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(01:14):
we got Walt, Walt welcome, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I am h this is to quit open, and I
thank you for your or your efforts anyway that problem
that I don't I may or made, I have a solution.
Not quite five years ago, we installed a new bathroom
in our basement over a sledge pump because we were
proground for the for the story lines. It was seemed
(01:44):
to be very effective. But I don't remember maybe three
years before it was. It wasn't soon thereafter, I was
getting an notre you know, from in that in that
pump room, because that pump room holds the sledge pumping
host to host the we're you know, we're the drainage pump.
(02:05):
But anyway, so I tried to make sure that the
air was in was in the was in the two properly,
don't even steal. That didn't seem to work. And then
so I got cooking. I recooked all the pipes to
come out. Uh, the color is bolted on, and but
I still get when it does flush, I get an
(02:28):
awful sewage odor. My question is very simple. When that
when that exhausts, where the air intake comes in for
the for the pump, could that be possibly closed for
some reason?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah? Yeah, so when we have that odor, in a
lot of cases, improving the oxygen levels will reduce the
bacteria growth. Okay, so where that air intake is, if
it is compromised, that could certainly be part of the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yes, I put my fingers up into the elbow and
I thought I felt something, and I was just going
to get a mirror ago. But that's going to take
a look. If it's if it's indeed, there's a street
screening air or something protected from animals where it's done,
and I make sure it's clean. But my other question
is should I use it like a garden hose that
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kind to make sure it says, you know, clean all
the way through it and just not invite it up.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, I think you'd be okay doing that. I
don't think there would be any backflush that would cause
any problems, but you know, definitely one of the big
helps would be, you know, getting well, you can't get
a camera up there, but if you can get some
light and see if how much of a clog there
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is there. I'd hate to be blown water up to
the point where you'd make it worse. But yeah, you know,
but that's certainly I'm going to guess that's the problem
you have, you know, inadequate airflow, and that's what.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Even in the bathroom, the drainage is very poor. Although
I remember seeing the plumber he put a room event
uh inside the wall, I had a house of bar
and assistant assistant sink had a little vent, its own vent.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There's nothing in there that's clogged, is there?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
No, it can't be, because it's inside the wall.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh well it could be, but it's inside the wall, right, yeah,
the way you get doing now right right, that's what
I mean. Yeah, i'd work on that vent and see
if you can't get something in there. I mean they
have even if you could even get a phone in
there or take a picture of their just to see
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if it's you know, if it's pretty big clog, I
think you'd be careful of what you're trying to blow
in through there. Another thing might even be too if
again it depends the size. Getting a shop factos in there.
They have those little wands on the end of it.
Maybe you know, going around that screen with that, you
(05:22):
might pull some of that sludge or gunk whatever's in
there out of there to increase the airflow, which would
be helpful for sure. Any thank you much for the call,
appreciate it. And let's see we'll go to Howie Howie. Welcome,
Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, I have a problem with the water. I have
a new hot water take. It's not even a year old,
and of course the old one. What happens is the
when I start running the hot water, you can hear
the pipe like ticking and cracking, you know, and it's
(06:04):
it's e vent that goes up through the roof and such,
you know, And every time I use the hot water,
it does that, even in the kitchen, you know, the
sinks and everything like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That exhaust pipe that's going up that's making this noise.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, it's like the exhaust pipe. And I, you know,
I got an open ceiling in the basement, tracked that
and I went up in the attict and tracked it
up there. And I don't see the leaks or anything.
It just seems like when you run the hot water,
when it starts getting hot, you can hear the pipe
in the wall between the you know, kitchen and the
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bathroom and it goes up through the ceiling and stuff
and it just starts cracking and taking it. And it's
been doing that for years. Yeah, and it's one of
their solution or something. The world leave it alone.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So so is this isn't up a chimney, then this
is free standing? Is it a power vent on there?
In other words, it's got a motor that's pulling the
exhaust out.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, it's just straight up pipe through the from the
basement all the way up to the roof. Yeah, it's
just a black PC pipe like you know, and I
don't know if it's cogged or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But I think it's just I think what it is
is just the expansion contraction of that pipe, you know.
When that's what Yeah, when that water heater is firing
up and it's got the exhaust and it's moving hot
air through there, there's an expansion and then it cools
and so you get that noise. The only other thing
(07:43):
I would think of is maybe, you know, just check
if there's any mounting screws on that, make sure that
they're nice and tight. But I think some of that
noise that you're hearing is kind of very normal.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, that's what I was kind of. It's been, like
I said, it's been doing for years. I replaced the
hot water tank. It's not even a year old, but
it was doing it with the old one with another one.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Now I turn it. I turn it down in the
you know, it's like on between B and C a
hot water tank, and I turned that down in the summertime.
But it still does it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know, well, it's still he you know, I mean,
you know, there's still he you know. The only other
thing is, you know, when you talked about obstructions, you know,
like birds and nest, maybe some debris or some you know,
ice and snow and junke during the winter times, that
that could cause a lot of it. But I really
(08:42):
think you're just having expansion and contraction, right, like.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Conversation or whatever from the hot water through the pipe.
And yeah, the house is only like twenties twenty six
years old, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It might be that other type of piping would be
more forgiving. And again, uh, I'm just thinking maybe there's
a a flexible vent connectors you could use, or an
insulated pipe. I'd have to see it before i'd say, yeah,
try that. But I think what you're hearing is just
(09:17):
what you suspect, expansion and contraction.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, because there's no leaks whatsoever, right, I mean I've
been I've been through this whole plaus look at it,
you know, and like I said, it's I don't think
it's really something to worry about because there's no leaks.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah. Yeah, found I think that some of this plastic pipe,
even when it comes to water pipes, plastic pipes and
water you can hear, you can, they're they're noisy pipes.
I mean, they really are you got the expansion contraction? Here?
Drips of water sometimes and people think they have leaks,
but it's just uh, the condensation inside that pipe that's tripping.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, I think that's probably what it is. I don't
think it's nothing to really worry about. Like I said,
there's new leaks. Yeah, it's just it's just it's just
it doesn't get any louder, you know, right, but it
stays the same, ticketing, cracking or whatever you.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Want to call it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know, well, you know, if you're concerned, get a
pro out there and let them observe it, and you know,
you know, be certain about it if you're concerned. But
I kind of feel along the same lines you do.
I think it's expansion contraction of the pipes.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Right, it starts from the you know, every time you
turn the water on, it starts nor hot.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Work, right, right exactly?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care all right. If
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Speaker 6 (14:04):
I have a I have a ranch style house built
and I think the fifties, and I have a quart
cement back porch outside as a roof over it. Between
the roof and a port cement our four wooden pillars
are about four or five and square, and one of them,
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even another one now is coming loose on the bottom
of these wooden pillars, and I'm wondering what I can
do to anchor them back, or if I need to
put a shim in there. But what is the best
thing to do to to keep it from getting pulled
off the ports?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And so this the these pillars are holding up a
small roof.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
I suspect their structure part of the structure. Yes, they're
not ornamental, I don't think. No, they're helping the.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Roof for falling, yes, right, And it's becoming loose down
at the bottom where it sits on the concrete.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah, I think the wood's gotten dry shrunk.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah. Well, let me add another caveat here is what
about the steps in the porch landing, settling and pulling
away from the wood rather than the wood pulling away
from the cement or the concrete.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I have not investigated.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's possible. I guess. One of the
things that I'm concerned about, Matt, and I think you
probably are too, is how structurally sound is that roof
now and that porch. So we got to find out
really what's going on there. There's ways to fix both.
(16:00):
If there's some rotting of the wood, maybe repair using
wood apox. Maybe those posts need to be removed and
that becomes a little bigger deal. Or maybe that structure
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which is very common on porches quite honestly, where they
begin to settle and tilt forward or tilt backwards and
there gets to be a gap. There's not that support
And yeah, you could say, well, quick answer would put
a shim in there, put some cocking around, everything'll be fine. Yeah,
that might be okay, But then again, the best way
(16:42):
is to stabilize the porch. And Mike, and again I
haven't seen it matt or I'm just listening to you
tell me what's going on. I would be suspect of
the porch more than the columns. I and just for
your information, there are ways to support and even lift
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that slab back end position, so you can do some
peering of the porch. You could do maybe some slab jacket.
It just depends how elevated it is and how how
it's actually constructed. But i'd probably call a company that
does that and just get their opinion on it. Then
you can either cross that off or say, yeah, that's
(17:29):
that's what I've got to fixed, all right.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
The slab it's about seven seven or eight feet wide,
probably twenty feet long on that block. Everything about this
house was eless quality work.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I was.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I'm pretty amazed about how good it is inside. But
I will check that out. I'm not sure how I
can figure. Well, it's it's the smith's settling. I haven't
notice any gaps between the siding and this at the
top of the slab, but uh, it's settled. Happen in
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or something.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It wouldn't take much, and so maybe even a level
on your concrete. That slab should be tilted away from
the house. You know, a little bit of fall in
case there's water. I'm not saying it is. I'm just
saying it. It could be reasonable to expect that the
slab is is compromise, and slab jacking probably wouldn't work
(18:35):
if it's elevated off the blocks. But what could be
happening Those blocks may have settled, and it may take
what they call peering, where you drive a post down
into the bedrock and attached underneath those blocks and lift
it and you could literally lift it back into its
normal position. But you know it's gonna take you know,
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a structural engineer or somebody that's doing that. They may
have structural engineer on site to I identify if that's
part of the problem or not. But when you said,
you know, a shim, yeah, I was thinking, well, yeah,
it's probably it's it's probably the slam that's settling, would
be my guess.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I will do some further investigations.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Take much well, very good, thank you much, good luck
with that. Yeah, I'm guessing that could be the problem.
It could be always whenever we have issues, it can
always be several things. But by talking and a slam
that way and in one area and bearing that weight
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All right, back in it we go thirty three minutes
after the top of the hour. Hope you having a
good weekend getting a few things done around the home.
And that's what we're doing. We're speaking about your home,
maybe maintenance, repair, some unsolvable issues, but sometimes we need
to dig deeper and that's okay. I had a structural
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engineer on a number of years ago, just a couple
two three years ago. I remember having a chat with
him and he brought up a good point. Is a
lot of times getting a structural engineer out for maybe
you know something that's structural, right, it's holding the house
together and having them assess the situation and talk to
(23:33):
you about how it should be repaired. Maybe even giving
you a report on how it should be repaired might
be beneficial. Then having a company that does that work
saying oh yeah, you need that. I mean, I'm gonna
leave that decision up to you. Or maybe we got
a crack that stair stepping across a brick wall, or
(23:54):
a vertical straight up crack, what's going on and having
a structural engineer assess that and speak to you about
how it should be repaired. In other words, it's two
parties we're looking at. One of them isn't involved in
the process of the repair and the expense of the repair.
(24:15):
Maybe that's a direction for the fellow that had the
post with the holding up the roof, and I'm suspecting
that slab or the base of that slab his footers
do maybe their suspect Maybe that's the problem. All right,
let's get back to the funds we got. Chris, Chris, welcome,
(24:37):
Hello Gary, enjoy your show. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I have a question about waterproofing basements. I've been getting
some estimates, and the companies will use a three inch
perforated pipe. Another one had a container that looked similar
to a gutter. Of course it was closed on top
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to catch the water. And then another one had it looked.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Like four.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Small pipes that had been molded together one inch in
diameter each, and they put it in vertical do you
have a recommendation on the style of drainage pipe to
get the water out of the basement when they.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Put it in?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Is in they're installing this pipe on the inside of
the basement under the floor. Correct, And the purpose of
that pipe is to catch the water coming up lower,
lowering the water table in sending that to a well
that's being pumped out of the basement.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, in a heavy.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Rain, I will get cepegm between the footer and the wall, right.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Right, right, So do I have an opinion on what
pipe to use? Uh? No, I don't, And here's why
I yes, all three of those would take the pipe
or would take the water out. I guess I'm thinking
of the three inch pipe that you're talking that's perforated.
(26:12):
I'm most familiar with that. So they're cutting the slab,
they're digging that trench out, they're probably putting some rock
in there. They're laying that pipe in there, covering that pipe.
As that water table increases from heavy rains, everybody water
table goes up. Some houses are more susceptible depending on
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where they sit in the water table range of things.
That water is caught by that pipe before it weeps
between the wall and the floor, and it's going to
a reservoir and it's being pumped away from the house.
Whatever pipe does that, and I'm sure the slotted pipe
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that you mentioned would do that, or the other pipes
are probably doing it too. I don't really have a
recommendation on the pipe. So many of the water proofers
have a system, and I guess it goes back to
you know, how many houses they've done, how experienced they are,
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what's their warranty and all that stuff. But I would
think any type of pipe, as long as it's catching
that water below the fountain, below the floor of that
house would be workable.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Okay, another question on the basement waterproofing once they get
the water under control. You have talked about basement floor,
garage floor, and the last one I heard you talk
about was a diche had a coating this basement.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It was built in.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Seventy four and it's pitted.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Like you would see something similar to salt on concrete.
And I want to finish the floor. Is dice coating
the best to go with?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You have some other we wall. There's so many things now,
so if you want a coating, I would certainly recommend
the spread rock coating. We had Peter Diychhean last week.
In fact, the podcast is still available and listen to it.
A lot of good information. Yeah, that's certainly an option
for you. There's other things you can do too, including
(28:35):
LVT flooring, right, you know, if that's a look you want.
Once we got that water tablet of control, you know,
any type of flooring as as long as it's water
proof and not water resistant, would work. There's even lambin
its that you can put underground now where you didn't
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have that option ten years ago, but there are lamined
flooring that can be put in there. But the spreadstone product,
I'm really curious why more people don't look at that,
especially in basement areas, even if they're like playrooms for kids.
You know, it's a it's less expensive than the flooring option,
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and you know that that spread stone would be a
fine product. There's also some i think it's polyurea floor
coatings that are out on the market where they do
it for you. It's a service, so it's going to
cost more, but those coatings would be acceptable. Also, it
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really kind of depends what the look you're trying to get,
and you know, always, since it's below grade, I would
get it where it says it's waterproof, even though you're
going to have had it water proofed, just as a backup,
you know, make sure the flooring is waterproof. I mean
in all realities, some people will go, oh no, but
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legitimately you could put carpet down there if you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right, yeah, it's just an unfinished storage. Grandkids play in it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So I think the dice coating would be perfect for that. Then,
I really do. Just the way you describe that, you know,
it could take a beating. It's a relatively easy to apply.
Listen to that podcast because and I can tell you
the basis of it. If it's pitted and it's got
some cracked you could take their rock patch, which is
(30:39):
a non cementatious coating. I'll say it this way, and
it's not the product, but it's like dry wall topping
for a floor. All Right, you're just gonna clean the floor.
You're gonna smooth it all out with the rock patch.
You're gonna allow it to dry. You come back with
a spread stone and that is just spread over and
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it is stone, and it's a it's a it goes
right over the surface. It gives you a really nice finish.
It's durable, and then you put a clear seiler over
there for its slip resistant and you're good to go.
And that's a project you can do yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That sounds like a good option.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So it's you know, so if you've been to the
website at all.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I heard part of the dice last week, okay, and
he was on the show, right, but I did not
get it all. So I need to go on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, sure, well, I'll give you the website to go
to the website. They got some good videos. It's d
A I C ch Codings dot com. So it's d
A I C Chcoatings dot com. And the name of
that product is uh spread rock and the other one
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is rock Patch.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
In the local big box. Will carry at home depot.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's an online product. It's a it's totally an online product.
You can get it at home Depot dot com and
Loews dot com, Menards dot com, but they don't have
it in the stores.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Got you all right, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You're quite welcome. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it all right. Jim,
you'll be up first. We got Jason Kevin John Bob.
If you'd like to join us, do so. We'll continue
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taking your calls in the next hour. Also, if you'd
like to grab a line, do so, and let's get
back to the phone calls we got. Jim, Jim Welcome,
Hi Gary, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Hey, I've got an old house built in eighteen ninety nine.
I have a slate roof and the roof itself is
a good shape, but it's dirty. You know, it's just
on the north end. You know, there's no mosca on
it or anything like. It just looks like it's dirty.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
You know.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I've used to went and forget like for the mold
and all that kind of stuff around the house otherwise,
and I'm not sure exactly what to.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Use on that.
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right now is people that do clean houses seriously on
the outside. Yeah, just remember that's an option if you're
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it's just.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Dirt, yeah, yeah, and it's it's pretty steep. You know,
obviously can't walk on a slate roof, right, you know as.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Far as that goes, So that's that's kind of the problem. So,
you know, there's cleaners. You would have to almost get
it where there's a pump that would blow the cleaner
up there. Uh and something maybe like an oxygenated bleach
would be what I'd recommend, which is a precarbonate and
(36:59):
it's a cleaner, and and then maybe with uh uh,
you know, put the cleaner up there, let's sit about
ten minutes, and then with that power sprayer, spray the
roof down. It's not going to be a pressure washer.
It's gonna need something with it, you know, a pump.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Yeah, I was gonna you know, I've got a guy.
It's three stories high and I'm gonna rent I kind
of got its paint in the house and he's did
most of it last year, but the upper part, I'm
going to go to the rental place and rent one
of the left type things. Okay, Right, And then I
was thinking about doing that at the same time, right,
all right, but I didn't know exactly what to use.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I would use a sodium park carbonate, which is it's
also known as oxygenated bleach.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Okay, well, I've never seen it called auctionated bleach. I
know there's they just never used that term, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, that's why I start doing the other one a
little bit so people, you know, right right, so the
people in the stores don't know, you know, the oxygen
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Gart yes, sir, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I always have a quick question. I hope. My wife
and I are looking to have a new front door
install Our house was building, so the original steel door
we have now is very deteriorated at the half window
and the molding is starting to break away. It is
a very very heavy sunlight area. So we went to
two of the local hardware stores here No, no Big box,
(41:17):
and they're both recommending a fiberglass door. And now again
this is very very heavy sun but we're looking to
possibly instore install a storm doors storm door as well,
and one of the vendors of saying no storm door
is a bad idea because it'll bake the door. You'll
be in the same situation you're in and then the
other person says that store door is not a bad deal.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
We can do that.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
What's your opinion.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Fiberglass doors would be a good go to door. They're
not cheap anymore. I'll tell you that. No, but if
it looks like would there's some maintenance on that to
keeping that good clear coat surface on there, because the
sun's going to beat on that. I personally would not
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put a storm are there because of two things, heat
build up and also magnifying the sun onto that finish
I think would be tough on a storm door. If
I did put a storm door on there, I would
be very cautious of when the screen is in and
(42:22):
when the storm window is in. I would probably have
the storm window in between the first of November until
middle March, and then I'd get to screen in right away.
From a heat standpoint, Okay.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
Yeah, that was a concern, you know, the storm door
blocker baking the heat in between the two doors.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, and I'll throw another caveat in there too. I
had somebody tell me this, and I thought, well, that's
a pretty good point. I never looked at it that way.
But those fiberglass doors are expensive. They're also beautiful and
putting a storm door in front of that. You paid
for that beauty and you're kind of hiding that beauty. Yeah.
(43:08):
I thought that was a good point too. So all right, well,
good luck with that decision.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Okay, Well I appreciate your and like I said, we
had two differing a little.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yep, all right, very good, thank you. Take care. Yeah,
fiberglass doors, I just had this discussion yesterday with somebody.
Fiberglass doors are awesome. They're very stable, but I'm telling
you they're not cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
A wood door is subject to expansion, contraction, to splitting
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and cracking. A metal door as not as attractive as
a wood door. A metal door is heavy, it can
get very hot. Moldings can sometimes be a problem if
you got direct sun on it. With the warp. Each
are usually vinyl. And then the fiberglass is more structurally sound,
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I'll say, and it usually has a wood core, but
it's more stable and it holds up longer. It has beauty.
It looks like a good stained wood door. But again,
you hear the calls and I'm always talking about using
spar and marine Eurothans. That's very important. So anyway, take
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that for what's worth. It's a decision a lot of
us are concerned about. All right, when we come back.
We got Kevin Richard, Bob Chris, everybody said tight, we'll
take a break and we'll get those questions answered. You're
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going to get right back to the phone calls. And
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we got Walt, Walt welcome, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I am h this is to quit open, and I
thank you for your or your efforts anyway that problem
that I don't I may or made, I have a solution.
Not quite five years ago, we installed a new bathroom
in our basement over a sledge pump because we were
proground for the for the story lines. It was seemed
(01:44):
to be very effective. But I don't remember maybe three
years before it was. It wasn't soon thereafter, I was
getting an notre you know, from in that in that
pump room, because that pump room holds the sledge pumping
host to host the we're you know, we're the drainage pump.
(02:05):
But anyway, so I tried to make sure that the
air was in was in the was in the two properly,
don't even steal. That didn't seem to work. And then
so I got cooking. I recooked all the pipes to
come out. Uh, the color is bolted on, and but
I still get when it does flush, I get an
(02:28):
awful sewage odor. My question is very simple. When that
when that exhausts, where the air intake comes in for
the for the pump, could that be possibly closed for
some reason?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah? Yeah, so when we have that odor, in a
lot of cases, improving the oxygen levels will reduce the
bacteria growth. Okay, so where that air intake is, if
it is compromised, that could certainly be part of the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yes, I put my fingers up into the elbow and
I thought I felt something, and I was just going
to get a mirror ago. But that's going to take
a look. If it's if it's indeed, there's a street
screening air or something protected from animals where it's done,
and I make sure it's clean. But my other question
is should I use it like a garden hose that
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kind to make sure it says, you know, clean all
the way through it and just not invite it up.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, I think you'd be okay doing that. I
don't think there would be any backflush that would cause
any problems, but you know, definitely one of the big
helps would be, you know, getting well, you can't get
a camera up there, but if you can get some
light and see if how much of a clog there
(03:54):
is there. I'd hate to be blown water up to
the point where you'd make it worse. But yeah, you know,
but that's certainly I'm going to guess that's the problem
you have, you know, inadequate airflow, and that's what.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Even in the bathroom, the drainage is very poor. Although
I remember seeing the plumber he put a room event
uh inside the wall, I had a house of bar
and assistant assistant sink had a little vent, its own vent.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There's nothing in there that's clogged, is there?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
No, it can't be, because it's inside the wall.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh well it could be, but it's inside the wall, right, yeah,
the way you get doing now right right, that's what
I mean. Yeah, i'd work on that vent and see
if you can't get something in there. I mean they
have even if you could even get a phone in
there or take a picture of their just to see
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if it's you know, if it's pretty big clog, I
think you'd be careful of what you're trying to blow
in through there. Another thing might even be too if
again it depends the size. Getting a shop factos in there.
They have those little wands on the end of it.
Maybe you know, going around that screen with that, you
(05:22):
might pull some of that sludge or gunk whatever's in
there out of there to increase the airflow, which would
be helpful for sure. Any thank you much for the call,
appreciate it. And let's see we'll go to Howie Howie. Welcome,
Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, I have a problem with the water. I have
a new hot water take. It's not even a year old,
and of course the old one. What happens is the
when I start running the hot water, you can hear
the pipe like ticking and cracking, you know, and it's
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it's e vent that goes up through the roof and such,
you know, And every time I use the hot water,
it does that, even in the kitchen, you know, the
sinks and everything like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That exhaust pipe that's going up that's making this noise.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, it's like the exhaust pipe. And I, you know,
I got an open ceiling in the basement, tracked that
and I went up in the attict and tracked it
up there. And I don't see the leaks or anything.
It just seems like when you run the hot water,
when it starts getting hot, you can hear the pipe
in the wall between the you know, kitchen and the
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bathroom and it goes up through the ceiling and stuff
and it just starts cracking and taking it. And it's
been doing that for years. Yeah, and it's one of
their solution or something. The world leave it alone.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So so is this isn't up a chimney, then this
is free standing? Is it a power vent on there?
In other words, it's got a motor that's pulling the
exhaust out.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, it's just straight up pipe through the from the
basement all the way up to the roof. Yeah, it's
just a black PC pipe like you know, and I
don't know if it's cogged or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But I think it's just I think what it is
is just the expansion contraction of that pipe, you know.
When that's what Yeah, when that water heater is firing
up and it's got the exhaust and it's moving hot
air through there, there's an expansion and then it cools
and so you get that noise. The only other thing
(07:43):
I would think of is maybe, you know, just check
if there's any mounting screws on that, make sure that
they're nice and tight. But I think some of that
noise that you're hearing is kind of very normal.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, that's what I was kind of. It's been, like
I said, it's been doing for years. I replaced the
hot water tank. It's not even a year old, but
it was doing it with the old one with another one.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Now I turn it. I turn it down in the
you know, it's like on between B and C a
hot water tank, and I turned that down in the summertime.
But it still does it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know, well, it's still he you know, I mean,
you know, there's still he you know. The only other
thing is, you know, when you talked about obstructions, you know,
like birds and nest, maybe some debris or some you know,
ice and snow and junke during the winter times, that
that could cause a lot of it. But I really
(08:42):
think you're just having expansion and contraction, right, like.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Conversation or whatever from the hot water through the pipe.
And yeah, the house is only like twenties twenty six
years old, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It might be that other type of piping would be
more forgiving. And again, uh, I'm just thinking maybe there's
a a flexible vent connectors you could use, or an
insulated pipe. I'd have to see it before i'd say, yeah,
try that. But I think what you're hearing is just
(09:17):
what you suspect, expansion and contraction.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, because there's no leaks whatsoever, right, I mean I've
been I've been through this whole plaus look at it,
you know, and like I said, it's I don't think
it's really something to worry about because there's no leaks.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah. Yeah, found I think that some of this plastic pipe,
even when it comes to water pipes, plastic pipes and
water you can hear, you can, they're they're noisy pipes.
I mean, they really are you got the expansion contraction? Here?
Drips of water sometimes and people think they have leaks,
but it's just uh, the condensation inside that pipe that's tripping.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, I think that's probably what it is. I don't
think it's nothing to really worry about. Like I said,
there's new leaks. Yeah, it's just it's just it's just
it doesn't get any louder, you know, right, but it
stays the same, ticketing, cracking or whatever you.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Want to call it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know, well, you know, if you're concerned, get a
pro out there and let them observe it, and you know,
you know, be certain about it if you're concerned. But
I kind of feel along the same lines you do.
I think it's expansion contraction of the pipes.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Right, it starts from the you know, every time you
turn the water on, it starts nor hot.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Work, right, right exactly?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care all right. If
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one minutes SAP to the top of the hour talking
home improvement. And you're welcome to join us. Dial us
up and we'll have a chat about your home. Let's
go to Matt. Matt welcome, well, Hi Gary, thank you
for your programs.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I have a I have a ranch style house built
and I think the fifties, and I have a quart
cement back porch outside as a roof over it. Between
the roof and a port cement our four wooden pillars
are about four or five and square, and one of them,
(14:25):
even another one now is coming loose on the bottom
of these wooden pillars, and I'm wondering what I can
do to anchor them back, or if I need to
put a shim in there. But what is the best
thing to do to to keep it from getting pulled
off the ports?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And so this the these pillars are holding up a
small roof.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
I suspect their structure part of the structure. Yes, they're
not ornamental, I don't think. No, they're helping the.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Roof for falling, yes, right, And it's becoming loose down
at the bottom where it sits on the concrete.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah, I think the wood's gotten dry shrunk.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah. Well, let me add another caveat here is what
about the steps in the porch landing, settling and pulling
away from the wood rather than the wood pulling away
from the cement or the concrete.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I have not investigated.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's possible. I guess. One of the
things that I'm concerned about, Matt, and I think you
probably are too, is how structurally sound is that roof
now and that porch. So we got to find out
really what's going on there. There's ways to fix both.
(16:00):
If there's some rotting of the wood, maybe repair using
wood apox. Maybe those posts need to be removed and
that becomes a little bigger deal. Or maybe that structure
(16:20):
which is very common on porches quite honestly, where they
begin to settle and tilt forward or tilt backwards and
there gets to be a gap. There's not that support
And yeah, you could say, well, quick answer would put
a shim in there, put some cocking around, everything'll be fine. Yeah,
that might be okay, But then again, the best way
(16:42):
is to stabilize the porch. And Mike, and again I
haven't seen it matt or I'm just listening to you
tell me what's going on. I would be suspect of
the porch more than the columns. I and just for
your information, there are ways to support and even lift
(17:06):
that slab back end position, so you can do some
peering of the porch. You could do maybe some slab jacket.
It just depends how elevated it is and how how
it's actually constructed. But i'd probably call a company that
does that and just get their opinion on it. Then
you can either cross that off or say, yeah, that's
(17:29):
that's what I've got to fixed, all right.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
The slab it's about seven seven or eight feet wide,
probably twenty feet long on that block. Everything about this
house was eless quality work.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I was.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I'm pretty amazed about how good it is inside. But
I will check that out. I'm not sure how I
can figure. Well, it's it's the smith's settling. I haven't
notice any gaps between the siding and this at the
top of the slab, but uh, it's settled. Happen in
(18:10):
or something.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It wouldn't take much, and so maybe even a level
on your concrete. That slab should be tilted away from
the house. You know, a little bit of fall in
case there's water. I'm not saying it is. I'm just
saying it. It could be reasonable to expect that the
slab is is compromise, and slab jacking probably wouldn't work
(18:35):
if it's elevated off the blocks. But what could be
happening Those blocks may have settled, and it may take
what they call peering, where you drive a post down
into the bedrock and attached underneath those blocks and lift
it and you could literally lift it back into its
normal position. But you know it's gonna take you know,
(18:56):
a structural engineer or somebody that's doing that. They may
have structural engineer on site to I identify if that's
part of the problem or not. But when you said,
you know, a shim, yeah, I was thinking, well, yeah,
it's probably it's it's probably the slam that's settling, would
be my guess.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I will do some further investigations.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Take much well, very good, thank you much, good luck
with that. Yeah, I'm guessing that could be the problem.
It could be always whenever we have issues, it can
always be several things. But by talking and a slam
that way and in one area and bearing that weight
(19:39):
I'm thinking, so we'll continue with your calls at Home
with Gary Sullivant.
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All right, back in it we go thirty three minutes
after the top of the hour. Hope you having a
good weekend getting a few things done around the home.
And that's what we're doing. We're speaking about your home,
maybe maintenance, repair, some unsolvable issues, but sometimes we need
to dig deeper and that's okay. I had a structural
(23:06):
engineer on a number of years ago, just a couple
two three years ago. I remember having a chat with
him and he brought up a good point. Is a
lot of times getting a structural engineer out for maybe
you know something that's structural, right, it's holding the house
together and having them assess the situation and talk to
(23:33):
you about how it should be repaired. Maybe even giving
you a report on how it should be repaired might
be beneficial. Then having a company that does that work
saying oh yeah, you need that. I mean, I'm gonna
leave that decision up to you. Or maybe we got
a crack that stair stepping across a brick wall, or
(23:54):
a vertical straight up crack, what's going on and having
a structural engineer assess that and speak to you about
how it should be repaired. In other words, it's two
parties we're looking at. One of them isn't involved in
the process of the repair and the expense of the repair.
(24:15):
Maybe that's a direction for the fellow that had the
post with the holding up the roof, and I'm suspecting
that slab or the base of that slab his footers
do maybe their suspect Maybe that's the problem. All right,
let's get back to the funds we got. Chris, Chris, welcome,
(24:37):
Hello Gary, enjoy your show. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I have a question about waterproofing basements. I've been getting
some estimates, and the companies will use a three inch
perforated pipe. Another one had a container that looked similar
to a gutter. Of course it was closed on top
(24:59):
to catch the water. And then another one had it looked.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Like four.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Small pipes that had been molded together one inch in
diameter each, and they put it in vertical do you
have a recommendation on the style of drainage pipe to
get the water out of the basement when they.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Put it in?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Is in they're installing this pipe on the inside of
the basement under the floor. Correct, And the purpose of
that pipe is to catch the water coming up lower,
lowering the water table in sending that to a well
that's being pumped out of the basement.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, in a heavy.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Rain, I will get cepegm between the footer and the wall, right.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Right, right, So do I have an opinion on what
pipe to use? Uh? No, I don't, And here's why
I yes, all three of those would take the pipe
or would take the water out. I guess I'm thinking
of the three inch pipe that you're talking that's perforated.
(26:12):
I'm most familiar with that. So they're cutting the slab,
they're digging that trench out, they're probably putting some rock
in there. They're laying that pipe in there, covering that pipe.
As that water table increases from heavy rains, everybody water
table goes up. Some houses are more susceptible depending on
(26:34):
where they sit in the water table range of things.
That water is caught by that pipe before it weeps
between the wall and the floor, and it's going to
a reservoir and it's being pumped away from the house.
Whatever pipe does that, and I'm sure the slotted pipe
(26:56):
that you mentioned would do that, or the other pipes
are probably doing it too. I don't really have a
recommendation on the pipe. So many of the water proofers
have a system, and I guess it goes back to
you know, how many houses they've done, how experienced they are,
(27:19):
what's their warranty and all that stuff. But I would
think any type of pipe, as long as it's catching
that water below the fountain, below the floor of that
house would be workable.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Okay, another question on the basement waterproofing once they get
the water under control. You have talked about basement floor,
garage floor, and the last one I heard you talk
about was a diche had a coating this basement.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It was built in.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Seventy four and it's pitted.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Like you would see something similar to salt on concrete.
And I want to finish the floor. Is dice coating
the best to go with?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You have some other we wall. There's so many things now,
so if you want a coating, I would certainly recommend
the spread rock coating. We had Peter Diychhean last week.
In fact, the podcast is still available and listen to it.
A lot of good information. Yeah, that's certainly an option
for you. There's other things you can do too, including
(28:35):
LVT flooring, right, you know, if that's a look you want.
Once we got that water tablet of control, you know,
any type of flooring as as long as it's water
proof and not water resistant, would work. There's even lambin
its that you can put underground now where you didn't
(28:57):
have that option ten years ago, but there are lamined
flooring that can be put in there. But the spreadstone product,
I'm really curious why more people don't look at that,
especially in basement areas, even if they're like playrooms for kids.
You know, it's a it's less expensive than the flooring option,
(29:21):
and you know that that spread stone would be a
fine product. There's also some i think it's polyurea floor
coatings that are out on the market where they do
it for you. It's a service, so it's going to
cost more, but those coatings would be acceptable. Also, it
(29:43):
really kind of depends what the look you're trying to get,
and you know, always, since it's below grade, I would
get it where it says it's waterproof, even though you're
going to have had it water proofed, just as a backup,
you know, make sure the flooring is waterproof. I mean
in all realities, some people will go, oh no, but
(30:06):
legitimately you could put carpet down there if you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right, yeah, it's just an unfinished storage. Grandkids play in it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So I think the dice coating would be perfect for that. Then,
I really do. Just the way you describe that, you know,
it could take a beating. It's a relatively easy to apply.
Listen to that podcast because and I can tell you
the basis of it. If it's pitted and it's got
some cracked you could take their rock patch, which is
(30:39):
a non cementatious coating. I'll say it this way, and
it's not the product, but it's like dry wall topping
for a floor. All Right, you're just gonna clean the floor.
You're gonna smooth it all out with the rock patch.
You're gonna allow it to dry. You come back with
a spread stone and that is just spread over and
(31:02):
it is stone, and it's a it's a it goes
right over the surface. It gives you a really nice finish.
It's durable, and then you put a clear seiler over
there for its slip resistant and you're good to go.
And that's a project you can do yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That sounds like a good option.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So it's you know, so if you've been to the
website at all.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I heard part of the dice last week, okay, and
he was on the show, right, but I did not
get it all. So I need to go on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, sure, well, I'll give you the website to go
to the website. They got some good videos. It's d
A I C ch Codings dot com. So it's d
A I C Chcoatings dot com. And the name of
that product is uh spread rock and the other one
(31:57):
is rock Patch.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
In the local big box. Will carry at home depot.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's an online product. It's a it's totally an online product.
You can get it at home Depot dot com and
Loews dot com, Menards dot com, but they don't have
it in the stores.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Got you all right, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You're quite welcome. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it all right. Jim,
you'll be up first. We got Jason Kevin John Bob.
If you'd like to join us, do so. We'll continue
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back at it we go. Just about twelve and a
half minutes before the top of the hour. We'll be
taking your calls in the next hour. Also, if you'd
like to grab a line, do so, and let's get
back to the phone calls we got. Jim, Jim Welcome,
Hi Gary, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Hey, I've got an old house built in eighteen ninety nine.
I have a slate roof and the roof itself is
a good shape, but it's dirty. You know, it's just
on the north end. You know, there's no mosca on
it or anything like. It just looks like it's dirty.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
You know.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I've used to went and forget like for the mold
and all that kind of stuff around the house otherwise,
and I'm not sure exactly what to.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Use on that.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Well, there's I'll tell you. One of the big industries
right now is people that do clean houses seriously on
the outside. Yeah, just remember that's an option if you're
going to clean it yourself and it's just you think
it's just.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Dirt, yeah, yeah, and it's it's pretty steep. You know,
obviously can't walk on a slate roof, right, you know as.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Far as that goes, So that's that's kind of the problem. So,
you know, there's cleaners. You would have to almost get
it where there's a pump that would blow the cleaner
up there. Uh and something maybe like an oxygenated bleach
would be what I'd recommend, which is a precarbonate and
(36:59):
it's a cleaner, and and then maybe with uh uh,
you know, put the cleaner up there, let's sit about
ten minutes, and then with that power sprayer, spray the
roof down. It's not going to be a pressure washer.
It's gonna need something with it, you know, a pump.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Yeah, I was gonna you know, I've got a guy.
It's three stories high and I'm gonna rent I kind
of got its paint in the house and he's did
most of it last year, but the upper part, I'm
going to go to the rental place and rent one
of the left type things. Okay, Right, And then I
was thinking about doing that at the same time, right,
all right, but I didn't know exactly what to use.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I would use a sodium park carbonate, which is it's
also known as oxygenated bleach.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Okay, well, I've never seen it called auctionated bleach. I
know there's they just never used that term, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, that's why I start doing the other one a
little bit so people, you know, right right, so the
people in the stores don't know, you know, the oxygen
a bleach. But yeah, it's like it's like a sodium
bicarbonate basically.
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And I take the Terra Mender and I put it
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Speaker 2 (39:16):
Uh huh.
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I've used it for that a couple of times. I
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Like I said, I like, I brush it on there
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Speaker 2 (39:46):
Right.
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So well that's great, pretty good. Yeah, it does good work,
very good. Thanks.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
I appreciate your show.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
You bet you take care. But bye, I will kind
of tell you something about the gutter bush too. I've
started seeing a couple of product that is similar to
gutter brush. In other words, the concepts the same. Again,
it's like a bottlebrush that's like three feet long, and
they're cheaper, but I'm telling you I looked into them
(40:15):
and I think there's some imports that coming in and
they don't have the UV resistant bristles. So just a
heads up. If you're gonna get something like that, you
might go to their website. It's gutterbrush dot com. And
if you see it in something else in a store, beware,
they may not be the exact same thing. All right,
(40:37):
let's go to Jason Jason. Welcome, Hey Jason, Bob, Yes,
Gart yes, sir, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I always have a quick question. I hope. My wife
and I are looking to have a new front door
install Our house was building, so the original steel door
we have now is very deteriorated at the half window
and the molding is starting to break away. It is
a very very heavy sunlight area. So we went to
two of the local hardware stores here No, no Big box,
(41:17):
and they're both recommending a fiberglass door. And now again
this is very very heavy sun but we're looking to
possibly instore install a storm doors storm door as well,
and one of the vendors of saying no storm door
is a bad idea because it'll bake the door. You'll
be in the same situation you're in and then the
other person says that store door is not a bad deal.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
We can do that.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
What's your opinion.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Fiberglass doors would be a good go to door. They're
not cheap anymore. I'll tell you that. No, but if
it looks like would there's some maintenance on that to
keeping that good clear coat surface on there, because the
sun's going to beat on that. I personally would not
(41:59):
put a storm are there because of two things, heat
build up and also magnifying the sun onto that finish
I think would be tough on a storm door. If
I did put a storm door on there, I would
be very cautious of when the screen is in and
(42:22):
when the storm window is in. I would probably have
the storm window in between the first of November until
middle March, and then I'd get to screen in right away.
From a heat standpoint, Okay.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
Yeah, that was a concern, you know, the storm door
blocker baking the heat in between the two doors.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, and I'll throw another caveat in there too. I
had somebody tell me this, and I thought, well, that's
a pretty good point. I never looked at it that way.
But those fiberglass doors are expensive. They're also beautiful and
putting a storm door in front of that. You paid
for that beauty and you're kind of hiding that beauty. Yeah.
(43:08):
I thought that was a good point too. So all right, well,
good luck with that decision.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Okay, Well I appreciate your and like I said, we
had two differing a little.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yep, all right, very good, thank you. Take care. Yeah,
fiberglass doors, I just had this discussion yesterday with somebody.
Fiberglass doors are awesome. They're very stable, but I'm telling
you they're not cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
A wood door is subject to expansion, contraction, to splitting
(43:42):
and cracking. A metal door as not as attractive as
a wood door. A metal door is heavy, it can
get very hot. Moldings can sometimes be a problem if
you got direct sun on it. With the warp. Each
are usually vinyl. And then the fiberglass is more structurally sound,
(44:06):
I'll say, and it usually has a wood core, but
it's more stable and it holds up longer. It has beauty.
It looks like a good stained wood door. But again,
you hear the calls and I'm always talking about using
spar and marine Eurothans. That's very important. So anyway, take
(44:32):
that for what's worth. It's a decision a lot of
us are concerned about. All right, when we come back.
We got Kevin Richard, Bob Chris, everybody said tight, we'll
take a break and we'll get those questions answered. You're
at home with Gary Sullivan.
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