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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, the weekend's upon us. Welcome aboard at home with
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A two five five. As we well kind of work
on some things. We were talking earlier about squirrels and
animals getting into our attic with Frank from the Boston area,
which reminds me. This past week, I had a something
showed up on Facebook. It was a picture of a
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soffoted area, and this particular person was talking about the
amount of woodpecker damage that was being done to the
facia board and the concern there was, look what these
woodpeckers have done to the perimeter of my house. And
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I could just tell by the way it was written
the concern from a cosmetic appearance. And my thought was, immediately,
that's the that's the least of your problems. Because as
I was just looking at that picture, I noticed the
gutter was tilted forward and it was probably pulled away
(03:00):
from the facia board I'm gonna say an inch and
a half two inches made, so it's kind of hanging,
and I could tell the shingling the water coming down
the roof was probably not going in to the gutter area,
so it was going behind it. You have the paint
that's been chipped off the facia board from the woodpecker.
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You have a gap between the facia board and the
corner piece behind the gutter, which is when I was
talking about the vulnerability of our houses to raccoons and squirrels.
That is a classic example. That's what we need to
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pay attention about when we stumble upon that. It's not
oh my, look it looks terrible, which it does, but
oh my, that is a gateway for some potential problems,
whether it's cold air, whether it's our number one enemy water, insects, wildlife. Uh,
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we gotta get on that. We gotta get that fixed.
And you know, the first thing I would do is
have the attic inspected to see if there is any
damage on the inside. We know there's damage on the outside,
but taking a look and see if there's ain't damage
on the inside critical What could damage be. Well, it
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could be the moisture. We could have mold inside the attic.
We can have mold inside the insulation. We could quickly
realize that there has been an intrusion of squirrel or
something in our attic, which are big problems. But I
would inspect the inside if I see that damage on
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the outside. If I see that everything is in pretty
good shape, I get to work on it right now.
Maybe it's patching wood, rehanging the gutter for sure. Maybe
it just needs to have the gut nail pulled out
and have a gutter screw with a farrow if you
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don't have the brackets on the bottom of that. And
I don't think this did get that tightly fastened so
that we're at least controlling the water that's coming down
the roof, the shingled roof. And when you think about it, folks,
look at the size of your roof, all right, and
when it rains, that whole area that rain would hit
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the roof is coming down and being caught by probably
a five inch trough brought to a two by four
inch pipe that is removing the water either other ground
or on the surface of the ground. With the soil
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sloping away from the home. That's a lot of water
and not catching that water or having that gut or clogged.
If you live in areas where you have very dense
soil like clay, not as severe of a problem as
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in Florida or something with a lot of sandy soil
where it will dissipate, but that clay will just hold
that water for weeks months and eventually it will cause
some issues with the foundation, or if there is issues
with the foundation, is going to allow water into your home.
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So many of our problems. I mean, if you take
you know, three feet wide at the corner of the
house on the gutters face yourboard, siding or brick or whatever,
to the ground to the down spout, just that three
foot wide by ten feet, there are a lot going
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on there. And that's got to be in good shape.
It's got to be a well tuned machine. It's got
to have good maintenance. If things are going to break down,
that is where they're going to break down. So again
that whenever you see damage, and this particular problem was
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you know, a woodpecker. It causes damage and how long
has it been there, who knows. But if you have
something like you know, a bird that is pecking through
the paint, through the wood, tearing up the wood, it's
vulnerable to moisture, it's going to start creating rot. We
got to get that fixed because it's not going to
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get better, It's going to continue to get worse and worse,
and needs to be addressed, and not because it's unsightly.
So many people just think when they paint, I want
to change the color in my house, I want to
change the color in my front door. Paint is a sealant.
(08:16):
Paint is probably one of the best seilants that we have.
We sure we got stained and we got varnishes, and
we got erothanes, but paint paint holds up against the sun.
It doesn't break down as much by the sun. It
is very UV resistant versus a clear finish. And I
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know a lot of us tackle the job when we
don't like a color, but really don't overlook the fact
that if you love the color, and then at the
bottom of the trim around your entry door and you
look at that and there's paint peeling off it, Uh,
there's water probably getting behind that that paints failing. You
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got work to do. It's just not always a cosmetic issue.
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Speaker 1 (12:56):
How I'm just doing wonderful Jim. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm getting ready to repaint semiglass on an exterior door.
It was about twenty years old. I'm going from a
navy blue to a fanberry. What's the best way to
prepare that door?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So what is the doors? It would metal or fiberglass, fiberglass, fiberglass,
and it's already painted, so you know, really not too
much work. Prep's always the key. But if the pain
is intact, and you know, you just changing the color.
I would say the number one thing is make sure
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it's just good and clean. Was it a semigloss I'm sorry, yeah,
TSP work sure okay?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yes, it was semigloss on there, so I probably would
get like a very finer, extra fine sanding sponge. Just
go over that lightly. Do you know if that was
an oil base or was it a Latex.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I am assuming late I got sure Williams see gloss,
but over that so I'm sure it'll do fine.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay, So yeah, just just clean, light standing and most
a lot of your paints, I know, like the you're
a Thane Emerald Triven the AMO, I know that's self priming.
It depends which one you choose on whether you're going
to need a primer. But if you're going from latex
Latex or modified where it's an alcat acrylic, no primer
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should be needed. It's more just slightly scratch up the
surface TSP washing it down real good and you should
be set to go outstanding.
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I did the.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Concrete pad.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I'm the when I called on that about a month
ago and it did nothing. So I ended up taking
your advice and getting a diamond grinding whaleuness. I took
it off.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, yeah, yeah, when you did the test kit, did
it refer did one of the tests work or none
of them?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
They all worked a little bit, but one was not
better than the other. I was expecting to peel Away
to probably do the best because that that slab is
probably fifty years old, but didn't make a difference.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Huh, you used the paper over and everything, right.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I follow the directions to just checking.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
All right, well grind it off. You're real you did
you finish it up? Then?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Oh yeah, it came out really nice. But it took
a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, always does. Nothing's easy. Well, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it. Take care all right. And yeah, So
what he's talking about is the dumand Global they have.
In fact, we had them at the to Do It
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(15:53):
one of the things that the industry is struggling with
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Dumont Global was the maker of peel Away for many
many many many, many many years, been around for a
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(16:17):
get the right kind of stripper for the what you're
trying to remove the peel weight is organic paints, and
you say, what is an organic paint? Organic paint is
like a lead based paint. That would be organic and
that would work on that. I'm surprised, and none of
(16:37):
them worked. I'm not disputing it. The the the pro
strip advantage I always get mixed up with her. It's
advantager advanced, pro strip Advanced. We'll try that. It does
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a little test hit that has four different types of
pain strippers that we test and see which one kicks in,
which one actually works. But so be it. I always say,
there's two ways to remove pain off the surface. It's
either it's either mechanically or chemically. And if you can't
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It's going to be a little bit of work, but
it's going to take care of business. So if you'd
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whether it's a mailbox post, maybe some lawn furniture. But
you know, in order to really get a good coat
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have to you know, physically grind sand or remove the
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rusted area, or use a chemical where it actually seals
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Certainly you've seen a wire brush and sandpaper where we
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That's one way. The other way, and I've talked about
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Speaker 1 (22:10):
Well, you're at home with Gary Sullivan and uh we're
talking a little home improvement. If you'd like to join us,
do so. It is a hundred eighty two three eight
two five five Paul welcome.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I don't have a whole problem. What I got is
a glue problem. I stepped on a mouse screw trap. Yeah,
blue was the stickiest on a man.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh boy, I don't know. I've never stepped in one.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Me.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, don't laugh, it's just not funny.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I know I know how sticky it is. I've had
it on the corner of my Uh, I don't know
I'd probably try maybe a little denatured alcohol, something along
those lines. Okay, they're made. Do you hit you still
have the uh container to the glue trap the wrapping
(23:04):
is there? Or go online and maybe find their technical
service number. Maybe there's a number to call.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
That's a good idea, Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I'll look something up during the next break, which I'll
be happy to repeat if I find something. But no,
I know what you mean. I I have when I
was discarding a mouse and just have the corner of
my thumb hit that glue. It's it's sticky. It works,
it's very sticky.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, all right, well, thank you much. I didn't want
to go ahead to try and uh uh uh lighter
fluis or ghasoling and nothing like that. You know, I
thought I tried this.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
U yeah, denatured alcohol. Even people listening, maybe they you know,
figuring out polish remover that that may work. Also, if
somebody's got some experience in it, they can certainly call
us right away and we'll get that out too.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
All right, you're quite welcome, Paul, be happy to do that.
I'll check that out during the next break and Dave welcome. Well, Hello, yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I have bought a house in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It's on
a little bit of a slope the houses at the
high spot. The road is a little bit lower than that,
and I've got a couple of cracks across a two
car wide driveway. I know that all concrete cracks every
now and then, but the thing about it is is
(24:31):
that after a rain and everything else is dried, these
cracks keep exuding water. And I'm wondering if there's just
a waterflow issue under the driveway that's bubbling up causing
the crack. And if that is the case, I don't
know what I could.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Do about it.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
If it's rain getting down into the crack, I'd kind
of like to seal them so that, you know, it
doesn't get worse when the water freezes.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah. Yeah, I think what you're saying, you know, can
be true. Both of them can be true. I don't
know which one it is, but when you have water
that's coming up through a crack and concrete, it's either
a water table issue or flowing water. Usually under your
concrete pad will be you know, three or four inches
(25:20):
of a compact gravel and stone, and you know that
can Also, it kind of kind of reminds me if
you got cracks in it, if the water table was higher,
there's water flowing and some of that erosion takes place.
The slab, which I talk about often when I talk
about in fact, we started to show off with it
(25:40):
today talking about filling cracks of that are inside the
expansion joint. You know, you got a couple of things
going on there. You got weeds growing up, you got
ants tunneling down, but you're also allowing water to get
in there and maybe cause some erosion. And then if
you at a dry period and that erosion's taking place
(26:03):
and the soil kind of settles back down, that slabs moving,
which could cause it to crack even further.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Yeah, Well, if I were going to put a ceialing
though on it, or you know, somehow sealed the crack,
I'm not looking to paint the whole driveway. What would
you suggest?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
What do you mean by painting the whole driveway? Did
you say that driveway was painted or sealed?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
No? No, no, it's just it's just natural.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, okay, I would say, so where's the crack? Is
it in the expansion join or is it just somewhere
in the driveway.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
You know, it's just somewhere in the driveway. I fact,
it runs from side to side, you know, about four
feet from the garage door and about twelve feet from
the street.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Okay, okay, And can you give me about the diameter
of that crack or how white it is?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Oh, very very very small, you know, just a fingernail maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, there's a product. It is very very easy to do.
The only seekers try to get it cleared out, cleaned out.
And one other question, because this is intriguing me that
that crack is that small and causing that when it
dries out, But then you see moisture by that crack.
Is this moisture that's it just appears to be wet.
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Is it flowing? And how long does that last?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It's not flowing, It just appears to be wet when
everything else is dry, and it usually lasts a day
or two.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It seems like a lot. Yeah, So what I was
thinking is, again, let's get rid of the whole theory
that it's water flowing underneath that driveway. If there's a
very small crack and it's raining, obviously the rain penetrates
into the concrete and it takes time to dry, and
(27:58):
the concrete is all dry and it's sept where that
crack is, and it's staying wet because more surface area
of the crack has been introduced to water. So right,
I mean that water is only penetrating down probably a
thirty second of an inch on the surface, but where
that crevice is, it could be legitimately it could be
(28:21):
another four inches of wetting the inside of that crack.
So back to where I was, clean clean it out,
get dust out of there. Any vegetation's grown, probably isn't any,
and then get a product called crack Seal. Really inventive name, yeah,
crack Seals made by quick Crete. It comes in a
court jug with a spout on it, and literally it's
(28:45):
about the consistency of a milkshake, which you're in its
self leveling, so all you're doing is just running a
beat over it. It's just kind of weeping in and
you'll seal it up with that. It's a it's a
latex base or acrylic base. Nothing super substantial like a eurothane.
It's just simply an acrylic filler.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Okay, well that sounds like a great thing. I surely
appreciate your advice.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, take care, bye bye, all right,
our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. And I did kind of look that up
when I was chatting with the other fella on the
glue from a mouse trap, and this, this could be
a very good answer talking about removing it. I had
(29:35):
suggested a denatured alcohol. The other one, I will suggest
that it wasn't on there. It was also a product
called googon. I would also try rubbing alcohol. So you
got rubbing alcohol denatured.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Gentleman called and suggested vegetable oil.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That's the one I found there, you go, which makes sense.
So the one I found was vegetable olive oil, canola,
anything along nose lines, even i'll get weird now, even mayonnaise,
which has a vegetable oil in it, which used to
be the answer for removing adhesives off bath applicase. Remember
(30:17):
the old bath applicase dating Yeah, people press that down, yeah,
and that you used to have to kind of lift
up the side and just give me coat them, put
little slits in the top. Used to use canole oil
or mayonnaise all the time. People look I'm going back
to my childhood now, thank you. So, yeah, vegetable oil.
(30:38):
So we got some help there. So and I appreciate
that the vegetable oil may be the answer to that.
If you got some rubbing alcohol, you can try that
Google on if you got a can of that, which
is an ink remover. Here's another good application for the
Google because I have it on my notes. As I
was saying, you know, we got to start looking at
fall projects being inside more. I was going to talk
(30:59):
of back kitchen cabinet cleaning. And also here's another one.
Wood floors. If you live in a home in twenty
thirty forty years, the wood floors were stained, most likely
then coated with a varnish or a solvent based polyurethane.
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And then we go through painting the halls in the
family rooms and we start you know, people take shortcuts.
Don't use a drop cloth. If you look at wood
floors and you have paint splatters, just little tiny dots
dried latex paint on top of an oil paint finish
(31:45):
varnish back in the day, even if it's been there
a long time. Google, it'll take care of those little
splatters if it can take care of that. They'll probably
take care of the glue that's on a mouse trap.
All right, Your call's next as we can tine, can
you and wrap things up for the weekend. You're at
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are talking a little home improvement. Back to the phones
we go. We got Jim Jim welcome, Hello.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Sir, thank you for taking the call. You help me
in the pass. I need I need your help again.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Alrighty, I have.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
A rubber roof on our dwelling and it was put
on about nine ten years ago, and I'm thinking it
might need a seiler of some type. Is there something suggestible.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yet? Do you know what type of rubber roofing is?
It is like a nord be to me. Is it leaking?
Is it not drying out properly? Or what's the issue.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
Well, we did see some leaks, but we couldn't find anybody.
It's more so it's it's very dry, I think.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Is it cracking.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Is it still leaking at all?
Speaker 8 (35:53):
No, we haven't found out where. If it was leaking,
we can't find out where it was. All the seams
seemed to be good, but I was just concerned to
a warranty on it of ten years is what we
were told. And how old is it about ten years old?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Mm hmm, Well yeah, and if it's supposed to last
ten years, that sounds like you might need a roof coating.
There are acrylic coatings that can be applied over that
rubber roof, and there's different there's different grades and everything else.
That's why I was kind of asking the type of
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roofing that you have on there. I mentioned like a
nord Be to me is a brand name. There's some
So there's different types of coatings and we'll go that way.
There's acrylic coatings which are there. They're obviously water bass
and they're also really reflective, and those can be used
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on most of your rubber roofs, and you can even
get it in white or black or silver. But the
acrylic coatings, then you get into silicone coatings. Those are
really good if you have a rubber roof and there's
no slope and you get ponding on the rubber roof,
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they don't break down as fast as acrylic should probably
get more protection over a period of time with the
silicon coating. And then if you've got a roof that
gets you know, some foot traffic on because it's a
flat roof, you could probably go to a poly your
thing coating and then if you get to that nord.
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But to me where it's epd M, it's a dense
rubber roofing, they have a budle rubber coating.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
Yeah, that's why I was suggested to me, was the
beutyle rubber.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Okay, well, then that's probably the type of roofing you have. Okay,
so yeah, if it's near the end of its life,
that's you know, it's chemically it's compatible with the rubber
roof you have. It's going to last beyond ten years.
It has great flexibility, great protection from the sun. So
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it's a very durable roof coating.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Okay, where am I going to find out?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, yeah, sure sure they got they got them all
or you know, like a roofing supply house everybody's got
like an ABC roofing or places like that would certainly
have them also.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Okay, I'll look into the bure rubber.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
That yep, and just double check and make sure on
the can whether it needs a primer or not, and
you can make that decision. I think it's going to
be based on the bran you have, so you can
ask about that or read a labeled before you buy it.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
Very good, sir, Thank you once again for you.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care. All right, let's
go to h Dan Dan Welcome.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
Hey, Gary, came home to a leaky water heater. Okay,
and it looks like the expansion tank is rusted, but
it's still under warranty. So I shut the water off
to the water heater. That's okay to run that. I'll
just run the water out of it. Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah? Is this an electric water heater or a gas
water heater?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, So you're gonna shut it down and then then
shut off the water valves and then drain it. Correct,
that's your plan?
Speaker 9 (39:37):
Well, yeah, I'm gonna it was it was leaking, so
as soon as I shut the water off, that stopped
that issue. So I'm figuring I've got a tank full
of water, but I'm gonna not gonna be able to
get a plumber out here for.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
A day or so. Yeah, you can go ahead and
drain that sure, sure, okay?
Speaker 9 (39:54):
Or use or use it up or use yeah, okay, okay, yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
On that tank you said the expansion tank was rusted.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Yeah, on the end of it. We came home to
it and it's uh it had a little rough, little
pit hole on it, and it was just shooting water
across the boat.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Okay, so that's where it was leaking. It was actually
on the expansion tank. I got you. Oh yeah, yeah, okay,
I got you.
Speaker 9 (40:23):
It's still, like I said, it's under warranty I think
until twenty twenty seven, so it was installed in twenty
twenty one. So I just I've got to get somebody
out here that can do the warranty work on it.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Right now, can you shut off the You can't. There's
no real shut off going to an expansion tank, I guess, right.
Speaker 9 (40:43):
Yeah, that's what I thought it was. I went to
the closest shut off next to the expansion tank.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, assuming that, yeah, yeah, I mean, if you can
shut that off that that'd be great. I just can't
picture it. I haven't worked on one, and so I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (41:03):
No, I just didn't want to mess anything up trying
to use the water out of it or if we
have hot water in there.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
The only thing that's going to happen with the expansion
you know, worst case scenario if you shut it off
and don't have a functional expansion tank or you know,
it's code now to have those on. But what the
protection device for your tank at that point would be
the pressure releef out on the side.
Speaker 9 (41:28):
Of the tank, right, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
You be protected. It's you.
Speaker 9 (41:37):
There's always water up in that tank. Then when there's
a supply to it.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Correct well, yeah, to a degree. But they can also
get water logged where that bladder breaks and it just fills. Okay, okay,
So I don't know if that's what caused that, I'd
have to don't Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (41:59):
I know we bought the house a year ago and
it was already here, but it did look and it
was it was only five years old.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah. A lot of times this signal on that is
the pipes. Will you know, once it gets water logged,
you just have high water pressure in a lot of cases,
or you might hear some banging of pipes and that's
usually And there's a way you can test to see
if that tank has water logged or hair has some
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air in it. Almost with a tire gauge and you
can do a little research on that. But I'm betting
that bladder has failed. That tank is filled with water
and that's the cause of the problem, and just shut
that down and you'll be protected with the pressure relief out.
Speaker 9 (42:46):
Pressure relief out sounds good. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Thanks all right, you're quite welcome. Take care all right.
A lot going on, A lot going on today, and
it's always fun to have those chats and talk to
you about different things you should be maintaining around the
home and in our locale. We've been to cold, to rain,
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to drought, and now we're going to get some rain
this week, so I guess we won't find out about
all those issues that we had that we were concerned
about back in the spring that we did or we
did not take care of. In other words, if it
starts raining heavily this particular week, those problems will manifest
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themselves once again. So I guess we'll sit back and
have a full report next week. Again, Danny boy, thank
you very much. I appreciate it. It's been a fun weekend.
It's been a busy weekend, and tomorrow's first day of fall.
How about that away we go, good Lord willing we'll
both be back for more. At Home with Gary Sullivan.
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A two five five. As we well kind of work
on some things. We were talking earlier about squirrels and
animals getting into our attic with Frank from the Boston area,
which reminds me. This past week, I had a something
showed up on Facebook. It was a picture of a
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soffoted area, and this particular person was talking about the
amount of woodpecker damage that was being done to the
facia board and the concern there was, look what these
woodpeckers have done to the perimeter of my house. And
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I could just tell by the way it was written
the concern from a cosmetic appearance. And my thought was, immediately,
that's the that's the least of your problems. Because as
I was just looking at that picture, I noticed the
gutter was tilted forward and it was probably pulled away
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from the facia board I'm gonna say an inch and
a half two inches made, so it's kind of hanging,
and I could tell the shingling the water coming down
the roof was probably not going in to the gutter area,
so it was going behind it. You have the paint
that's been chipped off the facia board from the woodpecker.
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You have a gap between the facia board and the
corner piece behind the gutter, which is when I was
talking about the vulnerability of our houses to raccoons and squirrels.
That is a classic example. That's what we need to
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pay attention about when we stumble upon that. It's not
oh my, look it looks terrible, which it does, but
oh my, that is a gateway for some potential problems,
whether it's cold air, whether it's our number one enemy water, insects, wildlife. Uh,
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we gotta get on that. We gotta get that fixed.
And you know, the first thing I would do is
have the attic inspected to see if there is any
damage on the inside. We know there's damage on the outside,
but taking a look and see if there's ain't damage
on the inside critical What could damage be. Well, it
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could be the moisture. We could have mold inside the attic.
We can have mold inside the insulation. We could quickly
realize that there has been an intrusion of squirrel or
something in our attic, which are big problems. But I
would inspect the inside if I see that damage on
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the outside. If I see that everything is in pretty
good shape, I get to work on it right now.
Maybe it's patching wood, rehanging the gutter for sure. Maybe
it just needs to have the gut nail pulled out
and have a gutter screw with a farrow if you
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don't have the brackets on the bottom of that. And
I don't think this did get that tightly fastened so
that we're at least controlling the water that's coming down
the roof, the shingled roof. And when you think about it, folks,
look at the size of your roof, all right, and
when it rains, that whole area that rain would hit
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the roof is coming down and being caught by probably
a five inch trough brought to a two by four
inch pipe that is removing the water either other ground
or on the surface of the ground. With the soil
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sloping away from the home. That's a lot of water
and not catching that water or having that gut or clogged.
If you live in areas where you have very dense
soil like clay, not as severe of a problem as
(06:23):
in Florida or something with a lot of sandy soil
where it will dissipate, but that clay will just hold
that water for weeks months and eventually it will cause
some issues with the foundation, or if there is issues
with the foundation, is going to allow water into your home.
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So many of our problems. I mean, if you take
you know, three feet wide at the corner of the
house on the gutters face yourboard, siding or brick or whatever,
to the ground to the down spout, just that three
foot wide by ten feet, there are a lot going
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on there. And that's got to be in good shape.
It's got to be a well tuned machine. It's got
to have good maintenance. If things are going to break down,
that is where they're going to break down. So again
that whenever you see damage, and this particular problem was
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you know, a woodpecker. It causes damage and how long
has it been there, who knows. But if you have
something like you know, a bird that is pecking through
the paint, through the wood, tearing up the wood, it's
vulnerable to moisture, it's going to start creating rot. We
got to get that fixed because it's not going to
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get better, It's going to continue to get worse and worse,
and needs to be addressed, and not because it's unsightly.
So many people just think when they paint, I want
to change the color in my house, I want to
change the color in my front door. Paint is a sealant.
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Paint is probably one of the best seilants that we have.
We sure we got stained and we got varnishes, and
we got erothanes, but paint paint holds up against the sun.
It doesn't break down as much by the sun. It
is very UV resistant versus a clear finish. And I
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know a lot of us tackle the job when we
don't like a color, but really don't overlook the fact
that if you love the color, and then at the
bottom of the trim around your entry door and you
look at that and there's paint peeling off it, Uh,
there's water probably getting behind that that paints failing. You
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got work to do. It's just not always a cosmetic issue.
All right, phone lines are open again. I'll give you
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Jim Welcome, it's.
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How I'm just doing wonderful Jim. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm getting ready to repaint semiglass on an exterior door.
It was about twenty years old. I'm going from a
navy blue to a fanberry. What's the best way to
prepare that door?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So what is the doors? It would metal or fiberglass, fiberglass, fiberglass,
and it's already painted, so you know, really not too
much work. Prep's always the key. But if the pain
is intact, and you know, you just changing the color.
I would say the number one thing is make sure
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it's just good and clean. Was it a semigloss I'm sorry, yeah,
TSP work sure okay?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yes, it was semigloss on there, so I probably would
get like a very finer, extra fine sanding sponge. Just
go over that lightly. Do you know if that was
an oil base or was it a Latex.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I am assuming late I got sure Williams see gloss,
but over that so I'm sure it'll do fine.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay, So yeah, just just clean, light standing and most
a lot of your paints, I know, like the you're
a Thane Emerald Triven the AMO, I know that's self priming.
It depends which one you choose on whether you're going
to need a primer. But if you're going from latex
Latex or modified where it's an alcat acrylic, no primer
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should be needed. It's more just slightly scratch up the
surface TSP washing it down real good and you should
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I'm the when I called on that about a month
ago and it did nothing. So I ended up taking
your advice and getting a diamond grinding whaleuness. I took
it off.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, yeah, yeah, when you did the test kit, did
it refer did one of the tests work or none
of them?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
They all worked a little bit, but one was not
better than the other. I was expecting to peel Away
to probably do the best because that that slab is
probably fifty years old, but didn't make a difference.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Huh, you used the paper over and everything, right.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I follow the directions to just checking.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
All right, well grind it off. You're real you did
you finish it up? Then?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Oh yeah, it came out really nice. But it took
a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, always does. Nothing's easy. Well, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it. Take care all right. And yeah, So
what he's talking about is the dumand Global they have.
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one of the things that the industry is struggling with
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get the right kind of stripper for the what you're
trying to remove the peel weight is organic paints, and
you say, what is an organic paint? Organic paint is
like a lead based paint. That would be organic and
that would work on that. I'm surprised, and none of
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them worked. I'm not disputing it. The the the pro
strip advantage I always get mixed up with her. It's
advantager advanced, pro strip Advanced. We'll try that. It does
most of your modern day paints. And uh. They have
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a little test hit that has four different types of
pain strippers that we test and see which one kicks in,
which one actually works. But so be it. I always say,
there's two ways to remove pain off the surface. It's
either it's either mechanically or chemically. And if you can't
get it to work chemically, you got one thing, a
diamond grinder, and that that's going to take care of business.
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It's going to be a little bit of work, but
it's going to take care of business. So if you'd
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three eight two five five. Wrapping up summer projects, maybe
starting some uh you know, fall projects, and a good
wrap up project that we always have a tendency to
(17:46):
just kind of put off, put off, put off is
anything dealing with rust on metal, whether it's a light post,
whether it's a mailbox post, maybe some lawn furniture. But
you know, in order to really get a good coat
of paint on rust, you either have two choices. You
have to you know, physically grind sand or remove the
(18:08):
rusted area, or use a chemical where it actually seals
the rust into the metal. So you have a choice.
Certainly you've seen a wire brush and sandpaper where we
can grind that off with a stone, remove that rust,
use a damp red primer, and then your top coat.
That's one way. The other way, and I've talked about
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this product don multiple times, even on flashings on a roof.
If you have some rust, there is a product called
rust reformer, and there's one called rust neutralizer. It is
not a paint, It is a chemical that reacts with
iron oxide it turns it black and it seals the
rust into the metal and it will function as a primer.
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So that's a time saber. Now that's not for real
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scally yet, but that might be a real time saver
for you if you're trying to tackle and wrap up
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Speaker 1 (22:10):
Well, you're at home with Gary Sullivan and uh we're
talking a little home improvement. If you'd like to join us,
do so. It is a hundred eighty two three eight
two five five Paul welcome.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I don't have a whole problem. What I got is
a glue problem. I stepped on a mouse screw trap. Yeah,
blue was the stickiest on a man.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh boy, I don't know. I've never stepped in one.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Me.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, don't laugh, it's just not funny.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I know I know how sticky it is. I've had
it on the corner of my Uh, I don't know
I'd probably try maybe a little denatured alcohol, something along
those lines. Okay, they're made. Do you hit you still
have the uh container to the glue trap the wrapping
(23:04):
is there? Or go online and maybe find their technical
service number. Maybe there's a number to call.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
That's a good idea, Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I'll look something up during the next break, which I'll
be happy to repeat if I find something. But no,
I know what you mean. I I have when I
was discarding a mouse and just have the corner of
my thumb hit that glue. It's it's sticky. It works,
it's very sticky.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, all right, well, thank you much. I didn't want
to go ahead to try and uh uh uh lighter
fluis or ghasoling and nothing like that. You know, I
thought I tried this.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
U yeah, denatured alcohol. Even people listening, maybe they you know,
figuring out polish remover that that may work. Also, if
somebody's got some experience in it, they can certainly call
us right away and we'll get that out too.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
All right, you're quite welcome, Paul, be happy to do that.
I'll check that out during the next break and Dave welcome. Well, Hello, yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I have bought a house in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It's on
a little bit of a slope the houses at the
high spot. The road is a little bit lower than that,
and I've got a couple of cracks across a two
car wide driveway. I know that all concrete cracks every
now and then, but the thing about it is is
(24:31):
that after a rain and everything else is dried, these
cracks keep exuding water. And I'm wondering if there's just
a waterflow issue under the driveway that's bubbling up causing
the crack. And if that is the case, I don't
know what I could.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Do about it.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
If it's rain getting down into the crack, I'd kind
of like to seal them so that, you know, it
doesn't get worse when the water freezes.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah. Yeah, I think what you're saying, you know, can
be true. Both of them can be true. I don't
know which one it is, but when you have water
that's coming up through a crack and concrete, it's either
a water table issue or flowing water. Usually under your
concrete pad will be you know, three or four inches
(25:20):
of a compact gravel and stone, and you know that
can Also, it kind of kind of reminds me if
you got cracks in it, if the water table was higher,
there's water flowing and some of that erosion takes place.
The slab, which I talk about often when I talk
about in fact, we started to show off with it
(25:40):
today talking about filling cracks of that are inside the
expansion joint. You know, you got a couple of things
going on there. You got weeds growing up, you got
ants tunneling down, but you're also allowing water to get
in there and maybe cause some erosion. And then if
you at a dry period and that erosion's taking place
(26:03):
and the soil kind of settles back down, that slabs moving,
which could cause it to crack even further.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Yeah, Well, if I were going to put a ceialing
though on it, or you know, somehow sealed the crack,
I'm not looking to paint the whole driveway. What would
you suggest?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
What do you mean by painting the whole driveway? Did
you say that driveway was painted or sealed?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
No? No, no, it's just it's just natural.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, okay, I would say, so where's the crack? Is
it in the expansion join or is it just somewhere
in the driveway.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
You know, it's just somewhere in the driveway. I fact,
it runs from side to side, you know, about four
feet from the garage door and about twelve feet from
the street.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Okay, okay, And can you give me about the diameter
of that crack or how white it is?
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Oh, very very very small, you know, just a fingernail maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, there's a product. It is very very easy to do.
The only seekers try to get it cleared out, cleaned out.
And one other question, because this is intriguing me that
that crack is that small and causing that when it
dries out, But then you see moisture by that crack.
Is this moisture that's it just appears to be wet.
(27:23):
Is it flowing? And how long does that last?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It's not flowing, It just appears to be wet when
everything else is dry, and it usually lasts a day
or two.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It seems like a lot. Yeah, So what I was
thinking is, again, let's get rid of the whole theory
that it's water flowing underneath that driveway. If there's a
very small crack and it's raining, obviously the rain penetrates
into the concrete and it takes time to dry, and
(27:58):
the concrete is all dry and it's sept where that
crack is, and it's staying wet because more surface area
of the crack has been introduced to water. So right,
I mean that water is only penetrating down probably a
thirty second of an inch on the surface, but where
that crevice is, it could be legitimately it could be
(28:21):
another four inches of wetting the inside of that crack.
So back to where I was, clean clean it out,
get dust out of there. Any vegetation's grown, probably isn't any,
and then get a product called crack Seal. Really inventive name, yeah,
crack Seals made by quick Crete. It comes in a
court jug with a spout on it, and literally it's
(28:45):
about the consistency of a milkshake, which you're in its
self leveling, so all you're doing is just running a
beat over it. It's just kind of weeping in and
you'll seal it up with that. It's a it's a
latex base or acrylic base. Nothing super substantial like a eurothane.
It's just simply an acrylic filler.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Okay, well that sounds like a great thing. I surely
appreciate your advice.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, take care, bye bye, all right,
our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. And I did kind of look that up
when I was chatting with the other fella on the
glue from a mouse trap, and this, this could be
a very good answer talking about removing it. I had
(29:35):
suggested a denatured alcohol. The other one, I will suggest
that it wasn't on there. It was also a product
called googon. I would also try rubbing alcohol. So you
got rubbing alcohol denatured.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Gentleman called and suggested vegetable oil.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That's the one I found there, you go, which makes sense.
So the one I found was vegetable olive oil, canola,
anything along nose lines, even i'll get weird now, even mayonnaise,
which has a vegetable oil in it, which used to
be the answer for removing adhesives off bath applicase. Remember
(30:17):
the old bath applicase dating Yeah, people press that down, yeah,
and that you used to have to kind of lift
up the side and just give me coat them, put
little slits in the top. Used to use canole oil
or mayonnaise all the time. People look I'm going back
to my childhood now, thank you. So, yeah, vegetable oil.
(30:38):
So we got some help there. So and I appreciate
that the vegetable oil may be the answer to that.
If you got some rubbing alcohol, you can try that
Google on if you got a can of that, which
is an ink remover. Here's another good application for the
Google because I have it on my notes. As I
was saying, you know, we got to start looking at
fall projects being inside more. I was going to talk
(30:59):
of back kitchen cabinet cleaning. And also here's another one.
Wood floors. If you live in a home in twenty
thirty forty years, the wood floors were stained, most likely
then coated with a varnish or a solvent based polyurethane.
(31:23):
And then we go through painting the halls in the
family rooms and we start you know, people take shortcuts.
Don't use a drop cloth. If you look at wood
floors and you have paint splatters, just little tiny dots
dried latex paint on top of an oil paint finish
(31:45):
varnish back in the day, even if it's been there
a long time. Google, it'll take care of those little
splatters if it can take care of that. They'll probably
take care of the glue that's on a mouse trap.
All right, Your call's next as we can tine, can
you and wrap things up for the weekend. You're at
Home with Gary Sullivan.
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we go. About thirteen minutes before the time of they
are talking a little home improvement. Back to the phones
we go. We got Jim Jim welcome, Hello.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Sir, thank you for taking the call. You help me
in the pass. I need I need your help again.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Alrighty, I have.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
A rubber roof on our dwelling and it was put
on about nine ten years ago, and I'm thinking it
might need a seiler of some type. Is there something suggestible.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yet? Do you know what type of rubber roofing is?
It is like a nord be to me. Is it leaking?
Is it not drying out properly? Or what's the issue.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
Well, we did see some leaks, but we couldn't find anybody.
It's more so it's it's very dry, I think.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Is it cracking.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Is it still leaking at all?
Speaker 8 (35:53):
No, we haven't found out where. If it was leaking,
we can't find out where it was. All the seams
seemed to be good, but I was just concerned to
a warranty on it of ten years is what we
were told. And how old is it about ten years old?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Mm hmm, Well yeah, and if it's supposed to last
ten years, that sounds like you might need a roof coating.
There are acrylic coatings that can be applied over that
rubber roof, and there's different there's different grades and everything else.
That's why I was kind of asking the type of
(36:33):
roofing that you have on there. I mentioned like a
nord Be to me is a brand name. There's some
So there's different types of coatings and we'll go that way.
There's acrylic coatings which are there. They're obviously water bass
and they're also really reflective, and those can be used
(36:55):
on most of your rubber roofs, and you can even
get it in white or black or silver. But the
acrylic coatings, then you get into silicone coatings. Those are
really good if you have a rubber roof and there's
no slope and you get ponding on the rubber roof,
(37:16):
they don't break down as fast as acrylic should probably
get more protection over a period of time with the
silicon coating. And then if you've got a roof that
gets you know, some foot traffic on because it's a
flat roof, you could probably go to a poly your
thing coating and then if you get to that nord.
(37:38):
But to me where it's epd M, it's a dense
rubber roofing, they have a budle rubber coating.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
Yeah, that's why I was suggested to me, was the
beutyle rubber.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Okay, well, then that's probably the type of roofing you have. Okay,
so yeah, if it's near the end of its life,
that's you know, it's chemically it's compatible with the rubber
roof you have. It's going to last beyond ten years.
It has great flexibility, great protection from the sun. So
(38:18):
it's a very durable roof coating.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Okay, where am I going to find out?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, yeah, sure sure they got they got them all
or you know, like a roofing supply house everybody's got
like an ABC roofing or places like that would certainly
have them also.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Okay, I'll look into the bure rubber.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
That yep, and just double check and make sure on
the can whether it needs a primer or not, and
you can make that decision. I think it's going to
be based on the bran you have, so you can
ask about that or read a labeled before you buy it.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
Very good, sir, Thank you once again for you.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care. All right, let's
go to h Dan Dan Welcome.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
Hey, Gary, came home to a leaky water heater. Okay,
and it looks like the expansion tank is rusted, but
it's still under warranty. So I shut the water off
to the water heater. That's okay to run that. I'll
just run the water out of it. Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah? Is this an electric water heater or a gas
water heater?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, So you're gonna shut it down and then then
shut off the water valves and then drain it. Correct,
that's your plan?
Speaker 9 (39:37):
Well, yeah, I'm gonna it was it was leaking, so
as soon as I shut the water off, that stopped
that issue. So I'm figuring I've got a tank full
of water, but I'm gonna not gonna be able to
get a plumber out here for.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
A day or so. Yeah, you can go ahead and
drain that sure, sure, okay?
Speaker 9 (39:54):
Or use or use it up or use yeah, okay, okay, yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
On that tank you said the expansion tank was rusted.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Yeah, on the end of it. We came home to
it and it's uh it had a little rough, little
pit hole on it, and it was just shooting water
across the boat.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Okay, so that's where it was leaking. It was actually
on the expansion tank. I got you. Oh yeah, yeah, okay,
I got you.
Speaker 9 (40:23):
It's still, like I said, it's under warranty I think
until twenty twenty seven, so it was installed in twenty
twenty one. So I just I've got to get somebody
out here that can do the warranty work on it.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Right now, can you shut off the You can't. There's
no real shut off going to an expansion tank, I guess, right.
Speaker 9 (40:43):
Yeah, that's what I thought it was. I went to
the closest shut off next to the expansion tank.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, assuming that, yeah, yeah, I mean, if you can
shut that off that that'd be great. I just can't
picture it. I haven't worked on one, and so I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (41:03):
No, I just didn't want to mess anything up trying
to use the water out of it or if we
have hot water in there.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
The only thing that's going to happen with the expansion
you know, worst case scenario if you shut it off
and don't have a functional expansion tank or you know,
it's code now to have those on. But what the
protection device for your tank at that point would be
the pressure releef out on the side.
Speaker 9 (41:28):
Of the tank, right, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
You be protected. It's you.
Speaker 9 (41:37):
There's always water up in that tank. Then when there's
a supply to it.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Correct well, yeah, to a degree. But they can also
get water logged where that bladder breaks and it just fills. Okay, okay,
So I don't know if that's what caused that, I'd
have to don't Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (41:59):
I know we bought the house a year ago and
it was already here, but it did look and it
was it was only five years old.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah. A lot of times this signal on that is
the pipes. Will you know, once it gets water logged,
you just have high water pressure in a lot of cases,
or you might hear some banging of pipes and that's
usually And there's a way you can test to see
if that tank has water logged or hair has some
(42:27):
air in it. Almost with a tire gauge and you
can do a little research on that. But I'm betting
that bladder has failed. That tank is filled with water
and that's the cause of the problem, and just shut
that down and you'll be protected with the pressure relief out.
Speaker 9 (42:46):
Pressure relief out sounds good. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Thanks all right, you're quite welcome. Take care all right.
A lot going on, A lot going on today, and
it's always fun to have those chats and talk to
you about different things you should be maintaining around the
home and in our locale. We've been to cold, to rain,
(43:12):
to drought, and now we're going to get some rain
this week, so I guess we won't find out about
all those issues that we had that we were concerned
about back in the spring that we did or we
did not take care of. In other words, if it
starts raining heavily this particular week, those problems will manifest
(43:34):
themselves once again. So I guess we'll sit back and
have a full report next week. Again, Danny boy, thank
you very much. I appreciate it. It's been a fun weekend.
It's been a busy weekend, and tomorrow's first day of fall.
How about that away we go, good Lord willing we'll
both be back for more. At Home with Gary Sullivan.
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