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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, a good Saturday morning. Welcome aboard at home with
Gary Salvin. Yep, I know you can't believe it, but
dog gone, it is raining once again, and maybe we
can dog some ring drops. Talk to you about your projects.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Regarding your home, maintenance, repair, maybe a little remodeling.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Feel free to join us. We'll be with you at
one o'clock today at five.
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One, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred. If you
have a question regarding your home, Like I said, we'll
take it to one right here on fifty five krc
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, it's the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome you are at home with Gary Salvin, taking you
through another weekend getting a few things done around the home.
Hope you had a great week and now let's work
on having a great weekend. We're going to talk a
little bit about home improvement. In fact, we're going to
talk a lot about home improvement. So I welcome you
to step in and ask your question on maybe a
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project that you're thinking about, uh well working on, or
maybe you're halfway through it. You got some question, feel
free to join us. The lines are wide open. Joe
Strecker on the board today. Danny's off ill, but Joe.
We're in good hands. Joe produced the show for probably
fifteen twenty years. I don't know, a long long time.
So Joe's back in the sateur day. We appreciate his
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help getting us through another weekend.
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Our phone number.
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It's eight hundred eight two three eight two five y five.
That's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five
and feel free to grab a line jump on board.
Ron Wilson is traveling today. He's at Garden Centers up
in Columbus, Ohio, so he will not be with us
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this day.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
But we'll catch up with him next week once again.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So talking about home projects, all right, where I'm at,
Golly we continue. We hit a beautiful week, but a
little wet today, so it kind of brings us back
on things to be.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Controlling around the house. I say it all the time,
what it's about control.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's not about waterproofing, but in this case, it is
about waterproofing.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So if you have had or experienced.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Some issues around windows with moisture, what you really need
to determine is source obviously outside in most cases, and
could it be if you have a brick house, could
that moisture be getting in behind a brick, or is
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it where the window meets the brick and then it's
trimmed out on the inside. In other words, has the
calking failed. It's a bad it's a bad sound when
the calking has failed, because it's a problem getting that
old stuff out. And that's what we struggle with, not
so much putting the new stuff in, not so much
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picking the right kind of cocking, but getting that old
stuff out. Some of that old calking is old oil
based caking, which is as hard as a rock. But
if you can, you know, go outside and examine where
that window is abutting the uh wood siding the brick.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Wall, you'll be able to see it. If it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
If there's cracks, if there's pieces of that cocking that
has been you know, fell out or been removed or whatever,
there's your source of your problems.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Allowing that rainwater to get in.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Certainly recocking is the case, so removing the old one
is the task. Well, a couple of things that suggest
is there is a calking removing tool. It's literally kind
of like a plastic hook knife. And the real secret
depending on whether you having a krilly cocking, an oil
based cocking, silicon ice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Cocking is to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Soften that calcking up so that you can get that
hook knife behind a calking and then just kind of
tear it out. There's a there, there's a good product.
There are several products out you'll find in a hardware store.
It says cocker remover, and that's pretty optimistic. It's not
going to remove anything, but it will soften it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It'll make it more pliable. It'll allow you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
To make inroads of removing that calking. Three m makes one,
mostin backers makes one. And spray it on. Let's said,
let it get a little flexible, if you will, and
then get that cocking nut.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Get all that out of there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And remember when you calk, you're calking the side. You're
not filling the crevice. You're calking the sides of the crevice.
And if you have, you know, a regular situation. In
other words, the wood is a button to brick. It's
a button of wood. It's a button of You can
use an acrylic silkon nice cocking.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That is a very good, pretty flexible. It's got good
adhesion and be.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Painted and we'll do a good job for you. It's
easy to apply.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
If you're looking for something with mixed substrates.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Let's say you have aluminum windows and you're going against wood.
Those are going to expand and contracted different rates.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There's gonna be a lot tugging and battle. If you will.
For adhesion, I'd probably take a look at.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
A good paintable your thinge then stay away from your silicons.
Silicons aren't paintable for the most part. But your thing
is best adhesion, best flexibility, and that can be used
on mixed substrates. But as we start having, you know,
times when we have a lot of rain and you
start developing leaks on the inside, check the caloking outside.
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It's not always that, and we can help troubleshoot some
other areas if that's the case, But in most cases
it's the calking and prepping and the old stuff out's
always the hardest.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right, thank you for responding.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We've got Richard, Jerry, Gary, Tim and if you'd like
to join us, it's eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Eighty two three eight two five five Richard you lead
us off today.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Welcome, okay, thank you, Gerry.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thanks Le's taking a call.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Bet got on a basement wall crack. Okay, And here's
the situation. House is a little over twenty years old.
It was new when we moved into it had a
stressed crack on one of the basement walls. Poor basement,
a poor concrete, I'm sorry. And so it cracked right
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on the edge of the ingress and egress window, which
is common as they settle had the crack was injected
by a professional. Okay, and it's been fine for the
last twenty years.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Good job, except except up.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Until now, so it's leaking a little bit. I had
covered the walls with a thermal insulation It's like an
R ten faced with aluminum foil on either side, closed
cell eurethane. I pulled that off.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I had that set up.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So that it was just kind of tacked on with
tap cons I was able to just cut that off
and pull off, pull it off where the crack was,
and there it was leaking. The leak is about maybe
two maybe two and a heavy rain two blank two
like medium sized bath towels. Who will absorb the water
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from it. Now, I got an injector kit which and
I have done this before on another crack. I've used
the eurothane injection and to great success. But the problem
is that I can't define a crack on this because
it was previously filled. And my thought is, now, maybe
I can't even use this injector to refill that crack
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because they just can't get at the crack itself. It's
already got material in here. Is there something I can
put over that crack because I think there's not that
much water coming through and maybe I can just like
paint something on the surface or use them war Well.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, but here's something. Here's the thing. I mean, we
got to have a void.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
We got to have a crack somewhere, even if it's
not all the way through the wall, there's got to
be a void back there. Otherwise we wouldn't be having
a water source. So I don't know where you want
to start from this. I mean, we could start at
the source, which should be outside. I always talk about
the killer G's. Why do we have so much war?
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You know, I've seen houses that have cracks and foundations
that don't leak.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
There's that good water control. So I just talk about
the killer.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
G's, which could be overrunning the outside. That crack is
definitely posed on the other side of the wall below
grade even. I mean, there's something going, there's something allowing
the water in, and there's an abundance of water that
has some pressure to it, or it couldn't come in.
So the killer g's are gutters that not cleaning and
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they're overflowing right on the foundation, increasing the water load
and the pressure. That's killer g number one ground water.
In other words, we have some swells along the foundation.
It's collecting water, adding to the pressure and adding to
the abundance of moisture.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And the third one is grating.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It's kind of bringing all that water to that area,
to that foundation area, and it needs to be regraded
where it slopes and takes that water away.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That would be option one to look at.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Option two is maybe drill a hole in there and
see if we can pump that in. And it's got
to be under pressure where it's you know, can.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You is the water weeping out of the.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Original crack where there was where it was filled twenty
years ago?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Uh? Yeah, well yes, And of course I actually haven't
seen it because I had it covered and I discovered
it when I found a puddle of water on the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, we haven't had enough I haven't had enough rain
to actually come through that crack again. But before it
was a couple of times that I caught water on
the floor. It wasn't that much. And I understand what
you're saying. The ideally, I think the problem here would
be to go outside, probably, but I don't want to
go to all that right here. I don't have to, so.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Let me answer your question. Then you say, is there
something you can put over? There's always stuff you can
put over. The question is is it going to be
strong enough to hold back the water pressure. So there
is hydraulic cement, but it's going to tell you to
open the crack and fill it, and we don't, you know, unless.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We really know where it's coming out of.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's why I'm saying, if we can open up and
really observe it when it's raining and pouring, my guess
is you do have a little pawning out there. You
got some bad grating or something. That's what's forcing that in.
In other words, not a failure of the wall, but
they're but you don't not having real good drains around there,
and we do have that foundation's compromising us finding its
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way in. So hydraulic cement spread over the surface. I
don't know if that's really going to hold or not.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
There's also a product called dry lock. It is a
water proofing paint.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Now the dry lock will hold back six to ten
pounds of.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Water pressure per square inch.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's a paint, it's a real thick coating. It's a
waterproof coating.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
In fact.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
To give you an idea of how it works, Richard
and hardware stores. You know, they have a little display
some of the stores and sometimes years.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Ago it would be a cement block, and you know
how poorus that is. There's no cracks. It's a cement block.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And they got a water pump pouring water inside that block.
And the one side is just weeping water and the
other side's covered with the dry lock paint. It's a
dry to the touch as you could ever be.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's just weeping.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Through the capillaries of the concrete and in this case
the block. So it might be that we go ahead
kind of scratch that crack out, put a little hydraulic
cement over it patch, you know, a band aid patch,
and then paint some dry lock over it and.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
See if that stops it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So that would probably be a solution of the problem,
not one I always like, but that may very well.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
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All right backhead it we go twenty three minutes at
from the top of the are talking a little home improvement.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Thanks for joining me. If you'd like to grab a line,
do so. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five Gary. Welcome morning.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I have a small problem. I have a piece of
sheet metal that I'm trying to get a small screw
out of and I'm starting to strip it out. Have
any simple way of getting this small screw out it's
in my grill?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, there's a not a simple way. There's many ways
to try. Can you get a hold of the head
of that screw at all?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Or no? No?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, So if you did a ice crep works real
well and be able to twist it.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I guess the next thing would be a.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Screw extractor where you actually have to drill into that screw,
and that becomes problematic also depending on the size of
the screw. But if you can drill, like if it's
a Phillip said screw, and you can drill right into
the center of that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And use a screw extractor, which will you can use
like a t handled wrench on the top of that,
and you can.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Reverse thread that small screw out. That's certainly one way
and probably something worth trying. There's also some liquids that
you know, but they're like ten bucks that you can
put on the top of the screw and then case
you're screwdriver in and back to screw out, hardens and
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pulls that screw out. So there's certainly tools out there
to age you. But I can tell you the smaller,
the more difficult.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
That's good news. Yeah, I mean, I was just curious
today have a drill bit that works backwards that you
could drill in it and would back it out.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, you know that your drill would have it where
it could reverse thread that. But probably the best way
really would be so is the screw extractors, and they
come through one through five in sizes. You might take
a look at those when you get to the hardware
store because you're you're really drilling into that and you're
inserting this extractor with a t handle and you're just
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going the reverse of it, Nick grips into it. But
I'm just being honest. The small as screw the more difficult.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Okay, all right, I'll try that. I've I've took a
hammer and tacked on the screw the screwdriver. It kind
of jarred a little bit. I put stuff on it,
liquid stuff to try to get behind it, and I
know as soon as it breaks loose, you can twist
it out with your hand, but right god, I can't.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Get it out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Is there any way you can get underneath that piece
of galvanize or whatever that that metal where you could
cut that screw flush on the back side.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, they're tough.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I would say a screw extractor is probably gonna be
your best bet.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Okay, I'm gonna try that next.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
All right, keep listening. We might have some real whiz
bangs to help us further. All right, Gary, thank you?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
All right, if you'd like to grab a line.
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We're thirty three minutes after the top of they are
talking home improvement.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Thanks for joining me later today.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Last week I got into a big discussion about this
increase and it's always an increase right now right the
cost of electricity projected Duke I think announced about twenty
percent increase. Other people have been thirty, other people have
been fifteen. Bottom line is we know the cost of
electricity is going up, and we're going to talk to Scott.
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He's with the TVA Authority and Tests Valley Authority for
conservation on electricity and things. You might consider reading some
of his statistics. They were amazing, especially in appliances. I'm
not telling you go out and buy a brand new refrigerator,
but that was one of the real energy ogs. But
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and what's causing all this we'll discuss that, maybe give
you some tips on saving a little money, and we'll
also talk about installation, of course, that's one of the
big keys.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right in the meantime, grab a line. It's eight
hundred and eight two three eight two five five. Alicia Alyssia, welcome.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Thank you. I have a question about windows. We live
in North Carolina and we had a bad hailstorm and
we have to replace all the windows in the front
of the house and we're not getting a lot of
money from the insurance company. Do you have any recommendations
for windows that can handle a lot of heat in
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the summer? And I guess that's that's really where I
want to start with windows.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, so there are ratings on every window, Okay, it's
it's kind of like buying a car where they have
the miles per gallon and what you need is on
the Department of Energy website, they will talk about, you know,
the reflective power, the low egas glass, and they will
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you know, minimizing solar heat gain, and they'll give you
a range of numbers from good to better best. Right,
they're not selling you windows, they're selling you energy conservation.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And what you need to do is you need to
get those.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Parameters when you go to start, you know, shopping for windows.
And again, your main concern right now, if I'm not mistaken,
as you want to get as energy efficient windows as
you possibly can, and that range will tell you that
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and that then it comes down to you know who
that manufacturer is. But every window has an NFRC rating
on it. There's a little sticker on it. Just like
there is on a car, and you know, we all
get you know, we all kind of get caught up
when we're shopping for windows, usually on you know, the
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sales guys, well, we use this gas, and we use
this type of class, and we use this frame because
it's best. You know, I would say number one, if
your energy efficiency is kind of what.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Everybody's shopping for, check out.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The range of NFRC ratings, decide about where you want
to be, or talk to the salesperson about you know,
what those numbers on that sticker mean, and he'll give
you a range too where you should be.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
But that would be step one.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Then step two is, you know, depending on what kind
of frame you want, you know, and you want a
virgin vinyl frame, you want a fiberglass frame? Do you
want wood windows? You know that that's sometimes cosmetic. We
always love to talk about cosmetics. And then just the
availability of parts and service for those windows and the warranty.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Do you recommend vinyl over fiberglass?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Not necessarily, I would say, if you're gonna do vinyl,
make sure it's a virgin vinyl. Virgin vinyl windows are
good and stable. Fiberglass windows are stable, wood windows are great,
but you got to paint.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Them so, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, there's nothing wrong with a fiberglass winder, that's
for sure. They're very stable. And the only vinyl winders
get a bad rap because there's people that sell really
reclaimed or recycled vinyl. But if you've got somebody using
virgin vinyl, you'll be fine.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
That sounds great. Thank you very much for your help.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, it's all about the energy efficiency, or it should be.
And it's really interesting how cosmics have changed in windows,
you know, the black windows. You know, they're making that
vinyl now and they're pretty attractive. Give put on the
right house, of course. All right, let's go to Mike.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Mike. Welcome marrin Gary.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I heard the fellow or other having problems with the
screw and his grill, and I've well lots of old
rusty stuff on the farm. I've run across that problem
lots of times. And the number one thing with a
Phillips screwdriver is Phillips screwdrivers are made to cam out
of a certain torque. And there's what's called a Jis
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screwdriver Japanese industrial standard. Oh they don't cam out. You
can use a JIS on the phillips, but you can't
use the Phillips on a JIS. Okay, there's one step
even better. A company called Vessel makes what's called an
impact JIS screwdriver. You remember the old hammer impact drivers
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as they used to have years ago. This is fantastic.
It's all in a regular screwdriver. You put it on,
you get a little pressure on it, and you hit
the metal end cap on the back and it does
the impact. The combination of down pressure and reversing a
very good chance that may back it right out. And
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they're pretty reasonable. They're eight, ten, twelve bucks. And if
that doesn't do it, the reverse the left handed drill bit,
especially for smaller screws, the heat and the pressure a
lot of times will get them out or else the
head will come off and then you can just drill through.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Sounds like he's probably into sheet metal if it's a grill.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
My experience is, I said, the smaller, the more difficult.
You agree with that, or especially i've drilling.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And then are they corroded in there? Too? So that's
another thing to think about.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Oh yeah, Pebe blaster first. For especially, you got a
couple of days to let it soak in.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And yeah, that'll help you a bunch on it.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
But for so many things, the jayisked screwdriver is just
a miracle worker. So anybody's having problems with the pellips,
I would definitely recommend trying one of those.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Very good. Joe, thank you much for the tip. I appreciate,
or Mike, I'm sorry, thanks for the tip. I appreciate.
All right, now we'll go to Joe.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
Joe welcome, Hey, good morning, Gary. Appreciate you taking a call,
you bet so h. I am trying to relocate an
outdoor water sticket. We years ago converted a garage door
into some patio doors because we finished our basement and
you know, I've got kids who like to play with
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the garden hose and stuff like that, and we end
up with water, you know, all the time up in
front of this patio door. So I wanting to reroute it,
but use piping kind of on the outside of the wall.
And I was curious to what you would recommend, you know,
what I do copper PBC pecks. What do you think
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would be the best to hold up you know, over
the years being out in the sun and things of
that nature.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Well, probably copper, I would say. You know, the biggest
thing I'd be concerned about when you run that pipe
outside is you know, freezing in the winter time.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You're going to be very cautious with.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
That, certainly, Yeah, I would. You know, it'd be something
I would drain in the fall.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Okay, all right, so stay ahead of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, I think copper would be your best bet really,
and you could put that thing together with some Have
you ever used those shark fittings.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I can't.
Speaker 11 (27:49):
I can't do plentying without them.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Well, since it's Sunday, I don't really necessarily always recommend
them because of they always scare me a little bit
about behind walls though they're they're certified to do that.
But for a project like you're talking about, man, that
would be easy peasy.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
I love those things to too many uh you know
splattered uh you know what's that?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
The molten Oh yeah, the solder and stuff like that.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
Yeah, the solder too too much of that splattered onto
the skin and stuff like that. I gave up on
that years ago. I've never quite got that skill down.
By the heaving seen there.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They're awesome. They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
No, I think you'd be all right. Uh, and you
might be all right with some of the plastics too.
I maybe I'm just old school, but if I was
going to run that and run on the outside, I'd
definitely be be interested in the carp in the copper
end of things.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Okay, excellent, And I thought i'd if I could put
a shout out to one of your products that you advertised.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Sure, for years, I've.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
Been fighting mosquitos in my yard and just you know,
always dive bomb me while I'm trying to do projects
outside and whatnot. And tried so many different things or whatever. Well,
I got those mosquito dunks. Oh and you know, found
any and all standing water in the yard. And I've
actually meticulously placed small buckets like inside bushes and stuff
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and put water in them and then throw those dunks
in there. And I by far has been the best
results I've had with anything.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, I'll tell you what. It really decreases the population.
And that's the key, right.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I Mean, we try all different things, but you're right,
if we can get rid of the larvae and get
them at the beginning, go to the source of the problem.
That's always the key, and they do do a fine,
fine job, and they've been around for a long time.
So I'm glad you heard that and took action.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Good news. I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Joe, Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Dave.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
All right, very good, have a great day, all right.
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It is eight hundred a two three a two five five.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Before we were talking about the jam screw, we were
talking about or the caller mentioned blaster products, and you
know that I talked about blaster products on a lot
of occasions, and they got the.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Original one, which is the PB Blaster.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
There is a big difference in different types of lubricants
that you'll see in the automotive store, the hardware store.
You know, probably the biggest name brand everybody remembers or
here's is WD forty that is a very highly refined,
re refined oil. The PB blaster is a penetrant and
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it's a remarkable product. You have nuts bolts that are rusted,
You take the PB blaster, you spray it on and boy,
if you can wait overnight, that's great. If you worry
two hours, that's wonderful. It penetrates into the metal.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It actually worked around the.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Threads of the screw and it is an amazing product.
And I would recommend everybody have some PB blaster in
your shed or workshop. Another thing that I was going
to talk about today because we're coming up on, you know,
pretty much the warmest time of the year, and I
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always say during extremes and temperature extremes are tough on houses,
and in wintertime, it's really difficult. In a really cold
januaries and in the summer really difficult on the hot.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
July and August, and we're coming up on that. So
one of the things you.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Might do is pick up a can of the PB
Blaster if you will, not a refined oil, not a
penetrant PB Blaster. Actually you could do a silicone it'd
be okay. But Blaster makes an original garage door lubrit
And this is so important as we get into the
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really hot times of the year. It's challenging for the metal.
You get movement of that metal, and if it's not
properly lubricated, it can be tough on the garage door
going up and down. It could be squeaky, it could wear.
So take the garage door lubricant. And there's a couple
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places you want to lubricate. Number One, if you got
those big overhead springs that are going horizontally above the door,
spray those down. It's kind of a protecting also, and
spray those down.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Then you want to clean and you can use.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Just like a mineral spirits and a cotton rag and
clean those tracks, clean those wheels, because you get an
abundance of just gunk that collects on their over time,
and that's what really bogs it down.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Clean some of that off or clean that off, and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Then spray those rails and spray those wheels.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Man, what a difference it'll make. And then do the hinges.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So you're doing the rails, you're doing the rollers, you're
doing a spring, you're doing the hinges. And a garage
door should be relatively quiet. And have you got this thing?
Squeaking and hollering and raising cain when it's going up
and down, it's telling you I need some lubrication, and
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now is a great time to do just that, all right?
Our numbers eight hundred eight two three A two five
five Randy welcome.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Hey Gary, Yes, hey, I've heard you talk in the
past about oil on the driveway, and I I've got
a Unfortunately, about three and a half quarts of dirty
motor oil was spilled on my driveway and how long
you remember something? It was last weekend, so it's pretty fresh.
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A friend told me to use a laundry detergant like
tide and work it in. I let it sew. But
I had heard you talk about something that was I
think you said like a microbe or something that would
eat that oil and take it ab up out of there,
and I couldn't find it on your website, and I
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thought you might be able to help me.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Sure. Sure, it's really a fascinating product.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
They did it, and they used that particular product in
the BP oil spill.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You know that's been a while ago. I used it
in oil.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Fields also, and it is a it looks like powder, okay,
but it is a living microbe and.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It's called Act Cleaner.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You google that, it'll take. Yeah, you google it, you'll
see it'll take your right to the page. Probably gotta
buy it over the uh over, you know somebody's website.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Amazon's probably got it too.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But what you do with this particular product, it's white
in color, and you sprinkle this powder slash microbe over
it and.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
It actually devours the oil. I know, it sounds weird,
sounds like science fiction.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
And when it has eliminated the oil, it will disappear.
There's no scrubbing there, there's no washing it down and
flushing it into you know, our watershed.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It just eats the oil.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It also work for people listening right now, if you've
got a if you don't have a catcher to catch
the oil and the grease on your weber grill or
something that's on your compost decking or composite decking.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It'll eat deck grease and oil also. But it's Act Cleaner.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You can buy it and little jars. You can buy
it in a ten pound sack. You can buy it
up to a fifty pound sack. But that's the name
of it. I think it's Actcleaners dot Com.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
And I don't mix it with water or anything. You
just put it on dry.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You just put it on dry.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's been a number of years since I've used it,
thank goodness, but I think the directions are it just
goes on dry.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Oh wow, okay, well that's what I needed Gary, Thanks
for the help, buddy.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
All right, give me a full report on how you do.
I think you'll like it. Thanks Randy. All right, And
you know there are other things.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I use that as my last result, my my nuclear
attack to oil.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Because if it's a relatively.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Fresh oil stain and it's on concrete. You know they
talked about tied I don't know about that. You can
use a degreaser kitty litter and literally put the degreas around,
put the kitty litter on, stomp your feet around, grind
it in twist, shake, do whatever you want to do
out there.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Your neighbors will be concerned, but.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It will absorb a lot of that aill out down dish,
so people recommend. I've had marginal luck with that, but
it is a good degreaser type soap, so that's something
to consider. Purple Power that's another one that works well.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Goog on that'll help.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
But there's nothing easier than that Act cleaner. So that's
kind of my real go to product. If you're looking
for a real and I am all about easy, that's
a real easy way to accomplish that task.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, we'll be taking your calls in the next hour.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
We're also going to have Scott he Is with the TVA.
We're going to talk a little energy conservation for this summer.
I think that's all on our minds after we've heard
about the head lines of the cost of energy. Hopefully
Scott will help us both save a few bucks.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Will continue.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
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Well, a good Saturday morning. Welcome aboard at home with
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Well, it's the weekend.
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Welcome you are at home with Gary Salvin, taking you
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Hope you had a great week and now let's work
on having a great weekend. We're going to talk a
little bit about home improvement. In fact, we're going to
talk a lot about home improvement. So I welcome you
to step in and ask your question on maybe a
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maybe you're halfway through it. You got some question, feel
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We're in good hands. Joe produced the show for probably
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So Joe's back in the sateur day. We appreciate his
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But we'll catch up with him next week once again.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So talking about home projects, all right, where I'm at,
Golly we continue. We hit a beautiful week, but a
little wet today, so it kind of brings us back
on things to be.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Controlling around the house. I say it all the time,
what it's about control.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's not about waterproofing, but in this case, it is
about waterproofing.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So if you have had or experienced.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Some issues around windows with moisture, what you really need
to determine is source obviously outside in most cases, and
could it be if you have a brick house, could
that moisture be getting in behind a brick, or is
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it where the window meets the brick and then it's
trimmed out on the inside. In other words, has the
calking failed. It's a bad it's a bad sound when
the calking has failed, because it's a problem getting that
old stuff out. And that's what we struggle with, not
so much putting the new stuff in, not so much
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picking the right kind of cocking, but getting that old
stuff out. Some of that old calking is old oil
based caking, which is as hard as a rock. But
if you can, you know, go outside and examine where
that window is abutting the uh wood siding the brick.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Wall, you'll be able to see it. If it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
If there's cracks, if there's pieces of that cocking that
has been you know, fell out or been removed or whatever,
there's your source of your problems.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Allowing that rainwater to get in.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Certainly recocking is the case, so removing the old one
is the task. Well, a couple of things that suggest
is there is a calking removing tool. It's literally kind
of like a plastic hook knife. And the real secret
depending on whether you having a krilly cocking, an oil
based cocking, silicon ice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Cocking is to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Soften that calcking up so that you can get that
hook knife behind a calking and then just kind of
tear it out. There's a there, there's a good product.
There are several products out you'll find in a hardware store.
It says cocker remover, and that's pretty optimistic. It's not
going to remove anything, but it will soften it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It'll make it more pliable. It'll allow you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
To make inroads of removing that calking. Three m makes one,
mostin backers makes one. And spray it on. Let's said,
let it get a little flexible, if you will, and
then get that cocking nut.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Get all that out of there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And remember when you calk, you're calking the side. You're
not filling the crevice. You're calking the sides of the crevice.
And if you have, you know, a regular situation. In
other words, the wood is a button to brick. It's
a button of wood. It's a button of You can
use an acrylic silkon nice cocking.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That is a very good, pretty flexible. It's got good
adhesion and be.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Painted and we'll do a good job for you. It's
easy to apply.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
If you're looking for something with mixed substrates.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Let's say you have aluminum windows and you're going against wood.
Those are going to expand and contracted different rates.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There's gonna be a lot tugging and battle. If you will.
For adhesion, I'd probably take a look at.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
A good paintable your thinge then stay away from your silicons.
Silicons aren't paintable for the most part. But your thing
is best adhesion, best flexibility, and that can be used
on mixed substrates. But as we start having, you know,
times when we have a lot of rain and you
start developing leaks on the inside, check the caloking outside.
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It's not always that, and we can help troubleshoot some
other areas if that's the case, But in most cases
it's the calking and prepping and the old stuff out's
always the hardest.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right, thank you for responding.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We've got Richard, Jerry, Gary, Tim and if you'd like
to join us, it's eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Eighty two three eight two five five Richard you lead
us off today.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Welcome, okay, thank you, Gerry.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thanks Le's taking a call.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Bet got on a basement wall crack. Okay, And here's
the situation. House is a little over twenty years old.
It was new when we moved into it had a
stressed crack on one of the basement walls. Poor basement,
a poor concrete, I'm sorry. And so it cracked right
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on the edge of the ingress and egress window, which
is common as they settle had the crack was injected
by a professional. Okay, and it's been fine for the
last twenty years.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Good job, except except up.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Until now, so it's leaking a little bit. I had
covered the walls with a thermal insulation It's like an
R ten faced with aluminum foil on either side, closed
cell eurethane. I pulled that off.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I had that set up.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
So that it was just kind of tacked on with
tap cons I was able to just cut that off
and pull off, pull it off where the crack was,
and there it was leaking. The leak is about maybe
two maybe two and a heavy rain two blank two
like medium sized bath towels. Who will absorb the water
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from it. Now, I got an injector kit which and
I have done this before on another crack. I've used
the eurothane injection and to great success. But the problem
is that I can't define a crack on this because
it was previously filled. And my thought is, now, maybe
I can't even use this injector to refill that crack
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because they just can't get at the crack itself. It's
already got material in here. Is there something I can
put over that crack because I think there's not that
much water coming through and maybe I can just like
paint something on the surface or use them war Well.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, but here's something. Here's the thing. I mean, we
got to have a void.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
We got to have a crack somewhere, even if it's
not all the way through the wall, there's got to
be a void back there. Otherwise we wouldn't be having
a water source. So I don't know where you want
to start from this. I mean, we could start at
the source, which should be outside. I always talk about
the killer G's. Why do we have so much war?
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You know, I've seen houses that have cracks and foundations
that don't leak.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
There's that good water control. So I just talk about
the killer.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
G's, which could be overrunning the outside. That crack is
definitely posed on the other side of the wall below
grade even. I mean, there's something going, there's something allowing
the water in, and there's an abundance of water that
has some pressure to it, or it couldn't come in.
So the killer g's are gutters that not cleaning and
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they're overflowing right on the foundation, increasing the water load
and the pressure. That's killer g number one ground water.
In other words, we have some swells along the foundation.
It's collecting water, adding to the pressure and adding to
the abundance of moisture.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And the third one is grating.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It's kind of bringing all that water to that area,
to that foundation area, and it needs to be regraded
where it slopes and takes that water away.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That would be option one to look at.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Option two is maybe drill a hole in there and
see if we can pump that in. And it's got
to be under pressure where it's you know, can.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You is the water weeping out of the.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Original crack where there was where it was filled twenty
years ago?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Uh? Yeah, well yes, And of course I actually haven't
seen it because I had it covered and I discovered
it when I found a puddle of water on the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, we haven't had enough I haven't had enough rain
to actually come through that crack again. But before it
was a couple of times that I caught water on
the floor. It wasn't that much. And I understand what
you're saying. The ideally, I think the problem here would
be to go outside, probably, but I don't want to
go to all that right here. I don't have to, so.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Let me answer your question. Then you say, is there
something you can put over? There's always stuff you can
put over. The question is is it going to be
strong enough to hold back the water pressure. So there
is hydraulic cement, but it's going to tell you to
open the crack and fill it, and we don't, you know, unless.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We really know where it's coming out of.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's why I'm saying, if we can open up and
really observe it when it's raining and pouring, my guess
is you do have a little pawning out there. You
got some bad grating or something. That's what's forcing that in.
In other words, not a failure of the wall, but
they're but you don't not having real good drains around there,
and we do have that foundation's compromising us finding its
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way in. So hydraulic cement spread over the surface. I
don't know if that's really going to hold or not.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
There's also a product called dry lock. It is a
water proofing paint.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Now the dry lock will hold back six to ten
pounds of.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Water pressure per square inch.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's a paint, it's a real thick coating. It's a
waterproof coating.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
In fact.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
To give you an idea of how it works, Richard
and hardware stores. You know, they have a little display
some of the stores and sometimes years.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Ago it would be a cement block, and you know
how poorus that is. There's no cracks. It's a cement block.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And they got a water pump pouring water inside that block.
And the one side is just weeping water and the
other side's covered with the dry lock paint. It's a
dry to the touch as you could ever be.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's just weeping.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Through the capillaries of the concrete and in this case
the block. So it might be that we go ahead
kind of scratch that crack out, put a little hydraulic
cement over it patch, you know, a band aid patch,
and then paint some dry lock over it and.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
See if that stops it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So that would probably be a solution of the problem,
not one I always like, but that may very well.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Work well, continue with your calls. You're at home with
Gary Salvin.
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I've been all the news and the views of Brian
Thomas Monday morning at five on fifty five KRC the
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talk station.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
All right backhead it we go twenty three minutes at
from the top of the are talking a little home improvement.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Thanks for joining me. If you'd like to grab a line,
do so. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five Gary. Welcome morning.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I have a small problem. I have a piece of
sheet metal that I'm trying to get a small screw
out of and I'm starting to strip it out. Have
any simple way of getting this small screw out it's
in my grill?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, there's a not a simple way. There's many ways
to try. Can you get a hold of the head
of that screw at all?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Or no? No?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, So if you did a ice crep works real
well and be able to twist it.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I guess the next thing would be a.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Screw extractor where you actually have to drill into that screw,
and that becomes problematic also depending on the size of
the screw. But if you can drill, like if it's
a Phillip said screw, and you can drill right into
the center of that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And use a screw extractor, which will you can use
like a t handled wrench on the top of that,
and you can.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Reverse thread that small screw out. That's certainly one way
and probably something worth trying. There's also some liquids that
you know, but they're like ten bucks that you can
put on the top of the screw and then case
you're screwdriver in and back to screw out, hardens and
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pulls that screw out. So there's certainly tools out there
to age you. But I can tell you the smaller,
the more difficult.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
That's good news. Yeah, I mean, I was just curious
today have a drill bit that works backwards that you
could drill in it and would back it out.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, you know that your drill would have it where
it could reverse thread that. But probably the best way
really would be so is the screw extractors, and they
come through one through five in sizes. You might take
a look at those when you get to the hardware
store because you're you're really drilling into that and you're
inserting this extractor with a t handle and you're just
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going the reverse of it, Nick grips into it. But
I'm just being honest. The small as screw the more difficult.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Okay, all right, I'll try that. I've I've took a
hammer and tacked on the screw the screwdriver. It kind
of jarred a little bit. I put stuff on it,
liquid stuff to try to get behind it, and I
know as soon as it breaks loose, you can twist
it out with your hand, but right god, I can't.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Get it out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Is there any way you can get underneath that piece
of galvanize or whatever that that metal where you could
cut that screw flush on the back side.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, they're tough.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I would say a screw extractor is probably gonna be
your best bet.
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Okay, I'm gonna try that next.
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All right, keep listening. We might have some real whiz
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Thanks for joining me later today.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Last week I got into a big discussion about this
increase and it's always an increase right now right the
cost of electricity projected Duke I think announced about twenty
percent increase. Other people have been thirty, other people have
been fifteen. Bottom line is we know the cost of
electricity is going up, and we're going to talk to Scott.
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He's with the TVA Authority and Tests Valley Authority for
conservation on electricity and things. You might consider reading some
of his statistics. They were amazing, especially in appliances. I'm
not telling you go out and buy a brand new refrigerator,
but that was one of the real energy ogs. But
(20:13):
and what's causing all this we'll discuss that, maybe give
you some tips on saving a little money, and we'll
also talk about installation, of course, that's one of the
big keys.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right in the meantime, grab a line. It's eight
hundred and eight two three eight two five five. Alicia Alyssia, welcome.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Thank you. I have a question about windows. We live
in North Carolina and we had a bad hailstorm and
we have to replace all the windows in the front
of the house and we're not getting a lot of
money from the insurance company. Do you have any recommendations
for windows that can handle a lot of heat in
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the summer? And I guess that's that's really where I
want to start with windows.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, so there are ratings on every window, Okay, it's
it's kind of like buying a car where they have
the miles per gallon and what you need is on
the Department of Energy website, they will talk about, you know,
the reflective power, the low egas glass, and they will
(21:27):
you know, minimizing solar heat gain, and they'll give you
a range of numbers from good to better best. Right,
they're not selling you windows, they're selling you energy conservation.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And what you need to do is you need to
get those.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Parameters when you go to start, you know, shopping for windows.
And again, your main concern right now, if I'm not mistaken,
as you want to get as energy efficient windows as
you possibly can, and that range will tell you that
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and that then it comes down to you know who
that manufacturer is. But every window has an NFRC rating
on it. There's a little sticker on it. Just like
there is on a car, and you know, we all
get you know, we all kind of get caught up
when we're shopping for windows, usually on you know, the
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sales guys, well, we use this gas, and we use
this type of class, and we use this frame because
it's best. You know, I would say number one, if
your energy efficiency is kind of what.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Everybody's shopping for, check out.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The range of NFRC ratings, decide about where you want
to be, or talk to the salesperson about you know,
what those numbers on that sticker mean, and he'll give
you a range too where you should be.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
But that would be step one.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Then step two is, you know, depending on what kind
of frame you want, you know, and you want a
virgin vinyl frame, you want a fiberglass frame? Do you
want wood windows? You know that that's sometimes cosmetic. We
always love to talk about cosmetics. And then just the
availability of parts and service for those windows and the warranty.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Do you recommend vinyl over fiberglass?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Not necessarily, I would say, if you're gonna do vinyl,
make sure it's a virgin vinyl. Virgin vinyl windows are
good and stable. Fiberglass windows are stable, wood windows are great,
but you got to paint.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Them so, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, there's nothing wrong with a fiberglass winder, that's
for sure. They're very stable. And the only vinyl winders
get a bad rap because there's people that sell really
reclaimed or recycled vinyl. But if you've got somebody using
virgin vinyl, you'll be fine.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
That sounds great. Thank you very much for your help.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, it's all about the energy efficiency, or it should be.
And it's really interesting how cosmics have changed in windows,
you know, the black windows. You know, they're making that
vinyl now and they're pretty attractive. Give put on the
right house, of course. All right, let's go to Mike.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Mike. Welcome marrin Gary.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I heard the fellow or other having problems with the
screw and his grill, and I've well lots of old
rusty stuff on the farm. I've run across that problem
lots of times. And the number one thing with a
Phillips screwdriver is Phillips screwdrivers are made to cam out
of a certain torque. And there's what's called a Jis
(24:48):
screwdriver Japanese industrial standard. Oh they don't cam out. You
can use a JIS on the phillips, but you can't
use the Phillips on a JIS. Okay, there's one step
even better. A company called Vessel makes what's called an
impact JIS screwdriver. You remember the old hammer impact drivers
(25:10):
as they used to have years ago. This is fantastic.
It's all in a regular screwdriver. You put it on,
you get a little pressure on it, and you hit
the metal end cap on the back and it does
the impact. The combination of down pressure and reversing a
very good chance that may back it right out. And
(25:31):
they're pretty reasonable. They're eight, ten, twelve bucks. And if
that doesn't do it, the reverse the left handed drill bit,
especially for smaller screws, the heat and the pressure a
lot of times will get them out or else the
head will come off and then you can just drill through.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Sounds like he's probably into sheet metal if it's a grill.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
My experience is, I said, the smaller, the more difficult.
You agree with that, or especially i've drilling.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And then are they corroded in there? Too? So that's
another thing to think about.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Oh yeah, Pebe blaster first. For especially, you got a
couple of days to let it soak in.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And yeah, that'll help you a bunch on it.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
But for so many things, the jayisked screwdriver is just
a miracle worker. So anybody's having problems with the pellips,
I would definitely recommend trying one of those.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Very good. Joe, thank you much for the tip. I appreciate,
or Mike, I'm sorry, thanks for the tip. I appreciate.
All right, now we'll go to Joe.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
Joe welcome, Hey, good morning, Gary. Appreciate you taking a call,
you bet so h. I am trying to relocate an
outdoor water sticket. We years ago converted a garage door
into some patio doors because we finished our basement and
you know, I've got kids who like to play with
(26:54):
the garden hose and stuff like that, and we end
up with water, you know, all the time up in
front of this patio door. So I wanting to reroute it,
but use piping kind of on the outside of the wall.
And I was curious to what you would recommend, you know,
what I do copper PBC pecks. What do you think
(27:14):
would be the best to hold up you know, over
the years being out in the sun and things of
that nature.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Well, probably copper, I would say. You know, the biggest
thing I'd be concerned about when you run that pipe
outside is you know, freezing in the winter time.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You're going to be very cautious with.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
That, certainly, Yeah, I would. You know, it'd be something
I would drain in the fall.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Okay, all right, so stay ahead of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, I think copper would be your best bet really,
and you could put that thing together with some Have
you ever used those shark fittings.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I can't.
Speaker 11 (27:49):
I can't do plentying without them.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Well, since it's Sunday, I don't really necessarily always recommend
them because of they always scare me a little bit
about behind walls though they're they're certified to do that.
But for a project like you're talking about, man, that
would be easy peasy.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
I love those things to too many uh you know
splattered uh you know what's that?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
The molten Oh yeah, the solder and stuff like that.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
Yeah, the solder too too much of that splattered onto
the skin and stuff like that. I gave up on
that years ago. I've never quite got that skill down.
By the heaving seen there.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They're awesome. They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
No, I think you'd be all right. Uh, and you
might be all right with some of the plastics too.
I maybe I'm just old school, but if I was
going to run that and run on the outside, I'd
definitely be be interested in the carp in the copper
end of things.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Okay, excellent, And I thought i'd if I could put
a shout out to one of your products that you advertised.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Sure, for years, I've.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
Been fighting mosquitos in my yard and just you know,
always dive bomb me while I'm trying to do projects
outside and whatnot. And tried so many different things or whatever. Well,
I got those mosquito dunks. Oh and you know, found
any and all standing water in the yard. And I've
actually meticulously placed small buckets like inside bushes and stuff
(29:22):
and put water in them and then throw those dunks
in there. And I by far has been the best
results I've had with anything.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, I'll tell you what. It really decreases the population.
And that's the key, right.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I Mean, we try all different things, but you're right,
if we can get rid of the larvae and get
them at the beginning, go to the source of the problem.
That's always the key, and they do do a fine,
fine job, and they've been around for a long time.
So I'm glad you heard that and took action.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Good news. I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Joe, Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Dave.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
All right, very good, have a great day, all right.
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Speaker 1 (30:59):
It is eight hundred a two three a two five five.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Before we were talking about the jam screw, we were
talking about or the caller mentioned blaster products, and you
know that I talked about blaster products on a lot
of occasions, and they got the.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Original one, which is the PB Blaster.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
There is a big difference in different types of lubricants
that you'll see in the automotive store, the hardware store.
You know, probably the biggest name brand everybody remembers or
here's is WD forty that is a very highly refined,
re refined oil. The PB blaster is a penetrant and
(31:45):
it's a remarkable product. You have nuts bolts that are rusted,
You take the PB blaster, you spray it on and boy,
if you can wait overnight, that's great. If you worry
two hours, that's wonderful. It penetrates into the metal.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It actually worked around the.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Threads of the screw and it is an amazing product.
And I would recommend everybody have some PB blaster in
your shed or workshop. Another thing that I was going
to talk about today because we're coming up on, you know,
pretty much the warmest time of the year, and I
(32:22):
always say during extremes and temperature extremes are tough on houses,
and in wintertime, it's really difficult. In a really cold
januaries and in the summer really difficult on the hot.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
July and August, and we're coming up on that. So
one of the things you.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Might do is pick up a can of the PB
Blaster if you will, not a refined oil, not a
penetrant PB Blaster. Actually you could do a silicone it'd
be okay. But Blaster makes an original garage door lubrit
And this is so important as we get into the
(33:05):
really hot times of the year. It's challenging for the metal.
You get movement of that metal, and if it's not
properly lubricated, it can be tough on the garage door
going up and down. It could be squeaky, it could wear.
So take the garage door lubricant. And there's a couple
(33:26):
places you want to lubricate. Number One, if you got
those big overhead springs that are going horizontally above the door,
spray those down. It's kind of a protecting also, and
spray those down.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Then you want to clean and you can use.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Just like a mineral spirits and a cotton rag and
clean those tracks, clean those wheels, because you get an
abundance of just gunk that collects on their over time,
and that's what really bogs it down.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Clean some of that off or clean that off, and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Then spray those rails and spray those wheels.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Man, what a difference it'll make. And then do the hinges.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So you're doing the rails, you're doing the rollers, you're
doing a spring, you're doing the hinges. And a garage
door should be relatively quiet. And have you got this thing?
Squeaking and hollering and raising cain when it's going up
and down, it's telling you I need some lubrication, and
(34:33):
now is a great time to do just that, all right?
Our numbers eight hundred eight two three A two five
five Randy welcome.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Hey Gary, Yes, hey, I've heard you talk in the
past about oil on the driveway, and I I've got
a Unfortunately, about three and a half quarts of dirty
motor oil was spilled on my driveway and how long
you remember something? It was last weekend, so it's pretty fresh.
(35:09):
A friend told me to use a laundry detergant like
tide and work it in. I let it sew. But
I had heard you talk about something that was I
think you said like a microbe or something that would
eat that oil and take it ab up out of there,
and I couldn't find it on your website, and I
(35:29):
thought you might be able to help me.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Sure. Sure, it's really a fascinating product.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
They did it, and they used that particular product in
the BP oil spill.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You know that's been a while ago. I used it
in oil.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Fields also, and it is a it looks like powder, okay,
but it is a living microbe and.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It's called Act Cleaner.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You google that, it'll take. Yeah, you google it, you'll
see it'll take your right to the page. Probably gotta
buy it over the uh over, you know somebody's website.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Amazon's probably got it too.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But what you do with this particular product, it's white
in color, and you sprinkle this powder slash microbe over
it and.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
It actually devours the oil. I know, it sounds weird,
sounds like science fiction.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
And when it has eliminated the oil, it will disappear.
There's no scrubbing there, there's no washing it down and
flushing it into you know, our watershed.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It just eats the oil.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It also work for people listening right now, if you've
got a if you don't have a catcher to catch
the oil and the grease on your weber grill or
something that's on your compost decking or composite decking.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It'll eat deck grease and oil also. But it's Act Cleaner.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You can buy it and little jars. You can buy
it in a ten pound sack. You can buy it
up to a fifty pound sack. But that's the name
of it. I think it's Actcleaners dot Com.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
And I don't mix it with water or anything. You
just put it on dry.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You just put it on dry.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's been a number of years since I've used it,
thank goodness, but I think the directions are it just
goes on dry.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Oh wow, okay, well that's what I needed Gary, Thanks
for the help, buddy.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
All right, give me a full report on how you do.
I think you'll like it. Thanks Randy. All right, And
you know there are other things.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I use that as my last result, my my nuclear
attack to oil.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Because if it's a relatively.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Fresh oil stain and it's on concrete. You know they
talked about tied I don't know about that. You can
use a degreaser kitty litter and literally put the degreas around,
put the kitty litter on, stomp your feet around, grind
it in twist, shake, do whatever you want to do
out there.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Your neighbors will be concerned, but.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It will absorb a lot of that aill out down dish,
so people recommend. I've had marginal luck with that, but
it is a good degreaser type soap, so that's something
to consider. Purple Power that's another one that works well.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Goog on that'll help.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
But there's nothing easier than that Act cleaner. So that's
kind of my real go to product. If you're looking
for a real and I am all about easy, that's
a real easy way to accomplish that task.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, we'll be taking your calls in the next hour.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
We're also going to have Scott he Is with the TVA.
We're going to talk a little energy conservation for this summer.
I think that's all on our minds after we've heard
about the head lines of the cost of energy. Hopefully
Scott will help us both save a few bucks.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Will continue.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
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