October 25, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, best time of the day, Good afternoon. Welcome
to our number four at home with Gary Salvin, taking
you through another weekend. Thanks for joining me, and if
you've got a question, feel free to join us. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. All right,
I say we go back to the phones. We have
Dennis on hold, then we'll get to Dan Dennis. Welcome,
(00:23):
Hi Gary, how are you doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I had a winged friend show up a couple of
weeks ago, a woodpecker and it's destroying my house. There's
probably a dozen holes in the corner board. Is there
any chemical or spray that you could recommend that could
keep them away?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
No? Change, not really. I've had most luck, and believe me,
in thirty nine years, I've answered a question hundreds of times.
But the best that I have found is to change
the environment, not with sprays, but light movement and movement
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at all will make the woodpeckers uneasy and they'll find
somewhere else to go. So what And also, as crazy
as it sounds, inflatable owls do. Okay. I've had a
lot of people speak highly of those, but what I've
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used in the past has always worked, and people can
certainly join in if they'd like. But there's a product
in the hardware sour is called Era tape, and I
know Lowe's has it, and there's probably other names for it.
What it is, it's my lar tape, just like the balloons,
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about half inch or an inch and a half wide,
and it's got holograms in it, Dennis. And where that
area is, where there's wood, you can literally put them
up with a thumbtack, maybe three or four of them.
Your neighbors may think you're crazy, but and they hang down,
you know, a couple of feet and with the sun
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or light, it creates flashes of light usually where.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
They're like So it's like a banner or a ribbon.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's like a ribbon. It's like a ribbon. That's a
good description of it. So that's that's one way of
doing it. I've also have had people tell me, and
this makes total sense, is a CD, get a couple
of CDs and tys some fishing line around, may put
a hole through a Tyson fishing line hanging that from
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the gutters in that same area. It creates like a
hologram and creates flashes of light and some people swear
by the inflatable owlves or a place I'll just kind
of wedget into the gutter or right around that area
tied to a downspout or something, and that may unnerve
them too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, sounds like I can get rid of some of
my old CDs.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There you go, yeah, probably, Yeah, I appreciate you. You're
a great day, all right, thanks for the call. Let's
go to Dan. Dan Welcome, Hello, Gary.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hey, I hope you're well today.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I am.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thank you certainly appreciate all your help along the along
these weekends. Hey, two questions, one I know you have
an answer to. I obtained a couple one hundred and
seventy year old barn beams. One we're going to make
a floating mantle. The other is going to be an
outside bench on a fire pit.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Okay, I'm going to clean them up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Be carefully, you know, with a power wash and some
uh some cleaner and then sander down. And what what
would you recommend to preserve those Either spa you talk
a lot about that, or he's polygon them.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well let's let's let's talk about each one separately, because
I think the steiler is going to be different. So outside, Okay,
So these babies are old and they're hard. So I mean,
I don't know. Can you drive a nail in it
the can? Okay? Good? Yeah, So that means something will
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penetrate it, which is a concern when wood gets that old.
So outside, you're right, I talk about spar and that's
probably what I would use outside is to use a
spar euthane, and I would use two or three coats,
or you could use a marine eurothane. And the main
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reason for those products outside is polyurethane has very very
little UV protection, so it'll bleach out that wood. It'll
cause that would split, crack and splinter. So what I
do is put two or three coats of a marine
erthane or a spar euthane on that. You can get
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it in flat satin, semi gloss, gloss, whatever you want
to use, and then about every two years, Now this
will be the hard part, about every two years. You
want to stay ahead of that. So you can get
like a little sanding sponge which is like a six
hundred grit, which is the same thing you'll use in
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between coats of the spar erethane. Okay, so in two
years the way spar your thing there. Your things break
down is they get little tiny pinholes in it, which
makes the wood vulnerable to the sun and moisture. So
what you're going to do is, after about two years,
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not much more than three, just take that sanding sponge
six hundred grit and scratch the surface of that and
put another on there. Fill up those holes, and you'll
just keep extending the life because you don't want it
to start feeling. You don't want it to break down
where it starts bleaching out. But that's how I address
the outside. Okay, the floating mantle will be easier. You're indoors.
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You can use a poly your thing. You can use
a water based poly. Your thing, got it inside, so
that's going to dry in a couple hours. Probably use
two coats, and you'll be done with it for years.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Perfect. That's sorry where I was going to head with
that one. The other question, I I don't know if
it's called controversial or you call it, you know, maybe
difficult to answer, but we're in northeast Ohio. Just move
to a new home, a little bit concerned about.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Radon uh huh, And I had it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I went and got that five day test you can
get at the box store, and it came back at
seven and that's almost twice the EPA limited forced forget
what the metrics are. But then you know, a little
bit of a concern. But then a friend of mine said, well,
you know it's possible to get five day tag. Just
hit the peak, you know what I mean, it's five
days and it's elevated to seven, but it could be
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only averaging three to four. He recommended maybe getting that
professional in there with those monitors that can average it
out over fifteen days.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
These thoughts on that, well, you're right, people will just
kind of blow off the whole rate on thing. I
personally think there's enough science there that anything over four
would be a concern. I would address it. But I
totally agree with your friend when you're talking about you know,
what is the true You know right now, it's kind
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of the season. If we got our windows closed, if
you got your windows open, you know you're not going
to get a reading like that. But closed up during
the wintertime northeast Ohio, that's what you're going to be breathing.
And if you've got to perfer in there, you would
have a professional reading so I answer it this way.
There's a lot of naysayers. They're listening right now. They're
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shaking their head and their finger at me, say no, no, no.
But if that's a concern of yours, I would get
it tested professionally, and then you can make a decision
of whether you want to have it, you know, taken
care of, which is easily taken care of, probably a
couple thousand bucks, but you can get it taken care of.
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I've had I've had friends of mine call me up
and say, Gara, I gotta get a rate on test.
If I just opened my windows before they come and
it's like sure, then you won't say, but what you're
having it tested to see if you have a rate on.
So I would recommend if you're have that concern, and
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I'm not saying you shouldn't, have it tested by a professional,
and then if it's over four, get it taken care of.
I got chewed up by a listener twenty years ago.
Twenty five years ago, somebody said something about it being
a five and I made some comment like, well, it's
barely over it, and boy, he educated me fast that
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you know they you know two's bad, but force the
tolerance zone okay, right, and how much it stepped up
each number. So yeah, get it tested professionally. I think
that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I appreciate you very much on that. I just confirmed
my concern and like I said, there's enough science I
think to back it up just to put it the
bad and they can also guide me. Then who can
remediate this? And sure somebody had I mentioned easy breeze,
but they I called the company. They said that they
can't make any claims about you.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Know, that's right, that's exactly right. It will emit rate on.
But here's the difference. I have an easy breathe in
my house. The difference is a rate on mitigation system
is installed below grade and below the slab so it
catch It catches the rate on gas from the uranium
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before it enters the house. The easy breathe. If you
had a rate on issue and you had an easy breathe,
it's removing all pollutants. That includes high humidities or humidity
in general. I guess off gassing of products like fromalehydes
and stuff like that, and rad on. But they can't
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make that distinction because it's really not mitigating. It's letting it.
It's getting in the house and it's removing it. It'd
be like having a giant fan that's sucking the air
out of your house all the time. And the windows
upstairs are.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Open right right.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But you're not going to live like that in December.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, no, no, no, it's it's hard enough. The windows closed.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Right right exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Way. Listen, you're the best. I really appreciate it. I
just wanted some confirmation from you.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Good and what I'm going to do excellent. Thanks Dan,
you bet you Bye bye? All right, phone numbers eight
hundred and eighty two three eight two, five five And
you're at home with Gary Sullivan or here in fifty
five care see the talk station? All right? Back at it.
We go at home with Gary Sullivan talking to Little Home.
(11:21):
And you know when we were talking about the easy
Breath being in their exchanging and how it does it
helps with raid on, they can't make that claim because
it's not catching it before it's entering the house.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
But.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is a I'm looking actually for something I had,
but I can't find it. I got a letter from
Erica from Easy Breathe and she got a letter from
a customer and it was talking about the easy Breathe.
I was looking to read it to you. It's pretty
interesting because I can sit there and talk about how
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it removes, you know, polluted air and humidity and all that.
But this was written by this lady who I'm not
going to give you her full name, but I think
it was Monica. And she says the follow following it said,
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my husband Michael was able to complete the installation of
the easy Breathe himself October fifth. The installation was very simple.
The hardest part was him drilling through the one hundred
and fifty year old original home exterior. Would I guess so.
Since the installation installation, the entire family has noticed a
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huge difference. Remember when I say, I turned mine off
and I could tell the difference immediately. That's kind of
what they're saying. Notice a huge one difference in cleaner airflow.
You could smell it. It was actually amazing. I guess
when you live in a home for ten years and
you become used to things that we didn't even realize
how bad the air was in the home until we
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installed the easy Breathe. And her son has asthma, he
stopped coughing in the finished basement completely and that's the
primary playroom for the kids. So that's a pretty great
endorsement because that is even with mine installed now for
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probably fifteen years, no filters, who changed, no maintenance, inexpensive
to run. That's how easy and that's the result you get.
And like I said, they get asked the question on
a raid on issue a lot. No it's entering the house,
but no, it's not staying if you have your easy
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breathe on. But they can't make that claim. And I'm
not here reading that to say, hey, if you got
raid on, get easy breathe. But it's going to be
a side benefit for you, okay, And people with asthma.
Absolutely there are pollutants in our home. The EPA even
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talks in terms of five times more pollutants inside our
home than on the exterior of our home. So I
just want to pass that along, and I'm going to
pass that along tomorrow too. I just think it's worth
talking about and if there's anything you can do along with,
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you know, I mean, I'll sit here and talk about
how important ventilation is, but there's things you can do,
even your bathroom fan when showering in wintertime, run the fan.
Our humidity inside our homes should be in the neighborhood
of around thirty five percent when it's freezing outside, and
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you know, if your mirrors are steaming up and you
got water rolling down your walls, that's more than thirty
five percent. And running that fan during the shower and
probably twenty to thirty minutes after the shower is very
helpful because if you increase that humidity to a point
where you got water running down your windows, which I've
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seen many times, or in the morning when you wake
up the windows are sweating. It's too humid in your house,
even though it feels dry. And you live in an
older home where they're really insulated and talking all the
time how important it is to insulate and save money,
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and aren't we all thinking about that. But if we
get to a point where we start trapping that moisture
in our homes, and we get moisture on the windows,
and then we get you know, an older home, you
got a stain of eyewall underneath the window, or if
it's plaster, it's kind of crumbling because of the moisture.
It can become a breeding ground for mold, which then
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even increases the amount of pollutants that are inside your home.
So give that just a little bit of thought. And
in fact, the ever the easy Breathe the deal they
got going on right now is they got twenty percent off.
And I had talked to Erica and I said, you know,
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if you ever really wanted to do a great deal,
and they have them on sale occasionally and right now
is it. It's letter E letter Z breed dot com.
But I said, you got to incorporate some humidity guides
and she with this sale she's given away too with
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every purchase, which is really nice because you can take
that guide that'll tell you what it's like a thermometer,
only he's telling you what your humidity level is. Put
one in the basement, one on the first floor, and
if you see a huge difference, because heavy damp air
settles on the lower reaches of our homes, it's in
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the basement and that's where that easy breeze going. It's
pulling that air out. You could, in other words, you
can watch it happen, and it's bringing the dryer air
down and that air is being replaced by your coming
and going from your house. So something to consider. That's
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sale I believe runs through the end of October, So
get on that twenty percent off two free humidity guides.
It's letter E letter Z breed dot com. You can
call them up and chat with them. They'll be happy
to explain, and you can install it yourself if you
can drill through the upper reaches of the lower level
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of the house. If it's all brick, maybe that's something
you don't want to do. They have installers also. All right, Well,
take a break, we'll come back. We're going to talk
to Todd. He is with a rhino shield. Is it
too late? Well, let's find out. We'll talk to Todd
when we come back. You're at home with Gary Salvin
right here on fifty five k R see the talk
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station and back to where we go at home with
Gary Salvin. You may be sitting at home listening. You
may be driving in the car, and you may be wondering,
what if it's too late to get that house painted? Well,
how about even is it too late to have rhino
shield apply to my home?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What is rhino shield? And is it too late? Well,
let's talk to Todd and Todd Harville he is with
rhino shield and Todd welcome again to the show. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Thanks Gary, thanks for having us on.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
You're quite well. Uh before I get into the too
late now, why don't you h spend a little bit
of time just telling everyone what rhino shield is and
how it compares to paint.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, h. Rhino shield is a two part process system
that has a primer coat and then a top coat
that we have ceramics as fillers. And what that ceramics
does is it creates a vapor barrier on your house
to where you're able to you know, your house will
be able to breathe naturally without you know, hindering, you know,
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keeping moisture into the walls. And how is it different
from you know, conventional paints is you know, conventional paints,
the primary makeup of it is it's about eighty percent
water and about twenty percent solid materials. With rhino Shield,
we have about eighty percent solid materials because you know,
you need a little bit of moisture to be able
to apply the coating to the wall. So you know,
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that's basically the biggest difference between rhino shield and you know,
conventional big box store paints.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
So when you say solids, that you know said means
it's gonna lasts longer. Is it gonna help me energy? Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Absolutely, because we have an R value of six point
eighty nine. So what that does, it's a vapor barrier.
So like in the summertime, it reflects you know, one
hundred and six percent of the UV rays and those
walls will never get above ninety five degrees, which is
huge for your you know, your AC bills.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So the prospects solids also make concern people. Gee, if
it's a solid, maybe it won't bite as well to
the substrate that I'm applying it to. Is peeling a
problem or is there a warranty against peeling?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
We guarantee it for twenty five years against any kind
of peeling, cracking, or chipping, whatever normal pain does, we
guarantee it not to do that. And if someone has
you know, experienced an issue, we will definitely correct it
and move along.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How's that applied?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We spray it, you know, when we come and do
the home, we first you know, get there and we
we pressure wash, handscrape down the surfaces and making sure
that the substrate is just perfect for us to apply
our top coat, and then we just go ahead and
spray our a primer coat, and that burns into the
pores of what we're coating and it becomes part of
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the substrate. And once that's completed, we spray our top
coat that marries and bonds to the bottom coat, and
then you got a permanent, breathable, expandable product on your home.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Somebody's probably listening saying, what in the world is he's
talking about painting the outside of his house or using
Rhiner shield on the outside of the house this time
of year, which brings me to mind. Well, the first
question I had is how long can we apply rhinder
shield or you apply Reiner shield.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
We apply it above forty degrees so this year, you know,
normally traditionally over the years, we usually shut down production
at Thanksgiving. Okay, So if people call us to you
know now, and what they're going to you know save,
you know the discounts that are presently going on right now,
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and then plus you're the first to get on the
books for the springtime.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, tell me about those discounts, and everybody.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Absolutely right now we have a twenty percent radio and
TV ad and so if anybody calls in at this
time of year, we're going to give them twenty percent
off and then that'll be applied for you know, next year.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, And what is the phone number? Is a call
to action? Don't get off that. So let's get the
house rhino shield.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yep, it is eight five five rhino zero five.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, talk about you know somebody a lot of times
and this drives me crazy, but I'll bring it up.
A lot of times. People they don't do anything with
their house and they decide they're gonna put it on
the market. So they're gonna want to Yeah, they're gonna
want to have it, you know, all fresh looking and everything.
Is there a an investment value on rhino shield over
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paint or I mean do it? I mean does that
make your home worth more money? If I mean it's more.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, absolutely, because you don't have to paint your house
again for twenty five years. That's a huge enough factor. Absolutely.
There's some houses that are you know, you know, two
stories and they're quite large, and it the costs can
get pretty healthy pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Colors. Yeah, that's the hardest part about painting or having
your home rhino shield is picking out the colors. How
many colors do you have? You don't have to.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Absolutely, we have too many, to be honest with you,
we have fifteen hundred collars. Whatever you can think of of,
you know, we can create.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It something for everybody, right, That's right. I really I'm
just kind of circling back a little bit. I really
want to talk a little bit more about energy efficiency.
I know that's gotten into the news, the environmental impact
and energy efficiency of coatings in general, and it's I
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think it's so very important. I mean, people have been
whining about energy bills a lot in the last two years.
What type of obviously you've done a lot of houses
in the Greater Cincinnati area. What's your feedback from the
homeowners that you have completed using runners shit on their homes?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Very positive, especially you know folks that's had it over
you know, ten fifteen years, and I see him at
home shows and they stop by and say, Todd, you
won't be you would be amazed how much energy bills
I have saved over the years by having Rhino showed
to my home and you touch base on something where
you know the you know the you know, energy efficiencies.
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We are low e product and it's totally a green product.
So we have very very little or no VOCs going
into the atmospheres and and that's you know, important to
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Is that because of the high solids or not just.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
That, in the that in the breatheability and the materials
that we're using, like you know, our ceramics, and it
creates that breatheability and energy efficientness.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So I'm just thinking of other trends. And one of
the trends I see in X tiers of homes, and
it's going on right in my neighborhood, is some bricks
homes now I see getting painted white, right, and I've
also seen, you know, it's the old white and black thing.
And I'm also seeing some red bick brick homes that
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do the black trim, and I hate to say this,
in my opinion, it just doesn't look right. I think
if you're going to do black trim, you got to
have a white substrate. Can rhino shield be applied over
to brick?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Yes, brick is probably half of the jobs that we
do are brick homes. And out of those, you know,
we probably half of them are raw brick. So about
twenty five percent of the jobs that we do in
their raw brick buildings and they're they're wanting that energy
efficientness on the hall.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I was just going to say, you know, brick and
very energy efficient at least what is to a degree.
So that's that's a big selling point for Rhino shield
on brick homes. Is the energy efficient for sure? Help
out and and with that twenty five year warranty against
it pealing, does that apply to brick to or is
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there another step involved or.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yes, well there's no. We do four things to every home,
regardless if they're you know, brick or you know, you
know redwood homes. So it's just the same process. We
have to do the steps necessary to ensure that we're
going to get the longevity out of our coating.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, all right, so people maybe be intrigued, maybe they're
in their fall slumber and not intrigued yet, but you
can still get in line for fall, you can get
in line for next spring. How do they contact you
to get an estimate?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
They just called the number eight five five Rhino zero
five and the lady will you know, set up an
appointment to have me come out and you know, give
you a quote.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Very good, Hey Todd, thanks for joining us to day.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Hey, thanks Gary, and go cats there you.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Go, all right, thank you? You bet my mind. Todd Harville,
he is with Rhino'shield, and I've had Rhino Shield applied
to my house. I'm gonna say was six seven years ago.
I've not had any touch up, and I did notice
a savings, which, like everything else, like when you put insulation,
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that first year or two you go wow, man, an
energy bill dropped, and then about four years later you
forget all about that. I always wonder, like, gosh, I've
done that, I've done that, I've done that. What would
my energy bill head or be had I not done that.
That's always a question that we ask how can we
continue to improve? All right? The numbers eight hundred eighty two, three,
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eight two five five year at home with Gary Sullivan
right here in fifty five care see the talk station.
All right, back to work, we go at home with
Gary Sullivan. Plenty of works really to do, you know,
dressing up our homes, making it more energy efficient. This
time of year, though, I think we all kind of
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start getting in the mood of it can wait till
next year. I'll include myself in that. But next week
looks rainy doesn't look like a good week, the following
week will be raking up a thousand leaves or more.
But you know, one of the things just to kind
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of focus in on something that if you have some
time and you want to spruce something up, is the
entry area of our homes gets used more during the
holidays than any other time of the year. And older homes,
of course, and sometimes even not real old homes, those
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porches are just you know, they cracked, they till backwards,
they have been patched, they look patched, and there's a
lot going on there that isn't always pleasant to the eye.
In fact, I'm having my friends at a one concrete
leveling out Monday to lift the slab the patio. You
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got none about five years ago. And occasionally, once you
have an area where you have a problem, it continues.
You know, it's not because of the concrete lifting, but
because it goes under that slab with pressure, with force
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that lifts the slab and fills the void that's causing
the slab to settle. So anyway, they're coming out there
and taking care of that tomorrow and back to the
front porch. Some of those settle. So what I'm bringing
that up as they too. These are things you can
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have done if it's something that is maybe your porch's
fine's got a positive flow away from the house and
you're looking at boy, I just got to dress that up.
I have a rule, no outdoor carpeting on the front porch.
I did that and it's been a long long time ago,
and you'll be sorry you did it. It'll cover it up.
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It'll look good that carpet. If you used a carpet
tape or glue, you're gonna have a mess getting it off,
and I mean a mess. If you want to paint it,
it's got a short life. If you want to use
roller rock on it, that looks good, you can probably
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get ten fifteen years out of that. But if you
just want to look like a concrete slab without all
the patching, the calking, the smooth areas and the textured areas,
let's let's let's talk about a product. It's called recap.
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Quick Creed probably introduced a product similar to this, not
the same, probably twenty five thirty years ago, and it
was a powder. It's mixed with water in a five
gallon bucket and you'll you know, clean the surface and
you'll pour it on and you'll distribute it with a
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kind of like an asphalt seiler brush and squeegee, so
you'll brush it in and then squeegee, or if you
want to just use a squeegee and float it over.
It looks like concrete and adhesion was okay. It wasn't bad.
It wasn't great, But we're into probably the fourth generation
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of this. It was originally called concrete resurfacer, now it's
called recap. This stuff works great. I think after about
four generations, it's kind of right where it needs to be.
The mixing is the same, and it is the key.
So I think it's about a forty pound bag. And
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again you can pour the powder right into a bucket
has in a specific amount of water that's added, and
you have to stir this up, and you don't stir
it up with a stick. You're gonna probably rent a
commercial drill and a commercial mixer that comes with that grill,
(33:38):
or maybe you've got to buy it separately, and you know,
you put it in, turn it on, and just slowly
mix all that powder in with that water. You're gonna
get to a consistency where it looks like and floats
like a asphalt seiler, but it's grain color, and you've
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made all your final patches, you've applied all your final
clocking that was needed, and you pour the recap onto
the concrete surface and with a squeegee and you can
get a floor squeedge, get a regular squeegee and just
get to pull that fits in it where you don't
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have to crawl around and just float that across that surface.
It'll sof level and I'll tell you what it looks great.
If you want to have a texture to it, you
can drag a broom over it to create some texture
and let it go for a month and then seal it.
And if you want to seal it, you want the
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same thing you use your sidewalk in your driveway. You'd
want to clear seal it. It doesn't have to be shiny.
In fact, the product track Safe that I talk about
that is a slip resistance seiler that can be used
inside and outside. And I mentioned earlier today as an
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answer to one of our questions. That can be used
over ceramic tile, It can be used over wood, It
can be used on garage floors, and it can be
used with recap over the entryway of your front door.
It will make a huge, huge difference. Now for the riser,
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if you have a couple of steps, taking a brush
and applying it to the vertical surface, that would also
match that up nicely too. So for those older homes.
Really it's a great way to dress up the entryway
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to your home. If you would like to have some
pigment in it, you can use a concrete dye or colorant.
You can put that in each mixture. If you need
multiple buckets, make sure you know exactly how much you
put in. That's going to play a role. But it's
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a great way. And seriously, with the holidays coming and
colder weather coming, sure you can use that too. You
can use that and even shovel snow off it driveways, patios, floors,
pulled decks, sidewalks, anything of concrete base like that would
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work just fine. Good way to dress update the entryway
to your home, that's for sure. The and I slipped
seal or a very good idea. Also, while you're outside again,
your compressor on the outside, your air conditioner and compressor,
take a look at that, especially if you have a
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heat pump heat pump compressor, it's on the outside of
the home. That's a big box, the big square thing
with a fan. Make sure that it functions best with
good airflow, not so good if airflow is restricted. And
every now and then I'll be somewhere and we'll go
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see that compressor out there, and the bushes are no
longer just on the side of it. They're hanging over
the top. They're pushed up on the sides. And where
they mow grass, it's been thrown into the fins. And
that's not good. We got to get those bushes cleaned up,
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get a broom, sweep any excess, you know, grass and
stuff off. Their airflow is certainly the key, and you're
in charge of that, so I would do that. That's
costing you money, by the way, if it's struggling for airflow.
And speaking of sweeping things, if you're indoors and you're
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stuck indoors one day and you're out of things to do.
That refrigerator, the coils they're either on top of the
refrigerator or behind the refrigerator. Those coils they always get
a little sticky and they got a little bit of
dust on there, and they could use your attention cleaning
those coils will also help that refrigerator work better and
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also save you some energy at the same time. So
if you have a home, there's always things to do
and always things to dress up. And that's why we're
always talking about taking that walk around the house, finding
out what is in needs your attention, and then make
a plan to execute the plan that you've come up
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with to save you money and the kind of protect
the value of your home. Danny Boy, thank you very much,
a great day, Thank you for all the calls, thanks
for listening, and good Lord willing. We'll be back tomorrow
at nine for more at Home with Gary sol Lovans.
All right, best time of the day, Good afternoon. Welcome
to our number four at home with Gary Salvin, taking
you through another weekend. Thanks for joining me, and if
you've got a question, feel free to join us. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. All right,
I say we go back to the phones. We have
Dennis on hold, then we'll get to Dan Dennis. Welcome,
(00:23):
Hi Gary, how are you doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I had a winged friend show up a couple of
weeks ago, a woodpecker and it's destroying my house. There's
probably a dozen holes in the corner board. Is there
any chemical or spray that you could recommend that could
keep them away?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
No? Change, not really. I've had most luck, and believe me,
in thirty nine years, I've answered a question hundreds of times.
But the best that I have found is to change
the environment, not with sprays, but light movement and movement
(01:12):
at all will make the woodpeckers uneasy and they'll find
somewhere else to go. So what And also, as crazy
as it sounds, inflatable owls do. Okay. I've had a
lot of people speak highly of those, but what I've
(01:36):
used in the past has always worked, and people can
certainly join in if they'd like. But there's a product
in the hardware sour is called Era tape, and I
know Lowe's has it, and there's probably other names for it.
What it is, it's my lar tape, just like the balloons,
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about half inch or an inch and a half wide,
and it's got holograms in it, Dennis. And where that
area is, where there's wood, you can literally put them
up with a thumbtack, maybe three or four of them.
Your neighbors may think you're crazy, but and they hang down,
you know, a couple of feet and with the sun
(02:19):
or light, it creates flashes of light usually where.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
They're like So it's like a banner or a ribbon.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's like a ribbon. It's like a ribbon. That's a
good description of it. So that's that's one way of
doing it. I've also have had people tell me, and
this makes total sense, is a CD, get a couple
of CDs and tys some fishing line around, may put
a hole through a Tyson fishing line hanging that from
(02:49):
the gutters in that same area. It creates like a
hologram and creates flashes of light and some people swear
by the inflatable owlves or a place I'll just kind
of wedget into the gutter or right around that area
tied to a downspout or something, and that may unnerve
them too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, sounds like I can get rid of some of
my old CDs.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There you go, yeah, probably, Yeah, I appreciate you. You're
a great day, all right, thanks for the call. Let's
go to Dan. Dan Welcome, Hello, Gary.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hey, I hope you're well today.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I am.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thank you certainly appreciate all your help along the along
these weekends. Hey, two questions, one I know you have
an answer to. I obtained a couple one hundred and
seventy year old barn beams. One we're going to make
a floating mantle. The other is going to be an
outside bench on a fire pit.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Okay, I'm going to clean them up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Be carefully, you know, with a power wash and some
uh some cleaner and then sander down. And what what
would you recommend to preserve those Either spa you talk
a lot about that, or he's polygon them.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well let's let's let's talk about each one separately, because
I think the steiler is going to be different. So outside, Okay,
So these babies are old and they're hard. So I mean,
I don't know. Can you drive a nail in it
the can? Okay? Good? Yeah, So that means something will
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penetrate it, which is a concern when wood gets that old.
So outside, you're right, I talk about spar and that's
probably what I would use outside is to use a
spar euthane, and I would use two or three coats,
or you could use a marine eurothane. And the main
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reason for those products outside is polyurethane has very very
little UV protection, so it'll bleach out that wood. It'll
cause that would split, crack and splinter. So what I
do is put two or three coats of a marine
erthane or a spar euthane on that. You can get
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it in flat satin, semi gloss, gloss, whatever you want
to use, and then about every two years, Now this
will be the hard part, about every two years. You
want to stay ahead of that. So you can get
like a little sanding sponge which is like a six
hundred grit, which is the same thing you'll use in
(05:30):
between coats of the spar erethane. Okay, so in two
years the way spar your thing there. Your things break
down is they get little tiny pinholes in it, which
makes the wood vulnerable to the sun and moisture. So
what you're going to do is, after about two years,
(05:51):
not much more than three, just take that sanding sponge
six hundred grit and scratch the surface of that and
put another on there. Fill up those holes, and you'll
just keep extending the life because you don't want it
to start feeling. You don't want it to break down
where it starts bleaching out. But that's how I address
the outside. Okay, the floating mantle will be easier. You're indoors.
(06:18):
You can use a poly your thing. You can use
a water based poly. Your thing, got it inside, so
that's going to dry in a couple hours. Probably use
two coats, and you'll be done with it for years.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Perfect. That's sorry where I was going to head with
that one. The other question, I I don't know if
it's called controversial or you call it, you know, maybe
difficult to answer, but we're in northeast Ohio. Just move
to a new home, a little bit concerned about.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Radon uh huh, And I had it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I went and got that five day test you can
get at the box store, and it came back at
seven and that's almost twice the EPA limited forced forget
what the metrics are. But then you know, a little
bit of a concern. But then a friend of mine said, well,
you know it's possible to get five day tag. Just
hit the peak, you know what I mean, it's five
days and it's elevated to seven, but it could be
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only averaging three to four. He recommended maybe getting that
professional in there with those monitors that can average it
out over fifteen days.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
These thoughts on that, well, you're right, people will just
kind of blow off the whole rate on thing. I
personally think there's enough science there that anything over four
would be a concern. I would address it. But I
totally agree with your friend when you're talking about you know,
what is the true You know right now, it's kind
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of the season. If we got our windows closed, if
you got your windows open, you know you're not going
to get a reading like that. But closed up during
the wintertime northeast Ohio, that's what you're going to be breathing.
And if you've got to perfer in there, you would
have a professional reading so I answer it this way.
There's a lot of naysayers. They're listening right now. They're
(08:08):
shaking their head and their finger at me, say no, no, no.
But if that's a concern of yours, I would get
it tested professionally, and then you can make a decision
of whether you want to have it, you know, taken
care of, which is easily taken care of, probably a
couple thousand bucks, but you can get it taken care of.
(08:31):
I've had I've had friends of mine call me up
and say, Gara, I gotta get a rate on test.
If I just opened my windows before they come and
it's like sure, then you won't say, but what you're
having it tested to see if you have a rate on.
So I would recommend if you're have that concern, and
(08:52):
I'm not saying you shouldn't, have it tested by a professional,
and then if it's over four, get it taken care of.
I got chewed up by a listener twenty years ago.
Twenty five years ago, somebody said something about it being
a five and I made some comment like, well, it's
barely over it, and boy, he educated me fast that
(09:16):
you know they you know two's bad, but force the
tolerance zone okay, right, and how much it stepped up
each number. So yeah, get it tested professionally. I think
that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I appreciate you very much on that. I just confirmed
my concern and like I said, there's enough science I
think to back it up just to put it the
bad and they can also guide me. Then who can
remediate this? And sure somebody had I mentioned easy breeze,
but they I called the company. They said that they
can't make any claims about you.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Know, that's right, that's exactly right. It will emit rate on.
But here's the difference. I have an easy breathe in
my house. The difference is a rate on mitigation system
is installed below grade and below the slab so it
catch It catches the rate on gas from the uranium
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before it enters the house. The easy breathe. If you
had a rate on issue and you had an easy breathe,
it's removing all pollutants. That includes high humidities or humidity
in general. I guess off gassing of products like fromalehydes
and stuff like that, and rad on. But they can't
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make that distinction because it's really not mitigating. It's letting it.
It's getting in the house and it's removing it. It'd
be like having a giant fan that's sucking the air
out of your house all the time. And the windows
upstairs are.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Open right right.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But you're not going to live like that in December.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, no, no, no, it's it's hard enough. The windows closed.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Right right exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Way. Listen, you're the best. I really appreciate it. I
just wanted some confirmation from you.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Good and what I'm going to do excellent. Thanks Dan,
you bet you Bye bye? All right, phone numbers eight
hundred and eighty two three eight two, five five And
you're at home with Gary Sullivan or here in fifty
five care see the talk station? All right? Back at it.
We go at home with Gary Sullivan talking to Little Home.
(11:21):
And you know when we were talking about the easy
Breath being in their exchanging and how it does it
helps with raid on, they can't make that claim because
it's not catching it before it's entering the house.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
But.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is a I'm looking actually for something I had,
but I can't find it. I got a letter from
Erica from Easy Breathe and she got a letter from
a customer and it was talking about the easy Breathe.
I was looking to read it to you. It's pretty
interesting because I can sit there and talk about how
(11:59):
it removes, you know, polluted air and humidity and all that.
But this was written by this lady who I'm not
going to give you her full name, but I think
it was Monica. And she says the follow following it said,
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my husband Michael was able to complete the installation of
the easy Breathe himself October fifth. The installation was very simple.
The hardest part was him drilling through the one hundred
and fifty year old original home exterior. Would I guess so.
Since the installation installation, the entire family has noticed a
(12:47):
huge difference. Remember when I say, I turned mine off
and I could tell the difference immediately. That's kind of
what they're saying. Notice a huge one difference in cleaner airflow.
You could smell it. It was actually amazing. I guess
when you live in a home for ten years and
you become used to things that we didn't even realize
how bad the air was in the home until we
(13:10):
installed the easy Breathe. And her son has asthma, he
stopped coughing in the finished basement completely and that's the
primary playroom for the kids. So that's a pretty great
endorsement because that is even with mine installed now for
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probably fifteen years, no filters, who changed, no maintenance, inexpensive
to run. That's how easy and that's the result you get.
And like I said, they get asked the question on
a raid on issue a lot. No it's entering the house,
but no, it's not staying if you have your easy
(13:54):
breathe on. But they can't make that claim. And I'm
not here reading that to say, hey, if you got
raid on, get easy breathe. But it's going to be
a side benefit for you, okay, And people with asthma.
Absolutely there are pollutants in our home. The EPA even
(14:14):
talks in terms of five times more pollutants inside our
home than on the exterior of our home. So I
just want to pass that along, and I'm going to
pass that along tomorrow too. I just think it's worth
talking about and if there's anything you can do along with,
(14:40):
you know, I mean, I'll sit here and talk about
how important ventilation is, but there's things you can do,
even your bathroom fan when showering in wintertime, run the fan.
Our humidity inside our homes should be in the neighborhood
of around thirty five percent when it's freezing outside, and
(15:01):
you know, if your mirrors are steaming up and you
got water rolling down your walls, that's more than thirty
five percent. And running that fan during the shower and
probably twenty to thirty minutes after the shower is very
helpful because if you increase that humidity to a point
where you got water running down your windows, which I've
(15:24):
seen many times, or in the morning when you wake
up the windows are sweating. It's too humid in your house,
even though it feels dry. And you live in an
older home where they're really insulated and talking all the
time how important it is to insulate and save money,
(15:47):
and aren't we all thinking about that. But if we
get to a point where we start trapping that moisture
in our homes, and we get moisture on the windows,
and then we get you know, an older home, you
got a stain of eyewall underneath the window, or if
it's plaster, it's kind of crumbling because of the moisture.
It can become a breeding ground for mold, which then
(16:10):
even increases the amount of pollutants that are inside your home.
So give that just a little bit of thought. And
in fact, the ever the easy Breathe the deal they
got going on right now is they got twenty percent off.
And I had talked to Erica and I said, you know,
(16:32):
if you ever really wanted to do a great deal,
and they have them on sale occasionally and right now
is it. It's letter E letter Z breed dot com.
But I said, you got to incorporate some humidity guides
and she with this sale she's given away too with
(16:54):
every purchase, which is really nice because you can take
that guide that'll tell you what it's like a thermometer,
only he's telling you what your humidity level is. Put
one in the basement, one on the first floor, and
if you see a huge difference, because heavy damp air
settles on the lower reaches of our homes, it's in
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the basement and that's where that easy breeze going. It's
pulling that air out. You could, in other words, you
can watch it happen, and it's bringing the dryer air
down and that air is being replaced by your coming
and going from your house. So something to consider. That's
(17:40):
sale I believe runs through the end of October, So
get on that twenty percent off two free humidity guides.
It's letter E letter Z breed dot com. You can
call them up and chat with them. They'll be happy
to explain, and you can install it yourself if you
can drill through the upper reaches of the lower level
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of the house. If it's all brick, maybe that's something
you don't want to do. They have installers also. All right, Well,
take a break, we'll come back. We're going to talk
to Todd. He is with a rhino shield. Is it
too late? Well, let's find out. We'll talk to Todd
when we come back. You're at home with Gary Salvin
right here on fifty five k R see the talk
(18:24):
station and back to where we go at home with
Gary Salvin. You may be sitting at home listening. You
may be driving in the car, and you may be wondering,
what if it's too late to get that house painted? Well,
how about even is it too late to have rhino
shield apply to my home?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What is rhino shield? And is it too late? Well,
let's talk to Todd and Todd Harville he is with
rhino shield and Todd welcome again to the show. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Thanks Gary, thanks for having us on.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
You're quite well. Uh before I get into the too
late now, why don't you h spend a little bit
of time just telling everyone what rhino shield is and
how it compares to paint.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, h. Rhino shield is a two part process system
that has a primer coat and then a top coat
that we have ceramics as fillers. And what that ceramics
does is it creates a vapor barrier on your house
to where you're able to you know, your house will
be able to breathe naturally without you know, hindering, you know,
(19:33):
keeping moisture into the walls. And how is it different
from you know, conventional paints is you know, conventional paints,
the primary makeup of it is it's about eighty percent
water and about twenty percent solid materials. With rhino Shield,
we have about eighty percent solid materials because you know,
you need a little bit of moisture to be able
to apply the coating to the wall. So you know,
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that's basically the biggest difference between rhino shield and you know,
conventional big box store paints.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
So when you say solids, that you know said means
it's gonna lasts longer. Is it gonna help me energy? Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Absolutely, because we have an R value of six point
eighty nine. So what that does, it's a vapor barrier.
So like in the summertime, it reflects you know, one
hundred and six percent of the UV rays and those
walls will never get above ninety five degrees, which is
huge for your you know, your AC bills.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So the prospects solids also make concern people. Gee, if
it's a solid, maybe it won't bite as well to
the substrate that I'm applying it to. Is peeling a
problem or is there a warranty against peeling?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
We guarantee it for twenty five years against any kind
of peeling, cracking, or chipping, whatever normal pain does, we
guarantee it not to do that. And if someone has
you know, experienced an issue, we will definitely correct it
and move along.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How's that applied?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We spray it, you know, when we come and do
the home, we first you know, get there and we
we pressure wash, handscrape down the surfaces and making sure
that the substrate is just perfect for us to apply
our top coat, and then we just go ahead and
spray our a primer coat, and that burns into the
pores of what we're coating and it becomes part of
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the substrate. And once that's completed, we spray our top
coat that marries and bonds to the bottom coat, and
then you got a permanent, breathable, expandable product on your home.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Somebody's probably listening saying, what in the world is he's
talking about painting the outside of his house or using
Rhiner shield on the outside of the house this time
of year, which brings me to mind. Well, the first
question I had is how long can we apply rhinder
shield or you apply Reiner shield.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
We apply it above forty degrees so this year, you know,
normally traditionally over the years, we usually shut down production
at Thanksgiving. Okay, So if people call us to you
know now, and what they're going to you know save,
you know the discounts that are presently going on right now,
(22:21):
and then plus you're the first to get on the
books for the springtime.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, tell me about those discounts, and everybody.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Absolutely right now we have a twenty percent radio and
TV ad and so if anybody calls in at this
time of year, we're going to give them twenty percent
off and then that'll be applied for you know, next year.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, And what is the phone number? Is a call
to action? Don't get off that. So let's get the
house rhino shield.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yep, it is eight five five rhino zero five.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, talk about you know somebody a lot of times
and this drives me crazy, but I'll bring it up.
A lot of times. People they don't do anything with
their house and they decide they're gonna put it on
the market. So they're gonna want to Yeah, they're gonna
want to have it, you know, all fresh looking and everything.
Is there a an investment value on rhino shield over
(23:21):
paint or I mean do it? I mean does that
make your home worth more money? If I mean it's more.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, absolutely, because you don't have to paint your house
again for twenty five years. That's a huge enough factor. Absolutely.
There's some houses that are you know, you know, two
stories and they're quite large, and it the costs can
get pretty healthy pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Colors. Yeah, that's the hardest part about painting or having
your home rhino shield is picking out the colors. How
many colors do you have? You don't have to.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Absolutely, we have too many, to be honest with you,
we have fifteen hundred collars. Whatever you can think of of,
you know, we can create.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It something for everybody, right, That's right. I really I'm
just kind of circling back a little bit. I really
want to talk a little bit more about energy efficiency.
I know that's gotten into the news, the environmental impact
and energy efficiency of coatings in general, and it's I
(24:36):
think it's so very important. I mean, people have been
whining about energy bills a lot in the last two years.
What type of obviously you've done a lot of houses
in the Greater Cincinnati area. What's your feedback from the
homeowners that you have completed using runners shit on their homes?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Very positive, especially you know folks that's had it over
you know, ten fifteen years, and I see him at
home shows and they stop by and say, Todd, you
won't be you would be amazed how much energy bills
I have saved over the years by having Rhino showed
to my home and you touch base on something where
you know the you know the you know, energy efficiencies.
(25:18):
We are low e product and it's totally a green product.
So we have very very little or no VOCs going
into the atmospheres and and that's you know, important to
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Is that because of the high solids or not just.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
That, in the that in the breatheability and the materials
that we're using, like you know, our ceramics, and it
creates that breatheability and energy efficientness.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So I'm just thinking of other trends. And one of
the trends I see in X tiers of homes, and
it's going on right in my neighborhood, is some bricks
homes now I see getting painted white, right, and I've
also seen, you know, it's the old white and black thing.
And I'm also seeing some red bick brick homes that
(26:10):
do the black trim, and I hate to say this,
in my opinion, it just doesn't look right. I think
if you're going to do black trim, you got to
have a white substrate. Can rhino shield be applied over
to brick?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Yes, brick is probably half of the jobs that we
do are brick homes. And out of those, you know,
we probably half of them are raw brick. So about
twenty five percent of the jobs that we do in
their raw brick buildings and they're they're wanting that energy
efficientness on the hall.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I was just going to say, you know, brick and
very energy efficient at least what is to a degree.
So that's that's a big selling point for Rhino shield
on brick homes. Is the energy efficient for sure? Help
out and and with that twenty five year warranty against
it pealing, does that apply to brick to or is
(27:09):
there another step involved or.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yes, well there's no. We do four things to every home,
regardless if they're you know, brick or you know, you
know redwood homes. So it's just the same process. We
have to do the steps necessary to ensure that we're
going to get the longevity out of our coating.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, all right, so people maybe be intrigued, maybe they're
in their fall slumber and not intrigued yet, but you
can still get in line for fall, you can get
in line for next spring. How do they contact you
to get an estimate?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
They just called the number eight five five Rhino zero
five and the lady will you know, set up an
appointment to have me come out and you know, give
you a quote.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Very good, Hey Todd, thanks for joining us to day.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Hey, thanks Gary, and go cats there you.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Go, all right, thank you? You bet my mind. Todd Harville,
he is with Rhino'shield, and I've had Rhino Shield applied
to my house. I'm gonna say was six seven years ago.
I've not had any touch up, and I did notice
a savings, which, like everything else, like when you put insulation,
(28:26):
that first year or two you go wow, man, an
energy bill dropped, and then about four years later you
forget all about that. I always wonder, like, gosh, I've
done that, I've done that, I've done that. What would
my energy bill head or be had I not done that.
That's always a question that we ask how can we
continue to improve? All right? The numbers eight hundred eighty two, three,
(28:50):
eight two five five year at home with Gary Sullivan
right here in fifty five care see the talk station.
All right, back to work, we go at home with
Gary Sullivan. Plenty of works really to do, you know,
dressing up our homes, making it more energy efficient. This
time of year, though, I think we all kind of
(29:11):
start getting in the mood of it can wait till
next year. I'll include myself in that. But next week
looks rainy doesn't look like a good week, the following
week will be raking up a thousand leaves or more.
But you know, one of the things just to kind
(29:32):
of focus in on something that if you have some
time and you want to spruce something up, is the
entry area of our homes gets used more during the
holidays than any other time of the year. And older homes,
of course, and sometimes even not real old homes, those
(29:55):
porches are just you know, they cracked, they till backwards,
they have been patched, they look patched, and there's a
lot going on there that isn't always pleasant to the eye.
In fact, I'm having my friends at a one concrete
leveling out Monday to lift the slab the patio. You
(30:19):
got none about five years ago. And occasionally, once you
have an area where you have a problem, it continues.
You know, it's not because of the concrete lifting, but
because it goes under that slab with pressure, with force
(30:41):
that lifts the slab and fills the void that's causing
the slab to settle. So anyway, they're coming out there
and taking care of that tomorrow and back to the
front porch. Some of those settle. So what I'm bringing
that up as they too. These are things you can
(31:02):
have done if it's something that is maybe your porch's
fine's got a positive flow away from the house and
you're looking at boy, I just got to dress that up.
I have a rule, no outdoor carpeting on the front porch.
I did that and it's been a long long time ago,
and you'll be sorry you did it. It'll cover it up.
(31:24):
It'll look good that carpet. If you used a carpet
tape or glue, you're gonna have a mess getting it off,
and I mean a mess. If you want to paint it,
it's got a short life. If you want to use
roller rock on it, that looks good, you can probably
(31:46):
get ten fifteen years out of that. But if you
just want to look like a concrete slab without all
the patching, the calking, the smooth areas and the textured areas,
let's let's let's talk about a product. It's called recap.
(32:06):
Quick Creed probably introduced a product similar to this, not
the same, probably twenty five thirty years ago, and it
was a powder. It's mixed with water in a five
gallon bucket and you'll you know, clean the surface and
you'll pour it on and you'll distribute it with a
(32:28):
kind of like an asphalt seiler brush and squeegee, so
you'll brush it in and then squeegee, or if you
want to just use a squeegee and float it over.
It looks like concrete and adhesion was okay. It wasn't bad.
It wasn't great, But we're into probably the fourth generation
(32:53):
of this. It was originally called concrete resurfacer, now it's
called recap. This stuff works great. I think after about
four generations, it's kind of right where it needs to be.
The mixing is the same, and it is the key.
So I think it's about a forty pound bag. And
(33:14):
again you can pour the powder right into a bucket
has in a specific amount of water that's added, and
you have to stir this up, and you don't stir
it up with a stick. You're gonna probably rent a
commercial drill and a commercial mixer that comes with that grill,
(33:38):
or maybe you've got to buy it separately, and you know,
you put it in, turn it on, and just slowly
mix all that powder in with that water. You're gonna
get to a consistency where it looks like and floats
like a asphalt seiler, but it's grain color, and you've
(34:02):
made all your final patches, you've applied all your final
clocking that was needed, and you pour the recap onto
the concrete surface and with a squeegee and you can
get a floor squeedge, get a regular squeegee and just
get to pull that fits in it where you don't
(34:23):
have to crawl around and just float that across that surface.
It'll sof level and I'll tell you what it looks great.
If you want to have a texture to it, you
can drag a broom over it to create some texture
and let it go for a month and then seal it.
And if you want to seal it, you want the
(34:44):
same thing you use your sidewalk in your driveway. You'd
want to clear seal it. It doesn't have to be shiny.
In fact, the product track Safe that I talk about
that is a slip resistance seiler that can be used
inside and outside. And I mentioned earlier today as an
(35:05):
answer to one of our questions. That can be used
over ceramic tile, It can be used over wood, It
can be used on garage floors, and it can be
used with recap over the entryway of your front door.
It will make a huge, huge difference. Now for the riser,
(35:26):
if you have a couple of steps, taking a brush
and applying it to the vertical surface, that would also
match that up nicely too. So for those older homes.
Really it's a great way to dress up the entryway
(35:47):
to your home. If you would like to have some
pigment in it, you can use a concrete dye or colorant.
You can put that in each mixture. If you need
multiple buckets, make sure you know exactly how much you
put in. That's going to play a role. But it's
(36:10):
a great way. And seriously, with the holidays coming and
colder weather coming, sure you can use that too. You
can use that and even shovel snow off it driveways, patios, floors,
pulled decks, sidewalks, anything of concrete base like that would
(36:32):
work just fine. Good way to dress update the entryway
to your home, that's for sure. The and I slipped
seal or a very good idea. Also, while you're outside again,
your compressor on the outside, your air conditioner and compressor,
take a look at that, especially if you have a
(36:52):
heat pump heat pump compressor, it's on the outside of
the home. That's a big box, the big square thing
with a fan. Make sure that it functions best with
good airflow, not so good if airflow is restricted. And
every now and then I'll be somewhere and we'll go
(37:16):
see that compressor out there, and the bushes are no
longer just on the side of it. They're hanging over
the top. They're pushed up on the sides. And where
they mow grass, it's been thrown into the fins. And
that's not good. We got to get those bushes cleaned up,
(37:37):
get a broom, sweep any excess, you know, grass and
stuff off. Their airflow is certainly the key, and you're
in charge of that, so I would do that. That's
costing you money, by the way, if it's struggling for airflow.
And speaking of sweeping things, if you're indoors and you're
(37:59):
stuck indoors one day and you're out of things to do.
That refrigerator, the coils they're either on top of the
refrigerator or behind the refrigerator. Those coils they always get
a little sticky and they got a little bit of
dust on there, and they could use your attention cleaning
those coils will also help that refrigerator work better and
(38:24):
also save you some energy at the same time. So
if you have a home, there's always things to do
and always things to dress up. And that's why we're
always talking about taking that walk around the house, finding
out what is in needs your attention, and then make
a plan to execute the plan that you've come up
(38:44):
with to save you money and the kind of protect
the value of your home. Danny Boy, thank you very much,
a great day, Thank you for all the calls, thanks
for listening, and good Lord willing. We'll be back tomorrow
at nine for more at Home with Gary sol Lovans.
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