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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H Well, the weekend's here and welcome a board.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're at home with Carrie Salvin, taking it through another weekend,
getting a few things done around the home. And boy,
as we been going through all kinds of weather all over,
whether you're in the south and midwest and northeast southwest,
it seems like we've uh, well, we've got winter going on,
and it's it's kind of just a little bit where
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I'm at, and it reminds me to remind you to
kind of get things cleaned up a little bit. I
am not asking you to do a whole lot, but
just for your own I guess, your own maintenance of
your home. And what I'm talking about is if you're
in an area where you had some snow and a
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lot of rock salt was used on the roads, you
drag that stuff into your driveway, you drag it into
your garage, you drag it into your house, and that
salt residue when you get moisture added to it, whether
it's a drizzle outside or maybe water dripping off a
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car and hitting that residue of salt in the garage,
it creates a salty brine solution. And at that concrete
isn't see it gets into the capillaries that concrete. It's
very corrosive. So usually once we get above freezing after
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a really cold snap, I strongly recommend you to, you know,
get out there with the street room, sweep as much
of it off, and you know, put it in a can.
You can even reuse it if you want. I mean,
it'll melt snow still, but don't just hose it off
into our waterways. But broom clean it first. And you
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know whether you wherever you want to put it in
the canst and reuse it or just but get it
off that concrete. And after you've swept it off again,
if it's above freezing, and go ahead and get the
garden hose and you have to get a pressure washer,
just kind of flood that area and get whatever residues
left that you haven't swept off, get off that concrete.
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So same way with floors inside you've got a hardwood
floor for you or whether it's a a lamined floor,
engineered wood floor, even even a linoium even carpet for
that matter, you drag in that residue of salt, and
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you know, if you used it on your sidewalks to
your driveway or walked out in the street, and then
you walk in that house. That residue can get on
that type of flooring and quite honestly, over times kind
of kill the shine and create some problems for you.
So again I've mentioned the Jaws cleaners many times, and
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they've got a hardwood floor cleaner and it does all
kinds of floors. It's a pH neutral and that'd be
a great way to get that residue off there. So
those are a couple easy things get you outside a
little bit and easy to do. Nobody's nobody's gonna get
over work doing that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But some of the more.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Scare things, I guess and damaging issues i'd like you
to scout around is for water leaks. We had a
really tough call yesterday where I think it was Cherise,
I still remember because he took it really well, but
he had ice dams that really caused damage into a
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house where water was backing up the roof and getting
in and he noticed the water stain on the ceiling
and he could see the ice dams and we talked
at length about that, and you know those you can't avoid.
Windows happen you're pretty much gonna be called to action
and get something done there. But other things are maybe
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a little slower to react to. Maybe you don't even
notice them right away. But take a look around windows,
around doors. If you live in an older home, you
got marble window sills, maybe, and look for plastered damage
underneath those. Inside the window jam, there's usually a you know,
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a piece of wood trim in there, and there might
be little buttons over a screw head that are you know,
on the top part of that window. And if you
see a little water staining around those, or maybe you
saw some dripping and you couldn't figure out where it
was coming from.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Take a look at those.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Take a look at that piece of wood, because a
lot of times will have you know, a little moisture
and it's actually doesn't really show up as a drip.
It's behind a wall, but you can keep an eye
on it because it's still water that's penetrating in the
envelope your home. Said it many times, and you know
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I have that water always winds, it will take a
path of least resistance and it will eventually find its
way to the house. Inside the house, those little stains,
you can you got to start figuring out where where
that water is coming from, and that that's the hardest part.
But as I described at the top of the window,
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on that little wood trim up there, there's a good
chance that is coming either through the sighting missing some
mortar in a brick house, or a crack and a brick,
or water's getting up behind the gutter and then getting
down inside that wall. And that's worth showing up. So
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if you see that, you know, drip or that stain,
or you can tell there's water in there, you know,
like I said, keep an eye on it. But get
out there and try to do a little assessment about
that exterior wall. Sometimes you can just be unsealed brick
or a crack and a brick. Sometimes when it warms
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up a little bit in the spring, get a hose
out there and start wetting areas down and try to
get that leak to reappear. But those things you just
can't forget about them. I mean you shouldn't forget about them.
It should always be in the back of your mind.
When it rains real heavy or it blows real hard
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from the north and that's the north side of the house,
and you know, check those things. It's as I always say,
I always get the call of how do I how
do I clean that up? How do I paint that?
How do I set that stain? And I usually said, listen,
we can fix the stain. That's really not the problem.
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That's what you see. But the problem is you got
water getting inside the wall of you know, it's an
next tier wall. It's inside the ext tier in the interior.
It's in there. There's insulation in there. That's a problem.
But you can't just say, oh, never mind, that's not
that important. So keep an eye on it. Steve, welcome,
(07:57):
How you doing, Yes, sir, fine, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You had a caller yesterday and I heard him once
before that it was having trouble.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
With his water pressure. Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Years back, I was in the business doing this. If
you use a dull bit sometimes when I'd say eight
inch plastic pipe mm hmm. The guy was losing on
and off los his quession. We couldn't figure out why
I took the shut off off and inside the shut
off was a little flapper because the blit got dull
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and it didn't cut to the last piece mm hmm,
and the piece got inside the shut off, and why
the guy would be taking a shower, the pressure would
they were just gone.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It just worked like a diaphragm and shut it down, right.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It worked like it worked like a shut off out.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, it's gotta be someone somewhere, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I would have the town come in and take the
shut off right completely off and look inside it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I think that's kind of where I left him is
you might want to have the city water come out
and take a look at it too.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah you did say you did say something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I never in my.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Life ever had I used to do a lot of
lot at tabs. But yeah, the pieces inside the guy
kept saying, I'd be taking a shower all of a sudden,
just shut up.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, or I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate that tip.
You're right, I didn't get it narrowed down that far.
But there's obviously some impediment in there, and they do
get trapped, and they with that pressure, they can kind
of you. It's like beating a drum, right, it goes on,
it goes off, it goes on, it goes off. So
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he appreciate Steve.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Hey, if you'd like to join us.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Do so.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and we'll take your calls regarding your home maintenance repair.
Maybe uh, doing a little remodeling this year. Uh, and
that'll be interesting too. The labor shortage continues to be
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looks like it's going to stay challenging. Plan ahead book,
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we'll take that break. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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And back here do we go. You're at home with
Gary Salvan.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Twenty minutes after the top of they are talking a
little home improvement and uie welcome.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Hello. Are you familiar with freeze miser as a device
to go on your hydrant to keep it from freezing?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, you're gonna have to coach me through it. Though
I heard the name and I know what it is,
but I can't recall it.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Ka from their website is I think Freezemeiser dot com.
I've bought mine on Amazon. But it's a little device
you just screw on your hydrant, right and it has
a sensor on it that measures the temperature of the water.
And it starts dripping about thirty seven degrees okay, and
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it opens up you know more, you know, a colder
it gets. And I bought mine during that freeze we
had here in Louisiana. I didn't get it put on
the worst part of the freeze because you know, the
hose will be I didn't want to handle the hose
when it's you know, real cold. And uh it does work. Uh,
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I hadn't got the best situation. I got about one
hundred feet of hose now, so it opens up more
than I like. You know, Uh, I get a hydrant
closer to the camper and it'll be better, you know,
because uh the other morning when it was real cold,
I went out there and it was spewing water pretty
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dang good.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah. So the so this is off a camper hose
bib is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
What I did? I put a I put a hose splitter. Uh,
you know, ninety grade I ain't gole hoe splitter on
the camper, then that, uh one and one of the
wise then the other wise going into the camper.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, can you put the freeze on the one?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Why?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
One part of the one?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Right? I got you right, And it works, you know,
real good. But it wastes more water than I like it.
But I had also put one on the hydrant where
I got it hooked up, and it doesn't come on
because it's still got temperature coming out of the ground.
Probably I'm going to get a gas fordy degrees.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You know, warmer, right, probably warmer.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That one doesn't open up. But going into my camper, it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Does very good.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I knew the name, but I kind of forgot what
it was. But I remember soon you started telling me
that you know that it doesn't exist. Yeah, a lot
of people and even in homes when they have a
you know, spicketts outside and they forgot to take the
hose off and didn't shut the water off from the inside.
I'm telling you, March I guarantee you you know, we'll
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get all kinds of calls that she say, turned my
whole hose on. It is you know, it's leaking in
my basement or it's leaking in the house. And yeah, well,
you know, even if you got a frostproof faucet on
a house, you got to get that hose off because
the hose is frozen. There's nowhere for it to go.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Now Here, louis Anna, we're not too familiar with the
you know, frost proof you know that, I know what
it did, but I've never seen one myself.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, it kind of drains itself. It's tilted down.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And you know, yeah, yeah, I've been listening to you
for years, but this it is not a flow through.
You know. You just screw it on. Open up the bows, right,
and they're about thirty dollars apiece, right, Well, well worth it,
but I won't keep you. But you know it might
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not be for everybody, especially up north.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well, I mean you know, yeah, well yeah, and in
our cases, it's really just a matter of shutting the
water off, you know, either outside or inside, depending on
the fauces you have, and just get the hose off.
But you know, the weather you guys had, the weather
we've had this year, it's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, we're up, I'm up North Louisiana, Sport. Yep, we
didn't get any of that snow or anything here. Yeah,
but I know we got down probably at least ten degrees.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I bet you did.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I bet you did, and you would not want to
use that or that would constantly be skewing that much
water out up north.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Right right right, Yeah, they have other problems in well
youI thank you very much for the call. I certainly
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we were just kind of chatting during one of the breaks.
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There's an older rotor router commercial and it was talking
about fall time and you know, protecting and shutting off
the water, and said that Danny, well, you know, especially
where I am, we had we tickled zero and maybe
one or two degrees below zero this past week. And
you know, if you still got your hose attached to
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a faucet outside and it's a frost proof and that
hose is filled with water and that water backed up
into that pipe, there's probably not enough water pressure in
there to really create a big problem right now. But
when that starts falling, or you turn that faucet on
when it is stalled, there's gonna be a lot of
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people that, you know, get the turn off the water.
You know they're going to find out that that that
tube in there on that frostproof faucet because you left
the hose on is split. It's and then when you
turn that pressure back on there and it's are spraying
all over, you know, it's gonna be spraying inside the
wall or beyond that. And that's that's a big issue.
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That's where we're always kind of talking about getting a
hose off because if it's all field, there's nowhere to go.
And you he's comment too, if you got the hose
up and you just put one of those why's on
there and uh with that little apparass that allows us
to drift, that's gonna help. You know, water moving certainly
always freeze is a little slower, all right. The number
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it we go thirty three minutes after the top of
they are tiring a little home improvement. We're also talking
about how the house did you know during the cold
snap and the snow and all that. So one of
the things is I was talking about looking for water
stains inside the house. Obviously the problems from the outside,
but you know, trying to zero in on that another thing,
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and a lot of these things you just find in
other homes, even in my own home when it gets
really cold. I think I mentioned this a couple of
weeks ago, to just kind of check different areas down
by the base boards, underneath the windows, see if you
can find by the electrical outlets, see if you can
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find that draft. I mean, just like, jeez, this one
area is really cold. And as I was just kind of,
you know, just going around and just checking different things.
That's not all I do. But you accidentally bump into
things sometimes, and this is exactly what happened. I accidentally
bumped into it in our bedroom, just taking off my
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shoes and standing right by a bay window. Wow, there's
a nice little draft underneath that base board.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And so.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I know exactly where it is. I haven't been out
there to discover it yet, but I can tell you
what it is. As at bay window canni leavers out
away from the house, there's at the bottom of that
there is a piece of plywood. Now there's usually insulation
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in that. I don't know what kind of shape that's in.
I don't know if it's just a gap and it
needs calking, whether an animal got in there. You know,
I haven't heard anything, I don't see anything. I don't
have any leaks, I don't have any problems. But there
was definitely a draft, so it's got to be you know,
and take a look at and really, as you look
at your house, kind of think that way too. On
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the inside of the house, you're you know, you're looking
for just a draft, a little colder spot, a little
water stain, and then just going outside and looking in
that area. And I have two windows in my home.
I think that's the only two. That one is an
a bay window, but it does can't leave her a
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little bit out over the framing of the house. And
the other one is a bay window. It does, you know,
maybe two or three feet even probably two and you
get down, get outside when it warms up a little
bit and snow melts, and you get underneath that little
those two little windows, and you'll you'll see some things
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you probably don't want to see. You could find, uh,
you know, gaps and you can use calwking outside. Always
pay attention to it, even when it's cold. See what
your limitations are on the product. But you know, zink,
it's really bitterly cold, and then we've had some really
hot summers that that movement of the wood and the
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expansion and contraction will break a calking seal in a
lot of cases. I was talking about using acrylic silknized
calkings kind of filling in those gaps. Even if it's
a larger gap, maybe the size of your finger. You
can use a colock saver or a backer rock, which
is a open cell foam roping so it compresses down
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to a smaller man. You can take your fingers and
literally just shove it up into that crevice and then
put your beat of calking right over that and seal
that up really nicely.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If you have.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
As I described that plywood base underneath the bay window
and it's butted up to brick. Those see, there's expansion contraction,
there's movement at different rates, so there's more of a
tug in some of those areas. And on the outside
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of the home. The one thing you can take a
look at is your thing calking. Your thing cocking is paintable.
There's one called quad and it's a very very good one.
Use it a lot with sightings, even hardyboard sightings and
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mixed substrates like metal to brick or wood to brick.
In a quad calking, you get a good beat of
that in there. It's paintable, best adhesion, best flexibility, and
you'll be able to seal that up fairly quickly. And
you know, luckily on that particular wall, even the draft
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is and it wasn't like it was forming ice on
the you know, walls on the inside or anything, but
it could and in some of the older homes if
you didn't have insulation in there, and if there was
you know, pretty tell some pipe running behind that wall,
it could freeze, right. But just the discomfort of drafts
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and then the ability for the furnace maybe not to
satisfy the thermostat it runs more than it should, So
calking around those areas that are vulnerable certainly a good idea.
And again, if you get some snow melt, you can
get outside comfortably and you're not going to mess up
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to your heart or anything because it's so wet. Really,
look at wherever there's penetrations in the.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Into the house.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I mean, we've got cable lines, we got gas lines,
we got electric lines, we got dryer vents, we got
high efficiency furnace PVC pipes. We've got a lot of
penetrations going. You know, you got your pipe for your discharge,
for your sum pump, and those all have to be
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calocked in place or or use expandable foam or something.
There's got to be You can't just lead that gap
around those pipes. I mean you can, but you're you're
really asking for trouble. A driving rain may find its
way into your house. Draft when it's really cold or
really hot, certainly find its way into the house. And
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then again, you know, from an energy efficiency standpoint, not
so energy efficient, so we really need to close those up.
Insects that's where they find their way into your house.
It doesn't take long to take that walk around the
house and catch those things that are very easy to spot.
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I'll tell you another thing that's going to be a problem,
especially if you're listening to me right now and you
live in an area where you have a lot of
heavy soil, clay based soil, not so much with the
sand based, but real heavy clay soil. We had a
really hot summer where I'm at, really cold winter so far.
We had a really wet spring last year. We had
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a really really dry summer, and all that is just
making that clay expand contract, expand contract. And if you've
got you know, gutters on your house, and we got
the down spouts. Yesterday, we were talking to Chris from
Zollar Pumps and he was talking about discharging the sump
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water the sump pump and was discharging water away from
the house. And you know, if you go out and
check and see where that pipe is coming, another penetration
coming out of your house, right, See, how's that discharged?
Is that a pipe that goes underground? Where's it empty?
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And is it still lined up? And that's where we're
going to find some issues. I can almost guarantee it
whether it's a down spout whether it's a some discharge pipe,
they're not going to be lined up like they are
because those pipes inside the ground is that clay expands,
contracts and shrinks and does all that that movement will
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eventually it won't be all of them, but there'll be
a couple places in your house where they don't line
up anymore. They't have to be religned. Or the the
pipe that's in the ground that's coming up through the surface,
it's going to have settled and then moved a little bit,
and you know, only half the water's getting in that pipe.
That's something that's really worth taking a look at and
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correcting it. And it's not that big of a deal
to correct it. And I've had this happen before, where
you know, it was it was cold out and all
of a sudden I saw that the sump discharge pipe
was just it wasn't lined up, and it was going
into a four inch there's a one inch pipe going
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into a four inch pipe. So and it was connecting
into the footer drains and or not the foot of drains,
but going out into the yard away from the footer drains,
and holy cow, that that thing was probably wasn't half
of the water going in there, and just an emergency
thing you can create maybe with a little sheet aluminum
(31:58):
making like almost like a funnel and some duct tape
or something and take care of the issue in the
springtime when you work out there a little more comfortably.
But those things do have to be lined up, and
you know, like you know, here we go again. Water
is your number one enemy, and not controlling that water
around the house just you know you're losing a battle
before the war starts. So take that walk around the house.
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Speaker 1 (35:02):
Let's go to bread Brad.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Welcome.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Hey, good morning, Gary morning. I love your show, love
your show. Thank lots of good advice.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Commer.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Hey, I'm in Greenville, Georgia, and I've got a nineteen
sixty nine seventy two brick house and the shingles burn
up on it. It's kind of unusual construction and I
can't get the right ventilation up under the shingles right,
and I don't quite I'm not sure how to go
(35:33):
about fixing it. Other been putting a baffle between every rafter.
The way the house is built, it's got a real
low slope, you know, not like a four to twelve route.
It's like a three something real real low, and instead
of having conventional trustes, they put in a center line trust.
(35:53):
The basement of the house has a whole series of
heavy four inch steel poles on like seven foot centers,
and then all of the load bearing walls on the
next floor, you know, on first floor, are built directly
over those, and then there's a main tress that rush
supports the ceiling, the ridge cap of the ceilings all
(36:14):
over the center on all of those beams underneath, right,
and then they cut like a bird's beak in the rafters.
They're two to six raptors, but they cut like a
bird's beak. So there's only like a four inch gap
from the top of the brick wall and the dry
wall inside there's just a light gap, and there's like
(36:35):
a three foot I think you call it saffot. There's
sofft and facia yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So the safa
comes out and then there's a whole bunch of well
there's probably fifteen, uh you know, six by twelve vents
the vent the roof, right there's the vents get plugged
(36:55):
up that the house had been rented and the renter
filled in with fiberglass insul well, he blocked that. He
blocked the airpath running under the shingles, right, So anyhow,
the roofs and rough shape, and I just get hit
with a tornado and so I'm gonna have to I'm
gonna have to fix it. You know, I didn't totally
rip it up, but I mean, it's just gotta be
six and I'm thinking, now's the time and put in battles. Right.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Well, yeah, I mean the biggest thing from what I hear,
and you know a lot going on there, that's for sure.
You talked about the softs and then so just so
we're on the same page, there is a formula for
how much ventilation you need to adequately move the hot
(37:45):
air out of the attic to exchange it. So it's
for whatever, for every three hundred square foot footprint of
the house, not the square footage, but the foot print
of the house, you should have one square foot of
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uninterrupted ventilation split fifty to fifty. So those soft events,
they're totally interrupted, so they're virtually useless right now with
insulation over them. But even when the insulation's off, you
got screen in there, and you got louvers in there,
it's probably you know, it's probably twenty or thirty percent open.
(38:32):
It's not one hundred percent open. Okay, yeah, okay, So
then you split fifty to fifty. You got air coming
in and then you got to have air going out.
So you want to get that AGC to work, almost
like a chimney. You know, you got to venting at
the lowest part, and you got venting at the highest part.
You're bringing even at the air temperature outside is ninety degrees,
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that would mean in that attic it's probably one hundred
and thirty to one hundred and forty. It can't go
out those ridge vents unless there's air there that is
available from the environment to replace the hot air that's
going out the ridge vent. Otherwise it's just stagnant. So
you virtually had nothing, and that's the shingles got burned up.
So you know, the thing is quick, real quick.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
What's the upper limit on that attic temperature to where
you don't burn your shingles? What's the upper limit?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I have no idea, but I've been in atticts where
it can go one hundred and forty degrees.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
If it's not ventilated.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, I mean, you know, you'd like to keep it
around a hunter one hundred and ten at max. But
I can tell you so many shingle warranties are voided
if the you know, let's say, the longevity of it
is you know, half of what it was supposed to be.
And you start pressing the roofing company or the shingle company,
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and they come out and they go like, ventilation is wrong,
it's inadequate, can't cover. I mean, yeah, I'll bet you.
I'll bet you have the roofs that are put on.
The ventilation in the house isn't done right. Yeah, So
we got to open up those soffits. We've got to
measure how much air. We've got to measure the footprint,
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and we gotta you know, we got to allow that
hot air just to escape.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Okay, so that's that's You got me on the right
track on protecting the shingles. Now, trying to insulate the
house is a different issue.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Some way, some way to seal so you can you
can pack in, you know, a nice thick layer of
insulation without block off the air channel.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, I mean yeah, so they make they make I
think you use the word baffles before and again depending
on how that house is constructed. Basically, I've seen people
put boxes that extend up, you know, make boxes to
(40:58):
allow that ventil relation to come in from the soffits
above where the insulation is. But usually what they are
is they're like cardboarders, you know, fireproof styrofoam baffles that
slide in between the trusses and basically create an air shoot,
right yeah, and they're just stapled right Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
(41:23):
what do you call them baffels? Yeah, they'll be up
by you know, you go in a big box store,
it'll be right near the insallation. And then that's basically
what you're doing is you're just creating an air channel
to bring air from the outdoors up through that. It's
almost like cold air returns.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
You got the trustes and instead of sudden studs.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
Like classical material that that you just send up for
each individual, right rafts. You know, they're not all the same,
you know, right, they come and go a little bit.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Oh yeah, and you can kind of fold them, you
can cut them, you can.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Do all kinds of things.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Okay, it just goes.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Down to the base, you know, where it extends over
the house, you know, the softened area, you just creating
an air channel.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Yeah, okay, So back back to the ventilation. Then three
hundred square footage of house footprint of house there you
need did you say one square foot of.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Vent one square foot of uninterrupted vent and most of
those vents are going to be interrupted between seven, you know,
around seventy to seventy five percent when you get the.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Screen in there, twelve So it's six inches by twelve
inch vent with a screen in it, it's it's equivalent
to like four inches or yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, so you got plenty to work with.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
Yeah, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Gar.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, and if you make an air you always want
to have more coming in than going out. So you know,
if you ended up with sixty uh um, if you
end up with sixty percent coming in, that's fine, but
they always kind of tell you fifty to fifty. But
I've also said sixty forty. You got sixty coming in,
(43:10):
forty going out, you'll be fine. But that'll solve your issue.
All right, Thank you, sar, You're quite welcome. Thank you.
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Takes it right with a call to Gary Sllivan at
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Home with Garysellivan.
H Well, the weekend's here and welcome a board.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're at home with Carrie Salvin, taking it through another weekend,
getting a few things done around the home. And boy,
as we been going through all kinds of weather all over,
whether you're in the south and midwest and northeast southwest,
it seems like we've uh, well, we've got winter going on,
and it's it's kind of just a little bit where
(01:01):
I'm at, and it reminds me to remind you to
kind of get things cleaned up a little bit. I
am not asking you to do a whole lot, but
just for your own I guess, your own maintenance of
your home. And what I'm talking about is if you're
in an area where you had some snow and a
(01:23):
lot of rock salt was used on the roads, you
drag that stuff into your driveway, you drag it into
your garage, you drag it into your house, and that
salt residue when you get moisture added to it, whether
it's a drizzle outside or maybe water dripping off a
(01:46):
car and hitting that residue of salt in the garage,
it creates a salty brine solution. And at that concrete
isn't see it gets into the capillaries that concrete. It's
very corrosive. So usually once we get above freezing after
(02:08):
a really cold snap, I strongly recommend you to, you know,
get out there with the street room, sweep as much
of it off, and you know, put it in a can.
You can even reuse it if you want. I mean,
it'll melt snow still, but don't just hose it off
into our waterways. But broom clean it first. And you
(02:32):
know whether you wherever you want to put it in
the canst and reuse it or just but get it
off that concrete. And after you've swept it off again,
if it's above freezing, and go ahead and get the
garden hose and you have to get a pressure washer,
just kind of flood that area and get whatever residues
left that you haven't swept off, get off that concrete.
(02:53):
So same way with floors inside you've got a hardwood
floor for you or whether it's a a lamined floor,
engineered wood floor, even even a linoium even carpet for
that matter, you drag in that residue of salt, and
(03:14):
you know, if you used it on your sidewalks to
your driveway or walked out in the street, and then
you walk in that house. That residue can get on
that type of flooring and quite honestly, over times kind
of kill the shine and create some problems for you.
So again I've mentioned the Jaws cleaners many times, and
(03:37):
they've got a hardwood floor cleaner and it does all
kinds of floors. It's a pH neutral and that'd be
a great way to get that residue off there. So
those are a couple easy things get you outside a
little bit and easy to do. Nobody's nobody's gonna get
over work doing that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But some of the more.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Scare things, I guess and damaging issues i'd like you
to scout around is for water leaks. We had a
really tough call yesterday where I think it was Cherise,
I still remember because he took it really well, but
he had ice dams that really caused damage into a
(04:21):
house where water was backing up the roof and getting
in and he noticed the water stain on the ceiling
and he could see the ice dams and we talked
at length about that, and you know those you can't avoid.
Windows happen you're pretty much gonna be called to action
and get something done there. But other things are maybe
(04:42):
a little slower to react to. Maybe you don't even
notice them right away. But take a look around windows,
around doors. If you live in an older home, you
got marble window sills, maybe, and look for plastered damage
underneath those. Inside the window jam, there's usually a you know,
(05:02):
a piece of wood trim in there, and there might
be little buttons over a screw head that are you know,
on the top part of that window. And if you
see a little water staining around those, or maybe you
saw some dripping and you couldn't figure out where it
was coming from.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Take a look at those.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Take a look at that piece of wood, because a
lot of times will have you know, a little moisture
and it's actually doesn't really show up as a drip.
It's behind a wall, but you can keep an eye
on it because it's still water that's penetrating in the
envelope your home. Said it many times, and you know
(05:45):
I have that water always winds, it will take a
path of least resistance and it will eventually find its
way to the house. Inside the house, those little stains,
you can you got to start figuring out where where
that water is coming from, and that that's the hardest part.
But as I described at the top of the window,
(06:05):
on that little wood trim up there, there's a good
chance that is coming either through the sighting missing some
mortar in a brick house, or a crack and a brick,
or water's getting up behind the gutter and then getting
down inside that wall. And that's worth showing up. So
(06:28):
if you see that, you know, drip or that stain,
or you can tell there's water in there, you know,
like I said, keep an eye on it. But get
out there and try to do a little assessment about
that exterior wall. Sometimes you can just be unsealed brick
or a crack and a brick. Sometimes when it warms
(06:51):
up a little bit in the spring, get a hose
out there and start wetting areas down and try to
get that leak to reappear. But those things you just
can't forget about them. I mean you shouldn't forget about them.
It should always be in the back of your mind.
When it rains real heavy or it blows real hard
(07:12):
from the north and that's the north side of the house,
and you know, check those things. It's as I always say,
I always get the call of how do I how
do I clean that up? How do I paint that?
How do I set that stain? And I usually said, listen,
we can fix the stain. That's really not the problem.
(07:34):
That's what you see. But the problem is you got
water getting inside the wall of you know, it's an
next tier wall. It's inside the ext tier in the interior.
It's in there. There's insulation in there. That's a problem.
But you can't just say, oh, never mind, that's not
that important. So keep an eye on it. Steve, welcome,
(07:57):
How you doing, Yes, sir, fine, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You had a caller yesterday and I heard him once
before that it was having trouble.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
With his water pressure. Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Years back, I was in the business doing this. If
you use a dull bit sometimes when I'd say eight
inch plastic pipe mm hmm. The guy was losing on
and off los his quession. We couldn't figure out why
I took the shut off off and inside the shut
off was a little flapper because the blit got dull
(08:31):
and it didn't cut to the last piece mm hmm,
and the piece got inside the shut off, and why
the guy would be taking a shower, the pressure would
they were just gone.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It just worked like a diaphragm and shut it down, right.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It worked like it worked like a shut off out.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, it's gotta be someone somewhere, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I would have the town come in and take the
shut off right completely off and look inside it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I think that's kind of where I left him is
you might want to have the city water come out
and take a look at it too.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah you did say you did say something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I never in my.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Life ever had I used to do a lot of
lot at tabs. But yeah, the pieces inside the guy
kept saying, I'd be taking a shower all of a sudden,
just shut up.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, or I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate that tip.
You're right, I didn't get it narrowed down that far.
But there's obviously some impediment in there, and they do
get trapped, and they with that pressure, they can kind
of you. It's like beating a drum, right, it goes on,
it goes off, it goes on, it goes off. So
(09:37):
he appreciate Steve.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Hey, if you'd like to join us.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Do so.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and we'll take your calls regarding your home maintenance repair.
Maybe uh, doing a little remodeling this year. Uh, and
that'll be interesting too. The labor shortage continues to be
iabor shortages right. Getting things done is challenging, and it
(10:05):
looks like it's going to stay challenging. Plan ahead book,
talk about timetables, get ahead of the game. All right,
we'll take that break. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (13:10):
And back here do we go. You're at home with
Gary Salvan.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Twenty minutes after the top of they are talking a
little home improvement and uie welcome.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Hello. Are you familiar with freeze miser as a device
to go on your hydrant to keep it from freezing?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, you're gonna have to coach me through it. Though
I heard the name and I know what it is,
but I can't recall it.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Ka from their website is I think Freezemeiser dot com.
I've bought mine on Amazon. But it's a little device
you just screw on your hydrant, right and it has
a sensor on it that measures the temperature of the water.
And it starts dripping about thirty seven degrees okay, and
(13:55):
it opens up you know more, you know, a colder
it gets. And I bought mine during that freeze we
had here in Louisiana. I didn't get it put on
the worst part of the freeze because you know, the
hose will be I didn't want to handle the hose
when it's you know, real cold. And uh it does work. Uh,
(14:18):
I hadn't got the best situation. I got about one
hundred feet of hose now, so it opens up more
than I like. You know, Uh, I get a hydrant
closer to the camper and it'll be better, you know,
because uh the other morning when it was real cold,
I went out there and it was spewing water pretty
(14:40):
dang good.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah. So the so this is off a camper hose
bib is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
What I did? I put a I put a hose splitter. Uh,
you know, ninety grade I ain't gole hoe splitter on
the camper, then that, uh one and one of the
wise then the other wise going into the camper.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, can you put the freeze on the one?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Why?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
One part of the one?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Right? I got you right, And it works, you know,
real good. But it wastes more water than I like it.
But I had also put one on the hydrant where
I got it hooked up, and it doesn't come on
because it's still got temperature coming out of the ground.
Probably I'm going to get a gas fordy degrees.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You know, warmer, right, probably warmer.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That one doesn't open up. But going into my camper, it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Does very good.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I knew the name, but I kind of forgot what
it was. But I remember soon you started telling me
that you know that it doesn't exist. Yeah, a lot
of people and even in homes when they have a
you know, spicketts outside and they forgot to take the
hose off and didn't shut the water off from the inside.
I'm telling you, March I guarantee you you know, we'll
(15:57):
get all kinds of calls that she say, turned my
whole hose on. It is you know, it's leaking in
my basement or it's leaking in the house. And yeah, well,
you know, even if you got a frostproof faucet on
a house, you got to get that hose off because
the hose is frozen. There's nowhere for it to go.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Now Here, louis Anna, we're not too familiar with the
you know, frost proof you know that, I know what
it did, but I've never seen one myself.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, it kind of drains itself. It's tilted down.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And you know, yeah, yeah, I've been listening to you
for years, but this it is not a flow through.
You know. You just screw it on. Open up the bows, right,
and they're about thirty dollars apiece, right, Well, well worth it,
but I won't keep you. But you know it might
(16:52):
not be for everybody, especially up north.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well, I mean you know, yeah, well yeah, and in
our cases, it's really just a matter of shutting the
water off, you know, either outside or inside, depending on
the fauces you have, and just get the hose off.
But you know, the weather you guys had, the weather
we've had this year, it's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, we're up, I'm up North Louisiana, Sport. Yep, we
didn't get any of that snow or anything here. Yeah,
but I know we got down probably at least ten degrees.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I bet you did.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I bet you did, and you would not want to
use that or that would constantly be skewing that much
water out up north.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Right right right, Yeah, they have other problems in well
youI thank you very much for the call. I certainly
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There's an older rotor router commercial and it was talking
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one or two degrees below zero this past week. And
you know, if you still got your hose attached to
(18:22):
a faucet outside and it's a frost proof and that
hose is filled with water and that water backed up
into that pipe, there's probably not enough water pressure in
there to really create a big problem right now. But
when that starts falling, or you turn that faucet on
when it is stalled, there's gonna be a lot of
(18:44):
people that, you know, get the turn off the water.
You know they're going to find out that that that
tube in there on that frostproof faucet because you left
the hose on is split. It's and then when you
turn that pressure back on there and it's are spraying
all over, you know, it's gonna be spraying inside the
wall or beyond that. And that's that's a big issue.
(19:08):
That's where we're always kind of talking about getting a
hose off because if it's all field, there's nowhere to go.
And you he's comment too, if you got the hose
up and you just put one of those why's on
there and uh with that little apparass that allows us
to drift, that's gonna help. You know, water moving certainly
always freeze is a little slower, all right. The number
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it we go thirty three minutes after the top of
they are tiring a little home improvement. We're also talking
about how the house did you know during the cold
snap and the snow and all that. So one of
the things is I was talking about looking for water
stains inside the house. Obviously the problems from the outside,
but you know, trying to zero in on that another thing,
(22:55):
and a lot of these things you just find in
other homes, even in my own home when it gets
really cold. I think I mentioned this a couple of
weeks ago, to just kind of check different areas down
by the base boards, underneath the windows, see if you
can find by the electrical outlets, see if you can
(23:15):
find that draft. I mean, just like, jeez, this one
area is really cold. And as I was just kind of,
you know, just going around and just checking different things.
That's not all I do. But you accidentally bump into
things sometimes, and this is exactly what happened. I accidentally
bumped into it in our bedroom, just taking off my
(23:36):
shoes and standing right by a bay window. Wow, there's
a nice little draft underneath that base board.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And so.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I know exactly where it is. I haven't been out
there to discover it yet, but I can tell you
what it is. As at bay window canni leavers out
away from the house, there's at the bottom of that
there is a piece of plywood. Now there's usually insulation
(24:09):
in that. I don't know what kind of shape that's in.
I don't know if it's just a gap and it
needs calking, whether an animal got in there. You know,
I haven't heard anything, I don't see anything. I don't
have any leaks, I don't have any problems. But there
was definitely a draft, so it's got to be you know,
and take a look at and really, as you look
at your house, kind of think that way too. On
(24:30):
the inside of the house, you're you know, you're looking
for just a draft, a little colder spot, a little
water stain, and then just going outside and looking in
that area. And I have two windows in my home.
I think that's the only two. That one is an
a bay window, but it does can't leave her a
(24:52):
little bit out over the framing of the house. And
the other one is a bay window. It does, you know,
maybe two or three feet even probably two and you
get down, get outside when it warms up a little
bit and snow melts, and you get underneath that little
those two little windows, and you'll you'll see some things
(25:15):
you probably don't want to see. You could find, uh,
you know, gaps and you can use calwking outside. Always
pay attention to it, even when it's cold. See what
your limitations are on the product. But you know, zink,
it's really bitterly cold, and then we've had some really
hot summers that that movement of the wood and the
(25:40):
expansion and contraction will break a calking seal in a
lot of cases. I was talking about using acrylic silknized
calkings kind of filling in those gaps. Even if it's
a larger gap, maybe the size of your finger. You
can use a colock saver or a backer rock, which
is a open cell foam roping so it compresses down
(26:06):
to a smaller man. You can take your fingers and
literally just shove it up into that crevice and then
put your beat of calking right over that and seal
that up really nicely.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If you have.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
As I described that plywood base underneath the bay window
and it's butted up to brick. Those see, there's expansion contraction,
there's movement at different rates, so there's more of a
tug in some of those areas. And on the outside
(26:42):
of the home. The one thing you can take a
look at is your thing calking. Your thing cocking is paintable.
There's one called quad and it's a very very good one.
Use it a lot with sightings, even hardyboard sightings and
(27:02):
mixed substrates like metal to brick or wood to brick.
In a quad calking, you get a good beat of
that in there. It's paintable, best adhesion, best flexibility, and
you'll be able to seal that up fairly quickly. And
you know, luckily on that particular wall, even the draft
(27:24):
is and it wasn't like it was forming ice on
the you know, walls on the inside or anything, but
it could and in some of the older homes if
you didn't have insulation in there, and if there was
you know, pretty tell some pipe running behind that wall,
it could freeze, right. But just the discomfort of drafts
(27:49):
and then the ability for the furnace maybe not to
satisfy the thermostat it runs more than it should, So
calking around those areas that are vulnerable certainly a good idea.
And again, if you get some snow melt, you can
get outside comfortably and you're not going to mess up
(28:10):
to your heart or anything because it's so wet. Really,
look at wherever there's penetrations in the.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Into the house.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I mean, we've got cable lines, we got gas lines,
we got electric lines, we got dryer vents, we got
high efficiency furnace PVC pipes. We've got a lot of
penetrations going. You know, you got your pipe for your discharge,
for your sum pump, and those all have to be
(28:42):
calocked in place or or use expandable foam or something.
There's got to be You can't just lead that gap
around those pipes. I mean you can, but you're you're
really asking for trouble. A driving rain may find its
way into your house. Draft when it's really cold or
really hot, certainly find its way into the house. And
(29:07):
then again, you know, from an energy efficiency standpoint, not
so energy efficient, so we really need to close those up.
Insects that's where they find their way into your house.
It doesn't take long to take that walk around the
house and catch those things that are very easy to spot.
(29:27):
I'll tell you another thing that's going to be a problem,
especially if you're listening to me right now and you
live in an area where you have a lot of
heavy soil, clay based soil, not so much with the
sand based, but real heavy clay soil. We had a
really hot summer where I'm at, really cold winter so far.
We had a really wet spring last year. We had
(29:48):
a really really dry summer, and all that is just
making that clay expand contract, expand contract. And if you've
got you know, gutters on your house, and we got
the down spouts. Yesterday, we were talking to Chris from
Zollar Pumps and he was talking about discharging the sump
(30:09):
water the sump pump and was discharging water away from
the house. And you know, if you go out and
check and see where that pipe is coming, another penetration
coming out of your house, right, See, how's that discharged?
Is that a pipe that goes underground? Where's it empty?
(30:30):
And is it still lined up? And that's where we're
going to find some issues. I can almost guarantee it
whether it's a down spout whether it's a some discharge pipe,
they're not going to be lined up like they are
because those pipes inside the ground is that clay expands,
contracts and shrinks and does all that that movement will
(30:51):
eventually it won't be all of them, but there'll be
a couple places in your house where they don't line
up anymore. They't have to be religned. Or the the
pipe that's in the ground that's coming up through the surface,
it's going to have settled and then moved a little bit,
and you know, only half the water's getting in that pipe.
That's something that's really worth taking a look at and
(31:12):
correcting it. And it's not that big of a deal
to correct it. And I've had this happen before, where
you know, it was it was cold out and all
of a sudden I saw that the sump discharge pipe
was just it wasn't lined up, and it was going
into a four inch there's a one inch pipe going
(31:33):
into a four inch pipe. So and it was connecting
into the footer drains and or not the foot of drains,
but going out into the yard away from the footer drains,
and holy cow, that that thing was probably wasn't half
of the water going in there, and just an emergency
thing you can create maybe with a little sheet aluminum
(31:58):
making like almost like a funnel and some duct tape
or something and take care of the issue in the
springtime when you work out there a little more comfortably.
But those things do have to be lined up, and
you know, like you know, here we go again. Water
is your number one enemy, and not controlling that water
around the house just you know you're losing a battle
before the war starts. So take that walk around the house.
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Speaker 1 (35:02):
Let's go to bread Brad.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Welcome.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Hey, good morning, Gary morning. I love your show, love
your show. Thank lots of good advice.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Commer.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Hey, I'm in Greenville, Georgia, and I've got a nineteen
sixty nine seventy two brick house and the shingles burn
up on it. It's kind of unusual construction and I
can't get the right ventilation up under the shingles right,
and I don't quite I'm not sure how to go
(35:33):
about fixing it. Other been putting a baffle between every rafter.
The way the house is built, it's got a real
low slope, you know, not like a four to twelve route.
It's like a three something real real low, and instead
of having conventional trustes, they put in a center line trust.
(35:53):
The basement of the house has a whole series of
heavy four inch steel poles on like seven foot centers,
and then all of the load bearing walls on the
next floor, you know, on first floor, are built directly
over those, and then there's a main tress that rush
supports the ceiling, the ridge cap of the ceilings all
(36:14):
over the center on all of those beams underneath, right,
and then they cut like a bird's beak in the rafters.
They're two to six raptors, but they cut like a
bird's beak. So there's only like a four inch gap
from the top of the brick wall and the dry
wall inside there's just a light gap, and there's like
(36:35):
a three foot I think you call it saffot. There's
sofft and facia yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So the safa
comes out and then there's a whole bunch of well
there's probably fifteen, uh you know, six by twelve vents
the vent the roof, right there's the vents get plugged
(36:55):
up that the house had been rented and the renter
filled in with fiberglass insul well, he blocked that. He
blocked the airpath running under the shingles, right, So anyhow,
the roofs and rough shape, and I just get hit
with a tornado and so I'm gonna have to I'm
gonna have to fix it. You know, I didn't totally
rip it up, but I mean, it's just gotta be
six and I'm thinking, now's the time and put in battles. Right.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Well, yeah, I mean the biggest thing from what I hear,
and you know a lot going on there, that's for sure.
You talked about the softs and then so just so
we're on the same page, there is a formula for
how much ventilation you need to adequately move the hot
(37:45):
air out of the attic to exchange it. So it's
for whatever, for every three hundred square foot footprint of
the house, not the square footage, but the foot print
of the house, you should have one square foot of
(38:06):
uninterrupted ventilation split fifty to fifty. So those soft events,
they're totally interrupted, so they're virtually useless right now with
insulation over them. But even when the insulation's off, you
got screen in there, and you got louvers in there,
it's probably you know, it's probably twenty or thirty percent open.
(38:32):
It's not one hundred percent open. Okay, yeah, okay, So
then you split fifty to fifty. You got air coming
in and then you got to have air going out.
So you want to get that AGC to work, almost
like a chimney. You know, you got to venting at
the lowest part, and you got venting at the highest part.
You're bringing even at the air temperature outside is ninety degrees,
(38:54):
that would mean in that attic it's probably one hundred
and thirty to one hundred and forty. It can't go
out those ridge vents unless there's air there that is
available from the environment to replace the hot air that's
going out the ridge vent. Otherwise it's just stagnant. So
you virtually had nothing, and that's the shingles got burned up.
So you know, the thing is quick, real quick.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
What's the upper limit on that attic temperature to where
you don't burn your shingles? What's the upper limit?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I have no idea, but I've been in atticts where
it can go one hundred and forty degrees.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
If it's not ventilated.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, I mean, you know, you'd like to keep it
around a hunter one hundred and ten at max. But
I can tell you so many shingle warranties are voided
if the you know, let's say, the longevity of it
is you know, half of what it was supposed to be.
And you start pressing the roofing company or the shingle company,
(39:52):
and they come out and they go like, ventilation is wrong,
it's inadequate, can't cover. I mean, yeah, I'll bet you.
I'll bet you have the roofs that are put on.
The ventilation in the house isn't done right. Yeah, So
we got to open up those soffits. We've got to
measure how much air. We've got to measure the footprint,
(40:13):
and we gotta you know, we got to allow that
hot air just to escape.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Okay, so that's that's You got me on the right
track on protecting the shingles. Now, trying to insulate the
house is a different issue.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Some way, some way to seal so you can you
can pack in, you know, a nice thick layer of
insulation without block off the air channel.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, I mean yeah, so they make they make I
think you use the word baffles before and again depending
on how that house is constructed. Basically, I've seen people
put boxes that extend up, you know, make boxes to
(40:58):
allow that ventil relation to come in from the soffits
above where the insulation is. But usually what they are
is they're like cardboarders, you know, fireproof styrofoam baffles that
slide in between the trusses and basically create an air shoot,
right yeah, and they're just stapled right Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
(41:23):
what do you call them baffels? Yeah, they'll be up
by you know, you go in a big box store,
it'll be right near the insallation. And then that's basically
what you're doing is you're just creating an air channel
to bring air from the outdoors up through that. It's
almost like cold air returns.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
You got the trustes and instead of sudden studs.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
Like classical material that that you just send up for
each individual, right rafts. You know, they're not all the same,
you know, right, they come and go a little bit.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Oh yeah, and you can kind of fold them, you
can cut them, you can.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Do all kinds of things.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Okay, it just goes.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Down to the base, you know, where it extends over
the house, you know, the softened area, you just creating
an air channel.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Yeah, okay, So back back to the ventilation. Then three
hundred square footage of house footprint of house there you
need did you say one square foot of.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Vent one square foot of uninterrupted vent and most of
those vents are going to be interrupted between seven, you know,
around seventy to seventy five percent when you get the.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Screen in there, twelve So it's six inches by twelve
inch vent with a screen in it, it's it's equivalent
to like four inches or yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, so you got plenty to work with.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
Yeah, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Gar.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, and if you make an air you always want
to have more coming in than going out. So you know,
if you ended up with sixty uh um, if you
end up with sixty percent coming in, that's fine, but
they always kind of tell you fifty to fifty. But
I've also said sixty forty. You got sixty coming in,
(43:10):
forty going out, you'll be fine. But that'll solve your issue.
All right, Thank you, sar, You're quite welcome. Thank you.
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