March 8, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well the weekend. It is welcome aboard.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
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this hour of our show. All right, another weekend, getting
a few things done around the home, and happy to
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chat with you about your home projects. We're going to
cover a lot of things today. It's starting to be
the very busy time of year. And one of the
things when I was chatting with Ron I was talking
about have gotten a lot of calls regarding problems that
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are caused by a dry house so in a wintertime
are humidity. I know I've been beaten on this for
about three or four weeks now, but I am getting
a lot of emails, so I thought i'd address it again.
When it's cold outside, and when it's wintertime, there's the
temperatures cold. Cold air can't hold as much moisture, so
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it's also very dry air. And that dry air, depending
on the efficiency of your home, certainly works its way
inside the home and our homes dry out. We have
a lot of organic materials in there would being the
number one, and that when it dries out, it Shrinks've
got wood floors, The seams sometimes become exposed. You got
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baseboards sometimes that pulls away from the dry wall and
becomes exposed. We got crown molding that pulls away from
the ceiling. There gets to be a crevice there. Wherever
there's miter cuts in moldings. If it's not a miner
cut that's done properly, sometimes those seams show. As things
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dry out, things flex, things shrink, and then problems develop.
And one of the things you may have experienced at
your house as you notice some of these other issues
is drywall nails. The head of the drying at wall
now is kind of popping through the coating, the top
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coating the mud if you will, and it's cracking. You
can see that drywall nail and you can fix that.
Minimal problems. Number one is you can run a drywall
screw right next to that and then set that drywall
nail deeper and then go ahead and mud over that
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both of those fasteners and it will be more stable
with a screw. But even that dries out and begins
that flexing and that pushing and take a look. Mainly
I have found them in folks at homes, usually on
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the upper floors, maybe the upper floor of the house,
where the attic is directly above that ceiling. You'll see
more nail pops there. Usually more found in newer homes
than older homes. But certainly this time of year we
start seeing that particular problem. So I wanted to come
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to pass that along to you. And while you're searching that,
there's certainly plenty of plenty of projects we can still
work on the inside of the home and very basic
maintenance issues. And you know, we always hear the term
spring cleaning, and as we get to spring cleaning time,
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one of the things I would take a look at
is cabinetry, kitchen, cabinetree especially and see if there's a
lot of smudges around door handles. For the cabinets cabinet handles,
a lot of times we clean them and we use
a spray that's a cleaner and a wax, and that
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wax gets built up over the years, and then we
get our hands on that wax and it gets gummy
and it's gets dirty. You can remove that. The first
thing I would do is take off the handle, take
off the knob. In a lot of cases, you can
just use like a mineral spirits and a microfiber towel
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or cloth and you'll take a little elbow grease. It's
not going to hurt to finish, but that mineral spirits
kind of melt that wax that's on there, so you rub,
rubb rub, and you'll eventually clean that up. There's also
if you're going to buy a cabinet cleaner, see what's
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in the cleaner. A lot of times there is a
cleaner and there is a wax, so it's going to
do both. It's going to clean off the old wax,
but still putting on wax. Really, what you're looking for
is something that's going to clean, preserve, and rejuvenate the wood.
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So it's going to remove the wax and it's going
to clean the grunge that gets around the handles, and
then you're going to clean the rest of that cabinet
and it's not going to contain wax and it's not
going to contain silicone, and it'll really rejuvenate that would.
I know we've mentioned a product called Milsick in the past,
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and that would be one I would recommend where it's
actually going to clean and preserve. It's not going to wax,
it'll just preserve it and doesn't contain silicone. It does
a great job, it really does. It's old product. That
product's probably a one hundred and twenty years old, so
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it's been around a while, but does a marvelous job.
And just cleaning up the cadymetry really can make a
huge difference just to the whole looks of your kitchen itself.
So I wanted to pass that along. It's a good
cleaning U project you can get into before the weather
really breaks and we can get some work done on
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the outside of our homes. Let's go to John, John Welcome,
Hey John, Well, let's not go to Jump. We tried,
all right, so as I let's go to Let's go
to Rich. Okay, that sounds good. Let's go to Rich
(07:14):
Rich Welcome, We welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Good morning Gary.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I have a ranch home in Cleveland, Ohio and detached
garage okay, and coming inside door and the basement steps
are right next to the garage, so it's concrete from
the floor level down to the basement with me, So
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the paint was peeling. A couple of weeks ago. I said, ah,
my wife want me to paint the wall. So I
scraped it and I kept scraping, and the paint was
like falling off.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I thought I got most of it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Then I put some concrete paint on there, Alison, the
rest of the paint started peeling off the wall, on
the concrete portion. How do I fix this? I think
someone putting non concrete paint on the concrete.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well, understand that, or.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
There's some moisture issue. So the steps and the concrete
walls are outside.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Of the garage, no inside inside.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Side of the garage.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Okay, that's I opened the door, turn the left and
I go straight down steps.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And the paint I haven't touched it for fifteen years,
has been fine and just start peeling a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Mm hm. So is there a down spouts right outside?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
No, no, no grudge, it's a it's a rear loading garage.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay. And when that paint is peeling as part of
the concrete coming off to is it real dusty?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
No, no, no, no, there's no word you want to use.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
But the concrete does.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, it's but it was there for fifteen years right.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, and started peeling and I started scraping, and it's
just started coming off in sheets. I'm thinking it on
oil base versus.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, it could be all it could be all kinds
of things. We don't know what was on there. The
bottom line is you want to go ahead and paint it, right,
So we want to get as much off of there
as we possibly can through scraping. Quite honestly, rich because
we got to get down to the surface that we're painting,
the main substrate we got to paint. We don't need
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to paint the old paint because that just exacerbates the problem.
So yeah, and there's most paints of today, good acrylic
paints work perfect on concrete. We just got to have
a dust free we got to have a dry and
we got to get down to, you know, the surface
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of the concrete. And then if you, yeah, if you
wanted to add something like a waterproofing paint, you know
where it's much thicker than paint. It's almost a waterproof
coating that functions as a paint. And to give you
an example, to get about one hundred square feet to
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a gallon versus three hundred and fifty square feet to
a gallon. But that's an option.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Also that thorough seal for interest.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I was thinking of dry lock, but thorough seal is
another one.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Sure cool, Okay, So I give also paint off much
as I can and then go to Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You could go with a regular interior latex paint, high
quality self priming, or you could go to a waterproofing
paint like the dry lock.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Okay, right, thank you all sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Good enough, you bet rich, thank you all right. Coming
up is our friend Ron Wilson. He'll be talking. I'm
gonna ask him as we go outside, what's the one
thing you should do right away to your landscaping, to
your yard, to your garden. What do we do right now?
That's next. We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan soles.
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we go, And uh, it's time to talk to our
friend mister Wilson as he is getting ready to get
outside and get that landscaping and get that gardening. And
he's our expert Wilson.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How are you, Marnie, Miss Shalman.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thank you, sir. Now, I got one big question for you. Yes, sir,
we're all ready to get busy.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Ready, it's open. You're ready.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, you're ready. You've already been out there. Don't lie
to me, I know. So tell everybody what's the first
thing they should do when they got outside.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
You see, see what the weather is, and put on
the appropriate apparel.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I would say, pick up sticks.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Here's what I do. Seriously, we got a lot of branches.
We're going to take inventory, take inventory inventory of what
needs to be done in our yard this spring. Okay,
things that need to be done, and what you want
to get done, and and yeah, and write down. You
got two lists. And seriously, I walk around and do that.
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You can do it mentally, you can do it on
a list. Usually the list is the better way to
go to write down exactly all the things you want
to do, because you know timing is going to be
very important this spring, and and because it's you know
it's gonna be warm, it's gonna be cold. It tonna warm,
it's gonna rain, it's gonna be dry, it's gonna work
it in its spring. It's one of the toughest ones
to work around them when it comes to planting and
doing things versus the fall. But I would I do
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inventory and I figure out what am I gonna do.
Then as I'm walking around figuring this out, I'm picking
up debris right, I'm picking up the sticks.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I'm looking at my favorite birch trees, tips, tips of branches,
evergreens that have maybe browned last fall or over the
winter time. Got my pruners in my pocket, so I'm
clipping those out right now. I don't want to look
at them anymore. Get them out of there.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Ray, they're supposed to be green, they're gray.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, get rid of it. If the branch is dead,
get rid of it. Any evergreens right now. And that way,
if it continues to have these and you got a problem,
if it doesn't and you got rid of them, then
it was just physical or something happened and you got
rid of it. It's done. So you know, basically it
is take an inventory, what you need to do, what
you want to do, cleaning up the debris. If you
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really want to get into it, you know, you can
actually go out the rake and fluff up the mulch.
See where we are right now, Do I need to
add mulch or we good for.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Multa, I gotta add mault. I'll tell you all kind
of winter weeds in my beds.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
If we have winter weeds that are popping up right now, chickweed,
hadn't bit purple dead in net or harry bittercrest, get
rid of them, and that the ease come out of
the ground really easily, because you want to get rid
of those before they flower and seed.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So you get rid of that and uh sp dig,
just dig.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Just dig, don't worry about spray them. Just pull them out.
And they're so shallow rooted a rake, we'll pull them
out of the ground. And then last but not least,
I would look in my in my inventory and if
anything on there says as the word dormant with it,
you better get it taken care of right away. Dormant pruning,
dormant seeding, dormant applications of insecticide, dormant sprayings.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I did that seeding stuff there you go. I did
it right before it got real cold.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's perfect round of them us. So that's perfect, that's perfect.
So if it says dormant, get it taken care of
right away, because it's not going to be dormant too
much longer. Dormant transplanting, you got some things you want
to move. Whether it's still dormant, you can better get
on in the next couple of weeks, or there's not
going to be you're not gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What would that be like hostas.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Anything, You know, perennials starting to come up, and that
that hosta clump was way too big. As soon as
I start see those little eyes pop up where I
can tell where it is, get it out of the ground,
separate it out, get it moved. If they're spring flowering perennials,
a lot of times we don't like to move them
too much unless it's the entire clump because they flower
in the springtime. You might disrupt that a little bit.
(17:36):
Summer and fall flowering not an issue, but you know,
the spring flowering sometimes, unless it's a whole clump, I
got to hold off a little bit. But again, it's
that type of thing where it's you know that time,
very timely things, especially anything that says dormant. And then
get your list together and you know we're good to go.
As far as planting trees, shrubs, evergreens, perennials. Right now,
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you know that type of thing can be done at
this point forward, So get those plans in place. Then
as you're starting to look at the vegetable garden and the
annuals and your containers, start getting your list because that'll
be happening here in another six to eight weeks, and
you want to have all that other stuff done before
you get there.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And if it rains, you can go sharpen your mow
or blade.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Then yeah, then you're in the tools. Taking care of
the tools. Really, no, I'm with you getting them on ore.
We're taken care of because again in about two weeks,
you know what I'm gonna be telling folks to do
if the weather stays with us that I'm thinking it's
going to. It's the primo, the primo, and the primo's
coming up here very quickly. And once your primo, you're
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into it. So you want to have a lot more serviced,
blade sharp and by the time you get because once
your primo right, all heck breaks.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Loose well, and then we get all the spring rains
and then the grass grows like weeds and then you
know what.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And the weeds grows like the grass.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And yeah, and we're mowing day and that more better
be sharp and that blade better be sharp.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And I have one last thing. It's a pet peeve
of mine. If you look out in your landscape right now,
you have trees that are out, you're in your yard.
If grass grows up to the base of those trees, shame.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
On you steal nutrients.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, it's just better for everybody. If you just get
the grass away from the bottom of the trees, you
could prevent lawnmower disease and string tremor disease competition the
whole nine yards. Guess what you could do right now
that get the grass away from the base of the trees,
get the munched in, but get your plans in place
because it's gonna break here very quickly. And that's my prediction.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I'm I'm predicting a warm spring run.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Thank you, mister Salvon, you bet you for the warm spring.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Ron Wilson, thank you very much. You can check out
his block it's Ron Wilson online dot com and certainly
thank him. First time you're at haul, Gerry Sulvon.
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back at it we go. We're thirty three minutes after
the top of the Iron. You're at home with Carrie
Selvin talking about your home home projects, maintenance repair. Feel
free to join us, and we're going to get to John. John, welcome,
great to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yes, sir, all right, I've got a problem with a
fiberglass showerpan cracking. This is the it's a recurrence. It
cracked the first times it was installed, probably in the
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late sixties, nineteen seventy or so. Cracked the first time,
and I had a guy look at it and we
did a he did it. He was a tub doctor
type guy, and he did a repair and resurfaced it,
you know, drive it out and put foam underneath and
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resurfaced it. And it lasted two years, very good.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
But now it's.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Starting to crack again. And he took a look at
the pictures and said, you know, it probably won't stand
another of that type of repair. So I'm looking at
two options. The first one was to rip it out
and replace it with tile build up a couple of course,
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a tile around it because it's a. It's an overlap,
and of course that's going to be about a four
thousand dollars project maybe unless they come up find other
stuff in there. So I got that on hold. But
I'm looking at shower floor repair inlay kit, which is
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a sheet of stuff with a hole in it, and
you prepare the surface and lay this thing down and
glue it in. Have you any experience with those? Is
it we're doing? Or you know, can I buy a
couple more years?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah? Tough question. Tough question. So let me ask you this.
So this is the fiberglass. This isn't the pan underneath
all this. This is the actual.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Pan that you stand on. The pan you stand on,
and it was probably a less than adequate initial installation.
The supported enough underneath. I'm not too worried about what's
underneath it because it is on a It is over
a four inch reinforced concrete floor ceiling to the lower floor.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
They have you experienced any water issues beyond that pan?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Have not?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
And and I go down and look underneath and see
if anything sweeping through the concrete and and there's there's nothing.
But it is a concern, and it's uh, you know,
that's a possibility. I want to avoid mold if I can.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Right right, right, Well, it sounds to me, and again
without looking it sounds to me that is probably time
for replacement of it. We're you know, we're trying to
put a band aid on it, which means it will
fail again. You know, maybe it's time to just go
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ahead and bite the bullet and replace it. Now, there
is another option, and it's more substantial than a membrane
type product. It's an actual total overlay of the pan itself.
And they use like an abs plastic which is like
(26:25):
a jacuzzi tub plastic. So it's pretty hard. Yeah, yeah,
And that is just formed made to fit over the
existing pan, and the plumbing is reconnected to the top
of this and this is literally just glued down. It's
a whole new surface. They do them for bathubs, they
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do them for shower pants.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, okay, And where can I take a professional?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yes? Because they will it needs Yeah, so what would
be And there's a bunch of people out there that
do it. There's a rebath, there's bath fitter, there's luxury
bas systems, and that's a big business right now, it
really is, And you know, it's it's it's more expensive
(27:19):
than putting a membrane, but it's also more thorough and
it's not as expensive as tearing everything out. So I
think it falls in a slot where you know it
might be worth checking out.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yeah, I can. I can do that because I do.
I have seen those ads. How do they interface with
the tile? They just cal it in.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, it depends on what needs to be done. But yes,
you know they'll also check to make sure if there's
top coming down the walls. We want to make sure
what that's on, making sure there's no cracks in that
tile or grout. So you know, we can use that wall.
And if we can use that wall, sure we can
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just calk down at that base. And but you know,
you got to just you got to let them take
a look at it to see if they can. There's
only there's a limited amount of sizes on those things,
so they you know, it's not like they got to
recreate them all the time. And the calking is usually
used to seal it in. I'm not trying to sell
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you redo the whole walls if it's not needed. We
don't need to do that. They just need to put
this over.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Yeah, I would love to rip it out and redo
it with tile that you know, compliments the tile on
the walls, on the surface inside the shower, But that's
you know, that's a that's a huge project.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, yeah, you're tearing that out and this kind of
meets it halfway, right, But yeah, and they've made that
pretty easy too. Now you can get those pans underneath
that that are like a you know, custom made so
where it mounts directly in there and it's kind of
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cocked and constructionhesive underneath, and then you can put tile
on top of that. It's less of a deal than
it used to be, but it's still going to be
more expensive than this overlay that I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Yeah, okay, well it gives me another direction to go in.
I appreciate the advice.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You're quite welcome, Thank you much. Take care. Yeah, get
other options, for sure, But you know, just going right
over that surface might be the might be the way.
It's kind of a halfway point. But you know, the
secret is really kind of what's causing that problem. And
I think what he said was probably accurate. It's just
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a bad installation that fiberglass is just not as substantial,
is what the overlay would be and that's probably what's
causing the problem. Terry, welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Hey, good morning Gary.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
How are you doing fine?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Thank you good. I have a question about my concrete driveway.
It'll be three years in May that it was put in,
and we've had a couple of mild winters here in
northeast Ohio, and then this year we had a little
bit more snow. I don't know if they call it spawling,
(30:33):
but yes, we do have to leave our cars in
the driveway. I have a truck that won't fit in.
And moral of the story is that this year that
salt has reaked havoc on my driveway. I was never
I was never really impressed with the contractor that did
(30:56):
the work unfortunately. So is that bad concrete or is
there anything that I can do to prevent that spalling?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Well, you just asked a million dollar question, because concrete's
usually not guaranteed. So go to the concrete guy. He's
going to tell you it's the rock salt. You got
a rock salt, They'll say it was the concrete. So
they're they're the only thing you can test in concrete.
You can test core samples where they drill it out
and you know, they'll they'll give you whether it's good
(31:28):
concrete or whether it's it's the correct ps PSI. You know,
strength and tensile strength and all that. You know what
causes spawling. There's a bunch of things, but if I
put the top too, at the top of the board.
One that causes spalling is rock salt on unsealed concrete,
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and cars bring that rock salt in the next day,
it goes up to fifty degrees the snow and everything melts.
The rock salt crete. It's a salty brine solution which
is very corrosive to concrete, and it creates spawling. I've
seen it on public development. It's a beautiful boulevard all
(32:12):
of a sudden, It's a number of years ago. I
watched them pour the concrete. The next spring was all spawled.
Now was it the rock salt or was it the
second thing at the top. It was a hot day
when they poured the concrete. The people, the installers added
some water to it so they could move it around
and trill it out and float it out and do
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all the good stuff to make it look good. And
there was a cream at the top of that concrete,
which it doesn't really have the strength. And you know,
they were able to float it and get it all
trilled out, but now it's not hard on the surface
and we get some spawling occurring. So the bottom line
is the bottom line is really uh yeah, yeah, you
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got to look at the que or not what caused
the problem. Certainly we can take you can you know,
take care of minimizing salt damage. You can't do much
about the cream part of it. So you know, I mean,
there's resurfacers out there, there's companies that resurface. There's quick
(33:21):
Crete makes a concrete resurfacer. It's a powder, you add
water to it. You get an industrial drill with a
with a mixer and you blend this together. It's about
the consistency of an asphalt driveway sealer. You put it
on the same way with the squeegee in a broom
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and it's got a bonding agent in it, and you
apply it to a dust free area and kind of
just resurface or recotec concrete.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Sure, Okay, last question that I would have because you
did mention the sealing and it was sealed when it
was done, and then I did reseal it that first
fall before the winter. Now would would would sealing it again?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Help? Yeah, So what the ceialant does make sure it's breathable.
You want to have a breathable celant. There's a slockxane
based sealant. And what it does is it works like cortex.
It keeps water from penetrating the concrete. It'll still penetrate,
but not nearly as deep. There's capillaries in concrete, so
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it seals the capillaries, minimizes how much absorption into the concrete,
and then the moisture from the ground underneath the slab.
It allows it to breed through the lab. Okay, so
that's a wonder one.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
All right, sir, well, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
You're quite welcome. Thank you much. All right, about fifteen
minutes before the top of the hour, got Sally, Matt
Pat Dave will continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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joining me. You're at home with Gary Salvin. Back to
the phones we go. We have Sally, Sally welcome.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Hey, Thanks Hi Gary. I'm calling about raidon in my basement.
My basement's been mitigated for really thirty years, and in
twenty twenty. I guess they're called pick of Curi's. Anyway,
it was about two point eight, which isn't too bad,
(38:27):
you know, I say, don't get above four. But then
just some months ago it's up to four point eight
and I am going to There is a fan down there.
It brings out air from two crawl spaces and it
takes it up to the roofline. But what I was
wondering is after the company comes and whatever they decide,
(38:51):
I was wondering.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
About the easy breathe.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
I was wondering about maybe having some fresh air down there.
Now in the winter it's cold to open the windows.
But I wondered about the easy Breed system if it
would if adding fresh air would be a good thing.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah. So they don't advertise it as a radon mitigation system,
but what an easy Breed does is it removes polluted
air from our homes. Polluted air, certainly radon falls in
that category. And it settles in the lower reaches of
(39:34):
the house. And what an easy breed does is it
pulls out the air. So there's a there's a a
mechanism that's back in the corner of the basement that
has a drawl in a vent that goes outside, so
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as it's pulling very slowly air from the basement area
which contains the raid on, and it's taken the air
from the conditioned area of the home that would be
the first floor and upstairs, and it pulls it to
(40:16):
the basement. When you open a window, unless you've got
a fan that's pulling the air out, opening window is
really not doing much. And less you have a strong
breeze and you have a window open on this side
and a window open on that side. Yeah, then you
got ventilation. But this is controlled ventilation which would definitely
(40:37):
lower pollutants in your home and the raid on.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Yes, okay, all right, Well, I was trying to think
of anything that you know is different. I did have
an extra sump pump put in. The first sump pump
is covered with a plastic covering, and the second sump
plump I just have a towel over it.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Well, that's probably it. So I tell people even to
look for cracks in a floor. A lot of times
you can have radon tested. Maybe you're at a seven
or an eight, and if you went along and made
sure the sump well had a good tight cover on it,
if there were cracks in the floor and they were
(41:21):
properly filled with a crack filler. Even to a point
of we mentioned a product dry lock, the waterproofing paint.
There's you know, all kinds of water vapor that's coming
into your basement. If water vapors coming in, it can
also be the vapor that contains the rainon, right, I
(41:41):
mean it can go through the walls and putting like
dry dry lock on those walls and really ceiling up
that wall. That can really stop the radon too, because
a rainon mitigation system is basically going underneath the house,
capturing the gas there before it enters the house, and
(42:04):
taking it up the pipe and letting it go into
the atmosphere into the environment outside where it's diluted so
much it's not a problem. So we all get a
little bit in the house and none of it's really good.
So if that's why the EPA comes out now, and says,
(42:24):
you know, our home quality air quality is you know,
three to five times worse than outdoor air quality because
of the off gassing from cleaners and radons, and we've
got all kinds of things going on. So you know,
long answer, but the quick answer is sure, an easy
breathe does just that. It ventilates, it a slow ventilation
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of the house, keeping your home healthier.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Well, thank you, Yes, because I do have some cracks
in the basement and its out walls, which I have
painted over, but not probably with a really strong paint.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'll bet you if you patch those concrete you were
what four point two or something you said four point eight. Yeah,
I'll bet you if you patch those cracks in the floor,
put a good sump well cover over that, I bet
you'd be back under four.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Okay, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, all right, And yeah, it's
so important. Really, it just kind of taken a look.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Raight on is one of those things you can't see,
but it has been linked to diseases, and so it's
something we should probably take a look at. I know
everybody hates to have a test some people, you know,
when you can't see it. It's like, oh, it's a
croc how whatever you want to believe's fine. But if
it's a concern to you, having it tested and keeping
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it under four is the key, and there's things you
can do to minimize that. The raid ons outside a
geranium breaking down, that's getting into your house. So if
we've tightened all that up, it's not going to get
into the house and you're not going.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
To have a problem.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
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chat with you about your home projects. We're going to
cover a lot of things today. It's starting to be
the very busy time of year. And one of the
things when I was chatting with Ron I was talking
about have gotten a lot of calls regarding problems that
(01:17):
are caused by a dry house so in a wintertime
are humidity. I know I've been beaten on this for
about three or four weeks now, but I am getting
a lot of emails, so I thought i'd address it again.
When it's cold outside, and when it's wintertime, there's the
temperatures cold. Cold air can't hold as much moisture, so
(01:40):
it's also very dry air. And that dry air, depending
on the efficiency of your home, certainly works its way
inside the home and our homes dry out. We have
a lot of organic materials in there would being the
number one, and that when it dries out, it Shrinks've
got wood floors, The seams sometimes become exposed. You got
(02:05):
baseboards sometimes that pulls away from the dry wall and
becomes exposed. We got crown molding that pulls away from
the ceiling. There gets to be a crevice there. Wherever
there's miter cuts in moldings. If it's not a miner
cut that's done properly, sometimes those seams show. As things
(02:29):
dry out, things flex, things shrink, and then problems develop.
And one of the things you may have experienced at
your house as you notice some of these other issues
is drywall nails. The head of the drying at wall
now is kind of popping through the coating, the top
(02:54):
coating the mud if you will, and it's cracking. You
can see that drywall nail and you can fix that.
Minimal problems. Number one is you can run a drywall
screw right next to that and then set that drywall
nail deeper and then go ahead and mud over that
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both of those fasteners and it will be more stable
with a screw. But even that dries out and begins
that flexing and that pushing and take a look. Mainly
I have found them in folks at homes, usually on
(03:39):
the upper floors, maybe the upper floor of the house,
where the attic is directly above that ceiling. You'll see
more nail pops there. Usually more found in newer homes
than older homes. But certainly this time of year we
start seeing that particular problem. So I wanted to come
(04:00):
to pass that along to you. And while you're searching that,
there's certainly plenty of plenty of projects we can still
work on the inside of the home and very basic
maintenance issues. And you know, we always hear the term
spring cleaning, and as we get to spring cleaning time,
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one of the things I would take a look at
is cabinetry, kitchen, cabinetree especially and see if there's a
lot of smudges around door handles. For the cabinets cabinet handles,
a lot of times we clean them and we use
a spray that's a cleaner and a wax, and that
(04:43):
wax gets built up over the years, and then we
get our hands on that wax and it gets gummy
and it's gets dirty. You can remove that. The first
thing I would do is take off the handle, take
off the knob. In a lot of cases, you can
just use like a mineral spirits and a microfiber towel
(05:06):
or cloth and you'll take a little elbow grease. It's
not going to hurt to finish, but that mineral spirits
kind of melt that wax that's on there, so you rub,
rubb rub, and you'll eventually clean that up. There's also
if you're going to buy a cabinet cleaner, see what's
(05:28):
in the cleaner. A lot of times there is a
cleaner and there is a wax, so it's going to
do both. It's going to clean off the old wax,
but still putting on wax. Really, what you're looking for
is something that's going to clean, preserve, and rejuvenate the wood.
(05:48):
So it's going to remove the wax and it's going
to clean the grunge that gets around the handles, and
then you're going to clean the rest of that cabinet
and it's not going to contain wax and it's not
going to contain silicone, and it'll really rejuvenate that would.
I know we've mentioned a product called Milsick in the past,
(06:12):
and that would be one I would recommend where it's
actually going to clean and preserve. It's not going to wax,
it'll just preserve it and doesn't contain silicone. It does
a great job, it really does. It's old product. That
product's probably a one hundred and twenty years old, so
(06:33):
it's been around a while, but does a marvelous job.
And just cleaning up the cadymetry really can make a
huge difference just to the whole looks of your kitchen itself.
So I wanted to pass that along. It's a good
cleaning U project you can get into before the weather
really breaks and we can get some work done on
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the outside of our homes. Let's go to John, John Welcome,
Hey John, Well, let's not go to Jump. We tried,
all right, so as I let's go to Let's go
to Rich. Okay, that sounds good. Let's go to Rich
(07:14):
Rich Welcome, We welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Good morning Gary.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I have a ranch home in Cleveland, Ohio and detached
garage okay, and coming inside door and the basement steps
are right next to the garage, so it's concrete from
the floor level down to the basement with me, So
(07:38):
the paint was peeling. A couple of weeks ago. I said, ah,
my wife want me to paint the wall. So I
scraped it and I kept scraping, and the paint was
like falling off.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I thought I got most of it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Then I put some concrete paint on there, Alison, the
rest of the paint started peeling off the wall, on
the concrete portion. How do I fix this? I think
someone putting non concrete paint on the concrete.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well, understand that, or.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
There's some moisture issue. So the steps and the concrete
walls are outside.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Of the garage, no inside inside.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Side of the garage.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Okay, that's I opened the door, turn the left and
I go straight down steps.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And the paint I haven't touched it for fifteen years,
has been fine and just start peeling a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Mm hm. So is there a down spouts right outside?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
No, no, no grudge, it's a it's a rear loading garage.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay. And when that paint is peeling as part of
the concrete coming off to is it real dusty?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
No, no, no, no, there's no word you want to use.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
But the concrete does.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, it's but it was there for fifteen years right.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, and started peeling and I started scraping, and it's
just started coming off in sheets. I'm thinking it on
oil base versus.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, it could be all it could be all kinds
of things. We don't know what was on there. The
bottom line is you want to go ahead and paint it, right,
So we want to get as much off of there
as we possibly can through scraping. Quite honestly, rich because
we got to get down to the surface that we're painting,
the main substrate we got to paint. We don't need
(09:22):
to paint the old paint because that just exacerbates the problem.
So yeah, and there's most paints of today, good acrylic
paints work perfect on concrete. We just got to have
a dust free we got to have a dry and
we got to get down to, you know, the surface
(09:44):
of the concrete. And then if you, yeah, if you
wanted to add something like a waterproofing paint, you know
where it's much thicker than paint. It's almost a waterproof
coating that functions as a paint. And to give you
an example, to get about one hundred square feet to
(10:04):
a gallon versus three hundred and fifty square feet to
a gallon. But that's an option.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Also that thorough seal for interest.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I was thinking of dry lock, but thorough seal is
another one.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Sure cool, Okay, So I give also paint off much
as I can and then go to Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You could go with a regular interior latex paint, high
quality self priming, or you could go to a waterproofing
paint like the dry lock.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Okay, right, thank you all sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Good enough, you bet rich, thank you all right. Coming
up is our friend Ron Wilson. He'll be talking. I'm
gonna ask him as we go outside, what's the one
thing you should do right away to your landscaping, to
your yard, to your garden. What do we do right now?
That's next. We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan soles.
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we go, And uh, it's time to talk to our
friend mister Wilson as he is getting ready to get
outside and get that landscaping and get that gardening. And
he's our expert Wilson.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How are you, Marnie, Miss Shalman.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thank you, sir. Now, I got one big question for you. Yes, sir,
we're all ready to get busy.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Ready, it's open. You're ready.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, you're ready. You've already been out there. Don't lie
to me, I know. So tell everybody what's the first
thing they should do when they got outside.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
You see, see what the weather is, and put on
the appropriate apparel.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I would say, pick up sticks.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Here's what I do. Seriously, we got a lot of branches.
We're going to take inventory, take inventory inventory of what
needs to be done in our yard this spring. Okay,
things that need to be done, and what you want
to get done, and and yeah, and write down. You
got two lists. And seriously, I walk around and do that.
(14:49):
You can do it mentally, you can do it on
a list. Usually the list is the better way to
go to write down exactly all the things you want
to do, because you know timing is going to be
very important this spring, and and because it's you know
it's gonna be warm, it's gonna be cold. It tonna warm,
it's gonna rain, it's gonna be dry, it's gonna work
it in its spring. It's one of the toughest ones
to work around them when it comes to planting and
doing things versus the fall. But I would I do
(15:10):
inventory and I figure out what am I gonna do.
Then as I'm walking around figuring this out, I'm picking
up debris right, I'm picking up the sticks.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I'm looking at my favorite birch trees, tips, tips of branches,
evergreens that have maybe browned last fall or over the
winter time. Got my pruners in my pocket, so I'm
clipping those out right now. I don't want to look
at them anymore. Get them out of there.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Ray, they're supposed to be green, they're gray.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, get rid of it. If the branch is dead,
get rid of it. Any evergreens right now. And that way,
if it continues to have these and you got a problem,
if it doesn't and you got rid of them, then
it was just physical or something happened and you got
rid of it. It's done. So you know, basically it
is take an inventory, what you need to do, what
you want to do, cleaning up the debris. If you
(15:59):
really want to get into it, you know, you can
actually go out the rake and fluff up the mulch.
See where we are right now, Do I need to
add mulch or we good for.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Multa, I gotta add mault. I'll tell you all kind
of winter weeds in my beds.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
If we have winter weeds that are popping up right now, chickweed,
hadn't bit purple dead in net or harry bittercrest, get
rid of them, and that the ease come out of
the ground really easily, because you want to get rid
of those before they flower and seed.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So you get rid of that and uh sp dig,
just dig.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Just dig, don't worry about spray them. Just pull them out.
And they're so shallow rooted a rake, we'll pull them
out of the ground. And then last but not least,
I would look in my in my inventory and if
anything on there says as the word dormant with it,
you better get it taken care of right away. Dormant pruning,
dormant seeding, dormant applications of insecticide, dormant sprayings.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I did that seeding stuff there you go. I did
it right before it got real cold.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's perfect round of them us. So that's perfect, that's perfect.
So if it says dormant, get it taken care of
right away, because it's not going to be dormant too
much longer. Dormant transplanting, you got some things you want
to move. Whether it's still dormant, you can better get
on in the next couple of weeks, or there's not
going to be you're not gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What would that be like hostas.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Anything, You know, perennials starting to come up, and that
that hosta clump was way too big. As soon as
I start see those little eyes pop up where I
can tell where it is, get it out of the ground,
separate it out, get it moved. If they're spring flowering perennials,
a lot of times we don't like to move them
too much unless it's the entire clump because they flower
in the springtime. You might disrupt that a little bit.
(17:36):
Summer and fall flowering not an issue, but you know,
the spring flowering sometimes, unless it's a whole clump, I
got to hold off a little bit. But again, it's
that type of thing where it's you know that time,
very timely things, especially anything that says dormant. And then
get your list together and you know we're good to go.
As far as planting trees, shrubs, evergreens, perennials. Right now,
(17:58):
you know that type of thing can be done at
this point forward, So get those plans in place. Then
as you're starting to look at the vegetable garden and the
annuals and your containers, start getting your list because that'll
be happening here in another six to eight weeks, and
you want to have all that other stuff done before
you get there.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And if it rains, you can go sharpen your mow
or blade.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Then yeah, then you're in the tools. Taking care of
the tools. Really, no, I'm with you getting them on ore.
We're taken care of because again in about two weeks,
you know what I'm gonna be telling folks to do
if the weather stays with us that I'm thinking it's
going to. It's the primo, the primo, and the primo's
coming up here very quickly. And once your primo, you're
(18:41):
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blade sharp and by the time you get because once
your primo right, all heck breaks.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Loose well, and then we get all the spring rains
and then the grass grows like weeds and then you
know what.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And the weeds grows like the grass.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And yeah, and we're mowing day and that more better
be sharp and that blade better be sharp.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And I have one last thing. It's a pet peeve
of mine. If you look out in your landscape right now,
you have trees that are out, you're in your yard.
If grass grows up to the base of those trees, shame.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
On you steal nutrients.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, it's just better for everybody. If you just get
the grass away from the bottom of the trees, you
could prevent lawnmower disease and string tremor disease competition the
whole nine yards. Guess what you could do right now
that get the grass away from the base of the trees,
get the munched in, but get your plans in place
because it's gonna break here very quickly. And that's my prediction.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I'm I'm predicting a warm spring run.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Thank you, mister Salvon, you bet you for the warm spring.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Ron Wilson, thank you very much. You can check out
his block it's Ron Wilson online dot com and certainly
thank him. First time you're at haul, Gerry Sulvon.
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back at it we go. We're thirty three minutes after
the top of the Iron. You're at home with Carrie
Selvin talking about your home home projects, maintenance repair. Feel
free to join us, and we're going to get to John. John, welcome,
great to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yes, sir, all right, I've got a problem with a
fiberglass showerpan cracking. This is the it's a recurrence. It
cracked the first times it was installed, probably in the
(23:10):
late sixties, nineteen seventy or so. Cracked the first time,
and I had a guy look at it and we
did a he did it. He was a tub doctor
type guy, and he did a repair and resurfaced it,
you know, drive it out and put foam underneath and
(23:33):
resurfaced it. And it lasted two years, very good.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
But now it's.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Starting to crack again. And he took a look at
the pictures and said, you know, it probably won't stand
another of that type of repair. So I'm looking at
two options. The first one was to rip it out
and replace it with tile build up a couple of course,
(24:00):
a tile around it because it's a. It's an overlap,
and of course that's going to be about a four
thousand dollars project maybe unless they come up find other
stuff in there. So I got that on hold. But
I'm looking at shower floor repair inlay kit, which is
(24:21):
a sheet of stuff with a hole in it, and
you prepare the surface and lay this thing down and
glue it in. Have you any experience with those? Is
it we're doing? Or you know, can I buy a
couple more years?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah? Tough question. Tough question. So let me ask you this.
So this is the fiberglass. This isn't the pan underneath
all this. This is the actual.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Pan that you stand on. The pan you stand on,
and it was probably a less than adequate initial installation.
The supported enough underneath. I'm not too worried about what's
underneath it because it is on a It is over
a four inch reinforced concrete floor ceiling to the lower floor.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
They have you experienced any water issues beyond that pan?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Have not?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
And and I go down and look underneath and see
if anything sweeping through the concrete and and there's there's nothing.
But it is a concern, and it's uh, you know,
that's a possibility. I want to avoid mold if I can.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Right right, right, Well, it sounds to me, and again
without looking it sounds to me that is probably time
for replacement of it. We're you know, we're trying to
put a band aid on it, which means it will
fail again. You know, maybe it's time to just go
(26:03):
ahead and bite the bullet and replace it. Now, there
is another option, and it's more substantial than a membrane
type product. It's an actual total overlay of the pan itself.
And they use like an abs plastic which is like
(26:25):
a jacuzzi tub plastic. So it's pretty hard. Yeah, yeah,
And that is just formed made to fit over the
existing pan, and the plumbing is reconnected to the top
of this and this is literally just glued down. It's
a whole new surface. They do them for bathubs, they
(26:47):
do them for shower pants.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, okay, And where can I take a professional?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yes? Because they will it needs Yeah, so what would
be And there's a bunch of people out there that
do it. There's a rebath, there's bath fitter, there's luxury
bas systems, and that's a big business right now, it
really is, And you know, it's it's it's more expensive
(27:19):
than putting a membrane, but it's also more thorough and
it's not as expensive as tearing everything out. So I
think it falls in a slot where you know it
might be worth checking out.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yeah, I can. I can do that because I do.
I have seen those ads. How do they interface with
the tile? They just cal it in.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, it depends on what needs to be done. But yes,
you know they'll also check to make sure if there's
top coming down the walls. We want to make sure
what that's on, making sure there's no cracks in that
tile or grout. So you know, we can use that wall.
And if we can use that wall, sure we can
(28:04):
just calk down at that base. And but you know,
you got to just you got to let them take
a look at it to see if they can. There's
only there's a limited amount of sizes on those things,
so they you know, it's not like they got to
recreate them all the time. And the calking is usually
used to seal it in. I'm not trying to sell
(28:25):
you redo the whole walls if it's not needed. We
don't need to do that. They just need to put
this over.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Yeah, I would love to rip it out and redo
it with tile that you know, compliments the tile on
the walls, on the surface inside the shower, But that's
you know, that's a that's a huge project.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, yeah, you're tearing that out and this kind of
meets it halfway, right, But yeah, and they've made that
pretty easy too. Now you can get those pans underneath
that that are like a you know, custom made so
where it mounts directly in there and it's kind of
(29:11):
cocked and constructionhesive underneath, and then you can put tile
on top of that. It's less of a deal than
it used to be, but it's still going to be
more expensive than this overlay that I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Yeah, okay, well it gives me another direction to go in.
I appreciate the advice.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You're quite welcome, Thank you much. Take care. Yeah, get
other options, for sure, But you know, just going right
over that surface might be the might be the way.
It's kind of a halfway point. But you know, the
secret is really kind of what's causing that problem. And
I think what he said was probably accurate. It's just
(29:55):
a bad installation that fiberglass is just not as substantial,
is what the overlay would be and that's probably what's
causing the problem. Terry, welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Hey, good morning Gary.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
How are you doing fine?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Thank you good. I have a question about my concrete driveway.
It'll be three years in May that it was put in,
and we've had a couple of mild winters here in
northeast Ohio, and then this year we had a little
bit more snow. I don't know if they call it spawling,
(30:33):
but yes, we do have to leave our cars in
the driveway. I have a truck that won't fit in.
And moral of the story is that this year that
salt has reaked havoc on my driveway. I was never
I was never really impressed with the contractor that did
(30:56):
the work unfortunately. So is that bad concrete or is
there anything that I can do to prevent that spalling?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Well, you just asked a million dollar question, because concrete's
usually not guaranteed. So go to the concrete guy. He's
going to tell you it's the rock salt. You got
a rock salt, They'll say it was the concrete. So
they're they're the only thing you can test in concrete.
You can test core samples where they drill it out
and you know, they'll they'll give you whether it's good
(31:28):
concrete or whether it's it's the correct ps PSI. You know,
strength and tensile strength and all that. You know what
causes spawling. There's a bunch of things, but if I
put the top too, at the top of the board.
One that causes spalling is rock salt on unsealed concrete,
(31:50):
and cars bring that rock salt in the next day,
it goes up to fifty degrees the snow and everything melts.
The rock salt crete. It's a salty brine solution which
is very corrosive to concrete, and it creates spawling. I've
seen it on public development. It's a beautiful boulevard all
(32:12):
of a sudden, It's a number of years ago. I
watched them pour the concrete. The next spring was all spawled.
Now was it the rock salt or was it the
second thing at the top. It was a hot day
when they poured the concrete. The people, the installers added
some water to it so they could move it around
and trill it out and float it out and do
(32:33):
all the good stuff to make it look good. And
there was a cream at the top of that concrete,
which it doesn't really have the strength. And you know,
they were able to float it and get it all
trilled out, but now it's not hard on the surface
and we get some spawling occurring. So the bottom line
is the bottom line is really uh yeah, yeah, you
(32:58):
got to look at the que or not what caused
the problem. Certainly we can take you can you know,
take care of minimizing salt damage. You can't do much
about the cream part of it. So you know, I mean,
there's resurfacers out there, there's companies that resurface. There's quick
(33:21):
Crete makes a concrete resurfacer. It's a powder, you add
water to it. You get an industrial drill with a
with a mixer and you blend this together. It's about
the consistency of an asphalt driveway sealer. You put it
on the same way with the squeegee in a broom
(33:41):
and it's got a bonding agent in it, and you
apply it to a dust free area and kind of
just resurface or recotec concrete.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Sure, Okay, last question that I would have because you
did mention the sealing and it was sealed when it
was done, and then I did reseal it that first
fall before the winter. Now would would would sealing it again?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Help? Yeah, So what the ceialant does make sure it's breathable.
You want to have a breathable celant. There's a slockxane
based sealant. And what it does is it works like cortex.
It keeps water from penetrating the concrete. It'll still penetrate,
but not nearly as deep. There's capillaries in concrete, so
(34:36):
it seals the capillaries, minimizes how much absorption into the concrete,
and then the moisture from the ground underneath the slab.
It allows it to breed through the lab. Okay, so
that's a wonder one.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
All right, sir, well, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
You're quite welcome. Thank you much. All right, about fifteen
minutes before the top of the hour, got Sally, Matt
Pat Dave will continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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get a few things done around the home. Things for
joining me. You're at home with Gary Salvin. Back to
the phones we go. We have Sally, Sally welcome.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Hey, Thanks Hi Gary. I'm calling about raidon in my basement.
My basement's been mitigated for really thirty years, and in
twenty twenty. I guess they're called pick of Curi's. Anyway,
it was about two point eight, which isn't too bad,
(38:27):
you know, I say, don't get above four. But then
just some months ago it's up to four point eight
and I am going to There is a fan down there.
It brings out air from two crawl spaces and it
takes it up to the roofline. But what I was
wondering is after the company comes and whatever they decide,
(38:51):
I was wondering.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
About the easy breathe.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
I was wondering about maybe having some fresh air down there.
Now in the winter it's cold to open the windows.
But I wondered about the easy Breed system if it
would if adding fresh air would be a good thing.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah. So they don't advertise it as a radon mitigation system,
but what an easy Breed does is it removes polluted
air from our homes. Polluted air, certainly radon falls in
that category. And it settles in the lower reaches of
(39:34):
the house. And what an easy breed does is it
pulls out the air. So there's a there's a a
mechanism that's back in the corner of the basement that
has a drawl in a vent that goes outside, so
(39:56):
as it's pulling very slowly air from the basement area
which contains the raid on, and it's taken the air
from the conditioned area of the home that would be
the first floor and upstairs, and it pulls it to
(40:16):
the basement. When you open a window, unless you've got
a fan that's pulling the air out, opening window is
really not doing much. And less you have a strong
breeze and you have a window open on this side
and a window open on that side. Yeah, then you
got ventilation. But this is controlled ventilation which would definitely
(40:37):
lower pollutants in your home and the raid on.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Yes, okay, all right, Well, I was trying to think
of anything that you know is different. I did have
an extra sump pump put in. The first sump pump
is covered with a plastic covering, and the second sump
plump I just have a towel over it.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Well, that's probably it. So I tell people even to
look for cracks in a floor. A lot of times
you can have radon tested. Maybe you're at a seven
or an eight, and if you went along and made
sure the sump well had a good tight cover on it,
if there were cracks in the floor and they were
(41:21):
properly filled with a crack filler. Even to a point
of we mentioned a product dry lock, the waterproofing paint.
There's you know, all kinds of water vapor that's coming
into your basement. If water vapors coming in, it can
also be the vapor that contains the rainon, right, I
(41:41):
mean it can go through the walls and putting like
dry dry lock on those walls and really ceiling up
that wall. That can really stop the radon too, because
a rainon mitigation system is basically going underneath the house,
capturing the gas there before it enters the house, and
(42:04):
taking it up the pipe and letting it go into
the atmosphere into the environment outside where it's diluted so
much it's not a problem. So we all get a
little bit in the house and none of it's really good.
So if that's why the EPA comes out now, and says,
(42:24):
you know, our home quality air quality is you know,
three to five times worse than outdoor air quality because
of the off gassing from cleaners and radons, and we've
got all kinds of things going on. So you know,
long answer, but the quick answer is sure, an easy
breathe does just that. It ventilates, it a slow ventilation
(42:48):
of the house, keeping your home healthier.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Well, thank you, Yes, because I do have some cracks
in the basement and its out walls, which I have
painted over, but not probably with a really strong paint.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'll bet you if you patch those concrete you were
what four point two or something you said four point eight. Yeah,
I'll bet you if you patch those cracks in the floor,
put a good sump well cover over that, I bet
you'd be back under four.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Okay, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, all right, And yeah, it's
so important. Really, it just kind of taken a look.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Raight on is one of those things you can't see,
but it has been linked to diseases, and so it's
something we should probably take a look at. I know
everybody hates to have a test some people, you know,
when you can't see it. It's like, oh, it's a
croc how whatever you want to believe's fine. But if
it's a concern to you, having it tested and keeping
(43:57):
it under four is the key, and there's things you
can do to minimize that. The raid ons outside a
geranium breaking down, that's getting into your house. So if
we've tightened all that up, it's not going to get
into the house and you're not going.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
To have a problem.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
All right, we'll continue with your calls. If you'd like
to join us, do so. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
(44:58):
SA right with a ball.
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To Gary Sullivan at one eight hundred eight two three talk.
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