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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well the weekend. It is welcome aboard at Home with
Gary Salvin taking it through another well, another weekend, another
day getting some things done around the home. Feel free
to grab us a line and we'll get you on
talk about your home project, maintenance and repair. It is
eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five. And
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all right, So again the phone numbers eight hundred eighty
two three eight two five five. We got Reggie.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Reggie welcome, Good morning Gary.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How are you doing fine, sir? Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I've got one of those puzzling problems that I just
can't seem to nail down. When I flush the toilet
as soon as it refills, I get allowed some under
the house, a thumping noise. Just once and my h
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bac fella's also been my plumber for twenty years. He
came out to do my annual air conditioning heat pumps
service and I was telling him about it a few
days before he the appointment, and he said, I'm going
to look at that, and he said it's probably could
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be water hammer. He said, I'll put a water hammer
arrestor on there, okay, and he got under got under
the house. I have all pecks plumbing. He got under
the house. He's said, you know, they've secured all the
pecks as it should be. He said, I'm going to
even though it's secure. He said, there are two places
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I'm going to put some extra. Bracey gets all done,
blushes the toilet a couple of times being going no problem,
next morning, problems back.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Boy? Are you? And you filled out my checklist too?
The first thing I was going to say, is you
water hammer putting a restorer on that. The next thing
I was going to say is check to see where
it's anchored. Those are the two biggies. Any idea what
your water pressure is in the house, That's another thing
we could take a look at.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Funny, you should mention that I have I'm on City water.
I have one of their texts coming out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, to check the for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He said, last time they sat my pressure, it was
sixty psi. Okay, zero ps i and he said, perhaps
the vow has gone bad. But that's a good question. Gary.
How what is the maximum threshold for water pressure?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So maxim Yeah, maximum pressure. You know you're safe up
to about eighty psi. But okay, but with pecks, I'd
like to see it around right where it is. Sixty Okay,
you know copper you can go up to eighty. But
really with pecks, I don't know. Sixty sixty five. It's
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that's kind of the ceiling I would use. And You're right,
those valves go bad, and I'm I'm gonna guess that's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Whoop.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So what'd you say, Danny? His phone was dropping out?
I think, oh, okay, well I hope he caught that. Yeah,
So I'll repeat that in case he's listening outside of
his phone, or if he calls back, Danny, you can
tell him. So copper, eighty psi, that's probably as high
as I would run four pecks again, sixty sixty five,
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no more net that would be the water pressure, and
I feel if you've done those other two things, that's
where my next question would be, and check that out.
And it sounds like he's going to sometimes it was
hammering too, and I'm sure his fellow probably told him
that is shutting off that water and maybe right at
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the toilet with that valve and flushing a couple of times,
turning it back on. And I've had it. I can't
really explain it. I had it on a toilet and
it did eliminate that pounding too, So that's another thing
you might try. All right, let's go to Joe. Joe, welcome.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Hey, Gary, haven't called you in a long time. I
have a friend that has a home. I don't have
a home, but she has critters outside her house and
she can't get rid of in her yard and they
come in her home, and I guess I'm a rat.
I don't know rats, rodents, all kinds of things. What
can she do about that? Because they're a pain? They
can do damage to the horse, Sure they can, Sure
they can.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And you know, again, one of the biggest things you
can do is making sure the envelope of your house
is secure. I you know, whether it's a mouse, a rat,
a squirrel, a centipede. We've talked about them all today,
but they are you know, they're all yard. Well you're
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not going to get rid of them out of your yard,
keep them out of your house.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Okay, okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I mean that's the thing. I mean for yards, there's
different things. And again it depends on the lay of
the land. You know, are you near a woods or
something along those lines. Is the firewood stacked up against
the house, is behind the bushes? Is that landscaped annually?
Where you get all the leaves out of there, the sticks,
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the twigs and everything, because that's where they love the nest,
that's where they like to be.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And you know, secure her house, he said.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right, yeah, So cleaning up that area you know, of
leaves and twigs and you know, so it's got to
be you know, helps to have it neatly manicured or
at least you know, the debris removed every spring. And
then really take a look around the house and the
door sweeps under a garage, you know, the weather stripping
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on the sides, any cracks like a mouse can get
through a hole the size of a dime, I know,
and you know, once they get like in a garage,
and then you got drywall. They can choot through that.
That's not a problem. So keeping them out of the house.
So I'd start with any penetration that's going through the foundation.
So we got cable wires, we got gas lines, we
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got water lines, we got vent pipes, we got all
kinds of things going through those foundations. Make sure they're
tightly cocked. No openings, because small openings allow critters to
get in. And then check all the doors and making
sure the weather stripping the thresholds. Make sure they're you know,
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they close nice and tight and they keep keep animals out.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
If you want to quick question, I have to tell
my landlord. I have a toilet. It's starting to leak
where it stops. I cannot turn off the valve. It's
one of these flex valves. Are they good to use
or should he have used something else? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
What do you mean by a flex valve?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Well, you could bend it a little bit, dot the
valve the piping.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh you people use the the the hose type supply
lines all the time. No, they're fine, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But the valve won't turn off. So I'm just gonna
wait and get him over here.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yep, yep. Yeah, you should always have those available to
turn off because again, if we have a you know,
a leak or something and we can't get that off,
then you're you know your point of the problem. Uh,
you can't you can't stop the water there. You got
to shut off the water for the whole house. So uh,
I have on my notes because I have a rainy
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day in my hometown today and I have a note
to tell people when you know, if you still want
to do something around a home, A really quick thing
to do. And I'm not going to preach that you
do this all the time, but it sure doesn't hurt.
If you're looking to do something around the home. You
got a crummy day and you can't do anything, nothing
going on your board, Go ahead and shut off the
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valves underneath the vanity. Open up the faucets, drain them,
open up the valve. After water quits spurting, go ahead,
close the faucet, leave that valve open and do that
under every toilet, every vanity ball, every kitchen sink, every
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bar sink, maybe down the basement and just shut it
off and then circle back and check if it leaks,
so you're gonna see if the valve works. You're gonna
see if the valve leaks, and then you can make
your your plan either replace some valves or maybe nothing's
bad at all, but you've checked it, and then if
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you have an emergency, it will be operational. Always a
good idea. All right, we'll continue with your calls. It's
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All right, let's get back to work. What do you
say we got twenty minutes after the top of the
are talking home improvement. You're free to join us as
we talk a lot about maintenance and repair. Let's get
to Bill. He's got a tip for us. Bill, welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Maybe I should tell you my story and then it's
a real short.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I had these birds, these birds, they were building a
nest on the transom on my front door over my
new house. And I tore the nest down. I tore
the nest down. They kept coming back, They kept coming back.
I couldn't get rid of them, so I went to
the garden center and I bought myself a little statue
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of a cat closest enough to the size of the
cat that I could find. Probably cost me eleven bucks.
I stuck it up on that transom. I stuck it
up there eight years ago, and I haven't had a
single nest yet. So I've heard people calling about. You know,
I can't get rid of these birds and my air
conditioner outside the window. You know, I can get my
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hand out there, buy a cat statue, stick it up there,
and you won't have any more birds.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think when that fella called, I talked about putting
a rubber snake on there. And honest the goodness, your
story is almost a complete replica of a story I have.
And that is front door, big trans and window above it,
nice little shelf above the door. And one day I
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always going this Robin keeps building this nest right above it,
right above the door, and we gotta get rid of
that nest. We get rid of the nest, and you know,
there was no eggs, and he was just starting to
build it. And I'd sweep it off. Next day, I'd
go out, I'd sweep it off. The next day, I'd
go out and I did it like five six times,
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and she comes back with his orange and black twelve
inch long rubber snake from Walmart and she goes, put
this on there, and I go, you know, that may work,
And I got the ladder and I sat it up
there and no problem went away. So the next year,
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Robin's loved to build the nest in the same place.
So year two he came back. I kept sweeping and
that's the way sweeping, and that's the way went through
the garage, found my orange snake, set it up there, gone.
He has not returned this year. We're on a Robin watch.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
This cat has been up there for eight years? Is that?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah? I haven't heard about the cat. That's a good idea.
I like it was. Was it a little ceramic one
or what was it?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yes, cat painted, you know, and it's not as big
as a cat. It's like maybe the size of a
large kitten. Yeah, you know, maybe it's like seven or
eight eight inches long maybe, but the birds don't measure.
They're like, I'm not going there.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I love it because it was hard to see that snake,
but you could kind of see the orange snake hanging
over the edge of the thing, Buddy comes over where
he goes. Why is there a play rubber snake your windowsill? Well,
robins there anymore? Let's just put it that way. Well,
I'll put the kitten in as a remedy. Also, all right,
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thank you, Bill, appreciate it, all right, And that is
a timely discussion right now, because birds, I don't know,
we have. Everybody has wildlife around their homes, regardless of
where you live. And the robin on the front window
was one and I think once we had shoot him
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from there, uh you know the little ring cameras out
back floodlights. They started building a nest on top of
that same thing. I didn't have a secondary snake, but
I brushed it off. And they're consistent they want to
build their nest there. And it was an ongoing battle.
But not on the security camera this year, and not
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on the shelf. And no cardinals, which was also a problem,
dive bombing the windows. And I'm here to tell you
when people will call about that, they do, you know,
they want to know what can use. And when you
go to the direction of using, you know, a rubber
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snake or an owl or a kit or whatever. I know,
they think you're crazy. But if you're bothered by woodpeckers,
I have had luck with my lar tape, you know,
like the mylar balloons that come in strips and they
have little holograms in it, and you can use a
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thumbtack and just push it right into you know, the
wood sill or something along those lines, or wherever they're
bothering the house, or even the little tape. And I
bring that up because as we talked a lot about
pests today and here we are talking about birds, I'm
always talking about changing the environment so they're comfortable there
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when they start the nest or the woodpeckers starts digging
into the wood soffet or facia. But if you can
change that environment where they're either threatened with the snake
or the cat or flashes of light which they're getting
off the hologram on the mil ard tape, they're going elsewhere.
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They're not going to fool around with that area. So
whenever you have problems with different animals, do you really
think about changing the environment. We've talked about sprinkler systems
or sprinkler that has a motion detector, like if a
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cat or rabbits or problem in your landscaping beds, and
there's movement around those landscaping beds that sprinkler will turn
on and know it's not going to correct it overnight.
But after that happens about seven or ten times. You know,
mister rabbit, mister kat get pretty smart and I go
like I can go over to Fred's house and not
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get wet. So always think about changing the environment. We've
talked about cleaning up just to keep rid of pests
there both you know, insects and both animals. So change
the environment. That's the key, all right, Taking your calls next,
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All right back ahead 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 weekend
Saturday and Sunday nine to 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 when I mentioned
you can do that right now, Danny boys, poise to
take your call. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight
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two five five. Brenda. Welcome, Hey, Brenda, Hey, Brenda.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Hello, are you talking to me?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You're Brenda.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
No, I'm Linda.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Linda. Well that's why you didn't answer, so go ahead, Linda,
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
Well, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Bet.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
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 smoked excuse me, and
we washed the trailer. We washed the inside down. It
was panels on the inside, and we washed it down,
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and then we did the whatever you put on the
primer and then the paint. But I'm I'm not saying
that there's dark lines coming on the on the bottom
edges of the drawer, the doors and the drawers and
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things like that, and I'm going and I can't wash
it off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, yeah, I think so. 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've 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,
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and you can get a trisodium phosphate where you have
to rinse it. And you can get also a tri
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.
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It's bleeding through the paint, and uh, 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,
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water stains, 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 (25:43):
Oh good, I mean, if I have to paint this again,
that's not something I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But yep, it's very it's very interesting. You're you're not
the only person that has had that issue. But when
you're trying to remove that tar and 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,
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it will bleed through. So I'm sure that's the issue
you're having.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Well, I mean, and I mean, if I don't turn
a SENSEI warmer on or something like that, when I
come home, you'd smell, and I come back in the trailer,
I'll still be able to smell the smell.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
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 motor. But
as far as bleeding through the paint, Linda gets some
of that Ben 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 3 (27:23):
Hello, Gary. I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
I have I have some free advice for that poor
fellow that's suffering from radio frequency interference.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Good or RFI.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
I've we shortened that to RFI. I'm sitting in front
of about thirty thousand dollars worth of Ham radio equipment,
very sensitive receivers, and I can hear not only the
noise generated in my house on the radio, but my
neighbor's electric blanket coming on and off.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
And the LED problem is back at the that the
conversion transformer. LEDs operate from three to five volts. And
in that wherever that transformer is, it could be a
wall wart plug into the wall, it could be a
transformer back in that man's electrical box in his garage,
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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 these cheap step down transformers,
even the ones I get from my spectrum cable supplier,
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what happens is all dating current gets transmitted 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
a computer monitor that had a fat black plug or
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a fat flat black item on the monitor cable that
was powdered iron fair rights. 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 do a Google search and Palamar Engineers p A
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L O M A R. Pelamar Engineers, And if he
can find his step down transformer, he needs to take
the the wires coming out of the step down transformer
and wrap them around powdered iron fair rights to service.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oops, Bill that we lost you there. Thank you. I
do want 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 check
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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. Thank you,
Sorry we lost you there. Let's go to Lynn. Lynn.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
Welcome, Hi Gary, enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I have a deck problem, all.
Speaker 11 (30:33):
Right, 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 is called one Time and
(30:55):
I use that 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
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latex stain. So 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
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really hot, we put this stain on and it looked terrific.
You should see it now. My wife could take her
finger now and go down on those boards and it
just flakes right off.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah I don't.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
I probably screwed up, but.
Speaker 12 (31:59):
I well, I guess, yeah, well the one Time would,
and it's it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful product.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
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 wood
has a ton of pluses. The negatives are it's a
very sensitive product and a very unique product, which makes
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it so good, and there's limitations to it, and not
everybody picks up on the limitations. Okay, a couple of
the limitations. I'll tell you One is it needs it.
It is neither water based nor oil base. It is
a liquid solid. It does not dry. It cures. It
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cures by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which makes
it continue to penetrate. It's like it continues to be alive.
So when the surface starts getting like it's worn or old,
and that's usually seven years, which is a tremendous lifespan,
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the only thing you can use to recoat that deck
is one time wood because it starts at the top
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 sailor, it can only
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go so far, and it's going to run into that
one time wood and it's not going to get full penetration,
whereas if the one time would is applied as a
secondary coat, it will kind of team up and continue
to penetrate through the wood with it. So I'm sure,
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well I can tell you what I.
Speaker 11 (34:11):
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 (34:31):
Well, since it's on the surface, and I'm assuming you
used a semi transparent or did you use a solid stain?
Speaker 11 (34:40):
No semi transparent?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Okay, So a 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've got
to strips of surface to that with a deck stripper,
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And once you remove that, then then you're going to
have to put the one time wood stain on that.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
So I should not use. I mean, I use. I
don't know if it's okay to say the name of
the yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, yeah, because yeah, I mean, and there's something 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. It may have been a time you
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didn't see it. It's on the cairn, but it's like
it's a marriage. Once you put that on there, you're
going to 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 with it. It'll give you great service.
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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 11 (36:23):
So what do I use to strip it?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
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 to you need to remove that
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new sealer, and you need to open up the pores,
and you need to apply with one time wood.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
Can you still buy the one time wood?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yea, As far as I know, I haven't talked to
him for several years. I think it was just one
timewouod 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 Rush Cedar shingle business also, that's actually where
its origin was.
Speaker 11 (37:30):
Well, I guess I can schedule the month of July
for the deck.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Am I still your friend?
Speaker 12 (37:41):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (37:42):
Hey, everybody calls you to sell us the truth, whether
we like it or not.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
There you go. Hey, thanks a lot, Eric, all right,
good luck to thank you. I appreciate it. All right,
We'll take you a little break, come back, get some
more questions answered. Our phone numbers eight eight two three, eight,
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our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Let's go to David David welcome, Hey David.
Speaker 13 (41:42):
Yes, yes, we have all wood flooring and we've got
high traffic wear spots.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Okay, how do you take care of that? Bring them
back to life?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Well, the question is 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
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cleaner and refinisher that you can wipe on in It
kind of hides the traffic spot. 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
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can not remove 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
(43:02):
and six hundred uh, you know, grit paper, and you're
just going over the floor scuffing it and then reapplying
a yourthane on there. And the the next one is
if it's really worn through the your thane or through
the varnish and through the stain and into the wood,
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the only way you bring it back to life is
you stand the whole floor down, restain and revarnish.
Speaker 13 (43:30):
So there's even even the areas that look very good.
H You'll never imagine that's all everything a match and
not that not the repair not stand out.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It will never match because what happens, and especially with
windows in our house, is that that that that stain fades,
it bleaches out. And even if you had the same
exist that color of stain in the exact same can
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that they 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
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that's the case, I would go with two coats of
a varnish or two coats of a euthane 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 to follow up question, I'll
catch you on the other side of the hour. Otherwise,
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thank you for the call. We'll continue with your calls.
You're at home with Gary.
Speaker 6 (44:52):
Sullivan weekends, I mean a never ending list of things
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Well the weekend. It is welcome aboard at Home with
Gary Salvin taking it through another well, another weekend, another
day getting some things done around the home. Feel free
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all right, So again the phone numbers eight hundred eighty
two three eight two five five. We got Reggie.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Reggie welcome, Good morning Gary.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How are you doing fine, sir? Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I've got one of those puzzling problems that I just
can't seem to nail down. When I flush the toilet
as soon as it refills, I get allowed some under
the house, a thumping noise. Just once and my h
(01:53):
bac fella's also been my plumber for twenty years. He
came out to do my annual air conditioning heat pumps
service and I was telling him about it a few
days before he the appointment, and he said, I'm going
to look at that, and he said it's probably could
(02:14):
be water hammer. He said, I'll put a water hammer
arrestor on there, okay, and he got under got under
the house. I have all pecks plumbing. He got under
the house. He's said, you know, they've secured all the
pecks as it should be. He said, I'm going to
even though it's secure. He said, there are two places
(02:38):
I'm going to put some extra. Bracey gets all done,
blushes the toilet a couple of times being going no problem,
next morning, problems back.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Boy? Are you? And you filled out my checklist too?
The first thing I was going to say, is you
water hammer putting a restorer on that. The next thing
I was going to say is check to see where
it's anchored. Those are the two biggies. Any idea what
your water pressure is in the house, That's another thing
we could take a look at.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Funny, you should mention that I have I'm on City water.
I have one of their texts coming out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, to check the for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He said, last time they sat my pressure, it was
sixty psi. Okay, zero ps i and he said, perhaps
the vow has gone bad. But that's a good question. Gary.
How what is the maximum threshold for water pressure?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So maxim Yeah, maximum pressure. You know you're safe up
to about eighty psi. But okay, but with pecks, I'd
like to see it around right where it is. Sixty Okay,
you know copper you can go up to eighty. But
really with pecks, I don't know. Sixty sixty five. It's
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that's kind of the ceiling I would use. And You're right,
those valves go bad, and I'm I'm gonna guess that's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Whoop.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So what'd you say, Danny? His phone was dropping out?
I think, oh, okay, well I hope he caught that. Yeah,
So I'll repeat that in case he's listening outside of
his phone, or if he calls back, Danny, you can
tell him. So copper, eighty psi, that's probably as high
as I would run four pecks again, sixty sixty five,
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no more net that would be the water pressure, and
I feel if you've done those other two things, that's
where my next question would be, and check that out.
And it sounds like he's going to sometimes it was
hammering too, and I'm sure his fellow probably told him
that is shutting off that water and maybe right at
(04:59):
the toilet with that valve and flushing a couple of times,
turning it back on. And I've had it. I can't
really explain it. I had it on a toilet and
it did eliminate that pounding too, So that's another thing
you might try. All right, let's go to Joe. Joe, welcome.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Hey, Gary, haven't called you in a long time. I
have a friend that has a home. I don't have
a home, but she has critters outside her house and
she can't get rid of in her yard and they
come in her home, and I guess I'm a rat.
I don't know rats, rodents, all kinds of things. What
can she do about that? Because they're a pain? They
can do damage to the horse, Sure they can, Sure
they can.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And you know, again, one of the biggest things you
can do is making sure the envelope of your house
is secure. I you know, whether it's a mouse, a rat,
a squirrel, a centipede. We've talked about them all today,
but they are you know, they're all yard. Well you're
(05:58):
not going to get rid of them out of your yard,
keep them out of your house.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Okay, okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I mean that's the thing. I mean for yards, there's
different things. And again it depends on the lay of
the land. You know, are you near a woods or
something along those lines. Is the firewood stacked up against
the house, is behind the bushes? Is that landscaped annually?
Where you get all the leaves out of there, the sticks,
(06:25):
the twigs and everything, because that's where they love the nest,
that's where they like to be.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And you know, secure her house, he said.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right, yeah, So cleaning up that area you know, of
leaves and twigs and you know, so it's got to
be you know, helps to have it neatly manicured or
at least you know, the debris removed every spring. And
then really take a look around the house and the
door sweeps under a garage, you know, the weather stripping
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on the sides, any cracks like a mouse can get
through a hole the size of a dime, I know,
and you know, once they get like in a garage,
and then you got drywall. They can choot through that.
That's not a problem. So keeping them out of the house.
So I'd start with any penetration that's going through the foundation.
So we got cable wires, we got gas lines, we
(07:17):
got water lines, we got vent pipes, we got all
kinds of things going through those foundations. Make sure they're
tightly cocked. No openings, because small openings allow critters to
get in. And then check all the doors and making
sure the weather stripping the thresholds. Make sure they're you know,
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they close nice and tight and they keep keep animals out.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
If you want to quick question, I have to tell
my landlord. I have a toilet. It's starting to leak
where it stops. I cannot turn off the valve. It's
one of these flex valves. Are they good to use
or should he have used something else? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
What do you mean by a flex valve?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Well, you could bend it a little bit, dot the
valve the piping.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh you people use the the the hose type supply
lines all the time. No, they're fine, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But the valve won't turn off. So I'm just gonna
wait and get him over here.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yep, yep. Yeah, you should always have those available to
turn off because again, if we have a you know,
a leak or something and we can't get that off,
then you're you know your point of the problem. Uh,
you can't you can't stop the water there. You got
to shut off the water for the whole house. So uh,
I have on my notes because I have a rainy
(08:34):
day in my hometown today and I have a note
to tell people when you know, if you still want
to do something around a home, A really quick thing
to do. And I'm not going to preach that you
do this all the time, but it sure doesn't hurt.
If you're looking to do something around the home. You
got a crummy day and you can't do anything, nothing
going on your board, Go ahead and shut off the
(08:57):
valves underneath the vanity. Open up the faucets, drain them,
open up the valve. After water quits spurting, go ahead,
close the faucet, leave that valve open and do that
under every toilet, every vanity ball, every kitchen sink, every
(09:20):
bar sink, maybe down the basement and just shut it
off and then circle back and check if it leaks,
so you're gonna see if the valve works. You're gonna
see if the valve leaks, and then you can make
your your plan either replace some valves or maybe nothing's
bad at all, but you've checked it, and then if
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you have an emergency, it will be operational. Always a
good idea. All right, we'll continue with your calls. It's
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are talking home improvement. You're free to join us as
we talk a lot about maintenance and repair. Let's get
to Bill. He's got a tip for us. Bill, welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Maybe I should tell you my story and then it's
a real short.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I had these birds, these birds, they were building a
nest on the transom on my front door over my
new house. And I tore the nest down. I tore
the nest down. They kept coming back, They kept coming back.
I couldn't get rid of them, so I went to
the garden center and I bought myself a little statue
(13:25):
of a cat closest enough to the size of the
cat that I could find. Probably cost me eleven bucks.
I stuck it up on that transom. I stuck it
up there eight years ago, and I haven't had a
single nest yet. So I've heard people calling about. You know,
I can't get rid of these birds and my air
conditioner outside the window. You know, I can get my
(13:46):
hand out there, buy a cat statue, stick it up there,
and you won't have any more birds.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think when that fella called, I talked about putting
a rubber snake on there. And honest the goodness, your
story is almost a complete replica of a story I have.
And that is front door, big trans and window above it,
nice little shelf above the door. And one day I
(14:15):
always going this Robin keeps building this nest right above it,
right above the door, and we gotta get rid of
that nest. We get rid of the nest, and you know,
there was no eggs, and he was just starting to
build it. And I'd sweep it off. Next day, I'd
go out, I'd sweep it off. The next day, I'd
go out and I did it like five six times,
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and she comes back with his orange and black twelve
inch long rubber snake from Walmart and she goes, put
this on there, and I go, you know, that may work,
And I got the ladder and I sat it up
there and no problem went away. So the next year,
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Robin's loved to build the nest in the same place.
So year two he came back. I kept sweeping and
that's the way sweeping, and that's the way went through
the garage, found my orange snake, set it up there, gone.
He has not returned this year. We're on a Robin watch.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
This cat has been up there for eight years? Is that?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah? I haven't heard about the cat. That's a good idea.
I like it was. Was it a little ceramic one
or what was it?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yes, cat painted, you know, and it's not as big
as a cat. It's like maybe the size of a
large kitten. Yeah, you know, maybe it's like seven or
eight eight inches long maybe, but the birds don't measure.
They're like, I'm not going there.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I love it because it was hard to see that snake,
but you could kind of see the orange snake hanging
over the edge of the thing, Buddy comes over where
he goes. Why is there a play rubber snake your windowsill? Well,
robins there anymore? Let's just put it that way. Well,
I'll put the kitten in as a remedy. Also, all right,
(16:14):
thank you, Bill, appreciate it, all right, And that is
a timely discussion right now, because birds, I don't know,
we have. Everybody has wildlife around their homes, regardless of
where you live. And the robin on the front window
was one and I think once we had shoot him
(16:36):
from there, uh you know the little ring cameras out
back floodlights. They started building a nest on top of
that same thing. I didn't have a secondary snake, but
I brushed it off. And they're consistent they want to
build their nest there. And it was an ongoing battle.
But not on the security camera this year, and not
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on the shelf. And no cardinals, which was also a problem,
dive bombing the windows. And I'm here to tell you
when people will call about that, they do, you know,
they want to know what can use. And when you
go to the direction of using, you know, a rubber
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snake or an owl or a kit or whatever. I know,
they think you're crazy. But if you're bothered by woodpeckers,
I have had luck with my lar tape, you know,
like the mylar balloons that come in strips and they
have little holograms in it, and you can use a
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thumbtack and just push it right into you know, the
wood sill or something along those lines, or wherever they're
bothering the house, or even the little tape. And I
bring that up because as we talked a lot about
pests today and here we are talking about birds, I'm
always talking about changing the environment so they're comfortable there
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when they start the nest or the woodpeckers starts digging
into the wood soffet or facia. But if you can
change that environment where they're either threatened with the snake
or the cat or flashes of light which they're getting
off the hologram on the mil ard tape, they're going elsewhere.
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They're not going to fool around with that area. So
whenever you have problems with different animals, do you really
think about changing the environment. We've talked about sprinkler systems
or sprinkler that has a motion detector, like if a
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cat or rabbits or problem in your landscaping beds, and
there's movement around those landscaping beds that sprinkler will turn
on and know it's not going to correct it overnight.
But after that happens about seven or ten times. You know,
mister rabbit, mister kat get pretty smart and I go
like I can go over to Fred's house and not
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get wet. So always think about changing the environment. We've
talked about cleaning up just to keep rid of pests
there both you know, insects and both animals. So change
the environment. That's the key, all right, Taking your calls next,
it's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
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All right back ahead 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 weekend
Saturday and Sunday nine to 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 when I mentioned
you can do that right now, Danny boys, poise to
take your call. It's eight hundred eighty two three eight
(22:57):
two five five. Brenda. Welcome, Hey, Brenda, Hey, Brenda.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Hello, are you talking to me?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You're Brenda.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
No, I'm Linda.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Linda. Well that's why you didn't answer, so go ahead, Linda,
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
Well, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Bet.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
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 smoked excuse me, and
we washed the trailer. We washed the inside down. It
was panels on the inside, and we washed it down,
(23:50):
and then we did the whatever you put on the
primer and then the paint. But I'm I'm not saying
that there's dark lines coming on the on the bottom
edges of the drawer, the doors and the drawers and
(24:13):
things like that, and I'm going and I can't wash
it off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, yeah, I think so. 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've 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,
(24:44):
and you can get a trisodium phosphate where you have
to rinse it. And you can get also a tri
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.
(25:07):
It's bleeding through the paint, and uh, 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,
(25:29):
water stains, 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 (25:43):
Oh good, I mean, if I have to paint this again,
that's not something I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But yep, it's very it's very interesting. You're you're not
the only person that has had that issue. But when
you're trying to remove that tar and 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,
(26:12):
it will bleed through. So I'm sure that's the issue
you're having.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Well, I mean, and I mean, if I don't turn
a SENSEI warmer on or something like that, when I
come home, you'd smell, and I come back in the trailer,
I'll still be able to smell the smell.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
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.
(26:51):
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 motor. But
as far as bleeding through the paint, Linda gets some
of that Ben Primer sealer. It's also there's one called Kills.
(27:11):
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 3 (27:23):
Hello, Gary. I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
I have I have some free advice for that poor
fellow that's suffering from radio frequency interference.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Good or RFI.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
I've we shortened that to RFI. I'm sitting in front
of about thirty thousand dollars worth of Ham radio equipment,
very sensitive receivers, and I can hear not only the
noise generated in my house on the radio, but my
neighbor's electric blanket coming on and off.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
And the LED problem is back at the that the
conversion transformer. LEDs operate from three to five volts. And
in that wherever that transformer is, it could be a
wall wart plug into the wall, it could be a
transformer back in that man's electrical box in his garage,
(28:16):
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 these cheap step down transformers,
even the ones I get from my spectrum cable supplier,
(28:41):
what happens is all dating current gets transmitted 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
a computer monitor that had a fat black plug or
(29:02):
a fat flat black item on the monitor cable that
was powdered iron fair rights. 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 do a Google search and Palamar Engineers p A
(29:26):
L O M A R. Pelamar Engineers, And if he
can find his step down transformer, he needs to take
the the wires coming out of the step down transformer
and wrap them around powdered iron fair rights to service.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oops, Bill that we lost you there. Thank you. I
do want 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 check
(30:08):
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. Thank you,
Sorry we lost you there. Let's go to Lynn. Lynn.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
Welcome, Hi Gary, enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I have a deck problem, all.
Speaker 11 (30:33):
Right, 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 is called one Time and
(30:55):
I use that 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
(31:16):
latex stain. So 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
(31:38):
really hot, we put this stain on and it looked terrific.
You should see it now. My wife could take her
finger now and go down on those boards and it
just flakes right off.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah I don't.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
I probably screwed up, but.
Speaker 12 (31:59):
I well, I guess, yeah, well the one Time would,
and it's it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful product.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
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 wood
has a ton of pluses. The negatives are it's a
very sensitive product and a very unique product, which makes
(32:38):
it so good, and there's limitations to it, and not
everybody picks up on the limitations. Okay, a couple of
the limitations. I'll tell you One is it needs it.
It is neither water based nor oil base. It is
a liquid solid. It does not dry. It cures. It
(33:01):
cures by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, which makes
it continue to penetrate. It's like it continues to be alive.
So when the surface starts getting like it's worn or old,
and that's usually seven years, which is a tremendous lifespan,
(33:24):
the only thing you can use to recoat that deck
is one time wood because it starts at the top
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 sailor, it can only
(33:48):
go so far, and it's going to run into that
one time wood and it's not going to get full penetration,
whereas if the one time would is applied as a
secondary coat, it will kind of team up and continue
to penetrate through the wood with it. So I'm sure,
(34:08):
well I can tell you what I.
Speaker 11 (34:11):
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 (34:31):
Well, since it's on the surface, and I'm assuming you
used a semi transparent or did you use a solid stain?
Speaker 11 (34:40):
No semi transparent?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Okay, So a 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've got
to strips of surface to that with a deck stripper,
(35:05):
And once you remove that, then then you're going to
have to put the one time wood stain on that.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
So I should not use. I mean, I use. I
don't know if it's okay to say the name of
the yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, yeah, because yeah, I mean, and there's something 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. It may have been a time you
(35:43):
didn't see it. It's on the cairn, but it's like
it's a marriage. Once you put that on there, you're
going to 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 with it. It'll give you great service.
(36:05):
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 11 (36:23):
So what do I use to strip it?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
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 to you need to remove that
(36:48):
new sealer, and you need to open up the pores,
and you need to apply with one time wood.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
Can you still buy the one time wood?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yea, As far as I know, I haven't talked to
him for several years. I think it was just one
timewouod 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
(37:21):
in the Rush Cedar shingle business also, that's actually where
its origin was.
Speaker 11 (37:30):
Well, I guess I can schedule the month of July
for the deck.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Am I still your friend?
Speaker 12 (37:41):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (37:42):
Hey, everybody calls you to sell us the truth, whether
we like it or not.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
There you go. Hey, thanks a lot, Eric, all right,
good luck to thank you. I appreciate it. All right,
We'll take you a little break, come back, get some
more questions answered. Our phone numbers eight eight two three, eight,
two five five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
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about an hour. There you go. Danny takes care of that. Yes, sir,
our phone number is eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Let's go to David David welcome, Hey David.
Speaker 13 (41:42):
Yes, yes, we have all wood flooring and we've got
high traffic wear spots.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Okay, how do you take care of that? Bring them
back to life?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Well, the question is 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
(42:18):
cleaner and refinisher that you can wipe on in It
kind of hides the traffic spot. 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
(42:42):
can not remove 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
(43:02):
and six hundred uh, you know, grit paper, and you're
just going over the floor scuffing it and then reapplying
a yourthane on there. And the the next one is
if it's really worn through the your thane or through
the varnish and through the stain and into the wood,
(43:23):
the only way you bring it back to life is
you stand the whole floor down, restain and revarnish.
Speaker 13 (43:30):
So there's even even the areas that look very good.
H You'll never imagine that's all everything a match and
not that not the repair not stand out.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It will never match because what happens, and especially with
windows in our house, is that that that that stain fades,
it bleaches out. And even if you had the same
exist that color of stain in the exact same can
(44:05):
that they 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
(44:26):
that's the case, I would go with two coats of
a varnish or two coats of a euthane 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 to follow up question, I'll
catch you on the other side of the hour. Otherwise,
(44:47):
thank you for the call. We'll continue with your calls.
You're at home with Gary.
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