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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, it is the weekend, and thanks for joining me.
Another opportunity to discuss some of the projects we're going
to tackle. One of the things that I have put
on my notes today, and of course we'll take your
calls at eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five is if you have an outdoor project, whether it's
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building a deck, whether it's replacing the concrete driveway, whether
it's painting the X year of your home, book it now.
I'm serious, Book it now. I've talked to several contractors
over the past week or so, and you know, they
were saying, well, you know, we're slow because people haven't
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really got into this whole springtime home thing yet because
the weather in many parts of the country have been
very much a yo yo. Now, some parts of the
country have been perfect and it isn't a problem. But
if you've had a really wet spring, maybe wet and
maybe cold and hot, and people just start pushing those
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outdoor projects down the road a little bit and you
start making phone calls in June, you might get shut out.
Book it now, get your estimate. Book it now. All right,
our phone number if you'd like to join us in
a question about your home projects feel free. No guests today,
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just you and me. It's eight hundred eighty two three
eight two five five And back to Brian. We go
and we're trying to find an odor issue in the house.
You had something to add, Brian.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, yeah, Is there any kind of outside company that
I could contact to help me try and pinpoint this?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
When you say an outside company that's going to pinpoint
an indoor odor.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes, somewhere to help me try to determine whether the
smell is coming from.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Uh No, I guess the only place I would know
that might be helpful is to get like, there's companies
that are home hygh genis where they do air quality testing,
and I think you could have that done, which may
shed some light on exactly what you're looking for, because
you and I are kind of guessing. We're kind of
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guessing in the same realm of molds, mildews and things
like that, but we really don't know if that's it
at all. So, you know, doing an air analysis and
find out what really is in the air it could
be could be beneficial. I would Yeah, I'm kind of
scratching my head. Like I said, I got really lucky
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when I find found mine on a condensation pan underneath
a refrigerator. I'd the only way I found it. I
hate to tell you. I was crawling around in the basement.
I got near the refrigerator and it was strong there
and I started thinking about, you know, the refrigerator and
a condensation pan, and that's where it was. When I
pulled out, I was mold everywhere. But I would say
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an air quality company so that we can really is
it really mold? Is it? Sewer? Gas and sometimes drains
are also hidden under carpeting and basement and stuff, and
nobody put a plug in them and they've dried out.
Not saying that's it. I'd can sit here with a
billion things, but I don't know of a company that
would come in. There could be, but I don't know
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of one. I just air quality testing and be the key,
all right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, yes, sir. I appreciate your health so much. You
have a great day, Garrett.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You do the same. Thanks, appreciate all right again. Eight
hundred eight two three A two five to five.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Jeff welcome, Yes, sir, Gary, I would like to know
sense I put in led lights in the basement. Uh huh,
it's really messing with my radio reception in my house. Yeah,
would there be What can I do.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
One of the things that you might be able to do?
I I what kind of LEDs were they? Are? They
run by on a switch or.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well in the basement there's I got about eight or
ten of them, and they're run by a switch and
they're like the three and a half foot long tube lades.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, they don't dim or anything like that. Correct, what's that?
They don't dim or anything. They're not run on a
dim or anything. No, okay, but they are operate on
a switch. There are LED switches that you might switch
out the switch that can be causing the interference. But
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LED's too again remember LED stands for light emitting diodes,
and they do especially with garage door openers. They caused
some issues there.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, I didn't have too much problem when they were
fluorescent bulbs like shop right, So that wasn't too much
a problem. And I noticed upstairs when my wife turns
on the dimmer switch for those lights, it interferes. But
I just figured maybe there's a filter you could.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well there is there there is a filter. I haven't
really recommended that for LED lighting too much. In fact,
I'm not even really sure how effective that would be.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Uh Welle. Other thing, I got a radio plugs in
and it's battery no matter, no matter what, whether it's
plugged into the wall or on battery, the LED's affected.
So it's not really going through the electrical system of
the house.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay. Is it affecting the AM part of the radio
or the f M two both? Both?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I figure, yeah? Have you? Can you check the LED
bulb too? There are different types of bulbs, and and
you're looking there's like an f c C compliant LED bulb.
I no, that's weird. But sometimes you get into these
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less expensive bulbs which have a tendency to cause a
little bit more of the frequency. I would say, I
would say, I would pay attention to the bulbs you have.
Did it come with the fixture?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
These lights are? They're just like a plastic tube with
Christmas lights in them. And at the end of the
tube there's like a connection where that goes around like
does U turn and goes back to the where the
cord is in the plug?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
All right, so I guess let's start here. Okay, since
we don't really know, you don't really know what the
brand of the bulbs are then correct.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
This the box is down in the garage somewhere. I
don't have my eyes on it right now.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay, so what you know the main reputable brands of
Phillips GE i'd be I'm not saying FIAT isn't a reckon.
It's a less quality bulb. That might be an issue.
You can look for again, the FCC compliant, the EMI
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compliant balls, and there is an EMI filter. But that's
about That's about the only thing I can't offer you
right now. I'm I'm really guessing it is the ball,
the quality of the fixture, or the bulb in the fixture.
All right, Yeah, follow up on that with me if
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you would, I'd appreciate it. But that that's my guess
on it. Love the show, Thank you, take care. All right.
Here's a little heads up too, And I get that
question every now and then. Quite honestly, I had the
problem with a door opener, a garage door opener. I
had went out and I had used the rough service
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incandescent bulb, and like all of us, once we started
really seeing the caught the energy savings on an LED,
we started switching to those. But I had had some
calls with some interference on a frequency. And I had
a LED bulb in my cabinet that I have my
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bulb's in the garage, and without thinking, I took out
the incandescent ball. I screwed in this LED bub and
all of a sudden, when I pulled up in the
driveway and pressed my door opener, it wouldn't open. And
I'm not even putting the bulbs together right, And eventually
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I did because I'd get out of my car and
I'd put in the code and it would open fine,
no problem. And also, I bet that's the ball, and
I took the ball out put another just light bulb.
In fact, I had an old compact fluorescent bulb. I
screwed that in there just to see if it worked.
It did, and it was a The LED bull that
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wasn't working was an off brand LED bull would which
I'm sure wasn't compliant, and that was causing the problem.
And I still have a rough service bulb that I
had in the house in that door opener. So if
you ever have that issue, hopefully that little story will
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save you some frustration. All right again, Our phone numbers
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Will
continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 5 (13:07):
All right, back in it, we go at home with
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Gary Salva another weekend, getting a few things done around
the home.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The big question I have is I look out the
wind and see another rainy day going on. You know, when,
uh when do you book if you're not gonna or
when do you even tackle uh home projects outdoors. I
know it's gonna get dry, I know it's gonna get hot.
I know it's gonna be blue skies, so there'll be time.
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But I'm concerned about service providers able to take care
of your project in the timely fashion that you want.
So I kind of been And it was funny because
Ron Wilson, who we talked about landscaping, he kind of
had that same tip today, you know, like for Mother's Day,
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get your shopping done today. It's you know, if it's
grummy out, take advantage of the crummy weather and the
staff that can help you with your project. The same
holds true if you're looking for service providers, get those
estimates and book it now for sure. All right, let's
go to Liz, Liz, welcome.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Hi Gary, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I wanted a comment on the flies all over the
windows that I used to have years ago. I had
wooden windows with a storm and flies in between and
outside of them. But when I replaced all the windows,
all the flies on.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Amazing how that happens? Huh.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
So I thought maybe something to do with the frame
of the windows and the aluminum sighting that they're warm
and dormant in the winter time and then they come
out when the sunshine comes out.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's right, And that's that's clusters.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Like you said, might help, right, So.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Those are clusterflies. They're waking up, they're going to the light,
and the way they're getting in the house is around
windows and doors like everything else when it's a pest.
So you're exactly correct, Liz, and I appreciate that tip.
Thank you. You know. Another thing is we're talking about
the weather and how it's affected outdoor projects. Here's another
thing to think about when you're buying your deck seiler.
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Take and there's different ones. In some states, oil based
deck sealers are still available other places that they're not,
so not a problem. There's also modified to acrylic alkid
deck sealers. There's also acrylic deck sealers. The reason I'm
bringing that up and I know how it is being
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a weekend warrior. Time is usually your number one limitation.
And if you're doing an oil or even some of
the modified alcat acrylics like you should be doing, prep
is the key. Cleaning that deck is certainly the key,
and that means water and if it's a rainy spring,
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that means water and your acrylics in your latex deck sealers.
Thoks can be applied after two hours of washing it
down or a rain shower two hours. If you're doing
an oil or an alkyd deck saler, you might be
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shot that it says two days. The modified alcat acrylics,
they vary usually on the shorter side, but just think
that process through what you're looking for. They both have
pluses and minuses, and drying time before application is certainly
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falls into plus or minus category. Carol, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I'm calling. My daughter lives in Sarasota, Florida, and her
problem is spider webs in her screened in LINI and
you knock them down with the broom one day and
they are back the next day.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
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Speaker 8 (18:02):
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Speaker 1 (18:04):
You simply spray it on the cobwebs and the surface area.
And spiders love to build webs where there's good airflow.
Certainly a screen porch would be classic airflow, right, that's
how they trap their prey. So if we can eliminate
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the webs, which if they don't catch anything, they actually
eat it's protein. And if by spraying it on the
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I think it's six months. It might be as long
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And get some of that, and I think you'll take
care of your problem. All right. Thank you very much
for the call. You know, spider webs two outside, that's
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a good way to control the spider population around your home.
Maybe you have a big transom window above your entry
door and you got kind of a little bit of
a closed area around the entrance. There are always webs
there again, spraying those knocking them down. Knocking them down
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All right back here and we go thirty three minutes
after the top. They are talking a little home improvement,
as we do each and every day on the weekendday
and Sunday night and noon, and that's Eastern time. That's
when I'm in the chair and can take your call.
In fact, if you'd like to, that's question. You can't
do that right now, Danny boys poised to take your call.
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It's eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five
five and Brenda welcome Hey, Brenda, Hey, Brenda.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Hello, yep, are you talking to me?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You're Brenda.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
No, I'm Linda.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Linda. Well that's why you didn't answer, So go ahead, Linda,
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Oh, thanks for taking my call, you bet I. My
grandmother had a trailer and after she passed away, we
rented it out and there were a lot of people
that moved in here. That's smoked, excuse me. And we
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washed the trailer. We washed the inside down. It was
panels on the inside, and we washed it down, and
then we did the whatever you put on the primer
and then the paint. But I'm noticing that there's dark
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lines coming on the on the bottom edges of the drawer,
the doors and the drawers and things like that. And
I'm going and I can't wash it off. Tars still coming, yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm not so sure you got it all removed from
those panels. I don't know what you used. The one
thing that I found that works, and I haven't found
too many things that does remove the tar and the
nicotine and all that gunk, which is brown and yellowy,
is a product like tri sodium phosphate, and you can
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get a tri sodium phosphate where you have to rinse it,
and you can get also a tre sodium phosphate that
rints free. So I don't know what you use, but
if you're seeing and it will migrate through fresh paint.
So if you're seeing those brown lines, I kind of
think you didn't get all that nicotine off. It's bleeding
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through the paint, and I guess the only way to
really stop that at this point is to reprime it
with a primer called bin primer sealer, and bin primer
seiler will set stains of nicotine, tar, grease, water stains,
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magic marker ink, so it's a stained setter and you
would use the bin primer seiler and then your top
coat again and that would stop it from bleeding through.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Oh good, I mean, if I have to paint this again,
that's not something I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
But yep, it's very it's very interesting. You're not the
only person that has had that issue. But when you're
trying to remove that tar nicotine off a wall, I mean,
you really really gotta really scrub it. It's very messy
and if you don't get it all off, it will
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bleed through. So I'm sure that's the issue you're having.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Well, I mean, and I mean, if I don't turn
a sent the warm on or something like that, when
I come home, you and I come back in the trailer,
I'll still be able to smell the smell.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well. Then there's other things too, you know. I mean,
it's not just the walls that are holding that. If
there was any carpet in there that hasn't been cleaned
or replaced, or drapes or upholstery that holds that scent.
And there's also different products that can remove that scent.
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One of them is called AQM. It's Air Quality Manager.
It's chlorine dioxide. You moisten the tablet, you clip it
to a fan and not to remove some odor. But
as far as bleeding through the paint, Linda gets some
of that beIN primer sealer. It's also there's one called Kills.
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But really what you want is a stained setting primer
and that should alleviate the problem. All right, Linda, thank
you very much for the call. I appreciate it. We
got Bill Bill welcome.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Hello, Gary, I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
I have some free advice for that poor fellow that's
suffering from radio frequency interference good or RFI. I'd shortened
it to RFI. I'm sitting in front of about thirty
thousand dollars worth of Ham radio equipment sensitive receivers, and
I can hear not only the noise generated in my
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house on the radio, but my neighbor's electric blanket coming
on and off. And the LED problem is back at
the conversion transformer. LEDs operate from three to five volts.
And in that wherever that transformer is, it could be
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a wall wart plug into the wall, it could be
a transformer back in that man's electrical box in his garage,
as he said, And that transformer does two things. Converts
one hundred and ten volts to three to five volts,
and it also is supposed to filter out the alternating
current that's called rectification. And on these cheap step down transformers,
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even the ones I get from my spectrum cable supplier,
what happens is all dating current gets transubmitted to the
electrical lines, and all of those electrical wires in the
house become the antenna for that particular noise. And remember
in the day when we had a computer, we bought
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a computer monitor that had a fat black plug or
a fat flat black item on the monitor cable that
was powdered iron fairits and it's a choke. It's supposed
to choke off the all dating current generated by the
monitor's internal oscillator. What this guy needs to do is
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do a Google search in Palamar Engineers PA l M
a AR Pelamar Engineers and if he can find his
step down transformer, he needs to take the wires coming
out of the step down transformer and wrap them around
powdered iron FAI rights to service.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oops, Bill that we lost you there. Thank you. I
do want you know, and I'm sure everything he's over
my head, but I'm sure what he's saying is very true.
I will go back to the thing too, if it
had just started with his replacement of those lights. Do
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check the brand name on that, and do check you
know the FCC compliant insigney on there. It may be
the lights too, so you're gonna be able to correct
it a couple of places. And I appreciate the call.
Think sorry, we lost you there. Let's go to Lynn Lynn.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Welcome, Hi, Gary, enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
I have a deck problem.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
All right.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
About twelve years ago I redid my deck on new Wood.
Carpenter did a great job, and I waited a year
and then I used and it used to advertising your show.
The stain was called one Time and I used that
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and it was like an auburn color. My wife just
loved it and every everything was fine. And uh, it's
a couple of boards I had to replace. So I thought,
you know, why don't I just clean this thing up
and then I'll just put on a latex stain. So
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I did. I cleaned the deck, I used, I used,
I used the deck cleaner. I me and my friend
we got belt sanders and a standing block. I mean,
we cleaned that thing up and made it nice and
smooth last summer, and when it was really really hot,
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we put this stain on and it looked terrific. You
should see it now. My wife could take her fingernail
and go down on those boards and it just flakes
right off.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It can't penetrate through that one time.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Yeah, I don't, I'd probably screwed up, but I well,
I guess I did my research.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, well, the one Time would. And it's it's a wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful product. I've used it myself the reason I talk
about it not quite as much as I did back then.
And you've here heard me say many times. Every product
has its pluses, it has its negatives. The one time
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would has a ton of pluses. The negatives are it's
a very sensitive product and a very unique product, which
makes it so good, and there's limitations to it, and
not everybody body picks up on the limitations. Okay, a
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couple of the limitations. I'll tell you One is it needs.
It is neither water based nor oil base. It is
a liquid solid. It does not dry. It cures. It
cures by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which makes
it continue to penetrate. It's like it continues to be alive.
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So when the surface starts getting like it's worn or old,
and that's usually seven years, which is a tremendous lifespan,
the only thing you can use to recoat that deck
is one time wood because it starts at the top
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and this product will penetrate through every fiber of the wood.
And if we use another type of say an acrylic
or even an oil based deck sealer, it can only
go so far and it's going to run into that
one time wood and it's not going to get full penetration,
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whereas if the one time wood is applied as a
secondary coat, it will kind of team up and continue
to penetrate through the wood with it. So that I'm
sure I can tell you what I.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Well, I remember you saying that it supplants the moisture
that's in the wood, and I have to tell you
could just almost see the moisture coming out of the boards.
I mean, I thought, Wow, this is really something, and well,
here we are. But what can I do?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Well, since it's on the surface and I'm assuming you
used a semi transparent or did you use a solid stain?
Speaker 8 (34:56):
No semi transparent, okay.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So semi transparent normally would penetrate into the fibers of
the wood, stain them and sit. This one couldn't penetrate
all the way down, so the semi transparent has kind
of become an opaque solid. So you got to strip
the surface to that with a deck stripper. And once
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you remove that, then then you're going to have to
put the one time wood stain on that.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
So I should not use I mean, I use I
don't know if it's okay to say the name of them.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, yeah, because yeah, and there's wrong with the stain.
There's nothing wrong with the stain. Actually, they're they're both
doing what they would do, you know, the the one
time would when and I remember saying this many times.
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It may have been a time you didn't see it.
It's on the can, but it's like it's a marriage.
Once you put that on there, you're gonna stay with
a one time wood. You're going to stay with a
liquid solid product because it's it's unique, that's it's got
you know, it's it's unique. You got you gotta stay
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with it. It'll give you great service. But then if
you put something else on it, there's no room in
the end. Right, it can't penetrate into the wood fibers
because that one time wood is totally sealed those wood fibers,
so it lays on the surface and the wood that
stain is not designed to lay on the surface, and
it peels.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
So what do I use to strip it?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
There's deck strippers, there's deck strippers. You can go back
to Sherman Winds. They'll have a deck stripper, okay, And
it's not like stripping furniture. It's not a picnic in
the park, don't get me wrong, but it'll it'll take
off that surface coating and that's really what you need
to do. You need you need to remove that new sealer,
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and you need to open up the pores, and you
need to apply with one time would.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Can you still buy the one time wood?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yea, as far as I know, I haven't talked to
him for several years. I think it was just one
timewood dot com check and see it was out of Macedonia, Ohio.
I haven't seen it in my local waste store. My
guess is yes, it's still available. It's used a lot
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in the Roosh Cedar shingle business also, that's actually where
its origin was.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Well, I guess I can schedule the month of July.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
For the deck.
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Hey, everybody you tell us to sell us the truth,
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There you go.
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Hey, thanks a lot.
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All right, Good luck to you, Thank you appreciate it.
All right, we'll take a little break, come back, get
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There you go, Dan, he takes care of that, yes, sir,
Our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Let's go to David David welcome, Hey David. Yes, yes,
we have all wood flooring and we've got hot traffic
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wear spots. Okay, and how do you take care of that?
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Bring them back to life?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Well, the question is there enough to turn back into life?
So there's two ways of addressing this, David. There's probably
three ways. Really, there's something as elementary as going to
the hardware store and picking up some bona cleaner and
(42:36):
refinisher that you can wipe on in It kind of
hides the traffic spots. So if you got a little
areas worn right by the kitchen table, you clean the floor,
put that on and it can you know, it can
buy you some time. It can look good or it
can look partially good, depend on how worn it is.
That's that's one option. Another option is you can remove
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the stain but put an additional coat of your thane
on the floor. So what you would use is you
would probably get something that would just be like a
buffer or be like a four hundred and six hundred,
you know, grit paper, and you're just going over the
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floor scuffing it and then reapplying a euthane on there.
And the the next one is if it's really worn
through the euthane or through the varnish and through the
stain and into the wood. The only way you bring
it back to life is you stand the whole floor down,
restain and revarnish. So there's even even the areas that
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look very good, you'll never imagine do that.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
So everything a match, and not that not the repair
not stand out.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
It will never match because what happens, and especially with
windows in our house, is that that stain fades, it
bleaches out. And even if you had the same exact
color of stain in the exact same can that they
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used and you put that on there, it wouldn't match.
So here's a little test for you. Get a damp
sponge and go over the worn area and see if
it rejuvenates it to a point where it kind of
looks like it's stained. How did that happen? It got
wet and it looks like it's stained. If that's the case,
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I would go with two coats of a varnish or
two coats of a urethane over that after it dries
out and it will probably blend in. But if it
just still looks worn out, it's a very good chance
you have to just refinish the whole wood floor. If
you've got a follow up question, I'll catch you on
the other side of the hour. Otherwise, thank you for
the call. We'll continue with your calls. You're at home
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Around your home. Get help at one eight hundred and
eighty two three talk. You're at home with Gary Sullivan,
Well, it is the weekend, and thanks for joining me.
Another opportunity to discuss some of the projects we're going
to tackle. One of the things that I have put
on my notes today, and of course we'll take your
calls at eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five is if you have an outdoor project, whether it's
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building a deck, whether it's replacing the concrete driveway, whether
it's painting the X year of your home, book it now.
I'm serious, Book it now. I've talked to several contractors
over the past week or so, and you know, they
were saying, well, you know, we're slow because people haven't
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really got into this whole springtime home thing yet because
the weather in many parts of the country have been
very much a yo yo. Now, some parts of the
country have been perfect and it isn't a problem. But
if you've had a really wet spring, maybe wet and
maybe cold and hot, and people just start pushing those
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outdoor projects down the road a little bit and you
start making phone calls in June, you might get shut out.
Book it now, get your estimate. Book it now. All right,
our phone number if you'd like to join us in
a question about your home projects feel free. No guests today,
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just you and me. It's eight hundred eighty two three
eight two five five And back to Brian. We go
and we're trying to find an odor issue in the house.
You had something to add, Brian.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, yeah, Is there any kind of outside company that
I could contact to help me try and pinpoint this?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
When you say an outside company that's going to pinpoint
an indoor odor.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes, somewhere to help me try to determine whether the
smell is coming from.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Uh No, I guess the only place I would know
that might be helpful is to get like, there's companies
that are home hygh genis where they do air quality testing,
and I think you could have that done, which may
shed some light on exactly what you're looking for, because
you and I are kind of guessing. We're kind of
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guessing in the same realm of molds, mildews and things
like that, but we really don't know if that's it
at all. So, you know, doing an air analysis and
find out what really is in the air it could
be could be beneficial. I would Yeah, I'm kind of
scratching my head. Like I said, I got really lucky
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when I find found mine on a condensation pan underneath
a refrigerator. I'd the only way I found it. I
hate to tell you. I was crawling around in the basement.
I got near the refrigerator and it was strong there
and I started thinking about, you know, the refrigerator and
a condensation pan, and that's where it was. When I
pulled out, I was mold everywhere. But I would say
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an air quality company so that we can really is
it really mold? Is it? Sewer? Gas and sometimes drains
are also hidden under carpeting and basement and stuff, and
nobody put a plug in them and they've dried out.
Not saying that's it. I'd can sit here with a
billion things, but I don't know of a company that
would come in. There could be, but I don't know
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of one. I just air quality testing and be the key,
all right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, yes, sir. I appreciate your health so much. You
have a great day, Garrett.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You do the same. Thanks, appreciate all right again. Eight
hundred eight two three A two five to five.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Jeff welcome, Yes, sir, Gary, I would like to know
sense I put in led lights in the basement. Uh huh,
it's really messing with my radio reception in my house. Yeah,
would there be What can I do.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
One of the things that you might be able to do?
I I what kind of LEDs were they? Are? They
run by on a switch or.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well in the basement there's I got about eight or
ten of them, and they're run by a switch and
they're like the three and a half foot long tube lades.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, they don't dim or anything like that. Correct, what's that?
They don't dim or anything. They're not run on a
dim or anything. No, okay, but they are operate on
a switch. There are LED switches that you might switch
out the switch that can be causing the interference. But
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LED's too again remember LED stands for light emitting diodes,
and they do especially with garage door openers. They caused
some issues there.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, I didn't have too much problem when they were
fluorescent bulbs like shop right, So that wasn't too much
a problem. And I noticed upstairs when my wife turns
on the dimmer switch for those lights, it interferes. But
I just figured maybe there's a filter you could.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well there is there there is a filter. I haven't
really recommended that for LED lighting too much. In fact,
I'm not even really sure how effective that would be.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Uh Welle. Other thing, I got a radio plugs in
and it's battery no matter, no matter what, whether it's
plugged into the wall or on battery, the LED's affected.
So it's not really going through the electrical system of
the house.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay. Is it affecting the AM part of the radio
or the f M two both? Both?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I figure, yeah? Have you? Can you check the LED
bulb too? There are different types of bulbs, and and
you're looking there's like an f c C compliant LED bulb.
I no, that's weird. But sometimes you get into these
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less expensive bulbs which have a tendency to cause a
little bit more of the frequency. I would say, I
would say, I would pay attention to the bulbs you have.
Did it come with the fixture?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
These lights are? They're just like a plastic tube with
Christmas lights in them. And at the end of the
tube there's like a connection where that goes around like
does U turn and goes back to the where the
cord is in the plug?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
All right, so I guess let's start here. Okay, since
we don't really know, you don't really know what the
brand of the bulbs are then correct.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
This the box is down in the garage somewhere. I
don't have my eyes on it right now.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay, so what you know the main reputable brands of
Phillips GE i'd be I'm not saying FIAT isn't a reckon.
It's a less quality bulb. That might be an issue.
You can look for again, the FCC compliant, the EMI
(08:02):
compliant balls, and there is an EMI filter. But that's
about That's about the only thing I can't offer you
right now. I'm I'm really guessing it is the ball,
the quality of the fixture, or the bulb in the fixture.
All right, Yeah, follow up on that with me if
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you would, I'd appreciate it. But that that's my guess
on it. Love the show, Thank you, take care. All right.
Here's a little heads up too, And I get that
question every now and then. Quite honestly, I had the
problem with a door opener, a garage door opener. I
had went out and I had used the rough service
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incandescent bulb, and like all of us, once we started
really seeing the caught the energy savings on an LED,
we started switching to those. But I had had some
calls with some interference on a frequency. And I had
a LED bulb in my cabinet that I have my
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bulb's in the garage, and without thinking, I took out
the incandescent ball. I screwed in this LED bub and
all of a sudden, when I pulled up in the
driveway and pressed my door opener, it wouldn't open. And
I'm not even putting the bulbs together right, And eventually
(09:31):
I did because I'd get out of my car and
I'd put in the code and it would open fine,
no problem. And also, I bet that's the ball, and
I took the ball out put another just light bulb.
In fact, I had an old compact fluorescent bulb. I
screwed that in there just to see if it worked.
It did, and it was a The LED bull that
(09:54):
wasn't working was an off brand LED bull would which
I'm sure wasn't compliant, and that was causing the problem.
And I still have a rough service bulb that I
had in the house in that door opener. So if
you ever have that issue, hopefully that little story will
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save you some frustration. All right again, Our phone numbers
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The big question I have is I look out the
wind and see another rainy day going on. You know, when,
uh when do you book if you're not gonna or
when do you even tackle uh home projects outdoors. I
know it's gonna get dry, I know it's gonna get hot.
I know it's gonna be blue skies, so there'll be time.
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But I'm concerned about service providers able to take care
of your project in the timely fashion that you want.
So I kind of been And it was funny because
Ron Wilson, who we talked about landscaping, he kind of
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get your shopping done today. It's you know, if it's
grummy out, take advantage of the crummy weather and the
staff that can help you with your project. The same
holds true if you're looking for service providers, get those
estimates and book it now for sure. All right, let's
go to Liz, Liz, welcome.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Hi Gary, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I wanted a comment on the flies all over the
windows that I used to have years ago. I had
wooden windows with a storm and flies in between and
outside of them. But when I replaced all the windows,
all the flies on.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Amazing how that happens? Huh.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
So I thought maybe something to do with the frame
of the windows and the aluminum sighting that they're warm
and dormant in the winter time and then they come
out when the sunshine comes out.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's right, And that's that's clusters.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Like you said, might help, right, So.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Those are clusterflies. They're waking up, they're going to the light,
and the way they're getting in the house is around
windows and doors like everything else when it's a pest.
So you're exactly correct, Liz, and I appreciate that tip.
Thank you. You know. Another thing is we're talking about
the weather and how it's affected outdoor projects. Here's another
thing to think about when you're buying your deck seiler.
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Take and there's different ones. In some states, oil based
deck sealers are still available other places that they're not,
so not a problem. There's also modified to acrylic alkid
deck sealers. There's also acrylic deck sealers. The reason I'm
bringing that up and I know how it is being
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a weekend warrior. Time is usually your number one limitation.
And if you're doing an oil or even some of
the modified alcat acrylics like you should be doing, prep
is the key. Cleaning that deck is certainly the key,
and that means water and if it's a rainy spring,
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that means water and your acrylics in your latex deck sealers.
Thoks can be applied after two hours of washing it
down or a rain shower two hours. If you're doing
an oil or an alkyd deck saler, you might be
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shot that it says two days. The modified alcat acrylics,
they vary usually on the shorter side, but just think
that process through what you're looking for. They both have
pluses and minuses, and drying time before application is certainly
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falls into plus or minus category. Carol, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I'm calling. My daughter lives in Sarasota, Florida, and her
problem is spider webs in her screened in LINI and
you knock them down with the broom one day and
they are back the next day.
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And what I would use is there's a wonderful product
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You simply them.
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You simply spray it on the cobwebs and the surface area.
And spiders love to build webs where there's good airflow.
Certainly a screen porch would be classic airflow, right, that's
how they trap their prey. So if we can eliminate
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the webs, which if they don't catch anything, they actually
eat it's protein. And if by spraying it on the
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I think it's six months. It might be as long
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And get some of that, and I think you'll take
care of your problem. All right. Thank you very much
for the call. You know, spider webs two outside, that's
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a good way to control the spider population around your home.
Maybe you have a big transom window above your entry
door and you got kind of a little bit of
a closed area around the entrance. There are always webs
there again, spraying those knocking them down. Knocking them down
is a start, but if you spray them with the
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might look into that. All right, we'll take your calls
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and Sunday night and noon, and that's Eastern time. That's
when I'm in the chair and can take your call.
In fact, if you'd like to, that's question. You can't
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It's eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five
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Hello, yep, are you talking to me?
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You're Brenda.
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No, I'm Linda.
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Linda. Well that's why you didn't answer, So go ahead, Linda,
I'm talking to you.
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Oh, thanks for taking my call, you bet I. My
grandmother had a trailer and after she passed away, we
rented it out and there were a lot of people
that moved in here. That's smoked, excuse me. And we
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washed the trailer. We washed the inside down. It was
panels on the inside, and we washed it down, and
then we did the whatever you put on the primer
and then the paint. But I'm noticing that there's dark
(24:19):
lines coming on the on the bottom edges of the drawer,
the doors and the drawers and things like that. And
I'm going and I can't wash it off. Tars still coming, yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm not so sure you got it all removed from
those panels. I don't know what you used. The one
thing that I found that works, and I haven't found
too many things that does remove the tar and the
nicotine and all that gunk, which is brown and yellowy,
is a product like tri sodium phosphate, and you can
(25:01):
get a tri sodium phosphate where you have to rinse it,
and you can get also a tre sodium phosphate that
rints free. So I don't know what you use, but
if you're seeing and it will migrate through fresh paint.
So if you're seeing those brown lines, I kind of
think you didn't get all that nicotine off. It's bleeding
(25:24):
through the paint, and I guess the only way to
really stop that at this point is to reprime it
with a primer called bin primer sealer, and bin primer
seiler will set stains of nicotine, tar, grease, water stains,
(25:46):
magic marker ink, so it's a stained setter and you
would use the bin primer seiler and then your top
coat again and that would stop it from bleeding through.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Oh good, I mean, if I have to paint this again,
that's not something I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
But yep, it's very it's very interesting. You're not the
only person that has had that issue. But when you're
trying to remove that tar nicotine off a wall, I mean,
you really really gotta really scrub it. It's very messy
and if you don't get it all off, it will
(26:28):
bleed through. So I'm sure that's the issue you're having.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Well, I mean, and I mean, if I don't turn
a sent the warm on or something like that, when
I come home, you and I come back in the trailer,
I'll still be able to smell the smell.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well. Then there's other things too, you know. I mean,
it's not just the walls that are holding that. If
there was any carpet in there that hasn't been cleaned
or replaced, or drapes or upholstery that holds that scent.
And there's also different products that can remove that scent.
(27:07):
One of them is called AQM. It's Air Quality Manager.
It's chlorine dioxide. You moisten the tablet, you clip it
to a fan and not to remove some odor. But
as far as bleeding through the paint, Linda gets some
of that beIN primer sealer. It's also there's one called Kills.
(27:27):
But really what you want is a stained setting primer
and that should alleviate the problem. All right, Linda, thank
you very much for the call. I appreciate it. We
got Bill Bill welcome.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Hello, Gary, I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
I have some free advice for that poor fellow that's
suffering from radio frequency interference good or RFI. I'd shortened
it to RFI. I'm sitting in front of about thirty
thousand dollars worth of Ham radio equipment sensitive receivers, and
I can hear not only the noise generated in my
(28:05):
house on the radio, but my neighbor's electric blanket coming
on and off. And the LED problem is back at
the conversion transformer. LEDs operate from three to five volts.
And in that wherever that transformer is, it could be
(28:26):
a wall wart plug into the wall, it could be
a transformer back in that man's electrical box in his garage,
as he said, And that transformer does two things. Converts
one hundred and ten volts to three to five volts,
and it also is supposed to filter out the alternating
current that's called rectification. And on these cheap step down transformers,
(28:51):
even the ones I get from my spectrum cable supplier,
what happens is all dating current gets transubmitted to the
electrical lines, and all of those electrical wires in the
house become the antenna for that particular noise. And remember
in the day when we had a computer, we bought
(29:14):
a computer monitor that had a fat black plug or
a fat flat black item on the monitor cable that
was powdered iron fairits and it's a choke. It's supposed
to choke off the all dating current generated by the
monitor's internal oscillator. What this guy needs to do is
(29:38):
do a Google search in Palamar Engineers PA l M
a AR Pelamar Engineers and if he can find his
step down transformer, he needs to take the wires coming
out of the step down transformer and wrap them around
powdered iron FAI rights to service.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oops, Bill that we lost you there. Thank you. I
do want you know, and I'm sure everything he's over
my head, but I'm sure what he's saying is very true.
I will go back to the thing too, if it
had just started with his replacement of those lights. Do
(30:23):
check the brand name on that, and do check you
know the FCC compliant insigney on there. It may be
the lights too, so you're gonna be able to correct
it a couple of places. And I appreciate the call.
Think sorry, we lost you there. Let's go to Lynn Lynn.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Welcome, Hi, Gary, enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
I have a deck problem.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
All right.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
About twelve years ago I redid my deck on new Wood.
Carpenter did a great job, and I waited a year
and then I used and it used to advertising your show.
The stain was called one Time and I used that
(31:14):
and it was like an auburn color. My wife just
loved it and every everything was fine. And uh, it's
a couple of boards I had to replace. So I thought,
you know, why don't I just clean this thing up
and then I'll just put on a latex stain. So
(31:35):
I did. I cleaned the deck, I used, I used,
I used the deck cleaner. I me and my friend
we got belt sanders and a standing block. I mean,
we cleaned that thing up and made it nice and
smooth last summer, and when it was really really hot,
(31:55):
we put this stain on and it looked terrific. You
should see it now. My wife could take her fingernail
and go down on those boards and it just flakes
right off.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It can't penetrate through that one time.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Yeah, I don't, I'd probably screwed up, but I well,
I guess I did my research.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, well, the one Time would. And it's it's a wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful product. I've used it myself the reason I talk
about it not quite as much as I did back then.
And you've here heard me say many times. Every product
has its pluses, it has its negatives. The one time
(32:42):
would has a ton of pluses. The negatives are it's
a very sensitive product and a very unique product, which
makes it so good, and there's limitations to it, and
not everybody body picks up on the limitations. Okay, a
(33:03):
couple of the limitations. I'll tell you One is it needs.
It is neither water based nor oil base. It is
a liquid solid. It does not dry. It cures. It
cures by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which makes
it continue to penetrate. It's like it continues to be alive.
(33:28):
So when the surface starts getting like it's worn or old,
and that's usually seven years, which is a tremendous lifespan,
the only thing you can use to recoat that deck
is one time wood because it starts at the top
(33:48):
and this product will penetrate through every fiber of the wood.
And if we use another type of say an acrylic
or even an oil based deck sealer, it can only
go so far and it's going to run into that
one time wood and it's not going to get full penetration,
(34:14):
whereas if the one time wood is applied as a
secondary coat, it will kind of team up and continue
to penetrate through the wood with it. So that I'm
sure I can tell you what I.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Well, I remember you saying that it supplants the moisture
that's in the wood, and I have to tell you
could just almost see the moisture coming out of the boards.
I mean, I thought, Wow, this is really something, and well,
here we are. But what can I do?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Well, since it's on the surface and I'm assuming you
used a semi transparent or did you use a solid stain?
Speaker 8 (34:56):
No semi transparent, okay.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So semi transparent normally would penetrate into the fibers of
the wood, stain them and sit. This one couldn't penetrate
all the way down, so the semi transparent has kind
of become an opaque solid. So you got to strip
the surface to that with a deck stripper. And once
(35:21):
you remove that, then then you're going to have to
put the one time wood stain on that.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
So I should not use I mean, I use I
don't know if it's okay to say the name of them.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, yeah, because yeah, and there's wrong with the stain.
There's nothing wrong with the stain. Actually, they're they're both
doing what they would do, you know, the the one
time would when and I remember saying this many times.
(35:58):
It may have been a time you didn't see it.
It's on the can, but it's like it's a marriage.
Once you put that on there, you're gonna stay with
a one time wood. You're going to stay with a
liquid solid product because it's it's unique, that's it's got
you know, it's it's unique. You got you gotta stay
(36:18):
with it. It'll give you great service. But then if
you put something else on it, there's no room in
the end. Right, it can't penetrate into the wood fibers
because that one time wood is totally sealed those wood fibers,
so it lays on the surface and the wood that
stain is not designed to lay on the surface, and
it peels.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
So what do I use to strip it?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
There's deck strippers, there's deck strippers. You can go back
to Sherman Winds. They'll have a deck stripper, okay, And
it's not like stripping furniture. It's not a picnic in
the park, don't get me wrong, but it'll it'll take
off that surface coating and that's really what you need
to do. You need you need to remove that new sealer,
(37:05):
and you need to open up the pores, and you
need to apply with one time would.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Can you still buy the one time wood?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yea, as far as I know, I haven't talked to
him for several years. I think it was just one
timewood dot com check and see it was out of Macedonia, Ohio.
I haven't seen it in my local waste store. My
guess is yes, it's still available. It's used a lot
(37:37):
in the Roosh Cedar shingle business also, that's actually where
its origin was.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Well, I guess I can schedule the month of July.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
For the deck.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Am I still your friend?
Speaker 6 (37:57):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Hey, everybody you tell us to sell us the truth,
whether we like it or not.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
There you go.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
Hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
All right, Good luck to you, Thank you appreciate it.
All right, we'll take a little break, come back, get
some more questions answered. Our phone numbers eight hundred eight
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There you go, Dan, he takes care of that, yes, sir,
Our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Let's go to David David welcome, Hey David. Yes, yes,
we have all wood flooring and we've got hot traffic
(42:06):
wear spots. Okay, and how do you take care of that?
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Bring them back to life?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Well, the question is there enough to turn back into life?
So there's two ways of addressing this, David. There's probably
three ways. Really, there's something as elementary as going to
the hardware store and picking up some bona cleaner and
(42:36):
refinisher that you can wipe on in It kind of
hides the traffic spots. So if you got a little
areas worn right by the kitchen table, you clean the floor,
put that on and it can you know, it can
buy you some time. It can look good or it
can look partially good, depend on how worn it is.
That's that's one option. Another option is you can remove
(43:00):
the stain but put an additional coat of your thane
on the floor. So what you would use is you
would probably get something that would just be like a
buffer or be like a four hundred and six hundred,
you know, grit paper, and you're just going over the
(43:23):
floor scuffing it and then reapplying a euthane on there.
And the the next one is if it's really worn
through the euthane or through the varnish and through the
stain and into the wood. The only way you bring
it back to life is you stand the whole floor down,
restain and revarnish. So there's even even the areas that
(43:51):
look very good, you'll never imagine do that.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
So everything a match, and not that not the repair
not stand out.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
It will never match because what happens, and especially with
windows in our house, is that that stain fades, it
bleaches out. And even if you had the same exact
color of stain in the exact same can that they
(44:21):
used and you put that on there, it wouldn't match.
So here's a little test for you. Get a damp
sponge and go over the worn area and see if
it rejuvenates it to a point where it kind of
looks like it's stained. How did that happen? It got
wet and it looks like it's stained. If that's the case,
(44:44):
I would go with two coats of a varnish or
two coats of a urethane over that after it dries
out and it will probably blend in. But if it
just still looks worn out, it's a very good chance
you have to just refinish the whole wood floor. If
you've got a follow up question, I'll catch you on
the other side of the hour. Otherwise, thank you for
the call. We'll continue with your calls. You're at home
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