Gary Sullivan 6/8/2024 Hour 4

Gary takes your calls, tips and questions.

Episode Transcript

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Well, it's the best part ofthe day. I got to say good
afternoon and welcome nowur number four atHome with Gary Salvin taking you up to
the one o'clock hour. No guestin this hour, so it's just you
and me, and a couple oflines are available, so if you feel
free to grab them, go rightahead, Happy to talk about your home
project again. It's eight hundred eightytwo three eight two five five And grabbed

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that line and well we'll chat alittle bit. Don't forget you can pick
up the podcast and a couple ofthings i'd encourage you to take a listen
to if you missed it. Numberone is the podcast on driveway seilers and
how to do that project and thedifference of where driveway sealers were just ten

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years ago and where they are today. And Danny has that listed under our
project of the week. And thesecond one was the end of our two
when we talked about garage floors andyou can learn a lot lot about how
we can dress up the garage alittle bit, and you might check that
out also. All right, let'sget to the phone calls. It's eight

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hundred eight two three A two fivefive and let's go to Linda. Linda
welcome, Well, hello there,Gary. I made have some information that
is good for the gentleman who hadsome floor finish. He didn't have any

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information. He said it was aGerman product. It was a gel paint.
Yes, yes, And I justbought a house that they used the
same kind of a product purchased fromSherwin Williams, made by or at least

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it has this name on the can, Mini Wax super Fast Ryan Polly,
you're a thing for specially made forwood floors. And if he doesn't know
what to do it with, Igot free pages of information from Sherwin Williams

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because the can doesn't have at leastthe product of the minuex can does not
have all those details that the caseshave. And it's one of the he
needs to know is never ever shakeit. It's very what do you call
it? It can easily catch fires. Well, it also gets bubbles in

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it. Well, then that's whythey can't escape. And you know,
just to just I appreciate this,but one of the things that I want
to just let him know, evenin your case, it's got directions on
how to apply that specific product.But I don't think his was for floors.

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It was also a paint which wasa gel euthane. I know floors
they use your thanes, but there'sall different kinds of euthans, and I
really I mean, there's gel paintsthat you can spray, but there's a
dilution to get it to the properviscosity. So I don't think we want

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to really go from one brand andassume the next brand functions the same way.
He needs to do. He needsto do what you did. And
that's why I say I appreciate it. If it's not on the can,
you almost got to go back toa dealer and or go right to minwax.

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He's got to find it. Yeah, he's gonna have the brand on
that somewhere, but then he's gonnahave to make contact and find doubt exactly
what that is. There's all kindsof information. It's just tracking it down
and certainly easier to do now thanit used to be. Yeah, and
he was asking about applicators and myMinwex says natural bristle, poam, brush,

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lambswool or synthetic synthetic pad. There'snothing about you know, spraying it
on. So that means, wellit's probably sick, right right, all
right, very good. Well,I think you've posed the point. You
got to get to the distributor orto the manufacturer. You'll get the exact

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information you need. It's not somethingI'm sure if he's getting that from Germany.
I'm sure it's not cheap. Sowe don't want to screw up the
floor or the wall and screw upthe product. So thank you much.
All right, and again our phonenumbers eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, and grab a lineand let's go to Bill. Bill.

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Welcome, hy Gary. How areyou doing doing fine? Thank you?
Right, So I've got a twopart question that has to do it the
same thing. Uh, our waterstigot that comes out onto you know,
it's coming out of the basement tothe outdoors. So that's my water supply
underneath my deck and walk out basement. Okay, but I'm getting but I'm

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getting drips even though I've got itturned all the way off and I really
fork it where you know, itfeels like it's closed, but it still
drips, and I really crank it, it will stop the drips. So
I'm sure I guess first part ofmy question is how to properly fix that.
I was throwing some research online andsaw where there's some bushings and stuff

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inside. And then second part waswould it once I fix this or part
of the fix, would it makesense to have like a quarter turned bull
valve instead of the old you know, uh cranks that you have to go
clockwiser kind of. Well, let'slet's start with this question. There's several

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different types of valves that they use. On the outside. There's a like
a boiler valve or a lawn fawcedvalve, which is either soldered on or
screwed on, usually soldered on.Then there's a lawn fawced valve which has
about a two inch extension. Itkind of goes straight out and it's got

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a little t handle at the top. And then there's a frostproof valve.
And the frostproof valve is all it'sall one piece, so it's got the
it's got the faucet where the watercomes out of. It's got usually a
big plastic handle, and the pipeis connected to that. They come in

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eight, ten and twelve inch piecesof pipe and the connection is actually done
inside the home. Do you havethe frostproof one. I have a feeling
I do. I'm looking at itright now and there's like a plastic bushing

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that it says remove hose or faucetmay burst. It's a wood burd is
still a brand on it. Yeah, so I got a brown thing against
my foundation. It comes out andthen it's got the browns turned off on
it. Okay, I'm guessing it'sa frostproof faucet. And the nice thing

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about that, the reason you youreally don't the reason it tells you to
take the hose off, it justjust basic information. Is because you don't
have to turn the water off anddrain it from the inside of the house
in the winter time. When youturn that faucet off, and let's say

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it's not leaking, there's water inthat tube and that tube is pointed down
towards the ground. If the hoseis connected, that water can't run all
the way out of that pipe,and when it fre it can freeze and
split the pipe. But if thehose is off, it will drip and

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it'll be dry. Because in thattube that I said was part of the
faucet, that stem, it's anold compression stem like we used to have
on our kitchen sinks and vanity sinks. Now we have cartridges, we still
have a stem on air and allthe way at the end of that stem

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eight ten or twelve inches is arubber washer. Okay, that rubber washer.
If it's dripping, that washer's bad. If it's dripping around the handle,
then the bushings are bad. Butif it's dripping through the spout,
it's the rubber washer. At theend of that stem. Well, we
had a hose hooked up to it, and that's where my wife said,

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that hose is still gripping. Sobut I did not disconnect the hose on
this problem. Okay, So it'sit's like it looks like it's got it's
only got one hecks nut and that'sthe part is coming out of the wall.
Right, So what would you suggestthat should I replace? I guess

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what's your suggestion? What should Ireplace? Well, if you can replace,
if you can get that stem out, which you should be able to.
If you even go on YouTube andgood replace compression washer on frostproof faucet,
it'll show you how to take thatstem out. It's it's just a

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bonnet holding it into the housing andthat stem should just screw out and then
you just replace the washer. Idon't think you'll need to replace the the
whole faucet if you did. Alot of cases, they're just they're literally
connections. May on the inside partof the house, there's two screws that

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hold the flange onhn. You pullit off, and you should be able
to disconnect it and not even cutthe pipe. It should depending on the
fittings, it may just screw rightoff. But I'd replace the washer inside
the frostproof faucet. That would bethe way to go. So do I
access that from the app? SoI undo that lockwasher? Probably lockwater that'll

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come right on it, right,and then there'll be you should be able
to unscrew that stem and it'll belike a ten inch roden. At the
bottom of that there'll be a washer. And where would I get the washer
replacement? Washer? Hardware store?You can probably go in buy one washer,
okay, all right, and andback real quick. On the other

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question, instead of this twist valve, does it make sense to go to
like a quarter turn ball valve?Well, it would be a whole difference
set up. It would be awhole difference setup. If it were just
a regular lawn faucet, I'd quicklysay yes, But it's not, you
know, and if you put ina if you took that out, you're

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probably going to have to do someplumbing and have a piece of pipe go
from that faucet to the inside connectionpart, and you'd probably have to put
another valve on the inside where youcould shut off the water to the outside
valve and have a bleeder cap tobleed that out. So I'd probably just

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either replace the frost proof or replacethe washer. In the frost proof,
We'll go for the washer first.Thanks, all right, so much.
I appreciate you, bet, thankyou. All right, eighteen minutes after
the noon hour. Your phone numberif you'd like to join us, it's
eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five, and we'll continue. You're

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at home with Gary Salvan right herein fifty five care see the talk station.
All right, back yet it wego. We are twelve twenty one,
and I hope you're having a greatweekend so far and getting a few
things done around the home. Ifyou've got a question, you can join
us. We have several lines open, but let's get the mic Mike,
welcome. Hello, guess sir,take my car. You bet I have

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an unusual problem. I can youhear me? Yeah, yep, I
got you. I'm sorry, Ijust got silent. Recently bought my dad's
house. Mom and dad bought itin nineteen seventy nine or eighty. It
was built in nineteen seventy one.They had Wallda wall carpet through all the

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house except in the kitchen and thefamily room side. Now it's always had
wald wall carpet. They took outthe carpet and the two small bedrooms and
the hardwood swords were beautiful. Okay, one meets recent that because Dad really
was lill stuff rom But I decidedto take up the carpet in the master
bedroom, all right, And whenI did, there's several groupings of spruce
that had been cut off, protrudingthrough the floor. Random. I sent

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you a photo on Facebook Messenger ifyou can access that. Okay, screw
several of them protrued up about aneighth of an inch. There's areas where
some of them have been filled,and it doesn't look too bad. But
how about remedy this without destroying thehardwood. Well, my guess is what

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happened. Can you find the screwscoming down into the basement, coming through
the sub floor. Yes, theypoked through the sub floor. Okay,
and here's my guests. This iswhat I think happened, and it's problem.
I think what happened is there's probablya squeak in that floor, and

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there was a device that you couldrun a screw through the carpet, through
the subfloor and into the joyst andthen with this device, you could snap
that screw off, so it'd bebelow the carpet, below the below the
pad, but it would have wentthrough the hardwood floor, the subfloor and

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hopefully got into the joy So theyprobably missed the joye and you're left with
the top part of that screw.So your question to me is how do
you get that screw out and nothurt the wood floor? Yes? I

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don't know if you do, ifyou can, if you can beautiful other
than net it's been covered for fortyodd years. Yeah. Yeah, are
you going to do the work onrefinishing the floor? Well, I wasn't
thinking because of wood, so thatsource is good. I it's hoping not

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to have to be finished. Imean, it's okay. Beautiful. So
I've been gripped the screws from underneathwith a pair of ice s crips,
real tight. Try that's what that'sgoing to be. My suggestion is to
manually twist it out or drill itout, so you know, if you
can. There's no way you're goingto get the top of that screw on

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the finished part of the floor.Is that correct, right? I mean
it's maybe an eighth of an inchsticking up. Well, with the vice
grip, you might be able tograb that. Well, that's the longest
one. Okay, all right,Well then you're going to probably have to
start in the bottom and just asyou say, locking on a ice grip,

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See if you can back that screwup a little bit to a point
where you can grab the top ofthat screw with the vice grip and take
it out that way, then we'regoing to have to dress the area of
filling that that hole. Yeah,well there's a couple of places where I
could see where they had filled holes. These are like there's four groupings.

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You know, I was trying tofigure out what kind of flange that was.
I was thinking they mounted something.I'm glad you told me. Well,
I mean it could be. Itcould be they mounted something too.
I mean it was obviously something thathad to go through the floor and it
was snapped off. So I'm justguessing. Yeah, But either way,
the solution would be the same.Right, the solution would be the same.

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You're going to have to back thatscrew out, and if you can
get a couple of twists underneath andthen get up top, it's going to
be a lot easier, yeah,Or the easier trying and run it all
the way through from the bottom.Yeah, yeah, sure, I might
be. Anyway, i'd have tohave somebody cannot refinish the floor in one

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of those small bedrooms because they hadalready taken the carpet up and they used
it in the computer room and Dadrolled the chair around on the computer chair
around on it, so he's refinishing. Would they know better how to fix
that? Well? Sure, sure, I mean you get a good floor
person and I just had a littlebit of a foo pod and do it.
But someday we had contracted to doit. Actually rolled something that was

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eight hundred pounds and they didn't puta layer down on top of the wood
floor. You can see where thecastor marks went across the wood floor.
It was cross grain on oak,and it's got to be refinished. And
I mean, I'm looking at it, and I'm looking, oh, maybe
we can raise the grain. Maybewe can do had a flooring guy come

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out, he and I were talking. He goes, it's oak, it's
cross grain'll you'll never get that out. So, yeah, they would know
better. They can see it andgot that experience. Do you have a
suggestion since I have to have somefloor refinishing done anyway in the other rooms.
It's a local company in Cincinnati,Westchester Flooring. Westchester floor close to

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me. Good, Oh yeah,give them a call. Mike's a great
guy. Okay, all right,well, thank you very much. All
right, you bet, thanks,take care. Well, I'll tell you
what though. Yeah, and floorsa lot of times, especially homes built
after you know, early fifties,late forties, building houses like crazy.
It had beautiful, beautiful floors.And of course then we got into the

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sixties and the rage was walla wallcarpeting, which is fine. I still
remember the first time we got,you know, carpeting in our houses like
it is a big deal. Now, over the last twenty years, people
moving in and they're taking up thatcarpeting, like I want wood floors and
take off. I'm gonna put inwood floors. They take up the carpet.

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They're like, what bonus there isfloors, nice floors and with some
work rejuvenating them. You're popping outtax strips, you're filling little holes.
But Mada, I'm telling you what, it's not the cost of a wood
floor. You have them professionally sandeddown in Stay. You can do it

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yourself by running equipment and learning howto do it. But it's a it's
a big fine. It's a bigfine. Mark. We're gonna take a
break and then we're gonna come backand we're gonna get your question answered.
And by the way, we gota half hour to go, no guess.
So if you've been trying to getthrough today and it's been a busy
one, now's a good time todo that. It's eight hundred eight two

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three eight two five five dollars up. We'll continue. You're at home with
Gary Salvin right here on fifty fiveKRC, the talk station. All right,
back to work we go. You'reat home with Gary Salvent, taking
you through another weekend of Home improvementIssues. Happy to take your call at
eight hundred A two three eight twofive five line open for you and uh

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Mark welcome. Hey Gary, Ihave a groundhog problem. Oh and I'm
putting traps out, doing everything Ican to trap them, but no success
yet. And in the meantime they'reeating the door wood door frames around my
front door, my back door,and my basement door. And I'm wondering

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if you have any advice on anythingthat's been successful to at least distract them
from eating my wood while we're tryingto trap them. Yeah, where are
they at? Where are they at? There? Mark? Well? There,
they got a couple of homes,one under my front deck and one
under my back my front patio andthe back deck. So for and I've

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tried different things, but nothing's worthOkay, what kind of trapp are you
usn't? Well? I actually wentto to the Green County a group there,
and they gave me a special groundhogtrap which tried for a little while.
Problem the areas they only let youuse it for five days and you've
got to take it back and waitfive days and come back and get it.

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And it's just a passle So Ijust bought one at one of those
metal traps that does it for groundhogs. Have a heart trap. Yeah yeah,
and you got the bigger one,I guess. Yeah, Well I
got a big one and got mama'sand babies and all sorts of them,

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So got them all over the place. What are you baiting it with?
Well, I've tried several things,cantalo. Then they suggested tomatoes and watermelon
rinds, and so we're just we'vebeen using candle primarily, but that doesn't
seem to help. So we're tryingnow going to go to watermelon. And

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if you have any other ideas,I think those are good basics. And
you got to change them around andeven moving the trap with the gloves on
so you don't have that smell.Any type of fresh vegetables too, yeah,
you know, would would work.Also, quartered apples, that would

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work. The other thing is weget into you know, what are you
going to do with them after youtrap them? Because there's different lulls on
what you can and can't do.I'll leave that up for you to decide
and do a little study on themwhat you can do with them. If

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you're looking for something that's going todrive them out. There's all kinds of
home recipes, and I don't knowif you're going to have a lot of
luck with them or not. Butyou know, some rags with like ammonia
on it, of course your deck'sgonna smell like ammonia. Pride the rags

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with ammonia on it, and Iput them out there under a couple of
different holes. The next morning,the rags are gone. So that's not
working. Yeah. Yeah, whenyou were setting those traps, did you
have gloves on, because they're notgonna they're very finicky, they're not going
to have anything to do if there'sa human center around there. Well,

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I did not, and that's uhso what should I do to clean the
trap and then use gloves going for? Is there something I can use to
get the sent off that's a factor? Well, that's a good question.
I don't I don't know. Inever really thought about it that far.
I don't know if soap and waterwash it off. I don't know the
answer to that. I'd have tolook it up or something. They do

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eat early morning and early evening.That's when they're gathering the food and scent
is a huge problem. So again. I think i'd really focus on that.
Can you see the hole or no? Oh yeah, yeah, we
see the whole. I'll steal thehole in, they'll dig it back out

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again, and you know it's soyou know, I might try and hire
some kind of critter company, butwell, that's always, you know,
that's always the thing. I justlooked up something on ground ground hogs,
and you know, one of thethings I just see it says place of
rag soaked in ammonia near the burrow'sentrance. I don't know where you put

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that. Also said crush garlic,cayenne pepper. Toss that into burrows.
They hate those smells. Also,blood meal, sprinkled blood, mill epsin
salts, and talcum powder around theburrow. So there's a couple of things

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there. And then I don't know, maybe just scrub and with you know,
with rubber gloves of soap and wateron that trap, let it dry,
and then you know, keeping thegloves on and you know, so
there is no human sent on there. Those would be the keys that that
I would think would be be helpful. Have you heard of anything that keeps

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him from chewing around my door?Brain? No, I haven't even heard
that that would be a problem.To be honest with you, I will
tell you this too. If actuallytomorrow we're having a critter control company as
a guest at ten thirty, tenthirty. Danny, Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, ten thirty, ten thirty, and I'll chat with him. We've
talked groundhogs in the past. I'venever heard of one getting up there and
chewing the door, but burrowing animalsnderneath decks are certainly a problem and one
of the things when you get itcleaned up, one of the things you

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might consider. And even if youget a hold of a critter control company,
they may do this work also.If they what they'll do is they'll
trench, you know, around theopening underneath the deck, and they'll put
like a half inch hardware cloth.I don't know if you know what that

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is, but it's half inch holes. They're square, and it's a real
heavy galvanized steel, heavier than chickenwires what I'm trying to say. And
they will place that down I thinkit's eighteen inches in the ground around the
perimeter and then up to the heightof the deck. And that does a

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really good job of just making itdifficult enough where they're not going to mess
with it because they love going underneathstorage sheds, decks, even if they
you know, like a stoop orsomething by a front porch. But maybe
again, taking cayenne pepper and mixingit with some water and brushing it on

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that door, I'm not saying thatworks. I'm thinking out loud whether that
would keep a residue on the door. If they don't like cayenne pepper,
that might be where you could createa solution. Just brushing on lead dry.
That might be an option to preventthem from digging at that. But

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apparently in the little article ause readnaedcayenne pepper, garlic, and epps and
salts of the three things they detestand taste and ammonia. I don't know
what happened to the rag. Whetherthey drug it out or they buried it,
I don't know. All right,Okay, good hope one of those
help. Good luck. I knowthey it's a problem, no doubt they're

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doing damage. Yeah, well,I'll listen tomorrow at ten thirty as well.
Appreciate your advice. You're quite welcome. Thank you. Take care,
all right, Danny boy, yougot an assignment. You got to remember
to talk to me about groundhogs tomorrowten thirty. I'll put it on my
notes. We'll take a little breakand we'll come back and take some more

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calls. Our phone number is eighthundred eight two three eight two five five,
and my guess is we'll have acouple of tips about groundhogs and we'll
check and see if that's true.You're at home with Garry Salvin right here
on fifty five krsee de talk station. All right, back at it we
go thirteen minutes before the one o'clockhour. The nono An Auto Show will

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be next taking your calls and guardinga little auto improvement. You need tires
or not, Danny boy, youneed tires? You got tires? You
all set? Not yet? Notyet? All right? Good me neither.
I'm all set to. I Ido get one. When I ran
over that big pothole on Ronald RayHighway during the dead Winner, during the
Dead Winner, when it was likethirty two degrees outside. There you go.

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All right, let's get the barbar. Welcome, Hi, Gary.
I'm calling about the guy that calledabout the ground hogs. Uh huh.
I had called a couple of weeksabout ago about a device called underground
Exterminator okay, and you can getit on Amazon. If you hook it

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up, you hook the garden hoseup to your exhaust type and then you
put it down into the I usedit for chip monks. I had pit
monks just throwing a rock wall.You hook it up to your your exhaust
type, and then you put thegarden hose down into the hole and you
steal the hole up around the hose. Okay. And so you you had

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luck with them, you had luckwith that. I did you have to
You have to have just one holeopen, right, and then you know,
cover the other holes. And it'sI tried everything for for monks,
and that's what finally work. Yeah. So you used it on chip.

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You use it on chip? Didyou use it on the No? I
didn't use it on the ground hooks, okay, but it says on the
it says on the package. Youcan it was developed by a farmer and
he uses it for a prairie dogsand sopers and underground squirrels. But it

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worked for me for chipmunks. Yeah, I think that. Yeah, there's
been people that used to used todo that with a lawnmower and a hose
to get rid of moles, andsame thing. You'd get that gas down
there, you're basically gassing. Thesecret is exactly what you said, is
getting the other holes covered. Youknow you can't get fresh air in there.

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And did you have any problem oncethey died with the smell or anything.
That'd be one thing that would concernme with a groundhog. No problem
with the smell, Okay, allright, Yeah, we had a caller
tell Danny said, do you thinkit he goes I'm not so sure it's
a groundhog. It's eating wood.And does a groundhog eat wood? I

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don't know. Maybe it's a woodchuck. I think they're kind of in
that same family, And yeah,that might be. There are several there
are several things listed on that package. Yeah, well, I'm glad you
got rid of the chipmunks because Igot to tell you, I get a
lot of calls on chipmunks and yougot to get rid of those. Those

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things can do so much damage toa foundation it's on. And I know
they're cute and furry little things,but I'll tell you what, they can
do some major damage to a home. What was the name of that product?
Again? I want to write thatdown. I tried to email you
and my email came back. It'scalled underground Exterminator, and it used to

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be only when I did this inCincinnati years ago. It used to be
you can only get it through eighthHardware. But now I just checked and
you can get it on Amazon.And I've had about it from a person
who tried putting gasoline down. Hetried everything for chip months, Yeah,

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and his patio was falling in,so he put gasoline down one of the
holes before they left for vacation andcame home to a house with a lot
of chipmunks inside. He finally foudout about this device, and that's how
I found out about Okay, right, well, appreciate it. Then it's

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something else for that fellow to try. I think one of the things that
we all need to be mindful of, really if you're trapping them. And
we'll go through this. Like Isaid ten thirty tomorrow, we have a
plus wildlife Control Ron Krueger on withus. He's my critter specialist, and
he knows everything. In my opinion, he knows everything there is to know

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about getting rid of critters. Butthere's a lot of walls you know,
people get excited about trapping them,and there's a lot of laws that you
need to check with the state youlive in on what you can catch and
release. I mean, nice thought, but you can't do that to a
lot of animals, so people needto know that. All right, very

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good, Thanks Barb, already appreciateit. Bye bye. All right,
we got room for one more call, so if you want to call right
away, I can get you onand we'll answer your question. It's eight
hundred eight two three A two five. But catching release is not. I'm
sure if you go to the Stateof Ohio Department of Resources, you can

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get the rules on catch and releasedifferent animals and stuff. But you just
just just because you catch them doesn'talways mean you can keep them out of
harm's way and release them. Soyou might want to check that before you
get involved in that. You alsomight want to get a specialist in there
to find out, because you know, if you're getting down underneath a deck

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and you got a wild animal,I'm not even sure you know, are
you sure it's a groundhog? Youknow, then you got those kind of
problems with disease and different things too, So I know I'm kind of making
it a big deal. But thebest way is prevention. If you're listening
to me right now, and yougot a deck and there's a one foot

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opening, or you got a storyshed and there's a little opening underneath there,
you're asking for trouble if you don'tcreate some barrier around there. And
again, they're burrowing animals. Sojust putting a piece of chicken wire down
at the base, that's not goingto get it done. It's got to
be more stout than chicken wire.Half inch hardware cloth, quarter in hardware

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cloth down about eighteen inches into theground. That's going to create the barrier.
That one is for sure, allright, So kind of wrapping things
up to it, agree to kindof what we started. I wouldn't mind
visiting that again, because the forecastfor the next weekend is going to look

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like some real summer heat kind ofcoming to town. And I know we're
all and we are we are allconcerned about prices and energy cost. And
I can tell you right now,if you can get your home humidity around
that fifty to fifty five percent inthe summertime, you can set your thermostats

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seventy five seventy six seventy seven andbe comfortable in your home if you control
that humidity. If you cannot controlthat humidity, you're going to find that
thermostat seventy two or lower. It'sjust the way it is, so one
nice little way of controlling humidity.And you think about the air conditioner's pulling

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moisture out of the house, andthe coils on your air handler are dripping
wet as it's doing that. Andif you're one of the people that are
running that fan on on, you'reblowing all that moisture right back into your
house. If you're a person thathas it on auto, it's giving a

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chance for those coils to dry beforethe air conditioner kicks back on. That's
why you want to put it onauto during the summertime. The other quick
thing is remember air conditioning filters.Yeah, they get dirty, and what
they do is they block that conditionedthere that you're paying for. It won't

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that condition are will not satisfy thatthermostat unless it can, you know,
bring down the temperature. So it'sgonna your your air handler, your air
condition is gonna work harder, andyou're gonna pay more. So make sure
those filters are changed, your mayorof pleated filters ninety days, probably sixty

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to ninety days, and don't waitany longer than that. And if you
change them out sixty I'm cool withthat, especially during crazy weather. Dryer
vents, absolutely make sure those areconnected. Make sure there's some hose clamp
around them. Usually you'll have aflexible type of duckwork and then a rigid

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piece of pipe. Make sure that'ssealed there. I've seen a lot of
those pipes just half connect, ifyou will, and you're blowing that heated
moist air from the dryer into yourhouse and that's just really really working against
you during the summer months. Sothat's another thing you definitely want to take

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a look at. And I'll tellyou keeping the garage nice and cool.
If you got an insulated garage door, and most of us do for by
now, but if you just gota steal pan door or you got an
old wood door that's killing you,you get an insulated garage door. They've
got insulated garage doores now up toan R nineteen, which is the Department

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of Energies are value recommended for wallsin your house, and you keep those
seals one at the bottom replaced.In other words, when they're torn or
they're destroyed, you replace those.You keep that high performance garage door effective.
The weather stripping on the side.If they get torn, you get

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those replaced. You keep them ingood shape, and you can keep that
garage temperature palatable. If you gota refrigerator, it's gonna run and uh
it's not that heat's not gonna invadethe house of a couple of little thoughts
there. You got to pay attentionto the garage in terms of insulation now

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too. All right, so,uh, Danny boy and I we will
be back tomorrow morning nine o'clock andwe'll take some more of your calls.
We should have a good conversation.We'll have we have our friend Amanda back
and we'll talk about ceiling driveways.Well, have Ron Krueger in. We're
gonna talk about critter control around yourhouse. I want to talk about bats,

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groundholes and now groundhowks. We're gonnalearn all about that tomorrow too,
and we'll always take your calls.Danny, thanks for all your hard work.
Today has been a busy day.We both enjoyed it. And good
Lord Willing. We'll be back tomorrowfor more at Home with Gary Sullivan.