April 12, 2025 • 42 mins
Gary wraps up a BUSY Saturday with your calls. We also speak to our friends at Magna Dry.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, best time of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon, welcome now our number four and you're at
home with Gary Salvin getting it done on another weekend.
Thanks for joining me. Let me give you the phone number.
If you'd like to hop on board, please do. We're
talking about your home projects. We're also going to talk
about getting that carpeting clean, an area of rugs clean,
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probably even upholstery clean. We're always cleaning the kitchen and everything.
But we'll chat a little bit about that and what
to look for and what to do. Chat with. Actually
a company I've used for I think it's been like forever.
I think it really has. I was gonna say like
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thirty five forty years, but I don't know. I think
it has been about that long. Maybe thirty, but a
long time. And anyway, and nothing to overlook. You know,
I said something about carpet clean the other day and
somebody goes, well, you know, we don't have carpet anymore.
We yeah, you do. You got area rugs. You got
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to get those clean tues. So you're not going you
can't get away from it. You can't get away from it,
all right, Uh, you got the phone number? Grab a line,
happy to talk to you about your home projects. And
we got Jerry, Jerry, welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Dunk of concrete out of my detached scarage and it's
about the size of a cone in a six by
nine loud speaker. And I was wondering what the best
product I can use to patch that with.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So, uh, tell me where that chunk is. Is it
like in the middle of the floor. Is it on
a corner or what?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
M m So it's it's deep.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, it's got a odd but it is. It's almost
you know, it's shaped kind of like that speaker and
about that deep.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Because that garage floor, how deep you think? How thick
you think that is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The floor? Guys, you probably know better than me. Or
they four inches?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I was gonna say four to six inches? And
what do you think the depth of that hole is?
A couple.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's probably an inch, maybe an inch and a half
at most.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, I'd probably use two different types of concrete, to
be honest with you. It's kind of a challenging patch,
to be honest. They make a quick crete, I say, they,
but that's the one I usually always refer to. They
make one called anchoring cement that you can really mix
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it up and almost create a ball, okay, and it's
got a bonding agent, and I think that's what I
would use. I've used anchoring cement to patch corners on
steps that were the size of us, maybe like a volleyball,
and I had to drill pins in and stuff like that,
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but it held. It did a good job, and I
would think I would do the same type of thing.
You could use them, you know, the anchoring cement, make
a ball of it, just push it down there. I
don't think I would make the whole patch that way.
I'm gonna kind of give you two different ways to
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do it too. As I'm thinking, you could use that
as a base and don't bring it up the surface,
leave it to about maybe three ace of an inch
from the surface, and then go get your like the
vinyl concrete patcher and use that as you're finishing texture,
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you're finishing patch and trial it over. You can only
use that vinyl concrete patcher up to I think it's
either three ace of or an inch or an inch thick.
Three ace or a half inch thick is as thick
as you can apply that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That or just called bottom concrete patcher.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So so it's an anchoring cement. Is the first one
it's called quick crete anchoring cement.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Got that, and then what's the second one called.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Vinyl concrete patcher. Okay, and you might be able to
just use that hole. I'd have to see how that
It finishes off pretty smooth. I know the garage floor
is even smoother. That's kind of why I went with
that vinyl concrete patcher. But check how deep it is.
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I don't think i'd use that vinyl concrete patcher if
I had to put, you know, four layers in to
fill that hole. So I'd probably still use the anchoring cement.
The real question is would I just go ahead and
just patch it with that and featheredge. It's a little
darker than normal concrete, so that may be an issue
for you where you would want to skim over it
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with a vinyl concrete petchre.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, but I'm not concerned about the color. I just
want to you know, patch it up and then not
the tripper stuff on it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, why don't you just get the
anchoring cement and just patch it up and see what
it looks like.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Okay, so you think I could do the whole thing
with that, but do it until do a three H
in space and then the last three H with the
anchoring or use the vinyl.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Car Well, I'm kind of I'm kind of getting you confused,
So I guess I'm kind of I'm kind of trying
to decide whether I just want to just put the
anchoring cement in there and just do it all at
one time, be done with it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I'm not too concerned about what it looks.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Like, right, and the way you're kind of talking in
the way, I'm kind of leaning I think i'd get
the anchoring cement and because it can be as deep
as can be, and I just patch the whole thing
with that, be done with it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, and just do that all once, Yes, up to
three h and then another one on top of that.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Double check me. But I don't think there's any limitations
on three ACE at all. Just use the anchoring cement,
don't even use the vinyl concrete patcher filled all the
way up. Trial it smooth, and let's see what we got.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right, Thanks a bunch.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
All right, you bet take care bye bye? All right then, Joe,
welcome Hey, garyol are you yes, fine? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
My question is your stance on uh water bas based
pump instead of battery backup.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, well they both offer something the other one doesn't. Okay. Sure,
So a typical battery backup pump is going to kick
on and it's gonna pump for I'm gonna wing it
here like eight hours, okay, maybe a few more hours,
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maybe a few more less hours. So that's what it does,
and it has the ability to pump. Some of the
new battery backups quite honestly, can almost pump out as
much water as the primary pump. Okay, And it used
to be they would pump about half of a primary pump.
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But I knew that the zalor ones, the new salar ones,
they pump about as much as the regular pump. So
that's a nice benefit. It's a backup system. And you know,
then we got the water and the battery. They got
maintenance free batteries, but you know they don't last forever,
so there'll be a replacement cost.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Every time I talk about it, think about the age
of mind, because I know it's getting near that point.
Then the water pump, did you happen to hear the
conversation we had with Paul Abrams from Rotor Ruter today
or not.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, I just got the tail end of it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, okay, So he was talking about, you know, they
also do the venturing backup pump. It's got to be
on city water. The advantage to this one is if
you travel and you're out of town and you have
a three day power failure, this baby's gonna pump the
whole time, right, your battery will go dead. Um if
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it pumps about it's kind of where the old battery
pumps were. It does about half the amount of the
primary pump, so it doesn't pull out as much as
you're putting water in to create the ventury effect. So
that's kind of the differences. I mean. And there's really
little to no maintenance on it. It's just connected to
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your water lines and there's an activator which kicks it
in and starts sending the water and pulling it out.
And you know, you're you're using water, so you know
the other ones you're using your battery in your in
your pump, so it you know, it's kind of either
or what do you think?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I saw something that said you have a float alarm
for the water based ones that that could still go
in there with your standard pump. I have two pits,
but that's just for your high water alarm.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's correct. That's correct, that's correct. That's the activator.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Okay, and then that that gets mounted to the ceiling.
The other the actual pump part.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yes, yes, it's it's all up in the ceiling, correct.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I've seen that they have a kit with shark bites
for that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh okay, yeah, which is fine. Shark bites were great,
and you know, I don't know if i'd use them
behind a wall, but for an installation like this, you'd
be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Okay. I appreciate your help, Gary.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
All right, good enough, thanks, take care, all right, and
some of the other things I have to we get
our friends in from Zollor again, because some pumps, those
things are they're smart pumps. Now, I mean they're talking
to you through your phone. If you've got a problem,
you can test them through your phones. You can activate
them through your phones, so in you know, if it's
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not activating, it's warning you. So that's nice to have.
I mean, that's a peace of mind. All Right, We'll
take a break and we got Paul standing Ron. As
we continue, you're at Home with Gary Salivan right here
on fifty five K see the talk station. All right,
back at it we go. You're at Home with Gary
Salvyn talking about your home as we do it each
(10:38):
and every week and day Saturday and Sunday. We take
it from nine to one on Saturday and nine to
noon on Sunday. So gonna always pick up the podcast too,
where we get your podcasts, the iHeart app. Just put
in at Home with Gary Sullivan, Danny's got it broken
(10:58):
down by the hour. And also whether we have a
special project today we had Paul Abrams on from rot.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Or even your conversations with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, mister Ron. We do that every Saturday too.
All right, back to the funds we go. We got Paul, Paul.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Welcome, Hello Gary, thanks for answering my call. And Lexington,
Ohio about the middle of the state. I had a
pull barn built and they poured the concrete thirsty and
they just actually just left after cutting it. I just
wanted to know what the best sealer to put on,
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if I should even put any on the inside of it.
I've got I do have a porch out there that
I need to seal.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
So.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You would want something that isn't laying on the surface.
You don't need a sheene or anything like that right.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Now, it's a mirror finish on the inside.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, And what do you what are you going to
use in that pole barn when you're gonna have a
lot of equipment or.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Just storage car every boat once a while, So.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So I think I would get a rather regular garage
floor seiler. They do make projects specific sealers a lot
of different companies. I even refer to one called Masonry Defender,
which is an online seiler. Uh, and they're project specific.
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So I would say the two choices you would have
is you would have a breathable finish which would have nochine.
But what it does is it gets into the concrete.
It's a penetrant, you can't even tell there's anything on it,
and it minimize water penetration. And you may say, well,
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big deal. Well it's kind of important when you have
if you're bringing in any type of snow and ice
that could contain rock salt, where that would be a
brainy solution and could be corrosive, and if that would
be the case, I would take you over to a
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regular garage floor seiler, which is a surface uh there
is a sheen to it, and it's a it would
resist that brainy salty solution. So that's why I was asking,
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you know, you know what what you want.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
To parking your vehicle in there over the winter.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, So so if you go in, you would want
a garage floor celant that would be oil resistant and
chemical resistant, and it would be it would just have
a little bit of sheene, and I don't think that
it's going to cause any problems in terms of it
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being slippery per se less there was a lot of
water then since it is on the surface and there
it's achine, it could be a little SLIPPERI or definitely
be slippier than if you had a fully penetrating seiler
on there. But either one will function, I guess, is
what I'm saying. From having the concrete, it become dusty
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and you know, just it's decline.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
And I would use that on the outside porch too,
because it's it's brushed on the outside.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
On the outside porch, I would definitely use a breathable seiler. Okay, okay,
so you know it'd be a regular breathable driveway sidewalk
seiler if you want a little bit of sheine to it.
Quick Crete makes one called just called a concrete seiler.
(15:03):
Or did did they put any sealer or curing and
sealer product in that concrete?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I haven't got to talk to the original.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Double checked me on. Yeah, double check that because a
lot of times and it depends on the specter whether
they usually do it, but do double check that before
you use anything. Sometimes they'll use a curing sealer product,
so it helps with the cuing and it also gives you,
you know, a couple of years protection. In terms of
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a ceiling, you really wouldn't want to put a penetrating
sealer on there because it won't penetrate as well.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Okay, they did pressure wash it before he left. Okay
they left and I wasn't even outside. I mean they
just left.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay, one more question.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I My house is fifty five years old. I do
have a uh front stoop in the house, and there's
a tree out there doesn't get much sun on it.
I'm getting ready to spray some wet for wet and
forget on it. Is there anything that I can seal
that up to keep that from coming back.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Tell me this again. Where's this at?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'm sorry, it's on the north side of the house.
There's a dogwood tree there doesn't get much sun.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And what what's what's the growth on? Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Just a stupor sage.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, okay, well so yeah, so ceiling that will help, Okay,
but also the wett and forget. When you spray it on,
it will kill that. It will also protect that. Now,
the protection is different than a sealer. It's just a
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total one kill of the mildew, fungus, algae slash slash,
and so its rate of growth is it takes a
whafford to colonize and grow before you can see it.
So what I tell people, if you spray it, just
spray it every year and you don't have to do
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anything else and you'll never see it. Okay, that's the
best way.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Okay, that's what I thought. But I just wanted to
hear it from you.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
All right, Yeah, just spray it every year. That'd be great,
that'd be great. All right, thank you. Well here, let's
get let's scrab stand before we get to tim here
stand welcome.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Hi Hereay, thanks for taking my call. You bet I'm
calling from North Carolina. I've built a house in two
thousand and four. One of the bathrooms has a fairly
standard lunum frame shower, and at the bottom of the
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sill where the door closes, not in the actual closure portion,
but on the out side of that, there is a
slight trough. It's probably about an eighth of an inch
wide and eighth of an inch deep. Water can accumulate
in there. Over the years, corrosion has occurred. It's dark
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in color. If you look at it, you'd say, oh,
that's just mold. It's not mold, it's corrosion. I've tried
a lot of ways to either get it out of
there or to change the color. The color was aluminum light.
You wouldn't even know it was there. Any ideas.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well if we knew what it was corrosion. But if
it's aluminum, it's not rust or is that base steel?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I don't think so. I think it's all aluminum.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Boy, it's a shame it's not steel. I have a
perfect solution. They're I want to tell you what it
is anyway, and maybe maybe that would help it. And
I had another thought too, So if it is, if
if it is Russ. There are products called Russ neutralizer
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and it comes in a spray can and when it's
not paint, it's it's actually a chemical that reacts with
the iron oxide and turns it black. And I know
you don't want it black, but it turns it black,
it seals it in and it functions even though it's
not paint. It can function then as a primer. So
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you could come back with an artist brush maybe and
just run some aluminum pain in there. But we don't
know if it's iron oxide. We don't know if it's
iron oxide.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
So could you put it if could you just put
aluminum I eat in there?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And there is a type of aluminum paint that you
could do that too, that would not need a a primer.
And I'm swearing, I'm slipping on what the name of
that product is. It's a real specialty product. It's made
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I can remember it now. It's made by Master Kim
a Zoom makes it and it's got it's literally got
uh fiberglass threads in it and it does not require
a primer. And if it's going over corrosion, I would
say that would be fine because you could use this
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and directly go over metal. Also, was that master Kim. Yeah,
c H M M yeah, c h E M. It's
a non primer, uh metal primer hammer. It's the name
of it. It's called hammer right. I know if I
talk long enough it pop in. So it's called hammer right,
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hammer a right, yep, h A M M E R
I T E hammer right. And I'm pretty sure they
make an aluminum. They make a black or white, and
they make a couple of colors. Probably easier to just
get it online at Amazon. Unfortunately, you're probably gonna have
to buy a quart of it.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, well I will last me forever, so yep, it will.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
But if it is a luminum, I'm kind of the
best thing probably.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
To do is that's probably the best thing to do.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, But if if it.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Is iron, this aluminum paint will kind of do the.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Same sort, yes, sir, as long as you use that
Russ neutralizer on there for sure.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Okay, okay, So use the Russ Russ neutralizer, then the
lune and paint. Okay, yes, all right, Well we'll get
that a try and hope we'll hope it works.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, good enough, Thank you much appreciate the call.
All right, We're gonna talk about your carpeting, your area, rugs,
your upholstery. We're gonna get it cleaned at spring cleaning time.
We got our friends from Magna Dry join us. Tim
will be with us in a minute. We'll take a
little break. You're at home with Gary Salvan right here.
I'm fifty five k R. See the talk station. Well
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Spring cleaning time it is, and so is our man
Tim O'Connell. He is with Magna Dry and Tim welcome
again at home with Gary Salvan. How you doing good?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Hey, let's change some
things up before we get into household cleaning and stuff.
I know you guys do commercial work, and let's talk
a little bit about that. We hardly spend any time
on that, and I'm sure there's lots of offices that
could use a little attention.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Yeah, we do a lot of commercial work. With our process,
everything drives quickly, so it's not a thing where it's
going to be twenty four hours where it's going to be,
you know, twenty four to forty hours when it's going
to be wet. Ours drives within about an hour, so
we can get it in there. Sometimes we'll get in
before you even start the day. But yeah, a lot
of times what happens with commercial properties, they have a
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carpet clean, they'll have it cleaned that uses some sort
of process that there's a lot of residents do behind.
Then the carpet gets dirty again quickly thereafter, and they think, well,
now you have to have a clean regularly, you know,
very often, which is not the case. It's usually the
sirt fact that that they left behind. It attracts dirt
back to the carpet. So, you know, we do restaurants,
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you know, offices, everything in between. But the main thing
is is that residents left behind. People think that, you know,
your carpet in a normal environment, you know, if it's
not a warehouse or you know, a chicken wing restaurant
or whatever. You know, once maybe twice a year is
get pretty extreme for carpet clean So if you're doing
it more than that, you might there might be something
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else going on.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, yeah, so I guess you do this work at night.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Then huh, we do a little bit at night, Like
I said, we can get in some of the restaurants
we get in the morning, but yeah, we do after hours,
which just depends on the situation.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Sure. Sure in offices, those panels, you know, the little cubicles,
do you guys do that?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
We do a lot of those people they think they
need to be clean, but yeah, they collect a lot
of dust and you don't realize unless you take a
look at him. And there's always that you can tell
who's the popular one in the office. They've got the
corner of the cubicle where it's all dirty from everybody
sitting there talking to them all day.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. All right, So shifting gears, I
was trying to tell everybody I've used Magna dry and
I didn't want to say how many years, but I
think it's been There's been a lot of heres. It's
it's in the upper thirties.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We've been here since nineteen eighty one, So is that
right those four years?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yep? Yeah, Well good for you. You must be doing something right,
because I know for a fact you are. I know, Uh,
I think my wife found you guys, and uh you've
been servicing our carpets and stuff ever since. And the
main thing was exactly what you were talking about when
you were talking about commercial cleaning. I was the carpet guy.
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I was cleaning them, and we had a little smaller
home that when you walked in the front door, you
were right on carpet. It was the living room, and
my gosh, I'd clean them and you know, in no
time at all, they'd be dirty. And we had kids
and you know, the drill and you guys came out
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and cleaned them, and we noticed right away. And one
of the reasons I think she got hold he is
you you dry clean carpet. You didn't. You didn't just
use soap and water, which is what I was using.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Yeah, so we don't use any moisture that gets to
the back end of the pa which is not very good.
If you can visualize what's under your carpet, it's basically
a sponge that gets wet during a cleaning, I can
take twenty four to forty eight hours, and that's when
you have a mildew problem, the resoiling problem. That's one
of another common one that we see a lot. The
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soap does a good job in the washing machine when
you can you know when it's a textile that you
can throw in the washing machine, But as soon as
you get that in the carpet, and you don't get
that out. That attracts dirt back to the carpet, leaves
the carpet sticky. We see, it's like it's one of
the most common problems we see. And once people figure
out what's going on and they call us, you know,
it's just like have a new carpet again because it
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used to be or we still hear it that. You know,
I'm not getting my carpet cleanses. Then I have to
have it cleaned every three to four months. Well, something's
not going on, something's going on there that should be
going on there. Leaving a residue leads to the next
time they come in, they go, ww, this is even
dirtier than before. So let's add more. You know, we
need to add more soap, and it just gets worse
and worse and worse. So, I mean, there's some some
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situations if you have a issue like that, you just
take some water, a little shot of water port on
the carpet and you can almost get SuDS coming out
of the car like a champoint here. Yeah, So people
don't realize that that soap doesn't just dry and go away.
That leaves the carpet sticky and that's it's the same
thing with a spot that keeps coming back or you know,
the traffic areas getting real dirty if you've had it cleaned.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, it was in a restaurant not
long ago, and the and it was tile floor, and
you know, it was so sticky, and right away I
was thinking, because there's there's that technology really for even
regular cleaning products now where they're pH neutral and they
don't have all that surfactants in there, and I thought, man,
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this thing's probably dirty all the time. And then I
was also thinking on smoother surfaces, it could be a
it could be a slipping hazard. So oh definitely.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah, we've been we've been in restaurants and the one
thing when we do when we clean restaurants is that
the kid some floors days clean. The carpet's going to
stay clean. I mean, you know, if you walk off
a carpet, it's wet, the floor is going to be slippery.
But I walk through kitchens that are just greasy that
they're slippery, you know that, you know, and that's that's
walking and traveling all over the place. So yeah, every
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time you've got a situation like that where you're where
you've got a you know, a dirty area like that.
It's good to have some walk off match, but keeping
the floors clean next to the carpet is going to
do a heck of a job of keeping keeping the
carpet clean. Even using the wrong kind of cleaner on
your kitchen floor that that can leave that a little
sticky and that walks off into the carpet.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You know.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
It just there's a lot of things, but once that
carpet starts to get sticky, it just attracts dirt back
to the carpet.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Absolutely. Well, we're definitely into spring cleaning season. I've been
talking about a lot of different cleaners and things like that. Uh,
you got any specials going on on just carpet cleaning?
And how is that price?
Speaker 7 (28:54):
We have a spring cleaning ten off wall services, So
anything you want, we're going to take ten percent off
of pricing. Wise, we charge per square foot. So we'll
come into your house. If you want us to move
all the furniture, we measure the whole room because we're
cleaning more carpet. If you wants just to do the
open areas, we just measure the exposed areas because that's
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all we're cleaning, so we know that can be a
little confusing, So we do offer free and home estimates.
If you'd like to come out and measure, we don't
have a problem doing that. Sure, but yeah, like I said,
we can come out and measure up. Or what we'll
do a lot of times is if you're thinking about
using us, we'll come out and measured up for you.
We'll save time to do the job. If you want
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to go ahead and do it, then we'll go ahead
and do it. Then if not, we'll just leave a
quote and go on our way.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Tim a couple questions, like God, also is I was joking,
But it's it's kind of a fact, I said. A
lot of us are using less and less carpet, at
least we think we are, but we're really not. Because
every house I go in, if they've changed out carpet,
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they've put in a nice floor, but then there's this, uh,
you know, twelve by twenty piece of carpet whatever you
call them, area rugs or whatever, and I would assume
those have to be clean too, right, We do a.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Lot of those, I said. Ever since the carpet's gone
down in market share, the area of rugs have gone up,
so it's kind of ebbing to flow. So, yes, we
do a lot more rugs than we did ten to
fifteen years ago. But you know what I think when
Pergo came out, however long that was twenty five thirty
years agoa that was kind of the beginning of the
end of cart not the end of carpet, because it's
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coming back a little bit. But yeah, yeah, you know,
we switched from rugs. But the other thing is when
you you know, take that carpet out of the room acoustically,
that that changes the sounds in the room. So they've
got to get a lot more rugs in there, maybe
a lot more comfortable sounding.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, no question. And then and you know in the
nineties and stuff, when we were you know, in the
laminate flooring and stuff, and people start taking out carpets.
That was also the era of the bridge in Holmes
with fifteen foot ceilings and stuff. And you're right. I'm
a firm believer And I tell this to people that
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call all the time. When it comes to flooring, I
put it as a general category. There's a place for everything.
And number one, if you love one type, go for it.
Put it everywhere. I mean that's up to you. But
there is really places for carpeting. I think there's places
for tile. I think there's places for laminates, there's places
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for wood flooring. And you know, it used to be man,
you just did everything in the same It was either
all wood or it's all carpet, and we kind of
have evolved where you know, it's you know, it's specialty
flooring for different rooms in a home. And I'm sure
you getting enough homes you start seeing it.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
The other thing with the carpet versus hardwood floors or
hard services is the allergy issue. It was always said that,
you know, the hard floors are better for your allergies,
but it kept clean. Carpets and rugs in a room
kind of act like a filter because if you've ever
swept up, you know, you know, like with a regular broom,
and then you know, catch the dirt flying through the
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air and the sunbeam and you know you're just kicking
it back up in the air. When ideally that ther
dust falls down onto the carpet, it gets vacuumed up
and taken away out of the room. So there's arguments
both ways, but like, yes, their carpet has seen a
decline and area of rugs. We see a lot more
of them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, so how do you do the area rugs? Do
you do those on site?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
We can do them on site. We can also come
and get them and take them with us and bring
them back to you, or you can bring them to us.
We have a location in ross that's by appointment only,
and then we have a place in Westchester Sharonville area
that is open Monday through Friday or pick up and
delivery or to drop off.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All right, so folks that are listening, and like I said,
it is the spring cleaning season. If they want to
get on your schedule, do they call you? Can you
book online or how's that work?
Speaker 7 (33:18):
I can call us at five one three eight seven
four three three one zero. We have a website. It's
Magna dash dry dot com. You're in the Cincinnati areas.
You just google Magna Dry. We pop up pretty much
towards on the first uh, you know, first line. So
either way, get a hold of us. Like I said,
we can come out and give you an estimate, or
for a regular customer, just call us up and we'll
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get you, get you on the.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Schedule and you do the upholstery in house.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
We do that's yeah, we don't usually take that out.
There's really no need to take that out. I mean
people can bring it too. We've had people going chairs
to us and stuff, but that's not usually. We usually
just do that on site.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I'll tell you what. We always had darker colored furniture,
and we bought some white recliners with a gold through it.
And I can't believe I'm dirty to get Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
So slowly it gets a little dull, and then when
we come in and clean, it really brightens it up.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, yeah, there, you guys do a great job. All right,
give me that phone number one more time. I'll let
you go.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Five one three eight seven four three three one zero.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Very good tim it's good talking to you, alright, thank you.
All right, take care of that's magna dry and man,
I'll tell you what it has. Sue's stamp of approval,
so you probably don't care about mine, but I'll give it.
I'll give it a stamp of approval wall, so it's
good stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
If Sue like it, then we automatically if.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
We've used them forever forever, not as long as I've
been alive, Gary, we don't want to go there to wait,
I did there. I don't want to go there, but
airy rugs the whole works. Uh, Tim will take care
of you. All right, let's take a little break. I'll
come back and wrap things up. You're at home with
Gary salvinright here in fifty five krs the talk station.
And back at it we go, twelve fifty one. Not
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a bad looking day to day, and certainly tomorrow a
little bit warmer. And then I think we got rain
and warmer temperatures Monday. But it is springtime and that's
what you get. I know a lot of times I'll
talk about different things, just things to check. And it's
been a while since I really talked about gutters. I
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know it seems like I talk about it every week,
but a specific part because I solve this problem a
couple times this past week and I just kind of
made a mental note of it, and I wanted to
just kind of just remind everybody. And I know how
it started. I looked up or I got it. Someone
mailed me a list of picture of a home and
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it had a list of how long things last, which
I didn't agree with all of their assessments, but the
one thing that it listed was gutters, and my home's
twenty six years old, and it said the lifespan of
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gutters is thirty years. And I think I kind of agree.
It's not that the gutters on my house are falling off,
it's not that they're ugly, it's not that they're rusted through,
but there's some that quite honestly, the way weather has
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changed in different things and the way my home is built.
There's some steep portions of the roof, and there's saddles
in between two roofs that come and joined together, and
there are some gutters I believe should be now six
inch gutters instead of the five that are on there.
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But also when I said I had seen a couple
of issues this past week, it was with the old gutters,
and they were certainly older in thirty years, and they
didn't have brackets holding the gutters up that I could tell,
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because they had the nail and the nail and the farrell.
So you got this like nine inch spike that would
go through the gutter, through the facia board into the joye,
the truss, the hardwood behind it depends on how it's structured,
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and that's the way you hang the gutters, and over
a number of years you get snow and ice and
hot and cold and wet and dry, and wood moves right,
and the weight on that gutter also, and these gutters
were sagging. And I was talking to this guy and
we climbing, and of course the gutters were full of
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gunk because they sagged, they weren't draining very well, and
you know how I hate that. And he said, well,
I've tried to nail those nails in, but you know,
the hole's bigger now. And I said, yeah, yeah, you
can still fix that. We can still get brackets in there,
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but really what you can get in there, and maybe
this is something you want to pay attention to and
take a look at. If you have the nails and
the Farrells, if you go to the hardware store, they
have those nails, and they also have screws same length,
a little wider, and it's got a thread where you
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can take I think it takes a square head screwdriver
or a tip for a drill, and maybe with a
handscrew driving them start through the gutter and then just
run those right in and it'll bite in that oversized
holes and it'll have threads and it won't work its
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way out, you know, nearly as easily as a as
a nail would. So it's it's gonna last. Even though
we're using an old hole, it's gonna last a lot longer.
So that is that's something I would just take a
look at and again paying attention again, thirty years the
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lifespan of a gutter, I don't know, there's probably something
that get replaced in you know, fifteen years. I know
when I had the aluminum gutters on the house, and
you may have this problem. Also where the factory finished.
For some reason, there always was a black haze on it.
I don't know whether it's from pollution or was a
form of a fungus. It was very, very faint, looked
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like smoke damage almost, And we would talk on the
show a lot of about what cleans that, and we
start using purple power and white tire wall cleaner or
tire cleaner for white walls, and it cleaned it up,
but it come back and once you painted that you
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didn't have that issue. I was about ready to replace
gutters for that issue. But yeah, just paying attention, you
know what kind of shape it's in, how's the end units?
And get them patched, get them tight to the facia board,
because when they pull away and then the water's coming
down off the roof and it gets behind that gutter
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and onto that facia board. That's kind of the beginning
of some problems because that facier board, though it appears
to be painted. When you're looking at the facier board,
which is what the gutter's up against, and the gutter,
everything looks nice and painted. But a lot of times
behind that gutter that facia boards not painted. And then
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you get into you know, all the wood rot and
different things along noselines. So look it up when you
take that walk around the house and take pay attention
to what's going on there. And I use the phrase
all the time, and I stand by it. It seems
real simple, and that is, if it looks wrong, it is.
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If it doesn't look right, it's not. And it's one
thing to know that it's not right. It's another thing
to create a plan and execute a plan and get
it fixed. Just knowing it's not right, it doesn't help you.
So there's an assignment. All right, Danny boy. The music's playing,
and thank you very much today. I appreciate it. Danny's
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got each and every hour today. Posted on the iHeart app.
You can click the podcast at Home with Gary Salvin
and listen to an hour you missed, or our special
project with Paul Abrams from roto Routers. Some good discussions
on things to check around the home. So Danny Boy,
thank you very much, good Lord Willing. We'll both be
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back tomorrow for more At Home with Gary Sullivan
All right, best time of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon, welcome now our number four and you're at
home with Gary Salvin getting it done on another weekend.
Thanks for joining me. Let me give you the phone number.
If you'd like to hop on board, please do. We're
talking about your home projects. We're also going to talk
about getting that carpeting clean, an area of rugs clean,
(00:20):
probably even upholstery clean. We're always cleaning the kitchen and everything.
But we'll chat a little bit about that and what
to look for and what to do. Chat with. Actually
a company I've used for I think it's been like forever.
I think it really has. I was gonna say like
(00:41):
thirty five forty years, but I don't know. I think
it has been about that long. Maybe thirty, but a
long time. And anyway, and nothing to overlook. You know,
I said something about carpet clean the other day and
somebody goes, well, you know, we don't have carpet anymore.
We yeah, you do. You got area rugs. You got
(01:01):
to get those clean tues. So you're not going you
can't get away from it. You can't get away from it,
all right, Uh, you got the phone number? Grab a line,
happy to talk to you about your home projects. And
we got Jerry, Jerry, welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Dunk of concrete out of my detached scarage and it's
about the size of a cone in a six by
nine loud speaker. And I was wondering what the best
product I can use to patch that with.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So, uh, tell me where that chunk is. Is it
like in the middle of the floor. Is it on
a corner or what?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
M m So it's it's deep.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, it's got a odd but it is. It's almost
you know, it's shaped kind of like that speaker and
about that deep.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Because that garage floor, how deep you think? How thick
you think that is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The floor? Guys, you probably know better than me. Or
they four inches?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I was gonna say four to six inches? And
what do you think the depth of that hole is?
A couple.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's probably an inch, maybe an inch and a half
at most.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, I'd probably use two different types of concrete, to
be honest with you. It's kind of a challenging patch,
to be honest. They make a quick crete, I say, they,
but that's the one I usually always refer to. They
make one called anchoring cement that you can really mix
(02:33):
it up and almost create a ball, okay, and it's
got a bonding agent, and I think that's what I
would use. I've used anchoring cement to patch corners on
steps that were the size of us, maybe like a volleyball,
and I had to drill pins in and stuff like that,
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but it held. It did a good job, and I
would think I would do the same type of thing.
You could use them, you know, the anchoring cement, make
a ball of it, just push it down there. I
don't think I would make the whole patch that way.
I'm gonna kind of give you two different ways to
(03:15):
do it too. As I'm thinking, you could use that
as a base and don't bring it up the surface,
leave it to about maybe three ace of an inch
from the surface, and then go get your like the
vinyl concrete patcher and use that as you're finishing texture,
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you're finishing patch and trial it over. You can only
use that vinyl concrete patcher up to I think it's
either three ace of or an inch or an inch thick.
Three ace or a half inch thick is as thick
as you can apply that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That or just called bottom concrete patcher.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So so it's an anchoring cement. Is the first one
it's called quick crete anchoring cement.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Got that, and then what's the second one called.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Vinyl concrete patcher. Okay, and you might be able to
just use that hole. I'd have to see how that
It finishes off pretty smooth. I know the garage floor
is even smoother. That's kind of why I went with
that vinyl concrete patcher. But check how deep it is.
(04:34):
I don't think i'd use that vinyl concrete patcher if
I had to put, you know, four layers in to
fill that hole. So I'd probably still use the anchoring cement.
The real question is would I just go ahead and
just patch it with that and featheredge. It's a little
darker than normal concrete, so that may be an issue
for you where you would want to skim over it
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with a vinyl concrete petchre.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, but I'm not concerned about the color. I just
want to you know, patch it up and then not
the tripper stuff on it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, why don't you just get the
anchoring cement and just patch it up and see what
it looks like.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Okay, so you think I could do the whole thing
with that, but do it until do a three H
in space and then the last three H with the
anchoring or use the vinyl.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Car Well, I'm kind of I'm kind of getting you confused,
So I guess I'm kind of I'm kind of trying
to decide whether I just want to just put the
anchoring cement in there and just do it all at
one time, be done with it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I'm not too concerned about what it looks.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Like, right, and the way you're kind of talking in
the way, I'm kind of leaning I think i'd get
the anchoring cement and because it can be as deep
as can be, and I just patch the whole thing
with that, be done with it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, and just do that all once, Yes, up to
three h and then another one on top of that.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Double check me. But I don't think there's any limitations
on three ACE at all. Just use the anchoring cement,
don't even use the vinyl concrete patcher filled all the
way up. Trial it smooth, and let's see what we got.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right, Thanks a bunch.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
All right, you bet take care bye bye? All right then, Joe,
welcome Hey, garyol are you yes, fine? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
My question is your stance on uh water bas based
pump instead of battery backup.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, well they both offer something the other one doesn't. Okay. Sure,
So a typical battery backup pump is going to kick
on and it's gonna pump for I'm gonna wing it
here like eight hours, okay, maybe a few more hours,
(06:51):
maybe a few more less hours. So that's what it does,
and it has the ability to pump. Some of the
new battery backups quite honestly, can almost pump out as
much water as the primary pump. Okay, And it used
to be they would pump about half of a primary pump.
(07:15):
But I knew that the zalor ones, the new salar ones,
they pump about as much as the regular pump. So
that's a nice benefit. It's a backup system. And you know,
then we got the water and the battery. They got
maintenance free batteries, but you know they don't last forever,
so there'll be a replacement cost.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Every time I talk about it, think about the age
of mind, because I know it's getting near that point.
Then the water pump, did you happen to hear the
conversation we had with Paul Abrams from Rotor Ruter today
or not.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, I just got the tail end of it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, okay, So he was talking about, you know, they
also do the venturing backup pump. It's got to be
on city water. The advantage to this one is if
you travel and you're out of town and you have
a three day power failure, this baby's gonna pump the
whole time, right, your battery will go dead. Um if
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it pumps about it's kind of where the old battery
pumps were. It does about half the amount of the
primary pump, so it doesn't pull out as much as
you're putting water in to create the ventury effect. So
that's kind of the differences. I mean. And there's really
little to no maintenance on it. It's just connected to
(08:46):
your water lines and there's an activator which kicks it
in and starts sending the water and pulling it out.
And you know, you're you're using water, so you know
the other ones you're using your battery in your in
your pump, so it you know, it's kind of either
or what do you think?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I saw something that said you have a float alarm
for the water based ones that that could still go
in there with your standard pump. I have two pits,
but that's just for your high water alarm.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's correct. That's correct, that's correct. That's the activator.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Okay, and then that that gets mounted to the ceiling.
The other the actual pump part.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yes, yes, it's it's all up in the ceiling, correct.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I've seen that they have a kit with shark bites
for that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh okay, yeah, which is fine. Shark bites were great,
and you know, I don't know if i'd use them
behind a wall, but for an installation like this, you'd
be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Okay. I appreciate your help, Gary.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
All right, good enough, thanks, take care, all right, and
some of the other things I have to we get
our friends in from Zollor again, because some pumps, those
things are they're smart pumps. Now, I mean they're talking
to you through your phone. If you've got a problem,
you can test them through your phones. You can activate
them through your phones, so in you know, if it's
(10:17):
not activating, it's warning you. So that's nice to have.
I mean, that's a peace of mind. All Right, We'll
take a break and we got Paul standing Ron. As
we continue, you're at Home with Gary Salivan right here
on fifty five K see the talk station. All right,
back at it we go. You're at Home with Gary
Salvyn talking about your home as we do it each
(10:38):
and every week and day Saturday and Sunday. We take
it from nine to one on Saturday and nine to
noon on Sunday. So gonna always pick up the podcast too,
where we get your podcasts, the iHeart app. Just put
in at Home with Gary Sullivan, Danny's got it broken
(10:58):
down by the hour. And also whether we have a
special project today we had Paul Abrams on from rot.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Or even your conversations with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, mister Ron. We do that every Saturday too.
All right, back to the funds we go. We got Paul, Paul.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Welcome, Hello Gary, thanks for answering my call. And Lexington,
Ohio about the middle of the state. I had a
pull barn built and they poured the concrete thirsty and
they just actually just left after cutting it. I just
wanted to know what the best sealer to put on,
(11:37):
if I should even put any on the inside of it.
I've got I do have a porch out there that
I need to seal.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
So.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You would want something that isn't laying on the surface.
You don't need a sheene or anything like that right.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Now, it's a mirror finish on the inside.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, And what do you what are you going to
use in that pole barn when you're gonna have a
lot of equipment or.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Just storage car every boat once a while, So.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So I think I would get a rather regular garage
floor seiler. They do make projects specific sealers a lot
of different companies. I even refer to one called Masonry Defender,
which is an online seiler. Uh, and they're project specific.
(12:34):
So I would say the two choices you would have
is you would have a breathable finish which would have nochine.
But what it does is it gets into the concrete.
It's a penetrant, you can't even tell there's anything on it,
and it minimize water penetration. And you may say, well,
(12:59):
big deal. Well it's kind of important when you have
if you're bringing in any type of snow and ice
that could contain rock salt, where that would be a
brainy solution and could be corrosive, and if that would
be the case, I would take you over to a
(13:21):
regular garage floor seiler, which is a surface uh there
is a sheen to it, and it's a it would
resist that brainy salty solution. So that's why I was asking,
(13:41):
you know, you know what what you want.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
To parking your vehicle in there over the winter.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, So so if you go in, you would want
a garage floor celant that would be oil resistant and
chemical resistant, and it would be it would just have
a little bit of sheene, and I don't think that
it's going to cause any problems in terms of it
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being slippery per se less there was a lot of
water then since it is on the surface and there
it's achine, it could be a little SLIPPERI or definitely
be slippier than if you had a fully penetrating seiler
on there. But either one will function, I guess, is
what I'm saying. From having the concrete, it become dusty
(14:34):
and you know, just it's decline.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
And I would use that on the outside porch too,
because it's it's brushed on the outside.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
On the outside porch, I would definitely use a breathable seiler. Okay, okay,
so you know it'd be a regular breathable driveway sidewalk
seiler if you want a little bit of sheine to it.
Quick Crete makes one called just called a concrete seiler.
(15:03):
Or did did they put any sealer or curing and
sealer product in that concrete?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I haven't got to talk to the original.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Double checked me on. Yeah, double check that because a
lot of times and it depends on the specter whether
they usually do it, but do double check that before
you use anything. Sometimes they'll use a curing sealer product,
so it helps with the cuing and it also gives you,
you know, a couple of years protection. In terms of
(15:36):
a ceiling, you really wouldn't want to put a penetrating
sealer on there because it won't penetrate as well.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Okay, they did pressure wash it before he left. Okay
they left and I wasn't even outside. I mean they
just left.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay, one more question.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I My house is fifty five years old. I do
have a uh front stoop in the house, and there's
a tree out there doesn't get much sun on it.
I'm getting ready to spray some wet for wet and
forget on it. Is there anything that I can seal
that up to keep that from coming back.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Tell me this again. Where's this at?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'm sorry, it's on the north side of the house.
There's a dogwood tree there doesn't get much sun.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And what what's what's the growth on? Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Just a stupor sage.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, okay, well so yeah, so ceiling that will help, Okay,
but also the wett and forget. When you spray it on,
it will kill that. It will also protect that. Now,
the protection is different than a sealer. It's just a
(16:51):
total one kill of the mildew, fungus, algae slash slash,
and so its rate of growth is it takes a
whafford to colonize and grow before you can see it.
So what I tell people, if you spray it, just
spray it every year and you don't have to do
(17:11):
anything else and you'll never see it. Okay, that's the
best way.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Okay, that's what I thought. But I just wanted to
hear it from you.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
All right, Yeah, just spray it every year. That'd be great,
that'd be great. All right, thank you. Well here, let's
get let's scrab stand before we get to tim here
stand welcome.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Hi Hereay, thanks for taking my call. You bet I'm
calling from North Carolina. I've built a house in two
thousand and four. One of the bathrooms has a fairly
standard lunum frame shower, and at the bottom of the
(17:53):
sill where the door closes, not in the actual closure portion,
but on the out side of that, there is a
slight trough. It's probably about an eighth of an inch
wide and eighth of an inch deep. Water can accumulate
in there. Over the years, corrosion has occurred. It's dark
(18:15):
in color. If you look at it, you'd say, oh,
that's just mold. It's not mold, it's corrosion. I've tried
a lot of ways to either get it out of
there or to change the color. The color was aluminum light.
You wouldn't even know it was there. Any ideas.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well if we knew what it was corrosion. But if
it's aluminum, it's not rust or is that base steel?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I don't think so. I think it's all aluminum.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Boy, it's a shame it's not steel. I have a
perfect solution. They're I want to tell you what it
is anyway, and maybe maybe that would help it. And
I had another thought too, So if it is, if
if it is Russ. There are products called Russ neutralizer
(19:16):
and it comes in a spray can and when it's
not paint, it's it's actually a chemical that reacts with
the iron oxide and turns it black. And I know
you don't want it black, but it turns it black,
it seals it in and it functions even though it's
not paint. It can function then as a primer. So
(19:39):
you could come back with an artist brush maybe and
just run some aluminum pain in there. But we don't
know if it's iron oxide. We don't know if it's
iron oxide.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
So could you put it if could you just put
aluminum I eat in there?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And there is a type of aluminum paint that you
could do that too, that would not need a a primer.
And I'm swearing, I'm slipping on what the name of
that product is. It's a real specialty product. It's made
(20:23):
I can remember it now. It's made by Master Kim
a Zoom makes it and it's got it's literally got
uh fiberglass threads in it and it does not require
a primer. And if it's going over corrosion, I would
say that would be fine because you could use this
(20:44):
and directly go over metal. Also, was that master Kim. Yeah,
c H M M yeah, c h E M. It's
a non primer, uh metal primer hammer. It's the name
of it. It's called hammer right. I know if I
talk long enough it pop in. So it's called hammer right,
(21:09):
hammer a right, yep, h A M M E R
I T E hammer right. And I'm pretty sure they
make an aluminum. They make a black or white, and
they make a couple of colors. Probably easier to just
get it online at Amazon. Unfortunately, you're probably gonna have
to buy a quart of it.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, well I will last me forever, so yep, it will.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
But if it is a luminum, I'm kind of the
best thing probably.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
To do is that's probably the best thing to do.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, But if if it.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Is iron, this aluminum paint will kind of do the.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Same sort, yes, sir, as long as you use that
Russ neutralizer on there for sure.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Okay, okay, So use the Russ Russ neutralizer, then the
lune and paint. Okay, yes, all right, Well we'll get
that a try and hope we'll hope it works.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, good enough, Thank you much appreciate the call.
All right, We're gonna talk about your carpeting, your area, rugs,
your upholstery. We're gonna get it cleaned at spring cleaning time.
We got our friends from Magna Dry join us. Tim
will be with us in a minute. We'll take a
little break. You're at home with Gary Salvan right here.
I'm fifty five k R. See the talk station. Well
(22:23):
Spring cleaning time it is, and so is our man
Tim O'Connell. He is with Magna Dry and Tim welcome
again at home with Gary Salvan. How you doing good?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Hey, let's change some
things up before we get into household cleaning and stuff.
I know you guys do commercial work, and let's talk
a little bit about that. We hardly spend any time
on that, and I'm sure there's lots of offices that
could use a little attention.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Yeah, we do a lot of commercial work. With our process,
everything drives quickly, so it's not a thing where it's
going to be twenty four hours where it's going to be,
you know, twenty four to forty hours when it's going
to be wet. Ours drives within about an hour, so
we can get it in there. Sometimes we'll get in
before you even start the day. But yeah, a lot
of times what happens with commercial properties, they have a
(23:17):
carpet clean, they'll have it cleaned that uses some sort
of process that there's a lot of residents do behind.
Then the carpet gets dirty again quickly thereafter, and they think, well,
now you have to have a clean regularly, you know,
very often, which is not the case. It's usually the
sirt fact that that they left behind. It attracts dirt
back to the carpet. So, you know, we do restaurants,
(23:39):
you know, offices, everything in between. But the main thing
is is that residents left behind. People think that, you know,
your carpet in a normal environment, you know, if it's
not a warehouse or you know, a chicken wing restaurant
or whatever. You know, once maybe twice a year is
get pretty extreme for carpet clean So if you're doing
it more than that, you might there might be something
(24:00):
else going on.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, yeah, so I guess you do this work at night.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Then huh, we do a little bit at night, Like
I said, we can get in some of the restaurants
we get in the morning, but yeah, we do after hours,
which just depends on the situation.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Sure. Sure in offices, those panels, you know, the little cubicles,
do you guys do that?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
We do a lot of those people they think they
need to be clean, but yeah, they collect a lot
of dust and you don't realize unless you take a
look at him. And there's always that you can tell
who's the popular one in the office. They've got the
corner of the cubicle where it's all dirty from everybody
sitting there talking to them all day.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. All right, So shifting gears, I
was trying to tell everybody I've used Magna dry and
I didn't want to say how many years, but I
think it's been There's been a lot of heres. It's
it's in the upper thirties.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We've been here since nineteen eighty one, So is that
right those four years?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yep? Yeah, Well good for you. You must be doing something right,
because I know for a fact you are. I know, Uh,
I think my wife found you guys, and uh you've
been servicing our carpets and stuff ever since. And the
main thing was exactly what you were talking about when
you were talking about commercial cleaning. I was the carpet guy.
(25:21):
I was cleaning them, and we had a little smaller
home that when you walked in the front door, you
were right on carpet. It was the living room, and
my gosh, I'd clean them and you know, in no
time at all, they'd be dirty. And we had kids
and you know, the drill and you guys came out
(25:42):
and cleaned them, and we noticed right away. And one
of the reasons I think she got hold he is
you you dry clean carpet. You didn't. You didn't just
use soap and water, which is what I was using.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Yeah, so we don't use any moisture that gets to
the back end of the pa which is not very good.
If you can visualize what's under your carpet, it's basically
a sponge that gets wet during a cleaning, I can
take twenty four to forty eight hours, and that's when
you have a mildew problem, the resoiling problem. That's one
of another common one that we see a lot. The
(26:16):
soap does a good job in the washing machine when
you can you know when it's a textile that you
can throw in the washing machine, But as soon as
you get that in the carpet, and you don't get
that out. That attracts dirt back to the carpet, leaves
the carpet sticky. We see, it's like it's one of
the most common problems we see. And once people figure
out what's going on and they call us, you know,
it's just like have a new carpet again because it
(26:37):
used to be or we still hear it that. You know,
I'm not getting my carpet cleanses. Then I have to
have it cleaned every three to four months. Well, something's
not going on, something's going on there that should be
going on there. Leaving a residue leads to the next
time they come in, they go, ww, this is even
dirtier than before. So let's add more. You know, we
need to add more soap, and it just gets worse
and worse and worse. So, I mean, there's some some
(26:58):
situations if you have a issue like that, you just
take some water, a little shot of water port on
the carpet and you can almost get SuDS coming out
of the car like a champoint here. Yeah, So people
don't realize that that soap doesn't just dry and go away.
That leaves the carpet sticky and that's it's the same
thing with a spot that keeps coming back or you know,
the traffic areas getting real dirty if you've had it cleaned.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, it was in a restaurant not
long ago, and the and it was tile floor, and
you know, it was so sticky, and right away I
was thinking, because there's there's that technology really for even
regular cleaning products now where they're pH neutral and they
don't have all that surfactants in there, and I thought, man,
(27:44):
this thing's probably dirty all the time. And then I
was also thinking on smoother surfaces, it could be a
it could be a slipping hazard. So oh definitely.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah, we've been we've been in restaurants and the one
thing when we do when we clean restaurants is that
the kid some floors days clean. The carpet's going to
stay clean. I mean, you know, if you walk off
a carpet, it's wet, the floor is going to be slippery.
But I walk through kitchens that are just greasy that
they're slippery, you know that, you know, and that's that's
walking and traveling all over the place. So yeah, every
(28:14):
time you've got a situation like that where you're where
you've got a you know, a dirty area like that.
It's good to have some walk off match, but keeping
the floors clean next to the carpet is going to
do a heck of a job of keeping keeping the
carpet clean. Even using the wrong kind of cleaner on
your kitchen floor that that can leave that a little
sticky and that walks off into the carpet.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You know.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
It just there's a lot of things, but once that
carpet starts to get sticky, it just attracts dirt back
to the carpet.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Absolutely. Well, we're definitely into spring cleaning season. I've been
talking about a lot of different cleaners and things like that. Uh,
you got any specials going on on just carpet cleaning?
And how is that price?
Speaker 7 (28:54):
We have a spring cleaning ten off wall services, So
anything you want, we're going to take ten percent off
of pricing. Wise, we charge per square foot. So we'll
come into your house. If you want us to move
all the furniture, we measure the whole room because we're
cleaning more carpet. If you wants just to do the
open areas, we just measure the exposed areas because that's
(29:15):
all we're cleaning, so we know that can be a
little confusing, So we do offer free and home estimates.
If you'd like to come out and measure, we don't
have a problem doing that. Sure, but yeah, like I said,
we can come out and measure up. Or what we'll
do a lot of times is if you're thinking about
using us, we'll come out and measured up for you.
We'll save time to do the job. If you want
(29:36):
to go ahead and do it, then we'll go ahead
and do it. Then if not, we'll just leave a
quote and go on our way.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Tim a couple questions, like God, also is I was joking,
But it's it's kind of a fact, I said. A
lot of us are using less and less carpet, at
least we think we are, but we're really not. Because
every house I go in, if they've changed out carpet,
(30:03):
they've put in a nice floor, but then there's this, uh,
you know, twelve by twenty piece of carpet whatever you
call them, area rugs or whatever, and I would assume
those have to be clean too, right, We do a.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Lot of those, I said. Ever since the carpet's gone
down in market share, the area of rugs have gone up,
so it's kind of ebbing to flow. So, yes, we
do a lot more rugs than we did ten to
fifteen years ago. But you know what I think when
Pergo came out, however long that was twenty five thirty
years agoa that was kind of the beginning of the
end of cart not the end of carpet, because it's
(30:39):
coming back a little bit. But yeah, yeah, you know,
we switched from rugs. But the other thing is when
you you know, take that carpet out of the room acoustically,
that that changes the sounds in the room. So they've
got to get a lot more rugs in there, maybe
a lot more comfortable sounding.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, no question. And then and you know in the
nineties and stuff, when we were you know, in the
laminate flooring and stuff, and people start taking out carpets.
That was also the era of the bridge in Holmes
with fifteen foot ceilings and stuff. And you're right. I'm
a firm believer And I tell this to people that
(31:16):
call all the time. When it comes to flooring, I
put it as a general category. There's a place for everything.
And number one, if you love one type, go for it.
Put it everywhere. I mean that's up to you. But
there is really places for carpeting. I think there's places
for tile. I think there's places for laminates, there's places
(31:40):
for wood flooring. And you know, it used to be man,
you just did everything in the same It was either
all wood or it's all carpet, and we kind of
have evolved where you know, it's you know, it's specialty
flooring for different rooms in a home. And I'm sure
you getting enough homes you start seeing it.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
The other thing with the carpet versus hardwood floors or
hard services is the allergy issue. It was always said that,
you know, the hard floors are better for your allergies,
but it kept clean. Carpets and rugs in a room
kind of act like a filter because if you've ever
swept up, you know, you know, like with a regular broom,
and then you know, catch the dirt flying through the
(32:23):
air and the sunbeam and you know you're just kicking
it back up in the air. When ideally that ther
dust falls down onto the carpet, it gets vacuumed up
and taken away out of the room. So there's arguments
both ways, but like, yes, their carpet has seen a
decline and area of rugs. We see a lot more
of them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, so how do you do the area rugs? Do
you do those on site?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
We can do them on site. We can also come
and get them and take them with us and bring
them back to you, or you can bring them to us.
We have a location in ross that's by appointment only,
and then we have a place in Westchester Sharonville area
that is open Monday through Friday or pick up and
delivery or to drop off.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All right, so folks that are listening, and like I said,
it is the spring cleaning season. If they want to
get on your schedule, do they call you? Can you
book online or how's that work?
Speaker 7 (33:18):
I can call us at five one three eight seven
four three three one zero. We have a website. It's
Magna dash dry dot com. You're in the Cincinnati areas.
You just google Magna Dry. We pop up pretty much
towards on the first uh, you know, first line. So
either way, get a hold of us. Like I said,
we can come out and give you an estimate, or
for a regular customer, just call us up and we'll
(33:39):
get you, get you on the.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Schedule and you do the upholstery in house.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
We do that's yeah, we don't usually take that out.
There's really no need to take that out. I mean
people can bring it too. We've had people going chairs
to us and stuff, but that's not usually. We usually
just do that on site.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I'll tell you what. We always had darker colored furniture,
and we bought some white recliners with a gold through it.
And I can't believe I'm dirty to get Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
So slowly it gets a little dull, and then when
we come in and clean, it really brightens it up.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, yeah, there, you guys do a great job. All right,
give me that phone number one more time. I'll let
you go.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Five one three eight seven four three three one zero.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Very good tim it's good talking to you, alright, thank you.
All right, take care of that's magna dry and man,
I'll tell you what it has. Sue's stamp of approval,
so you probably don't care about mine, but I'll give it.
I'll give it a stamp of approval wall, so it's
good stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
If Sue like it, then we automatically if.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
We've used them forever forever, not as long as I've
been alive, Gary, we don't want to go there to wait,
I did there. I don't want to go there, but
airy rugs the whole works. Uh, Tim will take care
of you. All right, let's take a little break. I'll
come back and wrap things up. You're at home with
Gary salvinright here in fifty five krs the talk station.
And back at it we go, twelve fifty one. Not
(35:07):
a bad looking day to day, and certainly tomorrow a
little bit warmer. And then I think we got rain
and warmer temperatures Monday. But it is springtime and that's
what you get. I know a lot of times I'll
talk about different things, just things to check. And it's
been a while since I really talked about gutters. I
(35:29):
know it seems like I talk about it every week,
but a specific part because I solve this problem a
couple times this past week and I just kind of
made a mental note of it, and I wanted to
just kind of just remind everybody. And I know how
it started. I looked up or I got it. Someone
mailed me a list of picture of a home and
(35:53):
it had a list of how long things last, which
I didn't agree with all of their assessments, but the
one thing that it listed was gutters, and my home's
twenty six years old, and it said the lifespan of
(36:15):
gutters is thirty years. And I think I kind of agree.
It's not that the gutters on my house are falling off,
it's not that they're ugly, it's not that they're rusted through,
but there's some that quite honestly, the way weather has
(36:38):
changed in different things and the way my home is built.
There's some steep portions of the roof, and there's saddles
in between two roofs that come and joined together, and
there are some gutters I believe should be now six
inch gutters instead of the five that are on there.
(37:01):
But also when I said I had seen a couple
of issues this past week, it was with the old gutters,
and they were certainly older in thirty years, and they
didn't have brackets holding the gutters up that I could tell,
(37:21):
because they had the nail and the nail and the farrell.
So you got this like nine inch spike that would
go through the gutter, through the facia board into the joye,
the truss, the hardwood behind it depends on how it's structured,
(37:45):
and that's the way you hang the gutters, and over
a number of years you get snow and ice and
hot and cold and wet and dry, and wood moves right,
and the weight on that gutter also, and these gutters
were sagging. And I was talking to this guy and
we climbing, and of course the gutters were full of
(38:06):
gunk because they sagged, they weren't draining very well, and
you know how I hate that. And he said, well,
I've tried to nail those nails in, but you know,
the hole's bigger now. And I said, yeah, yeah, you
can still fix that. We can still get brackets in there,
(38:27):
but really what you can get in there, and maybe
this is something you want to pay attention to and
take a look at. If you have the nails and
the Farrells, if you go to the hardware store, they
have those nails, and they also have screws same length,
a little wider, and it's got a thread where you
(38:48):
can take I think it takes a square head screwdriver
or a tip for a drill, and maybe with a
handscrew driving them start through the gutter and then just
run those right in and it'll bite in that oversized
holes and it'll have threads and it won't work its
(39:10):
way out, you know, nearly as easily as a as
a nail would. So it's it's gonna last. Even though
we're using an old hole, it's gonna last a lot longer.
So that is that's something I would just take a
look at and again paying attention again, thirty years the
(39:33):
lifespan of a gutter, I don't know, there's probably something
that get replaced in you know, fifteen years. I know
when I had the aluminum gutters on the house, and
you may have this problem. Also where the factory finished.
For some reason, there always was a black haze on it.
I don't know whether it's from pollution or was a
form of a fungus. It was very, very faint, looked
(39:55):
like smoke damage almost, And we would talk on the
show a lot of about what cleans that, and we
start using purple power and white tire wall cleaner or
tire cleaner for white walls, and it cleaned it up,
but it come back and once you painted that you
(40:15):
didn't have that issue. I was about ready to replace
gutters for that issue. But yeah, just paying attention, you
know what kind of shape it's in, how's the end units?
And get them patched, get them tight to the facia board,
because when they pull away and then the water's coming
down off the roof and it gets behind that gutter
(40:38):
and onto that facia board. That's kind of the beginning
of some problems because that facier board, though it appears
to be painted. When you're looking at the facier board,
which is what the gutter's up against, and the gutter,
everything looks nice and painted. But a lot of times
behind that gutter that facia boards not painted. And then
(40:59):
you get into you know, all the wood rot and
different things along noselines. So look it up when you
take that walk around the house and take pay attention
to what's going on there. And I use the phrase
all the time, and I stand by it. It seems
real simple, and that is, if it looks wrong, it is.
(41:20):
If it doesn't look right, it's not. And it's one
thing to know that it's not right. It's another thing
to create a plan and execute a plan and get
it fixed. Just knowing it's not right, it doesn't help you.
So there's an assignment. All right, Danny boy. The music's playing,
and thank you very much today. I appreciate it. Danny's
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got each and every hour today. Posted on the iHeart app.
You can click the podcast at Home with Gary Salvin
and listen to an hour you missed, or our special
project with Paul Abrams from roto Routers. Some good discussions
on things to check around the home. So Danny Boy,
thank you very much, good Lord Willing. We'll both be
(42:01):
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