July 19, 2025 • 41 mins
Your calls, tips and questions with Gary. We also talk to our friends at Percision Pipe Works.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome now or number four at home with
Gary Salvin. Best part of the day, good afternoon, and
of course we're taking your calls we go to your
home projects. Feel free to grab that line. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five and let's
get back to the phone calls. And Mel's been kind
enough to wait, Mel, thank you for waiting.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome, Hi Gary, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hey, I just had some my bathroom shower retiled and
they put the grout right from the wall to the floor,
you know, connecting the two around, and the silicone hasn't
been applied yet. But when I went to pick up
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the silicone at the towel shop, they said they thought
it was supposed to be directly in between and not
have any grout.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Do you know, So when you say directly between between the.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Wall tile and the floor towel, right, no grout or
do you have grout?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And then it's done both ways? It's done both ways. Yeah.
So usually when it's installed it is grouded and when
in some cases not always. I mean, you can do
it both ways. So grout is not flexible. Silicone is.
And there are two different substrates so if there's a
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lot of movement, you'll probably have some issue with the
with the grout breaking out. But on the other hand,
I have a shower in our bathroom which was redone
in seven, so almost twenty years, and it was grouded
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and it still is okay, you know, so you know,
there is no movement that floor or wall and it's
just fine and it looks perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So I leave it alone, silicone on top of it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I wouldn't put silicon on top of it. I don't
think you need to do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Really.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, So if it's if it's grouded right to that
and it's you know, there's there's no scene, there's no nothing.
Did the grouse get sealed? No? Okay yet? So there
is groud sealer. Miracle Seilance is one I use. It's
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it's got like a fifteen year warranty. It's a spray on,
non wipe, so you literally just spray it on. There's
all aqua seal, which is like a little sponge at
the top. It's almost like liquid shoe polish that you'll
then wipe off the tile. So I definitely get that
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groud sealed. I think it grout by itself, I think
it has a three percent penetration and once it seals
about a half a percent.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Okay, so it's called miracle.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Miracle ceilants for tile ground or aquas seals. There's a
couple of them. Just just read them. See if you
got to wipe it off, not wipe it off. See
what the warranty is. And I'm assuming that this is
just regular ground that somebody mixed up with you know,
powder and water and applied it correct, right yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Do you say, don't put silicone on top of that?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
No, no, it would serve no purpose. Okay, okay, So
and I'm talking about a silicone calking. Is that what
you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, there would say no purpose. I mean there are
silicone groud sealers which are like the viscosity of water,
but that's not talking. So maybe that's what they were
speaking of.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, I think what's a cock wherever the joints are, like,
even where the corner is going down there with a ceiling,
does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, yeah, if there's a if there's an opening or
there is an open seam, yeah you'll need caking. But
if it's grouted flush all the way around. No, okay,
and putting it on the top of the ground really
saves you know, doesn't really serve a purpose because it's
laying on the surface. The purpose of the ground would
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be to fill a crevice, and the adhesion takes place
on the side, not on the surface. In other words,
it'd be just like a band aid on a big cut.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Okay, all right, then, all right, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're quite welcome. Thanks by all right, twelve twelve, let's
go to Meg Meg. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I actually have two questions now all right, listening to
some of your callers. The first one is about I
bought my home in twenty eighteen. It was built in
nineteen fifty five, and I had some tough pointing done
around with the base of the house, leaps the driveway,
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and a lot of it has come up.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What's come up? The tuck pointing, okay.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Popped right out. So I clearly the person I had
to do it clearly didn't do it well or you
know or right. I don't know what the issue is.
He's not a business now, of course, Uh what do
I need to do? Is it? If I don't put
our tuck pointing in there? Well, will effect water getting
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into my head?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, let's let me ask you a couple of questions. Banging.
Tell me, so, where the driveway butts up to the foundation,
is that where this issue is.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
No, it's not the foundation of the house.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay, it's where the driveway bum into the brick. Yes, okay,
So the concrete is butted up to the to the brick,
and there was a gap there and somebody filled that
gap with mortar.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I don't know what he filled it with, but it's
somebody want to clarify something. The driveway is not butted
up against the house. There's a there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Space, okay with your finger? Uh yeah, okay, okay. There
should not be concrete in there.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Is there concrete in there? Is that the problem?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
No? No, I don't. I don't know what the guy
put in there. I have no idea what he put
in there. But you can pick it out with your fingernails.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, And that's what you're calling tuck pointing right, yes, okay?
Does it feel like concrete? Does it feel sementatious?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I never heard that one before. I'm going outside right now.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Or grouting? Actually what should be in there is something
that has good adhesions and flexible.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well and certainly not Yeah yeah, this feels.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, So yeah so really what So here's the here's
the problem. That the house is stable, the driveway is not.
And and I'm talking about everybody's house, okay, So there's
some movement. There's some movement. And just like if you
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have a big crack in your concrete driveway and you
got there and you filled up with concrete in that crack,
it's not going to work because that driveways flexing and
that's going to break out. So when you have two
separate substrates, the house, the brick and the driveway, and
the house isn't moving, but the driveway is moving, you know,
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just because it's on the earth and it's flexing, and
somebody and you have a natural scene there and over
time it settles, it pulls away or whatever, and somebody goes, oh,
we got to fill that. And then you hear me
talking about tuck pointing brick, but you wouldn't tuck point there.
What you would do. We had a call earlier about
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that almost same thing, and we talked about using a
self leveling urethane crack filler and it comes in a
calking tube and you would clean that out and you
would run a bead of the self leveling eurth thing
cocking which has the best adhesion and the best flexibility.
That's what you would use in that space.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Okay, kind of like this guy. Okay, there a.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Manufact yeah, quick crete is you know. You go up
to Low's or Ace or anywhere and ask for self
leveling your thing cracked sealant or there's also a self
leveling advanced resin cracked seal or either one of those
work great. It's used with a calking tube and a
calking gun. You got to clean out the old stuff though,
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so you're gonna have to use like a cold chisel
and chisel that out and then run that bead of
self leveling cracked ceiling in there.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Welf leveling cracked ceiling, cracked ceiling. Okay, all right, yes,
So my my other question is, having seen your moment here,
I'll have to call you back.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Let me put you on hold. We got to go
and get to Abraham too before we get a guest
in here. Thank you much for the call. Mag We'll
continue at home with Gary Salvan right here. In fifty
five care seed the top station. All right, back at
it we go twelve twenty one on your Saturday, and
let's get back to the phone calls. We have Abraham
Abraham welcome.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Hello, Yes, sir, yes, sir, thanks for taking my call
on this, says over. I heard about I have a
crack in my bestub, and I see if there's any
way that we can't prepare it, you can help me
with that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah. So is it a fiberglass tub.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Plas today tub? He's a fiberglass okay.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Is it on the floor of the tub.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
As the second floor on the kitchen underneath the floor?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Okay? And where's the crack? Is it by the drain
or is it on the side of the tub or
where is the.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Crack is in the middle of the tub. And there's
like an inch inch and a half to two inches long. Yeah, yes,
And there's no sub floor underneath it. So when we
take a shower, you know, the crack keep getting bigger.
So what I did, I bought a very solution about
like waterproofs patch and I patch it and put like
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a Gorla cab and tup to prevent the water from
link into the kitchen. Which is did happen before? So
I see there's any solution optional before we try to
replace it out.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, so you said there is no sub floor. There
is that what you said.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
There's no sub floor underneath the tub.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So it has no supporting strength in that tub, right right, okay?
And you said you did patch it.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I did took like a water waterproof patch, okay, because
we tried to take a shower right right right?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And is that holding again? Is has that solved the
leaking problem?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
It's solved temporarily. But you know, because there's no subfloor
getting getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You and I are on the same page. So that's
the problem. Okay. I always talk about finding the why
why did this happen? And and you figured that out.
It's there's no support under it. Now, there are different
tubs that are thicker walled, different materials that maybe that
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can work, fiberglass not so much, and there are different
patch kits for tubs. The question is is it going
to happen again? And that part I don't know what
the answer is. I would assume that it very well
could happen. But there are fiberglass tub repair kits that
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are out there. The first thing you would do really
is kind of drill a hole at the beginning of
that crack and at the end of that crack, then
you would lightly sand it and the instructions will be
on a kit, so you're buying a fiberglass tub repair kit.
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You would sand along that crack, you would use soap
and water and clean it up, and then you're basically
gonna tape and you can get some masking tape and
tape the sides of the crack. And there's a in
a POxy patch and a tape, so it's designed specifically
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for this problem. And once you identify the leak, you've
done that, you can drain tub, you get a good
and dry you clean the area, you sand the area,
you repair the the fiberglass repair which is almost like
a car repair like a bondo, like a fiberglass patch
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for a car in Kate. You know, if there were
a wreck or something, and you apply this patch and
you can cut a piece of fiberglass cloth that can
go over that and then you smooth it out with
that you can tell it's patched, and then if you
need to seal that or paint that area, then you
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try to match that up or there's also companies that
can do that. One of them is called Miracle Method
and they patch tubs and I don't know they you know,
you can use them as a consultant too, to see
if it's gonna hold. I don't know how much support
their is. It doesn't sound like there's much. And I'd
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hate to see you go to all this work and
then find out it's gonna crack anyway. It's gonna crack
somewhere else. But that's how you would repair it. Though.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah, I'm afraid the crack again to gain because because
there's no support underneath it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, it very well may, in which case, you know,
I mean the alternative then is you're pulling out the
tub and you're building a support panel and then you
put a tub on top.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Well, do you have any idea what's the cost of
replacing a five bird life tub?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well? I just replaced one not too long ago, and
I didn't realize all the different sizes that were available.
But you can probably replace one somewhere between six and
twelve hundred dollars. Six hundred dollars to twelve hundred dollars.
I mean nothing with buying the tub. So you're gonna
buy a toub for that.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, it was the repair of plumber on the.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Plumber, Yeah, yeah, probably. And there's also, yeah, a liner,
there's liners that they do run on top. But I
think you're gonna have the same problem there. It's hard
for me to say without seeing it. I'm just kind
of giving you the options. I think what I would
do is I would probably contact a person that does
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bath repairs or bathroom models, and there's a bunch of
them right now out there, bath Fitter, north Shore Rebath
and get their opinion because you got this big variable,
and the big variable is no support. So well that
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all right, very good, Abraham, thank you much for the call.
Appreciate it, my friend. All right, let's get Carlos and
then we'll bring our guests in and we're going to
talk about your drain pipe in this area with all
the clay, it's a problem. Carlos, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I have a large escape window, well made of fiberglass.
And what is happening and it's five and a half
foot deep and six foot across, so you know, it's
rather large, like I said, And what's happening is mud
is sleeping and from the outside of the window well
to the inside bottom of this window. Well, uh huh,
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And I don't know if there's any way to you know,
kind of divert the water somehow from there, or seal
the bottom of the window well so that it doesn't
come up underneath and in the area.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah. Well, again it's the path of least resistance for
water and soil, right, So the only way I can
answer that question.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Kind of this is kind of a flat area. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that you're still going to get an issue there.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, and you've got a couple issues. I mean, you
also have a water table. You know, if you have
a high water table around your house, that's gonna I mean,
it can literally weep up from the bottom and you're
looking on the side. But when you first described it
right away, my thought is grading, it's grading. And then
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you just said it was a flat area, so it
probably is grading. Right, You're going to have to create
a little bit of grade maybe around the window well,
maybe around the foundation before you get to the window
well and try to divert it. You're just gonna have
to really analyze that to a point because ceiling it
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with we actually had this conversation and kick off the
show today. Ceiling the sides with a calking and stuff
might be an answer. If that's where the problem is,
we got to really identify where it's coming in.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's more it's more towards the outside part right where
it's coming in, not the side so much.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
So my guess is a fabric that can be put
down up around the window well so that the water
would you know, instead of the you know, like landscaping fabric,
you know, the water goes to it, right right, Well,
I mean they're around the window wells.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There's flashing the diverted Yeah, there's rubber ice flashing that
is self stick that you would put under brick and
also on the ledge of the foundation of a house
that could probably be applied. If that's where it's coming in,
that would make it water. The big question then is.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I think it's more towards the you know, the outside part,
not the house part.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, I understand, but if you dug down on the
side of that, That's why I said, I you know,
so how do you think it's getting in? Is it
coming underneath or where do you think it's getting Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well, it's coming from the outside of the window well.
The water, like you said, there's sense that goes down
to the bottom of the shell, which is fiberglass, and
it's coming up underneath and up, so it's pushing it,
you know. I guess it's a loose start when they
put it around there. So the dirt, you know, the
water goes in there on the outside and just blows
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to the bottom of the window well and then comes
up on the inside of the.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, the wind. And the only other thing I'm thinking
of is maybe a drain pipe around that, almost like
an underground French drain, where you dig down around the outside.
You put a gravel base down, you put the drain
pipe with slits in it, landscape faber on top of
it and get it create a slope with that drain
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and route that water somewhere.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Okay, now, how far deep would you have to go?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
With about eighteen inches?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Okay, that's good because like I said, it's five and
a half foot deep.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I don't want to dig that far.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, so that might be an option also.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Okay, yeah, that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Actually, yeah, an underground French drain, because apparently you don't
have the space really to build up a slope around
the outside of it, so I would say an underground
French drain and see if we can't divert that water
away from the exterior that window well or escape place.
All right, thank you much for the call. I appreciate it.
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Coming up, we're going to talk about the waist line
that leads not your waist line, but waste line that's
coming out of your house. Sorry, that couldn't help myself.
That's a dad joke there. It is in this area.
We have lots of things going on, and probably one
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of the biggest things we have going on is we
have really clay soil and it dries out, it drinks,
it expands when it gets wet. It torques. We got
old clay pipes. Anyway, we're gonna learn all about a
way where we don't have to dig those up and
replace them. My guess is Dave Crooki is with Precision Pipeworks,
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and we're going to talk to him. In just a bit.
We'll take a break. You're at home with Gary Salvan
right here on fifty five care see de talk station.
All right back ahead, it we go twelve thirty six.
You're at home with Gary Salvan, joining me now is
Dave Crooki is with Precision Pipeworks, and Dave, welcome to
that home with Gary Salvan. How are you?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, Gary, how are you? I appreciate you having us
on today.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You're quite welcome. So, yeah, did you like my little
story about my waistline, I mean my waist line.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, I caught that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I caught it when I said it and said, well,
that was real good. So Cincinnati, the Midwest, older cities, neighborhoods,
we got all different kinds of pipe that take the
waste away from our house that are underground. We seem
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to be vulnerable about having to repair them, replace them,
or in your case, you do trench lists, sewer and
drain repair. First of all, tell me a little bit
about Precision Pipeworks.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Precision Pipeworks, we're fairly new. We started our business in
October of twenty four, but me and my business partner, Justin,
we had fifty plus years experience working in the industry,
you know, hands on experience, gaining that knowledge, and we
were approached and asked if we wanted to join in
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on a business with somebody, and that's what we did,
and here we are now, you know, six six months
into it and doing very successful. We offer plumbing, sewer
and water repairs.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So you do this. What's your area of service? Do
you do Cincinnati and Date or Cincinnati area or Indiana
or give me an idea.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We cover Cincinnati, Dayton, northern Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, all right, so Trice state area. As they say,
so tell me, you know, digging up anybody's yard or
patio or driveway to replace a pipe is nobody wants
to do that. Nobody wants to do that. So tell
me about this trenchless repair.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Well, as you're just saying, the traditional excavation methods, you
know they're time consuming, costly, you know, invasive, especially for
residential landscaping here and stuff like that. But you know,
our innovative solution, you know, we minimize disruption. You know,
it's it's efficient, environmentally friendly. You know. It's what we
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do is we use the host pipe and as long
as the condition is right, we can put a sleeve
in the pipe and take care of that line from
the house all the way to the street without digging
up the yard.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
So I know, we also have tree root issues and
the tree didn't probably cause the problem, I guess, but
it finds its way into the pipe. When you say
you put a sleeve in there, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What it is is, it's a it's a polyester fabric
with a two mix epoxy resin, and we we impregnate
the resin into the into the felt and then we
actually use air and we invert it through the existing pipe.
And then after after we invert it, we fill it
with hot water and the water activates the resins and
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you cook it and cool it, and then you have
pretty much like a stint is what you have, almost
a cast inside the existing pipe.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Well that's gotta be well, it's certainly more convenient. I
don't know about cost. We can talk about that, but
certainly got to be uh yeah, we don't have to
trap the patio, so the cost has got to be
relatively the same, a little less or how's that work out?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It's generally a little less, just because when you do
the old traditional dig and repair, you're just not digging
and replacing the pipe. Now you also have to take
care of your surface restoration. You know, you may have
to cut the trees down, move some of the sidewalks
to patios. With this, you're just you're not. You know,
sometimes you may have to open a floor on the
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inside just to get you better access to the pipe
to use this technology. But besides that, it's just a
it's a small two by two by two hoole and
and that is it. But you know, it's it's definitely
more cost effective to do the lining. You know, a
lot of people won't don't want to repair their lines
because they don't want to dig and de troy everything.
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But you know, with with this technology, it's about the
right condition of the pipe. So that's why a lot
of times we we will offer a free second opinion
just to take a look at the pipes and give
them a sex second option.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So when you put this liner down, so we're lining
a pipe, is that usually a four inch pipe?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Is that it it's four inch inside the house and
typically in the in the Cincinnati area it increases to
six inch and it's typically clay pipe or concrete.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
So what happens if the clay pipe has a gap
in it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
As long as as long as the two pipes, even
though if there's a gap, as long as the two
pipes are aligned from one side to the other, we
can still fill that gap. With our liner. Our liner
is a standalone pipe. It's it's strong enough. It's stronger
than the than the SDR PVC that you put in
in the ground when you dig and replace.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Does it take up much of the diameter of that pipe?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It does not. It actually is it's probably maybe an
eighth to a quarter of an inch all the way.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Around m and it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Actually increases your Yeah, it is smooth. It increases your
flow because it is one continuous pipe from the house
to the street. There is no joints.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And so when you line a pipe like that, what's
the lifespan of the liner?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It is the same as if you were to dig
and replace it. It's got a ten year warranty with
a fifty year life expectancy.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Ah nice, So am I accurate and saying in our
case a lot of the lot of a lot of
the reasons we have the problem is the soil and
the type of pipe that we have, and a lot
of our neighborhoods correct. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
With the clay pipe you have, you have your joints
and in the way the soil erodes and the roots
get in as water exits those joints and as it
as it exits the joints, It erodes that find soil
and brings it in and flushes it down the line.
And then your joints get weak and start to separate,
and then roots will you know, find the water and
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come into the pipe as well.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I see, So what is the usual telltale sign that
our house is telling the homeowner, hey, you got a
problem here? I mean, do things start backing up in
the house. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
What you'll notice, especially if it's your main line, you'll
notice all the other drains will start to run slow.
Sometimes you can hear a gurgling noise in the drains
that's letting you know that there's there's a problem, there's
not proper flow, and you know it's something that you know,
you should you should get looked at sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
M hm. So I would assume that what happens is
we call our plumber and they come out and they
identify the problem, and the homeowner is like, well, didn't
see that coming, and you know, so I'm gonna guess
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a lot of people don't make that decision right on
the spot to have their yard dug up and pipe replaced.
And if that is the solution or been identified, as
a solution. People can call Precision Pipeworks and you'll give
them a second opinion.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Or we do free second opinions. Yeah, and we give
we give options. Again. With with the lining, you know,
it's still about the right condition of pipe. So sometimes
we do come in and you know, if there's a
if there's a large belly in the line and you
line a sewer, there's still going to be a belly
in the line. So in that case sometimes you you know,
it still gets to the point where you have to
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dig and replace, and we offer that service as well.
But that's why I say with the trench list, it
is you know, it is a new way about going things.
You know, it's a modern technology to age old problem.
And what we can do with that is, you know,
you take a look at it sooner than later because
it is the right condition of the pipe. If you
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let it get too far, sometimes it's it's beyond the
lining technology that can be done. But if you catch
it in time, it is the best way to take
care of your old seward pipe.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Sure, it's an option, and that's what I love, that's
what everybody loves, is give me some options. Let's see
if this works and because I can. That's a big project, right,
So how long does it take you? I don't know.
I guess they all vary in length once they go outside.
And but is it a one day job or is
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it a week? Or how long does it take to
lineup pipe?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
It takes one day. You know, your average sewer line
in Cincinnati is probably fifty to sixty feet of the
homeowners responsibility. And we can do that in one day.
And once the liner is in and cured, and it's
cured before we leave the property, you can start using
it immediately.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Excellent. Well, this is certainly it is modern technology. It's
been around worldwide for a number of years, has it not.
It's kind of really taken off in the States recently.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah. It started over in Europe in the early seventies,
and really residential wise, it started picking up probably late nineties,
early two thousands. As far as residential lining.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, do you do commercial lining or is it strictly residential?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
No, we do commercially in industrial as well.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I bet you get some big pipes in huh.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, Yeah, we we did. We actually did a patch
for the city of Cedarville where they didn't even know
about the technology and we had you know, the engineers
and stuff for their watching us as we did the work.
We were able to fix a pipe without them having
to dig up a new street.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right, I'm sure license and insured. You also have
a website and it is folks Precision Pipeworks dot com.
Precision Pipeworks dot com. Get on there and kind of
just investigate the technology again. If you've already received bad news,
you can give them a call for a free inspection
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a second opinion if you will, Uh, can they give
you a call and schedule an appointment?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
They sure can. Our number is nine three seven seven
nine zero one one zero one.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Very good. Well, thank you so much for joining us today, Dave.
I appreciate it and teaching us a little bit about
the whole world of trench list, sewer and drain repair.
A lot of people don't realize it, and it can
be a money saver, it can be a time saver,
and certainly it can be less of a pain. So
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thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Thanks, Gerry, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
All right, take care of have a good weekend. All right.
There you go Precision Pipeworks and you can check it
out at Precisionpipeworks dot Com. All right, well let's take
a break. We'll come back kind of wrap up today.
Our phone number, you got it if you've got a question.
I've got a plenty of things I want to talk
about before we end today's show, and we will continue
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on You're at Home with Gary Salvin right here fifty
five KRCEE the Talk station. Alright, twelve fifty two. It
is on your Saturday at Home with Garry Sullivan. Always
a reminder you can catch a show on Saturdays and Sundays.
It's nine to one on Saturday, nine to noon on Sundays,
(35:11):
of course, right here in fifty five KRC Detalk station.
You can also pick up each hour via podcast on
the iHeart app. Danny puts that together and post it
up there and feel free to use.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
That as well as the individual projects of the week
you talk about.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And today's project of the week was getting rid of
some summer odors in our home and we had deb
from Motor Exit on there and he's got that up too, yes, sir,
So when we started off today based on I was
going to say a shower we had last night, but
it was more than a shower where I was, I
don't think Danny got hardly any rain last.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Night, and in the west side of Hamilton now.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
But man, we got a lush up in Westchester Liberty
Township area. Friend of mine about three miles into the
east of us got even more than that. So we
started out the show talking about rain, rain, rain, and
we got into window wells, and I was talking about
(36:12):
how some window wells have drains, some do not. And
this picture of somebody sent me was a picture of
a windowill with a typical window which was not in
a very good state of repair. And the window well
filled up with water. And I don't know if it
(36:33):
had a drain or not, but a lot of the
drains in windwell's get clogged, nobody ever pays attention to them.
But this rain filled that baby up like a big
bucket of water, and it was gushing in the sides
of the window into this basement. So just reminded me
to remind you if you have window wells at your house,
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probably wouldn't be a bad idea to see what's going
on there. If there is a drain, make sure there's
not sticks and stones and dirt and everything else that
could be clogging that drainy, jump cleaning out. If it's
there is no drain, you know, it's just going to
fill up and dissipate. But if you have a lot
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of rain, maybe problematic. Maybe you can get a window
well cover on there. Again, its function is either to
escape from the basement or or or add light to
the basement area. And then I got into what we
always get into in that is just controlling rain water,
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you know, from the gutters. Maybe they're clogged, maybe they're
spilling over, but controlling it. It's define the why you
have a leak. That's the key. Find the why where
you have the price, and then take you know, take action.
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For instance, a lot of people think you see a
little water spot on the third floor or second floor
of the house and the attics above you, and you say, oh,
I got a problem with the roof. Well, yeah, it's
obviously somewhere in the roof, But a lot of times
it's just the seal that goes over the vent pipe.
It's rubber. They have a lifespan of about ten years.
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So dig deep when you have problems with moisture or
water stains, anything along those lines, find the why it is.
I always encourage taking that walk around the house and
different things. We used to use this tip a lot,
but around door jams, look for paint that's peeling, usually
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down at the bottom. And the reason I say that
is a lot of people see that that door jam
doesn't go all the way down that concrete. There's a
gap in they clocket, which you should not do because
if the water's coming from the top of the trim
boards and getting down and you've calked the base, it
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can't get out. So the wood absorbs the water, it
can't get out, and it starts breaking down the paint
and the paint begins to peel, and that's your sign
that there's water behind that and you thought you did
the right thing by calking the bottom of it, but
you actually made it worse. And also when you have
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one of those gully gusher rings more than a shower,
quickly go outside and take a look and look for
any ponding in the grass or landscaping around the foundation.
That's a key that we need a little bit of
grating done, which could be the problem that you're having
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on the inside of the house. So pay attention to
those things. Also, if you use malt in your landscaping bed.
And I've got a couple problematic areas, and the way
I discovered them is the mulch was washed away, and
sure enough, I got a pretty steep roof. I've talked
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about this in the past, kind of got a saddle
and it's only got like a three foot gutter and
it gets overwhelmed. It's not clogged. I got to get
a wider gutter on that area of the house. A
lot of catches a lot of water, and it doesn't
catch all of it. And I noticed it because the
mulch had been washed away. So maybe in the next
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few days it looks like we're still gonna have some storms,
maybe even to day or tomorrow, look for areas where
there's been some erosion taking place and change the apparatuses,
whether it's a bigger gutter or some stone to break
down the flow of that water. Sure could serve serve
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you well and solve a lot of the problems you
have around the house. Danny Boy, thank you very much
for all your work today. Certainly I appreciate, yes, a
real super busy day, but we had a lot of
really good conversations, So thank you, sir, and good Lord Willing,
we'll both be back tomorrow for more at Home with
Gary Sullivan
All right, welcome now or number four at home with
Gary Salvin. Best part of the day, good afternoon, and
of course we're taking your calls we go to your
home projects. Feel free to grab that line. It's eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five and let's
get back to the phone calls. And Mel's been kind
enough to wait, Mel, thank you for waiting.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome, Hi Gary, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hey, I just had some my bathroom shower retiled and
they put the grout right from the wall to the floor,
you know, connecting the two around, and the silicone hasn't
been applied yet. But when I went to pick up
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the silicone at the towel shop, they said they thought
it was supposed to be directly in between and not
have any grout.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Do you know, So when you say directly between between the.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Wall tile and the floor towel, right, no grout or
do you have grout?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And then it's done both ways? It's done both ways. Yeah.
So usually when it's installed it is grouded and when
in some cases not always. I mean, you can do
it both ways. So grout is not flexible. Silicone is.
And there are two different substrates so if there's a
(01:33):
lot of movement, you'll probably have some issue with the
with the grout breaking out. But on the other hand,
I have a shower in our bathroom which was redone
in seven, so almost twenty years, and it was grouded
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and it still is okay, you know, so you know,
there is no movement that floor or wall and it's
just fine and it looks perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So I leave it alone, silicone on top of it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I wouldn't put silicon on top of it. I don't
think you need to do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Really.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, So if it's if it's grouded right to that
and it's you know, there's there's no scene, there's no nothing.
Did the grouse get sealed? No? Okay yet? So there
is groud sealer. Miracle Seilance is one I use. It's
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it's got like a fifteen year warranty. It's a spray on,
non wipe, so you literally just spray it on. There's
all aqua seal, which is like a little sponge at
the top. It's almost like liquid shoe polish that you'll
then wipe off the tile. So I definitely get that
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groud sealed. I think it grout by itself, I think
it has a three percent penetration and once it seals
about a half a percent.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Okay, so it's called miracle.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Miracle ceilants for tile ground or aquas seals. There's a
couple of them. Just just read them. See if you
got to wipe it off, not wipe it off. See
what the warranty is. And I'm assuming that this is
just regular ground that somebody mixed up with you know,
powder and water and applied it correct, right yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Do you say, don't put silicone on top of that?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
No, no, it would serve no purpose. Okay, okay, So
and I'm talking about a silicone calking. Is that what
you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, there would say no purpose. I mean there are
silicone groud sealers which are like the viscosity of water,
but that's not talking. So maybe that's what they were
speaking of.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, I think what's a cock wherever the joints are, like,
even where the corner is going down there with a ceiling,
does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, yeah, if there's a if there's an opening or
there is an open seam, yeah you'll need caking. But
if it's grouted flush all the way around. No, okay,
and putting it on the top of the ground really
saves you know, doesn't really serve a purpose because it's
laying on the surface. The purpose of the ground would
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be to fill a crevice, and the adhesion takes place
on the side, not on the surface. In other words,
it'd be just like a band aid on a big cut.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Okay, all right, then, all right, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're quite welcome. Thanks by all right, twelve twelve, let's
go to Meg Meg. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I actually have two questions now all right, listening to
some of your callers. The first one is about I
bought my home in twenty eighteen. It was built in
nineteen fifty five, and I had some tough pointing done
around with the base of the house, leaps the driveway,
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and a lot of it has come up.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What's come up? The tuck pointing, okay.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Popped right out. So I clearly the person I had
to do it clearly didn't do it well or you
know or right. I don't know what the issue is.
He's not a business now, of course, Uh what do
I need to do? Is it? If I don't put
our tuck pointing in there? Well, will effect water getting
(05:44):
into my head?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, let's let me ask you a couple of questions. Banging.
Tell me, so, where the driveway butts up to the foundation,
is that where this issue is.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
No, it's not the foundation of the house.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay, it's where the driveway bum into the brick. Yes, okay,
So the concrete is butted up to the to the brick,
and there was a gap there and somebody filled that
gap with mortar.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I don't know what he filled it with, but it's
somebody want to clarify something. The driveway is not butted
up against the house. There's a there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Space, okay with your finger? Uh yeah, okay, okay. There
should not be concrete in there.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Is there concrete in there? Is that the problem?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
No? No, I don't. I don't know what the guy
put in there. I have no idea what he put
in there. But you can pick it out with your fingernails.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, And that's what you're calling tuck pointing right, yes, okay?
Does it feel like concrete? Does it feel sementatious?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I never heard that one before. I'm going outside right now.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Or grouting? Actually what should be in there is something
that has good adhesions and flexible.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well and certainly not Yeah yeah, this feels.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, So yeah so really what So here's the here's
the problem. That the house is stable, the driveway is not.
And and I'm talking about everybody's house, okay, So there's
some movement. There's some movement. And just like if you
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have a big crack in your concrete driveway and you
got there and you filled up with concrete in that crack,
it's not going to work because that driveways flexing and
that's going to break out. So when you have two
separate substrates, the house, the brick and the driveway, and
the house isn't moving, but the driveway is moving, you know,
(08:22):
just because it's on the earth and it's flexing, and
somebody and you have a natural scene there and over
time it settles, it pulls away or whatever, and somebody goes, oh,
we got to fill that. And then you hear me
talking about tuck pointing brick, but you wouldn't tuck point there.
What you would do. We had a call earlier about
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that almost same thing, and we talked about using a
self leveling urethane crack filler and it comes in a
calking tube and you would clean that out and you
would run a bead of the self leveling eurth thing
cocking which has the best adhesion and the best flexibility.
That's what you would use in that space.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Okay, kind of like this guy. Okay, there a.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Manufact yeah, quick crete is you know. You go up
to Low's or Ace or anywhere and ask for self
leveling your thing cracked sealant or there's also a self
leveling advanced resin cracked seal or either one of those
work great. It's used with a calking tube and a
calking gun. You got to clean out the old stuff though,
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so you're gonna have to use like a cold chisel
and chisel that out and then run that bead of
self leveling cracked ceiling in there.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Welf leveling cracked ceiling, cracked ceiling. Okay, all right, yes,
So my my other question is, having seen your moment here,
I'll have to call you back.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Let me put you on hold. We got to go
and get to Abraham too before we get a guest
in here. Thank you much for the call. Mag We'll
continue at home with Gary Salvan right here. In fifty
five care seed the top station. All right, back at
it we go twelve twenty one on your Saturday, and
let's get back to the phone calls. We have Abraham
Abraham welcome.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Hello, Yes, sir, yes, sir, thanks for taking my call
on this, says over. I heard about I have a
crack in my bestub, and I see if there's any
way that we can't prepare it, you can help me
with that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah. So is it a fiberglass tub.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Plas today tub? He's a fiberglass okay.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Is it on the floor of the tub.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
As the second floor on the kitchen underneath the floor?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Okay? And where's the crack? Is it by the drain
or is it on the side of the tub or
where is the.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Crack is in the middle of the tub. And there's
like an inch inch and a half to two inches long. Yeah, yes,
And there's no sub floor underneath it. So when we
take a shower, you know, the crack keep getting bigger.
So what I did, I bought a very solution about
like waterproofs patch and I patch it and put like
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a Gorla cab and tup to prevent the water from
link into the kitchen. Which is did happen before? So
I see there's any solution optional before we try to
replace it out.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, so you said there is no sub floor. There
is that what you said.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
There's no sub floor underneath the tub.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So it has no supporting strength in that tub, right right, okay?
And you said you did patch it.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I did took like a water waterproof patch, okay, because
we tried to take a shower right right right?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And is that holding again? Is has that solved the
leaking problem?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
It's solved temporarily. But you know, because there's no subfloor
getting getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You and I are on the same page. So that's
the problem. Okay. I always talk about finding the why
why did this happen? And and you figured that out.
It's there's no support under it. Now, there are different
tubs that are thicker walled, different materials that maybe that
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can work, fiberglass not so much, and there are different
patch kits for tubs. The question is is it going
to happen again? And that part I don't know what
the answer is. I would assume that it very well
could happen. But there are fiberglass tub repair kits that
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are out there. The first thing you would do really
is kind of drill a hole at the beginning of
that crack and at the end of that crack, then
you would lightly sand it and the instructions will be
on a kit, so you're buying a fiberglass tub repair kit.
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You would sand along that crack, you would use soap
and water and clean it up, and then you're basically
gonna tape and you can get some masking tape and
tape the sides of the crack. And there's a in
a POxy patch and a tape, so it's designed specifically
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for this problem. And once you identify the leak, you've
done that, you can drain tub, you get a good
and dry you clean the area, you sand the area,
you repair the the fiberglass repair which is almost like
a car repair like a bondo, like a fiberglass patch
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for a car in Kate. You know, if there were
a wreck or something, and you apply this patch and
you can cut a piece of fiberglass cloth that can
go over that and then you smooth it out with
that you can tell it's patched, and then if you
need to seal that or paint that area, then you
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try to match that up or there's also companies that
can do that. One of them is called Miracle Method
and they patch tubs and I don't know they you know,
you can use them as a consultant too, to see
if it's gonna hold. I don't know how much support
their is. It doesn't sound like there's much. And I'd
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hate to see you go to all this work and
then find out it's gonna crack anyway. It's gonna crack
somewhere else. But that's how you would repair it. Though.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah, I'm afraid the crack again to gain because because
there's no support underneath it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, it very well may, in which case, you know,
I mean the alternative then is you're pulling out the
tub and you're building a support panel and then you
put a tub on top.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Well, do you have any idea what's the cost of
replacing a five bird life tub?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well? I just replaced one not too long ago, and
I didn't realize all the different sizes that were available.
But you can probably replace one somewhere between six and
twelve hundred dollars. Six hundred dollars to twelve hundred dollars.
I mean nothing with buying the tub. So you're gonna
buy a toub for that.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, it was the repair of plumber on the.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Plumber, Yeah, yeah, probably. And there's also, yeah, a liner,
there's liners that they do run on top. But I
think you're gonna have the same problem there. It's hard
for me to say without seeing it. I'm just kind
of giving you the options. I think what I would
do is I would probably contact a person that does
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bath repairs or bathroom models, and there's a bunch of
them right now out there, bath Fitter, north Shore Rebath
and get their opinion because you got this big variable,
and the big variable is no support. So well that
(16:44):
all right, very good, Abraham, thank you much for the call.
Appreciate it, my friend. All right, let's get Carlos and
then we'll bring our guests in and we're going to
talk about your drain pipe in this area with all
the clay, it's a problem. Carlos, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I have a large escape window, well made of fiberglass.
And what is happening and it's five and a half
foot deep and six foot across, so you know, it's
rather large, like I said, And what's happening is mud
is sleeping and from the outside of the window well
to the inside bottom of this window. Well, uh huh,
(17:25):
And I don't know if there's any way to you know,
kind of divert the water somehow from there, or seal
the bottom of the window well so that it doesn't
come up underneath and in the area.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah. Well, again it's the path of least resistance for
water and soil, right, So the only way I can
answer that question.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Kind of this is kind of a flat area. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that you're still going to get an issue there.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, and you've got a couple issues. I mean, you
also have a water table. You know, if you have
a high water table around your house, that's gonna I mean,
it can literally weep up from the bottom and you're
looking on the side. But when you first described it
right away, my thought is grading, it's grading. And then
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you just said it was a flat area, so it
probably is grading. Right, You're going to have to create
a little bit of grade maybe around the window well,
maybe around the foundation before you get to the window
well and try to divert it. You're just gonna have
to really analyze that to a point because ceiling it
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with we actually had this conversation and kick off the
show today. Ceiling the sides with a calking and stuff
might be an answer. If that's where the problem is,
we got to really identify where it's coming in.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's more it's more towards the outside part right where
it's coming in, not the side so much.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
So my guess is a fabric that can be put
down up around the window well so that the water
would you know, instead of the you know, like landscaping fabric,
you know, the water goes to it, right right, Well,
I mean they're around the window wells.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There's flashing the diverted Yeah, there's rubber ice flashing that
is self stick that you would put under brick and
also on the ledge of the foundation of a house
that could probably be applied. If that's where it's coming in,
that would make it water. The big question then is.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I think it's more towards the you know, the outside part,
not the house part.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, I understand, but if you dug down on the
side of that, That's why I said, I you know,
so how do you think it's getting in? Is it
coming underneath or where do you think it's getting Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well, it's coming from the outside of the window well.
The water, like you said, there's sense that goes down
to the bottom of the shell, which is fiberglass, and
it's coming up underneath and up, so it's pushing it,
you know. I guess it's a loose start when they
put it around there. So the dirt, you know, the
water goes in there on the outside and just blows
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to the bottom of the window well and then comes
up on the inside of the.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, the wind. And the only other thing I'm thinking
of is maybe a drain pipe around that, almost like
an underground French drain, where you dig down around the outside.
You put a gravel base down, you put the drain
pipe with slits in it, landscape faber on top of
it and get it create a slope with that drain
(20:40):
and route that water somewhere.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Okay, now, how far deep would you have to go?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
With about eighteen inches?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Okay, that's good because like I said, it's five and
a half foot deep.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I don't want to dig that far.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, so that might be an option also.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Okay, yeah, that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Actually, yeah, an underground French drain, because apparently you don't
have the space really to build up a slope around
the outside of it, so I would say an underground
French drain and see if we can't divert that water
away from the exterior that window well or escape place.
All right, thank you much for the call. I appreciate it.
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Coming up, we're going to talk about the waist line
that leads not your waist line, but waste line that's
coming out of your house. Sorry, that couldn't help myself.
That's a dad joke there. It is in this area.
We have lots of things going on, and probably one
(21:43):
of the biggest things we have going on is we
have really clay soil and it dries out, it drinks,
it expands when it gets wet. It torques. We got
old clay pipes. Anyway, we're gonna learn all about a
way where we don't have to dig those up and
replace them. My guess is Dave Crooki is with Precision Pipeworks,
(22:04):
and we're going to talk to him. In just a bit.
We'll take a break. You're at home with Gary Salvan
right here on fifty five care see de talk station.
All right back ahead, it we go twelve thirty six.
You're at home with Gary Salvan, joining me now is
Dave Crooki is with Precision Pipeworks, and Dave, welcome to
that home with Gary Salvan. How are you?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, Gary, how are you? I appreciate you having us
on today.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You're quite welcome. So, yeah, did you like my little
story about my waistline, I mean my waist line.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, I caught that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I caught it when I said it and said, well,
that was real good. So Cincinnati, the Midwest, older cities, neighborhoods,
we got all different kinds of pipe that take the
waste away from our house that are underground. We seem
(23:00):
to be vulnerable about having to repair them, replace them,
or in your case, you do trench lists, sewer and
drain repair. First of all, tell me a little bit
about Precision Pipeworks.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Precision Pipeworks, we're fairly new. We started our business in
October of twenty four, but me and my business partner, Justin,
we had fifty plus years experience working in the industry,
you know, hands on experience, gaining that knowledge, and we
were approached and asked if we wanted to join in
(23:38):
on a business with somebody, and that's what we did,
and here we are now, you know, six six months
into it and doing very successful. We offer plumbing, sewer
and water repairs.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So you do this. What's your area of service? Do
you do Cincinnati and Date or Cincinnati area or Indiana
or give me an idea.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We cover Cincinnati, Dayton, northern Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, all right, so Trice state area. As they say,
so tell me, you know, digging up anybody's yard or
patio or driveway to replace a pipe is nobody wants
to do that. Nobody wants to do that. So tell
me about this trenchless repair.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Well, as you're just saying, the traditional excavation methods, you
know they're time consuming, costly, you know, invasive, especially for
residential landscaping here and stuff like that. But you know,
our innovative solution, you know, we minimize disruption. You know,
it's it's efficient, environmentally friendly. You know. It's what we
(24:52):
do is we use the host pipe and as long
as the condition is right, we can put a sleeve
in the pipe and take care of that line from
the house all the way to the street without digging
up the yard.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
So I know, we also have tree root issues and
the tree didn't probably cause the problem, I guess, but
it finds its way into the pipe. When you say
you put a sleeve in there, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What it is is, it's a it's a polyester fabric
with a two mix epoxy resin, and we we impregnate
the resin into the into the felt and then we
actually use air and we invert it through the existing pipe.
And then after after we invert it, we fill it
with hot water and the water activates the resins and
(25:49):
you cook it and cool it, and then you have
pretty much like a stint is what you have, almost
a cast inside the existing pipe.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Well that's gotta be well, it's certainly more convenient. I
don't know about cost. We can talk about that, but
certainly got to be uh yeah, we don't have to
trap the patio, so the cost has got to be
relatively the same, a little less or how's that work out?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It's generally a little less, just because when you do
the old traditional dig and repair, you're just not digging
and replacing the pipe. Now you also have to take
care of your surface restoration. You know, you may have
to cut the trees down, move some of the sidewalks
to patios. With this, you're just you're not. You know,
sometimes you may have to open a floor on the
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inside just to get you better access to the pipe
to use this technology. But besides that, it's just a
it's a small two by two by two hoole and
and that is it. But you know, it's it's definitely
more cost effective to do the lining. You know, a
lot of people won't don't want to repair their lines
because they don't want to dig and de troy everything.
(27:00):
But you know, with with this technology, it's about the
right condition of the pipe. So that's why a lot
of times we we will offer a free second opinion
just to take a look at the pipes and give
them a sex second option.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So when you put this liner down, so we're lining
a pipe, is that usually a four inch pipe?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Is that it it's four inch inside the house and
typically in the in the Cincinnati area it increases to
six inch and it's typically clay pipe or concrete.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
So what happens if the clay pipe has a gap
in it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
As long as as long as the two pipes, even
though if there's a gap, as long as the two
pipes are aligned from one side to the other, we
can still fill that gap. With our liner. Our liner
is a standalone pipe. It's it's strong enough. It's stronger
than the than the SDR PVC that you put in
in the ground when you dig and replace.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Does it take up much of the diameter of that pipe?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It does not. It actually is it's probably maybe an
eighth to a quarter of an inch all the way.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Around m and it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Actually increases your Yeah, it is smooth. It increases your
flow because it is one continuous pipe from the house
to the street. There is no joints.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And so when you line a pipe like that, what's
the lifespan of the liner?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It is the same as if you were to dig
and replace it. It's got a ten year warranty with
a fifty year life expectancy.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Ah nice, So am I accurate and saying in our
case a lot of the lot of a lot of
the reasons we have the problem is the soil and
the type of pipe that we have, and a lot
of our neighborhoods correct. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
With the clay pipe you have, you have your joints
and in the way the soil erodes and the roots
get in as water exits those joints and as it
as it exits the joints, It erodes that find soil
and brings it in and flushes it down the line.
And then your joints get weak and start to separate,
and then roots will you know, find the water and
(29:25):
come into the pipe as well.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I see, So what is the usual telltale sign that
our house is telling the homeowner, hey, you got a
problem here? I mean, do things start backing up in
the house. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
What you'll notice, especially if it's your main line, you'll
notice all the other drains will start to run slow.
Sometimes you can hear a gurgling noise in the drains
that's letting you know that there's there's a problem, there's
not proper flow, and you know it's something that you know,
you should you should get looked at sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
M hm. So I would assume that what happens is
we call our plumber and they come out and they
identify the problem, and the homeowner is like, well, didn't
see that coming, and you know, so I'm gonna guess
(30:30):
a lot of people don't make that decision right on
the spot to have their yard dug up and pipe replaced.
And if that is the solution or been identified, as
a solution. People can call Precision Pipeworks and you'll give
them a second opinion.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Or we do free second opinions. Yeah, and we give
we give options. Again. With with the lining, you know,
it's still about the right condition of pipe. So sometimes
we do come in and you know, if there's a
if there's a large belly in the line and you
line a sewer, there's still going to be a belly
in the line. So in that case sometimes you you know,
it still gets to the point where you have to
(31:09):
dig and replace, and we offer that service as well.
But that's why I say with the trench list, it
is you know, it is a new way about going things.
You know, it's a modern technology to age old problem.
And what we can do with that is, you know,
you take a look at it sooner than later because
it is the right condition of the pipe. If you
(31:31):
let it get too far, sometimes it's it's beyond the
lining technology that can be done. But if you catch
it in time, it is the best way to take
care of your old seward pipe.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Sure, it's an option, and that's what I love, that's
what everybody loves, is give me some options. Let's see
if this works and because I can. That's a big project, right,
So how long does it take you? I don't know.
I guess they all vary in length once they go outside.
And but is it a one day job or is
(32:02):
it a week? Or how long does it take to
lineup pipe?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
It takes one day. You know, your average sewer line
in Cincinnati is probably fifty to sixty feet of the
homeowners responsibility. And we can do that in one day.
And once the liner is in and cured, and it's
cured before we leave the property, you can start using
it immediately.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Excellent. Well, this is certainly it is modern technology. It's
been around worldwide for a number of years, has it not.
It's kind of really taken off in the States recently.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah. It started over in Europe in the early seventies,
and really residential wise, it started picking up probably late nineties,
early two thousands. As far as residential lining.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, do you do commercial lining or is it strictly residential?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
No, we do commercially in industrial as well.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I bet you get some big pipes in huh.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, Yeah, we we did. We actually did a patch
for the city of Cedarville where they didn't even know
about the technology and we had you know, the engineers
and stuff for their watching us as we did the work.
We were able to fix a pipe without them having
to dig up a new street.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right, I'm sure license and insured. You also have
a website and it is folks Precision Pipeworks dot com.
Precision Pipeworks dot com. Get on there and kind of
just investigate the technology again. If you've already received bad news,
you can give them a call for a free inspection
(33:45):
a second opinion if you will, Uh, can they give
you a call and schedule an appointment?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
They sure can. Our number is nine three seven seven
nine zero one one zero one.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Very good. Well, thank you so much for joining us today, Dave.
I appreciate it and teaching us a little bit about
the whole world of trench list, sewer and drain repair.
A lot of people don't realize it, and it can
be a money saver, it can be a time saver,
and certainly it can be less of a pain. So
(34:21):
thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Thanks, Gerry, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
All right, take care of have a good weekend. All right.
There you go Precision Pipeworks and you can check it
out at Precisionpipeworks dot Com. All right, well let's take
a break. We'll come back kind of wrap up today.
Our phone number, you got it if you've got a question.
I've got a plenty of things I want to talk
about before we end today's show, and we will continue
(34:49):
on You're at Home with Gary Salvin right here fifty
five KRCEE the Talk station. Alright, twelve fifty two. It
is on your Saturday at Home with Garry Sullivan. Always
a reminder you can catch a show on Saturdays and Sundays.
It's nine to one on Saturday, nine to noon on Sundays,
(35:11):
of course, right here in fifty five KRC Detalk station.
You can also pick up each hour via podcast on
the iHeart app. Danny puts that together and post it
up there and feel free to use.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
That as well as the individual projects of the week
you talk about.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And today's project of the week was getting rid of
some summer odors in our home and we had deb
from Motor Exit on there and he's got that up too, yes, sir,
So when we started off today based on I was
going to say a shower we had last night, but
it was more than a shower where I was, I
don't think Danny got hardly any rain last.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Night, and in the west side of Hamilton now.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
But man, we got a lush up in Westchester Liberty
Township area. Friend of mine about three miles into the
east of us got even more than that. So we
started out the show talking about rain, rain, rain, and
we got into window wells, and I was talking about
(36:12):
how some window wells have drains, some do not. And
this picture of somebody sent me was a picture of
a windowill with a typical window which was not in
a very good state of repair. And the window well
filled up with water. And I don't know if it
(36:33):
had a drain or not, but a lot of the
drains in windwell's get clogged, nobody ever pays attention to them.
But this rain filled that baby up like a big
bucket of water, and it was gushing in the sides
of the window into this basement. So just reminded me
to remind you if you have window wells at your house,
(36:55):
probably wouldn't be a bad idea to see what's going
on there. If there is a drain, make sure there's
not sticks and stones and dirt and everything else that
could be clogging that drainy, jump cleaning out. If it's
there is no drain, you know, it's just going to
fill up and dissipate. But if you have a lot
(37:18):
of rain, maybe problematic. Maybe you can get a window
well cover on there. Again, its function is either to
escape from the basement or or or add light to
the basement area. And then I got into what we
always get into in that is just controlling rain water,
(37:42):
you know, from the gutters. Maybe they're clogged, maybe they're
spilling over, but controlling it. It's define the why you
have a leak. That's the key. Find the why where
you have the price, and then take you know, take action.
(38:04):
For instance, a lot of people think you see a
little water spot on the third floor or second floor
of the house and the attics above you, and you say, oh,
I got a problem with the roof. Well, yeah, it's
obviously somewhere in the roof, But a lot of times
it's just the seal that goes over the vent pipe.
It's rubber. They have a lifespan of about ten years.
(38:27):
So dig deep when you have problems with moisture or
water stains, anything along those lines, find the why it is.
I always encourage taking that walk around the house and
different things. We used to use this tip a lot,
but around door jams, look for paint that's peeling, usually
(38:48):
down at the bottom. And the reason I say that
is a lot of people see that that door jam
doesn't go all the way down that concrete. There's a
gap in they clocket, which you should not do because
if the water's coming from the top of the trim
boards and getting down and you've calked the base, it
(39:10):
can't get out. So the wood absorbs the water, it
can't get out, and it starts breaking down the paint
and the paint begins to peel, and that's your sign
that there's water behind that and you thought you did
the right thing by calking the bottom of it, but
you actually made it worse. And also when you have
(39:32):
one of those gully gusher rings more than a shower,
quickly go outside and take a look and look for
any ponding in the grass or landscaping around the foundation.
That's a key that we need a little bit of
grating done, which could be the problem that you're having
(39:52):
on the inside of the house. So pay attention to
those things. Also, if you use malt in your landscaping bed.
And I've got a couple problematic areas, and the way
I discovered them is the mulch was washed away, and
sure enough, I got a pretty steep roof. I've talked
(40:14):
about this in the past, kind of got a saddle
and it's only got like a three foot gutter and
it gets overwhelmed. It's not clogged. I got to get
a wider gutter on that area of the house. A
lot of catches a lot of water, and it doesn't
catch all of it. And I noticed it because the
mulch had been washed away. So maybe in the next
(40:39):
few days it looks like we're still gonna have some storms,
maybe even to day or tomorrow, look for areas where
there's been some erosion taking place and change the apparatuses,
whether it's a bigger gutter or some stone to break
down the flow of that water. Sure could serve serve
(41:00):
you well and solve a lot of the problems you
have around the house. Danny Boy, thank you very much
for all your work today. Certainly I appreciate, yes, a
real super busy day, but we had a lot of
really good conversations, So thank you, sir, and good Lord Willing,
we'll both be back tomorrow for more at Home with
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