June 6, 2026 • 45 mins
This hour is packed with expert advice on how to keep your home in top shape. We're talking about the importance of preparation when it comes to home projects, and how it can make all the difference in the long run. Gary shares tips on how to properly seal your driveway, and we're also discussing the best ways to deal with pesky carpenter bees and other pests.
One of the key takeaways from this hour is the importance of taking care of your home's exterior. We're talking about the best ways to maintain your driveway, from sealing it to preventing damage from the elements. We're also discussing the best products to use for pest control, and how to keep your home free from unwanted critters. Whether you're a seasoned DIYer or just starting out, this hour has something for everyone.
So, if you're looking for expert advice on how to keep your home in top shape, tune in to this hour of Home Improvement 101 with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, the weekend always means work around the home. Thanks
for joining me this I was brought to you by
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It'll take care of it. Good stuff, all right. Let
me give you the phone number you can grab a line.
We had a few people had to get busy working
around at home as we spoke with Bob about the
(01:09):
Blackjack and what a great product. Again, if so important
to properly prepare, I can't tell you, and I tell
you all the time. Whether it's painting, whether it's an
asphalt coating, whether it's a concrete seiler, whether it's clocking.
(01:30):
Preparation is the key. I'm telling you. It's the less
glamorous part of your project. It's the tedious part of
your project. But that's really where it's gonna pay dividends.
And remember that the drive Max product that we're speaking of,
it's two coat system. It's a gel, it's got an
(01:53):
aggregat and it goes on very easily. But it's two
coats and it's dry or wet on. Dry means you
put the first coat on, you get it in all
the crevices, you let it dry, and then you come
back and you give it a second coat. So you
did the driveway and then come back in a second coat.
(02:13):
Two coat system, added protection. Don't cut that short if
you want to get to ten years out of it.
Ten years, I mean I go back not too long ago,
and you did an asphalt driveways heal. There is one
coat and you maybe get a year or two. There
was people in a lot of cases that put one
(02:34):
on every year, which is not good. In fact, a
lot of times I think driveway failure. Suppose a driveway
failure was really due to just over application of the product.
People would seal their driveway to keep it nice and
(02:55):
black and fresh looking. And then when you got coating
on top of coating on top of coating on top
of coating on top of coating on top of coating.
What do you get? You get peeling. Now, you got
a ten year product, a seven year product, even a
five year product all pays dividends, which really minimizes the
(03:17):
whole risk of over application. So preparation ten years, two
coats not bad. All right, it sounds like you can
get it pretty much anywhere. Do it best? Ace Home
Depot lows the whole works that is Blackjackcoatings dot Com.
(03:38):
All right, you got the phone number. Happy to take
your calls. I know several held on if you've got
a chance. Danny's in the seat and take your calls.
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three A
two five five. While we're talking about driveways, we might
as well just spend a little bit of time talking
about concrete driveways since we covered the asphalt. I saw
(04:02):
I don't know something on social media about a neat tool.
A neat tool. It's a simple tool. It's kind of
the same thing can happen. You can do with a
screwdriver if you want, or maybe a cold chisel, concrete chisel.
But you know where you get the expansion joints on
(04:24):
your driveway, your sidewalk, and maybe there's some separation. Maybe
they have cracked, maybe they were salt cut and you
got weeds growing up through that area. Don't take the
shortcut and just spray weed killer on there. I mean
you can, but if you really want to stop the
(04:48):
whole process, take a screwdriver, an old screwdriver. We all
got one that we used to open up pancakes, paint
cans with, or something along nose length that's seen better days,
and just take it and just scrape out that expansion joint.
(05:08):
You'll take out the weeds, the roots, the sand, the
gunk and get it out of there. And then you know,
before you do anything, get your garden hose on high
and just blast and clean that thing out and then
let it dry. Come back the next day and depending
(05:29):
on how big of a gap that is, you can
calk that. And again just like the Blackjack product where
it was a gallon jug court jug and you just
pour it in. They make that in and Greg for
a concrete seal which is a latex and it'll seal
that up. It's not super flexible. If you want the
(05:51):
super flexible, as Blackjack has your thane and there the
drive the Blackjack Drive Max, there is a your thane
black colored clocking which is self leveling, which can also
be put in that crevice expansion joint on a concrete
(06:14):
when it comes in grain color, and it'll go with
the flex of the driveway and with the flex of
mother Earth, so something, and then you're done with a
whole mess of weeds and ants and everything else that
can love that area. So you might check for those
(06:34):
types of crack fillers also. All right again, it's eight
hundred and eight two three eight two five five Gary.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Welcome, Hi, Gary, first time caller.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I need to have a thousand square feet of concrete
replaced on my driveway apron by the garage, uh huh.
And some of the it's the outer squares. This was
done thirty years ago and it was put on somewhat
of a fill and now it's cracked and needs to
(07:08):
be replaced. So I've got some estimates, like I was
told to do, and I am down to two estimates.
One is saying a four inches thick with peers and
the other one is just five inches thick.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
What you know?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What do they say?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And with the bids being within two hundred dollars of
each other, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Like hmmm, yeah, well what did they say in terms
of the five inch guy? I don't know one of
the things. You know, if I had both of those
and I get estimates just like you, right, and I
would say, well, why do we need five inches up here?
And you know he's going to tell you for stability
(07:55):
or weight, you know, big truck or anything like that,
and asked the other guy why I need peers down there?
I'd like to know the answers. The peers sound a
little seductive in the fact that you know it's peer.
I don't know what that means when you're installing concrete.
I've had peers put on a patio one time, and
(08:17):
basically it's a support system that gets down into the bedrock.
If that's the case, if that's what they're calling a peer,
then I would be interested in the pier at four inches.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So do you hear those The piers are twelve inches
in diameter by twenty four inches deep.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And the reason that pads cracked was back thirty years
ago they put the expansion joints in the more decorative
versus ten feet or less. So you know, I sud
they wouldn't make their joints you know, eight feet to
ten feet.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right, So they both have expansion joints, correct, I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh, yes, of course, which would be more expansion joints
than what I have now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I'm intrigued by the piers. I four
inches is fairly standard for a driveway on an apron.
It's usually six inches. Okay, so you're past the apron,
aren't you. No, I'm right outside my garage, so yeah,
(09:32):
but I have the apron I'm talking about is like
right off the street.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's all fine.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah. So and you don't have any big time heavy
equipment or trucks or anything like that. Correct.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The only time we would have something heavy and my
wife requests it is an empty septic system truck.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. I was thinking more a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I don't know, nothing heavy.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I'm I'm intrigued by the peers. I can't think
that just adds a little bit more stability for it.
For me, five inch concrete cracks two those four inch
I know, you know the the old story. You know,
nothing's guaranteeing concrete except it's going to crack.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But I kind of like the I kind of like
the peering thing, quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, well, I guess it's two votes to possibly one.
Because my wife was also leaning towards the piers.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I would ask the five inch guy, say, hey, I
got somebody else been and they were talking about peering also,
and just get his thoughts on that. Okay, he might say, oh,
that's an overkill because he's not going to know what
the price of the of the bid is. You know,
he might say that's an over kid. Okay, you know,
(11:02):
that's one of the advantages I tell people all the time.
I had a roof replace. I talked about roofing all
the time. I had three bids, and one of the
things I said, you know, like I knew I was
going to replace the flashing on this roof if it
was a new roof, That's what I'm going to do.
And one guy didn't bid it, and I asked him
(11:22):
why he didn't do it. He goes, I hear, your
fleshing is in great shape. It's no problem. The next
guy asked. He came over and I said, why do
I need flashing? He gets up on a roof, takes
pictures and comes down. He goes, because you got pinholes
on your flashing. Oh thank you, there you go. I
was going to do it anyway, but quite honestly, that's
(11:43):
why you got the opportunity when you have a couple
of bids to ask those questions.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Okay, all right, well I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It, all right, all right, thanks for the call. Appreciate it.
Take care and we got a spot for you, so
uh feel free to join us. It's eight hundred eighty
two three eight two five five at home with Gary soon.
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(14:45):
two minutes after the top they are. By the way,
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that's available via podcast and you can pick that up
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Just on the eye hard app, just hit the bottom bar,
just hit podcast at home with Gerrie Solvent and take
a listen. It's he goes through more than what I
(15:09):
usually go through. I go to the UH the drive backs,
which is the ten year seiler. He talks a little
bit about the five, the seven year, and then the
ten year what it's entails, which is typical application of
driveway seiler. And uh, but the differences are they're they're different.
(15:35):
So it's good to know the whole range that you
can look into. All right, let's go to Dave. Dave welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Uh, yeah, hey, sir, you were talking about seilers and
like ants and that I've got a large area that's
done in pavers, the four about six about like three,
you know, stone pavers, and I have a terrible time
with weeds. I know, you know we put the silicon
(16:04):
sand in there when we put it in, and then
also the pavers tend to discolor a lot. You'll get
some different modes and mildew depending on time of the year.
And I didn't know is there a trick to sealing
those or filling in around them with something else.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Sil Yeah, there's what they call Polameric sand. Polameric sand
has a resin in it that when you sweep the
sand and then you take your hose and just lightly
missed over the pavers and it hardens the sand. So
(16:42):
the advantages. Ants won't tunnel into it, and it slows
down the growth of weeds. Sometimes weeds can come through it,
but it's minimal. It really keeps you from tracking sand
into the house. And this is for smaller joints. I mean,
(17:03):
if you got an inch and a half wide joint
to polymeric saying isn't really going to help you, then
it's almost like pea, gravel or something could go in there.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Right, Yeah, it's just your traditional you know they're close
bad And we'll small joints check out.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And then.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Now from time to time because of where it's located
with shade and stuff, I got a power was ship.
Is that going to hold.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Up to now? No, So what you're going to do is,
I don't know if you've heard me talk about a
product called wet and forget Max. Wet and forget Max. Yeah,
you can binding a concentrate mixed with water and sprayed
on with a tank spray. You can put a hose
in sprayer on there and spray it on there and
(17:53):
just let it go. Just spray it on and you
know in about four to six weeks that black, mildewy, moldy.
Look any type of fungus, algae, molds, mildews like and
will will be destroyed. It'll be a complete kill. And
if you want use it this year, and if you
(18:13):
want to skip next year, that's fine. But after that's
just start using it every year as a preventive. That's
the ticket. And now my.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Driveway's aggregate, and I use a you know, a coating
on my driveway from you know, every couple of years.
Would you dare put any kind of a clear coat
over the top of those papers to keep them from.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You can you're you're going to bring a step on
an exposed aggregate. It's almost like there's a semigloss or
gloss seiler. If it's a regular concrete, you use a
semi you penetrates, use a penetrating seiler. You can't even
see anything on there, and that's a good protecting. If
(18:59):
I had exposed egger get pavers, I think I would
just spray the wed and forget on it, and I
wouldn't seal it. I don't think it's okay, right, okay,
all right, well, thank you, thank you, their appreciate it.
All right, we'll take a break, uh John, Alex and
(19:22):
Jim Jim, you'll be up first. We'll continue at home
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Speaker 1 (22:20):
Well, we're working around the home as we do each
and every weekend. Thanks for joining me, and if you've
got a question about maintenance or repair, feel free to
join us. It's eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five Jim welcome.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I have an outbuilding that's on the lake and I
put metal roof insides, you know, in the interior, and
it looks cool. But I want to know if there's
something I could put, like a clear something I could
put on it to do a little bit more ceiling
of the metal all those years.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
It's kind of tourous and well so so did you
say it's on the inside.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, it's like a garage.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, So that made metal halfway up. So I just
want to make sure I'm giving you the right suggestion.
So this is like a garage and the metal is
on the inside halfway up the walls.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, like dry walla.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Metal okay, A galvanized.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, it's the old corrugated galvanized roofing material with I
boughts used. Looks cool, but I'm just trying to make
a little bit more protective because it's kind of a
moist area.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, but I just want to Yeah, I'm just going
through all the different types of paints that could be used.
You know, whenever you take an old galvanized of course,
we're we're going to take that galvanized metal and we're
going to make it a little bit of a maintenance product. Now,
(24:07):
once that's substrate is painted, is it rusted at all?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, it has patina on it. But I just want
to put like a clear kind of coke that would
I put some there was one product that you put
on metal.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well, there's a yeah, there is a way. There's all
kinds of products. There's there's one that is not really
considered a paint, but it's a it's a it's a
wonderful product. It's clear, it's a tripolymer of silicone. It
can be brushed on or it can be trialed on.
(24:45):
It's thick and it's called brushable sealant. It's made by
gels COO. Not really a paint, and I don't think
I would use any type of varnishes or euthanes. Maybe
a marine eurothane might be an option. Also, that would
be a clear.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is there like a liquid that's almost like a WD
forty that you put on there that a troll or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
There's not that I would think that would be a protecting.
I mean, an oil is a protecting to a degree,
but I don't know that that's really going to enhance anything.
It's going to make it like whitey. I don't know.
You know. Another thing is at one time Rustolium had
(25:38):
a clear finish. Also, I don't know if they have
that anymore. That could be an option.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
All right, I appreciate, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a I'm trying to think of
anything else that would be really enhancing metal. Uh. Some
of these galvanized ones, is it pretty uh dry looking
right now? Because galvanized originally oily, right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Very dry looking, Okay, sitting down on the sun baking
them for years until yeah, let me took them off
and now they sell one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I would look at maybe see if Rustollium still has
a see if they still have a clear and it's
an enamel clear enamel coating. That would be you know,
you can't use it over a rusted area, but you can,
you know, you could maybe uh using a little bit
(26:39):
of like a sanding sponge knocked that down a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, okay, all righty, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
All right, good luck, thank you, And if you'd like
to grab a line, do so, Alex welcome.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Yes, I have several questions. I have the old play
Kyle pipe and let's get in it. Uh my sanite
and storm shore. I was able to snake out the
storm shore, I mean sane, well the storm show. Is
there a way if somebody tell me if I put
(27:17):
stalt in it, Uh, it'll kill the roots? Is that true?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, salt, we might kill the tree too. There is
copper copper sulfate will kill roots better than salt. Okay,
so there is different products. I know there's a company
called Aerobic r O E b i C. They make
(27:47):
a root killer for waste lines that is copper sulfate
that you flush down the toilet every six months.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
There is also a product that I believe they make,
which is a foaming root killer. I think the application
is the same down the toilet. So when you put
it in, you gotta flush it right away because it's
going to start foaming. So that's uh, that's what I
(28:20):
would use in your waistline. I don't know how you're
going to introduce that into a you have it tied
to gutters also or no.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Yeah, I got is dropped down into the pipe.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, so on the drain pipe. I don't know how
you would introduce that to a drain pipe.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
I just pull out the gutt to drop and just
pour it in there.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, I would definitely mix it, you know, mix it
with some water or yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you
might even look at the phone root killer for that also.
So there's probably a separation in those pipes. That's what
usually happens when we have a lot of playground and
it dries out and then it wets up, and so
(29:11):
it's a lot of expansion and contraction. But yeah, just
for your information to Alex if it continues to be
a problem or the saturation, because I guess when you
snaked it out, you didn't use a camera or anything.
You don't really know exactly what's going on in there,
do you.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Well, I have I called out a company they snaked it.
They said there's snake bound up and they're unable to
get to this all the way to this sanitary shore
in the street. Right, So they didn't charge me. But
and then I had somebody else come and we rented
a snake and he worked on it for a couple
(29:51):
of hours and he was able to break it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Moose.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Okay, but that's for my sanitary s tour. And there's
also access to the sanitary who are the cover where
you can unscrew it in the basement and you get
to the uh sanitary source. I could open that up
report and.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
There, so it's open all the way up to the street.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Yeah, that's the sanitary And now I'm dealing with the
storm sword.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, okay, So back to the sanitary pipe. It's intact.
Correct when you when you said the one guy couldn't
get it all the way through, and I guess the
next guy had a snake with a cutter on the
front of it and he got through the roots, big roots, right,
(30:43):
So what's the pipe look like?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, as far as he got it was close to
the street. He said it looked intact.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, So what I was going to tell you is,
you know, just put this in the back of your
file cabinet. Some of those pipes, when they get really bad,
they collapse or the gap it gets to be an
inch or two. There is a process without digging it up,
(31:17):
where you can line that pipe line. So just keep
that in the back of your mind. But there's a
root killer system every six months. It's a maintenance product.
It's not going to just start dissolving roots. It will
the roots that start growing and they will be very
be like hair fibers, and that root killer, of the
(31:38):
foaming root killer will burn those back. And you know
that's kind of what you're looking for.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Roebick one of them.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Robic is the brand name roe b Ic.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Okay, I alway be icy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yep, yep, and either one of those will. It's a
maintenance product. So it's sounds like, uh, be honest with you,
you've got that big of a clump of roots back
there that could become a little bigger problem than we're
thinking it is right now. But it'll help. It'll help,
It just may not be the cure long term. All right,
let's take a break. Coming up, We've got John and Gary.
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do so. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five And back to the phones we go. We
got Gary, Gary.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
Welcome, Hi Gary, this is Gary. I've been here in
uh uh Washington. Yes, sir, and I want to thank you.
I want to thank you. A couple of weeks ago
I called about squeaky floor and you sent me that rescue. Yes,
past control your guy it. I want to thank you personally.
(35:48):
I that's a message on the phone thing, you know.
But why I called it was talking about rusty stuff.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
Yes, and I'm looking I'm holding in my hand and
called Seymar rust converter. But it also comes in a
color people want to clear. But the one we had
we sprayed a patio table outside the little one.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Yeah, it worked great, I mean unbelievable. So and then
you can pay over after it dries if you want
a different color.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Right, So here's my question. I'm not familiar with that
exact product, but I talk a lot about a product
called rust neutralizer, and there's one called rust reformer. It's clear.
It's not a paint, but it functions as a primer.
The the only thing I about that collar, and where
(36:44):
I was kind of stumbling around trying to think of
a product that would work is this was like metal
galvanized roofing that was on the inside of a barn
or shed. And the ones that I'm familiar with, the
RUSS neutralizer and a rust reformer is it is a
(37:04):
chemical that reacts with rust, just as you said, but
it turns the rust of black.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
Yeah, well, this turns the.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Whole thing black.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
I mean, yeah, see, I think he wants it to
I think what he was But if he's trying to
preserve it, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Right, I think that's what he's looking for. Because I
was That's where I was kind of stumped. I don't know.
I think Rustolihim used to make just a clear enamel,
and something tells me in the back of my mind
that they don't have that anymore. And then I was
talking about the brushable ceiling, which is more of almost
the thickness of a roof coating, but it's clear, and
(37:51):
I don't know if that's going to satisfy me either,
because it's going to be a little blueish tint to it,
a little shiny. But I'll tell you the product you're
talking about. I've used not that brand, but the same
basic product multiple times and it's a time saver and
it works wonderful. So thank you much for the call.
(38:15):
I appreciate it. All right, I'll give you the Well
you got the phone number, grab a line. We got
a couple open lines, so feel free to jump on board.
We got another hour to go, John, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
Gary, I got a question for you about a pavilion here.
I got a beautiful pavilion and I'm sitting outside and
I noticed there was a pow dust.
Speaker 11 (38:40):
Coming down on me, only to realize that carpenter bees
have been drilling perfect holes. And I'm just wondering what
I could use to to eradicate that.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Well, there's a couple things you can do. One is,
do you see a lot of bees on the outside
flying around? John?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
I just see these, Gary, These holes are perfect.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
They're almost like, Yeah, that's exactly what they looked like.
They looked like a perfectly half drilled half inch hole.
Speaker 10 (39:21):
Usually yeah, and usually there's there's probably a dozen of
them now, mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
And the reason I ask is they have century bees.
They guard the queen is back there somewhere. And the
century bees are big, they're about half the size of
your thumb, and they bring food and they guard the queen.
The queen's back there with the larvae. And you go
(39:49):
through this process. So if you don't have the big bees,
they're they're they're they're scary looking, they're they're big, and
but they're not really gonna bother you. And so the
one way of doing it is to get an insecticidal
dust back inside that hole. That hole goes in, as
(40:12):
you said, perfectly round, and it's gonna go dead right
or dead left, and you need an insecticidal dust that
you can blow back into that hole. And then the
the the big carpenter bees that crawl in there, or
the queen she gets it on her feet. And just
(40:35):
once you eliminate the queen, they give up the bees hatch.
They may or may not make it through the insecticidal dust,
and you will eliminate that nest. And then what you
do is you sterilize it with a rubbing alcohol and
(40:55):
you patch it with a wood putty or a calking
and that's one way, now, the easy way. As you
were talking about the rescue gift box, I don't know
if there was a carpenter bee trap in that gift box,
(41:18):
but they make one and it's about ten inches long
and it's about an inch of probably an inch and
a half wide. It's bright yellow and green, and they
have done studies that carpenter bees are attracted to those
green and yellow pixels, and those green and yellow pixels
(41:43):
are covered with a sticky substance and the century bees
go to that trap and are eliminated. Then there's no
food going to the queen, and the queen comes out
and she's eliminated. They're very effective. Okay, So if you
have one of those in that box, get that out
(42:05):
and use it right away. Now, you still, once you've eliminated,
I mean, you see no more activity. You still got
to patch the hole and everything, and you still want
to put some mubbing alcohol in there and sanitize that hole.
Otherwise they'll they'll know to come back.
Speaker 11 (42:23):
Okay, Hey, I appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Thank you, all right, very good, Thanks for the call.
Thank you very much. All right, our phone number and
you can grab a line. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five no guest in the next hour,
so we can get your question answered. If you want
to dial this up, do so. And if you missed
the conversation that we were having with our friends from Blackjack,
(42:49):
I encourage you to pick up that podcast. You can
get it on the iHeart app just just click podcast
at Home with Gary Sullivan and we talk about that Drivemax,
that ten year sealer. Now, like I said, it wasn't
long ago that you know, a driveway seiler literally would
give you about a year or two years worth of protection,
(43:12):
and a lot of the driveways that failed were because
they were overcoated. Now with the seilers, with the acrylic resins,
the eurothanes in there, especially the ten year one, you're
not recoding for ten years.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
That particular product is very UV resistant, so it stays
blacker and longer, which is I think a lot of
reasons why people wanted to seal their driveways. So feel
free to grab a line, happy to talk, what's on
your mind. It's eight hundred and eight two three eight
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on every year, which is not good. In fact, a
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People would seal their driveway to keep it nice and
(02:55):
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All right, you got the phone number. Happy to take
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a chance. Danny's in the seat and take your calls.
Our phone number is eight hundred eight two three A
two five five. While we're talking about driveways, we might
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about concrete driveways since we covered the asphalt. I saw
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I don't know something on social media about a neat tool.
A neat tool. It's a simple tool. It's kind of
the same thing can happen. You can do with a
screwdriver if you want, or maybe a cold chisel, concrete chisel.
But you know where you get the expansion joints on
(04:24):
your driveway, your sidewalk, and maybe there's some separation. Maybe
they have cracked, maybe they were salt cut and you
got weeds growing up through that area. Don't take the
shortcut and just spray weed killer on there. I mean
you can, but if you really want to stop the
(04:48):
whole process, take a screwdriver, an old screwdriver. We all
got one that we used to open up pancakes, paint
cans with, or something along nose length that's seen better days,
and just take it and just scrape out that expansion joint.
(05:08):
You'll take out the weeds, the roots, the sand, the
gunk and get it out of there. And then you know,
before you do anything, get your garden hose on high
and just blast and clean that thing out and then
let it dry. Come back the next day and depending
(05:29):
on how big of a gap that is, you can
calk that. And again just like the Blackjack product where
it was a gallon jug court jug and you just
pour it in. They make that in and Greg for
a concrete seal which is a latex and it'll seal
that up. It's not super flexible. If you want the
(05:51):
super flexible, as Blackjack has your thane and there the
drive the Blackjack Drive Max, there is a your thane
black colored clocking which is self leveling, which can also
be put in that crevice expansion joint on a concrete
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when it comes in grain color, and it'll go with
the flex of the driveway and with the flex of
mother Earth, so something, and then you're done with a
whole mess of weeds and ants and everything else that
can love that area. So you might check for those
(06:34):
types of crack fillers also. All right again, it's eight
hundred and eight two three eight two five five Gary.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Welcome, Hi, Gary, first time caller.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I need to have a thousand square feet of concrete
replaced on my driveway apron by the garage, uh huh.
And some of the it's the outer squares. This was
done thirty years ago and it was put on somewhat
of a fill and now it's cracked and needs to
(07:08):
be replaced. So I've got some estimates, like I was
told to do, and I am down to two estimates.
One is saying a four inches thick with peers and
the other one is just five inches thick.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
What you know?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What do they say?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And with the bids being within two hundred dollars of
each other, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Like hmmm, yeah, well what did they say in terms
of the five inch guy? I don't know one of
the things. You know, if I had both of those
and I get estimates just like you, right, and I
would say, well, why do we need five inches up here?
And you know he's going to tell you for stability
(07:55):
or weight, you know, big truck or anything like that,
and asked the other guy why I need peers down there?
I'd like to know the answers. The peers sound a
little seductive in the fact that you know it's peer.
I don't know what that means when you're installing concrete.
I've had peers put on a patio one time, and
(08:17):
basically it's a support system that gets down into the bedrock.
If that's the case, if that's what they're calling a peer,
then I would be interested in the pier at four inches.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So do you hear those The piers are twelve inches
in diameter by twenty four inches deep.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And the reason that pads cracked was back thirty years
ago they put the expansion joints in the more decorative
versus ten feet or less. So you know, I sud
they wouldn't make their joints you know, eight feet to
ten feet.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right, So they both have expansion joints, correct, I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh, yes, of course, which would be more expansion joints
than what I have now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I'm intrigued by the piers. I four
inches is fairly standard for a driveway on an apron.
It's usually six inches. Okay, so you're past the apron,
aren't you. No, I'm right outside my garage, so yeah,
(09:32):
but I have the apron I'm talking about is like
right off the street.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's all fine.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah. So and you don't have any big time heavy
equipment or trucks or anything like that. Correct.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The only time we would have something heavy and my
wife requests it is an empty septic system truck.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. I was thinking more a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I don't know, nothing heavy.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I'm I'm intrigued by the peers. I can't think
that just adds a little bit more stability for it.
For me, five inch concrete cracks two those four inch
I know, you know the the old story. You know,
nothing's guaranteeing concrete except it's going to crack.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But I kind of like the I kind of like
the peering thing, quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, well, I guess it's two votes to possibly one.
Because my wife was also leaning towards the piers.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I would ask the five inch guy, say, hey, I
got somebody else been and they were talking about peering also,
and just get his thoughts on that. Okay, he might say, oh,
that's an overkill because he's not going to know what
the price of the of the bid is. You know,
he might say that's an over kid. Okay, you know,
(11:02):
that's one of the advantages I tell people all the time.
I had a roof replace. I talked about roofing all
the time. I had three bids, and one of the
things I said, you know, like I knew I was
going to replace the flashing on this roof if it
was a new roof, That's what I'm going to do.
And one guy didn't bid it, and I asked him
(11:22):
why he didn't do it. He goes, I hear, your
fleshing is in great shape. It's no problem. The next
guy asked. He came over and I said, why do
I need flashing? He gets up on a roof, takes
pictures and comes down. He goes, because you got pinholes
on your flashing. Oh thank you, there you go. I
was going to do it anyway, but quite honestly, that's
(11:43):
why you got the opportunity when you have a couple
of bids to ask those questions.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Okay, all right, well I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It, all right, all right, thanks for the call. Appreciate it.
Take care and we got a spot for you, so
uh feel free to join us. It's eight hundred eighty
two three eight two five five at home with Gary soon.
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two minutes after the top they are. By the way,
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that's available via podcast and you can pick that up
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Just on the eye hard app, just hit the bottom bar,
just hit podcast at home with Gerrie Solvent and take
a listen. It's he goes through more than what I
(15:09):
usually go through. I go to the UH the drive backs,
which is the ten year seiler. He talks a little
bit about the five, the seven year, and then the
ten year what it's entails, which is typical application of
driveway seiler. And uh, but the differences are they're they're different.
(15:35):
So it's good to know the whole range that you
can look into. All right, let's go to Dave. Dave welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Uh, yeah, hey, sir, you were talking about seilers and
like ants and that I've got a large area that's
done in pavers, the four about six about like three,
you know, stone pavers, and I have a terrible time
with weeds. I know, you know we put the silicon
(16:04):
sand in there when we put it in, and then
also the pavers tend to discolor a lot. You'll get
some different modes and mildew depending on time of the year.
And I didn't know is there a trick to sealing
those or filling in around them with something else.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Sil Yeah, there's what they call Polameric sand. Polameric sand
has a resin in it that when you sweep the
sand and then you take your hose and just lightly
missed over the pavers and it hardens the sand. So
(16:42):
the advantages. Ants won't tunnel into it, and it slows
down the growth of weeds. Sometimes weeds can come through it,
but it's minimal. It really keeps you from tracking sand
into the house. And this is for smaller joints. I mean,
(17:03):
if you got an inch and a half wide joint
to polymeric saying isn't really going to help you, then
it's almost like pea, gravel or something could go in there.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Right, Yeah, it's just your traditional you know they're close
bad And we'll small joints check out.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And then.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Now from time to time because of where it's located
with shade and stuff, I got a power was ship.
Is that going to hold.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Up to now? No, So what you're going to do is,
I don't know if you've heard me talk about a
product called wet and forget Max. Wet and forget Max. Yeah,
you can binding a concentrate mixed with water and sprayed
on with a tank spray. You can put a hose
in sprayer on there and spray it on there and
(17:53):
just let it go. Just spray it on and you
know in about four to six weeks that black, mildewy, moldy.
Look any type of fungus, algae, molds, mildews like and
will will be destroyed. It'll be a complete kill. And
if you want use it this year, and if you
(18:13):
want to skip next year, that's fine. But after that's
just start using it every year as a preventive. That's
the ticket. And now my.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Driveway's aggregate, and I use a you know, a coating
on my driveway from you know, every couple of years.
Would you dare put any kind of a clear coat
over the top of those papers to keep them from.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You can you're you're going to bring a step on
an exposed aggregate. It's almost like there's a semigloss or
gloss seiler. If it's a regular concrete, you use a
semi you penetrates, use a penetrating seiler. You can't even
see anything on there, and that's a good protecting. If
(18:59):
I had exposed egger get pavers, I think I would
just spray the wed and forget on it, and I
wouldn't seal it. I don't think it's okay, right, okay,
all right, well, thank you, thank you, their appreciate it.
All right, we'll take a break, uh John, Alex and
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Jim Jim, you'll be up first. We'll continue at home
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Speaker 1 (22:20):
Well, we're working around the home as we do each
and every weekend. Thanks for joining me, and if you've
got a question about maintenance or repair, feel free to
join us. It's eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five Jim welcome.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I have an outbuilding that's on the lake and I
put metal roof insides, you know, in the interior, and
it looks cool. But I want to know if there's
something I could put, like a clear something I could
put on it to do a little bit more ceiling
of the metal all those years.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
It's kind of tourous and well so so did you
say it's on the inside.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, it's like a garage.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, So that made metal halfway up. So I just
want to make sure I'm giving you the right suggestion.
So this is like a garage and the metal is
on the inside halfway up the walls.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, like dry walla.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Metal okay, A galvanized.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, it's the old corrugated galvanized roofing material with I
boughts used. Looks cool, but I'm just trying to make
a little bit more protective because it's kind of a
moist area.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, but I just want to Yeah, I'm just going
through all the different types of paints that could be used.
You know, whenever you take an old galvanized of course,
we're we're going to take that galvanized metal and we're
going to make it a little bit of a maintenance product. Now,
(24:07):
once that's substrate is painted, is it rusted at all?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, it has patina on it. But I just want
to put like a clear kind of coke that would
I put some there was one product that you put
on metal.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well, there's a yeah, there is a way. There's all
kinds of products. There's there's one that is not really
considered a paint, but it's a it's a it's a
wonderful product. It's clear, it's a tripolymer of silicone. It
can be brushed on or it can be trialed on.
(24:45):
It's thick and it's called brushable sealant. It's made by
gels COO. Not really a paint, and I don't think
I would use any type of varnishes or euthanes. Maybe
a marine eurothane might be an option. Also, that would
be a clear.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is there like a liquid that's almost like a WD
forty that you put on there that a troll or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
There's not that I would think that would be a protecting.
I mean, an oil is a protecting to a degree,
but I don't know that that's really going to enhance anything.
It's going to make it like whitey. I don't know.
You know. Another thing is at one time Rustolium had
(25:38):
a clear finish. Also, I don't know if they have
that anymore. That could be an option.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
All right, I appreciate, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a I'm trying to think of
anything else that would be really enhancing metal. Uh. Some
of these galvanized ones, is it pretty uh dry looking
right now? Because galvanized originally oily, right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Very dry looking, Okay, sitting down on the sun baking
them for years until yeah, let me took them off
and now they sell one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I would look at maybe see if Rustollium still has
a see if they still have a clear and it's
an enamel clear enamel coating. That would be you know,
you can't use it over a rusted area, but you can,
you know, you could maybe uh using a little bit
(26:39):
of like a sanding sponge knocked that down a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, okay, all righty, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
All right, good luck, thank you, And if you'd like
to grab a line, do so, Alex welcome.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Yes, I have several questions. I have the old play
Kyle pipe and let's get in it. Uh my sanite
and storm shore. I was able to snake out the
storm shore, I mean sane, well the storm show. Is
there a way if somebody tell me if I put
(27:17):
stalt in it, Uh, it'll kill the roots? Is that true?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, salt, we might kill the tree too. There is
copper copper sulfate will kill roots better than salt. Okay,
so there is different products. I know there's a company
called Aerobic r O E b i C. They make
(27:47):
a root killer for waste lines that is copper sulfate
that you flush down the toilet every six months.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
There is also a product that I believe they make,
which is a foaming root killer. I think the application
is the same down the toilet. So when you put
it in, you gotta flush it right away because it's
going to start foaming. So that's uh, that's what I
(28:20):
would use in your waistline. I don't know how you're
going to introduce that into a you have it tied
to gutters also or no.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Yeah, I got is dropped down into the pipe.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, so on the drain pipe. I don't know how
you would introduce that to a drain pipe.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
I just pull out the gutt to drop and just
pour it in there.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, I would definitely mix it, you know, mix it
with some water or yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you
might even look at the phone root killer for that also.
So there's probably a separation in those pipes. That's what
usually happens when we have a lot of playground and
it dries out and then it wets up, and so
(29:11):
it's a lot of expansion and contraction. But yeah, just
for your information to Alex if it continues to be
a problem or the saturation, because I guess when you
snaked it out, you didn't use a camera or anything.
You don't really know exactly what's going on in there,
do you.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Well, I have I called out a company they snaked it.
They said there's snake bound up and they're unable to
get to this all the way to this sanitary shore
in the street. Right, So they didn't charge me. But
and then I had somebody else come and we rented
a snake and he worked on it for a couple
(29:51):
of hours and he was able to break it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Moose.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Okay, but that's for my sanitary s tour. And there's
also access to the sanitary who are the cover where
you can unscrew it in the basement and you get
to the uh sanitary source. I could open that up
report and.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
There, so it's open all the way up to the street.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Yeah, that's the sanitary And now I'm dealing with the
storm sword.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, okay, So back to the sanitary pipe. It's intact.
Correct when you when you said the one guy couldn't
get it all the way through, and I guess the
next guy had a snake with a cutter on the
front of it and he got through the roots, big roots, right,
(30:43):
So what's the pipe look like?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Well, as far as he got it was close to
the street. He said it looked intact.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, So what I was going to tell you is,
you know, just put this in the back of your
file cabinet. Some of those pipes, when they get really bad,
they collapse or the gap it gets to be an
inch or two. There is a process without digging it up,
(31:17):
where you can line that pipe line. So just keep
that in the back of your mind. But there's a
root killer system every six months. It's a maintenance product.
It's not going to just start dissolving roots. It will
the roots that start growing and they will be very
be like hair fibers, and that root killer, of the
(31:38):
foaming root killer will burn those back. And you know
that's kind of what you're looking for.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Roebick one of them.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Robic is the brand name roe b Ic.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Okay, I alway be icy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yep, yep, and either one of those will. It's a
maintenance product. So it's sounds like, uh, be honest with you,
you've got that big of a clump of roots back
there that could become a little bigger problem than we're
thinking it is right now. But it'll help. It'll help,
It just may not be the cure long term. All right,
let's take a break. Coming up, We've got John and Gary.
(32:17):
I offer you a line. It's eight hundred and eight
two three eight two five five. You're at home with
Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Help for your home is just a click away at
Garysullivan online dot com. This is at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
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(35:13):
do each weekend, taking you through the weekend, helping you
around the home. If you would like to join us,
do so. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five And back to the phones we go. We
got Gary, Gary.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
Welcome, Hi Gary, this is Gary. I've been here in
uh uh Washington. Yes, sir, and I want to thank you.
I want to thank you. A couple of weeks ago
I called about squeaky floor and you sent me that rescue. Yes,
past control your guy it. I want to thank you personally.
(35:48):
I that's a message on the phone thing, you know.
But why I called it was talking about rusty stuff.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
Yes, and I'm looking I'm holding in my hand and
called Seymar rust converter. But it also comes in a
color people want to clear. But the one we had
we sprayed a patio table outside the little one.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Yeah, it worked great, I mean unbelievable. So and then
you can pay over after it dries if you want
a different color.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Right, So here's my question. I'm not familiar with that
exact product, but I talk a lot about a product
called rust neutralizer, and there's one called rust reformer. It's clear.
It's not a paint, but it functions as a primer.
The the only thing I about that collar, and where
(36:44):
I was kind of stumbling around trying to think of
a product that would work is this was like metal
galvanized roofing that was on the inside of a barn
or shed. And the ones that I'm familiar with, the
RUSS neutralizer and a rust reformer is it is a
(37:04):
chemical that reacts with rust, just as you said, but
it turns the rust of black.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
Yeah, well, this turns the.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Whole thing black.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
I mean, yeah, see, I think he wants it to
I think what he was But if he's trying to
preserve it, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Right, I think that's what he's looking for. Because I
was That's where I was kind of stumped. I don't know.
I think Rustolihim used to make just a clear enamel,
and something tells me in the back of my mind
that they don't have that anymore. And then I was
talking about the brushable ceiling, which is more of almost
the thickness of a roof coating, but it's clear, and
(37:51):
I don't know if that's going to satisfy me either,
because it's going to be a little blueish tint to it,
a little shiny. But I'll tell you the product you're
talking about. I've used not that brand, but the same
basic product multiple times and it's a time saver and
it works wonderful. So thank you much for the call.
(38:15):
I appreciate it. All right, I'll give you the Well
you got the phone number, grab a line. We got
a couple open lines, so feel free to jump on board.
We got another hour to go, John, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
Gary, I got a question for you about a pavilion here.
I got a beautiful pavilion and I'm sitting outside and
I noticed there was a pow dust.
Speaker 11 (38:40):
Coming down on me, only to realize that carpenter bees
have been drilling perfect holes. And I'm just wondering what
I could use to to eradicate that.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Well, there's a couple things you can do. One is,
do you see a lot of bees on the outside
flying around? John?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
I just see these, Gary, These holes are perfect.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
They're almost like, Yeah, that's exactly what they looked like.
They looked like a perfectly half drilled half inch hole.
Speaker 10 (39:21):
Usually yeah, and usually there's there's probably a dozen of
them now, mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
And the reason I ask is they have century bees.
They guard the queen is back there somewhere. And the
century bees are big, they're about half the size of
your thumb, and they bring food and they guard the queen.
The queen's back there with the larvae. And you go
(39:49):
through this process. So if you don't have the big bees,
they're they're they're they're scary looking, they're they're big, and
but they're not really gonna bother you. And so the
one way of doing it is to get an insecticidal
dust back inside that hole. That hole goes in, as
(40:12):
you said, perfectly round, and it's gonna go dead right
or dead left, and you need an insecticidal dust that
you can blow back into that hole. And then the
the the big carpenter bees that crawl in there, or
the queen she gets it on her feet. And just
(40:35):
once you eliminate the queen, they give up the bees hatch.
They may or may not make it through the insecticidal dust,
and you will eliminate that nest. And then what you
do is you sterilize it with a rubbing alcohol and
(40:55):
you patch it with a wood putty or a calking
and that's one way, now, the easy way. As you
were talking about the rescue gift box, I don't know
if there was a carpenter bee trap in that gift box,
(41:18):
but they make one and it's about ten inches long
and it's about an inch of probably an inch and
a half wide. It's bright yellow and green, and they
have done studies that carpenter bees are attracted to those
green and yellow pixels, and those green and yellow pixels
(41:43):
are covered with a sticky substance and the century bees
go to that trap and are eliminated. Then there's no
food going to the queen, and the queen comes out
and she's eliminated. They're very effective. Okay, So if you
have one of those in that box, get that out
(42:05):
and use it right away. Now, you still, once you've eliminated,
I mean, you see no more activity. You still got
to patch the hole and everything, and you still want
to put some mubbing alcohol in there and sanitize that hole.
Otherwise they'll they'll know to come back.
Speaker 11 (42:23):
Okay, Hey, I appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Thank you, all right, very good, Thanks for the call.
Thank you very much. All right, our phone number and
you can grab a line. It's eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five no guest in the next hour,
so we can get your question answered. If you want
to dial this up, do so. And if you missed
the conversation that we were having with our friends from Blackjack,
(42:49):
I encourage you to pick up that podcast. You can
get it on the iHeart app just just click podcast
at Home with Gary Sullivan and we talk about that Drivemax,
that ten year sealer. Now, like I said, it wasn't
long ago that you know, a driveway seiler literally would
give you about a year or two years worth of protection,
(43:12):
and a lot of the driveways that failed were because
they were overcoated. Now with the seilers, with the acrylic resins,
the eurothanes in there, especially the ten year one, you're
not recoding for ten years.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
That particular product is very UV resistant, so it stays
blacker and longer, which is I think a lot of
reasons why people wanted to seal their driveways. So feel
free to grab a line, happy to talk, what's on
your mind. It's eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five year at Home with Garry Sullivan.
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