Water Heaters & Securac Security Systems

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That's seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
And I'll see what I can do to help you
out here on Texas Home Improvement. So I'm gonta start
with an email that came in regarding UH take us
water heater versus tank water heater comes from kJ and says, Hi, Jim,

(03:01):
love your show and all the great advice and direction
you give us every week. Thank you. I'm needing to
replace my mother's fifty gallon water heater and I'm thinking
about installing a tankless water heater. What are the pros
and cons of a tankless water heater? Cost a purchase
and have installed? Thank you, Carl. Well. As far as

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the cost, a tankless water heater is typically going to
cost a little bit more depending on the tankless and
tank you go with. You know will dictate how much more,
But truly it's not unusual unusual for it to be
thirty to fifty percent more UH the installation, again depending

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on what's got to be done to fit it. It
may not cost anymore, it could cost more if the
gas lines you off, you go with gas and it's
not a big enough gas line that traditionally anymore is
not a big because the tankless water heaters, the amount
of gas they require has greatly been reduced, so cost

(04:08):
wise you are typically looking at spending a little bit
more to go with a tankless water heater. Now one
of the big things on it though, typically a tankless
water heater will outlast a tank water heater almost two
to one, So where you typically get ten to twelve
years out of a tank type water heater, on a

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tankless it's normally like a twenty to twenty five year
water heater. So yes, you spend a little more upfront,
but you get a whole lot longer out of it. Now,
the other big advantages you got an endless supply of
hot water, and it doesn't matter if you just need
hot water for one shower or for one hundred showers.

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It never runs out. It's a continuous flow. Now people
start worrying about how much energy a tankless is going
to use, because when the tankless is running, yes, it's
using more energy than the tank does. But think about
how often nobody's home and you don't need hot water,
then it's using absolutely no energy at all. So energy

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wise tip. Traditionally, a tankless water heater is much more
energy efficient than a tank type water heater. So I
did convert my personal home. I do the light going tankless.
I do recommend it to people to take a look
at going tankless. So with Abby and said seven one

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them at thchipro dot com. All right, let's head to
Austin and Tony. This is Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 10 (08:20):
Hey, Jim, got a question. I need to bolt down
a safe. But it is a tile floor, it's already
been set. So just your recommendations if any.

Speaker 8 (08:31):
Be very careful.

Speaker 10 (08:34):
I thought about treating it like a bathroom toilet seat.

Speaker 8 (08:37):
The bolts you just get.

Speaker 10 (08:38):
Them kind of you know, tight, plus a little extra well,
so I don't put too much pressure.

Speaker 8 (08:45):
Truthfully, where your biggest issue is going to be is
drilling through the tile to set the bolts. Make sure
you get the tile type drill bits. Once you get
through that, then you can use a conca drill bit
to drill down into the slab set your bolts. But
you know, when you slide the safe into place and

(09:10):
go to bolt it down, you're could you over tighten
where you're gonna cause it to break? Sure, but that
would take a lot when you're bolting down a toilet,
your bigger concern is not the tile floor, it's a
toilet itself will break.

Speaker 10 (09:29):
I'll get You're right, Okay. The safe has been in
place for years. It's just I've never bolted it down,
and it's one of them projects. I'm like, Okay, I
need to do this, but I've just been reading up
on it and it's kind.

Speaker 8 (09:41):
Of Yeah, some people are doing it, and so it's
already got the taps on the bottom and everything ready
to go. Where do you bolt it from the inside
of the safe?

Speaker 10 (09:49):
Bolt it from the inside.

Speaker 8 (09:51):
Okay, I don't think you need to worry at all.
Then about overtightening, okay, yeah, and the tile has been
handling it no problems. Yeah. Now they make a little
what looks like a spade type bit for for drilling
through tile. Okay, use that first and then switch over

(10:14):
to the concrete bit. Okay.

Speaker 10 (10:18):
And my tile has that maroon backing on it, which
I believe makes it a it's not ceramic. It's okay,
and that should be fine.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, all right.

Speaker 10 (10:33):
All right, I've seen people who've done it, and are
read about people who've done it, and people say, don't do.

Speaker 8 (10:39):
It, So it's like, okay, what's the well That was
going to be my next question. I mean, if it's
been there for a while, why are you worried about
doing it?

Speaker 10 (10:47):
It's just that added security. I mean, if if I'm gone,
they will have to really really fight to get.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
It out right, and will they give up? Probably, I
don't know.

Speaker 10 (10:59):
They might still get it so I'm sure if they
have enough time they will Yep. Okay, I just wanted
to add that extra protection there.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
Yep. All right, sir.

Speaker 10 (11:09):
I appreciate your help.

Speaker 8 (11:11):
You bet, you take care?

Speaker 11 (11:12):
All right?

Speaker 8 (11:13):
Thank you, bye, and again our number seven one three
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look I asked the question why because it depends on
the weight of it. You know, some of the safes
are not that heavy. If if two guys can pick
it up and carry it, I'd be concerned with bolting

(11:36):
it down. But if it's gonna take you know, four
guys or six guys to pick this thing up and
move it, I personally wouldn't worry about bolting it down
because chance of them being able to get it out
of there's not going to be that great. So just
kind of my two cents on that we're getting ready
to have to take a break. When we come back,

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Yeah, we have a house that has some exterior the
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some of the mortar is we've been here for maybe
about fifteen years, and some of the mortar is kind
of pulling away from a few of the stones as
the house is kind of settled. I guess how how

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do we go about patching up those cracks between the
stone and the mortar.

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You have a brick mason come in and do what's
called tuck pointing, and basically what they do is still
grind out the mortar that's cracking and stuff, match the
collar and put new mortar in so that it's all
sealed up again.

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Okay, so that's not something that we can do ourselves.

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We have.

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I really don't recommend it. I mean, I'll tell homeowners
to do a lot of things themselves, but I will
tell you when homeowners try to match the mortar back,
they typically do a god awful job and it really
looks bad.

Speaker 14 (17:21):
Okay, I was concerned about that. And tell me what
that process is called. When I call a brick mason,
what is that called?

Speaker 8 (17:28):
Tuck pointing?

Speaker 14 (17:30):
Tuck pointing?

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Okay, and I gave you somebody to give a holler too,
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We're west to College Station, probably maybe twenty thirty miles?

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Okay, Uh, well, shoot, I am not finding him on
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I call my office at Due West and my guys
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Speaker 14 (18:33):
Thank you so much, Okay, I appreciate your guilp all right,
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And I'm not sure what I where the number went,
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seven four will head over to uh Crosby Frank, this
is a gym. How can I help you?

Speaker 16 (19:11):
Hey, I've kind of attached garage and on certain days
when the weather and humidity get just right, this thing sweats.
This thing sweats like you wouldn't believe, like somebody turned
on the garden ode.

Speaker 8 (19:23):
Is there nothing that can be done about that? Well,
it's a temperature issue, and short of either putting a
dehumidifier or something the temperature control in the garage, there's
not a whole heck of a lot you can do.

Speaker 16 (19:40):
Yeah, I've got a detached garage that doesn't do it.
But the one attached to the house. It's terrible when
the weather gets just bad and it's just like it's
a mess. But like today, it's perfect, it's fine. But
a couple of days this past week, yep, you swear somebody,
you swear we had a water leak.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Yeah, I'm more than likely. Uh, they didn't want they
prepped it. It could be something as simple as they
left the vapor barrier out from under it. Uh huh uh,
and and that's causing it. But the problem is, once
that's done, there's nothing you can do to put one in.

Speaker 16 (20:14):
Yeah. No, it was built in eighty one, so yeah,
there's nothing to be done there.

Speaker 11 (20:18):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (20:20):
But yeah, just put a d humidifier in there and
that'll probably take care of it.

Speaker 16 (20:25):
Oh how big of a I don't know how big
of it to be dehumidifier you have to put in there.

Speaker 8 (20:30):
They just they make the they make these little portable ones. Uh,
and it'll it'll go by the square footage. But they're
not all that expensive. And if you keep any tools
and things like that in the garage, it really helps
with keeping the rust and stuff off everything.

Speaker 16 (20:47):
Yeah, of course he has typical garage just full of everything.

Speaker 8 (20:50):
You know, man, that's the way mine is everything except
the car.

Speaker 16 (20:55):
Yeah yeah, there's no room in there for car anymore.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (20:58):
So, but you know it's got an eighteen foot door
on it, and we you know, we come in and
out that that that garage door. That's that's the main
door to you know, entry to the house.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
Yeah yeah, but I mean opening closing the door. Yes,
you're gonna let humidity back in. But what happens is
it'll by having a dehumidifier going all the time, it
pulls the moisture out of that concrete and so it'll
be able to handle that door going up and down.

Speaker 16 (21:31):
Okay, all right, we'll give it a shot.

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Speaker 8 (22:57):
Hey. Welcome back to Texas Home Improvements, your total long
improvement source again our number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Before we jump back into
the call, so I want to bring on a guest
real quick. I got Lloyd Young and Lloyd, how are
you today?

Speaker 17 (23:16):
I'm doing all right well, Lloyd.

Speaker 8 (23:19):
Let's talk security systems for a few minutes here, because
you know, so many homeowners haven't put security systems in
and a lot of those that have security systems are
way over paying for them.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's true.

Speaker 17 (23:39):
I've I've done some research and found that only about
twenty or twenty five percent of homeowners actually do invest
in home security systems in the traditional sense with the
large companies. And I started, I started in this business

(24:00):
working for those large companies. I would install two or
three of those systems a day. It was three doors
in a motion and a wires and so I did
a lot of them in my career.

Speaker 15 (24:14):
I started.

Speaker 17 (24:16):
Back in nineteen eighty one. And so, yeah, there are
a lot of homes that don't invest into that, and
there's probably several good reasons for it.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
So your company that you have, now, let's talk about
it for a minute. What do you guys do now.

Speaker 17 (24:41):
Well, my company, I've had my company since two thousand
and one and we are a full source security provider,
fire alarm, access control, cameras and things like that. But
last year, Jim I was inspired to open up a

(25:02):
greater presence in the residential market. Smart home has become
really attractive to homeowners. The same survey they're referenced earlier
said eighty seven percent of homeowners are interested in smart homes,
so I thought, well, I'm not. I'm not keen on

(25:24):
buying into the big boys and paying eighty nineteen hundred
dollars a month for a five year contract. I know
that in my industry, a lot of these companies will
put in proprietary equipment and get you on a contract
and you have to you have to catch it thirty
days before the end to even get out of it.
And if you do choose to get out of those contracts,

(25:47):
then you are you're stuck with a proprietary piece of
equipment that other companies can't really monitor. So essentially, if
you leave them, you got to start all over again.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
So with all this new high tech stuff and the
smart homes and all that stuff, is this something that
people can install themselves or do they need to have
it done?

Speaker 17 (26:10):
Well, that was my inspiration. I started this. When I
got into the business, I suffered my own loss. I mean, really,
people don't typically go and invest in that security system
until they've come home and find that their home has
been violated. So now they're angry, and they signed the
contract and they get that security system so they don't

(26:32):
suffer that emotional trauma again at loss. And I was
one of those. When I was in high school, my
trug got broke into. So I went to the radio shack,
got an alarm, and the radio shack employees said, do
you install alarms? And I said, well, yeah, I do now,

(26:53):
So I started doing alarms, and I quickly moved into residential.
And probably the reason people don't get it is because
they haven't suffered loss in there. You know, I got
their shotgun in the Rottweiler, or they find that it's
just really too expensive, and.

Speaker 8 (27:15):
Well, shotgun's only good at your home. Rothwiler with a
good steak will leave everybody else alone.

Speaker 17 (27:24):
Yes, I've seen that as well. But your question about
how things have changed, what's really exciting is the smart home.
And so last year I was fortunate to open a
little storefront in Humble, Texas, right there on downtown Main Street,
Umble Texas, and it's the smart Home store. And so
I envisioned this what used to be many years ago

(27:46):
for radio Scheck went out of business, a place where
you go in and kind of piece mill it and
see what you need and do it one step at
a time. So what I have put together Jim and
I appreciate the time to be able to express this.
I put together just a starter package and it was

(28:08):
typically what we put in. Ninety five percent of homes,
in my opinion, have three doors in a motion sensor
it front door, back door, garage door, and then you
put a motion in the living room. And I I
put together a wireless package that it starts at five
hundred and forty nine dollars. A person can get that package,
and yes, to answer your question, you can put it

(28:30):
in yourself. Thankfully, about the time I became a grandpa,
the systems became wireless, so that attic work is not
like it used to be. Yep, But but we can
we can tell you how to you know, peeling stick,
how to properly put that on a door. You put
your transmitter on the door. You put your magnet on

(28:53):
the you transmitter on the doorframe, sorry, and the magnet
on the door, and when you open the door, it
it uh. It triggers the alarm to say the door's open.
And so you can do something like that. The main
panel can can hang on the wall, or you can
just put add a little ten dollar bracket for it.

(29:13):
You could set it on the kitchen counter if you
want to, and the only wire you'll see is where
you plug it in the wall.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Well, it's a system, is five. How about monitoring it?

Speaker 17 (29:25):
Well, that's the beautiful thing about this. You buy it,
you own it, and no monitoring required, no monthly fee. Now,
if you do want to take that information from that
system and put it on your phone, your smart device,
then we do twenty five dollars a month just to
connect you to your system where you can remotely armed,

(29:46):
disarm and you can see what's going on in your house.
If the alarm goes off, you'll get messages and you
can take whatever action you need to at that point.

Speaker 8 (29:57):
Okay, So how do we get touch with you if
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Hate to do this to you, but I am completely
out of time, but I appreciate it, and I'll talk
about this again and just a little bit here. Thank
you sir, Thank you, Jim, you bet. And let's talk
real quick again about due West because you know we
talked about air conditioning a few minutes ago, and the
fact that we're running a great special right now where

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home see if you need any of these upgrades, you know,
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most of us we don't need this stuff. I know
a lot of AC companies are out trying to sell it,
but let's do the homework and verify whether we need
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Speaker 8 (33:52):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three, two,
one two five eight seven or let's head the friends
would and Costas. This is Jim. How can I help you? Hello?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Costas?

Speaker 19 (34:10):
Hello, I'm gonna help Michael. That's gonna that's gonna be
a short one. You talked earlier about replacing UH water
heaters with a tankless system, Yes, sir, How how would
the two forty gallon conventional heaters be replaced with a
single tankless Is it possible or does it require one

(34:32):
per system?

Speaker 8 (34:33):
No, it is possible. Are they Are they side by
side and working in a series or they do? Okay?
If they're side by side working in the series, they
actually have tankless water heaters designed to replace that?

Speaker 11 (34:47):
Oh good?

Speaker 19 (34:48):
Any suggestions, recommendations of the type of model or capacity.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
I would take a look at the nabby on systems
N A V I E A N. Yeah, they are great.
I love those systems and I've been installing them for
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Speaker 19 (35:11):
And that single system would be able to feed the UH.
The falsets both in the first and second florism that
is correct. Okay, these need to be installed by a
specialist on these systems or any any plumber that's quit

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five can do it.

Speaker 8 (35:33):
No, any plumber who's qualified can put them in.

Speaker 19 (35:36):
Very well, navy and none.

Speaker 8 (35:38):
Yep. Can you can call my office in du Wes.
We'd be more than happy to put them in for you.

Speaker 11 (35:44):
Yeah, a single, thank you, thank you very all right, let's.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
Take care bye bye again her number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. We're gonna head
up to Austin And how can I help you today?

Speaker 20 (36:02):
Oh good? Can you hear me?

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Okay, yes, ma'am okay.

Speaker 20 (36:08):
So I moved in.

Speaker 9 (36:09):
I moved to Austin from Cleveland and two thousand and five,
and so this house was built maybe in nineteen ninety six.
But I've owned the house now for twenty years and
I haven't made one repair. So the house when I
bought it already had it's three sides brick. It's two story,
and the one side that is like cardiplank was already

(36:30):
riding where you could just take a screwdriver and jab
right through it. So the fact that I've done nothing
to the siding means that the first story is actually
pieces are falling off.

Speaker 20 (36:42):
It's that bad and it's real. So obviously the siding
needs to be done.

Speaker 9 (36:47):
And all the windows were made from a company I
think called AGW and they're all aluminum, and they're all
beautiful because there's this dark framed, you know, good style
black that's popular now. But all of them have broken seals.
So we're talking a lot of expense. We have one
side that needs siding, we have all these windows that

(37:09):
need replacement. And then you have someone that is so
stuck on this whole idea of going green, and so
you know, when I hear about vinyl windows, I think, oh, vinyl,
that's not so healthy, that's not so renewable. So I
have a hard time even just siding on materials because
I wanted to do something esthetic and also good for

(37:30):
the environment. And on top of just needing siding and
windows and being afraid to trust someone to come and
help me with that. And I think I already know
I like hardy plank. I think I know what two
colors I like. The main one of the biggest problems.

Speaker 20 (37:47):
With the house.

Speaker 9 (37:49):
It is not just this, you know, this issue with
me not doing siding and windows. I've always had an
issue with the chimney. So the chimney, like someone just
meant earlier, I do have some crake cracks in my masonry.
So one of my windows on the second floor has
about a half inch gap that kind of goes down,
and so I know that I have some I'm not

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going to get foundation to repayer. I just want someone
to fill in those gaps. And all the years that
I've lived here, I think I've had leaks from my
roof all near the chimney for some reason, and these
like I have a hole in my ceiling right now.
And I have had several companies come and say we're

(38:32):
going to take care that we promise, and they have
done all kinds of stuff, even created something that looks
like a space ship on top of my house. This
is big, the biggest metal funnel they ever made. So
they took the cricket away and put this device in. Well,
it still leaks to this day, and even when I
moved into the house. Unfortunately they hid the damage. But

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over by the where the chimney was, the floor was rotten,
the wall was rotten. I didn't know, but they covered
it all up with furniture and it's just really bad.
So there's like their floors are rotten away and on
the upper floor. But I actually opened up the wall
kind of looked in it, you know, I've opened up

(39:17):
a couple of walls to see what's going on. But
for the most part, I think to this day, I
can see that there is some kind of leaking issue
that goes from the upstairs all the way to the downstairs.
It's all surrounding this chimney. So for me, I have
that big issue. But I just don't want to hire
a roffer. Like we have riffers that have come to

(39:38):
my neighborhood and they've done almost oh man, they've gone
down the street and done eate houses and they're going
all around the place canvassing, you know.

Speaker 20 (39:46):
But the thing is that I don't need just another roffer.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
I need someone who actually isn't able to which a
lot of people don't do. Actually go up in your attock,
maybe look up there, look in your attic, I mean,
who does it, make sure that they and see where
the water is coming in with the damage and really
solving the problem.

Speaker 20 (40:04):
So if you get a new rough, you actually know
that the.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
League's going to be taken care of and if it's
not due to the rough and it's due to some.

Speaker 20 (40:13):
Masonry, I need someone to help me.

Speaker 8 (40:14):
Yeah, yeah, thank you. You need to give Victor's Remodeling
and Construction a call at five to one, two four,
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Nine nine seven Victor.

Speaker 8 (40:30):
Remodeling and Construction. And okay, look, and you need to
do that because otherwise you're gonna let the house fall
down around you and that's that's not a good thing.
So and I'm gonna put you on hold for just
a second because I've got to take a quick break here.
Let's talk real quick about Texas Remodel Teams Windows and
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I called Guardian rum and I did call them. The
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Speaker 8 (43:53):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three,
two one two, five, eight seven four. When we left,
I was talking with Jody, and Jody are you there still?

Speaker 20 (44:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (44:04):
Okay, So you mentioned the roof and and the leak
and stuff. Have you put a new roof on the
house since you've been there?

Speaker 20 (44:13):
Well, then they moved in, like around two thousand and six.
I had a whole new roof put in.

Speaker 8 (44:17):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (44:18):
Then maybe four years later they went back and they
checked it and did repairs a couple of thousand. Then
maybe five years ago someone came in and did work
on it.

Speaker 8 (44:30):
Okay, but put the new roof the move The new
roof was done in six correct, most likely? Yes, okay,
I would not spend money on doing repairs on that
roof any longer. I would be looking at putting a
new roof on because you've probably already gotten the lifespan
out of the roof. Yes, it may last a few

(44:53):
more years, but since you're having these leak issues, it
needs to be taken care of because water is the
biggest thing that destroys homes, and the longer you let
these leaks go, the worst condition your home is going
to be. And the more it's gonna cost you to
rebuild it and bring it up to snuff, And you're correct,
you need to be looking at putting hardy siding on

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that home where you don't have to worry about the
siding issues anymore because you've got the same issue with
moisture on that siding and stuff to go twenty years
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you got off real easy, but you're gonna end up
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and keeping it energy efficient and keeping it together where
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Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvements, your total home
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We're gonna head straight out to the calls. We're going
to Navnesota first. There I listen, Jim, how can I
help you?

Speaker 21 (49:19):
Yes, sir, Hey, I've got some foundation problems on the
Barnaminium Okay. Actually I contracted the building, you know with
the well during everything, uh huh, and uh we didn't
put no what they call them pudding at the beams okay.

(49:44):
And my slab is cracking okay, and it's it's you know,
my concrete guys that it's not that big a building,
which it really isn't it's only thirty by sixty okay.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
And does it have a perimeter beam monitor or not?

Speaker 21 (50:05):
Yeah, it's got that perimeter beam all lay around it
and then in between the you know, the beams that
go to the floor. Yep, you know across that well,
across the building thirty.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
Feet thirty foot on centers.

Speaker 21 (50:23):
Yeah, okay, now them the beams are twenty foot bays.

Speaker 11 (50:30):
I got like.

Speaker 16 (50:32):
Three bays.

Speaker 8 (50:34):
Okay. And how how how big are your beams around
the perimeter and across.

Speaker 21 (50:42):
Twelve feet? I mean twelve inches?

Speaker 8 (50:45):
Just twelve inches? Uh thick or deep? Twelve by twelve
twelve or twelve okay? Yeah, that they they went fairly
light on that foundation.

Speaker 21 (50:56):
Then, yes, and I'm on a among gumbo. Yeah, and
I'm the dirt work.

Speaker 15 (51:11):
You know.

Speaker 21 (51:11):
I had dump trucks drive over and it was fine.
But you know how gumbo is.

Speaker 8 (51:16):
Yeah, and that's that the the dump trucks aren't going
to pack it very well. So, uh, how old is it?

Speaker 16 (51:23):
It's about three years old?

Speaker 8 (51:24):
Okay, Well, if if you'll call my office, we can
come out and take a look at it, see what
it's going to take to uh underpin it and secure it. Uh,
because yeah, it can be worked on. Uh, but we're
gonna take a look at those beams and and stuff
and see what see what we can do with it.

Speaker 21 (51:47):
Yeah, I figured, you know, I ain't no foundation guy obviously,
or I wouldn't have this god dam problem.

Speaker 8 (51:56):
Yes, sounds like you're about four years late calling me
for advice on this one. But that's okay. I got
to make a living too, you know.

Speaker 21 (52:05):
It's gonna cost me more money now, that's life.

Speaker 8 (52:08):
Yeah, that yeah, but yeah, give us a call at
seven one three four seven three seven one five six
and that's for due West and uh yeah, well we'll
set up and come out and take a look at it,
all right.

Speaker 21 (52:25):
Then I had I'd call one other company and they
said I did the engineer and you know, just me thinking,
is I don't see it being that hard? I'm or
you know what I mean? Yeah, in a metal building.

Speaker 8 (52:38):
Yeah, now we deal with them all the time. And uh,
you know we've we've got our own engineers and stuff.
If if we need one.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
That's great.

Speaker 21 (52:50):
I'll give you a holler Monday.

Speaker 8 (52:52):
All right, Darryl, thank you very much.

Speaker 21 (52:55):
Thank you, love you show man.

Speaker 8 (52:56):
Thanks and again our number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Gene, how are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Well, I'm doing good.

Speaker 8 (53:09):
Well. How can I help you?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Well, I've got a home that was built in up
engineers eighty two eighty three, and uh, I meet some
baseboards molding, and I can't find it anywhere. Okay, try
pick a box store and lumber company on the Beltway.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
And and they don't have anything that matches what you've got.

Speaker 11 (53:38):
Yes, true?

Speaker 8 (53:40):
How old is it?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Uh? Eighty two eighty three?

Speaker 8 (53:46):
H Okay, Well, I mean there's always the possibility of
having it made. It that gets really expensive.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of my owns in my neighborhood
hands molded.

Speaker 8 (54:13):
Well, you need you need to just wait for one
of your neighbors go on vacation, go in and get
you some molding, yeah, remond or not. Yeah. If you
go to a regular lumber company like oh, Montabello's Lumber,

(54:36):
one of those type of places, if you can take
a piece of it in there, they'll know if it's
still being made, and if it's not being made, they
actually have a shop that could can produce it, and
they'll be able to tell you kind of the kind
of money you'd be looking at to get it produced.

(54:56):
I mean, obviously it's going to cost more to have
it done that that way, but I mean realistically, it's
not that much more because they're just running it through
a machine that does it.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Yeah, okay, I'll try and month about.

Speaker 8 (55:10):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
What's that name? What's that lumber company on the Beltway.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
I'm not sure which one is on the Beltway.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Well, it's over here on uh it's on the southwest
side of Houston.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yes, sir, Well, sir, you have
a great afternoon.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
They would afford to corps have any of that molding?

Speaker 8 (55:40):
No, okay, all right, have you tried have you tried McCoy's. No,
there's a chance that McCoy's would have it.

Speaker 22 (55:53):
Okay, they carry they.

Speaker 8 (55:55):
Carry quite a bit of different ones.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
I'll give them. I'll give them a holler.

Speaker 8 (56:00):
Okay, right, thank a lot, you bet. Bye, way and
again our number seven one three, two, one two, five
eight seven four. Let's head up to the Woodlands and Warren.
How can I help you today? Oh?

Speaker 22 (56:17):
Good, Hi Jim, say love your program, listen to you
all the time.

Speaker 8 (56:21):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 22 (56:21):
Another another Foundation question. I'm trying to help my daughter
who's got a house in Flugerville.

Speaker 8 (56:28):
You sent me an email I did, Yes.

Speaker 22 (56:31):
Yeah, you saw that. Okay, So I was trying to
get some idea if there's kind of standard approaches. Apparently
this area, this neighbor which he's in, it's pretty calm
that they're having these problems. I guess they didn't stabilize
the foundations they built. It's about two thousand square foot house. Yeah,
a single story, uh three small bedrooms, so it's not

(56:54):
a real big house. But it's kind of crack across
running from near the front door kind of across for
the side, so it's a very noticeable crack. So clearly
there's something on that corner that's not stable. So I
know it needs attention, but I was curious. I know
I've heard of you before describe many different techniques I

(57:14):
guess for doing repairs like this. Is there anything that
you know in that area that would suggest a certain
kind of a solution or every house different.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
Typically up it's really the soils that dictate what type
of repair solution, and typically up in that area you're
dealing with the black Dumbo clay soil. That's correct. I
think that's right, And if that's the case, then I
would typically recommend the pre cast concrete pilings.

Speaker 22 (57:49):
Pre cast concrete, Okay, that's is that where you don't
go through the foundation to do that? Do you dig
under the foundation.

Speaker 8 (57:57):
Correct, you can dig on the perimeter. You just dig
a hole up underneath the perimeter bean. If it needs
interior peers, then you can tunnel up underneath to put
them in.

Speaker 22 (58:09):
Okay, is that that sounds reasonably expensive if you got a.

Speaker 8 (58:15):
Oh you've been foundation. But most foundations don't require interior.
Most of the time it's exterior, just.

Speaker 22 (58:23):
The exterior wall. Okay, around the footing is there. And
you suggest also, I think at times is you can
solve that one problem, but it may be preventive if
you start to do some things around.

Speaker 8 (58:35):
Yeah, like yeah, if I remember right from your email,
the house is about twenty four years old.

Speaker 22 (58:44):
Not quite that old. I think it's okay. Maybe I
can't remember either. I don't know exactly if I want
to say fifteen years oh, okay.

Speaker 8 (58:52):
Most homes people start experiencing the sea and the movement
when they're between eighteen and twenty. And it's it's because
the soils as they shrink when they dry out, they
shrink when they get wet, they'll expand again, but not
as much as they were. They go through those cycles
and you end up with the settlement problem. And so

(59:14):
if you keep it watered, you keep roots from growing
underneath the tree or the house and stuff like that.
You can maintain it from having these types of issues.
But you know out there where you're at my company,
do West, We go out there all the time, and
we'd be more happy to go by and take a
look at it.

Speaker 22 (59:35):
Okay. Is there a charge just to look at it?

Speaker 8 (59:39):
Oh? I can't remember if there's a charge for Fluberville.
There may be. If there is, it'd be like seventy
five bucks, okay, and then it comes off the job
if we do it.

Speaker 22 (59:52):
Yeah, I didn't think y'all were in Austin. I was
actually I was going to ask you if you had
a referral. But since that you're trade are you probably
don't do that?

Speaker 15 (01:00:02):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:00:02):
No, I do, But I go up into those areas.
I mean I go into Austin all the time as well.

Speaker 22 (01:00:09):
Okay, okay, all right, well, very good. That'll kind of
get us started then, Okay, we appreciate your help.

Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
You bet take care, Bye bye bye. Yeah, with due West.
The Foundation Division, I mean, our headquarters is here in Pasadena,
in the Houston area. We got an office in Dallas.
We got one down in Corpus. We travel everything in between.
We do Austin, We go over to San Antonio when

(01:00:37):
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Speaker 8 (01:04:40):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. Just a reminder
next Saturday, we're preempted for Rockets basketball, but you can
still join me next weekend for a live show on
our Sunday show at two o'clock next Sunday. So we
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and so you can still call in with your questions
on Sunday. And also before I jump into the next
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have a banquet February twentieth. It is a fundraiser banquet.
I have a table there. If you would like to
join me at my table, I would love to have
you there. Tickets for my table are one thousand dollars apiece.
But we can sit there and we can discuss things. Yes,

(01:05:43):
I will be doing some of the MC work at
the event as well, but I will be at the
table for a good share of the time. And if
you get other things we need to talk about afterwards,
we'll have time before and after the banquet to talk
as well, and who knows where else we may end
up talking. But uh, if you would like to sit

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at my table, please send me an email Jim at
tchipro dot com. Again, it's Jim at tchipro dot com.
I'll get in touch with you and we can get
that set up. Let's head back into our call seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. We're

(01:06:26):
going to Baytown and Mary. This is Jim. How can
I help you?

Speaker 15 (01:06:30):
Hi? I had emailed you a while ago about needing
a siding repair at my weatherhead and you would recommend
it Victor remodeling. Uh huh, but they tell me that
they typically don't do repairs, They just do installation. Okay,
I had I had an electrician look at that for me,

(01:06:56):
and they told me that I was gonna have to
have the electric company turned the electric off to the
house and then get someone to take this sighting off,
replace the wood underneath it. And it's also a attached
to the brick and it's pulling the brick away, so
I'd have to have the brick replace to do you

(01:07:17):
know of anyone that could do that for me?

Speaker 8 (01:07:22):
And you gave Victors this complete list of stuff.

Speaker 15 (01:07:27):
No, they asked me for a picture, so I gave them.
I sent them a picture, okay, and they told me
that they really didn't.

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
Do Yeah, because you're getting into a lot of different
things there. But most of that stuff he would have
been able to handle. And he's the one I would
have would call, even on my personal home. But I'm
not sure he fully understood what all you needed from

(01:08:00):
the picture, probably because he is correct. I mean, their
normal thing is to come in and replace everything. It's
like you're gonna need quite a bit of stuff replaced
the way it's going. Uh, can you send me the pictures?

Speaker 15 (01:08:23):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:08:25):
That email address? I just gave Jim at th hipro
dot com. If you'll send them to me there, let
me take a look at him. All right, Okay, thank you, ma'am. Right, Uh,
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alarm system in your home, why not? You know the
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was dating my wife. We were dating at that time,
and I was getting ready to propose to her. I
had the engagement ring on the headboard of my bed.

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We were going to be meeting that weekend, and somebody
broke into my house while I was at work, got
all my guns, all my coin collections, and all the
stuff of value. They missed the ring because it was
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since then, I cannot stand a thief. And the best

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Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
When it comes to home repair and improvements, he'll give
you the good news and the bad news, kind of
like a Velveta and Vasoline sandwich.

Speaker 6 (01:10:25):
Here's Jim Dutton, Non Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (01:10:30):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. We're gonna head
down to clear Lake, Lariet's Jim. How can I help you?

Speaker 11 (01:10:42):
Yeah, Jim, I've got a home. It's thirty years old.
I purchased the home in twenty sixteen. About probably two
or three years after I purchased the home, I noticed
some sweating behind the washing machine. It's an a little
utility I call it utility room. It's one of these

(01:11:02):
where they had the louver doors, so it's a real
smaller area, and it kept getting worse and worse. There
was a plate there and it's about a foot above
the water inlet infection on the washing machine side, I

(01:11:23):
had about a foot left. It's in the corner. There
was a plate there. I pulled that plate off and
there's PVC pipe that's run vertical from like the floor
to the ceiling. We pulled all the sheet rock out.
We had someone come out and look at it. Once
we pulled the sheet rock out, they had their little

(01:11:46):
wands that they waved around and said they don't see
any water anywhere, no damage and nothing inside that The
two by fours are all dry. Everything. No, We put
the two the shoe rock back up, painted it and
went on down the road. A couple of years later,
it's back. M hm. Okay, water travels crazy, it does.

(01:12:11):
It doesn't appear. Yeah, it doesn't appear that it's coming
from the water inlets to the washing machine because it's
about a foot away. But and it's lower.

Speaker 8 (01:12:25):
And of the you mentioned the lover doors. Is this
kind of like a washer and dryer closet.

Speaker 11 (01:12:34):
Yeah, you know, like in the apartment you might move
down the hall look to the right, you've got louver doors.
There's a washing something like that.

Speaker 8 (01:12:41):
Yeah, And is it behind the dryer by chance?

Speaker 11 (01:12:45):
No, it's just behind the washer. It's actually in the
corner to the the washers on the left, the driver
from the right. It's in the left corner about a
foot above where the inlet is for the work for
the water lines.

Speaker 8 (01:13:08):
Be uh. And and you know what I'm thinking is,
since it was dry inside, I don't think it's going
to be a leak inside the wall, because otherwise the
studs would have had moisture on them, the sheet rock
would have had moisture on it. The fact that you're
getting the the stuff on the outside, you know, of

(01:13:30):
of the sheet rock on the finished side, gives an
indication that there's something inside that closet area that's doing it.
And it could be something as ridiculous as when the
washing machine is running, it's it's got a little spray
that's missing out and causing this. I don't I don't

(01:13:51):
know for sure what's doing it. But here's the first
thing I would try. Just for get grins and giggles, okay,
uh uh. I would get some paper, whether it's using
an old grocery bag or something along that line. Even
wrapping paper would work for you know Christmas or birthday gifts.

(01:14:15):
Hang that over that wall area, over that corner. That's
that this is happening. But keep it off the wall
like an inch, right, and see if that paper is
getting moisture on it. Okay, if it is.

Speaker 11 (01:14:33):
Pray from the washing machine. If that's the case, it
would have been doing it from the previous owners too, because.

Speaker 8 (01:14:45):
They had a problem as well.

Speaker 11 (01:14:48):
I don't know that they did or not, now that
I think about it. Yeah, what about that? You know
there is a vent in there, and I'm real bad
about when we're washing and drying closing the louver doors
and I don't turn the v out. But you see me,
if that were the problem is see what the morsture
would be in every place exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:15:08):
So yeah, that's reading. I'm really questioning if there's not
something that and it could even be in a hose
or something along that line that's just got a very
fine pinhole that miss water out and that paper would
pick up on that. If the paper doesn't pick up
on it, well, then it is going to be just

(01:15:29):
a ventilation issue. And the first thing I would try
is keeping the doors open when we were doing laundry
and the fan on to see about air movement on it.
But even the discharge hose, because a washing machine discharge
is under pressure that could have a pinhole in it
that's allowing it to missed over there. And that's the

(01:15:51):
reason I want to put the paper on and see
if I'm getting anything hitting it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:55):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:15:59):
And then I need you to call me and let
me know what you find.

Speaker 11 (01:16:02):
Okay, Jim. Actually, this is the first time I've listened
to your show, believe it. Okay, ran into this problem,
and I've been listening for the last hour or so
and the appreciate your good advice.

Speaker 8 (01:16:15):
All right, Well, I appreciate it, Larry, and you take care.

Speaker 11 (01:16:19):
What was your email again.

Speaker 8 (01:16:20):
Jim at t h I pro dot com t h
I p r O dot com.

Speaker 11 (01:16:30):
Yep, okay, c h.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
T tis in Texas, Texas how Improvement t h I.

Speaker 11 (01:16:38):
T h I Okay, yep, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:42):
You bet take care and again seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Uh, John, this is Jim.
What can I do for you?

Speaker 13 (01:16:56):
Hey, Hey, Jim so much. Appreciate your wisdom and bring
to all of us in the community. So let me
start there. When to get when did to get your
thoughts on being an expert in the foundation like you are,
just high level, does if there's a potential leak in

(01:17:16):
the sewer line under the slab of these houses, is
there any benefit of running a camera in? And I
know I've heard of a hydrostatic test and the camera
and just how each one of those would be used
in trying to determine because I have how a rental
property that's really starting to I would guess has dropped

(01:17:40):
maybe like three inches or so something like that, And
just wanted to get your thoughts.

Speaker 8 (01:17:45):
On how old, how old place.

Speaker 13 (01:17:48):
It's probably it's in the a leaf area and it's
probably forty years old something like that. I think it
was built in the eighties.

Speaker 8 (01:17:57):
Okay, so you're going to have PVC plumbing under it.
So here's a difference. A hydrostatic test blocks the exit
of the water. You fill the whole system with water,
then let it sit and see if the water level drops.

(01:18:18):
If it does, it indicates there's a leak. Then you
start doing what's called an isolation, and you start using
test balls to block off different sections of pipe until
you narrow down where the leaks are. Cameras are a
useful tool when you're doing this type of testing because

(01:18:38):
you can run it up behind the test ball and
see that water's not leaking beyond the ball and stuff.
But I'm gonna upset a lot of plumbers now they've
gotten too darn lazy and they start running the cameras
and say, well, I don't see any leaks. Well, let's
stupid cameras not picking up anything except a law large

(01:19:00):
hole in the pipe. If the joint is leaking, that
camera's not going to pick it up a lot of times.
Even if there's a crack in the pipe, the camera's
not going to pick it up. So I'm not a
huge fan of using just the cameras to find leaks,
but I love the camera as a tool to go

(01:19:21):
along with isolating to segments, just to make sure that
you're verifying what you're seeing. But it all begins with
that static test, because if the static test holds, you
don't have a leak in Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:19:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:19:40):
And as a general rule with your experience, is it
typically like in a bath is there any typical like
if there's an elbow or whatever in a bathroom area
or a kitchen area, is there one that tends to
be more most common of where these leaks are, if indeed.

Speaker 8 (01:19:56):
There is a leak. The most common area is is
typically in the bathroom in a in a segment called
the Christmas tree. It's where the toilet, the sink, and
all the bathtub or shower everything ties together. And that's
the most common area because if the soil shifts around

(01:20:18):
it all, you've got all these pieces going off in
different directions, putting torque on everything, and and it'll tend
to cause a break and a leak in that particular area.
The second most common is a why in a pipe
that the teas are typically not as a big problem,

(01:20:40):
but whys for some reason, uh tend to snap.

Speaker 13 (01:20:45):
I guess maybe the legs of the wires start to
work against each other and and cause it to pull
away or something.

Speaker 8 (01:20:51):
I get. It's I I attribute it to be like
a wishbone from the from the turkey.

Speaker 13 (01:20:56):
You know, okay, well, very good, Well I'll be contacting
your company. I were just trying to figure out thoughts
on how's the best way to even conceptually, I always
like that when working with contractors, what they're going to
be doing, what they're thinking etcetera, etcetera. So typically it
starts with a hydrostatic test and then try.

Speaker 18 (01:21:17):
To keep reducing the YEP, the area I guess to
try to isolate it down isolated. Okay, buddy, okay, I
appreciate you, You've been in touch.

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Here's Jim Dutton, host of Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (01:22:46):
Hosting this radio show for over twenty one years, and
I still get calls from people that hired a cheap
foundation repair company and they're left holding the bag when
they need them the most. If you're noticing cracks in
your walls and doors that are sticking, call the company
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Hi, Jim, how you doing?

Speaker 17 (01:24:49):
I just heard your show.

Speaker 23 (01:24:50):
I'm walking around buildings. I hate even compartment in my house,
probably like an eight by ten room, and I'm gonna
be growing planting there. And I wanted to know what
you think I should use for ventilation or Philip Trace
he don't want the house.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
So yeah, I hope the drums don't mess up through upholstream.

Speaker 8 (01:25:13):
Sean, I gotta ask you a question. You're gonna be
growing illegal plants in there?

Speaker 23 (01:25:18):
No, just just legal plant, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:25:22):
Okay, but because otherwise I'm not gonna tell you how
to fix it up.

Speaker 23 (01:25:25):
So you know, strawberry, whatever kind of cool plant, let
me take it.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
Here's more with Jim Dutton and Texas Home Improvement.

Speaker 8 (01:25:42):
Hey, welcome back to Texas Home Improvement. Let's uh don't
forget about our website th hipro dot com. And again
we are preempted next Saturday, but you can still join
me next Sunday. We don't push the Sunday show enough,
so we're pushing it right now. Uh, it's again live
show take calls Sunday two o'clock, same as the Saturday show.

(01:26:06):
We're going to head out to Beaumont. Judy, how can
I help you?

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
Okay, I actually have two questions since I heard your
last two callers. So, but my original question is. I
live in a house that's kind of like a garage
apartment or a beach house kind of thing. The bottom
is closed in with you know, my garage, so off

(01:26:34):
the back. I decided that was too small, and so
I built a master bedroom and bath, and underneath is
a porch all the way across.

Speaker 21 (01:26:47):
The length of that.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
It is the coldest room in my house. I don't
think they insulated the north wall at all. That Luckily
that's the side my closet's on, but it still is
just extremely cold. The rest of my house will be toasty,
but that part is just just freezing. I mean, like

(01:27:09):
twenty degrees difference. Probably I'm just guessing, but it's quite
a bit of difference. So I had somebody come out
and look at it about insulation, but I'm not sure
he really knew what to do with it.

Speaker 16 (01:27:23):
He didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:27:25):
He was stuttering around too much to make me feel
like he knew what he was doing. So, yeah, I
heard you say that. That's why I called.

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
Yep, you definitely need to give them a call.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
Okay, so that that would be a good one to
remedy deck you absolutely so. Do you have time to
answer a second question?

Speaker 8 (01:27:47):
Well, let me I got to take this quick break.
That's what that music means. But I'll come back to
you when I come back. Okay, okay, And let's talk
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Speaker 8 (01:30:24):
Well, let's kind show up with the Judy and Judy.
What was your other question?

Speaker 4 (01:30:29):
Okay, before we go there, does USA come to Beaumont?
Do they service Beaumont?

Speaker 8 (01:30:35):
Yes, ma'am, I believe they do.

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
Great. Okay, So my second question is I also have
a rent house and where the drain goes in, the
washer line goes into the drain that leaks out. I
mean a lot of this renter, but he's got a
brand new washing machine. I've been told that these washing

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machines have so much force that the older houses have
smaller pipes and it can't force that water down. So, uh,
I run a camera through the lines. There's nothing in
the lines, So I don't know what else to do.
You know, the if the guy watches more than one

(01:31:21):
load it, you know, will it backs up and stews
and does I don't I can't even remember what all
it does.

Speaker 8 (01:31:29):
Okay, so it's the first the first load goes through, fine,
But it's when he's doing more than one load.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
It seems like it are are it seems like it's
when he has larger loads or something. It's like I said, now,
he's just dealing with it, but it still is a problem.

Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
Well, if if it's only happening when he's got more
than one load, that would indicate that there is a
blockage somewhere down the line that candles I watched him
and starts back. But if it's doing it because he's
doing a heavy load, well it can be then that
that the pipe starts backing up just from pure flow

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going through it. Sometimes routering them out, you know with
a snake, helps to take off some of the build
up from over the years and allows it to flow better.
But beyond that, it shouldn't happen because the old lines
for inch and a quarter. The new ones are inch
and half sometimes two inch or inch and half to

(01:32:28):
two inch you know, but it's not enough that their
open lines. It should handle the flow. So there's got
to be something restricting it.

Speaker 17 (01:32:38):
I watched him.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
Run the camera through there because you know, I said
I want to see because I kept dealing with it,
and I sat and watched it. You know, as he
did it, there was nothing in the line.

Speaker 8 (01:32:49):
Sovin, how far did he run it?

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
He ran it all the way out to the to
the city.

Speaker 16 (01:32:55):
To the city.

Speaker 8 (01:32:56):
Okay, then it's it's got to be that there's just
some restriction of some kind that's doing it because it
should handle it. And Judy, I hate to do it,
but I am completely out of time, so appreciate everybody listening.
Don't forget tomorrow two o'clock more Texas home improvement. Look,
let's talk foundation repair real quick. You know I've mentioned

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the Passing Livestock Showing rodeods is my company. We are
heavy supporters of the Passing Livestock Showing Rodeo. And again
on February twentieth, there is a fundraiser. I do have
a table. I would love to have some of you there.
It is one thousand dollars a seat to be at
my table. You can get a complete table for a thousand,

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but sit at mine it's a thousand dollars. It goes
straight to the Passing Livestock Showing Rodeo for a new
agbarn that we're building there. But if you want to
get involved with getting a spot on my table, just
send me an email Jim at thhipro dot com And

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with that need foundation work. You want the best, you
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