Gary Sullivan 5/17/2025 Hour 1

Gary takes your calls along with Gary's expert advice.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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hundred eight two three eight two five five, So go
ahead and grab a line. If you'd like, and I'd
love to hear from you. Read a couple articles today.
This is interesting. I haven't seen one of these types
of homes. You've heard the phrase tiny homes, small homes

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a lot of times. They are homes that have been
created out of a container, you know, an overseas container,
and they could be stacked, they can be welded together,
windows can be cut in them. There's also now foldable homes.

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I get you nod. They're produced and they fold out
and they have everything you need and they're quickly installed
on a piece of property. And these tiny homes are
anywhere really from you know, five six hundred square feet,
so they're small, and I's just, you know, it's I

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think there's really a place for those in the market.
I don't know how you feel about it, but I
really believe there is. When we talk about and concern
ourselves with affordable housing, I mean, some of these homes
are less than twenty thousand dollars. And I was just

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curious your your thoughts on wondering if you've ever been
in one. I know I've been in two or three
different ones. There were one was a single container home,
was a double container home. One was a triple container home,
the single container home. So it's a big steel box, right.
I was shocked at how much room there was in there.

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I mean, it's a tiny home, don't get me wrong.
But it's got drywall, it's got doors. When is whole work.
But it's a small it's a place to lay your
head at night, maybe cook a small meal, maybe squeeze
into a shower. But anyway, I'm just seeing more and
more of those things, so in different variations of them.

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So there's something there, and I'm sure it's not for everybody.
I always remember when we had the economy slowed down
in two thousand and eight, the big prediction was houses
are not going to be built. There will be no
big houses. They will be half the size. They will

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be this, that and the other thing. And I was
talking to a builder and he said to me, Gary,
they say that whenever the economy slows down, then everybody
builds a big house. Maybe maybe, but anyway, your thoughts
on tiny homes, if you'd like to share, do so.
If you've got a question to ask about your home,
do Oh and our phone number is eight hundred and

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eight two three eight two five five. Hey, Mike, why
don't you lead us off today?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Welcome, Good morning Gary. I have a question of regarding gutter.
We have new gutters that got put on and between
our house and the gutters there's twelve eighteen inches of
aluminum and of course it doesn't match the new gutters.
That area of aluminum whatever that would be called, there is,
you know, black and moldy. I'm wondering if something like

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spread and forget it would take care of that, or
do you think I need to do a power wash
on that in addition? Or is there another thing that.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'll tell you Is it kind of like a blackish haze?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
It is, it's almost like it looks kind of moldy.
And the house is fifteen years old, so you know,
this first time we've had the gutters replaced.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah. So that board, the facia board is probably encased
in aluminum or vinyl.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes, And it's probably is vinyl because it looks like
aluminum siding vinyl and it has holes in it, if
you know what I'm talking.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that is a softad venting and
it's bringing the air from outside into the attic and
in the summertime, that attic air temperature is probably one
hundred and forty degrees, and as it brings in that
ninety degree temperature, your attic functions as a chimney and

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it pushes the hot air out through the ridge vent.
So that's why those holes are there. So the wet
and forget eliminates algae, fungus, molds, mildew, liken, so that
type of stuff in that that. It certainly can grow

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on vinyl, It can certainly grow on wood, It can
certainly grow on illumine them as long as it gets
you know, daylight, you know, sunlight and rain. It keeps
it active. You spray it on and literally it takes
about four to six weeks and it will just fade away.

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I mean, it's a wonderful product and it's easy. They
even have a hose end one where you connect it
to the hose and it can spray as much as
twenty five feet in the air if you'd like. But yeah,
just wet that whole area down and let it be
and you know, again, if it's a fungus, algae, et cetera,
it'll take care of that.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes, sir, I was concerned about using a power washer
because it doesn't look real durable. It probably is more
durable than it looks like.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, it depends.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I would rather just spray that on there and forget
about it, because I have used that before on some
other things and it worked really well. So I will
try that. Gary.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Thank you, you're quite welcome. Thank you, Mike, take care.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Of a great day.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Bye bye, and heed what he said. I want to
interject there when you're talking about a pressure washer being
used on sighting. I've started to really preach more and
more about this. There are different cleaners that are applied
to wet and forget. Is a cleaner oxygenated bleach. You've
heard me mention that that's a cleaner. Tre sodium phosphate.

(07:19):
You've heard me mention that that's a cleaner. If you
can put cleaners onto sighting and allow that cleaner to
do its job. And if you want to use a
pressure washer to rent, fine, but it's not a great
idea to take the pressure washer and clean it without
a cleaner because literally, what you're doing is you're just

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blasting that off. You're not really killing what's on there,
and you're not really eliminating at all off the sighting.
And so that's that's one no no. The other no
no is it's vinyl sighting. I don't think you're going
to be using anything like a four thousand psi pressure

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washer with a zero degrees tip from twelve to eighteen inches.
You drill a hole in it. And I'm not saying
you're gonna do that, but what you will do even
if you use twenty six hundred psi and you got
a forty degree nozzle, and if you're hitting it at
an angle almost straight up or seventy five degrees into

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that siding, you can disconnect that siding. I've seen it done,
and you can do whatever you want to do, but
I'm telling you there's easier ways to do it. There's
a way where it's a permanent kill, which has a
lasting benefit, where it's just not going to grow back

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because it's eliminated. All right, our first roadblock, and we'll
bring in Not that Ron Wilson is a roadblock or anything,
but Richard and don if you could sit tight, I'd
certainly appreciate it. We'll bring in Ron Wilson. We all
know what's going on outside, and that is everything seems

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to be growing, and it's like non stop growing and
we'll talk to Ron Wilson all about the garden and landscaping.
Its gardening time too, and then your calls is we continue.
You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
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Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, it's time to talk a little bit about the
outside of our home and when really, when we take
a look at our home, we're always talking about curb appeal.
It's all about the landscaping, the yard, the house, the
front door and then the inside. And that's what we do.
We do the house, mister Wilson. Ron Wilson, he joins us,
we're always talking about the landscaping in the garden. And Ron,

(10:40):
this is the Super Bowl month, that's for sure, a
lot going on. Can I get my tomatoes now?

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Sheep?

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Roadblock, Yeah, you're you're the road. I'm still stuck with
a roadblock in my head.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Well that's okay.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
It could have been a speed bumk, it's.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
A speed bomb or a started out.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Really traffic cone, you know, you know, any cross, temporary,
anything to slow you down.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
But you know, but a roadblock, well that was the
first thing came to my mind. Okay, get off of
my schneid.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Us.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yes, tomatoes just now. Yeah, absolutely, people have been planning
them for a couple of weeks, then longer than that, unfortunately,
but yeah, absolutely. As a matter of fact to mister Sullivan,
I will comment on the fact that if I'm somewhere
at the end of June at a garden center and
i find something a tomato pepper that I've never planned
to before and I would like to try it, I

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will continue to plan until the fourth of July. So yes,
I have plenty of time. We got plenty of time.
Selections will obviously, uh dwindle down over.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Time as people get off the schneid.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
If they get off their schneider start planting. But yes,
but it is, you know, and there's it's amazing how
many things can be grown from seed that folks don't
realize plant the same way later on. As a matter
of fact, a lot of the pumpkin and gourd growers
won't plant any seeds at all till they get into June.
Really yeah, before they they want to get into some
really warm soil temperatures, air temperatures consistently.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
And catches up.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, and so many times, you know, if I get
stuff planted in, whether we flower the annuals, tomatoes, whatever,
you know, first second, third week of June, and so
at that point they just explode with new growth. So
they get caught basically caught up with everybody else's so well.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Also, you know, besides the garden, you know, the landscaping,
the flowers, the annuals and things. We saw a past
a house actually, and so goes gosh, look at that.
I really liked that. And it was somebody that had planted.
They had a little planting bed in the front of
the house, in front of the bushes that were along

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the foundation planets, and they had planted colius. And man,
it was colorful.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
It was.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was really pretty. And it kind of got me thinking,
I don't know much about colius at all, never grown it,
but I was thinking, gee, said, it certainly brings good
color to the landscaping. And I don't know, is that
a trend or has it always been people would plant
plants that would deliver color rather than flowers. And it

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is it easier to take care of than the annual flowers.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
You know, my lovely bride yes, and you know, she
has never really been involved with planting our planters or
whatever till the last two or three years. But up
until that point, as I planted them with flowers, I
would finish, and she would say, where are the flowers?
Because they were filled with colias and koladiums and thrills
and things like that. That we're all foliage colors rather

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than flower colors. And I'd put a few things in
it flower, But I love plants that give you foliage
colors versus. And of course Colius is my absolute favorite
annual of all annuals. I'm glad you brought it up.
And there are so many great color selections out there today,
it is crazy, Like I mean, even in our greenhouse
we probably grow thirty or forty different selections of Colius,

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really yeah, with different types of variegation and all that
in their leaves. So the thing about Colius, it is
considered more of a shade annually, although there are some
of the newer varieties will tolerate the sun. But if
you like that, you know, look at Perilla parilla looks
like colius, but it will tolerate full sun. So there
are you know, there are things to work Aroundkladiums are

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the same way. They've got so many great combination of colors,
orange or whites and greens and pinks and reds and love.
The shade can really brighten up a shady garden. So
I like that. There's a there's a perennial called coral bells,
and I don't know if you have those in your
garden or not, but coral bells the same way. Coral
bells are all sold with all these colors, from dark

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maroons to shar truce to oranges and peach colors. And
I've seen gardens where they've taken and just planeted an
array of all the different colors and made like a
patchwork kilt quilt. Look in the garden absolutely stunning. And
again the flowers are not all that showy, but the
foliage is fantastic. So an answer to your question, yes.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well we'll have to see what missus Sullivan bought. Because
they're planted in a sunny location.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Well, now that's okay, keep them watered, you're all right.
Sometimes it gets really hot and dry they can scorch
a little bit, and some of them are doing a
much better job in the sun today than they used to,
so you know you're probably still okay.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
All right, Well there's a couple that are a little
bit shaded, but I'll check. But they with the ones
we saw, seriously, they were beautiful. No idea what type
they were. And she right away said, do I think
I'm gonna put those right in front of you know,
this one area? And I went, great, and that it
looks it looks nice.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
They'll be fine. And the thing about Colius is that
they do flower, okay, and I don't let them flower.
Most people don't. Is it kind of flower right at
the top. Yeah, okay, So you'll pinch that out anytime
you see him start the flower, just pinch that out.
Anytime Coley is catched toe a little bit laggy and
stretching out on you a little bit, you pinch the
top out of it takes about two weeks they feel
right back in again, so so easy to take care of.

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It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh, it'll be a new project at the Sullivan household,
that's for sure. Gosh, everything's growing like always does in May. Right,
Oh yeah, And bushes have bloomed.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh well, you haven't started pruning already.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
No, but that was the question, you know. I mean,
I got some lilacs right outside in my office window.
They're beautiful, The fragrance is awesome, and they still got
flowers on them. I certainly wouldn't trim him yet. But
in another week or two those flowers will be gone.
Is that a good time to just kind of reshape them.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
That's an exception to the rule. Lilacs you want to
prune within a two or three week period after they're
finished flowering, So you want to get on it right away.
You wait any longer into the season, you start to
prune away some of your flower buds for next year already.
So that's when you get on it right away. But
anything in the evergreens and at that are putting out
a lot of box within that right now, let that
harden off right before you go in and prove that

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back as usual.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
A fountain of knowledge. Mister will roadbalk you and a
road talk take care. Thank you much. It's Ron Wilson
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Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well you're at home with Gary Salvin another weekend to
discuss some of the issues you have around your home,
whether it's a really big project, maybe just a little
maintenance and repair. You can grab a line. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five Richard. Thank
you very much for hanging on. I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
Yeah, Hi, good morning there, Gary Day. I recently had
the blacktop in front of my back of my house
with a garage door is vinyl, and of course when
he sprayed this thing, I will around and of course
I had my garage door closed, and you're gonna messine
what happened. Spray got up on the vinyl. And I've
been trying to deal with him for the last with

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five or six days. So I tells you where I'm
at right now. I don't know if he's going to
come back or not. So is there anything I can do.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
There's a couple of things that kind of come to mind.
A little safety first, but a bug in tar remover
or kerosene okay, now a lot of it. And I
say that a little bit cautiously because the type of
asphalts that sprayed has changed a lot. Uh, you know,

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I'm kind of talking about the old cure with the
coal tar in it, which isn't really much around but
it could be. I would try that first though, and see.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
If using the bug bug in tar, you know when
you ask, I lived in the South down a long
time and the way they do their streets out there,
and then got it all over my car, and that's
what I use. But that's on a vehicle.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
Yeah. Is that a spray or is that a brush? Huh?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's more or less. Put it on a rag and
spread it, let it dry and then put it on
the rig again, and and and scrub it off. That way,
I'd put it onto the surface. However, you do it
a paintbrush, it's not a spray. It's a liquid. Mopping
it on with a you know, cotton towel something along

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those length. Let don't start trying to rub it right away.
Let it sit and do a little work on it first.
But I think that'll cut it and remove it. It's
not gonna hurt the vinyl. You always test it, but
the vinyl colors baked through vinyl, I think of nothing else.

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It'll shine the vinyl up a little bit, but try
it down at the bottom. Make sure nothing's going to
uh mp debt.

Speaker 8 (22:57):
Yeah, I've been on looking around and it's all you.
You get a real good professional he's got down there.
But I should have stuck around learning lessons. You know,
I think you learned after thirty five years of living
with a house. It's almost one hundred years old. But
I goe door anyway, but that's that's newer than the house.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanted the driveway, not the garage door.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
You know.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
Well, it's nice talking to you and I like your program.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Thanks, thank you, Richard, appreciate it. Take care, bye bye.
All right, you grab a line again. It's eight hundred
and eighty two three eight two five five talking home
improvement and don welcome.

Speaker 9 (23:36):
Yes, enjoy your show. Gary.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Thanks.

Speaker 9 (23:41):
I want to ask you about my son parked his
car in my garage for three months during the winter,
and I came home a week ago and there's a
puddle of fluid underneath the car. And I don't know
how long it's sat there, but it dripped. I have
a puddle now. I was staying on the concrete about

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a foot wide and about five feet long. I've removed
it the best I could with some dry rags and
I use some down dish soap in a bucket and
a scrub brush, Okay, and then I let saturated towels
that saturated with the dawn liquid and a five gallon
bucket laid on there for a while to try to
loosen anything else up and remove it or lift And

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there's nothing now that I can feel, and it doesn't
feel greasier oily, but of course the stain is still there,
and I'm wondering for some way to remove that.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, So taking enough next step forward when you were
talking about dish soap and different things along those lines.
For newer oil stains, another good thing to use is
like kitty litter, baking soda corn starch is more of
an absorbent where you can kind of grind it in

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may lift some of that out. It sounds like you've
tried to address that part of the issue. But for
fresh oil stains, that's another good thing to use if
you want to, you know, circle back, get a little
bag of kitty litter and try that. Older stones, older stains.
There's a bunch of products out there, and then I've

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got the uh, the granddaddy of all I'll recommend, but
you might want to try There's there's one called Purple Power.
There's one crud Cutter. Those are with ks k r
U d k U T T e R. They make
a bunch of products under the crud Cutter name. You're

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looking for oil and grease remover, you can find it
a lot of the big box hardware stores. So Purple
Power or crud Cutter, Uh, they may do a very
very good job for you. I've used both of them
with success. If for whatever reason, you cannot remove all
of it, there is a product. You can get it

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on the internet. It is called a C T cleaner
and it's like it's like a ten pound jar. It
is a powder that you sprinkle on that eats oil.
It's a living microbe that eats oil. You sprinkle it on,

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you walk away from it. When it has it will
There is no rinsing, there is no scrubbing, and there
is no you know, brooming up the access. It just
all disappears. It might take a week, it might take
three days, it might take a day. But they use
that in oil fields. They used it in the BP

(26:44):
spill and it's ACT Cleaners dot COM's a website. You
can probably find it on Amazon too. ACT yes, sir.

Speaker 9 (26:55):
Okay, okay, fantastic.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
So that goes up the chain.

Speaker 10 (27:01):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
I'm assuming that these are in the price range of
ten to fifty dollars.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. And if you again, if you
want to start with a kitty litter and see if
you can pull more of that out, that'd be great too.
But I just wanted to give you there's there's a
there's a chain of what I usually take people through.
So good luck with that. You'll get it.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
Out, okay, all right, Gary, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
You take care bye bye. All right, And yeah, oil
stains are that's one of the real nuisances of concrete driveways,
and it's some of those. Boy I remember this one time.
They there used to be a product out made, oh
this thirty years ago called fade. It was probably one

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of the better things that I'd ever used. I don't
I don't think they make it anymore. But boy, I
was working on a project where they an oil stain
and then somebody had stacked some shingles on top of it,
roof shingles, and then those blood into the concrete. It
took about three three sessions with that oil stain with

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the fade product, which again I don't think is available anymore,
but it eventually got it. It did good stuff, all right,
Let's go to June. June. Welcome, oh Gary.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Yes, I have a high aluminum gate and it's the
pole is about six inches off of the ground. There's
a big rusty spot in it, I mean a big hole,
and I'm wondering how can I fix it without putting
in a new pole.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
So the hole, well, if it's illuminate, it shouldn't be
rust it's aluminum. Yeah, well, aluminium will oxidize, it won't rust.
Is there a hole where you can put your hand
inside the pole?

Speaker 6 (29:03):
It's not a solid it's a solid pole, and I
could wrap my hand around the pole, but it's a
little larger, but it's not a hollow pole.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
So so where now, where's the hole? Then?

Speaker 6 (29:20):
If it's about inches off of the ground, see there's
some left to it, but most of it is gone.
It's from the rain, I believe.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Well, you know, I'm having a hard time picturing it.
But bear with me. If there there's a couple of
things you can use. If it is a solid piece
of metal, let's just call it that a solid piece
of metal and there's a part of it, a chunk
of it, if you will, that is no longer there

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and you're trying to patch it. What I would use
is I would use autobody solder.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Auto body sadder, yeap.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
So there is a there's about three things that come
to mind that would fill that off. You would you
would certainly clean it of any rust or any corrosion
or anything along those lines, because you need a clean bottom,
bottable surface to patch it. Okay. And then you could
get there is a how big is this hole? Is

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it as big as a golf ball?

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Okay, you could get Okay, you could get a product
called PC seven.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
PC seven PC.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Seven is in apoxy steal. So it comes in a
little tube about the length of a stick of butter,
and it's got a hardener and it's got a resin
in there. So you take this out of this tube
and you mix that together and it creates a heavy
paste which you would then apply into that creviced area

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and it'll dry as hard as a rock. Okay, that's
one product I would use. The autobody solder comes in
a can that's pre mixed. It's not in the POxy
and it's just a paste that you would, you know,
put in there with a putty knife. Still, you got
to clean it, get all the corrosion and rust off

(31:22):
as you can, and make a patch with that. But
PC autobody solder. And the third one would be there
is a fiberglass autobody patch that comes with a paste
and even some cloth fiberglass that you can use it
as a use the paste as a filler and then

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to trim it up with the fiberglass cloth and coat that.
That's another thing you could use.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Okay. I also have another question, for instance, a radio
or some other product, when I take the batteries out,
there's green on there. Is it because of the battery
or because of the radio.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
It's probably because of the battery. The battery is probably
leaked a little and it's had a reaction. With a
little metal spring clip, your little nail file or something
in there and get some of that corrosion off there.
You should be fine.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
Nail file off there. Okay, all right, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
All right, you're welcome, thank you, good bye, bye bye.
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Speaker 10 (35:47):
Welcome Gary, Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
You're welcome.

Speaker 10 (35:52):
I have a question. I'm making a basement into a
living space and it's on a concrete slab and I
need to I think I need to seal the concrete
before I put that ninety flooring. Just wondering what you
might suggest.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, do you know what kind of flooring you're putting
down yet, Bob?

Speaker 10 (36:11):
Or it's going to be a sleeper floor on two
by floors, then plywood, then probably do a luxury vinyl.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Oh great, great, Yeah, I mean there's the reason for
sealing the floor under That would be if there is
a flow of water vapor coming up through the floor
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Also to keep it from dusting. Dry lock makes a.

Speaker 10 (36:44):
A c I was looking at.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, yeah, they're clear seiler. I think it holds back
ten pounds per square inch of water pressure, which is
a lot. And that'll do it. That'll create a UH.
I always call it's like brushable water vapor that you're
applying to the concrete and you keep it from dusting,
it'd be perfect. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (37:07):
I use that on the walls already, so yeah, but
they make one specific to the floor. That's great. Then
I was also going to go overkill and put down
a vapor barrier as well.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, probably not a bad idea. I mean follow the
directions on the UH. I mean you can do this too, Bob.
This is an old trick. But take a little piece
of plastic, like a four mil plastic and just tape
it to the floor or a rubber mat and leave

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it there for about a week and see if there's
a moisture on there. And if there's no moisture under it,
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Speaker 10 (37:48):
Perfect, well, thanks, I appreciate the advice.

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Very good, Thank you, take care all right again. It's
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if you will, but the clear can be walked on.
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it all right. Let's go to Sylvia. Sylvia, welcome, Ah,
good morning, Markay.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
I have an issue. I have had city water for
quite a few years now. All of a sudden, when
I flush the toilet or run water from anywhere, there's
a whistle at the end of it. To have air
laking into it somewhere.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
To have a problem, yeah, I think what I would
you do first is go ahead and shut off the water,
open up the faucets, flush the toilet, let's get everything
out of there, and then turn your water back on
and then shut off all the faucets again. See if
that continues a lot of times that'll take care of it.

(39:19):
Sometimes it won't. And then that's going to take us
to another step, and that is to just see where
your water pressure is. You want to have water pressure
somewhere between fifty and seventy five. That's ideal, maybe as
low as forty to seventy five. But if you're in
the upper reaches of that, that could be causing the whistling.

(39:44):
And then it would be there are there is a
regulator to regulate your water pressure that can be installed,
or there's one there now and it's failed. But first
try and just shut off the water, open up all
the valves, drain everything out, turn your water back on.

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Wait till all the sputtering stops and everything. Go ahead
and close the fassest faucets, and then let's see if
we've stopped the whistle there.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
Ah, Thank you so much for that information, all right, Sylvia,
I thought maybe i'd be more expensive. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
I will do that, all right, very good, Thanks, take care,
bye bye. It could be other things too. I don't
want to make it sound super simple, but on the
other hand, I have solved that issue many times just
by doing that. Sometimes it is as simple as that. Again,
when I talk about testing your water pressure, one of

(40:44):
the things I was thinking is, I know she's going
to ask me how do I do that? And she didn't.
But you can buy a little device where you can
screw it on an outside hose bib, turn the water on,
and it'll tell you what your water pressure is out
that house. And again a lot of times you're going
to find it between fifty and sixty. But sometimes, you know,

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if you got copper, you can go as high as
maybe eighty. But if it's over that, you definitely have
a water pressure issue. If you got plastic pipe and
it's seventy five, yeah you got a water pressure issue
for plastic pipe inside a home, probably fifty to sixty
is more ideal. Up at eighty kind of starts becoming
a little bit of a stretch. And sometimes that can

(41:29):
even be related to you know, the water pressure and
the water heater. But again it's a it's a process
of elimination, quite honestly. A lot of times, once the whistling,
you know, is going on in your house, sometimes you

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