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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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It's eight hundred eight two three A two five five.
Last weekend we had we had somebody call it. And
I've been thinking about this because it's it's very true.
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And we all know about you know, prices going up
and groceries and energy and everything else, but home improvement's
no different than anything else. The prices have all gone up.
The person called and talked about an entry door and
some sidelights, and said, you know, he just I think
it was a fiberglass entry away. But anyway, he was like,
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that whole system was like fourteen thousand dollars. Tell me why. Well,
I don't have a definite answer. I don't have a
cost analysis of every product, but you know, everything's kind
of went up. Well. This week I also ran into
somebody that goes like, you know, you're always talking about
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really good paints, self priming paints, and this person was
almost angry to a point where I said, do you
know how much that stuff cost? I go, yeah, you know,
sixty seventy dollars a gown, eighty gallars a gallon. Yeah,
it's pretty expensive. And that you're thinking trimmingim is like
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one hundred dollars a gown. Yeah, well, how do you
justify that? I'm not here to justify it, but I
can tell you one thing, and you know you can
you do what you want to do. But the benefits
on those higher quality paints are many. They sincerely are
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certainly more scrubbable. You can take a flat paint that's
inexpensive and kids get marks on a wall and you
start scrubbing it it will literally burnish the paint, and
if you know what burnish means, that means almost polish it.
You'll see right where somebody rubbed it. And those really
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higher end paints they don't burnish. The flat paints are
scrubbable as a satin paint, So you can get that
flat look maybe in a kitchen where before you would
you wouldn't have done that. The ability for that paint
to hide the existing color. I'm not here to profess
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it's a one coat paint. A lot of paints, a
lot of good quality paints could be one code, but
in all honesty, give it two coats. It will look better, guaranteed.
But again, the scrub ability, the ability for it not
to fade, that is another great quality of the better paints.
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The adhesion is so much better. When I talked about that,
you're a thing, Trimmy Nemo. It looks like the old
fashioned oil based paints. It flows right off the brush
like the old fashioned oil based paints. It gives a
really hard finish like the old fashioned oil based paints.
And it's one hundred dollars a gallon or eighty dollars
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or ninety dollars whatever. But it's the Yeah, that's maybe
sticker shock, but you will give what you pay for.
And when I think about doing a enamel work in
a home all the way back when there was oil
based paints that we did, don't you kind of look
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at that is maybe this is a once or twice
in a lifetime that you're gonna really paint that. Sure
you do, Sure you do, and it will last that long.
So I'm not here to justify paints pricing and door
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pricing and everything else. Everything's more expensive, for sure, But
the one thing I am saying is you still kind
of need the benefits. You need to weigh the benefits
with the cost if you get a good and I'm
not kind of name brand names, but you know who
the top brands are, and it's a self priming, it's
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the top of the line. It's sixty seventy bucks a
gallon for flat wall paint. You're going like, that's insane.
I can buy this for ten bucks. Well, you can
buy paint for ten bucks. You're you're not gonna buy
this for ten bucks. But when you paint that a wall,
whether it's a kid's bedroom or not, you can touch
it up because it doesn't fade. You can scrub it
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and clean it because it doesn't burnish. And literally that
paint could be you know, if you like the color
right and everything's okay there, that paint can last fifteen
to twenty years on that wall in your house. So
if you've got the inexpensive stuff and you're scrubbing it
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and it's getting burnished and you can't match it, you
might be painting a kid's bedroom every three years. So anyway,
it happened to me a couple times in the past week,
and I thought I'd just kind of talk that through.
And the question I have for you is what do
you look for in a paint? You know, what do
you look for? One of the things Scrubbability's got to
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be number one. How's it cover? That's probably number two.
Number three? How's it flow? This is actually should be
just as high up on the chain. How does it
flow off the roller? You get cheap paint and a
cheap roller, and you're gonna just see the lines where
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that roller went up and where it went down, and
then maybe you'll start crossing. You know, the way you
really paint with the rollers, You make a w and
that's kind of going you know, north to south, and
then you go across the w going east to west,
and then you go north to south against you do
that and you know you'll get good coverage on drywall,
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it'll be very very good coverage. But with a cheap
paint and a cheap roller cover you it still won't
be that great. But a good quality paint will just
flow off that and everything will be so even, so
self leveling, so scrubbable, so long lasting. But what are
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you looking for? Are you looking for the price? Are
you looking for it to be easy? Are you looking
for the longevity? And those are the things that you
really need to ask yourself before you paint. For instance,
if you've got a kid's bedroom and you feel like
you're going to change that color every two years, fine
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by middle of the road paint. If you're thinking, oh,
this is a bedroom is going to be empty for
a while, and you know it doesn't get much traffic,
it's an adult room or something, and I'm really going
to be satisfied with this color. Get the good stuff.
You don't want to paint that thing all the time
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for sure, So way out what you want that paint?
What do you want out of that purchase. What's that
purchase going to give you? And I'm all about easy,
so I want it to be easy. I want Since
I'm also all about easy, I don't want to do it.
I would much rather play golf or cut grass even
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than maybe paint a room. So think what it's going
to give you. What are the benefits? Because there is
a plethora of different types of paints. And I'm not
even talking about, you know, different sheens or anything. I'm
just talking about different qualities of paint. Even in the
same paint line a Sherman Williams, a Bear of ben Moore,
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there might be seven eight different qualities of paint in
that And what what are you looking to get out
of that paint? That's the question. All right, let me
give you the phone number you can join us as
we talk a little home improvement. And I guess we've
got to do the official time check. Since the clocks
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sprung forward Eastern time, it is now nine to fifteen
in Pacific time, it is six fifteen, and you can
do the calculations in between. So we did spring forward.
In fact, most states spring forward. I Arizona stays the same.
I think it's Hawaii's the other one. Not positive on that,
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but most of us have sprung forward one hour. All
right again that numbers eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Will continue with your calls. You're at
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hear from you. It's eight hundred eight two three eighty
two five five and let's go to Mary. Mary.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Welcome, Hi there, Good morning morning. I have a question
as to who to contact in order to address the
problem that I have.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I have.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
A fellow laming to my house with his SUV and
it's a brick house and the bricks we've got it
right on the corner. The bricks are broken in half
on both sides. Now I have structural issues going down
the length of my house. My feelings are cracking down
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just a straight line open drew the headers and down
the walls. I don't know boutical engineers, contractors, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, eventually you know you're gonna you can get a
general contractor you can hire contractors to fix the specific issues.
It sounds to me that you're also you're also contemplating
what other damage has occurred. This is what I'm seeing,
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but I don't know really, Yeah, I don't really know
what else is going on there. I think there might
be some bigger issues. So if that is the case,
what I think I would do is I would contact
an engineer, a structural engineer, and not really a home inspector,
but a structural engineer. They're kind of like a you know,
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a home inspector on steroids, where they can really visualize
the damage and create a game plan of what needs
to be done and the order in which it needs
to be done. So obviously with the brick, the crack
brick and the missing bricks and stuff, we would get
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a mason in there. But yeah, what else is going
on in there? You know? So we have cracks as
the foundation been shifted, moved or not as stable as
it was, and maybe we need underpinning and a structural engineer.
Mary will be able to help you with those questions.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And I'll see That's why I contacted Brick Masons for
the cosmetics after the structural states, and I've been trying
to get hold of an engineer and everybody I have
contact as they do commercial, they don't do residential. They
will if you're building a new house, but they I
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can't find anyone that will actually some look at a
house that's just been in an auto accident and need.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are you Are you in a rural area or a
city area or Carolina? What what's the city Columbia? Sure? Sure.
What I would do maybe is even go to uh
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you know, in the search in the Columbia, South Carolina area.
Obviously structural engineer, but what you might want to do
is get to the home Builders Association and ask for references,
uh maybe the National Association of the Remodeling Institute and
ask for I mean, there's got to be somebody out
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there that's going to do that work, especially in the city. Yeah,
especially you know show. Yeah. Yeah, well that's where I
would focus my attention. Even if if you get a again,
if you go to the Homebuilders Association of mainly homebuilders,
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that's their organizational or their association. There may even be
a member of that organization because they're all not just
homebuilders that would be a structural engineer, and you know,
I would call their offices and see, you know, if
they could give you some names. That's where i'd start
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my search.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
A homebuilders' association.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh huh, I'm sure there's one of the Owners Association
of Columbia.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I will try that. Thank you so much. All right,
good luck, Yeah, I need a whole luck I can get.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, very good, all right, Mary, thank you much. I
appreciate it. Yeah, that's one of the things you're really
trying to get down to the bottom of exactly what
is going on. You might be able to get some
home inspectors too, calling them and asking if they have
structural engineers. They also, again I said, a structural engineer
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kind of like a home inspector on steroids. They have
a little bit wee bit more training and focus. But
you know, a lot of really good home inspectors could
probably tell you a lot what's going on. They could
also recommend a structural engineer for you. It wasn't long
ago we had one of those folks on this show,
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and when I was asking about cost and I was
comparing those to home inspectors per hour, I was fairly
amazed that the cost differential was very little between a
home inspector and a structural engineer. And I get it.
They're all busy. We've all heard all the news accounts
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trades being very very busy, and here we all said
a busy time of year. But I still feel strongly
if you get to uh, you know, you get into
those associations, you're going to have somebody that's going to
be able to help you out on that particular project.
All right, let me give you the phone number and
we will continue with some more calls. It's eight hundred
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and uh, hope you're having a good weekend. The time
didn't move up an hour, so let's get rolling. What
do you say? Our phone number as we talk home
improvement is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
and let's get to Rich Rich Welcome, Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I'm I'm in California, the near the ocean, Anyhow, I've
got tongue groove boards on the sportune I'm into the
house and they have a little bit of flexing them
like the hill, and paint keeps cracking between the boards.
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And I did have Sherwin Williams out here a year
ago and they gave me, got me some painted supposedly
was going to have some flex to it, and I
would hold up. But I'm not that I'm still having
the problem that I had read along. I didn't know.
I need to get underneath the porch and what's more,
(23:41):
supports in the main walking area where I don't normally walk.
The paint looks good over there.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Right, right, So the paint isn't wearing, it's actually peeling off. Correct.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Uh, it's where between the boards, right, Yeah, it's cracking.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And yeah, once it cracked, Yeah, once it cracks, water
is going to get in there, and that's gonna of course. Yeah,
if we can stop any movement at all, of course,
that would be beneficial. When Sharon Williams, you said they
came out and looked at it. Yes, did they talk
at all about the way the paint was applied in
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those areas like over the tongue in groove. In other words,
sometimes if you don't lap paint over a stress area,
you minimize its ability to crack because there isn't an overlap.
So in other words, what I'm saying is you would
go in the tongue areas, okay, and you would just
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brush the tongue and then you would you know, come
back and basically brush the tops of the boards so
that paint film is it's not bridging the boards. Oh okay,
So that's one thing. I would really take a look
at the other thing in an hour from now. Take
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a listen, because we're going to have a company called
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two days before the interview. But this particular coating, it's
not really a pain. It's a coating. It's a ceramic coating,
(25:37):
very durable. It's a warranted for twenty five years from peeling, cracking.
And in this interview he used the word it lasts Americ,
So there is some stretch in there. If you go
to their website, they've got a lot of good information there.
In some videos. I would watch those and if you're uh,
(26:00):
if you're sticking around in the next hour or so,
stay tuned, and we're going to replay that interview. It's
it's it's got a lot of good information in there.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Yeah. Years ago, had bought some kind of a floor
covering mm hmm, and I put on and it seemed
to hold up for a couple of years. Actually, but
the company doesn't exist anymore, I guess, and I can't.
I don't have the name of it right now, but h.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But it was.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
It took about so three three weeks really dry, and
then I got where I had a chair sitting on
the deck, and you know, this has been quite a
few years later. It would be it would feel that
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top paint off on the on the seat of the chair.
But it seemed to hold up. But the company I
tried to I know where they are if they are.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, does anymore? Yeah, yeah, And to be honest with you,
I don't know if this runner shows really to bezign
is really designed to be used as a floor paint.
So it's really talking about houses and trims and things
like that, and we never really talked about, you know,
flooring per se. But it is an elastomeric coating and
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that's why I brought it up. There's also a product
out of Vancouver which is used on smaller decks, maybe
more so in urban areas, as a waterproofing outdoor deck covering.
It's more almost like a sheet good. It's called Duro deck.
(27:58):
And that might be Yeah, that might be something to
take a look at too. Where you're basically going over
the entire thing and hiding it, taking it out of
the elements, that might be something that might be of interest.
So again we got runnershield dot com. Take a look
at that. You can take the heart about the not
(28:21):
lapping over the joints. That's going to help you a bunch.
Take a look at that, and then take a look
at the Duro deck and see if any of those
things you know, makes sense to give one of those
three I'll try.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Okay, that sounds good, very good.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, Take care all right, and yeah, boy,
we'll be taking a lot of calls on decks and
porches and patios and everything over the next three months.
I'll tell you when you're coming out of the cold
weather months and we all get ready to get outside
and enjoy our outdoor living areas. Boy, the things we find,
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you know, getting rid of the moss in the dirt,
I will tell you. And we have this question a
lot when it comes to decks if you're not using
semi transparents. Now, a semi transparent is something that's penetrating
into the wood fiber. There is no coating. It's literally
staining the fibers of the wood. But over time we
(29:32):
try to maybe we didn't keep up on the maintenance
like we should have, so we start going to maybe
a solid color stain which virtually looks like pain. And
we have at times, not all the time, but at
times we have adhesion issues with all brands. And here's
(29:55):
why you have in a liar is you don't have
the ability to use oil based penetrating finishes anymore. Oil
bases did a marvelous job of penetrating into pressure treated wood.
It got the job done. You get a good and
clean it could penetrate into the wood. Well, now we've
(30:19):
modified those a little bit. We have modified oil acrylics,
so it's not it still grips into the wood, but
not like it used to. And then we also have
straight acrylic or water based stains, which they have their
(30:40):
advantage and their advantages. They last longer outside, they have
more resistance to the UV rays of the sun. They
don't fade as fast. They also don't bite into that
wood as fast or as good. So we got to
help that out. And here's how you do it. You
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certainly do it by cleaning soap in water if it's
mildewy and dirty and filthy after it sat out all winter.
Oxygenated bleach. It's a powder mixed with water. Put it
on the surface, let it work for about ten minutes.
Take a street broom, agitate the heck out of that stuff.
(31:25):
Get it all Uh, you'll see the dirt just oozing up.
Then if you want to use a pressure washer or
a garden hose, don't use high pressure two thousand psi
or less, and just rinse that surface off. Rinse the
dirt off the surface, then let it dry. Then there's
one more step. In the paint store and in the
(31:47):
hardware store, you will see something called a deck brightener.
And a deck brightener is just that it will bleach
out the wood. It will not only bleach it out
and return it to somewhat its natural color. But what
it is is it is an oxolic acid. It's a
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wood bleach, and not only does it bring it back
to its natural color, but it opens up the pores
of the wood. The intent there is if you want
to go to a semi transparent it'll be staining over
more of a natural wood look. Coloring will be more
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consistent if you're going with a solid color stain. By
opening up the pores of the wood, they will get
into those fibers and they will bite to the surface better.
Where I see people that have problems, they don't clean
it as well as it should be cleaned. They don't
open the pores of the wood. With a deck brightner
(32:52):
or slash wood bleach, it lays on the surface and
over time it'll appeal. So if you're going with a
solid color stain or a coating and you're going over
pressure treated wood, I highly encourage you to use the brightener.
(33:14):
Not that you care that is brightening at all, but
it is opening up the pores of the pressure treated wood.
I kind of refer to it as like amradic acid
you would use on concrete. Okay, deck brightener or solid
acid is gonna work that way on wood, all right.
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Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight,
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talking about your home maintenance repair and uh, where I
met in the country, it's gonna be a really nice
week and we've had kind of a tough winner, but
it's gonna give us an opportunity to get out and
walk around the home. And if that's the case for you, also,
regardless of where you live, whether it was a harsh
(37:03):
winter or no winter at all, or a really severe winter,
things change seasonally. If you have the change of seasons,
different things. You heard the person before talk about things moving.
Lives along the coast out west and you have you know,
(37:26):
the marine layer and you have temperature swings, and then
the midwest or northeast, you have had a lot of
harsh winter weather this year and very low temperatures, and
things dry out, they shrink, they expand, they get cold,
they get warm, and taking time in seasonal changes. As
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the seasons change, there's always things that are going to
be a bit out of skew. They weren't like that
in the fall. I know it sounds weird. I always
laugh every year. It seems like as I do that
periodically and start examining what's going on around the home,
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I always find pipes that go underground and maybe like
the down spout would connect the pipe underground. And we
have very clay soil, and if you have some drought
conditions or some real wet conditions, that soil is even
moving quite a lot, to be honest with you, and
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shrinking and expansion, and those pipes after a harsh winter
or something, they may not line up. I'm serious, and
all of a sudden, all that water is not going
underground in the pipes and away from your house, it's
going right on the foundation. Those are the things you
want to look for. Also, just how much of the
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envelope of your else is water tight, insect tight, and
you know, temperature tight. I guess, so what you're looking for.
There's many things that penetrate our homes. There's a wires,
there's pipes, there's vents, there's cables, there's faucets. It goes
(39:25):
on and on. And take a look at those penetrations
that are going through the sighting, the brick, the stucco,
and make sure that they are are tight and sealed up.
There's many wonderful products you can use to seal those up,
from just basic acrylic siliconized clocking, to expansion foam to
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low expansion foam to multiple products where you can mold
and pack them in to the gaps like around hose bibs.
And really, when you think about it, I say it
all the time. Water is your number one enemy. And
if you have openings that are allowing water to get
(40:17):
into your house, eventually you're going to pay that price.
And in fact, here's another one I had to call
this week and somebody was asking me if a finished
basement and there was some and it was all finished,
and there was some dampness and it was you know,
(40:41):
I don't know, I don't know if they even told
me whether it was on the floor, on the wall
or something. And the question was, I don't know whether
that's coming up from the floor to where the floor
and the wall meet. You know, there's a natural scene.
There were two poors there. The water table gets too high,
(41:02):
it's going to weep. In that scene, or whether there
was a crack in the foundation. And we're talking and
I said, well, if it's all finished, I mean, I
think you're going to have to open up the wall.
And they were looking for an alternative to that, and
(41:23):
I was kind of saying no, and it was which
always happens. I'm laying in bed that night and I'm
thinking about it. I said, well, there is ways to
find that out. There really is. I felt bad, but
the bottom line is, if you don't know where that
crack is, you might as well open up the wall. Anyway.
Think about it. If there's a crack on the wall,
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you're going to have to fix it, and you know
you can fix it by taking a look outside and
changing the grade a little bit. You can use a
an injectable epoxy. There's people that do that service. There's
(42:05):
hydraulic cement that you can you know, cut into the wall,
pack that in and use a waterproofing paint over that.
I mean, there's ways. You got to know where it is,
and it's got to be open to get to it.
But if you're just curious, you could probably get yourself
a thirty forty dollars moisture meter or even a thermal
imaging camera. Sometimes there'll be cold spots on a wall
(42:29):
if it's wet, and if you're getting that cold spot
up in the middle of the wall, there's probably a crack.
If you're getting it down at the base, it's probably
coming through you know, that natural seam. If you're getting
it at the base, and also in the middle of
the wall, again there's probably a crack. A moisture meter
(42:49):
is about the size of your hand and it's got
two probes coming out, look like nails. You can insert
that through the drywall tell you what the moisture content is.
So if there's insulation in there, it's wet, and if
it's in the middle of the wall, it's not coming
from the seam, right, it's you've got it, and you're
(43:11):
still gonna cut the wall. You're still gonna cut the wall.
But for your own edification, if you will, if you
just want to know where about that is, that might
be a real good way to determine exactly where that is.
A moisture meter, thermal imaging camera, that would be ways
to detect moisture or coolish temperatures. As I said at
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the bottom of the next hour, we're going to talk
to Gerald who is with Rhino Shield. It is a
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it's a step above, it's a notch above paint probably
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in you know, two and a half times the price
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want to stay tuned and catch that if you would.
All right, our phone number is eight hundred eight two
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Last weekend we had we had somebody call it. And
I've been thinking about this because it's it's very true.
(01:34):
And we all know about you know, prices going up
and groceries and energy and everything else, but home improvement's
no different than anything else. The prices have all gone up.
The person called and talked about an entry door and
some sidelights, and said, you know, he just I think
it was a fiberglass entry away. But anyway, he was like,
(01:55):
that whole system was like fourteen thousand dollars. Tell me why. Well,
I don't have a definite answer. I don't have a
cost analysis of every product, but you know, everything's kind
of went up. Well. This week I also ran into
somebody that goes like, you know, you're always talking about
(02:17):
really good paints, self priming paints, and this person was
almost angry to a point where I said, do you
know how much that stuff cost? I go, yeah, you know,
sixty seventy dollars a gown, eighty gallars a gallon. Yeah,
it's pretty expensive. And that you're thinking trimmingim is like
(02:41):
one hundred dollars a gown. Yeah, well, how do you
justify that? I'm not here to justify it, but I
can tell you one thing, and you know you can
you do what you want to do. But the benefits
on those higher quality paints are many. They sincerely are
(03:08):
certainly more scrubbable. You can take a flat paint that's
inexpensive and kids get marks on a wall and you
start scrubbing it it will literally burnish the paint, and
if you know what burnish means, that means almost polish it.
You'll see right where somebody rubbed it. And those really
(03:32):
higher end paints they don't burnish. The flat paints are
scrubbable as a satin paint, So you can get that
flat look maybe in a kitchen where before you would
you wouldn't have done that. The ability for that paint
to hide the existing color. I'm not here to profess
(03:54):
it's a one coat paint. A lot of paints, a
lot of good quality paints could be one code, but
in all honesty, give it two coats. It will look better, guaranteed.
But again, the scrub ability, the ability for it not
to fade, that is another great quality of the better paints.
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The adhesion is so much better. When I talked about that,
you're a thing, Trimmy Nemo. It looks like the old
fashioned oil based paints. It flows right off the brush
like the old fashioned oil based paints. It gives a
really hard finish like the old fashioned oil based paints.
And it's one hundred dollars a gallon or eighty dollars
(04:39):
or ninety dollars whatever. But it's the Yeah, that's maybe
sticker shock, but you will give what you pay for.
And when I think about doing a enamel work in
a home all the way back when there was oil
based paints that we did, don't you kind of look
(05:00):
at that is maybe this is a once or twice
in a lifetime that you're gonna really paint that. Sure
you do, Sure you do, and it will last that long.
So I'm not here to justify paints pricing and door
(05:21):
pricing and everything else. Everything's more expensive, for sure, But
the one thing I am saying is you still kind
of need the benefits. You need to weigh the benefits
with the cost if you get a good and I'm
not kind of name brand names, but you know who
the top brands are, and it's a self priming, it's
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the top of the line. It's sixty seventy bucks a
gallon for flat wall paint. You're going like, that's insane.
I can buy this for ten bucks. Well, you can
buy paint for ten bucks. You're you're not gonna buy
this for ten bucks. But when you paint that a wall,
whether it's a kid's bedroom or not, you can touch
it up because it doesn't fade. You can scrub it
(06:06):
and clean it because it doesn't burnish. And literally that
paint could be you know, if you like the color
right and everything's okay there, that paint can last fifteen
to twenty years on that wall in your house. So
if you've got the inexpensive stuff and you're scrubbing it
(06:29):
and it's getting burnished and you can't match it, you
might be painting a kid's bedroom every three years. So anyway,
it happened to me a couple times in the past week,
and I thought I'd just kind of talk that through.
And the question I have for you is what do
you look for in a paint? You know, what do
you look for? One of the things Scrubbability's got to
(06:51):
be number one. How's it cover? That's probably number two.
Number three? How's it flow? This is actually should be
just as high up on the chain. How does it
flow off the roller? You get cheap paint and a
cheap roller, and you're gonna just see the lines where
(07:12):
that roller went up and where it went down, and
then maybe you'll start crossing. You know, the way you
really paint with the rollers, You make a w and
that's kind of going you know, north to south, and
then you go across the w going east to west,
and then you go north to south against you do
that and you know you'll get good coverage on drywall,
(07:34):
it'll be very very good coverage. But with a cheap
paint and a cheap roller cover you it still won't
be that great. But a good quality paint will just
flow off that and everything will be so even, so
self leveling, so scrubbable, so long lasting. But what are
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you looking for? Are you looking for the price? Are
you looking for it to be easy? Are you looking
for the longevity? And those are the things that you
really need to ask yourself before you paint. For instance,
if you've got a kid's bedroom and you feel like
you're going to change that color every two years, fine
(08:18):
by middle of the road paint. If you're thinking, oh,
this is a bedroom is going to be empty for
a while, and you know it doesn't get much traffic,
it's an adult room or something, and I'm really going
to be satisfied with this color. Get the good stuff.
You don't want to paint that thing all the time
(08:39):
for sure, So way out what you want that paint?
What do you want out of that purchase. What's that
purchase going to give you? And I'm all about easy,
so I want it to be easy. I want Since
I'm also all about easy, I don't want to do it.
I would much rather play golf or cut grass even
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than maybe paint a room. So think what it's going
to give you. What are the benefits? Because there is
a plethora of different types of paints. And I'm not
even talking about, you know, different sheens or anything. I'm
just talking about different qualities of paint. Even in the
same paint line a Sherman Williams, a Bear of ben Moore,
(09:22):
there might be seven eight different qualities of paint in
that And what what are you looking to get out
of that paint? That's the question. All right, let me
give you the phone number you can join us as
we talk a little home improvement. And I guess we've
got to do the official time check. Since the clocks
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sprung forward Eastern time, it is now nine to fifteen
in Pacific time, it is six fifteen, and you can
do the calculations in between. So we did spring forward.
In fact, most states spring forward. I Arizona stays the same.
I think it's Hawaii's the other one. Not positive on that,
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but most of us have sprung forward one hour. All
right again that numbers eight hundred eight two three eight
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hear from you. It's eight hundred eight two three eighty
two five five and let's go to Mary. Mary.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Welcome, Hi there, Good morning morning. I have a question
as to who to contact in order to address the
problem that I have.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I have.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
A fellow laming to my house with his SUV and
it's a brick house and the bricks we've got it
right on the corner. The bricks are broken in half
on both sides. Now I have structural issues going down
the length of my house. My feelings are cracking down
(13:54):
just a straight line open drew the headers and down
the walls. I don't know boutical engineers, contractors, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, eventually you know you're gonna you can get a
general contractor you can hire contractors to fix the specific issues.
It sounds to me that you're also you're also contemplating
what other damage has occurred. This is what I'm seeing,
(14:26):
but I don't know really, Yeah, I don't really know
what else is going on there. I think there might
be some bigger issues. So if that is the case,
what I think I would do is I would contact
an engineer, a structural engineer, and not really a home inspector,
but a structural engineer. They're kind of like a you know,
(14:47):
a home inspector on steroids, where they can really visualize
the damage and create a game plan of what needs
to be done and the order in which it needs
to be done. So obviously with the brick, the crack
brick and the missing bricks and stuff, we would get
(15:10):
a mason in there. But yeah, what else is going
on in there? You know? So we have cracks as
the foundation been shifted, moved or not as stable as
it was, and maybe we need underpinning and a structural engineer.
Mary will be able to help you with those questions.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And I'll see That's why I contacted Brick Masons for
the cosmetics after the structural states, and I've been trying
to get hold of an engineer and everybody I have
contact as they do commercial, they don't do residential. They
will if you're building a new house, but they I
(15:54):
can't find anyone that will actually some look at a
house that's just been in an auto accident and need.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are you Are you in a rural area or a
city area or Carolina? What what's the city Columbia? Sure? Sure.
What I would do maybe is even go to uh
(16:24):
you know, in the search in the Columbia, South Carolina area.
Obviously structural engineer, but what you might want to do
is get to the home Builders Association and ask for references,
uh maybe the National Association of the Remodeling Institute and
ask for I mean, there's got to be somebody out
(16:46):
there that's going to do that work, especially in the city. Yeah,
especially you know show. Yeah. Yeah, well that's where I
would focus my attention. Even if if you get a again,
if you go to the Homebuilders Association of mainly homebuilders,
(17:06):
that's their organizational or their association. There may even be
a member of that organization because they're all not just
homebuilders that would be a structural engineer, and you know,
I would call their offices and see, you know, if
they could give you some names. That's where i'd start
(17:27):
my search.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
A homebuilders' association.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh huh, I'm sure there's one of the Owners Association
of Columbia.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I will try that. Thank you so much. All right,
good luck, Yeah, I need a whole luck I can get.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, very good, all right, Mary, thank you much. I
appreciate it. Yeah, that's one of the things you're really
trying to get down to the bottom of exactly what
is going on. You might be able to get some
home inspectors too, calling them and asking if they have
structural engineers. They also, again I said, a structural engineer
(18:07):
kind of like a home inspector on steroids. They have
a little bit wee bit more training and focus. But
you know, a lot of really good home inspectors could
probably tell you a lot what's going on. They could
also recommend a structural engineer for you. It wasn't long
ago we had one of those folks on this show,
(18:29):
and when I was asking about cost and I was
comparing those to home inspectors per hour, I was fairly
amazed that the cost differential was very little between a
home inspector and a structural engineer. And I get it.
They're all busy. We've all heard all the news accounts
(18:53):
trades being very very busy, and here we all said
a busy time of year. But I still feel strongly
if you get to uh, you know, you get into
those associations, you're going to have somebody that's going to
be able to help you out on that particular project.
All right, let me give you the phone number and
we will continue with some more calls. It's eight hundred
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eight two three eight two five five, Rich, you'll be
up first. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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and let's get to Rich Rich Welcome, Good morning, Gary morning.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I'm I'm in California, the near the ocean, Anyhow, I've
got tongue groove boards on the sportune I'm into the
house and they have a little bit of flexing them
like the hill, and paint keeps cracking between the boards.
(23:14):
And I did have Sherwin Williams out here a year
ago and they gave me, got me some painted supposedly
was going to have some flex to it, and I
would hold up. But I'm not that I'm still having
the problem that I had read along. I didn't know.
I need to get underneath the porch and what's more,
(23:41):
supports in the main walking area where I don't normally walk.
The paint looks good over there.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Right, right, So the paint isn't wearing, it's actually peeling off. Correct.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Uh, it's where between the boards, right, Yeah, it's cracking.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And yeah, once it cracked, Yeah, once it cracks, water
is going to get in there, and that's gonna of course. Yeah,
if we can stop any movement at all, of course,
that would be beneficial. When Sharon Williams, you said they
came out and looked at it. Yes, did they talk
at all about the way the paint was applied in
(24:27):
those areas like over the tongue in groove. In other words,
sometimes if you don't lap paint over a stress area,
you minimize its ability to crack because there isn't an overlap.
So in other words, what I'm saying is you would
go in the tongue areas, okay, and you would just
(24:49):
brush the tongue and then you would you know, come
back and basically brush the tops of the boards so
that paint film is it's not bridging the boards. Oh okay,
So that's one thing. I would really take a look
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And in this interview he used the word it lasts Americ,
So there is some stretch in there. If you go
to their website, they've got a lot of good information there.
In some videos. I would watch those and if you're uh,
(26:00):
if you're sticking around in the next hour or so,
stay tuned, and we're going to replay that interview. It's
it's it's got a lot of good information in there.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Yeah. Years ago, had bought some kind of a floor
covering mm hmm, and I put on and it seemed
to hold up for a couple of years. Actually, but
the company doesn't exist anymore, I guess, and I can't.
I don't have the name of it right now, but h.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But it was.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
It took about so three three weeks really dry, and
then I got where I had a chair sitting on
the deck, and you know, this has been quite a
few years later. It would be it would feel that
(26:56):
top paint off on the on the seat of the chair.
But it seemed to hold up. But the company I
tried to I know where they are if they are.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, does anymore? Yeah, yeah, And to be honest with you,
I don't know if this runner shows really to bezign
is really designed to be used as a floor paint.
So it's really talking about houses and trims and things
like that, and we never really talked about, you know,
flooring per se. But it is an elastomeric coating and
(27:35):
that's why I brought it up. There's also a product
out of Vancouver which is used on smaller decks, maybe
more so in urban areas, as a waterproofing outdoor deck covering.
It's more almost like a sheet good. It's called Duro deck.
(27:58):
And that might be Yeah, that might be something to
take a look at too. Where you're basically going over
the entire thing and hiding it, taking it out of
the elements, that might be something that might be of interest.
So again we got runnershield dot com. Take a look
at that. You can take the heart about the not
(28:21):
lapping over the joints. That's going to help you a bunch.
Take a look at that, and then take a look
at the Duro deck and see if any of those
things you know, makes sense to give one of those
three I'll try.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Okay, that sounds good, very good.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, Take care all right, and yeah, boy,
we'll be taking a lot of calls on decks and
porches and patios and everything over the next three months.
I'll tell you when you're coming out of the cold
weather months and we all get ready to get outside
and enjoy our outdoor living areas. Boy, the things we find,
(29:06):
you know, getting rid of the moss in the dirt,
I will tell you. And we have this question a
lot when it comes to decks if you're not using
semi transparents. Now, a semi transparent is something that's penetrating
into the wood fiber. There is no coating. It's literally
staining the fibers of the wood. But over time we
(29:32):
try to maybe we didn't keep up on the maintenance
like we should have, so we start going to maybe
a solid color stain which virtually looks like pain. And
we have at times, not all the time, but at
times we have adhesion issues with all brands. And here's
(29:55):
why you have in a liar is you don't have
the ability to use oil based penetrating finishes anymore. Oil
bases did a marvelous job of penetrating into pressure treated wood.
It got the job done. You get a good and
clean it could penetrate into the wood. Well, now we've
(30:19):
modified those a little bit. We have modified oil acrylics,
so it's not it still grips into the wood, but
not like it used to. And then we also have
straight acrylic or water based stains, which they have their
(30:40):
advantage and their advantages. They last longer outside, they have
more resistance to the UV rays of the sun. They
don't fade as fast. They also don't bite into that
wood as fast or as good. So we got to
help that out. And here's how you do it. You
(31:02):
certainly do it by cleaning soap in water if it's
mildewy and dirty and filthy after it sat out all winter.
Oxygenated bleach. It's a powder mixed with water. Put it
on the surface, let it work for about ten minutes.
Take a street broom, agitate the heck out of that stuff.
(31:25):
Get it all Uh, you'll see the dirt just oozing up.
Then if you want to use a pressure washer or
a garden hose, don't use high pressure two thousand psi
or less, and just rinse that surface off. Rinse the
dirt off the surface, then let it dry. Then there's
one more step. In the paint store and in the
(31:47):
hardware store, you will see something called a deck brightener.
And a deck brightener is just that it will bleach
out the wood. It will not only bleach it out
and return it to somewhat its natural color. But what
it is is it is an oxolic acid. It's a
(32:10):
wood bleach, and not only does it bring it back
to its natural color, but it opens up the pores
of the wood. The intent there is if you want
to go to a semi transparent it'll be staining over
more of a natural wood look. Coloring will be more
(32:30):
consistent if you're going with a solid color stain. By
opening up the pores of the wood, they will get
into those fibers and they will bite to the surface better.
Where I see people that have problems, they don't clean
it as well as it should be cleaned. They don't
open the pores of the wood. With a deck brightner
(32:52):
or slash wood bleach, it lays on the surface and
over time it'll appeal. So if you're going with a
solid color stain or a coating and you're going over
pressure treated wood, I highly encourage you to use the brightener.
(33:14):
Not that you care that is brightening at all, but
it is opening up the pores of the pressure treated wood.
I kind of refer to it as like amradic acid
you would use on concrete. Okay, deck brightener or solid
acid is gonna work that way on wood, all right.
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talking about your home maintenance repair and uh, where I
met in the country, it's gonna be a really nice
week and we've had kind of a tough winner, but
it's gonna give us an opportunity to get out and
walk around the home. And if that's the case for you, also,
regardless of where you live, whether it was a harsh
(37:03):
winter or no winter at all, or a really severe winter,
things change seasonally. If you have the change of seasons,
different things. You heard the person before talk about things moving.
Lives along the coast out west and you have you know,
(37:26):
the marine layer and you have temperature swings, and then
the midwest or northeast, you have had a lot of
harsh winter weather this year and very low temperatures, and
things dry out, they shrink, they expand, they get cold,
they get warm, and taking time in seasonal changes. As
(37:51):
the seasons change, there's always things that are going to
be a bit out of skew. They weren't like that
in the fall. I know it sounds weird. I always
laugh every year. It seems like as I do that
periodically and start examining what's going on around the home,
(38:13):
I always find pipes that go underground and maybe like
the down spout would connect the pipe underground. And we
have very clay soil, and if you have some drought
conditions or some real wet conditions, that soil is even
moving quite a lot, to be honest with you, and
(38:35):
shrinking and expansion, and those pipes after a harsh winter
or something, they may not line up. I'm serious, and
all of a sudden, all that water is not going
underground in the pipes and away from your house, it's
going right on the foundation. Those are the things you
want to look for. Also, just how much of the
(38:58):
envelope of your else is water tight, insect tight, and
you know, temperature tight. I guess, so what you're looking for.
There's many things that penetrate our homes. There's a wires,
there's pipes, there's vents, there's cables, there's faucets. It goes
(39:25):
on and on. And take a look at those penetrations
that are going through the sighting, the brick, the stucco,
and make sure that they are are tight and sealed up.
There's many wonderful products you can use to seal those up,
from just basic acrylic siliconized clocking, to expansion foam to
(39:55):
low expansion foam to multiple products where you can mold
and pack them in to the gaps like around hose bibs.
And really, when you think about it, I say it
all the time. Water is your number one enemy. And
if you have openings that are allowing water to get
(40:17):
into your house, eventually you're going to pay that price.
And in fact, here's another one I had to call
this week and somebody was asking me if a finished
basement and there was some and it was all finished,
and there was some dampness and it was you know,
(40:41):
I don't know, I don't know if they even told
me whether it was on the floor, on the wall
or something. And the question was, I don't know whether
that's coming up from the floor to where the floor
and the wall meet. You know, there's a natural scene.
There were two poors there. The water table gets too high,
(41:02):
it's going to weep. In that scene, or whether there
was a crack in the foundation. And we're talking and
I said, well, if it's all finished, I mean, I
think you're going to have to open up the wall.
And they were looking for an alternative to that, and
(41:23):
I was kind of saying no, and it was which
always happens. I'm laying in bed that night and I'm
thinking about it. I said, well, there is ways to
find that out. There really is. I felt bad, but
the bottom line is, if you don't know where that
crack is, you might as well open up the wall. Anyway.
Think about it. If there's a crack on the wall,
(41:44):
you're going to have to fix it, and you know
you can fix it by taking a look outside and
changing the grade a little bit. You can use a
an injectable epoxy. There's people that do that service. There's
(42:05):
hydraulic cement that you can you know, cut into the wall,
pack that in and use a waterproofing paint over that.
I mean, there's ways. You got to know where it is,
and it's got to be open to get to it.
But if you're just curious, you could probably get yourself
a thirty forty dollars moisture meter or even a thermal
imaging camera. Sometimes there'll be cold spots on a wall
(42:29):
if it's wet, and if you're getting that cold spot
up in the middle of the wall, there's probably a crack.
If you're getting it down at the base, it's probably
coming through you know, that natural seam. If you're getting
it at the base, and also in the middle of
the wall, again there's probably a crack. A moisture meter
(42:49):
is about the size of your hand and it's got
two probes coming out, look like nails. You can insert
that through the drywall tell you what the moisture content is.
So if there's insulation in there, it's wet, and if
it's in the middle of the wall, it's not coming
from the seam, right, it's you've got it, and you're
(43:11):
still gonna cut the wall. You're still gonna cut the wall.
But for your own edification, if you will, if you
just want to know where about that is, that might
be a real good way to determine exactly where that is.
A moisture meter, thermal imaging camera, that would be ways
to detect moisture or coolish temperatures. As I said at
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the bottom of the next hour, we're going to talk
to Gerald who is with Rhino Shield. It is a
coating for exterior, you know, stucco, sighting, wood trim. It's
it's a step above, it's a notch above paint probably
(43:58):
in you know, two and a half times the price
of having your house painting, but a twenty five year
warranty and some energy savings. Pretty interesting conversation. You might
want to stay tuned and catch that if you would.
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