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Five five and go ahead and grab a line different
things as we look forward to colder weather, things that
you might start tackling. I mentioned this yesterday. You know,
when we get to the cooler weather, probably in a
lot of parts of the country, it'll become rainy, snowy
in northern climates. But check the window wells, in dry
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wells around your home storm drains. Make sure there's no
debris that could be blocking them. In a window well.
Sometimes there's a drain in them, sometimes not check and
make sure check and see if there is a drain.
If there's no drain, you might want to put to
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use a window well cover to minimize the amount of
water that gets in them. If it's got a drain,
just make sure that that water can get to that
drain and you know, get that water out of that
window well. So that'd be definitely one thing I would
take a look at. I've been preaching a lot about gutters.
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We'll hear from Randy Schreiber from gutter Brush today, and
how very very important to fall that we keep those
gutters clean and free flowing. Talk about crews that get
into your attic. A lot of times that's from water
that's spilling over gutters. From the back onto the softe boards,
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causing rot squirrels into the attic. Big problem water that's
spilling over the front of the gutters, laying along the foundation,
causing hydrostatic pressure, especially in areas where there's very heavy soil.
Not so much of an issue with sandy soil, but
heavy sowher it holds that water creates a lot of
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pressure can crack foundations. So clear and free flowing is
what you want those to be. And also while you're
cleaning them and checking those out, take a look at
the down spouts. If you got pipes that go underground
from the down spout, make sure that down spout in
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the pipe with a fitting that's coming up from the
ground are aligned. Every year, I have at least one
or two that are a little bit out of alignment,
and after I align them, I'd give it a couple
of years and they may very well be out of
alignment again. So it is something that requires you to
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take a look at pretty much on an ongoing basis.
So let's get that you know on your list. Also
as we go. Inside mentioned yesterday about just simple little
things like changing the filter if it's been a while,
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maybe since springtime of changing your indoor air handler's furnest
filter or air handler filter would strongly encourage you going
and replacing that going into the colder months. And there's
several different kinds, usually an inch thick, but there are
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some two inch, there are some four inch. There's some
flat filters, there's some pleat it filters. Pleated filters a
little bit more surface room, so do a little bit better.
You can get them where they have a very high
nerve rating where it'll actually filter out viruses. So I
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don't know if you need that, and we'll let you decide,
but stay away from the flat panel filters. Sure you
can get them for a buck, but they're not all
that efficient. A pleated filter it comes in different nerve
ratings anywhere really, probably from five to an eight to
an eleven to thirteen, and of course to higher the
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number of the more small particles.
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That it does filter out.
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So if you'd like to join us talk about those issues,
feel free to grab a line. We've got them wide
open this morning. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight
two five five, and we'll talk about your home project.
I asked this question last week, and i'll ask it
again because it bears asking again. We hear people are
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friends social media, a lot of people very very concerned
about their energy bills, and it should be. I mean,
some of these have been up twenty twenty five until
somebody thirty percent. And my question is, I know we
all don't like it, but what are you doing about it?
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There's a lot of things we can do about it
in terms of conserving energy, but what are you doing
about it? Have you gotten up in that attic and
check to see how much insulation you actually have in
your attic?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
In my area, I'm supposed to have.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Eighteen inches of insulation. You can find out what the
art value is given to you by the Department of
Energy and for an R one, just figure about two
and a half inches of fiberglass insulation. If you're supposed
to have eighteen inches, then you have eight you're missing
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a boat. Ventilation all the way around the house is
ventilated properly. I know you can see the vent screens
underneath the you know, the face you're bored and the
softs by the gutters. But on the underside of that
is there penetrations through that board into the attic where
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Eric can actually flow into the attic or have they
never been there? Have they been painted over, have cobwebs
clogged them? Has insulation been blown over them? We need ventilation,
and your house very well may need insulation. But again,
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I guess I'll go back to that, just crabbing about
the the energy bill.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Let's do something about it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
At least, let's have a conversation about it and see
if we can, you know, help you out a little bit.
It's all kind of small things which add up to
big things, and the big things certainly should be addressed immediately.
I had a friend of mine actually in an older house,
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and he has really been getting socked with some big
sized bills, and got him in the abdicated four inches
of insulation up there, and based on the edge of
the home, he had nothing in the walls.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Whereas my bill might have been two.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Hundred bucks, it's a morenette, probably in the upper two hundreds.
His was close to nine hundred, and my house was larger.
That's how much of a difference it can make. So again,
if you're unsure what you have, you or someone is
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going to have to get up there and just do
a once over in the attic and see how much
inslation you have. And there's all kinds of other things.
We'll talk about some of those today, and if you've
got a question, you can certainly call us.
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But little things just like cleaning the.
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Coils on your refrigerator every six months, that can save
you nickels and dimes maybe more, and uh not that
difficult to do. So our phone number's five to one
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maintenance or repair. Feel free to join us. Our number
is eight hundred eight three eight two five five and Rand, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Good morning, Gary. How are you this weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Just live in the dream? Rand? How about you and.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
The same thing up there in northern Idaho? I was
sharing that what I've got is that we've got a
cedar fence. It's actually in my school, but a lot
of them. What we're talking about here, I'm sure will
apply to homes too. The cedar fence we put in
about four years ago, we were gonna let it be
kind of natural. What natural turns into is just an
ugly gray thing. So we've powerwashed it. And what we're
doing now is we're kind of looking at it compared
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to analysis with my students. I'm saying, Okay, we can
use uh oil based water based, or we'll comparing those
against boiled in seed oil pros and cons of those.
And have you ever heard of show shoogy bond preservation
of woods? No, it's a Japanese method where you burn
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the wood and then scrape it down, wash it and yeah,
that's uh. But that's that makes some of the administrators
above me a little nervous when I put a bunch
of torches and kids' hands around to school. So we're
kind of we're kind of we're kind of leaning away
from that one, but looking towards the board the world
lind seed versus another stain, and we just wanted to
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think about some of the pros and collins thatack.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Can you help me with that?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
First starting with a linen seed oil, of course, from
the flax seed. Many people, you know, the farmers and
everything years ago, that's what they use. That's about what
we had it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I used. I read a book one time.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It was it was an interesting book that one of
the problems with farms back then was when we even
just used linseed oil on our homes and fences and everything,
cows would come up and start licking the farmhouse.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
So I've heard it attracts insects too. Yeah, that's the
other part.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, I'll tell you the boil the boiled linseed oil
right now. At this point with the technology, i'd put
a line through it. So let me just give you
the coms. Okay, Boiled lind seed has very little UV protection,
which is the reason an that that ceedar terms of
that gray color, it can you know, hold up against
the insects and all that, but the UV rays of
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the sun really bleached that out. Linseseed oils you could
jokingly say it attracts cows, but it also attracts mold sports.
It is a food source for mold and and that
linse oil is an organic material, so the mold spores
will get on there and literally just start growing mold
to break that fence down. But you know, it does
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do some protection, but it's not going to keep that
good color you want. It's you know, if you have
a I know you're probably pretty probably where you're at,
But you know, if you had a more moist climate,
I think it would be moldier in heck all the time.
So you can do so much better. I'd really rather
just kind of take a look at your your your
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water based stains versus your solvent based stains. And solvent
based stains they penetrate wood the best. Okay, now they're
not as good again of blocking the ultraviolet rays of
the sun. So you give one and take away the other,
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so you get a little better penetration into the wood
and you don't get as longer a life out of
it because it's going to fade and it will it
will look.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Worse, quicker.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The water bass it doesn't penetrate the wood as good
as you'd like it to. But we can help that.
First of all, cedar would allow penetration a little bit
better than maybe some other woods. All Right, you can
also help that. There's a product called deck wash or
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deck brightener may have seen it in hardware does and
what it is. It is a mildoxolic acid which opens
up the pores of the wood, which allows the water
based paints or water based stains and paints to penetrate
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into that wood much better than if you did not
use it. I like to refer to it. It's like
the meratic acid for wood, only it's not moradic acid.
It's like solic acid. And your water base, be it paints,
solid color stains or semi transparent stains, has the best
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resistance to the ultraviolet light. So it's going to stay
that color longer. How much longer can't really say, because
it's going to vary from different locations on the property,
probably depending on direct sunlight and everything else. And also
the color the darker this semi transparent stain you use,
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the longer it's gonna last because it's got more solids
in it. So in a nutshell, that's kind of now
that you can get into all kinds of things now
RAND where they even have modified penetrating stains where it's
a combination of oil and water, which is pretty unique
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stuff too. I know Sherman Williams has their own brand
and modified semi transparent where it does have water and
oil in it, I would still use the oxalic acid
for good penetration. You get extra penetration there, you got
good block with the sun. That's probably the you know.
I'd go either the straight water base or maybe the
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modified acrylics.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, and there's practical life skills class I teach. I've
got new kids in it every every year, so as
I think about it, even if you're water I think
if I recall correctly correctly, water based would need to
be applied more often.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, I don't know if it'd need to be replied
more often at this point, because it's going to look
better longer.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's mainly the penetration into the wood. I hope that helps. Rand.
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Let me know how you make out on that, and
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Question when we kick off the show today is energy costs? Yep,
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We're not happy. What are you doing about it? Love
to hear your input. Our phone number is eight hundred
eighty two three eight.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Two five five.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I will say that weather stripping and calking goes a
long way to helping you on your energy bill. Is
it gonna bring it back to where it was? Probably not?
Is it gonna help?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And different things to look when you're outside is really
take a look at any joints, joints in sighting, joints
around the house, joints around doors, joints around windows, any
penetration going through the envelope of the house. Those are
all places were Certainly, air can transfer cold air into
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a warmhouse. Warm air escaping from a warmhouse, and by
tightening that up certainly will help conserve energy. If you
get a cold draft going into your home, it's going
to take a little bit more work for your furnace
to satisfy that thermostat. It's going to run longer, and
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it's going to cost you more. The problem with calking,
a lot of us can observe that maybe we are
missing a little calking around a window or you know,
a door jam or something something along those lines. But
the cold action, well, it can be a project in
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some cases because the old calking has to be removed,
and that's probably the biggest part of that job. To
be honest, you just can't smear it over the surface
of your existing calking. It's not gonna look good. Number one,
it's gonna be a thin layer. Adhesion is probably on
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the old calking, which isn't going to be good. The
way calking works is it goes into the crevice. You
don't have to fill the crevice, but you have to
get the calking into the crevice enough so that adhesion
can take place on both sides of that calking bead
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to the interior sides of the crevice, and that adhesion
is what's going to keep out you know, cold temperatures, water,
and then as you go through the cycle of the seasons,
the hot the cold, the medium the hot the cold medium,
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there's gonna be some flexing that takes place, so adhesion becomes.
Preparation of the seam obviously is important. The way the
calking is applied is important, and then the type of
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calking that is applied can also be important. For instance,
if you have wood windows and you have wood sighting,
a good acrylic siliconized cocking will be fine. It's the
same substrate. It's going to expand and contract at about
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the same means. But if you get into wood windows
and brick, aluminum windows and wood, in other words, mixed substrates,
you got a little bit more pulling action, a little
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bit more flexing, a little bit different because of the substrates.
One may expand much more and the other pulling it
away from that other substrate and putting pressure on that seam.
And though the acrylic siliconized colocking has very good adhesion,
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it is painable. It has some flexibility because of the
silicone in it. When it's mixed substrates, there's maybe a
better cocking to use, and one of those would be
a eurethane, probably about three times more expensive.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's up to you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I'd be fine if you use the acrylic siliconized, but
if you're really want to be one and done, maybe
you should take a look at the euthane for mixed substrates,
would brick, wood, vinyl that type of situation. Your thane
is paintable, silicon for the most part, is not though
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you can buy paintable silicone. Your thane probably has your
best flexibility, has your best flexibility and length of service.
I guess to you because it's got great adhesions, got
great flexibility, and bingo, that's what you're looking for. But
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ignoring it again, it's just another thing.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's another thing that's going to keep those utility bills high.
As if you have areas where you have missing clocking
around windows or any penetration, and not only the cold
air invading your home, but you also have a port
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now for insects, port for water. Water gets down in
there beside inside the walls. That's a problem. So that
little depends what type we get. Two dollars or five
dollars tube of calking serves a very very strong line
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of defense against the things we want to keep.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Out of our house. And how long.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Should they laugh? Welly, it depends. But a good flexibility
any of your thing will last you a good long time.
It really will. And we talked about with ron Kruger
occasion how animals get into the attic and it's usually
usually because of lack of maintenance around the gutter areas.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So that's another area to look at.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
The soffid boards, the facia boards where they abut. Make
sure those nice and cocked, nice and tight, keeping water out,
cold temperatures out. Also keeping a warm weather inside our home.
So check for weather tightness really on all surfaces and
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components on the exture of your home. And also check
for the deterioration of paint. And we still probably got
a lot of you still have maybe another month or
two to paint outside. And taking that inspection. Now, paint
that is worn, paint that is peeling, paint that just
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doesn't look as intact as it did when it was new.
We don't have to change the color, but paint is
a ceiling. The reason we paint is to protect the substrates.
Some of us paint to change the colors, and that's fine,
but take a look at that particular area and while
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you're out there, really kind of getting off the whole,
you know, tightening up your home, protecting substrates, and also
take a look at areas where really adding color or
adding some curve appeel is a nice addition to your home.
I don't know where you stand on exposed foundation, whether
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you have vinyl sighting on your home or whether you
have a brick on your home or wood on your home.
The amount of foundation that is exposed, in other words,
it's above grade. You know, if you got a foot
or two foot or foot and a half, probably not
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a big deal at all. If you got six or
eight feet of exposed foundation. Maybe you're on a slope
or a hillside and you've got vinyl sighting or brick
or whatever, and you got to go from the grade
level to the finished siding or brick and it's six
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and a half feet tall. That's not a real good look.
In fact, some hoa's don't even allow you to have
more than a foot and a.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Half of exposure.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So if you're looking at new construction, you might check
with your HOA, see what that needs to be, See
if there is a limit, See if there is anything
addressed there. But I got to buy this one subdivision
relatively new. They've got concrete foundations. I'm gonna say they're
exposed ten feet in some areas and looks very unfinished.
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And you know, over time, the people that moved in there,
you know, start adjusting to the house payment. It's some
finances together are going to look to do something with that,
and there's many things to do. You can paint it,
but eh, there's some really neat type of sighting that
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looks like rock. There's some very decorative siding. There's even
a spray, it's a polyspray where it's textured. It almost
looks like stucco comes in different colors, very very attractive.
So there's ways that's stark concrete.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I mean, I'm not making fun of it.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I just think it looks unfinished, but I think it's
a There are different some manufactured stone that literally clips
on a railing that really looks cool, and it's an
investment in your house, there's no question about that. But
that might be something from curb Appeal. As we were
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talking about, you know, dressing things up, that might be
something you might want to consider. Also, all right, our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
You can grab a line as we continue to talk
about your home, your maintenance, your repair, your curve appeal.
You can join us and you're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right back at it we go.
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You're at home with Gary Salvent taking it through another weekend,
getting a few things done around the home, and kind
of looking forward today, happy to discuss maybe some summertime
projects like ceiling, concrete, sealing your asphalt driveway, maybe even
exterior painting. Plenty of time to still get a lot
of that done unless the weather doesn't about face on us,
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but also concentrating about things that you're going to need
to do as we move forward into the cooler weather.
And one of the things we haven't talked much about
this year and.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Is always a really, really really.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Top end conversation of the show is mold, mildew, and
humidity inside our home. Right now, I looked at humidity
level in my home is fifty percent. Is absolutely like
perfect for this time a year, and the type of
weather we're having it is just perfect. But before long,
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you know, and in the summertime, you know, you can
struggle getting it below sixty five percent, and in the
winter time you can struggle to get at about twenty
five percent. Sense, So I'm not telling you really to
activate any changes yet, because you know, the weather really
hasn't changed dramatically in a lot of parts of the country.
But start to prepare, starting to think, starting to not
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forget to do some things. And one of those is,
you know, as we get into really you know, colder weather,
and I was asking you, what are you doing about
that energy build what things are you incorporating in the
wintertime when your house gets really dry and you're running
twenty twenty five percent commuity in your house, you're probably
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turning that heat up a little higher than it needs
to be just because it's so dog gone dry. And
maybe you're you know, a household that has a humidifier
where you're actually putting moisture into the air, not now,
but in the wintertime, and it's usually on the side
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of the duckwork, down by the air handler or up
by the air handler, and there's a there's a a
media filter in there, not to filter out anything, but
to hold moisture that is then recirculated into the home.
So again, if you're having twenty twenty five percent in
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a wintertime, if we can get some moisture up into
that house where you're sitting at around thirty five forty percent,
you know, it's the opposite of summer. You're going to
feel a lot more comfortable. You're probably going to not
have to be running that furnace on super high.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
So you'll save money.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
And so if you have a humidifier, if you don't
have one, maybe that's been a problem in the past,
and maybe that's something you're thinking about investing in. And
again this is strictly for winter months, so we're looking
forward right now. Your home humidity should be I don't know,
fifty to fifty five percent be perfect. If it's down
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the forty it ain't going to hurt you and you're
not gonna do much about it. It's probably not going
to be lower net anyway. But in the winter time,
ballgame shifts. Cold weather doesn't holds much moisture. So you
can have a house with a humidity level of twenty
to twenty five percent, and if we can add moisture
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with a humidify perfect, let's get that up to around
thirty five forty percent. If you already have one, there's
some little maintenance you got to do. One of the
things you want to do is you want to change
that pad. It's there's like a little hood that you
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can pull out. They're usually about ten inch by ten inch,
and that pad goes into the humidify and there's a
quarter inch a soft copper line that goes in drips
water over that pad, and that stays wet. It helps
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circulate some moisture through the house. If that pad has
not been changed, it's probably having water drip over it.
It's probably calcifying, and you probably got a ten inch
by ten inch rock which is doing nothing but costing
you money. It's not holding water. The water's dripping over
that pad, not being absorbed by that pad and going
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right down the drain. So that pad needs to be replaced.
And then that little drain at the bottom of the
humid of fire. If you have an old pad in
there's probably clogged. Pouring some water down in there and
seeing if it goes out into the floor drain is
a good way to make sure you're getting good flow
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through that pipeline. It can be replaced. It's a rubber tubing,
it's a clear plastic tubing. Just allow that water excess
water to move on out after you replace the pan
and the other maintenance thing that you're gonna want to
do with that umid afire.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
As you.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Turn the water on, you follow that little quarter inch
soft copper pipe and it'll go up to a pipeline
A water line and there'll be a little valve up there.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Turn that on.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Not now, when it gets cold and your humidity in
your house gets down into the region of thirty percent,
turn that on and again you could test it now
and get that changed and make sure that water is flowing.
And then there's a damper on the side. It's mark
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summer winter. You would then flip that the winter. When
should you use it again? When weather starts being you know, freezing,
and your humility level starts getting below thirty five percent,
it's time to engage it.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
You need some more moisture.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
So something I would consider again the fans on the furnaces. Again,
I tell you, in the summertime, when the air conditioner's on,
you put the fan on on. Let me think that's
real slow, Okay, When it's on air conditioning, you put
it on.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Auto.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
It only blows. When it's blowing. It's only blowing the
air conditioning. And when you're heating the house, you can
go ahead and run it all the time. You can
put it on and circulating that moisture from the humidifier
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and again trying to balance that markumber down thirty five percent.
That's kind of where you want to be in the
winter time, you might struggle to get it there in
your house, and again it depends how weather stripped it
is and how much draft you have from the cold
air outside. That's just another reason why we want to
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Five five and go ahead and grab a line different
things as we look forward to colder weather, things that
you might start tackling. I mentioned this yesterday. You know,
when we get to the cooler weather, probably in a
lot of parts of the country, it'll become rainy, snowy
in northern climates. But check the window wells, in dry
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wells around your home storm drains. Make sure there's no
debris that could be blocking them. In a window well.
Sometimes there's a drain in them, sometimes not check and
make sure check and see if there is a drain.
If there's no drain, you might want to put to
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use a window well cover to minimize the amount of
water that gets in them. If it's got a drain,
just make sure that that water can get to that
drain and you know, get that water out of that
window well. So that'd be definitely one thing I would
take a look at. I've been preaching a lot about gutters.
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We'll hear from Randy Schreiber from gutter Brush today, and
how very very important to fall that we keep those
gutters clean and free flowing. Talk about crews that get
into your attic. A lot of times that's from water
that's spilling over gutters. From the back onto the softe boards,
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causing rot squirrels into the attic. Big problem water that's
spilling over the front of the gutters, laying along the foundation,
causing hydrostatic pressure, especially in areas where there's very heavy soil.
Not so much of an issue with sandy soil, but
heavy sowher it holds that water creates a lot of
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pressure can crack foundations. So clear and free flowing is
what you want those to be. And also while you're
cleaning them and checking those out, take a look at
the down spouts. If you got pipes that go underground
from the down spout, make sure that down spout in
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the pipe with a fitting that's coming up from the
ground are aligned. Every year, I have at least one
or two that are a little bit out of alignment,
and after I align them, I'd give it a couple
of years and they may very well be out of
alignment again. So it is something that requires you to
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take a look at pretty much on an ongoing basis.
So let's get that you know on your list. Also
as we go. Inside mentioned yesterday about just simple little
things like changing the filter if it's been a while,
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maybe since springtime of changing your indoor air handler's furnest
filter or air handler filter would strongly encourage you going
and replacing that going into the colder months. And there's
several different kinds, usually an inch thick, but there are
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some two inch, there are some four inch. There's some
flat filters, there's some pleat it filters. Pleated filters a
little bit more surface room, so do a little bit better.
You can get them where they have a very high
nerve rating where it'll actually filter out viruses. So I
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don't know if you need that, and we'll let you decide,
but stay away from the flat panel filters. Sure you
can get them for a buck, but they're not all
that efficient. A pleated filter it comes in different nerve
ratings anywhere really, probably from five to an eight to
an eleven to thirteen, and of course to higher the
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number of the more small particles.
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That it does filter out.
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So if you'd like to join us talk about those issues,
feel free to grab a line. We've got them wide
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two five five, and we'll talk about your home project.
I asked this question last week, and i'll ask it
again because it bears asking again. We hear people are
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friends social media, a lot of people very very concerned
about their energy bills, and it should be. I mean,
some of these have been up twenty twenty five until
somebody thirty percent. And my question is, I know we
all don't like it, but what are you doing about it?
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There's a lot of things we can do about it
in terms of conserving energy, but what are you doing
about it? Have you gotten up in that attic and
check to see how much insulation you actually have in
your attic?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
In my area, I'm supposed to have.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Eighteen inches of insulation. You can find out what the
art value is given to you by the Department of
Energy and for an R one, just figure about two
and a half inches of fiberglass insulation. If you're supposed
to have eighteen inches, then you have eight you're missing
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a boat. Ventilation all the way around the house is
ventilated properly. I know you can see the vent screens
underneath the you know, the face you're bored and the
softs by the gutters. But on the underside of that
is there penetrations through that board into the attic where
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Eric can actually flow into the attic or have they
never been there? Have they been painted over, have cobwebs
clogged them? Has insulation been blown over them? We need ventilation,
and your house very well may need insulation. But again,
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I guess I'll go back to that, just crabbing about
the the energy bill.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Let's do something about it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
At least, let's have a conversation about it and see
if we can, you know, help you out a little bit.
It's all kind of small things which add up to
big things, and the big things certainly should be addressed immediately.
I had a friend of mine actually in an older house,
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and he has really been getting socked with some big
sized bills, and got him in the abdicated four inches
of insulation up there, and based on the edge of
the home, he had nothing in the walls.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Whereas my bill might have been two.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Hundred bucks, it's a morenette, probably in the upper two hundreds.
His was close to nine hundred, and my house was larger.
That's how much of a difference it can make. So again,
if you're unsure what you have, you or someone is
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going to have to get up there and just do
a once over in the attic and see how much
inslation you have. And there's all kinds of other things.
We'll talk about some of those today, and if you've
got a question, you can certainly call us.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But little things just like cleaning the.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Coils on your refrigerator every six months, that can save
you nickels and dimes maybe more, and uh not that
difficult to do. So our phone number's five to one
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home with Gary Sullivan as we chat about your home projects,
maintenance or repair. Feel free to join us. Our number
is eight hundred eight three eight two five five and Rand, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Good morning, Gary. How are you this weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Just live in the dream? Rand? How about you and.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
The same thing up there in northern Idaho? I was
sharing that what I've got is that we've got a
cedar fence. It's actually in my school, but a lot
of them. What we're talking about here, I'm sure will
apply to homes too. The cedar fence we put in
about four years ago, we were gonna let it be
kind of natural. What natural turns into is just an
ugly gray thing. So we've powerwashed it. And what we're
doing now is we're kind of looking at it compared
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to analysis with my students. I'm saying, Okay, we can
use uh oil based water based, or we'll comparing those
against boiled in seed oil pros and cons of those.
And have you ever heard of show shoogy bond preservation
of woods? No, it's a Japanese method where you burn
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the wood and then scrape it down, wash it and yeah,
that's uh. But that's that makes some of the administrators
above me a little nervous when I put a bunch
of torches and kids' hands around to school. So we're
kind of we're kind of we're kind of leaning away
from that one, but looking towards the board the world
lind seed versus another stain, and we just wanted to
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think about some of the pros and collins thatack.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Can you help me with that?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
First starting with a linen seed oil, of course, from
the flax seed. Many people, you know, the farmers and
everything years ago, that's what they use. That's about what
we had it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I used. I read a book one time.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It was it was an interesting book that one of
the problems with farms back then was when we even
just used linseed oil on our homes and fences and everything,
cows would come up and start licking the farmhouse.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
So I've heard it attracts insects too. Yeah, that's the
other part.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, I'll tell you the boil the boiled linseed oil
right now. At this point with the technology, i'd put
a line through it. So let me just give you
the coms. Okay, Boiled lind seed has very little UV protection,
which is the reason an that that ceedar terms of
that gray color, it can you know, hold up against
the insects and all that, but the UV rays of
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the sun really bleached that out. Linseseed oils you could
jokingly say it attracts cows, but it also attracts mold sports.
It is a food source for mold and and that
linse oil is an organic material, so the mold spores
will get on there and literally just start growing mold
to break that fence down. But you know, it does
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do some protection, but it's not going to keep that
good color you want. It's you know, if you have
a I know you're probably pretty probably where you're at,
But you know, if you had a more moist climate,
I think it would be moldier in heck all the time.
So you can do so much better. I'd really rather
just kind of take a look at your your your
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water based stains versus your solvent based stains. And solvent
based stains they penetrate wood the best. Okay, now they're
not as good again of blocking the ultraviolet rays of
the sun. So you give one and take away the other,
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so you get a little better penetration into the wood
and you don't get as longer a life out of
it because it's going to fade and it will it
will look.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Worse, quicker.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The water bass it doesn't penetrate the wood as good
as you'd like it to. But we can help that.
First of all, cedar would allow penetration a little bit
better than maybe some other woods. All Right, you can
also help that. There's a product called deck wash or
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deck brightener may have seen it in hardware does and
what it is. It is a mildoxolic acid which opens
up the pores of the wood, which allows the water
based paints or water based stains and paints to penetrate
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into that wood much better than if you did not
use it. I like to refer to it. It's like
the meratic acid for wood, only it's not moradic acid.
It's like solic acid. And your water base, be it paints,
solid color stains or semi transparent stains, has the best
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resistance to the ultraviolet light. So it's going to stay
that color longer. How much longer can't really say, because
it's going to vary from different locations on the property,
probably depending on direct sunlight and everything else. And also
the color the darker this semi transparent stain you use,
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the longer it's gonna last because it's got more solids
in it. So in a nutshell, that's kind of now
that you can get into all kinds of things now
RAND where they even have modified penetrating stains where it's
a combination of oil and water, which is pretty unique
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stuff too. I know Sherman Williams has their own brand
and modified semi transparent where it does have water and
oil in it, I would still use the oxalic acid
for good penetration. You get extra penetration there, you got
good block with the sun. That's probably the you know.
I'd go either the straight water base or maybe the
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modified acrylics.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, and there's practical life skills class I teach. I've
got new kids in it every every year, so as
I think about it, even if you're water I think
if I recall correctly correctly, water based would need to
be applied more often.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, I don't know if it'd need to be replied
more often at this point, because it's going to look
better longer.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's mainly the penetration into the wood. I hope that helps. Rand.
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Let me know how you make out on that, and
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Question when we kick off the show today is energy costs? Yep,
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We're not happy. What are you doing about it? Love
to hear your input. Our phone number is eight hundred
eighty two three eight.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Two five five.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I will say that weather stripping and calking goes a
long way to helping you on your energy bill. Is
it gonna bring it back to where it was? Probably not?
Is it gonna help?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And different things to look when you're outside is really
take a look at any joints, joints in sighting, joints
around the house, joints around doors, joints around windows, any
penetration going through the envelope of the house. Those are
all places were Certainly, air can transfer cold air into
(23:04):
a warmhouse. Warm air escaping from a warmhouse, and by
tightening that up certainly will help conserve energy. If you
get a cold draft going into your home, it's going
to take a little bit more work for your furnace
to satisfy that thermostat. It's going to run longer, and
(23:29):
it's going to cost you more. The problem with calking,
a lot of us can observe that maybe we are
missing a little calking around a window or you know,
a door jam or something something along those lines. But
the cold action, well, it can be a project in
(23:49):
some cases because the old calking has to be removed,
and that's probably the biggest part of that job. To
be honest, you just can't smear it over the surface
of your existing calking. It's not gonna look good. Number one,
it's gonna be a thin layer. Adhesion is probably on
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the old calking, which isn't going to be good. The
way calking works is it goes into the crevice. You
don't have to fill the crevice, but you have to
get the calking into the crevice enough so that adhesion
can take place on both sides of that calking bead
(24:35):
to the interior sides of the crevice, and that adhesion
is what's going to keep out you know, cold temperatures, water,
and then as you go through the cycle of the seasons,
the hot the cold, the medium the hot the cold medium,
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there's gonna be some flexing that takes place, so adhesion becomes.
Preparation of the seam obviously is important. The way the
calking is applied is important, and then the type of
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calking that is applied can also be important. For instance,
if you have wood windows and you have wood sighting,
a good acrylic siliconized cocking will be fine. It's the
same substrate. It's going to expand and contract at about
(25:40):
the same means. But if you get into wood windows
and brick, aluminum windows and wood, in other words, mixed substrates,
you got a little bit more pulling action, a little
(26:01):
bit more flexing, a little bit different because of the substrates.
One may expand much more and the other pulling it
away from that other substrate and putting pressure on that seam.
And though the acrylic siliconized colocking has very good adhesion,
(26:21):
it is painable. It has some flexibility because of the
silicone in it. When it's mixed substrates, there's maybe a
better cocking to use, and one of those would be
a eurethane, probably about three times more expensive.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's up to you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I'd be fine if you use the acrylic siliconized, but
if you're really want to be one and done, maybe
you should take a look at the euthane for mixed substrates,
would brick, wood, vinyl that type of situation. Your thane
is paintable, silicon for the most part, is not though
(27:09):
you can buy paintable silicone. Your thane probably has your
best flexibility, has your best flexibility and length of service.
I guess to you because it's got great adhesions, got
great flexibility, and bingo, that's what you're looking for. But
(27:35):
ignoring it again, it's just another thing.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's another thing that's going to keep those utility bills high.
As if you have areas where you have missing clocking
around windows or any penetration, and not only the cold
air invading your home, but you also have a port
(27:59):
now for insects, port for water. Water gets down in
there beside inside the walls. That's a problem. So that
little depends what type we get. Two dollars or five
dollars tube of calking serves a very very strong line
(28:22):
of defense against the things we want to keep.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Out of our house. And how long.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Should they laugh? Welly, it depends. But a good flexibility
any of your thing will last you a good long time.
It really will. And we talked about with ron Kruger
occasion how animals get into the attic and it's usually
usually because of lack of maintenance around the gutter areas.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So that's another area to look at.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
The soffid boards, the facia boards where they abut. Make
sure those nice and cocked, nice and tight, keeping water out,
cold temperatures out. Also keeping a warm weather inside our home.
So check for weather tightness really on all surfaces and
(29:13):
components on the exture of your home. And also check
for the deterioration of paint. And we still probably got
a lot of you still have maybe another month or
two to paint outside. And taking that inspection. Now, paint
that is worn, paint that is peeling, paint that just
(29:36):
doesn't look as intact as it did when it was new.
We don't have to change the color, but paint is
a ceiling. The reason we paint is to protect the substrates.
Some of us paint to change the colors, and that's fine,
but take a look at that particular area and while
(29:57):
you're out there, really kind of getting off the whole,
you know, tightening up your home, protecting substrates, and also
take a look at areas where really adding color or
adding some curve appeel is a nice addition to your home.
I don't know where you stand on exposed foundation, whether
(30:21):
you have vinyl sighting on your home or whether you
have a brick on your home or wood on your home.
The amount of foundation that is exposed, in other words,
it's above grade. You know, if you got a foot
or two foot or foot and a half, probably not
(30:42):
a big deal at all. If you got six or
eight feet of exposed foundation. Maybe you're on a slope
or a hillside and you've got vinyl sighting or brick
or whatever, and you got to go from the grade
level to the finished siding or brick and it's six
(31:08):
and a half feet tall. That's not a real good look.
In fact, some hoa's don't even allow you to have
more than a foot and a.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Half of exposure.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So if you're looking at new construction, you might check
with your HOA, see what that needs to be, See
if there is a limit, See if there is anything
addressed there. But I got to buy this one subdivision
relatively new. They've got concrete foundations. I'm gonna say they're
exposed ten feet in some areas and looks very unfinished.
(31:46):
And you know, over time, the people that moved in there,
you know, start adjusting to the house payment. It's some
finances together are going to look to do something with that,
and there's many things to do. You can paint it,
but eh, there's some really neat type of sighting that
(32:07):
looks like rock. There's some very decorative siding. There's even
a spray, it's a polyspray where it's textured. It almost
looks like stucco comes in different colors, very very attractive.
So there's ways that's stark concrete.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I mean, I'm not making fun of it.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I just think it looks unfinished, but I think it's
a There are different some manufactured stone that literally clips
on a railing that really looks cool, and it's an
investment in your house, there's no question about that. But
that might be something from curb Appeal. As we were
(32:54):
talking about, you know, dressing things up, that might be
something you might want to consider. Also, all right, our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
You can grab a line as we continue to talk
about your home, your maintenance, your repair, your curve appeal.
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Speaker 1 (35:49):
All right back at it we go.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
You're at home with Gary Salvent taking it through another weekend,
getting a few things done around the home, and kind
of looking forward today, happy to discuss maybe some summertime
projects like ceiling, concrete, sealing your asphalt driveway, maybe even
exterior painting. Plenty of time to still get a lot
of that done unless the weather doesn't about face on us,
(36:13):
but also concentrating about things that you're going to need
to do as we move forward into the cooler weather.
And one of the things we haven't talked much about
this year and.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Is always a really, really really.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Top end conversation of the show is mold, mildew, and
humidity inside our home. Right now, I looked at humidity
level in my home is fifty percent. Is absolutely like
perfect for this time a year, and the type of
weather we're having it is just perfect. But before long,
(36:50):
you know, and in the summertime, you know, you can
struggle getting it below sixty five percent, and in the
winter time you can struggle to get at about twenty
five percent. Sense, So I'm not telling you really to
activate any changes yet, because you know, the weather really
hasn't changed dramatically in a lot of parts of the country.
But start to prepare, starting to think, starting to not
(37:14):
forget to do some things. And one of those is,
you know, as we get into really you know, colder weather,
and I was asking you, what are you doing about
that energy build what things are you incorporating in the
wintertime when your house gets really dry and you're running
twenty twenty five percent commuity in your house, you're probably
(37:39):
turning that heat up a little higher than it needs
to be just because it's so dog gone dry. And
maybe you're you know, a household that has a humidifier
where you're actually putting moisture into the air, not now,
but in the wintertime, and it's usually on the side
(37:59):
of the duckwork, down by the air handler or up
by the air handler, and there's a there's a a
media filter in there, not to filter out anything, but
to hold moisture that is then recirculated into the home.
So again, if you're having twenty twenty five percent in
(38:22):
a wintertime, if we can get some moisture up into
that house where you're sitting at around thirty five forty percent,
you know, it's the opposite of summer. You're going to
feel a lot more comfortable. You're probably going to not
have to be running that furnace on super high.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
So you'll save money.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
And so if you have a humidifier, if you don't
have one, maybe that's been a problem in the past,
and maybe that's something you're thinking about investing in. And
again this is strictly for winter months, so we're looking
forward right now. Your home humidity should be I don't know,
fifty to fifty five percent be perfect. If it's down
(39:08):
the forty it ain't going to hurt you and you're
not gonna do much about it. It's probably not going
to be lower net anyway. But in the winter time,
ballgame shifts. Cold weather doesn't holds much moisture. So you
can have a house with a humidity level of twenty
to twenty five percent, and if we can add moisture
(39:29):
with a humidify perfect, let's get that up to around
thirty five forty percent. If you already have one, there's
some little maintenance you got to do. One of the
things you want to do is you want to change
that pad. It's there's like a little hood that you
(39:51):
can pull out. They're usually about ten inch by ten inch,
and that pad goes into the humidify and there's a
quarter inch a soft copper line that goes in drips
water over that pad, and that stays wet. It helps
(40:14):
circulate some moisture through the house. If that pad has
not been changed, it's probably having water drip over it.
It's probably calcifying, and you probably got a ten inch
by ten inch rock which is doing nothing but costing
you money. It's not holding water. The water's dripping over
that pad, not being absorbed by that pad and going
(40:36):
right down the drain. So that pad needs to be replaced.
And then that little drain at the bottom of the
humid of fire. If you have an old pad in
there's probably clogged. Pouring some water down in there and
seeing if it goes out into the floor drain is
a good way to make sure you're getting good flow
(40:59):
through that pipeline. It can be replaced. It's a rubber tubing,
it's a clear plastic tubing. Just allow that water excess
water to move on out after you replace the pan
and the other maintenance thing that you're gonna want to
do with that umid afire.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
As you.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Turn the water on, you follow that little quarter inch
soft copper pipe and it'll go up to a pipeline
A water line and there'll be a little valve up there.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Turn that on.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Not now, when it gets cold and your humidity in
your house gets down into the region of thirty percent,
turn that on and again you could test it now
and get that changed and make sure that water is flowing.
And then there's a damper on the side. It's mark
(41:58):
summer winter. You would then flip that the winter. When
should you use it again? When weather starts being you know, freezing,
and your humility level starts getting below thirty five percent,
it's time to engage it.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
You need some more moisture.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
So something I would consider again the fans on the furnaces. Again,
I tell you, in the summertime, when the air conditioner's on,
you put the fan on on. Let me think that's
real slow, Okay, When it's on air conditioning, you put
it on.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Auto.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
It only blows. When it's blowing. It's only blowing the
air conditioning. And when you're heating the house, you can
go ahead and run it all the time. You can
put it on and circulating that moisture from the humidifier
(42:56):
and again trying to balance that markumber down thirty five percent.
That's kind of where you want to be in the
winter time, you might struggle to get it there in
your house, and again it depends how weather stripped it
is and how much draft you have from the cold
air outside. That's just another reason why we want to
(43:16):
make sure our insulation, ventilation and all that's in real
good shape. So Mark Doe's down all right. Our phone
number when we come back, love to take some of
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