November 25, 2023 • 44 mins
Gary chats with Ron Wilson. Also your calls/questions.
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Well, good Saturday morning, Welcomeaboard at home with Gary Sullivan, as
we'll spend the next four hours togetherhopefully talking about a little home improvement project
here and there. In fact,let me give you the phone number you
can jump on board right away.Danny'll take your call. We'll get you
some advice and get you back towork in no time at all. Our
phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty
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five hundred. Your home improving questionsto one right here on fifty five KRC
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another weekend, getting some things donearound the home and picking up the pieces
after the holiday. Our phone numberis five one, No, it's not.
It's eight hundred eight two three eighttwo five five. That's eight time,
absolutely positive. You know, it'sbeen pretty good. I've been on
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the air for one hour. I'veonly misspoke four times. I'm doing good
today, all right, Only Iknow there's a couple more I'll tell you
about later. Okay, it's eighthundred eight two three eight two fivey five.
I'm still still trying to survive thelast couple of days, and there's
still a couple more days to go. So Safe Place is taking your calls
talking about home improvement, and we'retalking last weekend, like, oh my
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gosh. You know, the dayafter Thanksgiving it's the plumber's busy day of
the year, probably home owners oneof their biggest nightmares of the year.
So hopefully you survive that, Hopefullyyou didn't have any problems, and if
you did, happy to take thosecalls. And I'd also like to spend
a little time talking about something wehaven't talked about for a while, just
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kind of mentioned I was on withRon Wilson on his show. He'll be
with us in about ten minutes.But I was talking as a snowstorm kind
of heads across the Midwest and thenup into the New England area later in
the week. But it's a goodtime to pay attention to the snow cover
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that's on the roof. It reallyreally is all during the fall I talked
about, get up in that attic. Let's measure the insulation. Let's make
sure the ventilation screens are not coveredover with insulation. Let's make sure that
attic is functioning the way it's supposedto. In other words, good ventilation
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up there. Make sure we haveadequate insulation up on the floor of the
attic. Well, you can kindof tell how you're doing if you didn't
get up in the attic. Youcan kind of tell how you're doing based
on when you get a few inchesof snow and it's covered all the rooftops
in your community, and then youget home and well, the second half,
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the upper half of the roof thereis no snow, or maybe most
of the snow off the roof ismelted already, and yet everybody else's seemed
to be snow covered and it's tellingyou just a simple little thing, quite
honestly, is the heat is escapingfrom your home, and to a certain
point, that heat is always goingheat rises, it's always going to escape
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into the attic area. You gotcan lights, that's an area where heat
can get in and up into theattic. But we got a good hopefully,
hopefully, we got a good bedof insulation laying up there. That's
gonna make amize how much heat gainyou get in that attic. And if
you get heat gained in that attic, I use the word ventilation. Everybody
was like, why do you wantto ventilate an attic in the wintertime?
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You're letting all that heat out.Well, once that heat has gotten up
in the attic, it's not reallyhelping you any In fact, it's hurting
you because again, you get thatsnow melt on the roof. It works
down to the base of the roof, to the overhang of the roof,
and a lot of times, wellthat water will will freeze, it'll create
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ice dams. That water will thenwork its way back up the roof.
It could enter into the roof underthe shingles, So that can cause some
problems but it's also a sign ofenergy waste. Right If everybody's homes snow
covered and yours is not, thatmeans that heat is getting up into that
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attic and it can't get out.When I say it's not doing any good
in the attic, it's not.It's actually going to cause a problem.
So it's insulation and ventilation. Sowe can certainly spend some time talking about
that. It's a great subject thistime of the year, for sure.
Again, we have a couple oflines open. You can grab one.
It's eight hundred eight two three eighttwo five five and Pete kick us off.
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Welcome, good morning morning. Hey. So I am working on painting
a foundation to a border home andwhere the foundation needs a sidewalk, there
is a crack along that area goingto wed with the house. So I'm
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trying to find the proper product toput in there to steal that up to
make a nice smooth so I canthen paint cut a good line there.
So, is the sidewalk or oror whatever is abudding the foundation, Is
it sunk? Is it pulled away? Can you put your fingers in the
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crevice? Tell me about that.Well, the foundation is chipped a little
bit at the base okay, andthe sidewalk sidewalk is flat pitch a little
bit away towards away from the house, okay, and yes, here here
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and there that probably is a halfinch three corner inch gap. Okay,
it does you know, I pointedas, uh, you know, repens
the house as well. Yeah,so is the is the chip in the
concrete? Is it on the horizontalpart of the vertical part? Okay?
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The foundation? The poundation of thestone big you know, maybe a big
one foot by two foot stone,you know, you know, whatever they
have back in the early nineteen twenties. Uh huh. Yeah, Well it's
probably not going to be a perfectline, but let's do this. There's
the gap between the sidewalk and thefoundation. I would fill that first.
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It's a clocking. It is grayin color, and we can do the
patching on the sidewalk and on thefoundation later to kind of make it,
you know, square it all up. But actually in that separation between the
sidewalk and the foundation, we wantsomething has good adhesion and flexibility, which
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any cementatious product is not going tooffer. So what we can use is
there's a there's two products there they'reequal in performance. It's a self leveling
you're a thing crack filler, whichcomes in a cocking tube. It will
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require a heavy duty cocking gun.It's a little tough to get out.
And then there's one called a highacrylic resin self leveling crack filler. That's
a latex You can use a regularcocking gun. It's a little bit easier
to get out. Both have greatadhesion, high flexibility. Now, if
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there's a half inch in gap,what we might want to do is you
might want to get what they calla backer rod or cocksaver, or there's
something you know, just like sand, and you want to pour it down
into that crevice. In terms ofthe backer rod, that's a foam.
We're just going to push that downwith a screwdriver or the tips of our
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fingers. Just push it down tillit's about i don't know, five sixteenths
the three ace of an inch belowthe surface, and then you'll put that
beat of self leveling your thing,calking over the top of it, all
right, so that your thing ispaintable. By the way, once we've
done that on the vertical surface,you can get a little product called zip
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it mortar comes in a little ziplockbag. It's a powder. It's for
vertical surfaces or overhead surfaces. Youcan mix it with water. Need that
plastic bag up and then just takea you know, a putty knife or
something along those lines and go aheadand make your patch. You could use
hear that now once your thing calking, and the other one as well be
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located called the concrete. In bigbox stores, Yeah, they're usually all
in the same group. Both thoseproducts that I mentioned are Quick Creek products.
So back in the big box storesof the local hardware store, they'll
have an aisle of you know,just different types of masonry repair and both
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of them will be right in ageneral area. Perfect. I think that
handles it. I'll do as yousay, and thank you very much,
very good Pete, Thank you forthe call. Take care all right.
If you'd like to join us again, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five run. Wilson willbe up and then we'll get to Janet
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five KRC the talk station. Wellyou're at home with Gary Salvan. Twenty
one minutes after the top of thehour, we bring in our gardening guru
and mister Ron Wilson. Thank youvery much for your weekend knowledge on the
exterear of our home run. AndI think you'll be the first one to
say when we talk about homes andtaking care of homes at the outdoor,
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the landscaping, the lawns, thegardens, that's all part of the home.
Oh, no doubt about it.And you know when you look at
the landscaping and folks will say,you know, what what should I spend
on a stand new home? Whatshould I spend on my landscape to have
a new landscape put in? Andthat's doesn't include the lawn, you know,
and it depends on your gardening levelsand things like that. But you
know, in general, it's aboutanywhere from attend at fifteen maybe twenty percent
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the cost of the home. Really, you know, by the time you
get allow trees, planet and everythingdon in there. But you return on
investment there, as you well know, is just is phenomenal. And those
that investment just continues to grow yearafter year. Literally, Sure, so
you know it is it's a veryimportant part. And again you know you
talk about the front door being sohot that appeals all the time and whatever.
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That's where properly placed trees and evergreens, as windscreens and sunscreens and all
letting the sun through in the winterto help melt that snow off the rough
instead of it melting from the insideout all become very very important. So
you know, it's one of thosethings that it's fun if you start with
a clean slate, you know,to go, I think is great.
And you know, keep all thesethings in mind as you're putting that together.
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And as you and I always say, you once you get it in
Manna's by walking around, always keepwalking and looking. Sure. Sure I
heard during your show you were talkingabout how zones have changed due to kind
of the warming of our climate.I was thinking, just yesterday taking a
little walk, it's like, gosh, just around not to say every Thanksgiving
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was you know, six inches ofsnow, but it was winter time.
And you know, the last fewThanksgiving haven't hasn't felt like winter time.
And now the zones, the planningzones, the map that people aren't familiar
with. It tells you, youknow, what plants you should be kind
of focusing in on zone whatever you'rein. Those are being expanded. Yeah,
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well they change. They keep recordand those are based on your average
coldest temperatures in the wintertime. Okay, so the plants that can make it
through those average coldest temperatures would beheardy for your zone. And so you
know, over the years, andthey keep those averages and over the years,
about every fifteen to twenty thirty yearsthey'll update that. The USDA does
this, by the way, theyupdate that hardiness zone. And I think
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there are twelve zones now if I'mnot mistaken, plus the sub zones within
the zone. And it starts withthe highest number down in Florida, southern
part of Florida, southern part ofthe United States, and goes up from
there. So we're in central Ohio, southern Ohio, Central Ohio. We're
in A zone six and it's anA and A B A down South,
B up north. But what's interestingis we used to be five. We
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then changed to a six several yearsago. And I still tell peoples to
a garden like your zone five becauseplants are in zone six. If you
get that cold snap can die back. So he's about last Christmas, just
like last year burned up. Yep, and that was a combination of long
dry fall, warm fall and thenthat sudden drop. But yeah, so
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that it has changed again. Andit's interesting to look. I printed one
out from nineteen ninety and compared itto where it is today. And it's
crazy how those zones continue to shiftand moved north as it continues to get
warmer and warmer. You know,they predicted for US Gary in twenty five
years we could be seeing zone eight, which is Georgia. So get out
there. Crape myrtles, well,you know, we are growing crape myrtle,
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but they're on a hardy inness borderline. So we've always got that risk.
Yeah, but you're right, twentyyears from now, twenty five years
as much of a risk anymore.I like crape myrtles absolutely gorgeously. I
mean you look at the you know, anybody goes down south in the summertime,
come back. What are these plants? And can I grow them here?
So well, wait twenty five years, you'll be able to Yeah,
well, you know, you know, we go a little now. We're
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having a pretty good success with themso far. And even if they do
dive back to the ground, theyflower on new growth, so when they
come back up again, they stillgive you some flowers. It's just more
of a shrub form here right thanit is in the tree form. Run.
We're a lot of us decorating thisweekend. Some of us did even
last weekend, but over the nexttwo weekends will be most of the decorations.
As you and I have discussed overthe last month, we're bringing in
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greenery in a lot of cases,be it a tree or garland or stuff
into our homes. And of coursewe always hear about, you know,
problems in our homes with fire.And I'm not saying just because we're bringing
in greenery. What I'm asking isare there things we need to do that
greenery to kind of take that outof the Yeah. I think one thing
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is, you know, we seethe everybody speeding up the holiday getting started
earlier and earlier and earlier, andI think you have to be realistic.
The longer you keep that in thehouse, you know it's going to dry
out eventually, just the way itis. We're talking about fresh greens fresh,
so be realistic. But on thesame token, make sure they're good
and fresh when you get them.There are a couple of products on the
market will stop and will proof whichactually seals the moisture in those evergreen needles
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holly as well, so you canspread it on your Christmas tree and your
greens to help us stay long,fresher longer. Obviously with that Christmas tree,
fresh cut right into the stand,and don't ever let that thing dry
out. You know, if youput aspirins in there or whatever you have
to do, that's great, Butas long as you keep water in there,
that's the key to keeping it freshand be realistic. If you do
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it really early and you have itin the house for a long time,
keep checking it. It's going todry out eventually, and when it does,
be smart about it. Get itout of the house because you know,
you don't don't want that in thehouse, right. It's amazing,
no that that first two weeks,how much water that tree. Oh my
gosh, that thing could suck up, you know, two or three quarts
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a day with no work or whatever. It's amazing, so stay with it,
don't let it dry out. Please, very good, great tips as
always Ron Wilson online dot com somegood information there and Ron, thank you
very much. How Thanksgiving weekend,yes, sir, you do the same.
Take care all right. When wecome back, we have JAMT and
then Tim. If you'd like tojoin us, do so at Home with
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We're talking a little home improvement,picking up the pieces from the holiday and
also planning ahead for more holidays.There you go. Eight hundred eight two
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three eight two five five. That'sour phone number and Janet welcome. Hi
Gary, I've got a question foryou. We're doing some work in our
basement, and many years ago thepeople who lived there put dry wall mud
across forty feet of the concrete blocksand made it look like a little stucco
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thing and then painted yellow paint overit. And so right now we have
these little points that are sticking outand we're trying to get rid of it.
And the things that I did onit yesterday was to use a hand
dry wall rasp, which was awfuland made a huge pile of dust and
everything. And then also I useda hivel with a hammer to try to
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pound away some of the peaks thatwere sticking out, and I've read online
that water would not do anything toit. I'm just trying to maybe soften
it. I know it's old,very old, this drywall mud art thing.
I don't know what to do ifthere anything I could put on it,
either softening. To answer a coupleof questions, so number one,
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I'm kind of curious if that's reallydrywall mud, because drywall mud is water
soluble when it's dry, but onceit's painted, you seal it. But
being on a foundation, you've probablyheard me talk a lot about the water
transfer or water vapor transfer through afoundation wall is enormous. I think if
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it was dry wall mud, Idon't know why it would still be sticking
to that. Okay, so letme give you the other end of that
then. So well, what peoplehad done in the past, and I've
seen it, there's there was aproduct called thorough Seal, which was kind
of like a waterproof coating. Itwas cementatious. It was mixed and was
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put on with a big brush andit was always rough, just almost like
you describe it. And there wasalso people use stucco, actual stucco,
which again is different than drywall mud, and again more cementatious than like drywall
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mud. So when you start talkingabout chiseling it off and things like that
and a rasp and it almost soundslike it's more of a cementatious product than
a drywall mud. What are yourthoughts on that? Well, trying to
pound it off. I can agreewith you, and I was looking up
things for a stucco, but thenmy husband said, no, no,
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no, that's drywall mud, andso that's where I'm you know, I
really don't know exactly what it is. So let me give you a couple
of suggestions for both. Okay,so if it's drywall mud, we'll go
with that too. Drywall mud.When you put drywall on seams, you
can sand it very easily. Itcreates a lot of really fine talk like
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dust or or even taking a wetrag will dissolve it. But you got
to get that paint off because thepaint has sealed it. So like if
you had popcorn ceiling on your diningroom and you want to get rid of
it and it's been painted, Iwould tell you to use like an indoor
paint stripper. There's one called blueBear. It can be put on overhead
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or vertical surfaces. And what that'lldo is it'll dissolve the paint, which
will then make the drywall mud vulnerableto water. So if you strip the
paint off and then use like awide putty knife and again with drywall,
this is exactly what would happen.It would with the paint being gone on
a putty knife, you'd be ableto pull that with a wide three inch
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taping knife four inch taping knife,you'd be able to remove the paint and
probably some of that drywall mud wouldalso start coming off and it would start
delaminating. If you got that paintoff, I'd tell you to take a
little spritzer and wet the drywall mudand wait an hour, rewet it,
wait an hour, rewet it,and it will begin to delaminate from the
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stone or the dry wall itself.If that, if that doesn't work,
I think you've got to change totalgears and say that's probably a stucco,
that's probably a thorough sealed product,and that's going to be a challenge to
get that off. So let meask you this, what do you want
to get it off for I mean, it could be repainted, it could
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be patched, it could be youknow, you could grind it down,
but it's going to be a messy, messy job, as you're finding out
right, we do want to getlike all those points that are stick it
out and get it down to likea regular level finish and then pain over
it. Okay. And so Iwould say like a hand grinder would probably
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motorized, you know, electric toollike you would buff a car out with,
only it would have a flat surfacegrinder on the front of it.
You'd wear goggles and you'd wear arespirator, and you would just concentrate on
not removing it, but just toknock the points down. You could rent
something like that, or you couldbuy the tool. But any that tool
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is going to be much much muchmore efficient than trying to use a hand
rest, and you'd be there forever. I felt it. But there's no
no chemical to kind of break itdown to make not on the cementatious products.
On the drywall, yes, youdrywall mud, yes, but if
you follow that, you know,just start with a little corner and just
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let's try to really see what itis. I mean, it could be.
But if if it is, I'mshocked that it's still staying on that
wall. I would think the watervapor coming through would have weathered it and
it probably would have started laminating fromthe backside. Okay, but okay,
you know, I can be wrong. That's just my guess. I had
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looked up stucko originally on Google andit said something like I can't remember the
two chemicals, but it was phosphateor phosphorus or something to put on there
to break it down. But thenI stopped looking as I was told that
that's not what it was. Whowould put dry wal mud on here?
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Yeah? I still think they,you know, I still think, you
know, if you can just knockdown the tips of it, even just
round in them off. There's alsowhat they call wall liner. If you
got rid of the really rough horsehigh tips, you can put a wall
liner over that, which is likea thick wallpaper that looks smooth like a
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drywall. You could also maybe quarterinch drywall right over that wall with an
adhesive if you got it fairly smooth. Okay, so there's options for you.
Okay, great, Well, Iappreciate your help. Very good Take
care by all right, it's eighthundred and eighty two three eight two five
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five grab a line. Tim.Welcome, Oh Gary, thank you for
taking my call. I will greatlyappreciate it. Thank you. So my
question is about five years ago wehad our home towly remodeled, and right
now I'm having an issue in ourone bathroom, the main bathroom, there's
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like streaks on the wall, andthe drywall is not wet or anything,
it's not damish. They're just likeit's like the pain of bled through.
And then in the kitchen when youwalk in the doors, a little wall
beside the door, it also hasus streaks in it. And I've looked
around and like the collar before you, I've kind of googled some stuff and
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everything, but I'm not really comingup with any good solution to what it'd
be other than maybe a ventilation problemup in the hattie. But I don't
know. I just wanted to whatdo you, well, tell me tell
me about the streaks. I mean, in a bathroom, you do or
you can have. It almost lookslike water had run down the wall a
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little bit. There might even bea little dot at the end of that
streak, and it's usually brown incolor. Okay, that's what these are
there. Just what you said.They look like water had come down the
wall. Okay, And like Isay, the drywall is not damage,
but to one spot the pain iscompletely killed off of it will be damage
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different, you know, if there'sa moisture problem. But well, there
is a moisture problem, and themoisture problem is in the environment of the
bathroom. So what what you're experiencingis it is called surfactant bleeding. So
let's say, and I'm just goingto give you an analogy. I'm not
saying this is what's going on inyour house. But if there wasn't a
fan, or a fan wasn't usedmuch, or it wasn't used properly,
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and it didn't evacuate all that steamout of the bathroom, that water would
literally sit on the painted surface andmaybe when there's enough of it, it
would just kind of start dripping downthe wall. And it's picking up the
suffactants in the paint. And thesurfactos in paints are soaps. It's what
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makes water wetter or paint wetter sothat it can stick better. And what
you'll do on that is you'll takesome tri sodium phosphate and water, and
you'll scrub that wall down and whatyou'll be doing is you'll get these surfactants
or the soapy residues from the paintoff those walls. And then you know,
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if you don't have a fan,I would recommend you get a fan
in that bathroom. If you havea fan, I would recommend you run
it during the shower, in atleast a half hour after the shower,
to make sure we evacuate as muchwater as we possibly can. It's such
a problem, or it can bea problem that Benjamin Moore actually has a
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paint for bathrooms that is it willnot surfact and bleed. Okay, so
so it's not unusual. Uh butand that's how you would you would eliminate
it by just scrubbing it down withyou know, uh, triclium phosphate and
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water and then rentse. Okay,so try solium phosphate in water. Can
you get that at like any anyhardware store, paint store, any any
pretty much everybody. I'll have TSP. It's what it'll be called TSP in
the stores. Okay, Well,that thatn'll makes sense. What about the
little bear spots? About about thesize of a pencil erase your head.
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That is down to the dry wall. Just take care of the problem and
then hit that with some good primerand paint over there. Yeah, I
think so, I think so.I think that's exactly what I do.
Yep, yep, And yeah,you can touch it up if you have
some touch up paint. If not, take a look at that ben more
paint. Maybe just do the wallwhere the problem is. Okay, well,
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that makes sense. And the samething in the kitchen area. What
like when you walk in the walkindoor the kitchen, there's a little bit
on that wall. Yeah, notas that, but yeah, and I
can't say that I've really run intothat. But again, if it's near
an outdoor temperature, you know,a door that's going from the outside inside
when it's you know, cold outsideand more money inside, that temperature clash
(33:52):
could create some condensation on the wall. And I guess realistically you could have
the same problem there. Okay,well that makes sense. I'll tell you
something interesting. At our old homewe lived in, we had a problem
where there was black film like onthe walls. And your old friend then
hagy father enough had a phone callfrom Mary, Ohio, where I'm at
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right now. And the problem waswhat you mentioned earlier about the ventilation up
in the attic. They took theinflation all the way to the very end
of the little holes under the soufit. That's correct. When I went up
there and I took a rik,I laid on my stomach across the rafters
and pulled it or pulled away fromthe hedge, right, I alleviated the
problem right in and there. Butthat's so ironic. The ventilation and the
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moisture problems like that caused problems thatyou wouldn't think of. But I hear
you. And now there's even thingsthat people probably more so ten years ago
than we get now. It iscalled ghosting. And you can actually see
the two by fours behind the drywall and what it is. It was
caused by candle wicks. The metalin the candlewicks when they were burnt,
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would just create this black film thatwould stick along the highest density part on
the dry wall. Just from theselittle minute pieces of whatever we can't see.
That was a big problem. That'sremark for. Our daughter just bought
an old home. It's oak wellover one hundred and some years old en
up in the third floor attic.As just what she said, you could
(35:21):
see the studs on the wall andyou could tell it it had been lit
by candor or you know, thingslike that. But one other question before
or I get off here. Sowhen they redid the house up in the
attic, they blowed in that installation, I didn't, you know, I
don't know if that would have anythingto do with but I think we're onto
it with the fan and things likethat, because it's just on a couple
(35:43):
of little walls, I mean rightright, not everywhere, but I'll I'll
try that what she said, andturn the fan on, and if it
comes back again, maybe we mighthave to go up there and see if
the fans got something going on orright right something Your sounds like a subfactant,
but I would start there and seewhat you come up with. All
right, Thank you very much forthe call. If you'd like to join
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You're welcome to join us. Ourphone number is eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Tom,Welcome morning. I'm a retired entired,
(39:02):
retired environmental kind of guy. Allright, and I had a comment about
your guidance for the lady with thestucco or drywall mud on her cinderblock.
Yeah, we don't know what itis, right. One of the first
things I would do, though,is go grab one of those lead paint
test hits. Good point, verygood. I grind them on lead paint.
(39:29):
Yeah, very good point. Infact, I was talking about stripping
the paint off the drywall, youknow, with a chemical stripper, but
I wasn't talking about that on theon the cementatious products. So thank you,
right, okay, enjoy your show. All right, very good,
Tom, Thank you and hit pointwell taken. So really think about this
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prior to nineteen seventy eight, andit sounded like that basement had been there
a while and now was being updated. You know, there was lead in
paint prior to seventy seven, seventyseventy eight and earlier had lead in it.
(40:15):
And you know, you could havetwo coats of non leaded paint over
a coat of leaded paint. Andhe's exactly correct. You start grinding on
that, you're putting those airborne particlesinto the air in the house and then
it's being recirculated by the air handlerthroughout the house. So not a good
(40:37):
situation, right, I mean,not a good situation at all. So
testing it for that, there's acertainly companies that can test it. There's
also some swabs you can get ina hardware store. They're inexpensive. They're
generally gonna give you an idea,not as accurate probably as as something of
(41:00):
a company testing it. But again, if we can kind of scratch through
that first layer of paint and testit in throughout the paint, it's just
the vile terms pink. I thinkthere's lead. Great point, though,
and I appreciate that phone call.That's for sure. All right, let's
go to Bobby. Bobby, welcome, Hey, here are you? Yes,
(41:24):
sir? Fine? Good? Hey, I said, as an easy
question, I have a fiberglass frontdoor of the house and a Anderson storm
door the house faces I think it'ssouth, but it's done like the entirety
of the day. When you openthe door to the house on the inside,
(41:46):
the smell will just about knock youdown. It smells very toxic and
chemically. And if you keep thatstorm door clean, if you close the
door the next day, you openit to in the afternoon, it's almost
got a film. All it's coveredwith a film, and you can clean
it and clean it. It's reallyhard to get off. You gotta get
a razor blade and get it alloff. That looks good, and it's
(42:07):
next to day the same thing.I don't know. Well, I don't
know if I've really run into that, but it seemed how long has it
been since you you're thing that thatfiberglass doors? Well, we didn't.
We've been there about three years.Okay. I think it's just paint.
Oh, it's paint. Okay,Well, it sounds like that coating.
(42:31):
Since that coating is off gas andcreating it used to have this problem a
lot with metal doors and storm doorsbecause of the temperature and how tight that
storm door fit and the temperature goingthrough that glass, it could literally melt
(42:52):
the moldings on a metal door.It will melt the plastic moldings. So
that's you know, I don't knowif there's anything we can do about the
door itself outside of you know,maybe pulling it off during the summer is
probably not a big issue in thewinter time when you really need that door.
(43:12):
So also a lot of those theyhave. You know, you can
pull the glass out and then putthe screen in, and maybe that's something
you want to work towards. Pullingthat glass out, you know, come
about the first of April, andthen put the glass back in around the
first of November. Because I don'tknow how you would stop it. We'll
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Well, good Saturday morning, Welcomeaboard at home with Gary Sullivan, as
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I'm still still trying to survive thelast couple of days, and there's
still a couple more days to go. So Safe Place is taking your calls
talking about home improvement, and we'retalking last weekend, like, oh my
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gosh. You know, the dayafter Thanksgiving it's the plumber's busy day of
the year, probably home owners oneof their biggest nightmares of the year.
So hopefully you survive that, Hopefullyyou didn't have any problems, and if
you did, happy to take thosecalls. And I'd also like to spend
a little time talking about something wehaven't talked about for a while, just
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kind of mentioned I was on withRon Wilson on his show. He'll be
with us in about ten minutes.But I was talking as a snowstorm kind
of heads across the Midwest and thenup into the New England area later in
the week. But it's a goodtime to pay attention to the snow cover
(02:35):
that's on the roof. It reallyreally is all during the fall I talked
about, get up in that attic. Let's measure the insulation. Let's make
sure the ventilation screens are not coveredover with insulation. Let's make sure that
attic is functioning the way it's supposedto. In other words, good ventilation
(02:55):
up there. Make sure we haveadequate insulation up on the floor of the
attic. Well, you can kindof tell how you're doing if you didn't
get up in the attic. Youcan kind of tell how you're doing based
on when you get a few inchesof snow and it's covered all the rooftops
in your community, and then youget home and well, the second half,
(03:19):
the upper half of the roof thereis no snow, or maybe most
of the snow off the roof ismelted already, and yet everybody else's seemed
to be snow covered and it's tellingyou just a simple little thing, quite
honestly, is the heat is escapingfrom your home, and to a certain
point, that heat is always goingheat rises, it's always going to escape
(03:46):
into the attic area. You gotcan lights, that's an area where heat
can get in and up into theattic. But we got a good hopefully,
hopefully, we got a good bedof insulation laying up there. That's
gonna make amize how much heat gainyou get in that attic. And if
you get heat gained in that attic, I use the word ventilation. Everybody
was like, why do you wantto ventilate an attic in the wintertime?
(04:11):
You're letting all that heat out.Well, once that heat has gotten up
in the attic, it's not reallyhelping you any In fact, it's hurting
you because again, you get thatsnow melt on the roof. It works
down to the base of the roof, to the overhang of the roof,
and a lot of times, wellthat water will will freeze, it'll create
(04:33):
ice dams. That water will thenwork its way back up the roof.
It could enter into the roof underthe shingles, So that can cause some
problems but it's also a sign ofenergy waste. Right If everybody's homes snow
covered and yours is not, thatmeans that heat is getting up into that
(04:57):
attic and it can't get out.When I say it's not doing any good
in the attic, it's not.It's actually going to cause a problem.
So it's insulation and ventilation. Sowe can certainly spend some time talking about
that. It's a great subject thistime of the year, for sure.
Again, we have a couple oflines open. You can grab one.
It's eight hundred eight two three eighttwo five five and Pete kick us off.
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Welcome, good morning morning. Hey. So I am working on painting
a foundation to a border home andwhere the foundation needs a sidewalk, there
is a crack along that area goingto wed with the house. So I'm
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trying to find the proper product toput in there to steal that up to
make a nice smooth so I canthen paint cut a good line there.
So, is the sidewalk or oror whatever is abudding the foundation, Is
it sunk? Is it pulled away? Can you put your fingers in the
(06:05):
crevice? Tell me about that.Well, the foundation is chipped a little
bit at the base okay, andthe sidewalk sidewalk is flat pitch a little
bit away towards away from the house, okay, and yes, here here
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and there that probably is a halfinch three corner inch gap. Okay,
it does you know, I pointedas, uh, you know, repens
the house as well. Yeah,so is the is the chip in the
concrete? Is it on the horizontalpart of the vertical part? Okay?
(06:53):
The foundation? The poundation of thestone big you know, maybe a big
one foot by two foot stone,you know, you know, whatever they
have back in the early nineteen twenties. Uh huh. Yeah, Well it's
probably not going to be a perfectline, but let's do this. There's
the gap between the sidewalk and thefoundation. I would fill that first.
(07:20):
It's a clocking. It is grayin color, and we can do the
patching on the sidewalk and on thefoundation later to kind of make it,
you know, square it all up. But actually in that separation between the
sidewalk and the foundation, we wantsomething has good adhesion and flexibility, which
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any cementatious product is not going tooffer. So what we can use is
there's a there's two products there they'reequal in performance. It's a self leveling
you're a thing crack filler, whichcomes in a cocking tube. It will
(08:05):
require a heavy duty cocking gun.It's a little tough to get out.
And then there's one called a highacrylic resin self leveling crack filler. That's
a latex You can use a regularcocking gun. It's a little bit easier
to get out. Both have greatadhesion, high flexibility. Now, if
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there's a half inch in gap,what we might want to do is you
might want to get what they calla backer rod or cocksaver, or there's
something you know, just like sand, and you want to pour it down
into that crevice. In terms ofthe backer rod, that's a foam.
We're just going to push that downwith a screwdriver or the tips of our
(08:50):
fingers. Just push it down tillit's about i don't know, five sixteenths
the three ace of an inch belowthe surface, and then you'll put that
beat of self leveling your thing,calking over the top of it, all
right, so that your thing ispaintable. By the way, once we've
done that on the vertical surface,you can get a little product called zip
(09:13):
it mortar comes in a little ziplockbag. It's a powder. It's for
vertical surfaces or overhead surfaces. Youcan mix it with water. Need that
plastic bag up and then just takea you know, a putty knife or
something along those lines and go aheadand make your patch. You could use
hear that now once your thing calking, and the other one as well be
(09:39):
located called the concrete. In bigbox stores, Yeah, they're usually all
in the same group. Both thoseproducts that I mentioned are Quick Creek products.
So back in the big box storesof the local hardware store, they'll
have an aisle of you know,just different types of masonry repair and both
(10:01):
of them will be right in ageneral area. Perfect. I think that
handles it. I'll do as yousay, and thank you very much,
very good Pete, Thank you forthe call. Take care all right.
If you'd like to join us again, it's eight hundred eight two three eight
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five KRC the talk station. Wellyou're at home with Gary Salvan. Twenty
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and mister Ron Wilson. Thank youvery much for your weekend knowledge on the
exterear of our home run. AndI think you'll be the first one to
say when we talk about homes andtaking care of homes at the outdoor,
(13:28):
the landscaping, the lawns, thegardens, that's all part of the home.
Oh, no doubt about it.And you know when you look at
the landscaping and folks will say,you know, what what should I spend
on a stand new home? Whatshould I spend on my landscape to have
a new landscape put in? Andthat's doesn't include the lawn, you know,
and it depends on your gardening levelsand things like that. But you
know, in general, it's aboutanywhere from attend at fifteen maybe twenty percent
(13:52):
the cost of the home. Really, you know, by the time you
get allow trees, planet and everythingdon in there. But you return on
investment there, as you well know, is just is phenomenal. And those
that investment just continues to grow yearafter year. Literally, Sure, so
you know it is it's a veryimportant part. And again you know you
talk about the front door being sohot that appeals all the time and whatever.
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That's where properly placed trees and evergreens, as windscreens and sunscreens and all
letting the sun through in the winterto help melt that snow off the rough
instead of it melting from the insideout all become very very important. So
you know, it's one of thosethings that it's fun if you start with
a clean slate, you know,to go, I think is great.
And you know, keep all thesethings in mind as you're putting that together.
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And as you and I always say, you once you get it in
Manna's by walking around, always keepwalking and looking. Sure. Sure I
heard during your show you were talkingabout how zones have changed due to kind
of the warming of our climate.I was thinking, just yesterday taking a
little walk, it's like, gosh, just around not to say every Thanksgiving
(15:01):
was you know, six inches ofsnow, but it was winter time.
And you know, the last fewThanksgiving haven't hasn't felt like winter time.
And now the zones, the planningzones, the map that people aren't familiar
with. It tells you, youknow, what plants you should be kind
of focusing in on zone whatever you'rein. Those are being expanded. Yeah,
(15:24):
well they change. They keep recordand those are based on your average
coldest temperatures in the wintertime. Okay, so the plants that can make it
through those average coldest temperatures would beheardy for your zone. And so you
know, over the years, andthey keep those averages and over the years,
about every fifteen to twenty thirty yearsthey'll update that. The USDA does
this, by the way, theyupdate that hardiness zone. And I think
(15:46):
there are twelve zones now if I'mnot mistaken, plus the sub zones within
the zone. And it starts withthe highest number down in Florida, southern
part of Florida, southern part ofthe United States, and goes up from
there. So we're in central Ohio, southern Ohio, Central Ohio. We're
in A zone six and it's anA and A B A down South,
B up north. But what's interestingis we used to be five. We
(16:07):
then changed to a six several yearsago. And I still tell peoples to
a garden like your zone five becauseplants are in zone six. If you
get that cold snap can die back. So he's about last Christmas, just
like last year burned up. Yep, and that was a combination of long
dry fall, warm fall and thenthat sudden drop. But yeah, so
(16:30):
that it has changed again. Andit's interesting to look. I printed one
out from nineteen ninety and compared itto where it is today. And it's
crazy how those zones continue to shiftand moved north as it continues to get
warmer and warmer. You know,they predicted for US Gary in twenty five
years we could be seeing zone eight, which is Georgia. So get out
there. Crape myrtles, well,you know, we are growing crape myrtle,
(16:52):
but they're on a hardy inness borderline. So we've always got that risk.
Yeah, but you're right, twentyyears from now, twenty five years
as much of a risk anymore.I like crape myrtles absolutely gorgeously. I
mean you look at the you know, anybody goes down south in the summertime,
come back. What are these plants? And can I grow them here?
So well, wait twenty five years, you'll be able to Yeah,
well, you know, you know, we go a little now. We're
(17:15):
having a pretty good success with themso far. And even if they do
dive back to the ground, theyflower on new growth, so when they
come back up again, they stillgive you some flowers. It's just more
of a shrub form here right thanit is in the tree form. Run.
We're a lot of us decorating thisweekend. Some of us did even
last weekend, but over the nexttwo weekends will be most of the decorations.
As you and I have discussed overthe last month, we're bringing in
(17:38):
greenery in a lot of cases,be it a tree or garland or stuff
into our homes. And of coursewe always hear about, you know,
problems in our homes with fire.And I'm not saying just because we're bringing
in greenery. What I'm asking isare there things we need to do that
greenery to kind of take that outof the Yeah. I think one thing
(18:00):
is, you know, we seethe everybody speeding up the holiday getting started
earlier and earlier and earlier, andI think you have to be realistic.
The longer you keep that in thehouse, you know it's going to dry
out eventually, just the way itis. We're talking about fresh greens fresh,
so be realistic. But on thesame token, make sure they're good
and fresh when you get them.There are a couple of products on the
market will stop and will proof whichactually seals the moisture in those evergreen needles
(18:23):
holly as well, so you canspread it on your Christmas tree and your
greens to help us stay long,fresher longer. Obviously with that Christmas tree,
fresh cut right into the stand,and don't ever let that thing dry
out. You know, if youput aspirins in there or whatever you have
to do, that's great, Butas long as you keep water in there,
that's the key to keeping it freshand be realistic. If you do
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it really early and you have itin the house for a long time,
keep checking it. It's going todry out eventually, and when it does,
be smart about it. Get itout of the house because you know,
you don't don't want that in thehouse, right. It's amazing,
no that that first two weeks,how much water that tree. Oh my
gosh, that thing could suck up, you know, two or three quarts
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a day with no work or whatever. It's amazing, so stay with it,
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We're talking a little home improvement,picking up the pieces from the holiday and
also planning ahead for more holidays.There you go. Eight hundred eight two
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three eight two five five. That'sour phone number and Janet welcome. Hi
Gary, I've got a question foryou. We're doing some work in our
basement, and many years ago thepeople who lived there put dry wall mud
across forty feet of the concrete blocksand made it look like a little stucco
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thing and then painted yellow paint overit. And so right now we have
these little points that are sticking outand we're trying to get rid of it.
And the things that I did onit yesterday was to use a hand
dry wall rasp, which was awfuland made a huge pile of dust and
everything. And then also I useda hivel with a hammer to try to
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pound away some of the peaks thatwere sticking out, and I've read online
that water would not do anything toit. I'm just trying to maybe soften
it. I know it's old,very old, this drywall mud art thing.
I don't know what to do ifthere anything I could put on it,
either softening. To answer a coupleof questions, so number one,
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I'm kind of curious if that's reallydrywall mud, because drywall mud is water
soluble when it's dry, but onceit's painted, you seal it. But
being on a foundation, you've probablyheard me talk a lot about the water
transfer or water vapor transfer through afoundation wall is enormous. I think if
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it was dry wall mud, Idon't know why it would still be sticking
to that. Okay, so letme give you the other end of that
then. So well, what peoplehad done in the past, and I've
seen it, there's there was aproduct called thorough Seal, which was kind
of like a waterproof coating. Itwas cementatious. It was mixed and was
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put on with a big brush andit was always rough, just almost like
you describe it. And there wasalso people use stucco, actual stucco,
which again is different than drywall mud, and again more cementatious than like drywall
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mud. So when you start talkingabout chiseling it off and things like that
and a rasp and it almost soundslike it's more of a cementatious product than
a drywall mud. What are yourthoughts on that? Well, trying to
pound it off. I can agreewith you, and I was looking up
things for a stucco, but thenmy husband said, no, no,
(24:36):
no, that's drywall mud, andso that's where I'm you know, I
really don't know exactly what it is. So let me give you a couple
of suggestions for both. Okay,so if it's drywall mud, we'll go
with that too. Drywall mud.When you put drywall on seams, you
can sand it very easily. Itcreates a lot of really fine talk like
(24:57):
dust or or even taking a wetrag will dissolve it. But you got
to get that paint off because thepaint has sealed it. So like if
you had popcorn ceiling on your diningroom and you want to get rid of
it and it's been painted, Iwould tell you to use like an indoor
paint stripper. There's one called blueBear. It can be put on overhead
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or vertical surfaces. And what that'lldo is it'll dissolve the paint, which
will then make the drywall mud vulnerableto water. So if you strip the
paint off and then use like awide putty knife and again with drywall,
this is exactly what would happen.It would with the paint being gone on
a putty knife, you'd be ableto pull that with a wide three inch
(25:45):
taping knife four inch taping knife,you'd be able to remove the paint and
probably some of that drywall mud wouldalso start coming off and it would start
delaminating. If you got that paintoff, I'd tell you to take a
little spritzer and wet the drywall mudand wait an hour, rewet it,
wait an hour, rewet it,and it will begin to delaminate from the
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stone or the dry wall itself.If that, if that doesn't work,
I think you've got to change totalgears and say that's probably a stucco,
that's probably a thorough sealed product,and that's going to be a challenge to
get that off. So let meask you this, what do you want
to get it off for I mean, it could be repainted, it could
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be patched, it could be youknow, you could grind it down,
but it's going to be a messy, messy job, as you're finding out
right, we do want to getlike all those points that are stick it
out and get it down to likea regular level finish and then pain over
it. Okay. And so Iwould say like a hand grinder would probably
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motorized, you know, electric toollike you would buff a car out with,
only it would have a flat surfacegrinder on the front of it.
You'd wear goggles and you'd wear arespirator, and you would just concentrate on
not removing it, but just toknock the points down. You could rent
something like that, or you couldbuy the tool. But any that tool
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is going to be much much muchmore efficient than trying to use a hand
rest, and you'd be there forever. I felt it. But there's no
no chemical to kind of break itdown to make not on the cementatious products.
On the drywall, yes, youdrywall mud, yes, but if
you follow that, you know,just start with a little corner and just
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let's try to really see what itis. I mean, it could be.
But if if it is, I'mshocked that it's still staying on that
wall. I would think the watervapor coming through would have weathered it and
it probably would have started laminating fromthe backside. Okay, but okay,
you know, I can be wrong. That's just my guess. I had
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looked up stucko originally on Google andit said something like I can't remember the
two chemicals, but it was phosphateor phosphorus or something to put on there
to break it down. But thenI stopped looking as I was told that
that's not what it was. Whowould put dry wal mud on here?
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Yeah? I still think they,you know, I still think, you
know, if you can just knockdown the tips of it, even just
round in them off. There's alsowhat they call wall liner. If you
got rid of the really rough horsehigh tips, you can put a wall
liner over that, which is likea thick wallpaper that looks smooth like a
(28:56):
drywall. You could also maybe quarterinch drywall right over that wall with an
adhesive if you got it fairly smooth. Okay, so there's options for you.
Okay, great, Well, Iappreciate your help. Very good Take
care by all right, it's eighthundred and eighty two three eight two five
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five grab a line. Tim.Welcome, Oh Gary, thank you for
taking my call. I will greatlyappreciate it. Thank you. So my
question is about five years ago wehad our home towly remodeled, and right
now I'm having an issue in ourone bathroom, the main bathroom, there's
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like streaks on the wall, andthe drywall is not wet or anything,
it's not damish. They're just likeit's like the pain of bled through.
And then in the kitchen when youwalk in the doors, a little wall
beside the door, it also hasus streaks in it. And I've looked
around and like the collar before you, I've kind of googled some stuff and
(30:06):
everything, but I'm not really comingup with any good solution to what it'd
be other than maybe a ventilation problemup in the hattie. But I don't
know. I just wanted to whatdo you, well, tell me tell
me about the streaks. I mean, in a bathroom, you do or
you can have. It almost lookslike water had run down the wall a
(30:27):
little bit. There might even bea little dot at the end of that
streak, and it's usually brown incolor. Okay, that's what these are
there. Just what you said.They look like water had come down the
wall. Okay, And like Isay, the drywall is not damage,
but to one spot the pain iscompletely killed off of it will be damage
(30:48):
different, you know, if there'sa moisture problem. But well, there
is a moisture problem, and themoisture problem is in the environment of the
bathroom. So what what you're experiencingis it is called surfactant bleeding. So
let's say, and I'm just goingto give you an analogy. I'm not
saying this is what's going on inyour house. But if there wasn't a
fan, or a fan wasn't usedmuch, or it wasn't used properly,
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and it didn't evacuate all that steamout of the bathroom, that water would
literally sit on the painted surface andmaybe when there's enough of it, it
would just kind of start dripping downthe wall. And it's picking up the
suffactants in the paint. And thesurfactos in paints are soaps. It's what
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makes water wetter or paint wetter sothat it can stick better. And what
you'll do on that is you'll takesome tri sodium phosphate and water, and
you'll scrub that wall down and whatyou'll be doing is you'll get these surfactants
or the soapy residues from the paintoff those walls. And then you know,
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if you don't have a fan,I would recommend you get a fan
in that bathroom. If you havea fan, I would recommend you run
it during the shower, in atleast a half hour after the shower,
to make sure we evacuate as muchwater as we possibly can. It's such
a problem, or it can bea problem that Benjamin Moore actually has a
(32:20):
paint for bathrooms that is it willnot surfact and bleed. Okay, so
so it's not unusual. Uh butand that's how you would you would eliminate
it by just scrubbing it down withyou know, uh, triclium phosphate and
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water and then rentse. Okay,so try solium phosphate in water. Can
you get that at like any anyhardware store, paint store, any any
pretty much everybody. I'll have TSP. It's what it'll be called TSP in
the stores. Okay, Well,that thatn'll makes sense. What about the
little bear spots? About about thesize of a pencil erase your head.
(33:04):
That is down to the dry wall. Just take care of the problem and
then hit that with some good primerand paint over there. Yeah, I
think so, I think so.I think that's exactly what I do.
Yep, yep, And yeah,you can touch it up if you have
some touch up paint. If not, take a look at that ben more
paint. Maybe just do the wallwhere the problem is. Okay, well,
(33:27):
that makes sense. And the samething in the kitchen area. What
like when you walk in the walkindoor the kitchen, there's a little bit
on that wall. Yeah, notas that, but yeah, and I
can't say that I've really run intothat. But again, if it's near
an outdoor temperature, you know,a door that's going from the outside inside
when it's you know, cold outsideand more money inside, that temperature clash
(33:52):
could create some condensation on the wall. And I guess realistically you could have
the same problem there. Okay,well that makes sense. I'll tell you
something interesting. At our old homewe lived in, we had a problem
where there was black film like onthe walls. And your old friend then
hagy father enough had a phone callfrom Mary, Ohio, where I'm at
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right now. And the problem waswhat you mentioned earlier about the ventilation up
in the attic. They took theinflation all the way to the very end
of the little holes under the soufit. That's correct. When I went up
there and I took a rik,I laid on my stomach across the rafters
and pulled it or pulled away fromthe hedge, right, I alleviated the
problem right in and there. Butthat's so ironic. The ventilation and the
(34:36):
moisture problems like that caused problems thatyou wouldn't think of. But I hear
you. And now there's even thingsthat people probably more so ten years ago
than we get now. It iscalled ghosting. And you can actually see
the two by fours behind the drywall and what it is. It was
caused by candle wicks. The metalin the candlewicks when they were burnt,
(34:59):
would just create this black film thatwould stick along the highest density part on
the dry wall. Just from theselittle minute pieces of whatever we can't see.
That was a big problem. That'sremark for. Our daughter just bought
an old home. It's oak wellover one hundred and some years old en
up in the third floor attic.As just what she said, you could
(35:21):
see the studs on the wall andyou could tell it it had been lit
by candor or you know, thingslike that. But one other question before
or I get off here. Sowhen they redid the house up in the
attic, they blowed in that installation, I didn't, you know, I
don't know if that would have anythingto do with but I think we're onto
it with the fan and things likethat, because it's just on a couple
(35:43):
of little walls, I mean rightright, not everywhere, but I'll I'll
try that what she said, andturn the fan on, and if it
comes back again, maybe we mighthave to go up there and see if
the fans got something going on orright right something Your sounds like a subfactant,
but I would start there and seewhat you come up with. All
right, Thank you very much forthe call. If you'd like to join
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You're welcome to join us. Ourphone number is eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Tom,Welcome morning. I'm a retired entired,
(39:02):
retired environmental kind of guy. Allright, and I had a comment about
your guidance for the lady with thestucco or drywall mud on her cinderblock.
Yeah, we don't know what itis, right. One of the first
things I would do, though,is go grab one of those lead paint
test hits. Good point, verygood. I grind them on lead paint.
(39:29):
Yeah, very good point. Infact, I was talking about stripping
the paint off the drywall, youknow, with a chemical stripper, but
I wasn't talking about that on theon the cementatious products. So thank you,
right, okay, enjoy your show. All right, very good,
Tom, Thank you and hit pointwell taken. So really think about this
(39:54):
prior to nineteen seventy eight, andit sounded like that basement had been there
a while and now was being updated. You know, there was lead in
paint prior to seventy seven, seventyseventy eight and earlier had lead in it.
(40:15):
And you know, you could havetwo coats of non leaded paint over
a coat of leaded paint. Andhe's exactly correct. You start grinding on
that, you're putting those airborne particlesinto the air in the house and then
it's being recirculated by the air handlerthroughout the house. So not a good
(40:37):
situation, right, I mean,not a good situation at all. So
testing it for that, there's acertainly companies that can test it. There's
also some swabs you can get ina hardware store. They're inexpensive. They're
generally gonna give you an idea,not as accurate probably as as something of
(41:00):
a company testing it. But again, if we can kind of scratch through
that first layer of paint and testit in throughout the paint, it's just
the vile terms pink. I thinkthere's lead. Great point, though,
and I appreciate that phone call.That's for sure. All right, let's
go to Bobby. Bobby, welcome, Hey, here are you? Yes,
(41:24):
sir? Fine? Good? Hey, I said, as an easy
question, I have a fiberglass frontdoor of the house and a Anderson storm
door the house faces I think it'ssouth, but it's done like the entirety
of the day. When you openthe door to the house on the inside,
(41:46):
the smell will just about knock youdown. It smells very toxic and
chemically. And if you keep thatstorm door clean, if you close the
door the next day, you openit to in the afternoon, it's almost
got a film. All it's coveredwith a film, and you can clean
it and clean it. It's reallyhard to get off. You gotta get
a razor blade and get it alloff. That looks good, and it's
(42:07):
next to day the same thing.I don't know. Well, I don't
know if I've really run into that, but it seemed how long has it
been since you you're thing that thatfiberglass doors? Well, we didn't.
We've been there about three years.Okay. I think it's just paint.
Oh, it's paint. Okay,Well, it sounds like that coating.
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Since that coating is off gas andcreating it used to have this problem a
lot with metal doors and storm doorsbecause of the temperature and how tight that
storm door fit and the temperature goingthrough that glass, it could literally melt
(42:52):
the moldings on a metal door.It will melt the plastic moldings. So
that's you know, I don't knowif there's anything we can do about the
door itself outside of you know,maybe pulling it off during the summer is
probably not a big issue in thewinter time when you really need that door.
(43:12):
So also a lot of those theyhave. You know, you can
pull the glass out and then putthe screen in, and maybe that's something
you want to work towards. Pullingthat glass out, you know, come
about the first of April, andthen put the glass back in around the
first of November. Because I don'tknow how you would stop it. We'll
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