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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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You can jump on board and let's chat. Uh, Brandon,
you can go ahead and lead us off.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Welcome, Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I love the show.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I really enjoy cruising around listening to you, you know,
drinking beer, and I never get anything done because I
always have all these projects I want to do and
I just I don't know. I love listening to the show.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It gives me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Ideas, motivation, you know what I mean. Thank you My
question is I got an older home that was built
in the fifties. It's just a nine hundred and thirty
square feet two bedrooms. I'm a single guy. My thing
is the furnace. It's getting getting kind of old.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
It was, it was.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Old when I bought the house. I want to guess
it's over twenty plus years, if not thirty, I want
to baby. I can't really afford replacing it right now.
And my thought is, my idea is to put a
small like a wood burner in the basement. I've talked
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with my home insurance company. They said my home insurance
would maybe go up two dollars a month, not much.
You know, my parents have one. I liked it. What's
your idea on putting just a wood burner to kind
of take the edge off, you know, keep a small
fire going when it gets real cold, just to get
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my furnace through a few more years.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, it's certainly be supplemental heat. The question is is
what type of stove and what type of you know,
permits are you going to need. I mean, you're you're
going to win and make sure that that is installed
properly in a corn's in working with the building Department
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fire marshals. I mean, so in other words, it's going
to depend on the type of stove really, in the efficiency,
the safety, the clearance, the chimney, how you're venting it.
There's kind of a lot that goes into it. But
I think, to answer your question that you actually asked me,
what do I think, I think it's a good way,
you know, to extend the life of the furnace and
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take to chill out of the house. And you know, also,
since it's under a thousand square feet, it's not like
we got to move a lot of heat. But a
lot of people look at supplemental heat with a wood
stove and they put it in like the fireplace and
insert and moving and living in a larger house, it's
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hard to maybe circulate all that heated air to all
areas of the home. You should not have that difficulty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay, great, I like your answer. IM going to go
ahead and purchase Like it's just a small little wood
burner from maybe like a home depot or something. My
home's old enough to where the foundation has a I
guess what you would call a coal shoot. It's got
an actual metal door. I guess that they shoveled the
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coal into the basement, right, and my goal is to
maybe you know, put the wood burner in that little
area of the basement. It's a full basement. Yeah it's not.
It's unfinished totally, but it's nice.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know, brick.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I would probably have been out through that that that shoot,
so I'm not running my vent you know, through the floor,
through the roof or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So yep, so I guess that's my point. So when
you get in there, this is the steps I would
do is go in shop for the stove. Okay, when
you find something, you know, like I'm thinking, this is
the route I want to go, you know, right down
the manufacturer, right down the model number, get online and
read the installation directions all right, because that that's going
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to be the key. How far do we keep it,
you know, away from an inside wall, how much clearances
do we need? What type of piping that's going to need?
You know, you know you're not going up a chimney,
so can you go out of side wall? Right? And
do I need a class A insulaed chimney pipe or what?
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It'll tell you all that in the directions on installation
and to be honest, even if you had already bought
it and you start asking me those questions, I'd say, well,
what's that manual say, because they're all kind of different
depending on how that stove is actually built. So that's
what I do. Find one you like and then get
online because they're not going to give you the owner's
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manual and just read on the connection and how you're
using it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So it's not a dumb idea to extend the life
of the furnace by doing this, because.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I know it's not going to be working as much,
so you're gonna automatically extend a little bit of the life.
My biggest concern, based on where you're saying, I think
probably the first thing the owner manual saying. The owner
manuals say if you use it for supplemental heat is
find a center area of the house to use it in.
And we're not okay, so that that would at least
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by what you described to me, we wouldn't be using
the center of the house. So my main concern is
distribution of the heat that we're making. True, So, and
there's ways to do that. I mean, you know we can. Again,
I can't see how the setup of the house is.
But you can use fans to draw air area or
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heated from one area to another area and put them
in like little jams, small fans things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I've actually seen those fans. Is that no electricity needed,
They just they actually work from the heat. You would
actually set the fan on the wood burner itself, right
and it would it would at least circulate some of
the air in the basement. Yeah, I appreciate you know,
all right, you not telling me, Hey, you know you
need to just get a new furnace and.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Bite the ball. But that's easy answer, most efficiently. And
there's also other things too that you can do too.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a wood burning stove.
I mean, there's different things like an eden pure where
it doesn't really get hot to touch. It just heats
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the surfaces around, including you being a surface, that are
economical to operate. There's also like an inner therm here
where there's it's a water in a It works on
convections like six feet long and warms the air, pulls
the air underneath, and you could put it in a
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bedroom or a family room, and you buy different sizes
based on the square footage of the of the house,
so you know there there are other things that would
probably be less of a hassle. Stay away, I'd say
from kerosene heaters, but you might take a look at
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some of these inner them type heaters or even like
an eat and pure heater. There's a name for it,
and it's slipping in my mind where it is where
it just heats the objects. But google that read that too.
I mean you're probably still you know, five hundred bucks,
six hundred bucks, but you know, buy you some time.
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And I don't know if you priced out getting the
furnace of what that would cost.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Perfect. One last question, is there a place I can
go and listen to this vary show?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Do you have like a podcast or sure? So what
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Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, thank you, sir. That's great, fantastic. I was nervous
when I first called in, but like I said, I
listened to you for weekends for years, and I just
it gives me motivation and ideas and it, you know,
it makes me feel like I'm not the only one
out there working on something.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
There you go, all right, very good, Brandon, Thank you
so much the call. Appreciate it. Take care, all right. Yeah,
there's a lot going on there, and when you you know,
I mean there is. There is an awful lot going
on there. The stove just just a configuration of the house,
configuration of the venting that's all going to come into play.
And there, you know, if we're just trying to buy
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a little time and get some supplemental heat, there might
be an easier way, in even a less expensive way.
All Right, we'll continue with your calls. You're at Home
with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 7 (13:22):
Welcome, Thank you Gary, thanks for taking my call. My
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on my gutters. Well wait and forget if I spray
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Speaker 1 (13:35):
It won't.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay.
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That or even an automotive automotive supply or yeah, a
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Speaker 1 (14:37):
Okay, thank you and thank you, La, take care bye bye.
All right, let's go to Bill. Bill Welcome.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, Hi, thanks Scary, thanks to taking my call. I
appreciate it. Yeah, I was calling a response to earlier
this morning you had a a callers called and was
talking about his uninvited little guests crawling around the house,
the mice, and I just want to relate a little
somewhat of a solution. That is I stumbled on a
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number of years ago accidentally and it kind of worked
for us. Yeah, my wife and I live in northeast Ohio,
and our home is one hundred and fifty five six
years old something like that. Ok So there's plenty of
opportunities for these little critters to find a way in
if they want to, and usually obviously it's during the
(15:33):
colder months, and we have there was five six years
ago something like that. It was towards the end of fall,
and I had the yard. All of these pretty much
finally got together and got them out of there, and
so I started doing some trimming on some of the
branches around the house, particularly the spruce branches trees, spruce
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trees and pine trees, and I have little piles and
I picked them up and throw them out in the woods.
And then on the west side of our house, I
had there was a few these trees between our house
and our neighbor's house, and I cut those grantses down
and had a pile, and uh, I guess I was
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pretty much done for the day. I just left them there,
and it was right next to our bird feeders that
we had there. Well, days go by and there's the
pile still there. It's like maybe three feet in diameter
and I don't know, six seven inches high, and I'm
out there feeding the birds every day. And time goes on,
gold settles in the snow combs and all that sort
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of stuff, and that pile is still there. And we
had we noticed that, you.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Know, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It was just one of these things we did. We
noticed that we didn't have our familiar uninvited guests in
the house so much that that and then during February
we had that falls normal and I go out and
I'm out there. I said, well, it's a good day
to get rid of this pile. And I started to
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move the pile. Lo and behold, there's about three mice
in there, and uh, several little chickadees and a bunch
of eating up seeds and other seeds. So yeah, so
what I discover is that, you know, you know, we
spend all this time trying to trap then bade him
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kill them. Yeah, so the evotions that worked for us
is finding another placed, another place well outside, you know, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Know, it makes sense. I can remember the old story
how do you get rid of squirrels is go to
the back of the yard and give them peanuts and
they'll stay off the roof of your house. So you
you did kind of just that same type of thing.
You gave them another option and where they don't have
to make chew the garage door weather stripping off to
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get into your house. So that's a great tip, and
I appreciate that's a that's a great story and a
good observation too, because, yeah, give them a place to live,
and all of a sudden you just don't have the problem.
I thought you were going to tell me that the
smell of the spruce was just keeping them away from
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the house, and that wasn't the case at all. So
I'm glad you finished the story and let us know
that that was successful. And you know keeping mice out too.
I mean, somebody told me a long time ago when
you're talking about critters and things, is you know all
critters and I guess including humans, right, we all strive
for food and water, food and water, food and water.
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And you know that's why they're coming in the house.
They're looking for food, they're looking for water, They're and
of course looking for shelter. And if we don't have
that nice and tight, they're going to get in. And
I learned that myself. When people tell me they have mice,
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you know where they're getting in. And a lot of
times people do know they're just ignoring it. All Right,
we got a crew on hold. We got Cliff, Matt Terry, Mark,
Joe sip tight. We'll take a break, come back and
get your questions answered. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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that being said, let's get back to the phones. We
have Cliff Cliff welcome. So yes, sir, oh why yes?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Okay, okay, it kind of came okay, So I continue
on the conversation about the unwanted mice. We have a
cottage in the woods, and as you can imagine, it's
it's very difficult to contain them or or prevent them.
And I had read that when we first bought this
place in twenty seventeen, and it was it's pretty much
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infested with mice from a small mice. And I can
hear them through the suspended ceiling, running back and forth
and so on. And I tried traps for a long
time and I read that. You know, if you cluck
up all the possible places, I could get in, take
some call and mix it with steel wool and that's
a pretty good return. Well I did that and that
seemed to help a little bit. But over time we
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still had the problem. And we're not here a lot.
It's kind of a weekend place of vacation home. And
we come in and all the traps would be full.
We'd have ten fifteen when we come back, and we
don't want to empty out these little mouse corpses the
first thing that we do when we get in. So
it was suggested to me that that I get some
bait boxes. I don't know if you're familiar with those,
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but those little black boxes with a hole at each end.
The mice come in there, there's bait in there, that's
a poisonous bait. Then they take it. They take it
back to the nest, poisons the nests, and I have
had great success with that. I'll tack them every couple
of months and maybe I'll see some activity, you know,
droppings inside the bait boxes, but there's really not a
mouse problem. Now. It really solved it for us.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So when they take the bait cliff. Do they die
in the cabin then, I mean, is odor a problem? No,
they question? Do they go they don't.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
They don't very rarely. We've had this now in our
eighth season, and I've now too who have died inside
the cottage. But big on the number that we trapped,
A very, very whole percentage actually die in the cottage.
Most up here to take it back the nest. And
it's really uh proved great for us.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Hey, that's a good tip. Then I have never tried that.
I've never really had a major mouse issue. You know,
back in the day you had the Dcon mouseproof, which
a lot of hardware stores sold in the head for
rats too, And the problem was back then as they
would search for water. If they didn't get out of
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your house and died in the house, you know there'd
be an odor issue. But to hear that wasn't a
problem that they could go in and out. And yeah,
I thought you were going to talk about some of
these sauna trolls if you've ever checked into those were
the high pitched sound.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Actually when we got the place, they are scattered throughout
the cottage and they don't seem to make any difference.
They had that blue blinking light, and I've left them
in place since we bought them. Were avated when we
first took possession, and that's when we had the intestation.
So apparently didn't do it good. Yeah, I've you know,
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I'll open the box up and I'll I can get
the bait on Amazon, and I can the bait on
these little tins to close the box back up and
put back in place, and we're good to go.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I appreciate the tip. Thank you much, Cleff. Take care.
On the high pitched sounds, the reason I asked that,
I haven't used that either. But whenever I bring them
up on the show, I would say, if I was
going to put a percentage, I'd say fifty percent of
the people love them, and fifty percent said made no difference.
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It's like getting rid of moles. People say that too.
I'll talk about one item, one item, another item, and
it's like half the people say I had no luck
at all with that, or I had great luck with that.
So on the high pitched noise, that's I haven't used it.
I'm just going by people that call and I'm about
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fifty to fifty there. All right, let's go to Matt
Matt welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Yes, so we have the house down in South Carolina,
and we just pulled up all the carpeting and the
padding and it sits on a concrete slab and we
want to put luxury vinyl plank flooring down, and so
I know we need to put down vapor barrier and
they're recommending like a six mil polyethylene vapor barrier. The
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flooring we.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Picked out has a like a pre attached padding on it,
like a one millimeter padding. The question we had is,
you know, do we should we put down another like
a one and a half millimeter foam padding for say,
say it's for acoustic, but obviously it's on a slab.
I don't know that we need sound deading. But we're
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not sure that that one millimeter padding that's attached to
the plank is it is enough for the flooring to
have a good feel and not flex too much. I'm
not sure if you.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Have a so so so, so I'm a little confused.
I know about the pad and I know it's for
acoustical and so are you more concerned about the cushioning
of the floor You're more concerned about the vapor barrier
being installed with what exactly the question.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
The cushioning, so so it'll have the six mil vapor
barriers were good there. It's a question of do we
need an additional fam underlayment on top of the attached
padding that's on the plank itself.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
My quick answer is no, you shouldn't. But there is, uh,
there's a number of things. Uh there. There is a
underlayment for laminate flooring. It's almost like a pad that
is for carpet. And I cannot remember the name of it.
(29:06):
We actually had the guy on the show probably fifteen
years ago. I have to look it up. I just
can't remember the name of I want to say dry corps,
but that's what dry corps is. Another option. It's actually
wood squares that are elevated about three ace of an
inch and the flooring can go on top of that,
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which will add a little bit more softening effect to it.
And then if there were ever a moisture issue where
water got in, this is actually elevated Yeah, three ace
of an inch and that adds some cushioning. But with
that sound deadening and the vapor barrier, I don't think
you're gonna need. Can you snap a couple of people
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or a couple things together and stand on it and
see if it's going to make a difference.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
We could do that.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Yeah, we could get a few sample planks.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And yeah, I think i'd do that. You know, my
idea of it needs cushioning in your idea it needs
cushing might be two different things.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Yeah, I understand, yep, And yeah, and I didn't know
if we would have if you can get to the
point where you have too much flex thing, since it's
a snap and lock type flour.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well you could and if I could remember, and I
will try to look it up. I don't know if
I'll find it real quick or not. But they do
have uh products out there that is available for that
for lambing it. So I don't know about the l VT,
whether you could use that or not. It's like I said,
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it's been a long time since I talked to this person.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But what I would do is I'd put a couple
together and I'd stand out and see if that's going
to you know, with your vapor barrier there, and see
if that's going to accommodate you. Okay, A very good thanks,
good day, you too. Bye bye. Yeah. I wish I
could remember the name of it, but I'm my experience
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with LVT. LVT if you haven't looked at it. LVT
stands for Luxury vinyl tile, Luxury vinyl tile, very very durable.
They make it two ways. They make it a water
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Water resistant means it'll tolerate a little. But one of
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the things is, you know, if it's if it's looking
like a ceramic tile, So it looks like ceramic tile,
it looks like wood, it looks like planks, and that's LVP.
It's the LVT.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
But I would say, like an LVT, it's it's it feels.
It's not supposed to feel real bouncy, right, it's looking
like wood. When I when it first came to the market,
I stand on some lv T that looked like wood
and absolutely true, sir is an international builder show.
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When I stood on it, I thought it was wood.
It was that authentic and it felt like wood. So
wood doesn't have a bounce. It's not like carpet. So
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Speaker 11 (35:15):
Well, good morning Gary. How you doing for Louisville?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Doing fine, sir, thank you.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
I was calling concerning the fella with the woodstoves that
called earlier, and I've been burning wood for about twelve years,
and I want to remind him to check his homeowner's
policy because they haven't out not to pay if something
happens he comes to woodstoves.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, he said he checked it, but I don't know
if he asked those questions. I think he was more
checking how much his insurance would go up, but hopefully
he'd discuss.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
State Farm required me to run a stainless sleeve through
my entire chimney to do uh well satisfy their requirements.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
So yeah, I told him to check with his local
also to see exactly you know, usually work with local
permits and then you work with the fire department or inspectors. Also.
I think how longer we talked with them, the more
I was thinking, maybe there's other supplemental heat you should go.
(36:20):
I mean, it's a small it's under one thousand square feet,
but it wasn't going to be centrally located, and I
thought that could be it could be a problem.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
Fourteen hundred square feet and I went from nine hundred
gallons of propane to a hundred gallons a year. Well,
I wanted to do a fuel furnace, put in new
windows and a fire place, and I've got tremendous savings
on propane here.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So yeah, well I've got heat. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm
not I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just
telling them, you know, check other options and see. You know,
I don't think he's done a lot of research at
that point, but you know, certainly a would stove would
be helpful. Certainly there are some things you need to
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check out. I was a little concerned also about venting
and how what type of pipe would be required venting
it up through a coal shoot. So I was a
little concerned, but not being able to see it. It's
hard to answer those questions.
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Yeah, I grew up on a farm leading to Jerry
ring a lot of stubs. Yeah, oh yeah, No, don't
sacrifice your house for it.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Right, very good, Thank you much. All right, and let's
go to Terry.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Terry, welcome, Welcome, Thank you Gary. Yes, sir, I'll stay
with the rodent theme that we have going, all right,
I've got I. First of all, I tried the ultrasonic
thing because I thought I had moles. That didn't work.
I also tried her birds when supposed to leave built
(38:02):
for birds that didn't work either. Okay, just to add
to your your knowledge, right, but I have armadillos that
have migrated into my area and they make these huge
mounds kind of like moles. It's huge, and they tear
(38:24):
up everything. And I wanted to see what your recommendations
would be for getting rid of them.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
You know what, I have no recommendations, Therry, because I
haven't even I've seen an armadillo, but I've never had
an armadilla. I've never had the chore of getting rid
of them, though I know we've had listeners that have
called in the past about that. I'm just not familiar
with them enough to answer a question along those lines.
(38:56):
So keep listening. There's somebody. So it's so. And when
you start talking, I looked where you're from, and you're
from Missouri, so yes, again, they're not native to your area.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
They are now.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, they've been migrating.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
I called I called Local University because this is actually
in a house in Illinois that we own, and they
had been tracking the migration for years and they actually
showed up, he said, in the nineteen seventies. But their
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population is slow, so slow to increase. They're just now
getting to the point where they're getting out of the
woods and going into the neighborhoods. And they said, we
would you know, I said, since you're tracking them, you know,
do you you know, catch them or anything. They said, well, yeah,
we could come out there and catch it. That would
(39:54):
be no problem. We would tag it and make sure
that it didn't have any disease, and then we'd bring
right back to where we found it and let it loose.
And I know.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I don't want it.
Speaker 13 (40:05):
I don't want it going on a very basic thing
and probably not going to help you out at all, Terry,
But you know, I'm I'm sure we can do a
little research and find out and people will also call.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
But one of the things I know, most burrowing animals. Again,
I go back to the simplest of simple. All animals
are looking for what food, water, shelter. I'm guessing it's
a food thing. And I'm sure their foods would be
like grubs and different things along those lines. Uh so,
(40:42):
you know, so maybe eliminating Yeah, so you know, eliminating grubs,
but you don't want to eliminate worms. No, but keep listening.
I'm sure we're going to get that question. I find
it fascinating that, you know, there's so many things that
are changing, you know, climate based. In fact, my wife
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and I we were talking, our leaves are still green
this time of the year is unusual and we've watched
it progressive the last probably twenty years. As a kid,
I remember raking leaves on Columbus Day and they were
about dropped by then. And in our area now here
we are, you know, not a problem. They're still green.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Well, so here's what here's what an arbor has told me.
Because I have a sweet gumball tree.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Oh I grew up.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, and this one I've had sprayed once and it worked.
I've tried the injections that didn't work to get rid
of the swet gumballs. But anyway, this year, because our
spring was so wet and everything, all the fold age
came out on the tips of the limbs. And then
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we had some bad storms come through. But not during
the storms, but like for several weeks, every other day,
I would have a huge limb about six inches in
diameter that would break out of the tree and I'm like,
what is going on? Is it dying? Well, no, it
was just that it rained. All the water was in
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the at the end of the branches, and probably because
of the storm it might have cracked it. But instead
of healing up and everything now the weight it just
breaks them out. And yeah, I mean we had these
were huge limbs and I'm like, wow, yeah, this is unbelievable.
I'll tell you one other thing that the university, the
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department that was studying the medillos. Yes, because I opened
up my glass lighting the on my glass siding door
and there was one scurrying alongside the house. I went
around to the back and it was underneath some leaves,
and I had a cold and I happened to cough,
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and he stood up on a tine legs and he's
looking around. They are blind.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Oh, it just like a mole.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
And but they have keen hearing and smell right. And
then I coughed again and it ran off. And I
told him that, and he goes, Yes, if you scare them,
they won't come back. And that was true for about
four months. But they're back now, so I think listening,
Gary keep saying, all right.
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Speaker 2 (01:16):
Welcome, Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I love the show.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I really enjoy cruising around listening to you, you know,
drinking beer, and I never get anything done because I
always have all these projects I want to do and
I just I don't know. I love listening to the show.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It gives me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Ideas, motivation, you know what I mean. Thank you My
question is I got an older home that was built
in the fifties. It's just a nine hundred and thirty
square feet two bedrooms. I'm a single guy. My thing
is the furnace. It's getting getting kind of old.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
It was, it was.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Old when I bought the house. I want to guess
it's over twenty plus years, if not thirty, I want
to baby. I can't really afford replacing it right now.
And my thought is, my idea is to put a
small like a wood burner in the basement. I've talked
(02:12):
with my home insurance company. They said my home insurance
would maybe go up two dollars a month, not much.
You know, my parents have one. I liked it. What's
your idea on putting just a wood burner to kind
of take the edge off, you know, keep a small
fire going when it gets real cold, just to get
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my furnace through a few more years.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, it's certainly be supplemental heat. The question is is
what type of stove and what type of you know,
permits are you going to need. I mean, you're you're
going to win and make sure that that is installed
properly in a corn's in working with the building Department
(03:00):
fire marshals. I mean, so in other words, it's going
to depend on the type of stove really, in the efficiency,
the safety, the clearance, the chimney, how you're venting it.
There's kind of a lot that goes into it. But
I think, to answer your question that you actually asked me,
what do I think, I think it's a good way,
you know, to extend the life of the furnace and
(03:21):
take to chill out of the house. And you know, also,
since it's under a thousand square feet, it's not like
we got to move a lot of heat. But a
lot of people look at supplemental heat with a wood
stove and they put it in like the fireplace and
insert and moving and living in a larger house, it's
(03:46):
hard to maybe circulate all that heated air to all
areas of the home. You should not have that difficulty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay, great, I like your answer. IM going to go
ahead and purchase Like it's just a small little wood
burner from maybe like a home depot or something. My
home's old enough to where the foundation has a I
guess what you would call a coal shoot. It's got
an actual metal door. I guess that they shoveled the
(04:18):
coal into the basement, right, and my goal is to
maybe you know, put the wood burner in that little
area of the basement. It's a full basement. Yeah it's not.
It's unfinished totally, but it's nice.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know, brick.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I would probably have been out through that that that shoot,
so I'm not running my vent you know, through the floor,
through the roof or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So yep, so I guess that's my point. So when
you get in there, this is the steps I would
do is go in shop for the stove. Okay, when
you find something, you know, like I'm thinking, this is
the route I want to go, you know, right down
the manufacturer, right down the model number, get online and
read the installation directions all right, because that that's going
(05:07):
to be the key. How far do we keep it,
you know, away from an inside wall, how much clearances
do we need? What type of piping that's going to need?
You know, you know you're not going up a chimney,
so can you go out of side wall? Right? And
do I need a class A insulaed chimney pipe or what?
(05:31):
It'll tell you all that in the directions on installation
and to be honest, even if you had already bought
it and you start asking me those questions, I'd say, well,
what's that manual say, because they're all kind of different
depending on how that stove is actually built. So that's
what I do. Find one you like and then get
online because they're not going to give you the owner's
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manual and just read on the connection and how you're
using it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So it's not a dumb idea to extend the life
of the furnace by doing this, because.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I know it's not going to be working as much,
so you're gonna automatically extend a little bit of the life.
My biggest concern, based on where you're saying, I think
probably the first thing the owner manual saying. The owner
manuals say if you use it for supplemental heat is
find a center area of the house to use it in.
And we're not okay, so that that would at least
(06:28):
by what you described to me, we wouldn't be using
the center of the house. So my main concern is
distribution of the heat that we're making. True, So, and
there's ways to do that. I mean, you know we can. Again,
I can't see how the setup of the house is.
But you can use fans to draw air area or
(06:50):
heated from one area to another area and put them
in like little jams, small fans things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I've actually seen those fans. Is that no electricity needed,
They just they actually work from the heat. You would
actually set the fan on the wood burner itself, right
and it would it would at least circulate some of
the air in the basement. Yeah, I appreciate you know,
all right, you not telling me, Hey, you know you
need to just get a new furnace and.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Bite the ball. But that's easy answer, most efficiently. And
there's also other things too that you can do too.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a wood burning stove.
I mean, there's different things like an eden pure where
it doesn't really get hot to touch. It just heats
(07:37):
the surfaces around, including you being a surface, that are
economical to operate. There's also like an inner therm here
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convections like six feet long and warms the air, pulls
the air underneath, and you could put it in a
(07:58):
bedroom or a family room, and you buy different sizes
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so you know there there are other things that would
probably be less of a hassle. Stay away, I'd say
from kerosene heaters, but you might take a look at
(08:19):
some of these inner them type heaters or even like
an eat and pure heater. There's a name for it,
and it's slipping in my mind where it is where
it just heats the objects. But google that read that too.
I mean you're probably still you know, five hundred bucks,
six hundred bucks, but you know, buy you some time.
(08:42):
And I don't know if you priced out getting the
furnace of what that would cost.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Perfect. One last question, is there a place I can
go and listen to this vary show?
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Do you have like a podcast or sure? So what
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The podcast Danny takes every hour of this show, so
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Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, thank you, sir. That's great, fantastic. I was nervous
when I first called in, but like I said, I
listened to you for weekends for years, and I just
it gives me motivation and ideas and it, you know,
it makes me feel like I'm not the only one
out there working on something.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
There you go, all right, very good, Brandon, Thank you
so much the call. Appreciate it. Take care, all right. Yeah,
there's a lot going on there, and when you you know,
I mean there is. There is an awful lot going
on there. The stove just just a configuration of the house,
configuration of the venting that's all going to come into play.
And there, you know, if we're just trying to buy
(10:22):
a little time and get some supplemental heat, there might
be an easier way, in even a less expensive way.
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Welcome, Thank you Gary, thanks for taking my call. My
goal last it is, I have that black acid rain
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It won't.
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Okay. That's big box story, either.
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That or even an automotive automotive supply or yeah, a
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And I've had some of that before, long engines and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Okay, thank you and thank you, La, take care bye bye.
All right, let's go to Bill. Bill Welcome.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, Hi, thanks Scary, thanks to taking my call. I
appreciate it. Yeah, I was calling a response to earlier
this morning you had a a callers called and was
talking about his uninvited little guests crawling around the house,
the mice, and I just want to relate a little
somewhat of a solution. That is I stumbled on a
(15:10):
number of years ago accidentally and it kind of worked
for us. Yeah, my wife and I live in northeast Ohio,
and our home is one hundred and fifty five six
years old something like that. Ok So there's plenty of
opportunities for these little critters to find a way in
if they want to, and usually obviously it's during the
(15:33):
colder months, and we have there was five six years
ago something like that. It was towards the end of fall,
and I had the yard. All of these pretty much
finally got together and got them out of there, and
so I started doing some trimming on some of the
branches around the house, particularly the spruce branches trees, spruce
(15:57):
trees and pine trees, and I have little piles and
I picked them up and throw them out in the woods.
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and had a pile, and uh, I guess I was
(16:17):
pretty much done for the day. I just left them there,
and it was right next to our bird feeders that
we had there. Well, days go by and there's the
pile still there. It's like maybe three feet in diameter
and I don't know, six seven inches high, and I'm
out there feeding the birds every day. And time goes on,
gold settles in the snow combs and all that sort
(16:39):
of stuff, and that pile is still there. And we
had we noticed that, you.
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Know, we didn't.
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It was just one of these things we did. We
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to get rid of this pile. And I started to
(17:11):
move the pile. Lo and behold, there's about three mice
in there, and uh, several little chickadees and a bunch
of eating up seeds and other seeds. So yeah, so
what I discover is that, you know, you know, we
spend all this time trying to trap then bade him
(17:31):
kill them. Yeah, so the evotions that worked for us
is finding another placed, another place well outside, you know, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Know, it makes sense. I can remember the old story
how do you get rid of squirrels is go to
the back of the yard and give them peanuts and
they'll stay off the roof of your house. So you
you did kind of just that same type of thing.
You gave them another option and where they don't have
to make chew the garage door weather stripping off to
(18:02):
get into your house. So that's a great tip, and
I appreciate that's a that's a great story and a
good observation too, because, yeah, give them a place to live,
and all of a sudden you just don't have the problem.
I thought you were going to tell me that the
smell of the spruce was just keeping them away from
(18:24):
the house, and that wasn't the case at all. So
I'm glad you finished the story and let us know
that that was successful. And you know keeping mice out too.
I mean, somebody told me a long time ago when
you're talking about critters and things, is you know all
critters and I guess including humans, right, we all strive
for food and water, food and water, food and water.
(18:47):
And you know that's why they're coming in the house.
They're looking for food, they're looking for water, They're and
of course looking for shelter. And if we don't have
that nice and tight, they're going to get in. And
I learned that myself. When people tell me they have mice,
(19:07):
you know where they're getting in. And a lot of
times people do know they're just ignoring it. All Right,
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that being said, let's get back to the phones. We
have Cliff Cliff welcome. So yes, sir, oh why yes?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Okay, okay, it kind of came okay, So I continue
on the conversation about the unwanted mice. We have a
cottage in the woods, and as you can imagine, it's
it's very difficult to contain them or or prevent them.
And I had read that when we first bought this
place in twenty seventeen, and it was it's pretty much
(23:28):
infested with mice from a small mice. And I can
hear them through the suspended ceiling, running back and forth
and so on. And I tried traps for a long
time and I read that. You know, if you cluck
up all the possible places, I could get in, take
some call and mix it with steel wool and that's
a pretty good return. Well I did that and that
seemed to help a little bit. But over time we
(23:49):
still had the problem. And we're not here a lot.
It's kind of a weekend place of vacation home. And
we come in and all the traps would be full.
We'd have ten fifteen when we come back, and we
don't want to empty out these little mouse corpses the
first thing that we do when we get in. So
it was suggested to me that that I get some
bait boxes. I don't know if you're familiar with those,
(24:12):
but those little black boxes with a hole at each end.
The mice come in there, there's bait in there, that's
a poisonous bait. Then they take it. They take it
back to the nest, poisons the nests, and I have
had great success with that. I'll tack them every couple
of months and maybe I'll see some activity, you know,
droppings inside the bait boxes, but there's really not a
mouse problem. Now. It really solved it for us.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So when they take the bait cliff. Do they die
in the cabin then, I mean, is odor a problem? No,
they question? Do they go they don't.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
They don't very rarely. We've had this now in our
eighth season, and I've now too who have died inside
the cottage. But big on the number that we trapped,
A very, very whole percentage actually die in the cottage.
Most up here to take it back the nest. And
it's really uh proved great for us.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Hey, that's a good tip. Then I have never tried that.
I've never really had a major mouse issue. You know,
back in the day you had the Dcon mouseproof, which
a lot of hardware stores sold in the head for
rats too, And the problem was back then as they
would search for water. If they didn't get out of
(25:29):
your house and died in the house, you know there'd
be an odor issue. But to hear that wasn't a
problem that they could go in and out. And yeah,
I thought you were going to talk about some of
these sauna trolls if you've ever checked into those were
the high pitched sound.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Actually when we got the place, they are scattered throughout
the cottage and they don't seem to make any difference.
They had that blue blinking light, and I've left them
in place since we bought them. Were avated when we
first took possession, and that's when we had the intestation.
So apparently didn't do it good. Yeah, I've you know,
(26:08):
I'll open the box up and I'll I can get
the bait on Amazon, and I can the bait on
these little tins to close the box back up and
put back in place, and we're good to go.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I appreciate the tip. Thank you much, Cleff. Take care.
On the high pitched sounds, the reason I asked that,
I haven't used that either. But whenever I bring them
up on the show, I would say, if I was
going to put a percentage, I'd say fifty percent of
the people love them, and fifty percent said made no difference.
(26:40):
It's like getting rid of moles. People say that too.
I'll talk about one item, one item, another item, and
it's like half the people say I had no luck
at all with that, or I had great luck with that.
So on the high pitched noise, that's I haven't used it.
I'm just going by people that call and I'm about
(27:01):
fifty to fifty there. All right, let's go to Matt
Matt welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Yes, so we have the house down in South Carolina,
and we just pulled up all the carpeting and the
padding and it sits on a concrete slab and we
want to put luxury vinyl plank flooring down, and so
I know we need to put down vapor barrier and
they're recommending like a six mil polyethylene vapor barrier. The
(27:32):
flooring we.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Picked out has a like a pre attached padding on it,
like a one millimeter padding. The question we had is,
you know, do we should we put down another like
a one and a half millimeter foam padding for say,
say it's for acoustic, but obviously it's on a slab.
I don't know that we need sound deading. But we're
(27:54):
not sure that that one millimeter padding that's attached to
the plank is it is enough for the flooring to
have a good feel and not flex too much. I'm
not sure if you.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Have a so so so, so I'm a little confused.
I know about the pad and I know it's for
acoustical and so are you more concerned about the cushioning
of the floor You're more concerned about the vapor barrier
being installed with what exactly the question.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
The cushioning, so so it'll have the six mil vapor
barriers were good there. It's a question of do we
need an additional fam underlayment on top of the attached
padding that's on the plank itself.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
My quick answer is no, you shouldn't. But there is, uh,
there's a number of things. Uh there. There is a
underlayment for laminate flooring. It's almost like a pad that
is for carpet. And I cannot remember the name of it.
(29:06):
We actually had the guy on the show probably fifteen
years ago. I have to look it up. I just
can't remember the name of I want to say dry corps,
but that's what dry corps is. Another option. It's actually
wood squares that are elevated about three ace of an
inch and the flooring can go on top of that,
(29:27):
which will add a little bit more softening effect to it.
And then if there were ever a moisture issue where
water got in, this is actually elevated Yeah, three ace
of an inch and that adds some cushioning. But with
that sound deadening and the vapor barrier, I don't think
you're gonna need. Can you snap a couple of people
(29:49):
or a couple things together and stand on it and
see if it's going to make a difference.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
We could do that.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Yeah, we could get a few sample planks.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And yeah, I think i'd do that. You know, my
idea of it needs cushioning in your idea it needs
cushing might be two different things.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Yeah, I understand, yep, And yeah, and I didn't know
if we would have if you can get to the
point where you have too much flex thing, since it's
a snap and lock type flour.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well you could and if I could remember, and I
will try to look it up. I don't know if
I'll find it real quick or not. But they do
have uh products out there that is available for that
for lambing it. So I don't know about the l VT,
whether you could use that or not. It's like I said,
(30:39):
it's been a long time since I talked to this person.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But what I would do is I'd put a couple
together and I'd stand out and see if that's going
to you know, with your vapor barrier there, and see
if that's going to accommodate you. Okay, A very good thanks,
good day, you too. Bye bye. Yeah. I wish I
could remember the name of it, but I'm my experience
(31:04):
with LVT. LVT if you haven't looked at it. LVT
stands for Luxury vinyl tile, Luxury vinyl tile, very very durable.
They make it two ways. They make it a water
resistant and a waterproof two different things. Waterproof is waterproof.
Water resistant means it'll tolerate a little. But one of
(31:27):
the things is, you know, if it's if it's looking
like a ceramic tile, So it looks like ceramic tile,
it looks like wood, it looks like planks, and that's LVP.
It's the LVT.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
But I would say, like an LVT, it's it's it feels.
It's not supposed to feel real bouncy, right, it's looking
like wood. When I when it first came to the market,
I stand on some lv T that looked like wood
and absolutely true, sir is an international builder show.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
When I stood on it, I thought it was wood.
It was that authentic and it felt like wood. So
wood doesn't have a bounce. It's not like carpet. So
that's another thing to kind of enter into the equation.
Let's take a quick break. Joe you'll be up first,
(32:22):
and we've got Mark, Terry Mike as we continue. You're
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Speaker 11 (35:15):
Well, good morning Gary. How you doing for Louisville?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Doing fine, sir, thank you.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
I was calling concerning the fella with the woodstoves that
called earlier, and I've been burning wood for about twelve years,
and I want to remind him to check his homeowner's
policy because they haven't out not to pay if something
happens he comes to woodstoves.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, he said he checked it, but I don't know
if he asked those questions. I think he was more
checking how much his insurance would go up, but hopefully
he'd discuss.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
State Farm required me to run a stainless sleeve through
my entire chimney to do uh well satisfy their requirements.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
So yeah, I told him to check with his local
also to see exactly you know, usually work with local
permits and then you work with the fire department or inspectors. Also.
I think how longer we talked with them, the more
I was thinking, maybe there's other supplemental heat you should go.
(36:20):
I mean, it's a small it's under one thousand square feet,
but it wasn't going to be centrally located, and I
thought that could be it could be a problem.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
Fourteen hundred square feet and I went from nine hundred
gallons of propane to a hundred gallons a year. Well,
I wanted to do a fuel furnace, put in new
windows and a fire place, and I've got tremendous savings
on propane here.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So yeah, well I've got heat. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm
not I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just
telling them, you know, check other options and see. You know,
I don't think he's done a lot of research at
that point, but you know, certainly a would stove would
be helpful. Certainly there are some things you need to
(37:11):
check out. I was a little concerned also about venting
and how what type of pipe would be required venting
it up through a coal shoot. So I was a
little concerned, but not being able to see it. It's
hard to answer those questions.
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Yeah, I grew up on a farm leading to Jerry
ring a lot of stubs. Yeah, oh yeah, No, don't
sacrifice your house for it.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Right, very good, Thank you much. All right, and let's
go to Terry.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Terry, welcome, Welcome, Thank you Gary. Yes, sir, I'll stay
with the rodent theme that we have going, all right,
I've got I. First of all, I tried the ultrasonic
thing because I thought I had moles. That didn't work.
I also tried her birds when supposed to leave built
(38:02):
for birds that didn't work either. Okay, just to add
to your your knowledge, right, but I have armadillos that
have migrated into my area and they make these huge
mounds kind of like moles. It's huge, and they tear
(38:24):
up everything. And I wanted to see what your recommendations
would be for getting rid of them.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
You know what, I have no recommendations, Therry, because I
haven't even I've seen an armadillo, but I've never had
an armadilla. I've never had the chore of getting rid
of them, though I know we've had listeners that have
called in the past about that. I'm just not familiar
with them enough to answer a question along those lines.
(38:56):
So keep listening. There's somebody. So it's so. And when
you start talking, I looked where you're from, and you're
from Missouri, so yes, again, they're not native to your area.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
They are now.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, they've been migrating.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
I called I called Local University because this is actually
in a house in Illinois that we own, and they
had been tracking the migration for years and they actually
showed up, he said, in the nineteen seventies. But their
(39:34):
population is slow, so slow to increase. They're just now
getting to the point where they're getting out of the
woods and going into the neighborhoods. And they said, we
would you know, I said, since you're tracking them, you know,
do you you know, catch them or anything. They said, well, yeah,
we could come out there and catch it. That would
(39:54):
be no problem. We would tag it and make sure
that it didn't have any disease, and then we'd bring
right back to where we found it and let it loose.
And I know.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I don't want it.
Speaker 13 (40:05):
I don't want it going on a very basic thing
and probably not going to help you out at all, Terry,
But you know, I'm I'm sure we can do a
little research and find out and people will also call.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
But one of the things I know, most burrowing animals. Again,
I go back to the simplest of simple. All animals
are looking for what food, water, shelter. I'm guessing it's
a food thing. And I'm sure their foods would be
like grubs and different things along those lines. Uh so,
(40:42):
you know, so maybe eliminating Yeah, so you know, eliminating grubs,
but you don't want to eliminate worms. No, but keep listening.
I'm sure we're going to get that question. I find
it fascinating that, you know, there's so many things that
are changing, you know, climate based. In fact, my wife
(41:07):
and I we were talking, our leaves are still green
this time of the year is unusual and we've watched
it progressive the last probably twenty years. As a kid,
I remember raking leaves on Columbus Day and they were
about dropped by then. And in our area now here
we are, you know, not a problem. They're still green.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Well, so here's what here's what an arbor has told me.
Because I have a sweet gumball tree.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Oh I grew up.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, and this one I've had sprayed once and it worked.
I've tried the injections that didn't work to get rid
of the swet gumballs. But anyway, this year, because our
spring was so wet and everything, all the fold age
came out on the tips of the limbs. And then
(42:01):
we had some bad storms come through. But not during
the storms, but like for several weeks, every other day,
I would have a huge limb about six inches in
diameter that would break out of the tree and I'm like,
what is going on? Is it dying? Well, no, it
was just that it rained. All the water was in
(42:25):
the at the end of the branches, and probably because
of the storm it might have cracked it. But instead
of healing up and everything now the weight it just
breaks them out. And yeah, I mean we had these
were huge limbs and I'm like, wow, yeah, this is unbelievable.
I'll tell you one other thing that the university, the
(42:50):
department that was studying the medillos. Yes, because I opened
up my glass lighting the on my glass siding door
and there was one scurrying alongside the house. I went
around to the back and it was underneath some leaves,
and I had a cold and I happened to cough,
(43:13):
and he stood up on a tine legs and he's
looking around. They are blind.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Oh, it just like a mole.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
And but they have keen hearing and smell right. And
then I coughed again and it ran off. And I
told him that, and he goes, Yes, if you scare them,
they won't come back. And that was true for about
four months. But they're back now, so I think listening,
Gary keep saying, all right.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
My friend, thank you very much for the info. I
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