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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, welcome down our number three at home with
Gary Salvin. Not a bad looking day. It's gonna be
a little warm, might have some showers later later at
seven and Mayer at four or five. But certainly better
than the key wave of this wee at those talk
all right talking home improvement. Glad you could join me.
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Let's go to John, John, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I've got a nineteen twenty house. It's a three story
and it's brick all the way up, and I'd like
to put an exhaust van above the stove, and I've
got to go out the brick, and I believe it's
two courses of brick, one behind the other all the
way up For that outside wall. Do I have to
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have a guy come get on a letter, do an
initial hole maybe three quarters of an inch all the
way through the center and figure out where to drill
the direrent thing? Or does he drill with a big
diamond bit circular.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, they got them both ways. They got them both ways.
It's really going to depend on how big is your vent?
Is it a four inch pipe?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I haven't even bought it yet. What do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, it's going to depend on the sizing of you know,
the CFMS is what it is. It's the qbic feet
permitted of air movement. And then you're going to have
either a three inch pipe or a four inch pipe.
But you know, if you're if you don't have the
tools or feel comfortable upon the ladder or something, yeah,
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I'd get somebody to do that for you. It's not
the easiest thing.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And then from the inside to keep the hole clean.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Say that again.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Do they start at the outside and just draw all
the way through and pop it out into the kitchen
or do they drill from the outside halfway and then.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Go into the camp I'm going to I'm going to guess,
depending on what you have, that you're going to run
a pilot hole through the entire double uh double layers
of brick and take out a brick at a you know,
a a section at a time, one inside in one outside.
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Once you use your pilot hole through, you'll be able
to see exactly, you know, what you're trying to do.
And it depends on the tool he's going to use too.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
What where do I search to find such a person
that can do that? Is that a handyman thing?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I never be a handyman. Yeah, Like I talk about
the easy Breathe ventilation system that takes a four inch pipe.
They have a do it yourself kit. I'm just using
this an example, and then they also have people that
install them. And people ask me, well can I handle that? Well,
I don't know. I mean that tool that you're going
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to use to cut through through just one layer of
brick is going to be expensive, you know, you know,
but yeah, I would say, I would say a handy
man would probably be a good source. You know, even
checking with the local store if they have somebody that
they deal with that does some handyman work, they'll usually
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have recommendations or they'll have a list of people you
can get hold of.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
All Right, Garry, thank you very much for I hope
that helped.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Thank you, Thank you, take care, bumbye all right, and
Hank welcome.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Gary.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I appreciate talking to you and hopefully getting your some device.
You give some device every day every week.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So thank try.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I Before we moved into this place ten years ago,
we had enlarged the back death there was a cement
surface deck and then we enlarged it with you know,
so it's it's about a thousand square feet in the
back here, so it's pretty big. But we wanted the
deck to have not have the typical rain fall through,
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so we had them put in a water barrier underneath
the deck boards, and then they underneath there is a
you know, non wood beeboard ceiling material. Beautiful, yeah, and
then and then they have the gutters and so forth
right to take the water away. The problem we're having
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right now is that the water barrier is not stopping
all the water from going through. So the water then
goes underneath the water barrier onto the beedboard ceiling. And
as I get dripped through, I'm just afraid of mold.
(06:03):
I've got moss. I'm looking at right now, and wondered
what you might suggest, does wet and forget would that
take care of that? If I just prayed wet and
forget up above and let it penetrate through, what do
you think?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Probably it probably won't because it needs rain and sunshine
to stay active and to kill the mildew, moss, fungits
and everything else that could be in there. So the
water's dripping through the boards, I get that. And you've
got b board on the exterior below the deck and
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there's there is there a rubber membrane in that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
To move the water, Yeah, underneath the trecks decking up
above and yeah we've got trecks and then the membrane
and then the ceiling material there for down below.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Aesthetics. Yeah, tell me, I give good information. Sometimes the
information I give is, you know, people don't want to
hear it. I think it's more than just a mold
and mildew issue, to be honest with you, there's something
that's failing in that system. Either that membrane is failed
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or it's improperly installed. But the molds and mildew, that's
one thing I'd also be concerned about. Rot of the
bee board.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Also, well, it's a non would it's that okay?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So it's like a poinal, yes, ok and and so okay,
So it's looking better. So the water gets in there
and there is a membrane in there, is that correct? Oh? Yes, okay,
So but the water's getting underneath that membrane apparently in
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order for it to write through the seams.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Right, And my assessment is it's on the joints where
they you know, of course, wouldn't have a membrane large
enough for the entire you know deck, because it's not
it's not a rectangle shape. It's it follows a design
of the home which is a little unique.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So the question is how to get it to quit
leaking or how to get further of the mold. And
they'll do.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, Yes, how to get it to quit leaking and
then assess us there is you know the problem because
I'm as I'm down below looking up and I can
see the green monster and some cracks between the vinyl bboard.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, well we can and that's superficial the problem, right.
I mean, we can use an oxygenated bleach and you know,
spray that on let's say about ten minutes, and then
scrub it in rents or there's a product called thirty
second Cleaner, which is a high clorox based We can
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spray that on, scrub it and rinse it. We'll get
rid of the muld and mildew. It'll come back because
the source is still there.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And and I'm concerned about the concerned about the layers
between the membrane and the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, but none of that can rot. So it's it
can hold water apparently, or at least a little bit
of it. And that's the bad news part is, I
don't know if there's a real answer that it sounds
to me that something has to be re engineered. Either
there's not enough slope on that ceiling or the membrane's
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not covering the whole bee board and moving the water away.
You know, it's like a swimming pool with a hole
in it or a tire with a hole in it.
Until that's you know, re engineered, that problem's gonna exist. Yeah, Okay,
and tricks even, yes, they got to, but it would
require taking up the deck boards. They have a product
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now that is a water proof like weather stripped between
the boards to even minimize how much water drips through
to the undercarriage, but you'd have to install that from
the top. And if it's a big deck, that's a
big deal, right right.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Okay, Well I was I was afraid about that answer,
but I pretty much concluded that before the call, and
you confirmed it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So yeah, the only other thing I could do, I mean,
if you wanted to just try something and you know,
give it a wing and hope maybe it helps. Maybe
it is not not going to really fix the cause,
but it might help contain the water. Is maybe bead
of silicone from the outside, a clear silicone. If there's
a couple, where is that leak of it all leaks?
(11:01):
Probably not, but that might be an option where it can't.
You know, water takes a path least resistance. If you're
taking that at least resistance and plugging it up, it
might flow to where it's supposed to.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Right, it'll yeah, right, yeah, it's supposed to flow from
the membrane to the gutters, and that's it's bypassing that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So and we can't even share it. But yeah, I
think that's the answer though. Thank you much, Hank, I appreciate.
We'll take a break, we'll come back, Larry, Jim, Joe Joy.
We'll work our way through the weekend together. You're at
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Speaker 1 (12:15):
All right, back in it we go twenty two minutes
after the top of the are taking your calls with
your little home project or two or three or four.
This time of year, there's probably multiple home projects you're
looking at. And let's go to Joy Joy. Welcome, Hi Gary,
How are you doing wonderful? How about you.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Staying cool?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah? There you go. I have a quick question for you.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
We have a thirty year old we've been working into black.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Streets and we used about.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Five years ago to wet and forget uh huh my husband.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
And it worked great. My husband and I are not.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Big ones to read labels, but my son is and.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He moved in with me. Is my husband passed?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
We've noticed it said do not use if you collect water.
We have a sistern.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Is there something wet.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And forgetting apes or somebody.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Else that we can use to spray like that on
the roof. That's okay for systems colluters.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
If you're collecting that water. No. Is there a way
you can divert a water where it doesn't go in
the cistern?
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I can temporarily divert it, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
So here's I don't have a jug in front of me,
so I'm gonna give you a kind of a half answer.
I'm going to assume, okay, which is always a problem.
I'm going to assume that it's problematic when you're spraying it. Okay.
So if it's spraying and goes down into the gutter
system into the cistern, that's a problem. Once it's sprayed
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and dried. I don't know if it's a it if
it's a problem at that point, Okay, it's it's it's
being reactivated with sun and rain. But I don't know
what you know unless it says that on the label.
(14:14):
So do you actively use the cistern? I mean you
collect water. You couldn't shut it off for six weeks,
could you?
Speaker 9 (14:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, no, no, okay. So this is what I you know.
So I'm not going to tell you go one way
or the other. But I can tell you how you
can get a pretty good answer right from the company itself.
If you go on Facebook and just there's called there's
a site called wet and Forget Crew. Okay, It's all
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you got to do is like that, and you can
post a question in there and you'll get an answer
probably within a couple hours. It is it's their top
research people that actually work on that, and that would
be the question. The question I would ask would be
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on your label, it says not to be used if
you collect water. I have a cistern. Is that mean
when I'm spraying or is that for the next three months?
And it may be for the next three months, but
it also could be just when it's spraying and you know,
and it fills the gutter and then we'll go to
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the cistern. And that's why I said you could divert it.
But I don't know if that's a for sure answer.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Okay, that's that's that's very helpful.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Thank you, love your ship, very good. Thanks calling me time.
Appreciate it all right, and Larry welcome. Oh hold on
round out time too. Hang in there, Larry, tell me,
ask me what you need and then we'll probably take
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All right, back in it we go. You're at home
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I guess a couple of things I had just wanted
to mention as we worked our way through the weekend heat.
Everybody says, what's the heat doing to our house? Well,
(19:34):
I'm sure it's doing some things. It's drying it out,
it's expansion and contraction of wood and things like that.
But here's one area I want you to check or
maybe do a little maintenance to, and it's it's the
garage door. I always say they fail during the most
extreme temperatures, whether it's really cold or really hot, if
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they haven't been maintained. And there are a couple of
parts of that garage door. You know, the biggest moving
object in the house for sure, and that's the lubrication.
And I'm not talking WD forty a silicon a teflon
those were great. Blaster has a actual garage door lubricant
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which is a combination of teflons and silicons that you
can use. But clean the rails where the rollers go.
Clean those just a little mineral spirits and a cotton
cloth and spray those rails. You also get the wheels,
and there's different guys. There's plastic, there's nylon, there's metal.
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Not that you're gonna change them, but if you would,
I would prefer the nylon with the bearings, the hinges,
the springs and just it'll quiet it down and it
will it'll help during extreme Oh. We got to do
this maybe twice a year. Do one in July and
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do one in January. And no grease, nothing along these
Lind's just a tough one. The grudge door, the blaster
grudge door. Lubricants excellent. But if you want to go
with a teflon or a silicone, you'll be fine. Just
stay away from the real refined oils and grease. That's
not gonna be helpful. In fact, a Greece will be
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coming to turn. All right to the fundes we go, Joe, welcome, Hello, yes, sir.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
Hello, Hi, Hi Gary, Hey, thanks for taking the call.
You bet okay, So I've got I've got a room
The room is twenty two by twenty two feet. It's
a big square room built above our garage, and we
had vinyl flooring put down on it, the sheet rolled flooring.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Huh.
Speaker 12 (21:53):
And there's a scene right in the middle of the room,
of course, and it is just starting to lift on
the edge of This was put in probably five or
six years ago now, so you know, it's way out
of warranty and whatever. But I noticed that the same
edge is just beginning to lift a little bit right
in the main traffic area, and I wanted to know, like,
(22:13):
what can I do to push that back? I try
to push it down, and it really doesn't go down,
you know, like I would have hoped it would. Like
there's I don't know, I'm not sure what a good
approach would be.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Deficient. Can you get any adhesive underneath that? Or is
it just not up that high yet?
Speaker 12 (22:31):
It's not up that high, not even close yet. I
mean it's just starting.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, Well, you might try some heat and see if
that's okay, you know, kind of I'm tucker st don't
want to do that, but it may be come. It
may be ending on the adhesive. It may make that
more sticky I wouldn't use anything with an open flame.
(22:55):
I would probably start with a hair dryer on high. Uh.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
And I've also got a heat gun.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I was gonna say, and the next step up would
maybe be a heat gun. But be careful, you know.
I mean, if you used one, you know exactly what
I mean. You can kind of kind of tell see
if you can get some movement out of that. If
it does begin to fold down, I don't know, is
it just in spots, ors it along the whole scene.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
No, it's like a couple of inches then it's down,
Then another couple of inches and it's down. You know
that kind of thing. Probably over a maybe a two
foot span.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Is it used up there a lot or not so much?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (23:35):
Yeah, it's the main traffic.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, Yeah, okay. I was gonna say, if you get
it to fold down, Yeah, if you get it to
fold down, I'd probably put some weight on it. So
maybe you just do a little sick section at a time.
Oh you know, maybe if you got any little ten
pound dumbbells or something like that, or you know, brick
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or something, just to kind of push it down and
see if we can. You're gonna have to you know,
folding it down, it'll be one thing, and I think
you'll accomplish that if we can make that adhesive. A
lot of times those are a cryllic latex adhesives. Sometimes
they can get soft too, So that's what i'd give
a try to. That's what I would work at. Okay,
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solve that. Well, that's that's a good starting point. So yeah,
let me try that. It sounds better than anything I've
thought of. So I was trying to pick the edge
up and get glue under, but I didn't think that
would be a good idea. Coming Yeah, yeah, I agree.
I'd rather try to activate what we have and go
from there. Good idea.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
All right, Well, thank you very much. I listened all
the time. I appreciate your show.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Thank you, sir, appreciate all right, Din, if you'd like
to join us, do so. We got a line open.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and Marry Joe welcome.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Hi. We recently we did our bathroom and we have
a toilet room and so there's water coming dripping down
not from the ceiling where the you know, the ceiling
needs the wall, but just below that. And if the
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water has a has a little bit of an early
delvesh it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We used a.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Crylic paint on the bathroom wall.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
We we did there was installed a vent a ceiling,
you know, a vent for the shire that.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Is over the other part of the bathroom.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I'm not sure I can. So my husband put a
humidifier in there last night. Well it takes care.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Of the water, but there's still some.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Oily streaks underneath where the water has been evaporated. So uh,
any idea.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
On Yeah, I got I got a couple like ideas.
Is it when it's oily like that, is it real
slippery or is it kind of sticky slip? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
So here's my guess, okay, And it's just you can
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see like a little stream and then there's a little
dot at the end of it maybe where.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
The I didn't see a dot big longs you know,
it's a tall tall.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is there multiple streaks?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, So I think what it is is called surfactants,
and paint has surfactants in it, and when we get
into areas where it's hot and steamy and moist, those
surfactants can leach from the paint. This is crazy, and
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they will have a little brownish and it will be slipping.
It's soap. It's actually soap, and it's common in paints.
There are some telling you more than you need to know,
but there are some non surfactant bathroom paints. Ben Moore
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has one of them, which is probably one of the
better ones. But to solve your problem, I think what
I would do is get some tri sodium phosphate and
wash that wall down, so you're not only just washing
off the surfactants that's on the surface of the paint,
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but you're gonna wash the whole wall off. So where
the surfactants haven't bled all the way out, we're gonna
remove those. It wouldn't be a real big job, but
just wash that wall down. Get a non rinse tri
sodium phosphate and just wash that wall down.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Okay, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
All right, Mary Joe, take care, Thank you, bye bye.
I had that exact problem. I had absolutely no clue
what it was, and it was in this case, it
was a room that I had recently painted, recently being
in the last three months. It was in a bathroom,
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and you know, we always talk about running the fan,
taking that humidity out of the bathroom and letting it
run after we finished the shower, and we all nod
our heads. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that. Of course we don't,
because we take the shower, we dry, and we're gone
in the heck with a fan. But now there are
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fans four bathrooms that actually have a humdistat in it.
They stay on until it hits the prescribed humidity level,
which I would guess would be fifty sixty percent right
in that area in a bathroom during a show. So
it'll run till it evacuates all that moisture. If you
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don't run a fan, or you don't run that fan
long enough, you know what happens in the mirror, right,
You can't even see in it. It's got all the
moisture on it. Same thing's going on with the with
painted walls. And in a lot of cases, those surfactants
are just they're mixing with that water and they're getting
heavy enough and there's enough moisture. It runs down and
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it's a brown stain and it's slippery. It's like an oil,
and that's what it is. All right, let's take a break,
we come back. We got Jim Mary Corey if you'd
like to join us, do so. We got plenty of
time left to take your calls. It is eight hundred
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Speaker 1 (30:32):
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And we've got a good hour plus to go. So
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Let's go to Jim Jim.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Welcome, Hi Gary, I'm a big fan of yours.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Hi, thank you, I'm doing fine, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Okay, I'm gonna make it quick. I know there's a
lot of people trying to get on. I got two
quick comments and then I got my question.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
Do you like roto Router?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
I mean in the olden days? I don't know. I
won't say anything, but do you think it's a great
a place to start for like roots and underground drain
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Sure, I've not had any problems with them. I haven't
used them for a while in terms of removing roots
and things. What do you have right now? Is there
is you got a problem in the house where it's
just not moving the water out or do you think, yeah,
cracked rain?
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Oh no, it's I mean I can see the outdoor
gutters overflowing. Can't you know with the underground drain, it's
probably all blocked up with trees. It's been years, I
mean yeah, probably thirty years. Yeah, I have the feeling
that's the problem. But but do you trust the company?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I do, Yeah, I mean it's a long standing country company.
I do trust them.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Yes, Okay, And then here's another Last week you talked
about critters digging holes around the foundation. You didn't say,
what's the recommendation is on.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
How to do it? Just?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Should I throw top soil?
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Do I do gravel? What do you recommend you?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Well, so once you removed it, what kind of animal
you think you have?
Speaker 9 (32:15):
Oh, we have everything. I'm out with sugar and falls.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
We have groundhogs, muskrats, I mean it's beavers, chip monks.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I've got everything in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It's like, I think a lot depends too where it
is I'm visualizing as you're talking. You know, maybe a
set of concrete steps and a little stoop, and once
they get under there, you know, it's hard. I've even
used where they pump concrete underneath that under pressure. But
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you know, if they're still active in the area. Quite honestly,
you throw grave one soul out, they'll kick it right
back out. I mean, we got to just keep those
animals out of there, whether it's by a critter control
specialists or you do the trapping yourself that you or
they'll just keep throwing it out and then depending on
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the animal too. In fact that the person that I
had on that conversation is from the Akron area and
it's a plus wildlife control and they when I talk
to him, he's very very knowledgeable. He talks about depending
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on the animal, you can run spikes down into the
ground or even rebar he kind of build, like you know,
keep once you get them out, and once you get
gravel and you fill that back in, you almost got
to keep them from burrowing underneath those again, because they'll
throw that stuff right back out.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
For sure, I see.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
And then my last quick question. In my basement, we've
had some construction and remodeling, and in my basement there's
a wire coming out of the basement wall that's enclosed
in the tube, a plastic tube, and it's mark lamp
post light. And there's water coming out of the water
of the tube around that wire, and I'm like freaking out.
(34:08):
I think I'm got to have an electrical problem or explode.
Any idea is what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, I'm guessing where's the wire coming from once it's inside?
Is it coming from your panel box?
Speaker 8 (34:24):
No, it's just we had some construction done and I
think they wired. They put a wire through the wall
going out to the lamp post light and they enclosed
the wire in a plastic tube right on the ceiling.
It's yeah, it's high on the wall and it's labeled
lamp post light. But it's going outside. But it's coming
right out of a wall. No, nothing else near there.
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It's just a wall and it's water is pouring out
when it's real heavy rain.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, well, my goods. So is that wire actually operating
that lamp post? I mean you got light right?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, it is. It's actually the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well I guess we got Does it go underground once
it gets outside?
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Then yes, yeah, I think they put underground. It's probably
like a toobing a damaged or something.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Well, yeah, that's that. That was my take. Also that
it's probably damaged or cracked or water's getting into it.
And there's a slope to the house, so it's working
like a funnel. Ye. The only way you find it
is almost run a camera down through there and see
what's going on.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Do you think a plumber or an electrician for this weird?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Well, I call an electrician who did the work. Who
ran that wire during your remodeling is probably their electricians.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
Yeah, this million dollar contractor, big shots from Sugar and Falls.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, why don't you call him and tell them that
that plastic conduit you ran too my lamppost is bringing
water into my basement.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
I think that's the way to go.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I agree.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Thank you so much, Gary, you are the master.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I appreciate it. Thank you, take care bye bye. Yeah,
that does sound a little weird. I wonder where it's
getting this juice? All right, Corey.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Welcome, Hey Gary, thanks for taking my call. I appreciated. Hey,
I've been trying to get some paint off my steps
on in front of the porch or four inch slabs stone.
I tried to powerwash the paint and it's just not
coming off. What would you recommend something else to take
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that paint off?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Do you have any idea whether it's like a latex
paint or whether it's an oil.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I can't answer that because this was a rental property.
My wife and I just bought it six years ago
the place, so I'm not sure how long the paint's
been on there.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Is it splatters or is it.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's coming off in chips when I powerwashed it, and
it's just it's it's on a pretty good.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
So did somebody paint this or was it slopped on there?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I think it was. I think it was brushed.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay, all right? Yeah? Is this shady area or a
sunny area?
Speaker 11 (37:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It's sunny in the morning, shady in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay. And this is concrete or is it stone or
stone stone? Yes? So you can't really grind it off. Huh.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I don't want to do that because I kind of
want I don't want to repaint the stone. It looks
kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, So if we can't mechanically remove it. Maybe we
chemically remove it, okay. So there's a product called smart strip. Okay. Again,
if it's a sunny location, you'd want to apply this
in the evening, okay, And you know, so there's not
a lot of evaporation and probably be best really just
(37:55):
to apply it in the evening anyway, and then in
the morning it out there and you know.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Now you spray that on or what's that do you
could put.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You could put it on with a brush. It's like
a thick paste, I got you. But it's it's made
by Numan Chemical and it's called smart Strip. It's you know,
it's probably one of the best environmentally friendly strippers. And
that's what I would use. And you should be able
(38:26):
to just pull it up then, I mean if it
sits on there overnight, because it'll take probably anywhere from
forty eight hours to lift that and you should be
able to just remove it at that point. Go to
their website. It's Dumont Dumundglobal dot com and the name
of that product is smart Strip. All right, appreciate the call. Corey, Mary,
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Let's go to John, John, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I've got a nineteen twenty house. It's a three story
and it's brick all the way up, and I'd like
to put an exhaust van above the stove, and I've
got to go out the brick, and I believe it's
two courses of brick, one behind the other all the
way up For that outside wall. Do I have to
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have a guy come get on a letter, do an
initial hole maybe three quarters of an inch all the
way through the center and figure out where to drill
the direrent thing? Or does he drill with a big
diamond bit circular.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, they got them both ways. They got them both ways.
It's really going to depend on how big is your vent?
Is it a four inch pipe?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I haven't even bought it yet. What do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, it's going to depend on the sizing of you know,
the CFMS is what it is. It's the qbic feet
permitted of air movement. And then you're going to have
either a three inch pipe or a four inch pipe.
But you know, if you're if you don't have the
tools or feel comfortable upon the ladder or something, yeah,
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I'd get somebody to do that for you. It's not
the easiest thing.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And then from the inside to keep the hole clean.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Say that again.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Do they start at the outside and just draw all
the way through and pop it out into the kitchen
or do they drill from the outside halfway and then.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Go into the camp I'm going to I'm going to guess,
depending on what you have, that you're going to run
a pilot hole through the entire double uh double layers
of brick and take out a brick at a you know,
a a section at a time, one inside in one outside.
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Once you use your pilot hole through, you'll be able
to see exactly, you know, what you're trying to do.
And it depends on the tool he's going to use too.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
What where do I search to find such a person
that can do that? Is that a handyman thing?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I never be a handyman. Yeah, Like I talk about
the easy Breathe ventilation system that takes a four inch pipe.
They have a do it yourself kit. I'm just using
this an example, and then they also have people that
install them. And people ask me, well can I handle that? Well,
I don't know. I mean that tool that you're going
(03:59):
to use to cut through through just one layer of
brick is going to be expensive, you know, you know,
but yeah, I would say, I would say a handy
man would probably be a good source. You know, even
checking with the local store if they have somebody that
they deal with that does some handyman work, they'll usually
(04:21):
have recommendations or they'll have a list of people you
can get hold of.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
All Right, Garry, thank you very much for I hope
that helped.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Thank you, Thank you, take care, bumbye all right, and
Hank welcome.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Gary.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I appreciate talking to you and hopefully getting your some device.
You give some device every day every week.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So thank try.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I Before we moved into this place ten years ago,
we had enlarged the back death there was a cement
surface deck and then we enlarged it with you know,
so it's it's about a thousand square feet in the
back here, so it's pretty big. But we wanted the
deck to have not have the typical rain fall through,
(05:18):
so we had them put in a water barrier underneath
the deck boards, and then they underneath there is a
you know, non wood beeboard ceiling material. Beautiful, yeah, and
then and then they have the gutters and so forth
right to take the water away. The problem we're having
(05:41):
right now is that the water barrier is not stopping
all the water from going through. So the water then
goes underneath the water barrier onto the beedboard ceiling. And
as I get dripped through, I'm just afraid of mold.
(06:03):
I've got moss. I'm looking at right now, and wondered
what you might suggest, does wet and forget would that
take care of that? If I just prayed wet and
forget up above and let it penetrate through, what do
you think?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Probably it probably won't because it needs rain and sunshine
to stay active and to kill the mildew, moss, fungits
and everything else that could be in there. So the
water's dripping through the boards, I get that. And you've
got b board on the exterior below the deck and
(06:41):
there's there is there a rubber membrane in that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
To move the water, Yeah, underneath the trecks decking up
above and yeah we've got trecks and then the membrane
and then the ceiling material there for down below.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Aesthetics. Yeah, tell me, I give good information. Sometimes the
information I give is, you know, people don't want to
hear it. I think it's more than just a mold
and mildew issue, to be honest with you, there's something
that's failing in that system. Either that membrane is failed
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or it's improperly installed. But the molds and mildew, that's
one thing I'd also be concerned about. Rot of the
bee board.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Also, well, it's a non would it's that okay?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So it's like a poinal, yes, ok and and so okay,
So it's looking better. So the water gets in there
and there is a membrane in there, is that correct? Oh? Yes, okay,
So but the water's getting underneath that membrane apparently in
(08:00):
order for it to write through the seams.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Right, And my assessment is it's on the joints where
they you know, of course, wouldn't have a membrane large
enough for the entire you know deck, because it's not
it's not a rectangle shape. It's it follows a design
of the home which is a little unique.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So the question is how to get it to quit
leaking or how to get further of the mold. And
they'll do.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, Yes, how to get it to quit leaking and
then assess us there is you know the problem because
I'm as I'm down below looking up and I can
see the green monster and some cracks between the vinyl bboard.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, well we can and that's superficial the problem, right.
I mean, we can use an oxygenated bleach and you know,
spray that on let's say about ten minutes, and then
scrub it in rents or there's a product called thirty
second Cleaner, which is a high clorox based We can
(09:08):
spray that on, scrub it and rinse it. We'll get
rid of the muld and mildew. It'll come back because
the source is still there.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And and I'm concerned about the concerned about the layers
between the membrane and the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, but none of that can rot. So it's it
can hold water apparently, or at least a little bit
of it. And that's the bad news part is, I
don't know if there's a real answer that it sounds
to me that something has to be re engineered. Either
there's not enough slope on that ceiling or the membrane's
(09:46):
not covering the whole bee board and moving the water away.
You know, it's like a swimming pool with a hole
in it or a tire with a hole in it.
Until that's you know, re engineered, that problem's gonna exist. Yeah, Okay,
and tricks even, yes, they got to, but it would
require taking up the deck boards. They have a product
(10:09):
now that is a water proof like weather stripped between
the boards to even minimize how much water drips through
to the undercarriage, but you'd have to install that from
the top. And if it's a big deck, that's a
big deal, right right.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Okay, Well I was I was afraid about that answer,
but I pretty much concluded that before the call, and
you confirmed it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So yeah, the only other thing I could do, I mean,
if you wanted to just try something and you know,
give it a wing and hope maybe it helps. Maybe
it is not not going to really fix the cause,
but it might help contain the water. Is maybe bead
of silicone from the outside, a clear silicone. If there's
a couple, where is that leak of it all leaks?
(11:01):
Probably not, but that might be an option where it can't.
You know, water takes a path least resistance. If you're
taking that at least resistance and plugging it up, it
might flow to where it's supposed to.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Right, it'll yeah, right, yeah, it's supposed to flow from
the membrane to the gutters, and that's it's bypassing that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So and we can't even share it. But yeah, I
think that's the answer though. Thank you much, Hank, I appreciate.
We'll take a break, we'll come back, Larry, Jim, Joe Joy.
We'll work our way through the weekend together. You're at
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All right, back in it we go twenty two minutes
after the top of the are taking your calls with
your little home project or two or three or four.
This time of year, there's probably multiple home projects you're
looking at. And let's go to Joy Joy. Welcome, Hi Gary,
How are you doing wonderful? How about you.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Staying cool?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah? There you go. I have a quick question for you.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
We have a thirty year old we've been working into black.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Streets and we used about.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Five years ago to wet and forget uh huh my husband.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
And it worked great. My husband and I are not.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Big ones to read labels, but my son is and.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He moved in with me. Is my husband passed?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
We've noticed it said do not use if you collect water.
We have a sistern.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Is there something wet.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And forgetting apes or somebody.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Else that we can use to spray like that on
the roof. That's okay for systems colluters.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
If you're collecting that water. No. Is there a way
you can divert a water where it doesn't go in
the cistern?
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I can temporarily divert it, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
So here's I don't have a jug in front of me,
so I'm gonna give you a kind of a half answer.
I'm going to assume, okay, which is always a problem.
I'm going to assume that it's problematic when you're spraying it. Okay.
So if it's spraying and goes down into the gutter
system into the cistern, that's a problem. Once it's sprayed
(13:54):
and dried. I don't know if it's a it if
it's a problem at that point, Okay, it's it's it's
being reactivated with sun and rain. But I don't know
what you know unless it says that on the label.
(14:14):
So do you actively use the cistern? I mean you
collect water. You couldn't shut it off for six weeks,
could you?
Speaker 9 (14:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, no, no, okay. So this is what I you know.
So I'm not going to tell you go one way
or the other. But I can tell you how you
can get a pretty good answer right from the company itself.
If you go on Facebook and just there's called there's
a site called wet and Forget Crew. Okay, It's all
(14:47):
you got to do is like that, and you can
post a question in there and you'll get an answer
probably within a couple hours. It is it's their top
research people that actually work on that, and that would
be the question. The question I would ask would be
(15:10):
on your label, it says not to be used if
you collect water. I have a cistern. Is that mean
when I'm spraying or is that for the next three months?
And it may be for the next three months, but
it also could be just when it's spraying and you know,
and it fills the gutter and then we'll go to
(15:31):
the cistern. And that's why I said you could divert it.
But I don't know if that's a for sure answer.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Okay, that's that's that's very helpful.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Thank you, love your ship, very good. Thanks calling me time.
Appreciate it all right, and Larry welcome. Oh hold on
round out time too. Hang in there, Larry, tell me,
ask me what you need and then we'll probably take
a break.
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You recommend it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, what's that chair mender?
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Yeah, it's wonderful.
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You've used it and you like it.
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I've used it often myself and glad you had luck
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I guess a couple of things I had just wanted
to mention as we worked our way through the weekend heat.
Everybody says, what's the heat doing to our house? Well,
(19:34):
I'm sure it's doing some things. It's drying it out,
it's expansion and contraction of wood and things like that.
But here's one area I want you to check or
maybe do a little maintenance to, and it's it's the
garage door. I always say they fail during the most
extreme temperatures, whether it's really cold or really hot, if
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they haven't been maintained. And there are a couple of
parts of that garage door. You know, the biggest moving
object in the house for sure, and that's the lubrication.
And I'm not talking WD forty a silicon a teflon
those were great. Blaster has a actual garage door lubricant
(20:19):
which is a combination of teflons and silicons that you
can use. But clean the rails where the rollers go.
Clean those just a little mineral spirits and a cotton
cloth and spray those rails. You also get the wheels,
and there's different guys. There's plastic, there's nylon, there's metal.
(20:42):
Not that you're gonna change them, but if you would,
I would prefer the nylon with the bearings, the hinges,
the springs and just it'll quiet it down and it
will it'll help during extreme Oh. We got to do
this maybe twice a year. Do one in July and
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do one in January. And no grease, nothing along these
Lind's just a tough one. The grudge door, the blaster
grudge door. Lubricants excellent. But if you want to go
with a teflon or a silicone, you'll be fine. Just
stay away from the real refined oils and grease. That's
not gonna be helpful. In fact, a Greece will be
(21:25):
coming to turn. All right to the fundes we go, Joe, welcome, Hello, yes, sir.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
Hello, Hi, Hi Gary, Hey, thanks for taking the call.
You bet okay, So I've got I've got a room
The room is twenty two by twenty two feet. It's
a big square room built above our garage, and we
had vinyl flooring put down on it, the sheet rolled flooring.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Huh.
Speaker 12 (21:53):
And there's a scene right in the middle of the room,
of course, and it is just starting to lift on
the edge of This was put in probably five or
six years ago now, so you know, it's way out
of warranty and whatever. But I noticed that the same
edge is just beginning to lift a little bit right
in the main traffic area, and I wanted to know, like,
(22:13):
what can I do to push that back? I try
to push it down, and it really doesn't go down,
you know, like I would have hoped it would. Like
there's I don't know, I'm not sure what a good
approach would be.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Deficient. Can you get any adhesive underneath that? Or is
it just not up that high yet?
Speaker 12 (22:31):
It's not up that high, not even close yet. I
mean it's just starting.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, Well, you might try some heat and see if
that's okay, you know, kind of I'm tucker st don't
want to do that, but it may be come. It
may be ending on the adhesive. It may make that
more sticky I wouldn't use anything with an open flame.
(22:55):
I would probably start with a hair dryer on high. Uh.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
And I've also got a heat gun.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I was gonna say, and the next step up would
maybe be a heat gun. But be careful, you know.
I mean, if you used one, you know exactly what
I mean. You can kind of kind of tell see
if you can get some movement out of that. If
it does begin to fold down, I don't know, is
it just in spots, ors it along the whole scene.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
No, it's like a couple of inches then it's down,
Then another couple of inches and it's down. You know
that kind of thing. Probably over a maybe a two
foot span.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Is it used up there a lot or not so much?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (23:35):
Yeah, it's the main traffic.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, Yeah, okay. I was gonna say, if you get
it to fold down, Yeah, if you get it to
fold down, I'd probably put some weight on it. So
maybe you just do a little sick section at a time.
Oh you know, maybe if you got any little ten
pound dumbbells or something like that, or you know, brick
(23:58):
or something, just to kind of push it down and
see if we can. You're gonna have to you know,
folding it down, it'll be one thing, and I think
you'll accomplish that if we can make that adhesive. A
lot of times those are a cryllic latex adhesives. Sometimes
they can get soft too, So that's what i'd give
a try to. That's what I would work at. Okay,
(24:21):
solve that. Well, that's that's a good starting point. So yeah,
let me try that. It sounds better than anything I've
thought of. So I was trying to pick the edge
up and get glue under, but I didn't think that
would be a good idea. Coming Yeah, yeah, I agree.
I'd rather try to activate what we have and go
from there. Good idea.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
All right, Well, thank you very much. I listened all
the time. I appreciate your show.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Thank you, sir, appreciate all right, Din, if you'd like
to join us, do so. We got a line open.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
and Marry Joe welcome.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Hi. We recently we did our bathroom and we have
a toilet room and so there's water coming dripping down
not from the ceiling where the you know, the ceiling
needs the wall, but just below that. And if the
(25:14):
water has a has a little bit of an early
delvesh it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We used a.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Crylic paint on the bathroom wall.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
We we did there was installed a vent a ceiling,
you know, a vent for the shire that.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Is over the other part of the bathroom.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I'm not sure I can. So my husband put a
humidifier in there last night. Well it takes care.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Of the water, but there's still some.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Oily streaks underneath where the water has been evaporated. So uh,
any idea.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
On Yeah, I got I got a couple like ideas.
Is it when it's oily like that, is it real
slippery or is it kind of sticky slip? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
So here's my guess, okay, And it's just you can
(26:17):
see like a little stream and then there's a little
dot at the end of it maybe where.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
The I didn't see a dot big longs you know,
it's a tall tall.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is there multiple streaks?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, So I think what it is is called surfactants,
and paint has surfactants in it, and when we get
into areas where it's hot and steamy and moist, those
surfactants can leach from the paint. This is crazy, and
(26:57):
they will have a little brownish and it will be slipping.
It's soap. It's actually soap, and it's common in paints.
There are some telling you more than you need to know,
but there are some non surfactant bathroom paints. Ben Moore
(27:21):
has one of them, which is probably one of the
better ones. But to solve your problem, I think what
I would do is get some tri sodium phosphate and
wash that wall down, so you're not only just washing
off the surfactants that's on the surface of the paint,
(27:42):
but you're gonna wash the whole wall off. So where
the surfactants haven't bled all the way out, we're gonna
remove those. It wouldn't be a real big job, but
just wash that wall down. Get a non rinse tri
sodium phosphate and just wash that wall down.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Okay, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
All right, Mary Joe, take care, Thank you, bye bye.
I had that exact problem. I had absolutely no clue
what it was, and it was in this case, it
was a room that I had recently painted, recently being
in the last three months. It was in a bathroom,
(28:26):
and you know, we always talk about running the fan,
taking that humidity out of the bathroom and letting it
run after we finished the shower, and we all nod
our heads. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that. Of course we don't,
because we take the shower, we dry, and we're gone
in the heck with a fan. But now there are
(28:50):
fans four bathrooms that actually have a humdistat in it.
They stay on until it hits the prescribed humidity level,
which I would guess would be fifty sixty percent right
in that area in a bathroom during a show. So
it'll run till it evacuates all that moisture. If you
(29:14):
don't run a fan, or you don't run that fan
long enough, you know what happens in the mirror, right,
You can't even see in it. It's got all the
moisture on it. Same thing's going on with the with
painted walls. And in a lot of cases, those surfactants
are just they're mixing with that water and they're getting
heavy enough and there's enough moisture. It runs down and
(29:36):
it's a brown stain and it's slippery. It's like an oil,
and that's what it is. All right, let's take a break,
we come back. We got Jim Mary Corey if you'd
like to join us, do so. We got plenty of
time left to take your calls. It is eight hundred
and eight two three eight two five five, and you're
(29:57):
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Speaker 1 (30:32):
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And we've got a good hour plus to go. So
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Let's go to Jim Jim.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Welcome, Hi Gary, I'm a big fan of yours.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Hi, thank you, I'm doing fine, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Okay, I'm gonna make it quick. I know there's a
lot of people trying to get on. I got two
quick comments and then I got my question.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
Do you like roto Router?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
I mean in the olden days? I don't know. I
won't say anything, but do you think it's a great
a place to start for like roots and underground drain
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Sure, I've not had any problems with them. I haven't
used them for a while in terms of removing roots
and things. What do you have right now? Is there
is you got a problem in the house where it's
just not moving the water out or do you think, yeah,
cracked rain?
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Oh no, it's I mean I can see the outdoor
gutters overflowing. Can't you know with the underground drain, it's
probably all blocked up with trees. It's been years, I
mean yeah, probably thirty years. Yeah, I have the feeling
that's the problem. But but do you trust the company?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I do, Yeah, I mean it's a long standing country company.
I do trust them.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Yes, Okay, And then here's another Last week you talked
about critters digging holes around the foundation. You didn't say,
what's the recommendation is on.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
How to do it? Just?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Should I throw top soil?
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Do I do gravel? What do you recommend you?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Well, so once you removed it, what kind of animal
you think you have?
Speaker 9 (32:15):
Oh, we have everything. I'm out with sugar and falls.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
We have groundhogs, muskrats, I mean it's beavers, chip monks.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I've got everything in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It's like, I think a lot depends too where it
is I'm visualizing as you're talking. You know, maybe a
set of concrete steps and a little stoop, and once
they get under there, you know, it's hard. I've even
used where they pump concrete underneath that under pressure. But
(32:45):
you know, if they're still active in the area. Quite honestly,
you throw grave one soul out, they'll kick it right
back out. I mean, we got to just keep those
animals out of there, whether it's by a critter control
specialists or you do the trapping yourself that you or
they'll just keep throwing it out and then depending on
(33:05):
the animal too. In fact that the person that I
had on that conversation is from the Akron area and
it's a plus wildlife control and they when I talk
to him, he's very very knowledgeable. He talks about depending
(33:25):
on the animal, you can run spikes down into the
ground or even rebar he kind of build, like you know,
keep once you get them out, and once you get
gravel and you fill that back in, you almost got
to keep them from burrowing underneath those again, because they'll
throw that stuff right back out.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
For sure, I see.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
And then my last quick question. In my basement, we've
had some construction and remodeling, and in my basement there's
a wire coming out of the basement wall that's enclosed
in the tube, a plastic tube, and it's mark lamp
post light. And there's water coming out of the water
of the tube around that wire, and I'm like freaking out.
(34:08):
I think I'm got to have an electrical problem or explode.
Any idea is what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, I'm guessing where's the wire coming from once it's inside?
Is it coming from your panel box?
Speaker 8 (34:24):
No, it's just we had some construction done and I
think they wired. They put a wire through the wall
going out to the lamp post light and they enclosed
the wire in a plastic tube right on the ceiling.
It's yeah, it's high on the wall and it's labeled
lamp post light. But it's going outside. But it's coming
right out of a wall. No, nothing else near there.
(34:45):
It's just a wall and it's water is pouring out
when it's real heavy rain.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, well, my goods. So is that wire actually operating
that lamp post? I mean you got light right?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, it is. It's actually the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well I guess we got Does it go underground once
it gets outside?
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Then yes, yeah, I think they put underground. It's probably
like a toobing a damaged or something.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Well, yeah, that's that. That was my take. Also that
it's probably damaged or cracked or water's getting into it.
And there's a slope to the house, so it's working
like a funnel. Ye. The only way you find it
is almost run a camera down through there and see
what's going on.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Do you think a plumber or an electrician for this weird?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Well, I call an electrician who did the work. Who
ran that wire during your remodeling is probably their electricians.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
Yeah, this million dollar contractor, big shots from Sugar and Falls.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, why don't you call him and tell them that
that plastic conduit you ran too my lamppost is bringing
water into my basement.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
I think that's the way to go.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I agree.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Thank you so much, Gary, you are the master.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I appreciate it. Thank you, take care bye bye. Yeah,
that does sound a little weird. I wonder where it's
getting this juice? All right, Corey.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Welcome, Hey Gary, thanks for taking my call. I appreciated. Hey,
I've been trying to get some paint off my steps
on in front of the porch or four inch slabs stone.
I tried to powerwash the paint and it's just not
coming off. What would you recommend something else to take
(36:36):
that paint off?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Do you have any idea whether it's like a latex
paint or whether it's an oil.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I can't answer that because this was a rental property.
My wife and I just bought it six years ago
the place, so I'm not sure how long the paint's
been on there.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Is it splatters or is it.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's coming off in chips when I powerwashed it, and
it's just it's it's on a pretty good.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
So did somebody paint this or was it slopped on there?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I think it was. I think it was brushed.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay, all right? Yeah? Is this shady area or a
sunny area?
Speaker 11 (37:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It's sunny in the morning, shady in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay. And this is concrete or is it stone or
stone stone? Yes? So you can't really grind it off. Huh.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I don't want to do that because I kind of
want I don't want to repaint the stone. It looks
kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, So if we can't mechanically remove it. Maybe we
chemically remove it, okay. So there's a product called smart strip. Okay. Again,
if it's a sunny location, you'd want to apply this
in the evening, okay, And you know, so there's not
a lot of evaporation and probably be best really just
(37:55):
to apply it in the evening anyway, and then in
the morning it out there and you know.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Now you spray that on or what's that do you
could put.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You could put it on with a brush. It's like
a thick paste, I got you. But it's it's made
by Numan Chemical and it's called smart Strip. It's you know,
it's probably one of the best environmentally friendly strippers. And
that's what I would use. And you should be able
(38:26):
to just pull it up then, I mean if it
sits on there overnight, because it'll take probably anywhere from
forty eight hours to lift that and you should be
able to just remove it at that point. Go to
their website. It's Dumont Dumundglobal dot com and the name
of that product is smart Strip. All right, appreciate the call. Corey, Mary,
(38:48):
you'll be up first. If you'd like to join us,
we can take your calls and there's a spot for you.
It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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