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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome now number two at Home with Gary Selvin.
Another warm day, not just as hot as it was
earlier in the week, but we can get a few
things done on the outside of the home. Pay attention
to the product you're.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Using, make sure you check what the limitations are.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Or heat a direct sunlight, there's a certainly a possibility
that they won't be quite as effective, so you'd check.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That and Greballang we'll talk about it right here on
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All right, let's get back to the phone calls.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Bottom of the hour. We're going to talk a little
bit about some pumps.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
We've had some well, we certainly had a very wet
spring in many parts of the country and now we're
into hot weather and thunderstorms and downpour. So the some
pump is the guardian of the house. And we'll be
chatting with our friends from Zola for about ten to
fifteen minutes. Maybe give you some tips on check and
making surance, doing the job it's supposed to be doing.
(01:46):
All right, let's go to Hank. Hank welcome. Oh, Jim,
I'm sorry, Jim welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Hey, I got a question on shock washing the asphalt
three cab roof about twenty years old. It's uh, it's
not bad. I had over the years. I've sprinkled the
moss stuff up on the ridge sign and now all that.
(02:17):
But I'm looking for a soft wash, and I'm running
chemicals and pressure that they use and any well, I'll
tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So, what do you have under you got black streaks?
Is that what you have?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Just uh, I guess the moss here and there pretty much.
That's it. It's dead now. But like a gone and
certain person, I don't want come back, you know, or
well back there in Spain.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
If the moss is dead, gym moss actually has roots, okay,
and you've probably seen that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And when it dies, those.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Roots begin to decompose. Was in the moss should come
off in a dead state off the roof. So you know,
I'm always a little nervous about telling anybody use any
kind of pressure on a three tab shingle roof.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
How old is that roof? Twenty years? Yeah, so you know,
if you.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So well what I would use, I'll tell you what
I would use, okay, and then I'll tell you what
sounds like you want to use. There's a product called
wet and Forget. I don't know if you're familiar with
that or not.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I use that last spring, and it turned it brand
and they killed the moss correct.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And it's it's pretty much all washed off and whatnot.
But there's some some hangars are on it, and I
liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Gone. Yeah, well maybe it's.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So when whenever you have moss, unlike the streaks of
of fungus and algae and things like that, moss will
sometimes take you know, a couple of applications. Uh, if
it were me and it's a complete kill, so that
moss on a complete kill, it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Will decompose and fall off. That's what I would use.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Now, if you want to use uh a product that
is going to be a soft wash to remove that,
you can use a pressure washer, but you don't want
to use more than six hundred PSI on the on
the roof itself. A lot your pressure washers, you know,
are you know twenty five hundred three thousand, you would
(04:51):
want like a little electric.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
One and uh, I love with a contractor to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So well check with the roofer.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean like I've checked use and whatnot, and I'm
getting from different outfits and I'm getting just these guys
used bleach, and I do want to use bleach. And
these guys use some other stuff and this guy uses
they all use different stuff. I want to stay away
from the bleaches.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, bleach isn't a complete kill. I wouldn't use bleach either.
It's not really safe. If you get overspray on vegetation
again a again that wet and forget. I've I've seen
it used on roofs that were totally covered. Now it
might take a couple of applications, but eventually that stuff
you're gonna you're going to control it with that, and
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you're going to leave a residue on there too. It's
not going to prevent but it'll slow down the regrowth
of it because your environment's really shown you know that
it's going to grow.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So it's it's going to grow back.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But don't you get a complete kill with a wedding
forgetting you respray that you can get you know, a
year or two before you got to respray it again.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, that's what I would use. There are some
soft washed companies out there that can do that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean, that's a big franchise business right now, I said, Rufer,
But maybe you know, check with one of these American
wash and things like that. I've seen them tested on houses,
not with moss, but you know, just getting that black
film off window casings and things like that. I mean,
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it did a good job and it would certainly not
hurt the roof, which is would be my number one
concern quite honestly with a twenty year three tab shingle.
So that's that would be again that went and forget
it's a hose end thing. Just spray the dickens out
(06:58):
of it. Give it six weeks and I'd spray it
again and be done with it. It should be in
good shape, all right. Let's get to Mike, Mike, welcome.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Good morning, and a calif curb all the way around
the house and it's staying badly with mode and mildew
and looking for the best way to clean that. I
heard you say spraying and forget it, and I've used
that before, and it had a couple of different instructions
on it. One says spray it and let it set,
and the other instruction on the bottle says spray it
and then you can scrub it and then it rents
(07:31):
it off. So I'm looking for the best way to
clean it. Number one, I know I have to get
the mold and mildew off permanently before I just get it,
get it nice and clean. And then the second part
is do you recommend shining it with a shellac after
I have it cleaned?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And what's this song? I'm sorry I missed the first word.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
It's a California curb.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Okay, okay, Well, so I just recommend and talking to
that fella.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I was talking about a product called wet infriget, which
is there is a product out there called spray and forget.
So the wet and forget is applied to the house
and it's not scrubbed, and it takes I would say,
six weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It works with the sun, it works with rain. It
stays active and it'll clean it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And it will have a residue where it thwarts the
regrowth of that mold and mildew. So that would be
certainly one you could use if if you were going
to scrub that there is a product you know, and
you want to get it done and clean and like
(08:48):
right away. For years I've mentioned like an oxygenated bleach,
which is a crystal that's mixed with water. Sometimes it's
a liquid. You would spray that on, let it sit
about ten minutes, respray and scrub and rinse. Okay, So
you could use either one of those products. One gives
(09:10):
you immediate gratification, but you got to work for it.
The other one you're gonna have to wait for.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It to work.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Okay, I see that, And would you recommend afro having
it clean and then letting it dry. Add some kind
of shellact. It's a red California curb. Would you recommend
putting maybe a shellac on it, just to kind of
give it a little pop?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, if you shell act, that's a coating and it
doesn't have much UV resistance to the sun, so it
will turn yellow and probably peel.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Ooh, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Okay, Yeah, So if you were going to put some
protect it on there, I would probably, I guess I
would look at a marine your thing or a spa
your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Again, it's a coating, but it as some UV resistance
to it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Certainly the marine erthane and a spar It's not like
a polyurethane or shellac or even a varney. Shit's much more.
It can stand up to the sun. Another option is
even using like a wood deck sealer, okay, which is
a penetrant, so if it starts looking tired, you can
(10:26):
just simply clean and reapply.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Well okay, Well, thank you Gary, all right, hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right, take a break, we'll come back and Amus
you'll be up first. We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (11:14):
All right, talking a little home improvement and I'd welcome
your calls as we chat about different projects. And I
was talking about just the importance of reading instructions and
knowing expectations, visiting websites.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Muld mildew residues and things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
There's a lot of different products out there that can
be relatively well. Every product and whether it's that or
even deck sealers. Now there's such a proliferation of some
very good products. But somebody told me, and it was
thirty years ago, maybe forty years ago. It goes just
from here ago. There's no perfect product. And some cases
(12:00):
I really agree with that there's there. It's like the
Ying and the Yang. It's got some very good features.
Oh this is what you're giving up. It's got some
very great features, but it doesn't stand up to the sun.
So really investigating and chatting about it and doing a
little research on what you want to use is the key.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
All right, let's go to amos amos.
Speaker 10 (12:21):
Welcome, Hey Gary. First off, great Joe, A lot of
good tips every weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
So I have a deck that was built a year ago.
I haven't done anything with it, right, they said, wait
a year So I'm gonna I'm gonna powerwash it and
then I'm gonna throw some Compsons on it. But I
may want to put a like, I like coating, some
type of maybe a euthane on there, or I like
(12:51):
something uh something else to bring out the wood colors.
So do they make products that are like uh a
eurothane and a uh a water proof But would you
just would you just say go with waterproofing and then
it's stay well.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Waterproofing and a protecting and a stain is usually all
in one. So if you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Use a deck sealer regardless of brand, and then come
back and put a eurothane coating on it, first of all,
if you use like a polyurethane and you put that
over that coating, it has no UV resistance and that
stuff will turn yellow and peel off in a year.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
So so so what would you what would you what
would you recommend just go ahead use a water comped
like a water sealer. Well, I guess heard you mentioned
about a deck kind of a previous collar about a deck.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, Well, let me ask you a couple of questions.
Is this pressure treated wood deck?
Speaker 10 (13:57):
No, it's just it's it's it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's not pressure treated. Would what type of wood is
on there?
Speaker 10 (14:04):
It's just uh, just regular wood that we bought. Okay, Okay,
So so now we want to water water proof because
it's been a year, so it's been weathered.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So why don't you have to wait a year? If
it's not pressure.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Treated, That's what I was told.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So you sure that's not pressure treated?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, if it's not pressure treated, I'm painted, Okay. I
mean I'd use a portion deck.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Paint on the floor, and I would if you got
reds and spindles, I would use like a the krillic
house paint.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
So if it was pressure treated, what would I use?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
If it was pressure treated, then you would not do
what I just said. That's why I kind of leaning
on you here.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So you would have choices.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You would have deck stains that are or water base.
You have some in some states where it's oil base.
You have some that's a modified acrylic and oil. So
they all have their pluses. The acrylics or water bases
are gonna hold up best of the sun. So if
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it's a sunny location, I would definitely use that. A
really good brand name on that would be called Defied
the EFY if you were if you had like a
shady location, you could use the modified.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oil or the acrylic. The acrylics.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The downside of acrylics is they don't penetrate as well
as an oil, so you have to make sure even
though it's nothing's been done to it, it's sat there
for a year, you got to use a deck cleaner
and a deck brightener to open up the pores of
the wood so that you know it has something to
bite onto.
Speaker 10 (15:59):
That's corret right, Okay, very good, all right, good, I
appreciate your health.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you, you bet bye bye.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Um.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
This is.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Really you got to know exactly ask questions again, and
that's fine. I wish I wish he had all the
information because it's really he's gonna be very disappointed if
he thinks it's not pressure treated and he goes this way,
and it is pressure treating.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He went that way.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They're two different things. And and Thompson's, as in many lines,
they make a variety of good, better, best, excellent. I'm
not saying it's not a good product, but some of
the products that you're gonna pick up. I mean, you
can buy a DEXs ealer for fifteen dollars a gallon
or fifty dollars a gallon. What do you think is
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gonna last longer? What do you think is gonna wear better?
What do you think is gonna stand up to the sun?
And if that isn't important, that's okay. They make, you know,
different strokes for different folks. I guess right, But we've
got to really know what we're going on and what
our expectations are. And we don't paint, and your thing
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we don't stain, and then you're thinge to deck. It's
kind of all encompassed in one product. All right, enough
of that, we're going to talk a little bit of
some pumps. Steve Hank John Joan. We will get to
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A busy, busy, busy weekend, that's for sure. Joining us
now is BJ Hentrup.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
He is with the Zalor Company, the industry leader, the
gold standard of pumps. BJ, welcome again at home with
Gary Selvin.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
How you doing Gary?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It is great to be back on with you.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Have you been I've been great.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I've been great.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It's been a weird, weird weather year. It has to
affect your business, probably in a good way.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Oh my gosh, yes, with all the rains and storms
and power outages, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
So let's talk about that scary thing in the basement
that's in the floor. Okay, okay, that's called a sum pump,
by the way, folks, And they don't last forever.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
How long does so they pump left last? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
You know, you know, it all depends on the application gary,
and excuse me, how much it's used. But we typically
say anywhere from seven to ten years as a good
lifespan of the some pump.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Okay, all right, and you're you're right down Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So you have had a lot of rain because I'm
just right up the river from you, and gosh, even
last night we had probably an inch of rain in
an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yea, yeah, I mean it's been just one of those years.
So is there maintenance on some pumps? Is there some
tips you can give us right now? If we're you know,
talking about and somebody goes, jeez, you know where that
thing is? Is there some maintenance that you need to
be done?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say there's a maintenance. You just
want to make sure that your some pump is running
and when it's called the use that it's doing its job.
So you know, every once in a while, you know,
just go down there and check on it, maybe very carefully,
just you know, make sure it's plugged in. Number one,
maybe take a you know, a little bucket of water
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and carefully put it down in there and let that
thing run. If it comes on, great, that's it's that's
what it's supposed to do and is doing this job.
So just doing some some minor things like that, just
to ensure that it's gonna work when it's called too,
is what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Boy. And I'll tell you one of the things I preached.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Gosh, we've been talking about zolor pumps for a long time,
but even before that is having a backup pump is
really critical, especially if you finished basement.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Uh, making inroads on that process of education.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah, so you are exactly right, you know, having the
some pumps great, you're some pump working is great. But
with all these storms and you know what, if you
have a power outage, right, that's when you want to
That's when you want to have a backup pump. We
offer a couple of different battery backup pumps, but the
big one for everybody to remember, it's called the aquaat
fit and it is able to be controlled and tested
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by what we call our z control app and its
Wi Fi enabled, So if your power goes out and
your primary pump isn't working, this battery backup pump will
come on and it will send you notification.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Well, that's nice to have. That's a piece on line.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah, definitely, big time.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That's a lot better than twenty thirty years ago when
it started raining really hard. I used to walk down
the basement and just kind of, you know, put my
ear to the wall. Is that thing working back there?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah? Oh god, thank goodness? Or not hearing it, I
don't know how. I was just trained it.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
It's like, you know, if it rained and I heard
it rain really hard at night, I could hear that
pump run if I really listened.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And you know, it's funny that you say that, Gary,
I do the same thing when we go down in
our basement. If I'm downstairs, you know, we're and games
or whatnot with the kiddos, and I'm like, I don't
think i've heard the pump yet. I gotta let me
make sure it's over there.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So now it notifies you on a backup pump. Kind
of talk me through that, because I still think that's
probably the most important thing we can talk about is
you know, I mean something could break on that some
pump because it's been down there for ten years and
you forgot about it and it's getting old, and or
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a power failure or you're out of town.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
What makes up a backup some pump?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yeah, so, and you bring up a good point. You
know I had mentioned earlier the power outage and the
battery power backup pump will come on. But you know
what if something else happens. What if you've got a
fifteen year old some pump that's down there and it's
finally decided to give out, you would want some backup
on that, right, And that's where also this battery backup
pump will take into a effect. It's not just for
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power outages. It's maybe if your primary pump can't keep
up because it's got sudden inflow of water from all
the rain we've been getting, or maybe it's because you're
some pump did go bad after ten, fifteen, twenty years.
This is going to be there to back it up
and use that battery, the juice from the battery to
run the backup pump.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Now you also have different kinds of batteries, correct I mean,
we're all about maintenance free living. Can you get a
maintenance free battery?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
We do offer a maintenance free battery. That's the number
one that we, you know, try to push to customers.
You know, with both batteries that we offer, we do
offer a maintenance free and then we do have one
that you would have to check once a month. But
the maintenance free is the way to go. You know,
you haven't installed by your installed you know, your contractor
your plumber, you know whomever, and it's good for three years.
(24:55):
We recommend replacing the battery every three years. But with
the maintenance free, it's exactly what it says. You don't
have to do anything with it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, you just scared me. I know my batteries more
than three years old.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You better get down there, Gary.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I know it is, I know it is, but I
also know it's working because you got different light assemblies
on pumps.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah, you're exactly right. So, especially with our five oh
eight fit, when you're looking at the charger, it'll tell
you what's going on with it. You know, you have
some red lights, green lights, yellow lights, and it'll tell
you what's going on with your system. Is your battery
good is your AC power? Good is the unit charging?
So it's got all these neat features that are built
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into our controller for the backup pump that'll tell tell
you guys what to do.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And not all people are comfortable with.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Doing a project like that, But you Ezolor pumps, you're
so respected in the plumbing field. I mean, if you
mentioned Zalor pumps to I'd have to say ninety nine
percent of the plumbers, they'll know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
You agree with that statement, Oh, Gary, yes, uh, you
know we've Zalor's been around since nineteen thirty nine doing
some pump sewage pumps, grinder pumps, dewatering pumps, all types
of pumps, controls and accessories. You know, if you go
to any plumber contractor and say the Zlar name, I
would almost bet they would know who we are and
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what our product is.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
People always want to know about well, if it floods,
insurance takes care of that, but not always.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, you're right, not always. You know, obviously you know
your your listeners would need to check with their you know,
homeowners insurance or policies and whatnot when it comes to
you know, a flooded basement. But you know what I
would say is, you know, check out what we call
the dry Basement Guarantee. It's not available in all states,
so you know, you know, you guys would check out
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check out our website, zalarpumps dot com. Go to the
drive Basement Guarantee section of that, and what very quickly,
what the drive Basement Guarantee is is when you have
a certified installer of these drive Basement Guarantee products, which
is three specific products. It's our model sixty three Triple
(27:28):
O one is the part number. It's our ten dash
fourteen to fifty maintenance free battery, and it's our five
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much you know us, you know, putting our putting our
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Speaker 2 (28:18):
Wow. So, so where does a homeowner find a certified installer?
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, so you go to our website. You can go
to drive Basement Guarantee dot Com, or you can go
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Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, Well that's that's a great that's a great, great benefit.
I mean it really is. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, well, yeah, we're we're excited about this offering again
just to show everybody, you know, we are super proud
of our product, the quality of our product, and we're
going to back it up.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, I know, one of the achilles heels of pumps
is the switch in a lot of cases, and you
guys got a great reputation on the switch being down
in your plant watching them being made one year, the
amount of testing that goes on as the pumps are made,
it's incredible, and you do a great job of.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Building them and then educating plumbers.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You created kind of a university down there where you
train plumbers out in the field.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean quality is a big
thing for us, Gary, like you said, going through our plant,
all the testing and quality that we have there in Louisville, Kentucky.
But yeah, you're right. You know we have on site
like well what you said Zalar University, we have our
Center for Excellence where we bring in plumbers and you know,
train them up on our products. Right, you know, that's
(29:47):
that's a big thing is we want to make sure
that we're training not only the plumbers that are out
there now, but we want to train these new people,
the new plumbers and contractors that are coming up. So yeah,
we're pretty proud of our facility we have.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I feel the tide's coming too where there's going to
be a lot of new people entering the trades and
the plumbing business. So your foresight, uh, coming up with
that training center was was fantastic. And I'm sure you're
busy down there all the time teaching.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh yeah, and we're we're big. We're big on teaching
and educating you know, everyone and our team there at
the center for Excellence, Dave, you know, Rob Chloe, everybody
that's that's there in the Center for Excellence. I mean
we have trainings, oh gosh, Gary, probably every week there's
somebody in there doing a training.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah. I have to get down there again.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Maybe this fall we'll make another stuff and down to
Louisville and take a look at things.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I'm always impressed whenever i'm there. Well, BJ thank you
very much. Again.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's Zalorpumps dot com, Dry Basement Guarantee dot com and
I appreciate your time on this weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
As always, it's great to talk with you. Gary, thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All right, there
you go.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It is amazing the amount of work that they do
in education and also the building of these pumps. And
it's other things too, I mean the grinder pumps, the
up flush toilet pumps. I mean, they've got a lot
of products. But it's a it's a family owned business
for generations.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
They do quite quite the job.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
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John and Joan as we go through the weekend. You're
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Speaker 2 (32:25):
Our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Feel free to grab a line, Joan Welcome.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Hi Gary, Hello, Hello, Yes, I have a weathered fence
that I want to do something with this. So it's
a tall five foot I call it the popsicles stick fence.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's the.
Speaker 11 (32:55):
It's weathered, it's pressure treated wood. But it's been probably
a year and a half or so since it's been installed.
Something needs to happen with it. Can you give me
any guidelines?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Is it gray? Is it grade out yet?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's great up, okay, all right?
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Yeah, and it gets a lot of morning and afternoon sun.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So tell me what you want it to look like.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
Well, I'd like it to be a beautiful heart ay, uh,
you know style. No, I'd like to see some of
the wood. I don't think I want to paint because
I don't want to deal with peeling in a few years. Okay, Okay,
I'd like something, but i'd like to see some wood
to it, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
All right, So you're looking a semi transparent stained, which
will give you wood tones and cedar redwood brown.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You can even go gray if you wanted, you know, entirely.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And the beautiful thing about a semi transparent stain is
it doesn't peel. It becomes part of the wood. It
soaks in and soaks into the fibers of the wood,
gives you some pigment, and it looks very natural. The
negative is it doesn't last as long as a solid
color stain or a paint. But when you restain, it
(34:24):
doesn't take you as long to do that either, because
there's no sanding and there's no scraping.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Okay, so that would be your choice. So what I
would do before we.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Pick out the stain is really concentrate on cleaning that
and maybe it won't take much at all. You can
use an oxygenated bleach, which is a crystal with water,
spray that on and scrub away, and the next step
(34:58):
I would use would be what they call a deck brightener.
A deck brightener will take that gray out of that wood,
so when you do stain it, you'll have a more
consistent color. But it'll also open up the wood fibers,
so that pressure treated wood that was pressure treated with water, which.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Is very dense and very heavy. Now the fibers open
up and it's thirsty.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It'll pull that protect it into the wood, so you
will you'll have a better product in the end. So
those two steps they're not really time consuming. That too
can just be sprayed on, allowed to soak, and you know,
hit it with a light pressure washer or even a
(35:46):
ose just to rinse it off. Once we've done that,
you're gonna have all kinds of choices and stains. The
darker colors last a little bit longer than the lighter colors.
I wouldn't recommend a fence being done and clear. It's
gonna give you about a year or two worth of life,
and that's it. I want that you can buy stay
(36:11):
that's gonna be fifty dollars a gallon. You can buy
something that's thirty dollars a gallon, and the sunny locations
that that's probably gonna be okay for three or four years.
The shady locations you might get five years out of it.
It's not gonna appeal, it's not gonna crack, it's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You know, it's just gonna fade. Sometimes people even go
longer than that.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So there's a there's a modified acrylic oil which Sherwan
Williams has, which is a very good product since it's
both it has good resistance, It crylics hold up good
against the sun. Alkids penetrate deep into the wood, and
(37:00):
and if you use that deck brightener, it's going to
open the pores. That'd be a really good product to use.
There's also one called super Deck, which will it's a
good middle of the road, good solid that's that's a
that's a penetrating modified oil also which gives you really
(37:21):
good protection. And then there's a water based one called Defy.
That's the fifty dollars a gallon one. That's a two
code system. I know I'm confusing you, but I guess
really kind of what I'm saying is you're gonna get
what you pay for, and the prep you do, okay,
and the prep you do, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
And the.
Speaker 11 (37:44):
Julia Williams that you were mentioning though modify acrylic oil.
Can those be sprayed on? Um?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I don't think so, but I got to check. I've
not used it for I know they have a couple.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I was telling Ron Wilson they have a couple of
new applicators that are really cool. It's it's almost like
a like a truck cleaning brush. It's almost like a
mop which goes on really easy. Some of your like
you're straight oils, like a superdeck straight oil one which
you can buy in some states, not in all states.
That can be sprayed with a tank sprayer. Most of
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them cannot be sprayed with an airless sprayer. It would
be a tank sprayer.
Speaker 11 (38:29):
Okay, all right, yeah, well the prep work definitely makes done.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, I'll have the key.
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Bottom of the hour. We're going to talk a little
bit about some pumps.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
We've had some well, we certainly had a very wet
spring in many parts of the country and now we're
into hot weather and thunderstorms and downpour. So the some
pump is the guardian of the house. And we'll be
chatting with our friends from Zola for about ten to
fifteen minutes. Maybe give you some tips on check and
making surance, doing the job it's supposed to be doing.
(01:46):
All right, let's go to Hank. Hank welcome. Oh, Jim,
I'm sorry, Jim welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Hey, I got a question on shock washing the asphalt
three cab roof about twenty years old. It's uh, it's
not bad. I had over the years. I've sprinkled the
moss stuff up on the ridge sign and now all that.
(02:17):
But I'm looking for a soft wash, and I'm running
chemicals and pressure that they use and any well, I'll
tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So, what do you have under you got black streaks?
Is that what you have?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Just uh, I guess the moss here and there pretty much.
That's it. It's dead now. But like a gone and
certain person, I don't want come back, you know, or
well back there in Spain.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
If the moss is dead, gym moss actually has roots, okay,
and you've probably seen that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And when it dies, those.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Roots begin to decompose. Was in the moss should come
off in a dead state off the roof. So you know,
I'm always a little nervous about telling anybody use any
kind of pressure on a three tab shingle roof.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
How old is that roof? Twenty years? Yeah, so you know,
if you.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So well what I would use, I'll tell you what
I would use, okay, and then I'll tell you what
sounds like you want to use. There's a product called
wet and Forget. I don't know if you're familiar with
that or not.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I use that last spring, and it turned it brand
and they killed the moss correct.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And it's it's pretty much all washed off and whatnot.
But there's some some hangars are on it, and I
liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Gone. Yeah, well maybe it's.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So when whenever you have moss, unlike the streaks of
of fungus and algae and things like that, moss will
sometimes take you know, a couple of applications. Uh, if
it were me and it's a complete kill, so that
moss on a complete kill, it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Will decompose and fall off. That's what I would use.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Now, if you want to use uh a product that
is going to be a soft wash to remove that,
you can use a pressure washer, but you don't want
to use more than six hundred PSI on the on
the roof itself. A lot your pressure washers, you know,
are you know twenty five hundred three thousand, you would
(04:51):
want like a little electric.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
One and uh, I love with a contractor to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So well check with the roofer.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean like I've checked use and whatnot, and I'm
getting from different outfits and I'm getting just these guys
used bleach, and I do want to use bleach. And
these guys use some other stuff and this guy uses
they all use different stuff. I want to stay away
from the bleaches.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, bleach isn't a complete kill. I wouldn't use bleach either.
It's not really safe. If you get overspray on vegetation
again a again that wet and forget. I've I've seen
it used on roofs that were totally covered. Now it
might take a couple of applications, but eventually that stuff
you're gonna you're going to control it with that, and
(05:46):
you're going to leave a residue on there too. It's
not going to prevent but it'll slow down the regrowth
of it because your environment's really shown you know that
it's going to grow.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So it's it's going to grow back.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But don't you get a complete kill with a wedding
forgetting you respray that you can get you know, a
year or two before you got to respray it again.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, that's what I would use. There are some
soft washed companies out there that can do that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean, that's a big franchise business right now, I said, Rufer,
But maybe you know, check with one of these American
wash and things like that. I've seen them tested on houses,
not with moss, but you know, just getting that black
film off window casings and things like that. I mean,
(06:37):
it did a good job and it would certainly not
hurt the roof, which is would be my number one
concern quite honestly with a twenty year three tab shingle.
So that's that would be again that went and forget
it's a hose end thing. Just spray the dickens out
(06:58):
of it. Give it six weeks and I'd spray it
again and be done with it. It should be in
good shape, all right. Let's get to Mike, Mike, welcome.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Good morning, and a calif curb all the way around
the house and it's staying badly with mode and mildew
and looking for the best way to clean that. I
heard you say spraying and forget it, and I've used
that before, and it had a couple of different instructions
on it. One says spray it and let it set,
and the other instruction on the bottle says spray it
and then you can scrub it and then it rents
(07:31):
it off. So I'm looking for the best way to
clean it. Number one, I know I have to get
the mold and mildew off permanently before I just get it,
get it nice and clean. And then the second part
is do you recommend shining it with a shellac after
I have it cleaned?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And what's this song? I'm sorry I missed the first word.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
It's a California curb.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Okay, okay, Well, so I just recommend and talking to
that fella.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I was talking about a product called wet infriget, which
is there is a product out there called spray and forget.
So the wet and forget is applied to the house
and it's not scrubbed, and it takes I would say,
six weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It works with the sun, it works with rain. It
stays active and it'll clean it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And it will have a residue where it thwarts the
regrowth of that mold and mildew. So that would be
certainly one you could use if if you were going
to scrub that there is a product you know, and
you want to get it done and clean and like
(08:48):
right away. For years I've mentioned like an oxygenated bleach,
which is a crystal that's mixed with water. Sometimes it's
a liquid. You would spray that on, let it sit
about ten minutes, respray and scrub and rinse. Okay, So
you could use either one of those products. One gives
(09:10):
you immediate gratification, but you got to work for it.
The other one you're gonna have to wait for.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It to work.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Okay, I see that, And would you recommend afro having
it clean and then letting it dry. Add some kind
of shellact. It's a red California curb. Would you recommend
putting maybe a shellac on it, just to kind of
give it a little pop?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, if you shell act, that's a coating and it
doesn't have much UV resistance to the sun, so it
will turn yellow and probably peel.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Ooh, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Okay, Yeah, So if you were going to put some
protect it on there, I would probably, I guess I
would look at a marine your thing or a spa
your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Again, it's a coating, but it as some UV resistance
to it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Certainly the marine erthane and a spar It's not like
a polyurethane or shellac or even a varney. Shit's much more.
It can stand up to the sun. Another option is
even using like a wood deck sealer, okay, which is
a penetrant, so if it starts looking tired, you can
(10:26):
just simply clean and reapply.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Well okay, Well, thank you Gary, all right, hope that helps.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right, take a break, we'll come back and Amus
you'll be up first. We'll continue at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (11:14):
All right, talking a little home improvement and I'd welcome
your calls as we chat about different projects. And I
was talking about just the importance of reading instructions and
knowing expectations, visiting websites.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Muld mildew residues and things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
There's a lot of different products out there that can
be relatively well. Every product and whether it's that or
even deck sealers. Now there's such a proliferation of some
very good products. But somebody told me, and it was
thirty years ago, maybe forty years ago. It goes just
from here ago. There's no perfect product. And some cases
(12:00):
I really agree with that there's there. It's like the
Ying and the Yang. It's got some very good features.
Oh this is what you're giving up. It's got some
very great features, but it doesn't stand up to the sun.
So really investigating and chatting about it and doing a
little research on what you want to use is the key.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
All right, let's go to amos amos.
Speaker 10 (12:21):
Welcome, Hey Gary. First off, great Joe, A lot of
good tips every weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
So I have a deck that was built a year ago.
I haven't done anything with it, right, they said, wait
a year So I'm gonna I'm gonna powerwash it and
then I'm gonna throw some Compsons on it. But I
may want to put a like, I like coating, some
type of maybe a euthane on there, or I like
(12:51):
something uh something else to bring out the wood colors.
So do they make products that are like uh a
eurothane and a uh a water proof But would you
just would you just say go with waterproofing and then
it's stay well.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Waterproofing and a protecting and a stain is usually all
in one. So if you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Use a deck sealer regardless of brand, and then come
back and put a eurothane coating on it, first of all,
if you use like a polyurethane and you put that
over that coating, it has no UV resistance and that
stuff will turn yellow and peel off in a year.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
So so so what would you what would you what
would you recommend just go ahead use a water comped
like a water sealer. Well, I guess heard you mentioned
about a deck kind of a previous collar about a deck.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, Well, let me ask you a couple of questions.
Is this pressure treated wood deck?
Speaker 10 (13:57):
No, it's just it's it's it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's not pressure treated. Would what type of wood is
on there?
Speaker 10 (14:04):
It's just uh, just regular wood that we bought. Okay, Okay,
So so now we want to water water proof because
it's been a year, so it's been weathered.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So why don't you have to wait a year? If
it's not pressure.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Treated, That's what I was told.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So you sure that's not pressure treated?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, if it's not pressure treated, I'm painted, Okay. I
mean I'd use a portion deck.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Paint on the floor, and I would if you got
reds and spindles, I would use like a the krillic
house paint.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
So if it was pressure treated, what would I use?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
If it was pressure treated, then you would not do
what I just said. That's why I kind of leaning
on you here.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So you would have choices.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You would have deck stains that are or water base.
You have some in some states where it's oil base.
You have some that's a modified acrylic and oil. So
they all have their pluses. The acrylics or water bases
are gonna hold up best of the sun. So if
(15:18):
it's a sunny location, I would definitely use that. A
really good brand name on that would be called Defied
the EFY if you were if you had like a
shady location, you could use the modified.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oil or the acrylic. The acrylics.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The downside of acrylics is they don't penetrate as well
as an oil, so you have to make sure even
though it's nothing's been done to it, it's sat there
for a year, you got to use a deck cleaner
and a deck brightener to open up the pores of
the wood so that you know it has something to
bite onto.
Speaker 10 (15:59):
That's corret right, Okay, very good, all right, good, I
appreciate your health.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you, you bet bye bye.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Um.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
This is.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Really you got to know exactly ask questions again, and
that's fine. I wish I wish he had all the
information because it's really he's gonna be very disappointed if
he thinks it's not pressure treated and he goes this way,
and it is pressure treating.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He went that way.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They're two different things. And and Thompson's, as in many lines,
they make a variety of good, better, best, excellent. I'm
not saying it's not a good product, but some of
the products that you're gonna pick up. I mean, you
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And if that isn't important, that's okay. They make, you know,
different strokes for different folks. I guess right, But we've
got to really know what we're going on and what
our expectations are. And we don't paint, and your thing
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kind of all encompassed in one product. All right, enough
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A busy, busy, busy weekend, that's for sure. Joining us
now is BJ Hentrup.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
He is with the Zalor Company, the industry leader, the
gold standard of pumps. BJ, welcome again at home with
Gary Selvin.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
How you doing Gary?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It is great to be back on with you.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Have you been I've been great.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I've been great.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It's been a weird, weird weather year. It has to
affect your business, probably in a good way.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Oh my gosh, yes, with all the rains and storms
and power outages, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
So let's talk about that scary thing in the basement
that's in the floor. Okay, okay, that's called a sum pump,
by the way, folks, And they don't last forever.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
How long does so they pump left last? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
You know, you know, it all depends on the application gary,
and excuse me, how much it's used. But we typically
say anywhere from seven to ten years as a good
lifespan of the some pump.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Okay, all right, and you're you're right down Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So you have had a lot of rain because I'm
just right up the river from you, and gosh, even
last night we had probably an inch of rain in
an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yea, yeah, I mean it's been just one of those years.
So is there maintenance on some pumps? Is there some
tips you can give us right now? If we're you know,
talking about and somebody goes, jeez, you know where that
thing is? Is there some maintenance that you need to
be done?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say there's a maintenance. You just
want to make sure that your some pump is running
and when it's called the use that it's doing its job.
So you know, every once in a while, you know,
just go down there and check on it, maybe very carefully,
just you know, make sure it's plugged in. Number one,
maybe take a you know, a little bucket of water
(21:10):
and carefully put it down in there and let that
thing run. If it comes on, great, that's it's that's
what it's supposed to do and is doing this job.
So just doing some some minor things like that, just
to ensure that it's gonna work when it's called too,
is what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Boy. And I'll tell you one of the things I preached.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Gosh, we've been talking about zolor pumps for a long time,
but even before that is having a backup pump is
really critical, especially if you finished basement.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Uh, making inroads on that process of education.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah, so you are exactly right, you know, having the
some pumps great, you're some pump working is great. But
with all these storms and you know what, if you
have a power outage, right, that's when you want to
That's when you want to have a backup pump. We
offer a couple of different battery backup pumps, but the
big one for everybody to remember, it's called the aquaat
fit and it is able to be controlled and tested
(22:08):
by what we call our z control app and its
Wi Fi enabled, So if your power goes out and
your primary pump isn't working, this battery backup pump will
come on and it will send you notification.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Well, that's nice to have. That's a piece on line.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah, definitely, big time.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That's a lot better than twenty thirty years ago when
it started raining really hard. I used to walk down
the basement and just kind of, you know, put my
ear to the wall. Is that thing working back there?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah? Oh god, thank goodness? Or not hearing it, I
don't know how. I was just trained it.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
It's like, you know, if it rained and I heard
it rain really hard at night, I could hear that
pump run if I really listened.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And you know, it's funny that you say that, Gary,
I do the same thing when we go down in
our basement. If I'm downstairs, you know, we're and games
or whatnot with the kiddos, and I'm like, I don't
think i've heard the pump yet. I gotta let me
make sure it's over there.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So now it notifies you on a backup pump. Kind
of talk me through that, because I still think that's
probably the most important thing we can talk about is
you know, I mean something could break on that some
pump because it's been down there for ten years and
you forgot about it and it's getting old, and or
(23:30):
a power failure or you're out of town.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
What makes up a backup some pump?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yeah, so, and you bring up a good point. You
know I had mentioned earlier the power outage and the
battery power backup pump will come on. But you know
what if something else happens. What if you've got a
fifteen year old some pump that's down there and it's
finally decided to give out, you would want some backup
on that, right, And that's where also this battery backup
pump will take into a effect. It's not just for
(24:01):
power outages. It's maybe if your primary pump can't keep
up because it's got sudden inflow of water from all
the rain we've been getting, or maybe it's because you're
some pump did go bad after ten, fifteen, twenty years.
This is going to be there to back it up
and use that battery, the juice from the battery to
run the backup pump.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Now you also have different kinds of batteries, correct I mean,
we're all about maintenance free living. Can you get a
maintenance free battery?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
We do offer a maintenance free battery. That's the number
one that we, you know, try to push to customers.
You know, with both batteries that we offer, we do
offer a maintenance free and then we do have one
that you would have to check once a month. But
the maintenance free is the way to go. You know,
you haven't installed by your installed you know, your contractor
your plumber, you know whomever, and it's good for three years.
(24:55):
We recommend replacing the battery every three years. But with
the maintenance free, it's exactly what it says. You don't
have to do anything with it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, you just scared me. I know my batteries more
than three years old.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You better get down there, Gary.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I know it is, I know it is, but I
also know it's working because you got different light assemblies
on pumps.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah, you're exactly right. So, especially with our five oh
eight fit, when you're looking at the charger, it'll tell
you what's going on with it. You know, you have
some red lights, green lights, yellow lights, and it'll tell
you what's going on with your system. Is your battery
good is your AC power? Good is the unit charging?
So it's got all these neat features that are built
(25:42):
into our controller for the backup pump that'll tell tell
you guys what to do.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And not all people are comfortable with.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Doing a project like that, But you Ezolor pumps, you're
so respected in the plumbing field. I mean, if you
mentioned Zalor pumps to I'd have to say ninety nine
percent of the plumbers, they'll know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
You agree with that statement, Oh, Gary, yes, uh, you
know we've Zalor's been around since nineteen thirty nine doing
some pump sewage pumps, grinder pumps, dewatering pumps, all types
of pumps, controls and accessories. You know, if you go
to any plumber contractor and say the Zlar name, I
would almost bet they would know who we are and
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what our product is.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
People always want to know about well, if it floods,
insurance takes care of that, but not always.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, you're right, not always. You know, obviously you know
your your listeners would need to check with their you know,
homeowners insurance or policies and whatnot when it comes to
you know, a flooded basement. But you know what I
would say is, you know, check out what we call
the dry Basement Guarantee. It's not available in all states,
so you know, you know, you guys would check out
(27:04):
check out our website, zalarpumps dot com. Go to the
drive Basement Guarantee section of that, and what very quickly,
what the drive Basement Guarantee is is when you have
a certified installer of these drive Basement Guarantee products, which
is three specific products. It's our model sixty three Triple
(27:28):
O one is the part number. It's our ten dash
fourteen to fifty maintenance free battery, and it's our five
oh eight fit which is the backup pump that has
the Wi Fi enabled system. So if the homeowner has
these three items installed by a certified installer, they can
go on our website, the Drive Basement Guarantee website, and
(27:49):
subscribe monthly to get that coverage so that if something
does happen, then they can deal directly with us and say, hey, listen,
this something happened with your battery backup or something happened
with the battery. If that does happen, we offer that
drive Basement Guarantee to back up our product. It's pretty
(28:09):
much you know us, you know, putting our putting our
money where I'm out this and say, listen, we trust
and believe in our products so much that we're going
to offer this.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Wow. So, so where does a homeowner find a certified installer?
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, so you go to our website. You can go
to drive Basement Guarantee dot Com, or you can go
to our main site Dollar Pumps dot Com. Type in
drive Basement Guarantee and it'll let it let the customers
know what states it's available in.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, Well that's that's a great that's a great, great benefit.
I mean it really is. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, well, yeah, we're we're excited about this offering again
just to show everybody, you know, we are super proud
of our product, the quality of our product, and we're
going to back it up.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, I know, one of the achilles heels of pumps
is the switch in a lot of cases, and you
guys got a great reputation on the switch being down
in your plant watching them being made one year, the
amount of testing that goes on as the pumps are made,
it's incredible, and you do a great job of.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Building them and then educating plumbers.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You created kind of a university down there where you
train plumbers out in the field.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean quality is a big
thing for us, Gary, like you said, going through our plant,
all the testing and quality that we have there in Louisville, Kentucky.
But yeah, you're right. You know we have on site
like well what you said Zalar University, we have our
Center for Excellence where we bring in plumbers and you know,
train them up on our products. Right, you know, that's
(29:47):
that's a big thing is we want to make sure
that we're training not only the plumbers that are out
there now, but we want to train these new people,
the new plumbers and contractors that are coming up. So yeah,
we're pretty proud of our facility we have.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I feel the tide's coming too where there's going to
be a lot of new people entering the trades and
the plumbing business. So your foresight, uh, coming up with
that training center was was fantastic. And I'm sure you're
busy down there all the time teaching.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh yeah, and we're we're big. We're big on teaching
and educating you know, everyone and our team there at
the center for Excellence, Dave, you know, Rob Chloe, everybody
that's that's there in the Center for Excellence. I mean
we have trainings, oh gosh, Gary, probably every week there's
somebody in there doing a training.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah. I have to get down there again.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Maybe this fall we'll make another stuff and down to
Louisville and take a look at things.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I'm always impressed whenever i'm there. Well, BJ thank you
very much. Again.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's Zalorpumps dot com, Dry Basement Guarantee dot com and
I appreciate your time on this weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
As always, it's great to talk with you. Gary, thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All right, there
you go.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It is amazing the amount of work that they do
in education and also the building of these pumps. And
it's other things too, I mean the grinder pumps, the
up flush toilet pumps. I mean, they've got a lot
of products. But it's a it's a family owned business
for generations.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
They do quite quite the job.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
All right, we'll continue with your calls. We got Hank,
John and Joan as we go through the weekend. You're
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Speaker 2 (32:25):
Our phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Feel free to grab a line, Joan Welcome.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Hi Gary, Hello, Hello, Yes, I have a weathered fence
that I want to do something with this. So it's
a tall five foot I call it the popsicles stick fence.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's the.
Speaker 11 (32:55):
It's weathered, it's pressure treated wood. But it's been probably
a year and a half or so since it's been installed.
Something needs to happen with it. Can you give me
any guidelines?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Is it gray? Is it grade out yet?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's great up, okay, all right?
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Yeah, and it gets a lot of morning and afternoon sun.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So tell me what you want it to look like.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
Well, I'd like it to be a beautiful heart ay, uh,
you know style. No, I'd like to see some of
the wood. I don't think I want to paint because
I don't want to deal with peeling in a few years. Okay, Okay,
I'd like something, but i'd like to see some wood
to it, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
All right, So you're looking a semi transparent stained, which
will give you wood tones and cedar redwood brown.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You can even go gray if you wanted, you know, entirely.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And the beautiful thing about a semi transparent stain is
it doesn't peel. It becomes part of the wood. It
soaks in and soaks into the fibers of the wood,
gives you some pigment, and it looks very natural. The
negative is it doesn't last as long as a solid
color stain or a paint. But when you restain, it
(34:24):
doesn't take you as long to do that either, because
there's no sanding and there's no scraping.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Okay, so that would be your choice. So what I
would do before we.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Pick out the stain is really concentrate on cleaning that
and maybe it won't take much at all. You can
use an oxygenated bleach, which is a crystal with water,
spray that on and scrub away, and the next step
(34:58):
I would use would be what they call a deck brightener.
A deck brightener will take that gray out of that wood,
so when you do stain it, you'll have a more
consistent color. But it'll also open up the wood fibers,
so that pressure treated wood that was pressure treated with water, which.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Is very dense and very heavy. Now the fibers open
up and it's thirsty.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It'll pull that protect it into the wood, so you
will you'll have a better product in the end. So
those two steps they're not really time consuming. That too
can just be sprayed on, allowed to soak, and you know,
hit it with a light pressure washer or even a
(35:46):
ose just to rinse it off. Once we've done that,
you're gonna have all kinds of choices and stains. The
darker colors last a little bit longer than the lighter colors.
I wouldn't recommend a fence being done and clear. It's
gonna give you about a year or two worth of life,
and that's it. I want that you can buy stay
(36:11):
that's gonna be fifty dollars a gallon. You can buy
something that's thirty dollars a gallon, and the sunny locations
that that's probably gonna be okay for three or four years.
The shady locations you might get five years out of it.
It's not gonna appeal, it's not gonna crack, it's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You know, it's just gonna fade. Sometimes people even go
longer than that.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So there's a there's a modified acrylic oil which Sherwan
Williams has, which is a very good product since it's
both it has good resistance, It crylics hold up good
against the sun. Alkids penetrate deep into the wood, and
(37:00):
and if you use that deck brightener, it's going to
open the pores. That'd be a really good product to use.
There's also one called super Deck, which will it's a
good middle of the road, good solid that's that's a
that's a penetrating modified oil also which gives you really
(37:21):
good protection. And then there's a water based one called Defy.
That's the fifty dollars a gallon one. That's a two
code system. I know I'm confusing you, but I guess
really kind of what I'm saying is you're gonna get
what you pay for, and the prep you do, okay,
and the prep you do, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
And the.
Speaker 11 (37:44):
Julia Williams that you were mentioning though modify acrylic oil.
Can those be sprayed on? Um?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I don't think so, but I got to check. I've
not used it for I know they have a couple.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I was telling Ron Wilson they have a couple of
new applicators that are really cool. It's it's almost like
a like a truck cleaning brush. It's almost like a
mop which goes on really easy. Some of your like
you're straight oils, like a superdeck straight oil one which
you can buy in some states, not in all states.
That can be sprayed with a tank sprayer. Most of
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them cannot be sprayed with an airless sprayer. It would
be a tank sprayer.
Speaker 11 (38:29):
Okay, all right, yeah, well the prep work definitely makes done.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, I'll have the key.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
Same, that's the key.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Once you get that done, you'll be in good shape. Seriously,
that first code is vitally important. Thank you much, got it,
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