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Speaker 1 (00:33):
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to talk about your home projects or maybe a little
maintenance or repair or safety issues. You can dial us up.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Yesterday was a busy day if you tried to get through. Well,
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right now is a good time. So eight hundred eighty
three a two five five. We're in that season that
we can enjoy the fireplace and a nice crackling, sparkling
fire in the firebox and a couple of cautions and
always feel very I just feel like I need to
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create a little safety atmosphere. As somebody told me one time,
we build a fire inside our house. We need to
be safe. One of the best ways of being safe,
of course, is to have that chimney and that flu inspected,
if not annually every other year. Look for creisode build up,
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but even more look for problem areas. A crack liner
can be a massive problem aria with that liner if
it had If you had a chimney fire in that
liner cracked, probably didn't burn down the house, probably didn't
you know anything happened. But the next one with a
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crack liner, you may not be as lucky. And those
you know can be inspected when they're cleaning your chimney,
and you can just make sure everything's nice and safe.
If you haven't done that, I'd be a little leery
about building a fire in the firebox until it's inspected
again annually or every other year for sure. And there's
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a lot of problems that can be traced back to
the chimney. We talk a lot about it in the
spring in summer because that's just an awesome time to
get something repaired, like a chimney. You still have to
get it repaired, but not as pleasant this time of year.
First of all, Ron Krueger, we had him on wildlife
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control specialist, and he was talking about the two most
often ignored areas of your home, and I totally agree.
The soffet board underneath the gutters, that's where a lot
of wildlife gets into your attic. And the top of
the chimney. We didn't expound on that doesn't really have
anything to do with wildlife, but that it's called a
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crown wash. That concrete slab. The flu goes through it.
It cantilevers over the brick chimney. At least it should
not all of them are designed that way. Sometimes it's
just almost like a mountain right on top of the
brick and it's just sloped in that water, of course,
continuously washes down the brick reckon that's not really good
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for it. But as long as there's a little ledge
that extends over the brick, that's perfect. But it, like
all pieces of concrete, gets cracks and it becomes compromised.
And when there's cracks and the finishes less than stellar,
and it's absorbing water that can bring in that can
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bring in moisture into our homes, and we start seeing
spots on ceilings or walls or in the basement. It
just depends where that water travels. In a lot of
cases it's a faulty crown wash. So having that inspected,
you know, I say once or two years for the
inside of your chimney. Boy, if they're up there, they're
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also looking at the crown wash, and that's a real
good idea to get that inspected. And it doesn't take
much more than just looking. And if there's cracks running
through it or chunk's missing, you know, you know immediately
that's that's not good. That's not good. Also looking at
the brick cracks through the bricks mortar that's missing. It
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can all be remedied relatively easily, but something you definitely
want to remedy. So a couple of things to think
about as we get into fireplace season, along with the
type of wood you're using and how seasoned the wood is.
Remember that wood should be seasoned for a year. All right, again,
our phone numbers eight hundred and eight two three eight
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two five five. Matt, you lead us off, welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You just answered my question is yeah, yeah, so greenwood
is not good to put in like a fireplace, correct,
it makes okay?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, so green is greenwood is wet? Okay, And though
it will catch on fire burn as hot as it
should and so that you don't get that good drawl
up to chimney and that heat just kind of lays there.
And in fact, you can even hear the wood sizzle
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if it's if it's still wet. And I always tell
people A good way to tell that you know whether
it's green or not, is this, if you just took
a you know, a quarter of a log, okay, or
you know, or an eighth of a log, it doesn't matter.
A piece of that wood log and you dropped it
on concrete. If it goes thud, it's wet. If it
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sounds like a baseball bat, it's dry. That's the best.
That's the easiest way to tell. And it's usually a
little lighter than wet wood.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Do you have a certain type or do you recommend
a certain type of wood?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well? Yeah, yeah, ideally hardwood is what you want to
burn again because it burns hotter, so it's not producing
as much kreosode. So you know, apple, maple, hash, yeah, oak,
those are all really good woods. They're hardwoods. They burn hot,
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ones that burn fast and you shouldn't use and it'll
make sense, it would be like pine, it's kind of
all sappy, doesn't burn really well, that's gonna Yeah, those
are going to produce fur. Those are going to produce
a lot of creosod, and you're not going to get
a good benefit of heat either.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, understood.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah. So yeah, you want good hardwood and a chimney
in good shape and certainly inspected is the key. And
if you're kind of new to this, Matt, you know,
they have those chimney sweep logs out there, and by
the way, those work really well, but they do not
take the place of an inspection of a chimney. So
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what I'm saying, if you wanted to burn, you know,
a couple of those a year, just to kind of
keep that chimney in good shape in terms of creosobillip,
kind of keep it a little cleaner than it would be,
I'd certainly do that, But every other year I'd still
have that inspected.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So those those chimney sweeps, they actually like run a
camera down.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, yes, yeah, they'll they'll run a camera in, they'll
look at the liner and they'll look in what kind
of shape, make sure it's not cracked, because that would
be a highway or a pathway if if you got it,
you know, came upon a chimney fire, if there's a
fire inside the chimney, which happens with dirty chimneys and
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people that are burning softer woods and more creos out.
And usually the first chimney fire you have, you're going
to crack the liner. And again it's a pathway for
those flames. So you know, if he had another one,
and then there'll be it, there'll be a house on
the news in the next two weeks. I guarantee you
where there is a chimney fire and burnt the house down.
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So it happens. It's just you know, and I'm not
trying to scare everybody. Just make sure that chimney's in
good working order.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's all right, all right, Well that.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
That answers my question.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
All right, Matt, have a great holiday, take care you
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You almost get out your own phone number, Gary.
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the air, you're at home with Garry Selvan talking about
home maintenance ripair projects. Happy to take your call. Let's
go to Larry. Larry welcome.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Oh yeah, I'm terror Hope, Indiana. I just bought a
new house that I moved into. This got gutters that
come down down spouts into tubes that lead the water
away from the basement and further out into the yard.
But there are hundreds of flies that I've keep trying
to get rid of from and it looks like they're
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coming out of the down spouts. I didn't know if
they're the product I can put in there, or if
I can bleach them out, or how should I take
care of cleaning those down spouts that run underground and
away from the house.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, it's interesting. I've never really run into that issue.
I mean, I'm thinking if they are in that pipe,
whether we just couldn't stick a hose down or and
flush it out.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I tried dumping like buckets five down buckets of water
down each one of them a couple buckets at a time,
and it took care of them for about a day
or two, but then they seem to be just coming
right back out of it again. And I mean it's
a lot. It's not like ten or twenty, it's hundreds
of them that seem to be like living in there.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well they may be. That's why I was wondering, is
there a way? And I'm just I'm winging it here, Larry.
I just never really ran into that problem. There's all
kinds of fly traps, and you know where you could
attract them to the trap, but you know, if they're
down in that pipe, I don't know. I'd be thinking, seriously,
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if you can get a hose with real hot water
going through there and put that put a hose down
there and flush them out with hot water. If that
wouldn't be a little bit more substantial putting bleach down there,
or you know, I mean, it's not gonna really hurt
anything per se outside of you know, you don't want
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to really be pouring that right into a stream or something.
If it's out in the yard, it's probably going to
kill a little bit of the grass.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
So yeah, I figured it would kill the grass off.
I did think about plugging up the exit hole so
it would hold the water, because the tubes that run
underground run probably about two hundred feet or so away
from the house, and there's quite a bit of distance
to be filling up with water.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's a lot of water. Yeah, that's a whole bunch
of water to fill up though, and they it's got
slits in there. In some cases it really depends on
the type of pipe it's got slits or holes.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Possibly that would keep filling up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. So I'd kind of like the idea
really of a hose in hot water and see if
we could really stop that. Also kind of look where
they exit, if you can see the opening.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yeah, the drain of the gutter pipe comes down, and
it's got like a little screen trap to keep leaves
and stuff from actually getting clogging.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Up the pipe.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
That's what I need.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
And they're coming out of that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay, Well, that was another thing I was going to say,
is maybe that flies were the problem is right at
the end of that pipe, not in the middle or
not right at the top of the pipe, but actually
literally at the end of that pipe. If you can
pull that screen out and again with gloves or a
hose or a pressure washer, and you know, try to
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clean out that end portion of it and see if.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You give it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, give it a good cleaning right there, Those
are a couple of suggestions. I wouldn't be pouring any
insecticides down or anything.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I don't want to do that, yeah, because it's not
in the country and I'm on well water and I
really don't want to put any kind of contaminants into
the ground.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And I totally agree, we're on the same page. So
maybe just through force and just trying to blast that
out I think would probably be a pretty good exercise
to take.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
All right, I appreciate you, Brice, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right, good enough, Larry, Thanks, take care and let's
go to Pat. Pat welcome.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Thank Harry.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
I hope you have a very good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Same for m. Wilson and everyone else. Hey, yeah, the
one of the previous callers talked about chimney inspection, did
do it. We have a free standing woodstove, you know,
and it comes down and then n elbows out and
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then down from where it's at several years ago. It's
like this thing isn't wrapped into well, and so you know,
kind of shut it down and pulled the horizontal pipe
off the elbow where it came down from the top
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of the chimney had pretty much rusted.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Out, right, So I had a.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Car like well, well, no, it's like you said, chimney fire.
So I had a complete liner. They pulled the old
steel liner out and dropped the new winer in there.
So folks, do get your chimney inspected.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yep, I think it's very important. And he asked about
a camera too, pat and sure. If somebody's talking to
about a liner and a chimney where it can be
an expensive repair, I don't know how excited I'd be
about doing it unless they could show me pictures. And
I know the CSIA, which is a chimney institute, Chimney
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Safety Institute of America. They recommend that so that the
consumer can actually see what the issue is. And I'm
going to guess that most people were going to use that.
But if somebody's just telling you you need a liner
and it's five thousand bucks up, and my first words is,
can get a second opinion or prove it to me
one or the other.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Now, no, I've been using this chimney sweep for ever
ten years and good. I stuck my hand back in
there and I can all must put my fist through
the whole. Wow, So I knew that. So it's like, yeah,
there is an issue, for sure. They came in and
they came in and verified it. But hey, okay a
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quick issue. You only said give a squirrel sacrifice to
keep them away from the house.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, Well direct their attention, change that environment on squirrels.
That are all helpful, Pat, thanks for the call up
against the break And you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Salvin taking it through another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home. If you'd like to join us,
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let's go to Tom Tom Welcome Martan.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Gary had a question about I have these made to
look like what tiles planks for my bathroom floor, and
I was wondering what kind of adhesive to use to
connect it to a ceramic tile that's already there.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well, so you're putting it is. Well, let's go back
a little bit. These wood tiles that you're saying that
look just like, what are they ceramic?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
They're not.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
No, it's I'm not exactly sure what they are what
they're made of. I guess it's like a I don't
know if it's plastic or what's underneath on the underside
of it. It's I can't really identify what kind of
material it is, but it's and there's I'm only replacing
just the one. I had to take it out to
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do some work elsewhere, but I just have to reconnect
it to ceramic tile. Yeah, that was that was already there,
And I just I'm just wondering what kind of adhesive
would work.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
What kind of adhesive was on there? Could you tell?
Was it a like a thin set or was it
like a glue or a mastic or something like that.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
It looked like a glue, and they only put about
three or four dabs on it, and it turned out
to be kind of a rubbery looking thing, and I
and I wonder if I should do the entire underside
of it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But well, I'm kind of having a hard time, mainly
because of the type of material. But Heaven said that
one of the things, and and this is laying on
the floor, correct, So we got a horizontal surface. Correct.
It sounds like when you say rubbery, it's like it
sounds to me like it would be a late text
multi purpose adhesive, which they do with now having not
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really positive And if I want to bring out the
big guns, if you will, one of the things you
might think about is you could use like a gorilla
glue construction adhesive and you could do just several dabs
on that. If you're doing the latex multipurpose adhesive, you
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would use a trial or you would do it in
an S shape. If it was in a calking tube
and you got to have those grooves, you gotta have
kind of that suction to create create that adhesion. But
the gorilla glue construction there's a couple of dabs on it.
That tile ain't moving anywhere, doesn't have to be clamped,
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doesn't have to be weighted down, simply pressed together.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Yeah, and that's kind of what I was looking for it.
I didn't even think of gorilla glue. But I'll give
it a try and see if it works.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, they got it. Yeah work. It'll glue any material
on any surface. I mean it really will. So there's
several different kinds. There's a gorilla glue construction adhesive. It
comes in a tube and I think it even comes
in a small tube also, but it comes in like
a calking tube. They make like a silver gold platinum.
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You don't need the platinum that's for underwater. The general
purpose gorilla glue constructionhesive would be more than adequate.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Okay, so yeah, I'm writing this down. But yeah, it's
just one piece because I only had to take one
piece up to fix something else in my wall. But
they now I gotta put that same piece back sure,
and I just need something to connect it with to
cerad mctile.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, I think I think you'll be good and and
sit tight, Tom, because I've got one of those jaws
cleaners of little gift for you for the holidays, and
Danyl'll get your information. Thank you much, And from Tom
we'll go to Steve. Steve welcome, Thank.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
You, Gary.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I believe I called about a year ago about the
chimney issue and when your listeners have it checked out
and the chimney sweeper says, oh, there was a fire here,
they should check out with their homeowners' insurance and it
may provide coverage.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
For the chimney fire.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Well, not only for the fire, but oh, I see what.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You mean for the crack in their liner. Yeah, yes, yes,
got a good point, very good point. Yeah, it very
well may of course, you know, like we had a
conversation with a insurance a person a broker yesterday, and
you know, I mean sometimes there's a lot of writers
in those policies now. But yeah, I would certainly check
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absolutely whenever you have a big purchase with that you
know there's damage on it. I would say, it never
hurts the check, does it.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
No, But it's usually with the homeowner's policy number four
that provides the coverage. The one and two I don't
think it does.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Okay, If you.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Have a number four policy, it covers just about everything
and it will cover unless you're deductible for you know,
the repair of the chimney.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Very good. You know. There's also and I don't know
if you're familiar with this, Steve, there's also liners, and
liners are expensive and there's this liner now they've used
it in Europe for about twenty some years where they'll
take a mold of the inside of your chimney and
literally like drop this mold all the way down to
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the base of the chimney and pour this liquid on
top of it and then pull that mold back up
where it's coating the inside walls of the chimney, which
are it's a little bit less expensive, so there's a
savings there. It's recognized certified as a as a CEILANT
for crack liners too. And after you you know, you
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can check with your insurance policy. You can check and
see if you know you want to go, you know
which route you want to go based I guess on
the coverage. So another tip there, right, very good, Okay,
thank you, thank you much, Steve. I appreciate it. Number
four policy. I'm not familiar with what a one, two,
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three and four policy is, but it sounds like the
four is like the all inclusive, right, all right? Our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three, A two five five.
And by the way, when we were talking about the
Chimney Safety Institute two of America, the cs IA, you
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can go on their website csiaa dot com, I believe,
or dot org I just looked at this, I think
on Thursday, and they you can put in your zip
code and it'll tell you who the chimney sweeps are
in your area that are CSIA certified and whether it's
a repair that needs to be done, or whether it's
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an inspection that needs to be done or a liner.
I wouldn't I would try to stay in that genre
of certified chimney sweeps. A lot of education is going
to their members on an annual basis, and very wealth
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well worth working with those folks. All right again, you
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top of the are at home with Gary Sullivan, kind
of got a conversation about chimney's safety, and we were
talking about the liners, talking about cleaning chimneys. We talked
about the crown wash another thing, and I just kind
of blew right through those is from a maintenance standpoint,
(35:22):
and I wouldn't worry about doing that now. Certainly the
inspection should take place if it's been a year or
two since it was inspected. The cleaning, certainly, if it's
been a year or two, probably have it cleaned. But
the others, you know, if it's been a while, I'd
put it on your list to do, but I wouldn't
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worry about it right now. And that is the ceiling
of the exterior of the chimney. Brick chimneys, you know,
they brick will absorb moisture, it'll absorb water over time
that will help degrade brick and mortar. So what you
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want to put on there is you don't want to
encapsulate it or seal it. You want to have a
breathable sealer. And what's a breathable sealer. A breathable sealer
is it's like gortex. It's going to minimize the absorption
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of water by the brick and it's going to be
able to as well as you know used and not
used and rain and everything. There can be condensation on
the inside. You want to allow that brick to exhaust
that moisture out, so it's keeping it from going in
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and you know, going deep into the brick and then
it's breathing out. So it's a breathable waterproofer, is what
it really is. It's not really a seal. So that
should be done on a chimney, you know, every five
to seven years, probably more based on the quality of
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waterproofing agent that you're using. But to do that regularly
every five to seven years, real good idea, real good idea.
Also inspection of the mortar and the brick. And what
you're looking for is cracks, openings, pieces of mortar that
(37:35):
have either disintegrated or are missing or you know, fallen
out and having it tuck pointed. Can you do it yourself? Yes,
you can buy little patches or a little pouches, I
should say, of a mortar mix which has a it
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has a bonding agent in it, because I don't creating
more than it doesn't like to stick to each other.
So there has to be a bonding emulsifier in that mortar.
In this little pouch called zip it mortar, it has
the bonding agent in it. It can be used on
vertical services, of course. It can even be used on
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overhead sources surfaces. So it's got some guts to it
and you will clean out that mortar joint with a
cultures will try to clean out as much of it
as you can. You would moisten that cavity and you
would pack that mortar into that and again color and
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matching that can be challenging. Also, there is dye that
you can mess with to kind of get it in
the right color family. Those dyes are usually red, beige, black,
and brown. So will you match it exactly? Probably not.
That's where a good may comes into play. If you
got all kinds of missing mortar, it would probably be
(39:04):
a good idea unless you're really good at it. Maybe
to look at having a mason do that. I know
one of the chimney care companies I deal with, they
have a mason on staff and that's what he does.
He does brickwork all right. Our number eight hundred eighty
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as I look at my list of things to do
I mentioned yesterday and I mentioned them a lot, but
they play such a crucial role in your home. And
I'm talking about gutters and you know, making sure most
of the leaves if they fallen, get those things cleaned out,
and also inspect the gutter when the Fellow was talking
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about how the down spot goes into the pipe underground
releases the water out into the yard two hundred feet
of pipe. He said, it's a long run. But making
sure that that down spout is properly aligned with the
pipe that goes underground is critical. If you live in
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an area where you have a lot of really dense
clay soil, it's even more critical because when it really
dries out and then rewets, I'm telling you that pipe's
going to be moving, and I've had to realign mine
multiple times. And then when we were talking ron Krueger
about wildlife getting our addicts, and he was talking about
(40:32):
how gutters, you know, aren't draining properly and they're overflowing
the back and it's rotting the facia and squirrels can
chew right through that. That's true. So when you're out
there and you've cleaned it, and if you want to
protect him, you throw the gutter brush in. They're very
very easy to do, but the next step, or maybe
(40:52):
even before you put the gutter brush in, is really
checked for the alignment of not only the down spout
and the pipe that goes underground, but the alignment of
the gutters and how tightly anchored that is to the
facia boards. If it's tilting forward and the shingles aren't
quite reaching all the way into the gutter, it's just
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kind of spilling that water on the back edge of
the gutter and behind it. That facia board is going
to rot out in no time at all. And if
you've got the nails and the farrels that are hanging
that gutter nice and tight in some places, it's not.
(41:33):
Those nails are backing out. You can get gutter screws
which as long as the nails, and you can just
use the same hole and run that screw in there.
I think it's got a square headed bit and pull
those gutters taut up to the facia board, eliminate a
(41:55):
bunch of problems. And then if there's seams in that gutter,
and you clean the leaves out before you put like
the gutter brush in, really inspect those seams, even if
you have to get a hose up there. Not too
many of us go running outside when it's raining to
see if our gutters are leaking. And I think I
probably have asked you to do that a couple of times,
(42:15):
but I get it, you get a hose up there on,
you know, get somebody on the ladder with a hose.
Run that water. Make sure you got those gutters that
are tilting towards the down spout. The water's running, it's
free flowing. And is it if there seams in that run,
is it leaking? Is it leaking at the cap? Is
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it leaking down the down spout? Because if you have
an issue where water is not totally controlled, not totally
being removed away from the foundation, because it's leaking at
a seam, that can be corrected and relatively easy. So
(42:57):
these things I'm talking about, they seem simple and you
might be tired of hearing them. But protecting your house,
you think about that whole roof, the size of that roof.
It's catching a rainfall, it's funneling to this five inch
trough and funneling it down to a two by four
pipe and taking it underground. It's a lot of rain
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water it's collecting. And if it's leaking out through seams,
it's probably not doing the paint very you know, much good.
It's not doing a break much good. It's not doing
a stucco much good. Whatever the substrate is it's not
helping that out. And you can get a tripolymer silicone.
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I talked about one called geocil. It's clear you clean
now whose seams up with a little mineral spirits and
a cotton cloth. Take to geocil. It's a brushable, it's thick,
it's almost like molasses and code all those seams and
it's almost like a rubberized band aid. It does, it
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really does a great job. Seals it up very nicely.
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It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Yesterday was a busy day if you tried to get through. Well,
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right now is a good time. So eight hundred eighty
three a two five five. We're in that season that
we can enjoy the fireplace and a nice crackling, sparkling
fire in the firebox and a couple of cautions and
always feel very I just feel like I need to
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create a little safety atmosphere. As somebody told me one time,
we build a fire inside our house. We need to
be safe. One of the best ways of being safe,
of course, is to have that chimney and that flu inspected,
if not annually every other year. Look for creisode build up,
(02:07):
but even more look for problem areas. A crack liner
can be a massive problem aria with that liner if
it had If you had a chimney fire in that
liner cracked, probably didn't burn down the house, probably didn't
you know anything happened. But the next one with a
(02:29):
crack liner, you may not be as lucky. And those
you know can be inspected when they're cleaning your chimney,
and you can just make sure everything's nice and safe.
If you haven't done that, I'd be a little leery
about building a fire in the firebox until it's inspected
again annually or every other year for sure. And there's
(02:52):
a lot of problems that can be traced back to
the chimney. We talk a lot about it in the
spring in summer because that's just an awesome time to
get something repaired, like a chimney. You still have to
get it repaired, but not as pleasant this time of year.
First of all, Ron Krueger, we had him on wildlife
(03:15):
control specialist, and he was talking about the two most
often ignored areas of your home, and I totally agree.
The soffet board underneath the gutters, that's where a lot
of wildlife gets into your attic. And the top of
the chimney. We didn't expound on that doesn't really have
anything to do with wildlife, but that it's called a
(03:38):
crown wash. That concrete slab. The flu goes through it.
It cantilevers over the brick chimney. At least it should
not all of them are designed that way. Sometimes it's
just almost like a mountain right on top of the
brick and it's just sloped in that water, of course,
continuously washes down the brick reckon that's not really good
(04:01):
for it. But as long as there's a little ledge
that extends over the brick, that's perfect. But it, like
all pieces of concrete, gets cracks and it becomes compromised.
And when there's cracks and the finishes less than stellar,
and it's absorbing water that can bring in that can
(04:23):
bring in moisture into our homes, and we start seeing
spots on ceilings or walls or in the basement. It
just depends where that water travels. In a lot of
cases it's a faulty crown wash. So having that inspected,
you know, I say once or two years for the
inside of your chimney. Boy, if they're up there, they're
(04:44):
also looking at the crown wash, and that's a real
good idea to get that inspected. And it doesn't take
much more than just looking. And if there's cracks running
through it or chunk's missing, you know, you know immediately
that's that's not good. That's not good. Also looking at
the brick cracks through the bricks mortar that's missing. It
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can all be remedied relatively easily, but something you definitely
want to remedy. So a couple of things to think
about as we get into fireplace season, along with the
type of wood you're using and how seasoned the wood is.
Remember that wood should be seasoned for a year. All right, again,
our phone numbers eight hundred and eight two three eight
(05:31):
two five five. Matt, you lead us off, welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You just answered my question is yeah, yeah, so greenwood
is not good to put in like a fireplace, correct,
it makes okay?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, so green is greenwood is wet? Okay, And though
it will catch on fire burn as hot as it
should and so that you don't get that good drawl
up to chimney and that heat just kind of lays there.
And in fact, you can even hear the wood sizzle
(06:13):
if it's if it's still wet. And I always tell
people A good way to tell that you know whether
it's green or not, is this, if you just took
a you know, a quarter of a log, okay, or
you know, or an eighth of a log, it doesn't matter.
A piece of that wood log and you dropped it
on concrete. If it goes thud, it's wet. If it
(06:36):
sounds like a baseball bat, it's dry. That's the best.
That's the easiest way to tell. And it's usually a
little lighter than wet wood.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Do you have a certain type or do you recommend
a certain type of wood?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well? Yeah, yeah, ideally hardwood is what you want to
burn again because it burns hotter, so it's not producing
as much kreosode. So you know, apple, maple, hash, yeah, oak,
those are all really good woods. They're hardwoods. They burn hot,
(07:20):
ones that burn fast and you shouldn't use and it'll
make sense, it would be like pine, it's kind of
all sappy, doesn't burn really well, that's gonna Yeah, those
are going to produce fur. Those are going to produce
a lot of creosod, and you're not going to get
a good benefit of heat either.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, understood.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah. So yeah, you want good hardwood and a chimney
in good shape and certainly inspected is the key. And
if you're kind of new to this, Matt, you know,
they have those chimney sweep logs out there, and by
the way, those work really well, but they do not
take the place of an inspection of a chimney. So
(08:08):
what I'm saying, if you wanted to burn, you know,
a couple of those a year, just to kind of
keep that chimney in good shape in terms of creosobillip,
kind of keep it a little cleaner than it would be,
I'd certainly do that, But every other year I'd still
have that inspected.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So those those chimney sweeps, they actually like run a
camera down.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, yes, yeah, they'll they'll run a camera in, they'll
look at the liner and they'll look in what kind
of shape, make sure it's not cracked, because that would
be a highway or a pathway if if you got it,
you know, came upon a chimney fire, if there's a
fire inside the chimney, which happens with dirty chimneys and
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people that are burning softer woods and more creos out.
And usually the first chimney fire you have, you're going
to crack the liner. And again it's a pathway for
those flames. So you know, if he had another one,
and then there'll be it, there'll be a house on
the news in the next two weeks. I guarantee you
where there is a chimney fire and burnt the house down.
(09:19):
So it happens. It's just you know, and I'm not
trying to scare everybody. Just make sure that chimney's in
good working order.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's all right, all right, Well that.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
That answers my question.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
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backhe if we go twenty minutes after the top of
the air, you're at home with Garry Selvan talking about
home maintenance ripair projects. Happy to take your call. Let's
go to Larry. Larry welcome.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Oh yeah, I'm terror Hope, Indiana. I just bought a
new house that I moved into. This got gutters that
come down down spouts into tubes that lead the water
away from the basement and further out into the yard.
But there are hundreds of flies that I've keep trying
to get rid of from and it looks like they're
(13:16):
coming out of the down spouts. I didn't know if
they're the product I can put in there, or if
I can bleach them out, or how should I take
care of cleaning those down spouts that run underground and
away from the house.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, it's interesting. I've never really run into that issue.
I mean, I'm thinking if they are in that pipe,
whether we just couldn't stick a hose down or and
flush it out.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I tried dumping like buckets five down buckets of water
down each one of them a couple buckets at a time,
and it took care of them for about a day
or two, but then they seem to be just coming
right back out of it again. And I mean it's
a lot. It's not like ten or twenty, it's hundreds
of them that seem to be like living in there.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well they may be. That's why I was wondering, is
there a way? And I'm just I'm winging it here, Larry.
I just never really ran into that problem. There's all
kinds of fly traps, and you know where you could
attract them to the trap, but you know, if they're
down in that pipe, I don't know. I'd be thinking, seriously,
(14:26):
if you can get a hose with real hot water
going through there and put that put a hose down
there and flush them out with hot water. If that
wouldn't be a little bit more substantial putting bleach down there,
or you know, I mean, it's not gonna really hurt
anything per se outside of you know, you don't want
(14:46):
to really be pouring that right into a stream or something.
If it's out in the yard, it's probably going to
kill a little bit of the grass.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
So yeah, I figured it would kill the grass off.
I did think about plugging up the exit hole so
it would hold the water, because the tubes that run
underground run probably about two hundred feet or so away
from the house, and there's quite a bit of distance
to be filling up with water.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's a lot of water. Yeah, that's a whole bunch
of water to fill up though, and they it's got
slits in there. In some cases it really depends on
the type of pipe it's got slits or holes.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Possibly that would keep filling up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. So I'd kind of like the idea
really of a hose in hot water and see if
we could really stop that. Also kind of look where
they exit, if you can see the opening.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yeah, the drain of the gutter pipe comes down, and
it's got like a little screen trap to keep leaves
and stuff from actually getting clogging.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Up the pipe.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
That's what I need.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
And they're coming out of that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay, Well, that was another thing I was going to say,
is maybe that flies were the problem is right at
the end of that pipe, not in the middle or
not right at the top of the pipe, but actually
literally at the end of that pipe. If you can
pull that screen out and again with gloves or a
hose or a pressure washer, and you know, try to
(16:16):
clean out that end portion of it and see if.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You give it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, give it a good cleaning right there, Those
are a couple of suggestions. I wouldn't be pouring any
insecticides down or anything.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I don't want to do that, yeah, because it's not
in the country and I'm on well water and I
really don't want to put any kind of contaminants into
the ground.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And I totally agree, we're on the same page. So
maybe just through force and just trying to blast that
out I think would probably be a pretty good exercise
to take.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
All right, I appreciate you, Brice, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right, good enough, Larry, Thanks, take care and let's
go to Pat. Pat welcome.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Thank Harry.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
I hope you have a very good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Same for m. Wilson and everyone else. Hey, yeah, the
one of the previous callers talked about chimney inspection, did
do it. We have a free standing woodstove, you know,
and it comes down and then n elbows out and
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then down from where it's at several years ago. It's
like this thing isn't wrapped into well, and so you know,
kind of shut it down and pulled the horizontal pipe
off the elbow where it came down from the top
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of the chimney had pretty much rusted.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Out, right, So I had a.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Car like well, well, no, it's like you said, chimney fire.
So I had a complete liner. They pulled the old
steel liner out and dropped the new winer in there.
So folks, do get your chimney inspected.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yep, I think it's very important. And he asked about
a camera too, pat and sure. If somebody's talking to
about a liner and a chimney where it can be
an expensive repair, I don't know how excited I'd be
about doing it unless they could show me pictures. And
I know the CSIA, which is a chimney institute, Chimney
(18:33):
Safety Institute of America. They recommend that so that the
consumer can actually see what the issue is. And I'm
going to guess that most people were going to use that.
But if somebody's just telling you you need a liner
and it's five thousand bucks up, and my first words is,
can get a second opinion or prove it to me
one or the other.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Now, no, I've been using this chimney sweep for ever
ten years and good. I stuck my hand back in
there and I can all must put my fist through
the whole. Wow, So I knew that. So it's like, yeah,
there is an issue, for sure. They came in and
they came in and verified it. But hey, okay a
(19:16):
quick issue. You only said give a squirrel sacrifice to
keep them away from the house.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, Well direct their attention, change that environment on squirrels.
That are all helpful, Pat, thanks for the call up
against the break And you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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back at it we go. You're at home with Gary
Salvin taking it through another weekend, getting a few things
done around the home. If you'd like to join us,
do so. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five and this time of year, I always give
you a Jaws Cleaner's tip, and especially with the holidays,
So the tip today is about glass cleaners. Avoid screen
(23:02):
damage on your computer, your eyeglasses, your TVs. By just
using a regular window cleaner on it, you will get
streaks in there and you will not be able to
remove them. Never really use an ammonia based glass cleaner
on those surfaces, smartphones, eyeglasses, Like I said, in TVs,
(23:24):
they will ruin that screen. The Jaws glass cleaner is
free of ammonia and alcohol. It's EPA Safer Choice certified,
and my opinion, the best glass cleaner I've ever used
is virtually what it is. I've not had streaking a
problem at all. Streak free if you will, and you
can use that glass cleaner because it's ammonia free on
(23:49):
the TV screens, on the computer screens, eyeglasses, and the
whole works. So that's my tip. Make sure you're using
the right glass cleaner. And you can check out the
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let's go to Tom Tom Welcome Martan.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Gary had a question about I have these made to
look like what tiles planks for my bathroom floor, and
I was wondering what kind of adhesive to use to
connect it to a ceramic tile that's already there.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well, so you're putting it is. Well, let's go back
a little bit. These wood tiles that you're saying that
look just like, what are they ceramic?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
They're not.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
No, it's I'm not exactly sure what they are what
they're made of. I guess it's like a I don't
know if it's plastic or what's underneath on the underside
of it. It's I can't really identify what kind of
material it is, but it's and there's I'm only replacing
just the one. I had to take it out to
(25:02):
do some work elsewhere, but I just have to reconnect
it to ceramic tile. Yeah, that was that was already there,
And I just I'm just wondering what kind of adhesive
would work.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
What kind of adhesive was on there? Could you tell?
Was it a like a thin set or was it
like a glue or a mastic or something like that.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
It looked like a glue, and they only put about
three or four dabs on it, and it turned out
to be kind of a rubbery looking thing, and I
and I wonder if I should do the entire underside
of it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But well, I'm kind of having a hard time, mainly
because of the type of material. But Heaven said that
one of the things, and and this is laying on
the floor, correct, So we got a horizontal surface. Correct.
It sounds like when you say rubbery, it's like it
sounds to me like it would be a late text
multi purpose adhesive, which they do with now having not
(26:03):
really positive And if I want to bring out the
big guns, if you will, one of the things you
might think about is you could use like a gorilla
glue construction adhesive and you could do just several dabs
on that. If you're doing the latex multipurpose adhesive, you
(26:25):
would use a trial or you would do it in
an S shape. If it was in a calking tube
and you got to have those grooves, you gotta have
kind of that suction to create create that adhesion. But
the gorilla glue construction there's a couple of dabs on it.
That tile ain't moving anywhere, doesn't have to be clamped,
(26:45):
doesn't have to be weighted down, simply pressed together.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Yeah, and that's kind of what I was looking for it.
I didn't even think of gorilla glue. But I'll give
it a try and see if it works.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, they got it. Yeah work. It'll glue any material
on any surface. I mean it really will. So there's
several different kinds. There's a gorilla glue construction adhesive. It
comes in a tube and I think it even comes
in a small tube also, but it comes in like
a calking tube. They make like a silver gold platinum.
(27:22):
You don't need the platinum that's for underwater. The general
purpose gorilla glue constructionhesive would be more than adequate.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Okay, so yeah, I'm writing this down. But yeah, it's
just one piece because I only had to take one
piece up to fix something else in my wall. But
they now I gotta put that same piece back sure,
and I just need something to connect it with to
cerad mctile.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, I think I think you'll be good and and
sit tight, Tom, because I've got one of those jaws
cleaners of little gift for you for the holidays, and
Danyl'll get your information. Thank you much, And from Tom
we'll go to Steve. Steve welcome, Thank.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
You, Gary.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I believe I called about a year ago about the
chimney issue and when your listeners have it checked out
and the chimney sweeper says, oh, there was a fire here,
they should check out with their homeowners' insurance and it
may provide coverage.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
For the chimney fire.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Well, not only for the fire, but oh, I see what.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You mean for the crack in their liner. Yeah, yes, yes,
got a good point, very good point. Yeah, it very
well may of course, you know, like we had a
conversation with a insurance a person a broker yesterday, and
you know, I mean sometimes there's a lot of writers
in those policies now. But yeah, I would certainly check
(29:00):
absolutely whenever you have a big purchase with that you
know there's damage on it. I would say, it never
hurts the check, does it.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
No, But it's usually with the homeowner's policy number four
that provides the coverage. The one and two I don't
think it does.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Okay, If you.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Have a number four policy, it covers just about everything
and it will cover unless you're deductible for you know,
the repair of the chimney.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Very good. You know. There's also and I don't know
if you're familiar with this, Steve, there's also liners, and
liners are expensive and there's this liner now they've used
it in Europe for about twenty some years where they'll
take a mold of the inside of your chimney and
literally like drop this mold all the way down to
(29:56):
the base of the chimney and pour this liquid on
top of it and then pull that mold back up
where it's coating the inside walls of the chimney, which
are it's a little bit less expensive, so there's a
savings there. It's recognized certified as a as a CEILANT
for crack liners too. And after you you know, you
(30:18):
can check with your insurance policy. You can check and
see if you know you want to go, you know
which route you want to go based I guess on
the coverage. So another tip there, right, very good, Okay,
thank you, thank you much, Steve. I appreciate it. Number
four policy. I'm not familiar with what a one, two,
(30:40):
three and four policy is, but it sounds like the
four is like the all inclusive, right, all right? Our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three, A two five five.
And by the way, when we were talking about the
Chimney Safety Institute two of America, the cs IA, you
(31:05):
can go on their website csiaa dot com, I believe,
or dot org I just looked at this, I think
on Thursday, and they you can put in your zip
code and it'll tell you who the chimney sweeps are
in your area that are CSIA certified and whether it's
a repair that needs to be done, or whether it's
(31:27):
an inspection that needs to be done or a liner.
I wouldn't I would try to stay in that genre
of certified chimney sweeps. A lot of education is going
to their members on an annual basis, and very wealth
(31:47):
well worth working with those folks. All right again, you
can grab a line there wide open. It's eight hundred
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All right backhere do we go? Thirteen minutes before the
top of the are at home with Gary Sullivan, kind
of got a conversation about chimney's safety, and we were
talking about the liners, talking about cleaning chimneys. We talked
about the crown wash another thing, and I just kind
of blew right through those is from a maintenance standpoint,
(35:22):
and I wouldn't worry about doing that now. Certainly the
inspection should take place if it's been a year or
two since it was inspected. The cleaning, certainly, if it's
been a year or two, probably have it cleaned. But
the others, you know, if it's been a while, I'd
put it on your list to do, but I wouldn't
(35:44):
worry about it right now. And that is the ceiling
of the exterior of the chimney. Brick chimneys, you know,
they brick will absorb moisture, it'll absorb water over time
that will help degrade brick and mortar. So what you
(36:08):
want to put on there is you don't want to
encapsulate it or seal it. You want to have a
breathable sealer. And what's a breathable sealer. A breathable sealer
is it's like gortex. It's going to minimize the absorption
(36:29):
of water by the brick and it's going to be
able to as well as you know used and not
used and rain and everything. There can be condensation on
the inside. You want to allow that brick to exhaust
that moisture out, so it's keeping it from going in
(36:51):
and you know, going deep into the brick and then
it's breathing out. So it's a breathable waterproofer, is what
it really is. It's not really a seal. So that
should be done on a chimney, you know, every five
to seven years, probably more based on the quality of
(37:11):
waterproofing agent that you're using. But to do that regularly
every five to seven years, real good idea, real good idea.
Also inspection of the mortar and the brick. And what
you're looking for is cracks, openings, pieces of mortar that
(37:35):
have either disintegrated or are missing or you know, fallen
out and having it tuck pointed. Can you do it yourself? Yes,
you can buy little patches or a little pouches, I
should say, of a mortar mix which has a it
(37:56):
has a bonding agent in it, because I don't creating
more than it doesn't like to stick to each other.
So there has to be a bonding emulsifier in that mortar.
In this little pouch called zip it mortar, it has
the bonding agent in it. It can be used on
vertical services, of course. It can even be used on
(38:18):
overhead sources surfaces. So it's got some guts to it
and you will clean out that mortar joint with a
cultures will try to clean out as much of it
as you can. You would moisten that cavity and you
would pack that mortar into that and again color and
(38:42):
matching that can be challenging. Also, there is dye that
you can mess with to kind of get it in
the right color family. Those dyes are usually red, beige, black,
and brown. So will you match it exactly? Probably not.
That's where a good may comes into play. If you
got all kinds of missing mortar, it would probably be
(39:04):
a good idea unless you're really good at it. Maybe
to look at having a mason do that. I know
one of the chimney care companies I deal with, they
have a mason on staff and that's what he does.
He does brickwork all right. Our number eight hundred eighty
two three eight two five five. Talking home improvement, and
(39:25):
as I look at my list of things to do
I mentioned yesterday and I mentioned them a lot, but
they play such a crucial role in your home. And
I'm talking about gutters and you know, making sure most
of the leaves if they fallen, get those things cleaned out,
and also inspect the gutter when the Fellow was talking
(39:49):
about how the down spot goes into the pipe underground
releases the water out into the yard two hundred feet
of pipe. He said, it's a long run. But making
sure that that down spout is properly aligned with the
pipe that goes underground is critical. If you live in
(40:11):
an area where you have a lot of really dense
clay soil, it's even more critical because when it really
dries out and then rewets, I'm telling you that pipe's
going to be moving, and I've had to realign mine
multiple times. And then when we were talking ron Krueger
about wildlife getting our addicts, and he was talking about
(40:32):
how gutters, you know, aren't draining properly and they're overflowing
the back and it's rotting the facia and squirrels can
chew right through that. That's true. So when you're out
there and you've cleaned it, and if you want to
protect him, you throw the gutter brush in. They're very
very easy to do, but the next step, or maybe
(40:52):
even before you put the gutter brush in, is really
checked for the alignment of not only the down spout
and the pipe that goes underground, but the alignment of
the gutters and how tightly anchored that is to the
facia boards. If it's tilting forward and the shingles aren't
quite reaching all the way into the gutter, it's just
(41:12):
kind of spilling that water on the back edge of
the gutter and behind it. That facia board is going
to rot out in no time at all. And if
you've got the nails and the farrels that are hanging
that gutter nice and tight in some places, it's not.
(41:33):
Those nails are backing out. You can get gutter screws
which as long as the nails, and you can just
use the same hole and run that screw in there.
I think it's got a square headed bit and pull
those gutters taut up to the facia board, eliminate a
(41:55):
bunch of problems. And then if there's seams in that gutter,
and you clean the leaves out before you put like
the gutter brush in, really inspect those seams, even if
you have to get a hose up there. Not too
many of us go running outside when it's raining to
see if our gutters are leaking. And I think I
probably have asked you to do that a couple of times,
(42:15):
but I get it, you get a hose up there on,
you know, get somebody on the ladder with a hose.
Run that water. Make sure you got those gutters that
are tilting towards the down spout. The water's running, it's
free flowing. And is it if there seams in that run,
is it leaking? Is it leaking at the cap? Is
(42:37):
it leaking down the down spout? Because if you have
an issue where water is not totally controlled, not totally
being removed away from the foundation, because it's leaking at
a seam, that can be corrected and relatively easy. So
(42:57):
these things I'm talking about, they seem simple and you
might be tired of hearing them. But protecting your house,
you think about that whole roof, the size of that roof.
It's catching a rainfall, it's funneling to this five inch
trough and funneling it down to a two by four
pipe and taking it underground. It's a lot of rain
(43:21):
water it's collecting. And if it's leaking out through seams,
it's probably not doing the paint very you know, much good.
It's not doing a break much good. It's not doing
a stucco much good. Whatever the substrate is it's not
helping that out. And you can get a tripolymer silicone.
(43:43):
I talked about one called geocil. It's clear you clean
now whose seams up with a little mineral spirits and
a cotton cloth. Take to geocil. It's a brushable, it's thick,
it's almost like molasses and code all those seams and
it's almost like a rubberized band aid. It does, it
(44:06):
really does a great job. Seals it up very nicely.
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