Gary Sullivan 11/19/2023 Hour 3

Gary wraps up Sunday taking your calls, questions tips and more!

Episode Transcript

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Hey, welcome now our number threeat Home with Gary Salvon, taking you

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through the weekend and plenty to do. The sun is out in temperatures mid
fifties today, so maybe a littleoutdoor decorating is in order today. All
right, here's our phone number.It's five one three seven fifty five hundred.
We'll take your calls still noon todayand of course it'll all be right
here at fifty five KRC detalk station. Well, the weekend is upon us.

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Welcome at Home with Gary Salvin.Thanks for joining me. We got
another hour getting some things done aroundthe home. Don't forget the podcast is
available. My podcast each hour ofthe show, plus our project of the
week. It is available at theiHeart app. It's free and just click
on podcast at Home with Gary Sullivan. All right, let's get back to

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the phone calls. Our number eighthundred eight two three eight two five five.
We got a spot for you andTodd. Welcome, Hey, Garrett.
How you doing doing great? Thankyou haven't talk to you for a
couple of years. Hey, Igot a little Hopefully it's helpful to the
first gentleman when you get that concretecrack in a foundation. Excuse me,

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I was working on a family memberssplit level and it was a hairline crack.
And when you go through the neighborhood, I noticed that it was all
in the same place, so probablywhen they poured the forms, that's where
they pulled them anyway to get tothe point. It was just a little
leakage in the basement. So Ithought, I'll call my brother worked for

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one of the best companies at thetime, but I couldn't afford it,
so I thought I'll just handig it. So a lot of times by hand
digging it, it's not a bigdeal where the fracture is or where the
little tiny crack, And I thought, I can't ever sport anything in there,
it's too small. So anyway,I hand dug it, let the

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wall dry out, wire brushed it, and I took eu athane blue and
plastic that's made for underground and Idid like, I double did it.
I did it twice, made sureit came up above the ground level about
four or five inches, and neverhad any problem. Also, I backfilled

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some soil, just a light amountto get it away. But I think,
really, what the issue is,and you've harked on it for years,
is I didn't. There wasn't agutter on that side of the house.
So put the gutter on there,make sure the drains foul, or
go go to home depot or lovesor wherever you want to go to and

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take that plaque black corrugated pipe andmake sure it runs away. It sounds
really simple, but I think thatwas actually the real issue you. But
that worked. But here's one otherthing you should or they can look at

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before. They don't mind digging orpaying a neighbored help diggers, whatever you
want to do. Is our neighbor'sdrain bounce about from their ranch was running
directly into our sideyard, which isonly like five five feet of ground level,

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So that whole roof area from theirhouse was coming into our sideyard.
It's not their fault, but soI build a little berm along the side
of their sidewalk just to direct thewaterway. And I know you harped on
that forever. I think it's reallymore simple than that squirting out epoxy in

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there. I went through all kindsof stuff. I work in the HVAC
and my family was in construction businessfor years, and I don't think that's
gonna work. Maybe it does.I think, like you've said a thousand
times, you got to get thewater away from there the best you can.
Yeah. Well, his wasn't reallya foundation either, is a retaining

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wall. And you know, likeI had said to him, is you
know, you're you're kind of addressingthe cosmetic issue, which is the crack.
The real problem. Yeah, thereal problems behind the wall. You
know, it may be constructed wrongat five foot. You need some engineering
going on there. And then atthe end he even said, well,

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I'm thinking about digging behind there andputting a French train to catch the water.
And you're in a lot of respects, Todd, You're you're right on
It's it's not that complicated. It'scontrol the water. You're talking about building
a burm, redrecting the water,you know. Yeah, And and you

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know, I mean it's you justand when people talk about patch and I
think I even said to him,you'll patch that crack. You can do
epoxy injections. But the question toask yourself is what have you done to
alleviate the pressure and alleviate the water. And the answer is none. You've
actually exacerbated the problem because you builda dam. Now water can't float through

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it, right, So what's goingto happen? And I've been in houses
where there's been cracks in a foundationand there's no water because it's all controlled
the foot or drains work, thedownspouts and gutters are clean and free flowing.
They're moving the water six to eightfeet away from the foundation. There
is no ground water around the foundation. The grating is all sloped from the

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foundation. Yeah, you know,so, I'm sorry. I didn't mean
to interrupt you. But sometimes ifthey have, like a neighbor down on
the corner was a broken water linethat was from the water department, that
was coming up from the drain,it's just for FYI, right, yep,
that's a that's a bigger issue,right, absolutely there that's their problem.

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But here, uh, I swearby the you know, just doing
the little basics like you. Ithink people overthink it. As long as
you get that water away from there. I don't care if you have a
six or eight foot paint paint theblack pipe white. If they don't like
how it looks, it's better thanhaving water getting around your foundation because it's

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going to get in there. Can'tevaporate, no question, No, second
one, one of the the gentlemenfrom Boston. I love listening to your
program. People always say, whyare you listening to the talk radio?
I said, wait, do youhave a problem. I bet you're going
to be calling in there. You'llhear from another plumber or HVAC guy that's

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run into it. But here's theone. It was. It amazed me.
We were installing a big builder onthe west side of town, has
a very good reputation. We weredoing all the hvac. They were building
a gymnasium for their grandchildren, believeit or not, with full basketball court.

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We were there and let's see thecompany. And we were sitting down
at lunch time and just talking aboutthis. I said, I don't understand.
We don't even have any heat oranything running. We don't have the
u the furnaces running, or whateveryou want to call it. You know,

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you can call it whatever you want. And I'm taking my shirt off.
He said, here's what I learnedabout thirty five years ago when they
were building houses over on the westside. It's a lot of brothers that
work underneath him. That's a commonname. You wouldn't know it. I'm
not going to say it. Hethey took calk. It doesn't matter which

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cock you want to buy. Ilike ge silicon for when we do around
our electrical boxes and around our HVACand everything like that. To seal it
to this high silicone. Excuse me, you can't ever rip it off.
They caught every plywood four by eightsheet and that gymnasium and I was taking

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my shirt off, not the bareskin, but just down to a T
shirt. And this was in Novemberand it was around five or below on
the west side of town. Thiswas a gymnasium that was let's see thirty
two and then it was had apitch forty feet high because we had the

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scaffolding in there. And that's whathe told me. And they caught every
joint on the floor and where everysheet of plywood went in there. Sure
sure you know it is again ifwe can, you know, eliminate you
know that air transfer. We talkabout it all the time. Our homes
are getting tighter and tighter. I'vetalked about a product called aero Seal where

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they sealed duckworks. They actually havea new process and this kind of go
directly into what you're speaking of.The air seal the aerosol that's sprayed in
that seals the inside of the duckwork. They now can in construction, when
the drywall's up, they can actuallyput holes into the pockets and they can

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blow that aerceo in the air andseal up. It'll seal up all the
joints of the drywall. I mean, they can make it as tight as
can be. The issue as wecontinue to make it tight, and I
preach about this a lot too,for you can only you should only make
them so tight before you got tostart adding some you know, controlled ventilation,

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because otherwise you can you can literallymake it too tight and trap gases
and different things into your home.But yeah, we're balancing that out and
we're doing a good job with it. Thanks much, Todd, I appreciate.
We'll take a break care and you'llbe up first. You're at home
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If you'd like to join us witha question, you may do so.

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We got a line open for you. It's eight hundred eight two three A
two five five Karen. How areyou, hey, Gary, I'm great,
Thank you for asking. Gitting bythe way, well, happy,
thanksgiving you, thank you for thelady. For everybody that has a dishwasher,
I just actually cleaned mind today,and it's simple. Put a cup

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of bleach in your dishwasher. Irun it just on low cycle. When
that runs completely through, dump itand then put a four oarum I mean
a four cup shoot a cup ofvinegar, white vinegar in the bottom of
your dishwasher. Run that through andthat's please. But I have one question.

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I have well water very hard.I get all this build up.
In fact, it's so much buildup. I thought maybe cleaning it would
help, But the rack at thetop is so hard to pull out.
When it dry, you can seeall this crusted white stuff is not really
crusted. It just stains. Howdo I get that? Well again,

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well, no, it was mildacids. I mean, you know,
like CLR. You might even trythe vinegar and see if you can wipe
it off with that. Probably not. Yeah, CLR is a little bit
stronger obviously, that very well maydo it. But it's just calcium carbonate,
you know. I mean the wayreally your riv is control the amount

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of hardness in the well, youknow, with the water and with the
water softener that eliminates it. Alsosome of your electronic ones where charges hard
water particles so that it does notstick onto pipes or rats or things like
that. But the only way toreally clean it is with a with any

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types of mild acids. And Iwould say CLR would be a go to
one that I would use. SoI could run that through. You just
put a cup of that in,just like I did the vinegar. Well,
I had more visions of you kindof wiping it down with that,
but I guess you could run itthrough. I don't know that it would
do any damage, you know,I mean, it's just a mild acid,

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right, I'm getting tired of fightingwith it. Yeah, Yeah,
I don't blame you. I don'tblame you. You know a lot of
times too. I'd like to addone other thing, just in case you
run into it. You use theword that the bleach in there a lot
of times, and you may haveheard me do some interviews on this a

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lot of times. We have whatthey call in enclosed plumbing systems, we
have what they call biofilm. Anda biofilm is it's almost like a black
sliny bacteria that's in the pipes inthe unit of the dishwasher, and bleach

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will affect that, but it willnot kill it. So if you find
out in the next three or fourweeks, if you start having that odor
again, you probably need something tokill the biofilm. I don't have an
odor. I just have the calciumcarbon graph. Okay, I get yeah,
no odor at all? No odor? Yeah good, Yeah. I'd

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run some CLR through and see ifyou see if that will help you out.
The only other thing I could thinkof, and you're gonna have to
be careful with that, is there'sdifferent products that removes efflorescence. Like on
masonry surfaces you get that white,crusty chalk substance. There's efflorescence removers.

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Now this is a little stronger acid. I don't think i'd run it through
the dishwasher, but taking it maybespritzing, spraying it onto the rack itself.
It shouldn't do any damage to thevinyl coating on a rack. But
that may be a solution if theCLR wouldn't be, you know, strong

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enough. Is getting an efflorescence remover. Quick Creek makes one. They're certainly
not going to talk anything about adishwasher on the label. It's for getting
rid of that on masonry surfaces.But that may be something that would be
strong enough to get that under control. Also, Okay, I will try
to seal our first before I goto something stronger. But I hope that

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works. Yep, should do it, alrighty, all right, have a
great holiday. You're welcome, Thankyou. All right, And talking about
other things this time of the year, we were talking about how to take
old windows and just kind of buyingtime before we have to get too replaced.
We're talking about using draft stop,which is a clear cocking you actually

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KRZ, the talkstation. All right, back at it we go thirty three
minutes after the top of the areworking our way through the weekend, and
thank you for joining me. Bythe way, you can get each hour
Saturdays and Sunday's show via podcast.It's at the iHeart app or wherever podcasts
are and just type in at homewith Garry Sullivan Mark Welcome, Hi Gary,

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Yes, sir, fine, thankyou, thank you. So.
I used to use a product onwood that I liked a lot. It
was called Thompson's Wood Preservative huh,and I haven't been able to find it
in quite a few years actually,And the reason I liked it so much
is it penetrated the wood and actuallyit back to life. It looked really

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nice. And I actually even useit on wooden ladders to like rejuvenate the
wood and I was wondering, isthere anything else like that in the market.
Well, I'd say there's a lotof things like that. Thompson's wood
preservative was basically designed to use indeck staining, and I think every manufacturer

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in the world seems to make aceiling product. I guess one I would
recommend would be for just an allround deck seiler with you know, some
properties of stain in there and alsograin enhancement, would be a solvent based

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uh deck stain called super deck,probably even more so than a water bass.
So solvent bases will penetrate deeper,which one ants the green moor.
And yeah, you can get superdeck and a lot of hardware stores.

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I think Sherwin Williams has it inair stores. Also. Do you know
why Thompson took that off the market. I don't, that's sure, Okay,
I do. One thing I wasI was I was listening to you
about the dishwasher issue with the Lydia. A couple of calls go uh huh.
And one thing that I've used inthe past, and people like is

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that Tang breakfast drink. Yeah,yeah, I've used that. In fact
that when she was talking, Iwas going to ask her if she had
ever used tang. That's what I'veused over the years too. It's a
good it's a good likely. Yeah, it does, it does. You're
exactly right, you're exactly okay.Well, thank you taking my call.

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I appreciate it. You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All
right. It's eight hundred eight twothree eight two five five and Ellen welcome.
Hi. I have a weird problem. The city was redoing their sidewalks,
and in order for me to getout of my house, they threw
down a plank so I could walkfrom my property to the street. Unfortunately,

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I'm eighty years old, and theplank was about six inches wide,
and I fell into the wet concretesidewalk and I couldn't keep my balance.
Oh boy, yeah. Well,And anyway, they had on sweatpants and
somebody was helping me up, andthey put the sweatpants aside, and I
just got to them. And theconcrete is hardened into the pants, and

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I threw it in the washing machine. I hope it would come out,
but it didn't. How can Iget the concrete off the pants? Or
is that the end of the pants? That's probably the end of the pants.
You know, if you had alittle splash or something, that would
be one thing. Ellen, Butyou know, if you've got chunks of
it on there, I mean no, no, it looks like through the
wash. I mean you can tryit. What I would do is I

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would take a little like dishpan orsomething, or even in the washing machine
itself. I would soak it ina vinegar and a liquid almost like dish
soap. So if you took youknow, again like a dishpan or something,
put them in there and you know, put a cup of vinegar in

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there and a couple squirts of adishwasher soap and let them soak for about
you know, you could even letthem soak overnight, and then at that
point come back with a light,you know, nylon bristled scrub brush and
go ahead and scrub them off,and you know, see if that stain

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comes out. I mean you've gotto have a little ascid. I thought
you were meant they were pretty muchencased in concrete, but for stains that
would be you know, if it'snot going to come out with that,
it's probably not gonna come out.But you can try that as a spot
remover and good luck with that,but let them soak overnight and again vinegar

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and a little liquid soap. Let'sgo to Gerald, Gerald. Welcome,
I Gary. Yeah, speaking againabout dishwashers. I've got one that's about
ten years old. Still works great, but the baskets in the dishwasher,

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I'm starting to get some rust wherethe little joints are in the baskets and
the finish is you know, startingto peel off right and priced replacing the
upper and lower baskets and you canbuy dishwashers. I'm really excited about you

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replacing that, are they? Yeah? I thinks are threefold. Really,
one would be replaced, the baskets, replace the dishwasher, and the third
option, it really depends how badand how serious the problem is. They
make a dishwasher rack touch up paint, and it's just like in a little

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one two ounce bottle with a littlebrush in the cap where you can you
know, just it's almost like ait's almost like a plastic coating or a
rubberized plastic coating. It's not itdoesn't feel like a paint. It's thicker
than a paint. But they domake rack touch up paints, and that
would be the only other option Icould think of, and it's a whole

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lot cheaper than buying the new basket. Yeah, that's that's what my question
was. If you know, ifthere was a type of paint or you
know, some type of finish thatyou could used that would stand up to
you know, the inturgence and thewater temperature of a dishwasher. But no,

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that's that's great. I will uh, you'll uh. You don't know
of any brands. I don't.I think if you google it it'll take
you to it. I'm sure likesomebody like Rustolium makes it, and I
think there is one it's called It'salmost remember do you remember when they used

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to have things that where you dippedtools into it and put a rubberized handle
on it. It's been a longtime, yeah, and I think they
have something like that, and ifI'm not mistaken, maybe called rewrack.
But if you go to Amazon justtype in dishwasher paint you'll find you'll find

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something. I can guarantee. Okay, And one other question, still concerning
dishwashers. The it's got the oldtype dial on it and it's starting to
stick a little bit, and I'vegot a spray that is it says on

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the can that it's specifically for electronics. Would you see any reason why I
couldn't spray that? Don't it isyours? Is that electronics that spray or
that you're talking about? Is thata cleaner? It's not a lubricn is
it. It's a cleaner and itevaporates almost instantly. I've used it on

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a lot of electronics or electrical connectionsand it, you know, it evaporates
almost, you know, immediately.But yeah, it's not going to hurt
anything. I just don't know ifthat's going to do it or not,
right, you know, I justdon't know. If it's a dial that's
going to spin, it certainly couldbe dirty. That could make it less

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lubricious. But if it's you know, if it needs like a multipurpose oil
or something in there, try it. It's not going to hurt a thing.
Yeah, all right, sir,all right, really enjoy your show.
Been listening for years. Thank you. I appreciate it. Take care.

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All right, let's take a littlebreak. We come back. We'll
take John and we'll kind of wrapthings up for the weekend. So if
you'd like to get your question ingot to do it right now. It's
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the podcast on the iHeartRadio app atfifty five KRC dot com. Just a
follow up from one of the questionswe had earlier, and I didn't really
interject my opinion on it, butwhen the fellow was calling on the Thompson's
wood sealer, you know, hewas saying, do you know where I

(34:29):
can get it? And I wasquickly about to say, we can get
Thompson's, you know, wood sealeranywhere. And so during the break is
just doing a little research on it, and it appears, and I'm not
even certain this is for a fact. It appears. First of all,
Thompson's water sealer is probably available inany big box store, but it appears

(34:52):
they may have relabeled it a littlebit, and it may just not say
wood sealer. A lot lot ofthem seem to just say Thompson's seiler waterproof
seiler, and on the picture ofthe label is wood on the picture of
the label. The other one ison brick. And so they may have

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just changed the wording on that i'dgiven them a name of like super deck,
it would be another solvent base ceiler. He wasn't using on his deck.
He's using it on an old ladder, which will work. And so
anyway, I got a couple ofemails people saying, well, they got

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Thompson's water So yeah, I knowthat. I just didn't clarify it because
he said wood sealer and he couldn'tfind it. So as I was looking,
most of all the Thompson products thatI see on their website is waterproof
seilers. But they have some thatare specific for wood, but it doesn't

(35:54):
stand on the label. All right, So I want to clear that up,
all right, John, Well,I don't good morning, Gary to
check my call. You're welcome,thank you. Uh. I just want
to say back to the wood seilerquestion that you touched on with that other
previous gentleman years ago, back inthe day when our parents were kind of

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like trying to do that work,and it was less of this stuff available
in the stores. We repurposed stuffthat we had, and I just remember
my dad and I carried it onand did it a few applications of myself.
But I repurposed, believe it ornot, used motor oil on pete
which has outlaughed with some of thisT one to eleven stuff to get out

(36:37):
now. And I applied it witha brush. Then you try to use
it on bigger say bigger surfaces orlogic areas. I finned it out with
a little thinner and I was ableto actually spray it on with a pump
spray thin enough. I fended itout enough, I get sprayed on with
a pump spray and I came outand cut my application time like in half.

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The shed is still standing, anduh, like I said, it's
it's outlasted some of the T oneeleven stuff that you find in home depot.
Yeah. Yeah, Well, Iwas going to say a lot of
people because I literally worked in ahardware store when pressure treated wood first came
out, and one of the thingsat that point is everybody's saying you don't

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need to put anything on it.We quickly found that wasn't true. So
we were looking for products that wouldhelp preserve press tree wood. And the
go to product back then was juststraight lindseed oil. There you go.
You know, but linseed oil causescaused a lot. You know, it

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was a growth. It was ayou know, a Thanksgiving Day buffet for
mold and uh, you know,and it didn't have any real UV properties.
So if it was in the sun, you know, it didn't you
know, it bleachs out real fast. But yeah, there's you know,
all kinds of things we can use. That's probably one of the biggest categories

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in a lot of hardware stores nowis deck sailors. Right right. Another
topic that you did also touch on, and this will be advantageous or it
was for me anyway, you talkedabout a dipper that you would apply for
it like dipping tools, and thisthis gentleman's topic was a dishwasher. I
believe the times was the plastic coatingwas not in a crack and rust.

(38:30):
And I've personally done this, andthere's a product that you can get the
big box stores. I won't mentionor endorse anybody. But it's called liquid
tape. You find it in theelectric electrical say session of you know,
any of these stores the job Iback ate these joints up and five years

(38:50):
later the rust has never popped too. It came to and it's I've gotten
some good longevity out of that justby using that product. That's that's interesting.
Yeah, I went and googled dishwasherpaint on Amazon and there was there
was probably eight different brands that poppedup. And the liquid tape I'm familiar
with that and that held up ina dishwasher just find you say, hey,

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yeah, oh yeah. Years later, I'm still using that dishwasher today
because we were starting to notice rust, yeah, appearing off the dishes and
on the sofa weir, which iswhy I, okay, let's give it
a shot before we try to buyor buy it and dishwasher and we still
have it five years later. Butthat other stuff that the fasty dip is
the stuff that you would dip likea handle. Yeah. I was just

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making a reference that was about theconsistency of it. The first dishwasher ever
had again, in that rack,the coating was peeling off. And I
went to an appliance store where theysold parts for dishwashers, and they had
a little two ounce jar of thisand it was the same thing as you
were stating, John. It mighthave been darn near even the same product.

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It was about that consistency. Ihad a little dabber in the top
of the cap of the and weput that on and we never we just
never had a problem again. Icovered up the rust i'd never peeled.
It did a great job, andwe probably used that dishwasher for another five
years. Yeah, very true.Well, thank you Gary, thanks for
taking my call. I hope thathelps somebody out there. Very good.

(40:22):
Thanks for the call, John,appreciate it. Take care. All right,
let's get to William and we'll wrapthings up. William welcome. Yes,
Hi, My question is about keroseneheaters as a supplement. Had a
power outage last year and went toscrambling for a generator, and I wanted

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to find out what you think aboutkerosene heaters. Considering it's fifteen bucks a
gallon, well carosing, then Iguess I feel they're expensive to heat.
You know, kerosene heaters. Firstof all, you got to check with
the area you live, and thereare some municipalities that do not you know,
they tell you not to use keroseneheaters in your home. And there's

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other heaters that are designed for homesand some that are not designed for home.
So you got to make sure thatwhat you're buying. And they're probably
a couple hundred bucks indoor safe,they say, yeah. The biggest thing
with them that I would say isI think some people are sensitive to the

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smell. Other people say, you'recrazy. I can't smell anything when I
use my kerosen heater. That's numberone. Number two is there is certainly
maintenance involved. If that wick youknow, to me, if I was
going to buy one, I wantto know how to change that wick and
how difficult that is and the costof a wick because you only have so

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many burning hours on that wick,and they'll get a carbon on there,
residual from the fuel, and thatwill become unsafe. They'll actually smoke a
little. So that's so there's maintenanceinvolved. You need to know that.
And then you know the type ofkerosene and it sounds like you priced that
out. It's got to be thepurest, highest grade of kerosene. You

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can buy where it's almost it's acrystal clear and that's I guess that's the
things I'm concerned about. Yeah,I watched a video on home People.
They show you how to change itout and okay, okay, thank you

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very much for your hope. You'requite welcome. Thanks take care. So,
yeah, whenever you're using these things, just make sure you know it's
just like even the standby generators.Gosh, they're awesome, you know,
kicks your power in immediately, butyou got to know, I mean,
that's the beauty of having one,but you got to know the backstory on
it. There's yearly maintenance on thatworst thing in the world to have major

(42:59):
power failure. You're and you haven'tdone the maintenance and it doesn't doesn't work
right. So those are questions youwant to ask, not so much the
cost upfront and how much it's goingto power, is how long does it
take to have the switch kick in? Do I go two minutes five minutes
without electricity? But then what doI need to do to maintain that?

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And those are questions certainly when you'rebuying anything that's important, and the kerosene
heaters no less, you never fillit on the inside of the home.
You got to leak, do itcools off. Get it on the outside.
You got to change out the witch. You got to use the correct
type of kerosene. And some peopleare just going to be sensitive to it.
I can guarantee that. All right, Danny boy, another great weekend,

(43:45):
Thank you very much. And wehad a little issue this morning.
We got that straightened out bright andearly before we went on the air.
Danny had a great idea. Youcall me a right good lord Willing.
Yeah, good Lord Willing. We'llbe back next weekend for more At Home
with Gary Sullivan. Have a greatThanksgiving everybody. Help for your home is

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