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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, talking a little home improvement, greg I got
a quick answer on that oxalic acid to get rid
of walnut stains out of concrete. I said, what two
or three tablespoons of oxalic acid for a quart? That's
pretty close. Or you can use a heaping tablespoon per
cup of water or a quarter cup of buxolic acid
(00:21):
per gallon of warm water ten to fifteen minutes to
let it sit, scrub rintse and rintse. Well, make sure
you wear gloves and goggles. So there you go. All right,
it's time for our friend Ron Wilson, and we're always
talking to him about our outside landscaping and gardens and
(00:42):
kind of going dormant on us. Mister Wilson, morning, How
are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oxalic acid? Yeah? You know there's a lot of plants
that have oxalic acid.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Is it really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
How about that rhubarb, spinach, kale, nuts seed, partially tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I guess you got there with your big uh bundle.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, they all have that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I love Brussels sprouts. How about you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I like I. Actually, you know what's funny is I
I when I was kid, a kid, there's no way, yeah,
I wouldn't have eaten that or cabbage either. One.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You know, just kind of got into it in the
last probably four years.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The cabbage rolls and stuff I love and now the
Brussels sprouts absolutely love them.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, our taste change.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes they do, by the way, And yes, things are
starting to shut down. As a matter of fact, looking
at lawns in our area, not a maybe yours did,
but not a lot of growth. Will you noticed that
last week or so?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, it definitely you can slowed down.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, slowed down. So now what's going to happen is
leaves are gonna start falling. So even though you don't
maybe need to be mowing, you still need to be
mowing right to grind up the leaves, grind up those leaves.
So yeah, they're gonna start falling here in another week,
I think we're gonna see a major quick drop. I think. Anyway,
(02:02):
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, it'll be wet. It looks like it's gonna be
a wet week. Can't I got a question? In fact,
not me, but Thomas is on hold and we can
kind of help him out since we have you on
the line. He wants to uh, he's looking at leveling
his backyard and need some.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Advice leveling the backyard.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, he's got some dips, Thomas, you there, I am. Yeah.
Is that what you want to do? Just kind of
make it a little more level?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, And I've got a compounded issue. So let me
set the stage. I had a forty foot white pine
been there forever, cut it down two years ago, let
the roots rot best I could. I intended to run
a bobcap. I got a dingo instead, and that was
rough going. So I ripped up a bunch of ives.
(02:55):
So this has never been cultivated. There's a bit of
a ravine natural drain that part of the property. Yeah,
so uh yeah, it was a it was a rough
weekend at any rate. I ripped out as bunch of
the ivy as I could, and ripped up some of
the roots, some as big as my arm, and I
moved around a lot of the dirt around and so
(03:15):
what I'm left with is a bit of a rise.
There's a fair amount of clay in the front part
which I want to regrade away from my house. There's
a driveway blacktop pad behind it, okay, and then I
have about six inches to go down in the first third,
and then there's about an eighteen inch drop towards the
ravine that I want to move a bunch of this
(03:37):
material around, try to level it out best I can.
Uh for let's say a bad minton area, it's about.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, So you've got a whole bunch of work that
you're going to do there, and and let Ron and
I just kind of wrap, you know, give you some
advice and uh so, what do you think about that, Ron?
That is a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Huh Now I wouldn't tackle it, yeah, I mean, yeah,
that's a lot of that's just a lot of soil moving, and.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It is And who in the industry does that kind
of work? I mean, would it be an excavator because
that clay's not gonna help you grow a nice bad mitten.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uh No. Well, they're gonna do two things. One is
they're going to use to get the right soil for
the fill, because you bring topsoil, you know where you
scrape that in if you don't have the right soil,
and that's going to sink. I mean, if you watch
them regrade an area, they'll pull that top soil off
regrade with the clay. That's underneath correct and then come
back in once they're done with all of that grading
(04:31):
and it's final grade, then they come back into the
top soil on top. And that's where everybody complains as well.
Only get an entw or two of top soil, and
a lot of times that's all it was anyway, you know,
because top soil is just basically where the organic matter
is breaking down the top. So it's a matter of
making sure you use that heavier soil in the fill
areas and all before you do anything. And I think
(04:52):
the other the other thing I look at here too
is if it's a sloped area.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And he said ravine too.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, make sure that that gets covered before we get
in to the winter season. Obviously too late for seating.
You may get an annual ryot, but maybe too late
for seating. But you can still use that erosion netting
things like that to try to slow that down and
hold that hillside or that ravine the slope there.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Like if we're building something in a home, we need
to get like a you know, permit or an inspector.
I mean, you don't want to go at this haphazardly.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, And again we don't know how big the area.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean, it's not calculation, test and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
All of that's involved technically, you are correct. And so
when an excavator would come in and take care of that,
and there's you know Site one people there, there are people
that you know do both the landscaping whatever and the
moving of the soil. But again, yeah, you're right, they
kind of make sure all of those add up and
come together so you've got the proper drainings and proper
(05:53):
slope and all that, and then come in with a
tennis court which I would also have a pickleball on
there too, so someone is old.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
As you can it will volleyball was oh volleyball? Well yeah, yeah,
there you go way too active.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well that's yeah, especially if it's saying right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, so well, you know, it brings up a good
point too, is first of all, I mean, I'm not
knocking him, but it's almost getting a little too late
to do that, right.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean, well, I think it's ever too late. I
mean they're going to be doing grading and all that through.
I mean as long as the soil is workable. Where
you get into problems is that, yeah, it would be
the erosion situation, right, and you know, in situations like that,
Like you look at a construction site right now, there's
one right behind our house where they're doing a lot
of soil moving right now, well anywhere where there's a
ravine a swale that they're finished with, and they finished
(06:41):
those up before they did everything else. Those are now
seated and they have erosion nettings on top of them,
and they have the straw bales on the top, and
so they're doing everything they can because they know they're
not going to get any vegetation there for us a year.
But that's already done and covered anticipating that, you know,
because it's so late in the season.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So maybe helping other people out, would you start with
first find somebody's going to do that work. Would an
excavator be that type of person? I think so he
would have the knowledge on the types of soil and
what kind of soil, because unless you're really schooled in that,
that's not a do it yourself project.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, And you come in here, like I said earlier,
with that top soil, the really loose soil, and then
you build something on top of it, and then all
of a sudden that starts to settle more and more
unless you have the roots that were in there from
the pine.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Tree, right, they're going to decay.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They're going to decay as well. So you, yeah, you
got to make sure all that stuff's out of there
when you're doing a really a major redgrade like he's doing.
I have somebody else look at it too.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah. You earn your keep today and we thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I have a great show. Happy Halloween.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
By the way, Oh all right, online dot com you
can get some more information there. Thanks, Ron, I appreciate it.
You're at home with Garry Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
If you don't have a list of things to do
around the house, Gary will find something for you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
At one eight hundred.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Eighty two three talk You're at home with Gary's elevators.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
For over forty years, Dumont has made powerful pain and
coating removers that are tough on layers but safe for
you in the environment. Tried demand smart Strip Advanced. It
works on over ninety percent of the coatings. No harmful fumes,
no dangerous chemicals. Not sure what you're removing, Well, Demon's
easy test kit tells you exactly what you need. Find
smart Strip at You're participating Do it Best Retailer Sherwan
(08:49):
Williams or visit Dumont Global dot Com. At Dumont Global
dot com, Dumont Smart, safe and proven, so do it
yourself with Demon. Another happy Odor Exit customer set up.
Our dog became in Cotton around the same time as Grandpa.
The house smelled off and tried everything. Nothing worked until
we heard Gary Salvin say oder Exit really works, so
(09:09):
we tried it. Wow, Grandpa's chair, the dog bed fresh again,
no coverups, no perfumes, just gone now right now. Get
fifteen percent off for a limited time, plus free shipping
on orders over twenty five dollars at odor exit dot com.
That's odor Exit dot com. Breathe easy again. Fall cleanup
just got easier with Jaws the just add water system.
(09:30):
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pro strength cleaners trusted by the pros. Jaws Glass Cleaner,
crystal clear shine every time, Jaws Cream cleanser your fall,
MVP tackling grills, tools, even rust. There's a Jaws cleaner
for every room. Shop now at jawscleans dot com. Jaws
(09:51):
is tough on dirt, easy on you. Trust me, You're
gonna love it. That's Jawscleans dot com. Hi everyone, I've
been raving about wit and Forget outdoor cleaner for years,
and for good reason. It takes the hassle out of
cleaning moss, mold, and mildew. No bleaching, no scrubbing, no rinsing,
Just spray and you're done. It's perfect for roof stacks, sidewalks,
even patio umbrellas. Available in hose en sprayer with a
(10:14):
thirty foot reach a concentrate and are ready to use option.
Find Wet and Forget it Low's, Walmart, Minards, or visit
Wetinforget dot com and now in stores the new Wet
and Forget Window and screen cleaner
All right, talking a little home improvement, greg I got
a quick answer on that oxalic acid to get rid
of walnut stains out of concrete. I said, what two
or three tablespoons of oxalic acid for a quart? That's
pretty close. Or you can use a heaping tablespoon per
cup of water or a quarter cup of buxolic acid
(00:21):
per gallon of warm water ten to fifteen minutes to
let it sit, scrub rintse and rintse. Well, make sure
you wear gloves and goggles. So there you go. All right,
it's time for our friend Ron Wilson, and we're always
talking to him about our outside landscaping and gardens and
(00:42):
kind of going dormant on us. Mister Wilson, morning, How
are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oxalic acid? Yeah? You know there's a lot of plants
that have oxalic acid.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Is it really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
How about that rhubarb, spinach, kale, nuts seed, partially tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I guess you got there with your big uh bundle.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, they all have that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I love Brussels sprouts. How about you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I like I. Actually, you know what's funny is I
I when I was kid, a kid, there's no way, yeah,
I wouldn't have eaten that or cabbage either. One.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You know, just kind of got into it in the
last probably four years.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The cabbage rolls and stuff I love and now the
Brussels sprouts absolutely love them.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, our taste change.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes they do, by the way, And yes, things are
starting to shut down. As a matter of fact, looking
at lawns in our area, not a maybe yours did,
but not a lot of growth. Will you noticed that
last week or so?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, it definitely you can slowed down.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, slowed down. So now what's going to happen is
leaves are gonna start falling. So even though you don't
maybe need to be mowing, you still need to be
mowing right to grind up the leaves, grind up those leaves.
So yeah, they're gonna start falling here in another week,
I think we're gonna see a major quick drop. I think. Anyway,
(02:02):
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, it'll be wet. It looks like it's gonna be
a wet week. Can't I got a question? In fact,
not me, but Thomas is on hold and we can
kind of help him out since we have you on
the line. He wants to uh, he's looking at leveling
his backyard and need some.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Advice leveling the backyard.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, he's got some dips, Thomas, you there, I am. Yeah.
Is that what you want to do? Just kind of
make it a little more level?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, And I've got a compounded issue. So let me
set the stage. I had a forty foot white pine
been there forever, cut it down two years ago, let
the roots rot best I could. I intended to run
a bobcap. I got a dingo instead, and that was
rough going. So I ripped up a bunch of ives.
(02:55):
So this has never been cultivated. There's a bit of
a ravine natural drain that part of the property. Yeah,
so uh yeah, it was a it was a rough
weekend at any rate. I ripped out as bunch of
the ivy as I could, and ripped up some of
the roots, some as big as my arm, and I
moved around a lot of the dirt around and so
(03:15):
what I'm left with is a bit of a rise.
There's a fair amount of clay in the front part
which I want to regrade away from my house. There's
a driveway blacktop pad behind it, okay, and then I
have about six inches to go down in the first third,
and then there's about an eighteen inch drop towards the
ravine that I want to move a bunch of this
(03:37):
material around, try to level it out best I can.
Uh for let's say a bad minton area, it's about.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, So you've got a whole bunch of work that
you're going to do there, and and let Ron and
I just kind of wrap, you know, give you some
advice and uh so, what do you think about that, Ron?
That is a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Huh Now I wouldn't tackle it, yeah, I mean, yeah,
that's a lot of that's just a lot of soil moving, and.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It is And who in the industry does that kind
of work? I mean, would it be an excavator because
that clay's not gonna help you grow a nice bad mitten.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uh No. Well, they're gonna do two things. One is
they're going to use to get the right soil for
the fill, because you bring topsoil, you know where you
scrape that in if you don't have the right soil,
and that's going to sink. I mean, if you watch
them regrade an area, they'll pull that top soil off
regrade with the clay. That's underneath correct and then come
back in once they're done with all of that grading
(04:31):
and it's final grade, then they come back into the
top soil on top. And that's where everybody complains as well.
Only get an entw or two of top soil, and
a lot of times that's all it was anyway, you know,
because top soil is just basically where the organic matter
is breaking down the top. So it's a matter of
making sure you use that heavier soil in the fill
areas and all before you do anything. And I think
(04:52):
the other the other thing I look at here too
is if it's a sloped area.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And he said ravine too.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, make sure that that gets covered before we get
in to the winter season. Obviously too late for seating.
You may get an annual ryot, but maybe too late
for seating. But you can still use that erosion netting
things like that to try to slow that down and
hold that hillside or that ravine the slope there.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Like if we're building something in a home, we need
to get like a you know, permit or an inspector.
I mean, you don't want to go at this haphazardly.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, And again we don't know how big the area.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean, it's not calculation, test and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
All of that's involved technically, you are correct. And so
when an excavator would come in and take care of that,
and there's you know Site one people there, there are people
that you know do both the landscaping whatever and the
moving of the soil. But again, yeah, you're right, they
kind of make sure all of those add up and
come together so you've got the proper drainings and proper
(05:53):
slope and all that, and then come in with a
tennis court which I would also have a pickleball on
there too, so someone is old.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
As you can it will volleyball was oh volleyball? Well yeah, yeah,
there you go way too active.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well that's yeah, especially if it's saying right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, so well, you know, it brings up a good
point too, is first of all, I mean, I'm not
knocking him, but it's almost getting a little too late
to do that, right.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean, well, I think it's ever too late. I
mean they're going to be doing grading and all that through.
I mean as long as the soil is workable. Where
you get into problems is that, yeah, it would be
the erosion situation, right, and you know, in situations like that,
Like you look at a construction site right now, there's
one right behind our house where they're doing a lot
of soil moving right now, well anywhere where there's a
ravine a swale that they're finished with, and they finished
(06:41):
those up before they did everything else. Those are now
seated and they have erosion nettings on top of them,
and they have the straw bales on the top, and
so they're doing everything they can because they know they're
not going to get any vegetation there for us a year.
But that's already done and covered anticipating that, you know,
because it's so late in the season.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So maybe helping other people out, would you start with
first find somebody's going to do that work. Would an
excavator be that type of person? I think so he
would have the knowledge on the types of soil and
what kind of soil, because unless you're really schooled in that,
that's not a do it yourself project.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, And you come in here, like I said earlier,
with that top soil, the really loose soil, and then
you build something on top of it, and then all
of a sudden that starts to settle more and more
unless you have the roots that were in there from
the pine.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Tree, right, they're going to decay.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They're going to decay as well. So you, yeah, you
got to make sure all that stuff's out of there
when you're doing a really a major redgrade like he's doing.
I have somebody else look at it too.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah. You earn your keep today and we thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I have a great show. Happy Halloween.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
By the way, Oh all right, online dot com you
can get some more information there. Thanks, Ron, I appreciate it.
You're at home with Garry Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
If you don't have a list of things to do
around the house, Gary will find something for you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
At one eight hundred.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Eighty two three talk You're at home with Gary's elevators.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
For over forty years, Dumont has made powerful pain and
coating removers that are tough on layers but safe for
you in the environment. Tried demand smart Strip Advanced. It
works on over ninety percent of the coatings. No harmful fumes,
no dangerous chemicals. Not sure what you're removing, Well, Demon's
easy test kit tells you exactly what you need. Find
smart Strip at You're participating Do it Best Retailer Sherwan
(08:49):
Williams or visit Dumont Global dot Com. At Dumont Global
dot com, Dumont Smart, safe and proven, so do it
yourself with Demon. Another happy Odor Exit customer set up.
Our dog became in Cotton around the same time as Grandpa.
The house smelled off and tried everything. Nothing worked until
we heard Gary Salvin say oder Exit really works, so
(09:09):
we tried it. Wow, Grandpa's chair, the dog bed fresh again,
no coverups, no perfumes, just gone now right now. Get
fifteen percent off for a limited time, plus free shipping
on orders over twenty five dollars at odor exit dot com.
That's odor Exit dot com. Breathe easy again. Fall cleanup
just got easier with Jaws the just add water system.
(09:30):
From streak free glass to heavy duty grime. Jaws delivers
pro strength cleaners trusted by the pros. Jaws Glass Cleaner,
crystal clear shine every time, Jaws Cream cleanser your fall,
MVP tackling grills, tools, even rust. There's a Jaws cleaner
for every room. Shop now at jawscleans dot com. Jaws
(09:51):
is tough on dirt, easy on you. Trust me, You're
gonna love it. That's Jawscleans dot com. Hi everyone, I've
been raving about wit and Forget outdoor cleaner for years,
and for good reason. It takes the hassle out of
cleaning moss, mold, and mildew. No bleaching, no scrubbing, no rinsing,
Just spray and you're done. It's perfect for roof stacks, sidewalks,
even patio umbrellas. Available in hose en sprayer with a
(10:14):
thirty foot reach a concentrate and are ready to use option.
Find Wet and Forget it Low's, Walmart, Minards, or visit
Wetinforget dot com and now in stores the new Wet
and Forget Window and screen cleaner
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