Gary Sullivan 5/31/2025 Hour 4

Gary wraps up Saturday with your calls.  We also talk to our friends at Kist Electric.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the best time of the day. I got to say,
good afternoon. Welcome now our number four and you're at
home with Gary Sullivan taking your calls about your home.
If you'd like to join us, do so. It is
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. We're
also at the bottom of the hour. We're going to
talk about generators. A lot of storms. How cool would

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it be to have a generator? Does the whole house
just kicks on? Takes about ten seconds. Anyway, our friends
from Kissed Electric they will be joining me and we'll
discuss that. In the meantime. We got a bunch of calls,
so let's get to work. We got Sarah, Sarah, welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
My question is I have a pool and at the
end each end of the pool are as a large
brick patios, and I'm wondering if there's anything I can
use to steal that. It's pretty old, still looks good,
but now weeds and grass are coming up between the bricks.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is there concrete in between the bricks or is it
patio stone?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
More like sand?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Okay, all right, it's more like it's more like sand.
That's what I can see.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Okay, Okay, that's usually what's used, and they now
have and so is a lot of that sand gone
that you can tell yes, okay, all right, So what
we need to do is we need to clean out
those seams because there's weeds and you probably got little

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piles of sand from ants that are digging in that,
and we've got to clean that area up first. And
once we clean it up, what you want to get
is polymeric sand. And polymeric sand looks just like sand,

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and you're gonna sweep it in those crevices and then
you're gonna take your garden hose and you're just gonna
put a missal water over those patio pavers. And when
you get it all nice and wet, what that does
is that firms up the sand and it keeps ants

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from tunneling in it. It keeps weeds from growing up
through it. But it's not concrete. It's sand. It's just
a little hardened sand, if you will, And that's kind
of a maintenance type thing, you know, over a period
of time. You also don't track it, you know, into

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the pool, you don't track it into the house, so
that's what you'd be using. So it's just a little maintenance,
a little clean up, you know, get rid of the vegetation,
pull it out, clean it up, and get some polymeric
sand and reapply it.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, and can I get that like it?

Speaker 1 (03:01):
You can? Certainly should have it. If not a big
box store, but most hardware stores will carry Paulamerks saying yes.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Okay, okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, you're welcome, thank you, and Marge welcome, oh,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I'm I'm looking at having my chimney tech pointed, and
I understand it's rather real like bad shape. So I
want to know if I should have when they come
to fix it. Are they just going to fix the
bad stuff or would they you know, teck point or

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whatever they do to the whole chimney.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So if you had them come out and take a
look at it and give you an estimate at this point.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, I didn't get an estimate. And this as far
as being in bad shape, this is just from other
people that they've looked at it, at the contractor that
I'm going to deal with. I wanted to be prepared. Well,
first of all, how much would it cost approximately we

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have the whole chimney done?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, I think you're your first step, you're you're just
you're you're you're standing at the door. You haven't got
into the project yet. What I would do is this,
go with this information. What you want to get is
you want to get a company that specializes in chimney repair,
and you can ask them if they're cs I A

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Certified and that's the Chimney Sweep Institute of America. They
do and they live by a code of ethics on
and training. And you want to certified CSI A chimney
person to take a look at that and and what

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they're going to look at. And I'm just going to
give you the information and then you're gonna I'm going
to ask you to get a couple estimates from a
couple different csi A certified chimney sweeps. And they're gonna
look at the top of the chimney and Marge, that's
called the crown wash. That's a concrete slab. They're gonna

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look if it's deteriorated. They're gonna look if it's cracked,
or if it's okay. That's the one thing they're gonna
look at. Then they're gonna look at all the mortar
between the bricks and they're gonna look at the brick
to see if there's missing mortar, cracked bricks, anything along
nose lines that's a little out of kilter, or maybe

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it just needs ceiling, or maybe it doesn't need anything.
And then they're gonna look at the flashing, okay, at
the base, and they're gonna make sure that's all. That's
the least of the problems. But they're gonna just make
sure that's all secured and in good shape. Then they're
gonna look at the inside the chimney, and this is

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where the rubber hits the road, if you will. So
there's a flu there's a liner, and then there's the
brick on the outside. Sometimes in older chimneys, that liner's
cracked on the inside. The only way they're going to
see it is they're going to run a scope down
that and they're going to videotape it, and they're going

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to show you what the inside of that chimney looks like.
And if it's cracked, don't let anybody tell you need
a new liner unless you see pictures of it, okay.
And usually they will take pictures or you'll see them
push the the camera down through the chimney, and you'll
be able to watch the video, okay, and then they're

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going to, you know, after they've inspected and everything, they're
going to give you a quote of what needs to
be done. I would have no idea what it's going
to cost because I don't know what's wrong. It can
be so bad that they'll want to rebuild the whole chimney,
or it could be a couple of you know, pieces
of mortar that are missing, and you need to have

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a tuck pointed just in the places where it's bad,
so that that's the process that you want to go through.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, not the liner, you said, the ice. If they
will they replace the liner if it's correct or something.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Like that, they could, sure, yeah, they can replace the
liner on the chimney.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
There's also I'm sorry you have to replace the liner.
It can't be repaired.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, there is a process where it can be coated.
It's about half the price of replacing the liner. Not
all chimney sweeps do, but a lot of CSI certified
chimney sweeps do. They make a mold at the inside
of the chimney. They put this like mold basket down
the chimney and they pour this liquid down in the

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chimney and they pulled mulled up and it coats the inside.
And they've been doing that in Europe for probably thirty years.
So yeah, you can. You know, it depends how bad
it's cracked, but there's a possibility they can repair it.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay. So yeah, so I see it's possible for you
to give me any kind of a quote.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, you've got to get a couple of people out
there to take a look at it.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
This way, just put it this way. If he's just
going to repair the motor or motor when it is,
the repair that chimney, you know, just repair it where
it needs to be filled in. And I want the martyr.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Right the mortar Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, so he's just going to be doing that where
where needed, you know. Just that That's what I think
of looking at it, and I just wondered what that
would cost.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Again, it depends how many mortar joints is he going
to seal it, But i'd figure, you know, maybe a
thousand bucks. It really just depends. I hate to even
give you a price and scary away or even you know,
underdo it. I mean, you're just gonna have to get
some out there, take a look at it, March.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
My god, a thousand dollars just to do well.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Again, it depends how bad it is.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I know I understand it, but I'm just saying that's it.
That's a lot more than you know that I have anticipated.
So but it could be traveling.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Less, but sure it could be.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
You know, it could be. I would say it probably
isn't going to be under five hundred dollars because by
the time they get there and do you know, three
or four hours worth of work. My guess is it's
going to be. You know, you just got to get
people out there, March. That's all I can say. And
have inspected. And if you don't do either, don't use it.

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That's my best advice. But you should have it inspected
and repaired, or don't use it. All right, we'll continue
with your calls at home with Gary Silvan right here
in fifty five k SE detalk station. All right, back
at it we go twelve twenty at the bottom of
the hour again, we'll be talking to our friends at
Kissed Electric. We're going to talk about a whole home

(10:19):
generator that is still on my bucket list. You want
to know a way to make friends. That's it. Have
one of those at your house during a storm.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'd come over and stay with you.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
They would, I'd invite you to I know you would.
Let's go to Diane. Diane, welcome, Hello, how are you
doing fine? Thanks?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
My question is I have a concrete fountain in my
backyard and it was looking kind of ragged. So my
husband I cleaned it all up, we stained it, and
then we went to buy a sealer for it. Read
on the on the directions. Had the guy recommend it

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was a rough stolium product and it supposedly was for
wet areas. And we filled it up and turned it
on and all the areas that were underwater turned white.
So obviously it wasn't the right proodict. And we don't know,

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We don't know what to do now. I've tried to
call and find some companies that would come out to
fix it, and I can't find anybody that does that.
We lived near Columbus, Ohio. I googled everything I can
phrases that I can think of, and I just don't
know where to.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Go from here.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, so let's go through this back a little bit more.
There was a couple of things. I kind of cringed
when you said, so tell me what is this? Is
this a fountain or a bird bed? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, it a fountain.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Is it pretty big?

Speaker 5 (12:05):
It holds forty gallons.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's big, so it's underwater, I mean the celant or whatever. Okay,
So I got that now. So you wanted to have it.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Look like what, well, we just wanted to renew it.
Like the stain was kind of wearing off and stuff,
so we wanted to restain it and reseal it.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay, let's stop there. So that's when I cringed. So
what do you mean by a stain? I mean, what
color was this? Was this like gray or brown?

Speaker 5 (12:46):
It was brown when we bought it.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
So it was stain though it wasn't. Yeah, I'm visualizing fountains.
There's a pond in pool place not far from my house,
which is in Westchester, Ohio, and I drive by and
they got all these fountains outside, and they're usually gray,

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pewter colored and brown, and so maybe when it was
new it kind of looked like that, and then it's
just kind of got ratty and you're trying to duplicate that.
Is that fair?

Speaker 4 (13:21):
To say.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
Yeah, when we bought it, it was brown and so
like it's like some of the stain was wearing off.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, I'm not so sure it's stain though. I think
it's a coating, and I think there was some maybe
like some other coating that was kind of blended over
the surface of it. I don't know what that is.
I mean, I'm thinking of things that would work, and
I'm thinking of swimming pool paint. I talk about the

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dry lock, which is usually colors, right, I mean it's
it's it's like white or blue. The dry lock is
a water proofing paint that can be tinted, but it
starts out as white. So I don't know if you
can tint it to a really dark brown, but you
could probably pin tend it to a tan or something

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along those lines.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
M would it stick to it? Now that we put
this ceiler?

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Okay, so tell me, okay, so tell me again what
kind of seiler is that?

Speaker 5 (14:30):
It was a Rustoian product. It was said for concrete
and it said for wet areas.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Boy, I don't know what that would be. Is it intact?
It turned white though? Right?

Speaker 5 (14:46):
It turned white? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:47):
That makes Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me. Does
it feel like it's intact? I mean, you know, is
it for can it be used under water?

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Well, that's that I called restolium and she said yeah,
that wasn't the right product. And I said, well it
says for wet areas. She said, well, it's it's meant
to be like on a driveway that would drive quickly.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay, I would probably Well again, I hate to say this,
but I would probably have it removed, whether I had
to grind it off or something, or get as much
of that off as you can.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
How would you grind it off?

Speaker 1 (15:29):
You can get a hand grinder at a rent a store,
you know, rent a tool and just kind of crown
that off. I'll tell you what I would play. There's
a company, I said, near my house. It's called Aquatic
Garden and Decor. I haven't been in there in years,

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but I see it and they're very knowledgeable. Had bought
stuff from them a long time ago, and I would
I would give them a call and see, just say,
you're fountains, the gray ones, the brown ones, what kind
of finishes on that? Because mine's all goofed up? And what.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Aquatic way?

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Aquatic and Garden decor, okay, and you know they're not
that far from you. I'd get the information from them.
My guess is there is a specialty product for that,
and if there is, bingo right, and if there isn't,
and if there is, it's probably going to say on

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the directions, you're going to want to remove that because
I don't know what's going to happen to the product
that is not designed to be used there, what it's
going to do. Is it going to appeal? And if
you put the product that's supposed to be used on
top of a product that's not supposed to be used,

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you don't want to keep. You're gonna be chasing your
tail around the mulberry push all right, So you get somebody,
get somebody, or grind it off. Get a grinding tool
and just grind off the best you can. Or uh, first,
let's find out if there is a product where you
can have maybe they repaint them. I don't know, okay,

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but let me know how you make out. I think
that would be a really good place to start the project, though.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I will certainly call them very good. So much.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
You're quite welcome, Thank you much, Danny. Can we get
Tom before we get the kisser. All right, good, let's
get to Tom. Tom. Welcome, Hey Harry, Yes, doing doing fine?
Thanks good.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
I have a where when all the hand all the
ice and things like that over the winter and we
had a lot of potholes and things like that, I
have where our driveway comes down at the end of
it or it meets up with the street. There's a
hole there right across. It looks like it's going over

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maybe a sewer, a sewer line possibly. I just know
that because there was a sewer line there before, and
it is. It's a whole of the diameter of about
a foot maybe a foot. And the problem is is
that that hole just goes straight down about a foot

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and then it ends. So you literally, I mean, could
there cool rocks in it all day long? And it
doesn't look like it's going to fill it back up,
you know. So I'm wondering what could be Imagine if
you put something in a cup and you've got the
cup the bottom of the cup tow them away, you know,

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it just keeps And so I called the Metropolitan Sewer District.
That's been about three or four weeks and I haven't
hooked back.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well kind of driveway. Is this is this asphalt or
is it concrete?

Speaker 6 (19:10):
It's asphalt.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's asphalt, and.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Yeah, it's about an inch deep away.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah yeah. And if you took a bag of asphalt
and you poured it in there, would it fill it up?

Speaker 6 (19:29):
I don't think so, because I think it would just keep,
uh spreading out mm hm say now you know, not
only all.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
So if you put in a bunch of gravel in
there and then you got it maybe two inches from
the surface, and then patched it with asphalt, because underneath
a driveway, first of all, you should have about four
inches of gravel and about two inches of asphalt. It
doesn't sound like you've got either. Yeah, So the so

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the patching would require gravel and asphalt. But then the
bigger question is, and I don't have an answer for you,
is how did that hole get there? Was it a sinkhole?
Is it erosion? And you know, you know, I mean
I don't have the answer to that. It would, but
again it would be required to put in Certainly we

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could fill it with gravel. And if it's you know,
I don't know about where's the stability after that? I mean,
why is that still holding up? You know. I mean,
if you think you could put in a bunch of gravel,
bring it up to about two inches of the surface,
and then tamp down some asphalt, that might be your answer,

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but I don't know if it is your answer.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yeah. Yeah. My other question, and I guess the main
question is is that it's about foot away the whole itself.
You might have put away where the street starts, you know,
where the street begins, and so is that the responsibility
of the metropolitan.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
I'm guessing if it's where the street curb ends at
your property going towards the up the driveway, then so
my guess is it would be yours. But I I,
you know, yeah, that's what I think it is.

Speaker 6 (21:27):
Okay, Okay, so it would be maybe just a good.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Or well, I get an asphalt guy in there, you know,
I mean, that's what's going to be the final product.
You can get a blacktopping service in there, take a
look at it and see what his remedy is. But
you know, if we can fill it and create a
solid base and put asphalt on top of it, that
should be good enough unless there's something else going on.

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And that's that's the whole key to the question. All right, Tom,
thank you very much. Uh. Jeff from Kissed Electric will
be up next. We'll take a break and learn a
little bit about whole home generators. How about that you're
at home with Garriy Salvin right here on fifty five
k C detalk station. All right, twelve thirty five. I

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hope you're having a great weekend and finally got a
little weather that's helping us out. And uh, I don't
know about you. It seems like, well, obviously it's been rainy,
it's been chilly, and it's been stormy. And when you
talk about storms, we talk about losing uh electricity, which
brings me to Jeff Kissed. He is with Kissed Electric

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and we're going to talk about whole home generators. Jeff,
how in the world are you.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Good? Gary? How are you the stepping in doing fine?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Doing fine? So? Uh? Demand is it up? Is it
about the same? It seems like we've had more storms
and power outages.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Demand is definitely up gat now with the with all
the spring storms and everything, that definitely drives yeah, drives
the sales and drives the calls up.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah. So let's talk a little bit about
home generators. Whole home generators a big difference from a
portable generator. Let's start with the basics. What's the difference
between the two types of generators.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
A portable generator is something that you would just stor
in your garage. It would fill a gas liane. It
would be Everything would be manual, so you would have
to go outside whenever the power would go out, put
gas in, it, started up, run extension cords through your home,
plug in the essentials. With a full home standby automatic generator,

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we would tie that into the gas supply of your home,
natural gas or propane, and then everything would be automatic.
We tie it into your electrical box and the basement,
and then when the power goes out, it would register
that it would automatically start. All in all, you would
be in the dark for about fifteen seconds and your

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whole home could come back up.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Dah, you're talking now, you're talking. Well, that sounds like
there's certainly it's a project. It requires knowledge. Tell me
a little bit about Kissed Electric. It's a family owned business.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Correct, Yes, yes, it is a family owned business. My
father started it in nineteen eighty nine. We do all
full service electrical work. I specialize on the generator portion.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
So, Jeff, how long have you been doing the generators
in the business? Family owned business started in nineteen eighty nine.
When did you get into the generators?

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Generators started in two thousand and eight, so about sixteen
years now they've been doing generators.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
What brand do you have?

Speaker 4 (25:00):
We specialize in generac generators. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
The only reason I ask is there used to be
like one or two brands, maybe three, and now it
seems like a lot of people are making them. Generak
was pretty much the leader in the whole category for
years I imagine still.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Are Generak is the leader in the in sales in
the category. They're the most innovative. They actually invented the
home standby generator in the sixties, so it's been around
for a while, this automatic product that they have, and
then they just keep coming out with newer and better

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things every year, modifying things, and they're very innovative. Eight
out of ten generators sold today will be a generact.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Is that right? Well, I hope it's from Kissed. You'll
be Real Busy, do you? You'll be Real busy? So
whole house generators they seem like, is there is that
because of the lifestyle. I mean a lot of people

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still working from home. There's medical equipment that's used at home.
We really need that infrastructure of electricity. I guess there's
even fears about the the grid, the electric grid of failing.
What's driving this business, So.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
A little bit of everything above all the above there
so ever since COVID and stuff, a lot of people
are still working from home. So the minute you drop
a zoom needing call or something, then that's a big deal.
And then medical needs, and then and then some just
lifestyle insurance. They like they just if they want to

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have the air conditioning or they want to have just
the nuisance of the power going out. So it's a
little bit of everything really. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
So obviously, if you're going to have a whole home
generator installed, the homeowner and you have to have a
conversation because you're going to want to know what needs
to be powered. Do you have choices or do you
just do the whole house or tell me a little
bit about that whole process.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
The process, Yeah, the process is definitely we need to
sit down and talk. I can't this is not a
quote over the phone. I can give you some ballpark ideas,
just based off of what you tell me, the information
you tell me over the phone, but ultimately it's what
your goal, your end goal would be. So if you

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want to do the whole house, or you're just worried
about the sum pump, or you're just worried about your
CEPAT machine or something, so it's whatever your ultimate goal
would be. And then I would need to see the
infrastructure of your home, how everything would be able to
tie together, and how we could get the best results

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for what you're looking for.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Where does the generator go? It goes on the outside
of the home. How big is it?

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Typically a residential The air cool generators are forty eight
inches long by thirty two inches wide, so it's shorter
than an air conditioner, but a little bit longer than
an air conditioner. They do it is a running combustion engine.
It does need to be outside. There is carbon monoxide

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from the exhaust fumes and stuff, so they do have
to be outside. There is requirements away from windows and
different things, so everything would be outside. And a new
electrical code now says that the transfer switch would have
to be outside as well.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Well, that's interesting, so let's talk about that. Because you
said if the power fails, your generac is going to
give me electricity in fifteen seconds. How does that work?

Speaker 4 (29:03):
So the transfer switch will go next to your electric
meter outside, and what we do is we funnel from
the electric meter into the transfer switch and then power
your home from there. So whether the generator's running or
your utility company, it would funnel the electric through the
switch into your home. So it monitors the electric from

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your utility and when that goes out, it activates the
time er on the generator to start itself.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, so what's that powered by? Then?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
It would be powered by either your natural gas in
your home or propane. So the rural areas, if you
have propane, that's great, if not a lot of times
we have to work with you to get a propane
company to come out and set a tank and do
all that, which we turn key all that. We work

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with reputable propine companies in the air area and we'll
size everything and help you get all of that installed
as well.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
So, wow, this is a this is very cool. I mean,
I guess you make a lot of friends when you
buy a generator for your whole house and during a
power outage, everybody wants to come visit you. I'm sure
that's the case. Where are you, guys, Lovely.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
We are over in West Harrison, right on the border
of Ohio Indiana on the west side, but we service
the tri state Indiana, northern Kentucky, Ohio. Yeah, so we service.
We have crews that go all around.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
So okay, when you were telling me about the whole
process and the installation, when I was saying, it seems
really cool with big it's a big project. How about
the maintenance on this, because there's got to be maintenance
on something like this.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Correct, yes, correct, it is like it is a combustion
engine that has oil, spark plugs, filters, there's a car battery,
it let acid battery in it. So yes, so it
does require maintenance, similar to your car every three thousand
miles we go something like that. So it would be

(31:22):
required every two hundred running hours or two years every
other year. So we do offer Now we offer service plans.
We keep track of everything, the maintenance records for you.
We will call you when their service is due to

(31:43):
schedule the appointment. There's really we try to take all
the guests and all the thinking out of it, make
it all automatic all and we organize it all for you.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Sure so, Jeff again a family business and Kissed Electric
since nineteen eighty, doing a home stand by generator since
two thousand and eight. I'm sure you you know, and
doing the maintenance and everything. I'm sure you have feedback
from your customers. What is give me? What do customers

(32:19):
think about this once they have this? I think it's
kind of everybody's dream to have one. You get Rave reviews, Yes,
get Rave reviews definitely.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Murphew's Laws says that now you have a generator, your
power never goes out. So that's the thing. A lot
of times I talk to people a year or two
after and they say, oh, the power went out maybe
ten minutes, you know, But I mean, really, one one
event can really pay for itself and really make you

(32:52):
happy about the purchase. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
I was going to say, you don't need a spare
tire until you have a flat tower either, right, yeah, exactly.
All right. You have a website it's a Kissed ki
Stelectric dot com and they can reach you by phone also.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Yes, uh five one three seven three eight three four zero.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
One, all right, very good.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
All our email or the internet has all our information
on there. As well.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Very good. Well, thank you for joining us. I appreciate
It's on my bucket list. One of these days we'll
get together and talk about that.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Give me a call, and I just wanted a real
quick throw out for we're having a spring promotion for
the Gary Sullivan listeners and everything. So if if you
call call up and say Gary sent you, well, we'll
throw in a ten year extended warranty.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh that's a good question. Bring how long is the warranty?

Speaker 4 (33:55):
So the warranty that comes with the generator is a
three year warranty. Then it's a limited five so you
get a five year powertrain. It's for the most part
it's three years. So if you call up now, Gary
sent you ten year parts, labor travel for ten years,
we'll take care.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
It sounds like a deal deal. All right, Hey, Jeff,
thanks for talking to me today. I appreciate it. Right, Thanks, Garry,
good weekend, You do the same. Thank you. All right,
it's kissed Electric And that phone number you're going to
need since they're going to throw in a ten year
war tee, that's a great deal. It's five to one
three seven, three eight thirty four zero one, so it's

(34:38):
seven three eight thirty four zero one, and we thank
Jeff for joining us. It's Kissed Electric for all your
electric needs, and that standby generator also. All right, well
take a break. When we come back, we'll continue. You're
at home with Gary Salvan right here on fifty five.
Care see de talk station. Okay, it's quiz time. You're ready?

(35:00):
All right? You sure? Okay? Which way does your fan
go during the summertime? Don't cheat, Danny, keep your fingers
off that computer, don't Well.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
I've got about six computers around me, so I could
do it and you wouldn't even know it.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Counterclockwise, counter clockwise. But I'll give you another little tip
so you don't have to figure out which way that
fan's going. If you're like me, you look at that thing.
Is that thing going counterclockway? Oh yeah, okay, get a
little dizzy. Anyway, counterclockwise in the summertime the real thing
to do, because it really depends on the pitch of

(35:39):
the blades, and they, for the most part, are all
pitched the same way, but not all the time. There's
a couple out there that have opposite pitches. But it
goes counterclockways. But to be sure, turn your fan on,
stand underneath it, and if you get a breeze, it's
going the right way. In the summertime, we don't need

(36:03):
to talk about the winter time. But in the wintertime,
but I'll talk about it anyway. In the wintertime, the
fan can go, but you shouldn't feel the breeze because
it's pulling air up, hitting the ceiling and pushing the
air down. Okay, in the summertime, it's like the windshield.
I don't know if we're allowed to say that anymore,

(36:24):
but it's the wind shield. You want the breeze. You
want to feel the breeze. Okay. Now, how quiet is
your ceiling fan? Not so quiet? How long have you
had it? Oh? Twenty five years? Oh well, you gotta

(36:44):
do a little maintenance on them. Also, you can clean
the blades and that's not creating the noise, but what
is probably creating. In other words, when you turn it on,
can you hear it just kind of squeaking as it's
going around. It kind of sounds like it's grinding, kind
of sounds like little bearings are bad, just kind of noisy.

(37:07):
Tighten the blades, I'll guarantee you, and I know if
the beds in a way you got you got a project.
Be careful. But there's two sets of screws. There's this
there's usually the motor, obviously, and there's an armature from
the blade that has a little fork and it's got

(37:29):
a couple screws. And then there's an armature and it's
got a little fork and on the blades, and there's
two screws. And you might think, okay, I'll go ahead
and tighten up the screws on the blades, and you'll
probably do that relatively easy, and then you're gonna be
a little disappointed because you're gonna turn the fan back

(37:50):
on and still gonna be squeaking, and you're gonna say,
I did what Gary told me. Now you did half
of what Gary told you. You tighten this cruise from
the armature on the blades, but you didn't tighten them
up on the motor. And that's the one. If it
gets loose, it's gonna get scratchy and it's gonna get loud.

(38:12):
So hopefully that helps you out. Because it is actually
supposed to get relatively warm this week, which or next week,
which I have a hard time believing, but I think
Tuesday maybe eighty five. I don't know about you. I
said this to Ron Wilson, and he corrected me immediately.

(38:34):
He likes to do that. A lot of us like
to do that, because I know a lot of you
like to do that. Yes, because I said, I haven't
turned the air conditioning on yet. It is this you
did well if you did a maintenance on it. Yep,
they'll turn the air conditioner on to see if it worked.
And I turned it on to see if it worked,
and then I did. I had somebody do the maintenance
on it, right, because that's always a good idea, and

(38:55):
especially with the energy cost. Yet, maintenance makes it run
more efficient. Bottom line is, we'll probably turn our air
conditioner on this week. I have not really for use
for pleasure, for comfort. I have not turned the air
conditioner on yet.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Do I need to ask missus Selivan this?

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Why would she tell me you're lying? No, she wouldn't
tell me. She wouldn't tell you that. She'd say whatever, whatever,
whatever I got you. She wouldn't say he's telling stories. Never.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Never.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Oh, oh, here's another thing on my notes I had.
If your child is in college in a dorm or
rented apartment, have you ever ever got your down payment back,
you know, like, oh, if it's in good shape, we'll
give your money back. Have you has that ever happened?

(39:52):
Or once you run a place, you know you're never
going to see that down payment again. Well, here's a
quick tip. You know, if there is a rental piece
of property, there may be a hole in the drywall.
Quick little product called the Eclipse. It's a circle, probably
about the size of a basketball, but it's thinner than paper.

(40:15):
It is an adhesive that goes over the hole, no
patching required. You then paint over this product called Eclipse.
You cannot see. You put two coats of paint on it.
You want to put a third coat on, that's fine too.
Probably isn't going to match that wall, but you can
paint that whole wall out in probably less than an hour.

(40:38):
The Eclipse will hold the hole. You don't have to
worry about how in the world you're ever going to
patch that, and maybe you'll get your deposit back. But
it's worth a try. And I wanted to talk about
that product, and I'm seeing more and more products out
there like it, even ones that are about the size
I was gonna say, Yeah, a dime about the size

(41:00):
of a dime. So if you had a little hole
where somebody I don't know drove a nail or something screw,
you can just put that over there and paint right over.
No spackling, no plaster, patch quick easy, looks good, passes inspection,
and maybe maybe with a fresh goat of paint you'll

(41:21):
get your money back. That's a question to ponder though.
Have you ever put a down payment on a college room,
a rental and got your money back? I'd have to
look at my records, but I think I can safely
vote no. All right, that's going to wrap up today's show.

(41:44):
Of course, we do a Saturday and Sunday show, and
Danny Boy, thank you very much. Today it was fun day,
fun day, a busy day, and a fun day. So
we're all going to get out take that walk around
the home. Very important. As you heard when I was
talking to Ron Kruger today, if you miss that conversation
about wildlife controlling your attic, you can pick it up

(42:04):
as a podcast on the iHeart app. Danny's got it
labeled right there for you. So good Lord Willing. We'll
be back tomorrow morning for more at Home with Gary Sullivan,