May 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Gary takes your calls, tips and questions. We also hear from our friends Summit Chemical.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, the weekend is upon us. Welcome aboard at
home with Gary Sullivan, just babbling along and talking a
little home improvement. Thanks for joining me. Uh, if you
have a question regarding your home project, do so. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. And
I know a lot of us have a well, we
have a to do list that's longer than we'd love
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and it all starts with the ability to get outside
and have some decent weather where I'm at it. Well,
it's dry today and a lot of storms on Friday
now it's awful down in Kentucky, but it's dry here today.
It was dry yesterday, but a little windy, and we
can get outside and maybe move some things around, get
some cracks patch, some things painted, or whatever's on your list.
(01:24):
Let's talk about it again. Those lines are open, and
it's eight hundred eighty two three A two five. I
should say a two five, right, Danny. Eight hundred eight
eight two three three? What is the number, Danny? I
can't think of it, all right, Danny's on the line
taking a call.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I was taking a call there, Gary, but you butchered
the phone number.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Thank you very much. Oh, no, no problem. How can
you give that phone number for at least thirty years,
You've given it since I've been in probably middle school,
and now you get it wrong. It happens.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It happened, A two three, A very good three.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't know what to say, that's what happens. I
always make a list of things to talk about, and
for the most part, I dispensed that knowledge without too
many hiccups. But today, during the last two minutes, I'm
reading all my notes and trying to remember the phone
(02:27):
number and can't do it. So I don't know what
to tell you, Danny. As I always say, you get
what you pay for.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, I need more help than I can give you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I hear you. Okay, I need help. There's no question.
Let's go to Sandy. Maybe we can help her. I
can't help myself. Maybe we can help Sandy.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Hello, Sandy, Hi airhouse has algae on it and my
son in law has tried to get it off and can't.
And we were wondering if you knew a company or
someone there's a professional to get that off.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
M Yeah, let me ask you a couple of questions.
In fact, there's all kinds of uh places that remove
or professional home cleaners where they clean roofs and everything else.
But before we get in that, what did he try
to remove it? And what is the algae on?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It's on the house on, it's siding on.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Is it vinyl sighting?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, well there are professional companies that can do that.
There's also a product that is super easy to use
and it will work. It's it's it's a phenomenal product.
You may have heard me speak about it. It's called
Wet and Forget what it's called wet and forget.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
This is how easy it is, all right. It comes
in a bottle which you connect your hose to and
it will spray up as high as thirty feet sandy
and you just wet that whole siding down with the
wet and forget product that's in the bottle, hoses attached,
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Flip a lever and wet that siding down and you're done.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You don't have to scrub, you don't have flat no.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Flat f wet w et and forget fo r get.
So it's wetn forget And it's like I said, it
has a spray bottle. You just spray it on to
the siding, no issues you wait four to six weeks.
(04:55):
All you do is spray it on. In four to
six weeks, the algae, the mold, the mildew, the fungus,
whatever is growing on that siding will disappear. Okay, and
you know it's safe, it's easy to use. You know,
the whole thing might cost you, you know, thirty forty
bucks and you're done.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Thank you, You're.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Welcome, Thank you, Cindy, take care, bye bye. Always read
the instructions. Relatively safe for plannings and different things. Everybody
wants to know that. Of course, you don't want to,
you know, kill your landscaping. It's a very safe product.
It does recommend that you cover the plannings, just from
a precautionary standpoint. So if you want to cover it
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with some plastic, that's fine. If you don't want to
cover it and you just want to spray the wed
and forget on the house, yeah, okay. Just when you're
finished doing that, take that same hose, disconnect the bottle
and just wet down the bushes. Just take your hose
and rinse the leaves off those bush and you'll be fine.
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It's it's a it is a wonderful product. It is
a product that I know when it first came to market,
I'm like, yeah, right, you spray it on your house
and you don't do anything. I want to see that
and tried multiple bottles actually on different houses and it
worked great and it's uh and they've really improved. Originally
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it was just to concentrate you had to mix it
with water in a tank sprayer, which was it. And
they still make that for like driveway sidewalks. You can
use it on you know, all horizontal surfaces too, a
paver patio, they still make that product. But for getting
it off a sighting that's you know, twenty feet up
in the air, that was a little more challenging. Or
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on the roof to get rid of those black streaks
of fungus, that was a little more challenging. And probably
about three four five years ago they came out with
a hose end bottle and that was a game changer.
And not to just marriage people that have companies that
come and clean houses. That is really a big business
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now and multiple companies, a lot of franchises and they
clean sighting, they'll clean roofs, they'll do driveways, paver patios,
sidewalks and it's more of a an instant satisfaction. Spray
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it on and it's it's a cleaner, but works immediately.
Even the black staining that you'll get on aluminum gutters
or aluminum frames of windows, it does. It's very very effective,
very efficient. But for that standard algae and stuff on
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sighting and roofs, you can try the wet and forget.
If you want to get one of the folks that
do the houses. It's like a spreading malt. You can't stop.
It looks so good. You know, if you're doing it
for the sighting, it'll look so good you'll do all
the sighting back in front. You'll end up doing the roof.
You'll probably end up doing your sidewalks. In fact, if
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your sidewalks are kind of gray and they just you know,
they're blackish gray, they just look dirty, that's a fungus
and an algae that went and forget. If you spray
it on there and it's kind of weird, I mean,
you spray it on there, you don't do anything, and
nothing really changes until about five six weeks out, and
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that sidewalk not only will it be clean, it will
stay clean probably for about a year or two. It's
got to start all over. The fungus and algae got
to start all over and regenerate and begin to grow
on the surface. So it's a complete kill. It's good stuff,
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better than a pressure washer. All pressure washers are doing,
for the most part, is just blasting it off the concrete.
There's no residual to keep it from regrowing, and it's
not really a complete kill, so it will outperform a
pressure washer. All right again, our phone numbers eight hundred
eight two three, eight two five five. Grab a line.
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We've got a spot for you. You're at home with Gary Slivan.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Takes it right with a call to Gary's Ellivan at
one eight hundred eight two three talk. This is at
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improvement on your weekend, as we do each and every weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
If you'd like to join us, do so. We're gonna
go back to the phones. By the way, we're gonna
talk about mosquitoes and ticks at the bottom of the hour.
With all the rain we've had in our area, it's
a problem and we'll discuss that with our friends from Summit.
Let's go to Lisa. Lisa, welcome, Hi, how are you today?
Doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I called the tail end of the conversation with the
lady before me and you were talking about the wet
and Forget, which is great news for my gutters. But
I also have solar panels. Is there something that you
can do for them? Or is there something else without?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, you had to that's what Yeah, well I
guess that, well you do. But the wet and forget
would be fine, but I don't think that's really the
product you need. So wet and Forget is not just
a cleaner. It is a cleaner that specifically zeros in
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on mold, mildew, algae, fungus, lichen. So usually in the
solar panels, the things that are you know, on the
solar panel might be bird droppings, pollen, dust, and just
soap and water would be the thing you would clean
those off with, and you do them periodically. You turn
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the system off, you know, before cleaning um and and
and if you can get a telescoping pole where you
can work from the ground or at least on a
ladder not up on the roof in doing it, you know,
that would be the way you would clean them and
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just soap and water. And you know, you can do
a squeegee. You can do a regular not a like
a brush that they'd use for cleaning windows. You'd treat
it almost exactly like cleaning one windows. In fact, when
and Forget has introduced a spray bottle that is a
window cleaner, so that may work too. It's a brand
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new product. It's called Screen and Window Cleaner that you
would use from there. I bet you that would work.
I'd have to read the label. I've used it on windows,
on the exterior windows, but I haven't I haven't got
solar panels that I didn't read the label anything about
solar panels. So that may be something you could use
which would be a little bit easier.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
All Right, once or twice a year is probably good enough, though.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
All right, oh oh thank you, Jeth.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Take care bye bye. And yeah, that's something else also,
the weind forget again. I always thought, you know, when
I was talking about the sidewalk and how it's black,
I really did think it was dirt and never really
gave it any thought. It's just dirty looking, so it
just dirt, right, And I remember talking to the wedding
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forget people at a conventional show, and I was telling
them about the sidewalk in the driveway and go, that's
that's just like a mildew or an algae. Just used
the wedding forget on there. And I go, well that,
you know, it looks like it's just dirt. No, it's not,
it's not. And I used it. And again, like most people,
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you get to about week three and you ah, this
isin't gonna work. And then you go out at week
five and all of a sudden, it's clean, Like how
did that happen so fast? And but that is the
way it works, and it did it. I purposely didn't
put any on. The next year, I would say it
almost lasted two two and a half years. It's still
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looked clean, and it just started, you know, regrowing, because
the concrete it's got capillaries in it. So when you
get morning dew, you get rain, it soaks down into
the concrete and it stays. Some concrete stays wetter longer
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than other concrete. And let's just take a sidewalk. You
got a big old tree, it's keeping it shaded. You
get morning dew or you know, some drizzle the night
before soaks that concrete, it doesn't dry out. It's in
the shade. It wasn't sealed, so that waters penetrated down
in the concrete. That's how those sidewalks. It's a dirty
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and that's why some areas are you know, more dirty
than others. So that's also another reason why we talk
about really cealing concrete. Obviously to prect it protected from
a spawling, from rock, salt and different things like that,
but also to keep it cleaner longer. If the water
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can't penetrate deep into that concrete on a regular basis,
you know it's going to dry out faster and you're
not going to have that issue of the molds and
the mildews. So anyway, I just put some clarification on that,
and it is something that works really well. They don't
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always think it's just dust and dirt, but on solar
panels as slick as that is, just like on windows,
there's not molds and mildews that are grown on there.
It's usually dust, pollen and dirt from the rain. When
the rain dries, you get to dirt, and that you know,
a good window cleaner. And talk about the jaws. I've
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talked about the exterior where it comes in a spray
bottle when the wet, and forget a couple of things
you might try there. So keep that in mind and
as we you know, work our way in the summer months,
we'll have more and more discussions about cleaning things up.
One of the things with the holidays in the summertime
coming up, I encourage you get a flag pole out
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on the house and if you're not real sure on
how to connect those, just a couple of quick tips.
If you drilling into a brick house and drill into
the mortar, and also if you've got a hammer drill
or a ceramic bit masonry bit, it's got a little
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point on there that'll get you through a lot faster
than a standard drill with a regular masonry bit. And
it can take a project from that potentially could go
a good hour or so and knock it down to
like ten minutes with the right tools. And you put
some little silicone on some lead anchors and pop those
in there, run the screw in there. It expands, silicon
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dries and that bracket will stay intact, especially with some
of the winds we've been having this spring. So something
to think about. And that's a good project to start now.
I mean, you know, you got the fourth of July
coming up and Labor Day and or if you want
to fly the flag every day, but get that up
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there and get that attached properly and make sure it's
in good shape. All right. Coming up, we're going to
talk about diminishing the population of mosquitoes around your house
and some tick sprays keep you healthy. We'll continue at
home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, back at it we go, and it is
mosquito season and join us now is Heather Stickney. She
is with Somemming Chemical. Heather, welcome back. How are you.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Good morning, Gary? I'm great, Thanks, how are you good?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Good boy? I'll tell you what this kind of pertains
the mosquitoes. But where I'm at, we have had a
real the wet spring, and I know the forecast is
even for a wet summer. We'll see how that plays out.
But it's perfect breeding for mosquitoes. Are you folks at
some it's seen a demand for mosquito products getting rid of.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We we really are you know, Wet weather definitely brings mosquitoes,
and anytime you have standing water, you have a perfect
opportunity for mosquito breeding. So unfortunately, with the wet weather. Yes,
we are seeing quite a big demand for parure.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
All right. Well help me then, because I'm seeing it too.
When you say standing water, give us a whole synopsis
of how that plays into the mosquito breeding and the
effects of mosquito bites when I'm mowing my yard.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, Well, anytime you have standing water, that's where female
mosquitoes will lay their eggs, and the eggs then develop
into those biting flying adults. Okay, So helping to break
the life cycle, killing the mosquitoes when they're in that
larval stage will help prevent them from becoming those nuisance
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pests that cause those those awful bites.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
So a clawed gutter or one that isn't flowing well
that would hold water, that would be a breeding ground.
What other areas do you find where people use the
mosquited dunks and things like that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Really, there are multiple places around the yard and around
your landscape that can collect water. So if you have
pot saucers underneath your plants, you might collect water there.
If you have a small ornamental pond, you might have
standing water there. Tree holes can collect water. If you
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have old tires around the yard, those can collect water.
Kidding pools, any place where you don't have reflowing water.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Eh, kids, toys, a little plastic dump truck out back. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Absolutely, mosquitoes don't need a lot of water to lay
their eggs.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, so so talk to me about you've got a
couple of things here. You got mosquito dunks and then
you got these bits. I guess the first thing a
lot of people would be thinking about it. And when
you said, like the pond or even a bird bath,
is this product it's going to kill the mosquito larvae.
Is it's safe with kids in the backyard, pets, birds,
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you know, other wildlife? It is?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The bits are made of a soil borne bacterium bits
and dunks called BTI, and it is toxic only to
mosquito larvae, so it won't harm pets, wildlife, birds, fish. Essentially,
it's only going to be toxic to mosquito larvae.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So these mosquito dunks and bits, these are specific areas
use tho as you don't spread it over to your
whole lawn or what happens if you hit the area
that was just wet all the time? Would that work?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I would not necessarily recommend spreading mosquito bits in your lawn. Okay,
you really want more of a broadcast application in the
form of a spray or a primethron based type of product. Okay,
So that's going to be more effective in terms of
killing adult mosquitoes that might live in the yard, in
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the shrub shrubby areas around your yard.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But I guess if we can break that cycle with
the larvae and where they're standing water, that certainly diminishes
the population of mosquitoes.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Absolutely absolutely, it will help keep them at vague.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yes, So tell me about the mosquito not barrier spray.
I think you have. I know a lot of graduation
parties and different things in the summer are going to
take place if we have worked hard at decreasing the
mosquito population with the dunks and the bits, and we
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have maybe a greater problem. I don't know how far
mosquitoes travel, but if I'm treating my area and my
neighbor is and could, I guess I can still have
mosquitoes to a degree, correct.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
To a degree, I would say yes. Mosquitoes are typically
not very strong flyers. But if you're concerned about adult
biting populations, we do make a primethin based spray. It's
our mosquito and gnat barrier product. You can apply that
to kill the adults, and it will kill other nuisance
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pests as well. So if you have ants, crickets, earwigs,
other pests that are a problem in your lawn, it
will target mosquitos and other insects. Work for up to
thirty days to help control those adult populations. Okay, so
you kind of get a one two approach if you
kill the larvae in the standing water and then.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You kill the adults, right, that's helpful. Your managed to.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Hut those populations down.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yep. The website is Summit Responsible Solutions dot com. And
I see the different products in just about most all
hardware stores. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I would say that is correct. Yes, We're available in
local garden centers, hardware stores, select big box stores, and
farm supply stores, and then of course online.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So I'd be remiss if we didn't talk a little
bit about the tick spray. How do ticks react to
a spring like this? Do they like the damp or
any weather like mosquitoes or it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
They do like damp, warm weather. Okay, so I would say,
you know, now is probably when we're starting to see
peak tick activity. Actually found a tick inside my home yesterday,
so I don't have the dog tick that up. But yes, yeah,
they do like this kind of weather.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And the reason I guess we're talking about the mosquitoes,
of course, can just make a nuisance. I guess they
carry disease too, but mainly I would say a nuisance
for this day and age. But ticks, we've heard of
some serious diseases they carry, and you've got a product
to help a safeguard.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Debt that is correct. So if you're going to be
outside and you're in an area where tick populations might
be high, so if you're hiking along a trail or
anywhere there might be tall grass for those ticks like
to harbor. We make a product called Green Armor insect
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repellant for clothing and gear, and it is a product
that you can apply to your clothing, to any gear
you might be carrying with you, so for example, a backpack,
your hat. It will help repel both ticks and mosquitoes,
as well as mites and chiggers on. So much a
problem in the Midwest here, but in other parts of
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the country. They can be.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, okay, and that's called green Armor and that goes
on clothing, correct. Correct.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It is also a permeter and based spray. It's been
EA registered for your clothing according to label directions. Allow
it to dry and then you can put your clothing
on and wear it outside again to help repel pick
some mosquitoes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
How long does that lasts heather?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It will last through up to six washings. Okay, So
it's a very economical type of product.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah. Hopefully folks that enjoy the outdoors in the summertime,
the campers and hikers and all that know about the
problems with ticks in terms of causing some major health
concerns and use a product like Green Armor to protect
them with the proper clothing when doing those events. It's critical,
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it really is. Some of these that that new tick
thing where you know, you react and you can't eat
meat drives. I haven't had it or anything, but that's
scary stuff. It sure is.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And you know, I don't know what I'd do if
I could mean a Hamburger every week.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
No, I agree, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Can carry some really terrible disease, and so an ounce
of prevention is always worth a pound of cure.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Absolutely well, Summit Responsible Solutions dot com. Check with your
local hardware store, big box store, garden center. And thanks
again for joining us today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Thank you for having all right.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Heather, take care? All right? How about that? That is boyit.
Pest in general are pasted, right, I mean, but when
it can start causing disease and really changing your environment,
like mosquitoes do or like ticks do, it becomes critical
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to be on top of it. And also just the
tidiness of your landscaping. I'm always talking about the notes
I have before I start a show of things to do.
For the most part, the landscaping is in bloom for
another year, right, and hopefully the beds have been cleaned out,
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either you did it or had somebody do it where
they get up the old leaves, the twigs and stuff
like that. So cleaning and having tidy landscape beds certainly
will help discourch ticks. Also, firewood cleaning up behind the
stack of that if it's stacked near the house, which
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it should not be. Again, maybe thinking about where you
want to put that, not right up against the house
would be a real good idea. But just having tidy
beds outside really important. All right, let's talk a little
home improvement. We'll open up the lines for you. It's
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Thanks for joining me at home with Gary Sullivan. If
you've got a question or a tip, join us. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five and
let's go to Tom Tom.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Welcome, Hey, Gary, How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I'm having getting some quotes on a concrete driveway? Who
plays the asphalt one that I have? And the quotes
were coming in. Some mention a fiber additive and some
talk about rebar versus a fiber. Can you tell me
the difference in a preference of one over the other.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, so this is a concrete driveway, yes, okay, so
they're both commonly accepted in a fiberated or fiber filled
concrete is basically fiberglass fibers that help knit the concrete together. Okay,
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and it is less expensive than putting a wire mesh
down a wire mesh. Its purpose is the same. It's
to keep that concrete together. Concrete is hard, but and
it's you know, obviously not mobile, and a good base,
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and even a bad base you get some movement, and
that structural addition to the concrete is helpful. If if
I had the choice, I prefer the metal mesh. I
think the fiber cement is a good addition of and
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keeping the cost down. The metal mesh is probably going
to run you a little more, and it's really not
much more work. It's not another step in the field
for installation. But I think the metal mesh is just
going to be a little bit more durable. I've actually
had people tell me they did the metal mesh and
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the fiber cement. I don't know if I would be
that excited about doing that. I just feel good about
the metal mesh. I don't feel bad about the fiber.
I just think the metal mesh is just a little more,
a little bit more body to it a little bit.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
So when when they talk about rebar as are they
refer to this metal mesh.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm guessing now there is rebar also rebars used in roads.
I mean that's like a I don't know three ace
inch half inch steel bar. I mean you do that
that thing is going to be super stable. I mean,
I don't know what the difference in cost on that is.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
But okay, one of the one of the one of
the contractors specifically said rebar. They didn't say metal mesh,
so I'll need to clarify that with them.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Okay, okay, I mean, you know, if that fits in
with your finances and you want that to be a
really long lasting driveway, that rebar would be uh, that'd
be awesome. I mean that would be heavy duty stuff.
I'd be interested in knowing what the difference in costs
on that is. And the gravel base. Did they give
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you a specifics on that in terms of what they
would be putting down?
Speaker 6 (39:54):
They did, And I don't have the quotes in front
of you, but but they all had you know, specked out,
you know, so many inches of gravel compacted and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Right right, you know. During that it was interesting watching
homes built in the late nineties when the economy was
roaring and houses were being slapped up. In my area,
there's a lot of clay and I watched them start
a subdivision and not not even had that they were
they were putting it in on top of compacted clay
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with no gravel base, and I'm just, you know, I'm
going nuts. But you know, it's all about costs and
getting that price point that they wanted, and you know,
just selling homes quickly. But as I asked people now
that are redoing driveways and stuff, I always ask them,
you know, so they're going to do the gravel base,
how much are they putting in? Is it come back then? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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So hopefully we got away from that mess that was
going on.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Yeah, all the quotes had that, and it's it's asphalt now.
And I keep going back and thought back and forth
on asphalt versus versus concrete, and I think I've landed
on concrete just for the longevity of it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, it would be the better,
better product, even from a standpoint is selling the house.
But as I always say, there's one thing concrete is
guaranteed to do, and that's craft and it's not as
quite as easily repaired as asphalt. But I agree with you.
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I think the concrete driveway and you know, if you
can get a rebar, even the metal mash, I just
I think it outperforms the fiber cement and there's probably
people that could argue the other way, but the rebar
would be the max, that would be the first class.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Yeah, I've looked online and you can find arguments for both.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Right right exactly.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
That's what I'm calling the expert.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah. Well, I think the old school way is probably
going to be a little bit better in my opinion.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
All right, I appreciate the information things. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
You do the same, Thank you, take care all right?
Spot for you. It's eight hundred and eight two three
A two five five. Even the arguments of asphalt or
concrete you can find opinions, and you know, I just
think the technology on so many products and so many
projects that we do now there's there's different ways to
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doing it. Talking with Brian Atisatus Roofing yesterday had them on.
You can pick up that podcast at the iHeart app,
I got to talking about and he's a roofer and
I was saying, you know, the importance of I think
the consumer you and me of getting multiple quotes is
really an opportunity to educate yourself and let them explain
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why they're not going to do X Y Z or
why they're doing this and the other roofer is not.
Because you can you can learn and you can make decisions.
There's options there, just as there is between you know,
the fiber cement and mesh and rebar, and you know
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there's a there's advantages, there's cost differentials, even decks. Yesterday
I got in this long discussion about the difference in
a water based deck sealer and a solvent based deck
sealer or a modified outcut akrillic. There was never those
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kind of options. Ten years ago. They were pretty much
all solvent based deck sealers period. And now there's those
options and people need to learn what they are, and
I need to explain to them what the differences are
because they all have pros and cons and different longevities.
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How long you know they're actually going to last on
that deck, how the sun affects it, and the application.
Ten years ago, it was pretty much a solvent based
deck sealer. It's a one coat and done well. They're
all not just one coats. Now there's multiple coats, and
(44:02):
there's wet on wet coating. So doing the research on
particular projects, if you're going to do it yourself, really
is dig into as much information as you can educate
yourself about, because there's some really good stuff and there's
some stuff maybe that's just not just not quite right
for what you wanted to do and what you wanted
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to look at, But there's definitely options for you. All right,
you can join us your questions regarding your home. It's
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Grab a line. You're at home with Carrie Sullivan.
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Weekends, I mean a never ending list of things to do.
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Around your home.
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Get help at one. Eight hundred and eighty two three
talk You're at home with Gary Sullivan
All right, the weekend is upon us. Welcome aboard at
home with Gary Sullivan, just babbling along and talking a
little home improvement. Thanks for joining me. Uh, if you
have a question regarding your home project, do so. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. And
I know a lot of us have a well, we
have a to do list that's longer than we'd love
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and it all starts with the ability to get outside
and have some decent weather where I'm at it. Well,
it's dry today and a lot of storms on Friday
now it's awful down in Kentucky, but it's dry here today.
It was dry yesterday, but a little windy, and we
can get outside and maybe move some things around, get
some cracks patch, some things painted, or whatever's on your list.
(01:24):
Let's talk about it again. Those lines are open, and
it's eight hundred eighty two three A two five. I
should say a two five, right, Danny. Eight hundred eight
eight two three three? What is the number, Danny? I
can't think of it, all right, Danny's on the line
taking a call.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I was taking a call there, Gary, but you butchered
the phone number.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Thank you very much. Oh, no, no problem. How can
you give that phone number for at least thirty years,
You've given it since I've been in probably middle school,
and now you get it wrong. It happens.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It happened, A two three, A very good three.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't know what to say, that's what happens. I
always make a list of things to talk about, and
for the most part, I dispensed that knowledge without too
many hiccups. But today, during the last two minutes, I'm
reading all my notes and trying to remember the phone
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number and can't do it. So I don't know what
to tell you, Danny. As I always say, you get
what you pay for.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, I need more help than I can give you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I hear you. Okay, I need help. There's no question.
Let's go to Sandy. Maybe we can help her. I
can't help myself. Maybe we can help Sandy.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Hello, Sandy, Hi airhouse has algae on it and my
son in law has tried to get it off and can't.
And we were wondering if you knew a company or
someone there's a professional to get that off.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
M Yeah, let me ask you a couple of questions.
In fact, there's all kinds of uh places that remove
or professional home cleaners where they clean roofs and everything else.
But before we get in that, what did he try
to remove it? And what is the algae on?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It's on the house on, it's siding on.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Is it vinyl sighting?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, well there are professional companies that can do that.
There's also a product that is super easy to use
and it will work. It's it's it's a phenomenal product.
You may have heard me speak about it. It's called
Wet and Forget what it's called wet and forget.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
This is how easy it is, all right. It comes
in a bottle which you connect your hose to and
it will spray up as high as thirty feet sandy
and you just wet that whole siding down with the
wet and forget product that's in the bottle, hoses attached,
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Flip a lever and wet that siding down and you're done.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You don't have to scrub, you don't have flat no.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Flat f wet w et and forget fo r get.
So it's wetn forget And it's like I said, it
has a spray bottle. You just spray it on to
the siding, no issues you wait four to six weeks.
(04:55):
All you do is spray it on. In four to
six weeks, the algae, the mold, the mildew, the fungus,
whatever is growing on that siding will disappear. Okay, and
you know it's safe, it's easy to use. You know,
the whole thing might cost you, you know, thirty forty
bucks and you're done.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Thank you, You're.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Welcome, Thank you, Cindy, take care, bye bye. Always read
the instructions. Relatively safe for plannings and different things. Everybody
wants to know that. Of course, you don't want to,
you know, kill your landscaping. It's a very safe product.
It does recommend that you cover the plannings, just from
a precautionary standpoint. So if you want to cover it
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with some plastic, that's fine. If you don't want to
cover it and you just want to spray the wed
and forget on the house, yeah, okay. Just when you're
finished doing that, take that same hose, disconnect the bottle
and just wet down the bushes. Just take your hose
and rinse the leaves off those bush and you'll be fine.
(06:01):
It's it's a it is a wonderful product. It is
a product that I know when it first came to market,
I'm like, yeah, right, you spray it on your house
and you don't do anything. I want to see that
and tried multiple bottles actually on different houses and it
worked great and it's uh and they've really improved. Originally
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it was just to concentrate you had to mix it
with water in a tank sprayer, which was it. And
they still make that for like driveway sidewalks. You can
use it on you know, all horizontal surfaces too, a
paver patio, they still make that product. But for getting
it off a sighting that's you know, twenty feet up
in the air, that was a little more challenging. Or
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on the roof to get rid of those black streaks
of fungus, that was a little more challenging. And probably
about three four five years ago they came out with
a hose end bottle and that was a game changer.
And not to just marriage people that have companies that
come and clean houses. That is really a big business
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now and multiple companies, a lot of franchises and they
clean sighting, they'll clean roofs, they'll do driveways, paver patios,
sidewalks and it's more of a an instant satisfaction. Spray
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it on and it's it's a cleaner, but works immediately.
Even the black staining that you'll get on aluminum gutters
or aluminum frames of windows, it does. It's very very effective,
very efficient. But for that standard algae and stuff on
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sighting and roofs, you can try the wet and forget.
If you want to get one of the folks that
do the houses. It's like a spreading malt. You can't stop.
It looks so good. You know, if you're doing it
for the sighting, it'll look so good you'll do all
the sighting back in front. You'll end up doing the roof.
You'll probably end up doing your sidewalks. In fact, if
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your sidewalks are kind of gray and they just you know,
they're blackish gray, they just look dirty, that's a fungus
and an algae that went and forget. If you spray
it on there and it's kind of weird, I mean,
you spray it on there, you don't do anything, and
nothing really changes until about five six weeks out, and
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that sidewalk not only will it be clean, it will
stay clean probably for about a year or two. It's
got to start all over. The fungus and algae got
to start all over and regenerate and begin to grow
on the surface. So it's a complete kill. It's good stuff,
(08:58):
better than a pressure washer. All pressure washers are doing,
for the most part, is just blasting it off the concrete.
There's no residual to keep it from regrowing, and it's
not really a complete kill, so it will outperform a
pressure washer. All right again, our phone numbers eight hundred
eight two three, eight two five five. Grab a line.
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We've got a spot for you. You're at home with Gary Slivan.
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Takes it right with a call to Gary's Ellivan at
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I've been recommending Blackjack driveway sealers for years, and here's
some great news. The Blackjack ten year Sealer drive Max
one thousand features accelerated drying time in curing in cooler temperatures.
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(11:34):
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Visit Blackjack Codings dot com for more information. Blackjack protecting
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improvement on your weekend, as we do each and every weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
If you'd like to join us, do so. We're gonna
go back to the phones. By the way, we're gonna
talk about mosquitoes and ticks at the bottom of the hour.
With all the rain we've had in our area, it's
a problem and we'll discuss that with our friends from Summit.
Let's go to Lisa. Lisa, welcome, Hi, how are you today?
Doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I called the tail end of the conversation with the
lady before me and you were talking about the wet
and Forget, which is great news for my gutters. But
I also have solar panels. Is there something that you
can do for them? Or is there something else without?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, you had to that's what Yeah, well I
guess that, well you do. But the wet and forget
would be fine, but I don't think that's really the
product you need. So wet and Forget is not just
a cleaner. It is a cleaner that specifically zeros in
(13:20):
on mold, mildew, algae, fungus, lichen. So usually in the
solar panels, the things that are you know, on the
solar panel might be bird droppings, pollen, dust, and just
soap and water would be the thing you would clean
those off with, and you do them periodically. You turn
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the system off, you know, before cleaning um and and
and if you can get a telescoping pole where you
can work from the ground or at least on a
ladder not up on the roof in doing it, you know,
that would be the way you would clean them and
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just soap and water. And you know, you can do
a squeegee. You can do a regular not a like
a brush that they'd use for cleaning windows. You'd treat
it almost exactly like cleaning one windows. In fact, when
and Forget has introduced a spray bottle that is a
window cleaner, so that may work too. It's a brand
(14:28):
new product. It's called Screen and Window Cleaner that you
would use from there. I bet you that would work.
I'd have to read the label. I've used it on windows,
on the exterior windows, but I haven't I haven't got
solar panels that I didn't read the label anything about
solar panels. So that may be something you could use
which would be a little bit easier.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
All Right, once or twice a year is probably good enough, though.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
All right, oh oh thank you, Jeth.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Take care bye bye. And yeah, that's something else also,
the weind forget again. I always thought, you know, when
I was talking about the sidewalk and how it's black,
I really did think it was dirt and never really
gave it any thought. It's just dirty looking, so it
just dirt, right, And I remember talking to the wedding
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forget people at a conventional show, and I was telling
them about the sidewalk in the driveway and go, that's
that's just like a mildew or an algae. Just used
the wedding forget on there. And I go, well that,
you know, it looks like it's just dirt. No, it's not,
it's not. And I used it. And again, like most people,
(15:40):
you get to about week three and you ah, this
isin't gonna work. And then you go out at week
five and all of a sudden, it's clean, Like how
did that happen so fast? And but that is the
way it works, and it did it. I purposely didn't
put any on. The next year, I would say it
almost lasted two two and a half years. It's still
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looked clean, and it just started, you know, regrowing, because
the concrete it's got capillaries in it. So when you
get morning dew, you get rain, it soaks down into
the concrete and it stays. Some concrete stays wetter longer
(16:21):
than other concrete. And let's just take a sidewalk. You
got a big old tree, it's keeping it shaded. You
get morning dew or you know, some drizzle the night
before soaks that concrete, it doesn't dry out. It's in
the shade. It wasn't sealed, so that waters penetrated down
in the concrete. That's how those sidewalks. It's a dirty
(16:45):
and that's why some areas are you know, more dirty
than others. So that's also another reason why we talk
about really cealing concrete. Obviously to prect it protected from
a spawling, from rock, salt and different things like that,
but also to keep it cleaner longer. If the water
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can't penetrate deep into that concrete on a regular basis,
you know it's going to dry out faster and you're
not going to have that issue of the molds and
the mildews. So anyway, I just put some clarification on that,
and it is something that works really well. They don't
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always think it's just dust and dirt, but on solar
panels as slick as that is, just like on windows,
there's not molds and mildews that are grown on there.
It's usually dust, pollen and dirt from the rain. When
the rain dries, you get to dirt, and that you know,
a good window cleaner. And talk about the jaws. I've
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talked about the exterior where it comes in a spray
bottle when the wet, and forget a couple of things
you might try there. So keep that in mind and
as we you know, work our way in the summer months,
we'll have more and more discussions about cleaning things up.
One of the things with the holidays in the summertime
coming up, I encourage you get a flag pole out
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on the house and if you're not real sure on
how to connect those, just a couple of quick tips.
If you drilling into a brick house and drill into
the mortar, and also if you've got a hammer drill
or a ceramic bit masonry bit, it's got a little
(18:32):
point on there that'll get you through a lot faster
than a standard drill with a regular masonry bit. And
it can take a project from that potentially could go
a good hour or so and knock it down to
like ten minutes with the right tools. And you put
some little silicone on some lead anchors and pop those
in there, run the screw in there. It expands, silicon
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dries and that bracket will stay intact, especially with some
of the winds we've been having this spring. So something
to think about. And that's a good project to start now.
I mean, you know, you got the fourth of July
coming up and Labor Day and or if you want
to fly the flag every day, but get that up
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there and get that attached properly and make sure it's
in good shape. All right. Coming up, we're going to
talk about diminishing the population of mosquitoes around your house
and some tick sprays keep you healthy. We'll continue at
home with Gary Sullivan.
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and call Gary a two three talk.
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All right, back at it we go, and it is
mosquito season and join us now is Heather Stickney. She
is with Somemming Chemical. Heather, welcome back. How are you.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Good morning, Gary? I'm great, Thanks, how are you good?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Good boy? I'll tell you what this kind of pertains
the mosquitoes. But where I'm at, we have had a
real the wet spring, and I know the forecast is
even for a wet summer. We'll see how that plays out.
But it's perfect breeding for mosquitoes. Are you folks at
some it's seen a demand for mosquito products getting rid of.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We we really are you know, Wet weather definitely brings mosquitoes,
and anytime you have standing water, you have a perfect
opportunity for mosquito breeding. So unfortunately, with the wet weather. Yes,
we are seeing quite a big demand for parure.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
All right. Well help me then, because I'm seeing it too.
When you say standing water, give us a whole synopsis
of how that plays into the mosquito breeding and the
effects of mosquito bites when I'm mowing my yard.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, Well, anytime you have standing water, that's where female
mosquitoes will lay their eggs, and the eggs then develop
into those biting flying adults. Okay, So helping to break
the life cycle, killing the mosquitoes when they're in that
larval stage will help prevent them from becoming those nuisance
(24:13):
pests that cause those those awful bites.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
So a clawed gutter or one that isn't flowing well
that would hold water, that would be a breeding ground.
What other areas do you find where people use the
mosquited dunks and things like that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Really, there are multiple places around the yard and around
your landscape that can collect water. So if you have
pot saucers underneath your plants, you might collect water there.
If you have a small ornamental pond, you might have
standing water there. Tree holes can collect water. If you
(24:57):
have old tires around the yard, those can collect water.
Kidding pools, any place where you don't have reflowing water.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Eh, kids, toys, a little plastic dump truck out back. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Absolutely, mosquitoes don't need a lot of water to lay
their eggs.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, so so talk to me about you've got a
couple of things here. You got mosquito dunks and then
you got these bits. I guess the first thing a
lot of people would be thinking about it. And when
you said, like the pond or even a bird bath,
is this product it's going to kill the mosquito larvae.
Is it's safe with kids in the backyard, pets, birds,
(25:39):
you know, other wildlife? It is?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The bits are made of a soil borne bacterium bits
and dunks called BTI, and it is toxic only to
mosquito larvae, so it won't harm pets, wildlife, birds, fish. Essentially,
it's only going to be toxic to mosquito larvae.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So these mosquito dunks and bits, these are specific areas
use tho as you don't spread it over to your
whole lawn or what happens if you hit the area
that was just wet all the time? Would that work?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I would not necessarily recommend spreading mosquito bits in your lawn. Okay,
you really want more of a broadcast application in the
form of a spray or a primethron based type of product. Okay,
So that's going to be more effective in terms of
killing adult mosquitoes that might live in the yard, in
(26:40):
the shrub shrubby areas around your yard.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But I guess if we can break that cycle with
the larvae and where they're standing water, that certainly diminishes
the population of mosquitoes.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Absolutely absolutely, it will help keep them at vague.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yes, So tell me about the mosquito not barrier spray.
I think you have. I know a lot of graduation
parties and different things in the summer are going to
take place if we have worked hard at decreasing the
mosquito population with the dunks and the bits, and we
(27:17):
have maybe a greater problem. I don't know how far
mosquitoes travel, but if I'm treating my area and my
neighbor is and could, I guess I can still have
mosquitoes to a degree, correct.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
To a degree, I would say yes. Mosquitoes are typically
not very strong flyers. But if you're concerned about adult
biting populations, we do make a primethin based spray. It's
our mosquito and gnat barrier product. You can apply that
to kill the adults, and it will kill other nuisance
(27:49):
pests as well. So if you have ants, crickets, earwigs,
other pests that are a problem in your lawn, it
will target mosquitos and other insects. Work for up to
thirty days to help control those adult populations. Okay, so
you kind of get a one two approach if you
kill the larvae in the standing water and then.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You kill the adults, right, that's helpful. Your managed to.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Hut those populations down.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yep. The website is Summit Responsible Solutions dot com. And
I see the different products in just about most all
hardware stores. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I would say that is correct. Yes, We're available in
local garden centers, hardware stores, select big box stores, and
farm supply stores, and then of course online.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So I'd be remiss if we didn't talk a little
bit about the tick spray. How do ticks react to
a spring like this? Do they like the damp or
any weather like mosquitoes or it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
They do like damp, warm weather. Okay, so I would say,
you know, now is probably when we're starting to see
peak tick activity. Actually found a tick inside my home yesterday,
so I don't have the dog tick that up. But yes, yeah,
they do like this kind of weather.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And the reason I guess we're talking about the mosquitoes,
of course, can just make a nuisance. I guess they
carry disease too, but mainly I would say a nuisance
for this day and age. But ticks, we've heard of
some serious diseases they carry, and you've got a product
to help a safeguard.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Debt that is correct. So if you're going to be
outside and you're in an area where tick populations might
be high, so if you're hiking along a trail or
anywhere there might be tall grass for those ticks like
to harbor. We make a product called Green Armor insect
(29:59):
repellant for clothing and gear, and it is a product
that you can apply to your clothing, to any gear
you might be carrying with you, so for example, a backpack,
your hat. It will help repel both ticks and mosquitoes,
as well as mites and chiggers on. So much a
problem in the Midwest here, but in other parts of
(30:22):
the country. They can be.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, okay, and that's called green Armor and that goes
on clothing, correct. Correct.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It is also a permeter and based spray. It's been
EA registered for your clothing according to label directions. Allow
it to dry and then you can put your clothing
on and wear it outside again to help repel pick
some mosquitoes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
How long does that lasts heather?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It will last through up to six washings. Okay, So
it's a very economical type of product.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah. Hopefully folks that enjoy the outdoors in the summertime,
the campers and hikers and all that know about the
problems with ticks in terms of causing some major health
concerns and use a product like Green Armor to protect
them with the proper clothing when doing those events. It's critical,
(31:22):
it really is. Some of these that that new tick
thing where you know, you react and you can't eat
meat drives. I haven't had it or anything, but that's
scary stuff. It sure is.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And you know, I don't know what I'd do if
I could mean a Hamburger every week.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
No, I agree, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Can carry some really terrible disease, and so an ounce
of prevention is always worth a pound of cure.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Absolutely well, Summit Responsible Solutions dot com. Check with your
local hardware store, big box store, garden center. And thanks
again for joining us today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Thank you for having all right.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Heather, take care? All right? How about that? That is boyit.
Pest in general are pasted, right, I mean, but when
it can start causing disease and really changing your environment,
like mosquitoes do or like ticks do, it becomes critical
(32:22):
to be on top of it. And also just the
tidiness of your landscaping. I'm always talking about the notes
I have before I start a show of things to do.
For the most part, the landscaping is in bloom for
another year, right, and hopefully the beds have been cleaned out,
(32:45):
either you did it or had somebody do it where
they get up the old leaves, the twigs and stuff
like that. So cleaning and having tidy landscape beds certainly
will help discourch ticks. Also, firewood cleaning up behind the
stack of that if it's stacked near the house, which
(33:06):
it should not be. Again, maybe thinking about where you
want to put that, not right up against the house
would be a real good idea. But just having tidy
beds outside really important. All right, let's talk a little
home improvement. We'll open up the lines for you. It's
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let's go to Tom Tom.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Welcome, Hey, Gary, How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Doing fine? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I'm having getting some quotes on a concrete driveway? Who
plays the asphalt one that I have? And the quotes
were coming in. Some mention a fiber additive and some
talk about rebar versus a fiber. Can you tell me
the difference in a preference of one over the other.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, so this is a concrete driveway, yes, okay, so
they're both commonly accepted in a fiberated or fiber filled
concrete is basically fiberglass fibers that help knit the concrete together. Okay,
(37:31):
and it is less expensive than putting a wire mesh
down a wire mesh. Its purpose is the same. It's
to keep that concrete together. Concrete is hard, but and
it's you know, obviously not mobile, and a good base,
(37:56):
and even a bad base you get some movement, and
that structural addition to the concrete is helpful. If if
I had the choice, I prefer the metal mesh. I
think the fiber cement is a good addition of and
(38:18):
keeping the cost down. The metal mesh is probably going
to run you a little more, and it's really not
much more work. It's not another step in the field
for installation. But I think the metal mesh is just
going to be a little bit more durable. I've actually
had people tell me they did the metal mesh and
(38:39):
the fiber cement. I don't know if I would be
that excited about doing that. I just feel good about
the metal mesh. I don't feel bad about the fiber.
I just think the metal mesh is just a little more,
a little bit more body to it a little bit.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
So when when they talk about rebar as are they
refer to this metal mesh.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm guessing now there is rebar also rebars used in roads.
I mean that's like a I don't know three ace
inch half inch steel bar. I mean you do that
that thing is going to be super stable. I mean,
I don't know what the difference in cost on that is.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
But okay, one of the one of the one of
the contractors specifically said rebar. They didn't say metal mesh,
so I'll need to clarify that with them.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Okay, okay, I mean, you know, if that fits in
with your finances and you want that to be a
really long lasting driveway, that rebar would be uh, that'd
be awesome. I mean that would be heavy duty stuff.
I'd be interested in knowing what the difference in costs
on that is. And the gravel base. Did they give
(39:49):
you a specifics on that in terms of what they
would be putting down?
Speaker 6 (39:54):
They did, And I don't have the quotes in front
of you, but but they all had you know, specked out,
you know, so many inches of gravel compacted and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Right right, you know. During that it was interesting watching
homes built in the late nineties when the economy was
roaring and houses were being slapped up. In my area,
there's a lot of clay and I watched them start
a subdivision and not not even had that they were
they were putting it in on top of compacted clay
(40:23):
with no gravel base, and I'm just, you know, I'm
going nuts. But you know, it's all about costs and
getting that price point that they wanted, and you know,
just selling homes quickly. But as I asked people now
that are redoing driveways and stuff, I always ask them,
you know, so they're going to do the gravel base,
how much are they putting in? Is it come back then? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
(40:45):
So hopefully we got away from that mess that was
going on.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Yeah, all the quotes had that, and it's it's asphalt now.
And I keep going back and thought back and forth
on asphalt versus versus concrete, and I think I've landed
on concrete just for the longevity of it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, it would be the better,
better product, even from a standpoint is selling the house.
But as I always say, there's one thing concrete is
guaranteed to do, and that's craft and it's not as
quite as easily repaired as asphalt. But I agree with you.
(41:21):
I think the concrete driveway and you know, if you
can get a rebar, even the metal mash, I just
I think it outperforms the fiber cement and there's probably
people that could argue the other way, but the rebar
would be the max, that would be the first class.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Yeah, I've looked online and you can find arguments for both.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Right right exactly.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
That's what I'm calling the expert.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah. Well, I think the old school way is probably
going to be a little bit better in my opinion.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
All right, I appreciate the information things. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
You do the same, Thank you, take care all right?
Spot for you. It's eight hundred and eight two three
A two five five. Even the arguments of asphalt or
concrete you can find opinions, and you know, I just
think the technology on so many products and so many
projects that we do now there's there's different ways to
(42:16):
doing it. Talking with Brian Atisatus Roofing yesterday had them on.
You can pick up that podcast at the iHeart app,
I got to talking about and he's a roofer and
I was saying, you know, the importance of I think
the consumer you and me of getting multiple quotes is
really an opportunity to educate yourself and let them explain
(42:38):
why they're not going to do X Y Z or
why they're doing this and the other roofer is not.
Because you can you can learn and you can make decisions.
There's options there, just as there is between you know,
the fiber cement and mesh and rebar, and you know
(42:59):
there's a there's advantages, there's cost differentials, even decks. Yesterday
I got in this long discussion about the difference in
a water based deck sealer and a solvent based deck
sealer or a modified outcut akrillic. There was never those
(43:20):
kind of options. Ten years ago. They were pretty much
all solvent based deck sealers period. And now there's those
options and people need to learn what they are, and
I need to explain to them what the differences are
because they all have pros and cons and different longevities.
(43:41):
How long you know they're actually going to last on
that deck, how the sun affects it, and the application.
Ten years ago, it was pretty much a solvent based
deck sealer. It's a one coat and done well. They're
all not just one coats. Now there's multiple coats, and
(44:02):
there's wet on wet coating. So doing the research on
particular projects, if you're going to do it yourself, really
is dig into as much information as you can educate
yourself about, because there's some really good stuff and there's
some stuff maybe that's just not just not quite right
for what you wanted to do and what you wanted
(44:25):
to look at, But there's definitely options for you. All right,
you can join us your questions regarding your home. It's
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