November 17, 2024 • 45 mins
Gary wraps up Sunday with your calls and his expert advice.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, the weekend, it is welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
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All right, Uh, we're talking about home projects and let's
get to Scott. Scott's been holding on. I appreciate your patience,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Thank you. Gary. Uh, just a couple of quick questions. Uh,
we did an upcycle with some wood and built us
a nice sized deck. What would my wife likes the
weather gray color? Do they make a stain that color?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Uh? Some companies zoo? Yes, yes, so it already looks weathered.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, we get we'll get it all sanded down to
make it. I prefer the natural woodlook, but she wants
the weather gray Gotta make her happy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Okay, Well, tell me a little bit about this. Are
you putting in a composite I might have missed part
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Are you putting in a composite deck?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We we did an upcycle on some wood.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh, okay, So you're recycling wood and using this correct?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay? Okay? Is it? What kind of wood is it?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I mean, is it pressure treated pine or what?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm assuming it's pressure treated? The guy said it was.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay. How about what kind of shapes it in?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
If that was really really good shape?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So the grains tie, So the grain's tie, nose splits
or anything along those lines in right, No, sir?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay? And so.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is it grain color?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Some of us, some of us got the gray color,
as you can tell the way wouldn't when they used it.
They didn't do it with the cuts going up. They
got some of the cups that were going down, so
put them back to where cup would be up. So
that's why I gotta send them down and make them
all look you know, you know universal and didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, you got to make sure those cups are all
going the same way, right, otherwise you gotta tripping there
for sure. Uh So let me just kind of and
and you're gonna put a ceiling on them at that point.
Once it's you know, sanded down, everything's looking good. Yes, okay,
(03:41):
So here's so here's just so we are on the
same page.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
If we sand them down.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Just remember that when when you pressure treat, would that
pressure treat meant is only down there maybe I don't know,
anywhere between a sixteenth and three sixteenthst deep into the wood.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's not all the way through the whole wood.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you know a lot of people don't realize that,
and then they literally send off the pressure treatment off
the wood. So that's one thing to keep in mind.
The next thing to keep in mind is if you
get it to a to a natural looking color of wood,
and a clear seiler can be put on there, because
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a clear seiler has very little UV protection and the
UV is what turns that wood gray. Without that seiler,
it'll turn into gray faster. But you know, I guess
(04:51):
what I'm saying is that really needs to be sealed
almost every year. There's no real good clear UV celant
for pressure would that lasts for an extended period of time.
Now you don't have to stand it. All you got
to do is clean it and reapply. Without doing that though,
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because people think, well it'll gray faster if I don't
put a sealer on it. It will, but it will
also damage the wood. You know, we have a tendency
to split, crack, grain, raised, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So right, all right, as long as.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You know that, that's fine, Yes, like its just wants
she wants to the weather gray stain look pretty much
as soon as I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Done, okay, Well that that's another good thing. So you're
you're going to take that pressure wood, reclaim pressure wood.
You're gonna kind of sand it down, get you know,
for a lays, right, and then stain it with a
green with a gray ceiler. And yeah, most most standard
colors for deck stains our cedar, redwood, canyon brown, and
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they call it like a coastal gray, which is a weather. Okay,
so yeah, you'll find that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And after I do the stain, can I put like
a Thompson's type water seal on it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, your stain is that so in fact, your stay
actually better than a Thompson's water seal that would be clear.
So that stain that you're using, that gray stain is
a sealer. It's a water sealer, but it's pigmented water
sealer basically, is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Okay, that's what I wanted to double check on. Thank
you so much, Gary.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You're quite welcome. Thanks God, take care all right. For
the first time today the lines are empty. So if
you've been trying to get through, and I know many
of you have, you've got that opportunity right now. Danny
can take your call. It's eight hundred eighty two three
A two five five and we'll talk about your home project.
(06:57):
Some quick tips for the holidays. Boy, I'll tell you
what we see this every year, starting with really Halloween
and certainly through Thanksgiving and Christmas, is it's like disposer
disposal abuse, that's what we'll call it. And that's a
people that really start putting stuff down a disposal that
really should not be put down a disposal. I always
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kind of warn people about this, and every year goes like, well,
if I can't do that, why do I even have
a disposal? Remember, a disposal in the kitchen's really designed
for minimal scraps off plates. Most of the scraps in
peelings and things go in a compost minner of the trash.
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The small piece is fine, that can go in the disposal.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What whatuld you want to do?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And we see it every year, especially the holidays. Somebody's
peeling all the potatoes and they put all the skins
in a disposal. That's a big no. No sealery, no, no.
Anything with a lot of texture, a lot of rough age.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You don't go putting.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Down starchiness, you don't put down disposal. So celery a
lot of potato peels, pumpkin seeds and rhine. Oh my gosh,
that's terrible. And what happens when you put these types
of products down in disposal since they're so thick, there's
so much fiber, it can literally shut down the disposal
(08:24):
and it can trip the switch, the breaker on the disposal,
and you're gonna panic. And by the way, I'm gonna
tell you how to solve that problem. First of all,
don't do it. But if it does happen and you
got the powers off and everything cleaning out the inside,
that might be a good idea. And then when you're
ready to go again, there's a red circuit breaker on
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the bottom of the disposal that you could that's popped out,
that's what's tripped it, and put that press that back
in there and fire that baby up with some water
and you you might have to do that process one
or two times. Sometimes actually get jammed. And when the
power is off and that breaker's been tripped, there's a
(09:09):
wrench that you can use. It came with a disposal.
It's like an Allen wrench that you can put into
the bottom of the disposal and manually turn it. But
of course the best way to do it is prevention.
And again just remember anything, you know anything real starchy
potato peelings are probably the worst, along with celery, but
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even rice. You just want to stay away from that
type of thing. Like I said, the pumpkin rhind is
really bad too. If you're gonna make your own pumpkin pie,
you're gonna have some rind that gets wrapped up and
pitched and a compost bin or in the trash can
knock down the disposal. All right, let me give you
the phone number one more time. We'll come back and
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Brian will lead us off. It's eight hundred eight two
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we got Brian, Brian, welcome, good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yes, sir, I have a small high as I think
it's built, probably around in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
It's got the asbestos siding on it, the scallop looking siding,
you know, as small as fifteen by twenty and one
corner of the house is starting to sag. It's on
two block piles pilings. Okay, and I wonder if you
have any suggestions on how to lift it up and
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level it out.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, they do different processes that I'm called peering. Are
you familiar with that or if you hit anybody come
out and take a look at it at this point,
no certain, All right, So there's different processes, and one
of it is peering. Now I'm not so sure about
the the depth since it is Florida, Florida, where they
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just they drill straight down into the earth okay until
you hit you know, bedrock, and there's attachments on the
base of the footings where it almost works like a
jack if you will, like a hydraulic jack, where they
can just lift that corner of that house up and
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it's piered.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's one way of doing it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The other way is to dig down and literally create
a pilon, a piling underneath the underneath the footers themselves
out of concrete, but mainly driving a steel post down
in there and creating like a jack assembly and it's
covered up by the soil.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Is the way that it's peered. It's called peering.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh so you just drive a post down and then.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well you don't.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It'll probably have to be somebody that's going to do it,
that has the equipment. Yeah, it's not something that you're
just gonna you know, hammer a post down and then.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You'll be set. That's why I was asking if you
had aimed by take a look.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
At it, and in Florida, there might be a There
are different types of applications that they can use depending
on the depth of the bedrock, you know, because we've
got to get to something solid because we're literally lifting
up the corner of that house or stabilizing it.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, and I believe that the septic tank is in
that approximate area too, And I'm not sure if it's
causing some sort of an erosion ue or why.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You know, it depends if there's leakage down there, maybe
that's causing the problem. A lot of times, that's why
I said it is a little bit of a complicated issue.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's not something we just solve.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
A lot of times those companies will have a structural
engineer that will come and look and basically write the
prescription on how we're going to stabilize this house. Are
you having any other symptoms to it outside of being
able to notice that corner is just sagged a little bit?
(16:00):
I mean doors and windows, are they all operating properly
or are we having problems with them sticking or cracks
in the house.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But yeah, there's a there's a front door and a
back door, and the back door is really hard to open.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, so those are all the symptoms. So what I
do really, Brian is start to process, get a company
or two that does peering or foundation stabilization, and get
some bids on it and see how they're going to
correct it, and then we can talk about those you
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know that process or you can talk to because no
two bids are ever the same. You know, they got
different ways of doing it and different techniques and different
observations of what's going on. So you know, you get
a couple of bids and start quizzing people and figure
out which one you want to go. There's also a
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way of doing it where you get a structural engineer
is almost like a home inspector on steroids, okay, and
you know it's a consultation. You know they're going to
come out, take a look at it, tell you what's
going on, tell you how you would correct it, and
then you reach out to different companies that are going
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to do the correction. Where you've got somebody that's given
you the advice that isn't going to do the work,
and some people like to go that way about it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I see, I was hoping I could put like a
B or something that would span underneath the corner out
a little ways that would support it because I've got
some twenty ton hydraulic jacks. I believe one twenty ton
jack would lift that corner. It's so small houses, you know,
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only fifteen by twenty. But I guess it sounds a
little more complicated than that.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well I think so. I mean, you know you're going
to have to have that jack stable. I don't know
the uh consistency of the soil and whether how you're
going to do that. I mean, that's really why I
think you need just a little professional advice on how
to attack the problem. So you know, having said that,
getting your estimates doesn't cost you anything, right, and you're
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gonna you're gonna learn a little bit about uh stabilization,
the consistency of your soil. Uh. You're gonna get advice,
and then you can make a determination of whether that's
something you can handle.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
All right, Well that's uh, that's more than I knew
before I told you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So I appreciate it very good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And I think I would either get a structure engineer
and pay for his advice, or get some free advice
on estimates and quiz them. And like I said, then
you're gonna have even more information and you're gonna be
able to decide if that's a project you can tackle
or not. So thanks much for the call. I appreciate it.
All right, very good, And if you'd like to join us,
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We got thirty three minutes after the top of.
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They are at home with Garry Sullivan.
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If you just get a question on your home, join
us and we'll chat about it. Bill, welcome, Hi, Gary.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Quick question.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I have a large area of tile that I need
to clean the ground.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
What is the best product for that?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Is this on a floor or in a shower or
where is it?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
It's on a kitchen floor?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Kitchen floor, Well, I've seen people steam clean them. I'm
not a big fan of that because we're infusing water
into it. Grout cleaners, there's a lot of them, Bill,
Grantite Gold's got a grout cleaner with a very stiff,
little tiny almost like an enlarged toothbrush, which does a
(23:24):
good job. It's it takes a lot of elbow grease
to clean grout, but the Granite Gold grout cleaner would
be one i'd recommend. I'll also tell you you know
that dirt when liquefied, and that's how that dirt gets
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in there and starts building up. It seeps into the
grout and so it's kind of stained also, and sometimes
you just really can't get it real clean. There is
a solution to that.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Also.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
There is grout paint, which comes in a bottle with
a little uh sponge on the top of it, almost
like liquid shoe polish, that you can run down the
grout line wipe it off the tile. Uh, that may
be an option. And then one other thing which I
have used numerous times. You know what a dreumal tool is. Yeh,
(24:21):
all right, so you know how you have those little
comb shaped stones that stain is probably less than a
thirty second into that grout and I've used a drumal
tool and just run stain that stone down there and
abrasively remove, you know, a very small amount of that
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grout and clean you know it'll be clean. You'll see
it be clean, and then I would seal the grout
after that process.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So really depends on you could use. Again.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Granted Gold has a grout sailer, I'd be fine with that.
Miracle Ceilings has a fifteen year grout ceiling that can
be sprayed and not wiped off the tile, which is
pretty cool and fast. I like that one. There's also
one called aqua seal. There's a bunch of grouse sealers
out there, and get the one with you know it'll
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say ten to fifteen year lifespan.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So those are some options for you.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Really depends on how far that you know the dirt
and has sunk into the groud quite honestly, I'll try
that golden very good, thank you, thank you, bye bye. Yeah,
that grout can be a challenge, but we have since
actually not because of the grout. We have since replaced
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a ceramic tile floor in our kitchen twenty five years old,
and there was some tiles that were beginning to crack.
But over the course of time, you know that you
clean the grout. You don't have to clean all the time,
but you know, every three or four years, seem to
clean it and then you got to seal it, and
it's it's it's labor intensive.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
There's the grout medic.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There's definitely different people that can take care of that
problem for you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But that's not cheap.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And uh, I've had it where a ground cleaner sometimes
did a really good job and other times those stains
were just in there and taking that little drumal toil
really touches it up and does a real good job.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
All right, let's go to Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Ronnie, welcome, Hey Gary, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'm doing fine, thank you.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Okay, I got two questions. My first question, let's have
Maryland Harris.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Marylyn Harris is doing fine. She's doing fine. I will
do that.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
We miss her doing the holidays on the holidays about
how to cook.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
My question is today is I got a house with
two fireplaces. I got one downstairs that cuts off by itself.
Do those have thermost's on them?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
They have a If it's cutting off itself, it's probably
the thermal couple, which is the pilot light, and those things,
you know, they wear out and the thermal couple would
have to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That would be my guess.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Okay, okay, well that's being a question. Thank you for
your help.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
All right, you're quite welcome. Thank you. Yeah, the thermal couple.
That's a classic problem with a failure on a thermal couple,
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You don't want to have one way too long. That
can be problematic also, all right, Tom, welcome, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Gary, I heard you talk about an hour ago about
a product that gets the rust out of toilet bowls.
What was the name of that.
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I think it's over forty bucks or something. But they
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That that sale just started, uh I think yesterday. So
the cream cleanser is on there and.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
That gets it out. Three you have to empty out
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Speaker 8 (29:20):
Yeah, because when I remodeled my bathroom my team, I
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No, that's an online product, so you can get it
at Amazon or you can get it at a H
H S O n me dot com.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Very good, Thank you very much, be very helpful.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You're quite Will you do the same? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Couple spots for you and Jim.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Welcome. How did that was installed in great show?
Speaker 8 (30:05):
As always has been for the.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Last four decades.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It seems like it. For sure.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
You taught me a ton of things to save me
a bold o the money.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Very good water softiers.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
What do you think about the box store water softeners
like ken Moore's.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
I had a chance to pick up a new, never.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Installed four hundred, which is a forty thousand grain ken More.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, but again the.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Unit s that's right over the Brian tanks.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
Some of the ratings haven't been that great on them
with your.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Opinion, you know, I had I didn't have a Ken Moore.
I actually I think it was a Ge. No, it
was a hag Water one. But Ge makes them, and
you know they do a decent job. I would say,
if you're comparing them something to a connecticot or a cull.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Again, it's not of.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
That quality, but you know, you get seven eight years
out of it. It'll soften the water.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean, I think it falls under the category not
trying to be a smart guy or anything here. I
think it really falls in the category of you get
what you pay for. I mean, I think I got mine.
It was like eight hundred bucks. It lasted about eight years.
Then I got a cull again, it was about twenty
five hundred bucks. I could tell the difference, not saying
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the other one didn't work. I could just tell the difference.
The Colorgan made that water a little more slippery on
my skin, so it was softening it a.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Little bit more.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And I still have that and it's probably been twelve
to fifteen years already.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Awesome. Also, I only softened the hot water so I
don't have to run a separate line for the cold
to drink from.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Okay, your opinion on.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
That, well, that's fine, that's fine, your heart Your hardest
water is usually the uh the hot water line anyway,
for sure.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, Okay, you've been a great help.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I figure for a buck forty, it's worth taking a
chance on it.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I think I agree with you, all right, Jim, Thanks, Yeah,
for sure it would be all right again. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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Grab a line. We'll wrap things up for the weekend.
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All right, back at it we go thirteen minutes before
the top of the hour and busy weekend. It has
again all the hours. Each individual hour is available to
you via podcast. If you'd like to catch up maybe
you missed yesterday's show, You can get our project of
the week, which was an interview with Bruce Shaco from
Jawls going through his line of cleaners, which still I
(35:33):
wish more people would discover it because it is a
first of all they work their glass cleaner. I think
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streaking or I've not hit a problem with it streaking,
and a lot of people have told me the same.
But it's the cool thing about is after you empty
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You're ready to go again. So that podcast is available
also talking about the different cleaners and the caddypack. There's
a sale going on that right now plus each hour
of the show. So again you can pick that up
(36:16):
on the iHeart app, just put in at Home with
Gary Sullivan or wherever you get your podcasts. Those are
available to you. And one other thing out there. A
couple other things I want to talk about before we
separate for another week is I've had a lot of
folks writing me about leaky toilets, and you know it's
(36:41):
an elementary uh probably fix it in our homes. And
what I'm talking about is if you're you know, sitting
in the family room and you hear your toilet flush
or in the bathroom at night and here here a
toilet just kind of turn its water on. What's going
on there is water is leaking from the closet of
(37:01):
the toilet into the bowl of the toilet, and you
know the flapper or the rubber ball that shuts that
off is you know, it needs to be replaced to
prove that is the problem. You can take food coloring
and put a couple drops of food coloring in the
closet of the tank, and if the water in the
(37:23):
bowl of the toilet begins to change to that color,
you'll know that the water from the closet is seeping
into the bowl.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And then the.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Valve, the ballcock valve that supplies the water to the
closet will just turn on for you know, maybe two seconds,
three seconds, and it'll bring that water level up in
the closet and it'll shut off again, a little more
leak out.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
It'll turn on again.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
So as you can hear, there is a pretty sizable
waste of money if it goes on and on and on.
And you know, maybe there's a toilet in your house
that you don't hear that turn on. Maybe it's upstairs
in that bedroom it's no longer occupated or occupied, and
maybe the one down in the basement where the TV
(38:16):
is and the basement's fixed up, that toilet's doing it
and you get a high, you know, water bill, and
that's one of the first things to look. Now, usually
what causes the fail of those flappers is the chlorine
that's in our water, and there is. And I went
through this at my house and did a little investigating.
(38:39):
That's when I found out about it. There are most
most flappers or toilet balls are not chlorine resistant, but
there is a one brand. It's Quirky and it's a
red toyll It ball or flapper which is chlorine resistant.
(39:04):
Sure enough, when I changed that out, obviously it didn't
go bad in a year year and a half like
the other ones were going bad. That solved the problem.
There's also another thing that happens though, so again that
ball or the flapper. You press the flush handle down,
the chain pulls up the flapper. The water goes down
(39:28):
into the ball and flushes closes, and you replace the flapper,
yet it still leaks. You still hear it flush in itself.
The problem is probably not the flapper then, because you
had just replaced it. It just can't go bad that fast.
And it's probably difficult to misalign it. I mean they're
(39:53):
pretty self aligned. But what happens is the rim that
that comes down on. And see, the old ones were
made of brass, the new ones are made of nylon
or plastic. But what happens over time is that rim
is not smooth. So the old brass sometimes will get
(40:15):
a little chip in them, a little crack in them,
the nylons maybe a little chip or crack, or maybe
there was even the seam of it where it's a
little rough. It just wasn't fitting down on top of
that and sealing it properly. And you're kind of in
a quandary of wine in the world. That thing's still
leaking since you just replaced the ball or the flapper. Well,
(40:36):
what it is is that that's got to be very smooth.
So sometimes taking like a median grit wet dry paper,
sandpaper and smoothing it out sometimes. But fluid Master has
a kit which is very cool. It has a flapper,
(40:57):
it has the chain, and then it's got its own
little rim. So what you'll do is you'll shut off
the water, flush the toilet and take all the water
out of that tank, take off the old flapper and
dry that rim and where the water would exit into
(41:18):
the bowl and get it nice and dry, and then
you take that rim. And in this fluid Master kit
is a putty and a POxy putty which goes on
the inside of this metal aluminum rim and you press
it over the existing rim of the rim where the
(41:44):
water would go out of, and it's all one piece,
So you're gluing the rim on. You have the flapper,
you have the chain, and you're done, and you will
have you don't have to take all the parts out
of the toilet. You now have a flapper that is
very aligned, it's landing on a very smooth surface, and
(42:06):
it will save you a ton of time and it
will solve your problem. So I just kind of want
to pass that along because I know a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I've had multiple.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
People writing me and asking me what's going on that
you know, I changed the flapper and you know I
can't get it to work, and Jesuid, it's not that complicated.
But on occasion if that's not really ceiling, because it's
not really smooth, that can certainly certainly be be the problem.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
So there I want to pass that along to you.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
One other thing is the time has changed and is
dark in the evening. I'm sure you've noticed and you
may have started having some cloudy days and we just
don't have much light getting into our homes. I give
this tip all the time. It may help you. A
lot of people are affected by lack of lightning when time.
(43:01):
Taking your screens out, screens block about twenty percent of
the sunlight coming through your windows. Taking your screens out,
cleaning them and storing them wherever will allow twenty percent
more light to get into your home. And again that's
something I know a lot of people do. Just number
them and you know, starting kitchen, a window there and
(43:24):
that's number one, and you know, so you know where
the screens go. But it's a great way to really
enhance the light inside your home. Also, if you have
can lights, the ones that where you can actually change
the lumens and also the lighting color, you can a lot.
On these floodlights, you have options whether it's daylight, whether
(43:45):
it's soft white, and changing that to a daylight in
the winter time will make a brighter light. It will
add more you know, brightness.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
And lumens to that same exact floodlight on the newer ones.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
And if you've got that kind of light, you can
certainly change the color of the lighting. It's more of
a blue crystal light and that might help also. All right,
music's playing and Danny Boy, thank you very much. Another
weekend in the bank and a busy one.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
It was good Lord willing.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
We'll be back next weekend for more At Home with
Gary Sullivan.
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All right, the weekend, it is welcome.
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All right, Uh, we're talking about home projects and let's
get to Scott. Scott's been holding on. I appreciate your patience,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Thank you. Gary. Uh, just a couple of quick questions. Uh,
we did an upcycle with some wood and built us
a nice sized deck. What would my wife likes the
weather gray color? Do they make a stain that color?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Uh? Some companies zoo? Yes, yes, so it already looks weathered.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, we get we'll get it all sanded down to
make it. I prefer the natural woodlook, but she wants
the weather gray Gotta make her happy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Okay, Well, tell me a little bit about this. Are
you putting in a composite I might have missed part
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Are you putting in a composite deck?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We we did an upcycle on some wood.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh, okay, So you're recycling wood and using this correct?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay? Okay? Is it? What kind of wood is it?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I mean, is it pressure treated pine or what?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm assuming it's pressure treated? The guy said it was.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay. How about what kind of shapes it in?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
If that was really really good shape?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So the grains tie, So the grain's tie, nose splits
or anything along those lines in right, No, sir?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay? And so.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is it grain color?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Some of us, some of us got the gray color,
as you can tell the way wouldn't when they used it.
They didn't do it with the cuts going up. They
got some of the cups that were going down, so
put them back to where cup would be up. So
that's why I gotta send them down and make them
all look you know, you know universal and didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, you got to make sure those cups are all
going the same way, right, otherwise you gotta tripping there
for sure. Uh So let me just kind of and
and you're gonna put a ceiling on them at that point.
Once it's you know, sanded down, everything's looking good. Yes, okay,
(03:41):
So here's so here's just so we are on the
same page.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
If we sand them down.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Just remember that when when you pressure treat, would that
pressure treat meant is only down there maybe I don't know,
anywhere between a sixteenth and three sixteenthst deep into the wood.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's not all the way through the whole wood.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you know a lot of people don't realize that,
and then they literally send off the pressure treatment off
the wood. So that's one thing to keep in mind.
The next thing to keep in mind is if you
get it to a to a natural looking color of wood,
and a clear seiler can be put on there, because
(04:30):
a clear seiler has very little UV protection and the
UV is what turns that wood gray. Without that seiler,
it'll turn into gray faster. But you know, I guess
(04:51):
what I'm saying is that really needs to be sealed
almost every year. There's no real good clear UV celant
for pressure would that lasts for an extended period of time.
Now you don't have to stand it. All you got
to do is clean it and reapply. Without doing that though,
(05:12):
because people think, well it'll gray faster if I don't
put a sealer on it. It will, but it will
also damage the wood. You know, we have a tendency
to split, crack, grain, raised, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So right, all right, as long as.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You know that, that's fine, Yes, like its just wants
she wants to the weather gray stain look pretty much
as soon as I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Done, okay, Well that that's another good thing. So you're
you're going to take that pressure wood, reclaim pressure wood.
You're gonna kind of sand it down, get you know,
for a lays, right, and then stain it with a
green with a gray ceiler. And yeah, most most standard
colors for deck stains our cedar, redwood, canyon brown, and
(06:03):
they call it like a coastal gray, which is a weather. Okay,
so yeah, you'll find that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And after I do the stain, can I put like
a Thompson's type water seal on it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, your stain is that so in fact, your stay
actually better than a Thompson's water seal that would be clear.
So that stain that you're using, that gray stain is
a sealer. It's a water sealer, but it's pigmented water
sealer basically, is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Okay, that's what I wanted to double check on. Thank
you so much, Gary.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You're quite welcome. Thanks God, take care all right. For
the first time today the lines are empty. So if
you've been trying to get through, and I know many
of you have, you've got that opportunity right now. Danny
can take your call. It's eight hundred eighty two three
A two five five and we'll talk about your home project.
(06:57):
Some quick tips for the holidays. Boy, I'll tell you
what we see this every year, starting with really Halloween
and certainly through Thanksgiving and Christmas, is it's like disposer
disposal abuse, that's what we'll call it. And that's a
people that really start putting stuff down a disposal that
really should not be put down a disposal. I always
(07:20):
kind of warn people about this, and every year goes like, well,
if I can't do that, why do I even have
a disposal? Remember, a disposal in the kitchen's really designed
for minimal scraps off plates. Most of the scraps in
peelings and things go in a compost minner of the trash.
(07:42):
The small piece is fine, that can go in the disposal.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What whatuld you want to do?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And we see it every year, especially the holidays. Somebody's
peeling all the potatoes and they put all the skins
in a disposal. That's a big no. No sealery, no, no.
Anything with a lot of texture, a lot of rough age.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You don't go putting.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Down starchiness, you don't put down disposal. So celery a
lot of potato peels, pumpkin seeds and rhine. Oh my gosh,
that's terrible. And what happens when you put these types
of products down in disposal since they're so thick, there's
so much fiber, it can literally shut down the disposal
(08:24):
and it can trip the switch, the breaker on the disposal,
and you're gonna panic. And by the way, I'm gonna
tell you how to solve that problem. First of all,
don't do it. But if it does happen and you
got the powers off and everything cleaning out the inside,
that might be a good idea. And then when you're
ready to go again, there's a red circuit breaker on
(08:47):
the bottom of the disposal that you could that's popped out,
that's what's tripped it, and put that press that back
in there and fire that baby up with some water
and you you might have to do that process one
or two times. Sometimes actually get jammed. And when the
power is off and that breaker's been tripped, there's a
(09:09):
wrench that you can use. It came with a disposal.
It's like an Allen wrench that you can put into
the bottom of the disposal and manually turn it. But
of course the best way to do it is prevention.
And again just remember anything, you know anything real starchy
potato peelings are probably the worst, along with celery, but
(09:30):
even rice. You just want to stay away from that
type of thing. Like I said, the pumpkin rhind is
really bad too. If you're gonna make your own pumpkin pie,
you're gonna have some rind that gets wrapped up and
pitched and a compost bin or in the trash can
knock down the disposal. All right, let me give you
the phone number one more time. We'll come back and
(09:52):
Brian will lead us off. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five year at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Twenty minutes after the top of they are at home
with Gary Salvyn. Let's get back to the phone calls
we got Brian, Brian, welcome, good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yes, sir, I have a small high as I think
it's built, probably around in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
It's got the asbestos siding on it, the scallop looking siding,
you know, as small as fifteen by twenty and one
corner of the house is starting to sag. It's on
two block piles pilings. Okay, and I wonder if you
have any suggestions on how to lift it up and
(13:26):
level it out.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, they do different processes that I'm called peering. Are
you familiar with that or if you hit anybody come
out and take a look at it at this point,
no certain, All right, So there's different processes, and one
of it is peering. Now I'm not so sure about
the the depth since it is Florida, Florida, where they
(13:51):
just they drill straight down into the earth okay until
you hit you know, bedrock, and there's attachments on the
base of the footings where it almost works like a
jack if you will, like a hydraulic jack, where they
can just lift that corner of that house up and
(14:14):
it's piered.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's one way of doing it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The other way is to dig down and literally create
a pilon, a piling underneath the underneath the footers themselves
out of concrete, but mainly driving a steel post down
in there and creating like a jack assembly and it's
covered up by the soil.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Is the way that it's peered. It's called peering.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh so you just drive a post down and then.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well you don't.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It'll probably have to be somebody that's going to do it,
that has the equipment. Yeah, it's not something that you're
just gonna you know, hammer a post down and then.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You'll be set. That's why I was asking if you
had aimed by take a look.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
At it, and in Florida, there might be a There
are different types of applications that they can use depending
on the depth of the bedrock, you know, because we've
got to get to something solid because we're literally lifting
up the corner of that house or stabilizing it.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, and I believe that the septic tank is in
that approximate area too, And I'm not sure if it's
causing some sort of an erosion ue or why.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You know, it depends if there's leakage down there, maybe
that's causing the problem. A lot of times, that's why
I said it is a little bit of a complicated issue.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's not something we just solve.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
A lot of times those companies will have a structural
engineer that will come and look and basically write the
prescription on how we're going to stabilize this house. Are
you having any other symptoms to it outside of being
able to notice that corner is just sagged a little bit?
(16:00):
I mean doors and windows, are they all operating properly
or are we having problems with them sticking or cracks
in the house.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But yeah, there's a there's a front door and a
back door, and the back door is really hard to open.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, so those are all the symptoms. So what I
do really, Brian is start to process, get a company
or two that does peering or foundation stabilization, and get
some bids on it and see how they're going to
correct it, and then we can talk about those you
(16:35):
know that process or you can talk to because no
two bids are ever the same. You know, they got
different ways of doing it and different techniques and different
observations of what's going on. So you know, you get
a couple of bids and start quizzing people and figure
out which one you want to go. There's also a
(16:55):
way of doing it where you get a structural engineer
is almost like a home inspector on steroids, okay, and
you know it's a consultation. You know they're going to
come out, take a look at it, tell you what's
going on, tell you how you would correct it, and
then you reach out to different companies that are going
(17:19):
to do the correction. Where you've got somebody that's given
you the advice that isn't going to do the work,
and some people like to go that way about it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I see, I was hoping I could put like a
B or something that would span underneath the corner out
a little ways that would support it because I've got
some twenty ton hydraulic jacks. I believe one twenty ton
jack would lift that corner. It's so small houses, you know,
(17:49):
only fifteen by twenty. But I guess it sounds a
little more complicated than that.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well I think so. I mean, you know you're going
to have to have that jack stable. I don't know
the uh consistency of the soil and whether how you're
going to do that. I mean, that's really why I
think you need just a little professional advice on how
to attack the problem. So you know, having said that,
getting your estimates doesn't cost you anything, right, and you're
(18:17):
gonna you're gonna learn a little bit about uh stabilization,
the consistency of your soil. Uh. You're gonna get advice,
and then you can make a determination of whether that's
something you can handle.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
All right, Well that's uh, that's more than I knew
before I told you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So I appreciate it very good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And I think I would either get a structure engineer
and pay for his advice, or get some free advice
on estimates and quiz them. And like I said, then
you're gonna have even more information and you're gonna be
able to decide if that's a project you can tackle
or not. So thanks much for the call. I appreciate it.
All right, very good, And if you'd like to join us,
(19:03):
do so. We got a spot for you as we
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They are at home with Garry Sullivan.
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If you just get a question on your home, join
us and we'll chat about it. Bill, welcome, Hi, Gary.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Quick question.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I have a large area of tile that I need
to clean the ground.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
What is the best product for that?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Is this on a floor or in a shower or
where is it?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
It's on a kitchen floor?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Kitchen floor, Well, I've seen people steam clean them. I'm
not a big fan of that because we're infusing water
into it. Grout cleaners, there's a lot of them, Bill,
Grantite Gold's got a grout cleaner with a very stiff,
little tiny almost like an enlarged toothbrush, which does a
(23:24):
good job. It's it takes a lot of elbow grease
to clean grout, but the Granite Gold grout cleaner would
be one i'd recommend. I'll also tell you you know
that dirt when liquefied, and that's how that dirt gets
(23:45):
in there and starts building up. It seeps into the
grout and so it's kind of stained also, and sometimes
you just really can't get it real clean. There is
a solution to that.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Also.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
There is grout paint, which comes in a bottle with
a little uh sponge on the top of it, almost
like liquid shoe polish, that you can run down the
grout line wipe it off the tile. Uh, that may
be an option. And then one other thing which I
have used numerous times. You know what a dreumal tool is. Yeh,
(24:21):
all right, so you know how you have those little
comb shaped stones that stain is probably less than a
thirty second into that grout and I've used a drumal
tool and just run stain that stone down there and
abrasively remove, you know, a very small amount of that
(24:43):
grout and clean you know it'll be clean. You'll see
it be clean, and then I would seal the grout
after that process.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So really depends on you could use. Again.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Granted Gold has a grout sailer, I'd be fine with that.
Miracle Ceilings has a fifteen year grout ceiling that can
be sprayed and not wiped off the tile, which is
pretty cool and fast. I like that one. There's also
one called aqua seal. There's a bunch of grouse sealers
out there, and get the one with you know it'll
(25:18):
say ten to fifteen year lifespan.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So those are some options for you.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Really depends on how far that you know the dirt
and has sunk into the groud quite honestly, I'll try
that golden very good, thank you, thank you, bye bye. Yeah,
that grout can be a challenge, but we have since
actually not because of the grout. We have since replaced
(25:45):
a ceramic tile floor in our kitchen twenty five years old,
and there was some tiles that were beginning to crack.
But over the course of time, you know that you
clean the grout. You don't have to clean all the time,
but you know, every three or four years, seem to
clean it and then you got to seal it, and
it's it's it's labor intensive.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
There's the grout medic.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There's definitely different people that can take care of that
problem for you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But that's not cheap.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And uh, I've had it where a ground cleaner sometimes
did a really good job and other times those stains
were just in there and taking that little drumal toil
really touches it up and does a real good job.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
All right, let's go to Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Ronnie, welcome, Hey Gary, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'm doing fine, thank you.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Okay, I got two questions. My first question, let's have
Maryland Harris.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Marylyn Harris is doing fine. She's doing fine. I will
do that.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
We miss her doing the holidays on the holidays about
how to cook.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
My question is today is I got a house with
two fireplaces. I got one downstairs that cuts off by itself.
Do those have thermost's on them?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
They have a If it's cutting off itself, it's probably
the thermal couple, which is the pilot light, and those things,
you know, they wear out and the thermal couple would
have to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That would be my guess.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Okay, okay, well that's being a question. Thank you for
your help.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
All right, you're quite welcome. Thank you. Yeah, the thermal couple.
That's a classic problem with a failure on a thermal couple,
and those can be replaced. You know the secret with
our thermal couples making sure you get the right size.
There's you know, the attachments are all the same. But
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(27:57):
four inch and then maybe a thirty inches. The lengths
of couples and you want to get the right length.
You don't want to have one way too long. That
can be problematic also, all right, Tom, welcome, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Gary, I heard you talk about an hour ago about
a product that gets the rust out of toilet bowls.
What was the name of that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
So we were talking about a Jaw's product called cream Cleanser, okay,
and you got to get it online. It's Jaws Jaws
cleans dot com. And you'll find that cream cleanser also
while you're there, just so you know. They got free shipping.
(28:43):
I think it's over forty bucks or something. But they
got all kinds of cleaners. They got a cleaning Caddie
pack and if you're interested, just take a look at that.
That that sale just started, uh I think yesterday. So
the cream cleanser is on there and.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
That gets it out. Three you have to empty out
the the toilet and oh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Just shut off the water, flush it and uh yeah,
it's well. The other fellow was praising how how wonderful
it worked. And I will attest to it. It's a
it's a very unique product and it's very effective.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
Yeah, because when I remodeled my bathroom my team, I
took the toilet out and I kind of scraped some
of that out and kind of chicked away. But I
will give it a shot definitely. And also the awesome
stuff for your washing machine. How do you spell that
awesome again?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, it's a H H S O M E.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Would that be at a box story I had two?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
No, that's an online product, so you can get it
at Amazon or you can get it at a H
H S O n me dot com.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Very good, Thank you very much, be very helpful.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You're quite Will you do the same? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Couple spots for you and Jim.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Welcome. How did that was installed in great show?
Speaker 8 (30:05):
As always has been for the.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Last four decades.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It seems like it. For sure.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
You taught me a ton of things to save me
a bold o the money.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Very good water softiers.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
What do you think about the box store water softeners
like ken Moore's.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
I had a chance to pick up a new, never.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Installed four hundred, which is a forty thousand grain ken More.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, but again the.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Unit s that's right over the Brian tanks.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
Some of the ratings haven't been that great on them
with your.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Opinion, you know, I had I didn't have a Ken Moore.
I actually I think it was a Ge. No, it
was a hag Water one. But Ge makes them, and
you know they do a decent job. I would say,
if you're comparing them something to a connecticot or a cull.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Again, it's not of.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
That quality, but you know, you get seven eight years
out of it. It'll soften the water.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean, I think it falls under the category not
trying to be a smart guy or anything here. I
think it really falls in the category of you get
what you pay for. I mean, I think I got mine.
It was like eight hundred bucks. It lasted about eight years.
Then I got a cull again, it was about twenty
five hundred bucks. I could tell the difference, not saying
(31:28):
the other one didn't work. I could just tell the difference.
The Colorgan made that water a little more slippery on
my skin, so it was softening it a.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Little bit more.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And I still have that and it's probably been twelve
to fifteen years already.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Awesome. Also, I only softened the hot water so I
don't have to run a separate line for the cold
to drink from.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Okay, your opinion on.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
That, well, that's fine, that's fine, your heart Your hardest
water is usually the uh the hot water line anyway,
for sure.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, Okay, you've been a great help.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I figure for a buck forty, it's worth taking a
chance on it.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I think I agree with you, all right, Jim, Thanks, Yeah,
for sure it would be all right again. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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Grab a line. We'll wrap things up for the weekend.
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All right, back at it we go thirteen minutes before
the top of the hour and busy weekend. It has
again all the hours. Each individual hour is available to
you via podcast. If you'd like to catch up maybe
you missed yesterday's show, You can get our project of
the week, which was an interview with Bruce Shaco from
Jawls going through his line of cleaners, which still I
(35:33):
wish more people would discover it because it is a
first of all they work their glass cleaner. I think
is one of the best ones I've ever used. No
streaking or I've not hit a problem with it streaking,
and a lot of people have told me the same.
But it's the cool thing about is after you empty
(35:54):
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You're ready to go again. So that podcast is available
also talking about the different cleaners and the caddypack. There's
a sale going on that right now plus each hour
of the show. So again you can pick that up
(36:16):
on the iHeart app, just put in at Home with
Gary Sullivan or wherever you get your podcasts. Those are
available to you. And one other thing out there. A
couple other things I want to talk about before we
separate for another week is I've had a lot of
folks writing me about leaky toilets, and you know it's
(36:41):
an elementary uh probably fix it in our homes. And
what I'm talking about is if you're you know, sitting
in the family room and you hear your toilet flush
or in the bathroom at night and here here a
toilet just kind of turn its water on. What's going
on there is water is leaking from the closet of
(37:01):
the toilet into the bowl of the toilet, and you
know the flapper or the rubber ball that shuts that
off is you know, it needs to be replaced to
prove that is the problem. You can take food coloring
and put a couple drops of food coloring in the
closet of the tank, and if the water in the
(37:23):
bowl of the toilet begins to change to that color,
you'll know that the water from the closet is seeping
into the bowl.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And then the.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Valve, the ballcock valve that supplies the water to the
closet will just turn on for you know, maybe two seconds,
three seconds, and it'll bring that water level up in
the closet and it'll shut off again, a little more
leak out.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
It'll turn on again.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
So as you can hear, there is a pretty sizable
waste of money if it goes on and on and on.
And you know, maybe there's a toilet in your house
that you don't hear that turn on. Maybe it's upstairs
in that bedroom it's no longer occupated or occupied, and
maybe the one down in the basement where the TV
(38:16):
is and the basement's fixed up, that toilet's doing it
and you get a high, you know, water bill, and
that's one of the first things to look. Now, usually
what causes the fail of those flappers is the chlorine
that's in our water, and there is. And I went
through this at my house and did a little investigating.
(38:39):
That's when I found out about it. There are most
most flappers or toilet balls are not chlorine resistant, but
there is a one brand. It's Quirky and it's a
red toyll It ball or flapper which is chlorine resistant.
(39:04):
Sure enough, when I changed that out, obviously it didn't
go bad in a year year and a half like
the other ones were going bad. That solved the problem.
There's also another thing that happens though, so again that
ball or the flapper. You press the flush handle down,
the chain pulls up the flapper. The water goes down
(39:28):
into the ball and flushes closes, and you replace the flapper,
yet it still leaks. You still hear it flush in itself.
The problem is probably not the flapper then, because you
had just replaced it. It just can't go bad that fast.
And it's probably difficult to misalign it. I mean they're
(39:53):
pretty self aligned. But what happens is the rim that
that comes down on. And see, the old ones were
made of brass, the new ones are made of nylon
or plastic. But what happens over time is that rim
is not smooth. So the old brass sometimes will get
(40:15):
a little chip in them, a little crack in them,
the nylons maybe a little chip or crack, or maybe
there was even the seam of it where it's a
little rough. It just wasn't fitting down on top of
that and sealing it properly. And you're kind of in
a quandary of wine in the world. That thing's still
leaking since you just replaced the ball or the flapper. Well,
(40:36):
what it is is that that's got to be very smooth.
So sometimes taking like a median grit wet dry paper,
sandpaper and smoothing it out sometimes. But fluid Master has
a kit which is very cool. It has a flapper,
(40:57):
it has the chain, and then it's got its own
little rim. So what you'll do is you'll shut off
the water, flush the toilet and take all the water
out of that tank, take off the old flapper and
dry that rim and where the water would exit into
(41:18):
the bowl and get it nice and dry, and then
you take that rim. And in this fluid Master kit
is a putty and a POxy putty which goes on
the inside of this metal aluminum rim and you press
it over the existing rim of the rim where the
(41:44):
water would go out of, and it's all one piece,
So you're gluing the rim on. You have the flapper,
you have the chain, and you're done, and you will
have you don't have to take all the parts out
of the toilet. You now have a flapper that is
very aligned, it's landing on a very smooth surface, and
(42:06):
it will save you a ton of time and it
will solve your problem. So I just kind of want
to pass that along because I know a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I've had multiple.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
People writing me and asking me what's going on that
you know, I changed the flapper and you know I
can't get it to work, and Jesuid, it's not that complicated.
But on occasion if that's not really ceiling, because it's
not really smooth, that can certainly certainly be be the problem.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
So there I want to pass that along to you.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
One other thing is the time has changed and is
dark in the evening. I'm sure you've noticed and you
may have started having some cloudy days and we just
don't have much light getting into our homes. I give
this tip all the time. It may help you. A
lot of people are affected by lack of lightning when time.
(43:01):
Taking your screens out, screens block about twenty percent of
the sunlight coming through your windows. Taking your screens out,
cleaning them and storing them wherever will allow twenty percent
more light to get into your home. And again that's
something I know a lot of people do. Just number
them and you know, starting kitchen, a window there and
(43:24):
that's number one, and you know, so you know where
the screens go. But it's a great way to really
enhance the light inside your home. Also, if you have
can lights, the ones that where you can actually change
the lumens and also the lighting color, you can a lot.
On these floodlights, you have options whether it's daylight, whether
(43:45):
it's soft white, and changing that to a daylight in
the winter time will make a brighter light. It will
add more you know, brightness.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
And lumens to that same exact floodlight on the newer ones.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
And if you've got that kind of light, you can
certainly change the color of the lighting. It's more of
a blue crystal light and that might help also. All right,
music's playing and Danny Boy, thank you very much. Another
weekend in the bank and a busy one.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
It was good Lord willing.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
We'll be back next weekend for more At Home with
Gary Sullivan.
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