At Home with Gary Sullivan 1/27/2024 Hour 4

Gary wraps up Satrurday with your calls.

Episode Transcript

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Well, it's the best time inthe day I get to say, good
afternoon. Welcome to our number four. You're at home with Gary Sullivan,
and yes, we're taking your callsabout your home improvement projects or maybe some
questions on maintenance or repair. Feelfree to grab a line. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two fivefive. All right, so we got

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that out. We got a coupleopen lines, Go ahead and grab them
and we'll get to Alex Alex Welcome, Hey, Gary Love's show. Thanks,
I've got a question and then acomment from a previous caller if you
got a secondary Okay, we've gota new of course, we bought a
new refrigerator, so it's turned intoa laundry list of projects we have.

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I've got an old quick connect valve, a quarter inch like icemaker valve in
the basement and it's I tried toopen it up. Obviously, when we
moved in, we weren't using theicemaker, but now we're trying to just
connect back to that, and thatthings seeds up. And I went out
and I'm thinking, do I tryto just shut the water off in a
line the new one with that,or do I just have the kind of

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epiphany. Just leave it there.It won't open. So how far away
should I get on that half inchline to tap that new you know,
self tapping? Well, I don'tthink you have to get that far away
really, okay. You know oneof the things, you know, there's
there's I'm guessing you've got like alittle tiny saddle valve. It's got like
a little metal pin for the handle. Correct, Yeah, bent when I

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tried to turn it, so yeah, yeah, exactly. So yeah,
it's just got a lot of hardwater to pause us in there and just
frozen up. So one of thethings you might take a look at doing.
Is it tapped into a half inchcopper line? Yes, yeah,
So an option for you is,you know, shut off the water and
just cut that piece of valve orcut that copper out and put in a

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piece of copper, you know,a coupling and some copper and put in
a regular valve or regular compression valvewith a quarter inch opening instead of a
three ace opening. You can getsome of those better valves. I mean,
it's just an option. You don'thave to do it. You can
certainly use another saddle valve, butsome of those saddle valves. It just

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keeps seemed to be getting cheaper andcheaper, and I bet you in the
last year I've had a couple ofthem malfunction. One of them was actually
to the humidifier, and I justput in a regular valve that you would
put in underneath a toilet or something, and and it worked out pretty good.
Okay, Yeah, that's then,that's that's the question. And then
the comment earlier on the gentleman thatwas talking about his foundation, and I

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was trying to bottle along. Icouldn't tell there was his actual home foundation
or if it was a retaining walloutside like next to a driveway, So
I kind of took it as aretaining wall, but I was having a
hard time picture in it too whenhe kept talking about the break, and
then finally I asked it was it, and then it sounded like it was,
you know, maybe the retaining wallthat would go in a you know,

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driveway and then had a brick wallon top of that. I don't
know. I was having the samedifficulty. Yeah, yeah, but the
only I'm not a structural engineer byany means, but my comment would be,
depending on how much earth you're takingaway from that, you would be
effectively lowering the frost line. Sothat's footing, right, If you're getting

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into that footing, that's that wouldbe my biggest concern. Well, you
verbalized it better than you verbalized itbetter than I did, but that was
my concern. I mean, youreally did. You verbalized it better than
I did. I was thinking this, I was thinking it, but I
know I didn't say it, andI didn't know what else he had going
on there either. I mean,that's you're exactly right. If you take

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off that you're going to you know, your frost line is going to be
thirty six inches from the surface ofthat soil. So if you you know,
you're exactly right, I mean,it could affect that footing and then
you're gonna have big problems. Yeah, well we just need that radio show
where we can see pictures too.Yeah, but hey, thanks for that,

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because that is I was thinking it, never said it, and I
was focused on if you take offtoo much of that soil, you could
expose the footers. That's that's whatI was thinking. But in the back
of my mind, I was alsothinking frost. I never got there,
So thank you, all right,Well, thank you love the show.
All right, you're welcome. Thankyou all right again. Our number if

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you'd like to grab a line,it's easy. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five and let'sgo to John. John welcome, Oh,
thank you, Grey for's sake onmy call. Hey, just need
your opinion on something I we recentlybought a house and we have all call
at a chandler. But it's alife picture hanging over the kitchen table and
it's not really centered over the table. So I want to kind of put

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a hook in the ceiling that kindof move the chain over. But the
question I've got is this, ifI put the hook in, there's no
stud there. It's just a drywall. Now, the thing's not real heavy,
but I was wondering if I coulduse something as simple as a toggle
bolt that you use to hang plantsfrom, or would it make more sense

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to use something that they call itlike a snaptoggle that's used to mount grab
ours to drywall where there's no studIt gives you more of a bearing surface,
and I just kind of wanted youropinion. I can't get into the
attic to do anything. It's justa three tall pitch and there's thirty inches
of insulation right there. Well,and when you get to the hardware store

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and you take a look, goin the lamp section, all right,
and they will have almost exactly whatyou're speaking of. They'll find they'll have
these hooks that are decorative, youknow. They come in nickel, in
a black and that type, probablyeven brass still, and they will come
with an option of a dollscrew witha bull thread bull thread thread into the

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hook and then the screw would gointo the joist. And then they have
also where it's just a piece ofthreaded rod. I think it's about three
sixteens and it'll have a toggle wingon it, and it is designed for
exactly what you're trying to do.And way back in the day it was

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a real popular feature and it wasfor swag lamps. Now there's probably a
weight limit on there, and it'sprobably gonna say it on the package.
I don't recall what it is,but just double check that. But it
was pretty substantial and it's a threeas inch toggle, so it should be
fine depending on the weight. Imean, it's not going to hold up

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one hundred and thirty pounds chandelier oranything. But you know you said it's
a little lighter weight. I don'tknow what the weight limitation is on there,
but I'll bet you it's fifty pluspounds and that would be more than
enough. And that's kind of whatI'm going to do, is a sway
concept because I've got the box hasalready mounted originally, and like I said,

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I can't really move it. Soif I swag it over like they
used to do twenty thirty years ago, that would work. So I appreciate
the help. You have a greatweekend, and I really do appreciate what
you do for everybody. You're veryhelpful. Thank you, appreciate it.
Take care all right again, feelfree to grab a line. We got
one for you and it's just youand me up till the one o'clock hour
today, so we got plenty oftime to talk about your home maintenance or

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problem spark parts you may have inyour home. Feel free to give us
a call again. It's eight hundredeighty two, three eighty two five five
James, welcome, Well, howare you? Yes? Fine? Thank
you? Out of their old houses, going to eighteen ninety one. Now
on that back when I was acall celleries back in they always had a
brood sellers combined with it. Well, why would that because the temperature in

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the room get the camp through toturn that little kid story among our or
you know, why do I knowwhy? Through preservation? You don't want
it real hot, you don't wantit really you know. I'll tell you
one thing that we have problems withfruit sellers too, speaking of it being
cold and dam I'm not sure wherehe was going with it. But if

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you have an older home and youhave a fruit seller, or you have
a space underneath the front step,that's usually where they were. Uh so
you get you get the concrete isabove there, it's radiating uh cold temperatures
and it just stays nice and cold. You just keep potatoes down there,

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dark cold place. But one ofthe things if you have an area like
that, you got to pay attentionto moisture. You get a lot of
condensation in there, and especially thislast week where it's real warm out sign

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but you have a real cold slab. That can be a real problem,
Mary. And the only way you'llcorrect that problem is to get some insulating
board, foam insulating board with afoam contractor's adhesive construction ahesive. Put it

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on that board and insulate that ceilingor what is the underside of the steps
or the underside of the porch leadingto your front door. You got to
create a thermal break, a littlebuffer there, and you'll eliminate that moisture.
It's again the same condensation I talkedabout earlier that I had a problem
with my screening porch this past week. Sixty degree air temperatures in a concrete

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Who knows how cold that was,but man, it was like a puddle
of water everywhere. And again inthose fruit sell are those basements with those
with that cold slab exposed, andthen a warmer, yet d damp basement
condensation will occur every time. Allright, again, the lines are open

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for you. It's eight hundred eighttwo three eight two five five Grab a
line at home with Gary Sullivan onfifty five KRC DE Talk station. Hi,
this is Dale Donovan. We'll betaking your car questions at one right
after Gary Sullivan on fifty five KRStaking you through the weekend. And I

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had a lot of discussions about alot of different things in our home today
and certainly enjoyed those conversations if you'dlike to join us, do so.
We started out talking about the garageand we covered different options you had for
the garage floor, and then weeven got into the wall, so we
were really dressing up the garage.Today we're also talking about getting rid of

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some of the junk in the garageand actually not use the garage as a
storage area but more for an entrywayto your home or places for the automobile
or you know, but dressing itup. It's a big trend right now.
So many times when we have peopleto our homes, depending on how
your house is set up, alot of our guests comes through the garage.

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And the one thing we haven't reallytalked about is the organization of the
garage. And if you really tooka look at what is available, I
mean, if you went to theeffort of grinding off the existing coat of
a POxy paint because it was failing, and you looked at the possibility of

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staining a garage floor or putting anothertype of slipproof coating on it, and
then painted up the walls. Inorder to pant the walls. Of course,
you got to take down whatever yougot on the walls. And I
don't know if you've got you know, woodshelves that maybe you put up,
or whether you got some peg board, or whether you just have hooks that
are screwed into the wall. Butif you're going to take all that off,

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maybe take a look at an investmentof you know, maybe a little
more organization inside the garage. AndI personally don't care whether you build the
woodshelves or you buy the wire racksor whatever you want to do, but
there's an opportunity to clean out agarage, make it good looking, dress

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it up, and then increase thestorage capabilities that you have inside the garage.
Maybe it is because you just can'tget into the garage now, maybe
that's what's driving you to make allthese decisions. But if you've done the
floor and you've stripped off the walls, let's talk about what's available out there.

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And there's many things obviously, justcreating a workman, building a workbench,
buying a modular workbench that you canput together with corner iron and all
that. Yeah, you can gothat way. There's some rather than peg
board, though there's nothing wrong withthat. You get a quarter inch tempered

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peg board looks great. Even someplaces that sell like a habitat for your
many's restores, they always have cabinetry. Use cabinetry if people have donated or
maybe even used industrial peg board andget that up on the walls. The

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cabinets up in the walls in agarage is a great idea, and you
could get some relatively inexpensive and youknow, paint them up if you want
or if you you know, gota nice big budget to rehab that whole
look of that garage. You cancertainly go to places where they have of

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cabinetry that is designed just for garages. They're like a gray for mica that
they look great metal shelves on theinside. They also have a slat board
instead of peg board, which alittle bit more industrial hooks, comes in

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different colors. Again, we're gettingkind of fancy, but it is a
really great way to make that garagereally pop and also really to get organized.
Some of these different shelving products thatare out on the market are pretty

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sharp. They're you've seen them whereyou have a standard, which is the
strips that you clip shelf brackets into. They have those for garages and I
guess the wire rack on nose.They're bigger than you know, an eight
or ten incheself. I mean,they're twelve fourteen, sixteen inches deep and

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these particular standards, so you don'thave to really worry about them being absolutely
installed square. There's one heavy dutyscrew that mounts at the top, and
then as you clip these brackets andthese shelves, it makes it square.
And then you can come back andhit the other screws and tighten it up.
Man, I'll tell you what easyto do. And so many of

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these companies now offer different types ofchemistry, different sizes they have on the
size of the old lockers you'd havein schools you can put shoes in or
whatever you put in them. Butwe're all looking for more space in our
homes and this is a good wayto find some. And it's also kind

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of the finishing touch. You know, you address the floor, we patched
the walls, We paint the walls, and now we've seen that old drywall
mud that was on there, andnow we're really you know, then we
paint it again. It could beexterior paint doesn't have to be. It
could be interior paint don't work fine. It could be inexpensive for all that

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matters, add a little color toit, seal up that drywall, and
then start putting in a layout thatyou're you're you're comfortable with, different sized
cheminatries, new or used, acouple of lockers, some more shelves that
maybe clip onto the standards and thenlook up because depending on the size of
the garage and the height of thegarage, using the entire cube of a

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garage is a great place to findmore space. Like bicycles. Man,
there's nothing better than you know,establishing and go into the wood behind the
drywall on the ceiling in the garage, make sure you you know, tightly
secured. You find those big hooksand just the wheels of the bike will

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just you know, fit right inthere. And there's a lot of places
to find, you know, extraspace if you look up underneath the shelves
that are on the garage floor,regardless of what you're going to put on
there, whether there's different home productsthat you're using, whether it's you know,

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your your chemicals that you have,I prefer they have those in a
locked cabinet quite honestly, but yourequipment can go underneath that base shelf,
because that base shelf doesn't have togo all the way down to the floor
in the garage, right, Itcan be up a couple feet in that
launmold slide right underneath there. Youwill be amazed at how much space you

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pick up. I got a workbenchset up in my garage. It's not
a full service workbench. I'm notgoing to build any tables on it,
but you know it has drawers init like a mechanics would have. So
I have drawers for tools. Ihave some slapboard above it for tools,

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and it clips on one of thesestandards and there's a gap underneath there and
I can put plastic campers with morestorage in it. And again it's not
in a way, it's underneath theworkbench. So you know, I know
these things. All all these ideascome with price eggs, right, And

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we've talked about at least two ofthe three projects that I just spoke of
are pretty big projects. And thatfirst project of addressing the floor involves unless
you're gonna not do it yourself,but it would involve labor of grinding off
that existing finish and then buying afinish and time to install that finish.

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So that's a project by itself.Painting the walls not so much a project
by themselves. But then when youget into the whole storage thing, that's
a big project. But you know, when it comes to a budget,
there's a lot of ways to cutcorners and come up with the same results.
Like I said, use cabnetry.Oh my gosh, take your pick.

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It doesn't even all have to match. It doesn't all even have to
be the same kind of pattern.You can paint it, use it on
different walls and you're gonna find somuch space you never knew you had.
So as we were talking about kindof giving that garage a facelift, I
think we covered the gamut. Wedid the floors, we did the walls,

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we did the ceilings, and wedid the storage. So hopefully that
helps you. All Right, ourphone number if you'd like to jump on
board, We've got a half hourago. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five' five at homewith Garry Sulivan right here. Fifty five
KRC the talk station Brian Thomas,weekday mornings at five on fifty five KRC

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and online at fifty five KRC dotcom. All right back at it we
go. We are at twelve thirtyfour on your Saturday at home with Gary
Salvin, a little uh talk aboutyour car coming up with the Donovan Show,
and uh, they will help you. I believe it'll be mister Dane
today. I believe I'm going tohave to go back there and get a

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timing belt changed. It's on mylist. You have to do that before
your big vacation coming up. Youknow, I got so many once and
so many half tos, just tryingto sort out which goes first. Do
you have any need tos? Well, that's a need too, A timing
bell. Yeah, yeah, that'sa need too. It's a It's Miley

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Jamarker. All right, let's getback to work. What do you say
you can join us. It's eighthundred eighty two three eight two five five.
Christy welcome. Hi. It's Christy. Yes, I have a plumbing
issue. I had my bathroom remodeledand expanded about twelve to fifteen years ago.

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Uh huh, And about a yearago the drain in the bathtub started
draining very slow. In other words, the tub would be half full by
the time your shower was done.And then at other times it will run
just fine. Every other drain inthe house runs perfectly. Any ideas,

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Yeah, you probably got a littleblockage in that tub drain, probably caused
by hair. I did have theplumber run a snake down through it about
twenty some feet and he found nothing. He found nothing. Uh huh.
What did he suggest the problem was? Then? Well, he said we

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need to get under the house tolook, but he physically unable to get
under there, you know, intothe cross space. What was he going
to do in the crawl space?Well, he was going to check to
see if the connection between when theyadded onto the bathroom and ran a drain
tile that connected in to the tilethat leaves the house. Uh, to

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see if maybe there's a wiggle init somewhere, you know where Sometimes it
works and other times it doesn't.Now, yeah, yeah, I hear
you, Christy. Obviously, ifhe had a plumber there, I'm not
going to be able to give youan answer exactly what it is, but
I can give you a couple,you know, a couple of ideas.

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Obviously it's not a clog with hair, or he would have found it.
I'm assuming a lot of plumbers.In fact, I would say, most
plumbers would have a camera that theycan run down that line, especially if
they didn't find a blockage. Soyou're having trouble with drainage, but there's

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not a blockage, so you knowsomething's going on there, and to run
a camera down through that pipe andsee what's going on. In other words,
he wouldn't have to really get tothe cross space. He could just
go and run this camera down fiftyfeet and see if there's any rock blockages,
any kinks, and you know,obstructions, whatever there's got to be.

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There doesn't have to be because I'mmightna get to the next thing,
but there usually would be an obstructionor something that could be identified and then
repaired, and then you may haveto get down into cross space. So
that's idea. One idea too isyou know possibility. I would doubt that

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this would come out of nowhere.But for every pipe that goes down,
there is a pipe that goes up, and that's you know, a vent
pipe. Yeah, you know,and if that were obstructed and that was
causing it to drain very slowly.Because I always use the analogy, if

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he had a gas can, youknow, he got that little vent on
the back of it. If youdon't have that vent open the gas just
you know, it like belters outof the can doesn't run smoothly, and
that would that could that could bean issue too. So those would be
the two things I focus on.So you know, if it continues to

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be a problem and it sounds likeit might be why it's correcting itself,
I don't have an answer for that, but I'd get another former out there.
Yeah, that's what can choose metoo, is that there doesn't seem
to be any rhyme or reason,you know, whether it drains or it
doesn't. With the one exception,sometimes when it drained, it gurgles up

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into one of my bathrooms. Thinksthat was going to be my next question,
and that screams its event problem okay, because it needs air to drain
properly, and if that vent isblocked. Remember how I always say water

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always wins, So it starts lookingfor a source of air, which is
your drain, your other pipes.It's it's literally I've seen it where it
could suck the water out of atrap of another drain and when it starts
gurgling, that's exactly what it's trying. To do. Okay, So it's

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event. It's event tissue, yes, event, all right, thank you
so much. All right, goodenough, thank you, huh you too?
Bye bye. All right, let'sgo to Todd. Todd welcome,
Hey, great, thanks. Ihave got My house is twenty about twenty

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three years old, and we puta retaining wall in the front we first
built the house. It's just asimple you know, the concrete stones with
the barrier behind him. It's developedover the years. I mean it was
kind of got dirty, but thisyear it seems to have a really bright
green right now. Moss or algaeor something. Is there something I can

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use on that that's not going tobe bad for my grass or my landscaping
that's around it to get rid ofthat, or do I just need to
scrub it off? Yeah? Sothis is on the facing of a retaining
walls. That what you said,yes, sir? All right? And
that retaining well how big is howtall is it is? It's only about

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maybe two feet tall? Not much? Okay, all right? And has
this been a problem in the pastor just this year? The green party
is what's cropped up this year?I mean it's an aged and it looks
dirty and stuff over the years,of course. Yeah, but yeah,
interesting, I only get morning sunin the front of the house. Yeah,
yeah, it was funny. RonWilson and I we were talking about

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this on his show. We werejust talking about degress is still kind of
green even though we had that coldsnap and snow, and he says,
well, what we're finding in thelandscaping is the proliferation of moss and mildew
growing on trees, and people arecalling us about it, and we were
surmising that the reason was is becauseit was, you know, pretty warm

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and it's been really wet. Ithink it was kind of like one of
the top januaries for rain and everything, and it's just it's growing. So
to answer your question, that's probablywhy it's prevalent, probably why you're noticing
it. There's certainly products you canuse to eliminate it. Is it more
of a green stain like a mildewor is it more like sod where it's

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moss it's actually spongy. I woulda moss more as a moss. It
will take more to get that off. One of the things I'm gonna give
you a couple of ideas. Oneof the things you can use is you
can take baking soda and water andjust get the water wet the mildew down

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and literally you could sprinkle baking sodaon that and it'll turn brown and eventually
just begin to fall off. Itmight be kind of ugly, but that's
an option. There's also and youcan use this particular product in the winter
time. It takes it longer towork, but it works. You may
have heard me talk about a productcalled wet and forget, So yeah,

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way, I use it on mysight. Okay, well that's same.
Wet and forget you can use onmoss. You can, you know,
just wet it down real good.Again, we don't have as much sun
to work. We got plenty ofrain, but it needs sun and rain.
The freezing temperatures won't hurt it.Just wet that down really good.

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Give it about three weeks and Iwould redo it and maybe by the springtime
it'll be it'll be dead and beginto just fall off. But yeah,
it will do it, but itmight need a couple applications. Thank you,
sir. I appreciate the help,all right, you bet, thanks,
take care. Yeah, it soundslike it's gonna be a mossy year

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this year. That was interesting thatwhen Ron was saying, I discovered more
concrete cracks with a quick walk aroundthe house this year than in past years.
He's his experience in the landscaping,moss on trees being more prevalent,
so maybe we'll find moss being prevalenton roofs and homes more prevalent. Also.

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All right, you can give usa call. It's five to one,
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want to grab a line, doso at home with Gary Salvan right here
on fifty five KRC, the talkstation cat Sean Hennity weekdays at three on

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fifty five KRC and online at fiftyfive KRC dot com. Back at it
we go at home with Gary Salvon, and it is twelve forty eight on
your Saturday little auto talk with theDonovans that'll be coming up at one o'clock.
We've kind of got the garage allnice and cleaned and organized and painted

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for them in moldfree and moldfree exactly. We got that all cleaned up so
let's talk a little bit about Wewere just talking about chemnetry in garages,
and we talked a little bit abouta lighting and a kitchen, which kind
of brought me to the coning ofgood winter projects indoors. I was thinking

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about, you know, with thingsto talk about each and every weekend,
and one of the things that Ihave not done in our home lately that
could probably need it. We putin some really nice cherry cabinets about twelve
years ago. It's not exactly themost trending color, but it is probably

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one of the more traditional looks andI always wanted cherry cabinets. Put them
in about twelve years ago, andI have done a good job of,
you know, keeping them clean,but it's been a little bit of time
a year or so. Probably coulduse a little cleaning, and so I
wanted to talk about, you know, just how to give them a little

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bit more pop, and chemistry isone of those things that you can give
a pop. I'm not going toget into painting them, but that's certainly
an option. And I was alsotalking about how many people are out talking
about different to redo a bathroom.There's also more people talking about how to
redo cabinet tree in our kitchens.And we can do that too. I

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mean you can paint them, youcan replace the doors, you can have
them professionally painted. But you canalso just kind of clean them up.
And if you want to give thecabinet trees this a little more modern look.
Even think about changing the hardware,and we'll get to that in a

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minute, but they clean them up, and especially if you're going to change
the hardware. The main place woodcab try starts showing its age. It's
where and whether it's dirty or notis around the handles. You know,
we got the cooking oil in theair, We got oil on our hands.

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We sometimes have food products on ourhands if we're in the kitchen,
and that around that hand or thatknot gets grimy. The worst thing you
can do to kitchen cabinets is towax them. And wax them even with
a cheap wax is not good becausethat wax over time gets sticky and it

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accumulates dirt and oils. And asit gets sticky and accumulates dirts and oil
and you get oil from your hands, you get a lot of grime around
the handles. The other area isif you have cabinets on the lower part
beneath the sink or so you gotusually a little ledge or a little curvature

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of the cabinet door. And ifyou spill stuff, that seems to be
the most likely place for it toland, so on that top ledge and
then around handles and knobs, whetherit's the utensils or plates or whatever chemnetry,
that's where you're going to see thoseissues. So to clean them up.

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And you've got a couple of optionshere if you are a person that
regularly waxes them, or if youuse different oils, you know, to
make them shine. See if thoseoils contain a silicone. So a silicone

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build up, a wax build up, usually over time, will dull the
surface and attract dirt and grime.So that's the first thing we want to
get off, is that wax orthat silicone, and you may very well
end up removing some of the dirtand grime at the same time. There
are a bevy of products out there, uh, and I've recommended all of

(34:52):
the above over the thirty eight yearsof doing this show. And I'll start
with something that you may have inyour head, and it's paint. Dinner
otherwise known as mineral spirits cotton cloth, get it good and damp with the
mineral spirits and rub and see whathappens. See if you can clean that

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and if you want to test iton a finish to make sure it's not
going to hurt. Always a goodidea with all these products. But take
that mintal spirits and just see ifyou can just in a lot of cases,
that wax, that soft, grimyblack wax, almost sticky like we'll
just begin to curl up and that'swhat it'll start dragging on the cloth.

(35:35):
But you'll need to use some elbowgrease, but you'll remove a lot of
it. It'll do a good job. Another one which it's a Guardsman product.
Not nearly I was gonna say,not nearly as good as some of
the other products. But it's nota bad product. I recommend it for

(35:59):
years. Is probably a real goto product for many years. And I
would use this product in with themineral spirits. Okay, so I probably
use the mineral spirits and none isa cleaner, but not a not a
real heavy duty wax or remover,though it does remove wax, but so
does the mineral spirits, and Ithink mineral spirits will be more aggressive.

(36:21):
It remove into wax. Then theguardsmen would polish. It will remove wax,
wax and grime remover. It willdo a very good job, a
little less elbow grease and adds alittle bit of shine. Now mineral spirits
kind of leave a little dull.This will add a little bit of pop

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to it. Then the other onethat I've talked about more recently, probably
the last eight years, maybe longer, is a product called Millsik and the
it's Miilsk. It has a lemonoil, but there is no silk going
in this, and there is nowax in it, and it will remove

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wax, and it will remove grime, and it will rejuvenate the wood.
It's probably the easiest of the threeproducts to use. It's more expensive one.
As I've talked about that, I'vehad people that were talking about painting
their cadmentry and after they used it, they decide not to replace or paint

(37:31):
the kydmmetry. So it works thedrawback to the Millsick product, And I
don't know if it's really a drawback, but it's one of those things you
just need to think about. Afteryou use that, your cabinets will look
wet for a little bit, likea day or two. Not the end
of the world. I'm just tellingyou that's what it looks like. It

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will eventually dry out. Use iton a cotton cloth and it just you
know, it takes time for thatto dry. That product's over one hundred
and ten years old and it worksvery well. So those are a couple
of things, you know, ifyou want to rejuvenate cabinetry, those are
a couple of things I would entertain. And then as you have done that,

(38:16):
you got to put your hardware backon. But that again gets to
be sometimes a money issue. Idon't know if you've priced handles in knobs
lately. They're not cheap, butthey can really change kind of the look
of the cabinetry. Maybe you gotolder type cabinetry and you got that real

(38:40):
brassy just cheap plating, and someof the plating's black now and it's brass,
and you just want a more updatedlook. That's a really good time
to tackle that project, because nowyou've got the wood clean and the wood
revitalized, and spending the dollar forcabinetry handles or knobs, and then you

(39:05):
get into the hinges and all that. I know, maybe you got hidden
hinges and you don't have to dothat, so I'm trying to save you
a buck. But a good wayto really update that entire look and a
couple of products that you can use, and again you can have some really
fun looking knobs. I was downin Charlotte, North Carolina. I went

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to a hardware store called black HawkHardware. That place has over eighty feet
of knobs and there's an older housingdistrict down there and some you know,
brand new homes. That's a growing, growing town. But it was really
they had a section that just hadsome really fun looking cabinetry knobs, white

(39:50):
porcelain with different decorations on it.So I can really add a little pop
to your your kitchen area. Butand when can you maintain them? Again?
If you can stay away, Ihave to check and see what kind
of wax is in that Guardsman,because it is a wax remover and cleaner.
But I think it does have Ibelieve a Carnovol wax in here,

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would say very hard wax, butany soft wax not something i'd recommend putting
on your cabinet. Try. SoI wanted to run that by. You
don't forget. If you'd like topick up an hour or two of the
show, it is available via podcast. It's on the iHeart app and each
hour is labeled one, two orthree or four and you can listen at

(40:36):
your leisure. So Danny Boy,thank you very much, great job,
and good Lord Willie. We'll beback tomorrow for more at Home with Gary
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