Gary Sullivan 12/3/2023 Hour 2

Gary is back with your calls, questions tips and more. We also replay our interview with our friends at Roto Rooter.

Episode Transcript

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All right, welcome now our numbertwo at home with Gary Sullivan. Yes
it's cloudy, Yes it's wendy.It's un real cold though, I mean
it's tolerable. So we're doing alittle home improvement. You do a little
bit outside, do it quickly withmade rain is after it. But working
mainland on the inside may be puttingup some decorations too. All right,

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our phone numbers eight hundred eight twothree A two five five Rebel line right
here on fifty five airc detalk station. Well, the weekend it is.
How about that we made it andgetting a few things done around the home.
Thanks for joining me as we plowthrough another weekend with home improvement tips
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calls at eight hundred eighty two threeeight two five five. Feel free to
jump on board. Danny can takeyour call and we'll chat about the issues
you may be having at your home. Shelley, welcome. Hi, Thanks
Garrett for taking my call. You'rewelcome. I have a question about my

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water heater. I got a newone somewhere between two and three years ago.
It's an AO brand, okay,and it's been silent. I didn't
even know I had a water heater, and all of a sudden, after
I think it was running my dishwasher, maybe something that required you a lot

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of hot water. I heard fromupstairs, you know, one floor up.
I heard this knocking, like thismetal sound, and I'd never heard
that before. And probably about sixmonths ago, the plumber was here to
kind of just give it a drainit because I know sometimes you can get

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the corrosion or something in there.So that was done about six months ago.
There's a little light that flashes andit says as long as that light
is flashing every so many seconds,that the unit is working properly, and
it is doing that. So Idon't know if I should be worried.
Is this something that just happens overtime with water heaters. No. In

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fact, I don't even really knowwhat that sound would indicate, to be
honest with you, as long asyou're getting hot water and it's saying it's
working fine. One of the thingswhen you first described it as a bang
or a knock or something like that, what went through my mind is,
well, maybe that water heater needsto be drained. But then you said

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the plumber just drained six months ago. So there's a couple of things.
And there's a lot of things.Obviously it could be, but you know,
a couple of the common things.When you hear knocking or rumbling or
you know, noises from a waterheater, it can be you know,
calcium and hard water stains where itrumbles almost sounds like there's rocks in the

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water heater. That'd be one.The other one would be if the water
heaters maybe set a little too high. You know, probably a common temperature
for a water heaters one hundred andtwenty degrees, but if it were real
high, sometimes it will rumble orknock or bang. You can also have

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hot water pipes. Obviously, ahot water heat running, you know,
hot water up through it. Whenit cools, you get kind of you
get expansion contraction of the pipe.You might have a little ping or a
ding, or you know a littlenoise that way. Those are just a
couple of the common ones. Imean, you're not finding water on the
floor or anything where a pressure reliefouve would discharge water or anything along those

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lines. So I really don't knowwhat it could be. And are you
sure it's coming from the water heater. I do believe, so I'll double
check. I'll keep checking it.I guess that's really my answer, to
be honest with you. Let's seeif it continues. I mean, it
could be other things. Like Isaid, I could probably sit here and

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each time I mentioned something, I'llthink of something else. You know.
It could be uh high water pressureand maybe a pipe is rattling. It
could be above that water heater.You see a big it's like a tank.
It almost looks like a propane tank, but it's not. It's a

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reservoir tank. So if the waterpressure is real hot, it'll take that
extra water smooth it out. Thatcould be water logged that made need to
be drained and put air back intoit. I mean, so there's a
bunch of things, but you know, let's you know, does it last
long or is it just bing bingand that's over with. I say it's

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about five or six bangs, likeyou take a hammer and just bang on
metal. I will say, Ido have a Colagan whole house filter,
so I don't think it's hard water. I and I just happened to have
my Collagan unit filters change oday.He checked the water pressure in the house.
I think it was like a Ithink you said fifty something. Okay,

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okay, we thought that was good. So maybe it's maybe it's the
reservoir. I just didn't know why. I'd never heard it before. Now
like I've had it between two andthree years. Like what changed? Yeah,
Well, like everything else, youknow, things can just happen,
you know, I mean things justlike our bodies. You know, over
time, things are changing and thenall of a sudden, you want to

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wake up one day and you're like, oh my gosh. You know it
didn't just happen. It's been happeningfor a while. So I don't know.
I just gave you a couple youknow, when it goes four or
five times, you know again,don't you know the cooling of that pipe
and you know that really would nothave changed over time. I would wouldn't

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think and you know, I'm doyou think I need to call somebody or
you think it's not keep an eyeon it. I'd keep an eye on
it. And maybe when you hearit, if you can run downstairs with
the water heater, see if youcan kind of pinpoint where that noise is
coming from. Get a little more, you know, a little more data
on what we can look at.Okay, or call somebody if you feel

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like you need peace of mind.But I think I just keep an eye
on it and make sure. Let'smake sure it's where that it is,
the water heater, where it's comingfrom, See if we can kind of
pinpoint down a little bit more.Okay, thank you very much. All
right, Shelly. Thanks, Let'sgo to Bill. Bill. Welcome,

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Gary, good morning. You throwout a good product out there, and
U a great program, So thankyou. I I listened to you.
I listened to you every week.It's it's a it's refreshing. Hey,
you were talking about paint and theorange peel and standing. I gotta throw

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out a quick story for you.Years ago, my wife and I rented
a napop it and it was freshlydone over a brand new copets, brand
new paint. So it was anopen concept, right, and you're gonna
laugh with this. It was anopen like a studio, and it was

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open not room to room, butit was wide open concept. And we
were happy with the original paint thatwas on the wall. It was okay.
It was, you know, somekind of a white, basic white.
But we said, you know,let's just put an HL on there
or something. So we taped theroom off in the kitchen and we were

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meticulous. So it seemed like ittook us three days. We painted and
then I says, you know what, let's saw a fan. And we
had a stand up fan and weput it in the living room with a
brand new carpet. I said,by the morning, it'll all dry.
Right, I put the fan on, We went to bed. I woke

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up the next day. You're talkingorange peel. The wall looked like the
wall looked like stucco. What happenedwas the fan that I thought was going
to dry the wall much quicker,blew all the fibers from the carpet on
the wall Oh my, it lookedlike the wall had wings. Best laid

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plans, best laid plans, Bill, Oh my god, so so the
way lord I called him and he'sa paint that contract and I told him
what happened. He laughed about ahalf hour. He says, the only
thing you can do is lately seeingthis, Oh, I did want to
pull that out here because we allwe all tinker with the house and yeah,

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it's trial and error and you're learningby experience. Sure, but I'll
never forget that. Oh my,Well, what's amazing to me, Bill
is I had a grouping of hardwarestores a long time ago, and then
I've been doing this for thirty sevenyears and there isn't a weekend that goes
by that there's another story. Andit's like the first time I ever heard

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that. Oh my god, Ithought I was going to win the pull
a surprise, you know, forlet's put the feel on it. It'll
be Yet it sure seemed like adecent idea to me too when you said
it. Yeah, when you werecalling put it over, don't put it

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over, a new cop it?Oh you go goodness. Uh And this
was like about thirty years ago.Gary, Now I still remember it.
That's a good one. You wantto you want to pick you want to
pick the Walley. I hyperventilate.I that's beautiful, Gary, I have

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a great weekend. Take care ofBille, all right. That's a good
one. That's a good one.I knew when he was telling the story
something something bad happened, but Iwould I didn't see that train coming.
Let's take a break. We comeback, Bob. You'll be up first.
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go twenty one minutes after the topof the hour into the phones. Bob
welcome, Yes, okay, canyou hear me? Gary? I can?

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Okay? Good. I have alarge deck which I want and the
space underneath it. The space underneathI want to make usable partly for storage
like lawnmowers and stuff like that andthen maybe top possibly one end of the
deck there's a nice amount of suncomes in, so I might be able

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to make it into like a sortof like a growing area, greenhouse type
area under the deck. And sothe first issue is, you know,
to keep the water from dripping throughto the space. And so the only
material I thought of so far wouldbe you know, corrugated panels. You
know they I think they're made outof vinyl or something like that. I
don't know what plastic twenty six incheswide. I think they come in eight

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foot lengths, in maybe twelve footlengths, And it seems to me that
would be a logical, you know, practical material diuse. So I would
I would need to screw them carefullyinto the you know ceiling, joyce,
floor, drows whatever you want tocall it, above slight slope down the
right kind of overlap from one panelto the next, and then when it

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gets to the outer edge, thenmaybe i'd actually have some sort of a
little gutter it would drip down intoand then down and down spout like that.
Can you think of anything better thanthat? Well, actually, there
there are several different systems out there, kind of as you described one of
the brand names that I remember isit is called deck Below, and basically

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what it is is pretty similar towhat you're talking about. It's a whole
system is kind of like a finishedceiling which would be made like a vinyl
sighting, and it's it snaps togetherand it has a gasket where it connects
together so it's water tight, hasscrews with washers on it for its water

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tight. And then at the endof that they even have a guttering system
because you don't want all that waterjust dripping the width or the deck.
So it's called deck Below. Iwould look into that rather than you know,
reinventing the wheel and you know,if it's you know, more expensive
than you want to spend, whatyou're speaking of is kind of long that

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same concept version of deck below.Yeah yeah, so so yeah, that's
cool. Is what was the otherpart of that question? I forget what
you said. The other part ofcourse, it would be the exterior,
you know, print like you couldcall the curtain wall or whatever. So
you know, I could go anywherefrom you know, matching the siding on

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the house and put some windows init, you know, And I'm not
not that good of a carker.So you know, I think one first
thing I'm gonna do is just geta contractor give me a total overall price.
And then after I see the stickershock but nothing, I'll start thinking
about I tend to be like anot exactly a cheap skate, but and
I like to a lot the salvagematerial, so I have fun with that

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over the years. So I thinkI'll get a noteball price. But here's
one interesting thing I saw online yesterdayfor the exterior walls, and I'm going
to call them a curtain, isthey have these pretty neat looking, pretty
heavy duty clear plastic panels and youspecify the size, and then they have
the heavy duty gromet embedded in somesort of like mash or canvas around the

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sides, and then and so andthen you know, I guess the space
between the gromets is. So ifyou put a great big giant washer and
a screw it, you could screwthis thing into the six pot six posts
and create and from a distance,you know, you wouldn't you know,
it would be a clear looking thing. It wouldn't. It wouldn't be as
clear as glass, but it'd bekind of nifty. Have you ever used

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those? I have? I have, and you can even get them where
they roll up. I mean they'rereally heavy duty, but you know,
because I think ventilation, you know, is going to be important down there
too. So yeah, haven't itwhere you can either part them and tie
them up to the side or rollthem up or something along nose lines would
be pretty beneficial for you. Also, Oh, that's a good idea.

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Well, I was thinking at theend where it wouldn't show as much.
I could put a door in soI could drive the tractor and other equip
moments and stuff in and there,and then the part that was more visible
from the road down below could bejust these clear up, clear panels.
Okay, so you think of anythingelse for the vert I mean, obviously
there's a huge spectrum of cost andquality of material and all that. I

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could even put the lower I couldput a footworth of stone at the bottoms
to match other parts of the house. It was like a stone wall.
It's all kinds of possibility. Well, yeah, yeah, there is.
You know, he'd built like alittle hip wall and you can put it,
you know, a decorative stone onthe outside, which literally is comes

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in panels, and I think it'sply Gem is the name of the manufacturer.
A friend of mine just did thestone found or the concrete foundation that
was about two feet and a littleone sightly. He used that product and
man, it just stressed up.It changed the whole look of that house.
Okay, slide Jim, okay,okay, I really appreciate it.

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Thank you very much. All Right, you're quite welcome, thank you.
All right. Yeah, that's ayou know, save in that space if
you got it, like a twostory deck, having that space for storage
or additional living space. Uh,there's a lot of really cool things.
I think the decorator decking now evenhas a seal where the boards that composite

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decking go together where it's water tight. So there's a lot going on in
that whole concept of getting the deckarea below dry. You're at home with
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com or call one eight hundred getroto all right back at it, and
you've heard it in the news aboutlead in pipes. It's kind of resurfaced
again. We've been having this conversationsince probably the mid eighties and legislating lead
out, which is in my opinion, that an excellent, excellent idea.

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Lead has caused a lot of problems, especially with children. We use different
types of treatments to keep lead intact. But do you have lead pipes in
your home? Do you have probablylead supply coming to your home? And
there's legislation right now that's going toask to have all lead pipes supply lines

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out of service within ten years.So I thought i'd get a hold of
Paul Abrams from Rotor Ruter and gethis take on it. Paul, how
you doing, Good morning, Gary, I'm fine. I got to ask
you the question, now, youready, that day that day after Thanksgiving?
Was it as busy as we thoughtit was? Or did we help

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some folks out? I think wehelped some folks out. You know,
for the twenty years I've been withRotor Ruter, it's always been our busiest
day of the year, and althoughit was any parts of the country,
some cities were a little slower thanwe've seen in past years. Super that's
good because you know, there isa lot of little, basic, simple,

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little things that we covered a coupleof weeks ago that can make your
life a lot easier. So maybewe did some folks some good, and
that's that's why we do the showa little less over time for a lot
of those service plumbers out there.Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well,
on the news, I guess acouple days ago we heard and revisited the

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whole story of lead pipes and legislationthat's is it been proposed or is it
loll now about removal of lead pipesand homes and also supplies. Can you
kind of help us out there?Yeah, well, it's a proposal by
the Environmental Protection Agency, and theproposal is that they'll replace all lead utility

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service pipes the carry water over thenext ten years and that's going to affect,
you know, cities all over thecountry. We were all sort of
awakened by what happened in Flint,Michigan a few years ago, right,
but wasn't alone those lead pipes areunderground in most states and they're carrying you

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know, our water supplies, andany lead exposure is considered unsafe and that's
been proven really with even brain developmentand small children, and it's not good
for adults either, you know,having lead in our blood and in our
system. So the legislation that's beingproposed is for the service supply, not

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necessarily what's in the homes well asyou know, you know, Gary,
they began this crusade against lead andplumbing back in the nineteen eighties and they
started pushing utilities to to to getlet out of the system. And then
they started realizing that lead is inthe homes. That many of the fawcet

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parts that were installed in homes hadhad led lead lines in them. So
it might not have been you know, solid lead pipes from you know,
from your meter to your faucet,but there were lead sections in a lot
of those. So most of thosewere eliminated in the nineteen eighties. There

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were some more steps in the nineteennineties to get rid of them. And
you know, I think plumbers solderis something the use of lead sawder was
used by plumbers for years. Yeah, going back to years or more sure
and that lead and copper rule innineteen ninety one eliminated, proposed the elimination

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of copper by service plumbers and newconstruction plumbers. And today you know rotor
ritter solders with lead free solder,when we solder at all. Most of
our locations have shifted over to thosepro pressed tools to secure copper fittings without
any lead solder or solder at all, or even open plain torches, which

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can pose a fire risk. Soa lot of those things are going away
in the name of safety, rightright, So is there and I'm sure
there is, But I mean,do you have any idea what the statistics?
In other words, is there howmuch? How big is this problem
still? I mean, you're right, I pretty much much of my working

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life we've talked about lead, leadingpaints, leaden pipes, and everything else.
But how big of an issue isit currently? I guess the supplies
are certainly big, But how bigof an issue is it inside our homes
now? A lot less in modernhomes. You know, there's just you

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know, over the as we talkedabousence in the nineteen eighties nineteen nineties,
you don't see so much of itin that, But we still see a
fair amount of lead in old homes. And you'll find that many of the
homeowners you know, continue to havethat attitude, well, if it ain't
broke, don't fix it. Andit's working fine, but you know that

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lead is still out there. Andthose you know, one hundred year old
homes and eighty year old homes,you know, as they have problems and
a service plumber comes in there andmake some repairs, he's likely to replace
some of those sections with either copperor some sort of a plastic pipe or

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packs or something like that and gettingthem out of there. So there's been
some attrition, But make no mistake, there's a lot of lead piping still
out there in American home You know, there's a couple big things in these
older homes, and I'm talking onehundred year old homes, just like you
were, obviously lead piping. Theother thing we got into last week or

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the week before is nobin tube wiringand nobin twobe wiring. Quite honestly,
a lot of insurance companies aren't eveninsuring the homes now, so it's forcing
homeowners if they ever want to selltheir house or even get insurance to replace
nob and tube wiring. And theseare big, two big issues, right,

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I mean they're big problems, bigexpenses. Do you have people or
do you anticipate people reaching out theroad or router now and saying, Hey,
I need an inspection my home.Do I have lead pipes? Can
I change it out? How muchis it going to cost? I mean,

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are we that far down the roadon that yet or have we been
doing it? We see that,we do see that with people who are
we having older homes. They'll callRota router and say, can can you
get a bumber over here with someexperience and lead and give us some alternatives,

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give us some options and some ideaof what it would cost to say,
replace these lead service lines with PEX, which would be a pretty easy
proposition depending on where those lines arerunning. But PEX is so flexible and
so it can go places that youdon't necessarily have to tear walls open and

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sections of your home to replace thoseold pipes. So I think it's easier
than some people realize. Now.Is it cheap? Of course not.
You know, there you're tying upguys, you know, experienced plumbers for
a few days in most cases theseolder, large homes to do that.
But yeah, I think you're right, Gary, that'll probably probably be something

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that we see where homeowners won't beable to sell those homes if those updates
aren't aren't made, because it's sofar behind the modern plumbing code. Right.
Well, I even thought when Ifirst heard that story break, I
know it's over the next ten years, but I think it's going to get

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some people's attention, and it mighteven get some insurance companies attentions. I
mean, it is. This isn'tjust a story to frighten you. This
is they got all kinds of dataon this. And you know, lead
is is dangerous. It gets inyour blood systems, and older is a

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few things. So you know,nobody's going to want to buy a home
that isn't brought up to code.And quite honestly, people that are living
in these older homes are going tohave second thoughts. How much is this
stuff hurting me? Now? Well, you're right. You know we know
that long time exposure to lead ithas terrible effects on children's growth their development.

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I saw one quote, Gary wherea pediatrician said millions of children have
had their water delivered through a poisonousstraw, and she was referred to the
fact that in many American communities,the water they drink is still running right
through those poisonous lead pipes. Yeah, so how does this affect Rotor Router

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where you had You know, whenit's talk about changing or replacing the service
supplies, who handles that, whodoes that kind of work? Is that
the cities aren't going to do that, right, They're going to contract large
plumbing services, I guess to dothat, right, they will, and
and ones that are you know,used to you know, they have that

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sort of scale to to replace milesand miles of service pipes. And that's
not Roto Router. We do residentialand commercial and white municipal. But you
know, so maybe in some instancessome of our larger branches might get involved

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in some of that, but forthe most part, those are going to
be plumbing construction companies, contractors ona huge scale and they'll be tasked with
that. And my understanding is thatPresident Biden earmarked fifteen billion dollars from removing
those lead service lines, and mostof that is paid for out of the

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infrastructure law that was passed in twentytwenty one. So the good news is
that most of that money is alreadyearmarked and the raining costs, of course,
will be paid for by the waterutility providers who turn to charge you
and me and others. But Ithink it's money well spent. You know,
there's a lot of waste in government, there's no doubt about that.

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But boy, you know, thisis one where we're actually doing something that
benefits a lot of people, rightright, And and you know, once
it's taken care of from this supplyline, and then we have to look
at our own homes and our ownresponsibilities. The big buzzword all the time
in the last ten years has beenaffordable housing. As housing stock gets older

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in our cities, they have theseproblems with lead pipes and knob and tube
wiring, and but you know thosechanges have to be made in the houses
too. Are you still got kindof the same problem? You're right,
you know, they you know,there's the big straw and then they're the

(33:45):
smaller straws, right right. Thatlead and copper rule, you know,
had plumbers, you know, givingup the solder. We had the same
time. It mandated that plumbing fixtureslike faucets and valves could no longer be
manu factured or repaired with any leadcomponents. But make no mistake, those
are out there and we see themdaily. Yeah. Yeah, Well,

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and so many people that have housesand have older homes, they may not
be aware. I mean, Iknow it's been in the news. I
know it's been changing. You andI have watched the transition take place for
the last twenty thirty years, butthere are homeowners that really don't. So

(34:28):
I really wanted to get you onand I really appreciate you stopping buy and
having this conversation. If people willhear this in the news and their concern,
can they reach out the rotor routerwhere you would have a plumber just
kind of inspect and kind of givethem a clue of what's going on in
their house or whether it's all clear. I mean, is that something you

(34:50):
folks would do? It is?Yeah, and especially you know I would.
I don't want to panic anyone.If your home was built, you
know, in the nineteen eighties orafter, you have very low risk,
right and in the nineteen seventies ofsome risk. But if you're going back
to a home that was produced beforeto say, the nineteen seventies and yeah,
especially in those one hundred year oldhomes, but the forties and thirties,

(35:14):
there's there's quite a bit of leadin those and so those would be
the people that would think about it. And if you have lead and you're
you know that it's in your publicsupply. For instance, I think it's
Rhode Island, Michigan. There's afew states that have a lot more lead
than others, but we all haveit. But there's things you can do.
You can get those, you know, a whole house water filtration system.

(35:37):
They're not all created equal, buta lot of them do a great
job of either eliminating lead or reducingit to such trace amounts that you know
you're out of the woods in termsof big danger. And I think you
know those are that's a that's aworthwhile investment. If you are in an
area that has lead service pipes inthe ground that that lead to all the

(36:00):
neighborhoods in your town, or youlive in an older home, you can
filter out a lot of that calleda band aid, it's a it's a
it's a protection system, but youknow, we believe in it. Then
many rotor rooted branches are really pushinginto that. We've done a lot of
that over the last few years andwe see that as it's a big part

(36:21):
of our future is water quality,right, you know, there's not just
lead, but you've got these foreverchemicals and things like that, so sure,
yeah, there's not just rotor rooter. There are many companies out there
that offer great filtration systems for yourhome, and that's a good way to
get out in front of this problem. But there's no substitute for just replacing

(36:44):
the dog on lead right out therehomes. Well, I agree, and
I'm sure you do the water testingin the homes and you can check on
how much you know, chlorines inthe water, which is terrible for some
of our toilet parts, and howmuch leads in the water and find now
exactly what's in there. You folksdo that, and then people can you

(37:04):
know, begin to start learning,you know a little bit about their water
quality. Yeah, they can.And you know, if you have any
questions or concerns, I mean,I would say you can definitely go to
Rotoruador dot com, enter your zipcode and you'll see what local services are
offered by that rotoruator okay, andthen look for water software infiltration system options,

(37:27):
and then go to the EPA dotgov site and then type in lead
pipes and you'll see good government informationthat is reliable, not necessarily a sales
pitchka. You know this is andI think people need to educate themselves so
they don't panic, but they understandthe risk. Right, just start the

(37:47):
learning curve. Paul, thank youso much for your time today. I
really really appreciate it. Always apleasure, Geary, all right, have
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on that too is if you areconcerned, have your water tested. Just
because what we just talked about withthe lead pipes and everything doesn't mean you

(40:45):
have lead in your waterline, okay, but potential is certainly there. All
right, let's thanks for hanging on, Scottie. I appreciate it. And
how can I help you or youhelp me? Well? I was thinking
of the I Heard it call withthe woman with the noisy water heater,
and uh, I just one thingthat has not talked about too much is

(41:07):
that there's an anode rod in thewater heater tank to help preferentially have a
corrosion on that ano rod instead ofa tank liner. And I thought,
maybe if it's I don't remember howmany years she had that water heater,
but if there is some corrosion starting, maybe the changing change in temperatures when
it goes through heating cycle or changingpressure when the waters turned on could be

(41:28):
causing some of that noise. Andand I would always buy a twelve year
water heater. And after the thirdone that failed after six years where they
start leaking, one of the Ithink was Rudd, their service person said,
well, did you ever check theanoid dramic? So no, I
didn't know much about an anoid rod, and she said, well, I

(41:49):
didn't get my full warranty on itbecause I hadn't checked it. But so
the for the water heater, Ido check that, and I checked mine,
I think after the three year point, and replaced it with a magnesium
one, and I thought that mightbe a little lesson learn to pass on.
And a sidebar to that is alot of times when you have that
issue on a nanoorrod, you'll alsohave an odor. I don't know if

(42:09):
you ran into that or not,but you almost have a sulfuric odor from
the water. It's rotten eggs smell, and that's a sign of a nano
rod with corrosion. So you know, as I told her, and you
can relate to the Scottie when you'retalking about these things, there could be
a lot of these issues. Thatmight be another one. Oh yeah,

(42:34):
so that would be worthwhile to checkthat anodod. I think where I grew
up, we have a water heaterlast fifteen years, but the water was
better quality there. But here insouthern California where the reservoir we get the
water from, it passes through atunnel through the mountains and it picks up
a lot of sulfur and stuff andit becomes maybe the pH balance, as
I said, attempts to crow thinksmore. Very good. Appreciate the tip.

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