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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome. You're at home with
Gary Sullivan. Another weekend. Let's get some things done around home.
Happy to have you, Thanks for joining me. And uh, well,
what's up, what's going on? What needs your attention? There's
a lot going on. Garage clean up, yeah, start thinking forward, fireplace.
What kind of shape that's that in basement? It's a
(00:57):
smell moldy damn. Got to address that issue. But one
of the things I thought i'd kick off today with
and feel free to join us with your questions. Love
to talk to you about what you're working on. We
had a really I don't know what you call it.
It was a really heavy rain, I guess, and I
don't know how much we got, but there's a lot
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of standing water, some limbs down and things like that.
And I think we're all experiencing some of these really
heavy duty downpours this particular year. And when I noticed
is I always try to kind of check things. As
hard as it was raining, I was a little concerned
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about moisture getting in the house, rain getting in the house.
And yeah, I'm sure you every now and then you
have that same fear. But no, nothing, nothing. The only
thing I saw was gutters that were spilling over, and
I thought, what the heck, you know, I got my
gutter brushes in there. I haven't had any problems that
I know of, And went upstairs and looked down into
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one of the gutters, and sure enough is spilling over.
Nothing clogging the gutter that I could see. But when
it actually happened, and this is why you really always
need to kind of pay attention on what's going on
during a heavy burst of rain. You know, it's just
sticking your head out a little bit of the door
and just kind of up and down the house or
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out back or whatever, just kind of keep an eye
on things. And the gutter itself didn't have positive flow
to the down spout. It was kind of tilted towards
the house. So where it tilts towards the house, there
is where the house and the roof meets and it's
a pretty steep slope and it's a five inch gutter.
(02:48):
And that five inch gutter, as observing during this rainfall,
it isn't big enough. We need to get a six
inch on there. But having said that, this is the
old nail and feral system, not brackets, and it was
tilted back towards the house, so it was spilling out there,
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not really causing any damage. It was going on the
corner of the patio and you know, dissipating down into
the landscaping bed. Not a huge problem, but something that
should be corrected. And so I was up early this
morning just kind of taking a walk. And you can
always tell if you had some issues with water control
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around your home after a really heavy rain, because you'll
see maybe some wash out and some mulch beds, maybe
where the downspout pipe comes out of the ground. If
real heavy rain, you're not going to have grass torn up,
but you're going to see where it's pushed the grass
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down flat. And anyway, by walking around, I saw several
spots like that. Started really looking at the gutters and yeah,
that's kind of what's going on. I guess they've been
up for about twenty six years, and you know, over
time and ice and snow and rain and everything else,
there's been some misalignment going on, which certainly can be
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corrected and needs to be corrected. And so I ask you,
did you experience any issues? And maybe it didn't rain
where you're at, but have you experienced any issues in
the last six months that probably needs your attention. My
mine apparently does so. The phone number if you'd like
to talk about that, please do. It's eight hundred eight
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two three eight two five five. And you know, keeping
those gutters in good standing order, well draining, not spilling over.
We're seeing a big trend where gutters on homes are gosh.
I started doing the show on most houses we had
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four or five inch gutters. The big trend lately is
six inch cutters on homes, and maybe you're thinking about
that too. I'm definitely definitely thinking about doing that. I
think it needs to happen. It's been a problem for
a few years, not forever, but a few years.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Probably probably needs to be corrected before we start having
some water inside our home, that's for sure. All right again,
you got the phone number. Jump on board, Jim, you
lead us off today.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Welcome, good morning, Good morning, Good sir. I'm scratching my
head here, which is easy to do since it doesn't
have much hair anymore. I painted my my basement. My
concrete basement flow is drylock and then a port floor enamel.
And when we've had heavy rains out here at Youngstown,
like I presume you did in Cincinnati. I can actually
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see water bubbling up underneath the paint. There are only
two spots in it. And I have a sum pump
in the basement which works the zolar some pump.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So well, So what's the question? We know it's not right,
but what's the question?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How do I correct it? I mean, there's no problems
with my down spout. We have brand new five inch spotting.
It was put up last year when we re roofed.
The green towels working properly, gratings good on the house.
The only thing I could think of is a high
water table. I don't know what else it could be.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, well that's exactly what it is. I mean, that
is exactly what it is. But you said something in
it right away, I go. You said that the priven
Foundation drains are all working well, And I thought to myself,
how do we know that?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Because I had a company to run a camera through
that when we spouting, okay, they said everything was over
because I didn't know even though we don't have trees,
you know, it could be roots from a neighbor's tree.
But everything's clear.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So there's there's a couple of things. Your your your
foundation drains are usually not all the way underneath the floor, okay,
So if you kind of look at but your some
pump should have taken care of that, okay. So if
you look at the the perimeter of the drains around
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the foundation, I like to say that that's taking care
of the water that's fallen from the sky. All right.
It's coming down, whether it's the gutters are overflowing or
not overflowing, whether the foundation is tilted towards the house
or not, there is an abundance of water that is
against that foundation. It's being collected by those pipes, routed
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to the some pump and pumped away. There's another set
of drains that can be applied not normally established during
home building, and that is beneath the floor of the house.
You could run an interior perimeter drain inside the house
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below the floor level. That would catch the water that's
rising from the water table itself. That too could be
routed to the sump well and pumped away from the house.
So if it is the water table, I don't have
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any way to tell you that's definitely what's happening. But
we have an abundance of water that's under there. It's
weeping up, there's water below the paint. That paint. That
dry lock can hold up to ten pounds of water
pressure per square inch, so it can hold back a
lot of water. It would be interesting to see today
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if that has receded and that water doesn't appear to
be under that pain anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It doesn't. Yeah, I would, I would vacuum up the
water with a shot back ranity of menifire. And fortunately
it hasn't lifted the pink completely off the floor. That
was what my worry was.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So but we still got an issue. Yeah, I mean,
you're living in Venice, Italy, right, Whenever you have a
huge rain shower or storm, it's bringing that water up
below the surface of the floor or and it's being
stopped by that pain. So the only way that I
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would know would be putting in perimeter drains. And what
they do is they literally cut the inside of the floor.
I didn't say it'd be pretty. They dig that out
down about a f gravel beds and put in corrugated
drain pipe and route it to the sump well. Yeah,
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and maybe even in a secondary sump well. And then
as that water table, you know, grows and builds and
starts reaching the base of that floor. It's picked up
by those those pipes. And again it's about water control,
so it's controlling the level of the water.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So I found to mention this house is one hundred
and twenty five years old, so I doubt there's anything
that was done like that when the house was built.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
No, in fact, they're not done today. I mean, you know,
unless you specified as in addition, you know, expense to
the home that they don't put pipes. You know, they
dig a home, plant your house and then put pipes
around it, but they don't put it down on the base.
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I do that. So yeah, so that's an option to hear. Yeah,
you might, you know, keep an eye on it, talk
to a few people, get some other opinions. But in
my opinion, based on what you're telling me, that's that's
the only way you're going to control that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, you've never stared me wrong in four decades.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So that sounds good. Thank you much, Jim, appreciate it.
To call all right, you can join us. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five, grab a line.
Happy to chat with you. But you're home and you're
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We were talking earlier about maybe increasing the size of gutters,
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making sure they're cleaned out, making sure you have a
positive fall to the down spout. And from a cosmetic standpoint,
I've started to get this question again, and we haven't
had this question. I'm telling you, it seems like ten years.
We used to get it every week. And that is
what is that blackish film that is on the gutters,
(15:07):
on the down spouts and aluminum, especially if you get
the wide or the beige, well, it is kind of
a fungus and an algae. The only way I found
to get rid of it is to scrub it. No
miracle here it's almost embedded in the paint, or it
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appears to be embedded into the paint. So one of
the things that I found successful in cleaning that up,
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get it, so don't panic. You can still get it
and onto a cotton cloth and rub and it'll clean
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it up. It'll clean it up. Now, the interesting thing
is if you painted those gutters, you won't have that problem. Now.
I don't have an answer for that, but a number
of years ago after in fact, having done a lot
of TV tips and video tips over the course of
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my career, I would leave portions of the cutter cleaned
and not cleaned so that we could show before and afters,
and we could also show cleaning them. My wife loves that.
But we had the house, the gutters, we had Rhino
(16:57):
Ship put on our house actually, and they did the
gutters and it was I've never ever ever had streaking
on the gutter since. But I know there's still a
lot of just factory painted gutters out there, and if
you've got them, you've probably got that black streak on them,
and not a bad idea to get that cleaned up,
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if you do have the nail and the feral system
on your gutters like I do, and I was just
talking about how they got a little bit misaligned. Pulling
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of using the nails, you can use gutter screws and
you can just run a screw right in there, make
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him nice and talk to the house and that should
solve your problem. Bud, Welcome, Hoti Gary.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I got a problem. My water went out back in
March the end of March, and my next door neighbor,
he's kind of a you know, a handy man, kind
of god. He knows a little about everything.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
And so I went over and got him, and he
came over and looked at it, and he said, man,
I can't find anything. He said, but we had an
electric serge yesterday morning. Did you did you see that
or feel it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Now? I did not, probably in bed.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Now this was back in March. Oh, And I said no,
I was in bed. And he said, well, that may
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I don't even know who to get to look at
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
What's the water from?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Is it from a well pump or what well?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Well? An electrician would be one to take a look
at it to see if there's something burned out. If
it's a pump that's failed, which it sounds like that
could be, you could get a well company or a
plumbing company to replace those. But when you say you
don't know, so, I think that's probably where I would start.
(19:24):
Would it sounds like the pump is bad if there
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need to be replaced. So a plumber bud is where
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All right, back at it we go at home with
Gary Sullivan, taking you through another weekend, talking about well
all the things we encounter in our homes and if
you'd like to join us, do so right now. We
have a friend that we've had on a couple of
times this year, Heather Stickney. She is with some a
chemical and Heather, welcome again that home with Gary Salvin.
(23:11):
How you doing?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Good morning, Gary, I'm doing great, Thanks.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Good? So we're always talking about ticks and mosquitoes. Where
I met, it's been hot, humid, and we've had our
fair share of storms and rain. How's that season.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
For ticks and mosquitoes? It's prime. Unfortunately, all of that
standing water can serve as you know, a great breeding
ground for mosquitos and their offspring. So unfortunately, weather like
that brings more mosquitoes into the yard.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah. I had Ron Wilson and we're always talking about
the outside landscaping earlier today and he was talking to
and asked him the same on a question. He goes like, man,
it's like crazy grass has grown. It's like a fungus
in yards. It's a big problem this year. We've learned
from you over the years and through Summit about the
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mosquito dunks and mosquito bites. And you just said are
bits I said, you just said just a second ago,
this weather's a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes, and we've
learned from you about the dunks and the bites bits.
I don't know why I keep saying bites because mosquitoes bite. Yeah.
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Where do you use these products to minimize the breeding
of mosquitoes.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Well, so we've talked about the rain that has come,
and you know, mosquitoes breed in standing water, So any
area that might collect water is an area where you
would want to use either a dunk or mosquito bits
to control the larvae that develop in that standing water.
For example, pots. People don't often think of pot saucers
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as an area where you might find mosquitos, but if
you've got, if you've got standing water in them, there's
opportunity for mosquitoes to lay their eggs and hatch into larva,
kiddie pools, toys out in the yard. Your brain gutters
any place, bird bath, fountains, any place that might hold water.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
How long would be How long does a dunk last
if you put it in an area or the bit.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Well? So there's a little bit of a difference between
dunks and bits. Dunks are designed to float on the
surface of standing water. They release over time the active ingredient,
and they last for up to thirty days. Bits work
a little bit more quickly because of the way they're formulated.
They're designed for broadcast application, and the active ingredient releases
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off the grand well very quickly to kill within twenty
four hours, okay, and then we recommend reapplication every seven
to fourteen days. So what I would say is that
bits are very quick acting. Dunks have more of a
sustained release.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And there's different sizes and there's also different applications for
it too. As you just stated, when would you you
would use a dunk more like a little pond or
a decorative fountain or a bird bath and then the
the bits maybe like a little swale in the yard.
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Is that how you.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Would I would necessarily apply bits to the yard. They're
not really designed as a yard application. But for example
in those pot saucers or in your gutters where you
might have something that you need to clean up a
population very quickly, gotch leaf piles, areas where it's a
little bit harder to apply a dunk and float a
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dunk would be ideals for ideal for bits.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So what's the ingredient in there? And how safe is it?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
The ingredient, it's a mouthful. It's called Bacillus thringentious subspecies israeliensis,
so that it's more commonly known as BTI. But it
is a soil borne bacterium, and it is toxic only
to mosquito larva, black fly larva, and fungus net larva.
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So if you're using it outdoors, for example in a
bird bath, you don't have to worry about toxicity to birds.
It's essentially harmless to any other living species other than
mosquito larva, fungus net larva, and black fly larva.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So when you get into a season like this with
excessive heat and humidity, and moisture. It's not an overwhelming
project to tackle. And if you reduce the population, you're
in pretty good shape, are you not? Or how far
is a mosquito travel? I mean, if I take care
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of my yard, am I still going to have the
problems with the neighbors? I got to sit down and
talk to them about doing it too.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
You know. It's Mosquitoes are not typically known as being
very strong flyers, but they can travel from yard to yard,
So you know, it might be if your neighbors are
friendly and you want to talk to them about treating,
that might be great. But certainly, by doing your part
in your own yard to keep populations low, you're going
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to prevent a heavy infestation and risk of those you know,
nasty mosquito bites.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Hey, you bring up a good point, those pot saucers.
That's true because everybody's probably watering every day and you
just you know, they drain into those saucers. So that
is a that's a great place to start your project.
That in gutters. I'm always talking about, you know, making
sure those you know, gutters are free flowing and pulling
that water away from the home. And you know, nobody
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likes mosquitoes they buy.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
They can be unpleasant in terms of the itching. But
you know, mosquitoes are widely regarded as one of the
most deadly animals in the world. You know, carry disease. Yeah, yeah,
so I don't know that we have the same kind
of trouble here in the States that they do in
other parts of the world.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But you want to.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Avoid mosquito bites whenever possible.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Sure. Now, the mosquito dunks and the bits they're they're
they're easy to find. Most hardware stores, garden centers they
carry them.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
That is correct. You can find them in mass merchants,
local hardware stores, and garden centers and online as well.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Shift gears quickly to tick. I read the headlines, and
I didn't read the article. I saw it yesterday, but
it was basically saying this tick issue continues to become
a bigger and bigger issue. True.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
That is absolutely true. We're hearing more and more in
the news about ticks and the disease that they carry.
It seems that warmer popular warmer climate has led to
an explosion in tick population. So we're hearing more and
more about the diseases they carry.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And you've got a wonderful product, especially if your folks
that are listening are going to be outdoors where you
can actually spray in your clothing and protect yourself.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
That is correct. We make a product called Green Armor.
It's a promethn based spray that you apply to your
clothing and equipment so backpacks, tents, drop cloths, or you know,
groundcover cloths. Sure, and essentially it will repel and kill mosquitoes, ticks, tiggers,
(30:59):
and mites. So it's not something you apply directly to
your person, but probably want to use a deep or
something EPA approved unexposed areas of the skin, but the
Green Armor will add a layer of protection to that
to keep ticks away from you.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And I can't remember the exact amount of time, but
it stays on the clothing even after washings for a
period of time, which is awesome.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
That is correct. It will last, I believe, for up
to six weeks even after washing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
So it's a great added safety measure.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Sure. Sure, where do folks get to Green Armor? Heather?
Speaker 7 (31:38):
You can find Green Armor at your local garden centers
and hardware stores as well, and of course always online.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Okay, seems like mosquitoes love the bite right at dusk.
Is that true?
Speaker 7 (31:51):
I think that you see an increase in mosquito activity
typically at dawn and dusk. So yes, if you're outside,
you know, trying to enjoy cooler temperatures, you're probably going
to experience more bites than you would right in the
middle of a day.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, folks, that's the dunks in the bits. And
you can find the mosquito dunks and bits at your
hardware store, nurseries and of course you got Zamazon and
everything else. But Heather, thank you so much for joining us.
I figured the news we're gonna have today was not
real good news for the folks I'd like to enjoy.
(32:29):
The outdoors has been a little uncomfortable, and then with
the mosquitoes and tick issues, they got to get real
familiar with some of your wonderful products in your website
for Summit Chemicals.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Is what it is, Summit Responsible Solutions dot Com.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Very good. Thanks, hey, enjoy the rest of the summer.
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I guess we're kind of looking for trouble today. And
when I mean that, I like, if everything's just finding
the home, and I talk about walking around the home,
and that's what I'm gonna do right now. It kind
of started at the beginning of the show today with
the del user Rain I was talking about the gutters
and the water control around your home and the reason
(36:24):
it was when it was raining so hard. I was
concerned about is water going to come in around the windows?
So why does that happen? You know, the windows are
installed and then cocking is applied around the scene between
the house and the window themselves, which over time, because
(36:44):
nothing lasts forever goes bad. There's two types of calking
that are used in these cases. Probably the most popular
is an acrylic siliconized calking. So it has the advantages
of being a water base, which makes for easier application.
(37:09):
It has the ability of silicone which has good elasticity,
good adhesion. But then going back to the acrylic part
of it, this is paintable where a pure silicone is not.
So that's the most popular one that's used. The one
(37:30):
that's a little more expensive, and I might add a
little bit better, is a eurethane cocking. I think there's
one out there called Quad. There's a couple other ones,
but a eurothane based. It's paintable, a little more difficult
to you know, apply, it's not a water base. But
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it has superior adhesion and flexibility of any cocking. So
why am I telling you that? Well, because all cocking
is eventually fail, depending on the age of your home,
depending on the age of your windows, depending on how
well you pay attention to it, we'll probably come into
play here. So if it range real hard and you
(38:14):
have a leak, you know you've got a problem. Obviously,
range real hard, you don't have a leak, you may
not have a problem, but it bears checking out. And
I'm not saying, you know a fine tooth comb if
you got upper windows, even standing on the ground with
a pair of binoculars and scanning where the calking is,
where the substrate meets the windows, and if it's cracked
(38:37):
or it's pulling away or there's a gap, it needs
your attention and we can find the problems when we
come into a problem when we come into issues is
when we find the problem and then ignore fixing it,
and that little sometimes five dollars repair can quickly turned
(39:00):
to a fifty dollars repair, and then the window rocks
and then it's a five hundred dollars repair, and then
mold grows inside the hous and it's five thousand dollars repair.
So just giving it a once over, finding out where
an issue is, if there even is one, not a
bad idea, and a little tip on the colcking. You
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can certainly get the acrylic siliconized cocking. It's a wonderful
cocking as good adhesions, paintable. As I said, a little
bit easier to remove. And that's the one big thing
to consider is if you find cocking that is pulled
away from the substrate or from the window and there's
a gap or something's missing, removal of that calking is imperative.
(39:50):
You got to remove the old to apply the new,
and there are different cock removers. But don't get too excited.
It's not like you're gonna spraad on and it's just
gonna just, you know, just destroy the cocking. That's not
gonna happen. What it does is basically softens it up.
It makes that cocking more pliable. It enables you to
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pull that cocking out of that seam. So you get
a cockery move. You spray the cocking and let it
sit for you know, a half hour or so, and
then you get a calking knife's got a little plastic
cook on it, and you get behind that colcking. Since
now the colcking is more pliable, some of the adhesion
has been broken, you can usually pull that cocking out
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fairly easily, and then cleaning that up and then running
a bead of calking. That cocking that you're putting in
between a substrate and the window is not really designed
to fill up the whole cavity. It's to get down
in the cavity. The adhesion takes place on the side
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of the window, on the side of the substrate. It's
not a filler per se. It's it's a it's a
flexible bridge you're installing. So once you have it removed,
you can go ahead and put that calcking in. So
the siliconized acrylic, that's the number one easy to use.
(41:14):
If you want to use the euro thane, why well
you would want it if you have different substrates between
the window and the house. For instance, say you got
aluminum windows and you got wood siding, those are two
different substrates. Expansion contraction will be different, it won't be
(41:38):
as consistent. And a eurothane's got better adhesion a wood
window against a metal sighting. When there's differences wooden window
against wood sighting, you know, I mean, you're not going
to have much difference. You're siliconized, be fine, So give
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some thought of which one you want to use. I'm
here to tell you you're not going to go wrong
with either one. But if you're really want to go
by the you know, the letter of the law, you
might look at your eurthanes for mixed substrates. All right,
let me give you the phone number, because when we
break at the top of the hour, we're going to
come back. We're going to do all kinds of calls
(42:20):
for the half hour, and then at the bottom of
the next hour, Peter Dish will be joining us from
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sealer track. Say if you've heard me talk about it,
along with some of his other products, which are phenomenal
products that we can all use around the home, and
they're easy to use, they're very user friendly and can
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address a lot of the issues. So Peter's going to
be joining us. I'll try to keep them on I
don't know, twenty minutes, half hour somewhere in there, and
we'll solve some of those problems, including some maybe patios
that have some issues with sealers and divots on it,
and certainly would come into right into Peter's catalog of
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some great products that could take care of those problems.
So our phone number, if you'd like to join us,
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That's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
By the way, if you're working outdoors, maybe you're restoring
a front door, or maybe you've got some Adirondack chairs
and you're looking about putting an extra coat of euthane
(43:30):
or protecting on it. A quick reminder here, and I
see the mistakes used a lot. We all love the
name polyurethane. If you're putting it outside on furniture or
a front door, you're making a mistake. A polyurethane does
not hold well against the ultraviolet rays of the sun,
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which you're looking for something, is something with a little
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Spa or spar your thane, or marine your thane, and
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A poly your thane will turn amber color probably in
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Well, the weekends upon us. Welcome. You're at home with
Gary Sullivan. Another weekend. Let's get some things done around home.
Happy to have you, Thanks for joining me. And uh, well,
what's up, what's going on? What needs your attention? There's
a lot going on. Garage clean up, yeah, start thinking forward, fireplace.
What kind of shape that's that in basement? It's a
(00:57):
smell moldy damn. Got to address that issue. But one
of the things I thought i'd kick off today with
and feel free to join us with your questions. Love
to talk to you about what you're working on. We
had a really I don't know what you call it.
It was a really heavy rain, I guess, and I
don't know how much we got, but there's a lot
(01:20):
of standing water, some limbs down and things like that.
And I think we're all experiencing some of these really
heavy duty downpours this particular year. And when I noticed
is I always try to kind of check things. As
hard as it was raining, I was a little concerned
(01:40):
about moisture getting in the house, rain getting in the house.
And yeah, I'm sure you every now and then you
have that same fear. But no, nothing, nothing. The only
thing I saw was gutters that were spilling over, and
I thought, what the heck, you know, I got my
gutter brushes in there. I haven't had any problems that
I know of, And went upstairs and looked down into
(02:04):
one of the gutters, and sure enough is spilling over.
Nothing clogging the gutter that I could see. But when
it actually happened, and this is why you really always
need to kind of pay attention on what's going on
during a heavy burst of rain. You know, it's just
sticking your head out a little bit of the door
and just kind of up and down the house or
(02:24):
out back or whatever, just kind of keep an eye
on things. And the gutter itself didn't have positive flow
to the down spout. It was kind of tilted towards
the house. So where it tilts towards the house, there
is where the house and the roof meets and it's
a pretty steep slope and it's a five inch gutter.
(02:48):
And that five inch gutter, as observing during this rainfall,
it isn't big enough. We need to get a six
inch on there. But having said that, this is the
old nail and feral system, not brackets, and it was
tilted back towards the house, so it was spilling out there,
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not really causing any damage. It was going on the
corner of the patio and you know, dissipating down into
the landscaping bed. Not a huge problem, but something that
should be corrected. And so I was up early this
morning just kind of taking a walk. And you can
always tell if you had some issues with water control
(03:32):
around your home after a really heavy rain, because you'll
see maybe some wash out and some mulch beds, maybe
where the downspout pipe comes out of the ground. If
real heavy rain, you're not going to have grass torn up,
but you're going to see where it's pushed the grass
(03:54):
down flat. And anyway, by walking around, I saw several
spots like that. Started really looking at the gutters and yeah,
that's kind of what's going on. I guess they've been
up for about twenty six years, and you know, over
time and ice and snow and rain and everything else,
there's been some misalignment going on, which certainly can be
(04:18):
corrected and needs to be corrected. And so I ask you,
did you experience any issues? And maybe it didn't rain
where you're at, but have you experienced any issues in
the last six months that probably needs your attention. My
mine apparently does so. The phone number if you'd like
to talk about that, please do. It's eight hundred eight
(04:41):
two three eight two five five. And you know, keeping
those gutters in good standing order, well draining, not spilling over.
We're seeing a big trend where gutters on homes are gosh.
I started doing the show on most houses we had
(05:03):
four or five inch gutters. The big trend lately is
six inch cutters on homes, and maybe you're thinking about
that too. I'm definitely definitely thinking about doing that. I
think it needs to happen. It's been a problem for
a few years, not forever, but a few years.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Probably probably needs to be corrected before we start having
some water inside our home, that's for sure. All right again,
you got the phone number. Jump on board, Jim, you
lead us off today.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Welcome, good morning, Good morning, Good sir. I'm scratching my
head here, which is easy to do since it doesn't
have much hair anymore. I painted my my basement. My
concrete basement flow is drylock and then a port floor enamel.
And when we've had heavy rains out here at Youngstown,
like I presume you did in Cincinnati. I can actually
(06:01):
see water bubbling up underneath the paint. There are only
two spots in it. And I have a sum pump
in the basement which works the zolar some pump.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So well, So what's the question? We know it's not right,
but what's the question?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How do I correct it? I mean, there's no problems
with my down spout. We have brand new five inch spotting.
It was put up last year when we re roofed.
The green towels working properly, gratings good on the house.
The only thing I could think of is a high
water table. I don't know what else it could be.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, well that's exactly what it is. I mean, that
is exactly what it is. But you said something in
it right away, I go. You said that the priven
Foundation drains are all working well, And I thought to myself,
how do we know that?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Because I had a company to run a camera through
that when we spouting, okay, they said everything was over
because I didn't know even though we don't have trees,
you know, it could be roots from a neighbor's tree.
But everything's clear.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So there's there's a couple of things. Your your your
foundation drains are usually not all the way underneath the floor, okay,
So if you kind of look at but your some
pump should have taken care of that, okay. So if
you look at the the perimeter of the drains around
(07:32):
the foundation, I like to say that that's taking care
of the water that's fallen from the sky. All right.
It's coming down, whether it's the gutters are overflowing or
not overflowing, whether the foundation is tilted towards the house
or not, there is an abundance of water that is
against that foundation. It's being collected by those pipes, routed
(07:56):
to the some pump and pumped away. There's another set
of drains that can be applied not normally established during
home building, and that is beneath the floor of the house.
You could run an interior perimeter drain inside the house
(08:19):
below the floor level. That would catch the water that's
rising from the water table itself. That too could be
routed to the sump well and pumped away from the house.
So if it is the water table, I don't have
(08:39):
any way to tell you that's definitely what's happening. But
we have an abundance of water that's under there. It's
weeping up, there's water below the paint. That paint. That
dry lock can hold up to ten pounds of water
pressure per square inch, so it can hold back a
lot of water. It would be interesting to see today
(09:00):
if that has receded and that water doesn't appear to
be under that pain anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It doesn't. Yeah, I would, I would vacuum up the
water with a shot back ranity of menifire. And fortunately
it hasn't lifted the pink completely off the floor. That
was what my worry was.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So but we still got an issue. Yeah, I mean,
you're living in Venice, Italy, right, Whenever you have a
huge rain shower or storm, it's bringing that water up
below the surface of the floor or and it's being
stopped by that pain. So the only way that I
(09:46):
would know would be putting in perimeter drains. And what
they do is they literally cut the inside of the floor.
I didn't say it'd be pretty. They dig that out
down about a f gravel beds and put in corrugated
drain pipe and route it to the sump well. Yeah,
(10:10):
and maybe even in a secondary sump well. And then
as that water table, you know, grows and builds and
starts reaching the base of that floor. It's picked up
by those those pipes. And again it's about water control,
so it's controlling the level of the water.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So I found to mention this house is one hundred
and twenty five years old, so I doubt there's anything
that was done like that when the house was built.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
No, in fact, they're not done today. I mean, you know,
unless you specified as in addition, you know, expense to
the home that they don't put pipes. You know, they
dig a home, plant your house and then put pipes
around it, but they don't put it down on the base.
(11:01):
I do that. So yeah, so that's an option to hear. Yeah,
you might, you know, keep an eye on it, talk
to a few people, get some other opinions. But in
my opinion, based on what you're telling me, that's that's
the only way you're going to control that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, you've never stared me wrong in four decades.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So that sounds good. Thank you much, Jim, appreciate it.
To call all right, you can join us. It's eight
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We were talking earlier about maybe increasing the size of gutters,
(14:47):
making sure they're cleaned out, making sure you have a
positive fall to the down spout. And from a cosmetic standpoint,
I've started to get this question again, and we haven't
had this question. I'm telling you, it seems like ten years.
We used to get it every week. And that is
what is that blackish film that is on the gutters,
(15:07):
on the down spouts and aluminum, especially if you get
the wide or the beige, well, it is kind of
a fungus and an algae. The only way I found
to get rid of it is to scrub it. No
miracle here it's almost embedded in the paint, or it
(15:28):
appears to be embedded into the paint. So one of
the things that I found successful in cleaning that up,
and then I'll tell you something that I find really
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(15:51):
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get it, so don't panic. You can still get it
and onto a cotton cloth and rub and it'll clean
(16:14):
it up. It'll clean it up. Now, the interesting thing
is if you painted those gutters, you won't have that problem. Now.
I don't have an answer for that, but a number
of years ago after in fact, having done a lot
of TV tips and video tips over the course of
(16:36):
my career, I would leave portions of the cutter cleaned
and not cleaned so that we could show before and afters,
and we could also show cleaning them. My wife loves that.
But we had the house, the gutters, we had Rhino
(16:57):
Ship put on our house actually, and they did the
gutters and it was I've never ever ever had streaking
on the gutter since. But I know there's still a
lot of just factory painted gutters out there, and if
you've got them, you've probably got that black streak on them,
and not a bad idea to get that cleaned up,
(17:17):
just from you know, from looking at add to a
little curb appeal. And one of the things that you
may consider also is while you're up there scrubbing away,
if you do have the nail and the feral system
on your gutters like I do, and I was just
talking about how they got a little bit misaligned. Pulling
(17:38):
on those nails and tugging on that gutter and see
how well they're connected to the house might surprise you.
And one of the things you can do is instead
of using the nails, you can use gutter screws and
you can just run a screw right in there, make
(18:00):
him nice and talk to the house and that should
solve your problem. Bud, Welcome, Hoti Gary.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I got a problem. My water went out back in
March the end of March, and my next door neighbor,
he's kind of a you know, a handy man, kind
of god. He knows a little about everything.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
And so I went over and got him, and he
came over and looked at it, and he said, man,
I can't find anything. He said, but we had an
electric serge yesterday morning. Did you did you see that
or feel it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Now? I did not, probably in bed.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Now this was back in March. Oh, And I said no,
I was in bed. And he said, well, that may
have had something to do with it. You need to
find somebody to look at it. That's where you come in.
I don't even know who to get to look at
that to find out what's wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
What's the water from?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Is it from a well pump or what well?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Well? An electrician would be one to take a look
at it to see if there's something burned out. If
it's a pump that's failed, which it sounds like that
could be, you could get a well company or a
plumbing company to replace those. But when you say you
don't know, so, I think that's probably where I would start.
(19:24):
Would it sounds like the pump is bad if there
was a power search possibly burn that out and might
need to be replaced. So a plumber bud is where
I'd start and go from there. Appreciate the call coming up.
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All right, back at it we go at home with
Gary Sullivan, taking you through another weekend, talking about well
all the things we encounter in our homes and if
you'd like to join us, do so right now. We
have a friend that we've had on a couple of
times this year, Heather Stickney. She is with some a
chemical and Heather, welcome again that home with Gary Salvin.
(23:11):
How you doing?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Good morning, Gary, I'm doing great, Thanks.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Good? So we're always talking about ticks and mosquitoes. Where
I met, it's been hot, humid, and we've had our
fair share of storms and rain. How's that season.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
For ticks and mosquitoes? It's prime. Unfortunately, all of that
standing water can serve as you know, a great breeding
ground for mosquitos and their offspring. So unfortunately, weather like
that brings more mosquitoes into the yard.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah. I had Ron Wilson and we're always talking about
the outside landscaping earlier today and he was talking to
and asked him the same on a question. He goes like, man,
it's like crazy grass has grown. It's like a fungus
in yards. It's a big problem this year. We've learned
from you over the years and through Summit about the
(24:13):
mosquito dunks and mosquito bites. And you just said are
bits I said, you just said just a second ago,
this weather's a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes, and we've
learned from you about the dunks and the bites bits.
I don't know why I keep saying bites because mosquitoes bite. Yeah.
(24:34):
Where do you use these products to minimize the breeding
of mosquitoes.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Well, so we've talked about the rain that has come,
and you know, mosquitoes breed in standing water, So any
area that might collect water is an area where you
would want to use either a dunk or mosquito bits
to control the larvae that develop in that standing water.
For example, pots. People don't often think of pot saucers
(25:02):
as an area where you might find mosquitos, but if
you've got, if you've got standing water in them, there's
opportunity for mosquitoes to lay their eggs and hatch into larva,
kiddie pools, toys out in the yard. Your brain gutters
any place, bird bath, fountains, any place that might hold water.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
How long would be How long does a dunk last
if you put it in an area or the bit.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Well? So there's a little bit of a difference between
dunks and bits. Dunks are designed to float on the
surface of standing water. They release over time the active ingredient,
and they last for up to thirty days. Bits work
a little bit more quickly because of the way they're formulated.
They're designed for broadcast application, and the active ingredient releases
(25:59):
off the grand well very quickly to kill within twenty
four hours, okay, and then we recommend reapplication every seven
to fourteen days. So what I would say is that
bits are very quick acting. Dunks have more of a
sustained release.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And there's different sizes and there's also different applications for
it too. As you just stated, when would you you
would use a dunk more like a little pond or
a decorative fountain or a bird bath and then the
the bits maybe like a little swale in the yard.
(26:38):
Is that how you.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Would I would necessarily apply bits to the yard. They're
not really designed as a yard application. But for example
in those pot saucers or in your gutters where you
might have something that you need to clean up a
population very quickly, gotch leaf piles, areas where it's a
little bit harder to apply a dunk and float a
(27:01):
dunk would be ideals for ideal for bits.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So what's the ingredient in there? And how safe is it?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
The ingredient, it's a mouthful. It's called Bacillus thringentious subspecies israeliensis,
so that it's more commonly known as BTI. But it
is a soil borne bacterium, and it is toxic only
to mosquito larva, black fly larva, and fungus net larva.
(27:32):
So if you're using it outdoors, for example in a
bird bath, you don't have to worry about toxicity to birds.
It's essentially harmless to any other living species other than
mosquito larva, fungus net larva, and black fly larva.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So when you get into a season like this with
excessive heat and humidity, and moisture. It's not an overwhelming
project to tackle. And if you reduce the population, you're
in pretty good shape, are you not? Or how far
is a mosquito travel? I mean, if I take care
(28:10):
of my yard, am I still going to have the
problems with the neighbors? I got to sit down and
talk to them about doing it too.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
You know. It's Mosquitoes are not typically known as being
very strong flyers, but they can travel from yard to yard,
So you know, it might be if your neighbors are
friendly and you want to talk to them about treating,
that might be great. But certainly, by doing your part
in your own yard to keep populations low, you're going
(28:39):
to prevent a heavy infestation and risk of those you know,
nasty mosquito bites.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Hey, you bring up a good point, those pot saucers.
That's true because everybody's probably watering every day and you
just you know, they drain into those saucers. So that
is a that's a great place to start your project.
That in gutters. I'm always talking about, you know, making
sure those you know, gutters are free flowing and pulling
that water away from the home. And you know, nobody
(29:10):
likes mosquitoes they buy.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
They can be unpleasant in terms of the itching. But
you know, mosquitoes are widely regarded as one of the
most deadly animals in the world. You know, carry disease. Yeah, yeah,
so I don't know that we have the same kind
of trouble here in the States that they do in
other parts of the world.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But you want to.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Avoid mosquito bites whenever possible.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Sure. Now, the mosquito dunks and the bits they're they're
they're easy to find. Most hardware stores, garden centers they
carry them.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
That is correct. You can find them in mass merchants,
local hardware stores, and garden centers and online as well.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Shift gears quickly to tick. I read the headlines, and
I didn't read the article. I saw it yesterday, but
it was basically saying this tick issue continues to become
a bigger and bigger issue. True.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
That is absolutely true. We're hearing more and more in
the news about ticks and the disease that they carry.
It seems that warmer popular warmer climate has led to
an explosion in tick population. So we're hearing more and
more about the diseases they carry.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And you've got a wonderful product, especially if your folks
that are listening are going to be outdoors where you
can actually spray in your clothing and protect yourself.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
That is correct. We make a product called Green Armor.
It's a promethn based spray that you apply to your
clothing and equipment so backpacks, tents, drop cloths, or you know,
groundcover cloths. Sure, and essentially it will repel and kill mosquitoes, ticks, tiggers,
(30:59):
and mites. So it's not something you apply directly to
your person, but probably want to use a deep or
something EPA approved unexposed areas of the skin, but the
Green Armor will add a layer of protection to that
to keep ticks away from you.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And I can't remember the exact amount of time, but
it stays on the clothing even after washings for a
period of time, which is awesome.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
That is correct. It will last, I believe, for up
to six weeks even after washing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
So it's a great added safety measure.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Sure. Sure, where do folks get to Green Armor? Heather?
Speaker 7 (31:38):
You can find Green Armor at your local garden centers
and hardware stores as well, and of course always online.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Okay, seems like mosquitoes love the bite right at dusk.
Is that true?
Speaker 7 (31:51):
I think that you see an increase in mosquito activity
typically at dawn and dusk. So yes, if you're outside,
you know, trying to enjoy cooler temperatures, you're probably going
to experience more bites than you would right in the
middle of a day.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, folks, that's the dunks in the bits. And
you can find the mosquito dunks and bits at your
hardware store, nurseries and of course you got Zamazon and
everything else. But Heather, thank you so much for joining us.
I figured the news we're gonna have today was not
real good news for the folks I'd like to enjoy.
(32:29):
The outdoors has been a little uncomfortable, and then with
the mosquitoes and tick issues, they got to get real
familiar with some of your wonderful products in your website
for Summit Chemicals.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Is what it is, Summit Responsible Solutions dot Com.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Very good. Thanks, hey, enjoy the rest of the summer.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Appreciate your time, Jerry, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
All right, Heather, take care, take care. All right, let's
take a break, we come back. We got Matt and
Jeff and if you'd like to join us do so
we got open lines after Matt and Jeff. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five year at
Home with Garriy Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Help for your home is just a click away at
Garysullivan online dot com. This is at Home with Garrisullivan.
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Speaker 1 (36:03):
I guess we're kind of looking for trouble today. And
when I mean that, I like, if everything's just finding
the home, and I talk about walking around the home,
and that's what I'm gonna do right now. It kind
of started at the beginning of the show today with
the del user Rain I was talking about the gutters
and the water control around your home and the reason
(36:24):
it was when it was raining so hard. I was
concerned about is water going to come in around the windows?
So why does that happen? You know, the windows are
installed and then cocking is applied around the scene between
the house and the window themselves, which over time, because
(36:44):
nothing lasts forever goes bad. There's two types of calking
that are used in these cases. Probably the most popular
is an acrylic siliconized calking. So it has the advantages
of being a water base, which makes for easier application.
(37:09):
It has the ability of silicone which has good elasticity,
good adhesion. But then going back to the acrylic part
of it, this is paintable where a pure silicone is not.
So that's the most popular one that's used. The one
(37:30):
that's a little more expensive, and I might add a
little bit better, is a eurethane cocking. I think there's
one out there called Quad. There's a couple other ones,
but a eurothane based. It's paintable, a little more difficult
to you know, apply, it's not a water base. But
(37:51):
it has superior adhesion and flexibility of any cocking. So
why am I telling you that? Well, because all cocking
is eventually fail, depending on the age of your home,
depending on the age of your windows, depending on how
well you pay attention to it, we'll probably come into
play here. So if it range real hard and you
(38:14):
have a leak, you know you've got a problem. Obviously,
range real hard, you don't have a leak, you may
not have a problem, but it bears checking out. And
I'm not saying, you know a fine tooth comb if
you got upper windows, even standing on the ground with
a pair of binoculars and scanning where the calking is,
where the substrate meets the windows, and if it's cracked
(38:37):
or it's pulling away or there's a gap, it needs
your attention and we can find the problems when we
come into a problem when we come into issues is
when we find the problem and then ignore fixing it,
and that little sometimes five dollars repair can quickly turned
(39:00):
to a fifty dollars repair, and then the window rocks
and then it's a five hundred dollars repair, and then
mold grows inside the hous and it's five thousand dollars repair.
So just giving it a once over, finding out where
an issue is, if there even is one, not a
bad idea, and a little tip on the colcking. You
(39:22):
can certainly get the acrylic siliconized cocking. It's a wonderful
cocking as good adhesions, paintable. As I said, a little
bit easier to remove. And that's the one big thing
to consider is if you find cocking that is pulled
away from the substrate or from the window and there's
a gap or something's missing, removal of that calking is imperative.
(39:50):
You got to remove the old to apply the new,
and there are different cock removers. But don't get too excited.
It's not like you're gonna spraad on and it's just
gonna just, you know, just destroy the cocking. That's not
gonna happen. What it does is basically softens it up.
It makes that cocking more pliable. It enables you to
(40:10):
pull that cocking out of that seam. So you get
a cockery move. You spray the cocking and let it
sit for you know, a half hour or so, and
then you get a calking knife's got a little plastic
cook on it, and you get behind that colcking. Since
now the colcking is more pliable, some of the adhesion
has been broken, you can usually pull that cocking out
(40:31):
fairly easily, and then cleaning that up and then running
a bead of calking. That cocking that you're putting in
between a substrate and the window is not really designed
to fill up the whole cavity. It's to get down
in the cavity. The adhesion takes place on the side
(40:51):
of the window, on the side of the substrate. It's
not a filler per se. It's it's a it's a
flexible bridge you're installing. So once you have it removed,
you can go ahead and put that calcking in. So
the siliconized acrylic, that's the number one easy to use.
(41:14):
If you want to use the euro thane, why well
you would want it if you have different substrates between
the window and the house. For instance, say you got
aluminum windows and you got wood siding, those are two
different substrates. Expansion contraction will be different, it won't be
(41:38):
as consistent. And a eurothane's got better adhesion a wood
window against a metal sighting. When there's differences wooden window
against wood sighting, you know, I mean, you're not going
to have much difference. You're siliconized, be fine, So give
(41:59):
some thought of which one you want to use. I'm
here to tell you you're not going to go wrong
with either one. But if you're really want to go
by the you know, the letter of the law, you
might look at your eurthanes for mixed substrates. All right,
let me give you the phone number, because when we
break at the top of the hour, we're going to
come back. We're going to do all kinds of calls
(42:20):
for the half hour, and then at the bottom of
the next hour, Peter Dish will be joining us from
Dish Codings. We're going to talk about a slip resistance
sealer track. Say if you've heard me talk about it,
along with some of his other products, which are phenomenal
products that we can all use around the home, and
they're easy to use, they're very user friendly and can
(42:43):
address a lot of the issues. So Peter's going to
be joining us. I'll try to keep them on I
don't know, twenty minutes, half hour somewhere in there, and
we'll solve some of those problems, including some maybe patios
that have some issues with sealers and divots on it,
and certainly would come into right into Peter's catalog of
(43:07):
some great products that could take care of those problems.
So our phone number, if you'd like to join us,
it is eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
That's eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five.
By the way, if you're working outdoors, maybe you're restoring
a front door, or maybe you've got some Adirondack chairs
and you're looking about putting an extra coat of euthane
(43:30):
or protecting on it. A quick reminder here, and I
see the mistakes used a lot. We all love the
name polyurethane. If you're putting it outside on furniture or
a front door, you're making a mistake. A polyurethane does
not hold well against the ultraviolet rays of the sun,
(43:50):
which you're looking for something, is something with a little
bit more UV protecting. The eurothane's great, the poly's not.
So you want to get a bar your thane. That's right.
Spa or spar your thane, or marine your thane, and
that's going to hold up much better to the sun.
A poly your thane will turn amber color probably in
(44:14):
a few years and begin to peel. So stay away
from the polly you want to use. The spar or
the marine your thing? All right, grab a line, happy
to talk to you. It's eight hundred eighty two three
A two five five. Will continue with your calls. And
you're at home with Garry Sullivan.
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