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with Gary Sullivan. Okay, so what's on your agenda? What
are we going to work on today? There certainly is
plenty this time of year. And happy to talk about
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Eight hundred eight two three eight two.
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Five five, Go ahead and grab a line. Joe Strecker
is on the board today. Danny Boy is out ill,
but happy to chat with you about your home projects.
You know, one of the things I think that really
ruins a kitchen decor, a bathroom decor, especially if you
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have seramy tyle, is dirty grout, and I think we've
all struggled with getting that clean. There's a lot of
fine products out on the market ground cleaner.
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But I'll tell you they require a.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Big effort, a big effort down on the knees, usually
a very stiff scrub brush, a mild acid cleaner, and
it's it's a big deal to get them clean. Sometimes
you can't get them clean. They're stained. And there are
options for you if if you do run into that,
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and I've talked about them often.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
There are different.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Grout paints that are out on the market. Obviously, you
still got to clean them the best you can. It
is groud is a cementatious product and you've got to scrub,
and you got to open up the pores of the
grouting in order to paint them. To get the paint
to stick. There's obviously hundreds of different colors of grout paint.
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Finding one that's right for you maybe a challenge. Most
of your hardware storees are going to carry white, gray,
or brown, maybe a beige, so.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That is, uh, I don't know if that's the answer
or not. One of the ways that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I found to tackle the problem is, you know, for
the most part, when you're floor is installed sort of
floor is installed, the grout is normally sealed and that
ceiling is designed to protect it from absorbing moisture or
absorbing liquids that could stain grout, and that penetration of
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those products not products, but liquids is really not that
deep into the ground. What I'm saying is that surface
of the ground that's dirty, well, it's not down that
far into the grout. So if you can't get it
cleaned with a lot of the different cleaners that are
in the market, the one thing I've recommended is scraping
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the surface of that grout. Now, you can do that
a bunch of different ways, but probably the best way.
And there are different sizes of grout with and things
like that, but you should normal grouts went three sixty
some an inch something along those lines.
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Is a drumbll tool.
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If you're familiar with a drumbell tool, it's probably about
six to eight inches long, I don't know an inch
and circumference, and at the end it's a motorized tool.
At the end, there's a chuck just like a drill,
and you can put different attachments into that chuck. And
what you would be putting in to clean the grout
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would be a stone, So it has a stem that
goes into the chuck the stone which is exposed when
it orbits turned on.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You just take that.
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Grinding stone and you go down the surface of the ground.
Now it's going to remove a small amount of grout,
but nothing that's going to substantially change anything.
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Really, what it's going to do is it's going to.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Scratch off the surface of the stain groud and expose
the original color of the grout. And there's no ceiling
on it, so it's a two step process. We can
go ahead and kind of resurface that grouting by getting
it clean and grinding and off and then coming back
with a good fifteen year groud seiler and you should
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be in business. I like that much better than the
scrubbing and the cleaners, certainly better than the painting. And
I you know, you get that when that ground gets
dirty and you got to I don't know, let's say,
I don't know, six x twelve tiles or four by
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eight tiles or twelve tiles.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can just see the outline of each.
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Tile, and I just it doesn't blend, it doesn't look good,
it looks dirty.
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So tackling that with a drummell tool and clean.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That up and really scrub catching the surface of that
grout and resealing it is a good thing to do
in dressing up the kitchen. The other thing, of course,
is the cabenetry, and a lot of trends here are
people looking at not just cleaning the cabinet tree, but
painting the cabinetree, and certainly all kinds of great products
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out there that can help you tackle.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That particular project.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I know for kitchen cabinet cleaning, there's a good one
called Guardsmen, which is a waxer Remover's one called Millsik,
which is a waxerymover, grim remover, and something that intensifies
the wood. It looks very nice, old product and literally
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just wiped on and we'll really give that. I'll restore
that luster back on that wood and again dramatically change
the look of the cab to do because it's fresh,
it's good looking, it looks looks new.
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So those are a couple of things.
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And of course lighting, A lot of bad lighting in
kitchens or dated lighting just can lightings.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
There's some very neat.
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Modern led lightings, you know, almost like pendants and things
like that. Lighting has really changed.
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You make those three really simple changes.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't know if I call the cleaning one simple
with the drumball tool, but in reality it is simple.
I guess we're not tearing anything out. So those are
some things that really can enhance the whole look of
your kitchen. So I guess the question is what are
you working on? Feel free to join us again. It's
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grab a line, happy to talk about what you're working on.
Yesterday we got into a lot of different questions regarding rust,
which means a lot of people are working outside.
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We were talking about you.
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Know some different products that actually can be used to
seal rust into metal rather than scraping and grinding all
that rust off, and that can sometimes be a time saver.
And we're all about that, aren't we. Yeah, we're all
about time saving, So that might be something you want
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to tackle.
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Also, crack concrete.
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Certainly we had a big issue with that, especially after last.
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Winter in many parts of the country, and happy to
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Feel free to join us. It's eight hundred.
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Eight two three eight two five five and Benny, welcome.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
The many from eight South Mississippi. I'm just wondering you
talk about a pemical, a sailor you could put on
the asspholet drive whays is old, cracked up and there
saying Sammy lay some two to three years, some may
maybe it's seven, eight, ten years. Where I guess in
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five of five gallon buckets it has rubber. Any where
can I find.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Some of that as well?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Most of your big box stores, hardware stores, Benny will
have that name of the uh particular product is called
drive Max and that's the ten year ceilant. And again
you do have, as you said, you have different variations
of guarantees. You know, it's usually two year, five year,
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seven year or ten yere the ten year is you know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's about forty bucks a buck. It's you don't have
to stir it, just turn it upside down when you
get it at home. I know Low's has it, I
know Ace has it.
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And then you literally pour you know, once the surface
is good and clean, you pour it onto the surface
and you can distribute. There's a little brush. It's a
combination bristle and squeegeye brush that you can distribute it
with the squeegee and then come back and put a
brush texture to it. And you do it. It drives
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in a couple of hours. You go back and put
a second coat on there, and uh, it's very resistant
to fading from the sun, so it has great longevity.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It looks new for a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
If you will, just called drive patch drive Max m
A xx N.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
And okay, oh, very good. I'll try to time something.
I need something pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
There you go, thank you much, appreciate it. And again, folks,
that drive Max is the seiler. There's obviously you know,
it always scares me and somebody goes, yeah, I need
some pretty bad and not always is an indication to me.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That that driveway is pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
So what does it need? Does it need the sealer
or does it need some work? Does it need some patching?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You know, in drive wall.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Asphalt driveway asphalt is installed, you usually have you know,
two to four inches of gravel base and two to
four inches of an asphalt packing on top of that,
and then you let it go a couple of years
and you seal it. And I can't tell you how
many times when I look at different asphalt driveways that
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are in a state of disrepair, shall we say, you know,
you get a corner of that asphalt driveway where there's
like ten cracks going ten different ways, and there's chunks
about the size of an orange that are like their
own little island in this cracked area. Normally, what that's
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from is that's from settling of the ground, and that
asphalt has just been compromised. And then when you start
poking around, because the way you would fix that as
you would clean all the loose asphalt out of there
basearticularly create a pothole, it gets some cold patch asphalt
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and that's the gravel and the tar and everything, and
put it in that opening and use a tamper and
tamp it down. Usually what's causing that is there's really
only an inch of asphalt, maybe an inch and a half.
Sometimes there's an inch of gravel. It's just not built
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to the standards that an asphalt driveway should really be.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know built.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So the sealer is to protect the asphalt. It's not
going to quote repair, I mean, it's going to rejuvenate,
but it's not going to repair a driveway that has
some issues. So again, when you're you know out in
that you may as I say, you're five years from
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the last time you seal that, or three years or whatever.
It depends what kind of sealer you use. Stealer industry
has changed a lot over the last twenty years, and
you're looking at tackling that project. Number one is to
clean the driveway the best you can.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Soap and water, a.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oxygenated bleach in water, spray it on, let's sit for
a while, and then come back and street broom scrub
at rents or pressure wash not too strong, but used
a pressure washer as a rinse.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You got to get it clean.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oil stains will bleed back through the new asphalt coating,
so you got to get the oil off there. And
you got to remember that asphalt got a lot of
oil in You don't want to remove that. So I've
recommended Act Cleaner for oil spots on concrete. It's a
wonderful product because it doesn't disturb the asphalt. So cleaning
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the oil spots, cleaning the driveway, that's key to the project.
You got to have a good, clean, bondable surface and
then coming back and making the repairs. I just kind
of talked about, you know that maybe the corner of
the driveway where it's you know, broken in many pieces.
You got to get that out of there. You got
to clean that up. Cracks, yeah, you got to seal those.
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And then if you get some wider ones in concrete,
we always talked about going.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
To your thane.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
If you get wider cracks and asphalt, you can almost
go with a mastic. There's an asphalt driveway mastic that
you can work into the larger cracks and allow that
to dry and then put your sealer on. And what
that ceiler does again is it protects the asphalt from
the sun oil spills mainly the sun quite honestly, that's
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what does the damage to it. So ceiling it is
the key, But the preparation before the ceiling is actually
applied is the key to success, as any coatings project is,
whether you're doing painting, whether you're doing your deck, it's
the preparation giving it the ability to stick and repair
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is the key to success of putting a new coating on.
So follow those and read those directions because these products now,
even deck sealers, I go from brand to brand, and
there is different applications depending on whose brand that is.
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And you know whether it's a one code system or
two code system.
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If it's a one code system and.
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You go with two coats, really you can run into
problems without that second code penetrating into the wood.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And then you're going to.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Have some real shiny spots in one area and very
dull spots and others. So read the directions, read the
product limitations, read the step by step on preparation, because
the money spent, that's the hard part. Preparation is certainly
the next spot. You know, if you're going to spend
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the money, let's let's do it right, all.
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You're at home with Gary Salvin taking your calls about
your home projects again. Phone number is eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. A couple of lines open,
go ahead and grab them. We have Jeff, Jeff, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Thank you Er.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I had a question that's kind of similar to the
coatings or the driveway question. Maybe I've got a back
patio that has concrete pavers and it was installed probably
four or five years ago, and last year I tried
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to fill the cracks with polymeric sand, which is what
was there originally, and it seemed to do really well.
But then after the winter when we get a rain,
it's just there's a sand, you know, it's like grit
all over the patio, so it doesn't seem to be sticking.
And I'm wondering if you have any ideas or what
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I could have done differently.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, I don't know what you did when you installed it,
but it should last.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Longer than a year.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The polymeric sand has basically got a reson in it,
so when you sweep the polymeric sand into the joints
between a tie or between the stones. A lot depends
on how large those joints are. Ideally, the smaller, the
more intact that sand stays. And then after that is
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installed or swept in with a with a garden hose,
you just lightly moisten that area, which firms up the polymerics,
you know, right, creates a little bit of a bear.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So if you did all that and it and it failed,
I don't know what you did wrong. Yeah, well, I
didn't know. Maybe.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Uh see, I used a power washer set lightly to
make sure that the cracks were good and cleaned out,
you know, and let it dry for a couple of days.
But when I put the new stuff in, it seemed good.
But you know, like I said, it just didn't seem
to hold up after the winter.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Maybe is there much of a difference in quality on
polymeric sand?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That I don't know, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I mean, it's it's fairly what I would call generic product.
But I guess there's always differences in everything. But I
don't know of a good, better best when it comes
to polymeric sand. I mean, uh, I've used it. It's
it's pretty much. You know, you dump the bags, you
sweep it around, you pose off the access, you moisten
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the rest, and you're out of there, right, you know,
I mean you're done right. So well, I don't know.
I don't know whether that you know, a particular winner.
I guess, you know, winter, harshness, the amount of rain,
I guess all those things could play into the demise
of it, you know, quicker. But I don't even know
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that for a fact. I'm assuming.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Okay, well, thank you. I just wasn't sure. I thought
maybe there was some you know, maybe a key thing
that I wasn't doing.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But no, I think if you followed the directions and
kind of what we talked about your spot on. But
keep listening, Jeff. Sometimes, I mean, I can't tell you
how many things I've learned.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Doing this show too.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know, somebody comes up with a whole new idea
or a particular brand, and that's how I find a
lot of stuff also, So it's like a big recipe
club here, So keep listening. See if somebody else jumps
in with another idea. Appreciate your call. Thank you all right, James, welcome.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Karry look it and his in regards to dice prod ITTs.
I've heard you talk to the gentleman I think Peter
several times. So let me let me explain what I
want to do. So there's a pool, and most people
familiar with the pool decking, but that's not the application.
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So when you go around the perimeter of a pool,
there's something called the coping. Yeah, okay, so you know
what that is. In this particular case, the coping was
made out of concrete formed in place, just like standard
concrete to like form like the coping edge. I didn't
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like the way I looked, and I had a guy
staying at a couple of years ago, and then he
put a ceiling on it and that because that's what
he does, and it's always fading, and I don't like it.
So I want to I know, I probably have to
strip that a clear finish that he put on there,
and I don't know what that is. I'd have to
ask him, and then I would be down to the
stain and it's a dark stain. I would say, it's
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like a brown brownish like dust or rust color stain.
So in that application I've been I'm so frustrated with it.
I wanted to rip it out, but then I thought
about putting a dice on top of that. So I've
been to their website, I've heard you talk to that
guy a lot. What product do you believe would be
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applicable in that case of any And also just one
final comment, what I've discovered is the enemy I have
is the sun. It's an arizona And so you talk
a lot about salt with people. I don't have that problem.
It's just all these products that I've tried, like paint,
whatever they they if they're seven years, I get three
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years out of them. So that's the question.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I don't know if I can give you a year
to date on that, but one of the products, and
if you've been to their way, you know it's a
pretty extensive website, a lot of different videos, a lot
of good information. The stain that was put on there
was it followed by like a gloss.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Type clear seiler. Is that what you were saying?
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay? So again.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And again that depends on the type of coping you have.
But to remove that seiler obviously is going to be
key because the DICEH coatings, the actual coating type product
that would be applied would need to have something that
would have the ability to bite into that concrete, right,
so the clear would have to go off.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Normally, what you would do, like if you're using on.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
A patio or you're using it on a garage floor,
you would simply grind it off rather than using a
chemical so you can remove it chemically. You can remove
it mechanically and you get one of those looks like
a floor cleaner or a polisher with a diamond cut
pad on there, and you'll clean that up real fast
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and you don't have to take to stay out, but
you do have to take the clear coating off and
then go with I would say he's got so many
great products. Now probably the roller rock would be one
I would be interested. It is slip resistant, which is nice.
It's a two code system. It's going to be important
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to put a clear sealer on there, just like you had.
They have one called track Safe and as far as
a UV block, and that's really what you're interested in,
I think I would have to see if that track
Safe comes with a you know, it's claim to fame
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as a slip resistant. I don't know where it stands
on UV resistance, and I think with the roller Rock
there's some UV resistance. It's really a matter of what
color you're going to go with too. I would prefer
to see you go with a lighter color versus a
darker color, you know, with that sun from a standpoint
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of heat and also from the standpoint of fading, so
kind of encapsulate. What I just said is, you know,
grind it off. They have two real good outdoor ones.
They have a spreadstone product that they have a roller
rock product. You can have them look like Torezo and
everything else. But I'll let you look at the cosmetics.
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But for the actual you know, installation of it, it
would be grinding the old surface off application two coats
and then a clear seiler.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Okay, yeah, the UV is doing a skirt of good
job and knocking off the clear seiler now in the place.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, that's going to be
the key.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I would say this, I would say where you live
and everything, James, I know, like the track safe the
yearly recommendation is to put the seiler on every five years.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My guess is just where you're at, regardless of product,
it's going to be every three years.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Okay. One final question, why are you opposed to chemical removing.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Oh, I'm not opposed to it. I just think it's
easier to manually remove it. I'm not opposed to it
at all.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Okay, Yeah, I just thought maybe the mechanical would create
more debris, that's all I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, and yeah, I mean that's a your call.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I always tell people two ways to do it chemically mechanically.
I mean chemically usually takes a little bit longer, but
there would be less debris. There's a there's a product
that's made by Dumont Global.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Okay, uh, and you can google it.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It's und it might be one M. DuMond Global, and
they have all they have like four major strippers that
would remove most any coating. I mean they've stripped the
Hollywood Sign, they've stripped the Eiffel Tower, and they even
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have a test hit where you can buy, you know,
for under twenty bucks somewhere in there, where you can
buy all four tests on the strippers to see which
one will remove that one the best. But the one
that removes probably eighty percent of the coatings is.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
One called smart strip. And it you know, you put
it on it, you got to keep it wet.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
So again, where you're at with that sun might be
put it on at dusk and then there's like a
saran wrap that goes over to keep it wet on
the surface.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And that's a real effective safe pain stripper. If you
want to go chemically, okay, I'll look it up. Thank you,
all right, you're quite welcome. Thank you. All right, you
can join us. Here's our phone number.
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We've got some lines open and we'll talk about your
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you'll lead us off as we continue. You're at home
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home project and Joey.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Welcome.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Hey, Gary, longtime listener, thank you, show, thank you. I've
got an exposed aggregate front porch and I recently had
a company come out and level it because it was
cracked and had sunk down in a spot. And they
did a great job as a company out of southern Indiana.
The question I have is they want.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Me to seal it.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
And this gets afternoon sun here in Kentucky, just blue
blazing hot, right, And I was one to know if
you could recommend a sealer for that exposed aggregate and uh,
that gets full sun in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Okay, so that was gonna be my number one question
is the aggregate is still exposed.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They didn't resurface it with like.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
A concrete, No, they just they just injected underneath and
leveled it back up and you stealed the crack and
they did a great job.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Super very pleased with it.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
But I just didn't know what kind of seiler.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
The type of seiler you would use on exposed aggregate
is not going to dance with the sun real well,
kind of like what the other fella had.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
With, you know, the swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Usually on exposed aggregate, they use it with a a coating,
so it's a surface coating. It's not penetrant because a
lot of that surface is stone.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They can't penetrate the stone.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So you would use a sealer, which would be a
high solid clear and it would be for like stamped concrete.
The same seiler for stamp concrete is used on exposed
to aggregate. There is a there's a website. It's called
Masonry Defender, And if you go on that web, yeah,
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because I love it because they have sealers for specific projects.
So they have I can't remember that if they have
one that's listed as exposed aggre get. I think they do,
but I'm not sure, but it may also say stamp
concrete and exposed aggre get. It's a high solid clear,
definitely made for outside. Again, it may tell you five years.
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I'd recoat that thing every two especially if it's a
south or southwest facing.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
That's the one I would use.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
If it were resurfaced and it was concrete, I'd be
going to another direction, Joey. I'd be telling you to
use a regular driveway in sidewalk seiler, which is a penetrating,
breathable finish.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
It faces almost directly west, so it gets like sun
from a little bit before and noon on until sunset.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, So I want you to do two things and
go to the go to the website to Masonry Defender
look their stamp concrete ceiler.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I would be.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I mean, I'd be one hundred percent behind using that
if you want to take a look. And this is
also something good for where you have it. I was
talking to the other fella about the track safe. That's
also a surface seiler, so in other words, it's not
a penetrant. It lays on the surface. It has achine
mainly designed for garage floors, which again is kind of
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falls in a category that stamp concrete and exposed aggregate
because it's not going to penetrate into a garage floor
because it's so tightly trilled. So I don't know what
the UV resistance is. I'll have to look that up
on our website maybe when we take a break. But
the track shafe would take that area and create some
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traction to it, which would be really good during because
whenever you put a clear seiler on there, you know
you run the risk of it being a little slippery,
whether it's a a deck or a concrete driveway.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
So that track safe may be a good one too.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But again I think you can pretty much figure about
every three years you'd put that on.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You'd put it on with a roller.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Okay, that's my next question.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
I didn't know if it was a heavy nap roller
or maybe a brush.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, you could do either, but there's the brushes they
use on coating sealers.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is almost like a mop.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Okay, you know, but that or you know, five as
three quarter inch nap roller would do it too.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Hi, Gary, I appreciate the help.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I'll all right, Joey, thank you much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
You can have Joey's line as we continue through the weekend,
and Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Welcome morning, Gary, Morning, got it? Got a question? All right?
Speaker 10 (35:53):
Acquired a hole. I'm building a new house and garage
and shops. I acquired a boatload brand new but older
t lock shangles. They Okay, the what the deal is
is there? You know the buildings they gotta match a
little bit. Okay, so the shangles aren't quite the same
(36:13):
as a ten.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
On the house.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
So my question is, I know I watched I'm pretty
sure that I watched Burger Kings facility. They painted the shangles.
Can I change the color? Them shangles slightly by painting them.
Is that something that is possible?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well tell me what is that te lock shingle made of?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Is that a metal shingle?
Speaker 10 (36:34):
No? No, no, no, there's.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Uh yeah, well, what do we want to change the
color for cosmetics?
Speaker 10 (36:48):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
And are you trying to get it to match the others?
Are you going to coat the whole thing?
Speaker 10 (36:55):
No, I wanted to kind of, I'm gonna do the
whole the whole, the whole thing just one color, but
to blend it, just make it more so it looks
more like the tents. The color of the tent. They're close,
but not you know, I mean obviously a little bit
of salt and pepper.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Look, yeah, I'm not I'm.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Gonna guess there is, but I don't have a name
to give you.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
There are different types of coatings that can go over shingles,
but mainly those are directed not from a cosmetic standpoint, Steve.
They're mainly there to extend the life of the shingle
by keeping the protective grains on top of the shingle
itself intact. You may have seen ads or things for
(37:43):
a product called roof Max, but I think all their
products are all clear. I don't think they're tenable or
a different color.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
Okay, Well, like I said, I just could I know
years ago that I watched some people redoing a Burger
King facility. Uh huh, and I know they were up
there painting them shingles blue.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah. I can also tell you.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And this goes back in my career of doing this show,
probably thirty five years. I had to call some of
this and I was joking and a guy did it,
and he told me it worked great, and that was
using regular acrylic house paint on his shingle. But I've
never done it. I never heard back on whether it worked.
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What you might do is if you got a Sherwin
Williams store up there, Steve, go in there and chat
with them and see if they have something, and we'll
ask them about.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Their emerald acrylic kes tier. How it would go.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
On that shingle and how long it would last. I
don't know what kind of longevity you're trying to get,
but I know paint will stick to it. I just
don't know if it's gonna get you where you want
to go. So give that a try. Uh you know, there,
it would have to be an acrylic. But they may
(39:05):
tell you to go fus to be thehead, or they
may have something.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
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are we going to work on today? There certainly is
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but happy to chat with you about your home projects.
You know, one of the things I think that really
ruins a kitchen decor, a bathroom decor, especially if you
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have seramy tyle, is dirty grout, and I think we've
all struggled with getting that clean. There's a lot of
fine products out on the market ground cleaner.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But I'll tell you they require a.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Big effort, a big effort down on the knees, usually
a very stiff scrub brush, a mild acid cleaner, and
it's it's a big deal to get them clean. Sometimes
you can't get them clean. They're stained. And there are
options for you if if you do run into that,
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and I've talked about them often.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
There are different.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Grout paints that are out on the market. Obviously, you
still got to clean them the best you can. It
is groud is a cementatious product and you've got to scrub,
and you got to open up the pores of the
grouting in order to paint them. To get the paint
to stick. There's obviously hundreds of different colors of grout paint.
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Finding one that's right for you maybe a challenge. Most
of your hardware storees are going to carry white, gray,
or brown, maybe a beige, so.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That is, uh, I don't know if that's the answer
or not. One of the ways that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I found to tackle the problem is, you know, for
the most part, when you're floor is installed sort of
floor is installed, the grout is normally sealed and that
ceiling is designed to protect it from absorbing moisture or
absorbing liquids that could stain grout, and that penetration of
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those products not products, but liquids is really not that
deep into the ground. What I'm saying is that surface
of the ground that's dirty, well, it's not down that
far into the grout. So if you can't get it
cleaned with a lot of the different cleaners that are
in the market, the one thing I've recommended is scraping
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the surface of that grout. Now, you can do that
a bunch of different ways, but probably the best way.
And there are different sizes of grout with and things
like that, but you should normal grouts went three sixty
some an inch something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is a drumbll tool.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
If you're familiar with a drumbell tool, it's probably about
six to eight inches long, I don't know an inch
and circumference, and at the end it's a motorized tool.
At the end, there's a chuck just like a drill,
and you can put different attachments into that chuck. And
what you would be putting in to clean the grout
(04:30):
would be a stone, So it has a stem that
goes into the chuck the stone which is exposed when
it orbits turned on.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You just take that.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Grinding stone and you go down the surface of the ground.
Now it's going to remove a small amount of grout,
but nothing that's going to substantially change anything.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Really, what it's going to do is it's going to.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Scratch off the surface of the stain groud and expose
the original color of the grout. And there's no ceiling
on it, so it's a two step process. We can
go ahead and kind of resurface that grouting by getting
it clean and grinding and off and then coming back
with a good fifteen year groud seiler and you should
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be in business. I like that much better than the
scrubbing and the cleaners, certainly better than the painting. And
I you know, you get that when that ground gets
dirty and you got to I don't know, let's say,
I don't know, six x twelve tiles or four by
(05:44):
eight tiles or twelve tiles.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can just see the outline of each.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Tile, and I just it doesn't blend, it doesn't look good,
it looks dirty.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So tackling that with a drummell tool and clean.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That up and really scrub catching the surface of that
grout and resealing it is a good thing to do
in dressing up the kitchen. The other thing, of course,
is the cabenetry, and a lot of trends here are
people looking at not just cleaning the cabinet tree, but
painting the cabinetree, and certainly all kinds of great products
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out there that can help you tackle.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That particular project.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I know for kitchen cabinet cleaning, there's a good one
called Guardsmen, which is a waxer Remover's one called Millsik,
which is a waxerymover, grim remover, and something that intensifies
the wood. It looks very nice, old product and literally
(06:47):
just wiped on and we'll really give that. I'll restore
that luster back on that wood and again dramatically change
the look of the cab to do because it's fresh,
it's good looking, it looks looks new.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So those are a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And of course lighting, A lot of bad lighting in
kitchens or dated lighting just can lightings.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
There's some very neat.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Modern led lightings, you know, almost like pendants and things
like that. Lighting has really changed.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You make those three really simple changes.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't know if I call the cleaning one simple
with the drumball tool, but in reality it is simple.
I guess we're not tearing anything out. So those are
some things that really can enhance the whole look of
your kitchen. So I guess the question is what are
you working on? Feel free to join us again. It's
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grab a line, happy to talk about what you're working on.
Yesterday we got into a lot of different questions regarding rust,
which means a lot of people are working outside.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We were talking about you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Know some different products that actually can be used to
seal rust into metal rather than scraping and grinding all
that rust off, and that can sometimes be a time saver.
And we're all about that, aren't we. Yeah, we're all
about time saving, So that might be something you want
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to tackle.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Also, crack concrete.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Certainly we had a big issue with that, especially after last.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Winter in many parts of the country, and happy to
chat with you about that.
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Eight two three eight two five five and Benny, welcome.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
The many from eight South Mississippi. I'm just wondering you
talk about a pemical, a sailor you could put on
the asspholet drive whays is old, cracked up and there
saying Sammy lay some two to three years, some may
maybe it's seven, eight, ten years. Where I guess in
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five of five gallon buckets it has rubber. Any where
can I find.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Some of that as well?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Most of your big box stores, hardware stores, Benny will
have that name of the uh particular product is called
drive Max and that's the ten year ceilant. And again
you do have, as you said, you have different variations
of guarantees. You know, it's usually two year, five year,
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seven year or ten yere the ten year is you know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's about forty bucks a buck. It's you don't have
to stir it, just turn it upside down when you
get it at home. I know Low's has it, I
know Ace has it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And then you literally pour you know, once the surface
is good and clean, you pour it onto the surface
and you can distribute. There's a little brush. It's a
combination bristle and squeegeye brush that you can distribute it
with the squeegee and then come back and put a
brush texture to it. And you do it. It drives
(11:09):
in a couple of hours. You go back and put
a second coat on there, and uh, it's very resistant
to fading from the sun, so it has great longevity.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It looks new for a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
If you will, just called drive patch drive Max m
A xx N.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
And okay, oh, very good. I'll try to time something.
I need something pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
There you go, thank you much, appreciate it. And again, folks,
that drive Max is the seiler. There's obviously you know,
it always scares me and somebody goes, yeah, I need
some pretty bad and not always is an indication to me.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That that driveway is pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
So what does it need? Does it need the sealer
or does it need some work? Does it need some patching?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You know, in drive wall.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Asphalt driveway asphalt is installed, you usually have you know,
two to four inches of gravel base and two to
four inches of an asphalt packing on top of that,
and then you let it go a couple of years
and you seal it. And I can't tell you how
many times when I look at different asphalt driveways that
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are in a state of disrepair, shall we say, you know,
you get a corner of that asphalt driveway where there's
like ten cracks going ten different ways, and there's chunks
about the size of an orange that are like their
own little island in this cracked area. Normally, what that's
(12:44):
from is that's from settling of the ground, and that
asphalt has just been compromised. And then when you start
poking around, because the way you would fix that as
you would clean all the loose asphalt out of there
basearticularly create a pothole, it gets some cold patch asphalt
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and that's the gravel and the tar and everything, and
put it in that opening and use a tamper and
tamp it down. Usually what's causing that is there's really
only an inch of asphalt, maybe an inch and a half.
Sometimes there's an inch of gravel. It's just not built
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to the standards that an asphalt driveway should really be.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know built.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So the sealer is to protect the asphalt. It's not
going to quote repair, I mean, it's going to rejuvenate,
but it's not going to repair a driveway that has
some issues. So again, when you're you know out in
that you may as I say, you're five years from
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the last time you seal that, or three years or whatever.
It depends what kind of sealer you use. Stealer industry
has changed a lot over the last twenty years, and
you're looking at tackling that project. Number one is to
clean the driveway the best you can.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Soap and water, a.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oxygenated bleach in water, spray it on, let's sit for
a while, and then come back and street broom scrub
at rents or pressure wash not too strong, but used
a pressure washer as a rinse.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You got to get it clean.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oil stains will bleed back through the new asphalt coating,
so you got to get the oil off there. And
you got to remember that asphalt got a lot of
oil in You don't want to remove that. So I've
recommended Act Cleaner for oil spots on concrete. It's a
wonderful product because it doesn't disturb the asphalt. So cleaning
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the oil spots, cleaning the driveway, that's key to the project.
You got to have a good, clean, bondable surface and
then coming back and making the repairs. I just kind
of talked about, you know that maybe the corner of
the driveway where it's you know, broken in many pieces.
You got to get that out of there. You got
to clean that up. Cracks, yeah, you got to seal those.
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And then if you get some wider ones in concrete,
we always talked about going.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
To your thane.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
If you get wider cracks and asphalt, you can almost
go with a mastic. There's an asphalt driveway mastic that
you can work into the larger cracks and allow that
to dry and then put your sealer on. And what
that ceiler does again is it protects the asphalt from
the sun oil spills mainly the sun quite honestly, that's
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what does the damage to it. So ceiling it is
the key, But the preparation before the ceiling is actually
applied is the key to success, as any coatings project is,
whether you're doing painting, whether you're doing your deck, it's
the preparation giving it the ability to stick and repair
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is the key to success of putting a new coating on.
So follow those and read those directions because these products now,
even deck sealers, I go from brand to brand, and
there is different applications depending on whose brand that is.
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And you know whether it's a one code system or
two code system.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
If it's a one code system and.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You go with two coats, really you can run into
problems without that second code penetrating into the wood.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And then you're going to.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Have some real shiny spots in one area and very
dull spots and others. So read the directions, read the
product limitations, read the step by step on preparation, because
the money spent, that's the hard part. Preparation is certainly
the next spot. You know, if you're going to spend
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the money, let's let's do it right, all.
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You're at home with Gary Salvin taking your calls about
your home projects again. Phone number is eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. A couple of lines open,
go ahead and grab them. We have Jeff, Jeff, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Thank you Er.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I had a question that's kind of similar to the
coatings or the driveway question. Maybe I've got a back
patio that has concrete pavers and it was installed probably
four or five years ago, and last year I tried
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to fill the cracks with polymeric sand, which is what
was there originally, and it seemed to do really well.
But then after the winter when we get a rain,
it's just there's a sand, you know, it's like grit
all over the patio, so it doesn't seem to be sticking.
And I'm wondering if you have any ideas or what
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I could have done differently.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, I don't know what you did when you installed it,
but it should last.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Longer than a year.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The polymeric sand has basically got a reson in it,
so when you sweep the polymeric sand into the joints
between a tie or between the stones. A lot depends
on how large those joints are. Ideally, the smaller, the
more intact that sand stays. And then after that is
(20:50):
installed or swept in with a with a garden hose,
you just lightly moisten that area, which firms up the polymerics,
you know, right, creates a little bit of a bear.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So if you did all that and it and it failed,
I don't know what you did wrong. Yeah, well, I
didn't know. Maybe.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Uh see, I used a power washer set lightly to
make sure that the cracks were good and cleaned out,
you know, and let it dry for a couple of days.
But when I put the new stuff in, it seemed good.
But you know, like I said, it just didn't seem
to hold up after the winter.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Maybe is there much of a difference in quality on
polymeric sand?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That I don't know, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I mean, it's it's fairly what I would call generic product.
But I guess there's always differences in everything. But I
don't know of a good, better best when it comes
to polymeric sand. I mean, uh, I've used it. It's
it's pretty much. You know, you dump the bags, you
sweep it around, you pose off the access, you moisten
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the rest, and you're out of there, right, you know,
I mean you're done right. So well, I don't know.
I don't know whether that you know, a particular winner.
I guess, you know, winter, harshness, the amount of rain,
I guess all those things could play into the demise
of it, you know, quicker. But I don't even know
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that for a fact. I'm assuming.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Okay, well, thank you. I just wasn't sure. I thought
maybe there was some you know, maybe a key thing
that I wasn't doing.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But no, I think if you followed the directions and
kind of what we talked about your spot on. But
keep listening, Jeff. Sometimes, I mean, I can't tell you
how many things I've learned.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Doing this show too.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know, somebody comes up with a whole new idea
or a particular brand, and that's how I find a
lot of stuff also, So it's like a big recipe
club here, So keep listening. See if somebody else jumps
in with another idea. Appreciate your call. Thank you all right, James, welcome.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Karry look it and his in regards to dice prod ITTs.
I've heard you talk to the gentleman I think Peter
several times. So let me let me explain what I
want to do. So there's a pool, and most people
familiar with the pool decking, but that's not the application.
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So when you go around the perimeter of a pool,
there's something called the coping. Yeah, okay, so you know
what that is. In this particular case, the coping was
made out of concrete formed in place, just like standard
concrete to like form like the coping edge. I didn't
(23:41):
like the way I looked, and I had a guy
staying at a couple of years ago, and then he
put a ceiling on it and that because that's what
he does, and it's always fading, and I don't like it.
So I want to I know, I probably have to
strip that a clear finish that he put on there,
and I don't know what that is. I'd have to
ask him, and then I would be down to the
stain and it's a dark stain. I would say, it's
(24:03):
like a brown brownish like dust or rust color stain.
So in that application I've been I'm so frustrated with it.
I wanted to rip it out, but then I thought
about putting a dice on top of that. So I've
been to their website, I've heard you talk to that
guy a lot. What product do you believe would be
(24:27):
applicable in that case of any And also just one
final comment, what I've discovered is the enemy I have
is the sun. It's an arizona And so you talk
a lot about salt with people. I don't have that problem.
It's just all these products that I've tried, like paint,
whatever they they if they're seven years, I get three
(24:47):
years out of them. So that's the question.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I don't know if I can give you a year
to date on that, but one of the products, and
if you've been to their way, you know it's a
pretty extensive website, a lot of different videos, a lot
of good information. The stain that was put on there
was it followed by like a gloss.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Type clear seiler. Is that what you were saying?
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay? So again.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And again that depends on the type of coping you have.
But to remove that seiler obviously is going to be
key because the DICEH coatings, the actual coating type product
that would be applied would need to have something that
would have the ability to bite into that concrete, right,
so the clear would have to go off.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Normally, what you would do, like if you're using on.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
A patio or you're using it on a garage floor,
you would simply grind it off rather than using a
chemical so you can remove it chemically. You can remove
it mechanically and you get one of those looks like
a floor cleaner or a polisher with a diamond cut
pad on there, and you'll clean that up real fast
(26:09):
and you don't have to take to stay out, but
you do have to take the clear coating off and
then go with I would say he's got so many
great products. Now probably the roller rock would be one
I would be interested. It is slip resistant, which is nice.
It's a two code system. It's going to be important
(26:33):
to put a clear sealer on there, just like you had.
They have one called track Safe and as far as
a UV block, and that's really what you're interested in,
I think I would have to see if that track
Safe comes with a you know, it's claim to fame
(26:53):
as a slip resistant. I don't know where it stands
on UV resistance, and I think with the roller Rock
there's some UV resistance. It's really a matter of what
color you're going to go with too. I would prefer
to see you go with a lighter color versus a
darker color, you know, with that sun from a standpoint
(27:15):
of heat and also from the standpoint of fading, so
kind of encapsulate. What I just said is, you know,
grind it off. They have two real good outdoor ones.
They have a spreadstone product that they have a roller
rock product. You can have them look like Torezo and
everything else. But I'll let you look at the cosmetics.
(27:38):
But for the actual you know, installation of it, it
would be grinding the old surface off application two coats
and then a clear seiler.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Okay, yeah, the UV is doing a skirt of good
job and knocking off the clear seiler now in the place.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, that's going to be
the key.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I would say this, I would say where you live
and everything, James, I know, like the track safe the
yearly recommendation is to put the seiler on every five years.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My guess is just where you're at, regardless of product,
it's going to be every three years.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Okay. One final question, why are you opposed to chemical removing.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Oh, I'm not opposed to it. I just think it's
easier to manually remove it. I'm not opposed to it
at all.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Okay, Yeah, I just thought maybe the mechanical would create
more debris, that's all I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, and yeah, I mean that's a your call.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I always tell people two ways to do it chemically mechanically.
I mean chemically usually takes a little bit longer, but
there would be less debris. There's a there's a product
that's made by Dumont Global.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Okay, uh, and you can google it.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It's und it might be one M. DuMond Global, and
they have all they have like four major strippers that
would remove most any coating. I mean they've stripped the
Hollywood Sign, they've stripped the Eiffel Tower, and they even
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have a test hit where you can buy, you know,
for under twenty bucks somewhere in there, where you can
buy all four tests on the strippers to see which
one will remove that one the best. But the one
that removes probably eighty percent of the coatings is.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
One called smart strip. And it you know, you put
it on it, you got to keep it wet.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
So again, where you're at with that sun might be
put it on at dusk and then there's like a
saran wrap that goes over to keep it wet on
the surface.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And that's a real effective safe pain stripper. If you
want to go chemically, okay, I'll look it up. Thank you,
all right, you're quite welcome. Thank you. All right, you
can join us. Here's our phone number.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
We've got some lines open and we'll talk about your
home project. Joey, sit tight. We'll take a break and
you'll lead us off as we continue. You're at home
with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Help for your home is just a click away at
Garysullivan online dot com. This is at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It's Glenn Beck weekday mornings at nine oh six on
fifty five KRZ, the down station.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well, you're at home with Gary Sullivan tackling those home
improvement issues again. Our phone number there is eight hundred
eight two three eighty two five five. Go ahead and
grab a line. Happy to chat with you, bet your
home project and Joey.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Welcome.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Hey, Gary, longtime listener, thank you, show, thank you. I've
got an exposed aggregate front porch and I recently had
a company come out and level it because it was
cracked and had sunk down in a spot. And they
did a great job as a company out of southern Indiana.
The question I have is they want.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Me to seal it.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
And this gets afternoon sun here in Kentucky, just blue
blazing hot, right, And I was one to know if
you could recommend a sealer for that exposed aggregate and uh,
that gets full sun in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Okay, so that was gonna be my number one question
is the aggregate is still exposed.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They didn't resurface it with like.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
A concrete, No, they just they just injected underneath and
leveled it back up and you stealed the crack and
they did a great job.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Super very pleased with it.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
But I just didn't know what kind of seiler.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
The type of seiler you would use on exposed aggregate
is not going to dance with the sun real well,
kind of like what the other fella had.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
With, you know, the swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Usually on exposed aggregate, they use it with a a coating,
so it's a surface coating. It's not penetrant because a
lot of that surface is stone.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They can't penetrate the stone.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So you would use a sealer, which would be a
high solid clear and it would be for like stamped concrete.
The same seiler for stamp concrete is used on exposed
to aggregate. There is a there's a website. It's called
Masonry Defender, And if you go on that web, yeah,
(32:55):
because I love it because they have sealers for specific projects.
So they have I can't remember that if they have
one that's listed as exposed aggre get. I think they do,
but I'm not sure, but it may also say stamp
concrete and exposed aggre get. It's a high solid clear,
definitely made for outside. Again, it may tell you five years.
(33:21):
I'd recoat that thing every two especially if it's a
south or southwest facing.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
That's the one I would use.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
If it were resurfaced and it was concrete, I'd be
going to another direction, Joey. I'd be telling you to
use a regular driveway in sidewalk seiler, which is a penetrating,
breathable finish.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
It faces almost directly west, so it gets like sun
from a little bit before and noon on until sunset.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, So I want you to do two things and
go to the go to the website to Masonry Defender
look their stamp concrete ceiler.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I would be.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I mean, I'd be one hundred percent behind using that
if you want to take a look. And this is
also something good for where you have it. I was
talking to the other fella about the track safe. That's
also a surface seiler, so in other words, it's not
a penetrant. It lays on the surface. It has achine
mainly designed for garage floors, which again is kind of
(34:29):
falls in a category that stamp concrete and exposed aggregate
because it's not going to penetrate into a garage floor
because it's so tightly trilled. So I don't know what
the UV resistance is. I'll have to look that up
on our website maybe when we take a break. But
the track shafe would take that area and create some
(34:49):
traction to it, which would be really good during because
whenever you put a clear seiler on there, you know
you run the risk of it being a little slippery,
whether it's a a deck or a concrete driveway.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
So that track safe may be a good one too.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But again I think you can pretty much figure about
every three years you'd put that on.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You'd put it on with a roller.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Okay, that's my next question.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
I didn't know if it was a heavy nap roller
or maybe a brush.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, you could do either, but there's the brushes they
use on coating sealers.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is almost like a mop.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Okay, you know, but that or you know, five as
three quarter inch nap roller would do it too.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Hi, Gary, I appreciate the help.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I'll all right, Joey, thank you much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
You can have Joey's line as we continue through the weekend,
and Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Welcome morning, Gary, Morning, got it? Got a question? All right?
Speaker 10 (35:53):
Acquired a hole. I'm building a new house and garage
and shops. I acquired a boatload brand new but older
t lock shangles. They Okay, the what the deal is
is there? You know the buildings they gotta match a
little bit. Okay, so the shangles aren't quite the same
(36:13):
as a ten.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
On the house.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
So my question is, I know I watched I'm pretty
sure that I watched Burger Kings facility. They painted the shangles.
Can I change the color? Them shangles slightly by painting them.
Is that something that is possible?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well tell me what is that te lock shingle made of?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Is that a metal shingle?
Speaker 10 (36:34):
No? No, no, no, there's.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Uh yeah, well, what do we want to change the
color for cosmetics?
Speaker 10 (36:48):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
And are you trying to get it to match the others?
Are you going to coat the whole thing?
Speaker 10 (36:55):
No, I wanted to kind of, I'm gonna do the
whole the whole, the whole thing just one color, but
to blend it, just make it more so it looks
more like the tents. The color of the tent. They're close,
but not you know, I mean obviously a little bit
of salt and pepper.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Look, yeah, I'm not I'm.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Gonna guess there is, but I don't have a name
to give you.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
There are different types of coatings that can go over shingles,
but mainly those are directed not from a cosmetic standpoint, Steve.
They're mainly there to extend the life of the shingle
by keeping the protective grains on top of the shingle
itself intact. You may have seen ads or things for
(37:43):
a product called roof Max, but I think all their
products are all clear. I don't think they're tenable or
a different color.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
Okay, Well, like I said, I just could I know
years ago that I watched some people redoing a Burger
King facility. Uh huh, and I know they were up
there painting them shingles blue.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah. I can also tell you.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And this goes back in my career of doing this show,
probably thirty five years. I had to call some of
this and I was joking and a guy did it,
and he told me it worked great, and that was
using regular acrylic house paint on his shingle. But I've
never done it. I never heard back on whether it worked.
(38:31):
What you might do is if you got a Sherwin
Williams store up there, Steve, go in there and chat
with them and see if they have something, and we'll
ask them about.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Their emerald acrylic kes tier. How it would go.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
On that shingle and how long it would last. I
don't know what kind of longevity you're trying to get,
but I know paint will stick to it. I just
don't know if it's gonna get you where you want
to go. So give that a try. Uh you know, there,
it would have to be an acrylic. But they may
(39:05):
tell you to go fus to be thehead, or they
may have something.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
All right, We'll continue at Home with Gary Sullivan. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
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