit. He said by looking
at the reads the various readings,he can tell whether it really requires cleaning.
Is that true? Very much?So? Yes, okay, because
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So he said, the way theunits are set up, it's very hard
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can open it up and clean theyou know, coil all of that stuff.
It says in my case, it'sit's difficult to do that. Yeah,
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