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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, welcome to our number three at Home with
Gary Selvin, marching through the weekend talking about your home projects.
Feel free to join us. Our phone number is well,
it's five one three. Those local lines are open today,
so if you can go ahead and grab one, please do.
I'll be happy to talk about your home maintenance or
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repairs you might have around your home. Welldill till noon
today right here on fifty five KSC deat talk station
Well the weekends upon us. Welcome. You're at home with
Gary Salvin taking your calls regarding your home projects. Our
phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
You can grab a line and uh, let's chat. I
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also have a list of things you might want to tackle,
and we'll get to that in a little bit. But
if you're living in an area where you're having some
extreme heat, not that we don't always have it about
this time of year, but you know, hotter than normal
a good time to pay attention to the garage doors.
Extreme temperatures, cold or hot, it can be tough on
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the springs and the rollers. And we'll talk a little
bit about maintaining the grut shore in a bit, but
go ahead and grab a line. We got a couple open. Betsy, welcome,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, well, you know I have our faintly has five
acres east of town here in Oklahoma, and for the
first time this year. Well, I'm used to the deer
coming in and eating all the fruit off our fruit trees, which.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I let them do.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But now all of a sudden they've decided to come
and have dessert on all of our flower bed and
all the flowers.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, well that's what deer do. There are certainly
some things you can do to prevent that. It would
be an ongoing maintenance. There's a probably called liquid fence
that you can spray around your flower beds or landscaping
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areas that will deter deer and then in the future,
you know, coming down the road next year, if those
plants are annuals, you might look at some plants that
you know, deer aren't that thrilled about eating. And I
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don't have any elf the top of my head. But
a garden center can help you. Mister Google can probably
help you. But there are deer. There are deer resistant
plantings that can be used. But in the meantime, I'd
go to the hardware store garden center and get some
of the liquid fence, which you know, read the directions too.
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It is something that has to be reapplied. I forget
the amount of day. It's probably like twenty one days
or something along those lines. If you have a lot
of rain during a period of time, you might want
to reapply. Uh. But changing the environment I'm always talking
when it's comes to pest, whether it's uh, you know,
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ants or flies or deers or you know, chipmunks you
got or even woodpeckers. You got to change the environment
where it's not something that they want to deal with.
And that liquid fence will produce an odor that you're
not gonna smell, but it's an odor that they're not
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going to appreciate and they'll start leaving your flowers alone.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh good, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
All righty well, thank you, all right, good enough, thank you.
And again that number, if you'd like to grab a line,
it's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
A couple of things. One is this is a good
time of year. You'll think it's a crazy time of
year to do this, but I'm telling you it's a
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good time of year. Chimneys you know, we always talk
about cleaning chimneys, having a you know, when you're building
a fire in your home and you're like, who in
the world why are we talking about this? Well, I'm
going to tell you here in a second. Chimney repair
needs to be done in the summer and early fall
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because chimney companies are going to be very, very busy
with inspections and cleaning of chimneys when the weather turns cold.
So if you've been maintaining a chimney, maybe you've been
watching an issue and maybe it's time that you want
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to correct this problem. Now would be a time to
have that corrected. If you suspect there's a problem, maybe
start seeing a little water stain on a on a ceiling,
on the wall that the chimney is on. That's probably
I'm not saying one hundred percent, but it's probably has
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something to do with the chimney. Maybe it's the flashing
of the chimney. But having that inspected and having that
taken care of during the summer and even having a
clean before chimney sweeps get really busy the fire burning
season's over, now is a really good time there. That's
when they do their repairs. That's when they tackle a
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lot of those projects. So consider that. And again, if
you see water stains, you know those don't go away.
They're there for a reason. You got a leak. And
if you look at your chimney and you go from
the bottom up, the chimney is vulnerable. Where the flashing
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is flashing between the chimney in the roof, that should
be inspected, missing mortar, between the bricks on the chimney,
cracked bricks on the chimney, and the parts you can't see,
which is also a very vulnerable part of the chimney itself,
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is the crown washed which is the very top of
the chimney. There's a concrete pad. The flu's going up
under up through that concrete pad. The concrete pad, just
like the concrete sidewalk, may have cracks in it. It
may be spawling, waters penetrating getting down between the brick
and the liner and working its way into the home.
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That needs to be coated and sealed or replaced. Don't
know how bad it is. Having the flu that's going
up through that needs to be calked tight. Maybe it's
pulled away. So having a chimney inspected on a regular
basis is very important. If it's been a couple of
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years since it's been cleaned and you burn a lot
of wood, you really need to have that cleaned and inspected.
And this is the time of year Otherwise you start
getting in you know, the November December time period, and
it starts getting cold, and you try to get somebody
to do that, Probably not gonna happen. You're gonna have
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to wait. So getting in front of that is a
really good idea. In fact, even if you're thinking, I know,
you know, I feel like I'm pushing you, but I
try to do this a lot, especially nowadays, if you're
looking at a project. Maybe you've been kicking around about
redoing your kitchen. Maybe you're going to have someone take
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that basement and turn it into a wreck room or something.
Right now is the time to think about that, because
everybody you know, it's so true. You know, it's all sudden.
It's about October. We start getting closed in our homes,
and you know, I think I'm going to add more
space at home. I think I have somebody do my basement.
You kind of missed the window. By the time you
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start figuring out what you're going to do, find a
contractor start the plans, get the perm I mean it's
too late. So get in front of those projects. Look
forward deck building, you know, geez, I want to have that.
Uh this summer probably not a good chance. Not but
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in the falls grade deck building weather and they're not
always super busy. And getting in front of that and
start doing the research or what kind of decking boards
you want, who you want to do the work, how
much you want to spend these projects. Take time in
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finding a contractor that you're comfortable with and as availability
is a challenge also, So get in front of your projects. Well,
take a little break, James, you'll be up first. If
you'd like to join us. You've got the phone number,
grab a line. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, you're at home with Gary Sullivan as we
discuss home issues. Let's get back to the phone calls
and we have James. James welcome. How you doing, buddy,
Doing fine?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Thanks, spent a lot of years with you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I calling.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I was literally tuck pointing my chimney.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
When you just started talking about.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Man, oh yeah, it's a big job.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How you doing matching the mortar?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Not bad.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
I'm using the bag so of course you know, I'm
not the professional.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
But it doesn't look bad.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It'll work good. No good, that's stuff.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah. Well, I got to put roof on, so I
don't want to have that stuff on the roof. You know,
when I put the green, I'm thinking ahead, I'm learning.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
All right, well, I'm calling you about this thing. So
this house we have, it's a walk out, you know,
one single door walkout basement, and it's got the cinder
block sides and concrete steps and we had it into
a waterproof because it's old country home. So they got
the awning over the top of it and they did
it perfect, you know, just over the sides, perfect to
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them and to the end here. But when it rains.
That water is just rocking it taring, you know, just
I see a crack in the cinder block coming and
is there a way to I don't know if the
goof or whatever. Are there gutters or something that we
could throw on these aluminum monies or how would I
redirect that rain?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Boy? So how big is this awning? Is this awning
like the width of a door and just hangs out
about three feet.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
It comes out when you come to the top of
the steps. I would you're about right, maybe four or
five because it comes over where that concrete block is
and runs right down.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, so the steps go down, then there's a landing area, yes, and.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
There's a drain there, okay where that drain runs into
that into a waterproofing works on the subpump, which you
talked about today, right, amazing, amazing?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, you know on those type of awnings, No, I don't.
I don't know of a gutter system that would go
on there. I I don't know if you can really
control the water just off those those awnings. I mean
they're more like it's kind of like an umbrella.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Right, Yes, that's exactly what it does. It's just runs
it away. But that's the right way.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I don't want it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I mean you get underneath it and you're dry,
but you know, the sides are just going to be flooding.
Does the drain work or does it puddle?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
No, the drains working, it's the Yeah, the water is
coming down, but it is it's sooner. I bet you
any other year probably could dig that on the block, right,
That's what you know. Just so there's nothing like that,
So probably be the if I might put underground drains
in almost like that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, so that was going to be the question is
is twofold things that come to mind. One is is
there an area where we could put a wider roof
and then come out put post where you're covering a
larger area to keep that area dry. Or is the
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water spilling off the existing awning and getting it? Uh,
where's that problem? Is it just getting the the the
yard muddy in those areas.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Or yeah, yeah, the yard it's it's off of the block,
but the yard is. And we had like some waterproof
top and now I'm now I'm looking for all extra water.
And boy, we've had that wet rain up in here constantly,
and yeah, even around it, you could just see where
it's even like, you know, half inch ruts from being out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I really wow. Yeah, yeah, So there is other things
we could do, I mean other than a you know,
taking that water away with like an underground drain. If
there's erosion being caused because of the spill off off
that awning, one of the things you might consider is
just rock along the sides where it minimizes erosion. I'm
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talking about rocks the size of softballs.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Put out that or we have those paper rocks. I
have a couple of pounds of them over here. Those
thought about that, So okay, I'm on the right track.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
What else you got, well outside of that a bigger awning.
But I hear you. I think what you're doing is
you're gonna end up pathing to either disperse the water
with rocks or adding some additional slope to the mud
if there's places, you know, to route that water. As
I was saying before, it's really about water control more
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than anything else. And you've got an abundance of water,
and you know, it sounds to me like you're gonna
just have to deal with routing it and minimizing the
erosion or put a bigger roof on there.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
So TRY decided I could throw rocks, like I said,
and pull them host us out. Sorry, sorry, wifey, those
gotta go. I put those rocks there, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean, I got this area in mine and I
was really getting concerned with it. It's right in front
of the house. It's a decent landscaping bed, but it
got a real steep roof in this one area. It's
kind of like got a saddle and it's got maybe
a three foot gutter. That's it. It's five inches. It's
not enough. So I get a ton of spill over
and it's not clogged. I just during real heavy rains,
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it just spills over and started creating erosion. And I'm
seeing more foundation of this problem. And I got some
rock about the size of bigger than a softball and
put down a weed bed underneath that, and you know,
ran at the length of the foundation to it got
to the side where there's an underground French strain. And
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I'll tell you what, it solved that problem. Immediately eliminate so.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Financially, yeah, just run away with nature. Yeah all right, buddy,
all right, right man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
All right, good luck, Thanks for the call take care. Yeah,
and that's exactly what we need to do again. It water,
you minimize erosion. That's where we get into problems with
driveways too. I just throw this in since we're kind
of talking about it. Did you get a driveway, say
a double double car driveway or double car garage. You
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got a wide driveway and we got you know, the
expansion joints are in there, and all of a sudden
it gets a crack from one end to the other.
Didn't crack any expansion joint, and we go, oh, it's
a small crack, and then we let it go and
water gets in there and it creates erosion underneath that slab.
And you know what happens next, right, part of that slab,
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not all that slab, but part of that slab begins
to settle, and the crack gets bigger, and it settles
and it gets bigger, and then it becomes a tripping hazard.
And what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? Well,
we don't want to replace that whole slab, but you
can use like slab jacking, where you're drill into and
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pump stuff underneath it like a masonry slurry and lift that.
But had we addressed that crack when it got to
about a quarter of an inch and elimonade, the erosion
might not had that problem all right. Our phone numbers
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All Right, you're at home with Gary Salvin, and we're
going to get back to the phone lines. Talk about
your home projects. If you have one, jump on board, Bob, welcome.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Thank you for taking the call. Yeah, I had a
new roof and skylights replaced. Well, actually one skylight first,
and then the second one was replaced, and now the
second one that was the newest one that was replaced
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is leaking. And the company that did it has gone
out of business. He did give me a warranty on
the Skylight's end their roof. But what do I do
if he's gone out of business.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, there's not much. It's his warranty, right, I think.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
It's the warranty from the shingle company. And uh and
the windows.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, well I would contact the shingle company then, but
be prepared. Uh, there's probably a reason he went out
of business. And I'm gonna say, you know what, what
the way you would claim a warranty on that through
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like say Owen's Corning or something. They will pro rate it,
but they will come out and take a look at it,
and if it's not done to their specifications there the
warranty will be void. Okay. And I mean, just so
you know what, I run into this all time. I
mean there's some For instance, if you put a new
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roof on your house and you didn't have proper ventilation
and the shingle failed, it wouldn't be covered. If you
put a shingled roof on top of an existing shingle
roof for a second layer, it wouldn't be covered. So
they'll come out, they'll take a look at it, and
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that's probably the only recourse you have if he's out
of business. I mean a lot of times there'll be
a warranty for the product, but not on the There'll
be there'll be a warranty on the material, but not
on the labor. And then some roofing companies, you know,
they'll have the warranty on the product and then they'll
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give a labor warranty and that would be all in
the quote when you're you know, hiring them to do
that work. But if he's out of business, you know,
all bets off.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah that's what I thought too, So I just wanted
you to verify it. Thank you for your house.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You're quite welcome, Bob, all right. Yeah, I hate to
hear those stories. I can't emphasize enough, and you know,
and things happen. I get it, and it's sad when
it does. But you know, just the I always say,
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especially in a lot of big investments, and roofing would
be considered a big investment, as you got to get
three bids and I got three bids when I did
my roof, and you would be amazed. In fact, I
was amazed. You get three bids, you would figure that
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they would all say the same thing and the dollars
would be close. Right. There probably isn't one roof fire
out there just getting rich because he can charge more,
you know. But yeah, I get three bids, and there's gosh,
there's a pretty big swing in pricing. And you start
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digging and digging and digging, and it's like, oh, there's
all these options, and you know, length of time in
business reviews talking to people. Are they storm chasers? Are
they part of your you know, fabric of your community.
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All those things come into play. Generationally has it how
long has it been around? And then you can make
a decision, and it's not always the cheapest, it's not
always the most expensive. And even how they quote it.
Are they on the roof, are they looking or they
got a drone that's going to are they doing a
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quote from the from the ground. All those things come
into play, so you've got to be very comfortable and
you got to ask questions for sure. Pat welcome, Well, thank.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
You, Gary, You've saved us once before. We're looking for
help again. All right, we have a new composite deck
and one morning we woke up and there were little
yellow spots all over this one area which is under
a pine tree. And we have tried right now, we're
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trying dawn solution in warm water. It seems to be
taking the color off, but it's still sort of sticky.
It's just we think it's pine sat from the tree.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, that's where I was going to. That's kind of
where it was stuck in my head too. It sounds
like it would be. I was going to ask you
if you got a lot of pine trees right in
that area.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
And we do.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that. One of the things
I would try tell me a about the composite decking.
Is it a vinyl cap composite or is it just
a composite with no cap over it.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
I don't know what you mean by a cap.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
So one of the big trends over the last four
years is it's a composite decking, which is a you know,
like plastic flower and wood flower that's molded. And then
there's kind of in the last five years, one of
the big trends is they're putting like a PVC cap
over that where you can see like a wood grain.
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It's it's smooth, it's just not the composite. It's just
not the wood flower and plastic flower. It's got a
like a plastic cap over it.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Well, we can see a bit of a wood grain,
okay when we and I don't know that we can
look at any of the edges of the stuff itself.
It's all been covered.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. Well, if you can see a wood grain, there's
a very good chance that it's got a cap over it,
because otherwise it would be I mean again, it's wood
flower and plastic flower that's molded, so there's not really
a wood grain in a just a plain composite. And
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and that's all there was for years. I mean, so
I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying they've just improved
it a little bit. So here's here's one of the
things you might try. I think it's I think it's
pine tar also or pine sap. And you could try
bugin tar remover for automobiles.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Bug and tar remover.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, you could try a product called goof off goof
off right, But I want you, yeah, I want you.
Was it takes all kinds of things off, it takes
off text, paint it. I mean, it's a good cleaner,
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but on both of those products, And this is why
I was being a little stubborn on the composite decking.
I just want you to try those products on an
inconspicuous place to make sure that it doesn't dull the
composite decking. In other words, you know, whenever you're using cleaners,
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you've heard people will test it in an inconspicuous spot.
I'm telling you that would be important. I think you're
gonna be fine. I don't think it's going to affect
the capped composite. If it weren't capped, it might affect it.
So that's one I'm kind of asking. But you know,
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I would feel comfortable using either one of those. Maybe
I would try the goof off first, Yeah, and maybe
put it in an area. In other words, it comes
in a can almost looks like old lighter fluid. It
comes in that kind of came with a little spout
that folds out. Just put a couple of drips on
it where the sticky is and maybe, you know, again
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test it an inconspicuous place. Let's sit on there for
a minute or so, not much longer. Then take a
cotton cloth with some of it on there and just
scrub away and see if that doesn't remove it.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Okay, Now we also have a railing. It's aluminum, but
it's been painted black powdered.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, my husband says, okay.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
Will that stuff work on that? Also?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Um?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah? Is it sticky there? Also? Yes? Yeah, again, I
inconspicuous spot down at the bottom. Try it. I feel
very very strongly it will not hurt that. I don't
think that'll be a problem at all. But always test
it when you're using kind of these remover products, you
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just want to be on the safe side of that.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
We tried an all purpose cleaner and all that did
was turned the yellow to white and now it looks
worse than ever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna need something, you know, like like
a bug and tar remover or goof off, something along
those lines like goof off also removes magic marker and
things like that. You're gonna need something that's strong like
that rather than just a detergent.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Okay, and magic eraser or anything like that wouldn't work it.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, And that is it does have some grit to it,
so you would probably be. I'd be a little concerned
about about, especially on a cap composite, using that particular
product on that.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Yeah, okay, well all right, goof off a try and
then bug in tar.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
There you go, good luck.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Let me know, but you're telling me to wipe it
off with a rag not a brush.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Um when you're finished. I mean, you can use a
brush to agitate it, but you could also just use
a cotton cloth. You're going to have to. Let remember
when I said, put it on there, let's sit there
for a minute or so. You're gonna want that product
to do the work, not necessarily scrub brush or rubbing
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real hard with a cotton cloth. You'll rub hard enough
even if you let's sit for a minute or two.
But that's the direction I would go with it.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Well, thank you so much. We will hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All right, very good, Thank you for the call. Appreciate
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we've got Everett Evert. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Hi, good morning Grey as usual. Enjoy the show. Thank you, sir,
and your segment there with the fellow from zal Or.
I'm a retired master journeyman plumber. Okay, I can't agree
more that when you say zalor or say the word
some pump.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, dollar is it.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I encountered something personally that thankfully it worked out, and
that is my house was built in nineteen seventy eight
and they must have put in the smallest sump that
was available. So when I decided to do a backup,
I didn't have room for another pump. So I installed
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a water source backup pump.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Okay, yeah, we didn't talk about those. Go ahead. That's
great information.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Along with that, I installed a pump monitoring system that's
a standalone If my electric goes out or if the
pump quits working and the water gets so high, it
texts me. Well, we were out of the country about
a couple of years after I installed that, so we
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were six hours ahead of Eastern time, and I get
a tech that we've lost power, so U I then
called my neighbor and he said, yeah, it's we're having
a terrible, terrible storm. I said, well, would you mind
going over and looking at my house? Well, sure enough,
that water source pump was activated because no power, the
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sump quickly filled up and it did exactly as it
was supposed to. So I just want to share that
with folks that yes, if you don't have a room
for the for the conventional pump, go to the water source.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right and it's got it's got other features too. Usually
I'll cover that, and I don't know why we didn't,
but that's okay. Your point's well taken. And really, when
you're looking at a backup pump, uh, if you're looking
at the water source or your battery controlled backup pump.
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They like everything else we do in our homes, they
have limitations and they have pluses. Okay. The really nice
thing about the water thing is if you travel, Let's
say you know, mom's working, dad's traveling, or they're not
at home, or they're on vacation, or they're overseas like
you were, that water based pump can just keep going.
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The battery backup is going to eventually exhaust itself, and
so maybe you get a day, maybe you get eight hours,
whereas the water sourced pump it could go for seven days.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, as long as you've got water pressure right,
it's going to keep working.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Right. So I mean, that's that is something to consider.
And you probably know this, but maybe the listeners don't.
Is the water base. I used to always use this analogy,
and this is an old technology. A battery backup pump
would pump about fifty percent of what an electric pump
would do, and a water based pump would do about twenty. Well,
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today's battery backups will pump out just about as much
as an electric one, and the water based ones will
do at least fifty percent. So if you if you,
if you a senior, maybe you're you're you're an empty
nester and you go to Arizona for the winner, you
might consider the water backup versus the battery backup. I
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think that's a great point.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
No, I agree, one hundred and Uh. It's just like
any kind of insurance. You hope you never have to
have it right when you need it, you need it.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
In my case, it.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Would have, oh it would It would have destroyed my basement.
There's no Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
All right, very good. Thanks for calling Everett. I appreciate it,
and let's go to Susan. Susan, welcome, Hi there, Gary.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
I heard your previous call about removing tar from a
composite for pine Pine, so I'll try that. But our
composite deck is very old. It was here when we
moved in, probably first generation composite, and its faded. Uh
(36:14):
what is there a stain we could put on to
make it look Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Actually there is. There is. There's not a lot of
manufacturers that have one. But I know exactly what you're
talking about. That first one, two, three generations of composite
wood faded very badly. In fact, I always said it
looked like concrete boards instead of anything else. Of is
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that color of gray. And there is a product line
called defif Y Defy wood stain, and they make a
composite stain, and if you go to defy woodstain dot
com you'll you'll see that composite. There's a lot of videos.
(37:02):
It's it's easy to apply. You kind of do the
same thing you would with pressure treated wood. It's obviously
got to be cleaned before applying. It is a water base.
It's a little there's a little more solids in it
than a real true penetrating stain, but it gives you
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a really nice look. And that's the one I'm most
familiar with. But it's the five woodstain dot com. And
there's one that's specifically mentioned for composites. I think Shabbit
also makes one, Shabbit wood stain, but I haven't used
that one, so I don't know as much about it.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's c H A B O T. And I think
Lows carries Shabbit wood stains.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Okay, super, And then let's see you total the previous
collar to use goof off or an automobile pr remover.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yes, and she had a capped composite. You do not,
so test it first again. I'm I'm not really sure
how it's going to react with it with a non
capped composite. I think it'll be okay, but just double check.
Speaker 8 (38:19):
Okay, Well, I'll let you know how this DeFi would
stay works.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
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You can grab a line and uh, let's chat. I
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also have a list of things you might want to tackle,
and we'll get to that in a little bit. But
if you're living in an area where you're having some
extreme heat, not that we don't always have it about
this time of year, but you know, hotter than normal
a good time to pay attention to the garage doors.
Extreme temperatures, cold or hot, it can be tough on
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the springs and the rollers. And we'll talk a little
bit about maintaining the grut shore in a bit, but
go ahead and grab a line. We got a couple open. Betsy, welcome,
thank you.
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Yes, well, you know I have our faintly has five
acres east of town here in Oklahoma, and for the
first time this year. Well, I'm used to the deer
coming in and eating all the fruit off our fruit trees, which.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I let them do.
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But now all of a sudden they've decided to come
and have dessert on all of our flower bed and
all the flowers.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, well that's what deer do. There are certainly
some things you can do to prevent that. It would
be an ongoing maintenance. There's a probably called liquid fence
that you can spray around your flower beds or landscaping
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areas that will deter deer and then in the future,
you know, coming down the road next year, if those
plants are annuals, you might look at some plants that
you know, deer aren't that thrilled about eating. And I
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don't have any elf the top of my head. But
a garden center can help you. Mister Google can probably
help you. But there are deer. There are deer resistant
plantings that can be used. But in the meantime, I'd
go to the hardware store garden center and get some
of the liquid fence, which you know, read the directions too.
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It is something that has to be reapplied. I forget
the amount of day. It's probably like twenty one days
or something along those lines. If you have a lot
of rain during a period of time, you might want
to reapply. Uh. But changing the environment I'm always talking
when it's comes to pest, whether it's uh, you know,
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ants or flies or deers or you know, chipmunks you
got or even woodpeckers. You got to change the environment
where it's not something that they want to deal with.
And that liquid fence will produce an odor that you're
not gonna smell, but it's an odor that they're not
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going to appreciate and they'll start leaving your flowers alone.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh good, that'd be great.
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And again that number, if you'd like to grab a line,
it's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
A couple of things. One is this is a good
time of year. You'll think it's a crazy time of
year to do this, but I'm telling you it's a
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good time of year. Chimneys you know, we always talk
about cleaning chimneys, having a you know, when you're building
a fire in your home and you're like, who in
the world why are we talking about this? Well, I'm
going to tell you here in a second. Chimney repair
needs to be done in the summer and early fall
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because chimney companies are going to be very, very busy
with inspections and cleaning of chimneys when the weather turns cold.
So if you've been maintaining a chimney, maybe you've been
watching an issue and maybe it's time that you want
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to correct this problem. Now would be a time to
have that corrected. If you suspect there's a problem, maybe
start seeing a little water stain on a on a ceiling,
on the wall that the chimney is on. That's probably
I'm not saying one hundred percent, but it's probably has
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something to do with the chimney. Maybe it's the flashing
of the chimney. But having that inspected and having that
taken care of during the summer and even having a
clean before chimney sweeps get really busy the fire burning
season's over, now is a really good time there. That's
when they do their repairs. That's when they tackle a
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lot of those projects. So consider that. And again, if
you see water stains, you know those don't go away.
They're there for a reason. You got a leak. And
if you look at your chimney and you go from
the bottom up, the chimney is vulnerable. Where the flashing
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is flashing between the chimney in the roof, that should
be inspected, missing mortar, between the bricks on the chimney,
cracked bricks on the chimney, and the parts you can't see,
which is also a very vulnerable part of the chimney itself,
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is the crown washed which is the very top of
the chimney. There's a concrete pad. The flu's going up
under up through that concrete pad. The concrete pad, just
like the concrete sidewalk, may have cracks in it. It
may be spawling, waters penetrating getting down between the brick
and the liner and working its way into the home.
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That needs to be coated and sealed or replaced. Don't
know how bad it is. Having the flu that's going
up through that needs to be calked tight. Maybe it's
pulled away. So having a chimney inspected on a regular
basis is very important. If it's been a couple of
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years since it's been cleaned and you burn a lot
of wood, you really need to have that cleaned and inspected.
And this is the time of year Otherwise you start
getting in you know, the November December time period, and
it starts getting cold, and you try to get somebody
to do that, Probably not gonna happen. You're gonna have
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to wait. So getting in front of that is a
really good idea. In fact, even if you're thinking, I know,
you know, I feel like I'm pushing you, but I
try to do this a lot, especially nowadays, if you're
looking at a project. Maybe you've been kicking around about
redoing your kitchen. Maybe you're going to have someone take
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that basement and turn it into a wreck room or something.
Right now is the time to think about that, because
everybody you know, it's so true. You know, it's all sudden.
It's about October. We start getting closed in our homes,
and you know, I think I'm going to add more
space at home. I think I have somebody do my basement.
You kind of missed the window. By the time you
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start figuring out what you're going to do, find a
contractor start the plans, get the perm I mean it's
too late. So get in front of those projects. Look
forward deck building, you know, geez, I want to have that.
Uh this summer probably not a good chance. Not but
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in the falls grade deck building weather and they're not
always super busy. And getting in front of that and
start doing the research or what kind of decking boards
you want, who you want to do the work, how
much you want to spend these projects. Take time in
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finding a contractor that you're comfortable with and as availability
is a challenge also, So get in front of your projects. Well,
take a little break, James, you'll be up first. If
you'd like to join us. You've got the phone number,
grab a line. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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and we have James. James welcome. How you doing, buddy,
Doing fine?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Thanks, spent a lot of years with you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I calling.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I was literally tuck pointing my chimney.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
When you just started talking about.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Man, oh yeah, it's a big job.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How you doing matching the mortar?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Not bad.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
I'm using the bag so of course you know, I'm
not the professional.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
But it doesn't look bad.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It'll work good. No good, that's stuff.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah. Well, I got to put roof on, so I
don't want to have that stuff on the roof. You know,
when I put the green, I'm thinking ahead, I'm learning.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
All right, well, I'm calling you about this thing. So
this house we have, it's a walk out, you know,
one single door walkout basement, and it's got the cinder
block sides and concrete steps and we had it into
a waterproof because it's old country home. So they got
the awning over the top of it and they did
it perfect, you know, just over the sides, perfect to
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them and to the end here. But when it rains.
That water is just rocking it taring, you know, just
I see a crack in the cinder block coming and
is there a way to I don't know if the
goof or whatever. Are there gutters or something that we
could throw on these aluminum monies or how would I
redirect that rain?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Boy? So how big is this awning? Is this awning
like the width of a door and just hangs out
about three feet.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
It comes out when you come to the top of
the steps. I would you're about right, maybe four or
five because it comes over where that concrete block is
and runs right down.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, so the steps go down, then there's a landing area, yes, and.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
There's a drain there, okay where that drain runs into
that into a waterproofing works on the subpump, which you
talked about today, right, amazing, amazing?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, you know on those type of awnings, No, I don't.
I don't know of a gutter system that would go
on there. I I don't know if you can really
control the water just off those those awnings. I mean
they're more like it's kind of like an umbrella.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Right, Yes, that's exactly what it does. It's just runs
it away. But that's the right way.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I don't want it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I mean you get underneath it and you're dry,
but you know, the sides are just going to be flooding.
Does the drain work or does it puddle?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
No, the drains working, it's the Yeah, the water is
coming down, but it is it's sooner. I bet you
any other year probably could dig that on the block, right,
That's what you know. Just so there's nothing like that,
So probably be the if I might put underground drains
in almost like that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, so that was going to be the question is
is twofold things that come to mind. One is is
there an area where we could put a wider roof
and then come out put post where you're covering a
larger area to keep that area dry. Or is the
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water spilling off the existing awning and getting it? Uh,
where's that problem? Is it just getting the the the
yard muddy in those areas.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Or yeah, yeah, the yard it's it's off of the block,
but the yard is. And we had like some waterproof
top and now I'm now I'm looking for all extra water.
And boy, we've had that wet rain up in here constantly,
and yeah, even around it, you could just see where
it's even like, you know, half inch ruts from being out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I really wow. Yeah, yeah, So there is other things
we could do, I mean other than a you know,
taking that water away with like an underground drain. If
there's erosion being caused because of the spill off off
that awning, one of the things you might consider is
just rock along the sides where it minimizes erosion. I'm
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talking about rocks the size of softballs.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Put out that or we have those paper rocks. I
have a couple of pounds of them over here. Those
thought about that, So okay, I'm on the right track.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
What else you got, well outside of that a bigger awning.
But I hear you. I think what you're doing is
you're gonna end up pathing to either disperse the water
with rocks or adding some additional slope to the mud
if there's places, you know, to route that water. As
I was saying before, it's really about water control more
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than anything else. And you've got an abundance of water,
and you know, it sounds to me like you're gonna
just have to deal with routing it and minimizing the
erosion or put a bigger roof on there.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
So TRY decided I could throw rocks, like I said,
and pull them host us out. Sorry, sorry, wifey, those
gotta go. I put those rocks there, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean, I got this area in mine and I
was really getting concerned with it. It's right in front
of the house. It's a decent landscaping bed, but it
got a real steep roof in this one area. It's
kind of like got a saddle and it's got maybe
a three foot gutter. That's it. It's five inches. It's
not enough. So I get a ton of spill over
and it's not clogged. I just during real heavy rains,
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it just spills over and started creating erosion. And I'm
seeing more foundation of this problem. And I got some
rock about the size of bigger than a softball and
put down a weed bed underneath that, and you know,
ran at the length of the foundation to it got
to the side where there's an underground French strain. And
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I'll tell you what, it solved that problem. Immediately eliminate so.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Financially, yeah, just run away with nature. Yeah all right, buddy,
all right, right man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
All right, good luck, Thanks for the call take care. Yeah,
and that's exactly what we need to do again. It water,
you minimize erosion. That's where we get into problems with
driveways too. I just throw this in since we're kind
of talking about it. Did you get a driveway, say
a double double car driveway or double car garage. You
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got a wide driveway and we got you know, the
expansion joints are in there, and all of a sudden
it gets a crack from one end to the other.
Didn't crack any expansion joint, and we go, oh, it's
a small crack, and then we let it go and
water gets in there and it creates erosion underneath that slab.
And you know what happens next, right, part of that slab,
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not all that slab, but part of that slab begins
to settle, and the crack gets bigger, and it settles
and it gets bigger, and then it becomes a tripping hazard.
And what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? Well,
we don't want to replace that whole slab, but you
can use like slab jacking, where you're drill into and
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pump stuff underneath it like a masonry slurry and lift that.
But had we addressed that crack when it got to
about a quarter of an inch and elimonade, the erosion
might not had that problem all right. Our phone numbers
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your home projects. If you have one, jump on board, Bob, welcome.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Thank you for taking the call. Yeah, I had a
new roof and skylights replaced. Well, actually one skylight first,
and then the second one was replaced, and now the
second one that was the newest one that was replaced
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is leaking. And the company that did it has gone
out of business. He did give me a warranty on
the Skylight's end their roof. But what do I do
if he's gone out of business.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, there's not much. It's his warranty, right, I think.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
It's the warranty from the shingle company. And uh and
the windows.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, well I would contact the shingle company then, but
be prepared. Uh, there's probably a reason he went out
of business. And I'm gonna say, you know what, what
the way you would claim a warranty on that through
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like say Owen's Corning or something. They will pro rate it,
but they will come out and take a look at it,
and if it's not done to their specifications there the
warranty will be void. Okay. And I mean, just so
you know what, I run into this all time. I
mean there's some For instance, if you put a new
(21:00):
roof on your house and you didn't have proper ventilation
and the shingle failed, it wouldn't be covered. If you
put a shingled roof on top of an existing shingle
roof for a second layer, it wouldn't be covered. So
they'll come out, they'll take a look at it, and
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that's probably the only recourse you have if he's out
of business. I mean a lot of times there'll be
a warranty for the product, but not on the There'll
be there'll be a warranty on the material, but not
on the labor. And then some roofing companies, you know,
they'll have the warranty on the product and then they'll
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give a labor warranty and that would be all in
the quote when you're you know, hiring them to do
that work. But if he's out of business, you know,
all bets off.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah that's what I thought too, So I just wanted
you to verify it. Thank you for your house.
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You're quite welcome, Bob, all right. Yeah, I hate to
hear those stories. I can't emphasize enough, and you know,
and things happen. I get it, and it's sad when
it does. But you know, just the I always say,
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especially in a lot of big investments, and roofing would
be considered a big investment, as you got to get
three bids and I got three bids when I did
my roof, and you would be amazed. In fact, I
was amazed. You get three bids, you would figure that
(22:44):
they would all say the same thing and the dollars
would be close. Right. There probably isn't one roof fire
out there just getting rich because he can charge more,
you know. But yeah, I get three bids, and there's gosh,
there's a pretty big swing in pricing. And you start
(23:04):
digging and digging and digging, and it's like, oh, there's
all these options, and you know, length of time in
business reviews talking to people. Are they storm chasers? Are
they part of your you know, fabric of your community.
(23:25):
All those things come into play. Generationally has it how
long has it been around? And then you can make
a decision, and it's not always the cheapest, it's not
always the most expensive. And even how they quote it.
Are they on the roof, are they looking or they
got a drone that's going to are they doing a
(23:46):
quote from the from the ground. All those things come
into play, so you've got to be very comfortable and
you got to ask questions for sure. Pat welcome, Well, thank.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
You, Gary, You've saved us once before. We're looking for
help again. All right, we have a new composite deck
and one morning we woke up and there were little
yellow spots all over this one area which is under
a pine tree. And we have tried right now, we're
(24:23):
trying dawn solution in warm water. It seems to be
taking the color off, but it's still sort of sticky.
It's just we think it's pine sat from the tree.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, that's where I was going to. That's kind of
where it was stuck in my head too. It sounds
like it would be. I was going to ask you
if you got a lot of pine trees right in
that area.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
And we do.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that. One of the things
I would try tell me a about the composite decking.
Is it a vinyl cap composite or is it just
a composite with no cap over it.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
I don't know what you mean by a cap.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
So one of the big trends over the last four
years is it's a composite decking, which is a you know,
like plastic flower and wood flower that's molded. And then
there's kind of in the last five years, one of
the big trends is they're putting like a PVC cap
over that where you can see like a wood grain.
(25:35):
It's it's smooth, it's just not the composite. It's just
not the wood flower and plastic flower. It's got a
like a plastic cap over it.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Well, we can see a bit of a wood grain,
okay when we and I don't know that we can
look at any of the edges of the stuff itself.
It's all been covered.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. Well, if you can see a wood grain, there's
a very good chance that it's got a cap over it,
because otherwise it would be I mean again, it's wood
flower and plastic flower that's molded, so there's not really
a wood grain in a just a plain composite. And
(26:18):
and that's all there was for years. I mean, so
I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying they've just improved
it a little bit. So here's here's one of the
things you might try. I think it's I think it's
pine tar also or pine sap. And you could try
bugin tar remover for automobiles.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Bug and tar remover.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, you could try a product called goof off goof
off right, But I want you, yeah, I want you.
Was it takes all kinds of things off, it takes
off text, paint it. I mean, it's a good cleaner,
(27:05):
but on both of those products, And this is why
I was being a little stubborn on the composite decking.
I just want you to try those products on an
inconspicuous place to make sure that it doesn't dull the
composite decking. In other words, you know, whenever you're using cleaners,
(27:27):
you've heard people will test it in an inconspicuous spot.
I'm telling you that would be important. I think you're
gonna be fine. I don't think it's going to affect
the capped composite. If it weren't capped, it might affect it.
So that's one I'm kind of asking. But you know,
(27:49):
I would feel comfortable using either one of those. Maybe
I would try the goof off first, Yeah, and maybe
put it in an area. In other words, it comes
in a can almost looks like old lighter fluid. It
comes in that kind of came with a little spout
that folds out. Just put a couple of drips on
it where the sticky is and maybe, you know, again
(28:12):
test it an inconspicuous place. Let's sit on there for
a minute or so, not much longer. Then take a
cotton cloth with some of it on there and just
scrub away and see if that doesn't remove it.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Okay, Now we also have a railing. It's aluminum, but
it's been painted black powdered.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, my husband says, okay.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
Will that stuff work on that? Also?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Um?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah? Is it sticky there? Also? Yes? Yeah, again, I
inconspicuous spot down at the bottom. Try it. I feel
very very strongly it will not hurt that. I don't
think that'll be a problem at all. But always test
it when you're using kind of these remover products, you
(29:02):
just want to be on the safe side of that.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
We tried an all purpose cleaner and all that did
was turned the yellow to white and now it looks
worse than ever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna need something, you know, like like
a bug and tar remover or goof off, something along
those lines like goof off also removes magic marker and
things like that. You're gonna need something that's strong like
that rather than just a detergent.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Okay, and magic eraser or anything like that wouldn't work it.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, And that is it does have some grit to it,
so you would probably be. I'd be a little concerned
about about, especially on a cap composite, using that particular
product on that.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Yeah, okay, well all right, goof off a try and
then bug in tar.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
There you go, good luck.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Let me know, but you're telling me to wipe it
off with a rag not a brush.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Um when you're finished. I mean, you can use a
brush to agitate it, but you could also just use
a cotton cloth. You're going to have to. Let remember
when I said, put it on there, let's sit there
for a minute or so. You're gonna want that product
to do the work, not necessarily scrub brush or rubbing
(30:26):
real hard with a cotton cloth. You'll rub hard enough
even if you let's sit for a minute or two.
But that's the direction I would go with it.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Well, thank you so much. We will hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All right, very good, Thank you for the call. Appreciate
it all right. The phone numbers eight hundred eight two
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we've got Everett Evert. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Hi, good morning Grey as usual. Enjoy the show. Thank you, sir,
and your segment there with the fellow from zal Or.
I'm a retired master journeyman plumber. Okay, I can't agree
more that when you say zalor or say the word
some pump.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, dollar is it.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I encountered something personally that thankfully it worked out, and
that is my house was built in nineteen seventy eight
and they must have put in the smallest sump that
was available. So when I decided to do a backup,
I didn't have room for another pump. So I installed
(32:26):
a water source backup pump.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Okay, yeah, we didn't talk about those. Go ahead. That's
great information.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Along with that, I installed a pump monitoring system that's
a standalone If my electric goes out or if the
pump quits working and the water gets so high, it
texts me. Well, we were out of the country about
a couple of years after I installed that, so we
(32:57):
were six hours ahead of Eastern time, and I get
a tech that we've lost power, so U I then
called my neighbor and he said, yeah, it's we're having
a terrible, terrible storm. I said, well, would you mind
going over and looking at my house? Well, sure enough,
that water source pump was activated because no power, the
(33:19):
sump quickly filled up and it did exactly as it
was supposed to. So I just want to share that
with folks that yes, if you don't have a room
for the for the conventional pump, go to the water source.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right and it's got it's got other features too. Usually
I'll cover that, and I don't know why we didn't,
but that's okay. Your point's well taken. And really, when
you're looking at a backup pump, uh, if you're looking
at the water source or your battery controlled backup pump.
(33:51):
They like everything else we do in our homes, they
have limitations and they have pluses. Okay. The really nice
thing about the water thing is if you travel, Let's
say you know, mom's working, dad's traveling, or they're not
at home, or they're on vacation, or they're overseas like
you were, that water based pump can just keep going.
(34:17):
The battery backup is going to eventually exhaust itself, and
so maybe you get a day, maybe you get eight hours,
whereas the water sourced pump it could go for seven days.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, as long as you've got water pressure right,
it's going to keep working.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Right. So I mean, that's that is something to consider.
And you probably know this, but maybe the listeners don't.
Is the water base. I used to always use this analogy,
and this is an old technology. A battery backup pump
would pump about fifty percent of what an electric pump
would do, and a water based pump would do about twenty. Well,
(35:02):
today's battery backups will pump out just about as much
as an electric one, and the water based ones will
do at least fifty percent. So if you if you,
if you a senior, maybe you're you're you're an empty
nester and you go to Arizona for the winner, you
might consider the water backup versus the battery backup. I
(35:25):
think that's a great point.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
No, I agree, one hundred and Uh. It's just like
any kind of insurance. You hope you never have to
have it right when you need it, you need it.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
In my case, it.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Would have, oh it would It would have destroyed my basement.
There's no Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
All right, very good. Thanks for calling Everett. I appreciate it,
and let's go to Susan. Susan, welcome, Hi there, Gary.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
I heard your previous call about removing tar from a
composite for pine Pine, so I'll try that. But our
composite deck is very old. It was here when we
moved in, probably first generation composite, and its faded. Uh
(36:14):
what is there a stain we could put on to
make it look Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Actually there is. There is. There's not a lot of
manufacturers that have one. But I know exactly what you're
talking about. That first one, two, three generations of composite
wood faded very badly. In fact, I always said it
looked like concrete boards instead of anything else. Of is
(36:40):
that color of gray. And there is a product line
called defif Y Defy wood stain, and they make a
composite stain, and if you go to defy woodstain dot
com you'll you'll see that composite. There's a lot of videos.
(37:02):
It's it's easy to apply. You kind of do the
same thing you would with pressure treated wood. It's obviously
got to be cleaned before applying. It is a water base.
It's a little there's a little more solids in it
than a real true penetrating stain, but it gives you
(37:22):
a really nice look. And that's the one I'm most
familiar with. But it's the five woodstain dot com. And
there's one that's specifically mentioned for composites. I think Shabbit
also makes one, Shabbit wood stain, but I haven't used
that one, so I don't know as much about it.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's c H A B O T. And I think
Lows carries Shabbit wood stains.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Okay, super, And then let's see you total the previous
collar to use goof off or an automobile pr remover.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yes, and she had a capped composite. You do not,
so test it first again. I'm I'm not really sure
how it's going to react with it with a non
capped composite. I think it'll be okay, but just double check.
Speaker 8 (38:19):
Okay, Well, I'll let you know how this DeFi would
stay works.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Very good, looking forward to it. Thank you, thank you,
take care all right? Well the music playing the weekend's
ending for me. On at Home with Gary Sullivan. You
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for Danny once again. Always enjoyable. Good Lord Willing. We'll
be back next weekend for more at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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