October 5, 2024 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and John lead us off. Oh okay, all right, all right,
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let's go to Pete Pete Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I just don't want to bring up a bad feeling
from last weekend, but I had some experience with raid
on gas and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I wanted to tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, when I first when I first bought the house,
some mortgage company required us to do a test YEP,
and of course it was negative. And I would say,
if anybody has any questions about whether they have a
raid on problem. They should go to their county health
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department and find out where the test kit comes from
and make contact and have it tested.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So did you do the test or did you have
somebody do the test or did you purchase this?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They sent me a kit and I collected the basement
air whatever you call that doing.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, who's that?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Pardon?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who's who? Who sent you the test kit? I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It was the lab that the county Health department uses.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, and then you send it back to them, straight
back to the lab yet, okay, and they said it
was negative. Yeah, well this time to go yeah okay.
So they didn't give you a measurement or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, they just said it's in a safe range. If
it even showed up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, that's weird. But go on, So then what did
you do anything or that was it? That was it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We were able to close on the house and get
the mortgage activated and everything else.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, Okay, Well that that's not really bad news, then,
is it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I wouldn't say it was bad news.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I was just saying this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Could make it simple for some other people that are
in a house and wonder if they haven't go to
the county else.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, it's it's interesting. And you said, that's been a while,
but a lot of things, I you know, a lot
of those types of tests now. You know, when you
test for rain on your you're taking it's kind of
like taking a photograph rather than a video. Okay, it's
like a right end time right now, bingo. So I
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don't know if the instructions were, you know, to keep
all the windows closed for two days before the test
or anything, whether it's the wintertime or summertime, because yeah,
those varied.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And way back then they wanted us to make sure
there was no outside air filtering your house, right.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right, Okay, well that's good. Yeah, if if somebody can
test that way you called it again, the County Health.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Department, County Health Department.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Okay, I don't know if they do that everywhere, but
we'll throw that out there. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Pete, quite welcome.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Thank you. All right. We got into a conversation on
raid on last week, and you know, the necessity and
where it's found, and somebody took challenged me that I
was wishy washy on it. And the reason I was
wishy washing on was the caller before. It's a long story,
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but I'm you know, and there's people that will say,
oh no, no, no, raid on doesn't cause problems, and all
I can go by studies that say it does, it
has a tendency or can cause lung cancer. That's that's
why we test our homes for raidon. So I didn't.
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I don't think our county Health department does that, but
I will check. All right, let's go to Dave. Dave, welcome,
how you doing doing fine? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So I have a quick question.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I think was probably maybe three or four weeks ago,
you said you mentioned a product that you could put
down on a deck if the if the deck was
splintering really bad and kind of warping a little bit,
and it would be to you know, kind of like
a aalvage of the deck, you know, rather.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Than ripping up the boards.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I guess right right, Arnold.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And I just wanted to, you know, like you get
the name of that product.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
And I think you said it was available at home
depot in places.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, everybody's got him out there. So in it's like
deck restore. It comes under a bunch of names. I
think the Roustolian brand is the deck restore not cheap.
It's expensive. It doesn't go real far. The only advice
I have for you, Dave, if you use that product,
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read the directions and when you're finished, reread them. You
gotta follow the directions to the t.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah. And the reason is is this is not a paint,
this is not a stain. This is a coating. It's
a thick coating which will hide raised grains, splinters, cracks
in the pressure treated wood. Usually it comes in a kit.
There's even like little popsicle sticks where you can run
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between the boards where you're coating the inside part of
the boards. And since it's so thick, and since it's
a water based product, it has a tendency to be
challenged on gripping onto the pressure treated wood. So if
there was a failure, and you know, the first thing
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they're gonna do is they're going to lean into you
about preparation, okay, because that has to be that has
to be followed to the letter of the law. And
if you do, it would here and you know, you
should probably expect four to six years worth of life
out of that particular product. And it was designed to
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do what you and I are talking about. Now. It's
not designed to be put on like if somebody just
built a deck, like, oh, put this coding on now, man,
I'm golden. No no, no, So it's and people do
it and that's why I said, reading of the directions
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are really really important. But it's a it's a restoration product.
It's designed to do just what you said to give it,
you know that extra life.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, it's about an eighteen by eighteen foot deck.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So yeah, check it out. Home Depot's got it. Probably
every paint stores got it, hardware stores have got it,
and uh yeah, just check it out and learn about
it before you jump into it. It's a project and
it can be. And figure out your cost on it too,
because it's it's not cheap. It's probably i don't know,
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sixty eighty bucks a gallon, maybe fifty square feet maybe
not that much.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
All right, it sounds great, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Yeah, you just got it.
It's the one product. And then we talk about a
lot of different products and a lot of different fixes.
And you know, that's one product that really really important
to become familiar with it before you use it because
most of us are always in a rush. Most of
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us don't read the directions. I'm just talking from experience overall,
and that is not a project you want to you know,
just take a quick glance at the directions you want
to read it and then reread it. Make sure you
know exactly what it's telling you to do. All right,
We'll take a little break. Candy, you'll be up first.
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All right, back to work we go. You're at home
with Gary Sulivan and it's all about you and me
talking about your home and projects to consider, projects to finish.
And I'm glad we touched on decks a little bit
today because you know, lately, you got plenty of time
to take care of that deck. If you've been putting
it off during the summertime. Take a look at that
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advanced forecast, and I think you're going to find some
delightful days to get it cleaned, get it sealed, get
it stained, and protect that deck. I always say this
is the time to year to do that. In the spring.
A lot of us are rainy. In the summer, it's
too hot. Right now, it's perfect. All right, let's go
to Candy, Candy, welcome, Hi, Look, thank you? Yes, go ahead, yeah,
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go ahead.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
I don't know if I walked too far from my phone, so.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Maybe okay, what happened?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Can you hear me? Okay, yeah, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I hear you clearly.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Okay, So anyways, thank you for having me. So my
front of my house where you walk in the threshold
is like, oh my dog got loose. Anyways, it's looks
like an old wood and there's a gap for it's
my neighbors playing music way across the street and that's
(13:27):
way too loud. Anyways, So it looks I don't know,
it could be thirty some years old, and it looks terrible.
Is there an easy way to fix my hold? Because
even even that metal piece that champion put on above
that piece of wood, it's all looking bad.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, how old's the door? How holds the threshold? I mean,
is it twenty five thirty years old?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Also, that piece of wood is older.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
I bought the house twenty years ago, and that piece
of wood's been there since before that. And I've bought
this champion door I think in two thousand and five.
They just put it right on top of that piece
of wood.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, well it's there's probably two thousand and five that
that wood was probably in good shape and that threshold
was fine, So you know, thresholds can be replaced. You know,
it's it's not a picnic. It's not an easy u
a project. All the time. You said it looks ugly?
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Is it? Is it compromised or does it just look bad?
Can it be?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
It's a painted wood? And then I think they put
are things supposed to be loose? Like when you step
on it?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Is it supposed to move?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Not necessarily?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, Oh, I just can pull this piece of wood.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
They put a I think they put a piece of
wood between the green threshold that's like sitting on the
concrete and this piece of wood that I pulled out.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, well again again I can't see it or feel it,
but I'll tell you this candy. I'm just guessing there's
two things you can do. I mean, those are held
down with screws and a lead anchor. I don't know
how skilled you are in a little carpentry or a
little DIY home improvement project, but you're going to have
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to find the attachment for that threshold to the concrete
and see if that screw is broken, see if we
can find the other screws, see if we can remove
that threshold, or put like a wedge underneath that threshold
with maybe a little construction adhesive to make sure it's
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nice and solid. Sounds to me like you might need
maybe a handyman to get over there and take a
look at that. And the other thing you could do
is just take that wood threshold out, find out the
size threshold you would need, which may require a little
bit of cutting and a little bit of shaping of
that in the in the length, and then you're gonna
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need something that's gonna be installed for the proper height.
So where that door would sit on an aluminum threshold.
In the middle of that threshold, there is a vinyl
bulb half bulb type seal that when the door closes,
it compresses that seal and that's what creates the seal. Okay,
But if you've got and that's probably what you need
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without seeing it, without stepping on it, I'm just guessing
that's what you would need. You might even call Champion.
I don't know if they do that side work or not.
I don't know, but I know a handyman would and
it sounds like that's really what you need. Now, that's
where if there is if it's wobbly, it could be
a trip hazard. If it doesn't go up to the
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base of the board and it's not ceiling. That can
certainly be an entry way for cold air in the wintertime.
It could also be a highway for insects and ants.
So it's something you really need to get corrected. And
then you talked about something on the bottom of the
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door of the Champion door. My guess is that was
their seal that was kind of like their vinyl seal
that's on an aluminus threshold, but on a wood threshold.
It might be like a piece of brass. And on
the bottom of that door is where that seal is created.
So you could get what they call a door sweep,
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which could be put onto the inside part of the
door which has a vinyl flap down there that creates
the seal. So there's a lot involved, and there's a
lot of things that you know you got to know about,
check about and reply. But I think I would have it.
Sounds like that threshold needs to be certainly firmed up
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and a door sweep at the very least put on
that door. Thanks much for the call. I hope that
helps you at least get your project going. And by
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if you haven't had that chimney inspected or swept for
a while, anything more than a year's probably time to
get it checked out and inspected. I'd get that looked at.
If you have a service agreement with a heating and
cooling company to service and do some maintenance on the furnace,
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always a good idea. If you get a bad inspection,
they say it all the time, get a second opinion,
Or if you get a bad inspection and they got
photos and they can explain what's going on. Uh, that's
a that's a good plan. Also finding out exactly you know,
you got good pictures and you got a little furnish,
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You're probably gonna get your answer pretty quickly. All right,
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minutes after the top of the We're of course talking
about your home and if you would like to join
us I got a question, feel free to do so.
Our number is eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. And the past week we've had well, we've
had a lot of rain, we've had some storms. And
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one of the things I talked about inspecting was was
your roof. Now I'm not telling you get up on
your roof and do a big old study on it,
but if you've got an older roof, some of the
things you might want to just take a look at
as the shingles themselves. Obviously, if you have water stains
or water intruding in your house, you know you have
(22:52):
a problem, and then you can get up and figure
out what the problem is or get somebody to do
that for you. But just an overall inspector of the roof,
quite honestly, is a good idea, especially with the amount
of when you may have had in your area or
the amount of rain you had in your area, and
with a pair of binoculars or your camera drone like
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Danny does, he inspects his roof every day with that
flies that overtakes a look at the roof, and what
you're looking for is you're looking for shingles that have
blown off where they're missing, shingles that are curled on
the corners of the shingles, shingles that you maybe can
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see have cracks in it. Those are the things you
really want to look at, or if you want to
get on a ladder and go as high as the gutters.
You know, we're always talking about how important it is
that gutters are free flowing, and it is, but one
of the things you can find in gutters sometimes, whether
they're free flowing or not, is pieces of shingles or
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a high concentration of the protect and the granular sand
that's on the surface of the shingle. That's the protection
from the UV rays of the sun which breaks down
the shingle. So the sand or that protection is on
the shingle and then over the years it delaminates, it
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goes into the gutter. If there's a lot in the gutter,
your shingles are in your roof is in the process
of failing of aging. And those are some of the
things you want to check. And a lot of times
if you contact a you know, a good quality roofer
for an inspection, they will and they will do that
for you, and that might be something you want to
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just w check yourself. Then if you have some problems,
you know, contact your roofer. All right, let's get back
to the phones again. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five Diana. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
When I thought at my house about thirty years ago,
the gentleman was a welder and he welded a fireplace
insert together in the fireplace. It looks like it's cast iron,
very heavy. It's got feet in the front that go
down in the concrete, not very deep. Do you know
of a company that would come and remove that possibly
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if there is some play in it. So it might
be able to get whooled out if we bust all
the concrete, right, but it might need to be cut
in half. Nobody will do a fireplace inspection.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, And to answer your question, no, I don't.
But the only way I'd find out is just start
calling fireplace companies. You know, call the chimney care company
called Vondahar, call you know, people that are in the industry.
I don't know if anybody does that. Certainly there's nobody
who specializes in it, because you got that one special fireplace, Dana. Yeah,
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it's really a matter of finding somebody that would want to,
you know, dig into that.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Okay, Well, if somebody's listening and there for hire, they
can call you. Maybe I'll be listening.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
All right, very good, Well, good luck with that. Take
care another thing. When you get into specially things, you know,
it's always a challenge. But if you're looking for somebody
to clean the fireplace, I'm going to give you this
recommendation and half for years. Make sure there is CISA
certified and it's a chimney institute. Sweeps of America. I
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think is what it is. But CSI certification, that would
be who I would get to inspect my chimney and
clean my chimney. And again they will run scopes up there,
show you the inside of your chimney. If there's a problem,
they'll be able to identify and show that to you.
If it just needs clean, they'll clean it the proper way. Dave, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, Hi Jary, nice talking to you again.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Hey, I've got a question about driveway seal coating for
an asphalt driveway and one of my neighbors had it done,
I don't know, six weeks ago or so, and he
had an outfit come in that put on hot ceiling,
and I was just wondering, can you tell me the
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difference between the hot ceilant and the stuff you get
at the big box store that you put on yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I'm guessing that hot ceiling is more of a commercial
almost a coal tar based ceiling. I mean, I don't
know what they used, but that would be my guess
of what they used. Did they give you a lifespan
or any indication of what you were buying?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
No, No, you know, I just talked to the guys
that were applying it at my neighbors, and you know,
they gave me the number of square feet, you know,
how much per square foot and all that. But I
was just wondering if the hot stuff would be better,
particularly this time of year with the temperatures starting to
drop at night and with the leaves coming down, that
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it would be faster.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I don't think it's going to dry any faster. I'll
tell you. I think probably the advantage of a hot
cealant is the penetration into your existing asphalt. I think
the disadvantage would be and again I'm saying that this
without even knowing what they used. The disadvantage of is
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a lot of the hot ceilings. If it is a
cold tar base, and I don't know what it was,
but it can be compromised. In other words, it could
fade a little faster than some of your bucket type sealers.
I should say, fade faster than some of your premium
bucket type sealers.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Um.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
So that would be a comparison. And the reason I'm
hesitant on that is the whole bucket type sealers industry
has changed dramatically over the last ten years, so they
have now different resins and acrylic resins they actually have.
There's a product out there called drive Max which is
a silicone No, it's not silicon. It is a an
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acrylic resin seiler that is warranted for ten years ten years. Yeah,
it's a two coat system, wet on wet and drives
in two hours.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh so that's called live.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Coat drive max.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Max.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So yeah, so there's there's in that particular category of products.
There's some that are two year sailers, five year sealers,
seven years sealers, and a ten year drive max seiler.
So there's different quality lines. So that's why it's hard
to compare her to what you used. And we don't
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know what that was.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
So in your opinion, is it not too late in
the season to do this yet?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's fine, it's fine. In fact, that drive Max one
I just spoke of, I think you can put that down.
I think the spread ability goes down to thirty eight
degrees now it used to be fifty degrees on driveway seilers.
Now again, I think that drive Max is thirty five
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to thirty eight degrees. And your biggest challenge will be
to find it in the stores, because you know they
don't want to get stuck with it all winter, right,
so they quit ordering that stuff probably in August, so
it's a matter. I did see some out in front
of the A store that I go to, and so
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it's still out there, but that'll be your biggest challenges
to find it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, Well, then if I do it myself, let me
ask you a little bit about surface prep. Do I
get power washedway or can I just sweep it off.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Or well, you know, good clean bottable surface. That's the key.
So you definitely want to get it good and clean.
U So you could powerwash it if you want, you
could sweep it. I mean if there's dirt, mildew, gunk
on oil spots or stuff like that, we got to
address those and get those taken care of. So you know,
(31:46):
a lot of times, just like a oxygenate bleach, I
talk about a lot, it's a good concrete and asphalt cleaner.
Mixed powder to the water, put it on street broom,
scrub it in and rinse is usually more than adequate.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Okay, Yeah, I don't have one of those power washing
one of those circular things that you put on your
power washer. I don't have one of those.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And you really, you know, as I just talked about
mixing with powder and you know, wet the whole surface
and agitate with a street broom and then hose it
off is more than It's more than adequate to clean that.
Concrete kind of requires more of a pressure washer to
really lift everything up, whereas an asphalt it's a little
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softer and not necessary as much.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Okay, well, one last question for you then, I've got
a few small cracks. They're not major in any way,
maybe not even maybe three inches three inchs of an
inch wide. Should I put some cracked sealer in that
or will this stuff just soak down in there and
steal that up?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, at three aces of an inch, I would get
some crack seiler. And there is you know, a poorable
cracked sealer. It's a latex based crack sealer. You know,
some of them comes in court jugs and gallon jugs.
It's about it's like a nice thick milkshake. That's about
the consistency of it. And make sure that you know
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crack Scott. If there's an't grass in there or dirt
or loose pebbles, make sure you get that cleaned out
and then literally take that latex crack seiler and just
literally pour it into the crack. It'll self level and
just fill up the crack.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, wait for that to dry before I.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yes, sir, Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's tremendously helpful to me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Super thank you. Thanks for the call. Appreciate Take care
all right, and we'll take a break and we got
Cindy and Nick and Phil and Mary Lou and you
can join us as we talk about your home project.
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little home improvement and invite you in. It's eight hundred
eighty two three eight two five five Uh Cindy welcome.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
My question is I had a tin roof put on
my home about four years ago, and someone recently told
me that, oh, did you know you have to get
your the screws or the nails that attached to the
roof replaced every five years. I want to know if
that's true.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, first of all, it depends what kind of tin
roof you have, so I don't know. Do you have
screws that are putting it? Put it up with washers
right now? Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (37:36):
No?
Speaker 10 (37:36):
I don't know really anything about that.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Step one one. You got to know if you got
washers and screws, because there's different types of roofs that
do or don't have that. Okay, the answer is not
ten not five years? For sure, there are some that
those washers will fail after probably ten or fifteen years. Uh,
ok that would need to be replaced. I think the
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only way you're going to be able to determine that
is to find out what kind of roof you have.
Maybe call the people that installed it and asked that question.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Well, it was the Amish people over here in the
like Wilmington area. I think there is a washer on them.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, it might be. Yeah, I mean there's some there's
some other types of roofing now that are the fasteners
are even hidden? I don't know are these hidden? Are
they like a standing seam roof or.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
No?
Speaker 10 (38:44):
You can see that, you can see.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, Well my guess is they they would probably need
to be replaced in ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
That's good to know.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Not five years in.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Five years, okay, thank you, last longer now, And it
wouldn't hurt to really if you can give them a
call and get that question, or if they gave you
any owner's manuals on the roof itself to find out
exactly what kind of washers they are, you know, if
you wanted more information, that's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Yeah, I might actually have some paperwork on it. I'll
think about that. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
All right here, you bet. I'm sure you got paperwork
on it at one time. Let's go to Mary Lou.
Mary Lou, welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I just had a couple new windows put in this week,
and I noticed last night that one of the windows
had condensation on it and a butting wall with the
old windows does not. Is that something I need to
be concerned about and call the install.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
It's probably the humidity. I don't know why it wasn't
on the other window. Is it on the outside or inside?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I couldn't really tell. I just noticed it and when
I turned off the lights and was going upstairs.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
So you.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
See, but a lot of times new windows are just
more airtight, and it holds humidity in and humidity you
know you can't see it. It's water vapor, right, and
if we have water, vapor loves to create condensation on hard,
(40:34):
slick surfaces glass where there's a templature variations coldness. I
can't tell you why it wouldn't be on the other window,
But what I would give the advice i'd give you
is give it a couple of weeks, see if it
does it all the time. Excuse me, and see if
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it does it all the time, and see if it
does it on the other windows.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Also, would that as the weather gets colder, would that
condensation be turning to ice on the window?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Well, that's why I was asking if it's on the
inside or the outside. So usually and it's just right now,
we've had so much rain in the humidity level even
though it's cool, is high outside and you get a
lot of dow in humidity that condenses on the outside
of the windows. And if it's on the outside, I
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wouldn't even worry about it. If it's on the inside
of the window, I'm a little concerned. And it could
be that the humidity level was high in the house
and our windows are tighter, so there's not much air transfer.
And again it's it's a little bit kind of common
(41:54):
quite honestly to have some moisture on windows when you
get new windows, just because they're more EFFICI but we
don't even know if that water's on the inside or
the outside. So that's why I said, I think I
would just really pay attention to it. Do you have
a weather station or anything in your home where you
know it tells you what the temperature inside and the
humidity is inside your home and maybe even on the outside.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
I think I might have one, but I'm not sure
about that.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah. Well, again, we want to keep that humidity below
fifty percent on the inside of our homes during summertime.
Next week it's supposed to cool off. And when cold
air can't hold as much water as warm air. So
when it gets cooler, it starts you start seeing humidity.
(42:44):
You start seeing do you start seeing water droplets? And
that's why they call it relative humidity. It's relative to
the temperature. And so I wouldn't call them yet. I'd
give it a couple of weeks and just you know,
I'll gather some information kind of the humidity levels. It's
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the water on the inside. Is it on the outside.
It's on the outside, I wouldn't worry about it. If
it's on the inside, probably correct itself. If it's in
between the glasses, you got a.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Problem, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
I also had a question. I'm going to be doing
some other remodeling in the house, and I was wondering
what the right order is. I'm got a leak that
I'm going to.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
Fix it an upstairs bathroom, and then downstairs fix the
ceiling and replace the ceiling fixture, and also have the
kitchen wood floor refinished.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Well, I think the first thing you want to do
is you want to fix that leak on the in
the upstairs because that could be causing some of those problems,
and to coordinate the rest. If you want to hold on,
I'll get you on the other side of the hour.
But we're going to be run out of time here
in about five seconds, so we'll discuss it. You're at
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Speaker 6 (44:25):
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let's go to Pete Pete Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I just don't want to bring up a bad feeling
from last weekend, but I had some experience with raid
on gas and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I wanted to tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, when I first when I first bought the house,
some mortgage company required us to do a test YEP,
and of course it was negative. And I would say,
if anybody has any questions about whether they have a
raid on problem. They should go to their county health
(01:43):
department and find out where the test kit comes from
and make contact and have it tested.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So did you do the test or did you have
somebody do the test or did you purchase this?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They sent me a kit and I collected the basement
air whatever you call that doing.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, who's that?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Pardon?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who's who? Who sent you the test kit? I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It was the lab that the county Health department uses.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, and then you send it back to them, straight
back to the lab yet, okay, and they said it
was negative. Yeah, well this time to go yeah okay.
So they didn't give you a measurement or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, they just said it's in a safe range. If
it even showed up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, that's weird. But go on, So then what did
you do anything or that was it? That was it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We were able to close on the house and get
the mortgage activated and everything else.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, Okay, Well that that's not really bad news, then,
is it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I wouldn't say it was bad news.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I was just saying this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Could make it simple for some other people that are
in a house and wonder if they haven't go to
the county else.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, it's it's interesting. And you said, that's been a while,
but a lot of things, I you know, a lot
of those types of tests now. You know, when you
test for rain on your you're taking it's kind of
like taking a photograph rather than a video. Okay, it's
like a right end time right now, bingo. So I
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don't know if the instructions were, you know, to keep
all the windows closed for two days before the test
or anything, whether it's the wintertime or summertime, because yeah,
those varied.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And way back then they wanted us to make sure
there was no outside air filtering your house, right.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right, Okay, well that's good. Yeah, if if somebody can
test that way you called it again, the County Health.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Department, County Health Department.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Okay, I don't know if they do that everywhere, but
we'll throw that out there. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Pete, quite welcome.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Thank you. All right. We got into a conversation on
raid on last week, and you know, the necessity and
where it's found, and somebody took challenged me that I
was wishy washy on it. And the reason I was
wishy washing on was the caller before. It's a long story,
(04:35):
but I'm you know, and there's people that will say,
oh no, no, no, raid on doesn't cause problems, and all
I can go by studies that say it does, it
has a tendency or can cause lung cancer. That's that's
why we test our homes for raidon. So I didn't.
(04:55):
I don't think our county Health department does that, but
I will check. All right, let's go to Dave. Dave, welcome,
how you doing doing fine? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So I have a quick question.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I think was probably maybe three or four weeks ago,
you said you mentioned a product that you could put
down on a deck if the if the deck was
splintering really bad and kind of warping a little bit,
and it would be to you know, kind of like
a aalvage of the deck, you know, rather.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Than ripping up the boards.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I guess right right, Arnold.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And I just wanted to, you know, like you get
the name of that product.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
And I think you said it was available at home
depot in places.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, everybody's got him out there. So in it's like
deck restore. It comes under a bunch of names. I
think the Roustolian brand is the deck restore not cheap.
It's expensive. It doesn't go real far. The only advice
I have for you, Dave, if you use that product,
(05:56):
read the directions and when you're finished, reread them. You
gotta follow the directions to the t.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah. And the reason is is this is not a paint,
this is not a stain. This is a coating. It's
a thick coating which will hide raised grains, splinters, cracks
in the pressure treated wood. Usually it comes in a kit.
There's even like little popsicle sticks where you can run
(06:26):
between the boards where you're coating the inside part of
the boards. And since it's so thick, and since it's
a water based product, it has a tendency to be
challenged on gripping onto the pressure treated wood. So if
there was a failure, and you know, the first thing
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they're gonna do is they're going to lean into you
about preparation, okay, because that has to be that has
to be followed to the letter of the law. And
if you do, it would here and you know, you
should probably expect four to six years worth of life
out of that particular product. And it was designed to
(07:13):
do what you and I are talking about. Now. It's
not designed to be put on like if somebody just
built a deck, like, oh, put this coding on now, man,
I'm golden. No no, no, So it's and people do
it and that's why I said, reading of the directions
(07:33):
are really really important. But it's a it's a restoration product.
It's designed to do just what you said to give it,
you know that extra life.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, it's about an eighteen by eighteen foot deck.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So yeah, check it out. Home Depot's got it. Probably
every paint stores got it, hardware stores have got it,
and uh yeah, just check it out and learn about
it before you jump into it. It's a project and
it can be. And figure out your cost on it too,
because it's it's not cheap. It's probably i don't know,
(08:08):
sixty eighty bucks a gallon, maybe fifty square feet maybe
not that much.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
All right, it sounds great, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Yeah, you just got it.
It's the one product. And then we talk about a
lot of different products and a lot of different fixes.
And you know, that's one product that really really important
to become familiar with it before you use it because
most of us are always in a rush. Most of
(08:41):
us don't read the directions. I'm just talking from experience overall,
and that is not a project you want to you know,
just take a quick glance at the directions you want
to read it and then reread it. Make sure you
know exactly what it's telling you to do. All right,
We'll take a little break. Candy, you'll be up first.
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All right, back to work we go. You're at home
with Gary Sulivan and it's all about you and me
talking about your home and projects to consider, projects to finish.
And I'm glad we touched on decks a little bit
today because you know, lately, you got plenty of time
to take care of that deck. If you've been putting
it off during the summertime. Take a look at that
(12:23):
advanced forecast, and I think you're going to find some
delightful days to get it cleaned, get it sealed, get
it stained, and protect that deck. I always say this
is the time to year to do that. In the spring.
A lot of us are rainy. In the summer, it's
too hot. Right now, it's perfect. All right, let's go
to Candy, Candy, welcome, Hi, Look, thank you? Yes, go ahead, yeah,
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go ahead.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
I don't know if I walked too far from my phone, so.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Maybe okay, what happened?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Can you hear me? Okay, yeah, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I hear you clearly.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Okay, So anyways, thank you for having me. So my
front of my house where you walk in the threshold
is like, oh my dog got loose. Anyways, it's looks
like an old wood and there's a gap for it's
my neighbors playing music way across the street and that's
(13:27):
way too loud. Anyways, So it looks I don't know,
it could be thirty some years old, and it looks terrible.
Is there an easy way to fix my hold? Because
even even that metal piece that champion put on above
that piece of wood, it's all looking bad.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, how old's the door? How holds the threshold? I mean,
is it twenty five thirty years old?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Also, that piece of wood is older.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
I bought the house twenty years ago, and that piece
of wood's been there since before that. And I've bought
this champion door I think in two thousand and five.
They just put it right on top of that piece
of wood.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, well it's there's probably two thousand and five that
that wood was probably in good shape and that threshold
was fine, So you know, thresholds can be replaced. You know,
it's it's not a picnic. It's not an easy u
a project. All the time. You said it looks ugly?
(14:36):
Is it? Is it compromised or does it just look bad?
Can it be?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
It's a painted wood? And then I think they put
are things supposed to be loose? Like when you step
on it?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Is it supposed to move?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Not necessarily?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, Oh, I just can pull this piece of wood.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
They put a I think they put a piece of
wood between the green threshold that's like sitting on the
concrete and this piece of wood that I pulled out.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, well again again I can't see it or feel it,
but I'll tell you this candy. I'm just guessing there's
two things you can do. I mean, those are held
down with screws and a lead anchor. I don't know
how skilled you are in a little carpentry or a
little DIY home improvement project, but you're going to have
(15:31):
to find the attachment for that threshold to the concrete
and see if that screw is broken, see if we
can find the other screws, see if we can remove
that threshold, or put like a wedge underneath that threshold
with maybe a little construction adhesive to make sure it's
(15:54):
nice and solid. Sounds to me like you might need
maybe a handyman to get over there and take a
look at that. And the other thing you could do
is just take that wood threshold out, find out the
size threshold you would need, which may require a little
bit of cutting and a little bit of shaping of
that in the in the length, and then you're gonna
(16:16):
need something that's gonna be installed for the proper height.
So where that door would sit on an aluminum threshold.
In the middle of that threshold, there is a vinyl
bulb half bulb type seal that when the door closes,
it compresses that seal and that's what creates the seal. Okay,
But if you've got and that's probably what you need
(16:39):
without seeing it, without stepping on it, I'm just guessing
that's what you would need. You might even call Champion.
I don't know if they do that side work or not.
I don't know, but I know a handyman would and
it sounds like that's really what you need. Now, that's
where if there is if it's wobbly, it could be
a trip hazard. If it doesn't go up to the
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base of the board and it's not ceiling. That can
certainly be an entry way for cold air in the wintertime.
It could also be a highway for insects and ants.
So it's something you really need to get corrected. And
then you talked about something on the bottom of the
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door of the Champion door. My guess is that was
their seal that was kind of like their vinyl seal
that's on an aluminus threshold, but on a wood threshold.
It might be like a piece of brass. And on
the bottom of that door is where that seal is created.
So you could get what they call a door sweep,
(17:45):
which could be put onto the inside part of the
door which has a vinyl flap down there that creates
the seal. So there's a lot involved, and there's a
lot of things that you know you got to know about,
check about and reply. But I think I would have it.
Sounds like that threshold needs to be certainly firmed up
(18:06):
and a door sweep at the very least put on
that door. Thanks much for the call. I hope that
helps you at least get your project going. And by
the way, if you'd like to join us, do so.
Our phone number is eight hundred eighty two three eight
two five five. We've been talking about all kinds of
things to wrap up warm weather projects, start thinking about
(18:29):
the cold weather that's on the way. As I talked about,
if you haven't had that chimney inspected or swept for
a while, anything more than a year's probably time to
get it checked out and inspected. I'd get that looked at.
If you have a service agreement with a heating and
cooling company to service and do some maintenance on the furnace,
(18:55):
always a good idea. If you get a bad inspection,
they say it all the time, get a second opinion,
Or if you get a bad inspection and they got
photos and they can explain what's going on. Uh, that's
a that's a good plan. Also finding out exactly you know,
you got good pictures and you got a little furnish,
(19:15):
You're probably gonna get your answer pretty quickly. All right,
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us I got a question, feel free to do so.
Our number is eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. And the past week we've had well, we've
had a lot of rain, we've had some storms. And
(22:32):
one of the things I talked about inspecting was was
your roof. Now I'm not telling you get up on
your roof and do a big old study on it,
but if you've got an older roof, some of the
things you might want to just take a look at
as the shingles themselves. Obviously, if you have water stains
or water intruding in your house, you know you have
(22:52):
a problem, and then you can get up and figure
out what the problem is or get somebody to do
that for you. But just an overall inspector of the roof,
quite honestly, is a good idea, especially with the amount
of when you may have had in your area or
the amount of rain you had in your area, and
with a pair of binoculars or your camera drone like
(23:16):
Danny does, he inspects his roof every day with that
flies that overtakes a look at the roof, and what
you're looking for is you're looking for shingles that have
blown off where they're missing, shingles that are curled on
the corners of the shingles, shingles that you maybe can
(23:37):
see have cracks in it. Those are the things you
really want to look at, or if you want to
get on a ladder and go as high as the gutters.
You know, we're always talking about how important it is
that gutters are free flowing, and it is, but one
of the things you can find in gutters sometimes, whether
they're free flowing or not, is pieces of shingles or
(23:59):
a high concentration of the protect and the granular sand
that's on the surface of the shingle. That's the protection
from the UV rays of the sun which breaks down
the shingle. So the sand or that protection is on
the shingle and then over the years it delaminates, it
(24:21):
goes into the gutter. If there's a lot in the gutter,
your shingles are in your roof is in the process
of failing of aging. And those are some of the
things you want to check. And a lot of times
if you contact a you know, a good quality roofer
for an inspection, they will and they will do that
for you, and that might be something you want to
(24:42):
just w check yourself. Then if you have some problems,
you know, contact your roofer. All right, let's get back
to the phones again. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five Diana. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
When I thought at my house about thirty years ago,
the gentleman was a welder and he welded a fireplace
insert together in the fireplace. It looks like it's cast iron,
very heavy. It's got feet in the front that go
down in the concrete, not very deep. Do you know
of a company that would come and remove that possibly
(25:23):
if there is some play in it. So it might
be able to get whooled out if we bust all
the concrete, right, but it might need to be cut
in half. Nobody will do a fireplace inspection.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, And to answer your question, no, I don't.
But the only way I'd find out is just start
calling fireplace companies. You know, call the chimney care company
called Vondahar, call you know, people that are in the industry.
I don't know if anybody does that. Certainly there's nobody
who specializes in it, because you got that one special fireplace, Dana. Yeah,
(26:00):
it's really a matter of finding somebody that would want to,
you know, dig into that.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Okay, Well, if somebody's listening and there for hire, they
can call you. Maybe I'll be listening.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
All right, very good, Well, good luck with that. Take
care another thing. When you get into specially things, you know,
it's always a challenge. But if you're looking for somebody
to clean the fireplace, I'm going to give you this
recommendation and half for years. Make sure there is CISA
certified and it's a chimney institute. Sweeps of America. I
(26:39):
think is what it is. But CSI certification, that would
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If it just needs clean, they'll clean it the proper way. Dave, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, Hi Jary, nice talking to you again.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Hey, I've got a question about driveway seal coating for
an asphalt driveway and one of my neighbors had it done,
I don't know, six weeks ago or so, and he
had an outfit come in that put on hot ceiling,
and I was just wondering, can you tell me the
(27:28):
difference between the hot ceilant and the stuff you get
at the big box store that you put on yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I'm guessing that hot ceiling is more of a commercial
almost a coal tar based ceiling. I mean, I don't
know what they used, but that would be my guess
of what they used. Did they give you a lifespan
or any indication of what you were buying?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
No, No, you know, I just talked to the guys
that were applying it at my neighbors, and you know,
they gave me the number of square feet, you know,
how much per square foot and all that. But I
was just wondering if the hot stuff would be better,
particularly this time of year with the temperatures starting to
drop at night and with the leaves coming down, that
(28:19):
it would be faster.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I don't think it's going to dry any faster. I'll
tell you. I think probably the advantage of a hot
cealant is the penetration into your existing asphalt. I think
the disadvantage would be and again I'm saying that this
without even knowing what they used. The disadvantage of is
(28:44):
a lot of the hot ceilings. If it is a
cold tar base, and I don't know what it was,
but it can be compromised. In other words, it could
fade a little faster than some of your bucket type sealers.
I should say, fade faster than some of your premium
bucket type sealers.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Um.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
So that would be a comparison. And the reason I'm
hesitant on that is the whole bucket type sealers industry
has changed dramatically over the last ten years, so they
have now different resins and acrylic resins they actually have.
There's a product out there called drive Max which is
a silicone No, it's not silicon. It is a an
(29:32):
acrylic resin seiler that is warranted for ten years ten years. Yeah,
it's a two coat system, wet on wet and drives
in two hours.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh so that's called live.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Coat drive max.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Max.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So yeah, so there's there's in that particular category of products.
There's some that are two year sailers, five year sealers,
seven years sealers, and a ten year drive max seiler.
So there's different quality lines. So that's why it's hard
to compare her to what you used. And we don't
(30:19):
know what that was.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
So in your opinion, is it not too late in
the season to do this yet?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's fine, it's fine. In fact, that drive Max one
I just spoke of, I think you can put that down.
I think the spread ability goes down to thirty eight
degrees now it used to be fifty degrees on driveway seilers.
Now again, I think that drive Max is thirty five
(30:48):
to thirty eight degrees. And your biggest challenge will be
to find it in the stores, because you know they
don't want to get stuck with it all winter, right,
so they quit ordering that stuff probably in August, so
it's a matter. I did see some out in front
of the A store that I go to, and so
(31:09):
it's still out there, but that'll be your biggest challenges
to find it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, Well, then if I do it myself, let me
ask you a little bit about surface prep. Do I
get power washedway or can I just sweep it off.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Or well, you know, good clean bottable surface. That's the key.
So you definitely want to get it good and clean.
U So you could powerwash it if you want, you
could sweep it. I mean if there's dirt, mildew, gunk
on oil spots or stuff like that, we got to
address those and get those taken care of. So you know,
(31:46):
a lot of times, just like a oxygenate bleach, I
talk about a lot, it's a good concrete and asphalt cleaner.
Mixed powder to the water, put it on street broom,
scrub it in and rinse is usually more than adequate.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Okay, Yeah, I don't have one of those power washing
one of those circular things that you put on your
power washer. I don't have one of those.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And you really, you know, as I just talked about
mixing with powder and you know, wet the whole surface
and agitate with a street broom and then hose it
off is more than It's more than adequate to clean that.
Concrete kind of requires more of a pressure washer to
really lift everything up, whereas an asphalt it's a little
(32:34):
softer and not necessary as much.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Okay, well, one last question for you then, I've got
a few small cracks. They're not major in any way,
maybe not even maybe three inches three inchs of an
inch wide. Should I put some cracked sealer in that
or will this stuff just soak down in there and
steal that up?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, at three aces of an inch, I would get
some crack seiler. And there is you know, a poorable
cracked sealer. It's a latex based crack sealer. You know,
some of them comes in court jugs and gallon jugs.
It's about it's like a nice thick milkshake. That's about
the consistency of it. And make sure that you know
(33:19):
crack Scott. If there's an't grass in there or dirt
or loose pebbles, make sure you get that cleaned out
and then literally take that latex crack seiler and just
literally pour it into the crack. It'll self level and
just fill up the crack.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, wait for that to dry before I.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yes, sir, Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's tremendously helpful to me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Super thank you. Thanks for the call. Appreciate Take care
all right, and we'll take a break and we got
Cindy and Nick and Phil and Mary Lou and you
can join us as we talk about your home project.
You're at home with Garrie Sullivan.
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ten minutes before the top of the air, talk a
little home improvement and invite you in. It's eight hundred
eighty two three eight two five five Uh Cindy welcome.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
My question is I had a tin roof put on
my home about four years ago, and someone recently told
me that, oh, did you know you have to get
your the screws or the nails that attached to the
roof replaced every five years. I want to know if
that's true.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, first of all, it depends what kind of tin
roof you have, so I don't know. Do you have
screws that are putting it? Put it up with washers
right now? Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (37:36):
No?
Speaker 10 (37:36):
I don't know really anything about that.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Step one one. You got to know if you got
washers and screws, because there's different types of roofs that
do or don't have that. Okay, the answer is not
ten not five years? For sure, there are some that
those washers will fail after probably ten or fifteen years. Uh,
ok that would need to be replaced. I think the
(38:01):
only way you're going to be able to determine that
is to find out what kind of roof you have.
Maybe call the people that installed it and asked that question.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Well, it was the Amish people over here in the
like Wilmington area. I think there is a washer on them.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, it might be. Yeah, I mean there's some there's
some other types of roofing now that are the fasteners
are even hidden? I don't know are these hidden? Are
they like a standing seam roof or.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
No?
Speaker 10 (38:44):
You can see that, you can see.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, Well my guess is they they would probably need
to be replaced in ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
That's good to know.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Not five years in.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Five years, okay, thank you, last longer now, And it
wouldn't hurt to really if you can give them a
call and get that question, or if they gave you
any owner's manuals on the roof itself to find out
exactly what kind of washers they are, you know, if
you wanted more information, that's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Yeah, I might actually have some paperwork on it. I'll
think about that. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
All right here, you bet. I'm sure you got paperwork
on it at one time. Let's go to Mary Lou.
Mary Lou, welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I just had a couple new windows put in this week,
and I noticed last night that one of the windows
had condensation on it and a butting wall with the
old windows does not. Is that something I need to
be concerned about and call the install.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
It's probably the humidity. I don't know why it wasn't
on the other window. Is it on the outside or inside?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I couldn't really tell. I just noticed it and when
I turned off the lights and was going upstairs.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
So you.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
See, but a lot of times new windows are just
more airtight, and it holds humidity in and humidity you
know you can't see it. It's water vapor, right, and
if we have water, vapor loves to create condensation on hard,
(40:34):
slick surfaces glass where there's a templature variations coldness. I
can't tell you why it wouldn't be on the other window,
But what I would give the advice i'd give you
is give it a couple of weeks, see if it
does it all the time. Excuse me, and see if
(40:55):
it does it all the time, and see if it
does it on the other windows.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Also, would that as the weather gets colder, would that
condensation be turning to ice on the window?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Well, that's why I was asking if it's on the
inside or the outside. So usually and it's just right now,
we've had so much rain in the humidity level even
though it's cool, is high outside and you get a
lot of dow in humidity that condenses on the outside
of the windows. And if it's on the outside, I
(41:30):
wouldn't even worry about it. If it's on the inside
of the window, I'm a little concerned. And it could
be that the humidity level was high in the house
and our windows are tighter, so there's not much air transfer.
And again it's it's a little bit kind of common
(41:54):
quite honestly to have some moisture on windows when you
get new windows, just because they're more EFFICI but we
don't even know if that water's on the inside or
the outside. So that's why I said, I think I
would just really pay attention to it. Do you have
a weather station or anything in your home where you
know it tells you what the temperature inside and the
humidity is inside your home and maybe even on the outside.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
I think I might have one, but I'm not sure
about that.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah. Well, again, we want to keep that humidity below
fifty percent on the inside of our homes during summertime.
Next week it's supposed to cool off. And when cold
air can't hold as much water as warm air. So
when it gets cooler, it starts you start seeing humidity.
(42:44):
You start seeing do you start seeing water droplets? And
that's why they call it relative humidity. It's relative to
the temperature. And so I wouldn't call them yet. I'd
give it a couple of weeks and just you know,
I'll gather some information kind of the humidity levels. It's
(43:04):
the water on the inside. Is it on the outside.
It's on the outside, I wouldn't worry about it. If
it's on the inside, probably correct itself. If it's in
between the glasses, you got a.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Problem, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
I also had a question. I'm going to be doing
some other remodeling in the house, and I was wondering
what the right order is. I'm got a leak that
I'm going to.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
Fix it an upstairs bathroom, and then downstairs fix the
ceiling and replace the ceiling fixture, and also have the
kitchen wood floor refinished.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Well, I think the first thing you want to do
is you want to fix that leak on the in
the upstairs because that could be causing some of those problems,
and to coordinate the rest. If you want to hold on,
I'll get you on the other side of the hour.
But we're going to be run out of time here
in about five seconds, so we'll discuss it. You're at
home with Gary Sullivan.
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