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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, it's weekend. Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvan,
another weekend, getting a few things done around the home,
and certainly, well, always plenty to do. If you have
a home, there is always plenty to do and always
things to well. You're going to accidentally see some things,
You're going to study some things, and you're just going
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to figure out that that's not right, and I got
to take care of that. So that's what we're going
to talk about today. I got a couple of issues,
both on the top and the bottom of the house,
talking about molds and attic and talking about moisture intrusion.
We started off yesterday's show pretty much doing the same thing,
talking about moisture intrusion a lot of parts of the country.
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And if you're watching the news, obviously you know the
rain's been a big issue. Flooding has been a big issue,
and downpours where it may only last an hour in
your neighborhood or maybe you're not getting any at all,
but man, when it rains, it seems to be really raining,
So you know, different things. You need to just kind
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of keep your heads up. If you start seeing moisture
in a basement or cross space. You know the user
response that I get when somebody will call me up
and asked me about that, they'll say, it only leaks
when it rains were hard, And that's that's pretty common.
It does only leak when it rains were hard, and
mainly because you'll have water that's right up against the founoundation.
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It can get there a couple of ways, clog gutters,
spilling that water on the foundation, degrading tilting towards the foundation,
different swales and hills around the foundation, creating puddles of water,
creating pressure on the foundation. So those are the things
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we want to look at. Those are the things we
want to eliminate that ponding. And if you start seeing
mortar cracking and brick cracking or sighting splitting, you know
it's probably there's probably some settling going on and that
needs your attention. The other issue is mold. It seems
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like I was telling Danny before the show started, I
was even finding black spot fungus and molds on living
bushes in trees. And as my friend Ron Wilson said
when I sent him some pictures, he goes, thanks the
humid weather and the abundance of heat and rain. Okay, okay,
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but when it starts in, you know, intruding into our home,
either the moisture, which you probably have some intrusion, maybe
it's moisture. Can't even see in terms of high humidity.
But when somebody sent me a picture, I guess on
a Thursday of an attic and the whole under rous sheathing,
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so looking up the bottom of the roof, I guess
the best way to say that you can see from
the attic was all moldy is black and moldy. And
traded a couple of comments back and forth, and like always,
there was a bevy of issues going on and that
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need to be corrected, and then you can clean up
the mess, for instance. And you may have this problem too.
That's why I always say, you get up and kind
of look around in an attic. If you can't get
somebody up there to look around. Most of our attics
at this point are either vented or you went in
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the direction of a whole house encapsulation, which I'm happy
to take some calls on if that interests you. But
in a ventilated attic, we're bringing air in pushing the
hot air out, so we're bringing the air at the
lower parts of the roof. We're pushing the hot air
out at the peak of the roof, at the ridge vent.
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There'll be a vent on the ridge of the roof itself.
A lot of times we don't have enough intake air,
so we don't really ventilate the attic properly. Sometimes we
have the soft events, the lower vents that are clogged
with spider webs or insulation or somebody's painted over the screen.
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You see it all the time. You think it's ventilated,
but it's not. And then the apparatuses inside your home
that are designed to vent different parts of your home,
mainly the kitchen. In the bathroom, you got the fan
pulling the steamy hot air out of the bathroom when showering,
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and so many cases we find that the duckwork or
the pipe leading from that fan is not vented outside
and it's just pumping that warm, moist air into the
attic and it's hitting the underside of the roof, and
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that's wood organic material, and mold grows mainly because it's
not vented properly. Both of them not vented properly, so
you have mold all over the bottom side of the roof.
If you're selling your home and you get your home inspected,
that's not going to go very well. And then what
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kind of shape is the insulation? And you ask, why
would I be concerned about the insulation, Well, because you
know there's different types of insulation and some of it
is also organic material. And you have the mold spores
and you have the moisture, maybe you don't have a leak. Again,
just high humidity and that stuff mold is just going
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to grow and that's a big deal. Cleaning that up,
sanitizing that up, replacing the insulation big deal. So we
can take calls on it. Also, let me give you
the phone number and you can grab a line. The
lines are open. It's eight hundred eight two three A
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two five five, and feel free to go ahead and
grab a line. Also, we want to talk about decking, cleaning,
ceiling house painting. Boy, we're getting into the if we
can find some days to do it where it's not
real super hot or super wet, that'd be great. However,
with today's paints, boy, they drive fast and they're you know,
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they got to be dry for a while. But it's
not like the old oil based paints. That's for sure
you know the dry time rain fast might be an hour.
Read the directions that'll tell you on there. But try
not to use your cryllic paints, your water based paints,
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indirect sunlight in the middle of the day. A lot
of those paints. I'm telling you it'll be like painting
with chewing gum. Now there are some things you can
do with that too. I talk about the Emerald paint
by Sherwin Williams. I really like this paint. It's got
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a little slower dry time on it. Now, slower dry
time is not a negative. When I say slower dry time,
that might be the dry time might be thirty minutes.
That's a long time to brush that out. You do
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some other latex paints, it's ninety degrees and you're painting
in direct sunlight. You got about fifteen to twenty seconds
to spread that latex paint. Just start drawing on the brush.
So really pay attention to what the spread ability time
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and that pain is. And if you're doing it, like
I said, in direct sunshine or really hot, you know
it's gonna be quicker. Not I can just tell you
it's gonna be quicker. So read the labels. Do your research.
Just don't grab the price range you want because that
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might not be what you want. There's also additives. One
of them is called flow thrill that you can add
the paint, which extends the brush ability of that paint
app it extends dry time. And I remember talking to
a chemist and a pay company and I said, so,
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you know I've done this, and you know he said,
you know, if we wanted it to do that, we
would have put that in. I thought, like, why would
you not want that? I guess I'm saying, just be
a little careful with it, too, don't put too much
in follow. I can't tell you enough. If you're gonna
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invest in painting the house and you're gonna do it,
or you're gonna have a handyman do it, readse directions
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All right back at it. We go twenty one minutes
after the top of the air talking a little home
improvement on your weekend. If you'd like to ask a
question about a project you got going on in your home,
please do. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five and let's go to Beth. Beth lead us off. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Well, hi there, Gary. I'm in Worcester, Ohio, and we
have a condo we've lived in for three years. I'm
getting ready for knee replacements, so you can appreciate that.
I finally wanted to look in the attic, yes, and
see what it's like above the garage and everything, and
see about the insulation up there. I could see that
there was no insulation over the garage, and I don't
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know if that's like just an optional thing or a
normal thing. Yeah, not a big deal. Hunt. I know
it gets awfully hot in there, and I didn't know,
so that would be something we should bother doing anything
about or not.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
When you say it's aftfully hot in there in the
attic area, you mean or in the.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Garage, Well, the garage gets awfully hot. Garage gets awfully hot. Yeah,
we do leave the garage door open about you know,
twelve inches sometimes just to allow some ventilation there. But yeah,
it gets pretty hot.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So tell me about the type of garage. Did you
have an insulated garage door.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
No, we don't. I was wanting to insulate insulate it
because it does face the south and so not only
is there a lot of heat coming up in the summer,
but an awful lot of cold too in the winter.
Right to figure out how to do that.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Walls.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Don't know about the walls. It's all from the attic.
You just you can't see the walls. You know, it's
all plaster. You know, it's all dry walls, and it's
got that knockdown finish type thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Old's the condo building.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Do you know of twenty seven years?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Twenty seven years? Okay, well the walls are probably insulated
and insulated. Okay, yeah, yeah, we start insulating walls, you know,
I'd say around nineteen eighty Okay, before that we.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Did it was ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, but in a lot of times, you know, we'll
insulate the walls. But again, if you don't have an
insulated garage door, that's where all the heat intrusions taking place.
You can get garage doors now that are you're thine
insulated garage doors which have the same R value of
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what an insulated wall should be. I mean they have
garage doors that are are nineteen which would really you know,
help the problem. I mean, you're not going to make
it super cool or anything, but you know, you can
keep a lot of that heat from coming in.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
What about aftermarket type insulation, since you know the garage
door is in perfect condition and they all have to match,
of course in this you know area, what about something
like that? What's the insulation? What's buying insulation like for
an existing garage door.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
So the insulation would be made in between the panels
of the garage door, so you'd be changing out the door.
You're not going to you know, glue on insulation onto
the door. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yeah, Yeah, that's what I mean. I looked at insulation
in the winter time, you know what, you know, what's available,
and it looks like it looks complicated.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah it is. And you don't be powerful too, because
you're you're gonna be edding. Even though it's a lightweight,
you're still gonna be dding weight. A lot of a
lot of doors and door openers, you know, you're gonna
lose any type of warrant you have if you start
gluing that on the back of a door. And you know,
so you could probably find a door that would really
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match the others. I don't know that for sure, Yeah,
but a lot of cases you can. They just put
these uninsulaated doors, especially on Commas, to hold the price down.
And that's exactly what ends up happening. Is you just
get so much heat in there. But there's no real way,
I mean, where else you're going to put the insulation,
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it would be on that door, right, you.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Know that's true? What about Okay, here's another question related insulation.
The only this is silent compared to any place I've
ever lived before. It's so quiet, except the master bathroom
is across from the neighbor's master bathroom, and the only
thing we can hear is the closing of the doors
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of the vanity. And you know, if you slam the
door with is your older vanities because it's from ninety eight,
so you know they didn't have the soft closed drawer.
It doesn't bother me so much. My neighbor has a
totally different schedule than myself, so I always grab mine
and don't let it slam. But I notice her slamming.
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I always At first I thought she was falling against
the wall, that's how unusual the sound is. And then
I realized, no, she's not making her bed in somehow
falling against the wall. It's just her closing a drawer.
So when I was putting a surface mount medicine cabinet
in the bathroom, I noticed there's not a bit of
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insulation in the wall. There not a bit.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know. What you might try then is call a
company and there's there's one around in your area called
USA Insulation. What they are and there's other ones to
they're professional insulators with foam and depending on how the
configuration of the house, they can literally drill into walls
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outside or inside walls and under pressure pump and insulation
and they can even get a sound deadening insulation that's
pumped into the cavity of that wall. That's how I
would address that. That would be a good sound deadener.
Hope that helps Beth. Thanks much for the call, and
we'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (22:43):
All right, back at it we go at home with
Gary Salvin. A real common problem we just kind of
got into it is adding insulation to older homes or condos,
older homes just being twenty twenty five years old, and
conda's especially because you know, you don't own the room
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on the other side of your room. In some cases,
it's kind of what we were talking about. It sounds crazy,
and nobody likes to have I guess people come over
and say, hey, you know, your cupboards are your cabinets
are really loud? You know, self closing hinges really could?
You know? I mean, that's a tough conversation. It's not
the end of the world. But you know, even if
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you reached out and like I would buy those hinges
rather than listening to those doors banging. Because to create
a sound deadening between two properties in a condo in
drywall construction, it can be done, but it's challenging. You know,
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I talked about a sound inslation that can be pumped
into drywall. That's an option, but if you're you know,
if it's a big problem where you hear voices and
you know everything thing else. There's all kind of acoustical
uh products out there to help it create a real
sound dead area. There's acoustical clocking where you can actually
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put extra sheets of dry and extra sheet of drywall
on where you're literally putting this glueish acoustical clocking and
going over your drywall, which creates a dead sound space.
There is sound deadening, quiet zone insulation, there's regular insulation,
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and there's acoustical insulation. Those are really kind of the
only way to do it. And then when I was
on that garage door, that's a tough one too. I mean,
garages are going to be hot. But I've got a
house that's about the same age as Veny's a condo,
and it's got not quite an R nineteen door, it's
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got and our thirteen door. And live in the Midwest,
so we get cold, you know. And I've never had
my garage door or my garage go down below forty degrees.
And last week is hot and I saw the garage
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temperature like eighty seven degrees. That's about the hottest I've
ever seen it. But if you have no insulation in
a garage door. That's that's the one place you can
really help yourself is getting a R nineteen insulated garage door.
All right, let's go to Karen. Karen, Welcome Christiana.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I have meal too, just about everywhere in my house.
I've I've got both dryers to try and close the doors,
keep the rooms closing with the air dry I've got
let's see, I've got to you humidifize my basement constantly.
Should up now opened? They weren't opening be fourbesest camp
with allergies anyway, and I find it in my draws.
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It's not quite as bad this year, it seems. But
I don't know what to do. I've just done just
about everything. I've dry locked my cellar walls. I don't
know what else to do. Do you have any suggestions? Well,
I have the insulation of my attic.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Excuse me.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
The installation in my attic is genes, the environmentally friendly
gene insulation. I did that all myself. I took everything
out of my attic so that would breathe better. I
just beside myself and what to do.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, let's go from a data standpoint. So you've got
mold mildew throughout the house. Of course, the only way
that's it's mildew.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
It really hasn't turned into mold. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So. Again, the only way that grows is with moisture
and the spores from the mildew or mold whichever an
organic material. So we have organic material, we have the spores.
Nothing we're really going to do about that. So the
moisture is the only thing we can help or work on.
And your trying, now, do we have any idea what
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kind of you know, when the windows are closed, you
got air conditioning in the house. No, okay, Well, so
it's been a hot humid day or hot humid spring
and summer. Correct, Yeah, well that's why you got mildew.
I mean, I'm not trying to be I'm not trying
to be short and cute, but that really is why
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you have mildew this year.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah, it's because the extra moisture.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean you're you're home. I don't
know if you got a humidity gauge inside your home,
but with windows open, you're probably running humidity in the
sixties and seventy percents in that house.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Well, I don't have them open when the human when
it's human out, So don't let more hot, humid air
in the house. I know that. And then I, you know,
I'll have to put fans onto to make the air
move around.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
But but that's really not drying it out. The only
way the fans really help one humid and again caring it.
It's difficult to do anything when it's I mean, the
humidityan two nights ago in my neighborhood was eighty nine percent.
If I have a home and I got my windows open,
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the air is really not coming in. It's really not
going out. Even with the fan going. It's just stirring
up the soup. Okay, sure, but pulling the outdoor air
in and pulling the indoor air out that'll help sometimes.
But if it's eighty nine percent outside, it's not gonna
help at all.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yep. Okay, So the the.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You know, there's always a solution, and that do humidifier.
I mean, it's it's it's doing this job. It just
much of it.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Yeah, so's it just shows me crazy every year to
deal with this. And then I stump far a little
in my bathroom. I said, okay, open the window when
it's dry, and let the cool, dry air come in
and see for dry things out. I've removed everything that
can possibly absorb moisture in my basement as well. You know.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
But but when you have the air humidity difference, warm
temperatures can hold more water or more humidity. So when
it's hot, then him humidity goes up. And if it's
been a hot, wet summer, you're just gonna have a
ton of humidity. You're gonna have mildew. And the only
way you're going to really get that under control. The
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biggest do humidifier that you can buy is air conditioning.
So and then you go through summer and you have
the air conditioner running, you may still have to use
the dehumidifier. You shut the windows and you work on
controlling the environment. Ideal humidity in the summertime inside your
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home is fifty five percent, and you'd put you know,
humidity gauges in a you know, family room and in
the basement and maybe upstairs, and you just kind of
see where you're at, and that's, you know, that's how
you control the humidity in the summertime. And very common
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where I live. I mean, we're usually hot, humid all
the time. And I know up northeast it's been you know,
it was a cold, rainy spring and now it's a hot,
you know, rainy summer and it's you know, without air conditioning.
That do you menify? It doesn't have a prayer. I mean,
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it can make you feel good that it's pulling air out,
but it might help a little bit in the basement,
but you're not going to rectify your problem with it.
The only way you're going to really do it, quite honestly,
is you know, seal that house up the best you can,
so you know, calking around windows and doors and insulation
and vapor barriers and an air conditioner. That's that's the
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that's the prescription to eliminate that problem.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Okay. So once you have it, is it just a
matter of you can vacuum it up where the spores
get spread to the air. If you vacuum.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Sure there're spores. And I'll lump mold and mildew together
because mold and mildew is Mother Nature's way of breaking
and keeping the environment clean. So the leaves that fall,
the twigs that fall, the grass clippings that fall, those
that mold and mildew breaks that down and then that,
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and so there's thousands of mold spoils. They used to
on the local weather channels give you what the mold
count was outside, and people that were allergic to mold
would say, oh, it's a bad mold day. This boar
count is like twenty thousand. And you know if you
get and it is because people, a lot of people
are allergic to mold. You get it in a in
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a house and you start running twenty and thirty and
forty thousand, and you got all you got organic material
inside your house, you got the paper on the drywall,
you got wood all over the place. You got I
mean there's there's organic material. Houses built of wood. That's
organic material that mildew is going to grow on there
because he's going to try and break it down.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Yeah. Fascinating really when you think of from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, so we got to seal the house up. We
got to minimize how much air from the outside because
that's the source of the humidity encroaching into the home.
We have to have good ventilation in the home because
the other flip side of that is you've heard people
talk about sick building syndrome. We have our homes so
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tightened up to save on energy, we keep all the
pollutants inside the home.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
So, yeah, I usually open up my windows to change
the air in the house. Yeah you know about that.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But so when you get air conditioning and I'm telling
you to tighten it up and have a controlled environment,
sometimes we tighten it up so much. We work on
having controlled ventilation. I talk about a unit called an
easy breathe that helps with humidity, that helps with pollutants
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that get trapped in the house. Because we're making our
homes so tight because we have to, we have to
have this controlled environment. And so step one for you
is you've got to control the amount of moisture. You
can't see inside your house. We're always going to have
mold spores because that's everywhere. That's everywhere. It's in your house,
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it's outthwards, it's everywhere. That's how the world works. And
so if the environment is perfect, meaning very hot and
very humid, you're going to see more of it. You're
going to see more growth of it. So what we
got to do is we can't take you know, you're
not going to take care of all the spores, you know.
But what we can do is we can try to
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reduce the water vapor, and I'm here to tell you
the only way you reduce the water vapor is open
your windows out when it's ten degrees because your humidity
outside is probably gonna be very low because the temperature
is low, and it can't hold as much it can't
hold as much water vapor, so it's dry then. So
the problem is not really a big issue in the wintertime,
(34:57):
but boy, right now it's a big issue without Eric.
Interesting she is.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
You know, it's the first time I called into your show,
and I just tuned into play accident this morning. I said,
oh my gosh, this is wonderful. I enjoyed so much
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Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, I hope I gave you some insight and you did.
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Thank you so very much, and I really appreciate it
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Speaker 1 (35:23):
Very good. Thank you, Karen, take care of a good week.
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Hend Thank you you.
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Bye bye. All right, let's take a little break you
he will come back and you'll lead us off and
some a little Louisiana. If he's got some comments about
humidity and keep your ears open. I imagine you he
knows exactly what I'm talking about. And if you'd like
to grab a line, do so. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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All right, back at it, We go at home with
Gary Sullivan taking your calls for going to your home projects.
It's eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five
five UI welcome.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yes, I do know a little bit about humidity. I
sound like Ron Wilson this morning with humidity. Yeah, only
get an hour of the Saturday show. But the man
who is afraid of slab Jack and Mike Crack is
a sewer pike.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
We do can run a camera down it and if
it needs it line it sure.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Sure. In fact, I had a guest on yesterday later
in the show, Juie that is up for a podcast
right now on the iHeart app. But you're exactly right
lining waistlines that are cracked misaligned a little bit. Uh
is a great solution where you're not digging stuff up.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
He just know anybody called or not because I don't
get all I get one hour of the show Sunday morning.
Than two hours of your you know, current show.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, yeah, well you can always listen live again if
you get the iHeart app. It's free r FLA.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
I'm blind and I don't do.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Okay, gotcha, very good, gotcha? I understand.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
So I used to be a pretty good handy man,
but now.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Right right, I get you. I used to climb ladders too,
but they don't.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
Oh I still do, and I get in trouble for it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Yeah, you're better man than me. I fed like three
additional knees and they don't work so well anymore.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Yeah. I get on top of my camper with a
twelve foot step ladder and people get upset about it.
I'm seventy one, and.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I hear it.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
I'll let you. I'll let you go have a great one.
And I've been listening to your show so long.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeap.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
I could answer maybe eighty ninety percent of the questions,
but the other ten percent I don't even know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
All right, Well, we'll keep trying. Thanks, Juie, appreciate if
you'd like to grab a line, go ahead, and happy
to talk about your project when we're talking about humidity too.
So that was a call from yesterday basically what you
he was talking about. He had a line. I guess
it was the wastelandn't really remember. And the real question
(41:03):
was he had a concrete driveway that had settled and
he was looking about having it lifted. And lift is
when they slab jack or concrete level drill holes through
the slab and they'll pump a sementatious grout below that
(41:26):
and it'll fill any cavities or voids underneath that slab
and it'll literally lift that slab. And because we were
talking about how water pressure takes past the least resistance,
it fills, it takes the path, but there's nothing to resist, right,
So what they'll do is they'll be cavities and that
(41:48):
pressure will lift that slab because that's the path of
least resistance, even though it's lifting a concrete slab. And
the one person he hit out there there was a
drain line under there and he wasn't sure whether it
(42:09):
would crack the drain line. And I'm sure there's all
kinds of date on that. I've been on actual slabs
where they lifted them, and it's really amazing. I mean,
they can bring it within a sixteenth of an inch
of its old positioning, maybe even better than that. But
I don't think it would crack it, you know, as
(42:30):
long you can, like Ui said, you can run a
camera through there. See if there's ain't cracks in a pipe,
if the pipe as whole, cracking that pipe would be
in other words, the resistance would be just to lift
the slab. There wouldn't be enough pressure to really crack
that pipe. That's my opinion. I don't have the date
(42:50):
on that slabjacker should have the date on that, but
I think you'd be okay as long as the pipe
has its integrity. That's what he was speaking of, kind
of getting back when you say you got humidity and
you got a fan, and you know, can that lower fans?
Just if you got windows open and you just got
(43:11):
a fan in the middle of the room. Again, it's
like a spoon and you're just stirring the pot. If
you had a whole house fan, like up on the
ceiling of the second floor and the roof is vented
into the attic and all the windows are open, and
you're pulling this jet stream of air through your house,
(43:32):
there'll be a cooling effect. And if the humidity is
you know, in the eighty percent outside and also on
the inside, it's not really going to change the humidity humidity,
but the wind chill will make it more comfortable. There's
different levels of how you can control versus a comfort factor,
but again your your best do you humidify it quite honestly,
(43:56):
really is an air conditioner. And then if you have
to work on controlled ventilation or a deumidifier to enhance
the you know, the air conditioner, that's all good. And
also using your other ventilation fans like your bathroom fan,
your cook top fan, all those help you get that
(44:18):
community at that humidity level in line, and you can
accomplish that. So there is an answer to the dilemma.
Sometimes you got to search a little bit further for it,
but they're certainly an answer. All right, we got a
lot more to go, so if you would like to
grab a line talk about a little maintenance or repair
in your home, feel free to join us. It's eight
(44:40):
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Danny Moore
will take your call. We'll chat about your project and
get you back to work in no time at all.
We'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary
Sullivan's mm hmm.
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Help for your home is just a click away at
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Well, it's weekend. Welcome, you're at home with Gary Salvan,
another weekend, getting a few things done around the home,
and certainly, well, always plenty to do. If you have
a home, there is always plenty to do and always
things to well. You're going to accidentally see some things,
You're going to study some things, and you're just going
(00:50):
to figure out that that's not right, and I got
to take care of that. So that's what we're going
to talk about today. I got a couple of issues,
both on the top and the bottom of the house,
talking about molds and attic and talking about moisture intrusion.
We started off yesterday's show pretty much doing the same thing,
talking about moisture intrusion a lot of parts of the country.
(01:13):
And if you're watching the news, obviously you know the
rain's been a big issue. Flooding has been a big issue,
and downpours where it may only last an hour in
your neighborhood or maybe you're not getting any at all,
but man, when it rains, it seems to be really raining,
So you know, different things. You need to just kind
(01:36):
of keep your heads up. If you start seeing moisture
in a basement or cross space. You know the user
response that I get when somebody will call me up
and asked me about that, they'll say, it only leaks
when it rains were hard, And that's that's pretty common.
It does only leak when it rains were hard, and
mainly because you'll have water that's right up against the founoundation.
(02:00):
It can get there a couple of ways, clog gutters,
spilling that water on the foundation, degrading tilting towards the foundation,
different swales and hills around the foundation, creating puddles of water,
creating pressure on the foundation. So those are the things
(02:23):
we want to look at. Those are the things we
want to eliminate that ponding. And if you start seeing
mortar cracking and brick cracking or sighting splitting, you know
it's probably there's probably some settling going on and that
needs your attention. The other issue is mold. It seems
(02:45):
like I was telling Danny before the show started, I
was even finding black spot fungus and molds on living
bushes in trees. And as my friend Ron Wilson said
when I sent him some pictures, he goes, thanks the
humid weather and the abundance of heat and rain. Okay, okay,
(03:12):
but when it starts in, you know, intruding into our home,
either the moisture, which you probably have some intrusion, maybe
it's moisture. Can't even see in terms of high humidity.
But when somebody sent me a picture, I guess on
a Thursday of an attic and the whole under rous sheathing,
(03:35):
so looking up the bottom of the roof, I guess
the best way to say that you can see from
the attic was all moldy is black and moldy. And
traded a couple of comments back and forth, and like always,
there was a bevy of issues going on and that
(04:00):
need to be corrected, and then you can clean up
the mess, for instance. And you may have this problem too.
That's why I always say, you get up and kind
of look around in an attic. If you can't get
somebody up there to look around. Most of our attics
at this point are either vented or you went in
(04:23):
the direction of a whole house encapsulation, which I'm happy
to take some calls on if that interests you. But
in a ventilated attic, we're bringing air in pushing the
hot air out, so we're bringing the air at the
lower parts of the roof. We're pushing the hot air
out at the peak of the roof, at the ridge vent.
(04:48):
There'll be a vent on the ridge of the roof itself.
A lot of times we don't have enough intake air,
so we don't really ventilate the attic properly. Sometimes we
have the soft events, the lower vents that are clogged
with spider webs or insulation or somebody's painted over the screen.
(05:12):
You see it all the time. You think it's ventilated,
but it's not. And then the apparatuses inside your home
that are designed to vent different parts of your home,
mainly the kitchen. In the bathroom, you got the fan
pulling the steamy hot air out of the bathroom when showering,
(05:37):
and so many cases we find that the duckwork or
the pipe leading from that fan is not vented outside
and it's just pumping that warm, moist air into the
attic and it's hitting the underside of the roof, and
(06:01):
that's wood organic material, and mold grows mainly because it's
not vented properly. Both of them not vented properly, so
you have mold all over the bottom side of the roof.
If you're selling your home and you get your home inspected,
that's not going to go very well. And then what
(06:24):
kind of shape is the insulation? And you ask, why
would I be concerned about the insulation, Well, because you
know there's different types of insulation and some of it
is also organic material. And you have the mold spores
and you have the moisture, maybe you don't have a leak. Again,
just high humidity and that stuff mold is just going
(06:47):
to grow and that's a big deal. Cleaning that up,
sanitizing that up, replacing the insulation big deal. So we
can take calls on it. Also, let me give you
the phone number and you can grab a line. The
lines are open. It's eight hundred eight two three A
(07:08):
two five five, and feel free to go ahead and
grab a line. Also, we want to talk about decking, cleaning,
ceiling house painting. Boy, we're getting into the if we
can find some days to do it where it's not
real super hot or super wet, that'd be great. However,
with today's paints, boy, they drive fast and they're you know,
(07:36):
they got to be dry for a while. But it's
not like the old oil based paints. That's for sure
you know the dry time rain fast might be an hour.
Read the directions that'll tell you on there. But try
not to use your cryllic paints, your water based paints,
(07:58):
indirect sunlight in the middle of the day. A lot
of those paints. I'm telling you it'll be like painting
with chewing gum. Now there are some things you can
do with that too. I talk about the Emerald paint
by Sherwin Williams. I really like this paint. It's got
(08:19):
a little slower dry time on it. Now, slower dry
time is not a negative. When I say slower dry time,
that might be the dry time might be thirty minutes.
That's a long time to brush that out. You do
(08:39):
some other latex paints, it's ninety degrees and you're painting
in direct sunlight. You got about fifteen to twenty seconds
to spread that latex paint. Just start drawing on the brush.
So really pay attention to what the spread ability time
(09:00):
and that pain is. And if you're doing it, like
I said, in direct sunshine or really hot, you know
it's gonna be quicker. Not I can just tell you
it's gonna be quicker. So read the labels. Do your research.
Just don't grab the price range you want because that
(09:20):
might not be what you want. There's also additives. One
of them is called flow thrill that you can add
the paint, which extends the brush ability of that paint
app it extends dry time. And I remember talking to
a chemist and a pay company and I said, so,
(09:41):
you know I've done this, and you know he said,
you know, if we wanted it to do that, we
would have put that in. I thought, like, why would
you not want that? I guess I'm saying, just be
a little careful with it, too, don't put too much
in follow. I can't tell you enough. If you're gonna
(10:03):
invest in painting the house and you're gonna do it,
or you're gonna have a handyman do it, readse directions
and make sure you understand them. And don't just assume
if you're having somebody do it that they're on top
of it too. Some are, some are all right. Our
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phone numbers eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five talking about your home, Beth. You'll be up first,
we'll take a break. We'll come back to Beth if
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All right back at it. We go twenty one minutes
after the top of the air talking a little home
improvement on your weekend. If you'd like to ask a
question about a project you got going on in your home,
please do. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five and let's go to Beth. Beth lead us off. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Well, hi there, Gary. I'm in Worcester, Ohio, and we
have a condo we've lived in for three years. I'm
getting ready for knee replacements, so you can appreciate that.
I finally wanted to look in the attic, yes, and
see what it's like above the garage and everything, and
see about the insulation up there. I could see that
there was no insulation over the garage, and I don't
(14:11):
know if that's like just an optional thing or a
normal thing. Yeah, not a big deal. Hunt. I know
it gets awfully hot in there, and I didn't know,
so that would be something we should bother doing anything
about or not.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
When you say it's aftfully hot in there in the
attic area, you mean or in the.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Garage, Well, the garage gets awfully hot. Garage gets awfully hot. Yeah,
we do leave the garage door open about you know,
twelve inches sometimes just to allow some ventilation there. But yeah,
it gets pretty hot.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So tell me about the type of garage. Did you
have an insulated garage door.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
No, we don't. I was wanting to insulate insulate it
because it does face the south and so not only
is there a lot of heat coming up in the summer,
but an awful lot of cold too in the winter.
Right to figure out how to do that.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Walls.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Don't know about the walls. It's all from the attic.
You just you can't see the walls. You know, it's
all plaster. You know, it's all dry walls, and it's
got that knockdown finish type thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Old's the condo building.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Do you know of twenty seven years?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Twenty seven years? Okay, well the walls are probably insulated
and insulated. Okay, yeah, yeah, we start insulating walls, you know,
I'd say around nineteen eighty Okay, before that we.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Did it was ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, but in a lot of times, you know, we'll
insulate the walls. But again, if you don't have an
insulated garage door, that's where all the heat intrusions taking place.
You can get garage doors now that are you're thine
insulated garage doors which have the same R value of
(16:01):
what an insulated wall should be. I mean they have
garage doors that are are nineteen which would really you know,
help the problem. I mean, you're not going to make
it super cool or anything, but you know, you can
keep a lot of that heat from coming in.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
What about aftermarket type insulation, since you know the garage
door is in perfect condition and they all have to match,
of course in this you know area, what about something
like that? What's the insulation? What's buying insulation like for
an existing garage door.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
So the insulation would be made in between the panels
of the garage door, so you'd be changing out the door.
You're not going to you know, glue on insulation onto
the door. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yeah, Yeah, that's what I mean. I looked at insulation
in the winter time, you know what, you know, what's available,
and it looks like it looks complicated.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah it is. And you don't be powerful too, because
you're you're gonna be edding. Even though it's a lightweight,
you're still gonna be dding weight. A lot of a
lot of doors and door openers, you know, you're gonna
lose any type of warrant you have if you start
gluing that on the back of a door. And you know,
so you could probably find a door that would really
(17:30):
match the others. I don't know that for sure, Yeah,
but a lot of cases you can. They just put
these uninsulaated doors, especially on Commas, to hold the price down.
And that's exactly what ends up happening. Is you just
get so much heat in there. But there's no real way,
I mean, where else you're going to put the insulation,
(17:51):
it would be on that door, right, you.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Know that's true? What about Okay, here's another question related insulation.
The only this is silent compared to any place I've
ever lived before. It's so quiet, except the master bathroom
is across from the neighbor's master bathroom, and the only
thing we can hear is the closing of the doors
(18:16):
of the vanity. And you know, if you slam the
door with is your older vanities because it's from ninety eight,
so you know they didn't have the soft closed drawer.
It doesn't bother me so much. My neighbor has a
totally different schedule than myself, so I always grab mine
and don't let it slam. But I notice her slamming.
(18:36):
I always At first I thought she was falling against
the wall, that's how unusual the sound is. And then
I realized, no, she's not making her bed in somehow
falling against the wall. It's just her closing a drawer.
So when I was putting a surface mount medicine cabinet
in the bathroom, I noticed there's not a bit of
(18:56):
insulation in the wall. There not a bit.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know. What you might try then is call a
company and there's there's one around in your area called
USA Insulation. What they are and there's other ones to
they're professional insulators with foam and depending on how the
configuration of the house, they can literally drill into walls
(19:23):
outside or inside walls and under pressure pump and insulation
and they can even get a sound deadening insulation that's
pumped into the cavity of that wall. That's how I
would address that. That would be a good sound deadener.
Hope that helps Beth. Thanks much for the call, and
we'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (22:43):
All right, back at it we go at home with
Gary Salvin. A real common problem we just kind of
got into it is adding insulation to older homes or condos,
older homes just being twenty twenty five years old, and
conda's especially because you know, you don't own the room
(23:05):
on the other side of your room. In some cases,
it's kind of what we were talking about. It sounds crazy,
and nobody likes to have I guess people come over
and say, hey, you know, your cupboards are your cabinets
are really loud? You know, self closing hinges really could?
You know? I mean, that's a tough conversation. It's not
the end of the world. But you know, even if
(23:27):
you reached out and like I would buy those hinges
rather than listening to those doors banging. Because to create
a sound deadening between two properties in a condo in
drywall construction, it can be done, but it's challenging. You know,
(23:48):
I talked about a sound inslation that can be pumped
into drywall. That's an option, but if you're you know,
if it's a big problem where you hear voices and
you know everything thing else. There's all kind of acoustical
uh products out there to help it create a real
sound dead area. There's acoustical clocking where you can actually
(24:13):
put extra sheets of dry and extra sheet of drywall
on where you're literally putting this glueish acoustical clocking and
going over your drywall, which creates a dead sound space.
There is sound deadening, quiet zone insulation, there's regular insulation,
(24:37):
and there's acoustical insulation. Those are really kind of the
only way to do it. And then when I was
on that garage door, that's a tough one too. I mean,
garages are going to be hot. But I've got a
house that's about the same age as Veny's a condo,
and it's got not quite an R nineteen door, it's
(24:59):
got and our thirteen door. And live in the Midwest,
so we get cold, you know. And I've never had
my garage door or my garage go down below forty degrees.
And last week is hot and I saw the garage
(25:20):
temperature like eighty seven degrees. That's about the hottest I've
ever seen it. But if you have no insulation in
a garage door. That's that's the one place you can
really help yourself is getting a R nineteen insulated garage door.
All right, let's go to Karen. Karen, Welcome Christiana.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I have meal too, just about everywhere in my house.
I've I've got both dryers to try and close the doors,
keep the rooms closing with the air dry I've got
let's see, I've got to you humidifize my basement constantly.
Should up now opened? They weren't opening be fourbesest camp
with allergies anyway, and I find it in my draws.
(26:07):
It's not quite as bad this year, it seems. But
I don't know what to do. I've just done just
about everything. I've dry locked my cellar walls. I don't
know what else to do. Do you have any suggestions? Well,
I have the insulation of my attic.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Excuse me.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
The installation in my attic is genes, the environmentally friendly
gene insulation. I did that all myself. I took everything
out of my attic so that would breathe better. I
just beside myself and what to do.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, let's go from a data standpoint. So you've got
mold mildew throughout the house. Of course, the only way
that's it's mildew.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
It really hasn't turned into mold. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So. Again, the only way that grows is with moisture
and the spores from the mildew or mold whichever an
organic material. So we have organic material, we have the spores.
Nothing we're really going to do about that. So the
moisture is the only thing we can help or work on.
And your trying, now, do we have any idea what
(27:15):
kind of you know, when the windows are closed, you
got air conditioning in the house. No, okay, Well, so
it's been a hot humid day or hot humid spring
and summer. Correct, Yeah, well that's why you got mildew.
I mean, I'm not trying to be I'm not trying
to be short and cute, but that really is why
(27:39):
you have mildew this year.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah, it's because the extra moisture.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean you're you're home. I don't
know if you got a humidity gauge inside your home,
but with windows open, you're probably running humidity in the
sixties and seventy percents in that house.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Well, I don't have them open when the human when
it's human out, So don't let more hot, humid air
in the house. I know that. And then I, you know,
I'll have to put fans onto to make the air
move around.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
But but that's really not drying it out. The only
way the fans really help one humid and again caring it.
It's difficult to do anything when it's I mean, the
humidityan two nights ago in my neighborhood was eighty nine percent.
If I have a home and I got my windows open,
(28:32):
the air is really not coming in. It's really not
going out. Even with the fan going. It's just stirring
up the soup. Okay, sure, but pulling the outdoor air
in and pulling the indoor air out that'll help sometimes.
But if it's eighty nine percent outside, it's not gonna
help at all.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yep. Okay, So the the.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You know, there's always a solution, and that do humidifier.
I mean, it's it's it's doing this job. It just
much of it.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Yeah, so's it just shows me crazy every year to
deal with this. And then I stump far a little
in my bathroom. I said, okay, open the window when
it's dry, and let the cool, dry air come in
and see for dry things out. I've removed everything that
can possibly absorb moisture in my basement as well. You know.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
But but when you have the air humidity difference, warm
temperatures can hold more water or more humidity. So when
it's hot, then him humidity goes up. And if it's
been a hot, wet summer, you're just gonna have a
ton of humidity. You're gonna have mildew. And the only
way you're going to really get that under control. The
(29:56):
biggest do humidifier that you can buy is air conditioning.
So and then you go through summer and you have
the air conditioner running, you may still have to use
the dehumidifier. You shut the windows and you work on
controlling the environment. Ideal humidity in the summertime inside your
(30:22):
home is fifty five percent, and you'd put you know,
humidity gauges in a you know, family room and in
the basement and maybe upstairs, and you just kind of
see where you're at, and that's, you know, that's how
you control the humidity in the summertime. And very common
(30:46):
where I live. I mean, we're usually hot, humid all
the time. And I know up northeast it's been you know,
it was a cold, rainy spring and now it's a hot,
you know, rainy summer and it's you know, without air conditioning.
That do you menify? It doesn't have a prayer. I mean,
(31:08):
it can make you feel good that it's pulling air out,
but it might help a little bit in the basement,
but you're not going to rectify your problem with it.
The only way you're going to really do it, quite honestly,
is you know, seal that house up the best you can,
so you know, calking around windows and doors and insulation
and vapor barriers and an air conditioner. That's that's the
(31:34):
that's the prescription to eliminate that problem.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Okay. So once you have it, is it just a
matter of you can vacuum it up where the spores
get spread to the air. If you vacuum.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Sure there're spores. And I'll lump mold and mildew together
because mold and mildew is Mother Nature's way of breaking
and keeping the environment clean. So the leaves that fall,
the twigs that fall, the grass clippings that fall, those
that mold and mildew breaks that down and then that,
(32:09):
and so there's thousands of mold spoils. They used to
on the local weather channels give you what the mold
count was outside, and people that were allergic to mold
would say, oh, it's a bad mold day. This boar
count is like twenty thousand. And you know if you
get and it is because people, a lot of people
are allergic to mold. You get it in a in
(32:31):
a house and you start running twenty and thirty and
forty thousand, and you got all you got organic material
inside your house, you got the paper on the drywall,
you got wood all over the place. You got I
mean there's there's organic material. Houses built of wood. That's
organic material that mildew is going to grow on there
because he's going to try and break it down.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Yeah. Fascinating really when you think of from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, so we got to seal the house up. We
got to minimize how much air from the outside because
that's the source of the humidity encroaching into the home.
We have to have good ventilation in the home because
the other flip side of that is you've heard people
talk about sick building syndrome. We have our homes so
(33:18):
tightened up to save on energy, we keep all the
pollutants inside the home.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
So, yeah, I usually open up my windows to change
the air in the house. Yeah you know about that.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But so when you get air conditioning and I'm telling
you to tighten it up and have a controlled environment,
sometimes we tighten it up so much. We work on
having controlled ventilation. I talk about a unit called an
easy breathe that helps with humidity, that helps with pollutants
(33:51):
that get trapped in the house. Because we're making our
homes so tight because we have to, we have to
have this controlled environment. And so step one for you
is you've got to control the amount of moisture. You
can't see inside your house. We're always going to have
mold spores because that's everywhere. That's everywhere. It's in your house,
(34:13):
it's outthwards, it's everywhere. That's how the world works. And
so if the environment is perfect, meaning very hot and
very humid, you're going to see more of it. You're
going to see more growth of it. So what we
got to do is we can't take you know, you're
not going to take care of all the spores, you know.
But what we can do is we can try to
(34:34):
reduce the water vapor, and I'm here to tell you
the only way you reduce the water vapor is open
your windows out when it's ten degrees because your humidity
outside is probably gonna be very low because the temperature
is low, and it can't hold as much it can't
hold as much water vapor, so it's dry then. So
the problem is not really a big issue in the wintertime,
(34:57):
but boy, right now it's a big issue without Eric.
Interesting she is.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
You know, it's the first time I called into your show,
and I just tuned into play accident this morning. I said,
oh my gosh, this is wonderful. I enjoyed so much
listening to what you were having to say, thank you,
and I've got to call this person there you go.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, I hope I gave you some insight and you did.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Thank you so very much, and I really appreciate it
very much, and thank you for your show, having your
show in the air.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Very good. Thank you, Karen, take care of a good week.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Hend Thank you you.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Bye bye. All right, let's take a little break you
he will come back and you'll lead us off and
some a little Louisiana. If he's got some comments about
humidity and keep your ears open. I imagine you he
knows exactly what I'm talking about. And if you'd like
to grab a line, do so. It's eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five at Home with Gary Sullivan.
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Speaker 1 (38:37):
All right, back at it, We go at home with
Gary Sullivan taking your calls for going to your home projects.
It's eight hundred and eighty two three eight two five
five UI welcome.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yes, I do know a little bit about humidity. I
sound like Ron Wilson this morning with humidity. Yeah, only
get an hour of the Saturday show. But the man
who is afraid of slab Jack and Mike Crack is
a sewer pike.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
We do can run a camera down it and if
it needs it line it sure.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Sure. In fact, I had a guest on yesterday later
in the show, Juie that is up for a podcast
right now on the iHeart app. But you're exactly right
lining waistlines that are cracked misaligned a little bit. Uh
is a great solution where you're not digging stuff up.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
He just know anybody called or not because I don't
get all I get one hour of the show Sunday morning.
Than two hours of your you know, current show.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, yeah, well you can always listen live again if
you get the iHeart app. It's free r FLA.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
I'm blind and I don't do.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Okay, gotcha, very good, gotcha? I understand.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
So I used to be a pretty good handy man,
but now.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Right right, I get you. I used to climb ladders too,
but they don't.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
Oh I still do, and I get in trouble for it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Yeah, you're better man than me. I fed like three
additional knees and they don't work so well anymore.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Yeah. I get on top of my camper with a
twelve foot step ladder and people get upset about it.
I'm seventy one, and.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I hear it.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
I'll let you. I'll let you go have a great one.
And I've been listening to your show so long.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeap.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
I could answer maybe eighty ninety percent of the questions,
but the other ten percent I don't even know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
All right, Well, we'll keep trying. Thanks, Juie, appreciate if
you'd like to grab a line, go ahead, and happy
to talk about your project when we're talking about humidity too.
So that was a call from yesterday basically what you
he was talking about. He had a line. I guess
it was the wastelandn't really remember. And the real question
(41:03):
was he had a concrete driveway that had settled and
he was looking about having it lifted. And lift is
when they slab jack or concrete level drill holes through
the slab and they'll pump a sementatious grout below that
(41:26):
and it'll fill any cavities or voids underneath that slab
and it'll literally lift that slab. And because we were
talking about how water pressure takes past the least resistance,
it fills, it takes the path, but there's nothing to resist, right,
So what they'll do is they'll be cavities and that
(41:48):
pressure will lift that slab because that's the path of
least resistance, even though it's lifting a concrete slab. And
the one person he hit out there there was a
drain line under there and he wasn't sure whether it
(42:09):
would crack the drain line. And I'm sure there's all
kinds of date on that. I've been on actual slabs
where they lifted them, and it's really amazing. I mean,
they can bring it within a sixteenth of an inch
of its old positioning, maybe even better than that. But
I don't think it would crack it, you know, as
(42:30):
long you can, like Ui said, you can run a
camera through there. See if there's ain't cracks in a pipe,
if the pipe as whole, cracking that pipe would be
in other words, the resistance would be just to lift
the slab. There wouldn't be enough pressure to really crack
that pipe. That's my opinion. I don't have the date
(42:50):
on that slabjacker should have the date on that, but
I think you'd be okay as long as the pipe
has its integrity. That's what he was speaking of, kind
of getting back when you say you got humidity and
you got a fan, and you know, can that lower fans?
Just if you got windows open and you just got
(43:11):
a fan in the middle of the room. Again, it's
like a spoon and you're just stirring the pot. If
you had a whole house fan, like up on the
ceiling of the second floor and the roof is vented
into the attic and all the windows are open, and
you're pulling this jet stream of air through your house,
(43:32):
there'll be a cooling effect. And if the humidity is
you know, in the eighty percent outside and also on
the inside, it's not really going to change the humidity humidity,
but the wind chill will make it more comfortable. There's
different levels of how you can control versus a comfort factor,
but again your your best do you humidify it quite honestly,
(43:56):
really is an air conditioner. And then if you have
to work on controlled ventilation or a deumidifier to enhance
the you know, the air conditioner, that's all good. And
also using your other ventilation fans like your bathroom fan,
your cook top fan, all those help you get that
(44:18):
community at that humidity level in line, and you can
accomplish that. So there is an answer to the dilemma.
Sometimes you got to search a little bit further for it,
but they're certainly an answer. All right, we got a
lot more to go, so if you would like to
grab a line talk about a little maintenance or repair
in your home, feel free to join us. It's eight
(44:40):
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Danny Moore
will take your call. We'll chat about your project and
get you back to work in no time at all.
We'll continue with your calls. You're at home with Gary
Sullivan's mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
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