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It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five Indianna.
You lead us off this hour.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hi, I was wondering about painting over wallpaper.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, you can.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I hate removing it, ie trying to remove it because
that little thing always tears up the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So well, oh, I need no As I say a
long time ago, you can paint anything. The question is
what it's going to look like and how long it's
going to last. So let me ask you a couple
of questions about the wallpaper. Is it actually paper or
is it like a vinyl type paper.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm going to say, like a vinyl type wallpaper.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Which can still be painted. How are the seams in
the paper? Are they butted up? Are they overlapped or
what are they?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
They're butted up, But there's just one scene that's not
you know how it kind of peels up a little
bit right right, But all the rest are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And you can always you know, cut that little peel
off or glue it back down. You would hydrate that,
in other words, a warm tile, put it on that
paper and it'll become more appliable. And then there's a
seam adhesive you can get. Put a little seam adhesive
underneath that, take that wet tile, and you can glue
it back down. The negative on painting it, number one
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would be you may or may not be able to
see the seams. So if they're really tight, you probably
won't see them. If they're not so tight, you probably
will see them. If they're overlapped, you definitely will see them.
So in some cases people will run a you know,
like a topping compound along the seams and then prime
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that first. Doesn't sound like you're gonna need that. Also,
you got to make sure since you're painting it, you
got to make sure that you know it's good and clean.
So cleaning it is pretty critical, especially if it's a
if it's a vinyl, because indoor grease is not necessarily
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water soluble, so it's going to require a little soap
and water and rinsing and things like that before you
paint it. And then painting it with a you know
paint that's self priming, will you know, and do two
codes will usually do the deal. It's not something I
ever really recommend, but I know sometimes when you start
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pulling off paper, it's you know, I've been there many
times where you know, a the solution that I was
using didn't work. So then I was using the little
removing tool with the little cleats that puncture so that
the mixture can get to the adhesive and break down
the adhesive. And I've been as far as steaming it off.
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So I get what you're trying, and you know, it's
always better to strip it, but sometimes it's not possible.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Okay, and it's in a bathroom, does that matter?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
No, I mean you would still use a bathroom paint. Nowadays,
the paints are so all gone good. You can actually
even use a flat paint in a bathroom, which I
never would or recommended, you know, fifteen years ago, but
you could now. I'd probably use like a satin. Well
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maybe I wouldn't. The satin has got the only problem
with the satin it shows more imperfections than a flat
but it all shows sheds water if you get a
lot of you know, condensation, like when you're showering. Benjamin
Moore makes a and I forget the name of the paint,
but they make a specific paint for bathrooms. And one
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of the problems with bathroom paints I don't know if
you've ever had, is especially in smaller bathrooms, when when
the showering and there's a lot of moisture and the
water drop us run down the wall a little bit,
it leaves like a little brown trail. Those are actually
surfactants that are in the paint, and those surf factants
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are bleeding out because the water in the heat. Ben
Moor's might be called Aura, I just can't remember the
name of it. They have that special bathroom paint where
it's the surfactants don't bleed out, is what I'm trying
to say. So it's one I would really recommend looking into.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And of course you know wallpaper has patterns on it,
they're not raised or anything. Right, do you think that
would cover that up?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I do.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I think it'll take two coats if it's in brass.
That's why I was kind of asking about the vinyl,
because a lot of times you'll run into them where
they they you know, you run your fingers over and
you can feel the pattern, and in that case it's
probably not going to hide it. But from a coloring standpoint,
that coloring is set and two coats of a self
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priming paint, we'll cover that up. Okay, fantastic, I'll try it,
all right, good luck, report back now.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I will thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Thanks all right, and again our phone numbers eight hundred
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Speaker 6 (06:17):
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Morning.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I have a quick question. I have a nineteen house
built in nineteen seventy seven in the Tampa Bay area, Okay,
and the concrete floor in the garage. I dropped a
crescent wrench one day and poof, I had a big
piece of concrete just bust away. And I'm noticing this
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is week whatever is happening here now, I shouldn't say
that nineteen seventy seven? What do you expect? But I
could go patch it. But right now, as I talk
to you on the phone, I can pick up a
piece of this stuff and you know, right off the floor.
Would you recommend getting a concrete patch.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Or well, you know, a patch if the concrete is
degrading and it's soft, you got to get down to
a good bondable part of the concrete. Otherwise it's just
going to be dusty and softened. That patch really isn't
going to last. So so then I'm flipping the ball
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back to you or playing tennis. So what do you
think you think you can.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
My view is.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Square footage wise is a very tiny area of the
garage floor, right right, But it's not going to get better.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's going to get worse, right right.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
I'm just wondering.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But then again, the wrench caused the problem, right, I
mean you had a piece of metal that was heavy
that hit it and it chipped it. So how big
is that divot?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Well, it's about a quarter between a quarter and a
half inch, and the circumferences probably about two inches.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, what I would do, and you can do this
for under ten bucks. Okay, I said what I would do.
I would follow this procedure and it'll cost you a
less than ten bucks. Perfect. What I would do is
I would get a little a little water and a
scrub brush and I would scrub that area out the
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best I can. If you got a shop back, a
wet dry shop back, even hitting a wet dry shop
back out, just try and get as much dust and
gunk off as you can. All right. Then you want
to get a product called vinyl Concrete patcher. Concrete doesn't
like to stick to concrete. That adds to the issue.
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It needs a bonding agent. And the vinyl concrete patcher
comes in a little three pound on tub. It comes
in a five pound and a ten pound. You won't
need much. A three pound will be more than enough,
and it's got the bonding agent in it. You follow
the directions on you know, and get a little you know,
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paper paint pail. Put in X y z amount of
the powder, add the water, start it up. Let's sit
for about two or three minutes. It'll just get a
little more stiff. You take a putty knife, a taping knife,
and just go ahead and patch that divot and and
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and that's all there is to it. I mean, it's
gonna show that's been patched, but you're gonna you're gonna
get a good feel of how long that's gonna last.
It'll last for a while if you get it down
to a bondable surface. It's certainly gonna last for a while.
It's not gonna last forever.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
And that's okay. I'm an older guy. I don't really
need to last more than yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, So you know, it really depends on, you know,
how solid that that concrete is, so you can get
you know, you can get a little aggressive of getting
rid of the dust and the dirt, the little chips
and things like that. I wouldn't be taking a masonry
chisel and hitting it with a hammer or anything. If
you have a cold chisel, just kind of scrape it
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with that and then hit it with that shop X
a cup of that residue and wet the wet the
area and made make your mixer, make your mix, and
go ahead and patch it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I'll tell you what, I have all that stuff except
the vinyl concrete patcher, and I'll go and buy that today.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You'll find it at just about every hardware store.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, I just I just was concerned that if this
thing keeps going, you know, not just dropping your wrench,
but yeah, something else. You know, I've got three holes
here in the floor that are.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Not Yeah, well, i'll tell you concrete, you know, the
only thing that's guaranteed to do is and dropping a wrench.
You're gonna pop a chip here and there. And you know,
the lifespan of concrete's fifty years. But there's a lot
of concrete that's much older than that. So in a garage,
I think you'll be good just patching her up. All right.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
I sure appreciate your information and your advice.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Thank you much, Take care, all right, bye bye, all right,
we'll take a break, Renee, you'll be up first. If
you'd like to be after Renee, go ahead and give
us a call.
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We're talking home improvement at Home with Gary Sullivan. Grab
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good morning, Jerry.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I am doing fine?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Thank you. Well.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I called it because I wanted to know what you
recommend for singing headstones.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I've noticed some of my.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Relative headstones they look pretty shoddy.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, well they all black, uh, not.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
All black, but it was hard to read the name
right now.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, So you know that that product they talk
about for getting uh black streaks off a roof, which
is an algae and a fungus and mildew and all
that good stuff. That's what's on those headstones, especially if
you have a limestone heads stone. I mean, it works
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very well. It's called wet and forget. You don't need
a big gallon jug of it and mix it with
water or anything. They started and people started using it
on headstones when it was originally introduced and they eventually
got smart and now they make a wet and forget
exterior in a ready to spray bottle. So yeah, it's
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about a quart bottle. It has a trigger spray on
it and literally renee. What you do is you just
wet that whole headstone down and you walk away from it.
I mean, that's that's the end of your effort, is
just wetting it down. It might take six weeks, but
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the next time you go back, you'll be amazed. Oh
that would be wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Now, what if it's made of limestone, then.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
What limestone just wears?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But it'll work on limestone, it'll it'll work on limestone,
it'll work on the stones. I mean, you won't have
any problem at all. It just saturates that down. You know,
limestone doesn't last forever in terms of the engravings. But
I mean I've seen limestone headstones that are two hundred
years old. You can still see the engraving on it.
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But those fungus an algae certainly don't help it. So
getting rid of that makes it more readable and it
certainly will be cleaner. But yeah, you just next time
in about whenever when it's a kind of a cloudy
summer day and it's not brilliant sunshine. Just go up
there and spray those stones with that and head out
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and the next time you go back, after six weeks,
they should be clean.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Okay, wonderful.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Now do local hardware store, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Most heart where stores have the wet and Forget. You
can certainly get it online at wetinforget dot com. You
can get it. You can get it from Amazon. I
mean your local hardware store will probably have it.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Okay, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Here, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right, you do the same, Thank you much.
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Speaker 1 (15:19):
We'll be happy to talk to you about your home project.
It's eight hundred at eight two three eight two five five.
I'll tell you what that ready to use bottle is
also good for. And I always say, because that's what
the people who wed and Forget say, is you know,
give it six six weeks or so. Sometimes it's a
little more, sometimes a little less, and spray it on.
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And I use the ready to use about three or
four years ago, I have some uh brick window sills,
bricks pores haven't resealed the brick house in twenty years.
The mortar's pores and it's on the north side of
the house. Well you can just imagine with all the
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brick cells looked like, or the brick trim around the sills.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
They were all green. I had lichen.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Growing on that's that silver gray fungus growth about the
size of a quarter and which is very difficult to eliminate.
And I had the ready to use bottle and I
sprayed that window sill down. I know, I did about
four of the window sills and I sprayed it down.
I don't know. It was probably three or four days
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before I got to the back of the house and
it was gone. With the exception of the lichen, it
had actually accelerated growth process where it actually bloomed a
little bit. But within a period of four weeks even
the lichen was gone. But it's a good product. I
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just used it on the driveway, a stamped driveway and
it was getting pretty algae and moldy, and just use
the one you mix with water sprayed that area. I
don't know, maybe last Friday, and I've seen it maybe
with an imagination that's lightened it a little bit, hadn't
removed it. It's probably gonna take at least five or
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six weeks for that, it's a pretty big infestation. All right, Jackie,
you'll be up first as we continue at Home with
Gary Sullivan.
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We are at home with Gary Sullivan and let's get
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Do so. We'll quickly run out of time for another weekend,
and then we'll go to Jackie Jackie. Welcome.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Hi, Thank you Gary, and thank you so much from
all of us homeowners for the help that you give
us weekend and week out. We appreciate it more than
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You have no idea how appreciative all of us are.
We just don't get to tell you about a few
months ago you were talking about a cleaner for cabinets
that would leave no shine, no fingerprints, no oil or grease.
Our cabinets are from a big box store, but they
have some sort of a glaze on them. I haven't
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washed them at all or touched them with anything because
I'm worried about doing so. Now I would really like
to clean them, but I don't want to make them
shiny or sticky and whatever you mentioned I was unable
to write down at the time, and I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
My guess is the name of the product was called MILSIIC.
It's mi I L S E K. Now.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I think that that sounds like.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's sound familiar. Okay, So let me tell you a
little bit about this product. I don't you know. It's
about one hundred and ten years old, so it's been
around a long time. It was actually invented by a
Hungarian cabinet maker. And wow, this contains no silicone, and
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it contains no bees wax, which can make cabinet sticky.
It will remove grime and oils from our skin, usually
found around knobs and pools and things like that, and
it will remove that, and it will The part you
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said when it is shiny is it's an oil. Okay,
so it's going to look wet for a while. It'll dry,
but it's gonna look wet for a while. But it
is a cleaner, a wax remover, which shouldn't be a
problem with us because you said you haven't put anything
on it, but if you had put some wax on
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air or some silicone, it would remove that. And it's
just an all round cleaner and you can you know,
you can get it online. You can get it at
ACE Hardware. It's not a huge, big product. It's more
of a specialty product. But I've had people where I've
recommended and say like, we're going to paint our cabinets
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and what's the problem. That's dirty and that we used
wax and I got to get that off. But you know,
I'm just going to paint them, and you know, they
they'd write me back and they go like, oh, thanks,
because I'm not going to paint them now.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
So exactly that's exactly what That's exactly what I need.
And it does sound familiar. Do you have time for
one quick question about spots on a dish Okay, got
a new dishwasher at a big box store. It is
supposed to be fingerprint resistant, but it has it's gotten
spots and other marks on it. It's like a stainless steel.
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What can I clean that with without harming the surface?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah? What have you tried anything at this point? No? Yeah,
I'll tell you that Millsick does make a stainless steel
cleaner also. Oh so you might look at that all
so you know the nice thing about the the stainless
steel clear that Milsick has It leaves a little bit
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of a film which minimizes fingerprints. But a lot of
times a glass cleaner will remove spots. You know, it's
not going to add anything to minimize them. But you know,
if you if they're driving you crazy, you just said it,
with some glass cleaner and see if you can remove
the spots with.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
That and that won't harm the surface of the stainart.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
If it's stainless steel. Now you can't use glass cleaner
that contains alcohol or beutle on TV screens or anything,
but you can use it on stainless steel.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
We really love you.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Thanks Jackie calling any time. Appreciate it. And let's go
to John John welcome. Hell, Yes, sir, oh.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I so agree with her. All the products you guys
have on this show make great gifts for my friends.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But the way that uh wit and forget they tricked me,
okay when they first when it first came out. When
it first came out, I was walking through Walmart and
I wasn't even looking for it. It just went down that
aisle and I see a whole empty shelf with one
uh the the uh concentrate uh jug with a big
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flag tag hanging up and says don't buy this in
red letters that said don't buy this. And I, you
know me, I don't tell me what to do, turned
it over and looked at it. It says, don't buy this.
You can't read and follow the instructions. And it cleaned
my camper at all moldy camper up under the trees.
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And I love the millsect too.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Tell you, I like the whole I like the whole
red flag idea. Don't buy this unless you read the instructions.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
That's what. There was only one jug of it on
the whole counter. So I just to just to spite them.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, I'm glad you read the directions.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
No I didn't, I said, I revolted. Yeah, I'm I'm
I'm oh no, no, I read the directions, but I'm
I'm decomposing down here in Columbus and the flood zone.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh okay, all right, got that.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
That other lady got to me too, that because I had.
I've been here forty years digging catch basins around all
around this little spot up against the back of the creek,
you know, and the water comes down the street and
goes right through my yard.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Uh huh. Everybody's moldy. I'm getting And it is all
about controlling the water, for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I got I got them in and it made a
difference when I when I right where the puddle was,
I dug it for two by two by two brick
basin and run a trench out to the ditch out
to the trench down the hill.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You know the drill yep, yep. Do three of them, yeap.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
In different spots. That's one way. But like you said,
the trench, frainds and everything. Well, enjoy the rest of
your weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I will do, John. Thank you much for the call.
I appreciate you know. With water, and that's mouthful right there.
I mean, it really is. When you think about it,
water takes a path of the least resistance give it
the least resistance, and you give it a path to
be removed from your house. It's kind of that simple.
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Give it a place to go. When you have a
foundation issue and you got a leaky basements, you know,
I'll go through. You know, as the gutters clean and
free flowing. Is there standing water around the foundation? You know?
Is the yard sloped to the house instead of away
from the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I says in
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the walls, Yeah, I'm just gonna plug that wall up.
I'm gonna fix that crack. The thing to ask yourself,
and it's the thing I ask people all the time,
and they go, well, I'm gonna get some hydraulic cement.
I'm gonna fix that crack. That's great, Great, won't come
in the house anymore. Yeah, that's right, that's what I'm
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gonna do. Then I always ask the person that calls
or I try to always ask, well, if you patch
that crack, where's that water gonna go? And they kind
of think I'm being funny because they laugh, I don't
know where it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, you gotta think.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
About that, because if it's cracking right by the base
corner of the window on a concrete wall that is
the least sound part of the wall. That's the weakest
link right there, and you have enough water pressure that
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is cracked there and it's leaking there. And if you
cut that crack out and you put in a hydraulic
cement or something, where is that water gonna go. It's
got to find another path the least resistance. It may
be further down on the foundation, and then before you
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know it, you're gonna have another crack. So always think
about that. We'll continue with your calls. You're at Home
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Let's go to Jim.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Jim Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I've been looking for the wet Forget for the windows
in the West Virginia Parkersburg area and it hasn't hit
those or any of the hardware stories yet. Is that
common or shortage or something?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, I guess there would be quote a shortage just
because it's a new product and it's being introduced. Low's
will eventually have it. If they don't have it, it
is available, I believe that Walmart, and maybe if you
have the Minards, it might be available there. And you're
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looking for the screen and window cleaner, the hose end
screen and window cleaner.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yes. And then the other thing I was looking for
is we have a four and a half foot concrete
retaining wall next to our driveway and it is very
dark colored due to the ears of dirt, and it
looks like there's little patches of scale or mold growing
on it. And I just wondered with that. I went
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and forget on that part. Would you have to scrape
off that mold before you spray.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
This well forget it? In fact, this is interesting. This
is this is really interesting because that dirt that you're
seeing on that wall may be mildew. Here's a here's
a great story. I had a sidewalk in front of
my house and I kept looking at it, and you
know how sidewalks, you know, the concrete ones, They look fine,
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and then one day you go out there and the
whole thing's gray and dirty. And I had convinced myself that,
you know, I was gonna have to get some oxygen
aid bleach, go out there and put that down and
scrub it. And I happened to be at the National
Hardware Show and I was talking to the people and
went and forget, and they go, that's mildew. Just spray milk,
(31:29):
Just spray the wedding forget on there. I said, no,
it looks like dirty. I'm guarantee you it's mildew. And
it sounds like that other thing where you said it
sounds like it's liking. It sounds like what you have.
Is it about the size?
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Yeah, they're like little.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Round, right about the size of a quarter. They're kind
of silvery green. That's liking. And it's harder to kill
than the mildew. So I'll tell you this, the wedding forget,
We'll kill it. I've had it on my window sills
in the north facing of the house and have sprayed
it with that and got rid of it. You'll probably
have to spray it twice. So you'd spray it on there,
(32:09):
be it the host connected one or the ready ready
to use one. Give it about six weeks if it's
still there, just to respray it. But the lichen stuff
to kill. But it will kill it and uh, it'll
the the blackness and the mildew that's on there, that'll
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go away first. That that that will take six weeks generally,
and uh, that'll brighten up. But that that like it
will still be there and you probably have to respread
it and it has a residual where it's not going
to regrow right away. Okay, So that's a.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Big I also had.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I wanted to make a comment about the Uh. I
called you about a month and a half ago. We
were redoing our kitchen and we had a marble uh
a granted top that would it had a crack in it,
and I spoke to you about it, and you said, well,
you know, if it was you, you make them replace
it because you didn't pay for a broken top. So Anyway,
(33:11):
I did call the company and Columbus and they did
stand good and they put a new top on for it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Very good. Good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
So with your help I appreciated that. One other question
is the spray on asphalt roof tiles. Does that work
pretty well? That where they say you go restore your
your top, your roof tiles at least up to five years,
seven years.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, it's like the roof Max product. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, it's a service. It does what it says it's
going to do. So what it does is.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
It's a clear it's basically a clear adhesive that keeps
the granular protective coating on the shingles and that protects
the you've the rays of the sun from breaking down
the shingle. So it extends the life of the roof.
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Now they'll come out and they'll look and they'll make
sure that the roof isn't too far gone. But if
there's enough granulars, you know, grains of sand up there
on that shingle, they will spray the roof Max on
there and it'll buy you another five years. You can
probably do it again, and I think you can do
it up to three times. So yeah, yeah. I mean,
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you know, different situations for different people. You know, some
people will do it just because they're gonna not be
in that house in a couple of years and they
don't really want to put a roof on.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Now, does that steal the roof too, that coating.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
No, No, it's simply a ceiling for the granular part
of the shingle. Okay.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Now, going back to the window cleaner with the wet
and forget, do you if you have those screens that
kind of move up down on the window on the outside,
do you do you lift that? Do you have to
take that screen up?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Just spray right through it?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Okay? And do you lift the screen up slightly so
it can drain out the bottom of the window sill there?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It probably has in that channel of the window sill.
It probably has some wheepholes to allow the water to
flow out. But if it does not, yeah, I would
lift it up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Okay. Gary Weiller, love your show, Thank you every week.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Appreciate care, take care, bye bye. All right, let's go
to Michelle. Michelle, welcome, thank you.
Speaker 10 (35:38):
Yes, yeah, you had a pest control guy on last
week and he didn't mention anything about mice. I've had
mice in my house now. I discovered the last fall,
and I had called every exterminator in the area, and
nobody's called me back, and I'm just kind of wondering
what to do. I'm still hearing seeing evidence that they
(36:00):
might still do it.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, well, why they're not calling you back, I don't know,
you know, I don't know. I don't know either. So
the thing that this fellow that I had on, Ron Krueger,
he's a wildlife control specialist, so that's why we stayed
with the squirrels and the raccoons and bats. But he
did mention mice. He didn't really talk about getting rid
(36:24):
of them. But a lot of wildlife control people will
take care of mice, and a lot of just pest
control companies, Like in my area there's a company called
One Stop Pest Control and they do mice, they do termites,
they do all kinds of things. So you know, why
you're not getting any action from them. I don't know.
(36:45):
Are they in the attic? Is that where they are?
Are they just in the house.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
As far as I know, they're in the house. I
have seen evidence in the kitchen, and then I'm starting
to find stuff like yesterday with clean out the bathroom
fan downs in the basement, it was there, and it's like,
I don't know where.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
All they are.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, well, so you're fine. I mean I battled that
last last year or the year before. We placed the
ceramic tile in the kitchen and we had the doors
open for that whole process, and we ended up finding
a few mice droppings in the pantry and we chased
them for about a month. We eventually got rid of
them ourselves by trapping them. And you know that's an option.
(37:27):
But quite honestly, any pest control company should be able
to help you out. I I can't respond to you
about why they're not returning your calls, but I would
keep trying and get a hold of somebody, that's for sure.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Because we've got a few. We put two different kinds
of traps out. We've got a few, and I think
this morning I heard something. I don't know where they're
hanging out. I don't know how they got in. I
don't know how to get.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Rid of them. Well, I the trapping or get a
pest control I mean, they they they're looking for food,
just like everything else. And we even cleaned out the
pantry one time, just to clean it all up. They
loved peanut butter cheese crackers, and we had put all
the food products inside my office as we did the
(38:13):
floor and everything in the pantry, and lo and behold,
they within a day they found the food in the office.
So again it took me about a month and we
eventually eliminated them. But you can either keep trapping or
call professional in there to take care of the problem.
(38:33):
Thank you much for the call and patients. Patients, patients,
and make sure you're setting the trap in the right place,
not in the middle of the room, not in the
middle of the pantry, along the baseboards. That's where they travel.
Joe Stracker, thank you so much. We'll see you again
at the end of the month of June. I think
they're stuck again with me a couple of weeks. All right, Well,
(38:58):
thank you very much, Joe, I appreciate it. Thanks for
all the calls. Thanks for a great weekend, Good Lord willing.
We'll be back next weekend for more at Home with
Gary Sullivan.
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It's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five Indianna.
You lead us off this hour.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hi, I was wondering about painting over wallpaper.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, you can.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I hate removing it, ie trying to remove it because
that little thing always tears up the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So well, oh, I need no As I say a
long time ago, you can paint anything. The question is
what it's going to look like and how long it's
going to last. So let me ask you a couple
of questions about the wallpaper. Is it actually paper or
is it like a vinyl type paper.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm going to say, like a vinyl type wallpaper.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Which can still be painted. How are the seams in
the paper? Are they butted up? Are they overlapped or
what are they?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
They're butted up, But there's just one scene that's not
you know how it kind of peels up a little
bit right right, But all the rest are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And you can always you know, cut that little peel
off or glue it back down. You would hydrate that,
in other words, a warm tile, put it on that
paper and it'll become more appliable. And then there's a
seam adhesive you can get. Put a little seam adhesive
underneath that, take that wet tile, and you can glue
it back down. The negative on painting it, number one
(02:10):
would be you may or may not be able to
see the seams. So if they're really tight, you probably
won't see them. If they're not so tight, you probably
will see them. If they're overlapped, you definitely will see them.
So in some cases people will run a you know,
like a topping compound along the seams and then prime
(02:32):
that first. Doesn't sound like you're gonna need that. Also,
you got to make sure since you're painting it, you
got to make sure that you know it's good and clean.
So cleaning it is pretty critical, especially if it's a
if it's a vinyl, because indoor grease is not necessarily
(02:54):
water soluble, so it's going to require a little soap
and water and rinsing and things like that before you
paint it. And then painting it with a you know
paint that's self priming, will you know, and do two
codes will usually do the deal. It's not something I
ever really recommend, but I know sometimes when you start
(03:14):
pulling off paper, it's you know, I've been there many
times where you know, a the solution that I was
using didn't work. So then I was using the little
removing tool with the little cleats that puncture so that
the mixture can get to the adhesive and break down
the adhesive. And I've been as far as steaming it off.
(03:37):
So I get what you're trying, and you know, it's
always better to strip it, but sometimes it's not possible.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Okay, and it's in a bathroom, does that matter?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
No, I mean you would still use a bathroom paint. Nowadays,
the paints are so all gone good. You can actually
even use a flat paint in a bathroom, which I
never would or recommended, you know, fifteen years ago, but
you could now. I'd probably use like a satin. Well
(04:14):
maybe I wouldn't. The satin has got the only problem
with the satin it shows more imperfections than a flat
but it all shows sheds water if you get a
lot of you know, condensation, like when you're showering. Benjamin
Moore makes a and I forget the name of the paint,
but they make a specific paint for bathrooms. And one
(04:41):
of the problems with bathroom paints I don't know if
you've ever had, is especially in smaller bathrooms, when when
the showering and there's a lot of moisture and the
water drop us run down the wall a little bit,
it leaves like a little brown trail. Those are actually
surfactants that are in the paint, and those surf factants
(05:01):
are bleeding out because the water in the heat. Ben
Moor's might be called Aura, I just can't remember the
name of it. They have that special bathroom paint where
it's the surfactants don't bleed out, is what I'm trying
to say. So it's one I would really recommend looking into.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And of course you know wallpaper has patterns on it,
they're not raised or anything. Right, do you think that
would cover that up?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I do.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I think it'll take two coats if it's in brass.
That's why I was kind of asking about the vinyl,
because a lot of times you'll run into them where
they they you know, you run your fingers over and
you can feel the pattern, and in that case it's
probably not going to hide it. But from a coloring standpoint,
that coloring is set and two coats of a self
(05:56):
priming paint, we'll cover that up. Okay, fantastic, I'll try it,
all right, good luck, report back now.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I will thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Thanks all right, and again our phone numbers eight hundred
eighty two three eight two five five. Feel free to
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Speaker 6 (06:17):
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Morning.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I have a quick question. I have a nineteen house
built in nineteen seventy seven in the Tampa Bay area, Okay,
and the concrete floor in the garage. I dropped a
crescent wrench one day and poof, I had a big
piece of concrete just bust away. And I'm noticing this
(06:43):
is week whatever is happening here now, I shouldn't say
that nineteen seventy seven? What do you expect? But I
could go patch it. But right now, as I talk
to you on the phone, I can pick up a
piece of this stuff and you know, right off the floor.
Would you recommend getting a concrete patch.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Or well, you know, a patch if the concrete is
degrading and it's soft, you got to get down to
a good bondable part of the concrete. Otherwise it's just
going to be dusty and softened. That patch really isn't
going to last. So so then I'm flipping the ball
(07:25):
back to you or playing tennis. So what do you
think you think you can.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
My view is.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Square footage wise is a very tiny area of the
garage floor, right right, But it's not going to get better.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's going to get worse, right right.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
I'm just wondering.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But then again, the wrench caused the problem, right, I
mean you had a piece of metal that was heavy
that hit it and it chipped it. So how big
is that divot?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Well, it's about a quarter between a quarter and a
half inch, and the circumferences probably about two inches.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, what I would do, and you can do this
for under ten bucks. Okay, I said what I would do.
I would follow this procedure and it'll cost you a
less than ten bucks. Perfect. What I would do is
I would get a little a little water and a
scrub brush and I would scrub that area out the
(08:29):
best I can. If you got a shop back, a
wet dry shop back, even hitting a wet dry shop
back out, just try and get as much dust and
gunk off as you can. All right. Then you want
to get a product called vinyl Concrete patcher. Concrete doesn't
like to stick to concrete. That adds to the issue.
(08:52):
It needs a bonding agent. And the vinyl concrete patcher
comes in a little three pound on tub. It comes
in a five pound and a ten pound. You won't
need much. A three pound will be more than enough,
and it's got the bonding agent in it. You follow
the directions on you know, and get a little you know,
(09:13):
paper paint pail. Put in X y z amount of
the powder, add the water, start it up. Let's sit
for about two or three minutes. It'll just get a
little more stiff. You take a putty knife, a taping knife,
and just go ahead and patch that divot and and
(09:34):
and that's all there is to it. I mean, it's
gonna show that's been patched, but you're gonna you're gonna
get a good feel of how long that's gonna last.
It'll last for a while if you get it down
to a bondable surface. It's certainly gonna last for a while.
It's not gonna last forever.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
And that's okay. I'm an older guy. I don't really
need to last more than yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, So you know, it really depends on, you know,
how solid that that concrete is, so you can get
you know, you can get a little aggressive of getting
rid of the dust and the dirt, the little chips
and things like that. I wouldn't be taking a masonry
chisel and hitting it with a hammer or anything. If
you have a cold chisel, just kind of scrape it
(10:19):
with that and then hit it with that shop X
a cup of that residue and wet the wet the
area and made make your mixer, make your mix, and
go ahead and patch it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I'll tell you what, I have all that stuff except
the vinyl concrete patcher, and I'll go and buy that today.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You'll find it at just about every hardware store.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, I just I just was concerned that if this
thing keeps going, you know, not just dropping your wrench,
but yeah, something else. You know, I've got three holes
here in the floor that are.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Not Yeah, well, i'll tell you concrete, you know, the
only thing that's guaranteed to do is and dropping a wrench.
You're gonna pop a chip here and there. And you know,
the lifespan of concrete's fifty years. But there's a lot
of concrete that's much older than that. So in a garage,
I think you'll be good just patching her up. All right.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
I sure appreciate your information and your advice.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Thank you much, Take care, all right, bye bye, all right,
we'll take a break, Renee, you'll be up first. If
you'd like to be after Renee, go ahead and give
us a call.
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good morning, Jerry.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I am doing fine?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Thank you. Well.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I called it because I wanted to know what you
recommend for singing headstones.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I've noticed some of my.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Relative headstones they look pretty shoddy.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, well they all black, uh, not.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
All black, but it was hard to read the name
right now.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, So you know that that product they talk
about for getting uh black streaks off a roof, which
is an algae and a fungus and mildew and all
that good stuff. That's what's on those headstones, especially if
you have a limestone heads stone. I mean, it works
(13:04):
very well. It's called wet and forget. You don't need
a big gallon jug of it and mix it with
water or anything. They started and people started using it
on headstones when it was originally introduced and they eventually
got smart and now they make a wet and forget
exterior in a ready to spray bottle. So yeah, it's
(13:29):
about a quart bottle. It has a trigger spray on
it and literally renee. What you do is you just
wet that whole headstone down and you walk away from it.
I mean, that's that's the end of your effort, is
just wetting it down. It might take six weeks, but
(13:50):
the next time you go back, you'll be amazed. Oh
that would be wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Now, what if it's made of limestone, then.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
What limestone just wears?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But it'll work on limestone, it'll it'll work on limestone,
it'll work on the stones. I mean, you won't have
any problem at all. It just saturates that down. You know,
limestone doesn't last forever in terms of the engravings. But
I mean I've seen limestone headstones that are two hundred
years old. You can still see the engraving on it.
(14:24):
But those fungus an algae certainly don't help it. So
getting rid of that makes it more readable and it
certainly will be cleaner. But yeah, you just next time
in about whenever when it's a kind of a cloudy
summer day and it's not brilliant sunshine. Just go up
there and spray those stones with that and head out
(14:48):
and the next time you go back, after six weeks,
they should be clean.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Okay, wonderful.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Now do local hardware store, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Most heart where stores have the wet and Forget. You
can certainly get it online at wetinforget dot com. You
can get it. You can get it from Amazon. I
mean your local hardware store will probably have it.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Okay, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Here, you have a great day.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right, you do the same, Thank you much.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
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Speaker 1 (15:19):
We'll be happy to talk to you about your home project.
It's eight hundred at eight two three eight two five five.
I'll tell you what that ready to use bottle is
also good for. And I always say, because that's what
the people who wed and Forget say, is you know,
give it six six weeks or so. Sometimes it's a
little more, sometimes a little less, and spray it on.
(15:42):
And I use the ready to use about three or
four years ago, I have some uh brick window sills,
bricks pores haven't resealed the brick house in twenty years.
The mortar's pores and it's on the north side of
the house. Well you can just imagine with all the
(16:03):
brick cells looked like, or the brick trim around the sills.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
They were all green. I had lichen.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Growing on that's that silver gray fungus growth about the
size of a quarter and which is very difficult to eliminate.
And I had the ready to use bottle and I
sprayed that window sill down. I know, I did about
four of the window sills and I sprayed it down.
I don't know. It was probably three or four days
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before I got to the back of the house and
it was gone. With the exception of the lichen, it
had actually accelerated growth process where it actually bloomed a
little bit. But within a period of four weeks even
the lichen was gone. But it's a good product. I
(16:52):
just used it on the driveway, a stamped driveway and
it was getting pretty algae and moldy, and just use
the one you mix with water sprayed that area. I
don't know, maybe last Friday, and I've seen it maybe
with an imagination that's lightened it a little bit, hadn't
removed it. It's probably gonna take at least five or
(17:16):
six weeks for that, it's a pretty big infestation. All right, Jackie,
you'll be up first as we continue at Home with
Gary Sullivan.
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They're working through the weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We are at home with Gary Sullivan and let's get
back to the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
By the way, if you want to join us.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Do so. We'll quickly run out of time for another weekend,
and then we'll go to Jackie Jackie. Welcome.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Hi, Thank you Gary, and thank you so much from
all of us homeowners for the help that you give
us weekend and week out. We appreciate it more than
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You have no idea how appreciative all of us are.
We just don't get to tell you about a few
months ago you were talking about a cleaner for cabinets
that would leave no shine, no fingerprints, no oil or grease.
Our cabinets are from a big box store, but they
have some sort of a glaze on them. I haven't
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washed them at all or touched them with anything because
I'm worried about doing so. Now I would really like
to clean them, but I don't want to make them
shiny or sticky and whatever you mentioned I was unable
to write down at the time, and I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
My guess is the name of the product was called MILSIIC.
It's mi I L S E K. Now.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I think that that sounds like.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's sound familiar. Okay, So let me tell you a
little bit about this product. I don't you know. It's
about one hundred and ten years old, so it's been
around a long time. It was actually invented by a
Hungarian cabinet maker. And wow, this contains no silicone, and
(20:54):
it contains no bees wax, which can make cabinet sticky.
It will remove grime and oils from our skin, usually
found around knobs and pools and things like that, and
it will remove that, and it will The part you
(21:20):
said when it is shiny is it's an oil. Okay,
so it's going to look wet for a while. It'll dry,
but it's gonna look wet for a while. But it
is a cleaner, a wax remover, which shouldn't be a
problem with us because you said you haven't put anything
on it, but if you had put some wax on
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air or some silicone, it would remove that. And it's
just an all round cleaner and you can you know,
you can get it online. You can get it at
ACE Hardware. It's not a huge, big product. It's more
of a specialty product. But I've had people where I've
recommended and say like, we're going to paint our cabinets
(22:04):
and what's the problem. That's dirty and that we used
wax and I got to get that off. But you know,
I'm just going to paint them, and you know, they
they'd write me back and they go like, oh, thanks,
because I'm not going to paint them now.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
So exactly that's exactly what That's exactly what I need.
And it does sound familiar. Do you have time for
one quick question about spots on a dish Okay, got
a new dishwasher at a big box store. It is
supposed to be fingerprint resistant, but it has it's gotten
spots and other marks on it. It's like a stainless steel.
(22:41):
What can I clean that with without harming the surface?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah? What have you tried anything at this point? No? Yeah,
I'll tell you that Millsick does make a stainless steel
cleaner also. Oh so you might look at that all
so you know the nice thing about the the stainless
steel clear that Milsick has It leaves a little bit
(23:07):
of a film which minimizes fingerprints. But a lot of
times a glass cleaner will remove spots. You know, it's
not going to add anything to minimize them. But you know,
if you if they're driving you crazy, you just said it,
with some glass cleaner and see if you can remove
the spots with.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
That and that won't harm the surface of the stainart.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
If it's stainless steel. Now you can't use glass cleaner
that contains alcohol or beutle on TV screens or anything,
but you can use it on stainless steel.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
We really love you.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Thanks Jackie calling any time. Appreciate it. And let's go
to John John welcome. Hell, Yes, sir, oh.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I so agree with her. All the products you guys
have on this show make great gifts for my friends.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But the way that uh wit and forget they tricked me,
okay when they first when it first came out. When
it first came out, I was walking through Walmart and
I wasn't even looking for it. It just went down that
aisle and I see a whole empty shelf with one
uh the the uh concentrate uh jug with a big
(24:31):
flag tag hanging up and says don't buy this in
red letters that said don't buy this. And I, you
know me, I don't tell me what to do, turned
it over and looked at it. It says, don't buy this.
You can't read and follow the instructions. And it cleaned
my camper at all moldy camper up under the trees.
(24:51):
And I love the millsect too.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Tell you, I like the whole I like the whole
red flag idea. Don't buy this unless you read the instructions.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
That's what. There was only one jug of it on
the whole counter. So I just to just to spite them.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, I'm glad you read the directions.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
No I didn't, I said, I revolted. Yeah, I'm I'm
I'm oh no, no, I read the directions, but I'm
I'm decomposing down here in Columbus and the flood zone.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh okay, all right, got that.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
That other lady got to me too, that because I had.
I've been here forty years digging catch basins around all
around this little spot up against the back of the creek,
you know, and the water comes down the street and
goes right through my yard.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Uh huh. Everybody's moldy. I'm getting And it is all
about controlling the water, for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I got I got them in and it made a
difference when I when I right where the puddle was,
I dug it for two by two by two brick
basin and run a trench out to the ditch out
to the trench down the hill.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You know the drill yep, yep. Do three of them, yeap.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
In different spots. That's one way. But like you said,
the trench, frainds and everything. Well, enjoy the rest of
your weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I will do, John. Thank you much for the call.
I appreciate you know. With water, and that's mouthful right there.
I mean, it really is. When you think about it,
water takes a path of the least resistance give it
the least resistance, and you give it a path to
be removed from your house. It's kind of that simple.
(26:40):
Give it a place to go. When you have a
foundation issue and you got a leaky basements, you know,
I'll go through. You know, as the gutters clean and
free flowing. Is there standing water around the foundation? You know?
Is the yard sloped to the house instead of away
from the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I says in
(27:01):
the walls, Yeah, I'm just gonna plug that wall up.
I'm gonna fix that crack. The thing to ask yourself,
and it's the thing I ask people all the time,
and they go, well, I'm gonna get some hydraulic cement.
I'm gonna fix that crack. That's great, Great, won't come
in the house anymore. Yeah, that's right, that's what I'm
(27:22):
gonna do. Then I always ask the person that calls
or I try to always ask, well, if you patch
that crack, where's that water gonna go? And they kind
of think I'm being funny because they laugh, I don't
know where it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, you gotta think.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
About that, because if it's cracking right by the base
corner of the window on a concrete wall that is
the least sound part of the wall. That's the weakest
link right there, and you have enough water pressure that
(28:01):
is cracked there and it's leaking there. And if you
cut that crack out and you put in a hydraulic
cement or something, where is that water gonna go. It's
got to find another path the least resistance. It may
be further down on the foundation, and then before you
(28:22):
know it, you're gonna have another crack. So always think
about that. We'll continue with your calls. You're at Home
with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well slowly wrapping up another weekend, don't forget. You can
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it'll be by podcast. It'll be at the iHeart app.
It's at Home with Gary Sullivan. Catch up what you missed.
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In the meantime, we're heading back to the phone calls.
Let's go to Jim.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Jim Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I've been looking for the wet Forget for the windows
in the West Virginia Parkersburg area and it hasn't hit
those or any of the hardware stories yet. Is that
common or shortage or something?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, I guess there would be quote a shortage just
because it's a new product and it's being introduced. Low's
will eventually have it. If they don't have it, it
is available, I believe that Walmart, and maybe if you
have the Minards, it might be available there. And you're
(30:11):
looking for the screen and window cleaner, the hose end
screen and window cleaner.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yes. And then the other thing I was looking for
is we have a four and a half foot concrete
retaining wall next to our driveway and it is very
dark colored due to the ears of dirt, and it
looks like there's little patches of scale or mold growing
on it. And I just wondered with that. I went
(30:40):
and forget on that part. Would you have to scrape
off that mold before you spray.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
This well forget it? In fact, this is interesting. This
is this is really interesting because that dirt that you're
seeing on that wall may be mildew. Here's a here's
a great story. I had a sidewalk in front of
my house and I kept looking at it, and you
know how sidewalks, you know, the concrete ones, They look fine,
(31:07):
and then one day you go out there and the
whole thing's gray and dirty. And I had convinced myself that,
you know, I was gonna have to get some oxygen
aid bleach, go out there and put that down and
scrub it. And I happened to be at the National
Hardware Show and I was talking to the people and
went and forget, and they go, that's mildew. Just spray milk,
(31:29):
Just spray the wedding forget on there. I said, no,
it looks like dirty. I'm guarantee you it's mildew. And
it sounds like that other thing where you said it
sounds like it's liking. It sounds like what you have.
Is it about the size?
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Yeah, they're like little.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Round, right about the size of a quarter. They're kind
of silvery green. That's liking. And it's harder to kill
than the mildew. So I'll tell you this, the wedding forget,
We'll kill it. I've had it on my window sills
in the north facing of the house and have sprayed
it with that and got rid of it. You'll probably
have to spray it twice. So you'd spray it on there,
(32:09):
be it the host connected one or the ready ready
to use one. Give it about six weeks if it's
still there, just to respray it. But the lichen stuff
to kill. But it will kill it and uh, it'll
the the blackness and the mildew that's on there, that'll
(32:29):
go away first. That that that will take six weeks generally,
and uh, that'll brighten up. But that that like it
will still be there and you probably have to respread
it and it has a residual where it's not going
to regrow right away. Okay, So that's a.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Big I also had.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I wanted to make a comment about the Uh. I
called you about a month and a half ago. We
were redoing our kitchen and we had a marble uh
a granted top that would it had a crack in it,
and I spoke to you about it, and you said, well,
you know, if it was you, you make them replace
it because you didn't pay for a broken top. So Anyway,
(33:11):
I did call the company and Columbus and they did
stand good and they put a new top on for it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Very good. Good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
So with your help I appreciated that. One other question
is the spray on asphalt roof tiles. Does that work
pretty well? That where they say you go restore your
your top, your roof tiles at least up to five years,
seven years.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, it's like the roof Max product. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, it's a service. It does what it says it's
going to do. So what it does is.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
It's a clear it's basically a clear adhesive that keeps
the granular protective coating on the shingles and that protects
the you've the rays of the sun from breaking down
the shingle. So it extends the life of the roof.
(34:06):
Now they'll come out and they'll look and they'll make
sure that the roof isn't too far gone. But if
there's enough granulars, you know, grains of sand up there
on that shingle, they will spray the roof Max on
there and it'll buy you another five years. You can
probably do it again, and I think you can do
it up to three times. So yeah, yeah. I mean,
(34:30):
you know, different situations for different people. You know, some
people will do it just because they're gonna not be
in that house in a couple of years and they
don't really want to put a roof on.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Now, does that steal the roof too, that coating.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
No, No, it's simply a ceiling for the granular part
of the shingle. Okay.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Now, going back to the window cleaner with the wet
and forget, do you if you have those screens that
kind of move up down on the window on the outside,
do you do you lift that? Do you have to
take that screen up?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Just spray right through it?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Okay? And do you lift the screen up slightly so
it can drain out the bottom of the window sill there?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It probably has in that channel of the window sill.
It probably has some wheepholes to allow the water to
flow out. But if it does not, yeah, I would
lift it up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Okay. Gary Weiller, love your show, Thank you every week.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Appreciate care, take care, bye bye. All right, let's go
to Michelle. Michelle, welcome, thank you.
Speaker 10 (35:38):
Yes, yeah, you had a pest control guy on last
week and he didn't mention anything about mice. I've had
mice in my house now. I discovered the last fall,
and I had called every exterminator in the area, and
nobody's called me back, and I'm just kind of wondering
what to do. I'm still hearing seeing evidence that they
(36:00):
might still do it.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, well, why they're not calling you back, I don't know,
you know, I don't know. I don't know either. So
the thing that this fellow that I had on, Ron Krueger,
he's a wildlife control specialist, so that's why we stayed
with the squirrels and the raccoons and bats. But he
did mention mice. He didn't really talk about getting rid
(36:24):
of them. But a lot of wildlife control people will
take care of mice, and a lot of just pest
control companies, Like in my area there's a company called
One Stop Pest Control and they do mice, they do termites,
they do all kinds of things. So you know, why
you're not getting any action from them. I don't know.
(36:45):
Are they in the attic? Is that where they are?
Are they just in the house.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
As far as I know, they're in the house. I
have seen evidence in the kitchen, and then I'm starting
to find stuff like yesterday with clean out the bathroom
fan downs in the basement, it was there, and it's like,
I don't know where.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
All they are.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, well, so you're fine. I mean I battled that
last last year or the year before. We placed the
ceramic tile in the kitchen and we had the doors
open for that whole process, and we ended up finding
a few mice droppings in the pantry and we chased
them for about a month. We eventually got rid of
them ourselves by trapping them. And you know that's an option.
(37:27):
But quite honestly, any pest control company should be able
to help you out. I I can't respond to you
about why they're not returning your calls, but I would
keep trying and get a hold of somebody, that's for sure.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Because we've got a few. We put two different kinds
of traps out. We've got a few, and I think
this morning I heard something. I don't know where they're
hanging out. I don't know how they got in. I
don't know how to get.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Rid of them. Well, I the trapping or get a
pest control I mean, they they they're looking for food,
just like everything else. And we even cleaned out the
pantry one time, just to clean it all up. They
loved peanut butter cheese crackers, and we had put all
the food products inside my office as we did the
(38:13):
floor and everything in the pantry, and lo and behold,
they within a day they found the food in the office.
So again it took me about a month and we
eventually eliminated them. But you can either keep trapping or
call professional in there to take care of the problem.
(38:33):
Thank you much for the call and patients. Patients, patients,
and make sure you're setting the trap in the right place,
not in the middle of the room, not in the
middle of the pantry, along the baseboards. That's where they travel.
Joe Stracker, thank you so much. We'll see you again
at the end of the month of June. I think
they're stuck again with me a couple of weeks. All right, Well,
(38:58):
thank you very much, Joe, I appreciate it. Thanks for
all the calls. Thanks for a great weekend, Good Lord willing.
We'll be back next weekend for more at Home with
Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 8 (39:23):
If you don't have a list of things to do
around the house, Gary will find something for you. At
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