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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
you know, the last call in the last hour. And
I and again I'm not making fun of anyone. I
just I get asked this question a lot, and it
always it always kind of feels a little funny to me.
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And it feels funny to me because I know we
all think about our homes differently. When people talk a
lot about and there's articles written, that's how that's how
we started this conversation. There's articles written about what home
projects return the greatest value, in other words, the best
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return on investment. What is that? And I brought it
up also because I just read this article. Is it
the new front door? Is it? The new windows? Is it?
The new garage door? Is it? The new countertops? Is it?
The bathroom? Is it? The new flooring? Is it is
it redoing a basement because there's more square footage? What
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is that ret on investment? And I always find that
I think I'm into minority, So bear with me. I
think I find out a little interesting and a little
funny in some respects. And here's why. I think a
lot of it depends on when you buy a house
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and you're in the house, how long you're going to
be there. I think every home I bought, and I
bought three of them, that I figured I was going
to be in there forever, with the exception of the
last house I built and bought, I did not think
I would be in that one forever. And I have
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been in that home longer than all the other two homes.
So I think if you're moving every five to ten years,
I can I think that makes sense. Okay, do I
really want to put a front door on for ten
thousand dollars even if it turns ninety ninety five percent
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of that investment? And over what period of time does
it because it's gonna get old too, or you know,
you can go right down the list, Oh my kitchen
is so outdated, but well it returns ninety percent, but
there's a ceiling on that too, right, What you know,
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I think if you're going to return ninety percent and
you're redoing a kitchen, you're probably gonna want to have
granted countertops or quartz countertops or a solid surface countertop.
You don't want to do it on the cheap. That
payback will be there, But then when you start getting
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down other things, don't hold me this number. Building a
deck might return seventy five percent. But we got decks
that can cost one thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars
now one of the composite woods and things like that,
and you got a roof over it, and you know,
I mean, it can be very costly, or it can
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be a pressure treated in sixteen by sixteen deck, and
those probably return varying degrees. That real big deck with
all the composites and all the shotskis maybe not seventy
five percent or maybe more. My point being is if
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you're going to be in the house for a while,
what plays into doing that project to you? And I
asked this sincerely to me, I don't think I factor
in or am that concern on the return on the investment.
I'm more concerned about what is the investment. If I
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want a new kitchen and I want granted countertops, and
I want this kind of lighting, and I want this
kind of cabinets, what's that going to cost me? And
I want a new kitchen, I'm not as concerned about
what that return on that investment is, but more concerned
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about what is that investment? I don't know. I'd just
like to know your input on that. For instance, people
that put pools, I think pools are notoriously not a
great return on investment. I know a lot of people
that have pools, though, didday look at that project? Is
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the investment or the return on investment or I just
want to pull on. I don't care how much it cost.
I guess there's people that can do that too, but
just interesting, the return on investment comes up a lot.
In fact, taking that whole standard in taking it to
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outdoor living areas is really really a big trend right now.
I can't tell you what that return on investment is.
But if you get a big paver patio or a
stamp concrete patio, those aren't cheap. And then if you
put an outdoor fireplace in there, that's not cheap. May
we'll put a roof over that's not cheap. But Doug Gunnan,
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if you live in an area where the weather's really
nice a lot of the year, that might be a big,
nice investment. Is it going to return all the money? No,
probably not, but something to think about. Just tossing it
up there. It's more to me about the investment, all right,
talking to home improvement, it's eight hundred eighty two three
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eight two five five Pat, Welcome, good morning, Gary.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Have to stay warm up there in the brains.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Don't hit you too hard, yes sir, ye, let's go eventually.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Again, I can't disagree with you any on what you're
saying about home improvements. But here's one I haven't heard
you mentioned, and we did it. We had a retaining wall.
By total length, it's on the Stelle shaped, was about
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almost two hundred feet, going from twenty four to thirty
six inches in height. It was made into the old
railroad timbers and they were rotten out and failing. So
I had a modular block wall built and man, that
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looked good. That looks good years old. It was a
little pricey, but yeah, that's something maybe people should consider.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah. In fact, I've even had had a half him back.
I probably am them on for about five years. At
Joe Kowalski, he's got a company. He's an engineer, of course,
and he engineers walls literally around the world. And you know,
his line all the time is if you keep that
wall under three feet, you don't have to get into
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all the geogrid and all that stuff. But they're not
cheap and it's really important to be done right. And
there's a lot of those old railroad tie walls out there.
I've taken calls on them, and uh, but those things
are beautiful. And I don't know if you watched them
build that pat but I mean it's like a big
Lego set and they do a nice job.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I thought about doing it myself, and then once they
know it's going and I finally said, this is more
than I can do.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Good, Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, it's a lot of labor. I mean, it's a
lot of labor getting that thing level, and the blocks
make it so much easier than what they used to be.
I know that. Uh, but yeah, I don't think my
back could hold up at this point anymore. Like those
days are gone.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, And one thing is if people don't know who
to go to for a construction, go to the block
supplier absolutely and go in person and say who are
the good contractors?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Right, and that you're good. That same holds true when
you if you're looking at buying deck material. That's you know,
people always like who's a good deck place? Go to
those type of facilities. They know the right people.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, all right, Pat, well, thank you. Enjoy the wall.
Those are really nice though. You know, you get that
base down, gravel base, you set the block, make sure
that's all level. You fill the block with gravel and
they got little clips. It's like a lego set, but
it's you got to have a strong back and strong legs.
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And I think those days for building walls for me
is over. So if you're young enough to do that,
I think that's a project you can tackle, all right.
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Gary Salvan twenty one minutes after the top of the air.
I hope you having a great weekend, getting a few
things done around the home, and happy to talk about
your home projects. If you'd like to join us up,
please do. We've covered a lot of things, including even
the remodeling and some of the things I have listened.
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We talked about a front door with a fellow who
was talking about, boy, the price of those doors really increasing,
they have. And then yesterday we also had an issue
with water, you know, leaking around a patio door in
that case, and he was talking about how many people
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he had out and they inspected it and you know,
just kept adding cock and cock and kept it kept leaking,
but only when it rained really hard in a certain direction,
a certain amount of wind. And I've experienced the same.
I just want to say, if you do experience that,
it's not always right around the windows or right around
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the doors in some cases, look up and especially if
you have I mean there's you know, all kinds of
different houses and sighting and clapboards, et cetera. Et cetera.
But brick homes, if you get missing mortar, or you
get crack bricks, or the gutters are hanging maybe leaning
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a little forward, maybe the nails are pulling out. Even
water getting behind that brick and coming down behind that
brick and then hitting the window and working its way
in there. It's not always right around where it's leaking.
You've heard the phrase many times and that water can
travel the path of least resistance, and the actual symptoms
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of the problem may show up ten feet away, fifteen
feet away. And I was talking to this fella, and
I am like, so, really, you almost got to recreate
the leak, and hopefully you can recreate the leak. Sometimes
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it's not even that easy. He said, Well, they used
a hose, and so I guess they thought they had
it around the window where it was leaking. But a
lot of times, and speaking of doors, I was at
a friend of mine's house and he had his door.
The actual door where it went against the jam was rotted.
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So it was a fiberglass door with a wood core,
and the wood core was rotting. And I see that
happen on door jams a lot also, where the jam
is cut maybe three ace of an inch maybe five
sixteenth of an inch off the concrete. And people have
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caught that and think they're doing a good job of
stopping that water from getting up underneath there. And it's
not the case when you call that's the exit point
for the water if it gets up and behind the
jam and the trim don't really have anything to do
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with the door but the frame of the door. And
if you calk that close that water, if it's coming
from above, you know, at the top of the trim
of the door, maybe that's where you can use some calking.
But if you use it down on the bottom, you
basically put the stopper in it, you put the plug
in it, you seal it up, and that water is
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then held into the jam and trim and rotting occurs.
In this case, it wasn't a case because there was
actually a gap. The door needed adjustment, the wood needed
to be scraped out, and it needed to be patched,
which we can do. I mean, there's all kinds of
wood fillers. We've talked in the past about an epoxy
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wood filler called Abatron, which is that's the brand name Abitron.
It's wood. Apox is what the name of the product
is and it is an epoxy wood filler. What's different
than that in a lot of other wood fillers you're
going to find on the shelf at the hardware store
is you can actually make large patches with this. For instance,
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if you had a wood column in the base that
that was rotted, you could actually use the wood apox,
make it the size of a softball, press it and
sculpted in there and it would serve the duty. So
what we did is we scraped that wood out out
of that center of that door, and we probably went
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down three ace of an inch, and then we used
that wood a pox to kind of just sculpt the
square the door. And you know that'll hold for years.
That'll hold for years, So there is some repair. I mean,
you couldn't tell that it was rotted before till we
discovered it, and you couldn't tell it was fixed after
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it was fixed. But it's fixed now. So always some
of those things we can go ahead and take care of.
And if you take your walk around the house, I
can always talk about in the springtime, the places I
would check would be the doors, the jams, and any
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peeling paint, little slivers of peeling paint that you find
maybe on the sophet of the facia, and nine out
of ten times that's a sign of a water issue.
That water gets in that wood, that would swells, that
wood begins to rot, the paint begins to peel, and
the peeling paint is the red flag wave an edge.
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It's not the problem, problems behind the paint, all right.
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three eight two five five and Scott you lead us off.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Gary, How you.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Doing doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh good? I don't know this cold weather I'm getting
tired of because I'm in Ohio as well.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, I know it's March. So hey, quick question two questions.
Actually doing a kitchen renovation and I'm opening up the
walls to move some electrical and also I'm going to
be running some low voltage wires in there to do
under cabinet lighting. So my question is, is there any
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considerations when running low voltage wiring in the same walls
as like, you know, twelve two or fourteen to two,
you know, do you have to keep them so far
apart particular to the other that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah. I don't think out overlap or anything, but I
think within you know, a handful of distance, you're be fine.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Okay, So as long as they're just not like right.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Up next to each other, right, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Okay, So I don't need to like run the Somebody
suggested running the low voltage wiring in its own little
plastic flexible conduit, and I was like to protect it,
and I was like, I didn't know if that was overkill.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It probably is an overkilled to a degree. I don't
think it's by code or anything. I'm sure you're just,
you know, right, just covers it up. A little bit better.
I guess you got insulation in there.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Uh, this is an interior wall.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, just keep it just where it's not overlapping, you
know distance.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
And then the second question is is in one case
I'm on the first wall, is I was actually able
to keep the corner bead when I removed the dry wall?
Keep the corner bead intact? Should I remove that and
start with new or can go ahead and just slide
the if you can get it nice right behind.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It, Yeah, if you can get it as tight as
you can, you can leave it intact. Otherwise just pull
it out. I know that can be easily bent and manipulated.
But you want that lane on that drywall, you know, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, there's a couple there's a couple of spots where
you know, the corner beat bent up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Right, and uh so I'll leave you make that decision.
You know, if you can slide it in there and
it looks like it's laying as you know, as smooth
as a new piece, if you can manipulate it back,
you're good. Otherwise I'd I'd yank it off and just
put a.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
New put in nice flat. Yeah, I know, I was.
I figured that was the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, you knew the answer. You just need somebody
to knock you around though.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's right exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
So all right, hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
All right, Scott. Thanks. I do the same thing. And
it's like, I know the answer, but I'm gonna ask
this person. Maybe he'll give me permission. All right, Uh again,
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call party back. See set a second. You're you're right
on the mark, right on the mark. Here's something to
consider every time I'm I talked about with a lot
of people about this. The dryer vent. I think that's
one of the things drier vents drive me crazy. I
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don't know why. Well I do know why. I know
exactly why because in my laundry room, the way it
is set up is the vent is right there by
the by the vent that goes outside the hood. And
until I discovered a pretty neat apparatus where it was
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like a ninety, it was a flush ninety that came
right out of the back of the dryer. Before that
that that dryer would have to be about, I don't know,
fifteen inches away from the wall kind of kind of
stuck out too far, and the dryer hose had a
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tendency to come off as the dryer would get moved moved,
and the hole for the vent going through the wall
was too big, and finally as it fell off and
I finally got to clamp in it, and then I'd
hate to unclamp to get it clean, and then the
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clothes wouldn't dry in a timely manner. And that's there's
a couple tips here. That's where I'm going. A couple
of tips here. Number one is there is when the
vents get clogged. Lint is moist and wet, and it
sticks and it accumulates, and once you start losing some
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of the interior diameter of that vent pipe, the clothes
take longer to dry. And if you're noticing that, you
probably need to pull off the vent pipes and cleanose,
or get a brush you can get at a hardware store.
You can actually maybe took it off the hood and
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then run the brush down to clean out the gunk
that's clogging up the vent pipe. That's tip one needs
to be done. On occasion, you can always tell it
the red flag. The red flag is it takes longer
to dry load of clothes now when it gets real cold,
if that laundry room is colder than any other room
in the house. And that happens a lot. Also, it's
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a couple of things going on. One is the vent
hose or pipe is become disconnected. You know we're always
talking about sealing the vent pipes behind the wall on
your furnace. Well, you know the pipe if it's especially
on hoses, where it's disconnected the hose, you can get
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a draft. And then when you run the dryer, you
got really warm moist air you're putting in your house
and your windows start sweating. You got the curse of both.
But there where the pipe goes through the wall to
the hood outside, there's very little insulation. Stuffing insulation between
the wall and that pipe is a really, really good idea.
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If you want to use a little expandable foam, you
can use that, but seal up that that's a very
very drafty place. But paying attention to both those in
it's been a while since you've cleaned out the vent
pipe and might want to, you know, stick your nose
into that see what's going on. I know in some
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of these comments they run those pipes like twenty twenty
four feet and every time you get an elbow that's
worth about three feet And we don't have enough oomp
to get that warm moist air out of that pipe,
and then it starts creating condensation and you get water
in the pipe, and then that takes longer for the
clothes to dry. Having them inspected and clean periodically. Real
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good idea. Let's go to Jill. Jill welcome, Hi, Yes,
thank you all.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I have a question about the present window. I had
taste about fifteen years ago. They're big slider windows, uh huh,
and I'm having a hard time lasting into locks. They're
not They're not pushed far enough apart. I guess they're
not lacking. I can't get them tight. What do you
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think could be the problem?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Well, I'm I'm just guessing without really sliding them and knowing,
but I'm going to guess they've become a little bit
out of alignment.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Is that something that replaced the window company could repair?
Because I think they're so under warranty.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, I would certainly call them and see if that's
covered under warranty or there are plenty of people that
work on windows, repair windows. You know, if it's a slider,
make sure that that the one is there one window
that's stationary, or they both slide. They both slide, okay,
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and you're sure that the one that kind of being
stationary is all the way in because I'll have sometimes
I have a double hung casement and I can't latch them.
And it's the top window. It's just not up far enough.
It's got like a half inch and I push it
up it catches, and then ah, that's the problem, and
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then I'm able to pull the ventilator down and lock it.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
I'm pretty sure we've actually pushed from the outside of
the window to try and make sure that you're spread apart.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, just double check the one that doesn't get moved
as often.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Okay, you're going to clean the crack.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I don't know if that might have something to do
with it.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, could, I mean, again, even on a slider, just
like a double hung I mean, both of mine move, okay,
but one of them is basically the ventilator. There's one
I moved more than the other, and you know, if
you just double check the one that has not moved
as much, maybe lock it, pull it down and then
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you know, put it back in place. That would be
one Always a good idea annually to wipe down the
tracks and make sure there's no impediments, and also to
get a good and clean lubricated with some teflon or
silicone spray so that we don't wear down and prematurely
age the glides on those windows. So as you're double
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checking that, I'd do a little maintenance on them.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Also, do you have any suggestions for repairment windows?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Uh, there's depending on you know, I'm not really sure
there's a there's one called the glass Doctor. I don't
have one that I use on a regular basis that
I have a name to recommend. But there are certainly
people that do repair windows. There's a Picken's Windows service
where I am. They sell parts and repair windows. They're
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out there, and you know the same with the double hunk.
When no springs break, there's people that replace those. Glass
Doctor is a franchise that's in a lot of different cities,
but I'm sure there's local people in your place. Jill
or also some franchises that do that.
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Okay, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
All right, good luck, take care. All right, let me
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It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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three eight two five five Gwenn. Welcome, Thank you, Yes,
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how can we help?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
I'm calling because my I had a pot burst. My
basement flooded to the top, a partial basement, and I'm
calling to find out if there's something I can get
to spire, some service I can call on to come
spire you to keep down some of the mold.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, first thing you want to do is turn down
the radio. Otherwise you're never going to hear my answer.
So let's do that first, all right. So when the
pipe burst, it's flooded the basement. And where are you
in that process? Have you had? Is it if you
get the water out of there? Or where are we?
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Yeah, the water is out and most of the junk
is out, not all of it. I haven't got it all
out yet, but I would like to get something to
keep down the mold.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, well, and we I don't know if we can
keep it down, but we can kill it once it's growing.
So are you seeing mold now?
Speaker 7 (37:57):
No?
Speaker 10 (37:59):
But then I haven't been down there in a winger,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
No, you don't know if there's mold down there or not.
There probably is. So there's mold spores everywhere in your house,
outdoors and everywhere, and there's organic material which is dust, wood, cloth.
And then when we add water, mold starts reproducing, starts
having colonies and growing in your basement. Is there something
(38:24):
to do with that? Yes, there's all kinds of mold
killing sprays, there's mold killing fog. But when the mold
problem becomes big, it's really not a do it yourself
project so if you have mold and it's under ten
square feet, I would recommend a mold killing product like
(38:47):
the uh It's wet and forgets disinfectant and mold eliminator,
and that is just sprayed onto the mold's surface. But
as long as you have a lot of humidity or
moisture in that basement, mold's gonna keep growing. So we
(39:12):
gotta not only get that mold water out of there.
If there's carpet, we got to get that out of there.
If there's drywall, we probably need you know, if it
was that basement was filled with water, you probably gonna
have to take down the dry wall. If there's a
fiber there, I'm.
Speaker 10 (39:31):
Sorry, partial basement blocks.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Okay, so no drywall or anything along nose lines, no insulation,
but you're pretty much gonna take it down to the
bare bones though. Correct. Get everything out of there. Yes, Okay.
Once you get everything out of there and you don't
see any more mold and you run the fans and
we got it dry it out, then there is Like
(39:57):
I said, the name of the product is made by Wetingford.
It's called disinfectant and mold eliminator, and it kills the mold.
Don't use bleach. That's not going to kill the mold.
It's gonna smell horrible and it won't make it visible,
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but it's not gonna totally kill the mold. So you
want to get something along these lines.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Next question, how do you go about applying it if
you have to be down there?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Well, that's why I say if it's over ten square feet,
you shouldn't go down there and apply it.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
Okay, Then do you recommend somebody? Do you have anyone
that you can recommend.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I don't have a name of a company, but there
are mold elimination companies in your city. I guarantee you
there's one in my city called at Home, and they're
at Home mold Elimination and experts. They test, they eliminate.
I'm not trying to be difficult, Gwen. It's just that
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there's a lot going on there. There's over three hundred
different species of mold. You may be very susceptible to mold.
I am not as susceptible to mold in terms of
breathing that my wife is. There are precautions that need
to be taken if your whole basement becomes moldy. I
(41:31):
would definitely get a professional in there to tackle that problem.
I started out the conversation saying, you know, if it's
one wall and it's ten square feet, yeah, you can
get down there. You can use a respirator, use some goggles,
and you can spray down. You don't have to scrub it.
You just spray that wall down and that'll be fine.
(41:52):
But if all the walls are moldy and you got
we don't know what species or anything along those lines,
I would certainly, you know, call a contractor in there
and take take a you know, find do it the
right way. Uh, it's a it's a big project. So
and stay away from the mold, from the bleaches and
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things like that. I think that gives everybody a false
sense of security. You know, it smells bleachy, then everything
should be gone. And that's not always the case. So
there's also products out there. I'm just giving you some
more information. Uh, there's a product out there called Conchrobium.
Conchrobium makes a fogger, which is a mold eliminating fog
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that you literally flog that basement A lot of time.
That is used in a crawl space where you can't
get back into it or you don't want to get
back into it. Uh, that can eliminate mold also. So
there there's a bunch of products out there. There's a
bunch of certainly people that specialize it in mold removal.
(43:06):
I'm just trying to give you all as many facts
as we know. We don't know what spores are down
there yet. But luckily you don't have the carpet and
the insulation, because then in the drywall then it becomes
even a bigger deal. But the first one I recommend
that you would spray down there would be the wet
and forget disinfectant and mold removal. All right, Gwen, thank
(43:30):
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It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
you know, the last call in the last hour. And
I and again I'm not making fun of anyone. I
just I get asked this question a lot, and it
always it always kind of feels a little funny to me.
(01:14):
And it feels funny to me because I know we
all think about our homes differently. When people talk a
lot about and there's articles written, that's how that's how
we started this conversation. There's articles written about what home
projects return the greatest value, in other words, the best
(01:36):
return on investment. What is that? And I brought it
up also because I just read this article. Is it
the new front door? Is it? The new windows? Is it?
The new garage door? Is it? The new countertops? Is it?
The bathroom? Is it? The new flooring? Is it is
it redoing a basement because there's more square footage? What
(01:59):
is that ret on investment? And I always find that
I think I'm into minority, So bear with me. I
think I find out a little interesting and a little
funny in some respects. And here's why. I think a
lot of it depends on when you buy a house
(02:20):
and you're in the house, how long you're going to
be there. I think every home I bought, and I
bought three of them, that I figured I was going
to be in there forever, with the exception of the
last house I built and bought, I did not think
I would be in that one forever. And I have
(02:41):
been in that home longer than all the other two homes.
So I think if you're moving every five to ten years,
I can I think that makes sense. Okay, do I
really want to put a front door on for ten
thousand dollars even if it turns ninety ninety five percent
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of that investment? And over what period of time does
it because it's gonna get old too, or you know,
you can go right down the list, Oh my kitchen
is so outdated, but well it returns ninety percent, but
there's a ceiling on that too, right, What you know,
(03:25):
I think if you're going to return ninety percent and
you're redoing a kitchen, you're probably gonna want to have
granted countertops or quartz countertops or a solid surface countertop.
You don't want to do it on the cheap. That
payback will be there, But then when you start getting
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down other things, don't hold me this number. Building a
deck might return seventy five percent. But we got decks
that can cost one thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars
now one of the composite woods and things like that,
and you got a roof over it, and you know,
I mean, it can be very costly, or it can
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be a pressure treated in sixteen by sixteen deck, and
those probably return varying degrees. That real big deck with
all the composites and all the shotskis maybe not seventy
five percent or maybe more. My point being is if
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you're going to be in the house for a while,
what plays into doing that project to you? And I
asked this sincerely to me, I don't think I factor
in or am that concern on the return on the investment.
I'm more concerned about what is the investment. If I
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want a new kitchen and I want granted countertops, and
I want this kind of lighting, and I want this
kind of cabinets, what's that going to cost me? And
I want a new kitchen, I'm not as concerned about
what that return on that investment is, but more concerned
(05:17):
about what is that investment? I don't know. I'd just
like to know your input on that. For instance, people
that put pools, I think pools are notoriously not a
great return on investment. I know a lot of people
that have pools, though, didday look at that project? Is
(05:41):
the investment or the return on investment or I just
want to pull on. I don't care how much it cost.
I guess there's people that can do that too, but
just interesting, the return on investment comes up a lot.
In fact, taking that whole standard in taking it to
(06:02):
outdoor living areas is really really a big trend right now.
I can't tell you what that return on investment is.
But if you get a big paver patio or a
stamp concrete patio, those aren't cheap. And then if you
put an outdoor fireplace in there, that's not cheap. May
we'll put a roof over that's not cheap. But Doug Gunnan,
(06:26):
if you live in an area where the weather's really
nice a lot of the year, that might be a big,
nice investment. Is it going to return all the money? No,
probably not, but something to think about. Just tossing it
up there. It's more to me about the investment, all right,
talking to home improvement, it's eight hundred eighty two three
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eight two five five Pat, Welcome, good morning, Gary.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Have to stay warm up there in the brains.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Don't hit you too hard, yes sir, ye, let's go eventually.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Again, I can't disagree with you any on what you're
saying about home improvements. But here's one I haven't heard
you mentioned, and we did it. We had a retaining wall.
By total length, it's on the Stelle shaped, was about
(07:22):
almost two hundred feet, going from twenty four to thirty
six inches in height. It was made into the old
railroad timbers and they were rotten out and failing. So
I had a modular block wall built and man, that
(07:44):
looked good. That looks good years old. It was a
little pricey, but yeah, that's something maybe people should consider.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah. In fact, I've even had had a half him back.
I probably am them on for about five years. At
Joe Kowalski, he's got a company. He's an engineer, of course,
and he engineers walls literally around the world. And you know,
his line all the time is if you keep that
wall under three feet, you don't have to get into
(08:18):
all the geogrid and all that stuff. But they're not
cheap and it's really important to be done right. And
there's a lot of those old railroad tie walls out there.
I've taken calls on them, and uh, but those things
are beautiful. And I don't know if you watched them
build that pat but I mean it's like a big
Lego set and they do a nice job.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I thought about doing it myself, and then once they
know it's going and I finally said, this is more
than I can do.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Good, Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, it's a lot of labor. I mean, it's a
lot of labor getting that thing level, and the blocks
make it so much easier than what they used to be.
I know that. Uh, but yeah, I don't think my
back could hold up at this point anymore. Like those
days are gone.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, And one thing is if people don't know who
to go to for a construction, go to the block
supplier absolutely and go in person and say who are
the good contractors?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Right, and that you're good. That same holds true when
you if you're looking at buying deck material. That's you know,
people always like who's a good deck place? Go to
those type of facilities. They know the right people.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, all right, Pat, well, thank you. Enjoy the wall.
Those are really nice though. You know, you get that
base down, gravel base, you set the block, make sure
that's all level. You fill the block with gravel and
they got little clips. It's like a lego set, but
it's you got to have a strong back and strong legs.
(10:09):
And I think those days for building walls for me
is over. So if you're young enough to do that,
I think that's a project you can tackle, all right.
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Gary Salvan twenty one minutes after the top of the air.
I hope you having a great weekend, getting a few
things done around the home, and happy to talk about
your home projects. If you'd like to join us up,
please do. We've covered a lot of things, including even
the remodeling and some of the things I have listened.
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We talked about a front door with a fellow who
was talking about, boy, the price of those doors really increasing,
they have. And then yesterday we also had an issue
with water, you know, leaking around a patio door in
that case, and he was talking about how many people
(13:54):
he had out and they inspected it and you know,
just kept adding cock and cock and kept it kept leaking,
but only when it rained really hard in a certain direction,
a certain amount of wind. And I've experienced the same.
I just want to say, if you do experience that,
it's not always right around the windows or right around
(14:18):
the doors in some cases, look up and especially if
you have I mean there's you know, all kinds of
different houses and sighting and clapboards, et cetera. Et cetera.
But brick homes, if you get missing mortar, or you
get crack bricks, or the gutters are hanging maybe leaning
(14:41):
a little forward, maybe the nails are pulling out. Even
water getting behind that brick and coming down behind that
brick and then hitting the window and working its way
in there. It's not always right around where it's leaking.
You've heard the phrase many times and that water can
travel the path of least resistance, and the actual symptoms
(15:07):
of the problem may show up ten feet away, fifteen
feet away. And I was talking to this fella, and
I am like, so, really, you almost got to recreate
the leak, and hopefully you can recreate the leak. Sometimes
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it's not even that easy. He said, Well, they used
a hose, and so I guess they thought they had
it around the window where it was leaking. But a
lot of times, and speaking of doors, I was at
a friend of mine's house and he had his door.
The actual door where it went against the jam was rotted.
(15:49):
So it was a fiberglass door with a wood core,
and the wood core was rotting. And I see that
happen on door jams a lot also, where the jam
is cut maybe three ace of an inch maybe five
sixteenth of an inch off the concrete. And people have
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caught that and think they're doing a good job of
stopping that water from getting up underneath there. And it's
not the case when you call that's the exit point
for the water if it gets up and behind the
jam and the trim don't really have anything to do
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with the door but the frame of the door. And
if you calk that close that water, if it's coming
from above, you know, at the top of the trim
of the door, maybe that's where you can use some calking.
But if you use it down on the bottom, you
basically put the stopper in it, you put the plug
in it, you seal it up, and that water is
(16:57):
then held into the jam and trim and rotting occurs.
In this case, it wasn't a case because there was
actually a gap. The door needed adjustment, the wood needed
to be scraped out, and it needed to be patched,
which we can do. I mean, there's all kinds of
wood fillers. We've talked in the past about an epoxy
(17:20):
wood filler called Abatron, which is that's the brand name Abitron.
It's wood. Apox is what the name of the product
is and it is an epoxy wood filler. What's different
than that in a lot of other wood fillers you're
going to find on the shelf at the hardware store
is you can actually make large patches with this. For instance,
(17:45):
if you had a wood column in the base that
that was rotted, you could actually use the wood apox,
make it the size of a softball, press it and
sculpted in there and it would serve the duty. So
what we did is we scraped that wood out out
of that center of that door, and we probably went
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down three ace of an inch, and then we used
that wood a pox to kind of just sculpt the
square the door. And you know that'll hold for years.
That'll hold for years, So there is some repair. I mean,
you couldn't tell that it was rotted before till we
discovered it, and you couldn't tell it was fixed after
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it was fixed. But it's fixed now. So always some
of those things we can go ahead and take care of.
And if you take your walk around the house, I
can always talk about in the springtime, the places I
would check would be the doors, the jams, and any
(18:47):
peeling paint, little slivers of peeling paint that you find
maybe on the sophet of the facia, and nine out
of ten times that's a sign of a water issue.
That water gets in that wood, that would swells, that
wood begins to rot, the paint begins to peel, and
the peeling paint is the red flag wave an edge.
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It's not the problem, problems behind the paint, all right.
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your weekend's delightful and we're getting a few things done
around the home at the same time. Fair enough, All right,
let me give you the phone number. Feel free to
join us. Question. Dannie will answer the phone. Now, He'll
put you through to me and we'll chat about what's
going on in your home. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five and Scott you lead us off.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Gary, How you.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Doing doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh good? I don't know this cold weather I'm getting
tired of because I'm in Ohio as well.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, I know it's March. So hey, quick question two questions.
Actually doing a kitchen renovation and I'm opening up the
walls to move some electrical and also I'm going to
be running some low voltage wires in there to do
under cabinet lighting. So my question is, is there any
(23:20):
considerations when running low voltage wiring in the same walls
as like, you know, twelve two or fourteen to two,
you know, do you have to keep them so far
apart particular to the other that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah. I don't think out overlap or anything, but I
think within you know, a handful of distance, you're be fine.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Okay, So as long as they're just not like right.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Up next to each other, right, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Okay, So I don't need to like run the Somebody
suggested running the low voltage wiring in its own little
plastic flexible conduit, and I was like to protect it,
and I was like, I didn't know if that was overkill.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It probably is an overkilled to a degree. I don't
think it's by code or anything. I'm sure you're just,
you know, right, just covers it up. A little bit better.
I guess you got insulation in there.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Uh, this is an interior wall.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, just keep it just where it's not overlapping, you
know distance.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
And then the second question is is in one case
I'm on the first wall, is I was actually able
to keep the corner bead when I removed the dry wall?
Keep the corner bead intact? Should I remove that and
start with new or can go ahead and just slide
the if you can get it nice right behind.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It, Yeah, if you can get it as tight as
you can, you can leave it intact. Otherwise just pull
it out. I know that can be easily bent and manipulated.
But you want that lane on that drywall, you know, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, there's a couple there's a couple of spots where
you know, the corner beat bent up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Right, and uh so I'll leave you make that decision.
You know, if you can slide it in there and
it looks like it's laying as you know, as smooth
as a new piece, if you can manipulate it back,
you're good. Otherwise I'd I'd yank it off and just
put a.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
New put in nice flat. Yeah, I know, I was.
I figured that was the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, you knew the answer. You just need somebody
to knock you around though.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's right exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
So all right, hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
All right, Scott. Thanks. I do the same thing. And
it's like, I know the answer, but I'm gonna ask
this person. Maybe he'll give me permission. All right, Uh again,
our phone number if you'd like to grab that line,
it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Feel free to They're open and he just stepped up,
but he'll be back in a second to grab your
(25:50):
call party back. See set a second. You're you're right
on the mark, right on the mark. Here's something to
consider every time I'm I talked about with a lot
of people about this. The dryer vent. I think that's
one of the things drier vents drive me crazy. I
(26:11):
don't know why. Well I do know why. I know
exactly why because in my laundry room, the way it
is set up is the vent is right there by
the by the vent that goes outside the hood. And
until I discovered a pretty neat apparatus where it was
(26:35):
like a ninety, it was a flush ninety that came
right out of the back of the dryer. Before that
that that dryer would have to be about, I don't know,
fifteen inches away from the wall kind of kind of
stuck out too far, and the dryer hose had a
(26:56):
tendency to come off as the dryer would get moved moved,
and the hole for the vent going through the wall
was too big, and finally as it fell off and
I finally got to clamp in it, and then I'd
hate to unclamp to get it clean, and then the
(27:16):
clothes wouldn't dry in a timely manner. And that's there's
a couple tips here. That's where I'm going. A couple
of tips here. Number one is there is when the
vents get clogged. Lint is moist and wet, and it
sticks and it accumulates, and once you start losing some
(27:39):
of the interior diameter of that vent pipe, the clothes
take longer to dry. And if you're noticing that, you
probably need to pull off the vent pipes and cleanose,
or get a brush you can get at a hardware store.
You can actually maybe took it off the hood and
(28:00):
then run the brush down to clean out the gunk
that's clogging up the vent pipe. That's tip one needs
to be done. On occasion, you can always tell it
the red flag. The red flag is it takes longer
to dry load of clothes now when it gets real cold,
if that laundry room is colder than any other room
in the house. And that happens a lot. Also, it's
(28:22):
a couple of things going on. One is the vent
hose or pipe is become disconnected. You know we're always
talking about sealing the vent pipes behind the wall on
your furnace. Well, you know the pipe if it's especially
on hoses, where it's disconnected the hose, you can get
(28:45):
a draft. And then when you run the dryer, you
got really warm moist air you're putting in your house
and your windows start sweating. You got the curse of both.
But there where the pipe goes through the wall to
the hood outside, there's very little insulation. Stuffing insulation between
the wall and that pipe is a really, really good idea.
(29:06):
If you want to use a little expandable foam, you
can use that, but seal up that that's a very
very drafty place. But paying attention to both those in
it's been a while since you've cleaned out the vent
pipe and might want to, you know, stick your nose
into that see what's going on. I know in some
(29:27):
of these comments they run those pipes like twenty twenty
four feet and every time you get an elbow that's
worth about three feet And we don't have enough oomp
to get that warm moist air out of that pipe,
and then it starts creating condensation and you get water
in the pipe, and then that takes longer for the
clothes to dry. Having them inspected and clean periodically. Real
(29:50):
good idea. Let's go to Jill. Jill welcome, Hi, Yes,
thank you all.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I have a question about the present window. I had
taste about fifteen years ago. They're big slider windows, uh huh,
and I'm having a hard time lasting into locks. They're
not They're not pushed far enough apart. I guess they're
not lacking. I can't get them tight. What do you
(30:18):
think could be the problem?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Well, I'm I'm just guessing without really sliding them and knowing,
but I'm going to guess they've become a little bit
out of alignment.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Is that something that replaced the window company could repair?
Because I think they're so under warranty.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, I would certainly call them and see if that's
covered under warranty or there are plenty of people that
work on windows, repair windows. You know, if it's a slider,
make sure that that the one is there one window
that's stationary, or they both slide. They both slide, okay,
(30:57):
and you're sure that the one that kind of being
stationary is all the way in because I'll have sometimes
I have a double hung casement and I can't latch them.
And it's the top window. It's just not up far enough.
It's got like a half inch and I push it
up it catches, and then ah, that's the problem, and
(31:19):
then I'm able to pull the ventilator down and lock it.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
I'm pretty sure we've actually pushed from the outside of
the window to try and make sure that you're spread apart.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, just double check the one that doesn't get moved
as often.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Okay, you're going to clean the crack.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I don't know if that might have something to do
with it.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, could, I mean, again, even on a slider, just
like a double hung I mean, both of mine move, okay,
but one of them is basically the ventilator. There's one
I moved more than the other, and you know, if
you just double check the one that has not moved
as much, maybe lock it, pull it down and then
(32:02):
you know, put it back in place. That would be
one Always a good idea annually to wipe down the
tracks and make sure there's no impediments, and also to
get a good and clean lubricated with some teflon or
silicone spray so that we don't wear down and prematurely
age the glides on those windows. So as you're double
(32:24):
checking that, I'd do a little maintenance on them.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Also, do you have any suggestions for repairment windows?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Uh, there's depending on you know, I'm not really sure
there's a there's one called the glass Doctor. I don't
have one that I use on a regular basis that
I have a name to recommend. But there are certainly
people that do repair windows. There's a Picken's Windows service
where I am. They sell parts and repair windows. They're
(32:54):
out there, and you know the same with the double hunk.
When no springs break, there's people that replace those. Glass
Doctor is a franchise that's in a lot of different cities,
but I'm sure there's local people in your place. Jill
or also some franchises that do that.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Okay, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
All right, good luck, take care. All right, let me
give it a phone number. We got a spot for you.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Will continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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at it we go. We're twelve minutes before the top
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and let's get right back to the phones. It's by
the way. The phone number is eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Gwenn. Welcome, Thank you, Yes,
(36:51):
how can we help?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
I'm calling because my I had a pot burst. My
basement flooded to the top, a partial basement, and I'm
calling to find out if there's something I can get
to spire, some service I can call on to come
spire you to keep down some of the mold.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, first thing you want to do is turn down
the radio. Otherwise you're never going to hear my answer.
So let's do that first, all right. So when the
pipe burst, it's flooded the basement. And where are you
in that process? Have you had? Is it if you
get the water out of there? Or where are we?
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Yeah, the water is out and most of the junk
is out, not all of it. I haven't got it all
out yet, but I would like to get something to
keep down the mold.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, well, and we I don't know if we can
keep it down, but we can kill it once it's growing.
So are you seeing mold now?
Speaker 7 (37:57):
No?
Speaker 10 (37:59):
But then I haven't been down there in a winger,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
No, you don't know if there's mold down there or not.
There probably is. So there's mold spores everywhere in your house,
outdoors and everywhere, and there's organic material which is dust, wood, cloth.
And then when we add water, mold starts reproducing, starts
having colonies and growing in your basement. Is there something
(38:24):
to do with that? Yes, there's all kinds of mold
killing sprays, there's mold killing fog. But when the mold
problem becomes big, it's really not a do it yourself
project so if you have mold and it's under ten
square feet, I would recommend a mold killing product like
(38:47):
the uh It's wet and forgets disinfectant and mold eliminator,
and that is just sprayed onto the mold's surface. But
as long as you have a lot of humidity or
moisture in that basement, mold's gonna keep growing. So we
(39:12):
gotta not only get that mold water out of there.
If there's carpet, we got to get that out of there.
If there's drywall, we probably need you know, if it
was that basement was filled with water, you probably gonna
have to take down the dry wall. If there's a
fiber there, I'm.
Speaker 10 (39:31):
Sorry, partial basement blocks.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Okay, so no drywall or anything along nose lines, no insulation,
but you're pretty much gonna take it down to the
bare bones though. Correct. Get everything out of there. Yes, Okay.
Once you get everything out of there and you don't
see any more mold and you run the fans and
we got it dry it out, then there is Like
(39:57):
I said, the name of the product is made by Wetingford.
It's called disinfectant and mold eliminator, and it kills the mold.
Don't use bleach. That's not going to kill the mold.
It's gonna smell horrible and it won't make it visible,
(40:18):
but it's not gonna totally kill the mold. So you
want to get something along these lines.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Next question, how do you go about applying it if
you have to be down there?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Well, that's why I say if it's over ten square feet,
you shouldn't go down there and apply it.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
Okay, Then do you recommend somebody? Do you have anyone
that you can recommend.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I don't have a name of a company, but there
are mold elimination companies in your city. I guarantee you
there's one in my city called at Home, and they're
at Home mold Elimination and experts. They test, they eliminate.
I'm not trying to be difficult, Gwen. It's just that
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there's a lot going on there. There's over three hundred
different species of mold. You may be very susceptible to mold.
I am not as susceptible to mold in terms of
breathing that my wife is. There are precautions that need
to be taken if your whole basement becomes moldy. I
(41:31):
would definitely get a professional in there to tackle that problem.
I started out the conversation saying, you know, if it's
one wall and it's ten square feet, yeah, you can
get down there. You can use a respirator, use some goggles,
and you can spray down. You don't have to scrub it.
You just spray that wall down and that'll be fine.
(41:52):
But if all the walls are moldy and you got
we don't know what species or anything along those lines,
I would certainly, you know, call a contractor in there
and take take a you know, find do it the
right way. Uh, it's a it's a big project. So
and stay away from the mold, from the bleaches and
(42:14):
things like that. I think that gives everybody a false
sense of security. You know, it smells bleachy, then everything
should be gone. And that's not always the case. So
there's also products out there. I'm just giving you some
more information. Uh, there's a product out there called Conchrobium.
Conchrobium makes a fogger, which is a mold eliminating fog
(42:42):
that you literally flog that basement A lot of time.
That is used in a crawl space where you can't
get back into it or you don't want to get
back into it. Uh, that can eliminate mold also. So
there there's a bunch of products out there. There's a
bunch of certainly people that specialize it in mold removal.
(43:06):
I'm just trying to give you all as many facts
as we know. We don't know what spores are down
there yet. But luckily you don't have the carpet and
the insulation, because then in the drywall then it becomes
even a bigger deal. But the first one I recommend
that you would spray down there would be the wet
and forget disinfectant and mold removal. All right, Gwen, thank
(43:30):
you much for the call. I appreciate it. You can
join us. Our phone number is eight hundred A two
three A two five five. That's eight hundred eight two
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