May 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Your calls, questions and tips with Gary. We also speak to our friends at Brian Addis Roofing
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, best part of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon. Welcome now our number four and you're at
home with Gary Salvan taking it through another weekend. By
the way, we're going to chat up to about you
and me. We're going to chat up to about twelve
thirty and then Brian Adis from Brian Addis Roofing will
join me. I wanted to have him on as we
head into the summertime of the year, and I know
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a lot of folks talk about replacing roofs, proper way
to replace roofs, things to consider, what to look for
in an estimate, and we've had storms, so we're going
to talk about roof repair also. So that'll be at
the twelve thirty mark, so there's plenty of time for
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you to join us. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five and let's get back to the
phone calls. We've got Jacqueline. Jacqueline, welcome hither.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thank you for all you do, Thank you for your time.
I have a question about our showers. It's a nice
tile shower. It was part of a a whole bathroom
model about twelve or fifteen years ago. And everything's great
except where there's there's this one grout line on the
floor of the shower that runs horizontally across the floor
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right through the dream. So and it feels spongey when
I step on it, if that makes sense. And so,
and it's turning white like that, like the groud has
worn off, because all the other grout looks like the
regular color of grout. Now this is all white. My
question is is this dangerous? Like I know there's a
cement floor underneath that. When they put in the showery model,
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it was all a cement floor, but my husband and
I aren't grated the y and we don't know anything
about Yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The worst spongee is never good if it's on concrete. Okay,
So I mean you know, I mean you got ceramic tile,
you got grout with us, which is a sementatious uh
you know properties and then you know you got the
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shower pan or you got a fiberglass pan. But sometimes
you have wood involved. I don't know if there is
on that or not. The only thing I know building
materials that get spongy would be you know wood, is
this is there a basement underneath it or anything? To
kind of look up and see anything.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, there's no leaking. This is on the top floor
and then we have our main floor and then the
leaking and then we walk up.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, so you can't tell if other things going on
there and and so yeah, I mean spongy isn't good?
Is as far as the what what color is the
tile and the grout you said normal color.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, the grout is like a grayish and the gray
I had to match the color of the grout that
I didn't have to clean white grouse to make it
white all the times color.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So this one line of grout is white.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So yeah, like the grout is all worn off, it
looks like so well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So groud can be mixed in all different colors. And
I think you probably remember when you're picking out grout,
they give you this thing of grout which is all
these different colors. Yes, but some of that can wear off.
Some grout is painted. Some grout also gets what they
call efflorescence. Efflorescence is a lime and salt that's coming
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to the surface of the groud. It looks like it
looks like salt almost, So you know, I guess the
question I have for you, does it look like salt?
Or does it just look like it's turned white.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It looks like it's turned white.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, white grout, you like a you grout like around
a tub or something.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, that's what it looks like me.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I didn't know if we should hire somebody to
redo that entire floor or well. I think I could tackle.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, it depends. I think you would need some experience
doing that before you would tackle a project like that.
I think what I would do is I would have
somebody look at it. I can't see it. I can't
tell you exactly what's going on, But when you use
the word spongy, that would concern me because that concerns
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me that there could be some wood rot. I don't
know what's going on into there. I don't know if
it's a fiberglass tray, a lead tray, whatever tray, or
it was just put, you know, a a thin coat
of concrete over wood. I just don't know. But if
you're walking on it and you say it feels spongy,
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there's a little bit of concern there. So you know,
just tell them, you know, get somebody out there. And
just like I'd like to have a quote, where do
you think is going you know QUIZM, you know, and
you know, maybe he gives you an estimate. You go, yeah,
that's something I want to do. I don't know if
it's something you need to do without really inspecting it.
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And I think you need somebody there that knows what
they're looking for to explain it to what's going on.
Probably the best I can answer, Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, okay, Well, thank you, thank you so much for
your time.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. Let's go to Connie.
Connie welcome.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, we have a crack in our driveway and this
has been going on for some time and I can't.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Get my husband, of course, to do anything.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
About it, except he'll look at it. But what what
products do I use to fill in that crack so
it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Cheap get any worse?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, was it a concrete driveway?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's a concrete driveway, okay. And a crack can be
almost like just an eighth of an inch to almost
a half an inch wide further on down the length
of the one of the blocks.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So there's basically two products you would need because the
one that's an eighth of an inch you want to
use what they call crack and seal, and crack seal
is a jug with a latex crack filler that's about
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the consistency of a milkshake. It's got a little spout
on it. It's made by quick Crete and it's just
just a crack filler. So you would clean that out,
make sure there's no dirt, weeds or anything like that
in there, and you would just squeeze or you know,
it's like a like a milkshake is thick with a
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little jug and a spout and you fill that crack.
Now it gets a little more complicated when that crack
gets bigger, you know, maybe even as wide as a pencil.
At some point, you can use that cracked seal in
those type of cracks, and if you want to fill
it with that and try it, you can. Usually when
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those cracks are that large, you need something that has
a little better adhesion, a little better almost like a
euthane or an advanced resin crack filler in there. So
if you fill the small crack or the thinner crack
with a crack seal, and then when you get to
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the larger area again make sure it's absolutely clean. Quick
Crete makes Again it's something in a calking tube and
it's called self leveling crack sealer, and you with a
calking gun, you run a bead of calking in that
crack and it weeps and it levels out, so that's smooth.
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You don't have to do anything else to put that
bead of crack filler. In fact, I think I'd probably
do the wider one first and you'll be able to
tell when you start getting when that crack starts getting
a little too thin to use that product correctly because
it won't flow in there and level out as well.
So self leveling crack filler and a calking tube and
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then crack seal and the jug for a smaller crack.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Will these be a color? I mean, will it what color?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It'll be gray?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It'll be gray, but there's a million colors of gray.
And you know, depending on where we live, certainly dictates
the color of our concrete. You know, in the Northeast
it's black, in the Midwest it's gray, in the South
it's readish. You know, So it's not always a perfect match.
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But if you don't feel it, you create more erosion
underneath the slab and it continues to get bad.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, what about like I know it's in one spot.
The it's wider and it's like pieces of the concrete
can be pulled out, Well, pull them out, pull them out. Yeah, okay.
And another thing, we have an exposed aggregate sidewalk and
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porch to make sure. You have to seal those every
once in a while. And I can tell that ours
needs to be sealed. It looks faded or grace or whatever. Yeah,
use on that.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, it's a it's a special sailor, so it's it's shiny,
and you would use it for exposed aggregate concrete and
also for stamped concrete. And actually you can get that
online if you'd like. There's a website called Masonry Defender,
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So it's masonrydefender dot com. And there's a seiler there
that'll say for stamp concrete or exposed to aggregate concrete.
That's the one you want to use.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay. And you we mentioned a long time ago. I
remember listening to you that it is good for a
person to reseal their entire driveway.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, yeah, I mean, it's an extra line of protection
on that Masonry Defender. The one reason I like that
website is it's easy to negotiate. They have project specific sealers.
So if you have a standard concrete driveway, nothing fancy,
it's been poored, it's been trialed, it's a driveway. Yeah,
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they have right. The first product they show you is
a driveway and sidewalk seiler, and that's for any kind
of just typical driveway. Nothing fancy, no exposed egg or
get no stamp, concrete, no brick, nothing, that's just a
concrete driveway. They have a masonry cleaner, which is always
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important to clean the driveway very good before you seal it.
And so you would clean it, you would let it
dry and then you would take the the driveway and
sidewalk seiler. You could put it in a tank sprayer
and just spray it on. You don't want to put
a lot on there. You don't want it to puddle.
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You just want to miss it on there so it
looks like a light shower had landed on it. It'll
soak in to the concrete and it'll seal it. And
the advantage there is it will exhaust moisture from underneath
that slab, which is good, but it'll minimize how much
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moisture goes into that slab. So you know, if you
live in a cold weather climate and you got you know,
rock salt on your car, it won't become corrosive, so
it really it also allows the concrete to dry out faster,
so it minimizes mold and mildew growth on concrete. So yeah,
it's a good idea to seal it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And also down near the bottom of the driveway it's
kind of pitted and I think it's from the salt.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It is it is, and if it would have been
and if it would have been sealed, it probably would
have prevented that. So for stopping the or smoothing that
area out, you would use a vinyl concrete patcher. It's
a powder you mix with water, you let it sit
for a couple minutes in the tub that you just mixed,
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and you trial it over those pitted marks. It's called spawling.
So to summarize vinyl concrete patcher, they're all in the
same aisle crack seal that's the jug for the small
cracks and the self leveling concrete seiler in the calking cartridge. Again,
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that's a quick Crete brand. You can go to their
website and see the videos on how to use it,
or you can go to the sealer that I was
speaking of that website masonrydefender dot com. It sounds like
you got a lot of work to do on that concrete,
but it pays to stay ahead of it. You don't
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want to get to a point where you're replacing that.
All right, we'll continue in at the bottom of the urway.
Have Brian Attis a sit tight, Bill and Floyd. You're
at home with Gary Salvin right here in fifty five
care see detalk station. All right, back at it. We
go at home with Gary Selvin. We've got a lovely
weekend to get a few things done around the home.
So seize the moment. And what is it, Danny, get
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off the let's go. I'll get I guarantee I'm going
to get emails and say I've used that term in
the wrong context or something.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Or you really shouldn't say that on the radio.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's offensive. Hey, get what you pay for right, Yes,
all right, let's get back to the phone calls. Here
we got Bill, Bill, Welcome, Hello, Gary, how you doing.
I'm doing great? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I heard I heard you give a company that did
the bathtub floors crylic tugs. I didn't get a chance
to write it down, and you see you said it
was the only one that you guaranteed or you recommended.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I was, okay, so what what what are you doing?
All right? Tell me what the project is going to be.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well, all we want to do is get it clean.
It's got a stain it no matter what product we've used,
and we used everything so anyone told us, and we
just can't get it to come clean. It's just a
dark stain on the whole bottom of the you know,
on the bottom of the tub part.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay. And it's a porcelain tub.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, No, it's a one piece, an entire one piece,
a crylic insert you.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Know when you replace him.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay. So when I was talking about this company, this
was most definitely like Miracle Method where they recoat the tub. Yes, okay,
all right, So the name of that company is called
Miracle Method. It is a it is a franchise. And
you're in.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Cleveland, yes, AMers, right outside of it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They've got one of the that's where I first discovered
that product, probably twenty years ago. But it's called Miracle Method.
They do a great job. I used to run into
them in the Home show up in Cleveland and the
NAI Show and they they do a great job. There's
I'm in Cincinnati and they have a Miracle Method in
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Cincinnati which I've personally used, had a couple of tubs,
had a countertop done, and they do do a great job, wonderful.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Okay, so I can just go online probably in contact.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yes, sir, yep, yep. I don't have their phone number,
but it's Miracle Method.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Okay, we got it. Thank you so much. I've been
missing you for years.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I appreciate it. Thank you much. All right, all right,
let's go to Floyd and then we'll get to Brian
Adis with Brian Adas roofing in Floyd.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Welcome even and Gary, listen, I need you to bail
me out here. We take a dog, we like a
lot of people. When we leave the house. Sometimes we'll
leave the dogs in the bathroom. Problem is we got
a rescue dog a few years back, and good dog
any other time, but she likes to dig up the tiles.
(16:51):
I have replaced the tiles multiple times. Sometimes it's larger.
I had like three different tiles, you know, set on
the floor, three different size and of them are like
eight inch down to uh one and a half two
inch tiles just different pattern in there. But uh, I've
got the pre mix con you know, the pre mixed
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cement and stuff, uh for the you know, for adhesion
for the tile floor and everything, and sometimes it works
and sometimes it doesn't. I just wonder if there's something
I can use without having to tear up my whole floor. Yeah,
I mean because literally the way the pattern is, there's
just no gonna be no easy way to you know,
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tear out to do a big fix, I'm gonna have
to tear out half of the bathroom and replace a
whole sheet of underlayment there. I can't remember it was
a tile backer what it was it got down there?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
But uh, is there anything I could possibly use them
with with? Like what's the best adhesion? I mean as
far as gripping that tile and keeping it down and
then you know, I guess I grouted you know, like
aunt a few times and hopefully you really get it
the lock in.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Is this a ceramic tile? Is that what it is? Yes?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
That ceramic is not fortunately a ceramic.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And and how wide are the grout lines?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Oh? Kind of very that there's there's maybe uh eighth
of an inch maybe.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
How in the world is that dog getting that tie up.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I really do not know. She is persistent, Yeah she is,
She's magical. I mean, I just I've never had and
we've had other dogs through the years, never had any problem,
but this one you name it that she can just go.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah. Well, I don't know if I have any miracle
cure for it. I mean, you know, it's a cementatious material.
I mean, if you make thin set or you have
thin set, it's basically concrete that that tile is set in.
It's just concrete. Now I'm guessing what you have underneath
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the thin set is cement board, which is fine.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I mean, it looked like a waffle if I remember,
I can't remember what the name of what the brand
of it was, but it looked.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And ready rock.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It was something else, was it? I don't remember, honestly.
I just I just I.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Know, does it feel like concrete? Does it feel like No, that.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Made it more like a fibrous materials.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
But maybe if I do that to replace it with
some the cement board and staid and then.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Go that route, Well, I don't know what you have,
so you know, I mean usually there's a fabric that
goes over called schlooter. Or there's concrete board and and
you use thin set, and that's the way most tile
is installed. I don't know what would be more durable
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than that. But if it's a dog that's digging it
up or popping it off, if it's cement board, you know,
maybe you put it down with construction adhesive.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
That's what I was wondering. I'm going to ask you
out of it, because I've noticed a lot of times
I'm one the step on that top you know, on
these britaining walls outside. A lot of times, you know,
when I'm walking walking around, I'll step on that top
layer and it doesn't move. And I realized I was
thinking that that's that's construction of ahesive. But no hard
telling whether or not that would be any better at all.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, yeah, it is, it is. I mean, but if
you're looking at the bonding strength of cement to cement
or cement to tile versus construction adhesive, I would say,
and I'm guessing I don't have data on that, but
I would think construction adhesive would probably be harder to
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pull it away to free it up, if you will, so.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
All right, I may try that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, so again, It depends on what that's going on.
But if it's originally enough surface, I would say you've
tried everything else, you got nothing to lose. I think
that's what I would try.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's a good point. It can't hurt, right,
I mean it's it's two or three times a year.
I've got to go through it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That's crazy to do this, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I'm getting good at it.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I just wish I didn't have to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, after thirty nine years, I've never had that call.
So congratulations, Floyd.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I'm a first time all Right, Well i'll try to
maybe I'll try to keep your posting.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, do so let me know. I'd love to know.
Thank you much. I appreciate. All Right, we're going to
take a little break, and then Brian Addis for Mattis
Roofing is going to be joining us. We're going to
talk about if that's in your future, meaning this year,
or there's damage, maybe he can give us some tips
on how to take care of that damage from all
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the wind and storms. So Brian'll be joining us as
we take our break. You're at home with Gary Salvan
right here in fifty five KRCE de Talk station. All right,
back in it we go. I know this is on
some people's project list because it happens every year. In fact,
I've heard him working in neighborhoods already and that's roofing.
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If that's on your list, I don't know if i'd
call it a bucket list, i'd really it is kind
of a bucket list. Gee, I need a new roof.
I'm going to get one. But it's also one of
those things, what are you looking for? So I've got
Brian Addis. He is with Addis Roofing. Get it. The
last name's the same, so it's a family owned business. Brian,
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welcome to that home with Gary Salvin. How you doing, man,
My man, Gary, thanks for having me back. You're quite welcome.
So roofing season it is, that's for sure. Tell everybody
about out atis roofing kind of. I loved your philosophy
when we first met. I love your you know, the
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way of doing business because not everybody does business the
old fashioned way, and you guys certainly do. Tell me
a little bit about Brian Adis Roofing.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
We're based out of Mainville, Ohio. We service the Greater
Cincinnati area. Yeah, we we like to do things in
the old fashioned way. We have computer programs that can
measure your roof, but we'd like to get up there,
climb around and use a tape measure to make sure
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that these measurements are accurate.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think that's so important, Brian. I know a lot
of people maybe just listening, I said, well, why is
that so important? Well, everybody can order the quality or
the same you know, amount of roofing, But when you're
up on a roof. I mean there's people that fly
drones and do this and do that. But when you're
on a roof, you really get a feel for the roof.
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You see how it was installed, you see maybe imperfections
on the uh flashing in things, and and truly you
get a you get a room roof inspection when you
call atis roofing to get a bit. Is that fair
to say? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
It is, and and it's you know, when you're walking
around on the on the roof, you can tell you
if the decking is still in pretty good shape, or
if we get weak spots or dry rot. Right, You're
not gonna be able to do that unless you're actually
physically on it, and we're not We're not coming down
and surprising homeowner smack in the middle of a job.
We're kind of aware of it before we ever start
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that to them right from the beginning, right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Right, I was going to say that, and that you
can feel the difference, and you're walking across the roof,
you know where the bad spots are, and not everybody
he has those kind of bad spots. But if you
got him, you're exactly right. Boy. As a consumer, I'm
sure want you telling me, hey, I think you're gonna
have a little issue with the decking here and here,
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rather than right in the middle of the job and
say hey, we've got a problem here. And that goes
on a lot. Yeah. Yeah, So what are some of
the signs. I mean, if I'm sitting in a home
right now and I'm thinking I think I need a roof,
and gee, I had a twenty five year warranty, thirty
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year warranty, I think I got about twenty two years
on it. What are some of the signs that your
roof is failing?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
If your down spouts, for instance, that they if they
daylight out into the ground, if you notice a lot
of granules starting to build up, or if you can
climb up and look at your gutters and see tons
of sand. That's that's going to be a telltale sign
that your griff is in this third and final stage. Okay,
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you know the granules are there to protect the shingles
from the UV raids and once they start popping off,
then then you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah. So I guess the next question is once I
decide I probably need to get somebody out there, and
I tell people, I mean, get a couple estimates. And
I know you kind of agree with that. You stand
by what you say because if you get a couple
of estimates, you're they're probably not going to say the
same thing. And it's not always about price. That's fair
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to say, is it not correct?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
And and I tell folks when I when I speak
with them, are you getting other estimates? And and a
lot of times you know they are. And I encourage it.
And I said, well, if they don't point this stuff
out to you, you might want to you might want
to second guess that that contractor there's there's things that
you know I want to went out that has to
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be taken care of. And if they're not pointing that out,
then then you might want to that might be a
red flag to you.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Sure, what would some of those things be Brian that
you're you know, concerned that they may just gloss over.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Uh Like for instance, I deal with a lot of
real estate transactions, and you know, and that's one of
the questions I asked the homeowners are they buying or selling?
Especially if they're selling, so you want to make sure
your bath fans are vented correctly. You don't want them
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just shooting that moist air right into your attic. You
want to make sure that they're hooked up to event
that's either in the sidewall or or an actual roof
vent And and a lot of the roofs I get
on they do.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Not have.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Roof fence for those, but some of the houses have
them on the side or and some just don't. We
make sure that that they're getting everything ventilated out of
that attic.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And that is important with roofing is ventilation, whether it's
the bathroom fan or whether it's the soface and ridge
vent I mean, ventilation is the key to increasing the
life of your roof.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Correct and moisture is the number one killer heats heats
number two. But you know you need moisture to hold heat.
You definitely want to be able to get all that
out of the out of the attic the best you can.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I get asked a lotch should my flashing be replaced?
If I'm having a new roof put on, the.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Majority of it should be. Now like the counter flashing,
sometimes that doesn't need necessarily need chains just because of
the type of metal it is and how it's attached
to the brick right uh now around Chimney's, we like
to change that out because it's you know, if it
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doesn't look like us, then you know, we want to
make sure that we're not getting callbacks.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
But yeah, as far as step flashing a your pipe
boot flashing is all those gotta aprons drip edge, some
base flashings.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Need to change it out, how about the about that?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Another thing about the moisture, getting the moisture out of
the attic, is that moisture, once it builds up, it's
going to weigh your insulation down and then your insulation
isn't working right, So you definitely want to get to
keep the moisture out.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Of your attic, right Well, that's absolutely key and probably
the guarantee on the on the shingles is void if
you don't have the proper ventilation. I'm guessing that you're right.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
The four and five star warranty that we can offer
every time I fill those out for the homeowner, it's
right there. Hey, is there sufficient intake and exhaust? And
the answer is yes, have to work in with it,
but it is required before it gives them a reason
not to honor that warranty.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Is snow and ice guarred? Is that by code in
our area? Yees?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Since twenty thirteen, it's code in all eighty eight counties
in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, So that takes the question out of that that
used to be one of the you know, well we
can add this or not add this. So now it's
definitely in there. And I think based on last winter,
I think that's okay.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, last winter, the folks that had were very happy
they did.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah. If how about the shingles? People always ask me, well,
what's the best greatest shingles? I I always like to
say that if you're picking a good roof, or you're
going to pick somebody that's using good shingles, because your
reputations on.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
That that's true. Uh, we we prefer to use Certainty
brand jingles. We've actually tried out that Tamco Titan X
T shingle some it seems to be pretty good. But
certain T they have a they have a really good
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warranty and they stand behind it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, and we've we've been using this for a while.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I have it on my own house.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's it's got it on mine too. It's a good shingle.
It's a good shingle. All right, let me, Uh, how
do people get ahold of your company if they want
to bid? And how they reach out with you by
my phone? Is way?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah? Eight three five roof five one three eight three
five roof?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
All right, you got a few more minutes for me.
We'll take a break. I just want to cover a
little storm damage if that's okay, sure, all right, let's
take a break. Brian Adis from Addis Roofing is my guest,
and you're at home with Gary Salvan right here on
fifty five are see the talk station. All right, back
at it. Brian Addis is joining me. He is with
Addis Roofing. We've been talking about his uh business and
(32:30):
uh his ability to help you with a brand new
roof and certainly encourage you to give them uh an
opportunity to get you a bid. I've always talked about
getting you know, a couple bids on a big project.
And it's an opportunity for you as a consumer to
ask questions. You agree with that, Brian, I mean, you know,
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like if if I don't know anything about roofing and
this guy saying flashing, and this guy's saying no fleshing,
you can ask the guy saying no fleshing, why no fleshing.
He's going to give you why he thinks no fleshing.
And the next guy you're going to say, well, what
do you think about fleshing? I get somebody says no fleshing,
(33:14):
he goes, what did your other guy tell you there's
a hole in your fleshing and you need it? Nears
a picture. I mean, it's an opportunity for the consumer
to ask you questions. Correct correct yeah's, and you know.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
It keeps everybody, keeps everybody honest, and you know it
actually it actually helps helps me because I want to
hear what other companies are saying customers.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That's very true, that's very true. So we've had certainly
some severe storms and a lot of wind. What are things?
You know, some mother nature, But some of the wind
rating on shingles is outstanding these days. Correct.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
True.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
For instance, the certain team that we like to use
right out of a package, it's one hundred and ten
miles an hour. But because we're a select shingle master
through certain Teed, we used the products that automatically give
the wind up grade to one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah, And we had we had a storm that went
through Lebanon about a month ago, and a tornado was
just north of a customer's house of mine, and she
did lose some shingles. I believe they it hit ninety
miles an hour and she called right away, said hey, sod,
I called my answers. I said, no, you're those those
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shingles are warranted up to one hundred and thirty. And
it was just a couple of singles, you know. I
was able to get up there, get it handled. I
turned to claim into the certain Teed's warranty division and
everything was handled. She was tackled to death. She thought
she was going to have to get through a whole
nother claim of like no worry about it.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Discovered that's awesome and congratulations for you to follen through
with that, because that's the key when you're hiring somebody
on your house, and especially a roofer, where you know
you're talking a good warranty and you want to make
sure that your roofer is standing behind that warranty because
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you're delivering the message to the company that's warranting it.
And I think that's a big credit to Atis Roofing.
I think that's one of the reasons why people want
to deal with you.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Yeah, And that's another thing. With all the wind and
everything that's going on, insurance companies over the last couple
of years have really made changes to how they're treating
wind and hail, and so in order to counter that,
you want to make sure that they know, hey, I
have this warranty. It's rated up to this. This wind
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rating right and those that wind rating on certain tea
jingles last fifteen years from the day of installed fifteen years.
It's guaranteed not to blow off under that one thirty yep.
So they need to make sure that the agent knows that.
And also whether it has the class Class three or
Class four impact rating, they may even be able to
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they might be able to fight back on their insurance
streamiums with a shingle that will actually lessen the insurance
company's risk, and insurance companies have been been willing to
work with homeowners and rippers in that respect.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So I totally agree and that you're right, Brian, that
whole game is changing to a point where you know
they're they're sending out notices to Homer saying, hey, you
know you got your roof is old. You know it's
got stains on it. You got to get that fixed
or replaced. I mean, it's being a proactive homeowner. If
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you're having a roofer working with somebody like Brian here,
you can consult with people and teach them about this.
Because I haven't seen too much written up about it,
but it's definitely it's a world that's changing.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
It is, and I mean I look at my insurance
possibly closely every year, and I encourage everybody, especially this
time of year, take a look at it because here
recently you're deductible, but that.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
There's changes, and deductible's one of them.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, the deductible on just about anything in your house
is a certain amount at to set them out. But
there's one giant page in there that says, hey, if
anything happens to your roof, wind or hail, I've seen
it as high as twenty five hundred. I've also seen
where they're putting in age clauses now and they're saying, well,
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we're going to it's your deductible is now one percent
of your house. So that could be three, four or
five thousand dollars. I mean, you know, the sky's a
limit as far as that goes what the value of
her house is worth. So people really need to take
a look at that.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, if there's ever a time to be dealing with
a good company that's doing roofing, now is the time.
So just if you and you take care of your
customers in terms of you're looking for somebody, I guess
that is you're their roofer, right if they're storm damage.
You take care of the people that have taken care
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of you, right, Yeah, don't ignore shingles that are laying
in your front yard. I guess that's kind of what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, I actually got a call that was about a
week ago. I've got shingles in my arts. Well those
not yours, those are your neighbors. I went and knocked
on that door. But you know another thing about Certainty
and it's the only company that every shingle on that
house has a date code on it.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Really and yes, So if.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Your insurance company says, hey, your roof is thirty years
old and we're going to cancel your policy or we're
not going to cover it, if it's a Certainty brand shingle,
you can remove that shingle and show the insurance company, Hey,
this is not thirty years old. It's ten years old.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Nice, It's easily provable. I've helped out several customers recently.
They it said, well, the insurance company said it hasn't
been placed through insurance. I said, yeah, the homeowner probably
replaced it because they felt like they needed it replaced,
and the roof was done a lot more recent than
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the homeowner had realized.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Sure, well, folks, that's Brian Addison is adisroofing dot com.
Adas Roofing is a d dsom dot com. You can
call him at five one three eight three five roof
and Brian, thanks for joining us today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Gary, you bet you take care all right. I encourage
you give him a call I roofing is in your future.
He does a great job. All right, Danny boy, thank
you very much. What a fun day is very busy
and thanks for your help, good Lord Willing. We'll be
back next week. No we won't. We'll be back tomorrow, tomorrow. Heck,
we're back every day, right right here on fifty five ARC,
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the talk station
Well, best part of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon. Welcome now our number four and you're at
home with Gary Salvan taking it through another weekend. By
the way, we're going to chat up to about you
and me. We're going to chat up to about twelve
thirty and then Brian Adis from Brian Addis Roofing will
join me. I wanted to have him on as we
head into the summertime of the year, and I know
(00:22):
a lot of folks talk about replacing roofs, proper way
to replace roofs, things to consider, what to look for
in an estimate, and we've had storms, so we're going
to talk about roof repair also. So that'll be at
the twelve thirty mark, so there's plenty of time for
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you to join us. It's eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five and let's get back to the
phone calls. We've got Jacqueline. Jacqueline, welcome hither.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thank you for all you do, Thank you for your time.
I have a question about our showers. It's a nice
tile shower. It was part of a a whole bathroom
model about twelve or fifteen years ago. And everything's great
except where there's there's this one grout line on the
floor of the shower that runs horizontally across the floor
(01:17):
right through the dream. So and it feels spongey when
I step on it, if that makes sense. And so,
and it's turning white like that, like the groud has
worn off, because all the other grout looks like the
regular color of grout. Now this is all white. My
question is is this dangerous? Like I know there's a
cement floor underneath that. When they put in the showery model,
(01:40):
it was all a cement floor, but my husband and
I aren't grated the y and we don't know anything
about Yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The worst spongee is never good if it's on concrete. Okay,
So I mean you know, I mean you got ceramic tile,
you got grout with us, which is a sementatious uh
you know properties and then you know you got the
(02:08):
shower pan or you got a fiberglass pan. But sometimes
you have wood involved. I don't know if there is
on that or not. The only thing I know building
materials that get spongy would be you know wood, is
this is there a basement underneath it or anything? To
kind of look up and see anything.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, there's no leaking. This is on the top floor
and then we have our main floor and then the
leaking and then we walk up.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, so you can't tell if other things going on
there and and so yeah, I mean spongy isn't good?
Is as far as the what what color is the
tile and the grout you said normal color.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, the grout is like a grayish and the gray
I had to match the color of the grout that
I didn't have to clean white grouse to make it
white all the times color.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So this one line of grout is white.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So yeah, like the grout is all worn off, it
looks like so well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So groud can be mixed in all different colors. And
I think you probably remember when you're picking out grout,
they give you this thing of grout which is all
these different colors. Yes, but some of that can wear off.
Some grout is painted. Some grout also gets what they
call efflorescence. Efflorescence is a lime and salt that's coming
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to the surface of the groud. It looks like it
looks like salt almost, So you know, I guess the
question I have for you, does it look like salt?
Or does it just look like it's turned white.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It looks like it's turned white.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, white grout, you like a you grout like around
a tub or something.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, that's what it looks like me.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I didn't know if we should hire somebody to
redo that entire floor or well. I think I could tackle.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, it depends. I think you would need some experience
doing that before you would tackle a project like that.
I think what I would do is I would have
somebody look at it. I can't see it. I can't
tell you exactly what's going on, But when you use
the word spongy, that would concern me because that concerns
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me that there could be some wood rot. I don't
know what's going on into there. I don't know if
it's a fiberglass tray, a lead tray, whatever tray, or
it was just put, you know, a a thin coat
of concrete over wood. I just don't know. But if
you're walking on it and you say it feels spongy,
(04:57):
there's a little bit of concern there. So you know,
just tell them, you know, get somebody out there. And
just like I'd like to have a quote, where do
you think is going you know QUIZM, you know, and
you know, maybe he gives you an estimate. You go, yeah,
that's something I want to do. I don't know if
it's something you need to do without really inspecting it.
(05:18):
And I think you need somebody there that knows what
they're looking for to explain it to what's going on.
Probably the best I can answer, Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, okay, Well, thank you, thank you so much for
your time.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. Let's go to Connie.
Connie welcome.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, we have a crack in our driveway and this
has been going on for some time and I can't.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Get my husband, of course, to do anything.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
About it, except he'll look at it. But what what
products do I use to fill in that crack so
it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Cheap get any worse?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, was it a concrete driveway?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's a concrete driveway, okay. And a crack can be
almost like just an eighth of an inch to almost
a half an inch wide further on down the length
of the one of the blocks.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So there's basically two products you would need because the
one that's an eighth of an inch you want to
use what they call crack and seal, and crack seal
is a jug with a latex crack filler that's about
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the consistency of a milkshake. It's got a little spout
on it. It's made by quick Crete and it's just
just a crack filler. So you would clean that out,
make sure there's no dirt, weeds or anything like that
in there, and you would just squeeze or you know,
it's like a like a milkshake is thick with a
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little jug and a spout and you fill that crack.
Now it gets a little more complicated when that crack
gets bigger, you know, maybe even as wide as a pencil.
At some point, you can use that cracked seal in
those type of cracks, and if you want to fill
it with that and try it, you can. Usually when
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those cracks are that large, you need something that has
a little better adhesion, a little better almost like a
euthane or an advanced resin crack filler in there. So
if you fill the small crack or the thinner crack
with a crack seal, and then when you get to
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the larger area again make sure it's absolutely clean. Quick
Crete makes Again it's something in a calking tube and
it's called self leveling crack sealer, and you with a
calking gun, you run a bead of calking in that
crack and it weeps and it levels out, so that's smooth.
(08:10):
You don't have to do anything else to put that
bead of crack filler. In fact, I think I'd probably
do the wider one first and you'll be able to
tell when you start getting when that crack starts getting
a little too thin to use that product correctly because
it won't flow in there and level out as well.
So self leveling crack filler and a calking tube and
(08:34):
then crack seal and the jug for a smaller crack.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Will these be a color? I mean, will it what color?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It'll be gray?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It'll be gray, but there's a million colors of gray.
And you know, depending on where we live, certainly dictates
the color of our concrete. You know, in the Northeast
it's black, in the Midwest it's gray, in the South
it's readish. You know, So it's not always a perfect match.
(09:07):
But if you don't feel it, you create more erosion
underneath the slab and it continues to get bad.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, what about like I know it's in one spot.
The it's wider and it's like pieces of the concrete
can be pulled out, Well, pull them out, pull them out. Yeah, okay.
And another thing, we have an exposed aggregate sidewalk and
(09:35):
porch to make sure. You have to seal those every
once in a while. And I can tell that ours
needs to be sealed. It looks faded or grace or whatever. Yeah,
use on that.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, it's a it's a special sailor, so it's it's shiny,
and you would use it for exposed aggregate concrete and
also for stamped concrete. And actually you can get that
online if you'd like. There's a website called Masonry Defender,
(10:10):
So it's masonrydefender dot com. And there's a seiler there
that'll say for stamp concrete or exposed to aggregate concrete.
That's the one you want to use.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay. And you we mentioned a long time ago. I
remember listening to you that it is good for a
person to reseal their entire driveway.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, yeah, I mean, it's an extra line of protection
on that Masonry Defender. The one reason I like that
website is it's easy to negotiate. They have project specific sealers.
So if you have a standard concrete driveway, nothing fancy,
it's been poored, it's been trialed, it's a driveway. Yeah,
(10:58):
they have right. The first product they show you is
a driveway and sidewalk seiler, and that's for any kind
of just typical driveway. Nothing fancy, no exposed egg or
get no stamp, concrete, no brick, nothing, that's just a
concrete driveway. They have a masonry cleaner, which is always
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important to clean the driveway very good before you seal it.
And so you would clean it, you would let it
dry and then you would take the the driveway and
sidewalk seiler. You could put it in a tank sprayer
and just spray it on. You don't want to put
a lot on there. You don't want it to puddle.
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You just want to miss it on there so it
looks like a light shower had landed on it. It'll
soak in to the concrete and it'll seal it. And
the advantage there is it will exhaust moisture from underneath
that slab, which is good, but it'll minimize how much
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moisture goes into that slab. So you know, if you
live in a cold weather climate and you got you know,
rock salt on your car, it won't become corrosive, so
it really it also allows the concrete to dry out faster,
so it minimizes mold and mildew growth on concrete. So yeah,
it's a good idea to seal it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And also down near the bottom of the driveway it's
kind of pitted and I think it's from the salt.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It is it is, and if it would have been
and if it would have been sealed, it probably would
have prevented that. So for stopping the or smoothing that
area out, you would use a vinyl concrete patcher. It's
a powder you mix with water, you let it sit
for a couple minutes in the tub that you just mixed,
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and you trial it over those pitted marks. It's called spawling.
So to summarize vinyl concrete patcher, they're all in the
same aisle crack seal that's the jug for the small
cracks and the self leveling concrete seiler in the calking cartridge. Again,
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that's a quick Crete brand. You can go to their
website and see the videos on how to use it,
or you can go to the sealer that I was
speaking of that website masonrydefender dot com. It sounds like
you got a lot of work to do on that concrete,
but it pays to stay ahead of it. You don't
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want to get to a point where you're replacing that.
All right, we'll continue in at the bottom of the urway.
Have Brian Attis a sit tight, Bill and Floyd. You're
at home with Gary Salvin right here in fifty five
care see detalk station. All right, back at it. We
go at home with Gary Selvin. We've got a lovely
weekend to get a few things done around the home.
So seize the moment. And what is it, Danny, get
(13:59):
off the let's go. I'll get I guarantee I'm going
to get emails and say I've used that term in
the wrong context or something.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Or you really shouldn't say that on the radio.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's offensive. Hey, get what you pay for right, Yes,
all right, let's get back to the phone calls. Here
we got Bill, Bill, Welcome, Hello, Gary, how you doing.
I'm doing great? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I heard I heard you give a company that did
the bathtub floors crylic tugs. I didn't get a chance
to write it down, and you see you said it
was the only one that you guaranteed or you recommended.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I was, okay, so what what what are you doing?
All right? Tell me what the project is going to be.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well, all we want to do is get it clean.
It's got a stain it no matter what product we've used,
and we used everything so anyone told us, and we
just can't get it to come clean. It's just a
dark stain on the whole bottom of the you know,
on the bottom of the tub part.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay. And it's a porcelain tub.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, No, it's a one piece, an entire one piece,
a crylic insert you.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Know when you replace him.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay. So when I was talking about this company, this
was most definitely like Miracle Method where they recoat the tub. Yes, okay,
all right, So the name of that company is called
Miracle Method. It is a it is a franchise. And
you're in.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Cleveland, yes, AMers, right outside of it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They've got one of the that's where I first discovered
that product, probably twenty years ago. But it's called Miracle Method.
They do a great job. I used to run into
them in the Home show up in Cleveland and the
NAI Show and they they do a great job. There's
I'm in Cincinnati and they have a Miracle Method in
(15:57):
Cincinnati which I've personally used, had a couple of tubs,
had a countertop done, and they do do a great job, wonderful.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Okay, so I can just go online probably in contact.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yes, sir, yep, yep. I don't have their phone number,
but it's Miracle Method.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Okay, we got it. Thank you so much. I've been
missing you for years.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I appreciate it. Thank you much. All right, all right,
let's go to Floyd and then we'll get to Brian
Adis with Brian Adas roofing in Floyd.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Welcome even and Gary, listen, I need you to bail
me out here. We take a dog, we like a
lot of people. When we leave the house. Sometimes we'll
leave the dogs in the bathroom. Problem is we got
a rescue dog a few years back, and good dog
any other time, but she likes to dig up the tiles.
(16:51):
I have replaced the tiles multiple times. Sometimes it's larger.
I had like three different tiles, you know, set on
the floor, three different size and of them are like
eight inch down to uh one and a half two
inch tiles just different pattern in there. But uh, I've
got the pre mix con you know, the pre mixed
(17:13):
cement and stuff, uh for the you know, for adhesion
for the tile floor and everything, and sometimes it works
and sometimes it doesn't. I just wonder if there's something
I can use without having to tear up my whole floor. Yeah,
I mean because literally the way the pattern is, there's
just no gonna be no easy way to you know,
(17:34):
tear out to do a big fix, I'm gonna have
to tear out half of the bathroom and replace a
whole sheet of underlayment there. I can't remember it was
a tile backer what it was it got down there?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
But uh, is there anything I could possibly use them
with with? Like what's the best adhesion? I mean as
far as gripping that tile and keeping it down and
then you know, I guess I grouted you know, like
aunt a few times and hopefully you really get it
the lock in.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Is this a ceramic tile? Is that what it is? Yes?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
That ceramic is not fortunately a ceramic.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And and how wide are the grout lines?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Oh? Kind of very that there's there's maybe uh eighth
of an inch maybe.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
How in the world is that dog getting that tie up.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I really do not know. She is persistent, Yeah she is,
She's magical. I mean, I just I've never had and
we've had other dogs through the years, never had any problem,
but this one you name it that she can just go.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah. Well, I don't know if I have any miracle
cure for it. I mean, you know, it's a cementatious material.
I mean, if you make thin set or you have
thin set, it's basically concrete that that tile is set in.
It's just concrete. Now I'm guessing what you have underneath
(19:05):
the thin set is cement board, which is fine.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I mean, it looked like a waffle if I remember,
I can't remember what the name of what the brand
of it was, but it looked.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And ready rock.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It was something else, was it? I don't remember, honestly.
I just I just I.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Know, does it feel like concrete? Does it feel like No, that.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Made it more like a fibrous materials.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
But maybe if I do that to replace it with
some the cement board and staid and then.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Go that route, Well, I don't know what you have,
so you know, I mean usually there's a fabric that
goes over called schlooter. Or there's concrete board and and
you use thin set, and that's the way most tile
is installed. I don't know what would be more durable
(20:08):
than that. But if it's a dog that's digging it
up or popping it off, if it's cement board, you know,
maybe you put it down with construction adhesive.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
That's what I was wondering. I'm going to ask you
out of it, because I've noticed a lot of times
I'm one the step on that top you know, on
these britaining walls outside. A lot of times, you know,
when I'm walking walking around, I'll step on that top
layer and it doesn't move. And I realized I was
thinking that that's that's construction of ahesive. But no hard
telling whether or not that would be any better at all.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, yeah, it is, it is. I mean, but if
you're looking at the bonding strength of cement to cement
or cement to tile versus construction adhesive, I would say,
and I'm guessing I don't have data on that, but
I would think construction adhesive would probably be harder to
(21:04):
pull it away to free it up, if you will, so.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
All right, I may try that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, so again, It depends on what that's going on.
But if it's originally enough surface, I would say you've
tried everything else, you got nothing to lose. I think
that's what I would try.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's a good point. It can't hurt, right,
I mean it's it's two or three times a year.
I've got to go through it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That's crazy to do this, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I'm getting good at it.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I just wish I didn't have to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, after thirty nine years, I've never had that call.
So congratulations, Floyd.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I'm a first time all Right, Well i'll try to
maybe I'll try to keep your posting.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, do so let me know. I'd love to know.
Thank you much. I appreciate. All Right, we're going to
take a little break, and then Brian Addis for Mattis
Roofing is going to be joining us. We're going to
talk about if that's in your future, meaning this year,
or there's damage, maybe he can give us some tips
on how to take care of that damage from all
(22:06):
the wind and storms. So Brian'll be joining us as
we take our break. You're at home with Gary Salvan
right here in fifty five KRCE de Talk station. All right,
back in it we go. I know this is on
some people's project list because it happens every year. In fact,
I've heard him working in neighborhoods already and that's roofing.
(22:26):
If that's on your list, I don't know if i'd
call it a bucket list, i'd really it is kind
of a bucket list. Gee, I need a new roof.
I'm going to get one. But it's also one of
those things, what are you looking for? So I've got
Brian Addis. He is with Addis Roofing. Get it. The
last name's the same, so it's a family owned business. Brian,
(22:47):
welcome to that home with Gary Salvin. How you doing, man,
My man, Gary, thanks for having me back. You're quite welcome.
So roofing season it is, that's for sure. Tell everybody
about out atis roofing kind of. I loved your philosophy
when we first met. I love your you know, the
(23:08):
way of doing business because not everybody does business the
old fashioned way, and you guys certainly do. Tell me
a little bit about Brian Adis Roofing.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
We're based out of Mainville, Ohio. We service the Greater
Cincinnati area. Yeah, we we like to do things in
the old fashioned way. We have computer programs that can
measure your roof, but we'd like to get up there,
climb around and use a tape measure to make sure
(23:39):
that these measurements are accurate.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think that's so important, Brian. I know a lot
of people maybe just listening, I said, well, why is
that so important? Well, everybody can order the quality or
the same you know, amount of roofing, But when you're
up on a roof. I mean there's people that fly
drones and do this and do that. But when you're
on a roof, you really get a feel for the roof.
(24:06):
You see how it was installed, you see maybe imperfections
on the uh flashing in things, and and truly you
get a you get a room roof inspection when you
call atis roofing to get a bit. Is that fair
to say? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
It is, and and it's you know, when you're walking
around on the on the roof, you can tell you
if the decking is still in pretty good shape, or
if we get weak spots or dry rot. Right, You're
not gonna be able to do that unless you're actually
physically on it, and we're not We're not coming down
and surprising homeowner smack in the middle of a job.
We're kind of aware of it before we ever start
(24:46):
that to them right from the beginning, right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Right, I was going to say that, and that you
can feel the difference, and you're walking across the roof,
you know where the bad spots are, and not everybody
he has those kind of bad spots. But if you
got him, you're exactly right. Boy. As a consumer, I'm
sure want you telling me, hey, I think you're gonna
have a little issue with the decking here and here,
(25:12):
rather than right in the middle of the job and
say hey, we've got a problem here. And that goes
on a lot. Yeah. Yeah, So what are some of
the signs. I mean, if I'm sitting in a home
right now and I'm thinking I think I need a roof,
and gee, I had a twenty five year warranty, thirty
(25:35):
year warranty, I think I got about twenty two years
on it. What are some of the signs that your
roof is failing?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
If your down spouts, for instance, that they if they
daylight out into the ground, if you notice a lot
of granules starting to build up, or if you can
climb up and look at your gutters and see tons
of sand. That's that's going to be a telltale sign
that your griff is in this third and final stage. Okay,
(26:06):
you know the granules are there to protect the shingles
from the UV raids and once they start popping off,
then then you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah. So I guess the next question is once I
decide I probably need to get somebody out there, and
I tell people, I mean, get a couple estimates. And
I know you kind of agree with that. You stand
by what you say because if you get a couple
of estimates, you're they're probably not going to say the
same thing. And it's not always about price. That's fair
(26:36):
to say, is it not correct?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
And and I tell folks when I when I speak
with them, are you getting other estimates? And and a
lot of times you know they are. And I encourage it.
And I said, well, if they don't point this stuff
out to you, you might want to you might want
to second guess that that contractor there's there's things that
you know I want to went out that has to
(27:01):
be taken care of. And if they're not pointing that out,
then then you might want to that might be a
red flag to you.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Sure, what would some of those things be Brian that
you're you know, concerned that they may just gloss over.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Uh Like for instance, I deal with a lot of
real estate transactions, and you know, and that's one of
the questions I asked the homeowners are they buying or selling?
Especially if they're selling, so you want to make sure
your bath fans are vented correctly. You don't want them
(27:40):
just shooting that moist air right into your attic. You
want to make sure that they're hooked up to event
that's either in the sidewall or or an actual roof
vent And and a lot of the roofs I get
on they do.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Not have.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Roof fence for those, but some of the houses have
them on the side or and some just don't. We
make sure that that they're getting everything ventilated out of
that attic.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And that is important with roofing is ventilation, whether it's
the bathroom fan or whether it's the soface and ridge
vent I mean, ventilation is the key to increasing the
life of your roof.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Correct and moisture is the number one killer heats heats
number two. But you know you need moisture to hold heat.
You definitely want to be able to get all that
out of the out of the attic the best you can.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I get asked a lotch should my flashing be replaced?
If I'm having a new roof put on, the.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Majority of it should be. Now like the counter flashing,
sometimes that doesn't need necessarily need chains just because of
the type of metal it is and how it's attached
to the brick right uh now around Chimney's, we like
to change that out because it's you know, if it
(29:09):
doesn't look like us, then you know, we want to
make sure that we're not getting callbacks.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
But yeah, as far as step flashing a your pipe
boot flashing is all those gotta aprons drip edge, some
base flashings.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Need to change it out, how about the about that?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Another thing about the moisture, getting the moisture out of
the attic, is that moisture, once it builds up, it's
going to weigh your insulation down and then your insulation
isn't working right, So you definitely want to get to
keep the moisture out.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Of your attic, right Well, that's absolutely key and probably
the guarantee on the on the shingles is void if
you don't have the proper ventilation. I'm guessing that you're right.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
The four and five star warranty that we can offer
every time I fill those out for the homeowner, it's
right there. Hey, is there sufficient intake and exhaust? And
the answer is yes, have to work in with it,
but it is required before it gives them a reason
not to honor that warranty.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Is snow and ice guarred? Is that by code in
our area? Yees?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Since twenty thirteen, it's code in all eighty eight counties
in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, So that takes the question out of that that
used to be one of the you know, well we
can add this or not add this. So now it's
definitely in there. And I think based on last winter,
I think that's okay.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, last winter, the folks that had were very happy
they did.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah. If how about the shingles? People always ask me, well,
what's the best greatest shingles? I I always like to
say that if you're picking a good roof, or you're
going to pick somebody that's using good shingles, because your
reputations on.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
That that's true. Uh, we we prefer to use Certainty
brand jingles. We've actually tried out that Tamco Titan X
T shingle some it seems to be pretty good. But
certain T they have a they have a really good
(31:37):
warranty and they stand behind it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, and we've we've been using this for a while.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I have it on my own house.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's it's got it on mine too. It's a good shingle.
It's a good shingle. All right, let me, Uh, how
do people get ahold of your company if they want
to bid? And how they reach out with you by
my phone? Is way?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah? Eight three five roof five one three eight three
five roof?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
All right, you got a few more minutes for me.
We'll take a break. I just want to cover a
little storm damage if that's okay, sure, all right, let's
take a break. Brian Adis from Addis Roofing is my guest,
and you're at home with Gary Salvan right here on
fifty five are see the talk station. All right, back
at it. Brian Addis is joining me. He is with
Addis Roofing. We've been talking about his uh business and
(32:30):
uh his ability to help you with a brand new
roof and certainly encourage you to give them uh an
opportunity to get you a bid. I've always talked about
getting you know, a couple bids on a big project.
And it's an opportunity for you as a consumer to
ask questions. You agree with that, Brian, I mean, you know,
(32:53):
like if if I don't know anything about roofing and
this guy saying flashing, and this guy's saying no fleshing,
you can ask the guy saying no fleshing, why no fleshing.
He's going to give you why he thinks no fleshing.
And the next guy you're going to say, well, what
do you think about fleshing? I get somebody says no fleshing,
(33:14):
he goes, what did your other guy tell you there's
a hole in your fleshing and you need it? Nears
a picture. I mean, it's an opportunity for the consumer
to ask you questions. Correct correct yeah's, and you know.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
It keeps everybody, keeps everybody honest, and you know it
actually it actually helps helps me because I want to
hear what other companies are saying customers.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That's very true, that's very true. So we've had certainly
some severe storms and a lot of wind. What are things?
You know, some mother nature, But some of the wind
rating on shingles is outstanding these days. Correct.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
True.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
For instance, the certain team that we like to use
right out of a package, it's one hundred and ten
miles an hour. But because we're a select shingle master
through certain Teed, we used the products that automatically give
the wind up grade to one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah, And we had we had a storm that went
through Lebanon about a month ago, and a tornado was
just north of a customer's house of mine, and she
did lose some shingles. I believe they it hit ninety
miles an hour and she called right away, said hey, sod,
I called my answers. I said, no, you're those those
(34:45):
shingles are warranted up to one hundred and thirty. And
it was just a couple of singles, you know. I
was able to get up there, get it handled. I
turned to claim into the certain Teed's warranty division and
everything was handled. She was tackled to death. She thought
she was going to have to get through a whole
nother claim of like no worry about it.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Discovered that's awesome and congratulations for you to follen through
with that, because that's the key when you're hiring somebody
on your house, and especially a roofer, where you know
you're talking a good warranty and you want to make
sure that your roofer is standing behind that warranty because
(35:24):
you're delivering the message to the company that's warranting it.
And I think that's a big credit to Atis Roofing.
I think that's one of the reasons why people want
to deal with you.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Yeah, And that's another thing. With all the wind and
everything that's going on, insurance companies over the last couple
of years have really made changes to how they're treating
wind and hail, and so in order to counter that,
you want to make sure that they know, hey, I
have this warranty. It's rated up to this. This wind
(36:00):
rating right and those that wind rating on certain tea
jingles last fifteen years from the day of installed fifteen years.
It's guaranteed not to blow off under that one thirty yep.
So they need to make sure that the agent knows that.
And also whether it has the class Class three or
Class four impact rating, they may even be able to
(36:23):
they might be able to fight back on their insurance
streamiums with a shingle that will actually lessen the insurance
company's risk, and insurance companies have been been willing to
work with homeowners and rippers in that respect.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So I totally agree and that you're right, Brian, that
whole game is changing to a point where you know
they're they're sending out notices to Homer saying, hey, you
know you got your roof is old. You know it's
got stains on it. You got to get that fixed
or replaced. I mean, it's being a proactive homeowner. If
(37:03):
you're having a roofer working with somebody like Brian here,
you can consult with people and teach them about this.
Because I haven't seen too much written up about it,
but it's definitely it's a world that's changing.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
It is, and I mean I look at my insurance
possibly closely every year, and I encourage everybody, especially this
time of year, take a look at it because here
recently you're deductible, but that.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
There's changes, and deductible's one of them.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, the deductible on just about anything in your house
is a certain amount at to set them out. But
there's one giant page in there that says, hey, if
anything happens to your roof, wind or hail, I've seen
it as high as twenty five hundred. I've also seen
where they're putting in age clauses now and they're saying, well,
(37:56):
we're going to it's your deductible is now one percent
of your house. So that could be three, four or
five thousand dollars. I mean, you know, the sky's a
limit as far as that goes what the value of
her house is worth. So people really need to take
a look at that.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, if there's ever a time to be dealing with
a good company that's doing roofing, now is the time.
So just if you and you take care of your
customers in terms of you're looking for somebody, I guess
that is you're their roofer, right if they're storm damage.
You take care of the people that have taken care
(38:32):
of you, right, Yeah, don't ignore shingles that are laying
in your front yard. I guess that's kind of what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, I actually got a call that was about a
week ago. I've got shingles in my arts. Well those
not yours, those are your neighbors. I went and knocked
on that door. But you know another thing about Certainty
and it's the only company that every shingle on that
house has a date code on it.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Really and yes, So if.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Your insurance company says, hey, your roof is thirty years
old and we're going to cancel your policy or we're
not going to cover it, if it's a Certainty brand shingle,
you can remove that shingle and show the insurance company, Hey,
this is not thirty years old. It's ten years old.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Nice, It's easily provable. I've helped out several customers recently.
They it said, well, the insurance company said it hasn't
been placed through insurance. I said, yeah, the homeowner probably
replaced it because they felt like they needed it replaced,
and the roof was done a lot more recent than
(39:48):
the homeowner had realized.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Sure, well, folks, that's Brian Addison is adisroofing dot com.
Adas Roofing is a d dsom dot com. You can
call him at five one three eight three five roof
and Brian, thanks for joining us today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Gary, you bet you take care all right. I encourage
you give him a call I roofing is in your future.
He does a great job. All right, Danny boy, thank
you very much. What a fun day is very busy
and thanks for your help, good Lord Willing. We'll be
back next week. No we won't. We'll be back tomorrow, tomorrow. Heck,
we're back every day, right right here on fifty five ARC,
(40:30):
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