Gary Sullivan 6/1/2025 Hour 3

Your calls, tips and questions with Gary.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, it's the weekend Welcome at home with Gary Sullivan
and talking about your home projects. We all have a few,
that's for sure. The list continues to grow. Take a
look at that garage too, Need a little organizing, need
a little help on that floor. I know I say
it all the time, but it is kind of the
entry way to a lot of our homes now. And

(00:48):
you see the ads with garages and storage and great
floor coatings and things like that. Might be something you
want to consider, might be something you want to consider
doing yourself. We can talk you through that project. And
of course it is deck cleaning and decks, ceiling weather.

(01:09):
I had a call or actually I think it was
an email, and somebody was asking me how long does
deck seilers last? I mean, I think I'm doing this
like every other year. And that's a good question because
there's a lot of well, there's a lot of things
that can play into that. Number one is where is

(01:33):
the deck facing? And that's something to consider if you're
thinking about putting a deck on your home, you know
where what's the best facing of that deck? Man? Can
we turn it a little bit, Maybe we can have
a little walkway or something, because if it's a west
or southwest facing, it's going to be hot. If it's

(01:56):
a north and northeast facing, it's probably gonna be a
little little bit more comfortable, but it could very well
be you know, it might be a deck you got
to clean more often just because it doesn't have that
hot afternoon sun. But kind of picking out how long
a sealer's going to last, the positioning that makes a

(02:18):
play in it, whether it's a solvent based or whether
it's a latex. A latex or water base that's going
to hold up to the sun a little bit better
than a solvent. The water bases also can be applied
quicker after you clean the deck than a solvent, you know,
a difference between two hours and two days. But a

(02:42):
solvent kind of bites into the wood a little deeper.
So there's a lot of variables there, and just like
when can I see a new deck, there's a lot
of variables. Again, it depends what direction it's facing, how
long it's setting in the store. So if you got
a question on that, happy to chat about it again.

(03:03):
It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five,
And let's go to the phones. We got Silvano Savanna.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Welcome, good morning, sir. N iced to talk to you
than you. I we got a main air condition UNI
install like five years and a half ago and everything's
in good. But every year when we start the system,
we could we could feel a smell like that dampness,

(03:31):
moist coming from the feeling. That's where the output come.
So I went to the attic. The attic is a
small attic and that's where the air bax is in
sold and the dogs coming out of the out of
the bag. I noticed that some of them have what
I need. Said, hmm, that's probably what the problem is.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
This year, last month I hire another company, not the
same company that I installed the unit, to do the service,
the winter service. I asked the guy, listen, can you
tell me give me an idea? And he went to
the attic and he say, oh, I know what it is.
The thing is they were supposed on in sold rate
number eight DUTs. I don't know what is that, you say.

(04:19):
And then and the one they are on right now
are number six. They are lower. So because of that,
the the insulation is lower, is not eight or higher.
You are getting a lot of noise into the Dutch
and and and accumulating war in it. So I was saying,
I don't know whether that's true or pause. You know,

(04:41):
I want I want to make sure we bore I
spend money. Who's going to cost me a couple of
thousand dollars? Who knew dots in the Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, well I I don't really know the answer to that,
to be honest with you. But if there was there
standing water in the ductwork itself.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, when you when you when you leave the duck
the ally on the floor level before they hit, you know,
they you.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Could see water inside.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
All right.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
So he's saying that the size of the duckwork should
be six inch and you got eight inch? Is that?
Is that the story?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
The not a size the I think it is the
insulation rating.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Hmm, yeah, well I it's reasonable. I mean it's reasonable. Okay,
I'm not I don't know what you mean by a
rating six or a rating eight, to be honest, there
may be some rating on duckwork that I'm not familiar with.
But I can tell you if if the if if

(05:52):
the rating would be low. In other words, it's not
insulated enough. When you think think about it. That makes
sense because you're pushing cold air through a duck that
is not insulated, and it's in an attic, so it's
that pipe is hot, Okay, so it's warm, yeah, and

(06:19):
so you get condensation. So it squeezes that moisture out
of that air, and you would get moisture which would
be obviously sitting in the duckwork. When you first started
talking about it, what I was guessing you were going

(06:39):
to say is, there is when your air conditioner's bringing
that air over the coils, it's pulling moisture out and
it creates condensation in the air handler, and it goes
into an area that goes to a pipe, and there's
a drainage pipe and sometimes those get claw that water

(07:01):
spills out into the pan and it gets moldy. That's
what I thought you were going to say. But that
same thing can occur in the duck work, So you know,
I would say it's a possibility. If you're not sure,
what I would do is I would go back to
my you know, it doesn't hurt to get a couple
quotes right, and go back to my original person and say, listen,

(07:26):
this is a really big problem. I've got water in
my duckwork. You installed this five years ago. I don't
know what's going on. I had a company coming and
tell me my duckwork wasn't insulaid well enough. You know what,
say you?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, Oh that's a good idea yet.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
So yeah, that's that's probably the position I would take.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Okay, that was a good thing. Thank you anymore, that
was a big help.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, very good glad to help. Thank you, take care,
bye bye, all right again, it's an eight hundred and
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at it we go eighteen minutes after the top of
the air. Happy to take your calls. We're talking home
improvement and It'say eight hundred and eight two three eighty
two five five David, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Hey, I've been enjoying the show, and I really liked
your last guests. As a matter of fact, I'm calling
you with some questions about I'm in the planning stages
of building a house. It's going to be a coastal
home and kind of a remote area where you see
deer and raccoons and critters. And I've been going back
and forth and whether I wanted to go with the

(11:36):
whole house encapsulation or you know, more of a traditional attic,
you know, with with sinslation and top its events and
all that, and he pushed me over the edge. I'm
definitely going to go with the whole house en capitulation.
Then I want to have to have top events and
I I won't have to worry about him getting it
that way. I know they still try and get.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
In, so sure, sure, no, that's a good point, but
we're seeing a lot of it. Whole house encapsulation actually
has been around for probably fifteen twenty years, but in
the last ten years, last even five years, I think,
is really getting a lot of traction, especially in the southeast, David.
So you're probably in the the perfect climate to consider that,

(12:20):
and especially that yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Community, a lot of heat and unfortunately a lot of hurricanes.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Right right, and if your air conditioner or your air
handler is up in the attic, all the more to
consider putting a whole house encapsulation in there and just
letting it be a conditioned space. It'll be more economical
for energy costs. So I think you're making the right move.

(12:49):
I think that's.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Agree that I appreciate that. And that brings me to
my second question. If you got the time, it's not
too difficult, and I think a lot of your views
would appreciate this too. I'm going to get building. It's
a skinny lot, so I'm going to be building kind
of a tall, skinny house. It's going to be on still.
Like I said, it's right on the water and hurricane zone,
and it's going to be kind of what they not

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kind of. They call it a reverse floor plan, so
to enjoy the view at its utmost, I'm going to
have the kitchen, living area and master bedroom on the
uppermost floor, and one floor below that, I'm going to
have two more bedrooms and another bath and you know,
probably a utility room with washer dry stuff like that.
And then the bottom space is going to be wide open,

(13:32):
you know, so the water hopefully there won't be any
but so that you know what I'm saying, parking.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Only down there.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
And I'm thinking about I'm debating on whether to go
with the mini splits, maybe two or three mini splits,
or to get the more again traditional you know, venting
and air conditioning unit. Like you said, I could put
some of the air handler stuff up in the attic
with the all them encapsulation.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
But since the.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Majority of my life and time and guests will be
spent upstairs. The kids, there's no kids involved. They're gone,
you know what I mean. They might come some, but
you know, I won't be worrying about air conditioning the
lower level. It's mainly the upper LEVELM now definitely want
to keep the humidity down and keep it comfortable down there.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
But I thought maybe a mini split. And I know
they have different dual zones and stuff for a whole home.
I just kind of wanted your feedback. It's going to
be around two thousand square feet, not very big, maybe
a little less than two thousand square feet, maybe just
a little bit more. And like I said, a toss
any house with two living areas, do you think if
you were designing that house, do you think you would

(14:38):
really seriously consider mini splits or do you think you
can go with the more traditional don't work and you know,
central AC or what would your feedback.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Be on that?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, my feedback is this I would definitely do one
or the other. In other words, when we talked about
zone heating and cooling and the way you're living, it's
a classic for zone cooling. I mean, you don't want
to cool that, you know, that first floor, second floor

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as you call it, if nobody's gonna be there most
of the time and heat rises, so it'll stay a
little cool by itself, cooler air synks and you know,
if you had zone cooling, that would be beneficial. And
it's absolutely ideal for a mini split system.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
And from a cost standpoint on installation of one or
the other, I have not investigated. And also for you know,
from a standpoint of energy consumption from a mini split,
you're probably all electric there on both.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, I'm going to be all electric.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah, gas isn't even available.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, that's what I thought, And so that would be
it would be interested to, uh, you know, get the
energy analysis on both systems just to see, you know,
how they reflect and the cost of installation. Now, mini split,
you know you're not going to have as you know,
it's kind of like your own personal cooling, you know,

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from a duct standpoint where that's gonna you're gonna be
some savings there. So so that's kind of a cheap
answer in a way, but the answer really is you
got to do one or the other. Don't just put
a regular system in without the sound cooling. Uh. And
then from that standpoint you can do a cost comparison
on energy efficiency and cost.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
And again, I know you haven't done the research, and
you're telling me to do some more.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Research, which is good advice.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
In your overall opinion, do you think that the men
split would be more expensive or less expensive to maintain?
Because I know, you know, I've had my AC in
my in my current house go out, you know, and
now I've got a central AC with a you know,
a non I've got the top events and I've got
the more traditional house built in like sixty five, you know, right,

(16:57):
it's pretty traditional. And when those two boy, it's a
it's a blow, you know. And they're saying, now, you know,
when I told them my unit was seventeen years old,
They're like, oh, well that's super old, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, anymore it is. I think your mini split is
probably going to be more, but it's going to have
longer longevity.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Okay, well that's kind of what I was thinking. Too,
but you know, I was wanted to some more back
on it.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
So yeah, you wouldn't have a big.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
A big strong opinion one way or the other. Just
go with one system or the other and go with
his own.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I think what you're most interested in is the versatility,
and I think that's real important. As far as the efficiencies,
I just don't have that number off the top of
my head or installation, and I think those would be
relatively easy to get. Your contractors shouldn't be able to,
you know, because a lot of them will do both,

(17:55):
and they should be able to line that out for you.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Oh yeah, dude, the guy I'm walking with just definitely hey,
he'll do both, and and he's trying not to push
me one way or the other because if I'm not
happy off you know.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Right right.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah, I really enjoyed the show, and I enjoyed your
last guest, and uh so let someone else get on
and after question.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
All right, David, thank you much. I appreciate that. Yeah,
the yeah, boy, that's I'd love the mini split systems
and they're very popular, especially where he's at and what
they're using, and I think that might be the way
I'm leaning. But they are usually more expensive. There is

(18:38):
a longevity to them. Also, I'd be real interested in
kind of doing that comparison. But some of the zone
heating and cooling used to be one of my biggest
pet peeves. We have zone heating and cooling in our cars.
The passenger has their past, their their their settings, driver

(19:00):
has the settings. People in the back of their settings.
And yet our homes, in most cases, we don't have
zone heating and cooling. And he's talking about where he's
at in the Midwest, I'm familiar with the bedrooms on
the upstairs are almost notoriously hotter or colder than the

(19:21):
rest of the house or where the thermostat is. And
putting zone heating and cooling in a house like that
is is a big, a big step in terms of
comfort throughout that house and something that should be considered
or at least talked about and just improve the overall
comfort of that home. All right, Terry, you'll be up

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first if you'd like to join us. It's eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five That home with
Gary Sullivan.

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And by the way, there's a couple of lines open.
If you've been trying to get through, now would be
a good time. It's eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Just go ahead and grab a line. Daniel,
get you on, Terry, Welcome.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
Hi. We have a Baker barn and last year, at
the end of the season, I was pulling up some
dandelion roots around the barn, which is a landscape, and
my tool slipped in. It went into the bottom base
of which is a wood piece of wood that hasn't said.

(23:16):
That's like a decorative piece that he just put on,
so I'm not worried about replacing that. But I started
tapping around with my tool and the bottom of the
bag of barn is sauce, the wood at the bottom,
which concerns me.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
So the tool slipped, we hurt the decorative wood on
the outside. But then you tapped around and what part
is rotten behind that trim?

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (23:42):
Yes, because the trim took out a little bit like
an inch or two and then the barn. So it's
the wood on the barn itself.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, so here's the big question it might be hard
to answer, is how rotted is that wood and how
thick is it and the saw and all that, because
that's going to come into play.

Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:04):
I stopped as soon as I felt that being soft
because I didn't know what to do. So now that
the season's warm again, I can investigate more. But yeah,
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, so let me just kind of give you kind
of the one oh one on wood patches. Okay, so
most wood patches are for small pieces and they're kind
of superficial. A lot of the wood fillers and patches
you'll find in stores are just that they're kind of

(24:37):
a grain filler. They're almost like like spackling compound for wood.
All Right, that's probably not going to be what you're
going to need. If it's kind of like a wood
siding or a column or something along those lines, it'll
probably be a little larger patch. And there's a special

(24:59):
patch for that. It's made by Abatron and it's Abitron.
Dot Com is where you look at these different products.
So it's a B A T R. O n dot
com and they have a kind of called wood epos
And what that is is that isn't apoxy wood patch.

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It's not a grain filler. It's actually like if you
had a bottom of a wood column that had rotted,
you could actually make a patch the size of a
softball where you could actually form it around and fill
in there and make that patch. You can sculpt it,
you can work with it, you can drill it, you

(25:44):
can send it, you can paint it. So it's it's
a very versatile, good, strong product. Now they also have
a companion product which would be nice. And I'm just
telling you this because you'll know what to do when
you find out. You know, at what point does the
wood become soft, at what point does it become solid? Again,

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there's a companion product of the wood epox called liquid wood. Okay,
liquid wood is like a tongue oil and when it's
put on compromised wood, it hardens the wood fibers. So
you could use that two ways. You could use that.

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If it's a large rotted area, you could scrape out
some of the real loose rotted wood. You could put
the liquid wood in. It would harden it and it
would create a base for the wood epox patch or
if it's just superficial on the surface rot in. In
other word, you're sticking a scratch all into it and

(26:51):
it's only going in a little bit, and then you're
hitting hardwood. You could use that liquid wood over the
mildly rotted surface wood and it will harden it and
you can just leave it alone or use a wood
filler over it.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
Great, all right, thank.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
You, all right, you bet, thank you, Terry, take care,
good luck. All right, and let's go to Mike. Mike.

Speaker 9 (27:17):
Welcome, Yes, sir, how are you doing doing good?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Thanks?

Speaker 9 (27:22):
I just got a quick question for you. I have
a live down here in Jacksonville. So it's really not
a porch. It's just a walkway that's going up to
the to the front door. The builder put a coating down.
It almost looks like a like a knockdown ceiling, like
a cool decking.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Okay, go around a pool, okay, but it.

Speaker 9 (27:40):
Needs to be redone like as far as a coating
put on it. I just want to know what you
would recommend and does any prep work need to be done.
It's not peeling up or anything.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, yeah, so this coating is it a sementatious coating.
If I can use a phrase, it would like look
like stuck on top sidewalk or something like that, like
a wash correct. Okay, all right, So it's about as
maybe a little bit thicker than a paint coating. It's
got a little texture to it, and we're replacing it

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or we're covering it up because.

Speaker 9 (28:15):
It's it just needs to be the paints.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
I'm not saying it's come off.

Speaker 9 (28:20):
It's this colored. It's because of the sun. So it's faded.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
So it's faded. Okay, So what do you want it
to look like? What do you want to do? I mean,
is painting it an option?

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (28:34):
I didn't know if there was like a good paint
to put down. I mean that the texture can still
stay there. I just want to paint to put down
so it's not peeling up.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah. Yeah. So here's the thing. On any kind of
paint that's on concrete, the directions are going to say
remove existing coding. Okay, I'm telling you that, and then
I'm gonna give you a couple options. Okay. On regular
concrete paint, you could put in a little sand or

(29:09):
there's one called shark grip a little texture to make
it slip resistant, because when it's painted, you're sealing that
and it could get slippery and rain. I'm just giving
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you know Bear, you know Pittsburgh Paint, say all make

(29:32):
a exterior concrete paint, so you could. You could certainly
do that, but you asked for my recommendations. There is
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it's thin, I would just grind that off. You could
probably grind. You can rent a grinder and grind that

(30:15):
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(30:36):
You put two coats on it. It probably comes in
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Either one of work. Either one is okay for outdoors.
There's a ceiler that could be put on it. It
would be slip resistant, it would be more decorative than

(30:59):
just a plan paint. It can look like like I said,
there's like ten different colors. It almost looks like a
Korean countertop. So you can get a beige when you
get a blue one if you want. I mean, you
know they got different colors, gray, whatever. So why don't
you take a look at that website, take a look
at the colors, see how you feel about that. Watch

(31:21):
the videos on applications. Pretty easy, but I think it
would require you to remove that finish or I would
recommend that you remove that finish and you'd probably the
long jevy that's probably about fifteen years okay.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
So I think it's that nick box store or you
got you.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Gotta get it online. It's very much a specialty product.
You can get it on home d Boat home depot online.
You can get it, I think lows online. You can
get it at Dice Coatings online.

Speaker 9 (31:56):
Okay, so I'll check out the website.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Very good, do so? Let me know how it turns out.
I think it's gonna look pretty nice. I think that
the paint has a couple First of all, it is paint.
It is an on concrete. If it isn't a you know,
maybe a garage or something or be all right, I
just on a walkway going right up to the house.

(32:19):
I don't know. I think this Cody's just gonna wear better,
is gonna be more attractive, and I think you'll be
ahead of the game. All right, let's take a break, Carl.
You'll be up first. You can grab a line. Then
we're gonna wrap things up for the weekend. You're at
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Speaker 1 (35:25):
All right, back at it we go. We're about thirteen
minutes from the top of there. Let's get back to
the phones. We've got Carl, Carl, welcome, Thank you, sir,
thank you. How can we help you?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I'm gonna I live in a home that was built
in eighty five. We're getting ended about twenty years and
within the next twenty four twenty four months were playing
on moving. The question I have is it cost sufficient
for us to put insulated siding on it? Or no
insulation or don't bother but it and all them the
new buyer deal with it.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, I obviously, if you're doing the sighting of your
house and you're going to invest in that, you know,
you got to know what that cost is and you're
not probably going to I mean, real estate markets are
different all the time. You're not you're probably not going
to cover the cost of that. But then again, houses

(36:24):
are selling so fast now, houses are still selling without
home inspections. You know, if you put new sighting on,
it's going to help sell your house, right because the
curb appeal is going to be dramatic, So there's an
advantage there. Go ahead and right now it.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
Has a right now it has some type of fiberboard
fighting or hardboard sighting on what it has it's vertical
stripes as opposed to horizontal right right, Well.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I I don't know how to answer that, you know,
I mean, did you get a cost on it, like
what you know? Out to ten thousand bucks?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Maybe I got a call done it, but it's way
more than that.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, is it? Okay? So why would you put it
on now if you're going to sell it in two years?
What's your main focus to help sell the house? Yes, sir, Yeah,
well it will help sell the house. The only thing
I'm saying a question mark is right now people are
buying all kinds of things, right. I used to laugh

(37:29):
when I would see people side the house after they
had the house on sale, and there was one up
the street from me. I always tell a story because
and back then the real estate market's different than it
is now, okay. And it was an old kind of
a salt box house. It had blackwood siding. It was
an ugly house. And they put it up for sale

(37:52):
and it's sat and it's sat, and it's sat. It's sat,
and they never sold it. And the next thing I know,
they put in new windows and they put in a
like a Williamsburg Blues sighting and it's sold in a week.
So that investment paid for that. Now today's real estate market,

(38:14):
you read the same things I read, Carl. You know,
people put a house for sale depending on locations. Still location, location, location,
And you know, I have a friend they put a
house up for sale. They had twelve people. Twelve people
looked at that house the first day and they sold it.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
So it depends. So it depends. I mean, you know,
it'll certainly help sell your house, will you get more
money for them for it. Probably probably will you get
all of it?

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Maybe not. Probably the best thing to do if you
really want to maybe knock down a little bit more
on an opinion is talk to if you know a realtor,
get their opinion on it. It will help sell the home. Now,
whether you get fifty percent of that investment back seventy percent,

(39:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Okay, what do we think about insulation or none? Insulation?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well, the sight So how old's the house?

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Eighty five? I mean five years old?

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Five?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
So you got insulation in the walls, right, maybe, I
think so, I don't know. So after about seventy eight
there was insulation put in walls, so you already have
insulation in the walls. An insulated sighting will make the
sighting look better because it will look more stout, it'll

(39:45):
look more like a wood sighting. It won't warp, it
won't twist, it won't you won't be able to see.
This seems as much. And if you got your bid
and it's more net, is that the bid for the
insulated sighting? Yes, sir, yeah, so you I would say,
if you just want to dress it up for cosmetic

(40:08):
appeal to help sell the house, I probably would put
in uninsulaated sighting because that new sighting is gonna, you know,
look good. It's gonna be straight, it's not gonna warp.
It's you know, you don't need the insulation. I don't
think so I would probably not, and it's gonna be

(40:29):
significantly less expensive.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Yeah, I don't think the insulation that helped it. You
tell it because I mean, because I think the one
is on my biggest problem.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
And well, I'll tell you when I used to look
at houses, I would always focus on the windows and
the insulation. And again, you know, in nineteen eighty five,
they were building homes with insulation in the walls. You
could probably look up what the Department of Energy in
our zone is is to find out what it recommended

(41:03):
our value is and then if it's fiberglass insulation, it's
about two point five. It equals an R one. And
right now they're recommending the Department of Energy for our
zone as an R nineteen. So you know you probably
don't have that, but you probably have R thirteen or
R fifteen in that wall.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Okay, okay, make real quick question, a different question. I'm sorry,
what about an uneven driveway or cracked driveway a concrete Yes,
the six panel driveway. Two of the panels near the
bottom of the hills, the bottom of the driveway are
kind of damaged a little bit.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Well, is any of the panels or sections sinking or settling?

Speaker 2 (41:49):
No?

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Sair, So there's in How big are those cracks in
terms of wid.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Two two and a half? It's kind of like they
like a triangle.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
So yeah, well, so what are you thinking about replacing that?

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah? I don't want to replace them. I just want
to fix those.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Okay, Well, why don't we do that? And how wide
is that crack? Again?

Speaker 3 (42:17):
It's about two foot wide and one foot tall, but
it's like there it's a triangle.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, but the crack itself in that triangle? How wide
is that? Like a quarter inch?

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Oh no, it's not a crack. I'm sorry, it's just
a crumbled up d piece of driveway.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Well, that's going to be hard to patch if it's
crumbled up. I mean we can dig that out and
then put in a it's just going to be hot
half to see it. I mean you can't really surface
coated because it is crumbling. So you know, you get
into the integrity of it. You could get as clean

(42:59):
as you can on the surface and put a coating
over it, like a vinyl concrete patcher, which you can
coat up to a half an inch. If that would work,
you know, you could skim coat that whole area, get it,
you know, get the loose pebbles off, get to dust,
get to dirt, get all that off there. And if

(43:20):
it's not deeper than a half inch, you could put
a vinyl concrete patch on it. It may match the concrete,
it may be a little different color. If it's a
different color, you can come back with a resurfacer and
recoat the surface of the apron.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Okay, But if it's not more than half inch deep.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Okay, well, and I think that's the way I go.
But always remember when you're patching that you're patching an
area that isn't stable or it wouldn't have cracked to
begin with. So if it stabilized itself, you're fine. If
it didn't, you know, it too will crack up. A

(44:02):
very good Thank you much, I appreciate it. We did
have one more caller talking about metal roofing painting that yes,
there are different types of metal roofing barn paints. You
can get a water based paint that is a flexible
you can get in the Last Americ coating. If you
go to your Sherman Williams store, I'm sure they'll probably

(44:24):
recommend the Last American roof coating. That's going to be
your best bet. But a good grade direct metal paint
would work fine. I'm sure they'll be able to help
you with that. All right, Danny Boy, thank you very much.
Busy weekend, kind of fun and appreciate all your help.
Good Lord, willing back next weekend for more at Home
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