At Home with Gary Sullivan 2/25/2024 Hour 2

Gary is here with his expert tips and things to look for now that the seasons are starting to change. Also your calls and tips. We chat with Ken Clark as well.

Episode Transcript

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Well, welcome to our number twoat Home with Gary Salvin, taking you
through another weekend of home improvement,chit chat and happy to do. So.
Let me give you the phone numberif you've got a question regarding your
home. It's five one three,seven four nine fifty five hundred. And
by the way, folks, thoselocal lines are wide open, so there's
a spot for you and we'll talkabout your home projects. We'll do it

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till noon right here on fifty fiveKARC DE talk station. Well, the
weekend is here. Welcome at homewith Gary Salvin taking it through another weekend
and getting some things done around thehome and now kind of protecting that biggest
investment we have in our lifetime formost all of us. And uh,
just like our investment, you workat protecting them and that's what we're here

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for each and every weekend. Ifyou've got a question regarding your home,
feel free to join us. Ourphone number is eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. It's eighthundred eight two three eight two five five.
Most of the morning so far wewere talking about transitional times, seasons

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and starting to collect our thoughts onwhat we want to accomplish projects we would
like to accomplish on our home thisyear. If it's basic maintenance, that's
awesome, because over doing this myentire life, I have found probably one
of the most difficult things to inspirepeople to do is maintenance. We don't

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really inspire people to take care ofthings once they break. I try because
I say, you know that fivedollars repair you can make today will quickly
become a fifty dollars and a fivehundred dollars repair. But when it's broken,
most of us react. We knowit's broken, and we create a

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plan and we execute it. Wefix it or get somebody to fix it,
forest one or the other. Whenit's a maintenance, it's just easy
to not do it. Yeah,it costs money, there's nothing wrong with
it. Don't fix it if it'snot broken. And in this time of
year, there's a lot of thingsthat could probably use a little maintenance.

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I just talked at the end ofthe last hour about water control. That's
probably the biggest. How about anotherone. Take a look at where your
home stood during the winter months.How comfortable was it? You know,

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we know where the energy bills went, especially electric We know where that went.
That went up. Do we needinsulation? Have we checked to see
if we need insulation or did wejust say no, it was fine?
Ex That familiar, right, Sothat's kind of a maintenance thing, making

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sure we have the appropriate amount ofinsulation in attics. If you live in
an older house, is there anyinsulation in the walls? Originally there wasn't.
If it was prior to probably nineteenseventy five, was some added.

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Have you had it checked? Didyou just take off the covers of the
outlets on an outside wall and seeif there's a heavy breeze coming through,
because that's what you'll feel. Howabout ventilation, Has anybody been in the
attict to really check the ventilation?Where's the ventilation? Well, there's ventilation

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sometimes on the top of the roof. That's the ridge vent but in order
to make that ridge vent really work, it's the soft ventilation along the edge
of the roof. Did you getany attic to see is that open?
Is it clear? Or was insulationput over that. If that's the case,

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you have no insult. You haveno ventilation. That ridge event doesn't
do any good unless there's there comingin and so might paint over that ventilation
is it just got cobwebs all overit and it's half clogged. So those
are things you know, you canstart thinking about, you can take a

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look at, and then you gotthese seasonal changes, are right? I
mean maybe if you're in the South, you're moan grass. I don't know,
not there, but Midwest maybe nosnow, maybe it would be moan
grass in a month. So isthat more ray to go? Blade sharpened?

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If it's a gas mower? Andboy, is that whole industry changing
a lot with battery powered equipment.But if you're still using gas mower,
spark plug changed, oil changed.How about the air conditioner? You have
somebody scheduled to take a look atthat test to free on see are we

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up to snuff on that? Arewe maintaining that? We talked about entry
doors yesterday because that was on mylist. What's that curve appeal look from
the street to the front door.Does it need a little help? How
about the lights? That's kind ofa maintenance thing. If that light's air

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for twenty five, thirty forty years, maybe changing that out it's not such
a bad idea. Maybe changing thoselights out with security cameras. Which now,
are you know, built into thoselights, maybe they'd be really nice
to have updating maintenance. And thenthere's just basic things in terms of maintenance,

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very basic but sometimes easily ignored.I'm talking about the furnace filter or
the air handler filter. Do youchange those regularly? If it's a pleated
filter that needs to be changed atleast every ninety days, and if you're
not changing it, that air handler'sworking harder to get all that conditioned air

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to all parts of the house.And if it's not satisfying that thermostat,
guess what, it keeps running alittle bit longer than it needs to.
If the filter was clean, changingthat out very important. So they're just

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you know, it's quite honestly alittle bit endless. And then there's things
that checked for safety. You know, we talk about the time changers coming
up, you know, checking thebatteries and the smoke alarms. Heck,
checking the smoke alarms. Those thingsare good for ten years. How old
are yours? You know, sosomething to think about if you get them

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a new one dated so you knowa lot of the new ones even have
lithium batteries. They're good as longas that battery is good the battery can't
be replaced. The battery last tenyears, so kind of taking the mystery
out of that. But if youcan still get the regular standard one with
a nine volt battery and dated,then so a lot of just basic maintenance

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can certainly take place. And whenthe year's transition, the season's transition,
that's a really good time to doit because you're gonna still have some lousy
weather days and you can still takethose lousy days. And as I started,
protect that big investment in your life, right, you can do those

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maintenance and be proactive lubrication of agarage store on the wheels and the track
and the hinges and the springs.You maintain things, they last longer.
Where have we heard that before?All right, let me give you the
phone number. We'll take a break, we'll come back and get your questions.
We also have Ken Clark. He'llbe in at the bottom of the

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hour. He's got a scoop onsome new products that are hitting the market.
We'll chat with him. Our phonenumber is eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Grab aline you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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we go nineteen minutes after the top. They are at Home with Gary Sullivan
taking you through the weekend. Whenwe were talking about just some maintenance and
how important maintenance is and you hearit all the time, and we were
talking about things you should really focusin on and try and get some of

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these projects done when the weather getsbetter. Of course, there's larger issues
that you're probably going to work on, and we can talk about those particular
projects also. And I'm talking aboutconcrete. When I took a walk around
it house a couple of weeks agoon that nice day, I was talking
one of the things I had noticedis probably a little bit more concrete damage,

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at least at my house in acouple other houses I was at then,
I'd seen in more so this yearthan over the past few years.
Maybe it's just the age of thehouse. I don't know. Concrete,
as they always say it's concrete isonly guaranteed to do one thing, and
as crack and I started seeing somecracks that I hadn't seen in the past.

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And the importance of of course addressand nose. I mean, it's
not like you're gluing your concrete patioback together again. What you're really doing
is you're filling that crack to avoidwater and getting in there and freestall cycles
and erosion beneath that slab. That'sreally why you're taking care of those issues,

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those gaps and sealing those gaps up. When you look at areas with
concrete, and especially where they buttthe house, maybe it's the sidewalk that
goes around to the back of thehouse, or the driveway that butts up
against the garage floor, or thepatio that is a separate pore from the

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foundation obviously and butts up against thefoundation. Over time, there gets to
be a little bit of movement andat those areas like they'll usually you know,
separate ports, they'll be pulled upreal tight. Maybe there'll be a

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transitional strip in there, like acardboard type thing or a tart based product.
But over time with that movement anddeterioration, they fail and then there's
a gap, and then there's arain, and then there is erosion.

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When you get to that point wherethere's a gap, it should be addressed
to prevent the part where the erosioncomes into play. Because when the erosion
occurs from allowing water to get inthat gap, and the erosion occurs underneath
that concrete, that's when sueddling occurs. And when sueddling occurs, it starts

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dipping towards the house, say thesidewalk on the side of the house.
It starts dipping towards the house,the driveway to the garage floor. It
starts pulling away and dipping below thegarage floor. So now we got a
nice little bump there patio. Itstarts pulling away from the foundation. It
starts dipping towards the house. Wegot water that's being funneled into that crevice.

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We have erosion, We have pressureon a foundation wall. We could
have a crack, and we wantto stop that water. So we you
know, we fill it. Whatdo we fill it with? Well,
it depends on how big that gapis. The smallest gaps can just be
a latex crack filler which can fillit cracked. That's you know, three

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sixteenths to a quarter inch or somethinglike that. When they start getting larger
than that, you want something that'sthicker, has better adhesion, has more
flexibility, and that would be likea your thane and that has great adhesion,
great flexibility. But keeping that waterout that's the key because once that

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water comes, that slab tilts,and then that slab is inflexible and it
cracks and then it settles, andthen you got problems. Kevin, Welcome,
Hi Gary, good morning morning.I will just build a house in
Georgia, and the brick is it'sthe red brick, but it has almost

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like a whitewash coating on it.So the brick, huh, it looks
white. So when the house isbeing built around around the foundation, before
any landscaping all was done, we'vegot a lot of stains from red clay
and even some of the palettes thatwere sitting out that got you know,

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splashed with the red. So thisthis stain is on the brick and I'm
I'm afraid of you use like apressure washer to try to clean it.
Is there something you'd recommend like uaticacid or something to to get rid of
the red stains but not damage thatthat brick. You know, I'd probably
start with something simple. Red clayis difficult because it is literally a pigment.

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And if that brick and once thatis mixed with water, it's a
penetrating pigment, right, and ifthat brick isn't really sealed, that stain
penetrates into the brick if it's ona surface. We were talking earlier about
a tri sodium phosphate. We alsotalked about a oxygenated bleach. Those will

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clean red clay stains without a pressurewasher. I would probably start with a
with the oxygenated bleach, which isa tremendous cleaner for all kinds of things

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from wood decks to bricks and everythingelse, sidewalks and driveways. It's a
powder you mix with water. Thesecret with using that is let the let
the product do the work. Soyou mix it with water and you get
it on that surface and you letit sit for about ten minutes and then
you rewet it and then you cancome back and you could use a pressure

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washer there, but it has tobe you know, like an under two
thousand psi pressure washer, or youcan take like a wood fibered street broom
and just agitate the heck of it, really kind of scrub it with a
street broom and take a garden hoseand hose it off, And that's how
I would treat. I'd stay awayfrom acids. I don't know if that's

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really gonna Acid is good for removinglike mortars and things like that, so
you know, you might remove someof the red clay, but you're gonna
really open up that mortar in betweenthose bricks, and i'd stay away from
that for right now. If youneed heavier stuff, maybe we can get
into some of that, but rightnow, i'd probably just an oxygenated bleach

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or try sonium phosphates a great,great super hard cleaner. They make it
now phosphate free, so it's environmentallyfriendly, and you would use that the
same way as we just talked withthe oxygenated bleach. Okay, great,
that sounds perfect. I'll give thata try. Very good. Thank you
much for the call. Appreciate itall. Right up, Ken Clark,

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we've had him on oh jeez,probably for about six weeks now, and
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rolling through another weekend at home withGary Salvin. Uh been a busy,
busy weekend. I'm glad everybody's kindof tuned into the season ahead of us

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and wanting to kind of get aheadon some of our projects. You know.
One of the things that you knowhas really happened a lot in the
last twenty years is the proliferation ofnew products. And joining me now is
our guest that we have every week, Ken Clark. He is got his
fingers on the pulse of the industryand Ken Welcome again at Home with Gary

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Salvin. How you doing, Jerry? I feel great today. It was
a busy week. Did you know? We had a holiday shortened week,
but we had some financial results fromtwo of our biggest players, Home Depot
and Go to First Source and goingto Sugarcoat It. They were down both

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companies, but it can't keep growinglike they did the last two or three
years. It was it was inevitable. Yeah, that kept us to you
this week, and yes, productsare huge and we're heading out to the
International Builder Show show. Right,It's gonna be a huge show for us
this week and there's going to bea million, at least a million square
feet of products, systems, builders, ideas, you name it. Yeah,

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yeah, I'll tell you on thosesales figure is interesting. I'm sure
that big huge bounce on COVID iskind of caught up now and catching their
breath and maybe back to some preCOVID numbers. Is it was that kind
of the basis of it. Thatwas that was a big part of it.
It was just three great years andHome Depot CEO Ted Decker maybe listening

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to this program. I don't Idon't know. That after three strong years,
it's just a year of moderation twentytwenty three. I think they're still
optimistic for twenty twenty four. SureBuilder's first source on the lumber side suffered
from lumber deflation when they were sellinglumber at it's very expensive elevated levels.
Sales are coming in with big numbers, and when the lumber prices go down,

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well that affects the sure the topline significantly. But I think when
you talk to anyone, they're veryoptimistic about twenty four good good, Well,
there's certainly, you know, plentyof things that can be repaired and
built, so I'm make sure toguess it will be picking up. And

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you mentioned the builders, the InternationalBuilder Show coming up, and you know
this time of year, I knowin my home town, you know,
we got a big home and Gardenshow, which is a great place for
consumers to touch bases with service providers. You got Builder International Builder Show introducing

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new product and talking to their customers. You got to you know, national
hardware shows, you got co Opshows. You got a lot of people
showing their wares. And I knowthat all these shows they always have,
you know, new products and youknow the product of the year, the
winner and all that. How dothey pick winners for new products? I

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mean, how do they do that? Well, that's a very very good
question. It's a lot of timesit's it's who has the loudest promoter,
who has the loudest promoter on theirside, who can make the best picture
because there's so many there's so manygreat products that we see. Oh yeah,
and we have our own awards.We're very proud of our awards,

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but I have to confess it's verydifficult to pick them. We see a
lot of new products, new productwearers come in that that save time on
the job site, whether or maybetheir battery last longer, Innovations that improved
an existing products. And with thelabor market's hard to find good health it's

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hard to find skilled contractor these daysat the right price. Any product that
can relieve the pressure on the jobsite to allow one guy to do the
job of two, that's going toget a lot of attention. And it
has, and and there are otherthere are other innovations that make you know,
better, faster, cheaper, alwaysinteresting, But it's very difficult to

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pick a winner. And as Iknow, and as I've seen many times
that these at these shows, right, you know, I was just thinking,
knowing these shows were coming up,and literally I gave this like a
minute and a half worth of thoughtof just how products. Literally, I

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mean, it's it's fascinating to me, you know, just doing a show.
Now I've been doing it for along time. But still there was
no such thing as water based yourthings. There was no such thing as
you know, super efficient furnace filters. There was no battery tools, there
were no led lights, there wasno spray lubricints that could actually just put

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a drop in or just a wholespray. Certainly, we never entertained why
we would ever need to create fauxstone, but with labor shortages, we
wanted to make it quicker, easier, faster. And now we've got faux
stone that looks, you know,just like I mean, you can't tell
Mother Nature didn't create that stone.I mean, it's just phenomenal. And

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you know, I was just wondering, you know, do you know of
have you been privy to kind ofwhat's new this year that's kind of getting
attention. I'm sure in the batterytool business, there's all kinds of new
things, because that's probably the hottestcategory going right now. It is a
it is a big category. Youknow, we have some we've seen,

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like I mentioned before, we've seenmailers that that last longer, or another
feature that you you mentioned a lotof features that new products have, But
another one is they're lighter. They'relighter for the contractor easier to handle on
the job site, which is whichbrings into the equations. The factor of
safety. Safety is so important.It's for many it's a dangerous it can

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be a dangerous business build the house, and a lot of the manufacturers as
well as a lot of distributors arereally emphasizing the importance of safety, and
lighter is better in that regard.You mentioned fall stone is also much.
I've seen iterations of fall I'm gonnago ahead and say fake fake stone,

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lighter, easier to carry, biggerpanels that fit better. And in many
cases you can nail you can I'veseen snowell you can nail it. Not
actually still, but you nailed intoplace, which I thought was a really
nice innovation. But even flooring,I mean think about that. You know
it used to be hardwood floor.Now you got laminar flooring. You got

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the luxury vinyl planks, I mean, and it's so real looking and again,
uh, less expensive, easier toinstall, and that's kind of what
we're looking for. The Yes,the wood products are alternati. Wood products
have been proliferating for years we've seenand now I think there may be a

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trend for kind of a phrase youmight ears, thermo wood, thermo wood,
thermo treated lumber. It's real lumber, but it acts, it's extremely
durable, impervious two insects, andit acts like it's like a wood composit.

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But manufacturers are able to treat woodto give you that real wood look
along with the durability and kind ofease of use of the synthetic or composite
woods, right right, Well,yeah, and then just you know,
one of the things we'll be talkinga lot about over the next probably three

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months is decking as people get inspiredto build a deck or maybe replace an
older, existing pressure treated deck.As you know, we went into the
composite things and it had a bumpystart and it wasn't quite what was cracked
up to be, and then theykind of got that somewhat perfected and then
all along, all sudden, youknow, maybe I don't know. Ten

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years ago, eight years ago,along came the capped composites, and holy
cow, it took the wood outof the equation and capped composites pretty much
dominate now. I mean in termsof, you know what, people are
looking at it because you can getthis natural wood grain, we can get
it where it's cooler, we canyou know, we take the wood out

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so we don't have to clean asmuch. There's no absorption, the sunlight
isn't gonna fade it, and holycow, you know, it really did
change the decking market once again.And you're right now at the time,
I just heard on your newscast thatthere's a heat wave coming this way,
and that's why they spend a littlemore and spend a little more in the
hardware store and home improvement store aswell. Sure, and I think the

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wood folks, the wood proponents ofthe wood decking might point out that would
still maintains an edge oven, thatit's less expensive. But there are tremendous
varieties of composites capitalod Like you said, right, recently, recycled materials of
all kinds are going into decking productsthat just looks looks so real. Yeah,

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and you're seeing it even here inNew Jersey where I'm sitting in boardwalks,
boardwalks and public parks. You're seeingmore uh of the composite down in
Atlantic City. And the reason it'smore durable, it's is gonna Atlantic City,
if I'm not mistaken. At onetime their boardwalk was made of epay

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uh, which is a Brazilian hardwood. Have they replaced that or is that
still there? Do you know?I do not know, and I'm very
impressed by your knowledge of our NewJersey history though, Garrett, I don't
know. But when I do goto the other places in the shore,
the boardwalks, they are replacing itwith composits. I'll be darn all right.
All right, So are you headingoff to the International Builder Show?

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Then tomorrow we're heading out there.Our team is going to be down there.
It's an amazing If your audience hasnot been uh, it's it's a
fantastic trip. We really look forwardto it. A whole villages grow out
of the parking lot there at theOrange County Convention to Las Vegas Convention Center,
and it's exciting to see the newstuff. Been there many times and

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it is a treat. We've broadcastfrom there, and we'll look forward to
chatting with you next Sunday. AndI'm sure you'll give me your snapshot on
maybe five of the most intriguing productsyou found there. How's that sound,
Ken, We'll give you a fullreport. I'm on it. I'm on
it, Gary, all right,my friend, have a great trip,

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Thank you, good bye bye.All right, Ken Clark, our Sunday
guest, and certainly appreciate him stoppingin and giving us feedbacks on the industry.
So that leaves you and me,So let me give you the phone
number. Happy to talk about yourhome projects, even if it has to
do with decking. But I doremember that boardwalk in Lang City was made

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with epay. That stuff is sohard. I'm surprised they're replacing it.
And it is probably as always Gary, I'm impressed by your wealth of knowledge.
That stuff is so hard, Danny. I can give you a hand
sledgehammer and a box of nails andyou can't drive a nail into that.
Yes, no kidding, All right, here's the number. It's eight hundred

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of the hour at home with GarySullivan talking a low home improvement. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five and Bruce Welcome, Thank you,
Erry, thanks for having me.You're quite welcome. Hey, my

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girlfriend recently bought a used greenhouse eightby twelve feet with the polycarbonate sides and
roads, and the sides have somewhat we presume are hard water stains.
They're etched into the polycarbonate and wecan't find anything that'll touch them. Any
suggestions. When you say etched in, why would they be etched in?
Well, it's it's a hard waterstain and it's i mean plastic cleaner won't

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touch it, even with a littlebit of abrasive added. They're just they're
just there and they won't move,so we're thinking they're etched into the plastic.
So not to be too simple,but I mean you've tried even a
little simple things like vinegar and stufflike that, which you know our CLRG.

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I don't know if she's done vinegaror not, but we've done a
variety of different plastic cleaners. Okay, So a buddy of mine owns a
company that makes a products aircraft canopiesthat that hasn't that won't touch them either.
Hm hmm. Well, outside ofjust some small acids that I just
mentioned, like a CLR of vinegar, which is a very simple solution and

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it sounds like it's going to needsomething more than that. There is there
is one cleanser that I've had greatluck. It's just kind of went out
into the marketplace like last July.It's a it's called cream cleanser and it's

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manufactured by Jaws j A. W. S. Their website is Jaws cleans
dot com. Uh right, yeah, but this is different than their other
products, that is the just addwater stuff, but this cream cleanser,
it is a little bit of itwas designed to really like clean out nasty

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stuff on bathtubs, toilets, porcelain, plastic shower doors, that type of
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great. I've used it on atoreso backsplash to get rid of some you
know, cooking oils and stuff.It worked great. I've used it on

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a toilet, it worked great.I've had people listening call me and they've
used it on a various amount ofthings and it worked great. I haven't
used it on a polycarbonate and soI don't know, but it's a good
product and I think maybe worthy ofa try. Yeah, I'll get someone
try it and report back. I'dappreciate it. And it's jawscleans dot com

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got it all right, very good, Thank you, you bet you bye
bye. If you have any experienceon that, maybe you can help.
I was even thinking the wet andforget again. You know, they also
a shower cleaner like a mister bubbles, whether that would do it, But
I don't know. The polycarbon it'sthat substrate that's kind of I think got

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met tricked a little bit, allright, Taking your calls again. Our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two threeeight two five five. And we've been
talking about getting some things done aswe transition from winter to spring, and
there's always a plenty of things todo throughout the whole spring season. When
we were talking to Ken and hewas talking about or we were we started

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talking about new products, and westarted talking about, uh, decking.
It makes me laugh because when thecomposits first came out, this is probably
I don't know, mid eighties,I'm guessing, and boy, that was
gonna be the answer, just likepressure tree would that was gonna be the

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answer. But boy, we're gettingthere. We're getting there. It's taken
a long time, but each yearmore things and more things come out for
decks, and some of the newerones is actually the framing for decks are
now being made out of metal insteadof just taking a wood out of the
equation and then having the composites capcomposits go over it, which reminds me

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we got into this last year andit bears repeating as you're beginning to plan,
when you're looking at your deck nowand maybe that pressure maybe that deck
was built twenty years ago, twentyfive years ago. And you know,
I always tell you the sun doesthe damage and the deck boards. You
know, maybe it wasn't maintained likeit should have been, or maybe we

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used inexpensive stuff and let it gotoo long, and you know all the
stories and anyway, the deck boardsare just like nasty looking and you're going
to replace them. And we getinto the lot where people are like,
yeah, I'm going to replace thoseand Gary, how long should these cap
composits last? You know, youget a really good cap composite. I

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mean they're warranting this stuff twenty fiveplus years now, and that's even the
replacement cost and the labor, whichis unheard of in warranty businesses. But
that's how good some of these thingsare now. And then the question I
usually have for the homeowner is this, what about the support system? What

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about the undercarriage of that deck?What are you going to do with that?
Well, that thing's as solid asanything, it looks good, it's
been protected from the sun. I'mjust gonna put my composite right over it.
How long should that undercarriage last?That's the question, and it's thirty

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five to fifty years. So ifyou're going to invest a chunk of money
into a really great looking cap composite, and it's warranted for twenty five years.
Slow down, slow down. Wewant to make sure that that thing

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that support systems is gonna last aslong as that new cap composite that you
just spend a lot of money on. So give that some thought. If
you're going to have a contractor,do it, let them inspect it if
they're If you're not gonna have acontractor, you might have an instructural engineer
coming and inspected. Let's make surethat thing's going to live as long as

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that cap composite. That would bea big investment. All right, Your
call's next. Will take a breakand come back leon you'll be leading off.
Grab a line. You're at homewith Gary Sullivan. It's the weekend

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