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Well, a good Sunday morning. Welcome at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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If you heard it rains pretty much all night, but
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Well this time of year, of course, there's a lot,
a lot of a lot of projects going on, or
at least it's on paper. Maybe we haven't started, maybe
we have. I've got a list. Also, just a couple
of things to remind you to kind of check around
the house. And one of the things, after a long winter,
I noticed this all the time.
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And our houses, you know, our homes are busier, there's
more people in them in a lot of cases.
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And take a look at your baseboards and doors. Just
even at our house, I pretty much did an extensive
paint job. I guess it was, yeah, last year, last October.
Me a year ago October, so probably eighteen months ago. Go.
It's amazing to me just the dings and dents that
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you get on baseboards and door frames and things like that.
So this past week we had some pretty nice weather
and the windows open and kind of just feeling like spring.
Maybe not necessarily focused on spring cleaning or anything, but
just kind of take a look around the inside of
the home and what could be done. I started seeing
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all these things and dents. So I had well labeled
paint cans, which always sounds like it's not that important,
but it really is. Where I had stored all the
paint cans, sealed them up real good and tight, put
the date on there, put the color on there, put
the room on there where the paint went. And I
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started with the trimming nemel. And first I'd try to
scrub it off, and some did, some didn't, and it
stirred that paint of That's the tip one is, even
though it's well sealed and everything, you make sure that
that's really stirred up very very nicely, and you can
get a good coat of paint right on. That would work.
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I'm hearing myself for some reason, Joe. I don't know
if that's me or you.
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I think it's me. Sorry. So as I.
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Started back up real good and had a good coat
of paint, I was able to apply it where the
Nixon dents. And since it was only eighteen months old.
A really beautiful thing about that was.
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Is I didn't necessarily have to paint a whole jam.
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I could really kind of just do some touch up,
so that might be something you want to take a
look at. As I was doing it, and then I
started on the room on the walls again, try to scrub,
touched up some of the areas, and the one thing
that I quickly realized.
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Is how important it was sturn it up, you know,
I mean when it sits, those solids set on the
bottom of the can at the top is almost just
like a cream and it's not going to match the walls.
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So had that happened one time and then restarted that
up real good went over it couldn't even see it.
So that's one of the things you might consider. The
other thing is the fireplace. Had an extensive conversation yesterday
about things to really look at or the time of
year that you really want to have inspected. We always
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think about inspecting it right before the fire season, you know,
the fireplace season, so you know in like October November,
but really after you quit using, it's a great time
to inspect it. They're not as busy. They can do
the repairs, and the things you'd really be looking for
is issues like crack brick, missing mortar, even the crown wash. Again,
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if you have leaks getting in around the coating of
the fireplace chimney and you get moisture back there and
you start seeing moisture inside the house, or maybe that
liner in that chimney is cracked. That can be a
big repair, but having it knock done it could be
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a huge hazard inside your home. So you definitely want
to have somebody take a look at that. If it's
been a while since you've inspected that chimney, I would
encourage you to do so. All right, Our phone number
again is eight hundred eighty two three A two five five.
Sorry about the little nagging cough I got today, but
I don't know whether it's the allergies or the rain
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and gunk that's in the air, but kind of bugging
me today. So if you want to grab a line,
I'd love to talk.
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To you again. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight
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We had a lot of rain where I am and
one of the things I plan I'm doing today, and
it won't take much effort, is get out there and
really look at the If you've got any underground French strains,
or you have down spouts going underground where they exit
above ground, maybe into a creek or over a hill.
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Make sure they're cleaned out in free flowing. We always
talk about the gutters and the down spouts, but once
you if they're clear, and once you get that water
in that pipe underground, very very important that that's clear
also Otherwise, as the water gets there, it's the same
as a clogged gutter if it's clogged underneath the ground.
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So first thing you do is, you know, get out
at the.
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End where that exits the ground and take a look
and see.
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If it's clogged.
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If it's I suspect, not that I have any concerns
that it is clogged. I'm just checking, but I suspect
if I have a problem, my drains are, my pipes
are right by a big old pinoak, and the squirrels
in October November love to get back.
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In there and pack acorns in there. So if it's a.
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Problem, I pretty much assure myself that it is an
acorn problem, which I can easily remove one of the
things I am also armed to do. And maybe you
might want to consider the same thing. If you've noticed
in the past that leaves get shoved in there with
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animals or acorns like I just talked about, or if
there's mud. We're always talking about. The gutter brush that
fits into gutters. Again, it's almost like a bottle brush.
It comes in three inch and four inch, five inch
and pretty much that will just slide in a four
inch pipe and keep the water flowing through it, keep
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debrisf from being pushed into it, off the debree's coming
down the other way. That's going to create a little
bit of a damn. But mine's usually not that problem.
It's squirrels from the other end are creating the problem. So, uh,
I got a little piece of gutter brush. I plan
on inserting that in there and keep those things free flowing.
All right, let me give you the phone number. You
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All right, back at it we go.
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With spring rains coming, and like I said, last night,
in our hometown, we had a lot of rain. And
one of the things you may notice or have noticed
in the past is the some pump that continues to run,
and depending on where it is, that can be relatively annoying.
And you don't necessarily want it running and then shutting
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off and then start running again right away. You want
to have a decent cycle where it quiets itself for
a while. And of course it's routing the water around
the foundation into the well, the pumps pumping it out
of the well away from the home, and you know,
depending on how high your water table is and how
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your floats adjusted, and how the terrain is outside, those
all come into play on whether you have a some
pump that's going to cycle properly or not cycle properly.
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So one of the things that.
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I guess we could start with the pump itself and
you know we're going to end out outside because that's
really where the problems are. But you can adjust the
floats on the pump itself, and I guess it depends
on what type of float you have. If you have
a float switch, and a float switch is something that
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is tethered to a pipe that goes down into the sump.
What's tethered there. It's tethered to the pump itself, and
depending on the length of that tether will really depend
on how long that cycle is gonna last. So what
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you can do. The pump's gonna run longer before shutting off,
so you can lengthen the tether. So the float, since
it floats and it's tethered, it floats. If the tether
is longer, it can float up higher in the well
before it shuts and then before it activates. So adjusting
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the float switch would be one option. Of course, if
it's a severe problem in starting a larger some pit
might be a problem. But here's when I see a
lot on the discharge pipe from the pump itself, and
let's say it's going from the inside of the pump
well up the wall and exiting through the foundation.
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Above grade.
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Of course, that pipe might be six or eight feet tall.
And if that pump's working and it's pushing that water
up into that pipe, somewhere in that pipe, preferably, you know,
the first twenty five percent of that pipe would have
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a check valve in it.
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And a check valve is.
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Basically a coupling between the pipe, Like if you cut
the pipe and you put in a coupling and in
there is a little flapper. So as the water's being
pushed up, this flapper is opened. As the water is
pumped out of the well, the flapper closes. It's a plug.
The water can't go back down into the pit.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Ah.
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So maybe you don't have a check valve. Maybe you
have a check valve, but it's not it's in a
state disrepair, in other words, it's not closing all the way.
So that check valve may be added or it may
be replaced. Another thing is some modern some pumps, they
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actually have variable speed on the pump itself. You can
actually adjust the speed based on different water levels, and
that makes it run more efficiently and reduces the cycling. Now,
going outside, as we talk about the some pump continuously running.
It all comes back to the same things that we
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talk about for cross spaces that get water ponding in them,
or basements that leak, and of course that is all
about the drainage around the foundation of the house. Obviously
we go back to the old gutters are clogged with leaves,
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The gutters are spilling over. The water's right on the foundation.
It's being just funneled. So we're kind of playing the
game right. The water's coming down the roof, the water
gets in the gutters, it can't be removed away from
the foundation, falls on the foundation, goes in the pit,
pumped out of the house, but the gratings it's not
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a positive grade away from the house, so it rolls
back back down on the foundation, goes into the pipes,
goes right into the sump well, and the process continues
and continues and continues.
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So changing the grading outside.
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Very well could eliminate all the problems well before you
even start falling around with the sump pump or the
sump well itself.
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So those are I guess.
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The main things that you would want to check when
you get outside if that was a problem, or when
the spring rains hit your town and you start hearing
that sump well run all the time, I would just
really say, as float, that would be number one. Check
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see if there's a check valve, See if it's in
good shape, good standing, or change grading outside.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's the three major things that can change the what
could be a pretty annoying evening or nighttime if that
some pump just continues to cycle and recycle. So I
wanted to bring that.
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Up to you also, and other things we were talking
about things to get done if you have not This
is what I really I've kind of fallen into a
point where I think this is more important than ever before.
With precautions, and that is AC in furnace tune ups,
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have it checked, have it inspected, Check the connections, make
sure they're good and tight, check the free on.
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Just see where you are.
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I was reading articles about the increased lifespan of a
maintained heating and air conditioning and it's significant. I mean
like fifty percent that you will increase the life like
fifty percent. You'll or you will shorten the life by
fifty percent if not well maintained. And most HVAC companies,
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you know they I don't know if they make any
money really inspecting it, but they do if there's a problem.
So the deals for having them inspected, and you know,
seeing where the free on levels are and you know,
tightening and lubricating and cleaning and all that, certainly.
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You can get them done for like a hundred bucks
or less.
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And then I would say, if there is a problem,
you don't necessarily unless it's somebody you deal with all
the time and you know them and you know you
trust them, and you know if there's a problem, you
get it taken care of.
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If that's not the case.
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There's a lot of HVAC companies that even recommend free
second opinions, so you know, get a couple quotes on
it and see where you're stand, especially if you're kind
of new to that arena.
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So put that on your list to do it. It's
it's well worth it, all right.
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And happy to talk to you about what you're working on.
I know.
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One of the things that probably requires as much maintenance
around our home as anything really.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Is if you have a wood deck on the back
of your home.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm gonna bet unless you've got a really nice composite
decking or something. But if you've got a pressure to
your wood deck in the back of your home, maybe
it's been there fifteen years. Are you happy with it?
Does it always seem to need maintenance? Do you do
the maintenance on the deck or is it just there?
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It's gray, The boards have cracks in them, the floorboards
have splinters in them, the nails are protruding, the edges
are high and kind of a tripping hazard, you know,
is that where it's at. And I would have to
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say a lot of them are, because it seems like
once that deck is built, we used it, and then
it seems like we probably spend as much time maintaining
it as we do actually.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Having fun on the deck. So then you get to
the point.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I know many of you are at this point
because there's a lot of discussions about it. What do
we do with that wood deck if it's in that state? Oh,
we can just replace the boards, yep, we can.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What are you going to replace them with?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Press tree wood, composite wood? We could stain them, kind
of rejuvenate him, maybe, you know, help him out a
little bit, make it look like something you know, we
could what are you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Gonna use there?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
We could again replace the boards, maybe put a composite
on top of it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Here's pet peeve.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
The really good composite's probably got a warranty of about
twenty five years. What about the structure itself? What kind
of shape is that in? In a lot of cases,
you're probably not paying attention to that press treewood has
a lifespan around.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know, thirty years, thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Really, what does the damages the sun so you know,
but you start thinking about it and you go like,
I got to pull the board off.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's going to be a new decking.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It's not cheap. It's a cap can posit. I can
put it on that structure. Well, if that structure is
already twenty years old, you might have fifteen more years
left on the structure, but you got twenty five years
on the decking. Should you replace the structure maybe. And
one of the ways you can find is when you
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start taking up the boards. A lot of times when
we take up the floorboards on a deck, the joys
that are you know, holding the deck boards, they're rotten,
not all the way rotten. In fact, in a lot
of cases you can't even tell it until you get
the boards off. But where they were nailed in more
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likely nailed in than screwed it in. But where they're
attached to the joyst uh, maybe water got down in there. Yeah,
pressure treatments only in there for maybe I don't know,
quarter inch.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Five sixteenth dowted events a half inch.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But whenever you have the wood penetrating penetrated and there
is the ability for water to get into that hole
of the penetration, it has the ability.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
To start rotting.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So when you take up the boards deck boards, and
you start seeing where it was nailed, where it was screwed,
et cetera. Those are penetrations. And if everything's solid, take
a little scratch all or a screwdriver. If it's solid, wonderful.
But don't put your deck boards around on top of
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that because those penetrations, those mail holes probably aren't going
to line up. Water get down, will get down in
those holes and rot will begin. So you may have
seen joist tape tracks makes a great joys tape. It's
a rubber eyes self adh of membrane that goes over
the top of the joys. You put that down, then
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put your boards on top of that. That's fine, that's
that's excellent. Now if you take up the deck boards
and you.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Know the half inch of that top of that Joye
is all rotten.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And it's being torn up as you're tearing up the
deck boards, that's the red flag.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
For sure. You're gonna want to replace that undercarriage then
or that structure. But keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
If you if you in good shape, I'm not trying
to discourage you from doing it by any stretch of
the imagination. Whether you use pressure treated wood on top
for the new deck boards or a composite, just make sure.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You use that that choice tape. That's very important.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
All right, Paul, welcome, Hi, Thank you. Question water softener?
Is there a lifespan on?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, there is. It depends what type water softener it is.
And I don't know if I can. So there's some
like one sold it a big box store that you
can install yourself, which aren't that difficult.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They've got about a.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Seven to ten year lifespan if you go to if
you go to one like a Culligan or one of
those higher end, just the way that it's constructed and
the media that's down in the water softener and all
you get twenty twenty five years out of then they're
double the price too, so it's kind of double the price,
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double the life.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Got it? Okay? Yeah? Mine was fears and sers are
still around and it's probably fourteen fourteen years or so.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, what's going on with it? Can you tell it's
not softening?
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Well, it's my wife's because they're run it through into
the laundry room and it seems after it runs a cycle,
first load, she runs through the washing machine is very cloudy,
almost murky, she said, muddy, but just this colored water.
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So you've got to be careful when she's you know,
doing whites of course. But so that's that's kind of
more what is bringing this up?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Have you bypassed the water?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Have you bypassed it just to see if that same occurs?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
You know, I haven't. I could shuttle that.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I just try.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
That, and you know, make sure it's not the hot
water and the water here that's causing it.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Doesn't seem to be anywhere else. It's just through into
the the laundry washing machine more because I run the
hot and cold there through the water softener. But the
rest of the house it's just the hot the way
I've got it plumps because more I would rather have
unstopting water to drink.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So yeah, yeah, I'd still probably bypass and just see
what it looks like, just just for giggles, and then
if you uh, you know, one of ours.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
I wasn't sure, but.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I would have to say that, all right, you met
good enough. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I would have to say it's probably at the end
of its cycle. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong
with them. I'm just saying you're going to get about,
you know, ten or twelve years. In fact, I had
one of those in my home a number of years ago,
probably twenty years ago, and installed it myself. I think
I paid eight hundred bucks for it. I think I
got it a home depot, and I thought I was
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doing a pretty good job. And then I, I don't know,
it just didn't feel like it was getting a job done.
I didn't really have any real, you know, problems with it,
just didn't you know, how softened water is just slippery, right,
you can feel it, and I just wasn't feeling like
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it was getting the job done. They ended up talking
to the folks that colling in that in I'll put
a colorgain in And.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's probably been.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Ten years ago now I have to go look at
the date on it. But immediately my feeling on that
was that this water softener has done a better job
of softening the water than the less expensive one did.
It just really really felt like soft water and still
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does and you know, it's still very serviceable. And again,
maintenance that's key, you know, making sure you got salt
in there and making sure you're not having salt dams
in there. They're real hard ones and I probably need
some service on that. Anyway, It's probably been a few years,
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but keeping them well maintained certainly comes into play.
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Welcome, Good morning, Gary.
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Morning.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Uh. I enjoy your program And I got a question.
You've talked about it before, moss on a shingle roof.
Is the product you recommend? Is it wet and forget?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Correct?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
And that's available at home depot or lose?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Uh? Definitely both?
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Okay, And another thing I want to give you a
heads up for turning me onto the gutter brush.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
It's a great product, and I use it. I've got
like a like a hunting camp, okay in northern Ohio,
and I get out there during hunting season turkey and deer,
and that's where a moss problem is. And uh, but
I'll tell you what. I used to have to clean
them leaves out a couple of times in the fall.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well, here's a funny story.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Ron, Yeah, here's a funny story. The way it was
invented was exactly like that. So the guy who invented it,
he had a hunting cavin up in un.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
That because I talked to the owner when I opened them,
and he actually knew like the area. But I'll tell
you what it's. I don't think i've cleaned them out
now the first year they've been in for like five winners,
now five years. For after after a first year, I
looked at me cleaned out right, and then now I
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clean them out like every oh excuse me, every two years,
and it's it's it's a great product. It's a great
matter of fact, I was just up there yesterday and uh,
I looked from like the upstairs looking out through the
dormer window and uh literally, but what usually happens, they'll
dry up and blow away exactly what is at the
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bottom of the gutter is like a real fine you know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, h a composed and yeah they're great. I have
a I am in my home and there's a couple areas.
Some areas I never take out. Other areas. Uh, alright,
I got some pine trees about every two three years,
I got to take them out, shake them off, and
slide them back in.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Yeah, I like at home. Here on my garage, I
could I could reach. I don't even need a ladder.
There's a couple down spots that go down and I
put like one gutter brush right over that.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
And I'll tell you what. It seems to really help out,
you know. Ye, how about how about it, I'm gonna
I'm gonna get this wet and forget. How about guys
told me, oh, you could get like bleach like fifty
with water and spray it on.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You can? You can? Here's the issue.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Done that a few years ago when it started, But
it seems like it always comes back. But I'm going
to go with this.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, here's the deal. Bleach does not do a permanent kill. Okay,
that's it'll kill it, yeah, but the roots will still
be there.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Another thing is the wedding forget does have a residual.
In fact, when you get rid of it, it should
stay clean for a good year and a half, maybe
two years. But at that point I just spray the
roof again and then you get another two years.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, but give it time to work. They have it
two ways.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
One of them and as you just connect the bottle
to a hose and it'll spray up twenty five feet
and just wet that down. Do it when the sun's
not blazing hot on the roof. You don't want to
too much of it evaporate. And then like over time,
right yeah, yeah, and over time with the rain in
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the sun, that keeps reactivating it, and.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It'll take on moss.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
It'll take four to six weeks before it's eliminated. And
you know it four weeks. If it's not turning brown,
you might even want to spray it again, but it
will take.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
This past week up here in northeast Ohio is like
warm weather all week and that just triggers oh yeah,
it's growing conditions for that mons.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Sure it's absolutely perfect. The leaves are off the trees,
the sunk and hit it and you get some moisture
and away.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
She goes, Yeah, well this's this where I'm having it.
Hardly gets any sun at all. Don't get any sun, okay,
so but I just don't want any like you know.
The ironic part about it is these shingles at ten
years old and their dimensional. It's set on a on
a package, you know, rest or not rest. But it
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would be algae moss resistant.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, it'll be algae.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
That only lasts for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah. Really, Well, you know it's it's all environmental too.
I mean inside those shingles. The reason it's resistant is
they put in some metals like copper and zinc and
that'll just keep that from growing. But it leaches out
and becomes not effective. So I guess it could depend
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not positive on this. I guess it could depend on
the amount of rainfall and you know how much that's
leached out, et cetera. But you know, it's nothing's forever.
Usually it does have a ten year warranty acount.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
I'm I'm a retired roofer and right here in town.
I of course I do my own work. But a
flashing on the back porch. I had access to some
copper counting counterflashing.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Oh okayper flashing.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
And I'll tell you what, since I put that on,
it looks good. I like the way he gets that
dark back patina color. And it really no moss at all.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Sure, well, I'll tell you what this is.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
This whole moss and mildew and algae and fungus and
everything that was all caused by the limestone and shingles,
and it uses it as a feeding source. But long
before wet and forget was invented and several other products
that are out on the market, the cure to that
when it first started showing up was the strand copper
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wires across your roof or a zinc little piece of
metal at the top of the roof.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
And it was inconsistent, but it did.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
It kind of kept the moss and the algae in check,
but it would get streaky. It wouldn't be a real
nice conformed kill on that fungus and algae. So the
wedding forget does a great job.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Okay, well, thanks for the time, and I listened to
you a lot, And do you have a good date.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
All right, you do the same, Thank you much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And especially moss becomes a big problem. And so let's
kind of revisit this here before we move on.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
If you have black streaks on your roof, now, yeah
you can see the shadowing. What that is.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
That is an airborne fungus algae, a mildew.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's not mold, and.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That is not really gonna decrease your roofs live dramatically.
But I'll tell you what's happening right now. First of all,
it's ugly, and if you go to sell your home,
it's gonna be brought up. I guarantee you. And what's
happening now is insurance companies are sending homeowners notices if
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you have heavy streaking on your roof, and they're gonna
ask you to get it clean or they're not going
to cover that roof. And I'm not kidding. And when
it has moss on it, that moss is a pad.
It's probably a half inch thick, and it's got roots,
and those roots grow into the shingles and they will
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destroy the shingle. And I'm sure from an insurance company standpoint,
that same thing will hold true. So even if you
have that black streaking, the wit and Forget is a
product you can do. If you want to do it yourself,
you can. There's also companies that will come in clean roofs,
not with you know, a pressure washer, or if it
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is with a pressure it's a low pressure washer and
they know what they're doing, but they will eliminate that also,
so if you don't want to do it, you can
look for somebody to do clean it for you. Many
people do do that, some better than others, but it's
another thing to kind of stay on top.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Of for sure.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
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Well this time of year, of course, there's a lot,
a lot of a lot of projects going on, or
at least it's on paper. Maybe we haven't started, maybe
we have. I've got a list. Also, just a couple
of things to remind you to kind of check around
the house. And one of the things, after a long winter,
I noticed this all the time.
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And our houses, you know, our homes are busier, there's
more people in them in a lot of cases.
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And take a look at your baseboards and doors. Just
even at our house, I pretty much did an extensive
paint job. I guess it was, yeah, last year, last October.
Me a year ago October, so probably eighteen months ago. Go.
It's amazing to me just the dings and dents that
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you get on baseboards and door frames and things like that.
So this past week we had some pretty nice weather
and the windows open and kind of just feeling like spring.
Maybe not necessarily focused on spring cleaning or anything, but
just kind of take a look around the inside of
the home and what could be done. I started seeing
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all these things and dents. So I had well labeled
paint cans, which always sounds like it's not that important,
but it really is. Where I had stored all the
paint cans, sealed them up real good and tight, put
the date on there, put the color on there, put
the room on there where the paint went. And I
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started with the trimming nemel. And first I'd try to
scrub it off, and some did, some didn't, and it
stirred that paint of That's the tip one is, even
though it's well sealed and everything, you make sure that
that's really stirred up very very nicely, and you can
get a good coat of paint right on. That would work.
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I'm hearing myself for some reason, Joe. I don't know
if that's me or you.
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I think it's me. Sorry. So as I.
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Started back up real good and had a good coat
of paint, I was able to apply it where the
Nixon dents. And since it was only eighteen months old.
A really beautiful thing about that was.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is I didn't necessarily have to paint a whole jam.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I could really kind of just do some touch up,
so that might be something you want to take a
look at. As I was doing it, and then I
started on the room on the walls again, try to scrub,
touched up some of the areas, and the one thing
that I quickly realized.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Is how important it was sturn it up, you know,
I mean when it sits, those solids set on the
bottom of the can at the top is almost just
like a cream and it's not going to match the walls.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So had that happened one time and then restarted that
up real good went over it couldn't even see it.
So that's one of the things you might consider. The
other thing is the fireplace. Had an extensive conversation yesterday
about things to really look at or the time of
year that you really want to have inspected. We always
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think about inspecting it right before the fire season, you know,
the fireplace season, so you know in like October November,
but really after you quit using, it's a great time
to inspect it. They're not as busy. They can do
the repairs, and the things you'd really be looking for
is issues like crack brick, missing mortar, even the crown wash. Again,
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if you have leaks getting in around the coating of
the fireplace chimney and you get moisture back there and
you start seeing moisture inside the house, or maybe that
liner in that chimney is cracked. That can be a
big repair, but having it knock done it could be
(05:20):
a huge hazard inside your home. So you definitely want
to have somebody take a look at that. If it's
been a while since you've inspected that chimney, I would
encourage you to do so. All right, Our phone number
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We had a lot of rain where I am and
one of the things I plan I'm doing today, and
it won't take much effort, is get out there and
really look at the If you've got any underground French strains,
or you have down spouts going underground where they exit
above ground, maybe into a creek or over a hill.
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Make sure they're cleaned out in free flowing. We always
talk about the gutters and the down spouts, but once
you if they're clear, and once you get that water
in that pipe underground, very very important that that's clear
also Otherwise, as the water gets there, it's the same
as a clogged gutter if it's clogged underneath the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So first thing you do is, you know, get out
at the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
End where that exits the ground and take a look
and see.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
If it's clogged.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
If it's I suspect, not that I have any concerns
that it is clogged. I'm just checking, but I suspect
if I have a problem, my drains are, my pipes
are right by a big old pinoak, and the squirrels
in October November love to get back.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
In there and pack acorns in there. So if it's a.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Problem, I pretty much assure myself that it is an
acorn problem, which I can easily remove one of the
things I am also armed to do. And maybe you
might want to consider the same thing. If you've noticed
in the past that leaves get shoved in there with
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animals or acorns like I just talked about, or if
there's mud. We're always talking about. The gutter brush that
fits into gutters. Again, it's almost like a bottle brush.
It comes in three inch and four inch, five inch
and pretty much that will just slide in a four
inch pipe and keep the water flowing through it, keep
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debrisf from being pushed into it, off the debree's coming
down the other way. That's going to create a little
bit of a damn. But mine's usually not that problem.
It's squirrels from the other end are creating the problem. So, uh,
I got a little piece of gutter brush. I plan
on inserting that in there and keep those things free flowing.
All right, let me give you the phone number. You
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Speaker 2 (09:17):
With spring rains coming, and like I said, last night,
in our hometown, we had a lot of rain. And
one of the things you may notice or have noticed
in the past is the some pump that continues to run,
and depending on where it is, that can be relatively annoying.
And you don't necessarily want it running and then shutting
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off and then start running again right away. You want
to have a decent cycle where it quiets itself for
a while. And of course it's routing the water around
the foundation into the well, the pumps pumping it out
of the well away from the home, and you know,
depending on how high your water table is and how
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your floats adjusted, and how the terrain is outside, those
all come into play on whether you have a some
pump that's going to cycle properly or not cycle properly.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So one of the things that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I guess we could start with the pump itself and
you know we're going to end out outside because that's
really where the problems are. But you can adjust the
floats on the pump itself, and I guess it depends
on what type of float you have. If you have
a float switch, and a float switch is something that
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is tethered to a pipe that goes down into the sump.
What's tethered there. It's tethered to the pump itself, and
depending on the length of that tether will really depend
on how long that cycle is gonna last. So what
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you can do. The pump's gonna run longer before shutting off,
so you can lengthen the tether. So the float, since
it floats and it's tethered, it floats. If the tether
is longer, it can float up higher in the well
before it shuts and then before it activates. So adjusting
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the float switch would be one option. Of course, if
it's a severe problem in starting a larger some pit
might be a problem. But here's when I see a
lot on the discharge pipe from the pump itself, and
let's say it's going from the inside of the pump
well up the wall and exiting through the foundation.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Above grade.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Of course, that pipe might be six or eight feet tall.
And if that pump's working and it's pushing that water
up into that pipe, somewhere in that pipe, preferably, you know,
the first twenty five percent of that pipe would have
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a check valve in it.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And a check valve is.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Basically a coupling between the pipe, Like if you cut
the pipe and you put in a coupling and in
there is a little flapper. So as the water's being
pushed up, this flapper is opened. As the water is
pumped out of the well, the flapper closes. It's a plug.
The water can't go back down into the pit.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So maybe you don't have a check valve. Maybe you
have a check valve, but it's not it's in a
state disrepair, in other words, it's not closing all the way.
So that check valve may be added or it may
be replaced. Another thing is some modern some pumps, they
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actually have variable speed on the pump itself. You can
actually adjust the speed based on different water levels, and
that makes it run more efficiently and reduces the cycling. Now,
going outside, as we talk about the some pump continuously running.
It all comes back to the same things that we
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talk about for cross spaces that get water ponding in them,
or basements that leak, and of course that is all
about the drainage around the foundation of the house. Obviously
we go back to the old gutters are clogged with leaves,
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The gutters are spilling over. The water's right on the foundation.
It's being just funneled. So we're kind of playing the
game right. The water's coming down the roof, the water
gets in the gutters, it can't be removed away from
the foundation, falls on the foundation, goes in the pit,
pumped out of the house, but the gratings it's not
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a positive grade away from the house, so it rolls
back back down on the foundation, goes into the pipes,
goes right into the sump well, and the process continues
and continues and continues.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So changing the grading outside.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Very well could eliminate all the problems well before you
even start falling around with the sump pump or the
sump well itself.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So those are I guess.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The main things that you would want to check when
you get outside if that was a problem, or when
the spring rains hit your town and you start hearing
that sump well run all the time, I would just
really say, as float, that would be number one. Check
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see if there's a check valve, See if it's in
good shape, good standing, or change grading outside.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's the three major things that can change the what
could be a pretty annoying evening or nighttime if that
some pump just continues to cycle and recycle. So I
wanted to bring that.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Up to you also, and other things we were talking
about things to get done if you have not This
is what I really I've kind of fallen into a
point where I think this is more important than ever before.
With precautions, and that is AC in furnace tune ups,
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have it checked, have it inspected, Check the connections, make
sure they're good and tight, check the free on.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Just see where you are.
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I was reading articles about the increased lifespan of a
maintained heating and air conditioning and it's significant. I mean
like fifty percent that you will increase the life like
fifty percent. You'll or you will shorten the life by
fifty percent if not well maintained. And most HVAC companies,
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you know they I don't know if they make any
money really inspecting it, but they do if there's a problem.
So the deals for having them inspected, and you know,
seeing where the free on levels are and you know,
tightening and lubricating and cleaning and all that, certainly.
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You can get them done for like a hundred bucks
or less.
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And then I would say, if there is a problem,
you don't necessarily unless it's somebody you deal with all
the time and you know them and you know you
trust them, and you know if there's a problem, you
get it taken care of.
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If that's not the case.
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There's a lot of HVAC companies that even recommend free
second opinions, so you know, get a couple quotes on
it and see where you're stand, especially if you're kind
of new to that arena.
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So put that on your list to do it. It's
it's well worth it, all right.
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And happy to talk to you about what you're working on.
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One of the things that probably requires as much maintenance
around our home as anything really.
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Is if you have a wood deck on the back
of your home.
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I'm gonna bet unless you've got a really nice composite
decking or something. But if you've got a pressure to
your wood deck in the back of your home, maybe
it's been there fifteen years. Are you happy with it?
Does it always seem to need maintenance? Do you do
the maintenance on the deck or is it just there?
(20:01):
It's gray, The boards have cracks in them, the floorboards
have splinters in them, the nails are protruding, the edges
are high and kind of a tripping hazard, you know,
is that where it's at. And I would have to
(20:23):
say a lot of them are, because it seems like
once that deck is built, we used it, and then
it seems like we probably spend as much time maintaining
it as we do actually.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Having fun on the deck. So then you get to
the point.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I know many of you are at this point
because there's a lot of discussions about it. What do
we do with that wood deck if it's in that state? Oh,
we can just replace the boards, yep, we can.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What are you going to replace them with?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Press tree wood, composite wood? We could stain them, kind
of rejuvenate him, maybe, you know, help him out a
little bit, make it look like something you know, we
could what are you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Gonna use there?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
We could again replace the boards, maybe put a composite
on top of it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Here's pet peeve.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
The really good composite's probably got a warranty of about
twenty five years. What about the structure itself? What kind
of shape is that in? In a lot of cases,
you're probably not paying attention to that press treewood has
a lifespan around.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know, thirty years, thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Really, what does the damages the sun so you know,
but you start thinking about it and you go like,
I got to pull the board off.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's going to be a new decking.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It's not cheap. It's a cap can posit. I can
put it on that structure. Well, if that structure is
already twenty years old, you might have fifteen more years
left on the structure, but you got twenty five years
on the decking. Should you replace the structure maybe. And
one of the ways you can find is when you
(22:26):
start taking up the boards. A lot of times when
we take up the floorboards on a deck, the joys
that are you know, holding the deck boards, they're rotten,
not all the way rotten. In fact, in a lot
of cases you can't even tell it until you get
the boards off. But where they were nailed in more
(22:48):
likely nailed in than screwed it in. But where they're
attached to the joyst uh, maybe water got down in there. Yeah,
pressure treatments only in there for maybe I don't know,
quarter inch.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Five sixteenth dowted events a half inch.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But whenever you have the wood penetrating penetrated and there
is the ability for water to get into that hole
of the penetration, it has the ability.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
To start rotting.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So when you take up the boards deck boards, and
you start seeing where it was nailed, where it was screwed,
et cetera. Those are penetrations. And if everything's solid, take
a little scratch all or a screwdriver. If it's solid, wonderful.
But don't put your deck boards around on top of
(23:43):
that because those penetrations, those mail holes probably aren't going
to line up. Water get down, will get down in
those holes and rot will begin. So you may have
seen joist tape tracks makes a great joys tape. It's
a rubber eyes self adh of membrane that goes over
the top of the joys. You put that down, then
(24:03):
put your boards on top of that. That's fine, that's
that's excellent. Now if you take up the deck boards
and you.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Know the half inch of that top of that Joye
is all rotten.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And it's being torn up as you're tearing up the
deck boards, that's the red flag.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
For sure. You're gonna want to replace that undercarriage then
or that structure. But keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
If you if you in good shape, I'm not trying
to discourage you from doing it by any stretch of
the imagination. Whether you use pressure treated wood on top
for the new deck boards or a composite, just make sure.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You use that that choice tape. That's very important.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
All right, Paul, welcome, Hi, Thank you. Question water softener?
Is there a lifespan on?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, there is. It depends what type water softener it is.
And I don't know if I can. So there's some
like one sold it a big box store that you
can install yourself, which aren't that difficult.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They've got about a.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Seven to ten year lifespan if you go to if
you go to one like a Culligan or one of
those higher end, just the way that it's constructed and
the media that's down in the water softener and all
you get twenty twenty five years out of then they're
double the price too, so it's kind of double the price,
(25:32):
double the life.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Got it? Okay? Yeah? Mine was fears and sers are
still around and it's probably fourteen fourteen years or so.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, what's going on with it? Can you tell it's
not softening?
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Well, it's my wife's because they're run it through into
the laundry room and it seems after it runs a cycle,
first load, she runs through the washing machine is very cloudy,
almost murky, she said, muddy, but just this colored water.
(26:12):
So you've got to be careful when she's you know,
doing whites of course. But so that's that's kind of
more what is bringing this up?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Have you bypassed the water?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Have you bypassed it just to see if that same occurs?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
You know, I haven't. I could shuttle that.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I just try.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
That, and you know, make sure it's not the hot
water and the water here that's causing it.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Doesn't seem to be anywhere else. It's just through into
the the laundry washing machine more because I run the
hot and cold there through the water softener. But the
rest of the house it's just the hot the way
I've got it plumps because more I would rather have
unstopting water to drink.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So yeah, yeah, I'd still probably bypass and just see
what it looks like, just just for giggles, and then
if you uh, you know, one of ours.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
I wasn't sure, but.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I would have to say that, all right, you met
good enough. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I would have to say it's probably at the end
of its cycle. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong
with them. I'm just saying you're going to get about,
you know, ten or twelve years. In fact, I had
one of those in my home a number of years ago,
probably twenty years ago, and installed it myself. I think
I paid eight hundred bucks for it. I think I
got it a home depot, and I thought I was
(27:35):
doing a pretty good job. And then I, I don't know,
it just didn't feel like it was getting a job done.
I didn't really have any real, you know, problems with it,
just didn't you know, how softened water is just slippery, right,
you can feel it, and I just wasn't feeling like
(27:55):
it was getting the job done. They ended up talking
to the folks that colling in that in I'll put
a colorgain in And.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's probably been.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Ten years ago now I have to go look at
the date on it. But immediately my feeling on that
was that this water softener has done a better job
of softening the water than the less expensive one did.
It just really really felt like soft water and still
(28:30):
does and you know, it's still very serviceable. And again,
maintenance that's key, you know, making sure you got salt
in there and making sure you're not having salt dams
in there. They're real hard ones and I probably need
some service on that. Anyway, It's probably been a few years,
(28:51):
but keeping them well maintained certainly comes into play.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
All right, let's take a break. We got Ron, Jim
and Matt. If you'd like to join us, do so.
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
By the way, our number is eight hundred eighty two
three eight two five five Ron.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Welcome, Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Morning.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Uh. I enjoy your program And I got a question.
You've talked about it before, moss on a shingle roof.
Is the product you recommend? Is it wet and forget?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Correct?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
And that's available at home depot or lose?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Uh? Definitely both?
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Okay, And another thing I want to give you a
heads up for turning me onto the gutter brush.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
It's a great product, and I use it. I've got
like a like a hunting camp, okay in northern Ohio,
and I get out there during hunting season turkey and deer,
and that's where a moss problem is. And uh, but
I'll tell you what. I used to have to clean
them leaves out a couple of times in the fall.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well, here's a funny story.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Ron, Yeah, here's a funny story. The way it was
invented was exactly like that. So the guy who invented it,
he had a hunting cavin up in un.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
That because I talked to the owner when I opened them,
and he actually knew like the area. But I'll tell
you what it's. I don't think i've cleaned them out
now the first year they've been in for like five winners,
now five years. For after after a first year, I
looked at me cleaned out right, and then now I
(31:13):
clean them out like every oh excuse me, every two years,
and it's it's it's a great product. It's a great
matter of fact, I was just up there yesterday and uh,
I looked from like the upstairs looking out through the
dormer window and uh literally, but what usually happens, they'll
dry up and blow away exactly what is at the
(31:33):
bottom of the gutter is like a real fine you know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, h a composed and yeah they're great. I have
a I am in my home and there's a couple areas.
Some areas I never take out. Other areas. Uh, alright,
I got some pine trees about every two three years,
I got to take them out, shake them off, and
slide them back in.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Yeah, I like at home. Here on my garage, I
could I could reach. I don't even need a ladder.
There's a couple down spots that go down and I
put like one gutter brush right over that.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
And I'll tell you what. It seems to really help out,
you know. Ye, how about how about it, I'm gonna
I'm gonna get this wet and forget. How about guys
told me, oh, you could get like bleach like fifty
with water and spray it on.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You can? You can? Here's the issue.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Done that a few years ago when it started, But
it seems like it always comes back. But I'm going
to go with this.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, here's the deal. Bleach does not do a permanent kill. Okay,
that's it'll kill it, yeah, but the roots will still
be there.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Another thing is the wedding forget does have a residual.
In fact, when you get rid of it, it should
stay clean for a good year and a half, maybe
two years. But at that point I just spray the
roof again and then you get another two years.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, but give it time to work. They have it
two ways.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
One of them and as you just connect the bottle
to a hose and it'll spray up twenty five feet
and just wet that down. Do it when the sun's
not blazing hot on the roof. You don't want to
too much of it evaporate. And then like over time,
right yeah, yeah, and over time with the rain in
(33:24):
the sun, that keeps reactivating it, and.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It'll take on moss.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
It'll take four to six weeks before it's eliminated. And
you know it four weeks. If it's not turning brown,
you might even want to spray it again, but it
will take.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
This past week up here in northeast Ohio is like
warm weather all week and that just triggers oh yeah,
it's growing conditions for that mons.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Sure it's absolutely perfect. The leaves are off the trees,
the sunk and hit it and you get some moisture
and away.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
She goes, Yeah, well this's this where I'm having it.
Hardly gets any sun at all. Don't get any sun, okay,
so but I just don't want any like you know.
The ironic part about it is these shingles at ten
years old and their dimensional. It's set on a on
a package, you know, rest or not rest. But it
(34:21):
would be algae moss resistant.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, it'll be algae.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
That only lasts for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah. Really, Well, you know it's it's all environmental too.
I mean inside those shingles. The reason it's resistant is
they put in some metals like copper and zinc and
that'll just keep that from growing. But it leaches out
and becomes not effective. So I guess it could depend
(34:52):
not positive on this. I guess it could depend on
the amount of rainfall and you know how much that's
leached out, et cetera. But you know, it's nothing's forever.
Usually it does have a ten year warranty acount.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
I'm I'm a retired roofer and right here in town.
I of course I do my own work. But a
flashing on the back porch. I had access to some
copper counting counterflashing.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Oh okayper flashing.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
And I'll tell you what, since I put that on,
it looks good. I like the way he gets that
dark back patina color. And it really no moss at all.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Sure, well, I'll tell you what this is.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
This whole moss and mildew and algae and fungus and
everything that was all caused by the limestone and shingles,
and it uses it as a feeding source. But long
before wet and forget was invented and several other products
that are out on the market, the cure to that
when it first started showing up was the strand copper
(35:53):
wires across your roof or a zinc little piece of
metal at the top of the roof.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
And it was inconsistent, but it did.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
It kind of kept the moss and the algae in check,
but it would get streaky. It wouldn't be a real
nice conformed kill on that fungus and algae. So the
wedding forget does a great job.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Okay, well, thanks for the time, and I listened to
you a lot, And do you have a good date.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
All right, you do the same, Thank you much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And especially moss becomes a big problem. And so let's
kind of revisit this here before we move on.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
If you have black streaks on your roof, now, yeah
you can see the shadowing. What that is.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
That is an airborne fungus algae, a mildew.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's not mold, and.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That is not really gonna decrease your roofs live dramatically.
But I'll tell you what's happening right now. First of all,
it's ugly, and if you go to sell your home,
it's gonna be brought up. I guarantee you. And what's
happening now is insurance companies are sending homeowners notices if
(37:17):
you have heavy streaking on your roof, and they're gonna
ask you to get it clean or they're not going
to cover that roof. And I'm not kidding. And when
it has moss on it, that moss is a pad.
It's probably a half inch thick, and it's got roots,
and those roots grow into the shingles and they will
(37:40):
destroy the shingle. And I'm sure from an insurance company standpoint,
that same thing will hold true. So even if you
have that black streaking, the wit and Forget is a
product you can do. If you want to do it yourself,
you can. There's also companies that will come in clean roofs,
not with you know, a pressure washer, or if it
(38:03):
is with a pressure it's a low pressure washer and
they know what they're doing, but they will eliminate that also,
so if you don't want to do it, you can
look for somebody to do clean it for you. Many
people do do that, some better than others, but it's
another thing to kind of stay on top.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Of for sure.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
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