December 13, 2025 • 44 mins
In this hour of At Home with Gary Sullivan covers essential winter preparation tips. Gary discusses the importance of protecting exposed pipes from freezing temperatures and shares advice on how to check for and fix potential issues. He also takes calls from listeners, including Paul, who asks about insulating a pole barn, and Mary, who's concerned about a high-pressure water issue in her home. Additionally, Gary talks about the benefits of using a pressure-reducing valve and the importance of inspecting gutters and downspouts to prevent ice dams.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Happy to take your calls regarding your home projects. As
I look at the weather map, and I do that
often because a lot of the issues we may have
(01:12):
around our home on any given weekend, whether it's really hot,
really cold, whether it's snowing or raining or flooding, is
attributed to the weather. So as I look at the
weather map, it looks like half the country's gonna is
under snow cover or going to be under snow cover.
And maybe it's cold outside where I met, we're gonna
(01:33):
get near zero in the next day or two, and
some people further north are going to get colder than that.
So obviously one of the things we want to talk
about is protecting any exposed pipes. And you know, if
you're if you're going to do anything today, that might
be something you just want to kind of focus in on.
(01:55):
Where has there been problems in the past. Are those
pipes still protected? If it's getting below zero in your
neck of the woods and there's no insulation on that pipe.
Keeping those cabinet doors open, just a trickle of water,
both cold and hot running, let the ambient temperature inside
(02:18):
the room get back in that cabinet area. That'll all
be helpful. Also, one of the things is we preaching
and I keep still hearing all the stories about energy bills.
It's like every time I get my energy bill, I'd like,
hold my breath. You know, how did we do this month?
And I'm sure you're the same way. I mean, it's
(02:40):
continuing to rise in the forecast. That graph is going northward. Okay,
so when it gets really cold, like it's supposed to
where I met for the next few weeks or a
few days actually was to warm up at the end
of the week. But you know, we'll have more and
more cold weather, that's for sure. Pay attention to where
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you're getting the drafts, and pay attention to solving those problems.
If you're sitting on the couch and there's a register
under the couch or right up against the windows, and
the blinds and shades are up or drapes are blocking
(03:23):
that heated air, make sure that heated air can get
into the room. There's a little deflectors you can put
over registers to shoot that air from underneath the couch
out into the room. I mean, you're paying for that
heated air, let's use it. You don't want to go
on up behind the drapes and against the windows. That's
not very functional for you, right. Or if you get
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down in the basement or the cross space and you
start examining the pipes and the pipes are well, they're
not very well connected and there's gaps, and you're losing
that heated air that you're paying for. Aluminum table take
those up. So pay attention to what's going on your home.
If you're getting that same kind of weather, I think
you'll get ahead of the ball game a little bit,
(04:09):
and of course we'll be happy to talk about it. Also,
So let me give you the phone number. It is
eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five and
Paul you lead us off. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Hello. Yeah, I've got a pull barn and I have
four or eight sheets of styrene not foil back on
either side, okay, And I have an inch and a
half two before ker lines plus two by six Brasen's
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going up, so I need to get it out three
inches before I can put metal on it as far
as putting the styrene, and I've got like twenty three
twenty five sheets, and I'm going to need more, but
it is. What I need to know is I'd like
(05:09):
to put on one of those because I'm going to
have to stack it for I want to put foil
in for reflection both sides. Would I put that on
the outside of the sheet or the inside sheet?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You want to put it on the outside sheet facing
the inside of the pole barn, so the heated area.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, Well I'm going to have I'm going to have
to stack this, so the twenty five sheets that I
have now I'm going to have to either put on
there on top of that or underneath it.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So so what's the R value of these sheets? Do
you know offend.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, it looks my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Sorry, Okay, are the sheets like they're.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They pay two inches but during inch and a half actually.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, okay, so it's probably around seven or eight our value.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe I'm thinking nine.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay, okay, Yeah, it'd be somewhere in that general area. So,
so the the foil is basically the water vapor or
the vapor barrier and about Yeah, so you wouldn't you
wouldn't really double it up. There would be no need
to really do that. I just put it on the
outside sheet.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And uh, are you going to glue those panels together
or what are you going to do with that? How
are you going to do that?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah? Probably just a little bit of liquid mail or
something like that stole it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, be careful on that. There's when you use construction adhesive.
A lot of construction adhesives will not cannot be used
on star foam or foam. It'll meld it and then
then I know, like gorilla glue, they're constructionhesive. They make
(07:21):
three different good better best. There's one of those that
are universal. You can use it on wood, you can
use it on glass, you can use it on brick,
you can use it on foam, so when you buy that,
just pay attention. They also have a construction adhesive strictly
for foam, so just make sure when you buy that
you're buying the right one.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, Well, there's going to be metal go over over
top of it, so I just need I just need
to pack it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh okay, So holds up there all right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Until I get the metal over. Plans are like two
foot apart, okay. And I've got insulation for the roof,
fifteen foot walls and four to twelve pitch the buildings
thirty by fifty Where the saffa comes up, that's been elated.
(08:17):
Soaffit do I need to put in the waffles so
the airflow would go up? Because I have I bought tenants.
I've had tenants insulation for I don't know, four or
five years. I got a deal on a long time ago.
And the pool barn's not quite done yet.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, your soft events, when you're bringing that air in,
you're bringing that air in so that the is there
is there a ridge event where you can push the
hot air out or the cold air out. Yes, okay, okay,
so yeah, you don't want to cover those up for sure.
(08:58):
I mean you do want to put you know, if
you want to put those uh, you know, baffles in there. Yeah,
that would protect the uh insulation from you know, covering
up some of your soft events, which would render everything
else useless.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, okay, we have the buildings all metals, you know,
but yeah, of course the trusses are would they could rot?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So yep, yep, all right, Well you got your work
cut out for you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh yeah, the first ever run conto it, that was
a that was an experience.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
See now you're experienced. All right, Paul, Thank you much.
I appreciate good luck to you. Take care all right,
our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three, eight two
five five. Wouldn't be bad to check your insulation either,
Get in the attic, get your yardstick and see how
how deep that insalation is. You know, one time it
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may have been you know, fifteen inches, and right now
it may be not. There may been some settling that
have taken place. Be mindful of that. Ron Wilson, he's
coming up next. As we continue, You're at home with
Gary Sullivan's.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Take san right with a call to Gary Sullivan at
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Speaker 1 (10:34):
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(12:53):
Wilson stops in and helps us out. Well, we're not
going to do any gardening today, Ron, Is that alright
with you?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Anyhentlemen?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Is it okay? We don't do any gardening?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Sure, okay, So it looks pretty winter.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Indoor indoor gardening.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Indoor garden. It's too early for that.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Oh no, no, oh no, you brought all those house
plants in. Now you got to take care of those.
Missus Wilson's into that big time. Now is driving me crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Plants are everywhere for your advice.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Not as much. No, I'll throw it out there now
and then.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But thathn't doing good?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
No? Here is this supposed to be here? But yeah,
indoor gardening, I mean, you know, sure, holiday plants all yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So somebody asked me this question, and this is a
good question too.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I'm sure you had an answer. Well, you've been doing
this for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I kind of got an answer for it. Sure, I
understand what the problem is. Led. Christmas lights outside are
very energy efficient. They don't get hot like the incandescent
Christmas bulbs.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Correct, And I learned that from my friend Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And when it snows, it covers up all my ball.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It doesn't melt the ground, it.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Doesn't melt the snow. And then I got all this
snow on my bushes and over my bulb. Should I
sweep that off? Oh there's a little twist in that.
People used to ask you that question all the time.
Maybe the Christmas lights weren't an issue, But snow on
bushes that's kind of natural, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah? On evergreens sometimes you know, it can start to
weight them down if it looks like it's gonna pull
them apart, like some arbor vity or multi stemmed, multi
leadered in the middle, and it can actually pull them apart.
And a lot of times if I stay apart more
than a couple of weeks, they don't come back together.
So in areas where you think you're gonna have some
heavy snowfall, well we recommend is take a pair. Believe
(14:51):
it or not. Pantyhose is one of the best tie
up materials that you can use and go up about
a little bit more than halfway and tie all three
of the those leaders together. Okay, just secure, it'll pull
them up and they can hang on to each other
and they won't split off. But I have like a
hemlock and a few other evergreens in my patio area.
(15:11):
Then if it starts to weight them down, it looks
like it's going to break a branch. I'll take a broom,
all right, like a straw room or whatever, and I
will brush upward, not down, but I'll brush upward and
kind of vibrate the broom and shake it off and
dislodge it and make it fall down. So I will
do that to prevent it from breaking. But otherwise, you know,
(15:32):
otherwise you just you know, you kind of let it
ride hydranges and still have flowers on them. Sometimes it'll
get ice and snow on there. They'll start to weight
down and also looks like it's going to break that branch.
I'll go ahead and deadhead those, get those off of there.
But then when you get the lights on air, that's
a different store, because then how do you shake it
and keep the lights on it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, I'll tell you, before he asked that question, I
didn't have I did. I wasn't concerned really about the books.
Shit looked fine, And you know, I've never seen by
walking through the woods with the broom to clean all
the trees and bushes. Yeah, but I did, you know,
I did want to kind of expose some of the lights.
And I wasn't going to get up there with a
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rake or something try and go over the top of
the bush and get tangled with a cord. So I
took a broom and got to the bottom of the
bush and just hit the branches vibrate at the bottom, right,
and it knocked some off, and that was good enough
for me. I didn't want to you know.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, you just loes enough weight to keep it from
breaking them. That's all you want to do, right, And
you're right if you can get to the bottom of
that and just vibrate it a little bit or knock
it like you did with it something soft, right, Yeah,
you know what a sponge hose you were were your
mop Oh a sponge that's good because it doesn't hurt
the trunk, and put that in there and kind of
vibrate a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well. And then the other interesting thing, it really depends
on what kind of snow we had, because that snow
we had a few days ago was kind of a slushy, heavy,
wet snow. The snow we're gonna get today. I don't know,
the light blowing snows be a little dryer, yeah, not
an issue, all right, it's the wet snows and a
little bit of ice in there. That that that's where
we started to get into trouble. Right, And of course
(17:08):
pairs ornamental pairs, which we don't plan anymore. They're invasive,
but they still have leaves on them late in the season. Yeah,
and a lot of and and you know, so a
lot of times they'll collect that up and that's one
of the reasons why they split, right, you know, other
than the high winds. But they'll split from that. Well,
in another week, we may have ice dam issues. That's
another thing. You know. I hope everybody paid attention. Sometimes
(17:29):
I feel like I preach, I preach nearby goes shut up.
I'm talking about don't let leaves clog up your gutters.
And you know, we man, we went from mid fall
to winter this year. Sometimes sometimes we don't need to
have a winter, but man, we went from mid fall
leaves fall into snow.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, my mom has a I don't know which
one she has. Well, she has some kind of gutter
guard keep the leaves up and the guys are collecting
and the leaves in her house a couple of weeks ago,
and they she said, can you go up there and
just kind of blow those you know, gets stuffed out.
It was amazing what they still got out of there, really,
because I mean sometimes that stuff kind of sifts down
through and you know.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It could costposing, right, yeah, So it depends what you're using.
That's why. The one thing I really don't like is
those maybe you've seen them. It's the gutter guards there
like a block of foam and it, you know, lets
water penetrate. Oh yeah, but then when the leaves get
stuck on the surface of that and start decomposing, it
(18:28):
gets black and gooey and it clogs up that foam
and you don't have good drainage. You're just clogging up
the foam instead of the gutter. So not good. I
don't got to stay on top of that because you
know if and again a lot of people don't realize
ice dams in a lot of cases occur just because
(18:49):
you don't have enough insulation in the attic melts the
snow at the top of the roof, water runs down,
it gets the overhang and where the gutters are, and
it freezes and then you got big problems. So because
there's nowhere for that water to go, issues with the weather.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
When we were pulling in yesterday, I said, uh to
my wife. I looked up at all the roofs and
ours was still white. Good neighbors was not very white.
And I said, see, Gary Solimon would say, look at
that roof right there, it's gonna be a problem. Gonna
be a problem.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Who there?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
She said, who?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You said? Who? All right, mister Wilson, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
All right, I have a good one.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Take care. We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Start a project and don't know how to finish it,
call Gary at one eight hundred and eighty two three talk.
You're at home with Gary Soliva.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
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(20:27):
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all right, back at it. We go thirty three minutes
after the top of the air and you're at home
with Gary Sullivan taking your calls, and I'll give you
(22:23):
the phone number. The lines are open. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five, So go ahead
and grab a line. Happy to chat with you. You've
heard me say on this show the insurance industry is
changing on what's covering what's not covered. Beth Harper, she
(22:44):
is going to be our guest at the Obama In
the next hour, we're going to talk about, you know,
things to pay attention to when you're renewing, how homeowner's
insurance is charging and changing in a manner of your roof,
how well maintained your houses. That's right, Maintenance is becoming
(23:07):
a play right now. In fact, I had several people
that I know in the last week talk to me
about noises in their walls, and you know, we've had
we've had a lot of discussion about that over the years.
And you know, some people always just say it's a mouse,
but quite honestly, you know, it depends on how much
(23:29):
noise you're gonna have raccoons, squirrels, mice, and sometimes they're
gonna the insurance company can cover that. But we're starting
to find that if it's determined that the maintenance around
that house and around that gutterline and around those soffets
and faces are not being maintained and that's how they
(23:50):
gained entry into your home, you may have a claim
that's going to be disputed by the insurance gutmany So well,
we'll talk about all that and happy to take your calls.
In the meantime, Again, it is eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. All right, Mary, welcome, Oh hey,
(24:13):
good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
A plumbing question. I have a plumbing question regarding a
remodel project. It's an old bathtub. We put in a
new you know, plastic surround, put in the new you know,
Spickett's faucet. And my concern is the old tub. It
has the old knob down below where you lift it
(24:38):
up or down for the stopper, drain stopper. Okay, And
this project's in Westerville, and whenever you turn the water on,
it seems like there's extreme pressure and all when you
the spickett, the water that comes out, it seems like
(24:58):
it hits the the front of a spicket and then
it shoots back and drains on that that knob. And
I'm the the drain knob, and I'm concerned it's an
old drain knob. I mean, we did replace the plumbing.
Could we posturing is that could I turn the pressure
(25:21):
down in the house or well.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I guess that's really where That's a second. Where I
was going to is has its number one been a
problem before? Number two is all the faucets have this problem.
And number three is do you know what the pressure
in your house is?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I don't know the pressure, but I know it's uh,
it's it's high. It's I know it's I know it
necessairly high pressure.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well, I guess the first thing I would do. You
can get a pressure tester and it is screwed to
an outdoor faucet. That's where you would test it. And
do you have copper pipe in that house or do
you have plastic pipe.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Or mostly copper. It's a.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Model, so in copper you would like to have that
pressure under eighty, which is still a lot of pressure,
And that's kind of what I have in my home.
It's it's got a lot of pressure, but it's just
a little under eighty, and that's fine. If you have
plastic pipe, I'd probably prefer to be around sixty. So
(26:31):
you're going to have to calculate that in there. Two.
But it sounds like you got pretty much copper pipe.
And you know, if you get a reading, which is
possible of one hundred and ten, you can get a
pressure or maybe you already have a pressure reducing valve
where you can decrease the pressure, which is usually right
(26:55):
where the water line's coming into your house. So first
we just got to find out where it's at, you know,
where where that pressure is before we can make any adjustments.
I think.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
All right, and then you could buy this pressure test thing.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know, thirty thirty five bucks. You can
get them at you know, hardware stores. You can get
it at a big box stores. It's just a little
it's got a hose thread on there and so it
screws on the outside of the faucet and you just
turn that fussing on and give you a rate rating.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
All right, Well we will start with that and then
hoose DIBs. Do you really need to buy those tyrofoam
things to protect with this cold weather?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Well, you know they can't hurt you, but your question
is do you really have to? I think the first
question I asked back to you is it depends what
kind of hose bib you have. So there's two basic types.
There is a what they call frostproof faucet, which has
(27:57):
the handle the faucet, and then part of that handling
faucet is a copper tube that's either eight ten or
twelve inches which goes through the foundation wall and it
is connected to the pipe inside the house. When you
turn that off outside, if it's installed properly, it's tilted forward,
(28:19):
and you turn that off, there's a stem just like
there's an off faucets, and it has a washer, and
that washer is actually on the inside. It's at the
very end of that tube, which is inside the house.
So when you shut that off, the water in that
pipe drains out. Hopefully there's no hose attached to it.
It drains out, and you know you're shut You've shut
(28:42):
that off basically from the inside the house. If it's
the older type, you'll have a shut off out inside
the house, and uh, you'll shut that off. You'll take
a little cap off which drains that pipe. And you know,
if that's been done, you would not need that starfoam.
(29:06):
But if it has not been shut off from the
inside of the house, first of all, I'd shut it off.
And if you want to use a star from cover
on that, then that would be a very good idea.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Okay, all right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
All right, very good. Thank you appreciate it. So we
talk about this in the fall all the time. But
you know, I know, life gets in a way. We
hear something and we don't do it. And the preach is,
don't forget to take your hose off the outdoor faucet,
even if it's a frost proof because remember I said
(29:41):
that frostproof shuts the water off from the inside of
the house, which it does tilted forward, which it is,
And if that hose is connected, that water is filling
that hose up and it's backing up in that pipe,
and quite honestly, you're not protected anymore than if you
had an exposed piece of pipe. So the hose absolutely
(30:01):
positively has to be has to be off off that faucet.
All right, let's grab Alan real quick. Alan, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Well, yes there, Hey, I've got a question about some
new water lines. I ran, did a remodel, added a bathroom.
Well that bathrooms about forty feet away, maybe fifty feet
away from the existing water lines. And my question is
I've hooked into the existing water lines. Am I going
to have a problem with pressure reaching that new bathroom
(30:32):
since it's like fifty feet away. Well, they're going to
be like a pump system that can help it out.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, well there is to answer your question, there is
a pump system. The real question is people get confused
on this particular thing, and I don't really know how
to really really really super explain it to you. But
there's two issues with the water coming in your home.
There's pressure and there's volume, okay, and you know they
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seem like they're related, but they're really not. If you
don't have enough volume of water. In other words, we're
changing diameters of pipe, and you know, it kind of
gets you know, that volume is not there, so it
feels like it's doesn't have the pressure but actually has
the pressure in the pipe and in the system, but
you just don't have enough volume of water. So I
(31:24):
don't know how to answer that, quite honestly, if I'm
also hook a shower to it too, So I didn't
know if that's going to be an issue. Well, I
think what you're going to decide is what the pipe
that you're tapping into. Is it a half inch pipe?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Copper?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
There is a I went from copper to pecks.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, Well, and what size is that the pecks? Is
that the same size? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Same size half inch?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What kind of pressure volume are you running in the
house right now? Do you know?
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Uh? I want to say the pressure probably right around
maybe seventy five eighty is that about right or not.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, that's that's good pressure. That's good pressure. That's what
I was saying. That's kind of it at the peak.
You know, you don't really want to go over eighty.
If you go on and you go to a Google
and chart out pressure length and talk about the volume
(32:28):
of copper, I think you might get your answer. I
think if you stay in a half inch category, you
may be all right. But there's a chart that'll tell
you that on how far you're going to be able
to run that line and the pressure that you have
on that line to get to where you need to go,
and and I don't have that at the top of
my head, so that's something you're going to have to
(32:50):
look up. But I'm gonna guess you if you stay
in that same category of pipe and run it, you
may be all right. It's I know it's long, but
if you're doing copper and there's no uh, you know,
corrosion inside that like there would be on galvanized pipe,
I'm gonna guess you're gonna be all right. But it's
(33:11):
a guess. You're gonna just have to look at that
and get that equation figured out to see if it's
going to be enough for not Alan. All right, thank
you much for the call. We'll take a break and
if you'd like to join us, step on ind We've
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you'd like to join us, do so. It's eight hundred
and eight two three eight two five five. Just looking
up that copper line thing, just to give you an example.
I looked it up as I asked him to look
it up. Also the short answers yes usually, but it
depends what you're feeding and how much is already there.
(36:35):
Same thing we said, if you have a half inch
copper line, it brings about four to five gallons permitted
with acceptable pressure loss. A fifty foot run by itself
not gonna be a problem. The bigger issue is not
the volume, but the pressure drop with multiple fixtures running
(36:57):
at the same time. And here's the deal. So at
a four gowns permitted half inch copper loses about two
to three psi per fifty feet. That's minor if the
pipe were dedicated, So you got to start figuring out
how much loss so we had. He said it was
(37:19):
about eighty I believe, and two to three feet, So
you really got to find out what's on that line. Okay,
so two to three psi drop per fifty feet and
you're running eighty and you could be probably fifty five
to sixty and have acceptable pressure. So you have to
(37:40):
have quite a few faucets on there to have that drop.
And so anyway, I wanted to just pass out along.
If he's still listening or didn't look it up, that's
a quick answer. You got to do a little bit
more digging, and don't we all when you're into plumbing,
you're always going to do some digging, all right. Our
phone number again is eight hundred and eight two three
(38:02):
eight two five five talking about and dog gunnet. You know,
when it gets cold outside, we do have a tendency
to talk a little bit more about plumbing and kind
of starting to show off too. Where we're at. We'll
probably have our first below zero morning coming up in
(38:22):
the next few days, and it really behoove anybody that's
in that area, and it's I don't know, I think
We had one of those days last year. Don't have
too many, but you just really got to know or
really examine the pipes in your home. Where are they
(38:46):
and are they secured with warmth? A lot older homes
in our communities, those pipes might run through cross spaces.
Red flag top of a garage ceiling, uninsulated, red flag
in an attic, red flag running on an outside wall,
underneath cabnet tree, red flag. That doesn't mean it's gonna freeze.
(39:10):
That just means if it isn't properly insulated, or that
wall hasn't had a foam insulation pumped into it, you
have the potential. Let's go to Jerry. Jerry, welcome, how
you doing doing fine? Thank you.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
Good. I've got I've gotta I've got a house to cover.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
A undred years old.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
And the wood floors some places looks like it had
been it had suffered water water so guts uh huh
and uh. Some of the boards, some of the boards
becoming the league. And I heard you talk about a
compounder take the paint on the board and ever top
tuff it up.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Well, yeah, there there are so so the wood floors
that got wet. Are are they cuppy and crowning and
moving or or have they already become a dry rotted
or tell me a little bit more about them.
Speaker 7 (40:09):
I'm afraid to step on it.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Well, that's what I was afraid you were going to say. So,
there is a product it is called liquid wood, and
it goes in and it firms up the fibers of
the wood, but it's it's not going to improve the
structure of that wood, so that that's not going to
(40:37):
be your answer. Your answer is, yeah, yeah, your answer
is replacement in that case if it was a baseboard,
and if it's a baseboard, something along those lines. Yeah,
did the water Did this just happen or has it
been happening for a while.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Over twenty years?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah? Yeah, Well is it a solid wood floor? In
other words, it's not like an engineered wood, it's solid wood.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
No, that's the original pine.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, So it's not tongue and groove, it's just pine
floors right over the the joist. Correct, yeah, correct, Okay,
So yeah, that would you know, finding the species of
wood is probably you're gonna probably have to remove it
and then try and find the same species of wood.
(41:33):
I mean, it could be all kinds of things that
would be oak, maple, It could be you know, way
back in the day, there'd be fur. I mean, it
could be all kinds of things, but it would. And
are those floors stained or are they painted or what
are they.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Stained stained?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
So you're, you know, the chances of matching that perfectly
is going to be a challenge. But I think your
only real answer is to remove remove that those rotted
boards and replace them and check the choice too, well,
you're gonna have to get somebody specialized in wood floors
(42:13):
or a carpenter. Then yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (42:18):
I appreciate your time and appreciate your.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Show, you sir, thank you very much. Appreciate. Yeah, that
liquid wood, by the way, is a wonderful, wonderful product,
don't don't get me wrong, But when you're talking about
a structure, and back in those days there was really
no you know, underlayment or you know wood underneath that.
(42:41):
They just used the boards as your floor, which straddled
the joys and so there, you know, the other option
is to go right over and put a subfloor down
and then put all new wood flooring. And I knew
you probably don't want to do that. Either, but finding
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that right species, making that stained match is going to
be a big challenge, very big challenge. May or may
not even be able to do it. But getting in
there and seeing what you got is important. That liquid
wood is it's fun. If you're doing a baseboard, you're
doing a decorative base on a column, you put that
(43:23):
on there. It hardens that wood and really allows you
to then use a wood epoxy to make the patch.
And that's really the intention of that particular product. So
I don't want to run that VYU and just give
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this hour about Home with Garry Solvent. So let's get started.
Happy to take your calls regarding your home projects. As
I look at the weather map, and I do that
often because a lot of the issues we may have
(01:12):
around our home on any given weekend, whether it's really hot,
really cold, whether it's snowing or raining or flooding, is
attributed to the weather. So as I look at the
weather map, it looks like half the country's gonna is
under snow cover or going to be under snow cover.
And maybe it's cold outside where I met, we're gonna
(01:33):
get near zero in the next day or two, and
some people further north are going to get colder than that.
So obviously one of the things we want to talk
about is protecting any exposed pipes. And you know, if
you're if you're going to do anything today, that might
be something you just want to kind of focus in on.
(01:55):
Where has there been problems in the past. Are those
pipes still protected? If it's getting below zero in your
neck of the woods and there's no insulation on that pipe.
Keeping those cabinet doors open, just a trickle of water,
both cold and hot running, let the ambient temperature inside
(02:18):
the room get back in that cabinet area. That'll all
be helpful. Also, one of the things is we preaching
and I keep still hearing all the stories about energy bills.
It's like every time I get my energy bill, I'd like,
hold my breath. You know, how did we do this month?
And I'm sure you're the same way. I mean, it's
(02:40):
continuing to rise in the forecast. That graph is going northward. Okay,
so when it gets really cold, like it's supposed to
where I met for the next few weeks or a
few days actually was to warm up at the end
of the week. But you know, we'll have more and
more cold weather, that's for sure. Pay attention to where
(03:01):
you're getting the drafts, and pay attention to solving those problems.
If you're sitting on the couch and there's a register
under the couch or right up against the windows, and
the blinds and shades are up or drapes are blocking
(03:23):
that heated air, make sure that heated air can get
into the room. There's a little deflectors you can put
over registers to shoot that air from underneath the couch
out into the room. I mean, you're paying for that
heated air, let's use it. You don't want to go
on up behind the drapes and against the windows. That's
not very functional for you, right. Or if you get
(03:47):
down in the basement or the cross space and you
start examining the pipes and the pipes are well, they're
not very well connected and there's gaps, and you're losing
that heated air that you're paying for. Aluminum table take
those up. So pay attention to what's going on your home.
If you're getting that same kind of weather, I think
you'll get ahead of the ball game a little bit,
(04:09):
and of course we'll be happy to talk about it. Also,
So let me give you the phone number. It is
eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five and
Paul you lead us off. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Hello. Yeah, I've got a pull barn and I have
four or eight sheets of styrene not foil back on
either side, okay, And I have an inch and a
half two before ker lines plus two by six Brasen's
(04:47):
going up, so I need to get it out three
inches before I can put metal on it as far
as putting the styrene, and I've got like twenty three
twenty five sheets, and I'm going to need more, but
it is. What I need to know is I'd like
(05:09):
to put on one of those because I'm going to
have to stack it for I want to put foil
in for reflection both sides. Would I put that on
the outside of the sheet or the inside sheet?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You want to put it on the outside sheet facing
the inside of the pole barn, so the heated area.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, Well I'm going to have I'm going to have
to stack this, so the twenty five sheets that I
have now I'm going to have to either put on
there on top of that or underneath it.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So so what's the R value of these sheets? Do
you know offend.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, it looks my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Sorry, Okay, are the sheets like they're.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They pay two inches but during inch and a half actually.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, okay, so it's probably around seven or eight our value.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe I'm thinking nine.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay, okay, Yeah, it'd be somewhere in that general area. So,
so the the foil is basically the water vapor or
the vapor barrier and about Yeah, so you wouldn't you
wouldn't really double it up. There would be no need
to really do that. I just put it on the
outside sheet.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And uh, are you going to glue those panels together
or what are you going to do with that? How
are you going to do that?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah? Probably just a little bit of liquid mail or
something like that stole it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, be careful on that. There's when you use construction adhesive.
A lot of construction adhesives will not cannot be used
on star foam or foam. It'll meld it and then
then I know, like gorilla glue, they're constructionhesive. They make
(07:21):
three different good better best. There's one of those that
are universal. You can use it on wood, you can
use it on glass, you can use it on brick,
you can use it on foam, so when you buy that,
just pay attention. They also have a construction adhesive strictly
for foam, so just make sure when you buy that
you're buying the right one.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, Well, there's going to be metal go over over
top of it, so I just need I just need
to pack it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh okay, So holds up there all right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Until I get the metal over. Plans are like two
foot apart, okay. And I've got insulation for the roof,
fifteen foot walls and four to twelve pitch the buildings
thirty by fifty Where the saffa comes up, that's been elated.
(08:17):
Soaffit do I need to put in the waffles so
the airflow would go up? Because I have I bought tenants.
I've had tenants insulation for I don't know, four or
five years. I got a deal on a long time ago.
And the pool barn's not quite done yet.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, your soft events, when you're bringing that air in,
you're bringing that air in so that the is there
is there a ridge event where you can push the
hot air out or the cold air out. Yes, okay, okay,
so yeah, you don't want to cover those up for sure.
(08:58):
I mean you do want to put you know, if
you want to put those uh, you know, baffles in there. Yeah,
that would protect the uh insulation from you know, covering
up some of your soft events, which would render everything
else useless.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, okay, we have the buildings all metals, you know,
but yeah, of course the trusses are would they could rot?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So yep, yep, all right, Well you got your work
cut out for you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh yeah, the first ever run conto it, that was
a that was an experience.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
See now you're experienced. All right, Paul, Thank you much.
I appreciate good luck to you. Take care all right,
our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three, eight two
five five. Wouldn't be bad to check your insulation either,
Get in the attic, get your yardstick and see how
how deep that insalation is. You know, one time it
(09:56):
may have been you know, fifteen inches, and right now
it may be not. There may been some settling that
have taken place. Be mindful of that. Ron Wilson, he's
coming up next. As we continue, You're at home with
Gary Sullivan's.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Take san right with a call to Gary Sullivan at
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Wilson stops in and helps us out. Well, we're not
going to do any gardening today, Ron, Is that alright
with you?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Anyhentlemen?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Is it okay? We don't do any gardening?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Sure, okay, So it looks pretty winter.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Indoor indoor gardening.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Indoor garden. It's too early for that.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Oh no, no, oh no, you brought all those house
plants in. Now you got to take care of those.
Missus Wilson's into that big time. Now is driving me crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Plants are everywhere for your advice.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Not as much. No, I'll throw it out there now
and then.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But thathn't doing good?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
No? Here is this supposed to be here? But yeah,
indoor gardening, I mean, you know, sure, holiday plants all yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So somebody asked me this question, and this is a
good question too.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I'm sure you had an answer. Well, you've been doing
this for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I kind of got an answer for it. Sure, I
understand what the problem is. Led. Christmas lights outside are
very energy efficient. They don't get hot like the incandescent
Christmas bulbs.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Correct, And I learned that from my friend Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And when it snows, it covers up all my ball.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It doesn't melt the ground, it.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Doesn't melt the snow. And then I got all this
snow on my bushes and over my bulb. Should I
sweep that off? Oh there's a little twist in that.
People used to ask you that question all the time.
Maybe the Christmas lights weren't an issue, But snow on
bushes that's kind of natural, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah? On evergreens sometimes you know, it can start to
weight them down if it looks like it's gonna pull
them apart, like some arbor vity or multi stemmed, multi
leadered in the middle, and it can actually pull them apart.
And a lot of times if I stay apart more
than a couple of weeks, they don't come back together.
So in areas where you think you're gonna have some
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of the those leaders together. Okay, just secure, it'll pull
them up and they can hang on to each other
and they won't split off. But I have like a
hemlock and a few other evergreens in my patio area.
(15:11):
Then if it starts to weight them down, it looks
like it's going to break a branch. I'll take a broom,
all right, like a straw room or whatever, and I
will brush upward, not down, but I'll brush upward and
kind of vibrate the broom and shake it off and
dislodge it and make it fall down. So I will
do that to prevent it from breaking. But otherwise, you know,
(15:32):
otherwise you just you know, you kind of let it
ride hydranges and still have flowers on them. Sometimes it'll
get ice and snow on there. They'll start to weight
down and also looks like it's going to break that branch.
I'll go ahead and deadhead those, get those off of there.
But then when you get the lights on air, that's
a different store, because then how do you shake it
and keep the lights on it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, I'll tell you, before he asked that question, I
didn't have I did. I wasn't concerned really about the books.
Shit looked fine, And you know, I've never seen by
walking through the woods with the broom to clean all
the trees and bushes. Yeah, but I did, you know,
I did want to kind of expose some of the lights.
And I wasn't going to get up there with a
(16:12):
rake or something try and go over the top of
the bush and get tangled with a cord. So I
took a broom and got to the bottom of the
bush and just hit the branches vibrate at the bottom, right,
and it knocked some off, and that was good enough
for me. I didn't want to you know.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, you just loes enough weight to keep it from
breaking them. That's all you want to do, right, And
you're right if you can get to the bottom of
that and just vibrate it a little bit or knock
it like you did with it something soft, right, Yeah,
you know what a sponge hose you were were your
mop Oh a sponge that's good because it doesn't hurt
the trunk, and put that in there and kind of
vibrate a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well. And then the other interesting thing, it really depends
on what kind of snow we had, because that snow
we had a few days ago was kind of a slushy, heavy,
wet snow. The snow we're gonna get today. I don't know,
the light blowing snows be a little dryer, yeah, not
an issue, all right, it's the wet snows and a
little bit of ice in there. That that that's where
we started to get into trouble. Right, And of course
(17:08):
pairs ornamental pairs, which we don't plan anymore. They're invasive,
but they still have leaves on them late in the season. Yeah,
and a lot of and and you know, so a
lot of times they'll collect that up and that's one
of the reasons why they split, right, you know, other
than the high winds. But they'll split from that. Well,
in another week, we may have ice dam issues. That's
another thing. You know. I hope everybody paid attention. Sometimes
(17:29):
I feel like I preach, I preach nearby goes shut up.
I'm talking about don't let leaves clog up your gutters.
And you know, we man, we went from mid fall
to winter this year. Sometimes sometimes we don't need to
have a winter, but man, we went from mid fall
leaves fall into snow.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, my mom has a I don't know which
one she has. Well, she has some kind of gutter
guard keep the leaves up and the guys are collecting
and the leaves in her house a couple of weeks ago,
and they she said, can you go up there and
just kind of blow those you know, gets stuffed out.
It was amazing what they still got out of there, really,
because I mean sometimes that stuff kind of sifts down
through and you know.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It could costposing, right, yeah, So it depends what you're using.
That's why. The one thing I really don't like is
those maybe you've seen them. It's the gutter guards there
like a block of foam and it, you know, lets
water penetrate. Oh yeah, but then when the leaves get
stuck on the surface of that and start decomposing, it
(18:28):
gets black and gooey and it clogs up that foam
and you don't have good drainage. You're just clogging up
the foam instead of the gutter. So not good. I
don't got to stay on top of that because you
know if and again a lot of people don't realize
ice dams in a lot of cases occur just because
(18:49):
you don't have enough insulation in the attic melts the
snow at the top of the roof, water runs down,
it gets the overhang and where the gutters are, and
it freezes and then you got big problems. So because
there's nowhere for that water to go, issues with the weather.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
When we were pulling in yesterday, I said, uh to
my wife. I looked up at all the roofs and
ours was still white. Good neighbors was not very white.
And I said, see, Gary Solimon would say, look at
that roof right there, it's gonna be a problem. Gonna
be a problem.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Who there?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
She said, who?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You said? Who? All right, mister Wilson, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
All right, I have a good one.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Take care. We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan.
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all right, back at it. We go thirty three minutes
after the top of the air and you're at home
with Gary Sullivan taking your calls, and I'll give you
(22:23):
the phone number. The lines are open. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five, So go ahead
and grab a line. Happy to chat with you. You've
heard me say on this show the insurance industry is
changing on what's covering what's not covered. Beth Harper, she
(22:44):
is going to be our guest at the Obama In
the next hour, we're going to talk about, you know,
things to pay attention to when you're renewing, how homeowner's
insurance is charging and changing in a manner of your roof,
how well maintained your houses. That's right, Maintenance is becoming
(23:07):
a play right now. In fact, I had several people
that I know in the last week talk to me
about noises in their walls, and you know, we've had
we've had a lot of discussion about that over the years.
And you know, some people always just say it's a mouse,
but quite honestly, you know, it depends on how much
(23:29):
noise you're gonna have raccoons, squirrels, mice, and sometimes they're
gonna the insurance company can cover that. But we're starting
to find that if it's determined that the maintenance around
that house and around that gutterline and around those soffets
and faces are not being maintained and that's how they
(23:50):
gained entry into your home, you may have a claim
that's going to be disputed by the insurance gutmany So well,
we'll talk about all that and happy to take your calls.
In the meantime, Again, it is eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. All right, Mary, welcome, Oh hey,
(24:13):
good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
A plumbing question. I have a plumbing question regarding a
remodel project. It's an old bathtub. We put in a
new you know, plastic surround, put in the new you know,
Spickett's faucet. And my concern is the old tub. It
has the old knob down below where you lift it
(24:38):
up or down for the stopper, drain stopper. Okay, And
this project's in Westerville, and whenever you turn the water on,
it seems like there's extreme pressure and all when you
the spickett, the water that comes out, it seems like
(24:58):
it hits the the front of a spicket and then
it shoots back and drains on that that knob. And
I'm the the drain knob, and I'm concerned it's an
old drain knob. I mean, we did replace the plumbing.
Could we posturing is that could I turn the pressure
(25:21):
down in the house or well.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I guess that's really where That's a second. Where I
was going to is has its number one been a
problem before? Number two is all the faucets have this problem.
And number three is do you know what the pressure
in your house is?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I don't know the pressure, but I know it's uh,
it's it's high. It's I know it's I know it
necessairly high pressure.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well, I guess the first thing I would do. You
can get a pressure tester and it is screwed to
an outdoor faucet. That's where you would test it. And
do you have copper pipe in that house or do
you have plastic pipe.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Or mostly copper. It's a.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Model, so in copper you would like to have that
pressure under eighty, which is still a lot of pressure,
And that's kind of what I have in my home.
It's it's got a lot of pressure, but it's just
a little under eighty, and that's fine. If you have
plastic pipe, I'd probably prefer to be around sixty. So
(26:31):
you're going to have to calculate that in there. Two.
But it sounds like you got pretty much copper pipe.
And you know, if you get a reading, which is
possible of one hundred and ten, you can get a
pressure or maybe you already have a pressure reducing valve
where you can decrease the pressure, which is usually right
(26:55):
where the water line's coming into your house. So first
we just got to find out where it's at, you know,
where where that pressure is before we can make any adjustments.
I think.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
All right, and then you could buy this pressure test thing.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know, thirty thirty five bucks. You can
get them at you know, hardware stores. You can get
it at a big box stores. It's just a little
it's got a hose thread on there and so it
screws on the outside of the faucet and you just
turn that fussing on and give you a rate rating.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
All right, Well we will start with that and then
hoose DIBs. Do you really need to buy those tyrofoam
things to protect with this cold weather?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Well, you know they can't hurt you, but your question
is do you really have to? I think the first
question I asked back to you is it depends what
kind of hose bib you have. So there's two basic types.
There is a what they call frostproof faucet, which has
(27:57):
the handle the faucet, and then part of that handling
faucet is a copper tube that's either eight ten or
twelve inches which goes through the foundation wall and it
is connected to the pipe inside the house. When you
turn that off outside, if it's installed properly, it's tilted forward,
(28:19):
and you turn that off, there's a stem just like
there's an off faucets, and it has a washer, and
that washer is actually on the inside. It's at the
very end of that tube, which is inside the house.
So when you shut that off, the water in that
pipe drains out. Hopefully there's no hose attached to it.
It drains out, and you know you're shut You've shut
(28:42):
that off basically from the inside the house. If it's
the older type, you'll have a shut off out inside
the house, and uh, you'll shut that off. You'll take
a little cap off which drains that pipe. And you know,
if that's been done, you would not need that starfoam.
(29:06):
But if it has not been shut off from the
inside of the house, first of all, I'd shut it off.
And if you want to use a star from cover
on that, then that would be a very good idea.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Okay, all right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
All right, very good. Thank you appreciate it. So we
talk about this in the fall all the time. But
you know, I know, life gets in a way. We
hear something and we don't do it. And the preach is,
don't forget to take your hose off the outdoor faucet,
even if it's a frost proof because remember I said
(29:41):
that frostproof shuts the water off from the inside of
the house, which it does tilted forward, which it is,
And if that hose is connected, that water is filling
that hose up and it's backing up in that pipe,
and quite honestly, you're not protected anymore than if you
had an exposed piece of pipe. So the hose absolutely
(30:01):
positively has to be has to be off off that faucet.
All right, let's grab Alan real quick. Alan, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Well, yes there, Hey, I've got a question about some
new water lines. I ran, did a remodel, added a bathroom.
Well that bathrooms about forty feet away, maybe fifty feet
away from the existing water lines. And my question is
I've hooked into the existing water lines. Am I going
to have a problem with pressure reaching that new bathroom
(30:32):
since it's like fifty feet away. Well, they're going to
be like a pump system that can help it out.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, well there is to answer your question, there is
a pump system. The real question is people get confused
on this particular thing, and I don't really know how
to really really really super explain it to you. But
there's two issues with the water coming in your home.
There's pressure and there's volume, okay, and you know they
(31:02):
seem like they're related, but they're really not. If you
don't have enough volume of water. In other words, we're
changing diameters of pipe, and you know, it kind of
gets you know, that volume is not there, so it
feels like it's doesn't have the pressure but actually has
the pressure in the pipe and in the system, but
you just don't have enough volume of water. So I
(31:24):
don't know how to answer that, quite honestly, if I'm
also hook a shower to it too, So I didn't
know if that's going to be an issue. Well, I
think what you're going to decide is what the pipe
that you're tapping into. Is it a half inch pipe?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Copper?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
There is a I went from copper to pecks.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, Well, and what size is that the pecks? Is
that the same size? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Same size half inch?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What kind of pressure volume are you running in the
house right now? Do you know?
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Uh? I want to say the pressure probably right around
maybe seventy five eighty is that about right or not.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, that's that's good pressure. That's good pressure. That's what
I was saying. That's kind of it at the peak.
You know, you don't really want to go over eighty.
If you go on and you go to a Google
and chart out pressure length and talk about the volume
(32:28):
of copper, I think you might get your answer. I
think if you stay in a half inch category, you
may be all right. But there's a chart that'll tell
you that on how far you're going to be able
to run that line and the pressure that you have
on that line to get to where you need to go,
and and I don't have that at the top of
my head, so that's something you're going to have to
(32:50):
look up. But I'm gonna guess you if you stay
in that same category of pipe and run it, you
may be all right. It's I know it's long, but
if you're doing copper and there's no uh, you know,
corrosion inside that like there would be on galvanized pipe,
I'm gonna guess you're gonna be all right. But it's
(33:11):
a guess. You're gonna just have to look at that
and get that equation figured out to see if it's
going to be enough for not Alan. All right, thank
you much for the call. We'll take a break and
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at it. We go at home with Gary Selvam. If
you'd like to join us, do so. It's eight hundred
and eight two three eight two five five. Just looking
up that copper line thing, just to give you an example.
I looked it up as I asked him to look
it up. Also the short answers yes usually, but it
depends what you're feeding and how much is already there.
(36:35):
Same thing we said, if you have a half inch
copper line, it brings about four to five gallons permitted
with acceptable pressure loss. A fifty foot run by itself
not gonna be a problem. The bigger issue is not
the volume, but the pressure drop with multiple fixtures running
(36:57):
at the same time. And here's the deal. So at
a four gowns permitted half inch copper loses about two
to three psi per fifty feet. That's minor if the
pipe were dedicated, So you got to start figuring out
how much loss so we had. He said it was
(37:19):
about eighty I believe, and two to three feet, So
you really got to find out what's on that line. Okay,
so two to three psi drop per fifty feet and
you're running eighty and you could be probably fifty five
to sixty and have acceptable pressure. So you have to
(37:40):
have quite a few faucets on there to have that drop.
And so anyway, I wanted to just pass out along.
If he's still listening or didn't look it up, that's
a quick answer. You got to do a little bit
more digging, and don't we all when you're into plumbing,
you're always going to do some digging, all right. Our
phone number again is eight hundred and eight two three
(38:02):
eight two five five talking about and dog gunnet. You know,
when it gets cold outside, we do have a tendency
to talk a little bit more about plumbing and kind
of starting to show off too. Where we're at. We'll
probably have our first below zero morning coming up in
(38:22):
the next few days, and it really behoove anybody that's
in that area, and it's I don't know, I think
We had one of those days last year. Don't have
too many, but you just really got to know or
really examine the pipes in your home. Where are they
(38:46):
and are they secured with warmth? A lot older homes
in our communities, those pipes might run through cross spaces.
Red flag top of a garage ceiling, uninsulated, red flag
in an attic, red flag running on an outside wall,
underneath cabnet tree, red flag. That doesn't mean it's gonna freeze.
(39:10):
That just means if it isn't properly insulated, or that
wall hasn't had a foam insulation pumped into it, you
have the potential. Let's go to Jerry. Jerry, welcome, how
you doing doing fine? Thank you.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
Good. I've got I've gotta I've got a house to cover.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
A undred years old.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
And the wood floors some places looks like it had
been it had suffered water water so guts uh huh
and uh. Some of the boards, some of the boards
becoming the league. And I heard you talk about a
compounder take the paint on the board and ever top
tuff it up.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Well, yeah, there there are so so the wood floors
that got wet. Are are they cuppy and crowning and
moving or or have they already become a dry rotted
or tell me a little bit more about them.
Speaker 7 (40:09):
I'm afraid to step on it.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Well, that's what I was afraid you were going to say. So,
there is a product it is called liquid wood, and
it goes in and it firms up the fibers of
the wood, but it's it's not going to improve the
structure of that wood, so that that's not going to
(40:37):
be your answer. Your answer is, yeah, yeah, your answer
is replacement in that case if it was a baseboard,
and if it's a baseboard, something along those lines. Yeah,
did the water Did this just happen or has it
been happening for a while.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Over twenty years?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah? Yeah, Well is it a solid wood floor? In
other words, it's not like an engineered wood, it's solid wood.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
No, that's the original pine.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Okay, So it's not tongue and groove, it's just pine
floors right over the the joist. Correct, yeah, correct, Okay,
So yeah, that would you know, finding the species of
wood is probably you're gonna probably have to remove it
and then try and find the same species of wood.
(41:33):
I mean, it could be all kinds of things that
would be oak, maple, It could be you know, way
back in the day, there'd be fur. I mean, it
could be all kinds of things, but it would. And
are those floors stained or are they painted or what
are they.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Stained stained?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
So you're, you know, the chances of matching that perfectly
is going to be a challenge. But I think your
only real answer is to remove remove that those rotted
boards and replace them and check the choice too, well,
you're gonna have to get somebody specialized in wood floors
(42:13):
or a carpenter. Then yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (42:18):
I appreciate your time and appreciate your.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Show, you sir, thank you very much. Appreciate. Yeah, that
liquid wood, by the way, is a wonderful, wonderful product,
don't don't get me wrong, But when you're talking about
a structure, and back in those days there was really
no you know, underlayment or you know wood underneath that.
(42:41):
They just used the boards as your floor, which straddled
the joys and so there, you know, the other option
is to go right over and put a subfloor down
and then put all new wood flooring. And I knew
you probably don't want to do that. Either, but finding
(43:03):
that right species, making that stained match is going to
be a big challenge, very big challenge. May or may
not even be able to do it. But getting in
there and seeing what you got is important. That liquid
wood is it's fun. If you're doing a baseboard, you're
doing a decorative base on a column, you put that
(43:23):
on there. It hardens that wood and really allows you
to then use a wood epoxy to make the patch.
And that's really the intention of that particular product. So
I don't want to run that VYU and just give
you some information about that. Hey, don't forget if you're
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it out and we'll continue with your calls. We got
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