Using Rhino Shield Around the House

Johann and Adam fill in for Jim today as he enjoys an Alaskan cruise. They get questions about spray foam and blown in insulation on two different houses, a beeping smoke detector, vinyl siding, and more. They take more calls and questions in the second hour, offering more home improvement advice.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Texas Home Improvement is on the air with your host
Jim Jacky.

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what to do and what not to do.

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Jim Dunton.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Welcome to Texas Homeprovement. I'm Johann Dutton here with my
brother Adam Dutton, filling in for Jim today.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
He's on vacation this week.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
He's up in Alaska doing a cruise, and so while
he's enjoying his time up there, we've been filling in
doing a lot of the stuff with the business this
week as well as now getting to host for you
guys on the on the radio show this weekend. We

(01:51):
have done the radio show a number of times for
him over the years, and so something that we enjoy
doing every once in a while to fill in with him.
And if you have any questions for us, uh this
this afternoon, you can give us a call at seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. That's

(02:13):
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
And between Adam and I we can definitely uh get
it figured out here together. You know, Adam and I
have been working with our dad obviously our entire life
here UH and that is helping, you know, grow up

(02:35):
in the family business and working for our family business
due west On doing foundation repair and plumbing and UH
for a period of time, I ran our ac division.
And then also we have definitely helped our dad with

(02:58):
doing home improved been projects on the weekend as well.
And uh, you know, Adam, in the last decade, how
much hammer swinging have you personally done on Dad's house
versus what you've seen him doing on his swinging the

(03:19):
hammer on his house here.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
I can't even remember the last time I've seen him
actually swinging a hammer.

Speaker 7 (03:26):
Yeah, oh, I know.

Speaker 8 (03:27):
The last time is whenever he dropped hit that big
rock at my house onto his toes.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
That's right, Hey, he was helping at your house, wasn't he.

Speaker 8 (03:35):
He was more messing around though, he was like a word,
I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
But nonetheless, we've been around these home improvement projects for
quite a long time.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
We're both in our.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
Mid to later thirties here, so we've been doing this,
uh you know, basically our whole lives growing up. And
if you have any home improvement questions for us, you
can give us a call at seven peint three two
one two, five eight seven four. The other thing that
we forgot to mention in previous shows is that we

(04:11):
are also engineers as well. I have a degree in
mechanical engineering and a professional engineering license, which really came
in handy when I was running the HVAC division for
our company for a number of years. And then Adam
has a degree in civil engineering, and so he does

(04:31):
a whole lot of work with drainage and doing concrete replacement,
and obviously together we do a whole lot of work
in the foundation repair space as well. So but if
you have any home improvement question for us, you can
give us a call this weekend at seven one three
two one two five eight seven four and we can

(04:55):
get you helped out. Today. This week was kind of
a unique week. We went to the National Foundation Repair
Association annual conference, which was hosted in Oklahoma City this year.

Speaker 7 (05:12):
They have them all over.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Different parts of the country with different years, and this
year happened to be in Oklahoma, so it wasn't a
terribly far drive for us to get there, and once
we were there, we were to be honest with you,
as native Texans who grew up in Texas between Houston
and San Antonio and Dallas area over the course of

(05:38):
our lives, I hadn't frankly spent much time in Oklahoma,
but I was I was pleasantly surprised with the area
around where we were at was.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
It was nice, it was it had.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
A nice new par I joked, you didn't have to
worry about getting stabbed when you were walking around.

Speaker 7 (05:57):
It's pretty good. It was good.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yeah, I'm not saying I wasn't happy to be back
home again, but oh yeah, it was a good It
was a pretty good place to visit. I would I
would definitely do it again. And there was a lot.
There's a lot that we learned there. We we go
basically every year to the National Foundation Repair Association conference,

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and you learn a little bit every time you go.
You know, you see something either that a manufacturer has
developed that you hadn't seen before, or some engineer or
contractor is working on a new technique for something that
that you hadn't heard about before. And frankly, even if
it's not something that you, as a contractor use are

(06:44):
going to use yourself, it is nice to know what's
out there so that when you do get to ask
the question, you can speak with some level of intelligence
as to the pros and cons of a particular technique
or product and why that may or may not be
the best application for that situation right, yeah, yeah, And

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if you have any home improvement questions for us just
one more time, you can give us a call at
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
and we'd be more happy to answer your home improvement
question today. The other interesting thing about the foundation repair
industry is that it is an unlicensed industry, and so

(07:32):
there's a there's a lot of information out there which
is gained from knowledge from experience and honestly just looking
at case studies of problems and how people solve them
and that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
But when somebody comes.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Out to your house to assess your foundation, you you
got to keep in mind that there is no code
by which they are going by to say that this
is a condition which constitutes acceptable performance, and this is
a situation that constitutes unacceptable performance. It's really graded kind

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of on a scale, and so you are getting that
individual's opinion based on what they're seeing measurements on the
house and cosmetic damage on the house and so forth,
to be able to come up with a solution.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
And so.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
We are personally working with both the Foundation Repair Association
and the Foundation Performance Association of Houston to develop some
more consistent standards by by which assessors can go out
and evaluate a house with some level of consistency, so

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that the general public, frankly feels a little bit more
confident that when somebody has come in and in two
or three different opinions, that those opinions relatively match each
other and they can make a good decision on what
is the best fit contractor for them. But right now,
the way the industry is run, it's almost like you

(09:17):
have to make two selections. You have to make a
selection with a contractor that you feel like you can trust,
and you have to make a selection with a repair
plan that you feel like you can trust. And you
really got to hope that your trusting the contractor and
the trust in the repair solution align so that when
you invest your money that it's going to go to

(09:40):
solve the problem that you're trying to solve.

Speaker 8 (09:44):
Right exactly.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
And that is really the heart at which our involvement
in this process of trying to develop some better guidelines
is that we want to see people whenever they're investing
their money in a problem like this, because frankly, nobody

(10:07):
wakes up in the morning and says I'm looking forward
to buying some foundation repair. This is not a new
pool in your backyard.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
This is not a new kitchen. This is.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
A structural deficiency that if nobody had to deal with again,
everybody would be happy about.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
Right, Even I watched my house like a hawk because
I'm like, I don't want to have to deal with
that's right.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
And so to that end, it's really, you know, in
our heart important that when people do invest in these
kind of things, that it solves the problem that they're facing.
And it's almost to the point that we, as a

(10:57):
contractor at do West Foundation Repair, recognize that obviously our
client is the people that own the home, but our
client is also the home itself, because at the end
of the day, the issue with the foundation is the
issue with the foundation, and the solution to that issue

(11:19):
is the solution to that issue. And sometimes people, you know,
register with that and they understand that, and they align
and agree with what the repair plan for that problem
looks like. And sometimes there's a conflict, not not necessarily
with the repair plan itself, but just with what the

(11:42):
the actual problem is that we're trying to that we're
trying to solve here at this house, right, And so
that's really the first step to you know, really across
the board foundation repair aside across the board in the
home improvement space, being able to assent that's the problem
and understand what you're dealing with is really the critical first.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
Step to.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
Going out and finding the right solution for it. When
we get back from the break, our first call will
be Benjamin and Mi, Missouri City.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Benjamin. We'll look forward to speaking with.

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Speaker 5 (15:38):
It's so hot the people in Austin are taking the
day off from being weird. Welcome to Texas summer. Here's
Jim Dutton on Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
This is Johann Dutton here with my brother Adam Dutton,
filling in for our father Jim today while he's on
vacation on a cruise around Alaska. So he's enjoying his
time out there, and we're getting a chance to talk
to everybody on the air today. If you have any
home improvement questions for us, you can give us a
call at seven one three two one two five eight

(16:13):
seven four and up. First here we want to run
to Benjamin. Benjamin, I appreciate you holding through the break
for us. How can we help today?

Speaker 10 (16:23):
Hey there, Johan Adam, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
Im.

Speaker 10 (16:26):
Yes, their house shopping and I've got two houses that
are about four thousand square foot. Each one was built
ten years ago, the other one twenty years ago. The
ten year old house has spray foam insulation in the
attic and walls. The twenty year old house has just
blown insulation in the attic and the traditional two condensers.
The ten year old house has only one five time condemned.
So I've got two questions. The first one's about the
young house, the ten year old house. If I buy

(16:47):
that house, are there any ways to check and see
whether they've had any troubles? I know, Jim, your dad
has warned me before about how it can become an
igloo that's closed and lesson will develop a bunch of
mold if DAC ever cuts off. So is there a
way to inspect and look and see whether that's ever
happened before to this house?

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Well, you know, those type of problems can develop in
a new construction house, in a ten year old house
that is built with that type of envelope in mind,
Usually the contractor is a little bit more cognizant of
building an AC system that has the right amount of

(17:29):
outside air coming into the house so that it does
get a chance to breathe some and doesn't experience the
kind of issues that are more prevalent in a retrofit environment.
Where where that really becomes kind of a problem sometimes
is whenever somebody has an AC unit that is designed

(17:53):
for a house that breathes, and then you start sealing
off the envelope enough that it doesn't have an ability
to breathe in the outside air, and then you get
that sick home syndrome. So I don't know off the
top of my head. I can't think forensically of a
way that you would be able to assess it and

(18:14):
make a determination on whether or not it previously had
a mold issue without really starting to tear some things apart.

Speaker 8 (18:22):
Yeah, the only way I could think of is actually
destructive investigation. You're taking sheet rock off things like.

Speaker 7 (18:30):
That, right to back behind it.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Yeah, but nonetheless it was if it was built that
way to start with as a new construction, then the
risk is relatively low, I guess.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
Compared with exactly yes, sir, yep, okay. And then what
was the question on the on the twenty year old house? Sir?

Speaker 10 (18:47):
Yeah, I'm a twenty year old house. If I buy
that one, I know for sure I'll have to replace
the ACU And if you walk into that house, it's
very muggy and it's not keeping up with the Houston heat.
I could choose to replace both condensers and maybe do
some kind of insulation, or maybe I could choose to
retrofit it and go to one condenser with sprayf home insulation.

(19:08):
So I just wanted to know what your thoughts are there.
You know, what would you recommend knowing that the AC
system has to be replaced and got a serious humidity problem.

Speaker 6 (19:14):
Well, it's probably going to actually end up being a
little bit more efficient from your perspective, to just replace
the two rather than try to create an envelope that
is efficient enough that you can get by with one.
Because they don't make a normal residential system bigger than

(19:38):
five tons, right, so you would have to get the
whole house to the load requirements of a five ton
system to be able to go with one.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
But where you would.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Really run into a little bit of roadblock is that
the ducting right now is all set for those two
different systems, and if you were to go and put
one system in, you would have to redo that ducting,
and that can be quickly become a pretty costly endeavor,

(20:11):
and you'd we're doing a whole house that is already existing.
All new duct work can honestly quickly approach the type
of numbers that it takes to buy replacement equipment for
the inside and outside, So you'd really actually be looking

(20:33):
at similar price points for one system with new duct
work versus two new systems.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
Gotcha, And then with two new systems. Is that likely
to solve the humidity and mugginess problem or would I
also have to have the ductwork cleaned down?

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (20:51):
Uh, well you'd have to take those grills off to
do an assessment of whether or not there's actually some
bacterial growth going on in the uh duct work. I
I'm hesitant to call things uh mold and not just
meldew without without doing uh.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
More testing on it.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
But you know, sometimes people throw around the mold issue
uh pretty pretty regularly. But I would there's a decent
chance that just a normal duck cleaning the duct work
will be in decent shape and then it's just a
matter of getting your system size right for the actual
load that you're dealing with there. If you want more

(21:34):
inforation on that, definitely give us our office a call
seven one three four seven three seven one five.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
Six and ask for WAD Thank you, yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
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(22:18):
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Here's Jim Dutton on Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
This is Johann Dutton here with my brother Adam Dutton
filling in for our father Jim today. He's on vacation
out in Alaska on a cruise this week, and so
we're here to answer any home improvement questions you have.
You can give us a call at seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. A couple of

(23:32):
things that I wanted to circle back on, uh while
I had a chance here that we were addressing with
the last caller on the two houses that he was assessing.
The ten year old house, he had a little bit
of a concern on the way the house was insulated
because he had that spray foam insulation going on in
both the attic and the rafters of the roof. And

(23:56):
he had heard Jim my father talk pretty routinely about
the concerns on having a house too enclosed when they
spray foam both the attic and the walls that way,
and that you can get a sick home syndrome. Those
type of conditions most often apply in a situation where

(24:20):
somebody is retrofitting that insulation, and the AC unit is
not adapted to bring in the necessary outside era that
you need. When you start enveloping a house that tightly, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:33):
And it's usually not just the insulation either. They've got
the high efficiency windows that seel well, the doors that
seel well. They're really stopping any air flow from transferring
from that exterior to the anterior.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Right.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
And when you have a house that's like a thirty
or forty year old house that was built with one
type of condition and then you start changing out the windows,
you start changing out the insulation, you start putting in
a more high efficiency AC unit. If you're not if
you're not designing it for all of those new systems

(25:08):
to interact together, it can't create a set of cascading
problems for you. So you just and really the best
solution is to just make sure that your AC guy
is in the loop with either what your immediate future
plans are for those type of upgrades or any of

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those upgrades that had previously been performed on the house
to make sure that the load calculation and that the
air requirements are accounted for appropriately.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
Yeah, And with that being said, also don't be scared
to upgrade some of those things on your house as well.
I myself have done windows. I had USA Insulation come
out and foam inject my walls, but then I left
the attic space with no foam, just did the radium
barrier there, and that has done a whole lot to

(26:03):
increase the efficiency of my home and drop my energy
bill about a third of what it was whenever I
first moved into that house.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, and that technique that you talked about there is
exactly what our father Jim promotes all the time as
being an ideal solution for a retrofit.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
And mind you, my house is fifty years old, so
those things did a lot there. If your house is
only twenty years old, it might not do as much
for you.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
And those really can have a big impact on your
energy bill too. Yeah. Now, in the scenario that he
was describing with is with his twenty year old house
and that muggy issue that he was perceiving when he

(26:46):
was walking in. I don't know if that house was
necessarily occupied. There's a good chance it was vacant since
he was looking at it on the market for some reason.
A lot of times realtors or people in general like
to put the fan into on mode versus auto mode.

(27:07):
And in a residence like that, when you put that
fan into on mode and it's during the summer and
the system is trying to cool, that alone can create
a muggy condition in that house. And I've been in
a lot of you know, I was the AC department

(27:29):
manager for due West for three four years, and so
I got to see a lot of these type of things.

Speaker 8 (27:36):
First chance to spand your mechanical engineer as well. And
you've initially got your license working on AC unit design
on the commercial scale.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Fair enough, yeah, yeah, And so so there's a number
of times when I've looked at a setup and really
the only problem was is that somebody was dealing with
an issue, and in order to solve the issue, they
started messing with the thermostat and they ended up putting

(28:06):
that fan into on mode and you don't get the
proper cycling through the cooling coil. That is the the
side in the attic. You know, you have the side
outside and you have the side in the attic that
or maybe sometimes in a closet in a hallway or
something like that, but that when that air is flowing
across that coil. It's really doing two things. It's being

(28:30):
cooled down because the coil itself is cold, and it's
also condensing on the surface of the coil. Just like
when you see on a cold can or a cold bottle,
the air is condensing on the side of it and
creating those water droplets. Exact same thing happens on a
cooling coil, and that's how it rings the humidity out

(28:52):
of the air. But in order for that to function properly,
you have the air flow over it. It cools it down,
it rings the humidity out, and then the system turns
back off and it lets that coil dry up again
so that when it turns back on again, it can
do the whole thing over again. If you're in a

(29:15):
situation where the fan is staying running or the unit
is short cycling because it's not sized properly for the
load of the house, then you can disrupt that drying
process of the coil and start raising your humidity, which
is obviously creating a problem. So it may be something bigger,

(29:37):
and it may be something as small as that the
thermostat was set incorrectly in that house that he was
looking at. So just something to keep in mind, and
if in your own house, make sure you're always putting
that fan into automode when you're especially when you're in
a cooling setting. If you have any home improvement questions

(29:59):
for us, you can give us a call today at
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
and we can answer any home improvement questions you have.
And uh, before we run into the next break here, I'll.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Say that I I if.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
It was me, I would personally like having the two
units set up because one of those it's either one
of two scenarios usually either the upstairs and the downstairs
or the master suite and the rest of the house.
And either case, sometimes I like to keep that thermostat
tet set.

Speaker 7 (30:38):
Nice to have a little bit cooler, exactly.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
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Speaker 11 (33:49):
Welcome to the Dutton Ranch where designers contractors get taken
to the train station. Here's more Texas home improvement.

Speaker 7 (33:59):
With Welcome back to Texas how Improvement.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
This is Johann Dutton here with my brother Adam Dutton
filling in for our father Jim today while he's on
vacation h on a cruise around Alaska. So if you
have any home improvement questions for us, you can give
us a call today. It's seven one three two one
two five eight seven four and we'll get right back
into the calls. Here with Jenny and Conro. Good afternoon, Jenny.

(34:27):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 13 (34:29):
I'm good.

Speaker 10 (34:30):
A quick question.

Speaker 14 (34:32):
I have a smoke detector in my bedroom and it
was deeping, so I thought it was a battery. But
it's hardwired, and I try to reset it and do
all that stuff. I unplugged it and I put it
in the garage.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
It's still deeping.

Speaker 14 (34:48):
I swear to God, is still beeping? Do I need
to just get a.

Speaker 7 (34:51):
New one so that Is it hardwired to your.

Speaker 14 (34:57):
Yeah, it's hardwired from the builder.

Speaker 7 (35:02):
From the builder. Do you have a security alarm system there?

Speaker 14 (35:06):
I do, and those are on battery?

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Gotcha? How old does that happen?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Five years?

Speaker 7 (35:15):
Five years? Okay, hm hmmm.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
So sometimes though, even those hard wired ones will have
uh a small battery and it's almost like a watch
battery though I forget what size they call those, and
those go out sometimes and it will still start beeping.
Your hard time with that?

Speaker 14 (35:34):
Okay, all right, my son's coming next week, so all
left and to look at it, that's enough to drive
you crazy.

Speaker 8 (35:41):
Oh yeah, I get it.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah, it's probably gonna be that that backup battery in there.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, nonetheless, I listen from every weekend.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
Yeah, and if and if you can, if when he
gets there, he can get that opened up and be
able to get that replace that is definitely going to
be an easier solution than trying to replace it. If
it's hardwired, and because usually those hard wired systems, it's
it's proprietary designed.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
With the.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
With the alarm system that you have, and if you
go back with just a standard smoke alarm that you
would get from like a hardware store, it's not going
to be able to have that communication back.

Speaker 7 (36:27):
To the.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Well.

Speaker 14 (36:30):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Thank you, yes, ma'am. Well you have a good afternoon. Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
And if you if you have any other home improvement
questions for us, please give us a call at seven
one three two one two five eight seven four and
we could help answer any home improvement questions you have.

Speaker 7 (36:51):
Adam.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
You know something we've been going over a lot recently
in our own organization is the amount of rain that
we've been experiencing this year and that we expect to experience.

Speaker 8 (37:02):
Weather cycles are changing. We've been in drought the last
five years and we're getting getting ready to get into
that wet season again. Yeah, wet cycle over the next
couple of years.

Speaker 7 (37:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
I don't know if how much people have been keeping
up with this weather cycle, but we are officially in
an El Nino weather cycle now.

Speaker 8 (37:21):
Yeah, they're trying to call it a super l Nio.

Speaker 7 (37:24):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (37:25):
And what what in text is how we normally experience
a super El Nino is that we have a really
rainy winter and half part of the time that could
also be a really rainy summer, and part of the time,
that could be a really dry summer, but as we

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shift into the winter cycles, then it's gonna be a
rainy winter. So so far, I don't know about you,
but I've been having to mow my grass a launch.

Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah, I almost feel like I need to switch to
twice a week now. It's been rough.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
That's right, And so there. You know, being hot and
dry can affect your foundation, and that's something that we
see routinely, especially when we're in a drought conditions. But
there are situations that having too much water can be
dis just as detrimental to the health of your foundation,

(38:25):
and we're starting to see a lot more of those
things right now as well. And where that is coming
up really most often is if you have standing water
closer than five feet to your house for longer than
thirty minutes after the rainfall finishes, then you're gonna need

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to do something to address that surface drainage because having
that water less than five feet in the house longer
than thirty minutes after it finishes is causing the soils
to overly saturate, which can create differences in the movement
of the soil over time and can create foundation and

(39:09):
balances which obviously if you live in Houston, you know
what foundation problems look like generally, yes, yes, yeah.

Speaker 8 (39:19):
And it's important to also note that, Yeah, there's a
lot of different industries that work in the drainage field.
So like your landscapers, irrigators, Uh, we we do found
our foundation repairent we do drainage because we know how
it affects the foundation. But there really is a bunch
of different quality levels that you get with those systems

(39:43):
as well. We're typically pushing people to get a more
of a PVC hard piped situation. One, you get your
slopes a lot better because that corrugated pipe is often
coming in a role so it's getting waves to it
and the flow doesn't go through there as well. But
then also you can actually clean that system down the

(40:05):
road using the hydrojetting and keeping it maintained, keep it
maintained a lot easier versus having those ribs on the
inside that collect the dirt and debris flowing through it.
And besides that, the knowledge level of the people actually
installing the system makes a huge difference.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
Yeah. And if you if that's something that you're expansing
and and uh you need help with uh, great resources.
Simply to call our office at seven.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
To one to three uh four seven three seven one
five six and we could uh send one of our
trained estimators out to.

Speaker 7 (40:40):
Help with that kind of problem. If you have any
other home improvement questions for us.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
This afternoon we got one more hour seven one three
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Let's talk about rhino Shield. Now, you know he was
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But Rhino shield I don't have to worry about that.
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Your traditional system there react it's after they're in the building.
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Hey, if you're having a foundation problem and you want
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Speaker 5 (43:52):
We're back to Texas Home Improvement. Home improvement advice, tips
and information for you and your mama.

Speaker 11 (44:00):
Here's Jim Dunton.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
Welcome back to Texas Home for a fitness is Johan
Dutton here with my brother Adam Dutton filling in for
our father Jim today. He's on vacation in Alaska on
a cruise right now, and I think he's having a
good time this week.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
Adam, what do you think?

Speaker 8 (44:18):
Yeah, I think he's doing pretty good. But you know,
we've been been doing the radio show for him for
a little bit today, but we've filled in a couple
of times. When when can we get our own bumper music?

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Hey, that's a good idea. We gotta talk to Brian
about that, don't we. Yes, Yeah, yeah, you know, usually
he goes on vacation and honestly, half the time he
just takes the equipment that does the radio show with
him even if he's away from home, and a lot
of times he's still really engaged with the day to

(44:52):
days of the business. But I think he's enjoying himself
this week.

Speaker 7 (44:56):
To be honest with.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
Yeah, I had a conversation earlier this week and uh,
work didn't come up once.

Speaker 7 (45:02):
It was weird.

Speaker 9 (45:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
So you guys that listened to him week after we
I'm sure you hear the stories about what he does,
uh with this business and everything. So it's good glad
to hear that he's having some good time away from it.
Right now, we do have one hour left to go here,
so if you do have any home improvement questions for us,

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you can give us a call at seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Any home improvement
questions will do. I'll tell you that the stuff that
we deal with day to day though, foundation repair, plumbing,
air conditioning, these are these are some hot button items
right now and we look forward to talking about those

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more at the next In the next hour here at
Texas Home Improvement.

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Let's talk about Texas Remodel Team though. If you are
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Here's Jim Dutton, host of Texas Home Improvement and owner
of Do West Foundation Repair.

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The heat is on and this is the time of
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if you're not watering twice a day. So if you're
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this is the time to call my company do West
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I really appreciate you show.

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Really helped me to know what to do and what
not to do.

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You are a very logical man, you are you are
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I'm teking on my back forward drinking a beer and
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Speaker 7 (48:19):
Welcome to Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 6 (48:21):
This is Johann Dutton here with my brother Adam Dutton,
filling in for our father Jim today. He's on vacation
in Alaska on a cruise this week, and so we've
been uh tasked with getting them going on the radio
today as well as days at.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
The business this week. So been having fun doing both. YEP.

Speaker 8 (48:43):
If you have the big business we did take care
of most of that now anyways.

Speaker 6 (48:47):
Yeah, if you have any homeprovement questions for us, you
can give us a call. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. You know we've filled in
on this on his radio show a number of times now,
I could think of maybe half a dozen times, and
always like getting the calls and uh working through those

(49:08):
problems with somebody. So really looking forward to hearing from
you today. Seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. And let's start by going to Brenda and Galveston. Brenda,
how's it going for you this afternoon?

Speaker 2 (49:21):
I'm doing well, thank you? And yourself?

Speaker 7 (49:23):
Oh pretty well, enjoying the day. How can we help?

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Yeah, well, I have two questions for you. The first one,
I'm hearing you talk about this paint, little paint ricks
and all this. I'm looking at a house that has
that plastic type of sighting. Will that paint paint that
type of house?

Speaker 5 (49:42):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (49:43):
No, not not the rhinoshield. You're dealing with the vinyl sighting?

Speaker 7 (49:48):
Is it? Is it? Uh?

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Are you just wanting to change the color or is
it dealing with the mold issue on it?

Speaker 5 (49:55):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
No, it's in perfect condition. It's just an ugly color.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
Ah right. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (50:03):
The the rhino shield is the way it functions is
totally different. It it deals with like kind of the
capillary actions and things of that nature. So it's not
the one that you want specifically for.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
A it's more designed to adhere to the bricks and
let the bricks still breathe. Where vinyl siding, you need
something that can actually grab on to.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
That, that will on and you can paint it.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Yeah, I mean that's that's something that a more standard
exterior paint is able to handle.

Speaker 7 (50:44):
As far as that.

Speaker 6 (50:45):
So if you go to your normal paint supplier and
tell them what you're dealing with there, they will be
able to direct you to the proper type of paints
that can adhere to vinyl siding. You do want to
make sure that it goes on a nice clean surface, though, because.

Speaker 7 (51:02):
Whether you do it or whether you have yes, or
whether you do.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
It or are a or somebody else, you will want
to make sure that that surface is clean and dry
before you get started, because that is going to be
the key to success on a on a vinyl sighting
more than anything.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Because everybody's telling me the paint will just peel off
of it. And I don't want this house. I can't
change the color, and I don't want to put a
new signing on when the sighting's good.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
That's right, yep, yep.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
And you know, I mean most exterior paints are really
not designed to be a lifetime solution. That that's just
the nature of the beast. But if you have a
good prep surface you can that will really help extend
the life of the thing so that you're not looking
at this two to three years in and it's already
starting to peel on you.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Okay, okay. My other question is a foundational question. This
house is on stilts and the underneath where there's a
big slab that they've poured, you know for the house,
there's a crack at one of the beams and it

(52:13):
kind of goes crookedy through part of the concrete. Is
that a foundation problem or is that just settlement from
it being about twenty years old?

Speaker 6 (52:27):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (52:27):
Well, it really depends on where those posts are supported,
if they're most of those houses in that area, or
those posts are going through that concrete and supported deep down,
So I wouldn't necessarily call it a foundation structural issue
for the house, but there I have seen it at

(52:48):
times where a part of it may be sitting on
top of that concrete and then it would be but
I really highly doubt that would be the case.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Where you're now the guys telling it says there's no
foundation problems, and I just, yeah, I don't want to
put a contract on if I don't know for sure.
In between that and the paint, we're talking a lot
of money, and I don't want to invest in it
if it's going to need a lot of foundation work
and reciting it and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 8 (53:16):
So yeah, now with that concrete underneath there, there are
things you can do to raise it, level it up
that aren't terribly outrageous in cost either that in that case,
I'd probably be looking at doing polyurthane injections. Kind of
depends on how how much volume has to be used

(53:37):
in order to do that. But structural for the house,
what you're describing is not something I'd be terribly concerned about.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Okay, Okay, all right, Well I appreciate your input. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
Well, I do uh wanna correct one thing here because
I was looking at the at the Rhinoshield website and
they do actually have. It's not something that I have
used the way that I'm familiar with. The Rhino shield
for the brick and hardiboard. I have seen those go
on rhinoshield go on brick. I have seen it go

(54:13):
on hardyboard. But I'm looking at their website and they
do offer a specialized formula specific for painting vinyl sighting.
So I would definitely give them a call and uh,
give them an opportunity to to talk with you about
that and see what kind.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Of solutions rhino directly.

Speaker 6 (54:36):
Oh, yeah, you can give it. Do you do you
have something that you could write their phone number down on?

Speaker 7 (54:41):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (54:42):
Yeah, Okay. Their Houston office is at two eight one
six two six seven, yes, ma'am. And I'm not sure
if they are answering the phones on the weekend, but

(55:05):
nonetheless if you, yeah, and they and they do have
a formula for that for vinyl sighting, So that would
definitely be worth checking out there because everything that I've
seen on their applications, uh, that I've had personal experience
with and with Hardy and imported stuff, it is some
good stuff.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 6 (55:28):
Well, we really appreciate your call today, and I hope
you have a good rest of your day here. Uh,
for anybody else, thank you so much for anybody else.
If you have any home improvement questions for us, you
can give us a call seven to one three two
one two, five, eight seven four. And you know she
was calling from the Galveston area, Vinyl sighting on a

(55:50):
coastline like that, it goes through the ring or doesn't it?

Speaker 8 (55:53):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 6 (55:54):
Yeah, yeah, our grandparents used to have a house there.

Speaker 7 (56:01):
Let's see what was that.

Speaker 6 (56:02):
It was on the island, it was, it was farther
down south.

Speaker 7 (56:09):
I can't remember the name of the little area. Pirate
Cove might have been that.

Speaker 8 (56:15):
So that was like thirty years ago to now.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
So yeah, yeah, but I remember going out there and
going out in the boat on the bay and everything that.
That is a nice spot to when you when you
have a chance to get down there. Nonetheless, if you
have any home improvement questions for us, please give us
a call seven one three two one two five eight

(56:38):
seven four. You know what, another thing that they deal
with a lot on when as you get closer and
closer to the coast is that the AC units just
don't hold up the way they do when you're farther
north when you're when you're getting farther away from the
coastline itself. UH equipment manufacturers typically have a warranty on

(57:04):
the system somewhere in the neighborhood of ten years or so.
Some are a little longer, some are a little shorter,
but it's it's somewhere around that decade mark. If you
maintain a system properly, you can easily out of a
well built system, you can easily get a twenty year
life out of it, and sometimes more if you're willing

(57:28):
to replace parts, some of the larger expense parts, rather
than simply replacing either the.

Speaker 7 (57:35):
Outdoor unit or the indoor unit.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
But as you get closer to the coast, the world
changes a little bit, and you're lucky when you get
ten years out of your outdoor unit. When it's exposed
to that that environment on a daily basis.

Speaker 8 (57:54):
More the salt, say, get into the unit, or.

Speaker 7 (57:57):
The salt the salt yep, yep, and so you know.

Speaker 6 (58:02):
Sometimes some of those contractors have an ability to UH
pre put a put a specialized coating that doesn't negatively
affect the the heat transfer of the unit, but it
creates another coating to provide some protection to the to

(58:25):
the coil so it doesn't degrade quite as quickly on you. So, uh,
if you're in one of those situations, that's definitely something
to look at when you're needing to replace the AC
equipment near the coastline. And again, if you have any
questions for us, you can give us a call. Seven

(58:47):
one three two one two five eight seven four. Let's
see we're getting close to the hitting the brake here,
but when we get back from the Tyler will be
the first up and we look forward to hearing your
question here.

Speaker 7 (59:04):
In just a minute. Tyler on Texas ow Improvement.

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Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. This is Johann along
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Us, please give us a call seven one three two
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And let's jump right into the phones and talk to Tyler. Tyler,
how's your day going today?

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
Pretty good, sir?

Speaker 7 (01:02:49):
Are you very well? How can we help? So?

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
I heard you talking about the rhino shield. Yes, sir,
My wife and I've been looking at lime wash our
house out and hardened, and I wanted to know the
difference between what the outcome would be with the rhino
shield versus a traditional lime wash as far as the
way it looks at the end.

Speaker 13 (01:03:14):
Hmm.

Speaker 7 (01:03:15):
Well, the rhino shield is.

Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
It is like a pigmented paint, so it is gonna
look like a more traditional paint when it's done, versus
a lime wash, which has got that kind of like
a little bit of that milky kind of texture to it,
you know when you're looking at it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
So the rhino shield will be more of a uniform color.
Versus the lime wash.

Speaker 7 (01:03:42):
Yeah, in terms of how I have.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
The distressed look in it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Nah, Nah, it's gonna look like a uniform type of
paint finish. Were you wanting that lime wash specifically for
that type of aesthetic.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
Yes, sir, Yeah, the slightly distressed look of the lime wash.
And our house has a lot of different colored bricks.
It was built back in forty seven, so there's multiple
different shades of red and yellow in the bricks. Yeah,
And I wasn't sure exactly what would make it the
most uniform would still give the distressed look. And I've

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heard mixed reviews on the limewashing on the multicolored brick houses.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
Right, yeah, that.

Speaker 8 (01:04:30):
You know, I don't know if you have any wing
walls or anything. At my house, I had a wing
wall that I knew I was gonna be taken down,
so I just did a test spot with the lime washing,
and for me myself, I decided I wasn't going to
go that route with it because of what I saw
on that. So if you have a good place to

(01:04:51):
do a test spot on it, I would definitely advise
you to go that direction.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
Did you end up taking that wing wall down or
did you just ride shield over it. At the end
of the day, I just took it down, is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:05:05):
Yeah, yeah, And if you do do do the test
thing and you have to go over it with the
rhino shield, you can go that direction, but I don't
think you could go the other direction, So that may
be something worth considering that.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
Frankly, I I personally like to look at the of
the lime wash, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:05:27):
But that that multi colored brick part is the hard
part with it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Yeah, yes, sir, If y'all do y'all have a recommendation
for a certain brand of limewash to use. Possibly, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:05:43):
I didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
I didn't do much. I haven't done much research on
that myself to be able to offer a good recommendation
on that end.

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
Yeah, And I can't remember off the top of my
head what I had tried back then. I know I
had ordered it online, but it has been a while, so.

Speaker 13 (01:06:01):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
Also, I had a question about pea gravel. So I
just finished a patio in the front. I did a
it's a stepping stone twenty four inches by twenty four
inch concrete stepping stone diamond pattern and We filled in
the intermediaries with pea gravel, and I went back with

(01:06:26):
the ground glue, the mult glue, and sprayed over the
top of it. The problem is now that we want
to put patio furniture out there to kind of give
us a sitting area. Any patio furniture you put on
top of it, it wants to break through that glue
and just you know, break the pea gravel back up,
and the chairs legs or the table legs or anything

(01:06:46):
sink through the pea gravel. Is there any kind of
product that you could put down to make that. I've
seen where they I'm assuming it's some type of a
POxy where they kind of dig the pea gravel back up,
put it in the concrete mixer, mix it all together,
and then trowel it out. But is there any other
options without having to go back and dig everything back

(01:07:07):
out again that would make it more solid?

Speaker 8 (01:07:12):
Anything you do surface level, I just don't think it's
going to be strong enough with that pea gravel. And
a lot of that is because the base below it
is still loose in that round pea gravel that pushes
away from each other real easy. And so if you're
just getting it surface deep it. It doesn't have enough
bearing beneath it to be able to resist that pushing.

(01:07:35):
I think you're really like, like you said, you're the
best option to avoid that issue moving forward is going
to be pull it out and mix it with one
of those epoxy type products and then put it back
in place.

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
Yes, sir man, I wish we had a better answer
than that, but yeah, yeah, that really sounds like the
right solution.

Speaker 8 (01:07:58):
But and take it from me, because I had a
decomposed granite patio at my house for the longest time,
and uh I got concrete this week because I was
done dealing with it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
Yeah, decomposed, granted, has its own setu of maintenance that
that you got to do with the weeds and everything else.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
Right, yep, yep, yes, just get away time and done,
go ahead and poor slam.

Speaker 7 (01:08:21):
Yeah. Well, we really appreciate the call.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Yes, yes, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
You have a good afternoon you too.

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Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement on Johann Dutton here
with my brother Adam Dutton, filling in for our father
Jen today going answering a lot of really good important
questions today on Texas Home Improvement. If you have a
question for us, you can give us a call seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. You know,

(01:10:37):
at the top of this hour, Adam we were talking
through how we're rolling into a super El Nino weather
cycle right now, and we were talking about people's existing
homes and making sure that they're keeping the drainage flowing
away from the house appropriately so that they don't have

(01:10:57):
too much water, which can be distance debts mental as
too little water. Something that I am seeing coming up
more and more right now, though, is new construction houses
that are dealing with issues because they may have been
built during the drought conditions and they're just now experiencing

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in their life some of the most most water they've
ever seen. And whenever a new construction house experiences foundation
related movement, more often than not that movement is due
to swelling of the soils causing the house to get
higher than where it wants to be rather than the

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other way around, and so.

Speaker 8 (01:11:43):
Kind of different than what most people are used to,
but yeah, that is typically what happens.

Speaker 6 (01:11:48):
Yeah, And so if you have a house that is
starting to experience foundation movement and you're seeing those symptoms
of either a door is not working right, or there's
cracks in the brick or cracks in the sheep rock
in that house is less than ten years old, you

(01:12:08):
should really get somebody out to start monitoring it and
keep an eye on where that foundation is at and
where that foundation is going, because.

Speaker 7 (01:12:19):
Those those situations can be.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
At the end of the day a little bit more
costly to repair than the typical foundation job, which is
a house that's thirty to fifty years old and experienced
incremental settlement over time. Yeah, you know, definitely, if you
have any questions on that, or you have a concern
that you want to get looked at, definitely give us
our office a call seven to one to three four

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seven three seven one five six and we can take
a look at that for you. I do want to
switch over to the calls and talk to Tom. Tom, how
can we help today?

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
Hey, I got a couple of quick question for you.

Speaker 17 (01:13:01):
I'm thinking about building on the Gulf of America coast
there and so I'm gonna need I've never built on
a lake or or any any kind of water, and
I was wondering can you give me some tips on
what do I need to do because I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Gonna there's no building on there right now. Part of
it will be on on the land and part of
it will be you know, a little bit of the
water but even if it's on mostly all the land,
I expect you know, waves and you know whatever storms
and stuff to come in. What would you suggest and yeah,
and what type of expert would I call to do

(01:13:36):
such a thing?

Speaker 7 (01:13:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
Look, usually there's only a certain category of contractor and
designer that will even be able to help you with
the project like that. As an example, we don't typically
work on projects that are on waterfront for the simple
reason that are insurance that we have for liability insurance

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does not cover the water and because there's a whole
set of skills and a whole set of regulations regarding
that that is completely different than the than the purview
that that most contractors are most designers deal with. And
so what you'll find is that the hurdle number one

(01:14:29):
is just getting in touch with the right people who
can actually do a project like that for you.

Speaker 13 (01:14:36):
Hurdle, I don't find that person.

Speaker 6 (01:14:41):
Really, if I was in your shoes, the best course
would be looking around at other new construction going on
in the area and seeing who's the contractors that are
engaged with that and getting an understanding of the quality
of the work that they're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:14:56):
If you can get to the designer.

Speaker 6 (01:14:59):
Or the uh, the the engineer level. Then they will
have a set of recommendations that they can give you.
That is, local contractors in that area that could actually
get the thing built.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
Are starting with an an architect, I guess right, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:15:19):
Yeah, that is almost a tip.

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
Typically people got this little bit of misunderstanding of architects.
They think they're just drawing the nice, pretty picture of
the house and say, oh, put this type of siety,
and they they do a lot more to actually coordinate
the construction of these things.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
I've got a lot of that in my occupation, and
I've just never built like you guys. I've just never
done it on the water. And so I guess he
would have the good engineer at hand that would either
do it or refer it or whatever. But ye, yes, okay,
the other tips.

Speaker 6 (01:15:52):
I do have a tip for you because I'm on
the Foundation Performance Association, which is a group of engineers
that that do a lot in the industry, and one
of the you know, there's some structural engineers, there's some
geotechnical engineers, and there's some engineers that work on water
facing bulkheads and things of that nature. And I will

(01:16:15):
tell you the A key step to that process that
if missed, can result in catastrophic failure is doing a
global stability analysis. You want a global stability analysis of
the soils that that are against that waterfront there. So

(01:16:40):
if if you only design a wall or a bulkhead
to the height that you need it to be at
and addressing the the dirt immediately behind it, and you're
not paying attention to the global stability of that area,
then you can have the wall just fail farther down

(01:17:02):
you know, it's deeper into the ground.

Speaker 8 (01:17:04):
And that that would be a geotechnical engineer that is
doing those calculations along with getting samples of the site.

Speaker 6 (01:17:10):
And yeah, and so from my just sort of personal
knowledge and experience, I would say that that is something
that can create a big, big problem for people if
it's not addressed right on the front end. And so
you're you're gonna want to keep that in mind, the
global stability analysis and that as part of the design process.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
Great, hey, thank you very much. I'm just gonna go
ahead first in this thing and try to talk to
experts like you and others, and I'll get to get
ahold of the architects and is the engineers. So thank
you very much, have a nice today, you have a
great show, take care.

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Welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. This is Johan Dutton
here with my brother Adam Dutton. We're filling in for
our father Jim today. Why he's out on vacation in
Alaska on a cruise today. Yeah, so it's it's for him.

Speaker 7 (01:21:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:21:12):
It's been a great day in a great week. Uh,
very peaceful. Why he's been away this week, very peaceful.
So we are enjoying the time of way and am
looking forward to him being back in next week. With that,
we will go to the phones and Lawrence, how is

(01:21:34):
your day going today?

Speaker 13 (01:21:37):
Super cabbage, super cab, cabs of practice. I can't even
say super calum projeck expialidius.

Speaker 7 (01:21:45):
There you go, yes, sir, And what did you have
for us today?

Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (01:21:51):
Uh, your previous caller was talking about building in the
water down on their coastline. Did I hear that?

Speaker 7 (01:22:01):
That was my understanding?

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
What I envisioned was maybe one of those houses that
has like a second story that overhangs where the where
a boat slip is or something like that along that
along the coast we have a up But but I
didn't ask a lot of details on that.

Speaker 13 (01:22:22):
Yeah, I had mixed emotions about that. Anyhow, I'm a
license real estate agent for thirty five years and we
have waterfront property surfside Galveston area, and I can promise
him there are some very serious county, state, and federal
laws about building on waterfront, especially in an ocean gulf

(01:22:48):
type environment. Yes, sir, he's got some serious legal loopholes
to jump through the property. The rush yourself has to
be so many feet away from rising tides and waters
and things. That's and people who've never experienced something like that.

(01:23:13):
Quick story one of our beach houses. We had a
couple move in and we're there a couple of years.
They were from Germany and they had never experienced hurricanes
and things like that. And a couple of years ago
we had that small hurricane come through here and we
told them they needed to vacate and get out, and

(01:23:33):
they wouldn't do it, and they lost three automobiles. Oh no,
rising waters ye out. They thought, well it would it's
not enough to cover the small island of Surfside, and
that water got three foot high and the cars washed away,

(01:23:54):
and it's just they've got some serious County, State and
Federal was about building and a lot of times even
subsidence down there. Back twenty thirty forty years ago, there
were some homes down at Surf Side that actually where

(01:24:15):
they had subsided into the Gulf and had to be
torn down and the people lose their land, their houses,
the whole kit and kaboodle. Yes, there was a sinking land.
So yeah, I'm sure that will you for whatever that's worth.

Speaker 7 (01:24:32):
Yeah, that's that's great.

Speaker 6 (01:24:33):
And for any of our listeners not familiar with subsidence,
subsidence is where you know, sometimes people in the Houston
area are readily familiar with foundation repair when you have
a little bit of settlement going on on one side
of the house or another or so forth. But subsidence
is where the when the whole land is going down together,

(01:24:54):
like the house and the yard and everything all having
a settlem. And the coast can have its own challenges
like that.

Speaker 7 (01:25:04):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
Sometimes it's due to a change in groundwater table in
different different land mass areas, and sometimes it's just due
to specific you know, coastal concerns.

Speaker 13 (01:25:18):
So oh, and you know you you brought up a
great angle there about sub science. When you get within
uh so many blocks of coastal waterways that like the
Innercoastal Waterway that runs through Surfside and Galveston down there,

(01:25:40):
the insurance factor becomes that's another world. You have to
have light for a hurricane. If you don't have a
separate policy for flood, then you're not covered if your
home wash is away and then windstorm is another separate

(01:26:01):
package of insurance. And yes, so you have your normal
fire type of coverage YEP for your property. And when
we went through Hurricane Ike down there there on that

(01:26:23):
island of Surfside, there were like twenty five homes that
washed away. And to my knowledge, flood insurance now within
half a mile of the ocean is astronomical, an average
of ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 6 (01:26:41):
Wow, yep, it is a different world when you're building
that close to the coast. You know, there's a reason
people do it. It's beautiful, it's it's unlike anywhere else
you can live. But there are definitely other reasons. Not
everybody does that.

Speaker 13 (01:26:58):
Right, Yeah, true, true. And one thing before I go
the I don't know what you've experienced this year in
the past year, but homeowner's insurance has gone up an
average of about twenty five to thirty percent a year
for the last few years, and it's a real challenge

(01:27:21):
if you're dealing with any type of ocean front property. Yeah,
that's astronomical, even here in the East area. My personal
homeowners insurance went up twenty percent last year and then
about thirty percent this year. And I think at least
the people I deal with in real estate, we're all

(01:27:43):
experiencing that.

Speaker 7 (01:27:46):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:27:46):
That's a very valid point. Well, Lawrence, we really appreciate
your call and your insights regarding that.

Speaker 7 (01:27:52):
Today, you're welcome Hey, I love you guys.

Speaker 13 (01:27:56):
Y'all are wonderful and your dad's super duper and look
forward to your shows every Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 6 (01:28:03):
Thank you, yes, sir, thank you so much for calling in,
and we'll be back after this break with more Texas
home improvement.

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And it's available everywhere. But to find a store nearest
to you, go to readyseeal dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
When Jim Dutton Texas Home Improvement recommends a company, you
won't steer you wrong, like Due West, Services.

Speaker 18 (01:30:26):
I had your phenomenal company out regarding a foundation watering system,
and so tired of lugging those miserable so cross that
keep getting destroyed. It's just a nightmare. So anyway, I
had Jacob out from your company Due West, and he
was phenomenal and you run a tiptop organization. He was

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dressed beautifully. The truck he drove up and was perfect.
I mean, you just have made yourself a wonderful company.
I can't thank you enough. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 5 (01:31:22):
When you go to feed your neighbor's dogs while they're out,
that's because you're normal.

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Thieves don't get that feeling.

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Speaker 14 (01:31:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:31:50):
I've been working all week in in time, don't on
the street.

Speaker 13 (01:31:52):
And my MoMA have un it's time for a good time.

Speaker 6 (01:32:01):
Welcome back to Texas home improvement. That was another day
in the books for us. Adam, how'd that go on
your end?

Speaker 8 (01:32:11):
Yeah, it's okay. You did a lot more of the
talking than I had to this time.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:32:15):
Oh yeah, last time you fell. Then you did the
did the hosting, yes, yeah with Kenny. Yeah, very good. Well,
we really enjoy getting to do this every once in
a while and fill in and talk to the homeowners
and sometimes we get to learn a couple of new things,
like we're talking with Lawrence through the problems on the

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the that they're experienced along the coastline and stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:32:40):
That's all really good stuff for us.

Speaker 8 (01:32:43):
Definitely a very niche market there.

Speaker 6 (01:32:45):
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. It's a it's a good world.
It's a good world to be in, for better or
for worse. Right, Yes, and and just remember if you
have any questions or concerns throughout the week regarding home improvement,

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you can go to the tchipro dot com website and
ask Jim a question and it sends over an email
so that he can answer your home improvement questions here
next week and if you want to call our office,
you can give us a call seven to one three
four seven three seven one five six and have a

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good rest of your weekend from Texas Home Improvement.

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Hey, if you're having a foundation problem and you want
to get it looked at, call my company du West
Foundation Repair and we'll come out. We draw the house up,
we take elevations, we mark all the trees, and you know,
half the time you don't need foundation repair, you need
preventative maintenance and that will take care of your problem.
But whether it's full blown foundation payer preventative maintenance, you

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want the best, you call due West seven one three
four seven three seven one five six.

Speaker 5 (01:34:12):
There's a huge difference between a reactive and a proactive
security system. Here's justin Owens of Citadel Security.

Speaker 16 (01:34:19):
Your traditional system, they're reactive if after they're in the building.
Proactive deters them before they enter the fence lines or
near the property boundary. So when person has detected to
the loudspeakers say you need to leave, and then we'll
have a live person connect into the camera and see
what's going on to the dispatch. Law enforcement proactive is
the way of the future.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
Go to thchipro dot com and click the link to
Citadel Security