July 12, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You are working hard around the home. I'm talking hard
about the home, and there's many things we can shout about.
And boy, when you have problem.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're working hard to Gary.
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Google Play or the app store.
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All right, we're talking about our homes and taking care
of some issues we may have around our homes. Feel
free to grab a line. It is eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five, and we'll chat about
your home project. That being said, let's go to Dave.
Dave welcome, Hey.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Good morning, Gary morning. Hey, thank you so much for
taking my call. I had a question. I've listened to
you for years about pavers. I have sixteen inch pavers
and they've been down for years, and they've been powerwarshed cleaned,
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and I in between my garage and house, a portion
of it will get kind of a shady area at times,
but then the mold of not really mold, it's moss,
and then they get dark standard I'm assuming. But over
the years, instead of buying new ones because they were
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worn down so much, I just flipped them all over
and boom, they're brand new. Yeah they've been they've been
down for a while and now they're due for a cleaning,
even though they're the smooth side now opposed to the
rough brick look from previous. But my question, what's the
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best to put on that to maybe clean it, help
clean it better, and then a possible sealant of some kind.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well in between those papers, do you have regular sand
or how big is the joints? And tell me a
little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They're very tight and they everything was put down proper
underneath sand and then the hydraulic sand if that's what
you call it America.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, it hardens up a.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Little bit, yes, sir. And that's all been down. It's
just over the years, you know. They I would have
to powerwash them all the time, and it's due. But
I didn't know what else.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There's all kinds of things to do. I mean, somebody
listening right now, just get your power washer out there
and blast away. You'll clean them up. Yep, you'll clean
them up.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And somebody else is out there going oxygenated blake. You know.
You just spray it on there, let's sit for a while,
scrubber a hard, take a power wash, clean off. Yep,
that'll do it too. Also, Uh, there's and and I'll
tell you that which way I go.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There's also one that you can spray it on and
walk away from it and it'll take about six weeks
of sunshine and rain and it'll just eliminate the fungus,
the algae, the mildew, the moss. It will just clean
it and you don't have any scrubbing. All different prices,
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all different amounts of work. And then also some of
them kill the spores, some of them just remove the spores,
but there's kind of seedlings still there and it'll grow
back faster than with others.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So let's take powerwasher first. Powerwasher. Everybody likes to work
a powerwasher, blast away. It'll look clean. It's a media gratification.
The only problem with a powerwasher is you don't really
kill it, you kind of remove it. It's great and
all these products, no matter what you use, eventually it's
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going to grow back. It's outside. It's the environment. There's dust,
which is organic material. There's moisture, and there's mold, sports
and fungus spores everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That's the way mother nature cleans up mother nature. So
a powerwasher will it'll clean them up. And if it's
tight seams and you're not going to mess up the
sand with a polymeric sand and even if you do,
that's easily or replied. But it's an option for you.
So that would be option one. Option two I talked about.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
There's masonry cleaners, there's deck cleaners, there's all but the
bottom line is what they all are is they're pretty
much a good grade.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Of oxygenated bleach and it's a powder or a liquid,
you mix with water. You spray it on. It kills
the spores. You and it's immediate. You spray it on,
let's sit ten to fifteen minutes. You can use a
street broom and just agitate it and scrub it with
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like a wood fibered street broom, and then you could
hose it off or you could use your powerwasher to
clean it off. You know, so you can you can
do that, you know, during in a day.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You don't have to wait.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And then the last one would be the product called
wet and forget that I talk about. You can buy
it and a concentrate, mix with water, apply with a
tank sprayer. You can buy it where it's a hose
end connection and mixes itself and you spray it. You
spray it on. You do it when it's not you know,
you do it in the morning. A cloudy morning is
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best so you don't have a lot of evaporation and
spray it on and forget about it. And it takes
about six weeks, but eventually you'll come out there and
it's going to be clean and it's a complete kill
and you pre you know, you can you can seal it.
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You can seal it right away with all these but
it has a residual effect. That wet and forget has
a more residual effect than any of the others.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So right, your call on that.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Would that be the same type wet and forget that
using your shower or is it different?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's a different product. They make a wet and forget shower,
they make a disinfectant and mold remover carrier, and then
they make the wet and forget exterior product which takes
care of black stains on roof, driveway, sidewalks, pavers, The
whole works.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Okay, So it would be wet and forget exterior, yes, sir, okay.
And what about what your thoughts about like a ceiling
of some type.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, So just just so you know, the ceiling
doesn't it doesn't prevent mold and milde from occurring, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It helps slow the process. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So again I was talking about organic material and dust
and everything. So even though we seal the paver, the
dust will lay on top of the ceiler, right, and
there's moisture, and the moisture will interact with the dust
and the organic material to grow the mold. The big
difference is if you you seal those those papers will drive.
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They won't stay wet as long, so it will slow
down the growth of molds and mildew and fungus an algae. Okay,
So then the next question is what do you want
it to look like? Do you want it to be
where I spray it on you can't even tell anything's
on there? Do you want it to have a little
bit of sheene? And you want it breathable?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So you know, if you.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
If you wanted to penetrate into the paver and not
even tell anything's on there, I would get a sloxane
based sealer, a driveway sidewalks seiler. You can put it
on with a roller or a brush. You can use
a tank sprayer. I just don't let it puddle. I
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know there's a website Masonry Defender. They have a sidewalking
driveways tailor that would work great. It also exhausts moisture
from underneath that paper. And then if you want one
with a little bit of machine, Quick Creek makes one
called Cure and Seal and it's just got a little
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satiny look to it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is breatheable. Also, it does repel water, so either
one of those will work great. Most hardware stores.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That have that, okay, but ultimately the sailors are just
gonna slow the process down. That's correct, that's not lemonade.
And then getting back to the cleaner and then I
could let you go it's the wet and forget exterior.
So I would apply that first. Allowed to work, yes,
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and then powerwash or powerwash.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You wouldn't even hit to powerwash it. I mean, it's amazing,
it's an amazing product. Okay, you literally you literally spray
it on. I mean if you had a patio, you'd
be done in ten minutes. Great, and you know, in
about week four you're gonna go that Gary guy doesn't
know what he's talking about. It still looks crummy.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But you got to give it six seven weeks. I've
used it before and it's worked in four days. So
it really depends the amount of sun, how much evaporation
it had when it was applied, and you know, so
there's some there's some variables, but usually a six week
window is a real good window to use. Let's get
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you to the fall and plenty of time to seal it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That sounds really good. Spray wet and forget exterior on.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And with this type of weather we're having here in
central Ohio, with this full sun, I think I'll wait
till like a evening time when it's the sun is yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You know, summers is a great time to apply. At
three o'clock in the afternoon when it's ninety four is
not a great time.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
To apply it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Right, Well, that is wonderful, Gary. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Very good call any times. Thanks, Dave appreciate all right,
take a break and we'll come back and get some
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Let me give you that number. It's eight hundred eight
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How are you doing fine? Certain things I've.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Got a little bit older than two hundred year old
home that's brick. It's painted white on the outside and
painted white on the inside. On the east wall away
from the weather, We've had about a foot by foot
section of paint come off. Now this has been it's
a museum, so it's been painted many times over the years,
and so it's continuing to come off. And I've checked
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the outside. I can't see any cracks where water's getting in,
So I'm not sure why this is coming off. It
is probably plaster underneath the paint. Do you have any thoughts.
I mean, it was the humidity, you know, so great
this year that it could be causing this to come off.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So silly question. Is this on the inside?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
It's on the inside, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So tell me when it peels. Does it peel all
the way down to the plaster? It seems to you. Yeah.
And how old a building is it.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
It's a little more than two hundred years old?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh my, okay, Okay. Well, it can be a combination
of a bunch of things. But it could be just
the plaster is aging and pushing the paint off. It
could be more moisture going through the outside. But the
real problem is is the paints we used one hundred
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years ago, two hundred years ago, eighty years ago was
mainly an oil base. I mean there's lead based paints,
there's milk based paints, there's oil based paints.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But all of those that I just blabbered about do
not breathe, okay, so it could be water vapor that's
coming through there. We used to have the problemer still
do have a problem in real oled homes where the
bathroom in the shower and the paint peels on the
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wall outside of the shower because there's no vapor barrier
and there's no insulation and there's no breathable paint film,
so it's compel. I grew up a house. It was
built in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And we had and people that have live in plaster
homes will probably be able to relate to this. I
guess it faced the west, and probably about every five
years we had to paint the living room because the
paint began to peel, and we'd scrape the paint off
and prime it and paint it, and you're painting with
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oil based paint again, it would break down. It would
literally break down all the way down to the plaster.
So I know I'm telling you a bunch of bad news, right,
but you know there there is encapsulence where you can
paint over those walls to hold it intact, or you
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can strip those walls, which is probably the better.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Way to go to take the paint totally off.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Totally off, because there's so many layers of paint there
and you can use all you can use. The greatest
pain in the world right now, and paint is marvelous
that they're making now. But if you're putting it over
fifteen coats of oil based paint, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Now once we remove the paint, we put in on
a latex paint. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, you would prime the plaster with a an
acrylic primer in a CODEA or two of acrylic paint
inside paint.
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Danny Boyle take your call. And we were talking earlier
about insulation in an attic and settling and just something
to think about. I mean, as hot as it is
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right now, I'm not gonna say you got to get
up in that attic today, but if you get a
cooler day, there's a couple of things I'd really like
to see people do more of in their attic. And
the first thing I'd like to do is, you know
they have those weather stations where you can put sensors
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outside your home and then it's also given your readings
inside your home. It'll give you your reading of your temperature,
and it'll give you a reading of your humidity inside
your home. And then on the on the sensor you
can place outdoor. You don't have the place out there
you put.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
In your attic.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I think This is just a really good way of
kind of learning what's going on in your house, in
your homes envelope, because so many of us have and
we should have ventilation, but we don't always really have
good ventilation. And how would you ever know unless you've
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got the data. For instance, when it's.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Ninety degrees and it's really hot and you don't know
how hard that air conditions, we're going to know your
attics ventilated. Is it properly ventilated? We don't really know that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And let's say it's not properly ventilated, but we got
a ridge vent, we got softa events, and we also
have a temperature in that attic of one hundred and
forty degrees or one hundred and thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
That's not properly ventilated. You might have ventilation screens, you
might have a ridge event, but it's not ventilated because
the way it works is you have to bring in
air to push out air.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
And if you think of your attic, and let's use
the one hundred and forty degree temperature, it rises, we
have a ridge vent to allow that hot air to escape,
but it's not going to escape unless you're backfilling the air.
In other words, it's it's gonna just sit there. It's
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gonna be passive. Convection is when you're bringing cooler air in,
even though the cooler air is ninety degrees or ninety
five degrees, but if you're bringing that air in, you're allowing.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
One hundred and forty degree temperature to escape, So you
would not know that is an issue. So that's one
thing I'd like to see people kind of be more
tuned in is exactly what's going on in there. In
what you might find in the winter time, it's thirty
degrees outside and inside that attic it's forty five degrees,
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but the humidity level inside that attic is seventy percent. Why, oh,
the bathroom fans are vented inside that attic. I didn't
know that. Oh, all that moisture, the underside of that roof,
it could be filled with mold. You wouldn't know that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So having a sensor out there that's giving you some
data will really help you figure out what's going on there.
And maybe nothing's going in ninety five degrees outside and
inside that attics one hundred and ten degrees. Congratulations, probably
got good ventilation going on. And you say for the
amenity in the winter time. So it's one thing. The
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other thing is, you know, we talked about finding out
exactly what you have in insulation.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Is it all level up?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
There has there been squirrels that have gotten in your
attic and the insulation's all moved around and kind of nasty.
That's not healthy. And it doesn't have to be you.
It can be you know, somebody's capable of climbing up
in the attic a handyman and get that data. How
deep is the insulation, What kind is the insulation is it?
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It shouldn't be covering up the outer reaches of the attic.
Wheorthy ventilation for the soffits is right or you got
lousy You got lousy ventilation. So checking insulation ventilation, i'd.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Say, is very very critical. All right, again, it's eight
hundred and eighty two three, eight two five and let's
go to Jan. Jan. Welcome, Hi Jerry.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
I have a couple questions for you. One is, I
have a house that was a brick house built in
nineteen sixty two and it has carpet on the stairs
to the basement that's been there since we were there
and who knows how long. But I would like to
take that carpet out, and I have a feeling that
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there's just going to be like flywood stairs. But I
don't know. I think one of the neighbors did it,
and that's what theirs was. What can I do if
there's like she said, she had a whole lot of
glue under hers that she had a hard time getting out.
What would I do about that? And what can I
put on the steps that will look nice?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
What do you want to put on those steps to
make it look nice?
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Well, I don't want carpet, so anything else, Like, I
don't know if I can put some pieces of a
laminate on there, or you.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Could you could put engineered you could put engineered wood,
you could put laminate, you could put vinyl, you could
you know. I don't whether you're going to do the
work or you're going to have somebody do the work
for you, but you can put you know, any of those.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You could dress that up nicely.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Getting the carpet up, you can get that up, getting
the glue up. You can remove that either mechanically or chemically. Uh,
there are adhesive removers. It's probably just as easy to
sand those down, grind that glue off. It depends how
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much there is and what kind of glue it is.
Some old fashioned glue had asbestos in it, so you
might have to test that kind of got to see
what you got. But there's all kinds of things, you know.
And again, if you put down a I mean you
can make it look like wood, you can you can
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just about do anything you want. Some LVT flooring which
can look like wood, it can look like ceramic. That
could go over everything. You probably wouldn't even have to
remove the glue on that. But it really also depends
on how much glues on there.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
Yeah, and I don't really know the glue situation. I'm
just going by what a neighbor said. You know, who
knows who did? Each one's myself and I.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Here's what I do. Jan nobody likes to just rip
off the carpet and be surprised. I think I'd like
to have a plan of what I want to have
the stairs look like. I mean, we're gonna invest some dollars,
We're gonna invest some time, we're gonna have a whole
new look. Take a picture of your steps and just
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start taking a look. Whether you go to flooring stores
or flooring the core or a local flooring company or
a big box store. Just see what's out there, okay,
and have conversations with the people there so that you
can kind of start getting a feel for the looks
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that you want.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And then when you kind of zero in on the
link the looks and whether you're going to do it
or they're going to do it, then you know there'll
be questions that'll have to be answered that can't be
answered till we remove the carpet.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But at that point, once you know what you're looking
for and you're all in, then you're all in.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
All right, it would definitely be I'm doing it because
I can't afford to have it done, okay, So when
I'm old, yeah, well it's going.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
To see knowing that skill level, that's that's what you've
got to figure out exactly. You know what you're looking
for and how you're looking like. There's a products out
there called Connecto, which is a thin vinyl that looks
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like wood that could be glued to that step, But
then you gotta ask yourself, what about where that step rolls,
what about the the riser?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Are you going to paint that? And then we can
just do the you know, the connecto on top of
the step. That's why I said, find out what's out there,
what you can handle, and what you're going to do.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Okay, sounds like a plan.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That's a good place to start. It really is, all right,
because I, like.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
You said, I don't want to start pulling up the
carpet and be really surprised at what's under there.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Right, so you know it's either going to be stapled
or it's going to be glued, but you know you're
not going to know how much glues there and how
you're going to have to re move it. That's that's
kind of it's it's kind of it's hard, but it's
not the hardest part. You know, if you start going like, oh,
I want to put ceramic tile on Aaron, well do
you know how to do that? And you know that's
(33:11):
where you really need to have that dream to focus
on and know what you're getting into.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And then when you know what you're getting into.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Then rip the carpet off and you know, we'll see
how much glues on there, we'll see if we have
to remove it. You'll probably already know that question based
on what you've picked you to change the looks on it.
But that's where I would start.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
Okay, how would I know if the glue was asbestos?
I really don't want to get in.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You can't have it tested. Usually it's a black glue,
and usually it's also used on vinyl. Probably not the carpet.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Oh, okay, thank you. And my other question is, we
have a brick house and I was thinking of painting it,
but I don't think paints the thing to use. I
wonder is stain a better option, even though I know
it's a whole lot of work.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, it's gonna be hard to stain brick, but you
can paint brick. The painting brick is there are there?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
There is a primer that you would use on a
brick to make sure you have good adhesion between your
paint and your brick.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And paint is a coating where it's going to change
the color. It's not gonna really look like brick anymore.
You know. For instance, if you're gonna paint it, I
don't know, red or white or whatever, you're gonna cover
up that brick look. A stain isn't really a coating.
It's a mean transparent. In other words, it's like a
(34:50):
penetrating oil with some pigment in it. It's not going
to cover up that brick.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I think if you're going to change the color on it,
you're probably looking at painting that brick. And it's a
matter of powerwashing, cleaning, removing any of the chalkiness from
the brick, making any repairs to the brick, putting on
a primer like a lux on, which is a primer
(35:18):
for brick, and then using acrylic paint on top.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Of that, and you don't have I was concerned about
moisture like in the brick, making the paint peel or
is that an am.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Well, it depends on how old the house is and
whether you know, so paints are breathable now, so if
you had where they weren't until probably the you know,
the sixties or seventies, so they were non breathable. So
if you had moisture inside the home, like in a shower,
and you didn't have insulation there and you didn't have
(35:55):
a vapor barrier, and you had oil based paint on there,
that paint's going to peel.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Period. It's going to peel.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
But you know, now we have breathable paints. It can
exhaust that moisture. We also have older homes that were
insulated now with a vapor barrier foam inside, not all
of them, but some of them. So again we got
to find out how old the houses and and and
what's in that house, how how is it going to
(36:23):
affect it. But in terms of if you had a
brick home and you were just going to paint it
and we didn't know what was in there, I would
say the thing I with today's paints, they're breathable and
they're pretty good at bonding onto the brick. It's just
a matter of making sure the prep work is done.
(36:45):
They're clean, they're not dusty, and you prime it to
create even more adhesion, and then use a good like
Sherman Williams Emerald acrylic house paint. I think you'd be
good to go. I think you'd be good to go.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Hope that helps. Jane, you got a lot going on.
Good luck to you and if you'd like to join us,
I certainly love to have you. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right back yet it we go at home with
Gary Salivan a good hour to cover, so feel free
to grab a line. Happy to chat with you about
your home project. Let's go back to the phones. We
have Amy, Amy, Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 9 (40:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
We have an unstained, unsealed concrete deck around our pool
and the deck gets extremely hot.
Speaker 9 (40:29):
In the summer.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, yeah, is.
Speaker 8 (40:31):
There any Is there anything that I can put on
the pool deck that would reduce the temperature without meeting
it making it too slippery around the pool.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
There's a lot of coatings out there, most of them
some of them have to be professionally applied. I can
think of one or two that would not, but one
of the probably the I would say most pool decks
that are coded. There's a product called cool Deck. It's
(41:02):
made by a company called Mortex, and so it's used
a lot in hotter climates Arizona in Florida. And this
this coating is basically made to reflect sunlight so it
stays cooler than the concrete. There's a there's a there's
a there's a little texture to it. So it is
(41:24):
a non slippery surface, which makes senseense it's going around
the pool decks. So that is professionally applied, and I think,
but I'm not positive that it is for.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Relatively new concrete. And then there's another one which is
very similar to uh cool deck. I think it's called
spray deck. It's one that's used for older concrete decks
but kind of works the same way.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
And that one is professionally applied as well.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Uh yes, yes, now if there's one that you want
to apply yourself. In fact, he is a guest tomorrow
morning at ten thirty Eastern time. Umm. It's a product
called roller Rock. He makes several it's called roller Rock Spreadstone.
(42:29):
He makes one Tierra Terrezo Torezo looks like Terrezo tile.
I believe that is also reflective coating. And there's a
seiler on there that is slip resistant called track Safe.
But you can go on our website. It's dish Daich
(42:52):
Coatings dot com. And I haven't really checked to see
if it's you know, unreflective and cool, but I know
it can be used outdoors. I know it can be
used on pool decks. I'm not sure about the temperature.
Speaker 8 (43:08):
Okay, So well I will check into all three of these, yeah,
to see. Yeah, because the concrete is probably about seven
years old, okay, So that so the second option might
be the better choice.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, I think so. And you might go both through their.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
You know, the spray Deck and the cool Deck and
just you know googling, go on their website a lot
of times. They have videos and different things, and you know,
you can learn a lot in a quick period of time.
And then you can also find who their dealers are
in the area.
Speaker 8 (43:43):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Well, thank you so much, all right, thank you for
the call. I appreciate it all right. Plenty of plenty
of time to cover many things. And Peter Diych will
be our guest today. And by the way, if you
missed our conversation with something tomorrow you mean tomorrow tomorrow,
I'm sorry if you missed our conversation with some chemical
(44:05):
mosquitoes and ticks that is on the iHeart app podcast.
Danny puts us up to me as soon as we
have that conversation. He's got that up. And just go
the iHeart app. It's free. Hit the magnifying glass at
home with Gary Sullivan and take a listen. A lot
of good information on minimizing the population of mosquitoes and
(44:28):
ticks in your area. And it's a big problem this year,
more so than other years because of the eat and
the amount of moisture. All right, well take a break,
we'll come back. We got Gary, Gail and Pete. As
we continue, You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
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All right, we're talking about our homes and taking care
of some issues we may have around our homes. Feel
free to grab a line. It is eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five, and we'll chat about
your home project. That being said, let's go to Dave.
Dave welcome, Hey.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Good morning, Gary morning. Hey, thank you so much for
taking my call. I had a question. I've listened to
you for years about pavers. I have sixteen inch pavers
and they've been down for years, and they've been powerwarshed cleaned,
(02:27):
and I in between my garage and house, a portion
of it will get kind of a shady area at times,
but then the mold of not really mold, it's moss,
and then they get dark standard I'm assuming. But over
the years, instead of buying new ones because they were
(02:51):
worn down so much, I just flipped them all over
and boom, they're brand new. Yeah they've been they've been
down for a while and now they're due for a cleaning,
even though they're the smooth side now opposed to the
rough brick look from previous. But my question, what's the
(03:17):
best to put on that to maybe clean it, help
clean it better, and then a possible sealant of some kind.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well in between those papers, do you have regular sand
or how big is the joints? And tell me a
little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They're very tight and they everything was put down proper
underneath sand and then the hydraulic sand if that's what
you call it America.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, it hardens up a.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Little bit, yes, sir. And that's all been down. It's
just over the years, you know. They I would have
to powerwash them all the time, and it's due. But
I didn't know what else.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There's all kinds of things to do. I mean, somebody
listening right now, just get your power washer out there
and blast away. You'll clean them up. Yep, you'll clean
them up.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And somebody else is out there going oxygenated blake. You know.
You just spray it on there, let's sit for a while,
scrubber a hard, take a power wash, clean off. Yep,
that'll do it too. Also, Uh, there's and and I'll
tell you that which way I go.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There's also one that you can spray it on and
walk away from it and it'll take about six weeks
of sunshine and rain and it'll just eliminate the fungus,
the algae, the mildew, the moss. It will just clean
it and you don't have any scrubbing. All different prices,
(04:52):
all different amounts of work. And then also some of
them kill the spores, some of them just remove the spores,
but there's kind of seedlings still there and it'll grow
back faster than with others.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So let's take powerwasher first. Powerwasher. Everybody likes to work
a powerwasher, blast away. It'll look clean. It's a media gratification.
The only problem with a powerwasher is you don't really
kill it, you kind of remove it. It's great and
all these products, no matter what you use, eventually it's
(05:30):
going to grow back. It's outside. It's the environment. There's dust,
which is organic material. There's moisture, and there's mold, sports
and fungus spores everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That's the way mother nature cleans up mother nature. So
a powerwasher will it'll clean them up. And if it's
tight seams and you're not going to mess up the
sand with a polymeric sand and even if you do,
that's easily or replied. But it's an option for you.
So that would be option one. Option two I talked about.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
There's masonry cleaners, there's deck cleaners, there's all but the
bottom line is what they all are is they're pretty
much a good grade.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Of oxygenated bleach and it's a powder or a liquid,
you mix with water. You spray it on. It kills
the spores. You and it's immediate. You spray it on,
let's sit ten to fifteen minutes. You can use a
street broom and just agitate it and scrub it with
(06:33):
like a wood fibered street broom, and then you could
hose it off or you could use your powerwasher to
clean it off. You know, so you can you can
do that, you know, during in a day.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You don't have to wait.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And then the last one would be the product called
wet and forget that I talk about. You can buy
it and a concentrate, mix with water, apply with a
tank sprayer. You can buy it where it's a hose
end connection and mixes itself and you spray it. You
spray it on. You do it when it's not you know,
you do it in the morning. A cloudy morning is
(07:11):
best so you don't have a lot of evaporation and
spray it on and forget about it. And it takes
about six weeks, but eventually you'll come out there and
it's going to be clean and it's a complete kill
and you pre you know, you can you can seal it.
(07:32):
You can seal it right away with all these but
it has a residual effect. That wet and forget has
a more residual effect than any of the others.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So right, your call on that.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Would that be the same type wet and forget that
using your shower or is it different?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's a different product. They make a wet and forget shower,
they make a disinfectant and mold remover carrier, and then
they make the wet and forget exterior product which takes
care of black stains on roof, driveway, sidewalks, pavers, The
whole works.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Okay, So it would be wet and forget exterior, yes, sir, okay.
And what about what your thoughts about like a ceiling
of some type.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, So just just so you know, the ceiling
doesn't it doesn't prevent mold and milde from occurring, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It helps slow the process. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So again I was talking about organic material and dust
and everything. So even though we seal the paver, the
dust will lay on top of the ceiler, right, and
there's moisture, and the moisture will interact with the dust
and the organic material to grow the mold. The big
difference is if you you seal those those papers will drive.
(09:03):
They won't stay wet as long, so it will slow
down the growth of molds and mildew and fungus an algae. Okay,
So then the next question is what do you want
it to look like? Do you want it to be
where I spray it on you can't even tell anything's
on there? Do you want it to have a little
bit of sheene? And you want it breathable?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So you know, if you.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
If you wanted to penetrate into the paver and not
even tell anything's on there, I would get a sloxane
based sealer, a driveway sidewalks seiler. You can put it
on with a roller or a brush. You can use
a tank sprayer. I just don't let it puddle. I
(09:55):
know there's a website Masonry Defender. They have a sidewalking
driveways tailor that would work great. It also exhausts moisture
from underneath that paper. And then if you want one
with a little bit of machine, Quick Creek makes one
called Cure and Seal and it's just got a little
(10:17):
satiny look to it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is breatheable. Also, it does repel water, so either
one of those will work great. Most hardware stores.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That have that, okay, but ultimately the sailors are just
gonna slow the process down. That's correct, that's not lemonade.
And then getting back to the cleaner and then I
could let you go it's the wet and forget exterior.
So I would apply that first. Allowed to work, yes,
(10:52):
and then powerwash or powerwash.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You wouldn't even hit to powerwash it. I mean, it's amazing,
it's an amazing product. Okay, you literally you literally spray
it on. I mean if you had a patio, you'd
be done in ten minutes. Great, and you know, in
about week four you're gonna go that Gary guy doesn't
know what he's talking about. It still looks crummy.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But you got to give it six seven weeks. I've
used it before and it's worked in four days. So
it really depends the amount of sun, how much evaporation
it had when it was applied, and you know, so
there's some there's some variables, but usually a six week
window is a real good window to use. Let's get
(11:38):
you to the fall and plenty of time to seal it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That sounds really good. Spray wet and forget exterior on.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And with this type of weather we're having here in
central Ohio, with this full sun, I think I'll wait
till like a evening time when it's the sun is yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You know, summers is a great time to apply. At
three o'clock in the afternoon when it's ninety four is
not a great time.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
To apply it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Right, Well, that is wonderful, Gary. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Very good call any times. Thanks, Dave appreciate all right,
take a break and we'll come back and get some
more questions answered. You got the phone number, We got
the aligns that are open. You're at home with Gary Solivan.
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We go at home with Gary Sullivan taking your calls,
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Let me give you that number. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five project maybe you're thinking
about or you are working on around your home, and
I'm sure you'll agree with me. This time of year,
there's plenty of those. So let's get back to the
phone calls. We got Brian, Brian, Welcome, Hello there, Gary,
(15:43):
How are you doing fine? Certain things I've.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Got a little bit older than two hundred year old
home that's brick. It's painted white on the outside and
painted white on the inside. On the east wall away
from the weather, We've had about a foot by foot
section of paint come off. Now this has been it's
a museum, so it's been painted many times over the years,
and so it's continuing to come off. And I've checked
(16:09):
the outside. I can't see any cracks where water's getting in,
So I'm not sure why this is coming off. It
is probably plaster underneath the paint. Do you have any thoughts.
I mean, it was the humidity, you know, so great
this year that it could be causing this to come off.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So silly question. Is this on the inside?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
It's on the inside, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So tell me when it peels. Does it peel all
the way down to the plaster? It seems to you. Yeah.
And how old a building is it.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
It's a little more than two hundred years old?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh my, okay, Okay. Well, it can be a combination
of a bunch of things. But it could be just
the plaster is aging and pushing the paint off. It
could be more moisture going through the outside. But the
real problem is is the paints we used one hundred
(17:07):
years ago, two hundred years ago, eighty years ago was
mainly an oil base. I mean there's lead based paints,
there's milk based paints, there's oil based paints.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But all of those that I just blabbered about do
not breathe, okay, so it could be water vapor that's
coming through there. We used to have the problemer still
do have a problem in real oled homes where the
bathroom in the shower and the paint peels on the
(17:39):
wall outside of the shower because there's no vapor barrier
and there's no insulation and there's no breathable paint film,
so it's compel. I grew up a house. It was
built in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And we had and people that have live in plaster
homes will probably be able to relate to this. I
guess it faced the west, and probably about every five
years we had to paint the living room because the
paint began to peel, and we'd scrape the paint off
and prime it and paint it, and you're painting with
(18:17):
oil based paint again, it would break down. It would
literally break down all the way down to the plaster.
So I know I'm telling you a bunch of bad news, right,
but you know there there is encapsulence where you can
paint over those walls to hold it intact, or you
(18:38):
can strip those walls, which is probably the better.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Way to go to take the paint totally off.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Totally off, because there's so many layers of paint there
and you can use all you can use. The greatest
pain in the world right now, and paint is marvelous
that they're making now. But if you're putting it over
fifteen coats of oil based paint, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Now once we remove the paint, we put in on
a latex paint. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, you would prime the plaster with a an
acrylic primer in a CODEA or two of acrylic paint
inside paint.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Which is breathable. Here's a website I want you to
take a look at. It's Dumont du m O n
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based paint remover. I would look at that and then
an acrylic paint.
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Let me give you our phone number. We have open
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you'd like to ask a question regarding your home, you
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Speaker 8 (22:57):
I'm your city here totaling my thumbs.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Put me to work three A two five five. It's
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five and
Danny Boyle take your call. And we were talking earlier
about insulation in an attic and settling and just something
to think about. I mean, as hot as it is
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right now, I'm not gonna say you got to get
up in that attic today, but if you get a
cooler day, there's a couple of things I'd really like
to see people do more of in their attic. And
the first thing I'd like to do is, you know
they have those weather stations where you can put sensors
(23:41):
outside your home and then it's also given your readings
inside your home. It'll give you your reading of your temperature,
and it'll give you a reading of your humidity inside
your home. And then on the on the sensor you
can place outdoor. You don't have the place out there
you put.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
In your attic.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I think This is just a really good way of
kind of learning what's going on in your house, in
your homes envelope, because so many of us have and
we should have ventilation, but we don't always really have
good ventilation. And how would you ever know unless you've
(24:27):
got the data. For instance, when it's.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Ninety degrees and it's really hot and you don't know
how hard that air conditions, we're going to know your
attics ventilated. Is it properly ventilated? We don't really know that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And let's say it's not properly ventilated, but we got
a ridge vent, we got softa events, and we also
have a temperature in that attic of one hundred and
forty degrees or one hundred and thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
That's not properly ventilated. You might have ventilation screens, you
might have a ridge event, but it's not ventilated because
the way it works is you have to bring in
air to push out air.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
And if you think of your attic, and let's use
the one hundred and forty degree temperature, it rises, we
have a ridge vent to allow that hot air to escape,
but it's not going to escape unless you're backfilling the air.
In other words, it's it's gonna just sit there. It's
(25:43):
gonna be passive. Convection is when you're bringing cooler air in,
even though the cooler air is ninety degrees or ninety
five degrees, but if you're bringing that air in, you're allowing.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
One hundred and forty degree temperature to escape, So you
would not know that is an issue. So that's one
thing I'd like to see people kind of be more
tuned in is exactly what's going on in there. In
what you might find in the winter time, it's thirty
degrees outside and inside that attic it's forty five degrees,
(26:20):
but the humidity level inside that attic is seventy percent. Why, oh,
the bathroom fans are vented inside that attic. I didn't
know that. Oh, all that moisture, the underside of that roof,
it could be filled with mold. You wouldn't know that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So having a sensor out there that's giving you some
data will really help you figure out what's going on there.
And maybe nothing's going in ninety five degrees outside and
inside that attics one hundred and ten degrees. Congratulations, probably
got good ventilation going on. And you say for the
amenity in the winter time. So it's one thing. The
(27:04):
other thing is, you know, we talked about finding out
exactly what you have in insulation.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Is it all level up?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
There has there been squirrels that have gotten in your
attic and the insulation's all moved around and kind of nasty.
That's not healthy. And it doesn't have to be you.
It can be you know, somebody's capable of climbing up
in the attic a handyman and get that data. How
deep is the insulation, What kind is the insulation is it?
(27:36):
It shouldn't be covering up the outer reaches of the attic.
Wheorthy ventilation for the soffits is right or you got
lousy You got lousy ventilation. So checking insulation ventilation, i'd.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Say, is very very critical. All right, again, it's eight
hundred and eighty two three, eight two five and let's
go to Jan. Jan. Welcome, Hi Jerry.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
I have a couple questions for you. One is, I
have a house that was a brick house built in
nineteen sixty two and it has carpet on the stairs
to the basement that's been there since we were there
and who knows how long. But I would like to
take that carpet out, and I have a feeling that
(28:28):
there's just going to be like flywood stairs. But I
don't know. I think one of the neighbors did it,
and that's what theirs was. What can I do if
there's like she said, she had a whole lot of
glue under hers that she had a hard time getting out.
What would I do about that? And what can I
put on the steps that will look nice?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
What do you want to put on those steps to
make it look nice?
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Well, I don't want carpet, so anything else, Like, I
don't know if I can put some pieces of a
laminate on there, or you.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Could you could put engineered you could put engineered wood,
you could put laminate, you could put vinyl, you could
you know. I don't whether you're going to do the
work or you're going to have somebody do the work
for you, but you can put you know, any of those.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You could dress that up nicely.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Getting the carpet up, you can get that up, getting
the glue up. You can remove that either mechanically or chemically. Uh,
there are adhesive removers. It's probably just as easy to
sand those down, grind that glue off. It depends how
(29:44):
much there is and what kind of glue it is.
Some old fashioned glue had asbestos in it, so you
might have to test that kind of got to see
what you got. But there's all kinds of things, you know.
And again, if you put down a I mean you
can make it look like wood, you can you can
(30:05):
just about do anything you want. Some LVT flooring which
can look like wood, it can look like ceramic. That
could go over everything. You probably wouldn't even have to
remove the glue on that. But it really also depends
on how much glues on there.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
Yeah, and I don't really know the glue situation. I'm
just going by what a neighbor said. You know, who
knows who did? Each one's myself and I.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Here's what I do. Jan nobody likes to just rip
off the carpet and be surprised. I think I'd like
to have a plan of what I want to have
the stairs look like. I mean, we're gonna invest some dollars,
We're gonna invest some time, we're gonna have a whole
new look. Take a picture of your steps and just
(30:55):
start taking a look. Whether you go to flooring stores
or flooring the core or a local flooring company or
a big box store. Just see what's out there, okay,
and have conversations with the people there so that you
can kind of start getting a feel for the looks
(31:16):
that you want.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And then when you kind of zero in on the
link the looks and whether you're going to do it
or they're going to do it, then you know there'll
be questions that'll have to be answered that can't be
answered till we remove the carpet.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But at that point, once you know what you're looking
for and you're all in, then you're all in.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
All right, it would definitely be I'm doing it because
I can't afford to have it done, okay, So when
I'm old, yeah, well it's going.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
To see knowing that skill level, that's that's what you've
got to figure out exactly. You know what you're looking
for and how you're looking like. There's a products out
there called Connecto, which is a thin vinyl that looks
(32:10):
like wood that could be glued to that step, But
then you gotta ask yourself, what about where that step rolls,
what about the the riser?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Are you going to paint that? And then we can
just do the you know, the connecto on top of
the step. That's why I said, find out what's out there,
what you can handle, and what you're going to do.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Okay, sounds like a plan.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That's a good place to start. It really is, all right,
because I, like.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
You said, I don't want to start pulling up the
carpet and be really surprised at what's under there.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Right, so you know it's either going to be stapled
or it's going to be glued, but you know you're
not going to know how much glues there and how
you're going to have to re move it. That's that's
kind of it's it's kind of it's hard, but it's
not the hardest part. You know, if you start going like, oh,
I want to put ceramic tile on Aaron, well do
you know how to do that? And you know that's
(33:11):
where you really need to have that dream to focus
on and know what you're getting into.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And then when you know what you're getting into.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Then rip the carpet off and you know, we'll see
how much glues on there, we'll see if we have
to remove it. You'll probably already know that question based
on what you've picked you to change the looks on it.
But that's where I would start.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
Okay, how would I know if the glue was asbestos?
I really don't want to get in.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You can't have it tested. Usually it's a black glue,
and usually it's also used on vinyl. Probably not the carpet.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Oh, okay, thank you. And my other question is, we
have a brick house and I was thinking of painting it,
but I don't think paints the thing to use. I
wonder is stain a better option, even though I know
it's a whole lot of work.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, it's gonna be hard to stain brick, but you
can paint brick. The painting brick is there are there?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
There is a primer that you would use on a
brick to make sure you have good adhesion between your
paint and your brick.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And paint is a coating where it's going to change
the color. It's not gonna really look like brick anymore.
You know. For instance, if you're gonna paint it, I
don't know, red or white or whatever, you're gonna cover
up that brick look. A stain isn't really a coating.
It's a mean transparent. In other words, it's like a
(34:50):
penetrating oil with some pigment in it. It's not going
to cover up that brick.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I think if you're going to change the color on it,
you're probably looking at painting that brick. And it's a
matter of powerwashing, cleaning, removing any of the chalkiness from
the brick, making any repairs to the brick, putting on
a primer like a lux on, which is a primer
(35:18):
for brick, and then using acrylic paint on top.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Of that, and you don't have I was concerned about
moisture like in the brick, making the paint peel or
is that an am.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Well, it depends on how old the house is and
whether you know, so paints are breathable now, so if
you had where they weren't until probably the you know,
the sixties or seventies, so they were non breathable. So
if you had moisture inside the home, like in a shower,
and you didn't have insulation there and you didn't have
(35:55):
a vapor barrier, and you had oil based paint on there,
that paint's going to peel.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Period. It's going to peel.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
But you know, now we have breathable paints. It can
exhaust that moisture. We also have older homes that were
insulated now with a vapor barrier foam inside, not all
of them, but some of them. So again we got
to find out how old the houses and and and
what's in that house, how how is it going to
(36:23):
affect it. But in terms of if you had a
brick home and you were just going to paint it
and we didn't know what was in there, I would
say the thing I with today's paints, they're breathable and
they're pretty good at bonding onto the brick. It's just
a matter of making sure the prep work is done.
(36:45):
They're clean, they're not dusty, and you prime it to
create even more adhesion, and then use a good like
Sherman Williams Emerald acrylic house paint. I think you'd be
good to go. I think you'd be good to go.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Hope that helps. Jane, you got a lot going on.
Good luck to you and if you'd like to join us,
I certainly love to have you. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
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Speaker 2 (40:02):
All right back yet it we go at home with
Gary Salivan a good hour to cover, so feel free
to grab a line. Happy to chat with you about
your home project. Let's go back to the phones. We
have Amy, Amy, Welcome, Hi Gary.
Speaker 9 (40:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
We have an unstained, unsealed concrete deck around our pool
and the deck gets extremely hot.
Speaker 9 (40:29):
In the summer.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, yeah, is.
Speaker 8 (40:31):
There any Is there anything that I can put on
the pool deck that would reduce the temperature without meeting
it making it too slippery around the pool.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
There's a lot of coatings out there, most of them
some of them have to be professionally applied. I can
think of one or two that would not, but one
of the probably the I would say most pool decks
that are coded. There's a product called cool Deck. It's
(41:02):
made by a company called Mortex, and so it's used
a lot in hotter climates Arizona in Florida. And this
this coating is basically made to reflect sunlight so it
stays cooler than the concrete. There's a there's a there's
a there's a little texture to it. So it is
(41:24):
a non slippery surface, which makes senseense it's going around
the pool decks. So that is professionally applied, and I think,
but I'm not positive that it is for.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Relatively new concrete. And then there's another one which is
very similar to uh cool deck. I think it's called
spray deck. It's one that's used for older concrete decks
but kind of works the same way.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
And that one is professionally applied as well.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Uh yes, yes, now if there's one that you want
to apply yourself. In fact, he is a guest tomorrow
morning at ten thirty Eastern time. Umm. It's a product
called roller Rock. He makes several it's called roller Rock Spreadstone.
(42:29):
He makes one Tierra Terrezo Torezo looks like Terrezo tile.
I believe that is also reflective coating. And there's a
seiler on there that is slip resistant called track Safe.
But you can go on our website. It's dish Daich
(42:52):
Coatings dot com. And I haven't really checked to see
if it's you know, unreflective and cool, but I know
it can be used outdoors. I know it can be
used on pool decks. I'm not sure about the temperature.
Speaker 8 (43:08):
Okay, So well I will check into all three of these, yeah,
to see. Yeah, because the concrete is probably about seven
years old, okay, So that so the second option might
be the better choice.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, I think so. And you might go both through their.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
You know, the spray Deck and the cool Deck and
just you know googling, go on their website a lot
of times. They have videos and different things, and you know,
you can learn a lot in a quick period of time.
And then you can also find who their dealers are
in the area.
Speaker 8 (43:43):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Well, thank you so much, all right, thank you for
the call. I appreciate it all right. Plenty of plenty
of time to cover many things. And Peter Diych will
be our guest today. And by the way, if you
missed our conversation with something tomorrow you mean tomorrow tomorrow,
I'm sorry if you missed our conversation with some chemical
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mosquitoes and ticks that is on the iHeart app podcast.
Danny puts us up to me as soon as we
have that conversation. He's got that up. And just go
the iHeart app. It's free. Hit the magnifying glass at
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of good information on minimizing the population of mosquitoes and
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ticks in your area. And it's a big problem this year,
more so than other years because of the eat and
the amount of moisture. All right, well take a break,
we'll come back. We got Gary, Gail and Pete. As
we continue, You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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