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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, it's the weekend. Welcome. You are at home with
Gary Salvan. Let's talk a little home improvement. You can
grab a line our phone number if you'd like to
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project and let's go to Bill Bill Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, do you know what year they began making and
using PVC pipes?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The exact year? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, did they have it in the forties?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
No, okay, because I can't find my don't I don't
think there's a cleanout on this property. But the sewer
line is PBC because I just dug it up Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, the sewer line could have been the sewer line
could have been compromised and they put in PVC. Not
how long you've outed the house, but.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, fifteen years, and they would put in a
cleanout if they put in a new pipe at recent
don't you think.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I would think so if the person saw it and
all that, I would think so. But if you can't
find a clean out, you've got a basement in the
house where you would normally find a waistline going from
the first floor or the second floor down into.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The basement, only a cross space.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh huh. And you don't see any waistline at all.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, I don't know why there'd be one in the
cross space because they tell me that they can't get
into the crawl space with their snakes.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And there's no vertical there's no horizontal line coming out
except four feet under the dirt level.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay. But somehow it's got to be coming from the
house into into that PBC pipe, right, So there's got
to be a major waistline in that house somewhere. You
mean a cleanout, No cleanout's just the plug that would
be in the major waist line.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right well, the waste I found the line Friday coming
out of the house going to the alley, but it's forced.
It's under the dirt level of the crawl space, so
I had to dig down even farther than the crass
space depths. Okay, but outside is where I dug about
(03:37):
two feet from the house. But I've had this house
for fifteen years and I can't I don't know of
anything that's been in the uh in the back that
I wouldn't have covered it up, even not knowing what
it was. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If there is a cleanout. I'm not going to be
able to find it for you. In I guess what
I'm saying is, you know, I don't know what your
question is. If the question is you know you can't
find a cleanout, I would assume you've got to have
a pipe that's tye and all you're plumbing together to
(04:17):
the waistline to run the waistline out under the ground
to whether it goes through the crawl space or whatever.
Maybe it's behind a wall. You know. I think you
called yesterday. I think we had this exact same conversation,
and you're gonna it's got to be there. There's got
to be a waistline. Now, there may not be a
(04:39):
clean out, and it may be something that has to
be installed, but my goodness, if that you've been in
there fifteen years, and if that house was even built
fifteen years before you moved in, I would assume there
is a cleanout somewhere. But you gotta find you find
the waistline. You're going to find a cleanout, so I
(04:59):
And there's ways to detect the pipes behind walls, you know,
there's ways to detect wiring behind walls. There's way to
detect studs that are behind the wall. So but somewhere
you have a clean you have a waistline. And a
lot of cases, especially in newer builds home, you'll you'll
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find them down in the basement or the cross space
and it'll be above ground because it's connected with an
elbow that then goes underground. So hopefully that helps you, Bill.
Let's go to Mike. Mike, welcome, Hi, dude, I can
but you're I can hardly hear.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You got a question. We got a sistern under our garage.
More that we haven't used in years we went with
city water. Anything we should be doing with that, checking
out the downspouts are no longer hooked up to it,
(06:02):
I'm not we haven't pulled the lids off in a while.
There's probably some water in it, But is there anything
we have to do to just having that under there?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, okay, so it's it's it's empty. I'm assuming, Uh,
it's probably.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Got water in it. We never really puffed it out
when we sid City water.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The only other thing I would do, can you can
you get to it to put anything in it? Like
maybe you could fill it?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh there's two uh manhole covers in the garage floor
that we can access them through.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, the only thing I would be and I'm not
really that concerned about it, but if there is some
water in it and there is access to it, I
just want to make sure somebody can't get in there
and fall in there and drowned or something along those lines.
So the only reason I asked that is, you know,
(07:09):
rather than removing it, maybe it's something you could use
to fill it. If that's not a concern, or you
want to go ahead and lock up those plates, that
might be an option. Also they are bolded down. Okay,
all right, well the only do you have to remove it?
(07:34):
The answer is no. Do you have to fill it?
The answer underneath where you're at is no. If you
want to fill it, you know that you can fill it,
but that can be expensive too, just like a yeah,
something along those lines. Yeah, exactly, But those those cisterns
(07:57):
can hold a lot too, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, And trying to move that thing out is gonna
be that's a big chore if it's under like a
garage floor, yeah, yeah, to do that, yeah, yeah, Well,
keep listening. Maybe somebody else has got some other ideas.
I mean, you could probably somehow create like a little
(08:23):
seller and pump it out and repurpose it. That'd probably
be pretty expensive based on where it's at, too, but
uh I Vaanby has an idea. I'm sure they'll call
and let us know. Keep listening, and our phone number
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Thank you much for the call. We'll take a break
(08:44):
and when we come back, James, you'll be up. First.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
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Speaker 1 (11:35):
All right, about twenty minutes after the top of the
hour at home with Gary Sullivan on the cistern, just
kind of going back doing a little searching. You can
keep it filled with water, keep the balance the pressure
from hurting the walls. Some movement possibly also recommends gravel, sand,
(12:00):
dirt um, but I can't find anywhere where it says
you definitely should fill a cistern. Something in the back
of my head says you should. But I was always
thinking from a safety standpoint, so I guess it also
may depend on size of the cistern. But kind of
what I'm reading is maybe just fill it. And I
(12:24):
don't know if he drained it or just quit using
it and it dried up. I don't know the answer
to that. Let's go to James. James, welcome, so thank
you for having me.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
And I got a question about a reciprocating saw that
might go on the end of a powerhead versus a
a polo saw. The chain driven order that message to
try to keep keep the chain shark, keep it aller going.
Does anybody make anything. I've got a cobalt powerhead that
I drive all my attachments, blower, weed eater, tremor.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Does anybody take a reciprocating like you would put on
the end of a a saws.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All like like like on a powered Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well, you're familiar with the handheld saws all reciprocator, Yeah, yeah, sure,
A metal blade, wood blade? Uh. I used one back
in eighteen when we had a hurricane come through a
my neighbor's tree fell in my yard, so I had
to cut the bulk of it up, and I used
a reciprocating blade to take most of the limbs off,
(13:32):
but I needed to chainsaw for the rest of the tree.
But a pole saw for people who aren't filled the
sharpening one and the oiler plugs up. I wasn't wondering
if anybody made that attachment to go on the end
of the power hit or even the whole tool.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The only thing I've ever seen, quite honestly, is I've
seen the reciprocating saws that are battery powered. I've seen
pole saws that Remington makes with a maybe like a
ten inch bar, but it's kind of like a chainsaw.
I haven't seen it like with a reciprocating head. So yeah,
(14:10):
I have not seen one I would look under Vermont
American their website or the Cobalt website and see if
they have attachments, but I have not seen one, or
have they had a use a need to use one?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Right, well, for for the for the lower limbs versus
somebody trying to keep a chainsaw sharp on a pole
saus kind of kind of difficult for me to keep
it sharp and get it sharp and that blade when
it's dull. If it gets dull, you know, just change
the blade out and keep going.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, I understand what you're what you're asking. I just
haven't seen that attachment to fit on that.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Maybe somebody's listening, who'll think.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, maybe. I mean there's bazillions of things out
there on the market. I can't keep talking about, you know,
track of all of them, but I have not at
the shows I've been to. But yeah, we'll leave, leave
the lines open. We got a good another forty minutes
to go, and maybe somebody will know.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
James, thanks for your health and maybe somebody will come
up with something.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Have a great day, all right, Thank you, take care Dale. Welcome,
Hey young man, Yes, sir, I wanted.
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Now anyway, good good.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
The guys that has can't find his brain out.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, yeah, well he doesn't. He can't find and opening
on the waistline. I don't even know if he can
find a wasteline that couldn't follow along with him.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Okay, okay, you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
All right?
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I have a trial level Dulton sixty eight and uh
we hooked up the city store, of course. But anyway,
I had a problem last year, and I won't mention
the guys that company's name, but they come over and
my toilet, my downstairs toilet in my family room is
(16:09):
the queen out.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh so did they take the toilet off or did
it go straight through the toilet and then out.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
No, they took the toilet of yeah, and then they're
run there, you know, the cable down through it. And
I found a duck, plastic duck from my grand kids,
and a tree was blocking those foods going on.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah. I didn't ask him that, but he said this
is where I was a little confused. And maybe there's
a toilet right above there. I don't know. He said
the waistline was underground, going through the crawl space, and
I guess. You know, even if there was a toilet
(16:58):
above and and you know, in a crawl space it's
not a finished wall, you would still you would still
see the waistline. He he can't find a waistline to
even look for the for the opening. So I mean,
there's got to be a waistline that's connected somewhere. And
(17:22):
I understand what you're saying. I mean, if it was
on the floor of a basement, it was right there,
and they didn't have a you know, an outlet on
that pipe, and that toilet was right over you know,
you know where the seal is, and then you have
an elbow and then it went right into that waistline.
You know, I can see how that could be put together.
(17:43):
I'm not doubting you.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
But you know what I was going to say. You
know my launders downstairs. I got a full bath down there,
and I have a crawl space down there. So anyway,
I knew I had an issue. So I'm underneath that
crawl space which is finished, okay, but I couldn't and
(18:07):
I'm not while I used to work for a plumber,
but I'm looking for a clean out, right. So anyway,
when they got here, I said, up to thisbe park,
but I've looked everywhere. And the guy said to me,
he says, here's your clean out, And I said, what,
you're sitting on a toilet?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, I have to admit I didn't think of that.
And you know, I was thinking, as you're describing this again,
I'm thinking like, well, maybe in that basement where that
the other side of the wall of the crawl space,
maybe the toilet is right up against that wall, and
that would be as clean out exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
And I thought the guy was, I don't know what
you smoke before he got here, and he says, no,
I'm telling you, mister, this is your cleanout as well,
how about it.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
WHOA, that's good to know. I've claimed for thirty nine
years Dale that I haven't went through a weekend before
where I didn't learn something, and you certainly taught me
something and I appreciate it, thank you very much. So yeah,
I guess if you can't see any waistline at all
and you can't find a cleanout, maybe there's a toilet
(19:25):
right on the other side of that cross space and
that would be your cleanout and it would all right. Well,
continue with your calls and you're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Back at it we go at home with Gary Sullivan
taking you up to the top of the hour and
talking a little home improvement if you'd like to join
us too. So earlier I was talking about how important,
you know, changing out the air in your home is.
As we continue to make it tight, make our homes tighter,
adding insulation, adding weather stripping, and of course as we
(22:45):
seal things off, we begin to trap pollutants. And I'd
say for probably fifteen years we were a little bit
on the cutting edge of talking about Eric's changing units,
exchanging the polluted air inside our homes for fresher air.
(23:07):
In fact, the EPA you've heard me say, they say
our indoor air quality is five times higher than in
pollutions pollutants than the outside air outdoors. And every now
and then I'll get an email referencing somebody that has
(23:29):
tried an easy Breathe, which is an air exchanging unit,
and this one was in particular, and this lady's writing
me and saying, you know, we were we had purchased
an easy Breathe because we felt the indoor air was polluted,
(23:50):
We thought it was too humid. My son and asthma, which,
by the way, indoor air pollution is been connected to
or looked at with asthma. And we decided to install
it ourselves. My husband did the installation. It was very simple,
(24:10):
I'm reading from it. The hardest part for him was
drilling through one hundred and fifty year old original home
exterior would and I guess, so one hundred and fifty
year old piece of wood. It's hard to nail put
a nail in it, no less drill a hole through it.
Having said that, she said, but since the installation, and
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this is the secret sauce, right, since the installation, the
whole family, and I mean the whole family has noticed
a huge one hundred percent difference in the cleaner airflow.
It was amazing. I guess when you live in a
home for ten years, become used to the things that
(24:53):
we didn't realize we're bad. And apparently the air in
our home was bad until we installed the easy Breathe.
Then she talks about her son. She goes, he has
asthma and he has stopped coughing completely in the Finnish
basement area, which is the primary playroom for the kids.
So hooray, I thank you for the letter. I think
(25:17):
it's very poignant. I can tell you're thrilled, and I
can somewhat confirm it. I've had one for fifteen years.
My basement always smelled musty, and having lived with that
for fifteen years, it doesn't smell musty. But about a
(25:39):
year ago I was just question, is this ain't really
doing anything? And I remember, yeah, I put it in
because my basement was musty. I guess I don't smell mustiness,
but really, and I unplugged it that night and the
next day it was musty. So, you know, nothing as
(26:02):
terrific as her sun not coughing anymore. It wasn't that bad,
but I could smell mustiness within twelve hours. So anyway,
we thank you for that letter. I appreciate all right.
For you folks at head South or out the Arizona
and you're going to lock up your home and maybe
(26:23):
be gone for three months, I do hope you have
somebody checking your house periodically. There's a lot of crazy
things that can go in a house when we abandon them.
I'd also encourage you before you do that trip to
just kind of maybe think of some items that can
(26:45):
give you peace of mind. Security cameras. Maybe one for
the outside, maybe one for the door. I don't know.
I'll let you decide how many and where, just to
kind of keep an eye on the exterior of your home,
maybe one or two inside if it helps with peace
(27:06):
of mind having someone check on the home, of course critical,
But I guess the biggest fear is earlier. I was
talking about how copper pipe will start having some signs
of corrosion, maybe around joints, and older homes well even
(27:27):
newer homes, homes built in the last fifteen to twenty years,
and you start having a green stain and a green
crustacean and a white and then a pinhole. And just
think about that. If you're one thousand miles away and
you start having a leak in the water pipe with
(27:48):
a pinhole in it, the amount of damage that can cause,
or a some pump that fails, or the battery on
the backup pump that fails after the main primary pump failed,
or maybe the refrigerator just quit working and the meats
(28:12):
and the food the spoilage there. I'm kind of taking
worst case scenario, but these things happen, and there are
water detectors that can be applied right on the main
line of the water where it can detect. Like if
a toilet was running and overflowing and kept going, how
(28:33):
does that happen. Nobody's been in the house. Maybe somebody
was checking your house and used the toilet. That's a possibility, right,
Maybe that some pump failed in the battery that was
taking care of the sump well was dead detects water.
(28:58):
There's detection device which can alert you on your phone
and also could possibly get you a deduction on your
homeowner's insurance and not by be worth considering also changing
out that battery backup pump and having a water driven
(29:21):
backup pump. If you have city water, that might be
an option. But if you're not going to take those precautions,
then you just want to go old school. Let's definitely
do that. Maybe you worked a refrigerator down whether it
just isn't much into refrigerator, maybe you actually unplug it,
open the doors. We've taken that out of a problem area. Uh.
(29:47):
Maybe we shut off the water, we open the upstairs
faucet and the downstairs fauceed and we drain all the
water out of the pipes. Solved that problem.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Maybe we check the battery on there some pump and
make sure we have a backup for that. And then
the next thing to do is work on any evaporation
that could occur of water that is standing in your house.
And where in the world is there water standing in
your house. I'm talking about the toilets, the bathtub drains.
(30:24):
I mean, if you're gonna be gone for ninety days,
that water surprisingly in the winter, airing your home's pretty dry,
evaporation will occur. And if it occurs and it's severe enough,
that water in the trap of the vanity, of the
tub of the shower, if that water evaporates out of there,
(30:49):
sewer gas comes right into your home. There's nothing that
water works like a plug. So maybe before you leave,
you've shut off the water, You've drained the pipes, take
some mineral oil and put a little mineral oil, a
little being you know, three four ounces, maybe none even
that much, Probably a couple of ounces would be enough.
(31:11):
But you're doing is You're just putting a little mineral
oil in the drains. Every drain, toilet bowls, vanity drains,
kitchen drains, floor drains. That one in the basement right
in the middle of the basement. And what that does
is that cuts it with oil and eliminates evaporation, so
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that oil kind of safely keeps the water in place.
And WHOA, what a difference that makes. So if you
can see the outside of your house, see the inside
of your house, take a little of the risk away
with shutting down water, unplugging refrigerators, keeping any sewer gas out.
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And that's easy to do. You just heard how I
feel pretty confident. But even doing that, I'd still hear
somebody just walk through the house, you know, every week,
just make sure everything's okay. If you're gonna be gone
for a while, why not all right? Our phone numbers
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break and then we'll wrap things up for the weekend.
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Joe Hagen check that out. A lot of good information
that's on your project list in the next year or so.
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All right, back to the phones we go, Paul, Welcome, Yes,
good morning morning.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
I have a couple of outbuildings live in western Oklahoma
and one is like the corrugated metal and the other
is shingled, both of which have leaks. Now I'm looking
(35:57):
for the cheapest way I can stop the leaks without
having to replace shingles or corrugated metal. Do you know
of a product that can be rolled on, like paint
or something that would help seal roofing.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Has it ever leaked before or is it just started?
Speaker 10 (36:19):
No, it's it's leaked for a couple of years. Compensation, Yes, yes,
I'm absolutely positive.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, okay, So when I first heard you say that,
I was thinking condensation right away. So on a metal building,
it depends what kind of metal building it is. But
those are fastened usually with screws and washers, and those
washers need to be replaced. I don't know of a
coating that you would just do a whole metal roof
on to seal that up where those seams are. It's
(36:54):
probably the washers. M as far as the shield roof,
you know, it could be around the flashing, not on
the roof. It could be the boots where the pipes
go up through it, and I had that those boots
are usually only warned for about ten years, even though
(37:17):
your roof is warned for thirty years. So I guess
before I get and before I can really answer that
question on whether something could be just rolled on it,
And a real quick answer is no. There's different products
out there where they'll spray on a shingled roof which
will increase the longevity, but it's not going to repair
(37:40):
the leak. It's a ceilant that holds the granulars kind
of refortifies the grains of sand that are on the
shingle to make it last longer. But you know, the
only thing if you have a missing shingle or a
crack shingle, you know, a roof patch or something like that.
But nothing that you're going to do on the whole
(38:01):
entire roof.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Yeah, well I was I was just hoping.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, I understand, I understand, But those are the two
things that I would say I would look at. I
think you're going to really have to identify where the
leak is in the metal roofing. I can almost bet
it's the washers on the shingle roofing. I would say
I would inspect my flashings and my rubberized boots first.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
Okay, all right, well, thank you so thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Let's get to Bill, Bill welcome.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Okay, thank you, Gerry. I'm home in Arizona for fifteen years,
and we only live there occasionally. And I've got a
number of strategies I've used over the years. Instead of
a housewatch or a reminder, as you suggested that I'd
like to share as far as I can do everything
through Wi Fi these days, it's all over time, of course.
(38:59):
But now I've got my HVAC system. I can turn
it on and off, monitor it, take care of all.
It's a carrier product. Excuse me, my irrigation system. I
can monitor it. I can turn it on and off.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I've got that on my phone.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Yeah yeah, well I don't have that yet, but I've
got outdoor I've got outdoor cameras yet through simple to
my security system, I've got indoor cameras. The refrigerator has
been the issue for me over the years because I
(39:36):
had no way to confirm that it was on, and
we never emptied it and turned it off. So I've
got a water sensor on the outside refrigerator on the
floor in case it would shut down and start to leak,
you know, a water on the floor. And then recently
I found through my weather station vendor, they make a
monitor I can put in the refrigerator, so on my phone,
(39:59):
I can the temperature of the refrigerator on the inside,
whether it's whether it's working or not. And it's like,
see what else on that.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
That's the one that scares me more than anything, to
be honest with you. Yeah, I've got a refrigerator I
bought two years ago, a nice ge refrigerator. I am
on my first fourth service call. Wow, Yeah, I was right.
I had the same one for twenty five years, had
one service call. Yeah, I here here the dead I'm
(40:33):
not unplug it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:36):
And I on my motor vehicles, I've got two. I've
got battery reminders on them, not not trickle chargers, minders
through a company still called c Tech, and they're a
really high end minders, but they keep the batteries optimized
and they keep them from sulfating, which is a big
issue with with acid batteries. But as far as the
(41:01):
water system is concerned, I've got what's called a mow
and flow unit on our water system that leaven the
text micro leaks.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Right, one's a microleak test.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
About once a week. I can also shut it off
and I get a weekly report from it as well.
But right now i've got it shut off, I can
remotely turn the water back on, turn it off.
Speaker 10 (41:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
I discovered those just kind of going through our insurance.
We were getting new bids on and I knew they existed,
and this person, this broker that we were working with,
had said, you can get like a two hundred and
fifty dollars a year rebate on having one of those
(41:45):
on your home. Really, yeah, and they had, and I
can recall they had three specific brands, but it was
just as you describe it. I haven't delved into it.
That was just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (42:01):
Well, they're not cheap because you actually have to install
a valve, so you need a plumber to do it
unless you're a lot more skilled than I am. But
once you've got it, you set it up on your
home Wi Fi. Then you can monitor it. You can
you can manipulate it. It's got all kinds of and
(42:21):
it learns how you use your house. Right, so there's
a learning period of like two weeks, so it knows
when you're flushing a toilet, when you're taking a shower,
whenever you're doing. It learns the patterns and behavior in
the house. And when something odd happens it shuts the
water off.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
It send you alert. Yeah you know this. Yeah, I'm
gonna look into that one. In fact, I was just
kind of doing that on a wing and a prayer
when I start talking about, you know, preparing your house.
But during the week, I was thinking, oh, I'll try
to remember to go through that, and I was thinking
you could do a whole security thing with with just
(43:01):
what you and I are talking about, you know, with
the communication, it's just amazing, with the cameras, with the monitoring.
The sump pump they have that too. Zalor has one,
and you can test your some pump. You can monitor
your some pump if it's not activated, when it's activated,
(43:23):
you can test it and see it get activated. The
garage store and all the things that you talked about,
and they are they are, they are little products that
give you great peace of mind. So I thank you
so much for calling. I appreciate it. And speaking of
thank you, thank you to Danny. I appreciate your work today.
And was it really a busy day? Yesterday was busy.
(43:44):
I think everybody kind of raking leisure or taking a nap,
you know, they want to be all about easy to
do nothing. That's okay. Hopefully we helped you with a
couple of year projects. Good Lord willing. We'll be back
next weekend for more. At Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Start a project and don't know how to finish it?
Call Gary at one eight hundred and eighty two three talk.
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Well, it's the weekend. Welcome. You are at home with
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Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, do you know what year they began making and
using PVC pipes?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The exact year? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, did they have it in the forties?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
No, okay, because I can't find my don't I don't
think there's a cleanout on this property. But the sewer
line is PBC because I just dug it up Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, the sewer line could have been the sewer line
could have been compromised and they put in PVC. Not
how long you've outed the house, but.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, fifteen years, and they would put in a
cleanout if they put in a new pipe at recent
don't you think.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I would think so if the person saw it and
all that, I would think so. But if you can't
find a clean out, you've got a basement in the
house where you would normally find a waistline going from
the first floor or the second floor down into.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The basement, only a cross space.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh huh. And you don't see any waistline at all.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, I don't know why there'd be one in the
cross space because they tell me that they can't get
into the crawl space with their snakes.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And there's no vertical there's no horizontal line coming out
except four feet under the dirt level.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay. But somehow it's got to be coming from the
house into into that PBC pipe, right, So there's got
to be a major waistline in that house somewhere. You
mean a cleanout, No cleanout's just the plug that would
be in the major waist line.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right well, the waste I found the line Friday coming
out of the house going to the alley, but it's forced.
It's under the dirt level of the crawl space, so
I had to dig down even farther than the crass
space depths. Okay, but outside is where I dug about
(03:37):
two feet from the house. But I've had this house
for fifteen years and I can't I don't know of
anything that's been in the uh in the back that
I wouldn't have covered it up, even not knowing what
it was. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If there is a cleanout. I'm not going to be
able to find it for you. In I guess what
I'm saying is, you know, I don't know what your
question is. If the question is you know you can't
find a cleanout, I would assume you've got to have
a pipe that's tye and all you're plumbing together to
(04:17):
the waistline to run the waistline out under the ground
to whether it goes through the crawl space or whatever.
Maybe it's behind a wall. You know. I think you
called yesterday. I think we had this exact same conversation,
and you're gonna it's got to be there. There's got
to be a waistline. Now, there may not be a
(04:39):
clean out, and it may be something that has to
be installed, but my goodness, if that you've been in
there fifteen years, and if that house was even built
fifteen years before you moved in, I would assume there
is a cleanout somewhere. But you gotta find you find
the waistline. You're going to find a cleanout, so I
(04:59):
And there's ways to detect the pipes behind walls, you know,
there's ways to detect wiring behind walls. There's way to
detect studs that are behind the wall. So but somewhere
you have a clean you have a waistline. And a
lot of cases, especially in newer builds home, you'll you'll
(05:20):
find them down in the basement or the cross space
and it'll be above ground because it's connected with an
elbow that then goes underground. So hopefully that helps you, Bill.
Let's go to Mike. Mike, welcome, Hi, dude, I can
but you're I can hardly hear.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You got a question. We got a sistern under our garage.
More that we haven't used in years we went with
city water. Anything we should be doing with that, checking
out the downspouts are no longer hooked up to it,
(06:02):
I'm not we haven't pulled the lids off in a while.
There's probably some water in it, But is there anything
we have to do to just having that under there?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, okay, so it's it's it's empty. I'm assuming, Uh,
it's probably.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Got water in it. We never really puffed it out
when we sid City water.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The only other thing I would do, can you can
you get to it to put anything in it? Like
maybe you could fill it?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh there's two uh manhole covers in the garage floor
that we can access them through.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, the only thing I would be and I'm not
really that concerned about it, but if there is some
water in it and there is access to it, I
just want to make sure somebody can't get in there
and fall in there and drowned or something along those lines.
So the only reason I asked that is, you know,
(07:09):
rather than removing it, maybe it's something you could use
to fill it. If that's not a concern, or you
want to go ahead and lock up those plates, that
might be an option. Also they are bolded down. Okay,
all right, well the only do you have to remove it?
(07:34):
The answer is no. Do you have to fill it?
The answer underneath where you're at is no. If you
want to fill it, you know that you can fill it,
but that can be expensive too, just like a yeah,
something along those lines. Yeah, exactly, But those those cisterns
(07:57):
can hold a lot too, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, And trying to move that thing out is gonna
be that's a big chore if it's under like a
garage floor, yeah, yeah, to do that, yeah, yeah, Well,
keep listening. Maybe somebody else has got some other ideas.
I mean, you could probably somehow create like a little
(08:23):
seller and pump it out and repurpose it. That'd probably
be pretty expensive based on where it's at, too, but
uh I Vaanby has an idea. I'm sure they'll call
and let us know. Keep listening, and our phone number
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Thank you much for the call. We'll take a break
(08:44):
and when we come back, James, you'll be up. First.
You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (11:35):
All right, about twenty minutes after the top of the
hour at home with Gary Sullivan on the cistern, just
kind of going back doing a little searching. You can
keep it filled with water, keep the balance the pressure
from hurting the walls. Some movement possibly also recommends gravel, sand,
(12:00):
dirt um, but I can't find anywhere where it says
you definitely should fill a cistern. Something in the back
of my head says you should. But I was always
thinking from a safety standpoint, so I guess it also
may depend on size of the cistern. But kind of
what I'm reading is maybe just fill it. And I
(12:24):
don't know if he drained it or just quit using
it and it dried up. I don't know the answer
to that. Let's go to James. James, welcome, so thank
you for having me.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
And I got a question about a reciprocating saw that
might go on the end of a powerhead versus a
a polo saw. The chain driven order that message to
try to keep keep the chain shark, keep it aller going.
Does anybody make anything. I've got a cobalt powerhead that
I drive all my attachments, blower, weed eater, tremor.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Does anybody take a reciprocating like you would put on
the end of a a saws.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All like like like on a powered Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well, you're familiar with the handheld saws all reciprocator, Yeah, yeah, sure,
A metal blade, wood blade? Uh. I used one back
in eighteen when we had a hurricane come through a
my neighbor's tree fell in my yard, so I had
to cut the bulk of it up, and I used
a reciprocating blade to take most of the limbs off,
(13:32):
but I needed to chainsaw for the rest of the tree.
But a pole saw for people who aren't filled the
sharpening one and the oiler plugs up. I wasn't wondering
if anybody made that attachment to go on the end
of the power hit or even the whole tool.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The only thing I've ever seen, quite honestly, is I've
seen the reciprocating saws that are battery powered. I've seen
pole saws that Remington makes with a maybe like a
ten inch bar, but it's kind of like a chainsaw.
I haven't seen it like with a reciprocating head. So yeah,
(14:10):
I have not seen one I would look under Vermont
American their website or the Cobalt website and see if
they have attachments, but I have not seen one, or
have they had a use a need to use one?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Right, well, for for the for the lower limbs versus
somebody trying to keep a chainsaw sharp on a pole
saus kind of kind of difficult for me to keep
it sharp and get it sharp and that blade when
it's dull. If it gets dull, you know, just change
the blade out and keep going.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, I understand what you're what you're asking. I just
haven't seen that attachment to fit on that.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Maybe somebody's listening, who'll think.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, maybe. I mean there's bazillions of things out
there on the market. I can't keep talking about, you know,
track of all of them, but I have not at
the shows I've been to. But yeah, we'll leave, leave
the lines open. We got a good another forty minutes
to go, and maybe somebody will know.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
James, thanks for your health and maybe somebody will come
up with something.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Have a great day, all right, Thank you, take care Dale. Welcome,
Hey young man, Yes, sir, I wanted.
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Now anyway, good good.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
The guys that has can't find his brain out.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, yeah, well he doesn't. He can't find and opening
on the waistline. I don't even know if he can
find a wasteline that couldn't follow along with him.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
All right?
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I have a trial level Dulton sixty eight and uh
we hooked up the city store, of course. But anyway,
I had a problem last year, and I won't mention
the guys that company's name, but they come over and
my toilet, my downstairs toilet in my family room is
(16:09):
the queen out.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh so did they take the toilet off or did
it go straight through the toilet and then out.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
No, they took the toilet of yeah, and then they're
run there, you know, the cable down through it. And
I found a duck, plastic duck from my grand kids,
and a tree was blocking those foods going on.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah. I didn't ask him that, but he said this
is where I was a little confused. And maybe there's
a toilet right above there. I don't know. He said
the waistline was underground, going through the crawl space, and
I guess. You know, even if there was a toilet
(16:58):
above and and you know, in a crawl space it's
not a finished wall, you would still you would still
see the waistline. He he can't find a waistline to
even look for the for the opening. So I mean,
there's got to be a waistline that's connected somewhere. And
(17:22):
I understand what you're saying. I mean, if it was
on the floor of a basement, it was right there,
and they didn't have a you know, an outlet on
that pipe, and that toilet was right over you know,
you know where the seal is, and then you have
an elbow and then it went right into that waistline.
You know, I can see how that could be put together.
(17:43):
I'm not doubting you.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
But you know what I was going to say. You
know my launders downstairs. I got a full bath down there,
and I have a crawl space down there. So anyway,
I knew I had an issue. So I'm underneath that
crawl space which is finished, okay, but I couldn't and
(18:07):
I'm not while I used to work for a plumber,
but I'm looking for a clean out, right. So anyway,
when they got here, I said, up to thisbe park,
but I've looked everywhere. And the guy said to me,
he says, here's your clean out, And I said, what,
you're sitting on a toilet?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, I have to admit I didn't think of that.
And you know, I was thinking, as you're describing this again,
I'm thinking like, well, maybe in that basement where that
the other side of the wall of the crawl space,
maybe the toilet is right up against that wall, and
that would be as clean out exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
And I thought the guy was, I don't know what
you smoke before he got here, and he says, no,
I'm telling you, mister, this is your cleanout as well,
how about it.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
WHOA, that's good to know. I've claimed for thirty nine
years Dale that I haven't went through a weekend before
where I didn't learn something, and you certainly taught me
something and I appreciate it, thank you very much. So yeah,
I guess if you can't see any waistline at all
and you can't find a cleanout, maybe there's a toilet
(19:25):
right on the other side of that cross space and
that would be your cleanout and it would all right. Well,
continue with your calls and you're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Back at it we go at home with Gary Sullivan
taking you up to the top of the hour and
talking a little home improvement if you'd like to join
us too. So earlier I was talking about how important,
you know, changing out the air in your home is.
As we continue to make it tight, make our homes tighter,
adding insulation, adding weather stripping, and of course as we
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seal things off, we begin to trap pollutants. And I'd
say for probably fifteen years we were a little bit
on the cutting edge of talking about Eric's changing units,
exchanging the polluted air inside our homes for fresher air.
(23:07):
In fact, the EPA you've heard me say, they say
our indoor air quality is five times higher than in
pollutions pollutants than the outside air outdoors. And every now
and then I'll get an email referencing somebody that has
(23:29):
tried an easy Breathe, which is an air exchanging unit,
and this one was in particular, and this lady's writing
me and saying, you know, we were we had purchased
an easy Breathe because we felt the indoor air was polluted,
(23:50):
We thought it was too humid. My son and asthma, which,
by the way, indoor air pollution is been connected to
or looked at with asthma. And we decided to install
it ourselves. My husband did the installation. It was very simple,
(24:10):
I'm reading from it. The hardest part for him was
drilling through one hundred and fifty year old original home
exterior would and I guess, so one hundred and fifty
year old piece of wood. It's hard to nail put
a nail in it, no less drill a hole through it.
Having said that, she said, but since the installation, and
(24:32):
this is the secret sauce, right, since the installation, the
whole family, and I mean the whole family has noticed
a huge one hundred percent difference in the cleaner airflow.
It was amazing. I guess when you live in a
home for ten years, become used to the things that
(24:53):
we didn't realize we're bad. And apparently the air in
our home was bad until we installed the easy Breathe.
Then she talks about her son. She goes, he has
asthma and he has stopped coughing completely in the Finnish
basement area, which is the primary playroom for the kids.
So hooray, I thank you for the letter. I think
(25:17):
it's very poignant. I can tell you're thrilled, and I
can somewhat confirm it. I've had one for fifteen years.
My basement always smelled musty, and having lived with that
for fifteen years, it doesn't smell musty. But about a
(25:39):
year ago I was just question, is this ain't really
doing anything? And I remember, yeah, I put it in
because my basement was musty. I guess I don't smell mustiness,
but really, and I unplugged it that night and the
next day it was musty. So, you know, nothing as
(26:02):
terrific as her sun not coughing anymore. It wasn't that bad,
but I could smell mustiness within twelve hours. So anyway,
we thank you for that letter. I appreciate all right.
For you folks at head South or out the Arizona
and you're going to lock up your home and maybe
(26:23):
be gone for three months, I do hope you have
somebody checking your house periodically. There's a lot of crazy
things that can go in a house when we abandon them.
I'd also encourage you before you do that trip to
just kind of maybe think of some items that can
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give you peace of mind. Security cameras. Maybe one for
the outside, maybe one for the door. I don't know.
I'll let you decide how many and where, just to
kind of keep an eye on the exterior of your home,
maybe one or two inside if it helps with peace
(27:06):
of mind having someone check on the home, of course critical,
But I guess the biggest fear is earlier. I was
talking about how copper pipe will start having some signs
of corrosion, maybe around joints, and older homes well even
(27:27):
newer homes, homes built in the last fifteen to twenty years,
and you start having a green stain and a green
crustacean and a white and then a pinhole. And just
think about that. If you're one thousand miles away and
you start having a leak in the water pipe with
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a pinhole in it, the amount of damage that can cause,
or a some pump that fails, or the battery on
the backup pump that fails after the main primary pump failed,
or maybe the refrigerator just quit working and the meats
(28:12):
and the food the spoilage there. I'm kind of taking
worst case scenario, but these things happen, and there are
water detectors that can be applied right on the main
line of the water where it can detect. Like if
a toilet was running and overflowing and kept going, how
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does that happen. Nobody's been in the house. Maybe somebody
was checking your house and used the toilet. That's a possibility, right,
Maybe that some pump failed in the battery that was
taking care of the sump well was dead detects water.
(28:58):
There's detection device which can alert you on your phone
and also could possibly get you a deduction on your
homeowner's insurance and not by be worth considering also changing
out that battery backup pump and having a water driven
(29:21):
backup pump. If you have city water, that might be
an option. But if you're not going to take those precautions,
then you just want to go old school. Let's definitely
do that. Maybe you worked a refrigerator down whether it
just isn't much into refrigerator, maybe you actually unplug it,
open the doors. We've taken that out of a problem area. Uh.
(29:47):
Maybe we shut off the water, we open the upstairs
faucet and the downstairs fauceed and we drain all the
water out of the pipes. Solved that problem.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Maybe we check the battery on there some pump and
make sure we have a backup for that. And then
the next thing to do is work on any evaporation
that could occur of water that is standing in your house.
And where in the world is there water standing in
your house. I'm talking about the toilets, the bathtub drains.
(30:24):
I mean, if you're gonna be gone for ninety days,
that water surprisingly in the winter, airing your home's pretty dry,
evaporation will occur. And if it occurs and it's severe enough,
that water in the trap of the vanity, of the
tub of the shower, if that water evaporates out of there,
(30:49):
sewer gas comes right into your home. There's nothing that
water works like a plug. So maybe before you leave,
you've shut off the water, You've drained the pipes, take
some mineral oil and put a little mineral oil, a
little being you know, three four ounces, maybe none even
that much, Probably a couple of ounces would be enough.
(31:11):
But you're doing is You're just putting a little mineral
oil in the drains. Every drain, toilet bowls, vanity drains,
kitchen drains, floor drains. That one in the basement right
in the middle of the basement. And what that does
is that cuts it with oil and eliminates evaporation, so
(31:34):
that oil kind of safely keeps the water in place.
And WHOA, what a difference that makes. So if you
can see the outside of your house, see the inside
of your house, take a little of the risk away
with shutting down water, unplugging refrigerators, keeping any sewer gas out.
(31:59):
And that's easy to do. You just heard how I
feel pretty confident. But even doing that, I'd still hear
somebody just walk through the house, you know, every week,
just make sure everything's okay. If you're gonna be gone
for a while, why not all right? Our phone numbers
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Joe is a owner of a deck building company. A
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Joe Hagen check that out. A lot of good information
that's on your project list in the next year or so.
(35:29):
All right, back to the phones we go, Paul, Welcome, Yes,
good morning morning.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
I have a couple of outbuildings live in western Oklahoma
and one is like the corrugated metal and the other
is shingled, both of which have leaks. Now I'm looking
(35:57):
for the cheapest way I can stop the leaks without
having to replace shingles or corrugated metal. Do you know
of a product that can be rolled on, like paint
or something that would help seal roofing.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Has it ever leaked before or is it just started?
Speaker 10 (36:19):
No, it's it's leaked for a couple of years. Compensation, Yes, yes,
I'm absolutely positive.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, okay, So when I first heard you say that,
I was thinking condensation right away. So on a metal building,
it depends what kind of metal building it is. But
those are fastened usually with screws and washers, and those
washers need to be replaced. I don't know of a
coating that you would just do a whole metal roof
on to seal that up where those seams are. It's
(36:54):
probably the washers. M as far as the shield roof,
you know, it could be around the flashing, not on
the roof. It could be the boots where the pipes
go up through it, and I had that those boots
are usually only warned for about ten years, even though
(37:17):
your roof is warned for thirty years. So I guess
before I get and before I can really answer that
question on whether something could be just rolled on it,
And a real quick answer is no. There's different products
out there where they'll spray on a shingled roof which
will increase the longevity, but it's not going to repair
(37:40):
the leak. It's a ceilant that holds the granulars kind
of refortifies the grains of sand that are on the
shingle to make it last longer. But you know, the
only thing if you have a missing shingle or a
crack shingle, you know, a roof patch or something like that.
But nothing that you're going to do on the whole
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entire roof.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Yeah, well I was I was just hoping.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, I understand, I understand, But those are the two
things that I would say I would look at. I
think you're going to really have to identify where the
leak is in the metal roofing. I can almost bet
it's the washers on the shingle roofing. I would say
I would inspect my flashings and my rubberized boots first.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
Okay, all right, well, thank you so thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Let's get to Bill, Bill welcome.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Okay, thank you, Gerry. I'm home in Arizona for fifteen years,
and we only live there occasionally. And I've got a
number of strategies I've used over the years. Instead of
a housewatch or a reminder, as you suggested that I'd
like to share as far as I can do everything
through Wi Fi these days, it's all over time, of course.
(38:59):
But now I've got my HVAC system. I can turn
it on and off, monitor it, take care of all.
It's a carrier product. Excuse me, my irrigation system. I
can monitor it. I can turn it on and off.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I've got that on my phone.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Yeah yeah, well I don't have that yet, but I've
got outdoor I've got outdoor cameras yet through simple to
my security system, I've got indoor cameras. The refrigerator has
been the issue for me over the years because I
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had no way to confirm that it was on, and
we never emptied it and turned it off. So I've
got a water sensor on the outside refrigerator on the
floor in case it would shut down and start to leak,
you know, a water on the floor. And then recently
I found through my weather station vendor, they make a
monitor I can put in the refrigerator, so on my phone,
(39:59):
I can the temperature of the refrigerator on the inside,
whether it's whether it's working or not. And it's like,
see what else on that.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
That's the one that scares me more than anything, to
be honest with you. Yeah, I've got a refrigerator I
bought two years ago, a nice ge refrigerator. I am
on my first fourth service call. Wow, Yeah, I was right.
I had the same one for twenty five years, had
one service call. Yeah, I here here the dead I'm
(40:33):
not unplug it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:36):
And I on my motor vehicles, I've got two. I've
got battery reminders on them, not not trickle chargers, minders
through a company still called c Tech, and they're a
really high end minders, but they keep the batteries optimized
and they keep them from sulfating, which is a big
issue with with acid batteries. But as far as the
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water system is concerned, I've got what's called a mow
and flow unit on our water system that leaven the
text micro leaks.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Right, one's a microleak test.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
About once a week. I can also shut it off
and I get a weekly report from it as well.
But right now i've got it shut off, I can
remotely turn the water back on, turn it off.
Speaker 10 (41:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
I discovered those just kind of going through our insurance.
We were getting new bids on and I knew they existed,
and this person, this broker that we were working with,
had said, you can get like a two hundred and
fifty dollars a year rebate on having one of those
(41:45):
on your home. Really, yeah, and they had, and I
can recall they had three specific brands, but it was
just as you describe it. I haven't delved into it.
That was just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (42:01):
Well, they're not cheap because you actually have to install
a valve, so you need a plumber to do it
unless you're a lot more skilled than I am. But
once you've got it, you set it up on your
home Wi Fi. Then you can monitor it. You can
you can manipulate it. It's got all kinds of and
(42:21):
it learns how you use your house. Right, so there's
a learning period of like two weeks, so it knows
when you're flushing a toilet, when you're taking a shower,
whenever you're doing. It learns the patterns and behavior in
the house. And when something odd happens it shuts the
water off.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
It send you alert. Yeah you know this. Yeah, I'm
gonna look into that one. In fact, I was just
kind of doing that on a wing and a prayer
when I start talking about, you know, preparing your house.
But during the week, I was thinking, oh, I'll try
to remember to go through that, and I was thinking
you could do a whole security thing with with just
(43:01):
what you and I are talking about, you know, with
the communication, it's just amazing, with the cameras, with the monitoring.
The sump pump they have that too. Zalor has one,
and you can test your some pump. You can monitor
your some pump if it's not activated, when it's activated,
(43:23):
you can test it and see it get activated. The
garage store and all the things that you talked about,
and they are they are, they are little products that
give you great peace of mind. So I thank you
so much for calling. I appreciate it. And speaking of
thank you, thank you to Danny. I appreciate your work today.
And was it really a busy day? Yesterday was busy.
(43:44):
I think everybody kind of raking leisure or taking a nap,
you know, they want to be all about easy to
do nothing. That's okay. Hopefully we helped you with a
couple of year projects. Good Lord willing. We'll be back
next weekend for more. At Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
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