June 6, 2026 • 45 mins
In this hour, Gary is joined by Scott who shares his expertise on how to create curb appeal with landscaping. They discuss the importance of designing a beautiful and functional outdoor space that complements the home's architecture and style. Scott also shares tips on how to choose the right plants and materials to achieve a stunning look without breaking the bank.
The conversation also touches on the topic of home improvement, Gary sharing his own experiences with painting a front door and the benefits of using high-quality paint. Additionally, Gary discusses the importance of ventilation in the home, including the use of exhaust fans and the potential risks of mold and mildew.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, the weekend is here. Welcome. You're at home with
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to you about your home projects. Our phone number is
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. In
chatting a little bit of what we need to do
(01:35):
around the home, one of the things I compiled was
a list of what do you think the most common
mistakes homeowners make? And we're going to cover that. There's
probably ten fifteen of them, I guess, and they're interesting
and I think it's a lot of the things we've
talked about, but it's also a good little check the
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bucket list. Yes, I'm paying on you stand on top
of that, I'm paying attention to this. But we'll be
doing that throughout the show. Today. We're also going to
have our friends in from Blackjack. We're going to talk
about asphalt, driveway ceiling. I'm gonna chat about concrete repair,
and of course we'll take your calls again. That number
is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
(02:19):
and Dave you lead us off. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hi Gary, Hey, I have a paint question here. I
bought a brand new exterior steel door that's primed. Uh huh,
and uh, what would be the best paint for that?
It gets a lot of sun.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, there's a couple that I would recommend. And let
me tell you. The basic one is you can use
a regular exterior paint. And I don't mean just a
regular exterior I mean one that is a super good
quality in each brand. I think Sherwin Williams, Ben Moore
Bear they have their top of the line. I would
(02:59):
Folk's in on that. They have them in flat, they
have them in satin, they have them in semi gloss.
The Sherman Williams one is called Emerald, and the nice
one about the Emerald is it's a little slower drying.
Some of the other ones they like drying like fifteen minutes,
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so you don't want to paint in direct sunlight with
it or dry in your brush. But the Emerald exterior
house paint that Sureman Williams has is very good. Now
I preface that by saying, since it is a house paint,
it does have a little bit of texture to it.
In other words, it's not like a smooth enamel. I
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don't know if that makes any difference to some people.
I think they might hold just a little bit more
dust on the surface if you lived in an area
with you know, a lot of new construction. I don't
know if that's really an issue, but it'd hold up
probably great against the sun. I would say it's a
ten to fifteen year paint. That would be one option
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if you're saying no, no, I want it to look
like the old oil base. I want that smooth, slick surface.
Sherman Williams has one. I think it's the best trimming
enamo out there on the market. It is a it's
called it is also called emeralds, so don't get those
mixed up. It's called Emerald Euthane trimming enamel can be
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used indoors or outdoors, very very much sun resistant. Uh,
you got the primer on there. It's a matter of
probably doing two coats. Not cheap, but extremely durable. And
it kind of has that enameled look if that's what
you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that would that be the enameled your thane then
is that what that would say?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's Emerald your a thane trimming enamel.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Okay, okay okay.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So and it is it's expensive. I mean it might
be twenty five bucks a court. Maybe maybe thirty. I
don't know. It's been a while. I did my whole
house with about three years ago on all the woodwork
and everything. It's very durable.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That would be good on the on the jams too, the.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, yep, doors, jams, everything. But you know there there's
a lot of choices out there. There's also a lot
of alkid acrylic UH trimming namels which which do a
good job. They give you a smooth texture. Also, I
don't think it's as durable as the your thane trimming enamel,
(05:44):
but I mean the modified alcid uh acrylic enamels. They're good.
Also in the Emerald outdoor paint that is really really
good in sun resistant also, So you got good choices
out there. I'd say all the time. We're in a
great time because the technology and paints have been just
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just exploding over the last twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, there's so many of them out there. You don't
know what it's.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Right, right, Well, there's always, there's always, I can guarantee
you there's always at least a good, better best.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Probably all right, Good luck to you, Dave. Thank you
much for the call. I appreciate it. We talk about
that a lot. Entry doors, depending on how the house
is built in the facing, they take a beating. Uh.
My entry door was a fiberglassed or is a fiberglass door.
(06:44):
It's twenty six years old. It faces the southwest. Originally
it was stained. It doesn't it's got a little overhang
to protect a little bit of that door, but not much,
not much. That sun just beats that door to death.
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And I would say after about fifteen years, I'd had enough.
I mean, it was a darker golden oak. The house's brick,
lots of trim, and I have this golden oak door
(07:30):
that about every three to five years, I seem to
be not necessarily restaining it, but knocking down the protectant,
the spar erthane. Don't use poly your thane on it,
it'll go faster, and then respar varnishing it or spar
(07:53):
euthinting it. It was about every three to five years.
So I did it like three times. I'm just kind
of winging it there, say three times in fifteen years,
maybe four times. And one day I'm going like, there's
nothing else on this house that's just called no. I
think I'm going to paint it. And I did, and
(08:13):
two things. I think this is my opinion. You can
certainly differ with this number one, as that paint's been
on there for ten years. At least it looks brand new.
I watched the door one time. I don't think euthane
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emma was unavailable at that point I think I used
the Sherman Williams Duration or the Sherman Williams Emerald on
that front door. And I'll tell you what it holds
up so well against the sun. I used a satin.
It looks fantastic in my opinion. It kind of goes
(08:58):
more with the house, which I also really enjoyed. All right,
Tony said tight, Donald, you said tight. As we kind
of load them up for the next opportunity to chat
a little bit about your home project. If you would
like to join us, let's grab a line. It's eight
(09:18):
hundred eighty two three eight two five five. One of
the big things is we're talking about front doors. We're
talking in a lot of cases about curb appeal from
the outside of our home. What kind of visual do
you give your neighbors, your guest and I just talked
(09:40):
about the front doors. Another thing to look at is
gut ish shutters, especially vinyl shutters. They oxidize very quickly.
They too can be painted. They also can be rejuvenated,
and I'll go through the step by steps on how
to rejuvenate vinyl and where I was going with this
whole thing. Curve appeal is so important and what's a
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big part of our home when it comes to curve
appeal landscaping. So coming up with Scott Berlin. He's gonna
help us with that. He does a show called Let's
Garden with Scott Berline. That's exactly what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 1 (12:58):
All right, we're twenty one minutes after the top of
the hour, and I was just talking about curb appeal
for our home, our entry way, the paint on our home.
But landscaping pay you know, that's a big part of
the curb appeal of our home. So joining us this
time every weekend is Scott Burline. He does a National
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Gardening landscaping show called Let's Garden with Scott Burline. And
so Let's Garden.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
What do you say, Scott, Yeah, I'm itching to get
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah. So, you know, really, I'm not going to say
it's ignored, because landscaping is not ignored in nice neighborhoods.
Landscaping really sets off the house and it can also
conserve energy.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Oh yeah, you know, there I kind of categorize the
landscaping is is three different kinds. You can have the
landscaping that detracts from the appeal of your house, you know, shoddy, ugly,
unkept landscaping. Then you have the standard issue suburban you
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know what's expected, and that's probably no, not a plus,
not a minus.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's it's just just there there.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
And then you can really knock it out of the
park with you know, a nice shade tree, uh, you know,
innovative nice plantings, a richness of diversity, and as you mentioned,
you know, saving energy.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Anything you can do to keep wind.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Off the house, son off the house, uh is going
to help your your with your energy bills.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Sure, you know, I it's interesting my pet peeve is unkept.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Unkept to me means overgrown. It's you know, good landscaping.
It's like furniture in a home. Placements important, right, color
is important, and upkeep is important. When it all kinds
of that meshes together, it can still be colorful, but
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it doesn't look great.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, you know, it's design and its care just as
you would have inside a house. You made the comparison
and you could have a beautifully designed living room with
great furniture. All the colors are right everything's arranged well,
but if you leave all the laundry that's unfolded, the blankets,
you know, the kids toys out on the floor, whatever,
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you know it, you almost can't see the good parts
of the design through the clutter. And that's very true
with landscapes.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Too, Scott. I'm sure you're privy, you know, to latest
trends in you know, landscaping around the home. But somebody
listening right now may be thinking, yeah, mine's overgrown or
mine you know that Japanese used now like you know
six feet wide, yeah, three feet and there's three of them,
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and you know it's unkept, it's too big, it's age
too much. I've got to redesign. Where do you start
with that process?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I would start right where I would start with a
new landscape, and as that would be with the big plants,
the trees, the shrubs. You know, those are the foundations,
the cornerstones of of what you do afterwards. So if
you know, we've seen that where the front door you
can't even get in through the front door because whatever
is playing it on both sides is encroaching, you might
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just have to remove those. You might have to start
over right, pull those out and do a redo. And
if you know, if you're doing that and you're you're
taking out a lot, then you look at it again
from the top down where you're you're looking at trees, shrubs,
where they go, what they are, and once they're in place,
or even before, but I like to go once there
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in place, then then you start looking at the little
nooks and crannies that you can fill in.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, you brought up a good point. I was talking
about the front door and at one time I've been
in my house for twenty six years and I had
a Japanese US on each side of the sidewalk going
to the front door. Well, these things got massive in
twenty two years. They got massive, and a buddy of
mine said, you know, you need to take those things out.
(17:23):
I said, yeah, I know, I know, yeah, And he
told me something. He goes like I said, Well, he goes,
look at you got this big arch. Why don't you
get a U a Japanese view that grows vertically? And
I go, what, Yeah, what are you talking about? I
thought Japanese ws were all big. My point is there's
a lot of new stuff and old stuff out there,
(17:44):
and you can't expect to or I can't expect to
know all that stuff, but people in the business they
know all about that stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah, looks great.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
If you can afford a good designer, that's a great
way to go. But if you're designing on your own,
knowing what plant options you have can be so helpful.
And you're only going to get that by going to
an independent garden center and just looking at the different
plants talking to the people there. So I need something
tall and skinny for this purpose, and there's probably three
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or four things that can name, you know. Or I
need a shade tree that I want to grow fast
to everybody all wants the shade tree that grows fast,
you know, And you know what's the best one that
I can grow in my neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Someone can help you with that well.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And also where you spend your Monday through Fridays, I
know in our city, the Cincinnati Zoo and botanical gardens. Yeah,
you've got all kinds of species of plants and trees
and shrubs and I mean just getting ideas. Yeah, that's
where it all starts.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah, all of them labeled, or almost all of them labeled,
so you can see what they do in the landscape,
and we don't do all the shearing and hedging. We
let everything grow naturally so you can see what it
does if it's left alone, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And the type of site that it likes. Is it shade,
is it sun?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
That kind of thing?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
All right, Scott, thank you always for your input. I
love talking about that. Curve appeal is such an important
part of our home and landscaping. Certainly kind of accents that,
so thanks for your time.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I appreciate it absolutely, always a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Thank you. All right, we'll take your calls next. You're
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And back to work. We go at home with Gary
Sullivan on the weekend. We're talking about your home maintenance repair.
Feel free to join us. Our numbers eight hundred A
two three, eight, two five five and Tony Welcome.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I love your show, by the way, listening every week
when I can have a quick question, what fireplace I've
had the home for about three years now. I clean
it after I get somebody into the sweep for it
every year after the season's over. Yes, sir, but they
still give me that smell of the wood and the house.
(23:06):
Not every day. It depends on the humidity or if
it's rain and or not they're fixed.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, it's a combination of things. In a lot of
cases it is cleaned, but there's a shelf up in
the chimney that sometimes has an accumulation of riosotes and ash.
That can be a problem if it's kind of one
of those misty fifty five degree high humidity days and
(23:36):
you've got negative air pressure.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Okay, so that's probably what's happening here.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, I think that is what's happening. Sometimes it can
be corrected if you have like fans going on in
the house, bathroom, fans, cooking, fans. Sometimes cracking a window
well actually the reverse the negative airflow and start bringing
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it up chimney. That's probably what I would work on
next time you have that day. We're probably going into
an ear a period in time where we're not going
to have a lot of that right now, but you'll
have some damp, wet day that'll you know, certainly raise
(24:26):
its ugly head and you'll have that smell. But cracking
a window sometimes will help. I know you've got air condition,
but just crack it just a little bit. Also, if
you have your fan on your furnace, you might not
just put that on auto rather than on if it
is on on, and it might add on auto okay, yeah, yeah,
(24:48):
And so those are just a couple of things that
would would help. I don't think I would take my
chimney cap off, especially this time of year. Yes, but
you know, in the fall, maybe it might even help
with the burning of the wood better flow. And you
(25:12):
could always touch base with your chimney sweep too and
tell them what you got going on, get his.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Input, okay, Which brings me to the next question. If
I could I do have a three easy breeze in
my basement to across space and the utility room. I
heard you mention some one time that they work best
if you have the fan on.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Auto or on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, not so much for your furnace.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
For your furnace on.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
The furnace, so in the summertime, when the air conditioner
is running, you want to put it on auto, okay,
So it only turns on when the air conditioner turns on.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And if you got any ceiling fans, that helps just
kinda you know, it's not going to pull air out,
but just kind of you know, adds a little bit
of coolness to the room. I just reset all my
fans to counterclockwise just the other day.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, okay, all right, thermostat issue. If this is the
third termstad I go through? Finally I went with the
smart termostat the issue I have. If it's on heat,
it reads the temperature in the room correctly and it
stops or whatever.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
I have it set on.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
But I turned the air condition on, the temperature will
read way high. And the house, let's say in the eighties.
Even though I have it set up at seventy two
or seventy three for air condition, it will keep running
constantly and I will never reach the eighty six or
(26:59):
even it will be very called in the house still
read an agent.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well, I don't have an exact answer for that.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
I was telling three three technicians. Three technicians changed three
tmostats and it still have the same issue.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Mm hmmm. So where is the thermostat that you're having
an issue with.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
And the living room?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, it's not right.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
No, it's against the back wall. It's in the center
of the living room.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't know. I don't know the answer to that,
other than you know a faulty I don't know. I
don't want to just say it's a faulty thermostat. I
don't know. What did the technician say. Did you say
you called them under.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
No, I haven't. I just turned it on yesterday for
the first time after installed, and you a smart one,
it would read seventy six in the house. I have
it set on seventy two and a crapt run on
all night long, and I will still read seventy six.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Maybe it's not calibrated correctly. I thought you said it
was in the eighties.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
The older one, which I changed about two weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh, okay, well I'll tell you. And that's a good
question because I was telling Danny I have almost the
same thing going on. I have mindset. It's the other
way around. I have mindset. It's seventy eight and I
turned it on this morning and it's now reading temperature
(28:43):
in the house of seventy four, so it's cooling lower.
You got the opposite, but yeah, versus mine. So I
don't know. Maybe some of our HVAC people that listen,
maybe they can give us some input on the thermostats.
Because I haven't done any research. I just noticed the
(29:04):
problem this morning also, so keep listening Tony and see.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
If we come up with I figured somebody will have
some inputs. Usually if you know, great.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Very good, Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I hate
to give that answer, but that's the answer. The answer
is no answer. All right, let's go to Let's go
to Lou Lou welcome.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Yeah, hey, Gary, how are you doing fine? Thank you good?
I love the show. Hey, just wanted to ask you
a question. We had a house inspection and then during
the inspection the inspector came back to us and said, hey,
you know, you have exhaust bands that are dumping into
the attic and have caused some old problems. And we
(29:51):
didn't know that because we don't go up into the addic, right.
But what we have is we we bought the home
in two thousand. If this is a two story, five
dormer home that has a twelve twelve roof, so we
have a large opening in the attic above our garage.
(30:13):
That's how we enter into and exits from the top.
Then as you go across the attic in the above
the garage, you have to take another ladder to go
up to a second level. And then that area is
really tight because of the pitch, you know what I'm saying.
So originally we did not have a vent ridge in
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this a ridge event. Rather, in this house they had
exhaust bands that were kicked on by humidity and heat,
and then it came to an acceptable level they stopped,
you know. So we had a roof put on, had
a ridge event put in. The other ones that we
(30:58):
had prior to that were the turtles that were on
the back end of the house. Okay, you know the
turtle event flight. And now we're in a situation where
we can put the baffles that we need put in
above the garage. We have easy access to those because
that's about about a eleven twelve foot ceiling in there.
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The other side where it's tight, we can we can
see light on the back end of the house. House
space is west, the east side of the of the attic,
above the living space, where it's tight, we can see
light there. It's where these dormers are at. We believe
because we have an overhang, you know, on the porch.
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We believe that those dormers, they're real dormers. They you know,
they come into the bedroom and the walls are you know,
shaped as the dormer sits there. But what I was
going to say is we believe that they hit the
top plate because we can't see anything. We have no
ventilation on that side of the the attic.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Right and plus your fans are blowing warm moist aire
into the attic.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
No, we know.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
We we went ahead and hard lined those out both
the gable. Yeah, we went ahead and put We didn't
put the flex line in because we didn't want any
dip in there. We collect humidity. Okay, we ran a
hard line and we didn't see it either. We ran
them separate.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Okay, So was the mold that was caused in the
attic due to the lack of ventilation or was it
due to the fans in the bathroom exhaust?
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Well, you know, we we we are. We are only
assuming because we don't know scientifically in that case. What
I was going to ask is is when you deal
with dormers, we understand where the where the bays are
on the other side of the dormer, we're not going
to have any intake, but we don't have any light
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on that.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Side of the attic at all.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
The other thing, too, is is uh, you know, we
have obviously softet below you know, on the other side
of the overhang, it has you know, ability to allow
air up.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
There, right, but without it's not right, I mean you
got that. We don't have the outtake.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Right.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Well, the thing is is we're not sure that air
is coming through on that side of the house at
all up there, because we don't see any light, we
don't feel any air, nothing on that side.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So is there softening down there on that side?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
They're softening on the overhang. Yeah, the overhang for the
porch in front of those dormers, there is softt there.
It runs all the way across. It's about a about
a forty five fifty.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Foot run, and that part is vented, right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, it is vented.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
But but what we don't know is is if if yeah,
I mean we can't even if we took the sawt off,
you can only go up so far right, and we
know that where the dormer sits, you're never going to
get any intake because it's pitting on that top play right.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Right right right, So it sounds to me, I mean
at a disadvantage. I can't see it, but it sounds
to me sure that that saffid is a non functioning
soft In other words, it can't pool air in unless
it can take unless another vent can take air out.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Well, I think you're right. I think you're right. The
question was good.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
My question was going to be, do we go ahead
and go back to an exhaust fan even with a
with a with a ridge vent or are they competing
against each other?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Well, they would be competing against each other, but I
don't think it's competing at all. Okay, So if you
take the exhaust fan on, like if you had a
standard big box attic and you got a ridge then
on the top and soffits on the bottom, heat rises
just like in a chimney. Right, But it's got to
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be replaced with cooler air. And even if it's ninety
degrees outside, that's cooler air. It's going to drift into
the attic. It's going to let the hot air go out.
That can't happen, is the way it sounds to me.
So you're going to have to mechanically or have somebody
that you know specializes an insulation of ventilation. Take a
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look and see if we can. There's a lot of
homes with cathedral ceilings there's no way to even exhaust that,
you know, because there's like you know, at the peak,
there's like a crawl space. You'd have to So.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Do they.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
What is it when they block the door they do
the air test for the home.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, it's a it's a blower door test. Yeah, that
would help me.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Do the blower door test help us in this case?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Or sure, I would think so. And there's probably an
option from that. Well, you're going to see if there's
any loss of that air. So is there air coming
out of that particular area. One of the things that
and again I apologize but I can't see it. But
one of the things that may help you is to
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you know, have somebody to really analyze that and take
a look at because one of those roof solar fans,
where it could possibly be installed in that dead space,
in that dead area would be if there's a gable
on the other side, or if there's some way to
replenish that air. So it's a two step system. We
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can pull air out mechanically, but we still got to
have some way to feed air in. So there's also
soft events that aren't in a sofet Okay, they're actually
they're called a smart vent. It's up about the third
row of shingles, and if you put a solar fan
up top, it's pulling air out of that dead area.
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And then where that smart vent is not in an overhang,
it can be bringing an air in. I guess what
I'm saying. There's a way to create that ventilation, but
without seeing it, I don't know which way I would go,
but I would certainly get that analyzed and make that
decision from there. Hopefully that helps Lou. We'll continue with
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one other thing for the lou who's talking about the ventilation.
Obviously there was mold. I'm going to guess too a
lot of that may have been from that exhaust van.
I know, we don't know that. Another thing again, you
got to be on site to really see what's going
on and what can be added, what can be taken out.
(40:28):
One of the things I'm seeing more and more is
whole house encapsulation too, so you can get in there
and foam that and make it a conditioned space where
it keeps out the cold and keeps out the heat.
It's not going to keep it, you know, seventy two
degrees in perfect, but it would keep it above freezing
and not blazing hot. That might be another option also.
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All right, let's go to Rodney. Rodney. Welcome, Hi there, Gary, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Quick question.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
No, I got about a ten eleven year old hot
water heater. No problems, no leaks. It's doing a good
job for us, just my wife.
Speaker 10 (41:11):
And I in the house. Okay, but I had someone
recommend a changing that out because of its age and
general life expectancy. Right, And I was considering, or the
thought popped in my head about a tankless water heater,
and I wanted to get your opinion on those.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, I think tankless water heaters are awesome. Is it
gas or is it electric?
Speaker 8 (41:41):
I have a gas water heater.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Okay, so I still think they're awesome. Electric maybe not
so much. But for a gas one, yes, they're going
to be more expensive. Just so you know that, you've
got to make sure you have you know, decent gas pressure.
(42:04):
They've come a long way in the last twenty five years, Rodney.
You know, it used to be they were pretty limited
at how many gallons of hot water they could produce
permit it. Now that's just not an issue. I mean,
you can get them sized, different gallons permitted. I think
they're I mean you could have a seven gallon permitted,
(42:28):
a nine gallon of thirteen gallon. You know, so you
can size it just like you would a tank top
or a tank type water heater. If you're looking at
pros and cons, I would say the tankless will cost more.
The savings is certainly there. I've had different manufacturers on
(42:49):
this show that would say, well, the savings is there,
but you know, it may not be thirty percent because
people have a tendency to take longer showers. Maybe that's true.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
There's certainly a savings. You're not reheating the same water
time and time again, it's on demand. When you fire
that baby up, that's you know, that's when it heats
the water that you're gonna use, because it's supercharges, superheats
the water calcium carbonate. In other words, cleaning becomes a
(43:23):
maintenance issue. Not not in a bad way, it's just
maintenance that would have to be done. I would check
on the brand to see if they have something to
help you clean that which there are kits or they
have to have a plumber do that. Just find out
exactly what that issue is. But in terms of you know,
(43:50):
have it installed, I'd say, you know, there's there's a
bigger upfront cost, and there's less utility bills, and it's
also gonna last longer. You're probably gonna get to a
twenty five years out of that versus probably the twelve
to fifteen that you have right now. If you have
a follow up question, we'll get you on the other
side of the hour. Just hung up. So okay, I
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and Dave you lead us off. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hi Gary, Hey, I have a paint question here. I
bought a brand new exterior steel door that's primed. Uh huh,
and uh, what would be the best paint for that?
It gets a lot of sun.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, there's a couple that I would recommend. And let
me tell you. The basic one is you can use
a regular exterior paint. And I don't mean just a
regular exterior I mean one that is a super good
quality in each brand. I think Sherwin Williams, Ben Moore
Bear they have their top of the line. I would
(02:59):
Folk's in on that. They have them in flat, they
have them in satin, they have them in semi gloss.
The Sherman Williams one is called Emerald, and the nice
one about the Emerald is it's a little slower drying.
Some of the other ones they like drying like fifteen minutes,
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so you don't want to paint in direct sunlight with
it or dry in your brush. But the Emerald exterior
house paint that Sureman Williams has is very good. Now
I preface that by saying, since it is a house paint,
it does have a little bit of texture to it.
In other words, it's not like a smooth enamel. I
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don't know if that makes any difference to some people.
I think they might hold just a little bit more
dust on the surface if you lived in an area
with you know, a lot of new construction. I don't
know if that's really an issue, but it'd hold up
probably great against the sun. I would say it's a
ten to fifteen year paint. That would be one option
(04:07):
if you're saying no, no, I want it to look
like the old oil base. I want that smooth, slick surface.
Sherman Williams has one. I think it's the best trimming
enamo out there on the market. It is a it's
called it is also called emeralds, so don't get those
mixed up. It's called Emerald Euthane trimming enamel can be
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used indoors or outdoors, very very much sun resistant. Uh,
you got the primer on there. It's a matter of
probably doing two coats. Not cheap, but extremely durable. And
it kind of has that enameled look if that's what
you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that would that be the enameled your thane then
is that what that would say?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's Emerald your a thane trimming enamel.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Okay, okay okay.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So and it is it's expensive. I mean it might
be twenty five bucks a court. Maybe maybe thirty. I
don't know. It's been a while. I did my whole
house with about three years ago on all the woodwork
and everything. It's very durable.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That would be good on the on the jams too, the.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, yep, doors, jams, everything. But you know there there's
a lot of choices out there. There's also a lot
of alkid acrylic UH trimming namels which which do a
good job. They give you a smooth texture. Also, I
don't think it's as durable as the your thane trimming enamel,
(05:44):
but I mean the modified alcid uh acrylic enamels. They're good.
Also in the Emerald outdoor paint that is really really
good in sun resistant also, So you got good choices
out there. I'd say all the time. We're in a
great time because the technology and paints have been just
(06:07):
just exploding over the last twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, there's so many of them out there. You don't
know what it's.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Right, right, Well, there's always, there's always, I can guarantee
you there's always at least a good, better best.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Probably all right, Good luck to you, Dave. Thank you
much for the call. I appreciate it. We talk about
that a lot. Entry doors, depending on how the house
is built in the facing, they take a beating. Uh.
My entry door was a fiberglassed or is a fiberglass door.
(06:44):
It's twenty six years old. It faces the southwest. Originally
it was stained. It doesn't it's got a little overhang
to protect a little bit of that door, but not much,
not much. That sun just beats that door to death.
(07:08):
And I would say after about fifteen years, I'd had enough.
I mean, it was a darker golden oak. The house's brick,
lots of trim, and I have this golden oak door
(07:30):
that about every three to five years, I seem to
be not necessarily restaining it, but knocking down the protectant,
the spar erthane. Don't use poly your thane on it,
it'll go faster, and then respar varnishing it or spar
(07:53):
euthinting it. It was about every three to five years.
So I did it like three times. I'm just kind
of winging it there, say three times in fifteen years,
maybe four times. And one day I'm going like, there's
nothing else on this house that's just called no. I
think I'm going to paint it. And I did, and
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two things. I think this is my opinion. You can
certainly differ with this number one, as that paint's been
on there for ten years. At least it looks brand new.
I watched the door one time. I don't think euthane
(08:37):
emma was unavailable at that point I think I used
the Sherman Williams Duration or the Sherman Williams Emerald on
that front door. And I'll tell you what it holds
up so well against the sun. I used a satin.
It looks fantastic in my opinion. It kind of goes
(08:58):
more with the house, which I also really enjoyed. All right,
Tony said tight, Donald, you said tight. As we kind
of load them up for the next opportunity to chat
a little bit about your home project. If you would
like to join us, let's grab a line. It's eight
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hundred eighty two three eight two five five. One of
the big things is we're talking about front doors. We're
talking in a lot of cases about curb appeal from
the outside of our home. What kind of visual do
you give your neighbors, your guest and I just talked
(09:40):
about the front doors. Another thing to look at is
gut ish shutters, especially vinyl shutters. They oxidize very quickly.
They too can be painted. They also can be rejuvenated,
and I'll go through the step by steps on how
to rejuvenate vinyl and where I was going with this
whole thing. Curve appeal is so important and what's a
(10:02):
big part of our home when it comes to curve
appeal landscaping. So coming up with Scott Berlin. He's gonna
help us with that. He does a show called Let's
Garden with Scott Berline. That's exactly what we're gonna do.
That's next. You're at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (12:58):
All right, we're twenty one minutes after the top of
the hour, and I was just talking about curb appeal
for our home, our entry way, the paint on our home.
But landscaping pay you know, that's a big part of
the curb appeal of our home. So joining us this
time every weekend is Scott Burline. He does a National
(13:21):
Gardening landscaping show called Let's Garden with Scott Burline. And
so Let's Garden.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
What do you say, Scott, Yeah, I'm itching to get
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah. So, you know, really, I'm not going to say
it's ignored, because landscaping is not ignored in nice neighborhoods.
Landscaping really sets off the house and it can also
conserve energy.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Oh yeah, you know, there I kind of categorize the
landscaping is is three different kinds. You can have the
landscaping that detracts from the appeal of your house, you know, shoddy, ugly,
unkept landscaping. Then you have the standard issue suburban you
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know what's expected, and that's probably no, not a plus,
not a minus.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's it's just just there there.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
And then you can really knock it out of the
park with you know, a nice shade tree, uh, you know,
innovative nice plantings, a richness of diversity, and as you mentioned,
you know, saving energy.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Anything you can do to keep wind.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Off the house, son off the house, uh is going
to help your your with your energy bills.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Sure, you know, I it's interesting my pet peeve is unkept.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Unkept to me means overgrown. It's you know, good landscaping.
It's like furniture in a home. Placements important, right, color
is important, and upkeep is important. When it all kinds
of that meshes together, it can still be colorful, but
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it doesn't look great.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, you know, it's design and its care just as
you would have inside a house. You made the comparison
and you could have a beautifully designed living room with
great furniture. All the colors are right everything's arranged well,
but if you leave all the laundry that's unfolded, the blankets,
you know, the kids toys out on the floor, whatever,
(15:29):
you know it, you almost can't see the good parts
of the design through the clutter. And that's very true
with landscapes.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Too, Scott. I'm sure you're privy, you know, to latest
trends in you know, landscaping around the home. But somebody
listening right now may be thinking, yeah, mine's overgrown or
mine you know that Japanese used now like you know
six feet wide, yeah, three feet and there's three of them,
(16:01):
and you know it's unkept, it's too big, it's age
too much. I've got to redesign. Where do you start
with that process?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I would start right where I would start with a
new landscape, and as that would be with the big plants,
the trees, the shrubs. You know, those are the foundations,
the cornerstones of of what you do afterwards. So if
you know, we've seen that where the front door you
can't even get in through the front door because whatever
is playing it on both sides is encroaching, you might
(16:35):
just have to remove those. You might have to start
over right, pull those out and do a redo. And
if you know, if you're doing that and you're you're
taking out a lot, then you look at it again
from the top down where you're you're looking at trees, shrubs,
where they go, what they are, and once they're in place,
or even before, but I like to go once there
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in place, then then you start looking at the little
nooks and crannies that you can fill in.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, you brought up a good point. I was talking
about the front door and at one time I've been
in my house for twenty six years and I had
a Japanese US on each side of the sidewalk going
to the front door. Well, these things got massive in
twenty two years. They got massive, and a buddy of
mine said, you know, you need to take those things out.
(17:23):
I said, yeah, I know, I know, yeah, And he
told me something. He goes like I said, Well, he goes,
look at you got this big arch. Why don't you
get a U a Japanese view that grows vertically? And
I go, what, Yeah, what are you talking about? I
thought Japanese ws were all big. My point is there's
a lot of new stuff and old stuff out there,
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to everybody all wants the shade tree that grows fast,
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I can grow in my neighborhood.
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Someone can help you with that well.
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And also where you spend your Monday through Fridays, I
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you've got all kinds of species of plants and trees
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And the type of site that it likes. Is it shade,
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That kind of thing?
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All right, Scott, thank you always for your input. I
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part of our home and landscaping. Certainly kind of accents that,
so thanks for your time.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I appreciate it absolutely, always a pleasure.
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Feel free to join us. Our numbers eight hundred A
two three, eight, two five five and Tony Welcome.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I love your show, by the way, listening every week
when I can have a quick question, what fireplace I've
had the home for about three years now. I clean
it after I get somebody into the sweep for it
every year after the season's over. Yes, sir, but they
still give me that smell of the wood and the house.
(23:06):
Not every day. It depends on the humidity or if
it's rain and or not they're fixed.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, it's a combination of things. In a lot of
cases it is cleaned, but there's a shelf up in
the chimney that sometimes has an accumulation of riosotes and ash.
That can be a problem if it's kind of one
of those misty fifty five degree high humidity days and
(23:36):
you've got negative air pressure.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Okay, so that's probably what's happening here.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, I think that is what's happening. Sometimes it can
be corrected if you have like fans going on in
the house, bathroom, fans, cooking, fans. Sometimes cracking a window
well actually the reverse the negative airflow and start bringing
(24:03):
it up chimney. That's probably what I would work on
next time you have that day. We're probably going into
an ear a period in time where we're not going
to have a lot of that right now, but you'll
have some damp, wet day that'll you know, certainly raise
(24:26):
its ugly head and you'll have that smell. But cracking
a window sometimes will help. I know you've got air condition,
but just crack it just a little bit. Also, if
you have your fan on your furnace, you might not
just put that on auto rather than on if it
is on on, and it might add on auto okay, yeah, yeah,
(24:48):
And so those are just a couple of things that
would would help. I don't think I would take my
chimney cap off, especially this time of year. Yes, but
you know, in the fall, maybe it might even help
with the burning of the wood better flow. And you
(25:12):
could always touch base with your chimney sweep too and
tell them what you got going on, get his.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Input, okay, Which brings me to the next question. If
I could I do have a three easy breeze in
my basement to across space and the utility room. I
heard you mention some one time that they work best
if you have the fan on.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Auto or on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, not so much for your furnace.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
For your furnace on.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
The furnace, so in the summertime, when the air conditioner
is running, you want to put it on auto, okay,
So it only turns on when the air conditioner turns on.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And if you got any ceiling fans, that helps just
kinda you know, it's not going to pull air out,
but just kind of you know, adds a little bit
of coolness to the room. I just reset all my
fans to counterclockwise just the other day.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, okay, all right, thermostat issue. If this is the
third termstad I go through? Finally I went with the
smart termostat the issue I have. If it's on heat,
it reads the temperature in the room correctly and it
stops or whatever.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
I have it set on.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
But I turned the air condition on, the temperature will
read way high. And the house, let's say in the eighties.
Even though I have it set up at seventy two
or seventy three for air condition, it will keep running
constantly and I will never reach the eighty six or
(26:59):
even it will be very called in the house still
read an agent.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well, I don't have an exact answer for that.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
I was telling three three technicians. Three technicians changed three
tmostats and it still have the same issue.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Mm hmmm. So where is the thermostat that you're having
an issue with.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
And the living room?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, it's not right.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
No, it's against the back wall. It's in the center
of the living room.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't know. I don't know the answer to that,
other than you know a faulty I don't know. I
don't want to just say it's a faulty thermostat. I
don't know. What did the technician say. Did you say
you called them under.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
No, I haven't. I just turned it on yesterday for
the first time after installed, and you a smart one,
it would read seventy six in the house. I have
it set on seventy two and a crapt run on
all night long, and I will still read seventy six.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Maybe it's not calibrated correctly. I thought you said it
was in the eighties.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
The older one, which I changed about two weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh, okay, well I'll tell you. And that's a good
question because I was telling Danny I have almost the
same thing going on. I have mindset. It's the other
way around. I have mindset. It's seventy eight and I
turned it on this morning and it's now reading temperature
(28:43):
in the house of seventy four, so it's cooling lower.
You got the opposite, but yeah, versus mine. So I
don't know. Maybe some of our HVAC people that listen,
maybe they can give us some input on the thermostats.
Because I haven't done any research. I just noticed the
(29:04):
problem this morning also, so keep listening Tony and see.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
If we come up with I figured somebody will have
some inputs. Usually if you know, great.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Very good, Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I hate
to give that answer, but that's the answer. The answer
is no answer. All right, let's go to Let's go
to Lou Lou welcome.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Yeah, hey, Gary, how are you doing fine? Thank you good?
I love the show. Hey, just wanted to ask you
a question. We had a house inspection and then during
the inspection the inspector came back to us and said, hey,
you know, you have exhaust bands that are dumping into
the attic and have caused some old problems. And we
(29:51):
didn't know that because we don't go up into the addic, right.
But what we have is we we bought the home
in two thousand. If this is a two story, five
dormer home that has a twelve twelve roof, so we
have a large opening in the attic above our garage.
(30:13):
That's how we enter into and exits from the top.
Then as you go across the attic in the above
the garage, you have to take another ladder to go
up to a second level. And then that area is
really tight because of the pitch, you know what I'm saying.
So originally we did not have a vent ridge in
(30:38):
this a ridge event. Rather, in this house they had
exhaust bands that were kicked on by humidity and heat,
and then it came to an acceptable level they stopped,
you know. So we had a roof put on, had
a ridge event put in. The other ones that we
(30:58):
had prior to that were the turtles that were on
the back end of the house. Okay, you know the
turtle event flight. And now we're in a situation where
we can put the baffles that we need put in
above the garage. We have easy access to those because
that's about about a eleven twelve foot ceiling in there.
(31:21):
The other side where it's tight, we can we can
see light on the back end of the house. House
space is west, the east side of the of the attic,
above the living space, where it's tight, we can see
light there. It's where these dormers are at. We believe
because we have an overhang, you know, on the porch.
(31:42):
We believe that those dormers, they're real dormers. They you know,
they come into the bedroom and the walls are you know,
shaped as the dormer sits there. But what I was
going to say is we believe that they hit the
top plate because we can't see anything. We have no
ventilation on that side of the the attic.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Right and plus your fans are blowing warm moist aire
into the attic.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
No, we know.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
We we went ahead and hard lined those out both
the gable. Yeah, we went ahead and put We didn't
put the flex line in because we didn't want any
dip in there. We collect humidity. Okay, we ran a
hard line and we didn't see it either. We ran
them separate.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Okay, So was the mold that was caused in the
attic due to the lack of ventilation or was it
due to the fans in the bathroom exhaust?
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Well, you know, we we we are. We are only
assuming because we don't know scientifically in that case. What
I was going to ask is is when you deal
with dormers, we understand where the where the bays are
on the other side of the dormer, we're not going
to have any intake, but we don't have any light
(32:58):
on that.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Side of the attic at all.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
The other thing, too, is is uh, you know, we
have obviously softet below you know, on the other side
of the overhang, it has you know, ability to allow
air up.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
There, right, but without it's not right, I mean you
got that. We don't have the outtake.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Right.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Well, the thing is is we're not sure that air
is coming through on that side of the house at
all up there, because we don't see any light, we
don't feel any air, nothing on that side.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So is there softening down there on that side?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
They're softening on the overhang. Yeah, the overhang for the
porch in front of those dormers, there is softt there.
It runs all the way across. It's about a about
a forty five fifty.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Foot run, and that part is vented, right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, it is vented.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
But but what we don't know is is if if yeah,
I mean we can't even if we took the sawt off,
you can only go up so far right, and we
know that where the dormer sits, you're never going to
get any intake because it's pitting on that top play right.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Right right right, So it sounds to me, I mean
at a disadvantage. I can't see it, but it sounds
to me sure that that saffid is a non functioning
soft In other words, it can't pool air in unless
it can take unless another vent can take air out.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Well, I think you're right. I think you're right. The
question was good.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
My question was going to be, do we go ahead
and go back to an exhaust fan even with a
with a with a ridge vent or are they competing
against each other?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Well, they would be competing against each other, but I
don't think it's competing at all. Okay, So if you
take the exhaust fan on, like if you had a
standard big box attic and you got a ridge then
on the top and soffits on the bottom, heat rises
just like in a chimney. Right, But it's got to
(35:06):
be replaced with cooler air. And even if it's ninety
degrees outside, that's cooler air. It's going to drift into
the attic. It's going to let the hot air go out.
That can't happen, is the way it sounds to me.
So you're going to have to mechanically or have somebody
that you know specializes an insulation of ventilation. Take a
(35:27):
look and see if we can. There's a lot of
homes with cathedral ceilings there's no way to even exhaust that,
you know, because there's like you know, at the peak,
there's like a crawl space. You'd have to So.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Do they.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
What is it when they block the door they do
the air test for the home.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, it's a it's a blower door test. Yeah, that
would help me.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Do the blower door test help us in this case?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Or sure, I would think so. And there's probably an
option from that. Well, you're going to see if there's
any loss of that air. So is there air coming
out of that particular area. One of the things that
and again I apologize but I can't see it. But
one of the things that may help you is to
(36:17):
you know, have somebody to really analyze that and take
a look at because one of those roof solar fans,
where it could possibly be installed in that dead space,
in that dead area would be if there's a gable
on the other side, or if there's some way to
replenish that air. So it's a two step system. We
(36:40):
can pull air out mechanically, but we still got to
have some way to feed air in. So there's also
soft events that aren't in a sofet Okay, they're actually
they're called a smart vent. It's up about the third
row of shingles, and if you put a solar fan
up top, it's pulling air out of that dead area.
(37:04):
And then where that smart vent is not in an overhang,
it can be bringing an air in. I guess what
I'm saying. There's a way to create that ventilation, but
without seeing it, I don't know which way I would go,
but I would certainly get that analyzed and make that
decision from there. Hopefully that helps Lou. We'll continue with
(37:28):
your calls. You're at home with Garry Sullivan.
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back at if we go at home with carry some
one other thing for the lou who's talking about the ventilation.
Obviously there was mold. I'm going to guess too a
lot of that may have been from that exhaust van.
I know, we don't know that. Another thing again, you
got to be on site to really see what's going
on and what can be added, what can be taken out.
(40:28):
One of the things I'm seeing more and more is
whole house encapsulation too, so you can get in there
and foam that and make it a conditioned space where
it keeps out the cold and keeps out the heat.
It's not going to keep it, you know, seventy two
degrees in perfect, but it would keep it above freezing
and not blazing hot. That might be another option also.
(40:50):
All right, let's go to Rodney. Rodney. Welcome, Hi there, Gary, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Quick question.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
No, I got about a ten eleven year old hot
water heater. No problems, no leaks. It's doing a good
job for us, just my wife.
Speaker 10 (41:11):
And I in the house. Okay, but I had someone
recommend a changing that out because of its age and
general life expectancy. Right, And I was considering, or the
thought popped in my head about a tankless water heater,
and I wanted to get your opinion on those.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, I think tankless water heaters are awesome. Is it
gas or is it electric?
Speaker 8 (41:41):
I have a gas water heater.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Okay, so I still think they're awesome. Electric maybe not
so much. But for a gas one, yes, they're going
to be more expensive. Just so you know that, you've
got to make sure you have you know, decent gas pressure.
(42:04):
They've come a long way in the last twenty five years, Rodney.
You know, it used to be they were pretty limited
at how many gallons of hot water they could produce
permit it. Now that's just not an issue. I mean,
you can get them sized, different gallons permitted. I think
they're I mean you could have a seven gallon permitted,
(42:28):
a nine gallon of thirteen gallon. You know, so you
can size it just like you would a tank top
or a tank type water heater. If you're looking at
pros and cons, I would say the tankless will cost more.
The savings is certainly there. I've had different manufacturers on
(42:49):
this show that would say, well, the savings is there,
but you know, it may not be thirty percent because
people have a tendency to take longer showers. Maybe that's true.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
There's certainly a savings. You're not reheating the same water
time and time again, it's on demand. When you fire
that baby up, that's you know, that's when it heats
the water that you're gonna use, because it's supercharges, superheats
the water calcium carbonate. In other words, cleaning becomes a
(43:23):
maintenance issue. Not not in a bad way, it's just
maintenance that would have to be done. I would check
on the brand to see if they have something to
help you clean that which there are kits or they
have to have a plumber do that. Just find out
exactly what that issue is. But in terms of you know,
(43:50):
have it installed, I'd say, you know, there's there's a
bigger upfront cost, and there's less utility bills, and it's
also gonna last longer. You're probably gonna get to a
twenty five years out of that versus probably the twelve
to fifteen that you have right now. If you have
a follow up question, we'll get you on the other
side of the hour. Just hung up. So okay, I
(44:12):
think I answered your question. And if you'd like to
join us, do so. Ken, You'll be up first. If
you'd like to join us. It's eight hundred and eighty
two three, eight two, five to five at home with
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Speaker 3 (44:42):
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