December 20, 2025 • 44 mins
In this hour of At Home with Gary Sullivan, Gary tackles home improvement questions and shares expert advice. He discusses the importance of maintaining your home, not just for its value but for its safety. A caller shares a concern about a scum build-up in their fiberglass shower, and Gary recommends a product to help remove it. He also talks to a caller about the benefits of metal roofing and how it can impact insurance premiums. Additionally, Gary shares tips on how to winterize your home, including advice on battery maintenance and well water treatment.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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All right, Beth, let's get to that next question.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Hey, you just brought up Jaws Cleans. That stuff is wonderful.
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my third question was you said something about the garage
floor should be sealed, and that's not something we've ever
(01:56):
done since we've been here, so we've been here three years.
How do we clean it before we seal it?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, it depends.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Gush floors maybe, ye, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Grush floors get dirty with different kinds of things too.
You certainly got you know, regular dirt, but a lot
of times we get a lot of stains, oil stains.
So if you have any of those, you're probably gonna
have to use a regular oil stain remover. But if
you don't have any really you know, an oxygenated bleach
(02:28):
or uh some pressure washer, something along those lines, because
you know, the garage sealers are a little bit different also,
so I just want to, you know, let you know
they're they're til, they're trialed, more tight.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
In other words, they're not broom finish. They're smooth and
it's not necessarily a penetrating finish. When you use a
garage floor sealer, it's it's more of a coating. And
there's one that Di shas it's called track Safe. It's
(03:05):
slip resistant, which is also kind of important in a
garage and still about every three years is a good thing.
But that's got to be put on with a roller.
You wouldn't use a brush but a roller. So I
would really use a you know, if I was going
to do a quick step by step, I would you know,
(03:27):
i'd rent or borrow or use a pressure washer. Get
it as clean as I can. If there's an oil spot,
you can use Crudcutter oil spot remover, which you can
pick up at most hardware stores. Follow the directions on that.
So one is really super clean. Then I would give it,
let it dry overnight, and then put the clear finish
(03:49):
on the next day.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Okay, okay, and bring okay, y good And it's called
Track Safe. I trust that company.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yep, Tracks good stuff also very good.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That was the cleaning was my most you know, my concern.
Really it doesn't have any oil or anything on it,
but it definitely has salt, lots of salt and I'm
sure dirt too. Yeah, we have to rinse that really
well to get that clean for it's right, and let
it dry overnight.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Gary, You have a merry Christmas and you are a
blessing to me and so many others who listen to you.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
All right, have merry Christmas to you. Thank you much,
appreciate it. All right. Ten minutes after the top of
the ant, taking your calls regarding your home and gerald, welcome, Welcome, sir, Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Really don't have a home improvement issue, okay, but I
do have a question that maybe you can answer or
find out down the road.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I heard your topic today was, you know, like metal roofs.
You were talking to a gentleman last week, the woman
from Cleveland for the home insurance company. Right, So why
don't the insurance companies basically give everybody a metal roof
You pay up front, you know, because it's more expensive,
(05:10):
but in the back run, you would think they'd be
saving money.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, I didn't ask that question exactly to Todd, but
I did ask about a discount for a metal roofing
being offered by insurance companies, and I thought, I thought
his answer was very good and quite honestly, not one
I really thought of. And his answer was, well, the
discount is kind of a dual edged sword. Some do,
(05:36):
some don't. And the catch twenty two on a metal
roofing is yeah, it's less likely to be ruined, but
when it is ruined, that metal roofing costs more than
an asphalt roofing. Now, Jerald, I don't have I don't
have the data, you know, to lay it out. I'm
(05:58):
sure the insurance companies do. And I don't see in
the future any insurance company giving you a metal roof,
you know. I don't see the data working out for
them there. But it is interesting if you were going to.
In fact, even I hit who was it? This week?
Somebody said to me, should I let my insurance company
(06:20):
know this? And I went yes, And it was just
about replacing his roof. He had replaced the roof. Now,
I don't know if there's a discount on a new roof,
but I don't know how old his old roof was,
so there may be. And some companies it's a big deal.
Some companies it's a really big deal. Some companies it's
an okay kind of a deal. So whenever you make
(06:43):
a home improvement project and you complete it, new roof,
maybe new furnace, things like that, I would certainly new gutters.
I don't know, I would certainly let your insurance company know,
and that is why we had Beth Harper on last weekend,
(07:03):
and I want to bring this up. Whether you go
right to a broker in your buying your insurance, she
is your advocate. She is not settling your claim. She's
your advocate. She shall help you. If you go to
a company where there isn't a broker, have a good
relationship with somebody there. You're salesperson, they're representing that company.
(07:26):
They may not be as I don't know if there's
much an advocate or not, but because they they're tied
right to the you know, the the industry. You know,
they're part of the company. They're not a broker, but
maybe they can help you. But relationships are certainly important now,
I think more than ever. So hopefully that answers your question.
(07:47):
I don't think they're going to give everybody a metal roof.
Jeff welcome.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Oh hi, yes, sir, Yeah, I'm about the smart About
the smart home, I don't know if I have one
or not, but you know, I have an app for
the camera, I have an app for the thermostat, I
have an app for the garage door, and I have
an app for that's switched at times. The Christmas tree
lights but none of that's integrated. It is it smarter
(08:13):
or is it just agglomeration of stuff that happens to
be connected.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, yeah, I mean yeah, that's that would be my
definition of a smart home. And that's why I said, Jeff,
you know, there's some people that are very very into that,
and I'm not saying there's a right or the wrong way.
There's other people that want to have nothing to do
with it. And my comment to them, or my comment
(08:40):
to that scenario is you probably have a smart home
and you don't even really think about it being a
smart home. I got a smart sum pump, I got
a smart garage store open, I got smart security lights,
I got smart outdoor lights. But I wouldn't say I'm
enamored by a smart home. The other fellow calling is
I got smart uh light switches and things like that,
(09:03):
and he loves it. So that's all. Yeah, we're gonna
end up with smart homes one way or the other.
Some of the real integrated ones, Jeff, are very cool.
I couldn't really speak smartly about that though.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I don't think right yeah, I don't either, and you know,
and I mean, things happen. You get a new device
and oh oh, it's got a phone app. Well, next thing,
you know, Now all of a sudden, you can tell
the garage store what to go do with itself, and
you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, I got a sprinkler system that runs on a
AP Now it doesn't have a timer outside, so okay,
you know, so yeah, we're going in that direction. And
I you know, I'm there's I know, there's plenty of
companies out there that can create a whole smart home
and have it condensed for you. But I'm like you,
(09:56):
I might have you know, six seven, eight, eight different things,
but they all have their own little app. Got a
lot of apps. So thanks much for the call. I appreciate.
All right, we'll take a little break and take your calls.
It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
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All right, kind of we go twenty minutes up to
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free to join us and we got a spot for you.
Let's go to Tim Tim Welcome. Hey Gary, how you
doing doing good. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I live in a rural area. We have water softer
it's Connecticut works great, but I'm getting a scum build
up in my fiberclass shower. It's not rust it's just
like a scum. I've tried colr, I've tried wet and forget,
and the only thing that will cut it is erratic acid.
And the fumes, as you probably know, are nasty.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah. Well, is it soap scum or what?
Speaker 8 (13:44):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I don't know. I assume it's scope soapscum, but you know,
it's not rust colored. It's just like a film on
the surface of the shower.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, I don't know which what what wet and forget product?
Did you use? Did you use the shower wedding forget?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yes, yeah, yeah, well I think sometimes. I mean I
use that all the time. But it's it is a cleaner,
but it's really a good maintenance product. Once it's kind
of gotten bad. I haven't really had it where it
was so bad I couldn't get it off, But I'm
assuming that's the issue.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I don't know. There's you know, every brother makes
a good bathroom cleaner. I familiar with the Jaws lines
of products. They got two of them. One is a
bathroom cleaner and the other one is a oh gosh,
it has a different name, but it's like a shower cleaner,
and it's a little bit it's more for built up
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dirt or or film or whatever you want to call it.
That would be one i'd recommend. They also have a
cream cleanser, which quite honestly, tim is phenomenal. My only
issue with that is I don't know about a fiberglass base.
Whether you can use it on you could go to
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their website. We use the cream cleanser on everything in
our house and it really is an unbelievable product. We
even used it in the oven the other day. So
the problem with fiberglass, I don't know if you've ever
run into this. So and I run into a lot
(15:34):
with calls like this, and that's why I'm always kind
of real hesitating when I'm answering it. So the way
fiberglass shower is made is it is fiber Okay, it's
fiberglass with a clear code over it as a protectant,
and as it ages, that protectant is not as good
(15:58):
as it was the day we got it. You know,
now whether it's a graded B, C, D or F,
I don't know. But as that clear coat wears scum, dirts, soap,
whatever starts starts wedging its way in between the fibers
of glass and it's very, very difficult to get it off. Now,
(16:23):
the cream cleanser that I recommended, like I feel, I
feel really really good about it removing that. But it's
not a pH neutral product. It's not radic acid either.
It's very safe and it's a creamy it almost feels
like a soft scrub. But it'll outperform. At least it
(16:44):
has outperformed that for me. It's outperformed product. There is
an abrasion to it. Yes, that's why I said, I'm
not real sure, And it may say on our website.
I just order it all the time. I use it.
I use it on a glass Halogen's stovetop, and it
(17:05):
removes things. You know, when it gets baked on or
something and you just can't get rid of it. It
removes that. So if you want to, yeah, it's Jaws
Jaws cleans dot com. And look at the two bathroom cleaners.
One of them is more for heavy duty dart cleaning
(17:26):
and the other one's more maintenance and it'll tell you
on there and I can't remember the difference in names.
And then the other thing, take a look at is
the product called a cream cleanser?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Okay? Any of the I know you recommend the awesome products?
Is there any of those that you would know?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The awesome is really for dreams and close plumbing systems,
So that's not going to help.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You, okay, all right, all right, well, thank you for
your time. Very appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Merry Christmas, do you thank you? All right? And yeah,
those are those are very they're very good products. They
wed forget product. I mean, we talk a lot about
bathroom ones, and I know somebody's thinking too and going like, hey,
how about that mister clean magic eraser. Maybe I've used
(18:18):
that product that does a pretty good job also, But
again I have that same caution whether that can be
used on fiberglass. You can look it up and take
a look and see if you know, because we don't
want to hurt the finish anymore. For hard water stains too,
don't forget white vinegar. It's a lot less corrosive than
(18:41):
oradic acid. You can spray straight white vinegar directly on
the area that's got that go, let's sit about ten minutes,
wipe it off in rents. Uh, don't do it all
the time because it too is a mild acid, so
you gotta be a little careful. But probably half some
of the at home, and that might be something you
(19:02):
want to try first. Also, since you probably already have
it all right, we'll take a break, we'll come back. Dan,
you'll be up first, and then Liz, if you'd like
to join us, please do. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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thirty three minutes after the top of they I hope
we have a great weekend. By the way, if you
missed our conversation with Todd Miller Classic Metal Roofing, learning
a little bit about what metal roofing can deliver to you,
a lot of good points, and of course if you're
going to be in your home for a while, that
might be something you want to consider. And I just
(22:43):
think asphalt roofs are taking a lot of shots right now,
but a metal roof they're a little bit more. Wow,
they're double. They're double, but they're also going to last forever,
a lifetime. That's what most of them are warranted for.
Read what the warranty cover zone. All right, let's get
back at it. We got Dan, Dan welcome.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
Hey Gary againsters. I've been an independent agent for forty years,
and the roof thing is really still its lux with
all the carriers at anytime. They anytime you replace a
roof in the past, you would definitely get you know,
it would it would impact on a positive side your premiums.
But recently I had we had a client put a
(23:28):
brand new roof on and the premium went up, with
the company's mentality being if that roof gets destroyed now
or the house was destroyed, we've got to put a
new roof on, right, So it almost worked against them,
But it's most carriers now. Once a roof goes twelve
to fifteen years, it goes from being a replacement value
(23:49):
type settlement to an actual cash value or a scheduled,
scheduled kind of loss amount.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, which I'll tell you, Dan, I I hope I'm
coming clear enough on this. I'm not even falling anybody here.
I think the insurance company has been ripped off on
roofs for years. To be real honest with you, I've
seen it done myself and and but I'm trying to
educate people that, you know, you got to you just
(24:17):
there's options. I did not know what you just said,
and that's kind of what Todd said. You know, the
metal roofing could work against you. You might get a
discount or you may not because that replacement value is
much higher. And I didn't even think of that.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
But so well, it wasn't even specifically to the metal either.
It just just got to put it in that, you know,
new ring on and yeah, it's it's kind of crazy,
but they're all doing different things in the industry. They've
kind of created their own problem because policies became maintenance policies,
not you know, if something happens, you know, catastrophic, and
(24:55):
so people just got used to, you know, when the
gypsy roofers come through after a bad storm. And I
just I just replaced your neighbor Garrity's house and he
got a he got a free roof.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So I'll be honest with you, Dan, I had people
in my neighborhood and I'm not saying I'm a sane
but they called me up and say, my roofer says
I can get a free roof because of that hailstorm
we had. Is that legit?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I always say, I said, you know what, I
don't know if it's legit to be honest with I mean,
if you have true hail damage, you should use your insurance.
And this is ten years ago, I said, but I
saw the same people you're talking about. I don't know
what was going on, but the roofer was on the
roof with a ballpen hammer. Sure.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard it change pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And I'm not ragging on the roofers. I'm not ragging
on the insurance company. I'm just trying to be kind
of like, I get where it's coming from. I mean,
there should be and really when you think about it,
and I'll probably catch some grief, I'll get some emails.
But why shouldn't a roof be pro rated for damage?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Right?
Speaker 9 (26:11):
It wears out like everything else, so desires Yeah, exactly,
And it's interesting and it's kind of to finish up
if you want. You know, now more data is available,
so they're starting with these with these hailstorms, It's like, okay,
unless we can do this within a year and know
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there was hail damage in a specific neighborhood, you know
you don't have hal damage because you didn't turn it
any time. So there's they're getting a little smarter about
each company. That's a different thing with it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah. I had a goal named Beth Harper, she's up
in the Cleveland area on last Saturday, and Beth was
talking about, Yeah, they can go back and get the
data from the Weather Service and they can pinpoint if
it was even on your block in that Oh yeah,
if there was a help problem. And I'm thinking like,
well that don't cut that down.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Oh yeah, absolutely that'll that'll do it. But yeah, I
just want to chime in and.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, I appreciate it. In time, I kind of feel
bad because it wasn't too long and maybe was it today?
I don't know. I told someone, no, you might let
your insurance company know you have a new roof. Maybe
that's not good advice, should you or should you not
have an insurance company.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Whether the carrier, and I believe that's good. One of
our carriers and I never went back and checked with
some of our other ones I mean that the logic
makes sense. Yeah, you'd have a more expensive right if
something catastrophic happened. But for the most part, people are
thinking they're upgrading their house, so they should get some
money back for that. And I don't know if every
(27:47):
carrier will jump onto that safe yeah mindset, But it
just kind of struck me the same way.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I'll tell you. It's as I said
did to start off the show today, and I think
kind of what you're saying too. Insurance is for I'm
not going to use the word catastrophe, but it's for
a big unplanned event. And so much of people looked
at insurance as a maintenance benefit, and insurance isn't a
(28:17):
maintenance benefit. It's to protect you from a disaster or
a catastrophe something that wasn't you know, that was a
big old sub accidental on the same page, Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Thanks for the call, appreciate it all right, taking your
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calls at eight hundred and eighty two three eight two
five five, Liz, Welcome.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
Hi.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
Now I have a question, but just a comment to
begin with.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Sure.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Uh, A couple of years ago, I was bored and
reading my insurance policy, and I realized that my roof
was twenty five years old. Well, I had just had
it replaced two years earlier. I called and they did
reduce my.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
My cost.
Speaker 10 (29:04):
Yeah, I think insurance company.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, I think Dan was saying, you know, it depends
on the company too. And really, if it was ten
years ago, there's been huge changes, I'll say, in the
last five So.
Speaker 10 (29:17):
Well, I know there's a sign in my insurance agency's
office something about we do not cover roofs anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, there's some of that going on.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Very few insurance policies.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You can't even get the homeowner's policy in Florida in
some places.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Oh, I know, so anyway, but anyway, my question is, Okay,
so I have gone to all of these battery operated
like I'm a battery operated lawnmower and so on, and
I looked up what to do with the batteries during
the winter, and it was so confusing, and I thought,
I bet Gary can tell me do I even plugged in?
Or do I unplug them?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah? Yeah, so really there, I was talking about that earlier.
But the biggest thing is to I had my notes.
I'm looking for my notes that I put down forty
to seventy.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
Degrees doesn't freeze. It's do I keep them plugged it
or not? Okay, well I was supposed to reduce the charge.
I don't know how to reduce it.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, So the notes that I have found, and I'm
sure I'm positive there's different ones for different brands, but
you would brand would unplug it, and kind of what
they're the ones that on my notes that I had
done some research on it was, you know, maybe put
(30:39):
it on a charge for about every four to six
weeks and charge it to about sixty percent, or put
it on what they call a battery tender, which is
kind of a charger that holds it at that sixty
percent charge.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
Of course, because I have the really big ones for
the lawnmower edjured, so they're all smaller.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah. What did it say in the owner's manual? You
said it was confusing?
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Well I wasn't. I couldn't find the owner's manual, so
I was looking online.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Right here I go. I just found my notes. It's
store batteries indoors ideally forty to seventy degrees, keep batteries
at a forty to sixty percent charge.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
Not how do you do that I know it's oh, well,
do you have like little lights when it's charging and
sometimes it has one light, two lights.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Three lights?
Speaker 10 (31:36):
Yeah, I think it goes up to five.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, okay, so well three lights, yeah yeah, keep it
at three lights when it you know, and then just
unpluck it and then you know, when it gets down, Uh,
let it get down. Just don't keep it full is
the main thing. Keep it dry, keep it at a
decent temperature, and keep it half fired up.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
Okay, that's that's so much simpler that.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
Everything I was reading.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm a simple guy, Liz.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
Well, I am too. I mean, all this stuff about
this kind of battery and that is that I'm thinking,
what the heck? Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thanks, I appreciate it. All right, very good. So yeah,
we got that. That's good. We were talking about time
to winter rise along where probably if you're in the
midwest northeast, you're not mown grass anymore. Gas mowers batteries
covering them both. All right, we'll take a break and
it'll be Ron and then it'll be uh Rick and Nick,
(32:35):
and if you'd like to join us, go ahead. We
got a spot for you as we continue. You're at
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of the arm. We're talking about your home. After talking
to folks in the insurance business over the last two weeks,
how important maintenance is to your home. Very important. Remember
those are for an accident. That's what insurance is covering,
(35:40):
Not because you decided night to calk the seams on
the outside of your home or paint your house in
a wood got rot and the animals got into your attic,
which happens. It's not about covering you. It's about covering
your house due to an accident. All right, let's go
to Ron Ron.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Welcome, How you doing, Darry? Almost happy? Almost afternoon?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, almost yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
When I got a couple of questions about it, it's
about the awesome Okay, Now I got a well, so
it comes out into the basement and up there right
there too. Also, I have a field that will helps
(36:29):
filter the water before it goes through the house. And
the problem is is the tub upstairs and then it's
only the hot water that's where it gets them. Oh sorry,
it's only the cold water which has all them little
(36:49):
black things that look like look like drops of oil. Yeah,
you know, same thing you had that one when when
you was talking last week. Yeah, and you touch it
and it it does all the sprints all out.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
So this is actually in your supply line for the water, right,
it's not a not a drain or anything like that.
And you have a well? Yeah, have you chlorinated that
well lately?
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Yeah? I do bout once every three or four months.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
How deep is that comes out?
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Then?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:31):
You know I drained the heater and everything.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So your question is a good one, Ron, and it's
a question I don't have the answer to. I'm assuming
your question is will that product awesome eliminate that problem
in my well?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I do?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Right, go well, I don't know if it's in the well,
ye do.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, if it's in a supply line and it's an
cold water you know, the awesome product that that I
was talking about, and it kills biofilm, which is usually
a build up in a closed plumbing system, I don't
know if that or can correct it in a well.
(38:12):
I'd have to go to their website or give them
a call. I just you know, I know it does
it for spas and swimming pools and garden tubs and
washing machines and dishwashers. But I don't know if it
does the well.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
Oh well, I don't want to do the well, the well,
that's what I do with the oh my god, the
bleach and stuff. Yeah, there's nothing that comes out of that. Yeah,
but the line between.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah see that, Yeah, so I I but again, I
don't know how you would clean that. I don't know
why it has that to begin with, because the water
is running through that like it builds up like in
a garden tub or a spa, because that's that's the
water line that is, you know, when you shut it off,
(39:04):
it just sits there, you know, for maybe you know
a period of time, and it just kind of builds
that up. Yeah, walk, Yeah, I don't know what How
would you How would you introduce that to that area
where you're getting in other words, how would you get
(39:27):
the awesome to get into that water line?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Well, the only thing I can think of is is
running it through my filter first, and that'll mix it
all up as it goes and bypass the hot water
tank mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
And what type it's not an iron filter? It's just
a a well filter.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
No, it's yeah, it's just uh, it's not a well
filter either, it's just.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
The whole house filter.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
And how often is that filter supposed to be changed?
Speaker 8 (40:05):
I don't know, really, I think that's what.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I would focus on now, Ron, I'm serious again, I think,
and I told you up front, I don't know, but
that filters. Therefore that reason, I'm sure, And maybe it's
not being changed often enough and it overwhelms the filter
(40:30):
and then you start having that issue.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
That might be.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Because I don't know, I really don't know how you
would introduce that awesome or a biofilm cleaner into that
to eliminate that.
Speaker 8 (40:48):
So I the only way I could do that is
go through the filter and then let it go into
the tank and back out the colt.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Or maybe put it in the tank itself.
Speaker 8 (41:02):
I can't get it in.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Okay, all right, well let's let's do this. Let me
just give you something to latch onto. Maybe number one,
let's find out what kind of filter you're using. If
you don't have directions on it, let's go online look
up that filter and it'll tell you how often either
by gallonage or by time to change out that filter.
(41:26):
All right, let's get that established. The second thing is
you can go to the awesome website, which by the
way is a H H S O M E dot com,
a H H S O me dot com and see
if they even address the issue that you have. I'm
(41:46):
gonna think they don't, but I haven't been on that
website for a couple of months, so I don't know.
And that'll give you two things to get a little
better idea and feel free. Maybe we can talk about
it again when you get a little more information on that.
But I'll bet you, I'll bet you that field's not
getting changed enough. Thank you much for the call, appreciate it.
(42:08):
Let's uh, let's go to Rick Rick.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
Welcome, Hi, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Gary doing fine? Thank you? Good?
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Chlorinating a well?
Speaker 12 (42:20):
Yes, I just had the well pump changed and I
went to a bigger well pump. When the old one
came out, it was dirty and filthy and black and
everything else. And the guy said, you know, have you
chlorinated this?
Speaker 8 (42:35):
And I said, I don't know. I just bought the shack.
Speaker 12 (42:38):
So what's your Give me the take on chlorinating a
well well.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
There's a lot to it. Do you know how deep
the well is?
Speaker 12 (42:48):
Eighty feet eighty for the pump sits all right, the
pump sits at eighty feet, Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
So you're probably going to so you'll just use bleach
and it will be well. I'll tell you what. I'm
gonna run out of time and let me put you
on hold and get you on the other side. Because
there's about fifteen steps to chlorinating a well, and it's
more or less pulling the water, chlorinating it, pulling it
(43:14):
out with a hose, recirculating it back, letting it sit
for twenty four hours. But there's a lot of particular steps,
and if we're gonna go through all that, it's gonna
take longer than I have So let me put you
on hold. We'll take a break and come back and
chat with you a little bit about the water chlorination,
all right. Our phone number is eight hundred eight two
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done since we've been here, so we've been here three years.
How do we clean it before we seal it?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, it depends.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Gush floors maybe, ye, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Grush floors get dirty with different kinds of things too.
You certainly got you know, regular dirt, but a lot
of times we get a lot of stains, oil stains.
So if you have any of those, you're probably gonna
have to use a regular oil stain remover. But if
you don't have any really you know, an oxygenated bleach
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or uh some pressure washer, something along those lines, because
you know, the garage sealers are a little bit different also,
so I just want to, you know, let you know
they're they're til, they're trialed, more tight.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
In other words, they're not broom finish. They're smooth and
it's not necessarily a penetrating finish. When you use a
garage floor sealer, it's it's more of a coating. And
there's one that Di shas it's called track Safe. It's
(03:05):
slip resistant, which is also kind of important in a
garage and still about every three years is a good thing.
But that's got to be put on with a roller.
You wouldn't use a brush but a roller. So I
would really use a you know, if I was going
to do a quick step by step, I would you know,
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i'd rent or borrow or use a pressure washer. Get
it as clean as I can. If there's an oil spot,
you can use Crudcutter oil spot remover, which you can
pick up at most hardware stores. Follow the directions on that.
So one is really super clean. Then I would give it,
let it dry overnight, and then put the clear finish
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on the next day.
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Yep, Tracks good stuff also very good.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That was the cleaning was my most you know, my concern.
Really it doesn't have any oil or anything on it,
but it definitely has salt, lots of salt and I'm
sure dirt too. Yeah, we have to rinse that really
well to get that clean for it's right, and let
it dry overnight.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
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blessing to me and so many others who listen to you.
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All right, have merry Christmas to you. Thank you much,
appreciate it. All right. Ten minutes after the top of
the ant, taking your calls regarding your home and gerald, welcome, Welcome, sir, Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Really don't have a home improvement issue, okay, but I
do have a question that maybe you can answer or
find out down the road.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I heard your topic today was, you know, like metal roofs.
You were talking to a gentleman last week, the woman
from Cleveland for the home insurance company. Right, So why
don't the insurance companies basically give everybody a metal roof
You pay up front, you know, because it's more expensive,
(05:10):
but in the back run, you would think they'd be
saving money.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, I didn't ask that question exactly to Todd, but
I did ask about a discount for a metal roofing
being offered by insurance companies, and I thought, I thought
his answer was very good and quite honestly, not one
I really thought of. And his answer was, well, the
discount is kind of a dual edged sword. Some do,
(05:36):
some don't. And the catch twenty two on a metal
roofing is yeah, it's less likely to be ruined, but
when it is ruined, that metal roofing costs more than
an asphalt roofing. Now, Jerald, I don't have I don't
have the data, you know, to lay it out. I'm
(05:58):
sure the insurance companies do. And I don't see in
the future any insurance company giving you a metal roof,
you know. I don't see the data working out for
them there. But it is interesting if you were going to.
In fact, even I hit who was it? This week?
Somebody said to me, should I let my insurance company
(06:20):
know this? And I went yes, And it was just
about replacing his roof. He had replaced the roof. Now,
I don't know if there's a discount on a new roof,
but I don't know how old his old roof was,
so there may be. And some companies it's a big deal.
Some companies it's a really big deal. Some companies it's
an okay kind of a deal. So whenever you make
(06:43):
a home improvement project and you complete it, new roof,
maybe new furnace, things like that, I would certainly new gutters.
I don't know, I would certainly let your insurance company know,
and that is why we had Beth Harper on last weekend,
(07:03):
and I want to bring this up. Whether you go
right to a broker in your buying your insurance, she
is your advocate. She is not settling your claim. She's
your advocate. She shall help you. If you go to
a company where there isn't a broker, have a good
relationship with somebody there. You're salesperson, they're representing that company.
(07:26):
They may not be as I don't know if there's
much an advocate or not, but because they they're tied
right to the you know, the the industry. You know,
they're part of the company. They're not a broker, but
maybe they can help you. But relationships are certainly important now,
I think more than ever. So hopefully that answers your question.
(07:47):
I don't think they're going to give everybody a metal roof.
Jeff welcome.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Oh hi, yes, sir, Yeah, I'm about the smart About
the smart home, I don't know if I have one
or not, but you know, I have an app for
the camera, I have an app for the thermostat, I
have an app for the garage door, and I have
an app for that's switched at times. The Christmas tree
lights but none of that's integrated. It is it smarter
(08:13):
or is it just agglomeration of stuff that happens to
be connected.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, yeah, I mean yeah, that's that would be my
definition of a smart home. And that's why I said, Jeff,
you know, there's some people that are very very into that,
and I'm not saying there's a right or the wrong way.
There's other people that want to have nothing to do
with it. And my comment to them, or my comment
(08:40):
to that scenario is you probably have a smart home
and you don't even really think about it being a
smart home. I got a smart sum pump, I got
a smart garage store open, I got smart security lights,
I got smart outdoor lights. But I wouldn't say I'm
enamored by a smart home. The other fellow calling is
I got smart uh light switches and things like that,
(09:03):
and he loves it. So that's all. Yeah, we're gonna
end up with smart homes one way or the other.
Some of the real integrated ones, Jeff, are very cool.
I couldn't really speak smartly about that though.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I don't think right yeah, I don't either, and you know,
and I mean, things happen. You get a new device
and oh oh, it's got a phone app. Well, next thing,
you know, Now all of a sudden, you can tell
the garage store what to go do with itself, and
you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, I got a sprinkler system that runs on a
AP Now it doesn't have a timer outside, so okay,
you know, so yeah, we're going in that direction. And
I you know, I'm there's I know, there's plenty of
companies out there that can create a whole smart home
and have it condensed for you. But I'm like you,
(09:56):
I might have you know, six seven, eight, eight different things,
but they all have their own little app. Got a
lot of apps. So thanks much for the call. I appreciate.
All right, we'll take a little break and take your calls.
It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
We'll continue. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, kind of we go twenty minutes up to
the top of the hour and you're at home with
Gary Salvan taking your calls regarding your home projects. Feel
free to join us and we got a spot for you.
Let's go to Tim Tim Welcome. Hey Gary, how you
doing doing good. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I live in a rural area. We have water softer
it's Connecticut works great, but I'm getting a scum build
up in my fiberclass shower. It's not rust it's just
like a scum. I've tried colr, I've tried wet and forget,
and the only thing that will cut it is erratic acid.
And the fumes, as you probably know, are nasty.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah. Well, is it soap scum or what?
Speaker 8 (13:44):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I don't know. I assume it's scope soapscum, but you know,
it's not rust colored. It's just like a film on
the surface of the shower.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, I don't know which what what wet and forget product?
Did you use? Did you use the shower wedding forget?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yes, yeah, yeah, well I think sometimes. I mean I
use that all the time. But it's it is a cleaner,
but it's really a good maintenance product. Once it's kind
of gotten bad. I haven't really had it where it
was so bad I couldn't get it off, But I'm
assuming that's the issue.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I don't know. There's you know, every brother makes
a good bathroom cleaner. I familiar with the Jaws lines
of products. They got two of them. One is a
bathroom cleaner and the other one is a oh gosh,
it has a different name, but it's like a shower cleaner,
and it's a little bit it's more for built up
(14:51):
dirt or or film or whatever you want to call it.
That would be one i'd recommend. They also have a
cream cleanser, which quite honestly, tim is phenomenal. My only
issue with that is I don't know about a fiberglass base.
Whether you can use it on you could go to
(15:12):
their website. We use the cream cleanser on everything in
our house and it really is an unbelievable product. We
even used it in the oven the other day. So
the problem with fiberglass, I don't know if you've ever
run into this. So and I run into a lot
(15:34):
with calls like this, and that's why I'm always kind
of real hesitating when I'm answering it. So the way
fiberglass shower is made is it is fiber Okay, it's
fiberglass with a clear code over it as a protectant,
and as it ages, that protectant is not as good
(15:58):
as it was the day we got it. You know,
now whether it's a graded B, C, D or F,
I don't know. But as that clear coat wears scum, dirts, soap,
whatever starts starts wedging its way in between the fibers
of glass and it's very, very difficult to get it off. Now,
(16:23):
the cream cleanser that I recommended, like I feel, I
feel really really good about it removing that. But it's
not a pH neutral product. It's not radic acid either.
It's very safe and it's a creamy it almost feels
like a soft scrub. But it'll outperform. At least it
(16:44):
has outperformed that for me. It's outperformed product. There is
an abrasion to it. Yes, that's why I said, I'm
not real sure, And it may say on our website.
I just order it all the time. I use it.
I use it on a glass Halogen's stovetop, and it
(17:05):
removes things. You know, when it gets baked on or
something and you just can't get rid of it. It
removes that. So if you want to, yeah, it's Jaws
Jaws cleans dot com. And look at the two bathroom cleaners.
One of them is more for heavy duty dart cleaning
(17:26):
and the other one's more maintenance and it'll tell you
on there and I can't remember the difference in names.
And then the other thing, take a look at is
the product called a cream cleanser?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Okay? Any of the I know you recommend the awesome products?
Is there any of those that you would know?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The awesome is really for dreams and close plumbing systems,
So that's not going to help.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You, okay, all right, all right, well, thank you for
your time. Very appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Merry Christmas, do you thank you? All right? And yeah,
those are those are very they're very good products. They
wed forget product. I mean, we talk a lot about
bathroom ones, and I know somebody's thinking too and going like, hey,
how about that mister clean magic eraser. Maybe I've used
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that product that does a pretty good job also, But
again I have that same caution whether that can be
used on fiberglass. You can look it up and take
a look and see if you know, because we don't
want to hurt the finish anymore. For hard water stains too,
don't forget white vinegar. It's a lot less corrosive than
(18:41):
oradic acid. You can spray straight white vinegar directly on
the area that's got that go, let's sit about ten minutes,
wipe it off in rents. Uh, don't do it all
the time because it too is a mild acid, so
you gotta be a little careful. But probably half some
of the at home, and that might be something you
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want to try first. Also, since you probably already have
it all right, we'll take a break, we'll come back. Dan,
you'll be up first, and then Liz, if you'd like
to join us, please do. It's eight hundred eight two
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thirty three minutes after the top of they I hope
we have a great weekend. By the way, if you
missed our conversation with Todd Miller Classic Metal Roofing, learning
a little bit about what metal roofing can deliver to you,
a lot of good points, and of course if you're
going to be in your home for a while, that
might be something you want to consider. And I just
(22:43):
think asphalt roofs are taking a lot of shots right now,
but a metal roof they're a little bit more. Wow,
they're double. They're double, but they're also going to last forever,
a lifetime. That's what most of them are warranted for.
Read what the warranty cover zone. All right, let's get
back at it. We got Dan, Dan welcome.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
Hey Gary againsters. I've been an independent agent for forty years,
and the roof thing is really still its lux with
all the carriers at anytime. They anytime you replace a
roof in the past, you would definitely get you know,
it would it would impact on a positive side your premiums.
But recently I had we had a client put a
(23:28):
brand new roof on and the premium went up, with
the company's mentality being if that roof gets destroyed now
or the house was destroyed, we've got to put a
new roof on, right, So it almost worked against them,
But it's most carriers now. Once a roof goes twelve
to fifteen years, it goes from being a replacement value
(23:49):
type settlement to an actual cash value or a scheduled,
scheduled kind of loss amount.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, which I'll tell you, Dan, I I hope I'm
coming clear enough on this. I'm not even falling anybody here.
I think the insurance company has been ripped off on
roofs for years. To be real honest with you, I've
seen it done myself and and but I'm trying to
educate people that, you know, you got to you just
(24:17):
there's options. I did not know what you just said,
and that's kind of what Todd said. You know, the
metal roofing could work against you. You might get a
discount or you may not because that replacement value is
much higher. And I didn't even think of that.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
But so well, it wasn't even specifically to the metal either.
It just just got to put it in that, you know,
new ring on and yeah, it's it's kind of crazy,
but they're all doing different things in the industry. They've
kind of created their own problem because policies became maintenance policies,
not you know, if something happens, you know, catastrophic, and
(24:55):
so people just got used to, you know, when the
gypsy roofers come through after a bad storm. And I
just I just replaced your neighbor Garrity's house and he
got a he got a free roof.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So I'll be honest with you, Dan, I had people
in my neighborhood and I'm not saying I'm a sane
but they called me up and say, my roofer says
I can get a free roof because of that hailstorm
we had. Is that legit?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I always say, I said, you know what, I
don't know if it's legit to be honest with I mean,
if you have true hail damage, you should use your insurance.
And this is ten years ago, I said, but I
saw the same people you're talking about. I don't know
what was going on, but the roofer was on the
roof with a ballpen hammer. Sure.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard it change pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And I'm not ragging on the roofers. I'm not ragging
on the insurance company. I'm just trying to be kind
of like, I get where it's coming from. I mean,
there should be and really when you think about it,
and I'll probably catch some grief, I'll get some emails.
But why shouldn't a roof be pro rated for damage?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Right?
Speaker 9 (26:11):
It wears out like everything else, so desires Yeah, exactly,
And it's interesting and it's kind of to finish up
if you want. You know, now more data is available,
so they're starting with these with these hailstorms, It's like, okay,
unless we can do this within a year and know
(26:33):
there was hail damage in a specific neighborhood, you know
you don't have hal damage because you didn't turn it
any time. So there's they're getting a little smarter about
each company. That's a different thing with it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah. I had a goal named Beth Harper, she's up
in the Cleveland area on last Saturday, and Beth was
talking about, Yeah, they can go back and get the
data from the Weather Service and they can pinpoint if
it was even on your block in that Oh yeah,
if there was a help problem. And I'm thinking like,
well that don't cut that down.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Oh yeah, absolutely that'll that'll do it. But yeah, I
just want to chime in and.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, I appreciate it. In time, I kind of feel
bad because it wasn't too long and maybe was it today?
I don't know. I told someone, no, you might let
your insurance company know you have a new roof. Maybe
that's not good advice, should you or should you not
have an insurance company.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Whether the carrier, and I believe that's good. One of
our carriers and I never went back and checked with
some of our other ones I mean that the logic
makes sense. Yeah, you'd have a more expensive right if
something catastrophic happened. But for the most part, people are
thinking they're upgrading their house, so they should get some
money back for that. And I don't know if every
(27:47):
carrier will jump onto that safe yeah mindset, But it
just kind of struck me the same way.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I'll tell you. It's as I said
did to start off the show today, and I think
kind of what you're saying too. Insurance is for I'm
not going to use the word catastrophe, but it's for
a big unplanned event. And so much of people looked
at insurance as a maintenance benefit, and insurance isn't a
(28:17):
maintenance benefit. It's to protect you from a disaster or
a catastrophe something that wasn't you know, that was a
big old sub accidental on the same page, Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Thanks for the call, appreciate it all right, taking your
(28:38):
calls at eight hundred and eighty two three eight two
five five, Liz, Welcome.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
Hi.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
Now I have a question, but just a comment to
begin with.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Sure.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Uh, A couple of years ago, I was bored and
reading my insurance policy, and I realized that my roof
was twenty five years old. Well, I had just had
it replaced two years earlier. I called and they did
reduce my.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
My cost.
Speaker 10 (29:04):
Yeah, I think insurance company.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, I think Dan was saying, you know, it depends
on the company too. And really, if it was ten
years ago, there's been huge changes, I'll say, in the
last five So.
Speaker 10 (29:17):
Well, I know there's a sign in my insurance agency's
office something about we do not cover roofs anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, there's some of that going on.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Very few insurance policies.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You can't even get the homeowner's policy in Florida in
some places.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Oh, I know, so anyway, but anyway, my question is, Okay,
so I have gone to all of these battery operated
like I'm a battery operated lawnmower and so on, and
I looked up what to do with the batteries during
the winter, and it was so confusing, and I thought,
I bet Gary can tell me do I even plugged in?
Or do I unplug them?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah? Yeah, so really there, I was talking about that earlier.
But the biggest thing is to I had my notes.
I'm looking for my notes that I put down forty
to seventy.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
Degrees doesn't freeze. It's do I keep them plugged it
or not? Okay, well I was supposed to reduce the charge.
I don't know how to reduce it.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, So the notes that I have found, and I'm
sure I'm positive there's different ones for different brands, but
you would brand would unplug it, and kind of what
they're the ones that on my notes that I had
done some research on it was, you know, maybe put
(30:39):
it on a charge for about every four to six
weeks and charge it to about sixty percent, or put
it on what they call a battery tender, which is
kind of a charger that holds it at that sixty
percent charge.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
Of course, because I have the really big ones for
the lawnmower edjured, so they're all smaller.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah. What did it say in the owner's manual? You
said it was confusing?
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Well I wasn't. I couldn't find the owner's manual, so
I was looking online.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Right here I go. I just found my notes. It's
store batteries indoors ideally forty to seventy degrees, keep batteries
at a forty to sixty percent charge.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
Not how do you do that I know it's oh, well,
do you have like little lights when it's charging and
sometimes it has one light, two lights.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Three lights?
Speaker 10 (31:36):
Yeah, I think it goes up to five.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, okay, so well three lights, yeah yeah, keep it
at three lights when it you know, and then just
unpluck it and then you know, when it gets down, Uh,
let it get down. Just don't keep it full is
the main thing. Keep it dry, keep it at a
decent temperature, and keep it half fired up.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
Okay, that's that's so much simpler that.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
Everything I was reading.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm a simple guy, Liz.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
Well, I am too. I mean, all this stuff about
this kind of battery and that is that I'm thinking,
what the heck? Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thanks, I appreciate it. All right, very good. So yeah,
we got that. That's good. We were talking about time
to winter rise along where probably if you're in the
midwest northeast, you're not mown grass anymore. Gas mowers batteries
covering them both. All right, we'll take a break and
it'll be Ron and then it'll be uh Rick and Nick,
(32:35):
and if you'd like to join us, go ahead. We
got a spot for you as we continue. You're at
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back in here we go twelve minutes before the top
of the arm. We're talking about your home. After talking
to folks in the insurance business over the last two weeks,
how important maintenance is to your home. Very important. Remember
those are for an accident. That's what insurance is covering,
(35:40):
Not because you decided night to calk the seams on
the outside of your home or paint your house in
a wood got rot and the animals got into your attic,
which happens. It's not about covering you. It's about covering
your house due to an accident. All right, let's go
to Ron Ron.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Welcome, How you doing, Darry? Almost happy? Almost afternoon?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, almost yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
When I got a couple of questions about it, it's
about the awesome Okay, Now I got a well, so
it comes out into the basement and up there right
there too. Also, I have a field that will helps
(36:29):
filter the water before it goes through the house. And
the problem is is the tub upstairs and then it's
only the hot water that's where it gets them. Oh sorry,
it's only the cold water which has all them little
(36:49):
black things that look like look like drops of oil. Yeah,
you know, same thing you had that one when when
you was talking last week. Yeah, and you touch it
and it it does all the sprints all out.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
So this is actually in your supply line for the water, right,
it's not a not a drain or anything like that.
And you have a well? Yeah, have you chlorinated that
well lately?
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Yeah? I do bout once every three or four months.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
How deep is that comes out?
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Then?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:31):
You know I drained the heater and everything.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So your question is a good one, Ron, and it's
a question I don't have the answer to. I'm assuming
your question is will that product awesome eliminate that problem
in my well?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I do?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Right, go well, I don't know if it's in the well,
ye do.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, if it's in a supply line and it's an
cold water you know, the awesome product that that I
was talking about, and it kills biofilm, which is usually
a build up in a closed plumbing system, I don't
know if that or can correct it in a well.
(38:12):
I'd have to go to their website or give them
a call. I just you know, I know it does
it for spas and swimming pools and garden tubs and
washing machines and dishwashers. But I don't know if it
does the well.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
Oh well, I don't want to do the well, the well,
that's what I do with the oh my god, the
bleach and stuff. Yeah, there's nothing that comes out of that. Yeah,
but the line between.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah see that, Yeah, so I I but again, I
don't know how you would clean that. I don't know
why it has that to begin with, because the water
is running through that like it builds up like in
a garden tub or a spa, because that's that's the
water line that is, you know, when you shut it off,
(39:04):
it just sits there, you know, for maybe you know
a period of time, and it just kind of builds
that up. Yeah, walk, Yeah, I don't know what How
would you How would you introduce that to that area
where you're getting in other words, how would you get
(39:27):
the awesome to get into that water line?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Well, the only thing I can think of is is
running it through my filter first, and that'll mix it
all up as it goes and bypass the hot water
tank mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
And what type it's not an iron filter? It's just
a a well filter.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
No, it's yeah, it's just uh, it's not a well
filter either, it's just.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
The whole house filter.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
And how often is that filter supposed to be changed?
Speaker 8 (40:05):
I don't know, really, I think that's what.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I would focus on now, Ron, I'm serious again, I think,
and I told you up front, I don't know, but
that filters. Therefore that reason, I'm sure, And maybe it's
not being changed often enough and it overwhelms the filter
(40:30):
and then you start having that issue.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
That might be.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Because I don't know, I really don't know how you
would introduce that awesome or a biofilm cleaner into that
to eliminate that.
Speaker 8 (40:48):
So I the only way I could do that is
go through the filter and then let it go into
the tank and back out the colt.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Or maybe put it in the tank itself.
Speaker 8 (41:02):
I can't get it in.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Okay, all right, well let's let's do this. Let me
just give you something to latch onto. Maybe number one,
let's find out what kind of filter you're using. If
you don't have directions on it, let's go online look
up that filter and it'll tell you how often either
by gallonage or by time to change out that filter.
(41:26):
All right, let's get that established. The second thing is
you can go to the awesome website, which by the
way is a H H S O M E dot com,
a H H S O me dot com and see
if they even address the issue that you have. I'm
(41:46):
gonna think they don't, but I haven't been on that
website for a couple of months, so I don't know.
And that'll give you two things to get a little
better idea and feel free. Maybe we can talk about
it again when you get a little more information on that.
But I'll bet you, I'll bet you that field's not
getting changed enough. Thank you much for the call, appreciate it.
(42:08):
Let's uh, let's go to Rick Rick.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
Welcome, Hi, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Gary doing fine? Thank you? Good?
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Chlorinating a well?
Speaker 12 (42:20):
Yes, I just had the well pump changed and I
went to a bigger well pump. When the old one
came out, it was dirty and filthy and black and
everything else. And the guy said, you know, have you
chlorinated this?
Speaker 8 (42:35):
And I said, I don't know. I just bought the shack.
Speaker 12 (42:38):
So what's your Give me the take on chlorinating a
well well.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
There's a lot to it. Do you know how deep
the well is?
Speaker 12 (42:48):
Eighty feet eighty for the pump sits all right, the
pump sits at eighty feet, Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
So you're probably going to so you'll just use bleach
and it will be well. I'll tell you what. I'm
gonna run out of time and let me put you
on hold and get you on the other side. Because
there's about fifteen steps to chlorinating a well, and it's
more or less pulling the water, chlorinating it, pulling it
(43:14):
out with a hose, recirculating it back, letting it sit
for twenty four hours. But there's a lot of particular steps,
and if we're gonna go through all that, it's gonna
take longer than I have So let me put you
on hold. We'll take a break and come back and
chat with you a little bit about the water chlorination,
all right. Our phone number is eight hundred eight two
(43:36):
three eight two five five talking a little home improvement.
And you're at home with Garry cellivator.
Speaker 6 (44:29):
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