November 22, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Best time of the day. I get to say good
afternoon and welcome to our number four. You're at home
with Gary Salvin. The sun is out. It looks warm.
I'm inside. I can't tell you it looks warm. It
looks great, says it's about fifty right now. Oh so
it's not that warm. It just looks warm. Man, Was
(00:21):
this a gloomy weak or wouldn't any boy? Oh jeez,
killing me, killing me? All right, let me open up
the phone lines. Danny's back so he can take your calls.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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I'm glad, uh right now, I don't have that problem.
(01:33):
It seems like if you own a home, you always
got one problem. That's one I don't have. All right.
Our number is eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Grab that line. Happy to chat with you
as we continue to talk about your home. We have
another hour to go, so uh, jump on board. Let's
go to don don welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Doing fine? I think good.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, I just just hadn't. Couple of years ago, I
had a guy put decks on and unfortunately I find
out later you know, and I, you know, shame on
me because I didn't do my research and they didn't
do they didn't get permits or anything. And I'm concerned
about when I sell that house. You know, what's going
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to happen. I got to make I don't know, you know,
because it's it's you know, a lot of decks I
got put on, I got a I got had one,
two three, three decks put on and uh, you know,
it cost me pretty much money, and you know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, you know, I don't know what's gonna happen. I
think i'd be more concerned since there was no permits
and there was no uh you know, final blessing off
on the structure itself. Yeah, is to have it inspected
and just make sure it's up to speed. I think
that's probably more important and probably more likely to bite
(02:57):
you than the other.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And well, and you know, well, I've heard ny matters
about where the county that I lived in, or that
if you build something, you know, After I found this out,
I started checking around and they made people tear it down,
and I even was able to contact my former uh
the former owner, and they said, you know that her
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husband had built a foot stairs in and all this
stuff on going up a hill and built a little
shit up our little sitting place and he didn't get
it permit and somebody read it on him and he
went They went out and made him tear it down. Well,
what concerns me if I go to sell it, they're
going to check on all that and then I'm in big.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, I it sounds like they might in your county,
And I guess That's really what it comes down to. Now,
there's a couple of things we can do maybe to
get the information rather than going to the county and saying, hey,
I play guilty, uh, which I'm all about transparency. Maybe
that's where you end up, but I'd rather not do that.
(04:03):
Let's just kind of think this thing through. Maybe it's
a matter. There's two other avenues I would consider, and
the first doesn't really address your issue, it addresses my issue.
You could get a structural engineer or a or a
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a home inspector having do a deck inspection. Let's make
sure that that thing is built the code, okay, because
you know, getting the permits and everything is all about
the safety. You know, people all say it's about a
money grab, but it's really about the safety. Is that
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thing properly built right? And you know if you if
it gets blessed off that you know it's structurally sound,
it's done properly. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well I can I can tell you not to interrupt you,
but I can tell you that I did have somebody
come out and look a professional builder remodeler. I did
have them look at it. When I found all this
out and I thought I was going to be in trouble.
And they looked at it and the main thing they
found was that they didn't put flashing around the you know,
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right where the yeah we're it mounts to the house.
They didn't put flashing on it. But you know, somebody's
the less you know, suggested to me that. But that
was going to cost me a lot of money to
have them do it, you know, and I thought, well,
and then uh, somebody said, well, you know, just take that.
(05:40):
You know, I don't want to do an advertisement for
that flex seal is it that put that or spray
that around up around your I can't met with a
band board or what I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Without and without flashing that can lead to rot and
would rot anchoring your deck is a problem, right, And
I don't know Flexio is going to exacerbate or get
rid of that problem. It could do either depending. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, I know I've used it, you know, use the
stuff on like like water tanks and that kind of thing.
I mean it it holds. I mean I've had it
on some water tanks for like five years now and
they still hold wonderfully, you know, out in the weather
all kinds of stuff, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I thought, well, well, another option, you know, since you
know what it is, since you know it's not up
to code, it's going to be hard to go into
the deck and say, gee, I'm sorry, I never got
permits and they come out and say, we don't have fleshing.
You got to tear this down. I'm not saying they're
going to do that, but that would be reasonable, Okay, right,
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so maybe the option. The other option would be maybe
contact a lawyer in that county, somebody that deals with
cantruction and ask them the same question you ask me,
what's the probability of you know, when I sell this
house and it goes through inspection, does it get to
the county? Do they you know, you know, express what
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you're worried about and get their advice.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay, that sounds like that's good advice right there. So yeah,
I'll I'll look into that. Okay, Well, I appreciate your
time and talking. And uh. Only other thing that they
that they did find was the banisters the bottom, you know,
how the posts come up out right out of the ground.
They weren't I don't know, they weren't properly done, but
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they're kind of you know, you push against they move,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, yeah, it could be a problem. Yeah, so usually
they would use a sona tube and create a pylon
and either either put a bracket and put your post
on top or sink your posts. So yeah, that would
be a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, when I had I had somebody come out and
you know, look at it. You know, I don't want
to give their name, but you know, they came out,
looked at it, and they were good, and I thought,
pretty honest, but it didn't call. It cost me about
ten grand to do that. You know. I found out
later just that uh that you know, about the permit,
and I'm thinking, we'll shoot. I put all that extra
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money in. Then I got it. You know what am
I going to do? You know? Then I'm out ten
thousand more dollars you know.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, well it cost.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Me a lot to put those decks in.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That's why I said, that's you know, yeah, that's a
shame they didn't get permits on that. But yeah, well
you can find out what the you know, what the
probability of them checking that out. But I will say
that if you sell the house, those two issues are
going to come up in the home inspection anyway. So
whether that gets the county I don't know, but it
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will it will. So my my point is if it
comes up in the home inspection, it may cost you
that anyway. So all the playing that everybody does about permits,
this is the end result, this is what it's saving you.
Let's always give that some thought. All right, we're gonna
take a break in. Tim, I promise you'll be up first.
(09:13):
If you'd like to join us. It's eight hundred eighty
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one o'clock today and then mister Donnovan will be in
to help you with your auto. Let's go to Tim.
Tim welcome, Hey.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Gary, appreciate taking my call. I have a question about
a washing machine. Drain the rest the rest of the
house drains fine, the showers, the saints, the commos, everything,
and we can do a small load, but then when
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we put anything larger a medium or large or extra large,
it starts backing up out of the top of the
pipe behind the washing machine. I think there might be
some roots maybe in the and the pipe that goes
out to the sewer system that is causing it to
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back up that much water. Is there something that I
can put in there that would get rid of those
roots in the in the pipe.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
About the only thing you can put down really, I mean,
you can prevent roots from growing, but once they're there,
tim the only way you're really going to get them
out is to you know, snake them out or grind
them out. And then the next step is the question.
(10:58):
The next question is how how the roots get in there?
You know, is the pipe with clay pipe and it's cracked?
Is it a clay pipe and it's separated? You know,
we have a lot of clay and that happens a lot.
So I would say, you know, you get somebody like
our friends of Rotor Uter who we had on the
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show today, and snake that down there and see really
what you have because you're just guessing. I mean, I
don't know, maybe in an elbow there's an old sock
that's snagged on something. I don't know, something's impeding the
flow of the water. Obviously, when you get large volumes,
it's having a problem. Now, let me just go a
step further. Depending on the type of house, the size
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of house, and everything else, there's usually just one waistline
which goes down and throughout the house. Everything's kind of
tied into it. And then when it goes underground, you know,
they're all dealing with with the same issues. Right, So
again we get back to if there is roots, if
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there is a separation in the pipe, If that is
the problem, I guess it would be because of the
volume of the water that's going down. But the only
way we're gonna know is we're gonna have to run
a snake through there, or run You're gonna run a
camera through there first and then end up running power
snake down through it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
If that is the problem, can they just go in
if they have to?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean, I'd hate for them.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
To replace the entire line from the house all the
way out to the sewer, you know that where it
dumps into the sewer. But can they just replace sections
of it or.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, there's different there's different things. Yeah, that's a great question. Actually,
I mentioned a company that sponsored this hour of the show.
It's called Precision Pipeworks, and what they do is they
do a liner. So if the if they if you
get if you get it all cleaned out, and let's
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just say the pipe is crushed, it's misaligned. In other words,
the pipe has issues. Okay, you can replace it. It
would depend but it depends on the type of pipe
that's underneath there too, So it depends whether they could
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replace a section of it, or whether they have to
replace the whole line, or whether like Precision Pipe Works
can come in and actually put in It's a thermal
sock is what it is. So they you know, rot
Ruter cleans it out, says, oh, you got to crush pipe.
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We can fix this, and here's what this costs. You
can check with Precision. We have this thermal pipe, see
what the cost is. And what they do is they'll
just put this sock down the whole line, they'll inflate it,
they'll heat it, and it'll just basically line the whole pipe.
It's kind of like a pipe within a pipe, and
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you know, then you don't have to even dig up
the yard, and the reason they exist is what happens
if it goes underneath a driveway right when don't want
to be digging up the driveway and I'm playing worst
case scenario, but tim, quite honestly, it starts with you know,
rotor Reuter or a plumber out there, running a scope
down there, seeing what you got, snaking it out, and
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then making a decision. Then then if it is the
pipe and it can't, you know, sometimes roots get in
just because there's a little joint there and once they
snake it out, every six months you'll be putting something
down the toilet to prevent and burn back root growth.
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So I've given you the whole swing of events that
could be, you know, and there might not even be
any roots. It might just be you know, one of
the things we have problems with in wastelines right now
is is wipes, baby wipes and all kinds of wipes
like that. It could be that I don't know what
it is. You're not going to know to you, Okay,
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get a camera down and see what's going on.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
All right, you've helped a bunch.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
All right, you bet you have a great Thanksgiving Tim
all right again, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five, and of course we're talking about your home,
and boy, there's just you know, a lot going on.
In fact, one of the things that is going to
go on real soon here in the next two weeks
is h I've already seen it. It's it's not quite
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in full board, but it's coming is exterior home decorating.
And I am just well, I know it's a growing industry.
I know it's a growing bit business, but I'm still
just amazed the professional decorating that's taken place on houses,
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I mean everywhere, especially newer subdivisions. And not against it,
I'm just saying, I'm just surprised that people, quite honestly,
can afford a couple thousand dollars to have their home
decorated for four weeks. They look beautiful, My gosh, they
look tremendous. But I have noticed that they're you know,
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I mean, it's it is everybody. A lot of pest
control companies they do that. Now, window washers they do that. Now.
There are a lot of people in that business, and
but a lot of us still decorate our homes ourselves.
Some of us don't decorate our homes at all. So
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I've got some tips on just safety and things to
conce as. I was chatting with Ron Wilson today, He's like,
you know, I don't do that much anymore, but I
used to. I just kind of throw him up there
and get he hated it. I was talking with Tom
Brenneman the other day on our Thursday Morning tips, and
he's going, oh, I just absolutely despise that when my
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wife says it's time time to start decorating the outside, Well,
I can't say I despise it. I kind of enjoy it.
If it's not ten degrees outside and it looks like
this afternoon it's above fifty. Tomorrow it's a little bit
further above fifty, and Monday it's above fifteen. Now it's
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going to rain somewhere in there. We all know that.
But if you're going to be decorating, maybe that's when
you want to decorate. And I've got some tips for
you in terms of safety, mainly the no nos and
it starts with the ladder, so we'll cover that when
I come back, along with your calls. It's eight hundred
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eight two three eight two five five and you're at
home with Garry Salvin right here. I'm fifty five cares
De talk station, all right, talking a little home improvement.
Happy to take your cause. It's eight hundred day two
three eight two five five. You know, just kind of
thinking about the wash machine, and you know, we kind
of got on a tangent and right away, like many times,
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when we have a problem, we go to the worst
case scenario, right and in a lot of cases it
is tree routes. Don't don't get me wrong, but there's
other things to consider, quite honestly. And maybe the first
step is, you know, find out where that clean out
plug is on that waistline and get a drum auger
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and just kind of, you know, run a drum auger
down there. It's only about a three ace inch half
inch snake. It's you're doing it. Not the easiest thing
in the world, not my favorite project, but you might
just see if and see if that results. Maybe it's
not even in you know, he's the one that suggested
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that it was the roots, but he really didn't have
any way to tell me for sure as the roots.
He didn't run a camera down there. And then I
got on the tangent with a camera and then he
was back out in the yard. But you know, as
a step one if before you want to call anybody,
you know, if you want to use a little drain
snake and a drum auger and take the clean out
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port if you can get to clean outport on that waistline,
usually down in the basement. Maybe that's where the laundry
line is too. I don't know where. It could be
upstairs and down and they're using that waistline run it
down through there. It might be there's a branch line
that then goes to the main sewer that could be clogged.
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It might not even be in the main sewer line,
I guess, is where I'm going. We were, you know,
just we're talking about the roots because he brought it up.
But that is something you know, you might want to
check before you start calling anybody else. Also, modern washers
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there they discharge water much faster, more pressure, more volume,
and some of the old I mean I've seen old
wastelines not even two inches, and you know it can
overwhelm that. Now it sounds like there's something that just started.
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So I'm kind of lean that probably is the tree roots,
but kind of wanted to talk about. You know, when
there's plumbing, there's never one just answer, there's usually multiple answers,
so I wanted to pass that along. All right, if
you'd like to chat about your project, please do. In
the meantime, I'm going to start with a little chat
about safety and decorations. I know many of you're going
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to be tackling that project. Tackling that project and the
next probably two weeks. First thing, I hope you took
my advice a year ago, five years ago, two years ago,
and that is don't store your lights in the attic.
Hopefully you didn't. And the why is because that attic
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and I don't care whether you have ventilation or not,
that attic's still going to be one hundred hundred and
ten degrees. If you've got good ventilation, it's going to
be that. If you've got no ventilation, that attic it's
going to be one hundred and forty hundred and fifty degrees.
Outdoor lights for the that you'd be hanging on the
outside of your house are not made for that. They're
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not made for longevity. They're not commercial wiring, and they
get very brittle and they get cracks in them, So
if you store them up there, it behooves you to
pull them out and inspect the wires before you plug
them in. Inspect the sockets. You're liable to find cracks
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in the wire and cracks in the socket at those temperatures.
All right, If you don't, great, just don't storm up there.
Next year, plug them in, test them, make sure everything's
good to go. The worst thing to do is start
decorating and then find out they don't work. Okay, so
test them the next thing. If you're going to be
on a ladder, when we were talking about this earlier,
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safety is certainly the key, and finding or looking at
the ladder you have is important. If it's an extension ladder,
you're going to want to have that extend beyond the
gutter by three feet. You're going to want to make
sure it's stable. You're going to make sure somebody's out
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there with you. You're also going to read the label
on the side of the ladder. You may not know,
but there's three types of letders. There's a type one, two,
and three, and they have weight limits. Usually there's probably
four types now. Usually a standard weight limit on a
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ladder is usually about two hundred pounds. If you're more
than two hundred pounds, you shouldn't climb up on that ladder.
They have them for two twenty five two fifty three
hundred pounds. Also check for cracks and the steps. I'm
telling you for uh accidents in an emergency room. Ladders
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number one. Okay, So you want to inspect the ladder,
make sure you have the right kind of ladder. If
you're doing it on a step ladder. Again, you want
to make sure it's on secure footing. Somebody's out there
and we don't stand on the top, you know, the
one with the with the little labelan that says this
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is not a step. Yep, that means it's not a
step when you're using a ladder. Three points of contact
that's the key. Two feet, one arm or one foot
and two hands. But I don't know how you're going
to hang the lights. But three points of contact. Not
too We don't going to lean over it. We want
to keep the ladder, you know, at least halfway in
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the middle of our body. So that's a little ladder safety. Also,
a good slope three feet away from the wall. Good slope,
not straight up, not leaning back too far and so
there's the ladder. Now there's some for the electrical issues
of the lights too, and we'll talk about that after
we chat with Pat.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Welcome good after me and Gary.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, sir, I want to follow.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Up with the individual that was having issues with his
washing machine draining. Yes, have a similar issue. And finally
came to really a bad situation when I'm plunging the
commode upstairs and my wife's on it one downstairs and
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she was getting a bow dight. But I thought maybe,
you know, I had had a septic cleaned down in
a few years and it turned out tree roots had
grown into the baffle where the pipe entered into the
septic tank.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And once they cleaned that out, it was like opening
a faucet.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, he had an actual sewer line, Pat, but I
hear you. I mean that's why my first suggestion, it
probably would have solved both of our problems, is getting
a camera inspection down in there. He was guessing there
was tree roots in there, and quite honestly, in our
area with the type of soil, the just some of
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the homes, tree roots are on the number one culprit
with that problem. So you know, we kind of got
on a tangent all the way out into the sewer line.
But you know, with plumbing, it could be all kinds
of things, and a septic tank is a whole nother ballgame.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, but there have been like an evergreen shrubbery in
the in the vicinity of the sewer line, and I
think that's one of the roots were coming. So and
you know, people aren't going to like this, probably use
copper sulfate.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know. The product that I was talking about using
is aerobic product and it is called per sulfate. It's
ninety eight percent calper sulfate.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah, and I haven't had an issue with that in twelve.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Years, as long as you stay on top of it,
because you know, once they're in and they start maturing,
and the roots are just going there because there's water,
right and if there's an opening and they get in there,
they're not going to the pipe. But if there's a
little bit of opening, they'll get in there and they
grow inside, no question. And that copper sulfe just burns
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those back a little bit.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, A certain times evergreen even though the you know,
it's been removed, the roots still grow for years.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I agreed. I had a beautiful It was a blue spruce.
It was a bush. That bush got about six feet
wide and about ten feet tall. I took it out
about two years ago and the roots are still growing.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, all right, okay, I wish them luck and that's
my experience.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I appreciate it, Thank you much. Take care all right,
And yeah, I wanted to get that on because, yeah,
you can control them, but those pipes do move. Like
I'm always talking about my down spouts in the pipe
that goes under the ground. If we have a six
week drought in August and Septem, I guarantee you that
pipe will get a little out of a line and
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I have to get out there and work that back
into square. So we were talking about how you know
a little bit of ladder safety s there's a lot
of people to be cleaning out their gutters and hanging
out some Christmas lights and things like that, and ladder
safety certainly key. Inspecting the chords, like I talked about,
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that's important. Also outdoor extension cords. Make sure they are
outdoor extension cords. Every year I see lamp cords, extension cords,
I go crazy whenever I see it. They're outside they're
laying on the ground. No, no, no, but we'll get
to that in a minute. The extension cords, make sure
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they're ul rated. Exterior extension cords, all right. Make sure
you have inspected those, just like you inspected the lights.
No cracks. And when you're hanging extension cords or distributing
Christmas lights, traut the bushes and things like that. Two things.
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Do not lay the extension cords on the ground. Do
not let the Christmas light cords lay on the ground,
because I can almost I got surprised one year. Rabbits
will bite those. They're soy oil. And those extension cords,
they're soy oil for sure. And the Christmas light cords.
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And even if there are a couple inches off the ground,
a rabbit will cut through those. I'm telling you it'll
look like somebody took a diagonal ply and cut it.
And I'm not joking about that. So keep them off
the ground, keep them inspected. And gfi's if the Christmas
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lights are protected by a GFI ground false circuit interrupter GFCI,
if you will, you're not going to have problems. I
mean it's going to in a nanosecond. Cut that circuit,
cut the juice to the to the to the to
the to the lights, and everybody blames the outlet and
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it's not the outlet. It's supposed to do that, and
what you probably got is moisture somewhere. You got moisture.
Buy that outlet in that outlet at the connections of
the cords and the lights. Don't wrap them with electrical tape.
If you want to wrap them with serante sirane wrap,
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that's fine. But if it's not protected, then you're in danger.
If you don't have by the way, the ground false
circuit interrupted. That's the outlet which has the red button
the black button, and people, oh my gosh, my my
lights don't work all this this outlet's no good and
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if it doesn't reset, it will. We'll reset, but it's
going to take time. It's got to dry out. So
the good chance is not the outlet. It can be,
but it's a good chance. It's not. It's what it's protecting.
It's doing what it's supposed to do. Give it some time,
(31:20):
Give it the time to dry out, and then try
to see if it works without anything plugged in and
reset it. Get an outdoor cover on that receptacle, and
you can also try and plug it into another GFI
see if you can get the lights on. They're not
all wired and downstream or anything. So a couple of
(31:41):
things to check there, and to be safe if you
don't have any protection of GFI in your house. They
do make extension cords with GFI in the extension cord.
Be safe this holiday, all right, our phone numbers eight
hundred eight two three A two five five. You're at
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Speaker 2 (32:04):
We go.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Not bad looking day out there right now for the
time of year, right, it's always factoring the time of year.
Not a bad at all. Man. After Thanksgiving, you probably
heard on the news it's like this big storm, this
big storm. I hear this big storm. I start thinking
like a foot.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Of snow and maybe twenty below or something.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, well it's like four solid days of rain. So
I'm just giving your heads up. It's like the Tuesday
after Thanksgiving not looking great. Hey, we're so we kind
of marries back to what we were talking about, and
that is getting our exterior of our homes decorated. Maybe
in the next three days might be a good idea.
A little early, but it might be a good idea.
We don't really want to wait to the middle of
(32:45):
December when it's probably going to be ten. So we
were talking about safety and gfi's and different things. A
couple other things I want to run by is it
goes back to the extension course. That is the focus
of a lot of problems that we run into with
accidents and problems around the house during during the holidays.
(33:06):
And make sure if you got extension chords outside and
you're running around the door, make sure they're not getting
pinched by the door, back by the hinges, anything along
noselanes where you can break that insulation a big problem.
Obviously if you have a GFI that you're a little protected,
but if you're not plugged into a GFI, you're not protected.
(33:27):
Another old way and people used to do it all
the time. Hopefully they don't anymore. We've tried to get
the word out. You know what a plug body is.
You take out a light bulb when you screw in
this thing where the light goes, and then you can
just put an extension cord right in there. Bingo. Yes,
there's no GFI on that you are not protected. You
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are probably there's a possibility you're not even grounded, So
don't do that. If you use an extension chords inside,
make sure they're at least sixteen gauge. I hate those
eighteen gauge. I don't know how much amperg you're gonna pull,
but get a little sixteen gauge extension cord. Do not
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run it under a carpet. Do not even run it
under a throw rug. Do not, you know, run it
at an entrance to a room unless you're going up
and around the door and out the other side on
the jam. Just from a safety standpoint, that's the way
you want to run it. Also, I know a lot
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of people will put reese on doors. There's all kinds
of way to do it. I will tell you. I
know a lot of you have nice wood doors with
a very nice finish on there. Or maybe you have
those beautiful fiberglass doors that look just like exotic wood.
I mean, they're beautiful. Be careful with the the metal
(34:59):
wreathangers and some of them. The manufacturers got a little
a little better with them. They've started encasing like a
plastic sleeve that goes over them, but I still see
them out there. They're just metal and you put a
wreath on, you put that little clip over the door.
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I'm not gonna say it's always going to happen. I'm
just telling you to be careful with it, because I've
seen some doors get scratched with those. Also on the
back of the wreath, if you have a wire frame
to that wreath, and that'll be usually well, I guess
it could be unartificial too. I usually see them on liveries.
(35:42):
You can get little some adhesive pads and protect that door.
If they're just hanging over the glass, you're probably okay,
but be careful that it's not scratching the finish on
a painted and or stained door. And if you are
going to put them on the glass and you're using
(36:03):
a suction cup, here's a good little tip. I know
three M makes those pull off hooks. They're very good.
But I still see a lot of suction cups used.
If you're gonna use a suction cup on there, because
we're going to have temperature changes and humidity changes in
those suction cups. They don't always have the suction that
(36:26):
we think they have. But if you have a little
dab of silicone clear colocking and put it in there
and put that right on that glass and let it
sit for a day. I know you're thinking, I'm crazy.
That will come off. It'll take a razor blade, but
you can get it off and that thing ain't going anywhere.
(36:48):
You're cutting through the silicon. So a little little tip
for you there, very little, but you'll be glad you
did it rather than having a fall. You know what
happened to me one time dan wreath out on the
front and there were some oh what were they finches?
Purple finches. Yeah, they would hang out in the wreath
(37:12):
and guess what happened when somebody came over. They decided
they wanted to come to the party too. Oh man. Yeah. Yeah.
So you know you put those refes out there. They're
pretty inviting for the wildlife too. All right, Well, we
started off with firewood how it should be stored, and
(37:34):
we've kind of ended up talking about reees and how
we should do that. One other thing I was telling
you earlier in the show. We were talking about the
good temperature, the most common temperature for heat and a
house sixty eight degrees, and I was talking about making
sure like our thermostats off two degrees. So if we
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said it at seventy, all my thermometers in my house
are showing sixty eight degrees. My thermostat shows seventy. It
eats to seventy, but it's sixty eight degrees, so something
you might want to check. You may like sixty eight degrees,
you may not like sixty eight degrees, but that's that's
where it is. Make sure those furnaces, the furnace filters
(38:20):
are cleaned, make sure the filters are changed if it's
a pleated filter every ninety days. Otherwise you're just paying
for that furnace to work harder and get that air
to satisfy that thermostat throughout the home. And it won't be.
It won't be if you're running a dirty filter, and
(38:41):
you're gonna have more activity in your home over the
next two months than probably any other time of the year.
So I usually do the pleated filters about every sixty
days and take a look. And next time you're down
the basement, take a look up at the duckwork where
the seams are. If there's the apps, there's holes there,
(39:02):
or anything along those lines, you're losing the air that
you just paid the heat, and you're losing it in
the basement. And you can actually tape up those joints
with aluminum tape and it's like a thicker millage of
Reynolds wrap, only it's just like two inches wide. It
(39:24):
looks like duct tape, but it's aluminum and it's got
an adhesive on it. That's a great way to tape
those joints and save the heated air that you just
paid for. All Right, Danny, boy, it looks like that's
gonna wrap it up to Donna. Mister Donovan will be
in next to help you with your with your car.
And yeah, cold weather bothers that too. Well, Danny, it
(39:46):
was fun today and good Lord Willing, we'll be back
at it tomorrow for more At Home with Gary Sullivan.
Best time of the day. I get to say good
afternoon and welcome to our number four. You're at home
with Gary Salvin. The sun is out. It looks warm.
I'm inside. I can't tell you it looks warm. It
looks great, says it's about fifty right now. Oh so
it's not that warm. It just looks warm. Man, Was
(00:21):
this a gloomy weak or wouldn't any boy? Oh jeez,
killing me, killing me? All right, let me open up
the phone lines. Danny's back so he can take your calls.
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Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Doing fine? I think good.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, I just just hadn't. Couple of years ago, I
had a guy put decks on and unfortunately I find
out later you know, and I, you know, shame on
me because I didn't do my research and they didn't
do they didn't get permits or anything. And I'm concerned
about when I sell that house. You know, what's going
(02:18):
to happen. I got to make I don't know, you know,
because it's it's you know, a lot of decks I
got put on, I got a I got had one,
two three, three decks put on and uh, you know,
it cost me pretty much money, and you know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, you know, I don't know what's gonna happen. I
think i'd be more concerned since there was no permits
and there was no uh you know, final blessing off
on the structure itself. Yeah, is to have it inspected
and just make sure it's up to speed. I think
that's probably more important and probably more likely to bite
(02:57):
you than the other.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And well, and you know, well, I've heard ny matters
about where the county that I lived in, or that
if you build something, you know, After I found this out,
I started checking around and they made people tear it down,
and I even was able to contact my former uh
the former owner, and they said, you know that her
(03:20):
husband had built a foot stairs in and all this
stuff on going up a hill and built a little
shit up our little sitting place and he didn't get
it permit and somebody read it on him and he
went They went out and made him tear it down. Well,
what concerns me if I go to sell it, they're
going to check on all that and then I'm in big.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, I it sounds like they might in your county,
And I guess That's really what it comes down to. Now,
there's a couple of things we can do maybe to
get the information rather than going to the county and saying, hey,
I play guilty, uh, which I'm all about transparency. Maybe
that's where you end up, but I'd rather not do that.
(04:03):
Let's just kind of think this thing through. Maybe it's
a matter. There's two other avenues I would consider, and
the first doesn't really address your issue, it addresses my issue.
You could get a structural engineer or a or a
(04:25):
a home inspector having do a deck inspection. Let's make
sure that that thing is built the code, okay, because
you know, getting the permits and everything is all about
the safety. You know, people all say it's about a
money grab, but it's really about the safety. Is that
(04:46):
thing properly built right? And you know if you if
it gets blessed off that you know it's structurally sound,
it's done properly. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well I can I can tell you not to interrupt you,
but I can tell you that I did have somebody
come out and look a professional builder remodeler. I did
have them look at it. When I found all this
out and I thought I was going to be in trouble.
And they looked at it and the main thing they
found was that they didn't put flashing around the you know,
(05:20):
right where the yeah we're it mounts to the house.
They didn't put flashing on it. But you know, somebody's
the less you know, suggested to me that. But that
was going to cost me a lot of money to
have them do it, you know, and I thought, well,
and then uh, somebody said, well, you know, just take that.
(05:40):
You know, I don't want to do an advertisement for
that flex seal is it that put that or spray
that around up around your I can't met with a
band board or what I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Without and without flashing that can lead to rot and
would rot anchoring your deck is a problem, right, And
I don't know Flexio is going to exacerbate or get
rid of that problem. It could do either depending. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, I know I've used it, you know, use the
stuff on like like water tanks and that kind of thing.
I mean it it holds. I mean I've had it
on some water tanks for like five years now and
they still hold wonderfully, you know, out in the weather
all kinds of stuff, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I thought, well, well, another option, you know, since you
know what it is, since you know it's not up
to code, it's going to be hard to go into
the deck and say, gee, I'm sorry, I never got
permits and they come out and say, we don't have fleshing.
You got to tear this down. I'm not saying they're
going to do that, but that would be reasonable, Okay, right,
(06:51):
so maybe the option. The other option would be maybe
contact a lawyer in that county, somebody that deals with
cantruction and ask them the same question you ask me,
what's the probability of you know, when I sell this
house and it goes through inspection, does it get to
the county? Do they you know, you know, express what
(07:15):
you're worried about and get their advice.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay, that sounds like that's good advice right there. So yeah,
I'll I'll look into that. Okay, Well, I appreciate your
time and talking. And uh. Only other thing that they
that they did find was the banisters the bottom, you know,
how the posts come up out right out of the ground.
They weren't I don't know, they weren't properly done, but
(07:39):
they're kind of you know, you push against they move,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, yeah, it could be a problem. Yeah, so usually
they would use a sona tube and create a pylon
and either either put a bracket and put your post
on top or sink your posts. So yeah, that would
be a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, when I had I had somebody come out and
you know, look at it. You know, I don't want
to give their name, but you know, they came out,
looked at it, and they were good, and I thought,
pretty honest, but it didn't call. It cost me about
ten grand to do that. You know. I found out
later just that uh that you know, about the permit,
and I'm thinking, we'll shoot. I put all that extra
(08:18):
money in. Then I got it. You know what am
I going to do? You know? Then I'm out ten
thousand more dollars you know.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, well it cost.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Me a lot to put those decks in.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That's why I said, that's you know, yeah, that's a
shame they didn't get permits on that. But yeah, well
you can find out what the you know, what the
probability of them checking that out. But I will say
that if you sell the house, those two issues are
going to come up in the home inspection anyway. So
whether that gets the county I don't know, but it
(08:51):
will it will. So my my point is if it
comes up in the home inspection, it may cost you
that anyway. So all the playing that everybody does about permits,
this is the end result, this is what it's saving you.
Let's always give that some thought. All right, we're gonna
take a break in. Tim, I promise you'll be up first.
(09:13):
If you'd like to join us. It's eight hundred eighty
two three A two five five at home with Gary
Salvin right here in fifty five care see de talk
station all right, talking our way through the weekend, and
we're talking about your house. If you'd like to join us,
please do. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five all right, Uh yeah, grab a line. They're
(09:34):
open so we can chat. We'll be with you till
one o'clock today and then mister Donnovan will be in
to help you with your auto. Let's go to Tim.
Tim welcome, Hey.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Gary, appreciate taking my call. I have a question about
a washing machine. Drain the rest the rest of the
house drains fine, the showers, the saints, the commos, everything,
and we can do a small load, but then when
(10:05):
we put anything larger a medium or large or extra large,
it starts backing up out of the top of the
pipe behind the washing machine. I think there might be
some roots maybe in the and the pipe that goes
out to the sewer system that is causing it to
(10:28):
back up that much water. Is there something that I
can put in there that would get rid of those
roots in the in the pipe.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
About the only thing you can put down really, I mean,
you can prevent roots from growing, but once they're there,
tim the only way you're really going to get them
out is to you know, snake them out or grind
them out. And then the next step is the question.
(10:58):
The next question is how how the roots get in there?
You know, is the pipe with clay pipe and it's cracked?
Is it a clay pipe and it's separated? You know,
we have a lot of clay and that happens a lot.
So I would say, you know, you get somebody like
our friends of Rotor Uter who we had on the
(11:20):
show today, and snake that down there and see really
what you have because you're just guessing. I mean, I
don't know, maybe in an elbow there's an old sock
that's snagged on something. I don't know, something's impeding the
flow of the water. Obviously, when you get large volumes,
it's having a problem. Now, let me just go a
step further. Depending on the type of house, the size
(11:44):
of house, and everything else, there's usually just one waistline
which goes down and throughout the house. Everything's kind of
tied into it. And then when it goes underground, you know,
they're all dealing with with the same issues. Right, So
again we get back to if there is roots, if
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there is a separation in the pipe, If that is
the problem, I guess it would be because of the
volume of the water that's going down. But the only
way we're gonna know is we're gonna have to run
a snake through there, or run You're gonna run a
camera through there first and then end up running power
snake down through it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
If that is the problem, can they just go in
if they have to?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean, I'd hate for them.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
To replace the entire line from the house all the
way out to the sewer, you know that where it
dumps into the sewer. But can they just replace sections
of it or.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, there's different there's different things. Yeah, that's a great question. Actually,
I mentioned a company that sponsored this hour of the show.
It's called Precision Pipeworks, and what they do is they
do a liner. So if the if they if you
get if you get it all cleaned out, and let's
(13:09):
just say the pipe is crushed, it's misaligned. In other words,
the pipe has issues. Okay, you can replace it. It
would depend but it depends on the type of pipe
that's underneath there too, So it depends whether they could
(13:31):
replace a section of it, or whether they have to
replace the whole line, or whether like Precision Pipe Works
can come in and actually put in It's a thermal
sock is what it is. So they you know, rot
Ruter cleans it out, says, oh, you got to crush pipe.
(13:53):
We can fix this, and here's what this costs. You
can check with Precision. We have this thermal pipe, see
what the cost is. And what they do is they'll
just put this sock down the whole line, they'll inflate it,
they'll heat it, and it'll just basically line the whole pipe.
It's kind of like a pipe within a pipe, and
(14:16):
you know, then you don't have to even dig up
the yard, and the reason they exist is what happens
if it goes underneath a driveway right when don't want
to be digging up the driveway and I'm playing worst
case scenario, but tim, quite honestly, it starts with you know,
rotor Reuter or a plumber out there, running a scope
down there, seeing what you got, snaking it out, and
(14:38):
then making a decision. Then then if it is the
pipe and it can't, you know, sometimes roots get in
just because there's a little joint there and once they
snake it out, every six months you'll be putting something
down the toilet to prevent and burn back root growth.
(14:58):
So I've given you the whole swing of events that
could be, you know, and there might not even be
any roots. It might just be you know, one of
the things we have problems with in wastelines right now
is is wipes, baby wipes and all kinds of wipes
like that. It could be that I don't know what
it is. You're not going to know to you, Okay,
(15:19):
get a camera down and see what's going on.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
All right, you've helped a bunch.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
All right, you bet you have a great Thanksgiving Tim
all right again, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five, and of course we're talking about your home,
and boy, there's just you know, a lot going on.
In fact, one of the things that is going to
go on real soon here in the next two weeks
is h I've already seen it. It's it's not quite
(15:48):
in full board, but it's coming is exterior home decorating.
And I am just well, I know it's a growing industry.
I know it's a growing bit business, but I'm still
just amazed the professional decorating that's taken place on houses,
(16:10):
I mean everywhere, especially newer subdivisions. And not against it,
I'm just saying, I'm just surprised that people, quite honestly,
can afford a couple thousand dollars to have their home
decorated for four weeks. They look beautiful, My gosh, they
look tremendous. But I have noticed that they're you know,
(16:33):
I mean, it's it is everybody. A lot of pest
control companies they do that. Now, window washers they do that. Now.
There are a lot of people in that business, and
but a lot of us still decorate our homes ourselves.
Some of us don't decorate our homes at all. So
(16:55):
I've got some tips on just safety and things to
conce as. I was chatting with Ron Wilson today, He's like,
you know, I don't do that much anymore, but I
used to. I just kind of throw him up there
and get he hated it. I was talking with Tom
Brenneman the other day on our Thursday Morning tips, and
he's going, oh, I just absolutely despise that when my
(17:18):
wife says it's time time to start decorating the outside, Well,
I can't say I despise it. I kind of enjoy it.
If it's not ten degrees outside and it looks like
this afternoon it's above fifty. Tomorrow it's a little bit
further above fifty, and Monday it's above fifteen. Now it's
(17:41):
going to rain somewhere in there. We all know that.
But if you're going to be decorating, maybe that's when
you want to decorate. And I've got some tips for
you in terms of safety, mainly the no nos and
it starts with the ladder, so we'll cover that when
I come back, along with your calls. It's eight hundred
(18:04):
eight two three eight two five five and you're at
home with Garry Salvin right here. I'm fifty five cares
De talk station, all right, talking a little home improvement.
Happy to take your cause. It's eight hundred day two
three eight two five five. You know, just kind of
thinking about the wash machine, and you know, we kind
of got on a tangent and right away, like many times,
(18:26):
when we have a problem, we go to the worst
case scenario, right and in a lot of cases it
is tree routes. Don't don't get me wrong, but there's
other things to consider, quite honestly. And maybe the first
step is, you know, find out where that clean out
plug is on that waistline and get a drum auger
(18:48):
and just kind of, you know, run a drum auger
down there. It's only about a three ace inch half
inch snake. It's you're doing it. Not the easiest thing
in the world, not my favorite project, but you might
just see if and see if that results. Maybe it's
not even in you know, he's the one that suggested
(19:08):
that it was the roots, but he really didn't have
any way to tell me for sure as the roots.
He didn't run a camera down there. And then I
got on the tangent with a camera and then he
was back out in the yard. But you know, as
a step one if before you want to call anybody,
you know, if you want to use a little drain
snake and a drum auger and take the clean out
(19:29):
port if you can get to clean outport on that waistline,
usually down in the basement. Maybe that's where the laundry
line is too. I don't know where. It could be
upstairs and down and they're using that waistline run it
down through there. It might be there's a branch line
that then goes to the main sewer that could be clogged.
(19:51):
It might not even be in the main sewer line,
I guess, is where I'm going. We were, you know,
just we're talking about the roots because he brought it up.
But that is something you know, you might want to
check before you start calling anybody else. Also, modern washers
(20:13):
there they discharge water much faster, more pressure, more volume,
and some of the old I mean I've seen old
wastelines not even two inches, and you know it can
overwhelm that. Now it sounds like there's something that just started.
(20:33):
So I'm kind of lean that probably is the tree roots,
but kind of wanted to talk about. You know, when
there's plumbing, there's never one just answer, there's usually multiple answers,
so I wanted to pass that along. All right, if
you'd like to chat about your project, please do. In
the meantime, I'm going to start with a little chat
about safety and decorations. I know many of you're going
(20:56):
to be tackling that project. Tackling that project and the
next probably two weeks. First thing, I hope you took
my advice a year ago, five years ago, two years ago,
and that is don't store your lights in the attic.
Hopefully you didn't. And the why is because that attic
(21:21):
and I don't care whether you have ventilation or not,
that attic's still going to be one hundred hundred and
ten degrees. If you've got good ventilation, it's going to
be that. If you've got no ventilation, that attic it's
going to be one hundred and forty hundred and fifty degrees.
Outdoor lights for the that you'd be hanging on the
outside of your house are not made for that. They're
(21:45):
not made for longevity. They're not commercial wiring, and they
get very brittle and they get cracks in them, So
if you store them up there, it behooves you to
pull them out and inspect the wires before you plug
them in. Inspect the sockets. You're liable to find cracks
(22:09):
in the wire and cracks in the socket at those temperatures.
All right, If you don't, great, just don't storm up there.
Next year, plug them in, test them, make sure everything's
good to go. The worst thing to do is start
decorating and then find out they don't work. Okay, so
test them the next thing. If you're going to be
on a ladder, when we were talking about this earlier,
(22:31):
safety is certainly the key, and finding or looking at
the ladder you have is important. If it's an extension ladder,
you're going to want to have that extend beyond the
gutter by three feet. You're going to want to make
sure it's stable. You're going to make sure somebody's out
(22:54):
there with you. You're also going to read the label
on the side of the ladder. You may not know,
but there's three types of letders. There's a type one, two,
and three, and they have weight limits. Usually there's probably
four types now. Usually a standard weight limit on a
(23:15):
ladder is usually about two hundred pounds. If you're more
than two hundred pounds, you shouldn't climb up on that ladder.
They have them for two twenty five two fifty three
hundred pounds. Also check for cracks and the steps. I'm
telling you for uh accidents in an emergency room. Ladders
(23:39):
number one. Okay, So you want to inspect the ladder,
make sure you have the right kind of ladder. If
you're doing it on a step ladder. Again, you want
to make sure it's on secure footing. Somebody's out there
and we don't stand on the top, you know, the
one with the with the little labelan that says this
(24:00):
is not a step. Yep, that means it's not a
step when you're using a ladder. Three points of contact
that's the key. Two feet, one arm or one foot
and two hands. But I don't know how you're going
to hang the lights. But three points of contact. Not
too We don't going to lean over it. We want
to keep the ladder, you know, at least halfway in
(24:22):
the middle of our body. So that's a little ladder safety. Also,
a good slope three feet away from the wall. Good slope,
not straight up, not leaning back too far and so
there's the ladder. Now there's some for the electrical issues
of the lights too, and we'll talk about that after
we chat with Pat.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Welcome good after me and Gary.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, sir, I want to follow.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Up with the individual that was having issues with his
washing machine draining. Yes, have a similar issue. And finally
came to really a bad situation when I'm plunging the
commode upstairs and my wife's on it one downstairs and
(25:11):
she was getting a bow dight. But I thought maybe,
you know, I had had a septic cleaned down in
a few years and it turned out tree roots had
grown into the baffle where the pipe entered into the
septic tank.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And once they cleaned that out, it was like opening
a faucet.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, he had an actual sewer line, Pat, but I
hear you. I mean that's why my first suggestion, it
probably would have solved both of our problems, is getting
a camera inspection down in there. He was guessing there
was tree roots in there, and quite honestly, in our
area with the type of soil, the just some of
(26:00):
the homes, tree roots are on the number one culprit
with that problem. So you know, we kind of got
on a tangent all the way out into the sewer line.
But you know, with plumbing, it could be all kinds
of things, and a septic tank is a whole nother ballgame.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, but there have been like an evergreen shrubbery in
the in the vicinity of the sewer line, and I
think that's one of the roots were coming. So and
you know, people aren't going to like this, probably use
copper sulfate.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know. The product that I was talking about using
is aerobic product and it is called per sulfate. It's
ninety eight percent calper sulfate.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah, and I haven't had an issue with that in twelve.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Years, as long as you stay on top of it,
because you know, once they're in and they start maturing,
and the roots are just going there because there's water,
right and if there's an opening and they get in there,
they're not going to the pipe. But if there's a
little bit of opening, they'll get in there and they
grow inside, no question. And that copper sulfe just burns
(27:08):
those back a little bit.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, A certain times evergreen even though the you know,
it's been removed, the roots still grow for years.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I agreed. I had a beautiful It was a blue spruce.
It was a bush. That bush got about six feet
wide and about ten feet tall. I took it out
about two years ago and the roots are still growing.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, all right, okay, I wish them luck and that's
my experience.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I appreciate it, Thank you much. Take care all right,
And yeah, I wanted to get that on because, yeah,
you can control them, but those pipes do move. Like
I'm always talking about my down spouts in the pipe
that goes under the ground. If we have a six
week drought in August and Septem, I guarantee you that
pipe will get a little out of a line and
(28:04):
I have to get out there and work that back
into square. So we were talking about how you know
a little bit of ladder safety s there's a lot
of people to be cleaning out their gutters and hanging
out some Christmas lights and things like that, and ladder
safety certainly key. Inspecting the chords, like I talked about,
(28:26):
that's important. Also outdoor extension cords. Make sure they are
outdoor extension cords. Every year I see lamp cords, extension cords,
I go crazy whenever I see it. They're outside they're
laying on the ground. No, no, no, but we'll get
to that in a minute. The extension cords, make sure
(28:48):
they're ul rated. Exterior extension cords, all right. Make sure
you have inspected those, just like you inspected the lights.
No cracks. And when you're hanging extension cords or distributing
Christmas lights, traut the bushes and things like that. Two things.
(29:09):
Do not lay the extension cords on the ground. Do
not let the Christmas light cords lay on the ground,
because I can almost I got surprised one year. Rabbits
will bite those. They're soy oil. And those extension cords,
they're soy oil for sure. And the Christmas light cords.
(29:30):
And even if there are a couple inches off the ground,
a rabbit will cut through those. I'm telling you it'll
look like somebody took a diagonal ply and cut it.
And I'm not joking about that. So keep them off
the ground, keep them inspected. And gfi's if the Christmas
(29:52):
lights are protected by a GFI ground false circuit interrupter GFCI,
if you will, you're not going to have problems. I
mean it's going to in a nanosecond. Cut that circuit,
cut the juice to the to the to the to
the to the lights, and everybody blames the outlet and
(30:16):
it's not the outlet. It's supposed to do that, and
what you probably got is moisture somewhere. You got moisture.
Buy that outlet in that outlet at the connections of
the cords and the lights. Don't wrap them with electrical tape.
If you want to wrap them with serante sirane wrap,
(30:36):
that's fine. But if it's not protected, then you're in danger.
If you don't have by the way, the ground false
circuit interrupted. That's the outlet which has the red button
the black button, and people, oh my gosh, my my
lights don't work all this this outlet's no good and
(30:57):
if it doesn't reset, it will. We'll reset, but it's
going to take time. It's got to dry out. So
the good chance is not the outlet. It can be,
but it's a good chance. It's not. It's what it's protecting.
It's doing what it's supposed to do. Give it some time,
(31:20):
Give it the time to dry out, and then try
to see if it works without anything plugged in and
reset it. Get an outdoor cover on that receptacle, and
you can also try and plug it into another GFI
see if you can get the lights on. They're not
all wired and downstream or anything. So a couple of
(31:41):
things to check there, and to be safe if you
don't have any protection of GFI in your house. They
do make extension cords with GFI in the extension cord.
Be safe this holiday, all right, our phone numbers eight
hundred eight two three A two five five. You're at
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KRC the talk station. All right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
We go.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Not bad looking day out there right now for the
time of year, right, it's always factoring the time of year.
Not a bad at all. Man. After Thanksgiving, you probably
heard on the news it's like this big storm, this
big storm. I hear this big storm. I start thinking
like a foot.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Of snow and maybe twenty below or something.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, well it's like four solid days of rain. So
I'm just giving your heads up. It's like the Tuesday
after Thanksgiving not looking great. Hey, we're so we kind
of marries back to what we were talking about, and
that is getting our exterior of our homes decorated. Maybe
in the next three days might be a good idea.
A little early, but it might be a good idea.
We don't really want to wait to the middle of
(32:45):
December when it's probably going to be ten. So we
were talking about safety and gfi's and different things. A
couple other things I want to run by is it
goes back to the extension course. That is the focus
of a lot of problems that we run into with
accidents and problems around the house during during the holidays.
(33:06):
And make sure if you got extension chords outside and
you're running around the door, make sure they're not getting
pinched by the door, back by the hinges, anything along
noselanes where you can break that insulation a big problem.
Obviously if you have a GFI that you're a little protected,
but if you're not plugged into a GFI, you're not protected.
(33:27):
Another old way and people used to do it all
the time. Hopefully they don't anymore. We've tried to get
the word out. You know what a plug body is.
You take out a light bulb when you screw in
this thing where the light goes, and then you can
just put an extension cord right in there. Bingo. Yes,
there's no GFI on that you are not protected. You
(33:48):
are probably there's a possibility you're not even grounded, So
don't do that. If you use an extension chords inside,
make sure they're at least sixteen gauge. I hate those
eighteen gauge. I don't know how much amperg you're gonna pull,
but get a little sixteen gauge extension cord. Do not
(34:10):
run it under a carpet. Do not even run it
under a throw rug. Do not, you know, run it
at an entrance to a room unless you're going up
and around the door and out the other side on
the jam. Just from a safety standpoint, that's the way
you want to run it. Also, I know a lot
(34:32):
of people will put reese on doors. There's all kinds
of way to do it. I will tell you. I
know a lot of you have nice wood doors with
a very nice finish on there. Or maybe you have
those beautiful fiberglass doors that look just like exotic wood.
I mean, they're beautiful. Be careful with the the metal
(34:59):
wreathangers and some of them. The manufacturers got a little
a little better with them. They've started encasing like a
plastic sleeve that goes over them, but I still see
them out there. They're just metal and you put a
wreath on, you put that little clip over the door.
(35:19):
I'm not gonna say it's always going to happen. I'm
just telling you to be careful with it, because I've
seen some doors get scratched with those. Also on the
back of the wreath, if you have a wire frame
to that wreath, and that'll be usually well, I guess
it could be unartificial too. I usually see them on liveries.
(35:42):
You can get little some adhesive pads and protect that door.
If they're just hanging over the glass, you're probably okay,
but be careful that it's not scratching the finish on
a painted and or stained door. And if you are
going to put them on the glass and you're using
(36:03):
a suction cup, here's a good little tip. I know
three M makes those pull off hooks. They're very good.
But I still see a lot of suction cups used.
If you're gonna use a suction cup on there, because
we're going to have temperature changes and humidity changes in
those suction cups. They don't always have the suction that
(36:26):
we think they have. But if you have a little
dab of silicone clear colocking and put it in there
and put that right on that glass and let it
sit for a day. I know you're thinking, I'm crazy.
That will come off. It'll take a razor blade, but
you can get it off and that thing ain't going anywhere.
(36:48):
You're cutting through the silicon. So a little little tip
for you there, very little, but you'll be glad you
did it rather than having a fall. You know what
happened to me one time dan wreath out on the
front and there were some oh what were they finches?
Purple finches. Yeah, they would hang out in the wreath
(37:12):
and guess what happened when somebody came over. They decided
they wanted to come to the party too. Oh man. Yeah. Yeah.
So you know you put those refes out there. They're
pretty inviting for the wildlife too. All right, Well, we
started off with firewood how it should be stored, and
(37:34):
we've kind of ended up talking about reees and how
we should do that. One other thing I was telling
you earlier in the show. We were talking about the
good temperature, the most common temperature for heat and a
house sixty eight degrees, and I was talking about making
sure like our thermostats off two degrees. So if we
(37:58):
said it at seventy, all my thermometers in my house
are showing sixty eight degrees. My thermostat shows seventy. It
eats to seventy, but it's sixty eight degrees, so something
you might want to check. You may like sixty eight degrees,
you may not like sixty eight degrees, but that's that's
where it is. Make sure those furnaces, the furnace filters
(38:20):
are cleaned, make sure the filters are changed if it's
a pleated filter every ninety days. Otherwise you're just paying
for that furnace to work harder and get that air
to satisfy that thermostat throughout the home. And it won't be.
It won't be if you're running a dirty filter, and
(38:41):
you're gonna have more activity in your home over the
next two months than probably any other time of the year.
So I usually do the pleated filters about every sixty
days and take a look. And next time you're down
the basement, take a look up at the duckwork where
the seams are. If there's the apps, there's holes there,
(39:02):
or anything along those lines, you're losing the air that
you just paid the heat, and you're losing it in
the basement. And you can actually tape up those joints
with aluminum tape and it's like a thicker millage of
Reynolds wrap, only it's just like two inches wide. It
(39:24):
looks like duct tape, but it's aluminum and it's got
an adhesive on it. That's a great way to tape
those joints and save the heated air that you just
paid for. All Right, Danny, boy, it looks like that's
gonna wrap it up to Donna. Mister Donovan will be
in next to help you with your with your car.
And yeah, cold weather bothers that too. Well, Danny, it
(39:46):
was fun today and good Lord Willing, we'll be back
at it tomorrow for more At Home with Gary Sullivan.
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