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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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or you need their expertise. All right, taking your calls
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and feel free to jump on board. Did get a
couple of not phone calls, but email on the water
stains from moisture on wood floors and pet urns, and
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a couple of people had mentioned using white vinegar and
white vinegar gets credit for a whole bunch of stuff.
And you can try white vinegar if you would like.
But the other processes that I mentioned are going to
have a much better opportunity standing. And by the way,
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the grit you'd use, I don't think I mentioned, it'd
be about two twenty The hydrogen peroxide I mentioned. You
want to get a almost a higher concentration of hydrogen
peroxide rather than the three percent where to get that.
Beauty supply places will usually have them have that, So
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that's removing it. And then we went through the other thing,
the oxalic acids and all that. Calling a professional, let
them take a look at it. But you you're One
of your tougher challenges after you get it up is
trying to match the stain or match the where the
stain was. Let's say you get it all up, trying
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to match that floor color can be a really challenge.
It's not like paint. You can't go in and say
I'll take Queen Anne's lace or I'll take Willie's walnut. No,
you know, it's a walnut stain, but you use a
walnut stained by different brands. They're all different. They're closed,
but they'll be all different. Walnut stain on pine floors,
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oak floors, maple floors, they're all different. So trying to
match that in I'm not being Debbie Downer here. I
mean sometimes you can stand it out and end up
saying the whole floor out and redoing the floor. It's
basically what I'm saying. And that's why I said sometimes
having a professional person that comes out and take a
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look at it and get their opinion whether they think
they can get it out. Because if they're looking at
it and they go, I don't think you're gonna get
that out. I think you can pretty much take that
to the bank, okay, and if you want to get
a second opinion, go ahead. But trying to get that
out and get that mashed is not as easy as
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you would think it would be. And I can tell
you white vinegar is probably not going to do it
for you. All right again, our phone number, we got
lines available. It's eight hundred eighty two three A two
five five John. Welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Can you hear me all right?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I can?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
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Speaker 3 (03:48):
I love that gutter brush. I got two boxes of
it and I used it all over the place in
my floor brings and anything it's a good step and
I just leave it in there. It's probably doing three
or four years. I haven't done you thing, and everything's
still going.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's super. That's super, I tell you. I used it
on my home years ago, and one of the new
uses I had is I had squirrels going up in
the underground French drain where it exited out of the yard,
and they were putting leaves and nuts back in there,
and they were getting it all clogged up. I even
put a piece of gutter brush in there about two
(04:24):
years ago. I pull it out every year and hose
it off. But it also kind of works like as
a you know, as a little filter, and it keeps
the squirrels out. So that's all good.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Using on the inlets. I use it on the inlets
to my catch basins too. But I have a I
have another problem. I had a noise I woke up
to in the middle of the night. And if you've
ever heard the rattlesnakes on the westerns mm hmm, I've
heard them close out myself, the real rattlesnakes out in
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my hobby. But right when I heard it in the
middle of the night, I woke up looking trying to
find out where it was coming from. Sound just like
a rattlesnake, and I finally deserved it in. It was
coming from my vent over the kitchen stove. Let's say,
what's a it's a it's a galvanized event with that
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got that gravity check valve in it. I heard this
thing in there rattling like a rattlesnake. It sounded just
like a rattlesnag. So I couldn't figure out what to do.
So I went up on the roof. That's a steel roof.
I put on there, and it dropped a now on
cord down the down the vent and stood back. I
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got mugged by a squirrel.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh that surprised me.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He got away and he was in there trying to
run up the wall.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, I'll tell you. Yeah, squirrels are They are really
challenging in homes people. Uh, they do so much damage
and they always seemed the way to get in. I'll
tell you where squirrels ent are A lot of houses
is through the ridge vent.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't have that, but but the oil, the oil spill.
First aid that I've always used in my mechanic days
is red bricks and and uh, and the dry sweet
you know, the clay vitrous clay, red red bricks, and
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I use a dust pan and a squeegee and I
get it all up unless I put it in a
wastebasket anywhere, and then I use last week and squeegee
first and driss weeping red bricks grind it in to
the I got old concrete rhymes it in. But everything
you talk about on you, I strained my camper with
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your wedd and forget on my boat.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well I appreciate you know, on that kitty litter too.
I think one of the things I kind of want
to tell everybody that and the red bricks both. That's
a great tip and it it's really effective with newer
oil stains. You know. It seems like the older they
are and the longer you go, the less the less
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you're likely to remove that with the kitty litter and
a red brick. But gosh, you know, on the oil
stain that's a month old, you get out there, you
can get a lot of that that oil. You could
just pull it right up. Remember that concrete is hard,
but it's got capillaries in there and it's very porous,
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and that oil can really can be absorbed with the
kitty litter or red brick dust. You're absolutely correct, so
that's a great tip for a lot of people. Thank
you much, I appreciate the call and uh if you'd
like to join us, there's a spot for you. It's
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Speaker 2 (11:09):
Keith, Welcome, Good morning Gary.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
I have a question about a basement and some moisture issues.
Not we don't have any water, not had any water
or flooding at this point, but.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We put down some LVP.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
And it's it's not a good product, so we're looking
at replacing that at some time in the future. It's
chipping up and breaking and it's just just not good
at all. And I did a calcium chloride test. Is
that I think that's what it's called to check. The
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moisture level came up to a seven, which some of
the other flooring products I've looked at. That's running a
little high for any kind of floor you get at
the you know, any plank flooring of any kind. And
(12:16):
I've looked at some of the or I've seen the
paint on floors that's like a I think you a
razo or something like that paint. So does moisture affect those?
Or or is that is that a water product?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
To go?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
There are some of them. You just got to make
sure it's a breathable product where it can exhaust that
water vapor through the through that coating. Some do, some don't.
I know that the roller rock product Torezo does exhaust
the water through, so yes, that would work. Let me
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ask you a couple of questions when you say the
the plank floor r uh, the l VP is is
that the vinyl that sticks together or what kind of LVP.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It was? The it was the vinyl of.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Planks, you know, I don't know, there's six inches by
what four feet something like that?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That interlock okay, okay, yeah, was that a waterproof or
was that a waterproof or water resistance.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yes, it was waterproof. It was it's very thin, okay.
And it was all vinyl. There was no uh, wood
would product in that at all?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, okay. And when you put that down, was the
floor like when you took it up, was that floor wet?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Then? No? No, the floor the floor was dry.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
And I put down a breathable barrier or it was
supposed to be. That was supposed to help to alleviate
any moisture problems. Uh and and allow that to breathe underneath.
Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
That was also very thin.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It was just like a regular underlayment for for that flooring.
Not not really thick, but it was yeah, yeah, not
a you know, but not like some of those it's
just like a foam or something like that. This was
I had a different kind of backing on it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But what you want to put down there when it's
all sadden done?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I want I want something that when I get finished,
I'm finished, I don't want I don't want to do
this again. Yeah, So you know, it's it's something that's
that's durable. This this flooring is is not very durable.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I mean, we're.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Retired and we don't I mean, we don't have a
lot of foot traffic and it's just not held up
well at all.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, there's so many difference. I talk about LVT, you're
talking about LVP. They're different in terms of they're vinyl.
So you know, it sounds to me like you're kind
of focusing on that. There's a lot of water vapor
coming up through that floor, and that's what's making the
whole flooring issue a big problem. What I'd do at first,
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I'd go down there and I, you know, besides the
calcium chloride test to see how much moisture and all
that is, just take a piece about eighteen inch square
plastic and tape it down on the floor and see
if there's water droplets that form in between the floor
and the plastic. After about you know, a couple of days,
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and if there is the barrier, the vapor barrier beneath
that concrete is no longer there, probably the source of
the problem. And what you can do then is there
are products, and one of the ones I'm most familiar
with is a dry lock product that's dry lock clear,
and it is a It will not allow moisture to
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come up through that concrete. It can hold back ten
pounds per square inch of moisture and it would be
very dry and at that point quite honestly, I mean,
I got carpet in my basement floor and I've never
had a problem with mold or anything down there with it.
(16:38):
You could use engineered wood floor, you could use the LVT.
I'm not familiar with which one of the lvps you have.
I just do know there's some that are water resistant,
and there's a big difference between water resistant and water proof.
But if we can get that where there's no water
vapor coming up through that floor, I mean, you could
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use anything you want.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It, right, Yeah, that's that's kind of what I mean.
I the paint and the application, I'm unsure about that,
and I've called a couple of people, and you know,
it's going to be several thousand dollars to to come
and apply that paint professionally, and I'm not sure I'm
confident enough to do that myself. Where I can I
(17:25):
can lay the uh the l v T, I guess
that's you know, I've done that before. That's not a problem.
But I didn't want to put it down because the
specs on it said that you had your your your
calcium chloride test.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Had to be at five or below. And since I
was over that, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Too much moisture up to there. It goes back to
the you know, dry lock clear. I'm going to give
you a website. You asked about a coating, and there
there is a breathable coating. It's made by dish Coatings.
I've had Peter Diiche on this show numerous times. It's
got a very informative website with videos. So it's the
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and you know it comes in different colors. You can
get it fancy. They have one called Terrazzo. You mentioned that,
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and it is a breathable coating and so it will
allow that water vapor to permeate through that coating, which
it's doing now it's coming through the concrete. Dis just
allows it to continue to go and mix with the
environment and the basement which is probably fairly humid anyway,
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and it wouldn't be a bad idea to find out
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back to the phone calls. We got Roger Roger welcome.
How you doing, sir, Yes, sir, fine, thanks.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I've kind of had a deck installed this week. What
they did was they just replaced the deck boards, the
handrails on those spindles. My concern is the deck boards.
I had always been told to leave at least a
quarter or an a to a quarter inch gap between
the boards, and they pushed these right up against each other.
When I questioned the contractor, he said, oh, well, these
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boards are full of moisture. They'll shrink and leave your gap.
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Or yeah? Yeah. I just want to be real specific
so other people listening know, if you're using pressure treated wood,
you know, your regular pine pressure tree, would you snug
those boards up. If you're using kiln dride pressure tree
wood or a composite decking, you use a spacing in between,
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which could be like a twelve penny nail because it'll
swell in the heat. But pressure tree wood will definitely
dry out, no question about.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
It, okay. And then my second question was he said
he wanted to stain it next week. I'd always heard
quite you know a few weeks before you did that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, I would say I would not want it stay
next week. Here's the problem. And I've been talking about
pressure tree wood for almost forty years, and it varies
depending on the type of pressure treatment that's being used,
depending on how long it's been in the lumber yard,
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whether it was undercover, you know, all all that stuff.
I remember doing a show. We would say two weeks,
we would say thirty days. Originally we said a year,
and then it was ninety days. It's all over the lot.
There is a little test you can do, and that
is put a little dollup of water on the pressure
treated wood. I'm like a tablespoon of water. You put
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it on there and see what happens to the water.
If the water, you know, in the midt, it dissipates
into the wood, it's sucking the water in, so it
will suck the stain in. But if it just stays
on there like a newly waxed car, I'd be a
little nervous of doing it. I mean, I'm not gonna
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tell you that in two weeks it wouldn't be fine.
But I'm also telling you it might be three months.
So there was no straight answer on that I know.
But if it's solid color stain, I'm gonna tell you
to wait a year. But on a semi transparent, on
an oil stain, you know, probably faster than a water
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based stain. So really doing that little test is probably
the most accurate way to do it.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Okay, I have a water meter test the moisture content
of the wood.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Uh huh?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Do you know what it should read on that?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I'm thinking five to six percent. I'd have to look
it up, and I think that's the number. Okay, and
you're probably running around twelve right now. I'll bet you. Okay,
I'll get.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
My meter out test and see what it is and
then check it again next week.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Very good, all right, thank you, that's the easy way.
Very good. Thanks appreciate. All right, let's go to dell
Or Kevin. I'm sorry, Kevin, welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Hi are you sir?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Just a quick question.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I'm going to put in a water filtration system for
my house.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Don't know what you know? You read about them.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
They've got all kin what do you recommend? I don't
you know, I want a ten thousand dollars system twelve
hundred square foot house.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Too bad?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, well, what what are you trying to do? Because
a water filtration system would be different than something that's
a tank that's going to soften your water?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
What do you.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Try to.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Filter out microplastics, any of anything. I had cancer. I
just want the cleanest drinking water I can have.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Gotcha clean, very good. So you want kind of like
what would be like a reverse osmosis?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, reverse?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So yeah, reverse osmosis is one. So you can use
that as a whole house, or you can use that
as a as a like just for the kitchen sink,
so you'd be cooking with the water or and drinking
the water.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You know, sometimes you can get them work has a
special spouts. Sometimes you can change out the water you're
using actually going through the faucet. So it's a it's
a little more complicated than just a water soften. Have
you had the water tested yet?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
No? I'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, So what I would do is I would first,
you know, you're going to contact somebody like you know,
like a call. Again, they have a reverse osmosis. All
your big places have reverse osmosis, I mean test that
have them test. Let's find out what's in the water, Okay,
And that's probably the best place to start because you know,
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you can use those breed of filters too, which you know,
if it's depending on what chemicals are in the water
and depending on where you live, you know, sometimes water
splice are pretty good. Yeah. Well, see that kind of
gets into the really what you're looking is, you know,
(28:59):
lead and things like that. I don't even know if
they can test for the plastics when they're testing the
reverse osmosis. I really I don't know the answer to
that question. But i'd call somebody like Culligan and start
with getting the water tested so we know exactly what's
in the water and what we're trying to do.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Yeah, I just heard it's easier on your clothes, it's
easier on your hair, easier on your body. If I
put in a whole house and I'm not worried about
scammining under the sink, you'll probably do the whole house.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But the reverse osmosis, yep, so here what so you
just kind of talked about two different things. I just
want to make sure you're clear on it. The whole house.
When you're talking about easier on your clothes, easier on
your skin, easier on the pipes in the house, and
all that filtering out some you know, the limestone, the
(29:53):
hardness of the water. That's a water softer and that's
what most people have in their house. And that is
kind of a whole house mechanism. Okay, And they're wonderful.
I mean, I've had one for years. There's like Culligan
has those. They're a couple grand, maybe three grand. There's
(30:16):
some that you can buy at home depot that are
a thousand bucks. There's obviously a difference in quality, and
you know you've got to make that decision. But that's
a water softener. Then when you get into purifying water,
that's a reverse osmosis and that's a point of use product.
(30:38):
And I know Culligan carries both of those and they'll
be able to explain, but they're two different they're two
different things. You know, one's taken out chemicals reversed osmosis,
and the other one's taking out it's it's softening the water.
And you know where you're at, you've got a lot
of hard water that's really you know that that that
(30:59):
hard water's good for race horses and bourbon, but not
too good for your clothes and skin.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
So it almost has to be two systems.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Then well that's why I say you want to have
it tested, because they'll test for both, okay, and you know,
you tell me what you want to have the test
done to soften, you know, see what my hardness of
my water is. That'll be the whole house system, and
they'll show you, you know, and some you know, chances
are where you're at you'll have hard water, okay, And
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then they'll do a chemical test on the water and
you'll see they'll find out it's it's a long list,
tell you how much chlorines in there. It also take
how fluoride and you know there's still arguments about that,
but we're not going there. It'll show you where the
lead yeah, it's yeah, it's got it. It just shows
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you what's in your water, that's all, and what the
acceptable are. So you got that, yep.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Yep, all right, then thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
All right, you bet, thank you, Take care bye bye.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah.
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I just want to make sure everybody understood it because
there are two different things all right. Uh, you got
the phone number. Let's take a break in. Boy, we
got Danny and John and Dell and Mary and Bethen
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, back in it we go at home with
Gary Sullivan about thirteen minutes before the top of the hour.
I hope you having a good weekend. Hope you have
an extra day off and have a great Memorial Day
weekend and enjoy get a few things done around the
home and remember what the weekend's all about or day,
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but I say weekend. All right, back to the funds
that go Danny. Welcome. Hi Gary, Yes, sir, how are
you good?
Speaker 9 (35:39):
I had a question about asked falt driveway. I had
a new driveway installed. It's probably been eighteen months ago now,
and he told me to let it cure for a
year before. Yeah, feeling it and I've let it go
a little too long.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
But so no, sometimes they're telling you two years now,
you're fine, You're fine.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Oh good, Well that's good news, that's good to hear. Yeah,
but there's some oil oil spots on the on the
driveway where my daughter parks your car, so you know
they're dry, not not anything big, with lots of little spots.
So I'm just wondering, is there something I need to
do to get those up well actually.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Cover Yeah, no, it'll cover it, but it'll bleed through
in a lot of cases some cases know, but yeah,
you want to try and get some of those up.
Remember that oil is sometimes that asphalt's got oil in too,
So what removes oil spots will sometimes soften asphalt. So
(36:45):
you've got to be careful. What you use down soap
on an asphalt driveway to remove oil spots is very good.
I just use put some straight down soap on there,
let it soap for a while. I'll get a scrub
brush with little water, dipping water and scrub away. That'll
take care of a lot. It's different than concrete. Concrete
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unsealed concrete, remember, is hard, but it's porous. And the
way the asphalt works is it kind of knits together
and kind of seals itself until the sun beats it
up real bad and then we put a sealer on there.
But I think your don liquid soap and a scrub
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rush and some water will take care of it. If
perchance it doesn't take care of it. There is a
product that they actually use in the oil fields. It's
called Act Cleaner. Take me a second to dig that
in my head. Act Cleaner. So it's Act Act Cleaner
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and you can get it online. You can get it
even on Amazon, and it's ACT Cleaners and it eats oil,
so you just sprinkle it on there and you just
let it go. It'll pull that oil right out of there.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Okay, I appreciate that, and U is uh. I've never
had much experience with the asphalt ceiling, but is there
is one product better than another.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
YEP or that you recommend.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah, that whole product line has changed tremendously over probably
the last eight years because we're pretty much, you know,
unless there are solving sealers out there, asphalt cool tar
ceilings usually commercially used for the homeowner. A lot of
them went to acrylic resince sealers. That's probably a lot
of information you don't need, bottom line, as they last longer.
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So when you go shopping for them, you're gonna find
a two year, five year, seven year, and ten year
warranted asphalt sealer. And they're probably ten dollars to forty dollars.
And I'll just take the top of the line. The
drive Max by Blackjack is a ten year asphalt seiler.
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It's water base. You don't have to stir it up.
It's called got a small aggregate in it, very very small,
so it kind of covers up the coarseness of that
driveway may look right now. And it resists ultraviolet sunlight,
which means it stays black and looks pretty good for
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ten years. And you don't have to apply it every year.
You apply it every ten years. You apply it. You
literally turn it over when on its lid overnight and
you pour it onto the driveway insections, not all of
it at one time, and you distribute it with a
squeegee and then with a brush and it'll give it
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a little texture. And that's the top of the line.
And then the other ones, the seven year, five years
is just a little less quality in it. You know,
you may have to stir the other ones. The drivemax
that I was talking about, so two code systems. The
other ones are a one code system. But the two
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code systems pretty easy because you're doing it wet on wet,
you're just putting thin layers down. But just start shopping
for them. You'll see it'll explain everything on the cans.
It'll tell you you know what you're getting for the
five year, seven year, two year, ten year, and you'll
be able to make a decision what's right for you.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Okay, all right, in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
You bet. You take care? Bye bye. All right, let's
go to Dell. Dell.
Speaker 10 (40:43):
Welcome, Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 10 (40:52):
Our house is about nineteen years old, and it's buick,
and we have a little bit of a covered porch
on it, and that seems to be separating from the house.
There's now probably an inch or a little bit more gap.
(41:13):
M Is there something?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, there's something. I don't know if I'm gonna be
able to tell you what that something is. So is
the is the brick floor of the porch pulling away
from the house or is the roof pulling away from
the house?
Speaker 10 (41:33):
The concrete porch is pulling away from the house.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
And how big of a gap do we have there?
Speaker 10 (41:42):
We have probably an inch and maybe a little bit
more okay?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
And is this I know it's brick on the top,
but is it concrete? It's got a concrete structure? And
how many steps?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
There are.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Three steps? And it does have a concrete structure. It's
got a full basement, okay.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
And any water getting in the house. No, And okay,
so how old's a house.
Speaker 10 (42:19):
It's nineteen years old.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Okay, all right. So what it's doing is it's settling.
When that house was built, we dig a hole, okay.
And you got a lot of a lot of clay
in Louisville. And they dig a hole, they plan a house,
they push all the dirt against it, and they put
this slab on with steps and that's kind of just settled.
And it's tilting, it's pulling away from the house. There's
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nothing you can do about it. But there's companies that
depending on how it is built and how it is structured, Dell.
What they'll do is they'll do what they do. They'll
underpin that little that group of stepping in that porch.
They'll literally drive a post down into the ground, into
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the bedrock. They'll attach the clamps to it, and they
will lift that whole area up and they'll bring it
right tight exactly where it was and they'll stabilize that.
Because you got a lot of limestone also, and of
course you've heard about sinkholes down where you live. And
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what we want to do is get down to the
bedrock to anchor it. So you're looking for people that
do peering. You might call a couple contractors that do slabjacking.
I don't know if they'll be able to help you,
but peering and slab jacking. Peering would be the one
I would check and get some people out there to
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assess exactly what you got going on. Hope that helps.
Dell will take a break and we got bet Andy
Mary John You you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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stains from moisture on wood floors and pet urns, and
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a couple of people had mentioned using white vinegar and
white vinegar gets credit for a whole bunch of stuff.
And you can try white vinegar if you would like.
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that's removing it. And then we went through the other thing,
the oxalic acids and all that. Calling a professional, let
them take a look at it. But you you're One
of your tougher challenges after you get it up is
trying to match the stain or match the where the
stain was. Let's say you get it all up, trying
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to match that floor color can be a really challenge.
It's not like paint. You can't go in and say
I'll take Queen Anne's lace or I'll take Willie's walnut. No,
you know, it's a walnut stain, but you use a
walnut stained by different brands. They're all different. They're closed,
but they'll be all different. Walnut stain on pine floors,
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oak floors, maple floors, they're all different. So trying to
match that in I'm not being Debbie Downer here. I
mean sometimes you can stand it out and end up
saying the whole floor out and redoing the floor. It's
basically what I'm saying. And that's why I said sometimes
having a professional person that comes out and take a
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look at it and get their opinion whether they think
they can get it out. Because if they're looking at
it and they go, I don't think you're gonna get
that out. I think you can pretty much take that
to the bank, okay, and if you want to get
a second opinion, go ahead. But trying to get that
out and get that mashed is not as easy as
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you would think it would be. And I can tell
you white vinegar is probably not going to do it
for you. All right again, our phone number, we got
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five five John. Welcome, Hey Gary.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Can you hear me all right?
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I can?
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Speaker 3 (03:41):
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I love that gutter brush. I got two boxes of
it and I used it all over the place in
my floor brings and anything it's a good step and
I just leave it in there. It's probably doing three
or four years. I haven't done you thing, and everything's
still going.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's super. That's super, I tell you. I used it
on my home years ago, and one of the new
uses I had is I had squirrels going up in
the underground French drain where it exited out of the yard,
and they were putting leaves and nuts back in there,
and they were getting it all clogged up. I even
put a piece of gutter brush in there about two
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years ago. I pull it out every year and hose
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the squirrels out. So that's all good.
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Using on the inlets. I use it on the inlets
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my hobby. But right when I heard it in the
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coming from my vent over the kitchen stove. Let's say,
what's a it's a it's a galvanized event with that
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got that gravity check valve in it. I heard this
thing in there rattling like a rattlesnake. It sounded just
like a rattlesnag. So I couldn't figure out what to do.
So I went up on the roof. That's a steel roof.
I put on there, and it dropped a now on
cord down the down the vent and stood back. I
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got mugged by a squirrel.
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Oh that surprised me.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He got away and he was in there trying to
run up the wall.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, I'll tell you. Yeah, squirrels are They are really
challenging in homes people. Uh, they do so much damage
and they always seemed the way to get in. I'll
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is through the ridge vent.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't have that, but but the oil, the oil spill.
First aid that I've always used in my mechanic days
is red bricks and and uh, and the dry sweet
you know, the clay vitrous clay, red red bricks, and
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I use a dust pan and a squeegee and I
get it all up unless I put it in a
wastebasket anywhere, and then I use last week and squeegee
first and driss weeping red bricks grind it in to
the I got old concrete rhymes it in. But everything
you talk about on you, I strained my camper with
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Well I appreciate you know, on that kitty litter too.
I think one of the things I kind of want
to tell everybody that and the red bricks both. That's
a great tip and it it's really effective with newer
oil stains. You know. It seems like the older they
are and the longer you go, the less the less
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you're likely to remove that with the kitty litter and
a red brick. But gosh, you know, on the oil
stain that's a month old, you get out there, you
can get a lot of that that oil. You could
just pull it right up. Remember that concrete is hard,
but it's got capillaries in there and it's very porous,
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and that oil can really can be absorbed with the
kitty litter or red brick dust. You're absolutely correct, so
that's a great tip for a lot of people. Thank
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Speaker 2 (11:09):
Keith, Welcome, Good morning Gary.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
I have a question about a basement and some moisture issues.
Not we don't have any water, not had any water
or flooding at this point, but.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We put down some LVP.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
And it's it's not a good product, so we're looking
at replacing that at some time in the future. It's
chipping up and breaking and it's just just not good
at all. And I did a calcium chloride test. Is
that I think that's what it's called to check. The
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moisture level came up to a seven, which some of
the other flooring products I've looked at. That's running a
little high for any kind of floor you get at
the you know, any plank flooring of any kind. And
(12:16):
I've looked at some of the or I've seen the
paint on floors that's like a I think you a
razo or something like that paint. So does moisture affect those?
Or or is that is that a water product?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
To go?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
There are some of them. You just got to make
sure it's a breathable product where it can exhaust that
water vapor through the through that coating. Some do, some don't.
I know that the roller rock product Torezo does exhaust
the water through, so yes, that would work. Let me
(12:56):
ask you a couple of questions when you say the
the plank floor r uh, the l VP is is
that the vinyl that sticks together or what kind of LVP.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It was? The it was the vinyl of.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Planks, you know, I don't know, there's six inches by
what four feet something like that?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That interlock okay, okay, yeah, was that a waterproof or
was that a waterproof or water resistance.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yes, it was waterproof. It was it's very thin, okay.
And it was all vinyl. There was no uh, wood
would product in that at all?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, okay. And when you put that down, was the
floor like when you took it up, was that floor wet?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Then? No? No, the floor the floor was dry.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
And I put down a breathable barrier or it was
supposed to be. That was supposed to help to alleviate
any moisture problems. Uh and and allow that to breathe underneath.
Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
That was also very thin.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It was just like a regular underlayment for for that flooring.
Not not really thick, but it was yeah, yeah, not
a you know, but not like some of those it's
just like a foam or something like that. This was
I had a different kind of backing on it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But what you want to put down there when it's
all sadden done?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I want I want something that when I get finished,
I'm finished, I don't want I don't want to do
this again. Yeah, So you know, it's it's something that's
that's durable. This this flooring is is not very durable.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I mean, we're.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Retired and we don't I mean, we don't have a
lot of foot traffic and it's just not held up
well at all.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, there's so many difference. I talk about LVT, you're
talking about LVP. They're different in terms of they're vinyl.
So you know, it sounds to me like you're kind
of focusing on that. There's a lot of water vapor
coming up through that floor, and that's what's making the
whole flooring issue a big problem. What I'd do at first,
(15:32):
I'd go down there and I, you know, besides the
calcium chloride test to see how much moisture and all
that is, just take a piece about eighteen inch square
plastic and tape it down on the floor and see
if there's water droplets that form in between the floor
and the plastic. After about you know, a couple of days,
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and if there is the barrier, the vapor barrier beneath
that concrete is no longer there, probably the source of
the problem. And what you can do then is there
are products, and one of the ones I'm most familiar
with is a dry lock product that's dry lock clear,
and it is a It will not allow moisture to
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come up through that concrete. It can hold back ten
pounds per square inch of moisture and it would be
very dry and at that point quite honestly, I mean,
I got carpet in my basement floor and I've never
had a problem with mold or anything down there with it.
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You could use engineered wood floor, you could use the LVT.
I'm not familiar with which one of the lvps you have.
I just do know there's some that are water resistant,
and there's a big difference between water resistant and water proof.
But if we can get that where there's no water
vapor coming up through that floor, I mean, you could
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use anything you want.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It, right, Yeah, that's that's kind of what I mean.
I the paint and the application, I'm unsure about that,
and I've called a couple of people, and you know,
it's going to be several thousand dollars to to come
and apply that paint professionally, and I'm not sure I'm
confident enough to do that myself. Where I can I
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can lay the uh the l v T, I guess
that's you know, I've done that before. That's not a problem.
But I didn't want to put it down because the
specs on it said that you had your your your
calcium chloride test.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Had to be at five or below. And since I
was over that, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Too much moisture up to there. It goes back to
the you know, dry lock clear. I'm going to give
you a website. You asked about a coating, and there
there is a breathable coating. It's made by dish Coatings.
I've had Peter Diiche on this show numerous times. It's
got a very informative website with videos. So it's the
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website is it's Daich Dai ch Dice Daich cooatings dot com.
And take a look at their roller rock and their spreadstone,
and you know it comes in different colors. You can
get it fancy. They have one called Terrazzo. You mentioned that,
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and it is a breathable coating and so it will
allow that water vapor to permeate through that coating, which
it's doing now it's coming through the concrete. Dis just
allows it to continue to go and mix with the
environment and the basement which is probably fairly humid anyway,
(18:54):
and it wouldn't be a bad idea to find out
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conversation regarding to gutter brush just about an hour ago,
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back to the phone calls. We got Roger Roger welcome.
How you doing, sir, Yes, sir, fine, thanks.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I've kind of had a deck installed this week. What
they did was they just replaced the deck boards, the
handrails on those spindles. My concern is the deck boards.
I had always been told to leave at least a
quarter or an a to a quarter inch gap between
the boards, and they pushed these right up against each other.
When I questioned the contractor, he said, oh, well, these
(23:41):
boards are full of moisture. They'll shrink and leave your gap.
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Or yeah? Yeah. I just want to be real specific
so other people listening know, if you're using pressure treated wood,
you know, your regular pine pressure tree, would you snug
those boards up. If you're using kiln dride pressure tree
wood or a composite decking, you use a spacing in between,
(24:13):
which could be like a twelve penny nail because it'll
swell in the heat. But pressure tree wood will definitely
dry out, no question about.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
It, okay. And then my second question was he said
he wanted to stain it next week. I'd always heard
quite you know a few weeks before you did that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, I would say I would not want it stay
next week. Here's the problem. And I've been talking about
pressure tree wood for almost forty years, and it varies
depending on the type of pressure treatment that's being used,
depending on how long it's been in the lumber yard,
(24:56):
whether it was undercover, you know, all all that stuff.
I remember doing a show. We would say two weeks,
we would say thirty days. Originally we said a year,
and then it was ninety days. It's all over the lot.
There is a little test you can do, and that
is put a little dollup of water on the pressure
treated wood. I'm like a tablespoon of water. You put
(25:18):
it on there and see what happens to the water.
If the water, you know, in the midt, it dissipates
into the wood, it's sucking the water in, so it
will suck the stain in. But if it just stays
on there like a newly waxed car, I'd be a
little nervous of doing it. I mean, I'm not gonna
(25:39):
tell you that in two weeks it wouldn't be fine.
But I'm also telling you it might be three months.
So there was no straight answer on that I know.
But if it's solid color stain, I'm gonna tell you
to wait a year. But on a semi transparent, on
an oil stain, you know, probably faster than a water
(26:02):
based stain. So really doing that little test is probably
the most accurate way to do it.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Okay, I have a water meter test the moisture content
of the wood.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Uh huh?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Do you know what it should read on that?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I'm thinking five to six percent. I'd have to look
it up, and I think that's the number. Okay, and
you're probably running around twelve right now. I'll bet you. Okay,
I'll get.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
My meter out test and see what it is and
then check it again next week.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Very good, all right, thank you, that's the easy way.
Very good. Thanks appreciate. All right, let's go to dell
Or Kevin. I'm sorry, Kevin, welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Hi are you sir?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Just a quick question.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I'm going to put in a water filtration system for
my house.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Don't know what you know? You read about them.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
They've got all kin what do you recommend? I don't
you know, I want a ten thousand dollars system twelve
hundred square foot house.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Too bad?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, well, what what are you trying to do? Because
a water filtration system would be different than something that's
a tank that's going to soften your water?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
What do you.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Try to.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Filter out microplastics, any of anything. I had cancer. I
just want the cleanest drinking water I can have.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Gotcha clean, very good. So you want kind of like
what would be like a reverse osmosis?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, reverse?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So yeah, reverse osmosis is one. So you can use
that as a whole house, or you can use that
as a as a like just for the kitchen sink,
so you'd be cooking with the water or and drinking
the water.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You know, sometimes you can get them work has a
special spouts. Sometimes you can change out the water you're
using actually going through the faucet. So it's a it's
a little more complicated than just a water soften. Have
you had the water tested yet?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
No? I'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, So what I would do is I would first,
you know, you're going to contact somebody like you know,
like a call. Again, they have a reverse osmosis. All
your big places have reverse osmosis, I mean test that
have them test. Let's find out what's in the water, Okay,
And that's probably the best place to start because you know,
(28:39):
you can use those breed of filters too, which you know,
if it's depending on what chemicals are in the water
and depending on where you live, you know, sometimes water
splice are pretty good. Yeah. Well, see that kind of
gets into the really what you're looking is, you know,
(28:59):
lead and things like that. I don't even know if
they can test for the plastics when they're testing the
reverse osmosis. I really I don't know the answer to
that question. But i'd call somebody like Culligan and start
with getting the water tested so we know exactly what's
in the water and what we're trying to do.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Yeah, I just heard it's easier on your clothes, it's
easier on your hair, easier on your body. If I
put in a whole house and I'm not worried about
scammining under the sink, you'll probably do the whole house.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But the reverse osmosis, yep, so here what so you
just kind of talked about two different things. I just
want to make sure you're clear on it. The whole house.
When you're talking about easier on your clothes, easier on
your skin, easier on the pipes in the house, and
all that filtering out some you know, the limestone, the
(29:53):
hardness of the water. That's a water softer and that's
what most people have in their house. And that is
kind of a whole house mechanism. Okay, And they're wonderful.
I mean, I've had one for years. There's like Culligan
has those. They're a couple grand, maybe three grand. There's
(30:16):
some that you can buy at home depot that are
a thousand bucks. There's obviously a difference in quality, and
you know you've got to make that decision. But that's
a water softener. Then when you get into purifying water,
that's a reverse osmosis and that's a point of use product.
(30:38):
And I know Culligan carries both of those and they'll
be able to explain, but they're two different they're two
different things. You know, one's taken out chemicals reversed osmosis,
and the other one's taking out it's it's softening the water.
And you know where you're at, you've got a lot
of hard water that's really you know that that that
(30:59):
hard water's good for race horses and bourbon, but not
too good for your clothes and skin.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
So it almost has to be two systems.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Then well that's why I say you want to have
it tested, because they'll test for both, okay, and you know,
you tell me what you want to have the test
done to soften, you know, see what my hardness of
my water is. That'll be the whole house system, and
they'll show you, you know, and some you know, chances
are where you're at you'll have hard water, okay, And
(31:28):
then they'll do a chemical test on the water and
you'll see they'll find out it's it's a long list,
tell you how much chlorines in there. It also take
how fluoride and you know there's still arguments about that,
but we're not going there. It'll show you where the
lead yeah, it's yeah, it's got it. It just shows
(31:50):
you what's in your water, that's all, and what the
acceptable are. So you got that, yep.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Yep, all right, then thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
All right, you bet, thank you, Take care bye bye.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I just want to make sure everybody understood it because
there are two different things all right. Uh, you got
the phone number. Let's take a break in. Boy, we
got Danny and John and Dell and Mary and Bethen
We're out of here for a minute or two. You're
at home with gary'sullivant.
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, back in it we go at home with
Gary Sullivan about thirteen minutes before the top of the hour.
I hope you having a good weekend. Hope you have
an extra day off and have a great Memorial Day
weekend and enjoy get a few things done around the
home and remember what the weekend's all about or day,
(35:28):
but I say weekend. All right, back to the funds
that go Danny. Welcome. Hi Gary, Yes, sir, how are
you good?
Speaker 9 (35:39):
I had a question about asked falt driveway. I had
a new driveway installed. It's probably been eighteen months ago now,
and he told me to let it cure for a
year before. Yeah, feeling it and I've let it go
a little too long.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
But so no, sometimes they're telling you two years now,
you're fine, You're fine.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Oh good, Well that's good news, that's good to hear. Yeah,
but there's some oil oil spots on the on the
driveway where my daughter parks your car, so you know
they're dry, not not anything big, with lots of little spots.
So I'm just wondering, is there something I need to
do to get those up well actually.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Cover Yeah, no, it'll cover it, but it'll bleed through
in a lot of cases some cases know, but yeah,
you want to try and get some of those up.
Remember that oil is sometimes that asphalt's got oil in too,
So what removes oil spots will sometimes soften asphalt. So
(36:45):
you've got to be careful. What you use down soap
on an asphalt driveway to remove oil spots is very good.
I just use put some straight down soap on there,
let it soap for a while. I'll get a scrub
brush with little water, dipping water and scrub away. That'll
take care of a lot. It's different than concrete. Concrete
(37:08):
unsealed concrete, remember, is hard, but it's porous. And the
way the asphalt works is it kind of knits together
and kind of seals itself until the sun beats it
up real bad and then we put a sealer on there.
But I think your don liquid soap and a scrub
(37:28):
rush and some water will take care of it. If
perchance it doesn't take care of it. There is a
product that they actually use in the oil fields. It's
called Act Cleaner. Take me a second to dig that
in my head. Act Cleaner. So it's Act Act Cleaner
(37:50):
and you can get it online. You can get it
even on Amazon, and it's ACT Cleaners and it eats oil,
so you just sprinkle it on there and you just
let it go. It'll pull that oil right out of there.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Okay, I appreciate that, and U is uh. I've never
had much experience with the asphalt ceiling, but is there
is one product better than another.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
YEP or that you recommend.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah, that whole product line has changed tremendously over probably
the last eight years because we're pretty much, you know,
unless there are solving sealers out there, asphalt cool tar
ceilings usually commercially used for the homeowner. A lot of
them went to acrylic resince sealers. That's probably a lot
of information you don't need, bottom line, as they last longer.
(38:45):
So when you go shopping for them, you're gonna find
a two year, five year, seven year, and ten year
warranted asphalt sealer. And they're probably ten dollars to forty dollars.
And I'll just take the top of the line. The
drive Max by Blackjack is a ten year asphalt seiler.
(39:08):
It's water base. You don't have to stir it up.
It's called got a small aggregate in it, very very small,
so it kind of covers up the coarseness of that
driveway may look right now. And it resists ultraviolet sunlight,
which means it stays black and looks pretty good for
(39:29):
ten years. And you don't have to apply it every year.
You apply it every ten years. You apply it. You
literally turn it over when on its lid overnight and
you pour it onto the driveway insections, not all of
it at one time, and you distribute it with a
squeegee and then with a brush and it'll give it
(39:50):
a little texture. And that's the top of the line.
And then the other ones, the seven year, five years
is just a little less quality in it. You know,
you may have to stir the other ones. The drivemax
that I was talking about, so two code systems. The
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code systems pretty easy because you're doing it wet on wet,
you're just putting thin layers down. But just start shopping
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Speaker 3 (40:33):
Okay, all right, in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
You bet. You take care? Bye bye. All right, let's
go to Dell. Dell.
Speaker 10 (40:43):
Welcome, Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
You're quite welcome.
Speaker 10 (40:52):
Our house is about nineteen years old, and it's buick,
and we have a little bit of a covered porch
on it, and that seems to be separating from the house.
There's now probably an inch or a little bit more gap.
(41:13):
M Is there something?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, there's something. I don't know if I'm gonna be
able to tell you what that something is. So is
the is the brick floor of the porch pulling away
from the house or is the roof pulling away from
the house?
Speaker 10 (41:33):
The concrete porch is pulling away from the house.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
And how big of a gap do we have there?
Speaker 10 (41:42):
We have probably an inch and maybe a little bit
more okay?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
And is this I know it's brick on the top,
but is it concrete? It's got a concrete structure? And
how many steps?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
There are.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Three steps? And it does have a concrete structure. It's
got a full basement, okay.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
And any water getting in the house. No, And okay,
so how old's a house.
Speaker 10 (42:19):
It's nineteen years old.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Okay, all right. So what it's doing is it's settling.
When that house was built, we dig a hole, okay.
And you got a lot of a lot of clay
in Louisville. And they dig a hole, they plan a house,
they push all the dirt against it, and they put
this slab on with steps and that's kind of just settled.
And it's tilting, it's pulling away from the house. There's
(42:45):
nothing you can do about it. But there's companies that
depending on how it is built and how it is structured, Dell.
What they'll do is they'll do what they do. They'll
underpin that little that group of stepping in that porch.
They'll literally drive a post down into the ground, into
(43:09):
the bedrock. They'll attach the clamps to it, and they
will lift that whole area up and they'll bring it
right tight exactly where it was and they'll stabilize that.
Because you got a lot of limestone also, and of
course you've heard about sinkholes down where you live. And
(43:29):
what we want to do is get down to the
bedrock to anchor it. So you're looking for people that
do peering. You might call a couple contractors that do slabjacking.
I don't know if they'll be able to help you,
but peering and slab jacking. Peering would be the one
I would check and get some people out there to
(43:52):
assess exactly what you got going on. Hope that helps.
Dell will take a break and we got bet Andy
Mary John You you're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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