May 25, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well the weekends upon us welcome. You are at home
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I started yesterday's show off with the same time I'm
going to start today's show off, and that is I
want to talk about lawn equipment. And I bring this
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up because this past week I was asked numerous times
what I thought about battery powered lawnmowers, and I thought, geez,
you know, we've had a fairly wet spring. A lot
of parts of the country. Grass has been going really fast,
always does this time a year, and I'm sure a
few lawnmowers have counked out and people start thinking, Yeah,
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do I get a gas one? Do I get a
battery one? I would like you to share your input
on how you feel about battery lundmars. And I don't
need to know about the string termers and the blowers.
I think they've really incorporated their way into the you know,
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lawn care. I know I've had one, probably for about
eight years. Love it. But how about the mowers? You know,
the self propelled mowers? They work our right? The batteries
last long enough? Is it lighter? Is it more maneuverable?
How do you feel about the battery mowers? And you know,
I'm looking for a personal experience, So you know, d
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you buy one a number of years ago, a couple
of years ago this year to cut the grass well enough?
Is a battery strong enough? Is a torque strong enough?
And if you could show that, I'd appreciate it. Our
phone number is eight hundred eighty two, three, eight, two
five five, And of course we as I said, we've
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had two days that are pretty nice virtually no rain, yeay.
But with all the rain, we've had some issues with
gutters and cross spaces and basements and roof leaks and
some pumps. We'll cover a little bit of that, and
also get in the summertime grilling going and cleaning up
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the grill, and we can kind of walk you through
that whole cleaning process. Some people say, hey, you just
clean it, and in a way, you just do, but
there are some things you want to check, especially on
the gas grills, and we can certainly chat about that.
And I also want to talk sometime today about ten
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things that kind of ruined the kitchen. And somebody said
to cook, I didn't have that on my list, but yeah,
that could be. That could be very true. And you know,
we'll talk about laying out a kitchen, maybe redoing a kitchen,
things that you know have a tendency to really make
it look more aged than it should. And maybe you're
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talking about Appliance's countertop, so we'll chat about that now.
To kick a project off, I had somebody send me
an email yesterday because it was busy and a lot
of people couldn't get through, and you know, even though
we have eight lines coming in. But anyway, a couple
of people wrote me different emails and one question we
haven't had for a while, but it really bears talking
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about because I think a lot of folks have a
problem similarly similar to this, and that is they said,
I've tried everything and I can't get mold out of
the cocking. And they go like, I've tried all kind
of bathroom cleaners, blah blah blah, it doesn't work. Well,
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those bathroom cleaners that said this person said didn't work,
I've used them and they do work. And they He
also went on to say that like every six months
he's tearing out the coking because it's moldy. And I
wrote and he wanted to know what type of cocking
can really resist mold, and a bunch of them. Probably
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the most popular cocking for Round bethtubs is the DAP
quick seal. It's been out forever, the red and white tube,
squeeze tube, easy to install, siliconized acrylic, easy to apply.
And I wrote him back and I said, you know,
one of the problems and a lot of us don't
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realize that. We always think that mold is on the
surface of the calking, and in some cases that mold
is embedded in the coking. And what's going on, or
what could be going on, is you could have a
moisture issue behind the wall, whether it's an enclosure, whether
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it's tie well. But if there's moisture behind that wall
and mold is growing and it begins to grow where
that gap is between the wall and the tub or
the wall and the showerpan, that mold can get strong enough.
Even though it's a mold resistant calking, there's nothing really
to stop it. It's actually embedded in the calking, and
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eventually it gets to the surface and then you try
to clean it and it just it may lighten it
a little bit, but it's never going to get rid
of it because it's encased in the calking. So, you know,
one of the things when you're calking around a bathtub
or a shower pan, removing as much of that calking
as you can and there's different colcking quote removers. They're
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not going to remove the cooking. They're going to soften
it so it will become more appliable, and you may
have the ability to take that calking out more, you know, easily,
and so you can use that and then use a
calcking removing tool which is a literally a plastic hook
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knife where you can get behind that beata clocking and
just you know, kind of yank it out if you will,
and then you can look in there in that crevice
and you can see is it clean? Is there a
bunch of black goo in there? Is there is that
where the mold is? Is the big question is that
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where the water is? So is the water getting behind
that wall? And you say, how, well, there's a number
of ways, and you know, if you don't. If you
see just some mold back there but it doesn't appear damp,
you can use rubbing alcohol and really clean that crevice
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out and then go ahead and apply the quick seal
with the microband, get a good, good beat of clocking
in there and done. If there's moisture, you need to
look a little further. You need to look at how
can water get behind that tile? Per se Look at
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the top of the tile. Is there any crevice there
where water could leak and get behind the tile. And
then saturate the maybe the green board and make it soft.
Maybe you can even push on the tiles and you
can feel a little softness or a little give. There
is there missing grouting between the tile? Is the tile
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cracked when you're showering in the water splashing off your
body onto the front wall with a shower and there's
the faucet handles and a little round excussion plates. Are
those calked tightly to the wall Because all those things
I just rambled about are ways that water can get
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behind the wall and create mold growth behind the wall,
and then that mold grows through the calking. There's enough
of it, it'll overpower the microban or if that calking
has been there for a long time, and I think
the warranty on the micro bent is like three to
five years. I forget which and then the molt starts
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going through the calking and you clean the surface and
nothing happens. So you know, making sure other areas are
calck tightly and no moisture is getting down to that
bottom where the tub and the wall meat or the
shower pan and the wall meat might not be the
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fall of the calking, is what I'm saying. It could
be other things. So you know, if that's a problem
around your home, follow those steps and give it a
give that wall good examination. Also, take a look at
the where the tub or the showerpan meet the flooring,
especially if you have a vinyl flooring sheet Goods. There's
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a little tiny seam there, and if a little tiny
water gets in that little tiny seam, eventually what will
happen is that vinyl will start curling back away from
the tub, so the seam gets larger, the water gets
more plentiful, and then you could have the subfloor begin
to rot or mold begin to grow, or you'd have problems.
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So a couple tips there, I hope it helps. Will
take a break. If you'd like to join us, do
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helping you get a few things done around the home
on the weekend. Thanks for joining me. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan. Got a question regarding home repair. Grab
a line. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five and Clark Welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Good morning, Gary, Good morning. I hope everything is well
in near Neck of the Woods and on the shores
of Lake Ontario. I've stayed New York.
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It is the same here, wonderful. It's glad to see
the sun here.
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That I send the East that that's something that we
haven't seen in a while.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's coming your way. It's coming your way.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I got an insulation question, Gary, and at first blush,
I'll tell you I tend to overbuild the I'm reasoning
one hundred and forty square foot small bedroom, and I'm
wondering about using the closed cell of it comes four
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bay sheets with foil faced both both sides. And before
I put the the ceiling in, I'm putting that that
rigid up on the ceiling and then ferring it with
two by fours and the sheet rock to that and
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above that in the attic, I've got the bats that are, oh,
I believe there are three by four and two feet
two feet thick, maybe maybe a foot thick. And then
I blew in over that cellulose.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So if I'm in the side.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Walls, Gary, I want to make the room pretty soundproof.
I'm putting it's a two by four construction, but I'll
put extensions on the two by four so I can
put six inch in the sidewalls. I realized I'll lose
a little bit of space. But is there any problem
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using double with that one inch rigid board.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, the issue is, the quick answer is no, what
what you run into trouble? And I wanted to mention
that anyway, even with the installation that you're doing on
the ceiling, if you're you just don't want to put
a combination. In other words, you don't want to have insulation.
You don't want to have a vapor barrier, then insulation,
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then another vapor barrier, insulation. But on those foams, you'll
be fine stacking them like that with the closed cell phone,
because that whole thing is kind of a vapor barrier.
You know, the closed cell phone doesn't let water vapor
transfer the foil on the outside. If you got that type,
that's not gonna let water vapor transfer. So double stacking
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that will not be a problem.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Is there truth to the fact that both the dry
wall and the paint which put on the interior service
of the room serves as a vapor barrier too?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No? Actually, well the paint does not, which is good.
You know, if we go back, you know, forty years,
remember we use oil based paint and the paint would
always peel is because moisture could not go through that paint.
It kind of was vapor barrier, and that wasn't good
because then you got a little water, the paint would peel.
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Now it's breathable and drywall. I don't know if drywalls
as breathable. I really don't know the answer to that.
I know when we do basements and we put in
family rooms, we used to encase them with plastic, which
was terrible because the water coming through the foundation couldn't
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dissipate into the basement, but it could go over the
top of the drywall and dissipate through the basement, and
that was much better than trapping it behind the water.
So I don't know how breathable drywall is. I'd have
to look it up. I've never really challenged myself to
that question.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Is there a quick and easy way to figure the
R value in the bolt of ceilium sad wall?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, to a degree. It really depends on the type
of insulation. But if you took like fiberglass, fiberglass has
usually got about an R two point five per inch
of thickness, so it's two point five to three per
inch of thickness. Foam is anywhere really between an our
value of five to seven per inch of thickness, so
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that that kind of really depends on the There's different
types of phone. There's a styrophom type, there's a eurethane type.
But a lot of times it'll tell you on you know,
if you get a a usually comes in like a
bag with the panels in there, it'll usually have the
R value on there.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay, it's very good. And lastly, if I'm allowed down
to the hardwood floor using using precentaged hardwood flooring and
a new sub floor, do they still use resin paper
between them?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
They can? Yes, follow the I tell everybody all the
time when it's roofing and flooring, followed the instructions on
that box of engineered wood flooring. But yeah, you're trying
to create a vapor barrier there too. This the engineered
wood floor, the pre finished wood floor very structurally sound
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where moisture shouldn't affect it and roze and paper is
certainly an option. There's other types that are a little
better and better technology, and I would use their recommended
base for underneath that floor. I hope that helps Clark.
Thanks a lot for the call and Sunshine's coming your way.
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what kind of maintenance you need to do, maybe help
you with a repair, a little remodeling, just kind of
sprucing up the home. We do it each and every weekend,
and you're invited to give us a call. We'll be
happy to talk about what you're working on around your home. Again,
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it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Just go ahead and grab a line and happy to
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leaves and clog up. And you know, another thing that's
going on about right now is mosquitos. I heard a
little news story like, no kidding, summertime mosquitoes. No no, no,
that's a big news that that's what happens. But mosquitoes,
you know, breed have their larvae in standing water clog
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gutters are notorious for standing water, bird bass and different
things like that. So really, if you live in an
area where you've had a lot of rain, you know,
make sure you don't have like garbage can lids turned
upside down, collecting water, gutters that are clogged, collecting water,
kids toys, sandbox bird bass, all those that are collecting water.
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There's little mosquito dunks and bits that you can put in.
You're not gonna hurt wildlife, not gonna hurt kids, and
just eliminates the larvae. A good way to keep that
under control a little bit. And I also talked again
at the beginning of the show, if you've made a
transition from a gas powered mower to a battery mower.
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I'd like your input on that. How's that working for you?
Is it more maneuverable, is it self propelled? You know?
Just does it a charge cuts your grass? How much
grass are you cutting? Just like some input. I know
I've been asked that question a lot in the last
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week or two. Like your input, so feel free to
join us with that. Also, as you take these walk
around the house, and we are always encouraged to do
that this time of year, it's another thing I want
you to kind of take a look at, especially around
your foundation, making sure that we don't have morel piled
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up above the foundation onto the brick. I think over
the years, as we continue to mulch mulch mulch, mulch mulch,
at some point, if it's not decomposing fast enough, we
got to rake that away from you know, so it
doesn't come up onto the brick wault, which is more
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porous water could intrude into your house. And also, as
you're looking about every sixth the vertical joint on the
base row of brick is a wheephole, especially if the
house was built past nineteen say seventy six, seventy seven,
and not as if water got behind that wall, it
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has a way to get out, and usually there's a
little metal piece with louvers on it where it allows
the water to weep out. If those are clogged with mulch,
with spy webs, with hawking, I've seen people fill those.
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Take that what's this, take that out and then calk
it closed. That's going to trap that water behind the wall.
So we don't want to do that. So take a
look at the wheetpoles. Make sure those are clean and open.
So a couple of things to focus on there. All right,
let's go to Steve. Steve, welcome, Oh Gary, how are
you smarty? Doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
All right. I've got a bathroom that I'm doing just
a small touch up on them or put a new vanity,
think top floor. And I have a Coreyan sink in
the present bathroom. Okay, not in real bad shape. That's
got some of those real five scratches and things on it.
Sure I heard you at one time say that that
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can be buffed out. I'm just wondering who I could
get to buff it out.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, it can be buffed out. So they would use
a product similar to like a jeweler's rouge and a buffer, right,
And people that would do that would be you know,
if there's a you know, a specialty store that works
with kitchen remodeling, you know, has granted countertops and different things.
They usually have a service where they will you know,
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buff out repair even granite countertops and buff out corean countertops.
Number number number of years ago there was I'd always
send somebody in our hometown and man, I'll tell you
what they'd look brand new. Uh, you'd have that sheen back,
the scratches would be gone. They'd do a good job.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Okay, Well, I'll have to investigate that. I thought I
heard you say that a number of years ago, that
it could be buffed out and made to look like new. Sure,
they're not deep, you know, they're.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Just almost right. They just get dull and they start
looking tired and and this is just giving me like
me too, Garry.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Thank you, Bet you take care, Bye bye, all right, James, welcome.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Gary. This has to do with water pressure regulator. So
recently some neighbors had a washing machine hose break. And
I know you know from past talks on your show
that how much damage that causes. So, uh, my house
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is with PEX, and so I was talking to one
of the other neighbors and they were saying they were
measuring their water pressure at their hose bib and they
were getting eighty PSI served you. So I went and
got a Watts regulator and put it on my host
bid monitor and I had the same reading. The steady state,
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if you will, is sixty PSI. But this particular meter
has the ability to record the highest serve and I
got an eighty. But I just don't believe the water
regulator or the input at that from the water meter
out there, has the ability to reduce these surges like that.
I so what is your take on that? On that
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I'm afraid about blowing out a PEX?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because if you had copper pipe, you know, James,
you'd been you'd been fine shaped copper can you know
withstand eighty try not to get copper over eighty. But
with pecks, you know, sixty to sixty five is about
the ceiling that I'd be comfortable with too. And I
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don't know how old the regulator is. I mean, you
can certainly have peaks and valleys and different things like that.
Have you tried to adjust it at all to see
if you can change When you say that the standing
water pressure is it around sixty?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yeah, So the test I did was I put it
on the hose bib. I'm not sure it matters, but
I just did this, the furthest hose bib from the
water input where the regulator is, so it's the furthest
one away. It's on the opposite side of the house.
And I slowly turned on the spickett, if you will,
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the hose bibu and it read sixty and I looked
at it, didn't do anything in the house. Then I
went out there a few hours later it was still
at sixty. Because it has a red needle that will
record the highest surge. So I decided to run the washer,
and I ran the washer, and I went out looked
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out there, and that red dial had a high reading
of eighty. So I assume when the washer came on
it had a surge or something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, So the question is is that surge going to
get you in trouble? Well, one way to look at
it is that sixty kind of the peak for pecks anyway,
you might try to adjust that regulator down a little
bit and give yourself a little wiggle room and maybe
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pull it down to like fifty, which would you know,
bring your surge down also, I would think, I'm I'm
thinking it would sure, and and see where that registers
on the surge then so you can and you can
adjust those there's a screw at the top and literally
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turn that screw counterclockwise. I'd do it, you know, pretty
slow and no more than a quarter turn at a time,
and just see where just play with it a little bit.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
My particular one is, uh, it's actually it looks like
a hex bolt or something. It's on the side a bit.
I don't know, it's all wrapped ination. But so if
you turn it counterclockwise.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
To decre crease yefs counterclockwise, and so you know, at
each adjustment you're gonna you know, turn on the faucet
and retest it. Don't leave it just on. Just you know,
turn off the faucet, make the adjustment, quarter turn, turn it,
turn it faster back on. See what Let it stay
on for a while, see what kind of reading you're getting,
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and see if you can just bring it down a bit.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Is there. I mean, I don't is there any disadvantage
to like lowering it down to like, I don't know,
forty forty five.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well, some people you can do that. So the range
for normal water pressure, acceptable normal water pressure is forty
five to sixty, So sixty even for the pecks is
kind of you know, it's right on the high mark.
So you know, sometimes there's a lot of people get
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pressure and volume mixed up. So I think it's something
you got to try. It's kind of a personal preference.
But you don't want to get it into the dangerous
zone where you could, you know, blow the pecks. So
I would probably go out there, you know, shup that faucet.
I'd probably do it in a quarter, turnaround and turn it,
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just kind of just play with it, get it down
to about probably you know, if you want to bring
it down to fifty, and then you know, leave it
there for a while, see where the surges are, see
how the shower feels, and make a decision whether you
want to take it down further.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Yeah, I'm the people that had their hose on the
washing machine break. If costs fifty thousand dollars worth.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Of damage, Oh yeah, Well, I'll tell you the the
hoses on washing machines, and we've given this tip a lot.
They've they've kind of changed the hoses with quote burst
proof hoses with the stainless steel wrap, but they can
still burst but the old and they still sell them.
Every hardware store has just got the hose. Those are
really to be changed probably every three to four years.
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Few people do they change them when they burst.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
So they have a device you can install on there
that will turn off the water in a sudden I
don't know how it works, but I've read about them.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, hardware stores will have that too. On mind, I
have the regular wash machine hoses with the stainless steel wrap.
And again i'd make that adjustment on your pressure regulator.
And if you notice no change, it's probably a faulty
pressure regulator, which could also be part of the problem.
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little home improvement and getting things ready. I was talking
about uh uh grill cleaning, and I also talk a
lot about Jaws products, and we can certainly use some
of those. They got to love the kitchen de greaser.
Used some this past week. But with summertime coming and
getting that grill in good shape, there's a couple of
things you can do. You know, like your Weber gas
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grill is on the cooking grid itself. Jarles has a
kitchen degreaser that if you you know, the grills off
and you really spray that heavily and let it sit,
and you may have a favorite product for using that too,
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let it sit about ten fifteen minutes kind of re
spray and then using a grid cleaner. Now there's all
different kinds, and of course we've heard some horror stories
about metal fibers getting stuck or being ingested. So if
you want to use a synthetic type of grill cleaner,
(39:58):
I'm fine with that. It's kind of what I've got.
It's like a big giant scrub brush with almost looks
like steel wool, but it's it's not steel. It's kind
of almost like a synthetic scouring pad and clean that
cooking grid off back and forth, meaning the top in
the bottom. Some people say, I'll just turn your grill
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on high. Let's sit there for twenty minutes. It'll take
care of it. It does. Okay, it's not gonna make
it look like a it's not gonna look perfect. I
have heard other people talk about oven cleaners. I haven't
done that. What I have done outside of the clean
is taking oh, like a big dishpan and ammonium water.
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You gotta be careful with ammonia course, and just set
the cooking grid in there and let it soak for
a couple hours and that grease and build up just
falls off. Take it out, lean up against a tree,
take the hose and squirt it off. And then the
flaz of riser bars if you have those where they're
you know, the little triangular pieces, And that's what a
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gas grill. That's how it gives you that grilling out taste.
A lot of people think it's a charcoal, and it's
really just the grease from the meats hitting that hot
steel in creating the flavor into the meats. As I
understand it. Not a chemist. But take those things out
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and take a sanding sponge and just kind of scratch
those back to a clean surface. Does a real good job. Also,
that little grease catcher that's at the back of the grill,
make sure that is replaced. You don't want that grease
dripping on your just stained deck, that's for sure, or patio.
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And then just take a look at the regulator hose,
make sure there's no small cracks in that. And you
can kind of spruce up a grill in a couple
hours and give you a real good look. And that
inside the grill, the hood of the grill, when you
see all that blackness and it's peeling, that is not paint.
That is grease. So again a putty knife, a taping
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knife and just scratching that off does a good job,
all right Again, Our phone numbers eight hundred eighty two
three eight two five five. Chris, Welcome, Hi, good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
I have a question about the I think it's about
a two x six or two by eight that surrounds
the garage door opening, and I've seen it called the
wrap a garage door jam. But at the base of
one of those over the years, the rainwater has rotted
(42:44):
it to the point that I can't patch it and
paint it. And I also have a post by the
front door that a very similar thing has happened. The
post is still very sound, but it has some loot
on the side. I'd called a couple like repair contractor types.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
And a.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Handyman type. Nobody really seems to want to mess with it.
They either don't return I call or they price it crazily.
And so I wonder who I would get to do
some small jobs like that.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well, it'd be a handyman, I mean, And you know,
handyman are basically, you know, owner operated for a lot
of them. There are some franchises that may be a
little bit more professional, but you know, it depends how
bad they are. I mean, that can be a really
big job, or it can be not such a big job.
(43:48):
You just got to be using the write products. And
there I can give you the name of a product,
I can't give you a name of a handyman that
I know is going to do that. Sometimes painters will
do that also, but even on posts, when I say
it could be a really really big job. Also is
when we're talking about rotted wood, and we're talking about
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a post holding up a porch roof. The question is
how structurally sound is that post or is it just
a base that's rotten. The name of the product that
I was going to talk about is called wood epox
and it's made by a company called Abatron. If you
go to abaitron dot com find wood a pox, and
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there's also one called liquid wood. You put the liquid
wood in that hardens the wood, and then the wood
a pox can actually patch it. Now, if it's not
structurally sound, then you're going to probably have to go
into where it's almost a contractor. It may even have
put in like a little beam to support it and
then put new post in. That's a bigger job. But
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a handyman would be able to take care of the
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And if you could show that, I'd appreciate it. Our
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had two days that are pretty nice virtually no rain, yeay.
But with all the rain, we've had some issues with
gutters and cross spaces and basements and roof leaks and
some pumps. We'll cover a little bit of that, and
also get in the summertime grilling going and cleaning up
(03:22):
the grill, and we can kind of walk you through
that whole cleaning process. Some people say, hey, you just
clean it, and in a way, you just do, but
there are some things you want to check, especially on
the gas grills, and we can certainly chat about that.
And I also want to talk sometime today about ten
(03:44):
things that kind of ruined the kitchen. And somebody said
to cook, I didn't have that on my list, but yeah,
that could be. That could be very true. And you know,
we'll talk about laying out a kitchen, maybe redoing a kitchen,
things that you know have a tendency to really make
it look more aged than it should. And maybe you're
(04:08):
talking about Appliance's countertop, so we'll chat about that now.
To kick a project off, I had somebody send me
an email yesterday because it was busy and a lot
of people couldn't get through, and you know, even though
we have eight lines coming in. But anyway, a couple
of people wrote me different emails and one question we
haven't had for a while, but it really bears talking
(04:32):
about because I think a lot of folks have a
problem similarly similar to this, and that is they said,
I've tried everything and I can't get mold out of
the cocking. And they go like, I've tried all kind
of bathroom cleaners, blah blah blah, it doesn't work. Well,
(04:53):
those bathroom cleaners that said this person said didn't work,
I've used them and they do work. And they He
also went on to say that like every six months
he's tearing out the coking because it's moldy. And I
wrote and he wanted to know what type of cocking
can really resist mold, and a bunch of them. Probably
(05:17):
the most popular cocking for Round bethtubs is the DAP
quick seal. It's been out forever, the red and white tube,
squeeze tube, easy to install, siliconized acrylic, easy to apply.
And I wrote him back and I said, you know,
one of the problems and a lot of us don't
(05:38):
realize that. We always think that mold is on the
surface of the calking, and in some cases that mold
is embedded in the coking. And what's going on, or
what could be going on, is you could have a
moisture issue behind the wall, whether it's an enclosure, whether
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it's tie well. But if there's moisture behind that wall
and mold is growing and it begins to grow where
that gap is between the wall and the tub or
the wall and the showerpan, that mold can get strong enough.
Even though it's a mold resistant calking, there's nothing really
to stop it. It's actually embedded in the calking, and
(06:22):
eventually it gets to the surface and then you try
to clean it and it just it may lighten it
a little bit, but it's never going to get rid
of it because it's encased in the calking. So, you know,
one of the things when you're calking around a bathtub
or a shower pan, removing as much of that calking
as you can and there's different colcking quote removers. They're
(06:47):
not going to remove the cooking. They're going to soften
it so it will become more appliable, and you may
have the ability to take that calking out more, you know, easily,
and so you can use that and then use a
calcking removing tool which is a literally a plastic hook
(07:09):
knife where you can get behind that beata clocking and
just you know, kind of yank it out if you will,
and then you can look in there in that crevice
and you can see is it clean? Is there a
bunch of black goo in there? Is there is that
where the mold is? Is the big question is that
(07:29):
where the water is? So is the water getting behind
that wall? And you say, how, well, there's a number
of ways, and you know, if you don't. If you
see just some mold back there but it doesn't appear damp,
you can use rubbing alcohol and really clean that crevice
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out and then go ahead and apply the quick seal
with the microband, get a good, good beat of clocking
in there and done. If there's moisture, you need to
look a little further. You need to look at how
can water get behind that tile? Per se Look at
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the top of the tile. Is there any crevice there
where water could leak and get behind the tile. And
then saturate the maybe the green board and make it soft.
Maybe you can even push on the tiles and you
can feel a little softness or a little give. There
is there missing grouting between the tile? Is the tile
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cracked when you're showering in the water splashing off your
body onto the front wall with a shower and there's
the faucet handles and a little round excussion plates. Are
those calked tightly to the wall Because all those things
I just rambled about are ways that water can get
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behind the wall and create mold growth behind the wall,
and then that mold grows through the calking. There's enough
of it, it'll overpower the microban or if that calking
has been there for a long time, and I think
the warranty on the micro bent is like three to
five years. I forget which and then the molt starts
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going through the calking and you clean the surface and
nothing happens. So you know, making sure other areas are
calck tightly and no moisture is getting down to that
bottom where the tub and the wall meat or the
shower pan and the wall meat might not be the
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fall of the calking, is what I'm saying. It could
be other things. So you know, if that's a problem
around your home, follow those steps and give it a
give that wall good examination. Also, take a look at
the where the tub or the showerpan meet the flooring,
especially if you have a vinyl flooring sheet Goods. There's
(10:01):
a little tiny seam there, and if a little tiny
water gets in that little tiny seam, eventually what will
happen is that vinyl will start curling back away from
the tub, so the seam gets larger, the water gets
more plentiful, and then you could have the subfloor begin
to rot or mold begin to grow, or you'd have problems.
(10:26):
So a couple tips there, I hope it helps. Will
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helping you get a few things done around the home
on the weekend. Thanks for joining me. You're at home
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a line. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five and Clark Welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Good morning, Gary, Good morning. I hope everything is well
in near Neck of the Woods and on the shores
of Lake Ontario. I've stayed New York.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It is the same here, wonderful. It's glad to see
the sun here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That I send the East that that's something that we
haven't seen in a while.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's coming your way. It's coming your way.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I got an insulation question, Gary, and at first blush,
I'll tell you I tend to overbuild the I'm reasoning
one hundred and forty square foot small bedroom, and I'm
wondering about using the closed cell of it comes four
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bay sheets with foil faced both both sides. And before
I put the the ceiling in, I'm putting that that
rigid up on the ceiling and then ferring it with
two by fours and the sheet rock to that and
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above that in the attic, I've got the bats that are, oh,
I believe there are three by four and two feet
two feet thick, maybe maybe a foot thick. And then
I blew in over that cellulose.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So if I'm in the side.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Walls, Gary, I want to make the room pretty soundproof.
I'm putting it's a two by four construction, but I'll
put extensions on the two by four so I can
put six inch in the sidewalls. I realized I'll lose
a little bit of space. But is there any problem
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using double with that one inch rigid board.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, the issue is, the quick answer is no, what
what you run into trouble? And I wanted to mention
that anyway, even with the installation that you're doing on
the ceiling, if you're you just don't want to put
a combination. In other words, you don't want to have insulation.
You don't want to have a vapor barrier, then insulation,
(16:05):
then another vapor barrier, insulation. But on those foams, you'll
be fine stacking them like that with the closed cell phone,
because that whole thing is kind of a vapor barrier.
You know, the closed cell phone doesn't let water vapor
transfer the foil on the outside. If you got that type,
that's not gonna let water vapor transfer. So double stacking
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that will not be a problem.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Is there truth to the fact that both the dry
wall and the paint which put on the interior service
of the room serves as a vapor barrier too?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No? Actually, well the paint does not, which is good.
You know, if we go back, you know, forty years,
remember we use oil based paint and the paint would
always peel is because moisture could not go through that paint.
It kind of was vapor barrier, and that wasn't good
because then you got a little water, the paint would peel.
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Now it's breathable and drywall. I don't know if drywalls
as breathable. I really don't know the answer to that.
I know when we do basements and we put in
family rooms, we used to encase them with plastic, which
was terrible because the water coming through the foundation couldn't
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dissipate into the basement, but it could go over the
top of the drywall and dissipate through the basement, and
that was much better than trapping it behind the water.
So I don't know how breathable drywall is. I'd have
to look it up. I've never really challenged myself to
that question.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Is there a quick and easy way to figure the
R value in the bolt of ceilium sad wall?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, to a degree. It really depends on the type
of insulation. But if you took like fiberglass, fiberglass has
usually got about an R two point five per inch
of thickness, so it's two point five to three per
inch of thickness. Foam is anywhere really between an our
value of five to seven per inch of thickness, so
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that that kind of really depends on the There's different
types of phone. There's a styrophom type, there's a eurethane type.
But a lot of times it'll tell you on you know,
if you get a a usually comes in like a
bag with the panels in there, it'll usually have the
R value on there.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay, it's very good. And lastly, if I'm allowed down
to the hardwood floor using using precentaged hardwood flooring and
a new sub floor, do they still use resin paper
between them?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
They can? Yes, follow the I tell everybody all the
time when it's roofing and flooring, followed the instructions on
that box of engineered wood flooring. But yeah, you're trying
to create a vapor barrier there too. This the engineered
wood floor, the pre finished wood floor very structurally sound
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where moisture shouldn't affect it and roze and paper is
certainly an option. There's other types that are a little
better and better technology, and I would use their recommended
base for underneath that floor. I hope that helps Clark.
Thanks a lot for the call and Sunshine's coming your way.
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Just go ahead and grab a line and happy to
talk to you. By the way, Randy Schreiber, we'll have
him on about an hour talking about the gutter brush
and keeping the gutters and clean and free flowing and
how that's so beneficial for your home. But I'll give
you a little teaser right now. They've got a Memorial
(23:29):
Day sale going on. It's thirty percent off sitewide, and
you can check it out at gutterbrush dot com. If
you don't know how much you need, right on their website,
they've got a little button to hit. It's called a
free quote, and all you do is you put in
(23:50):
your address and they can do satellite measurements and tell
you exactly how many feet of gutter brush you want,
no tools needed, pretty cool. That is very cool. Simply
slide it right into the gutters and you're off and going.
I mean, your gutters are protected, they're not gonna collect
(24:10):
leaves and clog up. And you know, another thing that's
going on about right now is mosquitos. I heard a
little news story like, no kidding, summertime mosquitoes. No no, no,
that's a big news that that's what happens. But mosquitoes,
you know, breed have their larvae in standing water clog
(24:32):
gutters are notorious for standing water, bird bass and different
things like that. So really, if you live in an
area where you've had a lot of rain, you know,
make sure you don't have like garbage can lids turned
upside down, collecting water, gutters that are clogged, collecting water,
kids toys, sandbox bird bass, all those that are collecting water.
(24:56):
There's little mosquito dunks and bits that you can put in.
You're not gonna hurt wildlife, not gonna hurt kids, and
just eliminates the larvae. A good way to keep that
under control a little bit. And I also talked again
at the beginning of the show, if you've made a
transition from a gas powered mower to a battery mower.
(25:16):
I'd like your input on that. How's that working for you?
Is it more maneuverable, is it self propelled? You know?
Just does it a charge cuts your grass? How much
grass are you cutting? Just like some input. I know
I've been asked that question a lot in the last
(25:38):
week or two. Like your input, so feel free to
join us with that. Also, as you take these walk
around the house, and we are always encouraged to do
that this time of year, it's another thing I want
you to kind of take a look at, especially around
your foundation, making sure that we don't have morel piled
(26:01):
up above the foundation onto the brick. I think over
the years, as we continue to mulch mulch mulch, mulch mulch,
at some point, if it's not decomposing fast enough, we
got to rake that away from you know, so it
doesn't come up onto the brick wault, which is more
(26:23):
porous water could intrude into your house. And also, as
you're looking about every sixth the vertical joint on the
base row of brick is a wheephole, especially if the
house was built past nineteen say seventy six, seventy seven,
and not as if water got behind that wall, it
(26:44):
has a way to get out, and usually there's a
little metal piece with louvers on it where it allows
the water to weep out. If those are clogged with mulch,
with spy webs, with hawking, I've seen people fill those.
(27:04):
Take that what's this, take that out and then calk
it closed. That's going to trap that water behind the wall.
So we don't want to do that. So take a
look at the wheetpoles. Make sure those are clean and open.
So a couple of things to focus on there. All right,
let's go to Steve. Steve, welcome, Oh Gary, how are
you smarty? Doing fine? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
All right. I've got a bathroom that I'm doing just
a small touch up on them or put a new vanity,
think top floor. And I have a Coreyan sink in
the present bathroom. Okay, not in real bad shape. That's
got some of those real five scratches and things on it.
Sure I heard you at one time say that that
(27:47):
can be buffed out. I'm just wondering who I could
get to buff it out.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, it can be buffed out. So they would use
a product similar to like a jeweler's rouge and a buffer, right,
And people that would do that would be you know,
if there's a you know, a specialty store that works
with kitchen remodeling, you know, has granted countertops and different things.
They usually have a service where they will you know,
(28:17):
buff out repair even granite countertops and buff out corean countertops.
Number number number of years ago there was I'd always
send somebody in our hometown and man, I'll tell you
what they'd look brand new. Uh, you'd have that sheen back,
the scratches would be gone. They'd do a good job.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Okay, Well, I'll have to investigate that. I thought I
heard you say that a number of years ago, that
it could be buffed out and made to look like new. Sure,
they're not deep, you know, they're.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Just almost right. They just get dull and they start
looking tired and and this is just giving me like
me too, Garry.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Thank you, Bet you take care, Bye bye, all right, James, welcome.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Gary. This has to do with water pressure regulator. So
recently some neighbors had a washing machine hose break. And
I know you know from past talks on your show
that how much damage that causes. So, uh, my house
(29:31):
is with PEX, and so I was talking to one
of the other neighbors and they were saying they were
measuring their water pressure at their hose bib and they
were getting eighty PSI served you. So I went and
got a Watts regulator and put it on my host
bid monitor and I had the same reading. The steady state,
(29:52):
if you will, is sixty PSI. But this particular meter
has the ability to record the highest serve and I
got an eighty. But I just don't believe the water
regulator or the input at that from the water meter
out there, has the ability to reduce these surges like that.
I so what is your take on that? On that
(30:15):
I'm afraid about blowing out a PEX?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because if you had copper pipe, you know, James,
you'd been you'd been fine shaped copper can you know
withstand eighty try not to get copper over eighty. But
with pecks, you know, sixty to sixty five is about
the ceiling that I'd be comfortable with too. And I
(30:37):
don't know how old the regulator is. I mean, you
can certainly have peaks and valleys and different things like that.
Have you tried to adjust it at all to see
if you can change When you say that the standing
water pressure is it around sixty?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yeah, So the test I did was I put it
on the hose bib. I'm not sure it matters, but
I just did this, the furthest hose bib from the
water input where the regulator is, so it's the furthest
one away. It's on the opposite side of the house.
And I slowly turned on the spickett, if you will,
(31:20):
the hose bibu and it read sixty and I looked
at it, didn't do anything in the house. Then I
went out there a few hours later it was still
at sixty. Because it has a red needle that will
record the highest surge. So I decided to run the washer,
and I ran the washer, and I went out looked
(31:40):
out there, and that red dial had a high reading
of eighty. So I assume when the washer came on
it had a surge or something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, So the question is is that surge going to
get you in trouble? Well, one way to look at
it is that sixty kind of the peak for pecks anyway,
you might try to adjust that regulator down a little
bit and give yourself a little wiggle room and maybe
(32:12):
pull it down to like fifty, which would you know,
bring your surge down also, I would think, I'm I'm
thinking it would sure, and and see where that registers
on the surge then so you can and you can
adjust those there's a screw at the top and literally
(32:34):
turn that screw counterclockwise. I'd do it, you know, pretty
slow and no more than a quarter turn at a time,
and just see where just play with it a little bit.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
My particular one is, uh, it's actually it looks like
a hex bolt or something. It's on the side a bit.
I don't know, it's all wrapped ination. But so if
you turn it counterclockwise.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
To decre crease yefs counterclockwise, and so you know, at
each adjustment you're gonna you know, turn on the faucet
and retest it. Don't leave it just on. Just you know,
turn off the faucet, make the adjustment, quarter turn, turn it,
turn it faster back on. See what Let it stay
on for a while, see what kind of reading you're getting,
(33:23):
and see if you can just bring it down a bit.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Is there. I mean, I don't is there any disadvantage
to like lowering it down to like, I don't know,
forty forty five.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well, some people you can do that. So the range
for normal water pressure, acceptable normal water pressure is forty
five to sixty, So sixty even for the pecks is
kind of you know, it's right on the high mark.
So you know, sometimes there's a lot of people get
(33:56):
pressure and volume mixed up. So I think it's something
you got to try. It's kind of a personal preference.
But you don't want to get it into the dangerous
zone where you could, you know, blow the pecks. So
I would probably go out there, you know, shup that faucet.
I'd probably do it in a quarter, turnaround and turn it,
(34:18):
just kind of just play with it, get it down
to about probably you know, if you want to bring
it down to fifty, and then you know, leave it
there for a while, see where the surges are, see
how the shower feels, and make a decision whether you
want to take it down further.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Yeah, I'm the people that had their hose on the
washing machine break. If costs fifty thousand dollars worth.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Of damage, Oh yeah, Well, I'll tell you the the
hoses on washing machines, and we've given this tip a lot.
They've they've kind of changed the hoses with quote burst
proof hoses with the stainless steel wrap, but they can
still burst but the old and they still sell them.
Every hardware store has just got the hose. Those are
really to be changed probably every three to four years.
(35:05):
Few people do they change them when they burst.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
So they have a device you can install on there
that will turn off the water in a sudden I
don't know how it works, but I've read about them.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, hardware stores will have that too. On mind, I
have the regular wash machine hoses with the stainless steel wrap.
And again i'd make that adjustment on your pressure regulator.
And if you notice no change, it's probably a faulty
pressure regulator, which could also be part of the problem.
(35:39):
All right, hope that helps, James, Thanks much for the call.
If you'd like to join us, do so. We've got
a couple of lines open, in fact, we've got all
lines open. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Will continue with your calls. You're at home
with Gary Salton.
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(38:49):
little home improvement and getting things ready. I was talking
about uh uh grill cleaning, and I also talk a
lot about Jaws products, and we can certainly use some
of those. They got to love the kitchen de greaser.
Used some this past week. But with summertime coming and
getting that grill in good shape, there's a couple of
things you can do. You know, like your Weber gas
(39:13):
grill is on the cooking grid itself. Jarles has a
kitchen degreaser that if you you know, the grills off
and you really spray that heavily and let it sit,
and you may have a favorite product for using that too,
(39:34):
let it sit about ten fifteen minutes kind of re
spray and then using a grid cleaner. Now there's all
different kinds, and of course we've heard some horror stories
about metal fibers getting stuck or being ingested. So if
you want to use a synthetic type of grill cleaner,
(39:58):
I'm fine with that. It's kind of what I've got.
It's like a big giant scrub brush with almost looks
like steel wool, but it's it's not steel. It's kind
of almost like a synthetic scouring pad and clean that
cooking grid off back and forth, meaning the top in
the bottom. Some people say, I'll just turn your grill
(40:20):
on high. Let's sit there for twenty minutes. It'll take
care of it. It does. Okay, it's not gonna make
it look like a it's not gonna look perfect. I
have heard other people talk about oven cleaners. I haven't
done that. What I have done outside of the clean
is taking oh, like a big dishpan and ammonium water.
(40:43):
You gotta be careful with ammonia course, and just set
the cooking grid in there and let it soak for
a couple hours and that grease and build up just
falls off. Take it out, lean up against a tree,
take the hose and squirt it off. And then the
flaz of riser bars if you have those where they're
you know, the little triangular pieces, And that's what a
(41:05):
gas grill. That's how it gives you that grilling out taste.
A lot of people think it's a charcoal, and it's
really just the grease from the meats hitting that hot
steel in creating the flavor into the meats. As I
understand it. Not a chemist. But take those things out
(41:26):
and take a sanding sponge and just kind of scratch
those back to a clean surface. Does a real good job. Also,
that little grease catcher that's at the back of the grill,
make sure that is replaced. You don't want that grease
dripping on your just stained deck, that's for sure, or patio.
(41:47):
And then just take a look at the regulator hose,
make sure there's no small cracks in that. And you
can kind of spruce up a grill in a couple
hours and give you a real good look. And that
inside the grill, the hood of the grill, when you
see all that blackness and it's peeling, that is not paint.
That is grease. So again a putty knife, a taping
(42:11):
knife and just scratching that off does a good job,
all right Again, Our phone numbers eight hundred eighty two
three eight two five five. Chris, Welcome, Hi, good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
I have a question about the I think it's about
a two x six or two by eight that surrounds
the garage door opening, and I've seen it called the
wrap a garage door jam. But at the base of
one of those over the years, the rainwater has rotted
(42:44):
it to the point that I can't patch it and
paint it. And I also have a post by the
front door that a very similar thing has happened. The
post is still very sound, but it has some loot
on the side. I'd called a couple like repair contractor types.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
And a.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Handyman type. Nobody really seems to want to mess with it.
They either don't return I call or they price it crazily.
And so I wonder who I would get to do
some small jobs like that.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well, it'd be a handyman, I mean, And you know,
handyman are basically, you know, owner operated for a lot
of them. There are some franchises that may be a
little bit more professional, but you know, it depends how
bad they are. I mean, that can be a really
big job, or it can be not such a big job.
(43:48):
You just got to be using the write products. And
there I can give you the name of a product,
I can't give you a name of a handyman that
I know is going to do that. Sometimes painters will
do that also, but even on posts, when I say
it could be a really really big job. Also is
when we're talking about rotted wood, and we're talking about
(44:10):
a post holding up a porch roof. The question is
how structurally sound is that post or is it just
a base that's rotten. The name of the product that
I was going to talk about is called wood epox
and it's made by a company called Abatron. If you
go to abaitron dot com find wood a pox, and
(44:33):
there's also one called liquid wood. You put the liquid
wood in that hardens the wood, and then the wood
a pox can actually patch it. Now, if it's not
structurally sound, then you're going to probably have to go
into where it's almost a contractor. It may even have
put in like a little beam to support it and
then put new post in. That's a bigger job. But
(44:54):
a handyman would be able to take care of the
rotted wood. Your calls next, as we continue, You are
at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Thank's the weekend and you have fixed questions. Give Gary
a call at what eight hundred and eighty two three talk.
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