Gary Sullivan 12/2/2023 Hour 4

Gary wraps up Saturday with your calls. We also talk to our friends at High Tech Duct Cleaning.

Episode Transcript

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At home with Garry. Salivan's takingyou up to the one o'clock hour and
then, uh, mister Donovan,your little auto show, one of them
will be here. I'll tell youone thing. When it gets cold,
Danny, did you notice your temperature, your pounds per square inch and your
tires go down? Yes, sir, I sure have you did that.

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You can put a little more airin those things. I need to do
that today, all right. Daleor Dane will certainly remind I don't want
to disappoint the Donovan's on that.Don't do that. Don't do that,
especially since I run their show.There you go, all right, so
we're talking home improvement. We'll letDale or Dane cover the auto part of
things, and if you'd like tojoin us, it's five one, three,

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seven, four nine fifty five.Hun ahead and grab a line and
let's go to Uh. Cindy,Cindy, welcome, Hi, Thanks for
my call. You're quite welcome.And all this about ten thirty at night,

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probably a hundred degrees outside my furnish. I didn't know that's the time,
but I've heard an explosion and Ithought, okay, I don't know
what that is, but I'm reallynot going outside to find out what it

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is. But then I called mynephew, who is who worked for heating
I don't know HVAC company, Andhe came over and told me it was
the furnished motive that blew up,and it turned off the air that I

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had on. So he got someparts and got the air long again.
But and the furnaces no working.Okay, I'm wondering what do you know
what would make a fresh motive blowup? Well? Without no, I

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don't. I mean there's a lotof things. I mean, everything has
a lifespan. When you say blowup, what's that mean? I mean,
did it blow up and there's pieceseverywhere? That's what I think about
when you say blow up? Ordid it just quit working? Well,
it made a loud noise, Well, I understand an explosion. But I

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didn't see any parts, like onthe floor or anything. And he didn't.
My nephew didn't say there were any. Yeah, I doubt if it
blew up. To be honest withyou, you know, I mean,
I I don't know. Maybe theyou know, maybe the uh the maybe

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there was a belt in there.I mean, I don't know, you
know what kind of motory, adds, so is it working now? Yeah?
He got sicks. I have atrain furnace in the How old is
it? He's kinbably fifteen twenty yearsold? Yeah, well, you know,

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in all honesty, Sidney, thatfurnace is probably near the end of
its life. Today's furnaces, youknow, they they're fifteen twenty year old
furnaces. I had a motor onmy air handler, which you know,
part of the furnace. The motorjust quit functioning at seventeen and a half

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years and by the time you figureout replacing the motor in the age of
the furnace, I ended up replacingthe furnace itself. So, you know,
I mean, I don't know whatthe problem with the motor was.
I feel pretty certain it didn't quoteblow up, but you know, parts
break on it. Maybe the housingbroke on it, maybe the belt broke

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on it. Be the shock absorbersthey sit on broke. I don't know.
He's got it up and running.You you know, if you can
get him over again, you mightjust kind of ask him to kind of
give you an assessment of the furnacein terms of where it's at. And
it's a lifespan or if you wantto, you know, wing it and

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you know, just patch it togetherdue to finances or whatever. I understand.
But to do a post mortem onthe motor without seeing it or knowing
anything about it, I don't know, but I'm guessing it very well.
Could be a belt or something.And really, if you asked him,
he'd probably give you the answer becausehe was there. All right, thank

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you much for the call. Iappreciate it. We've got Bonnie Bonnie welcome.
Hi, yes, hi, yeah, yes, sure, I need
your help. My dog had anaccident peede on my hardwood floor, okay,
and I need to try to knowthe best way to get that smell
out of there, if you wouldplease. Yeah, well there's a spot.

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There's a odor removing product called odorEliminator. It is designed for the
exact problem you have, Okay,and it works. I've used it,
Danny's used it. It works soawesome. You can. You can get
it off their website. It's Od O r x I T dot com

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I T so it's odor x itdot com. You're they given numerous products.
The one you're looking for is calledEliminator. Order Eliminator. It's a
concentrate, or you can also buyit where it's pre mixed. Bottom line
is you want to saturate the area. It only takes one ounce per gallon

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one ounce a quart of water,or you can get the pre made and
just you want to just spray thatarea, saturate that area, and it
will literally it's not gonna mask theodor. It's going to eliminate. It's
going to kill the odor. Awesome, that sounds perfect. That's just when

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I needed very good. Thank you. I know I could count on you.
Thank you so much. You're quitewelcome. Thank you, bye bye.
And I hear people and I seepeople mess that project up a lot.
First of all, don't don't doanything that's just gonna mask it.

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It's not ever gonna go away unlessyou eliminate it. The source of the
problem. Making it smell like peppermindoesn't get the job done. So this
does eliminate the odor. The otherthing I've seen people do, especially old
wood floors where it's underneath carpeting,as they put a primer seiler like it

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kills paint on that to mass theodor. And that's what it does.
It will kind of seal the woodand it's not going to make it go
away, so please check out thisodor eliminary where's really good. They also,
by the way, if you havea lot of pets, they have

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a little flashlight. It's a blacklight, especially for cats, because they'll
you know, you'll think it's themesses on the floor, but it's actually
on the wall. They'll spray sidewaysand this black light will make dried urine
glow, so you'll know where thesource of the problem is. And you'll

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find that on the Odor Exit website. Also, Joe, welcome, Well,
thank you. Gary. Hey,I have a question about PVC plumbing.
I'm hearing that, uh, theolder it gets, the more at
risk you are now of it failingcatastrophically. I wanted to see if what

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you've heard about that, well,it depends on which type you have.
There's multiple types, you know,I mean, there's abs plastic PVC pipe.
Some of them have a longer lifespanthan others. So I I would

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have you had any problems or anythingto just cause concern. No, the
only time I've ever had any problemat all was really probleming my fault and
it detached garage pipe froze and ofcourse they split end to end. When

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that happens, right and you gotyou have a big album on your hands
if that happens. Yeah, butno, I've not had any really problem
I've heard. The problem I thinkwas with CPBC CPVC, that's the copper
polyvinyl chloride piping. The connections canbe bad on that. I think it

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really at this point rather than Imean, yes, there has been some
issues with some plastic pipes. Okay, not all plastic pipes. You heard
Paul from Rotor Ruter talk about thepacks. That's relatively a new generation and
no real issues on that. We'vehad some deterioration on the black pipe infect

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some of that. There was evena class action lawsuits on those are probably
being pulled from some homes. ThePVC. Next time you have a plumber
out, i'd just have them inspectedjoints and see where you're at. Do
you know about how old that is? It's probably about twenty eight years now.
Yeah, so that's that's going tobe in the so even copper pipe's

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got a lifespan of fifty years,you know, actually forty to fifty.
I think this CPVC, I believetheir lifespan on that's about thirty years.
I'd have to double check myself.But I got copper pipe in my home,
and I have some white crustaceans aroundjoints, and I don't know about

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four years ago or actually his greencrustations. Don't why I had a plumber
out at the house for something.I asked him to just check some of
those joints, which he did,and on copper he was telling me,
like, you know, I haveto worry about the green crustations. If
it turns white, you should probablyreally replace that system or that joint.

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So my suggestion is when you getup into that thirty year age, you
know if you're going to have aneed to get a plumber out there someday
and just have them inspected to seewhere you are, because you're right,
you want to have a catastrophic failureof it. But you know you're probably
at the age of that that Iwould have that inspected. Okay, just

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a side question or a related question. Do you know if there's any mechanisms
out there that that you can putin line with your plumbing so that if
suddenly you have a stream water flow, that it'll shut the system down.

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No, I'm I'm not saying thereisn't, but I'm not familiar that there
is. Okay, Well, Iguess i'm better patent that. Yeah,
get the work on that. You'reright, yeah, I I don't.
I don't know of one. Again, I'm not saying there isn't. I
just don't know of one. Andif something out there listening knows the one,

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they can certainly call. But I'mnot familiar with one. Okay.
Well, I appreciate very much,and Merry Christmas too, Merry Christmas to
you, Thank you, bye bye. And there's a lot of different devices
out there now that detect floods,but I don't know one that would automatically
shut it off. If you knowthat, I'd love to hear from you,

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all right, And our phone numberis eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. We'll continue on. You're at home with Gary Salvan right
here on fifty five krs DE talkstation. All right, twelve twenty two
on your afternoon. You're at homewith Gary Sullivan as we work around the
home together. Happy to take yourcalls. Our phone number is eight hundred

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eight two three eight two five five. Those lines are open if you'd like
to jump on board, please do, and we'll talk about what you're working
on at the bottom of the hourtoday we're going to talk about duck ceiling.
Now we've talked about duck ceiling,and we've also talked about duck cleaning,

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and duck ceiling has been one we'vebeen focusing on. So the air
that you heat gets to the roomsthat it's supposed to get to and not
leak. Duck cleaning is who we'regoing to have on high tech duck cleaning,
and we'll have airon on and talkabout how the procedure works to clean

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the ducks, how often you needto have them clean the ducks in your
home, how do you know whenyou need to have them cleaned. We'll
cover all that at the bottom ofthe hour. In one of the calls
today that was a little bit rushed, and sometimes that happens. We get
up against the clock and somebody hasanother question and we get to talking rather

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quickly about it was and I wasalso a surprising the amount of concrete questions
we had today. And certainly aswe have temperatures in the fifties forties,
you can still do concrete ceiling.You can still do concrete patches and you
can still address these issues. Andthe one was in the garage where the

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garage door comes down onto the floor. When the sun comes out or it's
even the light of day and you'restanding in a dark garage with a door
closed, you can see whether thatdoor is ceiling against the floor or it
is not, and if it isnot, you'll see, you know,

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lighted one of the corners of thedoor. And that adjustment is relatively easy
sometimes just adjusting that seal at thebottom of the door. Can you know,
create that seal now if it's offa larger amount, maybe an inch

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or something, or the whole thing'sjust not closing all the way downwards.
Wavy I had mentioned about a doorgarage door threshold, and that might be
something you want to take a lookat, especially if you have areas throughout
the width of the door. Inother words, you can see the light

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penetrating through and you can come bywith the vinyl concrete patcher and kind of
smooth that out. But then youcan actually install a threshold, a garage
threshold, or have like a garagedoor company come in and install that where
the door you can adjust how farit goes down. It's a sensitivity thing.

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When that door closes and hits athreshold or the door, there's a
certain amount of pressure that will makethe door open or stop, so that
sensitivity can be adjusted. You canput this threshold down on the bottom,
you patch you underneath. You geta very finished look at the base of

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that door, and you also uhseal it between the door very well.
The advantage of that is, ofcourse keeps cold air snow blowing in and
just as bad getting mice into yourhome. That's a number one highway for
mice getting into your home is underneaththe garage door. So take a look
at that. All right, let'sget back to the phones. We have

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Dennis. Dennis welcome, all right, good afternoon, Gary. Thanks my
call exactly help. I have olderkitchen cabinets wood derbine out of wood and
are stained. What I could useto put on them to bring them back
to life? So the cabinets arewood cabinets and they're stained, and now

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explain bring them back to life?What's going on with them? Oh?
I just wanted to you know,they clean them up or something. You
know they're gonna sit for so long. Okay, so this is the kitchen
area, are they and they're they'reokay, all right, So yeah,
I'll give you a name of aproduct. But yeah, what goes on
common problem is the you know,you got the cooking grease when we're cooking.

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It's a non water soluble film thatgets on cabinets over the course of
time. Not only from that,but a lot of times are cleaners contain
a wax or a silicone which alsoover time and hand traffic, the oils
from your hand over time, thatbecomes a film and it dulls the surface.

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So what we need to do isyou need to find this cleaner.
And the cleaner I'm gonna recommend iscalled MILSIC. It'sm I L S e
K. MILSA contains no wax,it contains no silicones, and it is
a wax remover and cleaner. Sowhat it's going to do, it's going

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to take off any of the oldwax. It's going to take off oils
from your hands and oils from cookingfrom the cabinet itself. So I would
take the handles off the drawers andthe cabinets and then I would use MILLSIC.
It comes in with a lemon scented, orange scented. It doesn't matter

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what you use. And it's justa cotton cloth. It does it does
a great job. It will dowhat you want to do. So it'll
clean the surface and rejuvenate the wholelook of that cabinet, rejuvenate the wood.
That's exactly what I want. That'sexactly what I want to do.
Very good. You can get itonline. There's some like I think it's

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Ace Hardware. Drug Mark carries itand online. It's kind of hard to
find. It's been around. It'san old product, it's over one hundred
years old, but it's called Millsic. Do you have to do anything after
after that? No, fact,you could just once you do it.
In fact, I probably could useit now. I tell everybody do it
once a year, but I neverseem to quite make that done either.

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Yeah. Well, I mean clescold inside projects now, Oh absolutely absolutely.
In fact, they used to haveone. It was Holiday Senate and
it always it really did smell good, smell like a cinnamon. I don't
know if they still have that ornot, but you'll see it on their
website. All right, thank youvery much, Gary. All Right,

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Annie, thanks for the call.Appreciate it all right. I talked about
duck cleaning, and I know weget a lot of questions about that,
and I always refer you to hightech duck cleaning. And Aaron'll be join
us. We'll take a little break. We'll have a little chat with Aaron
as we continue. You're at homewith Gary Salvn right here on fifty five

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kr SE Detalk station. Well,talking about your home, and you're at
home with Gary Sullivan. And everynow and then, fact a lot of
times we have guess experts in theirfields. And join me now from high
tech duck cleaning. Is Aaron,welcome that home with Gary Salvan. How
you doing? Man? Doing great? Gary? How you been I've been

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okay, I've been okay. Sowe haven't talked for a while, So
let's start with the basics. Okay. I guess the first thing is when
it comes to duck clean this isstuff we can and he can't see the
inside of her duckwork. So howdo we know that we have dirty duck

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work in our house? Well,it's it's usually you know, mainly the
amount of dust you're getting. Youknow, we normally tell people, you
know you're always gonna have dust.It doesn't once a week's pretty normal.
You're seeing it every day, everyother day. That's usually a good indicator
that's building up. A lot oftimes you can actually see it building up,

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you know, allergies if you startto see the flare up, especially
now in the winter months, youknow, when the house is all closed
up, you start to notice alittle more of that. Usually the best
indicators are the amount of dust,allergies and such. How often should you
have the duck work in your homecleaned? We usually recommend anywhere between three

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and five years. There's other things, you know, if you do a
major remodel on your home, there'sa lot of drywall dust, you know,
having basements, waterproofs where they kickup, you know, concrete dust.
Things like that can always go alittle quicker, but usually three to
five years is pretty good, youknow, Aaron, I'm always talking about
moisture and organic material, and itseems to me a lot of dust and

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stuff that we just described is organicmaterial if it's in your duck work,
and I've seen in the summertime inthe basement the duckwork actually sweats, there's
condensation, there's water droplets on itis Is this a possibility that you could

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have mold growth inside the duck workand literally be blowing mold sports throughout the
home? Oh yeah, absolutely.You know, we always tell people a
lot of the times. You know, when you're running the air conditioning in
the in the summer, you knowthat there's an air conditioning coil inside there
and it condensates and it goes toa you know, down to a drip

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pan, down to a drain inthe floor. But it basically just makes
that area, you know, adirty, wet, dark, damn place,
and it's yeah, it's definitely aplace where molt can grow. And
then obviously your system's running, soit just blows you know, mold sports
throughout the duck work and essentially recirculates. So definitely a possibility. So people
will ask me all the time,well, I got a furnace and I

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got this air handler and I gota filter, and it doesn't that just
take care of it catches quite abit. But yeah, I mean it's
like you change in that every monthor every six months or whatnot. You
know, eventually, you know,some things do pass through there, and
things like mold. It can bea different story. But yeah, the

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filter doesn't job. It just doesn'ttake care of everything. Well, Aaron,
one of the reasons that I havealways recommended high tech duck cleaning is
you guys do it the right way. All duck cleaning services are not created
equal, right, And and tellpeople what I mean by that because it's

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so important. Well, you know, I'm not familiar with a lot of
other processes, but what I normallytell people is things to watch out for.
Obviously, the some of the thingsyou get in the mail of sixty
nine seventy nine dollars generally just ascam, right, And you know I

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tell people all the time, goto our website. We've got a short
video on there. It kind ofgives you an idea what to look out
for. One of the other biggestthings is just add ons and make sure
you're getting all the information before yousign up for the word. Make sure
there's no additional costs, no addons, things like that. That's usually
the big things to look out for. Well as a business person, Aaron,

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I'm sure you can admit that youcan't drive to somebody's house for seventy
nine dollars anymore so somebody's not goingto come to your home. They're not
going to clean up. Yeah,they're not going to clean your ductwork for
seventy nine dollars. So I mean, you guys, when I say do
it right. As you're so upfront, there's been media outlets who have reached

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out to you as the expert,both locally and nationally, and you literally
when you talk about add ons,what kind of things would people try to
add on for you? I mean, you have an all inclusive and we'll
talk even about pricing, but whatwhat what do people try to add on

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multiple things? You'll see ads thatsay, you know, we'll do unlimited
vents, two returns, one trunkline, and then what happens and they
get in the door and they say, well, you have ten returns,
we include two four trunk lines.Those cost this. We can do an
anti microbial spray that costs another twohundred dollars, and you know, then

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you see those ads go from onehundred dollars to seven hundred dollars real quick.
They getting their foot in the doorand then just try to sell you
everything. So I know this isa hard question to answer, but if
you have a typical twenty four hundredsquare foot Cincinnati two story what's that run?
Normally? Average jobs probably going tobe around five to six hundred dollars.

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We do it by the count.Other companies do it by square footage.
But okay, well tell us whatyou mean by that. So the
heating vents themselves. I could walkthrough my home and hey, Aaron,
I have twelve heating vents and Ihave I don't know four cold air returns.

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You could give me a price fromthat. Absolutely, that's the only
way we do our pricing. Itis a total of all the supply and
the returns as well. Yeah,there's no hidden costs. Everything that we
do is included. So as longas you count your vents correctly, you'll
know the price before we even getthere. So how do you get all
the gunk out of the inside ofthat vent pipe? So what we do

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is we hook up a high poweredHEPA vacuum system and we connect that into
the main trunk lines that run offof the unit, and then as it
pulls vacuum, we go through toeach room and each event we steal everything
off and then we use what's calleda pressurized air suite that will snake down
through the line that forces all thedirt and debring back to the main line.

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And then once it's all collected there, we use what's cold a whip
system, a pressurized agitation tool thatloosens and kind of stirs up everything.
Get it, get it all loose, and then once it's all loose,
we use those different air switepes topush and pull it all back to our
vacuum. So this will be hardto describe two air But how much gunk
do you get fence systems, Imean, is a couple pounds of just

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dust and dirt. It really dependson the home. You know, a
lot of the houses here around Cincinnati, you know, are pretty old,
you know, early nineteen hundreds andyeah, if it's never been cleaned over,
you know, eighty years or plus, it can get pretty bad.
But even new homes, you know, you may not get as much obviously
that you would in an old home, but dry wall dust construction to breathe

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and on new builds. Right,how about cold air returns you had mentioned
two returns do you have to do? You have to do the cold air
returns. They're probably the most importantto clean just because they're pulling air back
to the furnace is generally where mostof that dirting debris builds up. Like

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we said, the filter generally doesa good job of keeping that from recirculating,
but just because it's pulling air back, it really builds up in those
returns. So we always suggested definitelyget the returns cleaned. Okay, okay,
So another question is I see inmodern especially homes built in the late
nineties, maybe even now there maybethey still do it. I don't know.

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You'll get an upstairs better and youhave a cold air return vent and
then you'll have a cavity just betweenthe studs and the drywall. There's maybe
some sheet metal but no pipe.Do you run into that? Right?
Is that standard? Generally? Mosthomes are like that, even the older

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ones, you know, they youknow, if the returns are in the
floor, they're just running through thefloor delay showing down below. Its panda
in area. But even the newhomes, it just runs between the studs
down in the little joys and back. There's really no hard metal. Yeah,
do those get dirty? Oh yeah, it builds up on the studs,
and like I said, it's apandam area. Below, which is

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where it really builds up. Yeah, and that's where that whip comes into
play. I guess, huh oh, yeah, it gets the top the
side of the bottoms. So whenwe were on the whip through there,
it just knocks all that loose offthe studs, right, We just pushing
all it all back to the vacuum. You were talking about some people,
Well, the up charge on theanti microbial You've talked about using a whip

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and the high pressure and the hepathillerand do you sanitize the inside of that
duckwork. Then we do the thatgoes through all the individual run lines,
through all the main trunk lines,and then we also get into the blower
motor compartment and the air conditioning orthe plane area where the air conditioning coiled,
and we vacuum to sanitize all ofthat area. So last week,

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I don't know, you may havegot this call because I told him to
call you, and I don't evenknow if he was from Cincinnati, but
this fella had his I'm trying tojust even get all the pieces of the
conversation. I'm trying to remember,but he had his duckwork clean. I
can't remember why he was having Ohhe had his duck work clean because they
were dusting all the time, andso he had it clean. And he

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says, I'm still dusting as muchas I was. And I said,
are you sure they cleaned it?I mean, is that a possibility or
did I give a bad guess?There? He can be. We've gone
in behind other companies before. Andthe problem is if you get in there

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and you know, start loosing everythingup and you don't get it out,
and now it's just it's free togo wherever it wants. I mean,
like we said, without the returns, it just kind of sticks to the
duck work. But if you getin there and agitate it, now it's
all loose. Next thing, youknow, you turn your furnace on and
all that dust is loose and readyto come back out. Yeah. I

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guess more kids and more pets thatare in your house requires you really to
get that clean more often, orat least stay on top of it.
Yeah. More people coming through,especially with animals, we see that all
the time. Three labradors or GoldenRetrievers will really add up after a while.

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Yeah, for sure. So howlong does it take you to clean
the duck work at a home withone unit in the home, it's on
average about three hours or so.That just kind of depends on the size
what we run into. Larger homeswith multiple units can typically take the better
part of the day. I mean, if we would start at nine o'clock

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in the morning, two unit housewould go to the mid afternoon or so.
It just kind of depends on thesize. So how do we get
this project started? Somebody's listening tous right now. I think, Man,
I'll get him done right now,or maybe I'll wait to after the
holidays. There's no good or badtime to do it. If it's been
a while, let's get it done. How do I start the process with

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us? You know, you couldcall us directly. All the information that
we have is on our website,so you can watch our video, watch
our process. Like I said,watch the video about the scams. Our
pricing is on there written description ofour process. So I normally tell people
just make sure when you start out, just to do your research first,

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make sure what you're getting. Thatwould be the first step before you just
go and sign up, and youknow, hope for the best. Yep.
Yeah, So what is the websitethat I can send people to.
It is high Tech duck Cleaning dotcom. That's just h. I t
e H. And I can watchthe videos learn a little bit more of

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what we talked about, and thenwhen I call and say, okay,
Aaron, when can we do this? I should really have all the vents
counted and the cold air returns counted, and you can give me as long
as I can count, right,you can give me a pretty firm price.

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Yeah. Absolutely, it's just basedon that total vent count hidden costs
or add ons. Obviously the onlyother charge would be sales tax. Yeah.
Well, it was a long timeago, but my dad was really
suffering from allergies one year and Ihad mentioned about getting the duckwork clean and
he was apprehensive. He still hadhis first knuckle, and eventually I talked

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him into getting him cleaned and hegoes like, oh my god, that
was the best thing I ever did. Literally he quit having his allergy issues.
Do you do you hear? That? Is that a common thing?
Oh? Yeah, you get youknow, you can get anything in there,
whether it be pollen, dust,mike, any mold back, a
standard or things like that, soexcellent. Never can't really tell what's causing

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somebody's allergies, right right, Well, sure fixed is, but allergies are
dusting too much. It's high techduck cleaning dot com. Good talking to
you. Have a great holiday,and thanks for joining us, No problem,
Thank you, Gary. All right, take care, Aaron, Thanks
goodbye. High tech duck cleaning dotcom, real first class company does a

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great job. And and and he'sso right. I've said it many times
and I don't care if it's duckcleaning or sewer snake. Nobody's going to
come to your house for sixty ninedollars and walk away. And uh think
you're going to have a great job. It's not gonna happen if there's If

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you call somebody to clean your carcarpets, you can't do one room and
get four for free. Just doesn'twork. Common sense here. All right,
let's take a little break, wecome back. If you want to
jump on board, you can.I've got a couple of other things I
want to cover the day too.As we march our way up to the
one o'clock hour, you're at homewith Gary Sullivan right here in fifty five

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KRC DETOK station. All right,back here, we go eight minutes before
the one o'clock hour, Donovan's willbe in the studio working on your car
for you. That'll be next.In the meantime, we're talking about home
improvement. We've kind of covered alot and certainly appreciate you jumping on board
and talking about some issues that youmay be having on your home. We

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talk a lot about duck ceiling thatway to address duck cleaning. Let's get
back to the phone calls though.We got Steve, Steve, welcome,
all right, sir, ask aboutwhether or not the water could be shut
off if there was a leak.And the product out there called uh leak
smart l E A K S MA R s M A R t okay

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smart and you can put it onyour name, you know, your water
name source into the house and they'relittle sensors that go on the ground.
In our case, we had awater software you know, runs a tremendous
not of water to regenerate the thewater or the software itself, and so

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I wouldn't concerned that if they hada leak it would just flood the basement.
So anyway, yeah, well Ihad to work, but I'm not
sure. Well, then you knowwhat you bring us up. You know,
I was thinking about it, andI I I was, I'm familiar
with that product. Okay, AndI know the Solor companyet has some pumps.

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They have different alarms too, Likewhen the sump well the sump pump
quits, the water in the wellrises, it gets on the floor,
it sets off an alarm. Itshuts off the pump, or the pump's
already shut off. It alerts youon your phone that there is a problem.
Where I I got where I gotoff the mark I guess is when

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he was talking, he said,like if we were upstairs and I had
a faucet or a pipe had acatastrophic failure, and how long where would
those sensors be? Can they bethroughout the house or can they just be
like in the basement. No,they could be anywhere. Ah, very
good. They would communicate so excellent, multiple sensors. You can put it

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underneath your you know, underneath yourcabinets. Absolutely, okay, okay,
And it's called tell me again.It is smart something smart leak leak smart
leaks smart all right. Well,and it's one word, okay, sure,
all right, Hey, that's that'sa big help. I appreciate that.

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I ain't kind of thought in theback of my nun and there might
have been somebody I didn't know whatit was. So yeah, thank you
for that. I appreciate it.Called leak smart. There's a lot of
different sensors out there too. LikeI talked about the one with the sump.
Well, Joe, we got abouta minute and a half. Okay,
that should be enough. All right, got a hot water heater.

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It's with power event and it's puttingout no hot water. Been a little
investigating, and I'll hear the fanmotor come on, but the fan's not
turning, and then the fan motorwill shut off it it's hot. I'm

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not so hot you can't touch it, but it's pretty darn close to that.
Right, So when that fan motoris not operating, it will not
allow that heater to heat water.Uh huh, because there's no way to
evacuate. So that that motor that'sgoing through that vent or going to the
vent, pulling news fumes out.That's keeping it from heat in the water.

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Okay, So it's probably the problem. I would say it's one hundred
percent of the problem. Okay,Now, unless there's something some other sensor
and I don't know, but someother sensor that is indicating that the pipe
on the other end is clogged andit's shutting that motor off. That would
be an issue, but since thatmotor is hot, I doubt if that's

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the problem. Yeah, the PBCventing pipe, it's only the most two
feet long. It's probably less thanthat. It goes out like a basement
window through the vacination. How oldis a little screen the unit? Yeah,
it's it's good at least twenty yearsold, okay, which could be

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towards the end of its lifetime.Well, the water heaters, you know,
they're good for ten to fifteen years. So I don't know if that
same vent pipe was just in thatmotor was just on this water heater or
the water heater before and this one. Yeah, I actually believe it or
not. The water heater was inthere and tibing in there at least fifty

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sixty years from the previous previous owner, and it was just a regular old
gass water heater taking out through thewindow. All right, Sure, I'm
sure that's not code. Yeah,no, it's not. No. I
would say that that motor is probablyfailing. That's what's preventing it from working.
Okay, you know, without doingany good place to get that,

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oh plumbing supply similar like a Ferguson'sor something along those lines would be where
I looked. All right, allright, thank you very much, you're
quite welcome. Thank you. Allright, Well, the music's playing,
and I'll remind you too. Wedo the show nine to one on Saturday

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and nine to noon tomorrow, whichmeans Danny Boy will bring his work attire
and be ready to go again anddo another fantastic job, and send you
sir very good, good lord willing. We'll both be back tomorrow for more
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