Gary Sullivan 6/29/2025 Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come now our number two at Home with Gary Salvin
taking it to another Sunday getting a few things done
around a home. If you have a question regarding your home,
feel free.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
To join us at move one three seven hundred and
we'll out about your project, given the suggestion on how
to do it, a product to use, and we'll.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Do that till noon today. All right here on put
the podcast see detok station. Well, the weekend is here.
Welcome aboard at home with Gary slvent as we well,
hopefully take care of a project or two. As I
mentioned earlier, if you got crazy weather, a lot of
heat waves in different parts of the country, pay attention.
If you use any type of coating, calocking, paint, sealers,

(00:47):
just pay attention to where their limitations are in terms
of heat, or maybe the project won't go as nicely
as you want it to. All right, our phone numbers
eight hundred eight two three eighty two five greb a line,
we got a spot for you and Bud welcome, How
are you good doing fine? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, I've got a I got a tough problem because
I don't know where you're at. My water went off,
facum amend the moss and we couldn't figure it out.
My next door neighbor, he's just one of those guys
that made a bit about everything, and I went over
to ask him, and he came over and looked at

(01:29):
it and he said, well, you know we had that
electrical serge yesterday morning. And I said, no, I did
not know this. He said yeah, it was about nine
o'clock and I said, well, I was just watching the
backs of my highles about that time. And we went
around and checked the main thing box with few boxes
in the house everything. Couldn't find anything wrong with it,

(01:50):
but we went ahead and replaced the main us that
he led to the water pant. Okay, that didn't it.
And I was just one of them.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
If you need.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Not who I could contact? But what type of service
do I need call to get somebody bend here to
look at that? Because I've been.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
So you got a little background noise and I got
a couple of questions. If you can turn that down
a little bit, uh, that'd be helpful, Bud. And I
guess my question is when you say the water pump,
is this for your well or what what is the
water pump for? Correct? It's for the well well? Yeah,

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and and it's not functioning at all.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, I can't get any wonder at all, and borrowing
off my egg or milk jokes that I fill.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, well, you not to be you know. I would
say there's two two types of people that you could
contact to have somebody look at that. One would be
a plumber. The other would be a company that deals
in wells, because there's you know, chlorination of wells, there's

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water pumps for wells, there's you know, pressure containers for wells,
and they deal in all that. So I would say
a well company or a plumber would be able to
help you with that. So maybe go in that direction.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And uh okay, I just wrote those two down. I'll
look around. I really am kind of at a loss
for words on this one because I've never had this problem.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Before, right right old, yeah, Well, every day we learned something,
that's for sure, right yeah yeah. So, I mean it
could be a bad pump. I mean it could be
multipitude of things, and I'd probably stick with a well
company if if you know of one in your area
that can service that, I think that would probably be

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my first call. A plumber would be a good secondary
call and ask them if they, you know, specialize in
anything in wells and tell them what your issue is.
But yeah, I think that's the direction i'd go, my friend,
thank you much, and uh, let's go to Mike. Mike, welcome,

(04:18):
good morning, good morning.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
I've been using the Wet and Forget product you've recommended
here for several years on driveway and roof and siding. Yes,
earlier this year I thought i'd try a new application.
I took it out to the cemetery and used it
on some family gravestones that are sixty eighty hundred years
old and I just did a great job on or
we couldn't you really couldn't even read the engravings au it.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, Crystal, Yeah, I've had many people tell me that.
In fact, I don't know what which we and Forget
you used, but they now do have one in a
handheld pre mixed Wet and Forget specifically for small things
like gravestones or brick window sills, and very convenient. And

(05:05):
I've seen some of the work that that is done
on gravestones and you're right, it's amazing. And some of
those you know, they're they're made of limestone and even
some marble when they just retain a lot of moisture
so they get they get yucky pretty fast, especially if
there's treasure. Right.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
I just used a hand pumped sprayer and yep, you know,
since it doesn't hurt some vegetation or any flowers, it
might be around on net.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's a glad you had luck with it. Thanks for
the call, appreciate it. Bye bye. Yeah, it reminds me
to remind you if you there's so many applications for it.
It can be used on almost anything. You know, it'll

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have all the specifics on the label that you can read.
But it's it's so easy to use, and it's if
you have any questions. For instance, can I use it
on Marble? No, there's a shower one you can use

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on Marble, but not on that. There is a Facebook.
If you're on Facebook, there's what they call the Wet
and Forget Crew and you can post on their page.
All you gotta do is like it, post it on
their page. It's so easy to get a specific answer.

(06:35):
So many times, different products require maybe different techniques. Okay.
In other words, all roofs aren't the same, All seilers
aren't the same, All molden mildew removers are not the same.
So if you have a question specific to Wet and Forget,

(06:58):
you just like Wet and Forget crew, you can post
your question and no answered. I mean you get an
answer in an hour or two. And so it's kind
of like their technical services right there. For you don't
need to make a call. You can just post your
question and you'll get a quick answer. So keep that
in mind. I know I peruse that sheet occasionally because

(07:19):
I pick up tips from there, things that I maybe
wouldn't have thought about using it for. And somebody had
posted it, and you know, somebody has used it, and
you're a lot more comfortable of tackling that project. All right,
let's go to Anthony. Anthony.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
Welcome, Hey Dinny Gary.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
Yes, yeah, a couple of weeks back you talked about
I thought it was a mixture of baking soda and
hot water to get rid of moss in your yard.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Mm hmm. I think that was maybe Ron Wilson that
did that.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Oh oh, the landscaping guy. Right, Okay, Okay, well I'll
listened to you usually.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, Well, you know, to kind of go back, I mean,
you can take I mean, I'm familiar with it, but
you'll you'll wet the air. Is it in the yard
under a tree or something like that.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
No, it's in my landscaping.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
It's in the landscaping. Okay, you can wet that down
first with a hose and then just take baking sod
and sprinkle on it and it'll it'll turn brown and
you know it be don as a doornail in a
short period of time.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Okay. And then I was I'm reading all my landscaping.
So it's covering everything with with a landscaping sheeting or cloth,
whatever you call it. Okay, the effect kills it. Then
if I covered it shouldn't come back.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, yeah, it's uh, I don't. I don't know if
i'd go with that. It's outdoor, so you know, I
can remember again a little bit out of my area
of expertise, but might ads house years and years ago.
He always had a moss issue on the ground and
the trees were just obliterating the grass and it was

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a lot of just soil and moss was there and
we'd kill the moss and next year, during that time
we'd kill kill the moss, plant the grass and grass
to grow. The grass would die, moss would show up
the next year. So a lot of it is just
the environmental conditions, and it's just it becomes more of

(09:32):
a maintenance thing that surefire cure. Now, if yours is
in a landscaping bed and there's mulch there and then
moss is growing on the maulch, it may just be
with the amount of rain we've had this year, it's
just been very very conducive for moss and fungus to grow.
And you may kill this and you may not see

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it again. So I just don't think there's a guarantee
on that, but a good chance you'll eliminate it. All right.
Thank you much for the call. I hope that helps.
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our temperature gets a little wacky. So temperatures are wacky
right now, so pay attention to what your product's telling
you you should or should not do. That being said,
let's go to Remo, Remo.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Welcome, Thank you, Hey, Gary. Appreciate the show. It's always
helped when I needed it, and I'm open it does today.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
All right, we'll try.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, I'm going to stretch your knowledge here for a second.
I've never heard the topic. I have a hot water
heater like everybody, and it's a gas hot water heater
down in the basement. Last year I had an issue
where and I had installed it so I knew it
from new. I experienced a purging where out the emergency

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pressure vowl it would and shoot water down to the floor.
Occasionally it seemed to be like when I flushed the
toilet or when I used water. So I asked and
someone said, put an expansion tank on there. I did
that and then eliminated it, and I was like, oh

(12:42):
my god, I got hot water a can. The problem
is now with the expansion tank still it worked for
seven months, it started purging again. I don't understand how
it can do this. Passed in putting the input water

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pressure from the city. I don't know what's going on
with my hot water heater, and it's just driving me
nuts to boil water to get hot water.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, it could be a couple of things. Number one,
it could be the water pressure in the house. I
don't know if you've tested that. It usually tested on
an outdoor spiket. You can get a little bruison. Okay,
go ahead, Yeah, understood.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
I've tried that, and I don't recall what the pressure was,
but I remember that it was within the range because
it was over two A year and a half to
the water meter for this house has been a problem

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for this house. It leaked at one time. It leaked
and leaked down the street thousands of gallons. Because it's
buried in my front yard, right, I can't I can't
get to it, and getting the city to do anything
about it is a month long process, it seems. I
was wondering if you or any plumbers that listen to you.

(14:15):
I'm a painter by trade, so I always listen to
you for tips or to be able to help. If
anybody in there has experienced this where even after the
expansion tank, yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
It can happen. So I'm going to just kind of
spin you back. You know, the water pressure going into
house should be between probably forty five and eighty PSI. Okay, okay,
there's usually in a lot of houses there's a pressure
reducing valve that if it exceeds eighty, you can, you know,
back it down a little bit and get it a

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little bit lower where that may eliminate it. I'm not
saying that's it. I'm just saying that could be it.
An expansion tank on a water feater is kind of
like the expansion tank on a radio on a car.
Gets too hot, that water expands, it goes into the
reservoir and it keeps the radiator from exploding like it

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back in the day that would happen. Yeah, So with
the expansion tank, there's a liner in there, and there's
air in there, and that can get water logged also,
so you know, you can test to see if there's air.

(15:32):
I'm thinking it's ten pounds almost with like a tire gauge,
you can see where you're at on that. But it
may be that that expansion tank has gotten water logged.
In other words, it's already filled with water in you know,
so you might be able to purge that, or at

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the very worst scenario would have to replace that.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
I was always under I had always been under the
impression that the expansion tank was for just pressured air
well and I didn't know that it actually fills with water.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, it can, because the bladder can be a problem.
I mean that that may be it. So I would
test and see if there's you know, you might even
google to see exactly what the amount of air. I
think it's ten pounds, but I can be wrong, and
you can test to see if it's water logger. If
there is air, there.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Would spinning it upside down and trying the valve check
to see if there's water. Is that something where i'd
just take it off?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
And yeah, I think i'd take it off.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Okay, Hey, first of all, thank you for the hint.
And second of all, wow, now you really screwed up
my sunday. I gotta go be a farm.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I do that occasionally, and I'm sorry, but it's okay.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
I appreciate you enough to get you by on this one.
All right, God, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
You bet let me know how you make out remote. Thanks,
appreciate it. All right again, if you'd like to join us,
do so. We're talking about your home coming up, but
we're gonna talk a little bit about sump pumps. I
still just quiver when we have these heavy downpours of
rain and people don't have backup sump pumps. How do

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they work? What do you need to look at? That's
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All right back at we go at Home with Gary Sulvan.
A busy, busy, busy weekend, that's for sure. Joining us
now is BJ Hentrup. He is with the Zalor Company,
the industry leader, the gold standard of pumps. Bj, welcome
again to at Home with Gary Selvin. How you doing Gary?

Speaker 12 (19:30):
It is great to be back on with you.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Have you been I've been great. I've been great. Man.
It's been a weird, weird weather year. It has to
affect your business, probably in a good way. Is that true?

Speaker 12 (19:42):
Oh my gosh, yes, with all the rains and storms
and power outages.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yet definitely unbelievable, unbelievable. So let's talk about that scary
thing in the basement that's in the floor. Okay, okay,
that's called a sumpump by the way, folks, And they
don't last for how long does they do? Pump last last? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (20:05):
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 some pump.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, all right, and uh, you're you're right down Louisville, Kentucky.
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 12 (20:30):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yet 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 need to be done?

Speaker 12 (20:49):
I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say there's a maintenance. You just
want to make sure that your some pump is is
running and when it's called to use, that it's doing
its job. So you know, every once in while while,
you know, just go down there 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 and carefully put it down in there and

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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.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Too, is what you need to do. Boy. And I'll
tell you one of the things I've preached. 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, uh, making inroads on that
process of education.

Speaker 12 (21:42):
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, that's when you want that's when
you want to have a backup pump. We offer a
couple of different battery backup pumps, but the big one,
uh for everybody to remember, is called the aquaat fit

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and it is able to be controlled and tested 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 1 (22:21):
Well, that's nice to have. That's a piece on line.

Speaker 12 (22:25):
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 4 (22:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:38):
It is, Oh God, thank goodness. Or not hearing it,
I don't know how. I was just trained it. 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 12 (22:53):
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 playing games
or what now with the kiddos, and I'm like, I
don't think i've heard the pump yet.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (23:03):
Let me make sure it's over there.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, 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

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or a power failure or you're out of town. What
makes up a backup some pump?

Speaker 12 (23:37):
Yeah? So, and you bring up a good point. You
know I'd 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

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into effect. It's not just for 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 (24:22):
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 12 (24:30):
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.

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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 1 (25:01):
Yeah, you just scared me. I know my battery is
more than three years old.

Speaker 12 (25:06):
You better get down there, Gary.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I know it is. I know it is, but I
also know it's working because you got different light assemblies
on pumps.

Speaker 12 (25:19):
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 1 (25:46):
And not all people are comfortable with 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,

(26:07):
they'll know exactly what you're talking about. You agree with
that statement, Oh.

Speaker 12 (26:12):
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
Xelor name, I would almost bet they would know who
we are and what our product is.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
People always want to know about well, if its floods,
insurance takes care of that, but not always.

Speaker 12 (26:41):
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 Guaranteed products, which
is three specific products. It's our model sixty three Triple

(27:27):
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

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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

(28:07):
much you know us, you know, putting our putting our
money where I'm out this and saying, listen, we trust
and believe in our products so much that we're going
to offer this.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Wow. So, so where does the homeowner find a certified installer?

Speaker 12 (28:22):
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 is available in.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay, Well, that's that's a great that's a great, great benefit.
I mean it really is. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (28:44):
Yeah, 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 (28:54):
Mmm. 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

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of building them and then educating plumbers. You created kind
of a university down there where you train plumbers out
in the field.

Speaker 12 (29:24):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean quality is a big
thing for us, Gary, like you said, going through our plant,
all testing and quality that we have there in Louisville, Kentucky.
But yeah, you're right. You know we have on site
like well you 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

(29:45):
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 (29:58):
I feel that tides coming to where there's gonna be
a lot of new people entering the trades and the
plumbing business. So your foresight and uh coming up with
that training center was was fantastic. And I'm sure you're
busy down there all the time. Uh, Teaching very important.

Speaker 12 (30:21):
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, h Dave, you know Rob Chloe,
everybody that's that's there in the Center for Excellence. I
mean we we have trainings. Oh gosh, Gary, probably every
week there's somebody in there doing training.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah. I have to get down there again. Maybe this
fall we'll make another stuff and down to Louisville and
take a look at things. I'm always impressed whenever i'm there. Well, BJ,
thank you very much. Again. It's Zalorpumps dot com. Uh
Dry Basement Guaranteed dot com. And I appreciate your time
on this weekend.

Speaker 12 (31:02):
As always, it's great to talk with you.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Gary.

Speaker 12 (31:04):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
You're quite welcome. Thank you, bye bye. All right, there
you go. 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

(31:27):
business for generations. They do quite quite the job. All right,
we'll continue with your calls. We got Hank, John and Joan.
As we go through the weekend. You're at home with
Gary Sullivan.

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All right, back in it we go at Home with
Gary Sullivan talking a little home improvement. And you know,
whether it's the sump pump or whether it's grating around
your yard. You know, all the problems with the basement
start outside. And it's not always the crack and the

(32:39):
foundation that causes I mean failure of a sump pump.
As we just heard from our friend from Zalor. It
certainly can create big problems in the basement, but also
water control on the outside plays a big part of
keeping your basement dry, clean, gutters free, flowing, control the water.

(33:01):
As I've said many times, it really is about water control.
It's not always just waterproofing. Sure there's waterproofing paints, there's
waterproofing patches, but it's really water control. Remember, water goes

(33:21):
the path of least resistance. And if you've got a
crack in a basement wall and you got water coming
in during I always like to land it only leaks
when it rains really hard. Well, the crack is a
symptom of the problem, and the problem is you got
too much water pressure around that house, and you really

(33:43):
need to think about redirecting that water. Whether it's an
underground front strain and we'll get to patch in a crack,
whether it's getting a positive flow of water away from
the foundation in other words, sloped away from the foundation
maybe six feet, and sometimes you can't, and that's when

(34:05):
we get into the underground French train. But it's always
about water control because when you patch the crack, that's
obviously a path of least resistance. If we have a
lot of water accumulating around the foundation and we have
a cracked foundation, the water is going to come through
the crack because it's the path of least resistance. So

(34:27):
when people say to me, okay, so what do I
use to patch that crack, And there's a hydraulic cement
that I'll patch that crack. There's injectable empoxies that will
patch that crack. But really the question is if you
patch that crack, where's that water gonna go. It's gonna

(34:50):
find another path of least resistance. If it's an underground
French drain, it's gonna take it away from the foundation.
If you change the slow hope of the soil around
the foundation, it's going to shed that moisture away from
the foundation. It's the path of least resistance. You know.

(35:13):
If we have ponding around the surface and we fill
that area with top soil and slope it away, we've
changed the path of least resistance. So always something to
think about. We all fight water, that's for sure. It
is very destructive to our homes, and not just in basements.

(35:38):
But you know, I'm always up on the talking about
the gutters because they serve such an important service to
our homes, especially for folks that live in areas very
dense soil. Clay not so much a problem in sandy soils.
But boy, you get that and you get it wet,

(36:02):
and it expands and it puts pressure on this foundation
and it cracks and it holds the moisture and your
gutters are blocked and the water's just spilling all over
that foundation. You're gonna have problems. And then if you
get into a drought, that clay dries out and it
shrinks and pulls away from the foundation and you can
have cracked and you're gonna have problems. So that's an

(36:27):
area we need to pay attention to. And when we're
talking about some pumps, we talked usually or we talked
a lot about, you know, the amount of the amount
of value we have in basements nowadays, with a bar area,
a game area, a theater area. You know, if that
primary pump goes, you're looking at a big expense, So

(36:53):
you gotta have you gotta have a backup. I mean,
it's it's it really is that important. And it's not
always just in finished basements. I mean, these same problems
occur if you have cross space. Granted we don't have
a big TV, we don't have all kinds of flooring

(37:15):
in there, but a lot of times you had that
problem in a crosspace. You got painting water on the
floor of a cross space, and it's usually the floor
is dirt and all of a sudden we start having
high humidity and we have mold and you can't really
see it and it's not really destroying carpeting and stuff.

(37:38):
But it's a very very unhealthy area, so those same
concerns come into play, and getting a flashlight and inspecting
it if you can, or get somebody out there to
inspect it, to make sure that's properly floor covered with

(37:58):
plastic as a vapor barrier, your insulation is not moldy
and rotting, no standing water or maybe as some pump
needs to be installed. All that is about water control
and back up pumps, and you know, give it some
thought because it's a common problem and if it's not

(38:19):
properly engineered, those are expensive, expensive issues and unhealthy issues
in a lot of cases, all right, So noth of that.
We've got other things to work on, that's for sure.
If you'd like to join us, we'd certainly love to
have you. Our phone number is eight hundred eight two

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