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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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this hour of our show. Well, we're talking a lot
of home improvement, as we do each and every weekend.
Happy to invite you in. Danny's ready to take your
call at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Go ahead and grab a line and uh we'll have
a little chat. Well, where I'm at and at our
flagship station out of Cincinnati, Ohio, we had our first
(01:14):
freezing night, so it kind of reminds me to remind
you and I know in lots of parts of the
country it's been very dry and drought conditions in some cases,
and you've probably been using the hose on plants, maybe
your yard, and it's probably still attached to the faucet,
(01:39):
and that's a no no, that's a no no. Whether
you have an old lawn faucet or whether you have
a frostproof faucet where you think it won't freeze and
it won't split. Well you're right on half of that.
But if you have your hose connected, it can't drain
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the water out of the pipe, and it can freeze
and it can split the pipe. So time to unscrew
that that hose from the faucet. You can always put
it back on. Just don't go through the winter. Don't
go through freezing nights with that hose attached to the fauces.
It's a big, big time no no, all right, you
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can grab that line at eight hundred and eight two
three eight two five five and Greg, you lead us
off today.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Welcome, well, good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Morning about a here we goo.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I talked with you regarding Tannon stains on my driveway.
Huh and you had suggested getting some oxalic acid.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh, I look all local.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
What maybe? Oh the oxalic acid I talked about barkeeper's
friend or no.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, this is this was regular oxalic acid. I tried
barkeeper's friends and it laughed.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, it wasn't strong.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So anyway, the oxalic acid I was able to find
was a small one out and ridiculously expensive and the
ready to use. Okay, so I was able to locate
some lab grade oxalic acid powder. But now how do
I mix it? And what kind of dilution should I use?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh, that I don't know because I don't know the strength.
You said it was kind of more of a commercial grade,
so we'd be using less. But I don't know how
you would mix it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, Well, the grade is nine to nine point ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. I have
no idea. In fact, the oxalic acid I was picturing
during that call one was you know, and you said
it laughed at it, which I get depending on how
deep that stain is. Was the exalic acid in Barkeeper's Friend.
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But they also use oxalic acid for wood bleach for
like wood floors with a stain.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, the big issue I've got I've got over nine
hundred square feet. I've got two big trees that drop,
and when they drop, they slack, you know. So it's
not a case where i'd be able to go and
do spot here and spot there and spot somewhere else.
It would basically be starting at one end of the
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pad and going all the way across.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Wow, And and it says it's ninety pure.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Ninety nine point. This is lab grade.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah. Yeah. So because of that, I'm not really sure
I can comfortably tell you here. I think it depends
on the grade and the and the what the job is.
And I'm sure there's a whole category of different mixing rates,
but I I don't know what they are. Okay, Well,
(04:58):
I think i'd probably start out. I mean, I'm just
guessing if you want to try it, I'd probably maybe
start out with two or three tablespoons in like a
quart of water, and then brush it on the stains,
let it sit I don't know, fifteen minutes or so,
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and then just kind of rinse, you know, scrub it
then and then just rinse it and see if that helps. Okay,
I think i'd play with it, play it in a
inconspicuous place. Since it is an acid, even though it's
like solid acid, it would have the ability to bleach
out the concrete a little bit, so, you know, use
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it in a back part of the driveway or whatever
it is. First, I don't want you to have a big, old,
bright piece of concrete in the middle of your driveway,
But why don't you try that? In fact, even if
you want to cut it back to like two tablespoons
to a quart of water, and if it goes nowhere,
maybe move it up a little bit. I think you're
going to have to play with it or google it
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and see if they have something, you know, where you
would put in the purity of the oxalic acid it's
a powder. What is my mixture rate for walnut stains
or something along those lines. You might be able to
get a definitive answer, but I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, all right, good now, next question I've got I
want to put a coat hangar rack in my basement.
This is an unfinished basement, so I've got the floor joist.
There is there any kind of formula that you know,
since I don't have the ability to cut threads on
black iron pipe, is there any kind of a formula
(06:39):
that you would be aware of using standard black iron fixtures?
You know, the short nipples and the right angles and.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
The little.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You know, the flanges and such that I could purchase
and then have someone cut me the threads on the
longer run of pipe.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
How much clothes are you going to put down there.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
This isn't just for this is just for the hangers,
because right now they're hanging on my cropper water pipes.
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, why don't you. I'll give you another idea, which
is going to be about ninety percent less expensive. That's
why I was saying, I don't know how much how
many clothes you're going to put on there. But the
first thing that comes to mind. Have you ever seen
those clothes hangar bars that you would put in a car. Yeah,
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it's got little wire loops at the end of it.
Why don't you put in a couple of screw hooks
in the joist and just take those little loops and
just hang them over the screw hooks.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, I think I've got one of those sitting
out in the garage somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I bet that'd be a whole bunch cheaper and a
whole lot easier.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well cheaper, yes, easier. If we go one of my
five minute projects usually takes three days.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well maybe this will be the exception. All right, all right,
you bet you Greg, Thank you, take care? Yeah, yeah,
I mean the iron pipe's great, it's going to hold up.
But by the time you start putting in pipes and
unions and threading the pipe that's going to get expensive.
One of those might be an easy way. In fact,
I actually Jesus has been a while, but a death
(08:21):
in the family and the clothes and donating and getting
him out of a house. And I did an arrangement
like that down in our basement, just a storm for
a while till we figured out and you know, let
the dust settle on what we're going to do with
the clothing, and hung them down in the basement and
got them out of the apartment. And it was a
It was very convenient. It was very convenient. So put
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that on your list. We'll take a little break. We'll
bring in Ron Wilson Thomas. You'll be up then, and
then jose as we continue, or Josie maybe as we continue.
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talking a little home improvement, greg, I got a quick
(11:30):
answer on that oxalic acid to get rid of walnut
stains out of concrete. I said, two or three tablespoons
of ouxalic acid for a quart. That's pretty close. Or
you can use a heaping tablespoon per cup of water
or a quarter cup of buxalic acid per gallon of
warm water ten to fifteen minutes to let it sit, scrub,
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rinse and rinse well, make sure you wear gloves and goggles.
So there you go. All right, it's time for our
friend Ron Wilson, and we're always talking to him about
our outside landscaping and uh gardens and kind of going
dormant on us. Mister Wilson, how are.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
You good oxalic acid?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
You know there's a lot of plants that have oxalic acid.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Is there really?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
How about that.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Rhubarb, spinach, kale, nuts, seeds, partially tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I guess you go out there with your big bundle and.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, they all have that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I love Brussels sprouts, how about you?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I like I. Actually, you know what's funny is I
I when I was kid, a kid, there's no way. Yeah,
I wouldn't have eaten that or cabbage eat one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You know, kind of got into it in the last
probably four years.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Cabbage rolls and stuff I love, and now the Brussels
sprouts absolutely love them.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, our taste do change.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yes, they do. By the way, and yes, things are
starting to shut down. As a matter of fact, looking
at lawns and I area not maybe yours did, but
not a lot of growth. Have you noticed that last
week or so?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, it definitely you can dramatically slowed down.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, slowed down. So now what's gonna happen is leaves
are gonna start falling. So even though you don't maybe
need to be mowing, you still need to be mowing.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right to grind up the leaves.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Grind up those.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Leaves, you bet you so?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, they're gonna start falling here in another week. I
think we're going to see some major quick drop. I
think anyway, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, it'll be wet. It looks like it's gonna be
a wet week. Hey, I got a question, in fact,
not me, but Thomas is on hold and we can
kind of help him out since we have you on
the line. He wants to uh, he's looking at leveling
his backyard and need some.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Advice leveling the backyard.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, he's got some dips, Thomas, you there, I am. Yeah.
Is that what you want to do? Just kind of
make it a little more level?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yeah, And I've got a compounded issue, so let me
set the stage. I had a forty foot white pine
been there forever, cut it down two years ago, let
the roots rot best I could. I intended intended to
rent a bobcap. I got a dingo instead, and it
was rough going. So I ripped up a bunch of ives.
(14:22):
So this has never been cultivated. There's a bit of
a ravine natural drain in the back part of the property,
so yeah, it was a it was a rough weekend
at any rate. I ripped out as bunch of the
ivy as I could, and ripped up some of the roots,
some as big as my arm, and I moved around
a lot of the dirt around, and so what I'm
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left with is a bit of a rise. There's a
fair amount of clay in the front part, which I
want to regrade away from my house. There's a driveway
blacktop pad.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Behind it, okay, and then.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I have about six inches to go down in the
first third, and then there's a about an eighteen inch
drop towards the ravine that I want to move a
bunch of this material around, trying to level it out
best I can.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
For let's say, a bad Minton area.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's about okay, so you've got a whole bunch of
work that you're going to do there, and and let
Ron and I just kind of wrap, you know, give
you some advice and uh so, what do you think
about that, Ron, That is a lot of work.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Huh Now I wouldn't tackle it, yeah, I mean, but yeah,
that's a lot of that's a lot of soil moving
and uh.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is And who in the industry does that kind
of work? I mean, would it be an excavator because
that clay is not going to help you grow a
nice bad mitten.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Uh No, Well, they're going to do two things. One
is they're going to use to get the right soil
for the fill, because you bring top soil, you know
where you scrape that in if you don't have the
right soil, and that's going to sink. I mean, if
you watch them regrade an area, they'll pull that top
soil off right, regrade with the clay that's underneath, correct,
and then come back in once they're done with all
of that grading in its final grade, then they come
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back into the top soil on top. And that's where
everybody complains as well. Only get an nswer or two
of top soil, and a lot of times that's all
it was anyway, you know, because top soil is just
basically where the organic matter is breaking down on the top.
So it's a matter of making sure you use that
heavier soil in the fill areas and all before you
do anything. And I think the other the other thing
I look at here too is if it's a sloped area.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And he said ravine too, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Make sure that that gets covered before we get into
the winter season. Obviously too late for seating. You may
get an annual ryot, but maybe too late for seating,
but you can still use that erosion netting things like
that to try to slow that down and hold that
hillside or that ravine the slope there.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, like if we're building something in the home, we
need to get like a you know, permit or an inspector.
I mean, you don't want to go at this haphazardly.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, And again we don't know how big the area.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I mean, it's not a calculation test and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
All of that's involved technically, you are correct, and so
when an excavator would come in and take care of that,
and there's you know, site one people there there are
people that you know do both the landscaping whatever and
the moving of the soil. But again, yeah, you're right,
they kind of make sure all of those add up
and come together, so you've got the proper drainings and
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proper slope and all that, and then come in with
a tennis court which I would also have a pickleball
on there too. So someone as.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Old as you could will volleyball.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
He was, oh volleyball. Well, yeah, yeah, there.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You go way too active.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well that's yeah, especially if it's saying right so.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, you know, it brings up a good point too,
is first of all. I mean, I'm not knocking him,
but it's almost getting a little too late to do that, right.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I mean, well, I think it's ever too late. I
mean they're going to be doing grading and all that through.
I mean as long as the soil is workable. Where
you get into proms is that, Yeah, it would be
the erosion situation. And you know in situations like that,
like you go to construction site right now, there's one
right behind our house where they're doing a lot of
soil moving right now. Well, anywhere where there's a ravine
a swale that they're finished with, and they finished those
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up before they did everything else. Those are now seated
and they have erosion nettings on top of them, and
they have the straw bales on the top, and so
they're doing everything they can because they know they're not
going to get any vegetation there for us a year.
But that's already done and covered anticipating that, you know,
because it's so late in the season.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So maybe helping other people out, would you start with
first find somebody's going to do that work. Would an
excavator be that type of person? I think so he
would have the knowledge on the types of soil and
what kind of soil, because unless you're really schooled in that,
that's not a do it yourself project. No.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
And you come in there, like I said earlier, with
that top soil, the really loose soil, and then you
build something on top of it, and then all of
a sudden that starts to settle more and more. Plus
you have the roots that were in there from the pine.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Tree, right, they're going to decay.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
They're going to decay as well, So yeah, you gotta
make sure all that stuff's out of there when you're
when you're doing a really a major redgrade like he's doing.
I have somebody else look at it too.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, you earn your keep today and we thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I have a great show. A happy Halloween. By the way,
Oh all right.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Online dot com you can get some more information there. Thanks, Ron,
appreciate it. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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it we go at Home with Garry Sullivan talking about
you got it your home and if you'd like to
join the show, do so. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five start off the show talking
about how where I live we had a freeze last night,
and we're always talking about pipes possibly freezing, and I
(22:28):
guess the one thing the red flag right now that
I want to raise is the outdoor faucets. All right,
there's basically two types of outdoor faucets. There's the old
lawn faucet, where's the copper piping or galvanized piping comes up,
goes through the wall of the exterior wall of the house,
(22:49):
and a faucet is attached to that pipe on the
outside of the house. Now, when it starts getting around
below freezing, the water in that pipe can freeze. If
it freezes, you know solidly that that ice expands and
(23:14):
can burst copper pipe. And it's still under pressure because
you've turned it off outside, but there's still pressure and
water pressure going to that faucet. If it splits and burst,
you got a flood. You got a mass all right.
So what you want to do this time of year
(23:35):
is there should be a valve that's feeding that outdoor faucet.
You will turn that off on the inside and there'll
be a little cap on the side of the valve
that you'll unscrew, have a little coffee cup underneath it,
and you'll drain the water out of that pipe and
(23:55):
you have shut off the water going to the outdoor faucet.
So there should be a cutoff valve near that faucet
on the inside of your home. And once you shut
off the water and you drain it, you're golden. Now,
some people have frostproof faucets and we think they're impervious
(24:19):
to splitting, but they're not. So the way they're installed
is they have their own piece of pipe that's either
eight ten or twelve inches long to go through the
ex tier of the wall of the house, and it
would then that whole pipe goes into the house and
it connects to the pipe on the inside of the house.
(24:41):
But the stem and the washer for that faucet is
all the way through that pipe, and it's already on
the inside the house. So you don't necessarily have to
turn off the water on the inside of your house
because that faucet has already turned it off. But I
(25:02):
would still turn it off and then open up that
faucet and just you know, it might be a dripper too,
but you know, as a precaution, you can do it
that way, or you can just turn the faucet off.
And the way it's installed or should be installed. That's
why I said you might just turn the water off anyway.
It should be tilted forward on the outside of your house.
(25:26):
So when you shut the faucet off outside, the stem,
the washer goes all the way inside the house shuts
the water off there. It's tilted downward. What's ever left
in that pipe dribbles underground. There's no water in that
pipe now that's subject to the temperature that's outside. Unless
(25:50):
there's always an unless unless you have a hose that
is still attached to that faucet. So when you're watering
your plate, as in October, you shut off the faucet.
The hose is laying on the ground, or it's on
a hose hanger or something along nose lines there. You
shut off the faucet, But there's water in that hose
(26:14):
and back up and in that pipe because it can't drop,
it can't flush itself onto the ground. It's in the pipe,
it's in the faucets, it's in the hose. It goes
down to twenty degrees. You forgot you took the hose off,
or didn't take the hose off. It freezes, maybe the
hose or the uh the tubing splits and a little
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bit of that drops dribbles out. You don't even know
it's a problem, or maybe that whole hose is filled
with water and it's a big problem, or it'll get
your next spring. Identify the type of valve you've pad,
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your home. All right, taking your calls it eight hundred
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eighty two three eight two five five Jerry, welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, Gary, thinking on a honeydew project. I just got
to finish this little buck.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And now I've got to get the honeydew down, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So we have we're on our second remodel in the house,
and we've got a cast iron colder tub twenty years
old and we're using it now because we're remodeling the
back bathroom. And it just seems like that slip resistance
isn't what it used to be, or we're.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Not what we used to be, one of the two
or both.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So they've got those kits to redo the slip resistance. Yeah,
your day, I mean, is it just a well.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Tell me about the kit that you're looking at. So,
so this is a cast iron tub, it's porcelain covered.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yes, it's over Okay, it's a color cast iron standard tub.
The slippers built in.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Okay. So is it getting rough or is it getting slippery?
I don't get it. I mean most bath tubs are slippery.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I mean we've got a little that middle part
is walking in right now. It's still the texture is
that it's not really there. Texture is not there. It's
not the same as they Besides that, you can tell
that there's really not a grippy there. I really don't
(28:47):
want to throw one of those bats in here.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, okay, So what you're talking about is when you
call it slippersistant tub, it's got those little strips in
there that are manufactured into the base of the tub.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Correct, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right, um, and then tell me about the kits,
because I've seen kits where you refinished the tub. But
I don't know. I think on those slip resistance it's
just going to cover those Well.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's a kind of an etching, is what it's supposed
to be. You roll some sort of an item across it.
M m. It's a liquor repaste to try to eat
into it, but that scares me when I'm eating into Yeah,
well we've.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Got Yeah, here's what I want you to do. There's
a product it's called track Safe t r ac safe,
and it is a clear ceilant that is slip resistant.
You can use it on wood, concrete tile, so I
(29:58):
know it can be used on that porcelain and finish.
What I don't know is how it holds up when
it's underwater for an extended period of time. In other words,
it's sold as a track resistant track Safe or as
a slip resistant coating for hard materials. I mean you
(30:19):
can use it on pressure treated wood. You can garage floors, driveways,
sidewalk porches, ceramic tile floors. But a bathtub's a little different.
It would be very easy to apply. It's applied with
a roller, and it's two coats, and it's made by
DICEH Coatings.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Okay, yes, I think I've used it years ago on
some porcelain tile. Okay, it was outside in a on
a porch.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Area, Okay. And I would go to their website it's
daich Coatings dot com and take a look at the video.
I don't know if they address a tub on air
or not. You can always call their technical services. Also,
I agree with you etching that would scare the dickens
(31:09):
out of me, and to do it yourself. Kits for
reglazing a tub, I'm not a big fan of no,
unless you know it's a it's a you're going to
need a really good qualified epoxy coating on there. It's
going to have to be sprayed. There's a company out there,
(31:31):
it's a franchise, it's a service provider. It's called Miracle
Method and they do tubs. I don't know how they
address the anti slip strips.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, well, I mean that the the enamel is perfect. Yeah, Well,
just that either we're too old or it's.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Way yeah, And I think, well, then you're getting too
old to one of the things that you said, which
might be an answer I would yive, but if you
don't want to do it, I understand that those strips
that are in there, they also sell packaged strips and
(32:19):
they're usually fairly cheap and fairly thin, and I don't
know that's something you could use on top of those
existing strips, But I want you to check out. Three
M makes textured kind of that type of tape. It
(32:40):
looks like duct tape, but it comes in one inch
two inch, three inch four inch and it's made for
marine use, so it's made for steps on a boat.
And that stuff's really good.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
In fact, when we moved in, we had some pressure
treated steps that went into our kitchen and it was
outside in a garage and they'd get wet and they
get really slippery. And when we moved in, oh yeah,
I got some four inch of that three M tape
and it comes in white and gray and black. I
know you're not gonna use black. That does come in white.
(33:18):
And I put those on the steps. That was twenty
five years ago. It has not even curled up yet. Wow,
and that might be an option for me.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Okay, I'll look at those.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, a couple of things to explore. Very good, Thank you,
you bet you take care call anytime. All right, let's
take a break. James, you'll be up first, Liz will
be next. And you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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and you might appreciate it also. All right, our phone
numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and James, welcome, Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Hey, I've got a project before it gets freezing cold.
I want to wash the exterior of my new replacement windows. Okay,
and uh, I've gone to the box store and it's
like a maze. You know, they have about one hundred
different products. And what is the one that you've been recommending?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well, it's so it is, so tell me what it is. Okay,
it's is it aluminum or vinyl window?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
I've got a it's uh renewal by Anderson. Is the
window it's Trecks.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Fiberglass, and they they then they've.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Got no, it's not fiberglass. It's it's it's uh Treks
would and uh and then you know where they do
the trimming that's aluminum.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, and what is it a black film or well?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
No, I'm just wanting to wash, you know, wash the
windows and then of course along with the frame and everything.
And I want something that will do the job for
for both.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah. Well, the one I've been talking about is a
Wett and Forget product, and it's Wet and Forget a
window cleaner and screen cleaner. Now it'll take care of
the windows and it'll do it beautifully. I don't know
about the trim, because there's some weird stuff that stains
that trim, and in some cases it's probably the same
(39:23):
type of stain that will find on aluminum gutters. It's
very difficult to remove. In fact, one of the only
things I found to really remove it would be like
a white wall cleaner. I know that sounds weird. There's
also a product called Purple Power which will clean that.
(39:44):
I don't know if the window and screen cleaner will
clean that. I haven't tried that. It doesn't talk about that,
but I know for the windows and the screens it
does a great job. So if you want to try
that and at least you get your windows in your
screens clean You can always circle back with like a
white wall cleaner into the frames. Mm hmm okay, but
(40:08):
I don't think there's anything that's just going to spray
on and make them go away on the frame.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
And this and this is particular wet and forget as
opposed as opposed to you know, the h the black
stuff on stuccos.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
You know, right, So they make.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
This is strictly made for windows.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yes, they make a multitude of products. So this is
the wet and Forget window in screen cleaner. It comes
in a jug where you attach the hose, just like
the standard Wet and Forget exterior cleaner, but this is
specifically for windows and screens.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Okay, alrighty, well, thank you so much. And I learned
a lot uh listening in on the conversation.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Very good, appreciated. Thanks you all right, talking a little
home improvement and taking your calls mark welcome. Does that
mean yes, sir?
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Hey, uh, actually it's bart but that's okay. Oh got
a geothermal AC unit. Uh my loops underground. About every
about every week we'll lose the water guy comes out
reach arger just puts forty forty pounds back into it.
(41:33):
Give it a week, it'll be gone again. Does anybody
make a ceilant that you can pump into the system.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Not that I'm aware of, but automotive.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
There's lots of different things that you can put in
on automotive that.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, I was going to say, I was going to
qualify it too, not that I know, but I'm not
going to say that there isn't something who's been servicing
it now that continues to you know, kind.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
Of filled my local my local guy here wisdom out
of weather for Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Okay, have you chatted with him about it at all? Or? Oh?
Speaker 8 (42:08):
Yes, I call that, I call him. They come out
every time, they don't. They don't charge me nothing. They're
good about that. But it comes in, puts water in,
gets working, and off we go again and give us
so many days, all of a sudden it'll be out
of water again.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Hmmm. So they haven't been able to detect a leak
or what's going on?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
No, no, not yet.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (42:32):
They had a company come out that originally another company
to come out and they partially dug up their loops
like the above ground end of it. Yeah, and looked
everywhere's and said we can't find a leak and charge
it back up and off you go again, and like
every every ten days.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
It'll be out of water.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
So I'm serious.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
I didn't know if any other AC guys out there
had a.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Well, yeah, if someone knows of it. I'm not familiar
with it. It wouldn't surprise me if there is something,
but I don't know. So the seiler would be intended
for use in the actually in the actual piping itself,
then you just it'd be a joint sealer like so
(43:20):
if you if you know of something for a geothermal
system on that, Bart would love to hear from you.
Our phone number is eight hundred A two three A
two five five, and you would be very helpful to him.
In the meantime, we'll open up those phone lines. If
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this hour of our show. Well, we're talking a lot
of home improvement, as we do each and every weekend.
Happy to invite you in. Danny's ready to take your
call at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Go ahead and grab a line and uh we'll have
a little chat. Well, where I'm at and at our
flagship station out of Cincinnati, Ohio, we had our first
(01:14):
freezing night, so it kind of reminds me to remind
you and I know in lots of parts of the
country it's been very dry and drought conditions in some cases,
and you've probably been using the hose on plants, maybe
your yard, and it's probably still attached to the faucet,
(01:39):
and that's a no no, that's a no no. Whether
you have an old lawn faucet or whether you have
a frostproof faucet where you think it won't freeze and
it won't split. Well you're right on half of that.
But if you have your hose connected, it can't drain
(02:00):
the water out of the pipe, and it can freeze
and it can split the pipe. So time to unscrew
that that hose from the faucet. You can always put
it back on. Just don't go through the winter. Don't
go through freezing nights with that hose attached to the fauces.
It's a big, big time no no, all right, you
(02:22):
can grab that line at eight hundred and eight two
three eight two five five and Greg, you lead us
off today.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Welcome, well, good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Morning about a here we goo.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I talked with you regarding Tannon stains on my driveway.
Huh and you had suggested getting some oxalic acid.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh, I look all local.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
What maybe? Oh the oxalic acid I talked about barkeeper's
friend or no.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, this is this was regular oxalic acid. I tried
barkeeper's friends and it laughed.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, it wasn't strong.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So anyway, the oxalic acid I was able to find
was a small one out and ridiculously expensive and the
ready to use. Okay, so I was able to locate
some lab grade oxalic acid powder. But now how do
I mix it? And what kind of dilution should I use?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh, that I don't know because I don't know the strength.
You said it was kind of more of a commercial grade,
so we'd be using less. But I don't know how
you would mix it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, Well, the grade is nine to nine point ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. I have
no idea. In fact, the oxalic acid I was picturing
during that call one was you know, and you said
it laughed at it, which I get depending on how
deep that stain is. Was the exalic acid in Barkeeper's Friend.
(03:50):
But they also use oxalic acid for wood bleach for
like wood floors with a stain.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, the big issue I've got I've got over nine
hundred square feet. I've got two big trees that drop,
and when they drop, they slack, you know. So it's
not a case where i'd be able to go and
do spot here and spot there and spot somewhere else.
It would basically be starting at one end of the
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pad and going all the way across.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Wow, And and it says it's ninety pure.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Ninety nine point. This is lab grade.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah. Yeah. So because of that, I'm not really sure
I can comfortably tell you here. I think it depends
on the grade and the and the what the job is.
And I'm sure there's a whole category of different mixing rates,
but I I don't know what they are. Okay, Well,
(04:58):
I think i'd probably start out. I mean, I'm just
guessing if you want to try it, I'd probably maybe
start out with two or three tablespoons in like a
quart of water, and then brush it on the stains,
let it sit I don't know, fifteen minutes or so,
(05:19):
and then just kind of rinse, you know, scrub it
then and then just rinse it and see if that helps. Okay,
I think i'd play with it, play it in a
inconspicuous place. Since it is an acid, even though it's
like solid acid, it would have the ability to bleach
out the concrete a little bit, so, you know, use
(05:41):
it in a back part of the driveway or whatever
it is. First, I don't want you to have a big, old,
bright piece of concrete in the middle of your driveway,
But why don't you try that? In fact, even if
you want to cut it back to like two tablespoons
to a quart of water, and if it goes nowhere,
maybe move it up a little bit. I think you're
going to have to play with it or google it
(06:03):
and see if they have something, you know, where you
would put in the purity of the oxalic acid it's
a powder. What is my mixture rate for walnut stains
or something along those lines. You might be able to
get a definitive answer, but I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, all right, good now, next question I've got I
want to put a coat hangar rack in my basement.
This is an unfinished basement, so I've got the floor joist.
There is there any kind of formula that you know,
since I don't have the ability to cut threads on
black iron pipe, is there any kind of a formula
(06:39):
that you would be aware of using standard black iron fixtures?
You know, the short nipples and the right angles and.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
The little.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You know, the flanges and such that I could purchase
and then have someone cut me the threads on the
longer run of pipe.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
How much clothes are you going to put down there.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
This isn't just for this is just for the hangers,
because right now they're hanging on my cropper water pipes.
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, why don't you. I'll give you another idea, which
is going to be about ninety percent less expensive. That's
why I was saying, I don't know how much how
many clothes you're going to put on there. But the
first thing that comes to mind. Have you ever seen
those clothes hangar bars that you would put in a car. Yeah,
(07:30):
it's got little wire loops at the end of it.
Why don't you put in a couple of screw hooks
in the joist and just take those little loops and
just hang them over the screw hooks.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, I think I've got one of those sitting
out in the garage somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I bet that'd be a whole bunch cheaper and a
whole lot easier.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well cheaper, yes, easier. If we go one of my
five minute projects usually takes three days.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well maybe this will be the exception. All right, all right,
you bet you Greg, Thank you, take care? Yeah, yeah,
I mean the iron pipe's great, it's going to hold up.
But by the time you start putting in pipes and
unions and threading the pipe that's going to get expensive.
One of those might be an easy way. In fact,
I actually Jesus has been a while, but a death
(08:21):
in the family and the clothes and donating and getting
him out of a house. And I did an arrangement
like that down in our basement, just a storm for
a while till we figured out and you know, let
the dust settle on what we're going to do with
the clothing, and hung them down in the basement and
got them out of the apartment. And it was a
It was very convenient. It was very convenient. So put
(08:43):
that on your list. We'll take a little break. We'll
bring in Ron Wilson Thomas. You'll be up then, and
then jose as we continue, or Josie maybe as we continue.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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talking a little home improvement, greg, I got a quick
(11:30):
answer on that oxalic acid to get rid of walnut
stains out of concrete. I said, two or three tablespoons
of ouxalic acid for a quart. That's pretty close. Or
you can use a heaping tablespoon per cup of water
or a quarter cup of buxalic acid per gallon of
warm water ten to fifteen minutes to let it sit, scrub,
(11:54):
rinse and rinse well, make sure you wear gloves and goggles.
So there you go. All right, it's time for our
friend Ron Wilson, and we're always talking to him about
our outside landscaping and uh gardens and kind of going
dormant on us. Mister Wilson, how are.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
You good oxalic acid?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
You know there's a lot of plants that have oxalic acid.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Is there really?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
How about that.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Rhubarb, spinach, kale, nuts, seeds, partially tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I guess you go out there with your big bundle and.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, they all have that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I love Brussels sprouts, how about you?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I like I. Actually, you know what's funny is I
I when I was kid, a kid, there's no way. Yeah,
I wouldn't have eaten that or cabbage eat one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You know, kind of got into it in the last
probably four years.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Cabbage rolls and stuff I love, and now the Brussels
sprouts absolutely love them.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, our taste do change.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yes, they do. By the way, and yes, things are
starting to shut down. As a matter of fact, looking
at lawns and I area not maybe yours did, but
not a lot of growth. Have you noticed that last
week or so?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, it definitely you can dramatically slowed down.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, slowed down. So now what's gonna happen is leaves
are gonna start falling. So even though you don't maybe
need to be mowing, you still need to be mowing.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right to grind up the leaves.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Grind up those.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Leaves, you bet you so?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, they're gonna start falling here in another week. I
think we're going to see some major quick drop. I
think anyway, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, it'll be wet. It looks like it's gonna be
a wet week. Hey, I got a question, in fact,
not me, but Thomas is on hold and we can
kind of help him out since we have you on
the line. He wants to uh, he's looking at leveling
his backyard and need some.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Advice leveling the backyard.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, he's got some dips, Thomas, you there, I am. Yeah.
Is that what you want to do? Just kind of
make it a little more level?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yeah, And I've got a compounded issue, so let me
set the stage. I had a forty foot white pine
been there forever, cut it down two years ago, let
the roots rot best I could. I intended intended to
rent a bobcap. I got a dingo instead, and it
was rough going. So I ripped up a bunch of ives.
(14:22):
So this has never been cultivated. There's a bit of
a ravine natural drain in the back part of the property,
so yeah, it was a it was a rough weekend
at any rate. I ripped out as bunch of the
ivy as I could, and ripped up some of the roots,
some as big as my arm, and I moved around
a lot of the dirt around, and so what I'm
(14:43):
left with is a bit of a rise. There's a
fair amount of clay in the front part, which I
want to regrade away from my house. There's a driveway
blacktop pad.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Behind it, okay, and then.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I have about six inches to go down in the
first third, and then there's a about an eighteen inch
drop towards the ravine that I want to move a
bunch of this material around, trying to level it out
best I can.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
For let's say, a bad Minton area.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's about okay, so you've got a whole bunch of
work that you're going to do there, and and let
Ron and I just kind of wrap, you know, give
you some advice and uh so, what do you think
about that, Ron, That is a lot of work.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Huh Now I wouldn't tackle it, yeah, I mean, but yeah,
that's a lot of that's a lot of soil moving
and uh.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is And who in the industry does that kind
of work? I mean, would it be an excavator because
that clay is not going to help you grow a
nice bad mitten.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Uh No, Well, they're going to do two things. One
is they're going to use to get the right soil
for the fill, because you bring top soil, you know
where you scrape that in if you don't have the
right soil, and that's going to sink. I mean, if
you watch them regrade an area, they'll pull that top
soil off right, regrade with the clay that's underneath, correct,
and then come back in once they're done with all
of that grading in its final grade, then they come
(16:00):
back into the top soil on top. And that's where
everybody complains as well. Only get an nswer or two
of top soil, and a lot of times that's all
it was anyway, you know, because top soil is just
basically where the organic matter is breaking down on the top.
So it's a matter of making sure you use that
heavier soil in the fill areas and all before you
do anything. And I think the other the other thing
I look at here too is if it's a sloped area.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And he said ravine too, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Make sure that that gets covered before we get into
the winter season. Obviously too late for seating. You may
get an annual ryot, but maybe too late for seating,
but you can still use that erosion netting things like
that to try to slow that down and hold that
hillside or that ravine the slope there.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, like if we're building something in the home, we
need to get like a you know, permit or an inspector.
I mean, you don't want to go at this haphazardly.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, And again we don't know how big the area.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I mean, it's not a calculation test and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
All of that's involved technically, you are correct, and so
when an excavator would come in and take care of that,
and there's you know, site one people there there are
people that you know do both the landscaping whatever and
the moving of the soil. But again, yeah, you're right,
they kind of make sure all of those add up
and come together, so you've got the proper drainings and
(17:20):
proper slope and all that, and then come in with
a tennis court which I would also have a pickleball
on there too. So someone as.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Old as you could will volleyball.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
He was, oh volleyball. Well, yeah, yeah, there.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You go way too active.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well that's yeah, especially if it's saying right so.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, you know, it brings up a good point too,
is first of all. I mean, I'm not knocking him,
but it's almost getting a little too late to do that, right.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I mean, well, I think it's ever too late. I
mean they're going to be doing grading and all that through.
I mean as long as the soil is workable. Where
you get into proms is that, Yeah, it would be
the erosion situation. And you know in situations like that,
like you go to construction site right now, there's one
right behind our house where they're doing a lot of
soil moving right now. Well, anywhere where there's a ravine
a swale that they're finished with, and they finished those
(18:08):
up before they did everything else. Those are now seated
and they have erosion nettings on top of them, and
they have the straw bales on the top, and so
they're doing everything they can because they know they're not
going to get any vegetation there for us a year.
But that's already done and covered anticipating that, you know,
because it's so late in the season.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So maybe helping other people out, would you start with
first find somebody's going to do that work. Would an
excavator be that type of person? I think so he
would have the knowledge on the types of soil and
what kind of soil, because unless you're really schooled in that,
that's not a do it yourself project. No.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
And you come in there, like I said earlier, with
that top soil, the really loose soil, and then you
build something on top of it, and then all of
a sudden that starts to settle more and more. Plus
you have the roots that were in there from the pine.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Tree, right, they're going to decay.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
They're going to decay as well, So yeah, you gotta
make sure all that stuff's out of there when you're
when you're doing a really a major redgrade like he's doing.
I have somebody else look at it too.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, you earn your keep today and we thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I have a great show. A happy Halloween. By the way,
Oh all right.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Online dot com you can get some more information there. Thanks, Ron,
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it we go at Home with Garry Sullivan talking about
you got it your home and if you'd like to
join the show, do so. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five start off the show talking
about how where I live we had a freeze last night,
and we're always talking about pipes possibly freezing, and I
(22:28):
guess the one thing the red flag right now that
I want to raise is the outdoor faucets. All right,
there's basically two types of outdoor faucets. There's the old
lawn faucet, where's the copper piping or galvanized piping comes up,
goes through the wall of the exterior wall of the house,
(22:49):
and a faucet is attached to that pipe on the
outside of the house. Now, when it starts getting around
below freezing, the water in that pipe can freeze. If
it freezes, you know solidly that that ice expands and
(23:14):
can burst copper pipe. And it's still under pressure because
you've turned it off outside, but there's still pressure and
water pressure going to that faucet. If it splits and burst,
you got a flood. You got a mass all right.
So what you want to do this time of year
(23:35):
is there should be a valve that's feeding that outdoor faucet.
You will turn that off on the inside and there'll
be a little cap on the side of the valve
that you'll unscrew, have a little coffee cup underneath it,
and you'll drain the water out of that pipe and
(23:55):
you have shut off the water going to the outdoor faucet.
So there should be a cutoff valve near that faucet
on the inside of your home. And once you shut
off the water and you drain it, you're golden. Now,
some people have frostproof faucets and we think they're impervious
(24:19):
to splitting, but they're not. So the way they're installed
is they have their own piece of pipe that's either
eight ten or twelve inches long to go through the
ex tier of the wall of the house, and it
would then that whole pipe goes into the house and
it connects to the pipe on the inside of the house.
(24:41):
But the stem and the washer for that faucet is
all the way through that pipe, and it's already on
the inside the house. So you don't necessarily have to
turn off the water on the inside of your house
because that faucet has already turned it off. But I
(25:02):
would still turn it off and then open up that
faucet and just you know, it might be a dripper too,
but you know, as a precaution, you can do it
that way, or you can just turn the faucet off.
And the way it's installed or should be installed. That's
why I said you might just turn the water off anyway.
It should be tilted forward on the outside of your house.
(25:26):
So when you shut the faucet off outside, the stem,
the washer goes all the way inside the house shuts
the water off there. It's tilted downward. What's ever left
in that pipe dribbles underground. There's no water in that
pipe now that's subject to the temperature that's outside. Unless
(25:50):
there's always an unless unless you have a hose that
is still attached to that faucet. So when you're watering
your plate, as in October, you shut off the faucet.
The hose is laying on the ground, or it's on
a hose hanger or something along nose lines there. You
shut off the faucet, But there's water in that hose
(26:14):
and back up and in that pipe because it can't drop,
it can't flush itself onto the ground. It's in the pipe,
it's in the faucets, it's in the hose. It goes
down to twenty degrees. You forgot you took the hose off,
or didn't take the hose off. It freezes, maybe the
hose or the uh the tubing splits and a little
(26:38):
bit of that drops dribbles out. You don't even know
it's a problem, or maybe that whole hose is filled
with water and it's a big problem, or it'll get
your next spring. Identify the type of valve you've pad,
and take the steps accordingly to eliminate water damage in
your home. All right, taking your calls it eight hundred
(27:01):
eighty two three eight two five five Jerry, welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, Gary, thinking on a honeydew project. I just got
to finish this little buck.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And now I've got to get the honeydew down, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So we have we're on our second remodel in the house,
and we've got a cast iron colder tub twenty years
old and we're using it now because we're remodeling the
back bathroom. And it just seems like that slip resistance
isn't what it used to be, or we're.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Not what we used to be, one of the two
or both.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So they've got those kits to redo the slip resistance. Yeah,
your day, I mean, is it just a well.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Tell me about the kit that you're looking at. So,
so this is a cast iron tub, it's porcelain covered.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yes, it's over Okay, it's a color cast iron standard tub.
The slippers built in.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Okay. So is it getting rough or is it getting slippery?
I don't get it. I mean most bath tubs are slippery.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I mean we've got a little that middle part
is walking in right now. It's still the texture is
that it's not really there. Texture is not there. It's
not the same as they Besides that, you can tell
that there's really not a grippy there. I really don't
(28:47):
want to throw one of those bats in here.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, okay, So what you're talking about is when you
call it slippersistant tub, it's got those little strips in
there that are manufactured into the base of the tub.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Correct, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right, um, and then tell me about the kits,
because I've seen kits where you refinished the tub. But
I don't know. I think on those slip resistance it's
just going to cover those Well.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's a kind of an etching, is what it's supposed
to be. You roll some sort of an item across it.
M m. It's a liquor repaste to try to eat
into it, but that scares me when I'm eating into Yeah,
well we've.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Got Yeah, here's what I want you to do. There's
a product it's called track Safe t r ac safe,
and it is a clear ceilant that is slip resistant.
You can use it on wood, concrete tile, so I
(29:58):
know it can be used on that porcelain and finish.
What I don't know is how it holds up when
it's underwater for an extended period of time. In other words,
it's sold as a track resistant track Safe or as
a slip resistant coating for hard materials. I mean you
(30:19):
can use it on pressure treated wood. You can garage floors, driveways,
sidewalk porches, ceramic tile floors. But a bathtub's a little different.
It would be very easy to apply. It's applied with
a roller, and it's two coats, and it's made by
DICEH Coatings.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Okay, yes, I think I've used it years ago on
some porcelain tile. Okay, it was outside in a on
a porch.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Area, Okay. And I would go to their website it's
daich Coatings dot com and take a look at the video.
I don't know if they address a tub on air
or not. You can always call their technical services. Also,
I agree with you etching that would scare the dickens
(31:09):
out of me, and to do it yourself. Kits for
reglazing a tub, I'm not a big fan of no,
unless you know it's a it's a you're going to
need a really good qualified epoxy coating on there. It's
going to have to be sprayed. There's a company out there,
(31:31):
it's a franchise, it's a service provider. It's called Miracle
Method and they do tubs. I don't know how they
address the anti slip strips.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, well, I mean that the the enamel is perfect. Yeah, Well,
just that either we're too old or it's.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Way yeah, And I think, well, then you're getting too
old to one of the things that you said, which
might be an answer I would yive, but if you
don't want to do it, I understand that those strips
that are in there, they also sell packaged strips and
(32:19):
they're usually fairly cheap and fairly thin, and I don't
know that's something you could use on top of those
existing strips, But I want you to check out. Three
M makes textured kind of that type of tape. It
(32:40):
looks like duct tape, but it comes in one inch
two inch, three inch four inch and it's made for
marine use, so it's made for steps on a boat.
And that stuff's really good.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
In fact, when we moved in, we had some pressure
treated steps that went into our kitchen and it was
outside in a garage and they'd get wet and they
get really slippery. And when we moved in, oh yeah,
I got some four inch of that three M tape
and it comes in white and gray and black. I
know you're not gonna use black. That does come in white.
(33:18):
And I put those on the steps. That was twenty
five years ago. It has not even curled up yet. Wow,
and that might be an option for me.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Okay, I'll look at those.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, a couple of things to explore. Very good, Thank you,
you bet you take care call anytime. All right, let's
take a break. James, you'll be up first, Liz will
be next. And you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Help for your home is just a click away at
Garysullivan online dot com. This is at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
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(36:29):
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(37:33):
send them your picture. I think they would appreciate it
and you might appreciate it also. All right, our phone
numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and James, welcome, Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Hey, I've got a project before it gets freezing cold.
I want to wash the exterior of my new replacement windows. Okay,
and uh, I've gone to the box store and it's
like a maze. You know, they have about one hundred
different products. And what is the one that you've been recommending?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Well, it's so it is, so tell me what it is. Okay,
it's is it aluminum or vinyl window?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
I've got a it's uh renewal by Anderson. Is the
window it's Trecks.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Fiberglass, and they they then they've.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Got no, it's not fiberglass. It's it's it's uh Treks
would and uh and then you know where they do
the trimming that's aluminum.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, and what is it a black film or well?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
No, I'm just wanting to wash, you know, wash the
windows and then of course along with the frame and everything.
And I want something that will do the job for
for both.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah. Well, the one I've been talking about is a
Wett and Forget product, and it's Wet and Forget a
window cleaner and screen cleaner. Now it'll take care of
the windows and it'll do it beautifully. I don't know
about the trim, because there's some weird stuff that stains
that trim, and in some cases it's probably the same
(39:23):
type of stain that will find on aluminum gutters. It's
very difficult to remove. In fact, one of the only
things I found to really remove it would be like
a white wall cleaner. I know that sounds weird. There's
also a product called Purple Power which will clean that.
(39:44):
I don't know if the window and screen cleaner will
clean that. I haven't tried that. It doesn't talk about that,
but I know for the windows and the screens it
does a great job. So if you want to try
that and at least you get your windows in your
screens clean You can always circle back with like a
white wall cleaner into the frames. Mm hmm okay, but
(40:08):
I don't think there's anything that's just going to spray
on and make them go away on the frame.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
And this and this is particular wet and forget as
opposed as opposed to you know, the h the black
stuff on stuccos.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
You know, right, So they make.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
This is strictly made for windows.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yes, they make a multitude of products. So this is
the wet and Forget window in screen cleaner. It comes
in a jug where you attach the hose, just like
the standard Wet and Forget exterior cleaner, but this is
specifically for windows and screens.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Okay, alrighty, well, thank you so much. And I learned
a lot uh listening in on the conversation.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Very good, appreciated. Thanks you all right, talking a little
home improvement and taking your calls mark welcome. Does that
mean yes, sir?
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Hey, uh, actually it's bart but that's okay. Oh got
a geothermal AC unit. Uh my loops underground. About every
about every week we'll lose the water guy comes out
reach arger just puts forty forty pounds back into it.
(41:33):
Give it a week, it'll be gone again. Does anybody
make a ceilant that you can pump into the system.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Not that I'm aware of, but automotive.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
There's lots of different things that you can put in
on automotive that.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, I was going to say, I was going to
qualify it too, not that I know, but I'm not
going to say that there isn't something who's been servicing
it now that continues to you know, kind.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
Of filled my local my local guy here wisdom out
of weather for Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Okay, have you chatted with him about it at all? Or? Oh?
Speaker 8 (42:08):
Yes, I call that, I call him. They come out
every time, they don't. They don't charge me nothing. They're
good about that. But it comes in, puts water in,
gets working, and off we go again and give us
so many days, all of a sudden it'll be out
of water again.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Hmmm. So they haven't been able to detect a leak
or what's going on?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
No, no, not yet.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (42:32):
They had a company come out that originally another company
to come out and they partially dug up their loops
like the above ground end of it. Yeah, and looked
everywhere's and said we can't find a leak and charge
it back up and off you go again, and like
every every ten days.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
It'll be out of water.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
So I'm serious.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
I didn't know if any other AC guys out there
had a.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Well, yeah, if someone knows of it. I'm not familiar
with it. It wouldn't surprise me if there is something,
but I don't know. So the seiler would be intended
for use in the actually in the actual piping itself,
then you just it'd be a joint sealer like so
(43:20):
if you if you know of something for a geothermal
system on that, Bart would love to hear from you.
Our phone number is eight hundred A two three A
two five five, and you would be very helpful to him.
In the meantime, we'll open up those phone lines. If
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Our number is eight hundred eight two three A two
(43:44):
five five. We'll continue with your calls. You're at home
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